december on al-jazeera. we will not be pressured i want to be very clear about this. australia vows not to

back down as asylum seekers are the victims from a former prison camp on my side. although i'm darn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a new sense of hope for some zimbabweans to be the country's next leader home and promises change. for the. prison guilty of genocide war crimes. russia says there's a real chance to end the war in syria but the situation on the ground remains desperate.

have entered a decommissioned prison camp on monday to try to evict refugees about four hundred people are refusing to leave the formal training facility which was closed last month they say they're being attacked by local people but a refugee on the island told us what happened. immigration law. so many resort for the. prison camp and it is an attack. on life not for a few days. grace and not. for me they are destroying everything all of belonging to the bank. they are you throwing them you know our shells. they are talking with people and treating people then you must move the

prison come on the rip you need to be refusing to leave this prison camp because they are thinking that we are not going to leave this prison compound go to another prison camp. al-jazeera sandra thomas has the latest from an asylum three bus loads of refugees have passed us on the only road to the prison which is over the water there behind me now we know that the place went in early morning on thursday papa new guinea in time about four or five hours ago now the accounts we hear of what happened very refugee say that they use force or violence against them in the place so they didn't they only destroyed property and they were just trying to incentivize if you like the refugees to leave but in the course of that we heard that fifty or sixty men were taken by the place i think that those that we just saw passing along the road right here just in the last three or four minutes were those men the first bus contains refugees and one of them leaned out of the window and said help help us the second one had

a man who went out and said some insulting things about australia but this is all a very live situation you know a strenuous prime minister insists the refugees must go to alternative accommodation that's been provided for them on the island they are staying there is obviously designed they think this is somewhere they can pressure the australian government to let them come to australia well we will not be pressured i want to be very clear about this our border security the integrity of our borders is maintained by my government it is maintained by my government and we will not outsource our migration policy to people smugglers the people on manis should go to the places alternative prices of safety with all of the facilities they need they should do so peacefully and they should do so you know accordance with the lawful directions of papua new guinea we is the country in which the center is

located was shown around us army is the human rights director of get out that's an australian campaign group she told us about her experience at the camp. why i have a background in post conflict zones and the conditions we witnessed was worse than anything i have ever seen it was horrifically hot men were sleeping inside shipping containers all over crowded the containers were sore heart and unlivable that the camera lens couldn't film inside because it stained up there was no water there was clearly men with significant medical issues that had not received medical attention the men had not had food other than small scraps biscuits here and there for three weeks and these men have been detained in those conditions for over four years the vast majority of them have been found to be refugees and their play was clear simply for safety the international legal situation in regards to its role is offshore detention regime is actually quite settled it is clearly

a struggle as responsibility p.n.d. shares some responsibility but fundamentally disease strelley in government that forcibly saying to people to these arlen's and it is that they have the haste and paid by the australian taxpayer in fact that these men have been held there for over four years the legal situation is also clear internationally that this is an international human rights crisis four years ago when amnesty international went into the camp they termed a catastrophe and numerous international observers and i didn't see as have echoed that recommendation since the international legal sphere is quite clear this is an international human rights crisis perpetuated by the australian government and in fact the un i said just that last week. the man who will become the next president of zimbabwe says the country is witnessing a new stage of democracy for the vice president. addressed thousands of cheering supporters in the capital on his return from south africa the day after robert mugabe's resignation or reports from harare. with.

the country to he said he would be back to lead his people former president robert mugabe sacked him as vice president so his wife grace could take over in just one week the military seize control resigned on tuesday the man nicknamed the crocodile returned wednesday and he is now in charge to. you i mean he was. he revealed there were plans to eliminate him he says he was poisoned allegedly by the g forty faction ins on a path led by grace of god. the rulings on a. presidential candidate.

but some people don't believe is the right man for the job he was a faithful ally of mugabe for decades we embraced by the one. they were together. with that we are free. but we are hoping we are free people who supports mugabe the former president worry the good things done by zimbabwe's first leader will be forgotten to start praying for us all sorts of names i think protests of the highest order. normally of this period of liberation respect to the africans. the incumbent to also take up the torch in order. that spirit of liberation when i got glasses he knows and have high expectations they know he is a businessman some here say that gives them hope he has realistic plans on how to

rebuild a broken economy. when lance guma is the managing editor of the hundred radio that's a zimbabwean online station based in the u.k. he says the country may not change as much as people want i think the problem we have we have a situation with managed to reinvent itself is like zanu p.f. is a snake that is managed to shed off its skin the skin is more garbage but it remains a snake if it feels threatened it will bite so i think this is the problem for a lot of people this man has been friends and allies with mugabe for over fifty years that's half a century so i'm reminded of how i remained in power in two thousand and eight it was the same with the help from the army we secured mugabe is a violent election so it is the same person who has been able to remove mugabe so here's the problem if the army have intervened now to secure the presidency

what happens next year when the opposition wins elections will the army allow an opposition president to take over having stated clearly in the past that they will not salute anyone who has not fought the war. survivors of europe's worst massacre since the second world war are celebrating a verdict by the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia judges sentence former bosnian serb commander rock on luggage to life in prison he was convicted for his role in the murder of eight thousand muslim men and boys in the town of in one thousand nine hundred five in a moment we'll hear from david change to ensure an answer but first need bug reports from the hague the chamber finds rocks chroma each guilty as a member of various joint camilla enterprises of the following counts count to genocide the verdict came

a lot of his victims have waited decades for but the seventy three year old former bosnian serb general wasn't in the court to hear it he'd been a gent did moments earlier this outburst oh mr milosevic if you if you continued like this. we adjourn his defense team had urged the judge to halt proceedings citing concerns over his blood pressure but the court rejected the plea finding guilty on one of two counts of genocide and nine of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the chaotic breakup of the former yugoslavia the court ruled that milat it carried out a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at ridding non serbs from bosnian territory there's nothing curious about executing prisoners there's no security about. trying to hold. individuals prosecuted convicted by these tribunals foreign. because this is being prosecuted.

for not respecting the geneva conventions among those crimes are some of the worst atrocities carried out in europe since the second world war thanks to the four years siege of sarajevo in which an estimated ten thousand people were killed in shelling and sniper fire and the massacre of thousands of mostly men and boys in the town of srebrenica where my colleague david chaytor now reports. the mothers of srebrenica called once again in the horror of their own memories watching the court proceedings in the hague in a small museum in the middle of the cemetery where their loved ones are buried they wanted justice as ever then. when they came a surge of elation followed by a wave of emotion they'd waited twenty two years for this movement they too have all had a life sentences families and villages torn apart

a heavy burden of grief that they will take to the grave. among them was not caught in this iconic photograph of the genocide pleading with a u.s. soldier to help her get back a house mint her son and her brother but this was no safe zone. they were gone forever so right now they sort of my point is that i am delighted that the court has brought such a judgment i'm happy mother i've waited for these judgment for twenty two knees as a mother as a sister as a wife and i personally fought for these so much from day one until today more than eight thousand muslim men and boys died in the killing fields around said bernie. but still one thousand victims have not been found every week in the forests and the hills around in this cemetery they're finding yet more bones so the problem is what the future brings what do we leave toward children what happens after this the

deep divisions between ethnic communities here look set to continue the service member of the tripartite presidency of bosnia herzegovina said the court did not deliver justice but politics distrust instead of trust but said instead of reconciliation there will be political conflicts david chaytor al jazeera separate it sir. it's come here not just here including a warning from libya to what's being called a crime against humanity. and a doctor who helped several u.s. gymnasts olympic nori now faces a long time behind prison bars. don't often get the chance to say it's looking pretty wet across the middle east but that is exactly what we have at the moment more heavy showers lots of cloud rolling

across iraq iran pushing towards afghanistan clear skies coming in behind we have seen something just around gaza for example around the gaza strip to see some flooding coming through here that weather also affecting a good part of turkey of course flooding across northern areas of syria could still see some snow just around the mountains for whether they're just around the caspian sea runs right out into a good part of iran co-direct coming in behind twenty one twenty two degrees there for kuwait city but any getting up to seventy baghdad were the time to grab the sweaters as we go on through the next couple of days and may while well that wesley weather will head towards us in. some cloud of rain across northern parts of saudi arabia the flooding of course. we've seen the wet weather there all the way across riyadh as well that will come very close to us as we go on through thursday much of thursday saying. for a good parts of the day hopefully as we go on into the weekend it will start to dry

up and start to brighten up to by the state dry to the south. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we learned that thanks and then to from the government to just shoot soon turned into a battle front for the nigerian government. yes why. the tours for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing and displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins of blood the rise of iran at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back ok to recap our top stories this hour police in part in a guinea have entered the decommissioned prison camp and to try to fix refugees that four hundred people are refusing to leave performa australian one facility which was closed last month. the man who set to become the next president of zimbabwe says the country is witnessing a new stage of democracy former vice president and this man of god will return from south africa a day after robert mugabe resigned. and former bosnian serb military chief has been sentenced to life in prison he was going to victims of the massacre of eight thousand muslim men and boys the tribe and in one thousand nine hundred five during the bosnian war a lot of it was found guilty on ten charges of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity. now russia's president vladimir putin has told his turkish under rainy and counterparts that there is a real chance of ending the war in syria speaking at three way talks hooten said he

believed a new stage had been reached in the conflict really china's reports now from the black sea resort of sochi. the war in syria is nearly over the three presidents meeting in sochi now it's time to rebuild the shattered country of lady may putin thinks a plan he's been pushing for weeks now is gaining momentum to do it. i am satisfied by the fact that the presidents of iran and turkey have supported an initiative to hold an all syrian forum a congress of national dialogue in syria the kremlin driven initiative aims to bring a broad spectrum of syrian government opposition and civil society groups to sochi in early december to plan for the country's future. and join me in congo we have all talked about oppositions all three countries have spoken in favor of

convening this congress of national dialogue. but the president has been telling putin he won't accept kurdish groups linked to the p.k. k. being there and turkey's president still seems lukewarm on the idea. of them. let me agree with president putin and he said we need to build on the momentum achieved as we talked together with mr rouhani we agreed that we need to extend our ties in all the areas. even less enthusiastic is the syrian opposition group the h n c which says it refuses to discuss the future of syria outside of the un's geneva framework at an opposition conference beginning in the saudi capital riyadh early indications are that groups will keep their insistence asaad must go despite pressure to compromise with his plan for a congress of national dialogue russia seems keen to shake the political future of syria much like it's already shapes the conflict if putin successful this will be

to the benefits of his ally asaad and yet again the dreams of the opposition will suffer. al-jazeera. people living in syria's eastern boot are so short of food they're eating from garbage bins consuming animal food and fainting from hunger that's according to a u.n. report forces loyal to president bashar al assad have to seize the rebel held area for five years more than one hundred seventy thousand people desperate for food. now leading palestinian political factions including hamas and fatah have agreed to hold elections by the end of next year the group's made the joint statement following reconciliation talks in cairo last month hamas agreed to cede powers in gaza to the palestinian authority in a deal mediated by egypt mom of the way says a palestinian american political analyst he says the latest deal is sorely lacking . it's much about nothing with what they said now i think they have failed to

achieve anything that helps the palestinian people whether in the west bank or gaza and i think this is between the top guys the big guys and everybody is trying to get the other side to surrender to the other i think it is a sad day in the in the in the palestinian people's life and history that they do not agree even on opening the borders and negotiate an opening of the borders for the two million people in gaza from what i know i think the egyptians are much worse than the israelis now in keeping the blockade against the palestinians in order to bring down and bring a solution to their issues with hamas with targeting hamas and the palestinian people they are still refusing to open their borders they want to have control of the gaza strip like they did before nine hundred sixty seven war when are the knots are turned over the gaza strip to the israelis so what from what i see i think we

are still not in the event the square one we are still outside the possibility of reaching anything that can help the palestinian cause and let's keep in mind the americans and the europeans will refuse and they it is on their books they will not deal with any government that hamas is part of it so what kind of elections are we going to have and what are we going to do when there are elections and hamas is part of it. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has put his resignation on hold. he's back in beirut suddenly resigning in riyadh more than two weeks ago. into political uncertainty. he came home to take part in independence day celebrations eighteen days after announcing his resignation in saudi arabia it was the first time he has been back in beirut since that unexpected announcement and he was received as a prime minister and warmly greeted by the president michel aoun who publicly

accused saudi arabia of forcing her to resign and preventing him from leaving the country the saudis said they feared for his life back home. did say he would clarify his political position once back in lebanon and it seems a compromise deal has been worked out how d.d. suspended his resignation to allow for further consultations. i presented today my resignation to president and he urged me to wait before offering it and to hold on to it for more dialogue about its reasons a political background and i agreed. represents one of two major alliances in lebanon on the pro saudi camp hundreds of his supporters gave him a hero's welcome outside his home many lebanese from across the political divide believed he was being used by saudi arabia as a pawn in their attempt to target iran and that him and his family were held as hostages their. heads

a national unity government that includes his political opponent the pro iranian hezbollah the prime minister has long demanded hezbollah this arms and ends its military interventions in arab countries. that is a proxy state it's caught in the middle of a regional power struggle and it's in the pendants has long been open to question. the crisis that began with her duties resignation was widely seen as having been forced on the prime minister by saudi arabia to counter iranian influence in lebanon. i'm here with you and we will continue onward together so we can be the line of defense for lebanon and for the stability of lebanon this gathering today is going to be repeated you'll see me visit every part of lebanon how did they say how long he's willing to put his resignation on hold political differences between the rival alliances are longstanding and unlikely to be resolved soon his decision

to stay in office may be more of a result of mediation efforts by world leaders to put lebanon's latest political crisis on hold senator al jazeera beirut the u.s. secretary of state has issued his strongest condemnation yet of me and my treatment of the ranger calling it ethnic cleansing rex tillerson visited me in my last week but avoided using the term ethnic cleansing he's threatening sanctions for those responsible for what he calls a renders atrocities in rakhine state more than six hundred thousand range of muslims have escaped across the border into bangladesh since the military crackdown began three months ago scott hyla has more from young. so thursday is the second day of closed door meetings discussing a possible repatriation program with officials from bangladesh foreign minister's office also myanmar's office here in the country now we know that they've been discussing over the last couple days but we haven't heard any details this is because all those meetings behind closed doors nothing has been made public this

comes on the heels of a meeting earlier in the week of over fifty foreign ministers from asian nations and european nations the bangladeshi foreign minister stayed on for a special visit as it was coined so they could discuss the issue of repatriation at the end of this meeting there is the indication that they'll be some kind of memo of understanding in other words how things will work moving forward this is a very complex issue you're talking about over six hundred thousand people the myanmar government has said that they want that to be voluntary repatriation but there are also other issues outside of documentation it's also about safety what conditions will those refugees who do come back will be facing in rakhine state so obviously many issues to go through but right now we're hearing there are indications from both sides that they hope to have some kind of memo of understanding after this meeting on thursday or possibly even by friday the french president says the u.n. security council should consider sanctions on libya if it does not act on human trafficking and money amok wrong condemn the auctioning of refugees as a crime against humanity during a meeting in paris with the canadian president alpha condé it follows videos

appearing to show african refugees being sold as slaves in libya un second general antonio contention has called for an investigation under the situation it is crucial to condemn these situations and denounce them through international law to fight and do everything to eradicate traffickers is now our priority we should try to anticipate the situation because libya is in a political transition there is presently no stable government we are working actively in the framework of the united nations mediation so that there can be a durable political situation don't get it if you just say it's not exempt. situation not just the selling of refugees but also the conditions they kept in it's an absolutely inhumane situation ships searching for a missing argentine submarine are investigating unusual noises the hunt for air a sound one has reached a critical phase with fears the forty four crewmembers on board could be running

low on oxygen dozens of planes and boats out searching the waters off the argentine coast but there's still no sign of the vessel the noise was detected near the subs location hours after it went missing a week ago a former u.s. olympic team doctor has been convicted of sexually abusing young girls in his care laurie nasser worked for usa gymnastics that's the organization that prepares gymnastic compete in the olympics is rob reynolds. for years larry nasser was responsible for the care of most of the top gymnast in the united states in a michigan courtroom he pleaded guilty to charges of criminal sexual misconduct and admitted to using his position as team doctor to sexually abuse underage girls from the molested seven girls ranging in age from under thirteen to fifteen in all one hundred and twenty five women and girls reported that nassar assaulted. i was sixteen assaulted by larry certainly after my thirtieth birthday and it was

a dark secret until i put the pieces together last september nassar worked at michigan state university and served as the usa olympic gymnastics team doctor during four olympic games high profile gymnast's including gold medal winners ali reisman and gabby douglas say nasser molested them under the guise of providing medical treatments he was reaching under their leotards or under their clothes with ungloved hands without consent without prior knowledge without another adult in the room and in many cases digitally penetrating them and i think he's a monster and i think it is so disturbing to me what he did to me and so many other people this is so much bigger than just me i mean it's such a and such a horrific thing to happen nasser apologized in court and so horribly sorry also offering apologies was the usa gymnastics organization which failed to protect

girls from nasser's predatory sexual activities the organization has compiled reports on sexual misconduct complaints against fifty four coaches but has declined to release them gymnast and their attorneys say the institutions silence enabled their abuser and for decades the u.s. agents own policies on reporting sexual abuse created an atmosphere where predators marion arthur and hundreds of usa to go to continue to prey on little girls if you want to stop this come clean. fix what happened get rid of those who did it and move forward and instead what you're getting is stonewalling nasser faces additional charges including possession of child pornography he faces a possible minimum of forty years in prison a judge will decide his sentence in january robert oulds.

reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera police in patna guinea have entered a decommissioned prison camp on mount assignment to try to evict refugees about four hundred people are refusing to leave the former australian run facility which was closed last month they say they fear being attacked by local people if they move to alternative accommodation and thomas has more from an asylum. three bus loads of refugees have passed us on the only road to the prison which is over the water there behind me now we know that the place in morning on papa new guinea and about four or five hours ago now the accounts we hear of what happened very refugee say that they use force or violence against them and the place they didn't they only destroyed property and they were just trying to incentivize if you like the refugees to leave but in the course of that we heard that fifty or sixty men were taken by the place the man set to become the next president of zimbabwe says the

country's witnessing a new stage of democracy former vice president. addressed thousands of supporters in the capital harare he returned from south africa a day after robert mugabe resigned. the u.s. secretary of state has issued his strongest condemnation yet of mean mass treatment at the ranger calling it ethnic cleansing rex tillerson is threatening sanctions for those responsible for what he called her and his atrocities in rakhine state. the former bosnian serb military chief has been sentenced to life in prison he was convicted of the massacre of eight thousand muslim men and boys at trouble nine hundred ninety five during the bosnian war glad it was found guilty on ten charges of genocide crimes and crimes against humanity. leading palestinian political factions including hamas and fatah have agreed to hold elections by the end of next year last month hamas agreed to cede powers and gaza to the palestinian authority and the president of france says the u.n.

security council should consider sanctions on libya if it does not act on human trafficking in money or mark wrong condemned auctioning of refugees as a crime against humanity during a meeting in paris with the president of guinea alpha condé it follows videos appearing to show african refugees being sold as slaves in libya those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness that's watching back about. fifteen page a serious debate. from. al-jazeera.