peach and movement despite years of medical examinations no one knows what's caused her disability which has been been proven no one has an awful lot of our own we were surprised by her illness aside began to deteriorate rapidly after we left aleppo doctors in turkey also didn't understand why she couldn't speak normally it's strange because she can easily memorize and repeat whatever we say in front of her but when she talks she's not articulate. still sons don't go to school he says he's had problems of rolling them but the family needs the money they get. apprentices their wages supplement what he ends working in a plastics factory one situation shows some of the complex problems of the devil the lives of about four million people fled the war in syria and became refugees in turkey a majority of them have set up in cities from managed to find out why less than twenty percent still live in camps near the border. life in these camps is not easy

while the refugees get food and other necessities they can't work or move around freely. stay here for their or. there is no risk at risk changing their. management of the chaps first meet problems are still in the cities this. means my years on the side. as the turks prepares to vote in a general election the status of syrian refugees has become a campaign topic turkey's leaders are keen to stabilize syria to the point where refugees feel safe enough to go home for many that's a distant dream. but there are more secure them but thousands of people trapped on the syrian side of the border they don't tough refugee status the turkish army

provides them with some protection but they're not allowed to cross into turkey and they are afraid to return home. and yet the turkish syrian border well in hungary politicians have approved a constitutional amendment which could eventually make it harder for migrants to seek asylum by targeting the groups and individuals who help them on the that new legislation the so-called stop soros law those who aid illegal migrants to stay in hungary could be sentenced to up to a year in prison the right wing hunger and prime minister viktor orban blames financier george soros for encouraging mass migration into europe a claim the hunger in american business magnate nice today's world refugee day and the government instead of providing protection have decided to actually not provide protection deny protection and that's the side with the persecutors it starts to persecute you even individuals human rights defenders and others who assist the

salim seekers i think this is a new low point for hungary today where even lawyers could face criminal prosecution something that has not been heard of since the one nine hundred fifty certainly it's very alarming many aspects of this are i think i read just. live from london still ahead. fighter jets hit twenty five time gets in gaza israel says it was a response to hamas rocket attacks on the sides. and the british government agrees to return mayor brown statues stolen from nigeria more than a century ago. how

i move very hot sunshine across the middle east my great surprise is here we have still got the shadows just rolling out to hear from the black sea into the caspian sea right across the coaxes and always a chance of what to see showers coming in here the know the palace of iran could catch a shower if you want to see it just sliding down towards the south of the thing syria does stay hot and dry by route looking nice with winds coming in from the med twenty seven celsius when that's a westerly breeze just feeding three forty celsius back there forty one there in kuwait city getting into the low thirty's for karate and also a couple may want to see showers a bit towards the high ground though saw to many showers across the arabian peninsula we have still got that nagging ammal wind feeding those strong winds down across the eastern side of the gulf even here in doha wall if that dust and sand and over the next couple of days forty two celsius a little bit of cloud just over towards the red sea much just squeeze out one or

two spots of rain but nothing much to speak of so the nothing much to speak of in terms of any wet weather across southern africa at present it is lossy tribal sea temperatures in capetown it around sixteen celsius touch with a full johannesburg around eighteen degrees presently woman harare with a topped average of twenty.

no mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump is due to sign an executive order to end the practice is separating my grandparents and their children of the u.s. border out wages but my meeting in recent days falls with that policy. former inmates of prisons in yemen run by the u.a.e. are accusing amarok to gods of systematic sexual abuse to brutalize detainees the u.a.e. has not commented on those accusations immigration crisis coincides with world where day sixty eight and a half million people have been sourced displaced by conflict worldwide that's the highest number in the corded history. the saudi emmer articulation and yemen

says it's taken full control of the airport in one day it's a key milestone in the offensive to push hooty rebels from the city the fighting continues in the area yemeni army is now blocking the road between hyundai the province and the capital summer in an effort to cut rebel supply lines. reports. a major setback for who thier rebels. fighters are retreating into. one of their strongholds but. didn't his fight losing the war well. you know what's happening in yemen is a foreign invasion but name iraqis and the saudi officers are implementing an american agenda their allies are on the ground are the puppets and big killers of their own people. these are forces loyal to president.

the moment they took over the city's port but it's saudi arabia and the u.a.e. warplanes that's made the difference they have intensified strikes over the last few days to break rebel defense lines. where they need 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 data but the fight is far 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 thies and to her. 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 that both these remain defiant. they are threatening to fire more ballistic missiles into saudi arabia and defend the capital son to the hospital but i'll just. there have been more deaths in nicaragua as armed forces backed by the government try to regain control of the city of messiah the peace talks between the government

and the opposition have been put on hold as violence continues in the central american nation over the past two months a hundred and eighty six people have been killed when well the apollo has more now from the capital went. right confrontations between anti-government protesters and paramilitary groups have claimed more lives in messiah nicaraguan police and government backed militias fired on demonstrators as scores of people fled to their homes for cover the latest offensive by police comes after the representatives of the resistance movement in messiah declared they would no longer allow themselves to be governed by a president or. that i'm going to get a man who has the blood of our brothers who have been cowardly murdered demand that we continue belligerently and unwavering towards the fight until or take it is gone . messiah is where much of the most brutal fighting has been concentrated as police attempted to regain control of the city massed protesters huddled behind barricades

to shield themselves from live rounds one demonstrator continued to fire his homemade mortar at police even after being shot in the arm but i'm not some of us is that and didn't look at all i've been shot with a bullet here it's not possible that we're going to give up easily it's ready to fight and using our mortars we will kick them out long live massaro. the political crisis in the get out what is now in its second month after protests over pension reform plans were met with violence by the government a growing opposition movement is now calling for the immediate resignation of president or to go at least one hundred eighty six people have died since the start of the conflict law enforcement authorities maintain that their efforts or to combat a delinquent movement that is part of a conspiracy against the government commerce in messiah once a popular tourist has been halted with all roads leading into the city blocked off there are now reports that food and supplies are running out one of the main

conditions for the peace talks to resume is for president order to end the repression against anti-government demonstrators without a stop to violence against civilians it's hard to imagine a national dialogue that will successfully restore the peace anytime soon. the united nations is accusing both the syrian government and rebel groups of committing war crimes during the battle for a single to earlier this year pro asaad forces backed by russia we took the damascus suburb in april after two month of fences the less that left almost fifteen hundred people dead in a new report u.n. investigators say they found evidence of systematic government bombardments of civilian areas and a deliberate campaign to stop residents i built kading humanitarian aid. the israeli military says its air strikes have hit at least twenty five targets in

gaza linked to hamas it says they were a response to around forty five rockets fired from gaza towards israeli territory several of the rockets were intercepted but just three landed inside israel tensions have been high since late march and palestinians began protesting at the gaza israeli border fence israeli troops have shot dead one hundred thirty two palestinians and injured thousands more during several weeks of demonstrations well harry fawcett has more now from west jerusalem. israeli army says that more than forty five rockets and mortars were fired from gaza in territory into israel in the course of the night and in response the israeli military struck twenty five hamas targets within the gaza strip most of them understood to be empty military compounds training areas and the like all the palestinian sources do reports at least two palestinians being injured in those strikes on the israeli side the israeli military is saying that seven of the projectiles were intercepted by the

iron dome system at least three fell within gaza and territory but three did fall within populated areas in israel close to the gaza border and in one instance there was damage to buildings and cars but no injuries reported on the israeli side all of this comes in the context of the protests that we've been seeing in the last few months the around one hundred thirty palestinians who've been killed by israeli snipers during that period the ongoing humanitarian crisis within gaza and the biggest military flare up we've seen since twenty fourteen which took place at the end of last month neither side according to any number of reports wants an escalation to a full blown conflict at this stage and both to understand what have become the rules of the game over many years now but it is always possible that an escalation can take place even if neither side wants it. macedonia's parliament has approved a deal to rename the country and then the twenty seven year disagreement with

greece they purr limon re egremont with greece to rename the country the republic of nor the macedonia was signed on sunday the proposal will now be put to a referendum the name dispute happened the country was built from joining nato and the e.u. . now more than four hundred fifty patients died at a hospital in the u.k. after being given powerful painkillers according to a new look court an investigation was launched in twenty fourteen to address concerns about the deaths of a number of elderly patients between one thousand eighty seven and two thousand and one the gosport war memorial hospital the report says there was an institutional practice of administering opioids without medical justification which led to those deaths nothing i say today will lessen the anguish and pain from have campaigned for twenty years but justice after the loss of a loved one. but i can at least on behalf of the government and the n.h.s.

apologize for what happened and what they've been through. north korea's leader has wrapped up his two day trip to china kim jong un was there to brief president xi jinping on his meeting with donald trump earlier this month this is kim's third visit to china since march she has voted to support north korea's economic we construction and said there would definitely be peace and stability on the peninsula nigeria's government is in talks with the u.k. to accept the temporary return of rare bronze statues that was stolen by the british an eight hundred ninety seven british soldiers seized thousands of metal castings from the venn separate kingdom of the name worn out from barbara. these are some of the bronzes stolen more than one hundred years ago in what is now southern nigeria mr the artifacts removed from the can of been inspired this and the top in the british museum campaign as have made repeated calls for their return

i think it's very important that we are straightforward and honest and transparent about the ways in which some of these objects events at the collection is absolutely not the case that everything in the museums african collections was printed or looted always have a phrase you want to use but obviously there are certain circumstances or certain events that happened. and certain examples like the pentagon says where that material wouldn't have come into the collection and that in the same way today curators from europe and the united states and negotiating an agreement to set up a permanent exhibition of the bronzes in nigeria why it is true that the british has a number of objects which they have many of these objects in the europe. so there's a need for there to be there for the knows what the billion dollar group is all about but it isn't clear whether the nigerian government will accept to learn more from the british museum. we will we will you know be open to such conversations

so there's just not one for. decision as to whether it's going to be on board or i mean for you know we just we will be open to having a broad range of discussions on. each piece of work. the oldest of the bronze this would cost in the fifteen hundreds descendants of the out to saps who cough them still practiced across today if really the obregon to lose this was the beauty for people to see it especially when docs for far out the door there is that all depictions of everyday life chiseled through the ages can one day be seen by future generations in the land where they were created barbara to sarah . the top stories here currently on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says he'll sign something soon to keep families are being

separated by immigration officials at the border together and pressure had been mounting on the president for days now to do something about his zero tolerance policy on immigration which involves children including babies being separated from their parents. the republicans want security and insist on security for our country and we will have that at the same time we have compassion we want to keep families together it's very important i'll be signing something a little while that's going to do that and the people in this room want to do that and they're working on various pieces of legislation to get it done but i'll be doing something that's somewhat preemptive but ultimately will be matched by legislation i'm sure former inmates of prisons in yemen run by the you are accusing the emira gods of systematic sexual abuse the associated press interviewed seven men who said that quote rampant sexual torture was used to blush allies detainee

u.a.e. has not yet commented on those accusations. in hungary m.p.'s have approved a constitutional amendment making it more difficult for refugees to seek asylum under the new legislation the so-called stop soros law people find guilty of helping asylum seekers could face up to a year in prison on greece prime minister viktor orban blames financier george soros for encouraging mass migration into europe played in the business magnate denied. these really military says it's launched air strikes on at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas says the strikes were in response to around forty five rockets that were fired from gaza towards israeli territory un is accusing the syrian government and rebel groups of committing war crimes during the battle for eastern ghouta earlier this year pro asaad forces backed by russia reached at the damascus suburb in april after a two month the fence of that left almost fifteen hundred people dead those are

current top stories in say stories next we'll have a news out of the top of the next hour see them. the united states pulls out of the u.n. human rights council calling it a cesspool of political bias so what will this mean for the global fight to protect human rights and will this further isolate the u.s. on the world stage this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program the u.s. has walked out of the u.n. human rights council calling it hypocritical self-serving and a cesspool of political bias the move follows months of threats from president obama will trump to pull out of the un council the united states has long had a conflicted relationship with the u.n. h. ossie and says it has to be reformed the announcement came at a time when president faces widespread and vociferously condemnation for his zero tolerance immigration policy that separating children from their families on the us mexico border well guess what guests in a moment but first the inside story as this report. special a year ago the u.s. ambassador to the united nations criticize the u.n. human rights council for what she called its hypocritical behavior and nikki haley said the u.s. would quit the council if it didn't change its ways it's hard to accept that this

council has never considered a resolution on venezuela and yet it adopted five biased resolutions in march against a single country israel it is essential that this council address its chronic anti israel bias if it is to have any credibility it is correct to criticize the state of israel for its actions as said by rabbi luck you can you can challenge the israeli government's policies we thought being a mighty comet such as this a permanent agenda item investigating israel's treatment of palestinians and the us is recent failure to prevent the un general assembly from condemning israel's use of force in gaza finally made the trumpet ministration say enough on tuesday but when organizations undermine our national interests and our allies we will not be complicit when they seek to infringe on our national sovereignty we will not be silent we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain

a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights we could have withdrawn immediately we did not do that if instead we made a good faith effort to resolve the problems the us has had a troubled relationship with the council when it was set up in two thousand and six president george bush refused to join because he feared countries with poor human rights records would be able to sit on a panel intended to punish human rights violators key in bush's decision making the us ambassador to the u.n. at the time john bolton he's now president trumps national security advisor i think president barack obama. then join to the council in two thousand and nine are you to leave us would have more influence and give israel more protection from negative resolutions in the process now the us is leaving the council again and that has human rights groups around the world very concerned they fear that without the

american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. well the council is based in geneva and its mission is to promote and to protect human rights around the world it was established back in two thousand and six to replace the un commission on human rights that had been strongly criticized for allowing countries with poor human rights records to be members of the un h r c has forty seven member countries who serve the three year terms it meets three times a year and investigates human rights records of all u.n. member states in a special process it covers issues including freedom of expression freedom of belief women's rights l g b t rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities

the un general assembly can suspend the rights of any council member that's violating human rights in a gross and systematic way this requires a two thirds majority vote. let's get going let's bring in our guests joining us from geneva dion shar on he's the director of independent diplomat in london we have rosa friedman professor of law and global development of the university of reading and joining us from washington is mohammed a cop professor of conflict resolution at the george mason university welcome to you all coming to you first what does this decision do to the organization well the decision is not really one that comes as a prize in geneva everyone that's been following the human rights council in geneva has been expecting it ever since nikki haley came to geneva in june of last year and said that in essence she wanted the council to reform around three pillars the

first one is its membership the second one is its perceived biased towards israel and the third one is its efficiency i think that here. the shock is really the surprise is really that it comes so suddenly in a way even though we had seen it coming most would have expected that there'd be a trigger say for instance the u.n. publishing a report condemning israel or something of the kind but in any case i think most people expected it and. then the biggest concern nowadays is what you know how this is going to unfold a year and a half away from the reform of the human rights council the human rights council itself is due to be reformed in twenty twenty and you know this withdrawal poses a lot of questions on the roser what does it also say about where the organization stands today and why didn't it react to those demands from nikki haley to reform i

think that there are many countries many n.g.o.s that agree with us about the need for reform it was the way that the u.s. was going about trying to reform the body that i think caused this trigger this this reaction and this walking out in quite an immediate manner. essentially the u.s. wanted to sponsor resolutions on reform where is it these these things have to be crossed regional they have to have co-sponsors and be championed by many countries and the way that the u.s. was pushing for reform was by floating resolutions without first garnering support and then reacting very badly when those floated resolutions were being pushed off the table and mohammed what does it also tell us about the current direction of travel for the trumpet ministration while it is or the day in the u.s. history it contradicts all the morals and institutions that have been established since the put it in times in colonial america or according to the will sorely in our doctrine that gave us the league of nations and then contributed to the

establishment of the u.n. nation systems unfortunately the air from administration now is exist in this global human right part of i am for the sake of me in isolating those related and also for showing some uncalled for sympathy to the israelis so i think the problem here is that the united states is going to lose its main reference of more of politics human rights and all the humanity that it has championed over centuries rose when mohammed talks about uncalled for sympathy for the israelis part of this as far as nikki haley is concerned is this article seven which means that they always have to their constituted in such a way they always have to talk about israel at every meeting and that's why we've seen the reaction that we've seen today from benjamin netanyahu. but ever since the council was created there has been bias there has been excessive disproportionate

scrutiny of israel we've seen that the un human rights council spent more time and resources talking about israel than it has about north korea yemen south sudan sudan and darfur and sri lanka combined but that has that bias it's not a perception that a bias against israel isn't not a reason to leave the human rights council it is a reason to reform and work with the council and in fact when item seven was perth first placed on the agenda the reason that it wasn't blocked by european union states was it was hoped that the discussion of israel and palestine would be contained to those two days that the session since it is not contained to those two days in israel is raised in all sorts of other agenda items many countries have sent can stop to engaging with item seven so there are ways around it and the us knows that there are ways around it but this is almost a good excuse and a good national populist excuse for the us walking out of the room you know what you think the chances are that the united states might go back in again they left before under george w. bush when he was

a republican president but they chose under obama to join up and sign up to the statues one more time. i mean it's going to be difficult to predict but to be honest i don't forsee them coming back before the twenty twenty so i.e. before the reforms are discussed and then there is a new. that there is a new body or that the reforms are in place i think that the message is pretty clear in fact i think the big question is whether these reforms or whether this would allow for the u.s. to return at all and and i agree with rose and how many have just said in many ways it creates a void i mean when you're trying to negotiate for reform and you're not there in the room negotiating it creates a void and so in countries other countries are more than happy to fill that void and so far as i'm can see in my my biggest concern is civil society the human rights council has been one of the few un avenues for engagement for civil society

actors i agree that i mean i hear rose's points with regards to the israel bias and or or the discussions of the way that's given them on on the record human rights record of israel but at the same time i must say that it's one of the very few conduits where we've had discussions on accountability atoll at the u.n. and taking in with the engagement of civil society thinking you know it's had twenty eight commissions of inquiry not just on gaza but also on the myanmar. look at for instance syria is one of the very few places where we've had so much you know there's been an independent investigative body looking into the violations committed by the syrian government there and so on so so this has provided for a room for civil society engagement like nowhere else i mean there's over probably a hundred probably thousand of n.g.o.s active in there and the big fear is that this u.s. withdrawal creating that void would allow certain other countries to fill it and

these other countries which are coming to the fray thinking for instance. china with its win win resolution which they tabled recently is it remains unknown as to how much space they would want to give to the ngos i mean when i say on own this is a diplomatic term i mean many countries the u.s. was part of the group of states that was favorable and supportive of the engagement of civil society actors so that that is probably one of the biggest question marks on that mohammed in washington if there is now a void and there clearly is on the ranks of the within the ranks of the comes all those other countries that look to the united states to be the high water mark of not just international law and how it's applied but also the nexus of morality international reality if you will and the law who do they look to now. well before our other recent question let me couple of issues here i think you should not over

credit the support for israel in explaining or deconstructing this decision i think we should mention also that there is a person that is also a political factor the personnel factor is that from six to become the king that america had never had in other words he wants to free himself up from all these institutions and accountability also this decision can be considered as an investment in the right wing. base where he is basically telling them that you are better off with us as right wingers and he is also take into consideration this investment toward the elections next november at the congress level and also later on in two thousand and twenty two other is your question i think yes there will be a vacuum where there will be no leadership no point of reference and no final kind of text or money fest to that sort of explains to the rest of the world

that there is a system so basically this is a move beyond the establishment beyond the international institution that is the u.n. that has over sided this business of human rights all the way that otherwise we are going to be moving in on and shot the grounds in terms of what to do when some human rights for injured or encroached upon on there for the trump administration is now what driving the world into the world in this and the war spot here is that he is undermining the u.n. system if we do without. oh if we abandon this system then i think we've become. really even in a big situation rosa i think you want to come in there i'd like i'd like to come in that i think there were the state in the case of the u.s. leaving the human rights council and the impact that this will have on the council

and on the whole u.n. system trump has already taken money away from peacekeeping budgets from the u.n. population fund from other parts of the united nations system and other countries have stepped up to fill that void within the human rights council the european union is very strong the u.k. is very agile very effective with a very large mission and yes we will see a void by the u.s. not having its mission not having its its institutional knowledge and particularly its leadership on human rights but there are other countries we can look to protect the latin american countries who because of the geographic distance between them in geneva don't always play as strong a role as perhaps we might want them to we can look to these countries and expect them to step up and fill the void and to push back against the countries like china who are trying to undermine human rights who are trying to say state sovereignty is more important or the countries like egypt and india who block n.g.o.s from being accredited to the u.n. system and just a little bit worried that if we all say that the human rights council will collapse

as a result of the us leaving one sheep we're actually forgetting that there are one hundred ninety three member states and no one state is more important than the remainder of them together while donald trump has pulled the u.s. out of several international agreements including the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal which was reached with other world powers to curb to ron's nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions the paris climate accord which is working to tackle global warming signed also in twenty fifteen by one hundred ninety countries the us has also withdrawn from the trans-pacific partnership a twelve nation trade deal that covers almost forty percent of the world's economy and the un global agreement on. migration the pledge is to uphold the rights of refugees and help them to resettle in another country rosa can i come back to you though when you talk about that agility that's that's all well and good and we accept that of course but as the cut has the time come for the council which it seems to me is like a work in progress almost am quite got it right because you're all saying the same

thing there are valid criticisms here but they did launch commissions on north korea south sudan nothing came of that so the delivery of how they react to the information that they bring in is never pushed through well first of all we have to understand that the council is an intergovernmental body member states send their diplomats to represent national interests and so we will always be a political body and it won't have legally binding power as it has soft power is unlike expert bodies that are more likewise i judicial powers the commissions of inquiry the fact finding the information sharing this has been a game changer for human rights unlike the previous body the commission the council me throughout the year it is webcast anyone can access it members of the public n.g.o.s it provides information that is used by the security council that's used by regional bodies because gray violations of human rights often are

a precursor to threats to international peace and security we've seen so much positive work of the council and yes there are always going to be problems there are reforms and needed the membership ensue is one that as has been there since the council began how do we how do we enforce soft membership criteria how do we encourage african after the african group as a regional group to stop pushing forward countries like democratic republic of congo or burundi who are violating human rights on a massive scale as candid but these are things that can be addressed can be worked out this body is only twelve years old and as with all institutions changes are needed but that doesn't mean that we should negate the fact that so much good work has been done. at this party in geneva nikki haley tried to name and shame venezuela why is it the council during its lifetime has never held a specific singular session on venezuela i mean it was up to the u.s. to actually call for a special session on venezuela they haven't done so there where

a member of the council they're not sitting on the margins that were standing member of it there were many opportunities to actually do some work on venezuela i think that i mean i have to accept i mean i accept what rosa said that the council still very much active it has had several successes and it brings to the fore questions that weren't necessarily how would i say tackled previously i mean from questions from l.g.b. t.q. to bloggers in saudi arabia and elsewhere and then and the venezuela actually issue is coming to the fore more so around what you were mentioning earlier the global compact and the refugee issues and to be honest another sign of the days is that actually it's other european countries that are starting to actually come to the fore on the issue let's not forget for instance the venezuela issue is impacting the latin american countries that are around it as well as european countries i

think of the netherlands which has a little tiny island of of venezuela which is receiving a massive influx of refugees and so all these countries there is still a multilateral life to it in fact as independent diplomat we're very active on that front we definitely see the netherlands as an example scandinavian countries canada but also latin american countries are coming to the fore several african countries are also quite active south africa's very active at their human rights council it's not a bit sore because the u.s. withdrew that all of a sudden we have an implosion of that system it's actually very much still alive just like the paris agreement is very much alive and we. seen that countries do step up and this is good you know i'm going to interrupt you there for which i apologize because there are a couple of other points that i do want to get to as we head towards the end of the program mohammed in washington are there other organizations other agreements that the united states may yet still withdraw from. well i think the window is open

because trump remains dogmatic leader who is on to establishment alliance auntie global he is the known global president of the entire history basically he wants to push america as far as he got from the rest of the world so it's not just an atlantic ocean there is a deeper ideological and cultural ocean between the united states now and the rest of the ward i also like to mention i've served on one of the un panels of experts and they sensed there was a strong alliance between the so-called p three us britain and france and now i can see this alliance of kind of breaking away and i think there is a silver line in terms of decision to exit the human rights council since germany france and just a large extent the u.k. are now trying to restore the values of liberal democracy so i think in the wrong

around the world that we look up to europe more than the united states and i think this is a corrective more of on the european side since trump now is nor longer the moral or the leader of this western part of the roser you clearly believe that the council and the u.n. is safe helen clark the former prime minister of new zealand today saying she thinks there's an outside chance the u.s. may withdraw from the u.n. so my final question to you is this is the united states heading towards being a row state he praises kim jong un he puts a coach and horses through the iran nuclear deal nafta t p p the g seven which is looking like it's going to become the g six in the g one at loggerheads i mean how far is the united states prepared to go given what nikki haley has done today. i i don't imagine that the u.s. will withdraw wholly from the u.n.

indeed i don't think it will give up its permanent seat on the security council because that seat brings with it power i think that where it comes to issues that trump doesn't care about human rights the environment anything essentially that isn't about trade and about wealth creation he's likely to continue to withdraw from institutions or from agreement or simply follow the path of what the u.s. has always done and not sign up to treaties in the first place but i don't believe that the u.n. is at threat of the u.s. withdrawal i do believe that the u.n. needs to recalibrate i think that nations need to come together within all of these multilateral institutions and think about how to fill the void and ultimately we're going to have to weather the storm until trump is no longer president. in geneva the last word to you in about the next thirty seconds or so would it be fair to see this u.s. administration is not changing just the united states it's also changing the rest of the world and we don't know yet if it's changing it for the worse or for the better. i would say that this decision from the

u.s. is forcing everyone to actually change their game so we have countries which are forced to step up as mohamed has said i fully see it in geneva and certain countries which are coming to the forward to try to compete and in that sense they are actually china and the us sort of look the same which is an embarrassing situation for the u.s. as traditional allies in europe but i would say also that for civil society it's also a challenging time they have to actually be the change they want to see and that could also be an opportunity at the idea or definitely trying to encourage that movement and working with them. i think that this engagement of the of the human rights council should continue and let's see how the new. how the discussions around the reform will play out ok we have to leave it there thank you so much thanks to our guests are all friedman and mohammed to the car and thank you to you too for your company see the program again with the website al-jazeera dot com and

for further discussion check out our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash edgy inside story can also follow the conversation on twitter at a.g. inside story or tweet me i'll switch you back i'm at peter davi one one word and that's it for me peter davi on the team here in doha we'll see you tomorrow night. a land direct from its indigenous people. plundered for its resources. to now long held resentment it's a turning violent with deadly consequences you cannot use that as an

excuse to go over human rights people empowered travels to south america to discover the finds of the misconceived and algis of the god. jeannette morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp so i'm going to be up at the gallop and the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government fail. candid testimonies from the binny's women who are staying single longer.

what's causing this cultural shift in a society already be set by religious and social tensions. and are there implications for the arab world as a whole. single by choice on al-jazeera. zero. of them jim mcdonald this is the news hour live from london coming up i'd wager as it emerges the trumpet ministrations been said big babies and told those forcibly

separated from their families to so-called tender age shelters former detainees from u.a.e. run prisons in yemen speak out about alleged systematic sexual torture. dogs. a grim milestone on the world refugee day the u.n. says a record sixty eight point five million people have been forced from their beds. and sport world cup host rush hour through to the second round of the term event as our europe why they beat saudi arabia want to yell to reach the knockout round. if their warm welcome to the news will donald trump says he will sign something soon to keep families who are being separated by immigration officials at the u.s. border together pressure has been mounting on the president for days now to do something about his seal tolerance policy on immigration which involves separating

parents from their children now it's been revealed they include babies a very young children are being held in so-called tender age shelters. republicans want security and insist on security for our country and we will have that at the same time we have prepared should we want to keep families together is very important over signing something a little while that's going to do that and the people in this room want to do that and they're working on various pieces of legislation to get it done but i'll be doing something that's somewhat preemptive but ultimately will be matched by legislation i'm sure let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how can hide their complete so quite a u. turn. it's a tremendous reversal of policy of the president essentially backing down from his hard line policy of separating children from their parents it while they await prosecution for accused of entering the united states illegally particularly at the

southern border with mexico the president is expected to sign an executive order we believe sometime in the next half hour he is scheduled to head to a rally in duluth minnesota in about thirty minutes time when the president by his own words saying that he will excite them that executive order in advance of that departure the president speaking at that cabinet meeting you heard moments ago explaining why he is reversing this policy and the dilemma that he has faced essentially saying that he had kind of a decision to make that you have to appear strong if you don't he says the border will be overrun by the thousands many of them criminals he said at the same time he said if you have strong policies you're accused of not having heart he hopes to strike a balance when he signs that executive order in the next half hour or so kimberly even with an executive order to keep families together camping groups don't seem to be convinced i'm guessing this isn't a crisis that's going to go away quietly. and with good reason because democrats

and republicans although they're both blaming each other have not resolved the broader issue of immigration reform that has been stymieing this congress and lawmakers for about two decades or longer and so there is good reason this is just a stopgap measure to end the child separations but republicans are looking for funding for president transporter while democrats are looking for protections permanent protections for adults who were brought to the united states as children have grown up here but have been living illegally in the shadows as well as a pathway to citizenship for millions of others who are accused of entering the united states illegally so there is a very broad problem as well as this third wave that now seems to be occurring along the border the so-called surge as the white house is calling it so there are immigration issues to address this is something that the u.s. congress in terms of the house of representatives says it will be taking up tomorrow but this is just a narrow measure once again the broader issue of immigration reform still yet to be

resolved kimberly how could they live with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you. well it's not just recently arrived migrants have been affected by chum's zero tolerance policy since his election families that have lived in the u.s. for years have been targeted for deportation well reynolds spoke to one teenager who hasn't seen his father since he was detained last year. eighteen year old kevin cause mays life changed without warning the day that immigration agents came to a rest his father i need to step out for him it was just a radical change that i wasn't prepared for kevin's father giovanni is an undocumented migrant who entered the u.s. from el salvador sixteen years ago he ran an auto repair shop in los angeles agents arrested him at the shop after he was involved in a minor traffic accident they wouldn't allow giovanni to lock up so thieves stole

forty thousand dollars worth of tools and auto parts but the family of five main breadwinner behind bars they couldn't pay their rent we were by city homeless you know we had to go to a friend's mom's friend and we we begged her and i said what is we have no place for you what can we do. it was your garage at least you know so he said we have a roof over her head no place to sleep kevin set aside his plans for college and got a job is mother works three jobs kevin health care for his brothers aged eight and ten there's times they will break down you know like i miss my father and sometimes i would find worse what to say what's on the slate you know this is how we have to go to their father has been in a detention center in the desert east of los angeles for seven months communicating with the family through weekly phone calls migrant advocates say detainees have fewer rights than convicted criminals and they don't have

a court appointed attorney is a way that someone in the criminal justice system has people have to fend for themselves and what they. described is a kafkaesque experience conditions inside these detention centers are often more on any given day here in the u.s. there are more than forty thousand migrants being held in government detention facilities in a new report the watchdog group human rights watch says poor medical care and the glick have led to a number of deaths among those people in detention and 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 feel lost one of a chain of broken families across the country as the crackdown on my words

intensifies robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. the saudi emira coalition in yemen says it's taking full control of the airport in one day these exclusive al jazeera pictures show deserted streets inside the port city residents have fled the fighting for nearby towns taking the airport represents a key milestone in the offensive to push the rebels from the city the fighting continues in the area the yemeni army is now blocking the road between hyundai the province and the capital sana in an effort to cut rebel supply lines hashim the whole bar has more. than a major setback for who threw rebels in yemen and their fighters are retreating into. one of their strongholds but. the did his fight losing the war well. you know what's happening in yemen is a foreign invasion game iraqis into saudi officers are implementing an american

agenda their allies are on the ground are the puppets in the killers of their own people oh. these are forces loyal to president. the moment they took over the cities. but it's saudi arabia and the u.a.e. warplanes that's made the difference they have intensified strikes over the last few days to break rebel defense lion's. den leader 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 data but the fight is far from over the truth is still control the city and the seaport yemens including food and aid and it's. all go through. the

coalition has long accused iran. smuggling weapons into yemen through the seaport accusations rejected by the who thieves and to harass us 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 their best stated 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 whole theories remain defiant. they are threatening to fire more ballistic missiles into saudi arabia and defend the capital sanaa to the possible but i'll

just zero. seven former detainees of u.a.e. run prisons in yemen have spoken of what they call systematic sexual torture by emira god's former prisoners told their stories to the associated press news agency as diana carried the court a window into what's being described as a world of rampant sexual torture impunity these drawings were smuggled out of immorality run prisons in yemen made on plastic plates with ink detainees held without charge or trial described humiliation to the associated press news agency one caption in arabic says it's real terrorism in another drawing prisoners being transported in a pickup truck are naked blindfolded and handcuffed. seven former detainees spoke to reporters about what they've witnessed they say rape electrocution and beatings took place at five detention centers including at the iraqi forces headquarters in

the country the u.a.e. has not commented on the investigation but the accusations don't come as a surprise in march human rights groups accuse the united arab emirates of making arbitrary arrests in southern yemen we have. asked that the u.a.e. is responsible for. over an arbitrary detention. for months many residents demanded to know where their missing relatives are you a military commanders in yemen have repeatedly denied running secret prisons there. the head of government said it best to go with the u.n. he has continued to flatly deny and he will use again but abuses continue and although prisoners have. rights to test. the three year war in yemen has caused a complete breakdown of law and order especially in the south where militias operate beyond the control of the courts and the internationally recognized

government in addition to the disappearances and torture there have been reports of executions and assassinations.