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a number of deaths among those people in detention in sixteen of the eighteen cases that were analyzing this report that led to death sixteen of them were definitely they could have been prevented kevin seems resigned to the fact that his father will almost certainly be deported the father is like the base of everything you take out the babies everything comes crashing down without him each is i thought. one of a chain of broken families across the country as the crackdown on my words intensifies robert oulds los angeles. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. i think it's very important that we are straightforward honest and transparent about the ways in which some of these objects have entered the collection. and u.k. ready to loan artifacts back to african countries that originally stone from.
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violence in their garage the latest round of talks between the government and protest this. and it's more brazil downplays an injury scare for the star player details coming up in sport. the un report says both the syrian government and rebel groups committed war crimes during the battle for eastern the holter earlier this year. forces backed by russia retort the damascus suburb in april after a two month offensive that left almost fifteen hundred people dead un investigators say they found evidence of systematic government bombardments of civilian areas and the deliberate campaign to starve residents with blocking blocking aid preventing the delivery of humanitarian supplies or a poll also accuses rebels of indiscriminate shelling of civilians in damascus.
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galley is the commissioner of the u.n. independent commission of inquiry on syria he joins us now via skype from geneva good to have you with us so it's become almost sadly usual to have a report that talks about both sides in the syrian conflict committing war crimes against civilians right yes it is it is very we we have to say also. because. are showing total disregard for protection of some pins and in a sense copying needs to other. where is the severity of the violations that have become war crimes and in some cases crimes against humanity. while there ever be accountability. and there is a lot of work being done documenting these violations of course by the commission of inquiry we have a new make an ism now that was established by the general assembly that's working
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towards preparing cases is. that some. will put your national or syrian can begin to work on such cases but we're also now seeing dozens of cases around the world where we are states in national security actions are beginning to use courts around the world to try and prosecute but some of these foreign relations when the when some of the victims in the survivors are open in those countries abroad tell us about what happens next though to your report you've you've issued a report what are you doing with it now right well the report was a quest of the march the human rights council. we have issue with it today but actually it will be presented to the council on the twenty sixth. and we will then
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have an interactive third of as they call it with the member states of the human rights council where they get to ask questions about their reports and and then they may force terrorism lucian or us. for the work to be done our own mandate of course was renewed in march to manage that when a non-binding resolution though i wanted it to have any teeth. sorry said it again would be a non-binding resolution without any teeth reading but wouldn't if it comes well it with the rest of the follow ups to the findings in the report i mean one of the things we've found with what has happened in eastern. this is apart from that's repeat itself over the last five years in syria surrounding you know territory because you want to get to armed groups armed opposition groups inside basically starving the population than the much discriminatory preventing people from leaving
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daily bombardment you know ground and from the air and iran actually when they surrender in this is what we were trying to mr hooper but still forced to leave you know many from for example fifty thousand civilians have had to go up north to areas around did liberate the aleppo ninety thousand were taken away people are syrian authorities to shelters which essentially are internment camps they're in they're being vetted before they're released unable to move on or think i know there's about thirty one thousand left in those camps side situation thank you very much time accounting. thank you. of course in kenya has refused to allow local doctors to block and attempt by the government to employ staff from cuba but doctors say the cuban recruits will be paid more than them but the government defended its plan citing the shortage of workers in the state hospitals
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catherine sawyer reports from the careful nairobi. he's a cane years new government doctor is cuban medical specialists will be deployed to some of the country's most and is staffed and ill equipped public hospitals local doctors are angry one took action saying the process was flawed and adding they are almost two hundred specialists in kenya who are unemployed and even those in work and not being paid as much as the cubans for each of these kind as we are speaking they have their name is country the question the argues it is about numbers that is why we even agree that hundred doctors cannot help the whole process that is true but what we are seeing in the process of hiring these doctors at higher skill or salary it is because if two doctors. the decision to hire foreign doctors stems from the government's frustration over frequent doctors strikes including one last year that lasted four hundred days and crossed major
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disruption to services in public hospitals. george muti saw struggles to get the specialized care he needs he often has to travel from his rural home to this hospital on the outskirts of the capital he told us it has taken him four days to see a specialist the situation is worse in with he says hometown some rural hospitals have not had a specialist in years the doctor patient ration the country is one to seven and a half thousand that's seven times more than the double heechul recommendation of one to a thousand. a member. you know we're in that. before you know. the court has dismissed the case by the da to block the hiring of dispassion these from the doctors' fees that he's going to have some kenyans are happy with the new arrivals they say that patients who can only
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afford public health care need all the help they can get but they also know that this doctors need i do quit medical supplies and probably meant to be able to do their jobs well cathy foley al-jazeera nairobi. is catching up with overall weather because the evidence it says about a bit of flooding yeah that's right you know everything's big in texas sami well that includes the rain and the floods have had some big downpours across the deep south this little massive cloud that's been stuck here for the past few days further north little chain of storms that runs up towards the east coast and again we're seeing that stacked let's have your cloud and rain here and again we have seen some flooding so you see how little waving weather system here has been producing the heavy downpours across northern parts of ward celebrex and in illinois we have seen widespread flooding this is how it looks here she can say very difficult conditions here and those flood warnings do remain in place at least
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for the next complet days this is similar picture down south if anything the right has been even heavier would you believe that we've been talking about this for a couple of days past twenty four hours hundred three millimeters of rain has come down important respects nine hundred fifty for the entire month of june the past two days two hundred seventy six millimeters of rain has come down here and as she would expect the flooding is widespread and it is severe and we have got more where that came from the good parts of southern texas struggling to cope with the very heavy rain the rains continue further notice we go on through the next diode say those showers continue right across deep south and no sign of any less helps any. so it's almost still ahead of al jazeera new hope for an end to the five year long civil war as the rebel leader arrives in abbott savable for a meeting with the president. and it's called former tennis world number one andy murray makes his long awaited return details coming up like to.
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unpack it for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether on line horrendous things you know it's all just there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on sacked a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is a dialogue about some of this except that perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the district join the colobus conversation amount is iraq. she said our seven million lives in this school. each one is still. one to be seen. to be. that demonstrably. it is to be a. witness document.
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on this here. or come back here watching al-jazeera time to recap our headline style a new u.n. report to modern world refugee day says more than sixteen million people. forcibly displaced last year makes the total number of people forced from their homes to sixty eight and a half million proximately the same as the population of the u.k. a un report says both the syrian government and rebel groups committed war crimes during the battle for eastern the water earlier this year un investigators say they
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found evidence of systematic government bombardments of civilian areas and the deliberate campaign to starve residents. seven former detainees of u.a.e. run prisons in yemen have spoken of what they call systematic sexual torture by m r r t guards talk to reporters from the associated press who are calling it rampant sexual torture used to brutalize detainees five centers were identified where the detainees say rape electrocution and beatings took place including at the m.r.c. forces headquarters in the country the u.a.e. has not commented on the investigation the saudi and morality coalition in yemen says it's taking full control of the airport and for data it's a key milestone in the offensive to push the rebels from the city if i think continues in the area the yemeni army is now blocking the road between her day the province and the capital sana'a in an effort to cut rebel supply lines. reports
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thank you. setback for the rebels. there fighters are we treating him for one of their strongholds and this is why. these are forces loyal to president. the moment they took over the city is port but it's saudi arabia and the u.a.e. warplanes that's made the difference they have intensified over the last few days to break rebel defense lines. with any enemies using the population as a human shield these are putting their tanks in populated areas and shelling the airport we target military positions and we have void civilian targets at the same time you money terry an aide will start arriving to her data but the fight is far
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from over the truth is still control the city and the seaport yemen's imports including food and aid and it's all exports all go through. the coalition has long accused iran of smuggling weapons into yemen through the seaport accusations rejected by the who are theists and to harass as fighting gets closer to the city thousands of civilians are fleeing their homes aid agencies fear a disruption to food and medical supplies will only add to the humanitarian crisis people on able to go to school they're not able to go to work for fear of what will happen if they step out onto the street aid is disrupted the economy is devastated in terms of health care basic things like that access to food and water all of this will be severely disrupted. despite their recent losses the who
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thiis remain defiant were they are threatening to fire more ballistic missiles into saudi arabia and defend the capital son to the house about about a. shy is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford joins us now on skype from florence good to have you with us so what you make of the situation is the city about to fall as a whole. it is actually true and it was what was the most who ever controls this city effectively is going to. induce. conflict since two thousand and fifteen. we haven't seen any major ten point in this conflict since it was then taken why do we live in coalition it really hasn't made any serious
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advancement from any side and it will ease. as long as you can count of maintaining your points will all of those ethically begin to cigar as well and as long as he can't control these two major urban centers the not really lived to come to a meaningful negotiating table of course this is going to be serious who should be serious this is what if this is only live coalition manages it it will but this is the epic if you're going to cut this is like. i recorded a new york. minute. difficult for us in there in summer or that was actually my next question because there are reports that pro-government forces have actually already started doing that cutting off the highway to sana'a
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is this a game changer for the whole of his control of the capital. if i could take all of this city as i mentioned in the ark this is truly going to what you think they can now that's her day to give them at least today the airport given that ability and what they do control that there is a sort of you know already attained here but again they still have a long way and today although the city but again you have to remember this is one of the most densely populated c.d.'s in. truth entirely in yemen population depends on the support because most of that aid concert is the city of ritzy. poor of. all these highly densely populated city is going to be very very difficult it's there
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and that's why he's in a little bit too early to say that musically will be part of the in game changer in its q.b. who these actually are better for the fact that yours is very important or their license to be difficult and at the same time at the saudi correlation has been beaten to death there and in the blue sea since about fifteen some commonly it is as far as saying yes i think the end to really not and then you know if they leave you want to change a situation if they want to one of the needful economies ship wonderbra they have no choice but to say we're going to the city but there are since. it's only in patients and that's why even the americans despite the fact that they have some it is on the ground they want to conduct this operation was at the nations that are going as it would be some serious. good to get your thoughts as always thanks so
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much. of the israeli military says it's hit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to how mass it says the strikes follow around forty five rockets fired from the strip towards israel several of the rockets were intercepted three landed in israel tensions have been high in the area since late march when palestinians began protesting at the gaza israel border fence israeli snipers have shot and killed one hundred thirty two palestinian protesters there herefore sit has more from west jerusalem israeli army says that more than forty five rockets and mortars were fired.
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