The Trump-Kim Summit / Rohingya in Bangladesh face Cyclone Season

The Irish Times World View Podcast

On this week's podcast, Clifford Coonan reports from Singapore where US president Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in a historic summit today. Comparisons have been drawn with president Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China to reopen relations with Chairman Mao Zedong. But with a good deal of vagueness in the wording and nothing concrete on denuclearisation plans, the day was largely symbolic with much left to be done. In the second part of the show, nine months after many of them were driven from their homes in Rakhine State, the one million-strong Rohingya community in Bangladesh faces a defining period. A repatriation deal providing for them to return to their homes has been signed, but not delivered upon. Now, the approaching cyclone season poses a major threat to vulnerable refugee camps. Irish times deputy foreign editor David McKechnie and video producer Kathleen Harris have just returned from a trip to Bangladesh with Concern. They speak about the conditions on the ground.