Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

There are lots of reasons the issue of freight is fraught in landlocked central Asian countries.

Add to that list sanctions on neighboring Russia and that makes shipping goods even harder.

We examine the plans to plot new rail routes across the region.

And here in London thousands have been lining up overnight to see Queen Elizabeth the Second

lying in state.

Our correspondent speaks with the waiting crowds and asks whether a good old fashioned

queue is the best way to allocate a scarce regal resource.

But first, in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, Rohingya migrants have been rallying to

mark five years since their brutal expulsion from Myanmar.

This woman describes how the Burmese army killed her husband and says children were snatched

from their mother's laps before being killed.

She says the world has ignored the Rohingyas for justice.

The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority in a mainly Buddhist country and they've been targeted

for decades.

Now their situation is grim both for those who fled Myanmar and those who remain in the country

and it shows no prospect of getting better.

For decades, the Burmese army has wanted to rid the country of Rohingyas and it is slowly

but surely accomplishing that goal.

Charlie McCann is our Southeast Asia correspondent.

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