Rohingya ethnic group. Thats the warning from uns high commissionerfor human rights. Its estimated that more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled myanmar to neighbouring bangladesh since august, when attacks on police posts prompted a military crackdown. 0ur south asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports. This boy is 11 years old. He draws pictures of the horrors he has witnessed. Translation older women were stamped on, and then the military grabbed them by the hair and slaughtered them. Because i saw that, i am drawing this. He is one of 650,000 Rohingya Refugees who fled myanmar after a military assault that began in late august. They are coming to kill us, says the man, they are coming to kill us. The widespread and systematic nature of the violence has persuaded the un human rights chief to say that the crimes could amount to genocide, acts intended to destroy a group of people. Can anyone rule out that elements of genocide may be present . He wants a criminal investigation to identify the perpetrators, and in an exclusive interview with the bbc, he does not rule out the possibility that Aung San Suu Kyi or military leaders could end up in the dock. Given the scale of the operation, clearly, there would have to be decisions taken at a high enough level. And then theres the crime of omission, that if it came to your knowledge that this was being committed and you did nothing to stop it, then you could be culpable as well for that. He says only a court can judge that, but he is determined thatjustice should be done. In the meantime, though, this boy and hundreds of thousands like him remain in limbo. We asked Aung San Suu Kyi for a response, but she has not replied. Justin rowlatt, bbc news. Well have more of that interview with the uns high commissioner for human rights later in the programme. And bbc world news will show a panorama special on the Rohingya Crisis this weekend, saturday 23rd december, at 09. 30 gmt. Our other top story. Thousands of anc delegates in south africa are voting to chose a new leader. The result is expected to be close between these two candidates the former foreign minister Nkosazana Dlamini zuma, who is one of the president s former wives, or Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. Both are vying to replace president jacob zuma, whose time in office has been marked by deep divisions within the anc. Sarah corker has more. Beneath the singing and shows of unity, this has been of bitter leadership battle. The anc came to power 23 years ago in this election is seen as a Pivotal Moment for the party. Soaring unemployment and allegations of corruption have fuelled frustration towards south africas ruling party. Two candidates are vying for the votes of nearly 5000 delegate to succeed president jacob of nearly 5000 delegate to succeed president jacob zuma at of nearly 5000 delegate to succeed president jacob zuma at the of nearly 5000 delegate to succeed president jacob zuma at the partys leader. As things stand, comrades, we have two candidates for the position of president , comrades Cyril Ramaphosa and, in Nkosazana Dlamini zuma. Cyril ramaphosa and, in Nkosazana Dlaminizuma. Nkosazana dlaminizuma is the ex wife of jacob zuma and is promising to put more of the countrys economy and land back in black hands, she is a former foreign and health minister, but critics say she is too close to jacob zuma. Cyril ramaphosa is currently the Deputy President and is running on an anticorruption ticket, he is backed by the Business Community and in others say he is most popular with the middle classes. We are here to support Cyril Ramaphosa to become oui to support Cyril Ramaphosa to become our next president , to clean the anc from corruption. We support Nkosazana Dlamini zuma because i think what she is advocating for, she speaks a lot about economic transformation. Whoever eventually wins will be well placed to become president of south africa in the next general election in 2090, but also faces the huge challenge of united is divided party. 2019. Also this hour. The Islamic State group says it carried out an attack on a Methodist Church in the pakistani city of quetta on sunday morning. Nine people died and dozens more were injured as suicide bombers stormed the church. Nearly double the usual number of worshippers were attending a service in the run up to christmas. Police investigating the deaths of the 75 year old canadian billionaire and his wife say that the police have now taken the lead on the case. The man, who founded a multi billion dollar Pharmaceutical Company with his wife, honey, was murdered. Police have confirmed that the couple was strangled. Turkeys president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced he wants to open an embassy for palestinians in eastjerusalem. The turkish leader has been a vocal opponent of Donald Trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. Last week, he led calls for the city to be recognised as the capital of a palestinian state. This is what he had to say at a rally on sunday. Translation since jerusalem is currently under occupation, we cant go there and open our embassy but our consulate general is represented by an ambassador. God willing, the day is close when officially, with gods permission, we will open up our embassy there. A british diplomat has been murdered in the lebanese capital of beirut. The body of rebecca dykes was found by the side of a road in the city on saturday. She had been working as a programme managerfor the department for International Development since january. Her family say they are devastated by her loss. Heres martin patience. This is a piece of news that has stunned the diplomatic community, i believe that rebecca dykes was attending a Going Away Party on friday night, in a popular area of the city. After she left that bar, its understood that she was then abducted and her body was found dumped close to a motorway sometime on saturday. The white house has confirmed that the cia provided intelligence to Russian Security services that helped foil a terror attack. Russian agents raided a flat allegedly used as a base to plan an attack on the kazan cathedral in st petersburg. Seven people have been detained on charges of being members of so called Islamic State. President putin has thanked the us for its help. The sri lankan capital colombo has hosted a mass wedding of chinese couples for the first time. 50 couples married in traditional sri lankan style. Their honeymoons are to be spent visiting the islands tourist attractions. The Sri Lankan Government is hoping the event will strengthen ties between the two countries and promote tourism. Over in india, votes are being counted up after last weeks Assembly Elections in the state of gujarat. The poll is seen as an important test of the popularity of the hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his home state. His tenure as chief minister of gujarat was clouded by accusations that he stoked violence against muslims in inter communal riots in 2001. Divya arya reports from ahmedabad. We are on the promenade on sabarmati river, in the heart of the city of ahmedabad, in gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modis home state. Mr modi was the chief minister of gujarat for 14 years and is credited with bringing a lot of Development Projects here, including this one. Now, this is a state election but it has been very keenly contested and mr modi himself has been here to conduct more than two dozen rallies. Many believe this is actually going to be a verdict on his popularity and it will be significant looking ahead to the 2019 general elections. For the Opposition Congress party, which has been losing elections ever since mr modi came to power, this election will be quite significant. The party now has a new president in mr rahul gandhi, heir of the gandhi family, and these may well be the first points he puts in his scorecard. Gujarat has been a highly industrialised state of india and has historically had a high rate of growth, but in the run up to this election, youth have raised the issues of unemployment, poverty and jobless growth, making it a true test for modis brand of economics, called modinomics. Divya arya, bbc news, ahmedabad, gujarat. The conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera has won chiles president ial election, securing his return to power after campaigning on a promise to boost the economy. He secured nearly 55 of the votes, defeating the left wing senator and journalist, alejandro guillier, by ten percentage points. Mr pinera, who was president until 2014, has promised a better life for all chileans. A short time ago i got the latest from Jane Chambers in santiago. At the start of the day, no one could call it. The polls really didnt have any idea who was going to win. He had a disappointing first round back in november, where he only got 36 of the votes and did not get the 50 he needed to avoid the second run off. But it has all changed now. He has got around 55 of the vote, much better than he expected, and he has just admitted that in a speech he gave recently. So its been a good day for him. What can we expect now from him moving forward . A lot has been talked about his Economic Reforms . Absolutely. He is this billionaire businessman and he has vowed that he is going to double economic growth. He wants to create more work opportunities, over half a millionjobs he wants to give people. He really wants to kickstart chiles economy, he wants to cut corporate taxes and get things moving. I understand that his rival in the election congratulated and conceded defeat via a telephone call . Yes, he did, so yes, he conceded defeat, he recognised that he was not going to win, he said it was a difficult and sad day to him but all is not lost, that he would come back stronger in the future. Sebastian pinera in his recent speech was very gracious towards alejandro guillier, saying that he thinks he is a very great man and praising his wife, saying he feels he has a lots to give to the country. And really, a kind of appeasing speech, looking for Common Ground between them and trying to mend bridges. What can we gauge by the political framework now in 2017, given the fact that Sebastian Pinera is no stranger to the presidency having already held the position before . He just feels that while he was president , before he had that very successful time when he managed to rescue those 33 miners so that was one of the high points for him he feels that he created a lot ofjobs during that time and the economy was striving. He feels that during this time with president michelle bachelet, the economy has somewhat stagnated so he is very keen to go back to that time when the economy was doing well and make chile the economic powerhouse that he feels it is in latin america. Jane chambers there. This is newsday on the bbc. Our top stories around the world in 42 days, a french sailor sets a new record for the fastest solo navigation. After eight months on the run, Saddam Hussein has been tracked down and captured by american forces. Saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, our women, our children. The signatures took only a few minutes but they brought a formal end to 3. 5 years of conflict that has claimed over 200,000 lives. Before an audience of world leaders, the president s of serbia, bosnia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. The romanian border was sealed and silent today. Romania has cut itself off from the outside world in order to prevent the details of the presumed massacre in timisoara from leaking out. From sex at the white house to a trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached. This is newsday on the bbc. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Im Babita Sharma in london. Our top stories the un warns leaders in myanmar they could face charges of genocide over the persecution of Rohingya Muslims. Votings under way in johannesburg, where south africas governing anc is choosing a new leader. Sir mo farah has won the 2017 bbc Sports Personality of the year award. Sir mo, whos the most successful british track athlete in modern 0lympic history, said he wasnt expecting to win this year. That story is popular on bbc. Com lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. China daily leads on an optimistic view of the nations economic future, featured in an international report. It says chinas pursuit of High Quality Economic Development will shift the nation towards a more sustainable economy that will contribute towards greater prosperity. The Straits Times features a huge protest march in indonesia against us president trumps decision to recognisejerusalem as the capital of israel. The paper says around 80,000 people marched throuthakarta ahead of a rally at the national monument. Finally, the japan times reports on the launch of a russian soyuz spacecraft, carrying a japanese astronaut. The craft is taking Norishige Kania along with an american scientist and a russian cosmonaut to relieve the current crew of the International Space station. Now, babita, what stories are sparking discussions online . The latest star wars movie. The lastjedi has generated more than 450 million in global ticket sales on its opening weekend. In north america it is at the second place in the all Time Box Office list only behind star wars the force awakens that came out in 2015. Lets return now to the Rohingya Crisis and the uns human rights chief has said he personally warned myanmars leader Aung San Suu Kyi about appalling atrocities against the rohingya people, but that her government questioned the methodology used by the un. Zeid Raad Al Hussein told the bbcs Justin Rowlatt how evidence began to build that could lead to charges of genocide against myanmars leadership. When the First Campaign was launched last year on a border post, allegedly, we said this was well thought out and plantned. And what seems to have happened is that they were pushing on a door and if it moved, then they would continue to push. The people of the village would be told that they do not be long there, and then the attacks on houses began, either by setting them alight or by going after the individual people. The import is obvious you will die unless you move. What difference will it make if it isjudged to be genocide . The gravity and the scale would be suggestive of a commission of a crime that requires a response by the international community. And you think using the term genocide, classifying the nature and the scale of the crime is an important way to ensure appropriate justice is done . We feel on the basis of what you see you cannot rule it out. The question of intentionality going back to genocide, it is hard to establish. The threshold is high. That is why we continue to say that a court has to do this. But it wouldnt surprise me in the future if a court was to make such a finding on the basis of what weve seen. Because of the systematic nature of it . The planning that went into it, we can infer that from the actions on the ground. And then there is the crime of omission, that if it came to your knowledge that this was being committed and you did nothing to stop it, then you could be culpable as well for that. Given the scale of the military operation, clearly, these would have to be decisions taken at a high enough level. But almost certainly at the very highest levels, because thats attracted the attention of the World Community very early on, and its inconceivable that the army chief and, you know, Aung San Suu Kyi, were not aware that this was happening in their country. The International News media was awash with imagery of burning villages, of claims that atrocities were being committed. So, certainly, one could make the argument that there was time sufficient for a halt to the operations and inquiries to be launched. And that didnt seem to happen. So im quite sure that a future jurisdiction in a court would probably ask those very questions. The high commissioner for human rights wrote a very, very critical report published in february, 2017, so six months before this explosion of violence we saw against the rohingya. You met Aung San Suu Kyi after that and said to her, you know, something needs to be done, this must be stopped. I spoke to her on the phone and i appealed to her to bring these military operations to an end. And, umm, to my great regret, it didnt seem to happen. But you literally said to her there are appalling atrocities being committed in your country, please do something, what was the response . She said this was awful, certainly, we want to look at it. She then, a couple of days after that, they began to question the methodology that we had chosen, they began to question whether the facts were correct. This was her government, not the military . This was her government. Was a policy you think probably was sanctioned by the . Thats what im supposing, yes, this is what i assume. Why hasnt she used the term rohingya . Given the amount of suffering, for goodness sake, everything has been stripped from them. Their name has been stripped from them. Its dehumanising to the point where you begin to believe that anythings possible. What do you do in the face of a nation that seems to be in the nile in this way . If you have this very frustrated population on the border, how soon will it be before their radicalised . How long before you begin to hear Jihadi Movement is comprised of these groups and pitting the extremists from the muslim world against the extremists from the muslim, buddhist world and then we would rue the day we didnt stop this at an earlier point in time. Its 20 years since a landmark treaty was signed to ban landmines. Over 100 states signed the ottawa treaty in 1997 but a recent report shows a very few countries are on course to meet the ten year deadline to remove landmines and the number of People Killed or injured by landmines at 10 year high in 2016, up 75 on the previous year. Civilians made up more than three quarters of victims and 38 of them were children. Simon conway is the director of strategy at the halo trust charity which campaigns to remove debris left behind by war, in particular land mines. Millions of mines have been cleared from the ground, so millions of people could cultivate their land without fear of dying all of injury. Tens of millions of mines from stockpiles have been destroyed and the weapon has been internationally stigmatised. Even states that havent signed it pretty much adhere to its tenants. The odd state that uses them is pretty much cast as a pariah. So youre absolutely right, we have seen an increase in casualties, mostly as a result of the use of improvised mines, improvised explosive devices that behave in the same way mines and mostly by nonstate actors so in the way the treaty works its had a dramatic impact but theres still work to do. Whats not working, simon . I think in essence it is working. I think what we need is more consistent effort and funding to finish thejob. More consistent effort and funding to finish the job. I more consistent effort and funding to finish thejob. I mean, in 2015 we finished mozambique, which was one smart, one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. That proved you can do it and now 29 countries have completed mine clea ra nce. Countries have completed mine clearance. There are some big ones to go, afghanistan, angola, cambodia for example so its a question of redoubling our efforts and there are places like iran and syria where theres a big problem with le. Dee is and we need to put the resources in there to clear them. Iraq and syria. Ieds. Its entirely feasible to do it but we just need the resources. French sailor Francois Gabart has smashed the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe. Huge crowds welcomed him home to the french port of brest with hundreds of small craf on the water accompanying his 30 metre long trimaran into the harbour. He crossed the finish line in the channel in the early hours of sunday morning after 42 days and 16 hours. It was really strange. It was really dark. There are was in the middle of all these fishermen. I said, can i pass on the right . He said, go on them. There i was, alone. It was so weird. The transition is really weird. The transition is really weird too, being here in front of you all, thats weird too. Congratulations to him. You have been watching newsday. Stay with us. Still to come bitcoin in the spotlight again as Bitcoin Futures trading begins on the worlds biggest exchange. We will be back with the headlines next. It was a weekend of two halves, with saturdays sunshine replaced a sundays cloud and drizzle. Heres a scene by one of the weather watchers taken on sunday in stevenage, hertfordshire. Monday will be a bright start to the week ahead, which is looking mainly dry, rather cloudy, turning milder, especially towards the west. Dense fog patches to watch out for, especially during tuesday. Monday is dominated by this big ridge of high pressure, thats keeping things generally dry and settled. Quite a chilly start to the day with some frost around and also the odd mist and fog patch to contend with first thing. Monday morning, 8am, heading to work and school, temperatures around 11 5 degrees in wales and the south west of england. A dry start to be more cold further east in england. Could be sub zero in the countryside. Much of Northern England and Northern Ireland and scotland looking dry to start off the day. Could be a little bit of mistiness around. It should clear through the day. Plenty of dry weather on the cards with light winds too. Turning more mild, especially from the west. Temperatures between seven to nine degrees. Slightly cooler to the east. Typically around 4 6 from newcastle to norwich. And then, monday night, that is when we see visibility go downhill. Notjust mist, really dense fog forming through early tuesday. Freezing fog in parts of the south east which will be really slow to clear. It could be quite problematic during tuesday morning. In fact, you could see disruption to air travel, road travel, across central and southern and eastern parts of england with all that fog. It will be quite slow to clear on tuesday. Further west, low cloud and drizzle likely, gradually pushing east as we go through the day. So, either way, a foggy, grey sort of a day. 5 6 towards the south east. 10 12 in the north west. And then as we move through to the middle of the week, this frontal system slips south and east across the uk for wednesday. So, wednesday, a north south split. Drizzly and grey in the south. Brighter skies further north. 912. Rain in southern parts of england and wales on thursday. Brighter with sunshine and a few showers further north, 7 11 degrees. Goodbye. Youre watching bbc news. Im Babita Sharma. Our top story. A warning from the United Nations to the leadership of myanmar. The high commissionerfor human rights says the countrys leaders could face charges of genocide over the persecution of the rohingya ethnic group. More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from myanmar to neighbouring bangladesh since august. South africas governing anc is voting to choose a new leader to succeed president jacob zuma. Nearly 5000 delegates are choosing between the Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former foreign minister, nkosaza na dlamini zuma. And this story is trending at bbc. Com. The latest Star Wars Film has generated more than 450 million in global ticket sales on its opening weekend. In america, the lastjedi is second on the all Time Box Office list, behind the 2015 Star Wars Film, the force awakens. Stay with us. And our top story here in the uk. Investigators are trying to establish what caused a multiple
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