Aung San Suu Kyi denies genocide in Myanmar at UN hearing

Ms Suu Kyi said the situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state was not easy to fathom - but acknowledged that Myanmar's defence forces may have used disproportionate force. Myanmar is accused of carrying out genocidal acts leading more than seven hundred thousand people from the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya were killed and there are widespread witness accounts detailing systematic rape, torture and murder.

Also in the programme; the teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg has accused governments and corporations of failing to tackle climate change, and hiding behind clever accounting and PR in her address at the climate summit in Madrid. And in Sydney, twenty thousand people have taken part in a climate change protest as wildfires continue to threaten the Australian city.

(Photo: Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar’s legal team at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Credit: Van Weel/EPA)