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the report held that the military leaders responsible for atrocities and recommend state acted it said with genocidal intent the secretary general did not give any specific direction to the security council as to how it should proceed however it did say that the report must form the basis of its negotiations i believe these reports findings and recommendations these are of serious consideration by all relevant united nations bodies effective regional cooperation will be critical to ensure that they come to believe the mechanisms are credible transparent impartial independent and comply with myanmar's obligations and the international law but the british ambassador indicated that no immediate action is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is
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a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the u.s. ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they be women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated. the perpetrator was the burmese military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will but one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being
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against immediate action based on the un report earlier the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying that myanmar does not cope well with pressure. well momma jump june joins us live now from cox's bazaar mohamed so what's been the reaction there to the issues being discussed outside the camps borders. there and there's a lot of frustration from the revenger refugees we've been speaking with not just in the last few days over the last several months they've you know particularly marginalized when it comes to bodies like the u.n. when it comes to different countries that are discussing issues that affect them so deeply but are not including them. have a seat at the table whether it's with the united nations or whether it's with the government a bundle of dash negotiating about possible repatriation of ringette with the
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government of me and more now you much remember that this is already one of the most marginalized one of the most persecuted minorities in the world so with that in mind this only makes them feel more marginalized in july it was announced that there was a memorandum of understanding that had been signed between the united nations and the government of myanmar this was a first step to try to create a mechanism by which the safe return of ro him to me and more could could happen but you know at the end of the day for him joe were not consulted and even though that you win said this was just the first step in the right direction for him just said look this just goes to show that we are not being included on things that we should be included on i spoke to one female activists the other day who said to us look international bodies monitors investigators have been coming here to this camp for
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a year now and we are not seeing that anything is being done to protect is there an anomaly so what happens next and how patient will the refugees be before the stop protesting again. look when it comes to the protest on saturday august twenty fifth there was a really big demonstration that took place and who took along camp thousands of refugees men women young and old coming out this was the anniversary the first year anniversary of the crackdown that began in iraq and stayed in the end more which led to the displacement of over seven hundred thousand or hindu who are now here and they've come here over the course of the past year this is now become the largest refugee settlement in the world on that day you had a demonstration it was unlike any other demonstration that's taken place prior in this camp because it was so big they were demanding their rights they were demanding that the international community come together to protect them they were demanding that the international criminal court prosecute members of memoirs military for crimes of genocide this was before the u.n.
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fact finding report was revealed on monday which said that which call the. military leaders in the end more to be prosecuted for genocidal intent. who is the head of a human rights group here in the camp. activists said to me that day that genocide has been perpetrated against the revenger for decades now it's just that the world is finally now only waking up to it we're told that if there isn't any meaningful action taken in the next few months that there could be more demonstrations and more people will raise their voices but we must also remember that in order to hold them instructions of this capacity you have to also get permission from the bangladeshi authorities so it's complicated people here are frustrated but there is a sense that people are more emboldened now to raise their voices and to seek solidarity from the international community who they say have neglected their plight for so long. at cox is bizarre. now the united
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nations says all sides fighting in yemen may have committed war crimes investigators describe saudi american airstrikes as the single most deadly element of the conflict but they also point to rampant sexual violence recruitment of child soldiers and attacks by rebels alan fischer reports from neighboring djibouti none have clean hands a u.n. panel three experts investigating and a damning conclusion individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including saudi arabia and the united arab emirates may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all precautions which may amount to war crimes. the u.n. top human rights body commission the investigation into the ongoing fighting in yemen a war that has lasted almost four years the panel of experts meet fourteen fact
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finding missions spoke to victims and eyewitnesses and express concern about the targeting of civilians the use of child soldiers and the use of sexual abuse as a weapon which was described as horrendous conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen or using them to participate actively in a still it is is a war crime. the panel called for an end to the fighting and without naming names or just the international community to stop providing weapons for the conflict. iran has been supplying hooty fighters for the us in the uki has been backing the saudi led coalition the panel also criticised the site in what was a strongly worded report they need to send investigators into yemen and would have been welcomed by the whole of the many many time so when they have
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a good evidence then they can bring anyone to justice either for. solidarity movement or from the saudi led coalition oh lord in yemen erupted in march twenty fifteen saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and leading a western backed coalition trying to restore the internationally recognized government of exiled gave any president mansour hadi who was forced out of the capital sanaa by really impact fighters. it's the second report in twenty four hours criticizing the saudi led coalition on monday human rights watch cleaned it it failed to adequately investigate reports of human rights abuses and too often whitewash the results responding to the panel's findings the yes' minister of state for foreign affairs tweeted we should review and respond to the un experts report published today adding the coolish and is fulfilling a truly reclaiming the yemeni state and securing the future of the region from
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iranian interference in washington at a real briefing u.s. defense secretary jim mattis gave his response to the report and i think that what we have to look at here is probably can we get to the un brokered peace table that that the u.n. special envoy. is trying to get it to that that is the goal that doesn't change no matter what tragedy happened on the battlefield all the governments named in the forty one page report received an advance copy of the panel says it has compiled a list of the names of people it believes may be responsible for war crimes and passed it on to the appropriate authorities and there are those who hope that this report will put pressure on both sides as we approach the u.n. sponsored peace talks starting on september the sixth alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. were just stacey's a former state department official who served in the obama administration he says
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the increasing number of civilian deaths has forced the u.s. to turn down its support for the saudi led coalition. well it shouldn't be surprised that at this point in the conflict both the u.k. and the u.s. are beginning to have some serious concerns that they're actually airing publicly in a slightly new way of course speaking privately to the saudis and the iraqis for some time these concerns have been expressed course these are strong allies in the gulf and in the west with each other and across these regions and they have been for years and of course the u.k. and the u.s. support their intelligence logistics weapons and things have been in place for some time but what the u.s. and the u.k. can no longer continue to support is the ongoing full of civilian deaths and human rights violations which of course is happening on both sides but i think what we're hearing from secretary madness and from the u.k. as well is that the modest unconditional support for this at least publicly is now
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changed to modest conditional support for the time the. u.s. military drills look set to resume on the korean peninsula the exercises had been suspended since a landmark agreement between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un in june as part of that deal north korea committed to end its nuclear weapons development but the u.s. is frustrated by a lack of progress towards denuclearization sect of state james mattis has now said no no plans to suspend upcoming drills. lots more so to come here not just here including with trillions of dollars in trade on the line canada dispatches its top diplomat to washington lobbying for a place in a revamped enough to. and a man made god in south africa draws crowds as the continent's rain forests face destruction or not stay with us.
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hello there is snow up in the northwest of the u.s. and western canada not long ago we're talking two days and it was the system that brought it through says clearly a big differential between the much cooler weather and what is pretty hot and humid in the southeast corner and there is that differential temp should differences of the order of ten fifteen even twenty degrees needle stay that way of the next day or so usually find active weather is where the temperature changes and that's true here as well increasing that human weather will turn wet sultry sundry on the line of rain or sunday storm front of across northern ohio valley through the appalachians and then through the northeast corner and cool beyond twenty one we're down to in chicago in the sunshine about how to get to thursday and a few showers left are going to circling around the southern states looks dry new york and still a sticky thirty two at this stage there were three drops a house in the good scotch in the showers is to run for cuban his spine nearly the
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heaviest rain recently has been the yucatan and also it further south nicaragua in particular that it's quite possible see an inhouse front of that rain once again mexico looks a fairly wet place in the next day or so great amala honduras nicaragua two and out through costa rica again we figure heavy showers in colombia. struggles. to get him over to. full of pleasure. out of the goodness of the wrong person but the but i mean the reality of what be an intimate look at life in cuba today. but the comment that with a year to my cube on al-jazeera. welcome
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back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour the u.n. security council has been debating a report which calls for senior officers and military to face genocide charges released on monday details mass killings and gang rapes of range of muslims investigators say at least ten thousand people were killed when the crackdown by the military which began last august in moscow government has rejected the report. the u.s. has defended its support for the saudi and iraqi coalition fighting in yemen defense secretary james mattis says washington's backing is constantly under review he says he's hoping for a u.n. brokered negotiation on the conflict. and american military drills look set to
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resume on the korean peninsula they had been suspended since a landmark agreement between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un in june u.s. is frustrated by a lack of progress towards denuclearization by the north. colombia and peru have signed have agreed to set up a joint database of venezuelan migrants the announcement was made after a two day meeting both countries are struggling to manage the rapidly growing number of venezuelans crossing their borders the migrants are fleeing a deepening political and economic crisis at home according to the u.n. more than two million have fled venezuela since twenty fourteen some from petty as the latest from bogota. colombian put a word to two countries that have so far received the highest number of in this way and migrants and are now agreeing that they need to cooperate more to confront this unprecedented exodus of people migration authorities met for two days in bogota and announced that they will begin sharing more information about the migrants they are
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receiving they plan to implement a shared database and new technology at the border to do so they also agreed that this crisis will continue to grow unless there's real change in minutes where law and colombian officials insisted on the need to end uni lateral entry restrictions imposed by some countries in recent weeks. we need to do with this in a coordinated manner if it's a regional effort we can achieve good results handling it in a unilateral an individual way and he creates more illegal immigration and more problems not less. they're doing i hope that their agreement will be extended to the other countries affected and that they're really doing this time at the foreign ministers level has been announced for next week in ecuador venezuela and tories are also being invited but in colombia said they haven't had any communication with their venezuelan counterparts on this issue for the last two years and that venezuela continues to avoid recognizing the crisis while peru doesn't share
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a border with venezuela that many migrants are still trying to reach there they say it's one of the best places in south america to find work marianna sanchez met one couple in the northern peruvian city of near the border with. a physician turned cookie vendor on the pan-american highway and ate a cylinder santa and her husband horsey left their teenage sons back in venezuela they now make less than ten dollars per day but that she says is good it was that allows us to eat and some the kids money only for them to eat the little they can get we can't even buy them a pair of shoes or a phone to talk to them i got here to sell and horses settled into the city twenty five kilometers south of the border many proven as well as who couldn't afford the journey to the capital even so candy or food to make ends meet despite dangers and restrictions venezuelans are pouring into b.
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to bus stations are packed with passengers heading south more than four hundred thousand venezuelans are already living in the country. with the help of a non-governmental organization twenty five year old nancy high risk found a small house received basic kitchen tools and mattresses nearly a miracle she says for a family who ventured out on the road penniless and hitchhiking with laurel's come your need all knowing that truck drivers picked us up fed us gave us money i sold my phone and with all that bought tickets for the bus to get here by the way venezuelans can still come into it without a passport is by requesting for asylum it would allow them to apply for a work permit while they live in the country. and they can request a humanitarian visa it's a policy that first drew the high miss family to predict. here's the high miss is there are deals taught him the meaning of humbleness. also but employ you learn to
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be humble after having thought about those bigots who ask for a coin here and there to live now you realize life is a russian roulette because we've had to do the same however survival was at stake says my data center. i would like to tell the world that i'm not here because i want to migrate or because i wanted to take a job away from anyone else i'm here because my children had nothing to. live in this when i was the only option they say they hope one day this journey will take them back home many innocent just to see that. i'm brazil's president.

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