all along america's southern border with mexico the white house says the plan could attract enough votes to pass the senate. in our other top stories un brokered peace talks between the syrian government and the opposition of started in vienna just days before russia hosts its own negotiations in sochi but the latest military front opened up by turkey could further complicate the talks to forces of crossed into the northern syrian region of frayne to drive out kurdish white fighters but if prime minister trees amaze on the precious withdrawing invitation to the saudi crown prince of his country's war on yemen crown prince mohammed bin solomon is due to visit london within weeks myanmar's army has been accused of using gang rape has a weapon of war in their campaign of ethnic cleansing against range of muslims it comes as a former u.s. diplomat quite an international advisory panel tackling the range of crisis calling it a whitewash bill richardson a former close friend of myanmar as leader unsung suchi resigned from the group as

it was making its first trip to the country's state you're up to date with all our top stories that set for myself in the team here in london one on one east is next . we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. all. ok. in papa new guinea a growing wave of witch hunts is sweeping across the country women accused of causing sickness and deaths by sorcery are being brutally tortured and executed with authorities struggling to contain the violence the deaths of innocent women

are going on punished i'm steve chair on this edition of one of one yes we investigate the dark and violent side up in new guinea teaching practice. in. the pacific island nation when you get time to some of the world's most anxious traditions and mysterious from a child. the belief in black magic that has cost him a shadow over this country with seven million pork i want them gone and i should be a. muslim sometimes i know on that bus you wiped out. the torture and killing of suspected sorceresses growing innocent people's objection to a horrifying which are they up to the woman and when the torture then when they

give it to the woman is severely a new man as a pop when you can use police force struggles to contain the spread of which of those it is green criticized for committing its own what a human rights in the sense that i'm just going to bring them up but they really believe that there's no washing. to investigate the violent world of sorcery killings i'm traveling to the robert highlands ranch in the heart of a country. should move province as one of the highest numbers of which chance and i've come to. by. memory of a brutal attack. she was set upon by five teenagers shooting accused of causing the death of her son through witchcraft. should throw their name or big bad name in day. i mean day now same time i mean day

well mike wallace governor only cover that is unique or not by. a little money and they. do this i want to show my long i mean they are always and all of them but i think. tonight abandoned house she was tortured. by the middle by the oh no no no no i demand make america look like a skin blue now both. murder to come wish i was glad to be i said not before the one that made new year and wanted member good neighborly no mean based on no model for. denise showed me the scars. and i looked to see where.

my. denise spent more than a year in hospital but with nowhere else to go she returned to the community that attacked. me most was there were never move ghost of what i first. heard. we start there me thinking of overheard some but they were very cute remember me very very. in many parts of the highlands medical explanations for sickness and death are rejected most believe witchcraft to be the cause of physical illness with women subjected to reach chance by groups of young men and the entire village often gathers and spectators to the abuse. in chambers main town of young on

suspicion of sorcery so widespread that merely discussing witchcraft could lead to a chance. for survivors the only support comes from human rights volunteers like monica pallas monica travels throughout the highlands finding survivors of witch hunts and moving them out of danger she became a volunteer after meeting dinny karl the first time i went to help out like i was just traumatized. chills. like a shocking thing in my leg and i was thinking like this is treated in your memory i don't think any human being destroyed a woman. there is a very risky doing this work monica says the nature of her work means she too often becomes the target of violence welcome at the gate the people think like you are doing this work because you are us also right you will sell this way you are trying

to defend. your card so it's very risky but if you don't do it those got to do it that's the thing. monica has brought me to the general hospital where she's checking on the welfare of baby orphaned by recent which aren't. for three months so i'm going to sit on my blame to the market in the market don't listen to pop up and then i get them on my blog and saw the full flavor. of. the child's mother maher soiree was tortured into mind following the death of her husband. the man's family refused to accept that he died of natural causes and blamed morrow for causing his death through sorcery because if there is a menace there in the community authentic a bit here's the woman that wife to be the sole sarette. apple n.d. was mars friend and neighbor and told me she heard

a woman scream soon after news of the husband's death reached the village. on one level. the whole. planet my wife and i want to. find you know. this long name. mars remains were found in a shallow grave less than fifty meters from had village she had been burnt and suffered deep wounds from machetes and axis in her village the house she was tortured in has been abandoned out of fear of the spirits. apple is now caring for maurice baby when we have to come give me enough for you. yet it was a lot of been given up on you being. most of the village witnessed the attack but

refused to speak to police out of fear that they too will be targeted. so when on our. last night it's like the news of. travels throughout the highlands by he harrowing tales of atrocities in almost every. paper trying to speak openly of killing which is. more. this is marcus carney and he admits to taking part in an. accused of sorcery. we were. the let's see here. we've got the douglas angle one now marcus and a group of men soon identified a suspect who they tortured for hours. on this but i just figure you

and. he's with am i them killing one and a one shot them getting straight no limb and. stick. them given lately when. they. walk in most of the block i'm walking to the injured are. not looking. since he feels protected by the remoteness of the village and is not afraid of being caught. live. you look at it i mean listen now we're not even doesn't know we don't and they're going to ask only that only that they were so much muglia now a family doing and look so awesome my lovely lovely even though not.

marcus told me he knew me joins in the killing of accused which is the fear of sorcery power is spreading. wherever i go in the country nearly every person i meet believes in which crown sorcery is part of the million isn't believe it is a believe that did a person process a creature you know within him or head and did this a potential to cause sickness or death of another person. jackie romney is a leading researcher of sorcery beliefs and has published extensively on which killings it is important for people who wait to cater to explain that sickness and death are caused by in a. bacteria or virus you know this kind of things we have to change the belief system of the people to change the mindset. that.

chance typically begin during papa new guinea's traditional funeral service known as the house. i was crying so how some morning you know when someone dies those who are suspect or processing power are brought to that central place. and they try to you know into a gate you know they try to make them tell whether they are responsible for the c.e.o. for the death or not. many that survived the attacks and later were abandoned by their families shunned and isolated from the rest of the village. but in some cases families show immense bravery in defending their loved ones from witch hunts. mary peter was attacked by seven men armed with machetes during a funeral service for

a baby legal and out loud sort of voice on stepmom house my. bloody all men married to stuff we don't know what one percent in this last year old boy she'll get i'm not your definition woman not someone new beginning near you kagan beginning in baby name day. mary's husband peter carnley drove her to safety as she was being attacked but not before the witch hunt had inflicted serious injuries. come on the leader well that's less skinny come out now number two and got the meme clearly in there to let skinny go come over moose now way bringuier. after the attack peter and his wife were held at gunpoint before scaping into the mountains to me what a little a program. we got in the me come out it. didn't fit in with me but i want them one day and i mean got him come out you know what their motive for going to the old free me. but on the road numbered enough to let me feeling to know me.

them to me. you would know one thing but won't you want to. give me back i. use a people one of sending me first i want their daughter the misfortune to go through hell me what i put on but that one thing you took. several weeks after i first met human rights defend him on a compound was i travel to her home when i arrived a neighbor shows me an empty house and monica's few possessions are the stolen or destroyed from the money. i'm told a group of young men armed with guns and machetes broke in during the night. i find monica several hours away she says and early warning allowed her to escape

someone told me like i couldn't so i must not stay in the house so i moved but in the morning when i came back like thousands broken in. monaco was targeted for preventing the torture of a nine year old girl accused of sorcery. the we chant began after a baby drowned in a nearby river they left the baby on the side of the riverbank with the other kids they were playing. but it turned around and realized that the baby was not the real bank that they left so they must them could drown them but carried over by their real already. and often without family protection the nine year old girl was immediately seen. well as a sorcerer and blamed for the death. house and they started questioning. as to how she killed the baby when asked. if you did not they're going to kill you so out of fear. but they. saw i knew they would be

a lot of danger in. the back of what i've been doing but i really felt that they should really help. now a victim herself monica tells me she's thinking of stopping her work helping others . getting really tired and i come back i feel like i'd like to feel like i just quit what i'm doing and just you know sit back and. think about myself and now what i should do this because when i look and think about it it's like this little support security guarantee that. most of the sorcery attacks women and sometimes men pursued norbert soon and his mother angelo. and. their bodies were thrown into a communal toilet pit are finally common to some serial killings. police told me

they could not find the men responsible but as i discovered one of them wanted for questioning still lives at the crime scene ari my mother denies having any involvement but gives a detailed account of the witch hunt only got some going to the suspect know. something so sorry sort of comment up or. suspect most awful or. just so make me. mantilla they don't lead to mental clutter we can take them some of us not. level instead like the attackers then turned to the mother of the murdered man. i'm coming. but it's not i'm just was an important.

sampled only. a period of futile violence followed in retribution for the killings entire villages would back down and people were forced from their homes but there were no regrets for the witch hunt will succeed. you one of them better not know what it will tell all and. you will want to suspect them of them then we got some of the modern game and we got to do level totally knocked him down and there's another come up here. that makes him balancing. the brother of the victim most assume told me he was angry the killers remained free and said he was preparing to take the law into his hands alone government only show you think you know me monday show me thinking no way i'm going to. let me be inducing election label on us and thought that you learn about nixon but b.b.c. you soon only come lately is the one thing in the movie called this low.

level remotely fleet in motion well money killing little with. them you don't look even human to them to look. them too close to bush so is an old german coming from the muslim do over stop for a later date. most victims of sorcery attacks can expect little help from the law police in pop when you get are understaffed and under resourced corruption is rife and witchcraft has such an entrenched following in this country that police often lack the will and motivation to investigate. michael welsh is the senior commander of our police station as a local man with strong beliefs he says we chance and necessary to protect people

from sorcery. socially exorcise and the result was witnessing of someone who died the police could note that we're seeing. several though so. commander welsh dismisses the global condemnation of pop when you get the charts and says outside views should not be imposed on the country. we would rather we'll see the. rights of people who want to come to. use the socialist or totally the us. if we. are not to know when the world will have law. human rights abuses what anyone. can get through her us then why. use only.

the l exactly to get rid of us. that. we were just going to include. many survivors don't include tags because they say police will never investigate but others refused to give up several months after he rescued his wife mary from attack i find he to cali outside the police station he's identified. one of the suspects to police simbo new stop a bus going to the not of the south african would own up to not make up talking with police police for twenty or thirty nudo you know you watch but my. paper is angry the police have not investigated the witch hunt that nearly killed his wife. for. not thinking one play can continue in the just him a lot more like money. but every number.

to turn into a risk the men he display in seven hours detailing the case to police. eventually officers make. this new law that will make i. want his money next you love a guy that he doesn't really suspect was on my. side. police made the arrest but investigations of the charts are extremely rare. but with a growing international outrage to some sort of police and slowly being pressured to take action. francis is a detective with the homicide squad and says police often find it difficult to

investigate which chance it will work and this will probably. conduct and leave because it will monitor whether some believe. after reports we chanted north of the province offices agree need to join the search for the perpetrators. you must apply them. the last and sometimes. police often least relatives of the victims and local villages to help catch the suspects. copped a trembling voice from the said alice to one of the suspects spotted on the side road. police in villages attempt to arrest. made on him. what on him and want to go out and go police.

although one man gets away the second suspect is captured and taken into custody and one of the recruits were kinds of personal song. on the. part of the guy who did. you move on or noticed. what they're doing. i'm going to take you. down. to one who wanted. to. know who they were. and of. the many little you know no good. news on the heels of no one but. the government. told the prime suspect. talking to us to me they don't want other people because

they. were my friend a member somebody should let me push you know you remember me well bill. and we're going to milk it. i'm just so i'm going to bring them up but they really just know what. not to do you know you're not going to look at me a little bit like this is all you. the police are also involved in causing a lot of abuses in human rights when you look at the police brutality. perpetrate this you will see them start punching them and then to me it's like they don't know enough about the human rights so this should be a lot of training and. patience in them. right now not undeterred by the threats to her life he continues to help victims of

chance and he's urging the national government to stand spiralling human rights disaster the government of top wanted me to look seriously into this cases and they should work with human rights defenders on the ground the community leaders the police everyone has to get involved because the violence is really getting out of it and it's really increasing. in one word that the government. the people the leaders everyone is still work together. monica is going to voices brave enough to speak out against the brutality chants that few listening and fear of sorcery is growing attacks against the unison spreading across top when you get it and becoming. known. it continues to rise the whole room. i have only just begun.

from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to form a powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems challenging systems and shaping you what about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. discover a wealth of award winning programming from around the world we need more and find professionals a top priority is to model ways the new generation to study finds powerful documentaries debates and discussions as prime minister you do need to be critical of of all massaging and all sex is a challenge your perception of the contours of this story are shaped by the interests of the countries involved only on al-jazeera. own

the benefit of saddam people so bad they see the importance of cars witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. with al-jazeera as eyes and ears on the ground in southern africa identifying the crucially important stories for an audience that's been critically to us. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson the.