Welcome to news asia glad you could join us we begin in myanmar where 2 Army Soldiers appear to have testified on camera that the army had carried out atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority these appear to be the 1st public confessions of the armys involvement in crimes against the 2 soldiers have been described as. Confessions were recorded in the custody of the army and. The army has been fighting we arent able to confirm these confessions were made voluntarily or under duress but heres what the soldiers said. Privates all said i quote we shot dead and wiped out according to the command of all irrespective of all children and adult private. Said a court. Give us an old up all you see and all you hear so we indiscriminately shot at all. Correspondent who covers the region joins me now from kuala lumpur whats your assessment of these videos i mean how. Old might they have been to do this. Well i can tell you that i saw a video that has been made public that came out made that
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The 12000 migrants living there are now homeless what will happen to them whos responsible for them. And Nobel Prize Winning author of sweat lana and lex if accuses the balloonist government of using terror against its own people shes one of the roosters last leading opposition leaders will still free. Im told me all a lot of boy its good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump is under fire again for his handling of the corona Virus Outbreak following an explosive new book in it veteran Journalist Bob Woodward says trump deliberately downplayed the danger posed by the virus in the 1st weeks of the pandemic at a News Conference the president defended his handling of the crisis trump said he was not lying to. The public but that he did not want to cause panic more than 189000 americans have died from the virus so far. He w. Washington correspondent that assen joins us from d. C. We hear trump on tape. Saying he understands how dangerous the corona virus is why was he saying the