Coming is not the worlds 2nd worst affected country after months at sea in a wooden boats nearly 300. 00 rohingya make it to Indonesias Aceh province Tropical Storm haitian moves towards north korea after lashing south korea with strong winds and heavy rain. Thank you very much for joining us we begin in bello rule sway prominent protest leader is missing after an incident in the center of the capital minsk in the past few hours Maria Kolesnik over whos spoken at many major rallies was taken away in a van by unidentified people shes been a Campaign Manager for opposition politicians any vocal supporter as that manotick on austria was now in exile in lithuania when a smith reports. There is still some safety in numbers for the 10s of thousands of protesters on the streets of minsk. The ministry of interior in valorous has warned them that demonstrations are illegal closing off city squares and streets but that hasnt stopped people descending on the capitol for a 4th week of protest agai
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The Gulf Cooperation Council about the proposed iran nuclear deal. Southeast asia is facing a migrant crisis. Hundreds have been rejected by governments in the region. Veronica sent this update from bangkok bangkok. Reporter in a dramatic motion they dropped food parcels to help a boat from 300 or so migrants from bang lash desh and myanmar. It looked like humanitarian assistance in the sense the food was dropped off, but at the same time the Royal Thai Navy denied them the ability to land on theyre tear to her and pulled them out to international waters. This is a shortterm solution. The thai authorities want to show theyre serious about cracking down on Human Trafficking, because it wanting to improve its record. Its being categoried in the bottommost tier when it comes to the report issued by the United States every year. Whats happening is the actual people involved is they are stuck out at sea being pushed away not just by thailand but by malaysia and indonesia. A few people do ma
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: More than 300 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, were stranded on the coast of western Indonesia Sunday after being adrift at sea for weeks, the latest in the.