[Watt:] American president Donald Trump is taking a hard-line stance against a new migrant caravan heading towards the U.S. from Honduras. Mr. Trump warns that the U.S. will cut off aid to the Central American country if the Honduran government fails to stop the thousands trekking north. Ironically, a cut in aid would add to the misery that is forcing people to flee the violence plagued country where corruption is rampant and two-thirds of the population lives in poverty. The caravan has made it as far as Guatemala and CNN's Leyla Santiago has the latest on this grueling trek.
[Leyla Santiago, Cnn Correspondent:] They've been traveling by foot for days, among them, mothers carrying young children, many being pushed in wheelchairs. This group of about 3,000 Honduran migrants is headed to the United States in search of a better life, leaving poverty and violence in their home country. They made the long trek through Honduras to the Guatemala border, then on to the city of Esquipulas. The group clashed with Guatemalan police, who blocked one of the border crossings. It's a long journey but they say they do not have much of a choice.
[Unidentified Male:] There is much corruption here in Honduras. We want to work. There is none. We want land to plant bananas, plantains, beans. There isn't any, brother. We need to migrate to another country, brother. In the hospitals, there is no security. There is nothing. Our patients die, brother.
[Santiago:] President Donald Trump threatened the Honduran government. If the caravan continues on, he says, tweeting, the United States has strongly informed the president of Honduras that if the large caravan of people heading to the United States is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately. The Department of Homeland Security expanded on Trump's tweet, calling the caravan a, quote, "result of well advertised and well known catch and release loopholes." Andrea Aleman, who is making the journey with her four children, believes she should be allowed into the
[U.s. Andrea Aleman , Honduran Migrant:] Heading to the United States, we're going to arrive with Donald Trump. He has to receive us, just as we received the Americans over here. They will have to accept us over there.
[Santiago:] One of the group's organizers said that the plan is to walk across Guatemala and reach Tapachula in Southern Mexico. There they hope to apply for humanitarian visas or get asylum. According to the U.S. State Department, Honduras has had one of the highest murder rate in the world since 2010. The World Bank reports that over 66 percent of the population lives in poverty Leyla Santiago, CNN.
[Watt:] As we just noticed noted I am sorry the migrants have made it as far as Guatemala and authorities there detained one of the caravan's coordinators, Bartolo Fuentes early Tuesday. Two other people were detained with Fuentes. It is believed all three will be returned to Honduras in the coming hours. The reason for their detention, though, remains unclear. Meanwhile, CNN's Matt Rivers has been visiting an area between Myanmar and Bangladesh, known as no man's land. That is where 5,000 Rohingya Muslims are stuck in limbo, too afraid to return home. You'll recall more than 700,000 Rohingya have crossed to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, fleeing a military operation in Myanmar that the U.N.'s top human rights official likens to ethnic cleansing. There are allegations of rape, torture and murder. Most of the refugees are women and children. In June, Myanmar signed an agreement with the U.N., saying it would create safe conditions for the refugees to return to their homes. But the process is yet to begin in earnest.
[Matt Rivers, Cnn Correspondent:] If they do come back, officials admit they will not be resettled on their original land and the Rohingya say they fear they will end up in camps indefinitely. Plus, the security forces who would be in charge of the repatriation are some of the same people the U.N. says carried out the genocide.
[Rivers:] So back in no man's land, no surprise, the Rohingya will stay in put. The conditions inside that camp were obviously horrific. There's no access to education, no health care, no electricity, food is scarce, and yet still, they'd rather be on that side of the fence than this one, because they're too afraid to come back.
[Nick Watt, Cnn International Anchor:] Tune in Wednesday to see the first of Matt Rivers' reports from his series inside Myanmar, witness to the Rohingya crisis. Matt will provide us all with rare access and insight into this on-going humanitarian crisis. That's 1:00 p.m. in London and 8:00 p.m. in Hong Kong. And still to come, it's now OK to get high. The Great White North will look at the new rules in Canada, which is just legalized recreational marijuana.