the attack of late may where she defended herself. with the murder on july eighth. and charged kiersten. with murder. our next case is a textbook example of how police officers can use extreme tactics to coerce a confession out of a suspect in a murder case and how prosecutors can develop tunnel vision and ignore the facts and fight tooth and nail against reopening a case. usually a false confession involves a completely made up story in which people are just looking to get out of a very threatening situation some will say anything thinking they can fix it later but there's no fixing it later they're stuck with these statements and these statements are used against them in a court of law. in the fall of one thousand nine hundred nine the town of peekskill new york was stunned by the brutal murder and rape of a fifteen year old girl named angela correia. the investigation confession and

eventual conviction of a sixteen year old student named jeffrey deskovic has shaken up the justice system here all these years later. i already over a letter of well thanks for helping me so i wanted to look at some of those articles from eighty nine about the desk of a case sure it will even story here. from. peekskill police investigate a ping from pixel homes with a gray i so you might have very ironic that. jeffrey deskovic and one of his lawyers watches the jury inspects the site where

angela gray is body was found in november of one thousand nine hundred nine look how young he looks i just can't imagine being in that situation going to the murder site surrounded by the jury press. crazy situation. most of the journalists who cover the desk a big case of moved on but i tracked down one writer who stuck with the story jonathan bandler is an investigative reporter for the journal news walk me through the case november fifteenth one thousand nine hundred nine angela korea she was a fifteen year old pisco high school student she left her house on main street she was headed for some woods behind hillcrest elementary school near griffin pond. carrier camera she's going to take some pictures using a photography class she got up there she was in the woods at some point between three thirty and four thirty two was brutally attacked his body was nude from the

waist down the medical examiner determined she died from a blow to the head and manual strangulation she was sexually assaulted blood semen and a hair sample were collected for d.n.a. testing and sent to the f.b.i. crime lab with no leads the police created a psychological profile of the killer asserting that he was young knew the victim and most likely was a loner. peekskill new york in one thousand nine hundred nine this quiet town in upstate new york was on edge a fifteen year old high school student named angela correia was raped and murdered local investigators were narrowing their search to one and only one suspect. one thing that was interesting was jeffrey deskovic was a sixteen year old student there he had been a classmate he wasn't a close friend but he was certainly somebody who knew her. she showed up at each of

the memorial services she was clearly distraught and he also started talking to the police offering his own theories about what had happened. kind of fit that profile so they started talking. deskovic answers only raise suspicion. police assert that he admitted to knowing what korea wore on the day of the murder . that he was familiar with the crime scene. and that he knew she was strangled and hit in the head. so police asked him for a blood sample then a polygraph. you had a psychologically vulnerable teenager you had aggressive investigators it was a perfect storm that engulfed geoffrey dust. a there is a lot of religion jeff that's going to essentially just meet you last august and what are needed what do you what do you have going on here and we have

a reentry game called beyond the bars recharge free entry and it's a tool designed to facilitate for me incarcerated people reentry getting back into society and reconnecting with with their family give me some cars are examples of some incarceration busters ok. did you pray while you were incarcerated if yes what did you pray for i would you answer that the deprived while you were there sir i prayed early and often. the user far from what's terminology. i prayed to that my innocence could be established and i would i would be released that it took sixteen years but it was grant during his sixteen years in prison jeffrey deskovic would often replay the details of his confession especially the lie detector test. so the next day rather than go to school i went to the police station expecting that the test would be at peace kill headquarters. and instead

what they took me to the town of brewster which is then putnam county new york. on the graphics himself was actually putnam county sheriff's investigator who was pretending to be a civilian so i never saw him he was a police officer. the polygraph aside this technique that he was used to carrying out which he had an acronym for g.t.c. . get the confession. polygraphist but me in a small room in attacks a polygraph machine so he gives me countless cups of coffee and the reason why that's important is because the premise of the polygraph is that when you tell a law you'll become nervous at the nervousness will result in an increased. the polygraphist use a lot of third rate tactics i mean raises voice me into my personal space he kept asking me the same questions over and over again. and getting more and more

ferocious as each hour happened he kept us up for more than seven hours towards the end of the interrogation he made a statement to me saying that what do you mean you didn't do what you just told me through the test that you did i just want you to virtually confirm this. he said that that really shocked my fear through the roof. being young naive frightened sixteen. i wasn't thinking about the long term implications i was just concerned my own safety in the moment and i took the out what she offered and i made up a story based upon information which had yet mean a course of their tour in. this interrogation was never recorded instead investigators would rely on the polygraph examiners recollections. he wrote the desk of mixed last words were i sometimes think i did it because i know too much about the things where she was killed. i would say that i was a complete mental and emotional wreck at that point and and the police officers

testimony that i was on the floor in a fetal position crying uncontrollably. deskovic was arrested and charged with murder. prosecutors rushed the case to the grand jury. three days after he was indicted the d.n.a. report came back deskovic the d.n.a. did not match the evidence prosecutors went ahead with the case anyway in january one thousand nine hundred one deskovic was tried convicted and sentenced to fifteen years to life is false confessions sent him to prison despite no d.n.a. evidence linking him to the crime. what's it like to go through that kind of a nightmare. it is just that is seen nightmarish alternative reality featuring the guards see presidents the staff all those obstacles to the awesome a goal which is to prove your innocence and therefore regain your freedom.

in las vegas kiersten lobato is living her nightmare twelve years into a twenty year sentence lobato is still claiming her innocence but she's watching her chances of exoneration slip away. you know from dave better than i ever that's for sure i mean it is a challenge it's embarrassing for me at this point in it i have become somewhat of a wife like i have a just cause for firing. i'm scared of what the future holds for me as your family holding up their all this. march i'm better now than they were. initially they were around. i'm with you right now you're finding out the fam went on i had no idea here.

i'm not going to put too much water on the tomatoes dad says that it's well get another thank you no water and i'm too much and i don't look that good. the best way for me to explain it is i feel kind of frozen in time it's a very strange thought that life has frozen in till she comes that's what it seems like. we don't do a whole heck of a lot we don't do holidays for us the holidays are food that they don't decorate i don't want our great we don't celebrate we don't do any of that she's gone she's not here you know thanksgiving yeah. thanks for what telling the truth the truth will set you free yeah don't kid yourself. that's that's the bitterness part and i know that and yes do you think that's a way that you're kind of frozen in time yeah yeah we're frozen in time to hear that. because if you do they take your orders your there's your eight.

year old i just come home from work and blaze was coming out of the shower and the two detectives were inside the living room waiting for blaze to get out the shower my reaction was i didn't know what the hell was going on at first. and then i watched through the window and he showed a picture and she was shaking her hand i could see what was going on and then they turned on i saw the tape turned on and it yourself just her hair and. it was there . they were. there right there i mean they were personally i like. it but you never hear. in the. world. that. there's a hole or. ok and you're right it.

was a very serious. risk or whatever you are saying. this would be the only interview kiersten about it would help with las vegas detectives and her next statement would in many ways seal her fate. and. maybe make me late. and then all of a century stood up and they put you know put handcuffs on and that's when i lost it right then i was like what's going on skis my language and when she came out that's when she said she was attacked by a man he tried to rape her and apparently he died and i was like well self defense .

las vegas is a tough city the city has a certain lure. there's a criminal element on the streets of los vegas especially in the tougher neighborhoods this is downright frightening. but a sex related crimes a lot of drugs. so a very interesting place to be a crime reporter. glenn pewit covered the kiersten law about a case for the las vegas review. the active theory recording prosecutors and police was the misl bato had had an interaction with mr bailey that was sexual in nature. he had lured her into a sexual encounter for the purposes of drugs and for giving her some methamphetamine and then he didn't have any mouth and that this induced kind of a meth psychosis that caused her to completely snap and become extremely violent

and engage in what is so commonly referred to as overkill the prosecution had a strong point of view regarding the circumstances and the motive for the crime but the case is riddled with inconsistences you start simply with the. with the basics of the case you have this crime scene this is a cinder block area behind a bank they find a body of a man. and he had been brutally murdered. right about here they found six of his teeth. right here they found a pool of blood where is carotid artery been cut underneath him here they found a pool of blood because somebody had stuck a knife in his rectum they had also taken his penis that was found here he would have bled to death from the carotid he had broken ribs his teeth were knocked

out he was basically beaten bludgeoned and mutilated. to death. so here's where my mind starts to get there's no hair d.n.a. prints from kiersten found at this crime scene there's no skin cells can you imagine he lost sixty and they're saying that she didn't even lose the hair off her head the forensics tell you the complete lack of any evidence of her ever being here to me now you've got a huge problem. what investigators did have was a confession by kierston labatt oh along with circumstantial evidence linking her to the crime. prosecutors reviewed the case and decided to offer. a bottle with three year plea deal which she rejected. frankly it was stunning you know she was in a lot of trouble it was a big risk for her i mean a huge risk because in nevada a first degree murder conviction is an automatic by sentence were you in july as an

america where you and your children you know i don't know. this is one of those cases where you can't help but feel sorry for the defendant and you also can't help but think that there's a compelling argument for innocence there's no physical evidence that links person about a c i mean none but they ran into a buzz saw and bill kept are. multiple stab wounds multiple head wounds multiple. multiple defensive. bill kept part is a very good prosecutor he was all over her and really questioning everything she said and was trying to make her look like a liar is it self-defense to walk away after cutting it. all back to death. or is a premeditation he was just on top of it and really went after her statements to the police statement then. was. i don't think anybody would

miss somebody like that. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to surprise war against israel part of his world primitive so to get into this situation there's us now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera explores what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. and the reported world on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their

days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. so i'm maryam namazie in london just a quick look at the headlines for you now more than six hundred refugees and migrants have arrived in the spanish port of the landsea a week off to italy and mull to the way the right process called on european union member states to follow spain's example and put into practice the humanitarian values promoted by the or in the last hour of voting in colombia is deeply divisive presidential runoff electorate is choosing between conservative candidates yvonne decay and his left wing rival gustavo petro is the first major vote since the

government side a peace deal with the thought rebels in two thousand and sixteen and then decades of civil war. greece and macedonia have signed a deal to rename macedonia as north macedonia the agreement is supposed to end a decades long dispute but opposition protests are continuing in greece police fired tear gas at some of the protesters nonetheless the prime minister hailed the agreement again after the news from at the super bowl thunders we're not here today to mourn the defeats of the past we are making a historic step in order from now on only to be winners to heal the wounds of the past to open the way to peace cooperation co-development not only for our countries but for all the balkan countries for all of europe and our other headlines talks between the un's new yemen and boy and rebel whose leaders have failed to end fighting in her data. a saudi led coalition is known to an offensive including as strikes to take the port city prompting fears of

a worsening humanitarian crisis nearly five thousand families have been forced to leave their homes due to escalating violence. at least thirty one people have died in twin suicide blasts in northeast nigeria the bombs went off in the town of dumbo in borno state local officials suspect boko haram carried out the attack at least eighteen people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in eastern afghanistan the blast targeted crowds of taliban fighters security forces and also civilians who are all celebrating the holiday in the city of jalalabad health officials are saying that forty nine others were wounded in this incident and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack as it follows saturday's bomb blast in a province which has been claimed by eisel you're up to date on all of our top stories but i'll have much more in the news hour that's coming up in twenty five minutes time do join me then bye for now. the nature of

news as it breaks this is one of the areas left protestant had blocked the road through things finding higher than anything else they could find with details coverage this week stream of the hotline to sarve seems everyone striving for the good of the state from around the world this museum aims to be a way of posset tauriel region's history and its perfected war that has divided the tribes here for generations. were due in july. i was in america where your list and your children you know i don't know. there's no physical of that links personal about i mean not bill kept part is a very good prosecutor he was all over her and really questioning everything she said and was trying to make her look like a liar is it self-defense to walk away after cutting

a person's fingers off and go back to that. always of a meditation he was just top of it and really went after her statements to the police statement then. was. i think anybody would miss somebody like that. that was where the trial really turned you know there was doubt in the air. and when she got on the witness stand she struggled that's not to say that you know. she didn't stick to her story she did she just wasn't a great witness first you have a young lady who said she was the victim of an attempted rape and then hughes a knife to stab someone in their genitals yet there was never any police report filed no one was ever reported to the hospitals was such

a wound basically the only person we have to verify this account is mr bato you can see that something's not right and something doesn't add up. imagine if you had done something like this and you wanted to come clean about it or you couldn't keep it inside anymore but yet you couldn't admit you did so you come up with an ancillary kind of similar scenario but you're not really admitting to what you did that there was a justifiable. but. as proclaimed her innocence from the very beginning. and so the defense rolled the dice rejected the plea agreement and taken their chances and gone to trial and they lost. i entertain the possibility that she didn't do this. is it possible she's innocent yes it is. is it likely that she's going to get out of prison. i don't think so.

you have to have strong arms to drive this thing but i always thought i was at. yes and then i found out you know that i can't carry the whole world and that kind of was a shock to a guy like me because i always had their control of everything when my daughter got arrested i found out how little control actually. in all reality there was a number of emotions that go through something like this you feel ashamed but not ashamed of your child you feel ashamed of yourself because you know what could i have done different i had all this faith in the system and believed that the truth would prevail and everything would just be fixed and and it didn't and when it didn't i didn't see things the same anymore i felt that the whole system had failed us and that's when the gates of hell opened up we that's when it started to spiral that mean it was drugs everything every day and

alcohol person each other away and push enjoy it away and fighting in the one who doesn't david a lot for it is ashley and i i feel bad about that. because she missed out on a lot of things because we were stuck in time or we were stuck on drugs or we were battling and fighting and doing all the craziness and she's the one who paid the price for it to. kind of film helpless in what way she's in there and you can't get her out. what's this done to you or from whom.

never going to be the same. i was there i know she wasn't there. and nobody would listen. to. me. so tell me were were happy i intended to kill manhattan up college for i will be discussing my arrest from fiction time to present a fine of bunch of social justice people college students when you give presentations like this doesn't stir up the motions of one hand it's cathartic but that all comes with a price i mean less my experience you know

a motion i somehow you know i'm remembering. really get tense moments and you know traumatic but it's my life. during his years in prison jeffrey deskovic fought in exhaustive legal battle. often alone writing dozens of letters and filing petitions . it was essentially begging prosecutors to retest herron semen samples recovered from the victim in the case angela correia. he was reading about how codice and you know the d.n.a. databases and you know he just wanted at some point for that to be put in there because maybe the real coby be identified you know we hadn't done it the district attorney during deskovic cigars aeration was jeanine pirro best known these days as a television judge. piro consistently denied desk index request for a d.n.a.

database comparison and no court would order her to change your opinion. deskovic was starting to lose hope. my lowest day i learned that i lost my petition for avis corpus i was seeking to have my conviction overturned in federal court and argue my innocence martin d.n.a. and the decision comes back that i've lost because the court clerk. rule that my paperwork arrived forty slate. and i get this news while i'm in the special housing unit i'm in the box because i defended myself against people who wanted to kill me because in their minds i was a rapist. my main reaction to that i wanted to commit suicide at that point.

when inmates like deskovic run out of legal options often it's up to the local district attorneys to reinvestigate. without their consent cases can sit for years . finally in january two thousand and six when pirro left her job to run as new york's attorney general he caught a break. once the innocence project got involved they went to the new district attorney. and they asked for the testing she said yeah let's go ahead and test it that was in the summer of two thousand and six within weeks d.n.a. analysis matched the semen recovered from the rape kit to a prisoner named stephen cunningham jonathan bandler tracked him down and got him to talk about his encounter with angela correia how did you know. who was doing it. what was it.

what did she do you. know. enough to know. cunningham was serving a life sentence for murdering a schoolteacher in one thousand nine hundred three four years after he raped and murdered angela guerrero. and of course that murder might have been prevented right sure. actually after that we came back we show the video to jeff. and jeff was very upset because cunningham had said that he didn't realize anybody had had gone to prison for that killing. on september twentieth two thousand and six after spending half of his life behind bars thirty two year old jeffrey deskovic walked out of prison a free man there was a long time that i felt that this day would actually never called and in a way it still doesn't really feel real that hasn't hasn't fully hit me at this point. do you think that the police really believed they were bringing in the right

suspect this is not a good faith error on the part of the police officers they they knew the coercion that went on and then when you think about the fact that he d.n.a. did not match me seven months before trial the re results of that argument that was a good faith out of the bottom drops out of that it was intentional. westchester county district attorney janet di fiore commissioned a report that broke down the systemic failings that led to desk of the conviction and offered suggestions for reform they pointed out there were clear problems with prosecution clear problems with police. initially the first one was tunnel vision. police had this profile once they had this kid who matched it who was inserting himself into the investigation. that's all they looked at they didn't look at anybody else. once the arrest was made the prosecution also had the tunnel vision

they were going to go with that confession they weren't going to let this d.n.a. road bump stop them at all. they definitely took liberties that fuels his conviction and deskovic is making the system pay for its mistakes. he filed lawsuits against the city of peekskill westchester county in the state of new york . deskovic settled those cases for thirteen point seven million dollars used some of the money to earn a master's degree in criminal justice and most importantly he started a foundation to help the wrongfully convicted. so when you do this stuff do you get nervous or near i always get i always get nervous yeah i was get nervous and i always feel like you know not worthy and you know sometimes even question what i'm doing actually how can you feel that wherever you went through hell and you inspire others you know you're right but you're right

. once in a while i have a little i have a brief moment of self-doubt yeah i guess we all go i guess sure. i've interviewed a lot of people who have been wrongfully convicted and the thing that amazes me about people in that situation is the lack of bitterness the desire to do good things with their life spite being falsely convicted and that is the case with every desk the work that deskovic is doing with his foundation is pretty amazing he's really trying to turn his life around. and evening everybody. i need some more energy in the room one more time in unison so in our unity symbolic of the work we're going to do in the cause of justice fighting wrongful convictions in unisons please everybody along with me good evening everybody. this is in las vegas kiersten lobato case has remarkable similarities to desk of x.

when she was granted a second trial in two thousand and six her new defense team could not convince the court to conduct d.n.a. tests on critical pieces of evidence evidence that could potentially point to another suspect the judge looked at all the evidence in the case and said no there is no reasonable possibility that any of the evidence in this case that were tested for d.n.a. could result in an exoneration of personal bottle but this is not a d.n.a. case it's a confession case personal bottle confessed to this murder. labatt who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sexual penetration of a corpse or sentence thirteen to twenty five years. by two thousand and twelve lobato was running out of legal options then a new district attorney steve wolfson was appointed he had little connection to the case. alibaba supporters are pressing him to take action and they're getting help from one of the country's top experts jeffrey deskovic yeah i just want you to

update to the what's taken place with the case just got. and you know clark county i'm going up there monday to actually have. our main goal with that is to you know push the agenda in a test. that we cannot have. right to point that out. today it's not ok what's in fact the d.n.a. this isn't just a proud pearson's and it's about finding the real killers they did not find any have here's the place of honesty at the scene and the d.n.a. that was at the scene has not been tested. here's what they didn't test and bailey was dead in the alley and they did a rape kit assault kit on his rectum and they found stuff you know they didn't test

to see whose it was i tell you what it's not going to be it's not going to be semen for cures that. there were cigarette butts in the. cigarette butts are great places for d.n.a. not just because your fingers touch them but because your saliva touches them are testing those would not be interesting to find out of if the cigarette butts were similar d.n.a. to what was found inside the victim it's been ten years technology has advanced those traces can now point to who did this and yet they still refuse to test one. after years of negotiations his defense team has finally secured a private meeting with clark county district attorney steve wolfson former f.b.i. investigator steve morris on and to present his findings. one of things that i

think that may take a. pressure up of well sent an accent with maybe he might listen or is that he wasn't the head of the set at his time you're not kidding him in any way like saying hey this is what you walked in to look at right now that is the truth he had nothing to do with this everything i've heard or experienced with steve wilson shows me to be at least so far that he is a reasonable man and i don't think he is the concrete is dry in his mind about this case i agree everyone else. in new york jeffrey deskovic may be free from a prison cell but in many ways he remains deeply affected by what the system did to him some of the afflictions that i have had to wrestle with included overcoming panic attacks anxiety attacks becoming frightened if i simply saw a police officer on the street let's the speech is a chance to share the stage with recent exonerations. innocent men who served time

in the best of it jeffery pleads for justice he pleads for those who are still imprisoned innocent men and women who are losing the prime of their years not only did he buy me the clothes of but he shared with me a housing. he has an apartment in inman and which he insisted in housing me for about six months. professor thank you deskovic foundation investigates both d.n.a. and non d.n.a. cases they dig up key witnesses and arrange legal assistance for indigent prisoners and every chance he gets deskovic pushes back against a system that took away the prime years of his life we need to videotape interrogations for false confessions have been the cause of awful conventions in twenty five percent of the three hundred eleven d.n.a. proven awful convictions across the country we need to roll back the doctrine of

prosecutorial immunity once an arrest has been me there is nothing to restrain rogue prosecutors from engaging in misconduct and therefore they should face criminal charges and have to serve at least as much data remasters ask who automatically what do you want people to know about your situation essential points i'd like people to know about my case is that i had never been arrested for anything that i was not a high school drop out and that if the police want to talk to you then even if you're going to send you should insist on them providing with a lawyer if you think that safe to talk to the police without benefit of a lawyer just because you're innocent i need to do is look at me and i know that that's not true it happened to me and it can happen to anybody try to run off.

in las vegas j b f m a nina and steve moore finally get the face to face meeting with the d.a.'s office. reset the stage for them to understand the go ahead a little bit. don't say you know you should really don't want that because i'm going to be saying you haven't. opportunity unless you're very careful to be quite yet you come out and say hey this isn't all of better built by the second. hour cameras were not allowed into the meeting over the next two hours j.b. and steve advocating on behalf of cures to live bato arguing in favor of new d.n.a. testing and case evidence trying to convince steve wilson to reconsider the state's case. it was. more confrontational than i expected. to see hear me finish

a sentence one time and we're not here to and i said stone walked right up unfortunately steve wolfson decided not to attend the meeting instead three assistant prosecutor sat in on his behalf there was absolutely no meeting of the mind. outside of a short conversation on football they hold on to their belief that they are right we hold on to our knowledge that they're wrong law for instance he left for a talk about talk about d.n.a. testing he wants the statute this is the legal statute that says we can do when we can't and i say just between us you know that you have the power outside the box and go outside the box right he didn't like to see them plays kirstin was to be released in six months it was what led him to make a deal what if he got out of parole and six months later he said he was to be

careful though and i found this and he said with that stock if you love doing what you're doing now i said absolutely not to work they're still going to clear her name this is not justice. we asked steve wilson to comment on this story he turned down our request we got in touch with thomas townsend the lead detective in the case also declined to comment bill kept part the prosecutor in both trials is now a judge he did not respond to our phone calls. ok now this down on the low. ok yeah that's good you can turn it off. my plan is to fix this truck up. and then get another one that's very similar and put

a little bit of me into it and then of course when the time comes let the girls play with the trucks they'll flip a coin or however it is to see who gets what do you forsee a day that she's going to get out of there and come walking straight into your house absolutely that day when i can finally have my family in my house all having an actual meal together instead of eating out of. vending machine that's a day i've been waiting for and now i just you know i try to stay in pretty decent shape and i eat right and my objective is to stay alive long enough to see are free . if everything goes well. she could be free in as little as eight years. she's been down for twelve. if the truth ever comes out and she should be set free today just as hasn't been served because whoever actually did this crime is still free.

we're probably running out of time so this is maybe my last question is it hard to like know that there's an effort going on outside but you just have to kind of keep to the day to day of your existence and it's hard and awful hard to be a martially gifted i mean on. there i think. i get excited and i think ok well maybe that's going to be. going on. and i have to track my. care benefit going to rack out here because. well we wish you the best anything you want to say before we go as i say blazer to awesome job and keep your head up look at do you think you think i'm really good night. and ceremoniously. heartbreak again is.

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witness documentary to hold. on to see it. when i was a kid being suitable for me was a pleasure and oppression it was always found the ball to play with a toll in the living room. i had to pick out one playa who's made the difference to major yachts or a boy is it the big farm or so who can make things up and people can make things change you know thank you football during a break on al-jazeera world. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to surprise war against israel carter whose world permitted so to get into the situation of disaster now in the first of the three part series

al-jazeera explores what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. zero. allow i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes polls close in columbia's high stakes presidential runoff the leading candidate wants to rewrite the peace deal with far. little girl. more than six hundred refugees and migrants are welcomed in spain but

a political solution to europe's migration crisis for maine's far off. wants and hope at the signing ceremony inside that tear gassed by police outside tensions over macedonia is naming deal with greece. i'm joined in doha with the world cup news including the biggest shock of the tournament so far defending champions germany to lose one nil to mexico i'll have the action coming up in the news our. polls have now closed and one of the highest stakes elections in colombia for years voters have been choosing between two radically different candidates for president with the fate of a landmark peace deal with the fog rebels depending on the outcome the favorite conservative. has criticized that deal and pledged to rewrite it ensuring members

of the fox of jail time for their crimes before entering politics crucially the left is counted in former guerrilla fighter petro says he will uphold the deal he's standing on a platform of economic reform but has faced accusations he wants to take colombia down the same path as its crisis stricken neighbor venezuela let's go to andy gallagher who's in bogota. want to be likely to get the results. well the polls have just closed here in the last few seconds the voting process of the voting counting process in colombia is very very quick we could get a result within two and a half hours and as you said this is a very divided electorate with two extremely different candidates on the ballot we have a third choice here which is a blank ballot but let's talk about the candidates. by former president today he is someone who is whole lore and order of boosting the economy increasing foreign

investment and he's someone who is a critic of those peace accords with fox and in two thousand and seventeen on the left we have gustavo petro someone who has got further than any other leftist candidate in this country the fifty eight year old is no stranger to politics in this country a former guerrilla someone who wants to tackle inequality reduce this country's dependency on fossil fuels and fight for equal rights but let's bring in an expert here monica but john from from colombia you are an expert. but tell us what's at stake here because many people say this is a second referendum on those peace accords i think for some voters this is a second referendum especially for the right voters that got a no vote in a majority a very close majority in two thousand and sixteen and never saw changes. where radical to the peace agreements with barak and then for other voters they left

voters there it is an opportunity to move on in a way that consolidating an agenda of social it will be foreseeable in the in the close future whatever happens because to have a part throws come further than any of the leftist candidate in this country is not a sign of a maturing democracy i think so i think that colombia has politics have always been about war and how to win the internal conflict if we move into social rides more liberal versus conservative views of the economy we're moving into a more consolidated democracy in which we have a more peaceful environment and we have had the most peaceful elections since i don't know if for decades our votes as they say that it's been fairly hateful on social media they felt the pressure of voting for one candidate or the other but you certainly hope whatever the outcome i think so i think. there's a lot of thinker mentalism in change so i think any of the candidates because

they're polarizing candidates need to move to the center and find some consensual agreement across borders political borders in order to govern what do you think i mean even duke at the moment is ahead in the polls he is the one that people think will succeed what will colombia look like under him. i think a long via will look like as always there's a lot of change that will come. through congress that will try to come through congress that we have to wait and see because one thing is what you say are not complain and the other thing is what you do while you are in office but you do remain optimistic i mean what about those peace accords because ducasse said that he is a critic he's back. who was very critical and full of talk for years will he read that piece of code up what will happen i think there's a lot of uncertainty on that issue i think evidently was complaining on changing

the peace accords but there's a lot of arguments and. a lot of reasons why it is very difficult to move from this accord but i do. be tainted in terms of the transitional justice if it comes to power and also into their political representation that they have earned in previous agreements with congress with christian scientists i guess one of the biggest questions people so used to carry is a puppet that will lead to is own man once he gets into power if that's what happened i don't know i think it would is a very strong politician he has divided the country of for almost twenty years in terms of politics so i think he has to follow to a certain extent to do it but he has to be his own man and he has to find a way to do it to generate his own politics instead of looking into what he really will say i think what he is very divisive and he needs to move away

a little bit from him if he wants to govern and have a peaceful situation over the next years i want to thank you very much so a lot to play for here in these elections in colombia for this country's next president does i said the results may come in as quickly as in about two and a half hours it's important to note that these have as monica's they'd been some of the most peaceful elections in recent history perhaps a sign that this is a democracy that is maturing and becoming more police. but by tonight at least colombians will have a clearer picture of what their future is will hold thank you very much and he gathered to watch chain developments there for us in bogota on out more than six hundred refugees and migrants have arrived in the spanish for surveillance a week off to italy and multitude on the way the red cross has called on european union member states to follow spain's example and put into practice the

humanitarian values promoted by the e.u. call pennell has more from the landsea. on dry land at last clearly happy to be here. special care for pregnant women mothers their toddlers and others most vulnerable these migrants and refugees were forced to spend the week at sea european union leaders squabble over migration policy and show ships are just doing their work are saving lives as in the ben and humanitarian organization saving lives is not a crime or not a course of this situation are also not a solution what we are at the end this is a symptom of a failing of the european governments relief workers say many migrants landing in spain were tortured in libyan detention centers or may have been traded a six slaves after a health check from medical workers migrants disembarked to be registered by police and assessed it's the start of

a months long process while the recounts are scrutinised and the government decides who will be allowed to stay as refugees it's unacceptable that the those ones we wish to protect. i don't understand what's going on here i mean imagine that you have to explain to people that they are safe now but the next steps are completely spain's incoming socialist government has welcomed the charity ship aquarius and the two italian vessels but not all share that enthusiasm. hours before the ships docked and anti immigrant fringe party organized a portside protest they fear a migrant influx will change the spanish way of life. you know you're. in the next ten or fifteen years the majority of young people in this country will have a religion and culture different from our own we're faced with a problem of survival the arrival of the aquarius means safe haven for some but

a political solution to the migration crisis remains remote so that people. the traffickers and smugglers so it's about. a human situation that mr b. a manager you know human way for the latest arrivals the politics will have to wait for now a few minutes to play with new toys and celebrate their survival culp a whole al-jazeera valencia spain. so i'm joined now in the studio by christine algoma a lecturer in international relations at laughter university here in the u.k. thank you very much for taking the time to come and speak to us what does it mean for italy's interior minister materials solve the need to turn away a ship with rescued migrants from italian shores forcing it then to dock in spain are we entering a new phase in the way european governments approach refugees and migrants well i

think there's an escalation going on here in terms of certain governments building up the momentum using the trafficking and trafficking discourse in order to push migrants away and in order to speak to a very particular constituency ignoring humanitarian principles international law but also ignoring quite a lot of europeans who actually were come not only refugees but also migrants and who have very engaged in offering protection at a local level and you are mentioning there the way in which it's being framed and efforts to battle trafficking how is this also a warning that's being sent to libya which is where many many of these migrants and refugees are now i don't think so we we mustn't forget that europe has been quite instrumental in in the breakdown of that region. in the longer term so we're not

looking at the last three years there's there's a longer geo political dynamic to what's happening here at the moment. so i think european union countries carry quite a lot of responsibility not only for the situation in the middle east but also for the particular people who had found positions of rescue there but because of european involvement and now again in sirte. for protection but of course the message we have here from italy is that this new populist government in rome is not prepared to deal with refugees arriving on its shores is there a danger that we will see more countries in europe following in their footsteps there might well be but how many more migrants are we willing to see die in the mediterranean especially given that we're putting so much emphasis.