Hi i fairly well can i know whats in the street if you are a regular viewer of this program or aljazeera as a network you know that we continue to go back to the story of the way many refugees are in the southern part of bangladesh today is no exception just over a week ago a cycling went past this settlement in the World Refugee center in the well and that was at an andy a miss and then the week before that we heard that coverage 19 had come into the refugee settlements the question is could this be the beginning of a catastrophe for the ranger in southern bangladesh if youre already on huge and we invite your opinion your take your experiences would love to hear from you and you too can be in the screen. Im going to introduce you to the guests who will introduce themselves to you hello louise its great to have you on the street and tell everybody who you are my friends my name is the rest of them i would argue right so our spokesperson and im glad i asked and im based in coxs but our time good to see it mr hello and welcome to the stream tell everybody if you are. Hello the lot of us tame director Jonathan Mann amare new stop are not past government of the people so the public up on the dish thank you thank you for being an artist gushing huntin welcome to the stream introduce yourself. And i am president obamas throw. Away this a new kate i am aware ruling out a ball and brought up in our honest and western are obama. And mohammed. These no introduction welcome back to the stream thanks very much im joe im a Senior Correspondent for aljazeera english and ive covered the story of the plight of the rangar extensively for the network. Maam i have to tell you we were planning as episodes of the stream and we doing it quite long term because were not down here in washington d. C. Where we make the strains and we have to do some soon and then we saw an Instagram Post from yourself which im going to show our audience here which actually meant that we took away some of the things that were going to do we pushed them back and we thought we have to talk about this this was the headline reports of the 1st confirmed coronavirus chase in the engine refugee camps is a major cause for concern that stopped us in our tracks what are you hearing from the sources because youve been reporting on the hinge if as many yes. Well femi all the refugees who ive been speaking with the past few months you know theyve been so traumatized as it is and they were terrified of the prospect that the coronavirus the cove at 19 would be entering the camps and they were doing everything they could to try to prevent the spread but they understood that it was a reality that they werent going to be able to escape so it was really a matter of when and not if i of course was checking every few days with refugees on the ground with folks like Louise Donovan whos on our panel today with u. N. H. C. R. With other aid workers there about reports that were coming out from coxs bazaar and you know it was terrible news i mean this is a population that is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world they have experienced unfathomable violence they have had the kind of atrocities committed against them that youd be hard pressed to believe even when we hear about them in person from the people they were committed against and now there they have this threat unlike any other threat that they faced before cope at 19 and at a time when you know the internet has been shut down in around the camps in coxs bazaar since last september i believe largely shut down i should say does come back from time to time that just scared them more because they wondered how they were going to get the correct kind of information to try to combat the spread of the disease they wondered how they were going to contact relatives both inside the camps and also relatives back in myanmar and they wanted to try to get the worlds attention as far as the kind of threat that theyre facing and let people know how scared they are of of you know what kind of a toll this could take on their population. Mr insane i know that bangladesh was getting ready for the 19th what about the refugee settlements what did you put in place now and how the 1000 was probably going to happen among security that live very close together. Yeah actually i would like to begin with. What expression. Means to display that in that easy beginning. And who have their part to cycle on and. I personally appeal dr lith and until these people go back to be at home lack incipient dignity that the school is in the main they are and we should better seek to do their will solution and bit and not cheap our pockets but since the corbett has already been detected in that camp encore genetically. Embark on this issue. Actually the government of bangladeshis pulled me out of the hardest. Mission in the on the state didnt have to go and accordingly the government acted in a timely manner and discolored up and has meant we un is in says mrs amy i just interrupt you i know this is very important you get this information over but i believe you are reading a statement and this is a a live conversation so i am going to ask you just very simply can you just tell us without what were showing to your notes what was the biggest challenge you had to address in the with your 3 g. Camps without reading on your are meant. To stop. The outbreak in dhaka but we also know that in the matter of the time so weak books happy the cautionary message on parchment we couldnt afford not to stop it so now we are the entire meaning in a medical treatment or a speck had while so we are still caucusing on the isolation and all those people. And maybe theyre our colleague im un she would be there they give more details on the hartley are actually doing thank you absolutely so its a louisiana im just looking here at the u. N. H. C. R. This is something that you put out in your feed an annual social Media Outreach the u. N. A. C. R. In bangladesh this is the 1st in cuts is bizarre and youve got banks here. This also one of the 1st testing labs in bangladesh we learned from a show that we did quite recently was actually in coxs bizarre so here are the preparations and preparations before we heard about this 1st outbreak but here is most of the most recent headlines that were actually sharing here on al jazeera dot com 15000 under quarantine as coronavirus cases rise though really close to. Whats going on. Who are thank you and as you mentioned the trieste and mr franks of the inauguration of the 1st 2 sorry i so these are severe acute respiratory infection isolation and Treatment Facilities the entire humanitarian community in support of the governments is working to establish Trial Centers that would be used for to treat patients both talking to refugees and local bangladeshi population who are showing my age disappearance and since so we have opened the doors of stress centers and entry just to rest cases where where its confirmed in the refugee camps we have been working around the clock for the past 3 months to make sure that the sentence can be opened and obviously trade concerns refugees are a concern but the numbers are pretty given their high population density within the towns they were on treatment for some incidents training distribution the need soon to have Frontline Health workers is going on round the clock and you mentioned the egyptian acquiring team thats in the cards there are if there are additional measures ongoing terms of messaging just particularly in areas where there are customs and cases just for people to be more aware and to to minimize their movements within the camps and but in terms of acquirement you know at the moment there are just over a 100 people who are actually contacts of country in cases who are in crime scenes and with. This is a good question about social distancing yes. He said i might not so again they. Describe the. Absolutely mr has a need a session and they manage to pick up right at the end go ahead just as aine. Jenny he mentioned. Hes got to get them back surely this is not the day he intended to illegal mission depart he distilled and he gives were going up on a communication and going up people. Get a comic good insight and also even embarked. On heart we have done based on jinnah single mrs lincoln i know if i ever met you i just cant just double check that tune i knew hearing from Friends Family colleagues who are enduring just sentiments im hearing that they feel an intimate connection to in no i didnt. Know any man and. For me i can just say that the refugees who i you know im in contact with as much as i can be as i said before the internet is largely shut down it comes and goes there are times it will be on for a few days but most of the time what i hear from the refugees who try to connect online a lot of times they will trek up hillsides and they will try to get a 2 g. Signal and that is the way that they will communicate with the outside world. If i could also pose a question to mr hussain since he was addressing this you know there have been a lot of Rights Groups that have been critical of bangladesh because of you know what they call it internet shutdown and i wanted to ask you know why is the situation as it is in those camps is there any thought to perhaps restoring it at a time when the government is facing increased criticism for that. Yeah thats really is the highest part of us we need to project theyre not sending had lingered hand was on the Horse Community as well so what the pill unless the mechanic is pound out who effectively. The people this situation should be bale and also we are not very much sure. How many well into why theyre actually using high Speed Internet and or what i pop benefit if there were diving problem in town the debt is also not theyre not. Sure but they have discrete tical juncture there are many missing our mission and give you money while so on so you only have plenty big gallants book big than light changed ponder see. My actual. Assistance in this is why were delighted that youre with us we really appreciate that tune is anything that you would like to ask mr the same regarding their hinge or the sentiments where they are right now are foreign or ruling or myself in or. Government and the people of while allowed us have given us a shelter where we were slain for our general site we will never forget it it is you know our model and overwhelm you know they are free seeing and with. Occlusion and theyve given us a shelter. You know. We appreciate hospitality and generosity to the ruling your people. But as we are famously in many you know. We have seen we are our only face in corbin 1000 we recently we were lucky you know we saved from. Cyprus and you know there are many others we are facing but. The government this time they should concede out of their support we maintain its really important to get that information out and into allowing. Generals are survivors to. You know to have a the internet is very important when i think i think when i think we think weve got i think weve addressed that in a way that mr singh feels that theres an anough sandwich out there and overseeing the refugees feeling that not that perspective that theyre having trouble using the internet the reason why this is so important is because how are we learning about covert 19 how do we keep ourselves safe how do we protect each other a lot of the information is 700 on 9 weeks that we bring you in here a couple of questions from twitter for you mark dr who says its really difficult to social distance effectively after a fight sanitation especially deposed disposal of waste water etc so impossible water to residents in refugee camps insufficient supplies is always hard to do and then another just hear from the hussein whos a journalist hes working cos its bizarre isnt that a lot of people in the markets right now they were doing each should think no social distances the people have enough information about 1000 families and just screwed up is every consider just this is not 6 feet this is not this is a party louise. And i thing. Just referring to the 1st question about. Hygiene promotion access to so access to possible option we have as i said been working with governments on all humanitarian tremendously to increase soap distributions since march and also to such more than a style its a facility its all going to comes our activities have been crystal lifesaving activities in a naturist of. Public health and paris and so reduce the number of humanitarian workers going into the camps and so we have been we have been able to continue distributions and we quite option as i mentioned at the beginning they say its small it was dense. Caps in the words we have more than 40 kinds of People Living rest where commerce or social distancing is very very challenging we have a submission practices of all distribution points so places where refugees go crazy lets click through the russians or are they just traditions i am however in day to day life it is challenging i think. This is why i like to hide i stay after its not refugees themselves have been making to spread information to raise awareness from their own communities huge network of refugee volunteers whove been going door to door expressing messages whove been that developing posters whove been spreading messages microfilms must and i think that this was a very positive and theyve really mobilized and shown how. To protect their communities but of course in such a densely populated area its very challenging. I mean also you know neal how are you to imagine the refugees who are making themselves how did you go 1st missing you pick up off the back. I would just say for me the yeah i would concur with what louise was saying i mean one of the things ive been trying to do the past couple of months is showcase in some of the reporting im doing. Even though im not there on the ground what the refugees are doing and how the community is coming together despite all the obstacles to try to find solutions to try to prevent the spread of covert 1000. 00 you had youth activists in the camps that were putting on seminars showing people how to properly wash their hands you have videographers that are there that are putting together a film showing children how to practice social distancing you have others who are writing songs about how to stop the spread of covert 19 so. You know when you factor in just how much there are hanging have been through when you see that kind of resilience it really is its just all inspiring. He says emir cannot even have this writ is genuine Human Rights Watch he find the age now english to that 19 age limits in how the risk i believe that is a limited number of n. G. O. S that you know allowing him to come. Can you can you clarify that for me Human Rights Watch saying that the reduction of ngo how this is not going to be a good thing at this time in actually after the decade is it based on mismatch from what we have done who. Had it in this city and sort of got cam we actually have. One on one emergency activities in that but we have the tempo we have michio that human it and it has his chance. To get this is why some people get outside of the activity is why he goes how to be says hostility in this sold in this is that reality actually. I was going was like. As was i would like brought this on yeah the response to mr kinzer request. That. He done it in this call because i know why hes admitted this the question mark i understand it hes asking it. Been published on. A community but i dont feel that the internet is not. Get it to communicate messaging and now that we have all heard you and the mic on is a man who wins in a party or targeted community make a Community Messaging heart we have been listening mr doesnt know what youre going back to reading again which again im going to push you not i know a lot i know whats out there but let me put let me put this to you this is from. A tweet and a and a handle thats cool protect the hinges in office you know the perspective here the greatest challenge into thinking and managing the outbreak is the internet blackout that bangladesh has imposed to reinject chance since 2929000 there is pushback mr im going to leave it there unless you want to make a commitment to have a hinge in this resettlement cancer that you can tell me until today you could actually turn it on today you know to correct your day i dont know any other. Yet here as i mentioned to you in the beginning that we have yet to conduct midget we have. Internet you are literally an insignificant party if you could actually increase the speed you could do it whenever you wanted to why wouldnt you do it lets do it its quite late right now but you could do it tomorrow that it could be this week why would the internet yeah you know it because i had circumstances. Not a but a but are you telling me out there he has a you have a day one that you explain what you want is them and their values up the internet there you are up so i go get in this mr nothing we heard you earlier so were going round a little bit in circles i hear you. Will disagree with you let me just bring in sharp dean who arrived quite recently in cots its bizarre i know how and youve been reporting for so long on the situation in myanmar situation coxs bizarre where are the refugees are based right now and this is an experience that sharp went through to get to cuts is bizarre to want to remind everybody whats going on. Lawyers are looking for somebody who are 510. 00 in total on the boat including kids we ran out of food within 5 days after we sailed off the boat out there want to talk to a. Doctor we survived by drinking salty water the traffic is gave us one piece of biscuits and a few drops of water sometimes we didnt get any food for many days women and young people were starting to die from the lack of food mammie why we still reporting on this this crisis that gets worse every time we come back and do an update whats gone wrong with the way the International Community operates was literally not doing right with our journalism or how are people reacting to it what what how would you analyze why we continue to have to come back to hinge a crisis. I mean its a great question and i wish i had an answer because quite frankly as a journalist as a human being i dont understand why the International Community largely ignores the plight of the ring keeps me awake at night at times i just i dont get it theyve suffered so much theyre living in such dire circumstances there have been so many testimonies given. You know theres been so much reporting done yes the story is largely uncovered and i feel fortunate to work for a net that covers it pretty extensively but the stories are out there and