i'm not of course involve on any of this ng's i rested in two thousand and eight convicted war criminal in two thousand and sixteen he's now won his appeal but bamba hasn't been freed cypriot panel of judges continues to consider his punishment for interfering with witnesses during his trial maybe down the hall and out to syria. we are going to speak to matthew kind of who is the head of amnesty international center for international justice joins us now from the hague mr kind of welcome to the program and to have my first stop what's your reaction to this news. well to be honest the first thing is i thought scouts of the five thousand two hundred twenty six victims in this case it's a huge number and it's very difficult to end of it individual out of the victim what their. thoughts for most would be and i look to the i.c.c. for a measure of truth justice and reparation and and now that they didn't get that we i saw i heard the words that if the reports are in the documentation we did in two

thousand and three for shoppers same we showed rap and. as a weapon of war we saw women who were as young as eighteen years old and sixty often in front of their families. who resisted were summarily executed and goods. and property were pillaged and new to it they were major and disgusting crimes then and then and so now because there is no justice that is the thing is if the i.c.c. is held to be this pillar of justice and one can have no complaints about its renewed findings can we. in the sense that an international criminal tribunal gets its legitimacy from following fair trial rights the defense human rights not absolutely and in that sense an acquittal is a perfectly normal result of an international criminal tribunal or any criminal

process so we accept the decision on that basis and we've been monitoring the human rights compliance of the i.c.c. and other institutions and will continue to do so and of course that's the other side of the coin but on the other side of the coin what does this all say about the credibility of the i.c.c. it's invested a huge amount of money in this case and in many other cases as well this case in particular more than ten years and here we are back to square one should it exist. well should it exist i would say yes absolutely i'll come to that in a second i mean. the questions you ask are absolutely just a myth and we do need to think about the length of proceedings the cost of those proceedings should the court exist yes absolutely the the demand on the court actually is going up day by day as you know that the crimes around the world are being committed at the more and governments including for example a government of palestine two weeks ago referring themselves to the i.c.c. as a last resort for justice we're seeing the i.c.c. looking into now outside africa the drug war in mexico we're expecting it to open

investigations in afghanistan into the taliban the pro-government special forces there but also into the cia rendition program so it's really stepping on into looking into those powerful actors who for a long time were untouchable and in that sense the court absolutely is necessary doesn't need to learn lessons from this judgment today yes does it need to revise perhaps its charging strategies its investigations unquestionably and we will be looking to the court to do that as a matter of most urgency ok very very briefly if you would you mentioned the most important people in all of this of course the victims of the crimes that took place it was undoubtedly a campaign of rape and sexual violence you do wonder now how how they will find redress. absolutely but i don't think all hope is lost absolutely the central african republic. has the main obligation to provide that redress that justice and those investigations and prosecutions so we'll be asking them to do so as

a matter of urgency will be asking the i.c.c. to renew its work with more fervor and urgency in this situation and there is a new court just being established in this in a central african republic in cooperation with the i.c.c. which will have a section in gender based crimes at the forefront of its mandate so yes today is a very sad day but in the grand scheme of things we need to keep pushing forward because the demands are never been greater matthew kind of good to get your perspective on this appreciate that thanks very much indeed for a pleasure thank you so much on this news lebanon's growing rift with the un refugee agency which spreading fear to discourage syrians from returning home. from the volcano could pose a threat to life. and the french open for an austrian. for the first time in more than two decades more. support.

for palestinians have been killed in gaza including a fifteen year old boy after israeli forces fired tear gas and live bullets of protesters at the border medics say more than six hundred others have been injured in the violence on thursday israeli military planes dropped leaflets into the enclave urging residents to avoid the border area is really forces have killed at least one hundred eighteen palestinians during weeks of demonstrations that began at the end of march and right column is that the gaza israel border and he has more . as you can see the palestinians are burning tires just over there close to the israeli buffer zone now every so often the israelis fire off a volley of tear gas they're using this in two different ways firstly coming in from jeeps to give them a height on the take gas comes down into the crowd trying to disperse them clearly it's not working the crowd all still there but they're also using tear gas drones

as well which is a fairly recent development however the palestinians figured out a way of dealing with can you see the kites just up there they're becoming a bit of a problem for the israelis there effectively a toy but the palestinians figured out that they can in tangle a drone into those kites they've actually done that and they've managed to bring down an israeli take asteroids so that's something the israelis are going to be concerned about now this protest has begun slightly earlier in the day than the regular friday protests that's because of al could state that was started effectively means jerusalem day but it was started by the iranians after the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine but it means something quite a lot to the palestinians as well and that's why they come to this border however the protest organizing committees did ask the protesters not to go too close to the border to the buffer zone as they have done in the past and they've said stay away from the border we want to try and avoid casualties however the palestinians have turned up as you can see in great numbers not only to commemorate could stay but to

tell you to show the world that they are against the israeli siege israeli led siege of gaza well thousands of people across the middle east and south asia marking goods also known as jerusalem day that was just alluding to demonstrations have been held in various pakistani cities baghdad damascus and tehran the annual event is a protest against israel's rule of jerusalem iran says the day is an occasion to express support for the palestinians and emphasize the importance of jerusalem for muslims. well i could stay protests in the capital of in the administered kashmir have turned violent indian security forces you used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were throwing stones at them muslims in kashmir have been fighting indian rule that since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. two soldiers have been killed in somalia. it happened at a joint u.s. somalia military outpost near the john of. one of those killed was

a soldier from the american special forces let's now in jordan who's live in washington d.c. for us and rose what more do you know about this but we're just getting a statement from the pentagon now speaking on behalf of africa command or africa and as you noted nic this operation was taking place at about two forty five pm local time on friday in juba land near the town of to mommy when u.s. forces kenyan forces and somali federal forces were ambushed according to the statement by al shabaab they're not identifying the u.s. soldier who was killed in this attack or identifying the other five soldiers four americans and we believe either one kenyan or one somali out soldier who were injured in this attack but this came out while they were basically trying to secure the territory from al shabaab and according to the statement this was

a situation where the u.s. was providing support to somali forces who were trying to retake the two thirds of their country which is not under the federal government's control what might be a surprise if there are indeed special forces u.s. special forces in somalia. that's right in not just u.s. special forces but navy seals and other special operators operating under what's known as special operations command or so com there are about five hundred u.s. personnel in country to provide support to the federal government as it tries to shore up its security and of course given the long history of al shabaab given the history of the united states in somalia people might remember the so-called blackhawk down attack of one nine hundred ninety three it is a very difficult mission not just for the central government but for other countries that try to provide military assistance to was sure the security and in

fact this attack comes just as the u.s. military and the white house are reconsidering whether there should be as many special forces not just in somalia but in sub-saharan africa because the white house is looking at trying to perhaps shore up its defenses in other parts of the world where they see some sort of security threat from russia and from china or garos thanks very much indeed roseman jordan there in washington d.c. now five days off to mt erupted killing at least one hundred nine people got some of the officials have warned that falling from the volcano poses a threat to flights. or ordering a new round of evacuations with flows of both kind of material and contaminated water still threatening homes the disaster agency is telling residents of the town of overdue to leave their homes off to some recently returned around two hundred

people still missing david musser is in the city of esko india just south of the eruption. guatemala's flegel volcano still very active and still very much a threat on friday morning there was another strong eruption toxic gases and boulders up to three meters the size shooting out the side of the volcano now that led to the evacuation of twelve thousand more people from surrounding communities that's in addition to the more than three thousand people who were evacuated in previous days now emergency operations have also been temporarily stopped because of this danger and that's going to lead to a lot of anger from people whose family members are still missing now speaking of the missing the government says that there's around two hundred people who are still missing but the people who we've been talking to from the village of san miguel let's look at this they say that there are at least three thousand people in that town so they say that the number of missing is far higher meanwhile the government and national disaster agency is coming under fire public prosecutor

saying that they will launch an investigation into whether of evacuations procedures were properly followed so here in guatemala under the shadow of the volcano still very much a moving situation right will join me as. we have jekka mcvicar who is from the guatemalan human rights commission the still a very very serious situation that's a little more about the latest situation as you know it on the ground. hi nick thank you on the ground here things are not revealed every moment there is a new disaster playing out as you mention as was mentioned there is at least two hundred people officially missing that number is likely much much higher this state of guatemala refused to act despite knowing that there was an imminent risk to communities who've been forced to live beside an active volcano because they've been displaced from their homelands there was no active emergency plan people

didn't know what to do they were not advised to leave so it's led to hundreds of people thousands of people up to twelve fifteen thousand people that have had to evacuate and who are now displaced of course coming a lot of chaos there's people can't find their family members they're being told that they can't go home and and they're worried about finding people and at the same time the emergency response has been. lacking to to leave that the state didn't do anything so people rebel in tears firefighters teachers community leaders who are organizing all of the supplies that were coming in that were being donated yesterday gretta mala state made an announcement the army will now be responsible the army in the military led amal is long been associated with crap sharon and impunity and very serious human rights

violations so there's a great deal of distressed. so in general there's a spirit of chaos and at the same time anger at a mall a city in congress i have seen congressional committees best week in my friend in the state of calamity that the countries living i have pushing forward lives to change. to crimes against humanity in the. punishment for that it's certainly jackson said he saw his tail taken and it sounds as if that says some advantages been taken of the situation given where we're odds in with more than one hundred people dead and how serious a situation is this refusal to rock the no emergency plan the locking emergency response one question why where principally what happened on sunday was that in save one may which is the national institute of professional scientists who are responsible for keeping data and monitoring not only level aquino's but

other climate systems hurricanes and earthquakes they started to advise conrad which is the national organization responsible for emergency preparedness in disaster prevention. this is that basically has become a politicized entity of the government the top official of conrad is a politically appointed hour of the government who is not a professional. in preparedness for emergencies and so best really this incompetency and this lack of will is coming from that from that level was something sounds like there are many many questions to be on sit at the very top level that we'll have to leave the jekka mcvicar but it's very interesting and important to get your point of view thanks very much to do thank you. so economists are the catholic bishops trying to end the bloodshed in nicaragua through dialogue and diplomacy. the measures austria's government is taking that turkey has labeled

anti islam and racist. and england's rugby team are in south africa pairing for one of the sport's toughest assignments we'll tell you all about it in sport. however got plenty of warmth across europe at the moment plenty of big downpours as well underneath this massive cloud we have in northern parts of italy has seen some mudslides actually low pressure in charge here so that breadth there is big and beefy showers they will continue on the side of the adriatic over the next couple of days ago with our warm fronts and that braiding a fair bit of warm air in across many central parts and so well into the twenty's for many warsaw touching thirty degrees while exclusively moscow struggling to get around fifteen degrees celsius to stockholm still warm temperatures here going up

to twenty four degrees celsius russia showers you know just around the low countries western parts of germany into the good parts of northern france mostly showers there for a time continuous northern areas of spain and portugal you go on into sunday it's generally dry and fine across the british isles parasang temperatures getting up to twenty seven celsius but always a chance of wanted to shower as she was continuing into those central areas that she won there for vienna and you come further south of the west the weather will continue across the balkans should ten drier and brighter for good positive at least drive projects much of north africa boys it hot in car which ash in forty degrees celsius just about getting to twenty one in red bats. on counting the cost jordan's economy is struggling to come a look at why i.m.f. backed price hikes are proving the last straw for many people plus why the world's

top coca grows one of the biggest share of the global chocolate market. accounting a cost and i just see it for. conservation ease helping kick the stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international beast of a threatened species. and

again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and kind of as prime minister justin trudeau in the u.s. president done with trump have held talks on the sidelines of the g. seven summit in quebec the meeting between world leaders has reportedly been called to. the international criminal court has overturned the conviction of the former continent's vice president john p. have them. and four people have been killed and more than six hundred injured in gaza after israeli forces fired take acid like bullets at palestinians protesting at the border. now lebanon has ordered a freeze on the renewal of residency permits for. staff of the u.n. refugee agency this comes after it accuses us. of intimidating syrian refugees to discourage them from returning home turkey has the highest number of syrian

refugees three and a half million according to u.n. figures but it's a large country with almost eighteen million people jordan's government estimates that it's home to one point three million syrians about forty percent of the population which has contributed to the country's current economic crisis but it's a lebanon that has the highest proportion of refugees in the world more than one of a half million people according to the government that's a quarter of the country's population then how to reports now from beirut on the strain that is causing. seven years in exile in lebanon. now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of mara in the region can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. head up and have humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back. that advice has caused tension between the u.n.

refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. is not deterring returns. are you know has expressed many times that it just takes the government of lebanon this is that integration is not an option. lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carries official say it cost the country about eight billion dollars a year many refugees now have economical political or security reasons for.

foreign ministry officials say much of syria is now safe. specifically. which is. what they say is a. but what what is actually happy happening is much more than that the ministry has now decided to suspend residency application submitted by u.n.h.c.r. for its staff in lebanon the foreign minister is acting in a caretaker capacity but it does belong to the ruling alliance so his decisions could be a sign of future state policy. some officials are using the refugee political capital they play on fears about the impact of the prolonged presence of refugees in the country those officials belong to the pro syrian government camp they want refugee returns to be coordinated with the authorities in damascus as a first step toward restoring relations with the assad government. refugees are

caught in the middle and what could become a contentious political issue a large scale returns gives legitimacy to the syrian government which wants the international community to provide badly needed funds for reconstruction the u.n. insists it does not encourage or discourage returns but it is not organizing them while discussions with damascus continue on safeguards that still need to be put in place. the united nations is warning a quarter million civilians could die in the data if saudi led coalition forces attempt to take it from the rebels now within twenty kilometers of the red sea port which is the main entry point for food and humanitarian supplies into the water country stephanie. yemen was already one of the poorest countries in the world before the regional proxy war took over the country the saudi led war on yemen is now into its fourth year and hospitals are struggling to cope three hundred one of

them are going to law the numbers are we are in the good hands of god people are sick for years we have done nothing to be in a situation where just citizens here we have nothing but god. this hospital is in the hooty controlled port city of data vital to getting aid and supplies into the country but fighting nearby is threatening to close the lifeline to millions of yemenis the. short term coordinator in yemen is grounded sense that a military attack or siege on her data will encourage hundreds of thousands of in innocent civilians humanitarian organizations have rushed to develop a contingency plan in accra long worst case we fear that as many as two hundred fifty thousand people may lose everything even their lives the u.s. is war in the united arab emirates which is part of the saudi led coalition against attacking the port city these pictures are said to show military vehicles belonging to the u.a.e. that have been captured by the who these all sides keen to showcase their victories

in what is just as much a propaganda war some aid agencies such as the red cross have sent staff home because of security concerns leaving millions at the mercy of a political war with no end in sight and aid agencies describe what is happening in yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis stephanie decker al-jazeera the u.s. special counsel investigate the alleged collusion between russia and donald trump the presidential campaign has filed charges of witness tampering against former trunk campaign manager paul metaphor and fisher has the latest now from washington d.c. . or point one of two additional charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of struction of justice these really back to a case that we had about a week ago when a poor man of four was allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses people who had given statements to the f.b.i. and he was allegedly trying to get them to change their story now also on this indictment is constantine kill mimic an auld friend of mine

a fourth what does his political pour stuff his political fixer his translator on paul matter for what in the ukraine for the best part of ten years and he becomes the twentieth person indicted by robert miller's investigation into possible russian collusion with the trump campaign this all comes under that umbrella. is also facing charges of tax fraud of bank fraud and of money laundering and all of these charges you have to remember that paul says he is innocent. the world health organization says that the better outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is stabilizing the director general. says he is cautiously optimistic after a decrease in the number of cases reported in the past week more than one thousand eight hundred health workers have received an experimental vaccine for the virus and the agency says it's also day nancy more than fifty million dollars to countries bordering the d.l.c.

to help improve much and seek have. the united states is planning to transfer one thousand six hundred people detained by immigration and customs into federal prisons five jails are going to temporarily housed detainees awaiting civil court hearings where they could be housed alongside convicted criminals she had tons more on the latest in a series of controversial immigration decisions by the tramp ministration. this isn't the first time that federal prisons have been used to house immigrant detainees but the scale is different the six hundred will be held for up to one hundred twenty days while immigration authorities find space for them elsewhere prison unions complain that they've not been given enough time to prepare for the influx and civil rights groups are concerned that those simply looking for a better life will be housed with those convicted of federal crimes in the u.s. is notoriously brutal prison system the trouble ministrations new policy of prosecuting and detaining every person crossing the border without papers means space is limited there's been a surge in raids on workplaces in the u.s.

those who found a drop of being rounded up on mass and it's this policy that's led to the separation of families some six hundred children taken from their parents since may as they await prosecution according to a u.s. senator we are devastating generation of children who are being called from their families there will be impacts on educational attainment physical harm and this is an inhumane and cruel policy that that is hurting individuals it's hurting these families and it's her. in our communities in our society the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says such separations are against international law and even president trump says he isn't happy but blames the democrats for not helping pass immigration reform all that. brought. this great border state security and. i don't like. separate from the first i don't like it i hate it but drug administration is hoping that the harsh conditions awaiting anyone caught

trying to cross the border without documentation will deter migration recent evidence shows that it's not working in april if this year almost fifty one thousand people were detained at the southern border an increase of sixteen thousand from the previous year however a policy of deterrence is nothing new it was the obama administration that attempted to deter immigrants during a surge of border crossings often by women and children fleeing instability in central america in twenty fourteen president obama vastly expanded family detentions the detention of parents with their children to try and scare migrants away the six hundred migrant children detained this month will join some ten thousand eight hundred already incarcerated in the u.s. the separation of immigrant children by the trump administration may violate international legal protections for children but it would appear that's exactly the point for the administration in washington she had her town see al-jazeera catholic bishops in nicaragua have stepped in to try and end the political crisis that they

have met the president daniel ortega and pushing to broker talks between the government and protesters and will repel reports from the capital now when i go. another day of unrest and a get out one means another funeral this time it's a thirty three year old opposition demonstrator killed during one of the latest confrontations with pro-government forces in messiah his body was carried past a checkpoint to the nearby cemetery. with tensions continuing to rise in messiah all the roads leading into the city have been blocked by demonstrators forcing thousands of people to walk for hours to the next town. we have you will kill looking for food they don't have the government i come to having dinner while you go hungry. political violence has become common in this part of the country some of those leaving the area say they're not coming back any time soon but i mean. we're walking to managua to see if we can make it to the border with one doris we don't

know if we'll be able to make it all the way there. despite the relative calm demonstrators are quick to react to any activity that might suggest an assault from armed groups behind me is just one of dozens of barricades set up by anti-government demonstrators now these barriers that are set up aren't only here to shield protesters from pro-government forces but also to prevent the free flow of commercial traffic into the city of messiah which has become a symbol of the resistance against the government. the only traffic allowed to pass through the barricades are emergency vehicles humanitarian aid workers and members of the catholic church we're going to talk about. has seen violence has seen deaths the city is totally paralyzed there is no commerce it snipers said have left so many dead in messiah. the catholic church continues to act as the primary mediator in the ongoing crisis on thursday bishops in met with president daniel

ortega presenting to him a set of conditions for renewing a national dialogue a dialogue the church says will only continue if the government can guarantee an end to the violence went up. when i was the austrian government is planning to shut down seven mosques and expel him and that's part of measures by the right wing chanceless about cuts to target what he calls political islam in the country so many came reports from neighboring germany. in the six months since becoming chancellor said western courts has taken an even tougher line on immigration and what he says is the threat from parallel societies forming in his country now he's turning his sights on what he calls political islam due from even the right that we can't we can announce to you today a decision from the office of religious affairs that will lead to prohibit should not dictate ities of seven mosques this means dissolving the greywolf mosque and

secondly showing down the arabic cultural community to operate a total of six mosques. in addition to the closures these measures could also see dozens of him arms face expulsion from austria several of whom ministers in vienna believe are funded by elements inside turkey a spokesman for the turkish government has condemned the move as racist and anti islam courts as long and located a toughening of approach but forming a coalition with the far right anti islam freedom party last december seems to have been the catalyst for him to act in april his government announced plans to prevent girls in nurseries and primary schools from wearing head scarves we have. a new climate the political climate here in australia our sense the last election and with the new government in power or little more than half a year you see.