it's. a noble and begun to miss if. we are foreseeing. straight away there were guys standing by that we barrel and with the boys stookey took him into we peril. the boy begging for his dives home and within minutes to be thrown here in a big must grieve a lot of time media members will never ever. find out that some of their loved ones and it all yeah he's in the same source he paid a debt price at the hands of peacekeepers. the special called for sierra leone was established in two thousand and two to prosecute those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the war.

sharma hendra was one of the prosecutors at the court and he is now the driving force behind the renewed effort to seek justice a special court didn't have to stick. over nigerian troops we had video evidence. the whole world has seen what has happened. and it has been probably the easiest cases to prosecute and we did it there was just talking peace silence. of victims of economic crimes. eighteen years of combined eighteen years of inaction against these nigerian troops despite the most compelling evidence any prosecutor could possibly have that comment or rated. over sixteen seventeen years i have this tapes here if you're slightly bare you know got three doors armed

care you know thinkin we seen somebody should just. do something about these. when the call came from karim and shamila i was excited to find them this tapes are going to be useful these tapes are going to be used in a court of law to actually bring. some of these people to account i use. that we're collecting the evidence evaluating their lives and. what we can do to assist these youths and nobody has tried that unical move sudanese who are to did to these. those guys we are very inhuman. you treated me like a beast. reds now i don't know how.

to turn. them on on me own to go to. the. one. who is walking to school or about and they felt. they would spectators of justice. and instead of just skipping through little cracks of justice i think those cracks became a gaping hole. even if it's twenty years later we are reopening this issue. in the car you knock into i mean are gone words are going be rid of walking come and go and when the hour ask each you know question if i am one else will when i'm your last one sworn in a scene i keep thinking in your mind it's

a given it's a way the more you read the more. are there only to be in between. i am. up to now and if it's me i'll be telling me it's me. if you've been on the vine what it up to now. it's an odd season it was my getting on the shelf he said it all meal in the old war look i'm gonna see most things. like everyone ask me to. well i'll be defeated see ron noble. i think because he's back i will be stored there will keep my. next did. come come tell him i was made by god god sent into my last goodbye. about within one. hour she still had lived that long but i just.

it went on for hours. and only talk a little maybe talk to me see to cough just. suck. it you can assist. see spirits. suck. seeing that level of cornish meant being destroyed to your mother and can't you can do anything that's any less more luck is . in by the waterside. this was going to my mom let me off. listen i want to buy the content this is. so i see that we're looking to my last words on more than just wish they said well your father said that i said why they're called the whole life. so and also when michael moore. i don't know.

as a witness in the case sorry a s'more a trouble to the hague in october twenty seventh team to provide his testimony. in my preparation to come and talk to there. you know i took that journey again town and really and i and this is some of the thinks. he owns. it's traumatic but. for me it's a few days what these people who saw their loved ones really been brutalized mordred of the own eyes they're going to leave it for ever. even if we can register in the consciences of the powers that be that

something like these should move and who watched. story you don't mind going to start from the very best it will because she knew me i was aware read i said i'm setting up now with these guys and hear words that should be taken out. kill him was what i heard. you say you were most good this he didn't finish instead he walked away from the camera. that's. all over him and you.

you can you know. rally because he's. i should have seen of some of his guys. i struggled i struggled with peace i would beg them to forgive me i perhaps. i hope you understand. because. he had one red t. shirt but no brief no trials us so they brought him rights to where the bullets were he team and you put him there you go good. as the way it was you

scream. before even touching me you know you could see that. there are something weird i faced mets mornings in one thousand nine hundred sixty. i thought he had given up going into a fight i made some he said he found me in the guts that. he was outside with i meant that the ability. to was just like some desperate being i don't know what's going on around him we had no idea that it's because he can't talk. what was to come. what a poor boy. he went out for all the rules for these. at the family would not go out. on the echo mall we have very intensified in our area. these same decided to get roses back on the back of the truck

and these guys were paunchy on the sides you know we do those boots keep his side when you fall so i think you know everyone was shocked. to see how he was child child this is a boy who. should be shot that type of punishment. but smaller boy. it's on forgivable. belief that the nigerian perpetrators will be directly targeted by the case has sustained sorious through his dealings with the legal team. but now he his the case is taking a different path. over the last twelve months we've gone through the videos of cyrus mora we've conducted investigations on the ground in nigeria up in sierra leone. witnesses being spoken to statements of being taken and we're now in

a position to put for the nine claims i tried last year to file a case in nigeria and they wrote back and said well they only had jurisdiction on the territory of nigeria so we were confronted with a problem how to obtain redress we decided the first course of action that was compelling was the one that sought the sierra leone government to do what a state should do which is to protect the fundamental constitutional rights of its citizens and as one of the relief sought in that claim is for the state to start a proper accountability process because the state in charge of law enforcement they have international standing to make requests to to other states and so they are in a privileged position. this is going to be disclosed for all of us i didn't sign off going to be only a student. government initially what i agreed to work on the suit being got

this case against in nigeria let me i don't think. it is a syrian government you should run for if you have to go for women and soldiers. it is our hope that it that in this process that there be criminal investigations and criminal cases further down the line in relation to the perpetrators that appear on the videos that have been named in the statements but the important thing . money is after all these years to start with a claim before a court. in a case that we say well founded. maybe technically the boy is. see that this is the best we tend to speak but for me. i don't think it's right to sue sam government or i personally don't believe that i would give evidence or concerning government nigerian government nigerians or just yes any time. as

moyers our fundamental of my fundamental responsibility is to provide objective legal advice to the clients. and it is to try to obtain redress for those clients according to the law and will use every legal option in australia to put forward the best case for those victims to tree represent this is this is very very close to this is very key sequences that. i wasn't thinking i was going to be. tomorrow we are going to be filing. their cases for you before the supreme court and we are asking the supreme court to. give you the address in the last nineteen years you have been forgotten you are an example of what happened to many many many people unfortunately we can't promise you will win this case but

we're trying our best we've spoken to you we've investigate we have done a lot of work we pray that the law will protect and address what happened but it's a really worthwhile case so i'm really honored to be representing each and every one of. the legal case is now with the supremes court of sierra leone and the lawyers await its response the government of sierra leone must decide if it's going to fight the case or respond to demands that they take on responsibility for establishing a process of accountability for crimes committed by nigerian peacekeepers almost two decades ago. we also the nigerian army to respond to the issues raised by this film we have not yet had a reply. the

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experience our worlds and be a part of a it's. a focus al-jazeera balcones international documentary film festival saturday from twenty first to twenty fifth september. slow but dangerous hurricane florence batters the u.s. state of north carolina as a threatens to bring billions of dollars of damage to the east coast and i'm just kevin corriveau the storm system has been downgraded to a cat one i'll bring you all the details on where we're expected to go next. hello i'm don jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up

a lifeline for the lira tuckey hogs interest rates giving its currency a boost of its recent downfall. spain decides to go ahead with an arms deal with saudi arabia despite concerns over their use in the conflict in libya. and a look at the impact of argentina's financial crisis. in the country's indigenous community. hurricane frances started to batter the east coast of the united states it's bringing heavy rain strong winds and rising floodwaters to three states north carolina south carolina and virginia one hundred fifty six thousand people are now without electricity florence has been downgraded to a category one hurricane before cost as a warning the slow moving storm will cause major damage across the southeast saying it poses a grave threat to life and property well north carolina's governor has told residents this is only the beginning we ended waves are driving seawater through some coastal

streets like rivers nearly thirty thousand people in north carolina already over that power that number is rising the worst of the storm is not yet here but the easier the early warnings of the days to come surviving this storm will be a test of endurance teamwork common sense and patience and i got to has more now from wilmington north carolina. well conditions here in wilmington north carolina are deteriorating slowly and slowly is the key wood and the most fearful word that forecasters here are using because they think that once hurricane florence makes landfall here in north and south carolina sometime on friday it will not simply move inland but it will linger over this spot for potentially forty eight hours bringing with it up to a meter of rain the other big concern forecasters have here the storm surges that

are protected something up to four meters and storm surges that would basically mean all the buildings here behind me all the first floors would be submerged under water now about one point seven million people in this region are under mandatory evacuation order most have left we've met plenty of locals here that have chosen to ride the storm out when that storm hits they will have no help they know that they will be on their own but this is a life threatening storm but as it draws closer it's getting wider bigger and wetter that's what's really concerning forecasters here they're predicting billions hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage for the people that choose to stay here in wilmington north carolina and all the other places that are affected by florence they are taking their life in their own house because there will be no help once this storm hits so again those two key concerns are that this storm will linger and dump lots and lots of rain that hasn't been seen here in decades and of course that storm surge up to four meters and potentially deadly well i mean george is kevin corriveau who joins me now kevin so what's florence during now and why is

the storm so dangerous they say well just in the last hour we had the latest update from the national hurricane center has been dropped down to a category one but that means that the winds have actually just dropped slightly below from a low two to a high one we're talking not a lot of difference and as you look at the radar we're not seeing much of a difference there so take a look at the radar right now this is from weather underground and you know it's course the center of circulation but look at the rain bands that extend out already they have been like this for hours well. into north carolina well up to the northern part of north carolina as well so i'm going to show you some rain totals in just one moment but first of all take a look at the storm system from the satellite imagery right here the storm is just off the coast of morehead city also into parts of wilmington but i want to show you just in twelve hours how much rain has commanded this this system four hundred seventeen millimeters just in twelve hours now earlier i said over six hundred millimeters was expected i'm def looking up that total to possibly over

a thousand millimeters in some locations because we're still about twelve hours away from the system even where the center comes across the the lay and on the coast so right now category one this is the latest indications that we have one hundred forty four kilometers per hour winds the winds the movement of the storm is still northwest it is now moving slightly faster earlier was seven kilometers now it's up to about ten kilometers but that's still not very fast i want to show you what the track is though as we go through the next several hours so currently just off the coast right there now we're going to be watching that story pushing here into wilmington and then on a friday evening we're going to be seeing the storm system still a category one movie into south carolina in terms of landfall it is going to be sometime friday afternoon but of course slow moving systems we don't have a full grip on what it's going to be doing in terms of timing then down across parts of south carolina as a tropical storm and then as we go towards the afternoon and evening on saturday

still a tropical storm that is why we expect to see so much rain across this region in the next twenty four to thirty six hours so this is going to be a flash flood or flash flood situation indeed because this ground is definitely very very. heavy rain across that region and flash flooding as i said is a major problem power outages over one hundred fifty thousand people already in the region without power. kevin thank you very much indeed now one person has been killed after more than forty gas explosions across several towns north of the u.s. city of boston at least thirteen others are injured police and firefighters have been responding to more than seventy incidents in the area customers of one gas company have been advised to evacuate officials are blaming over pressurized gas supply pipes turkey central bank has raised interest rates in a bid to stabilize the economy and stem a currency crisis the move helped the lira to gain three and

a half percent against the u.s. dollar the central bank says it'll keep interest rates high until inflation starts to ease they're now at twenty four percent up from seventeen percent the decision was made despite president opposition to rate hikes. will we not learn that you may determine interest rates that you don't determine inflation and inflation is a result of the wrong steps the central bank has taken and who pays the price the people with the trades means sitting in front of me we cannot be an intermediary to the usage of an exploitation tool like interest rates my dear friends to biggest advantage is that its problems are not caused by financing our banks are solidly standing tall when interest rates are at their highest levels since two thousand and four turkeys leader has plunged in recent months is down almost thirty nine percent against the dollar this year the currency crisis been driven by many factors including investor concerns about president influence on monetary policy

more recently a growing trade and diplomatic dispute with the us has had a major impact washington doubled tariffs on steel and alimony and imports as it calls for a detained american pastor to be freed well joel rubin is a former deputy assistant secretary of state he says the interest rate increases a strong signal showing that turkey as an independent central bank. the fact that the central bank raise interest rates in order to stem inflation is you deal with that change rate with the united states and strengthen the euro that strong design and western economies need to have independent central banks we can't have presidents a controlling monetary policy that's when economy's really going through its nelson and so while the economic situation is difficult and certainly this is a good signal to international markets that central bank is taking seriously the fiscal house getting that in order and demonstrating that the management of the

economy isn't strong as that the people leaving the finance ministry as well and those advisors around the president they really need to demonstrate that they have a plan to rescue our service economy from this period if they don't that will decrease international costs and the turkish military convoy has reached an observation point in the syrian town of morocco that's and how much it's one of the closest points to the line dividing opposition fighters and government forces in the country's northwest the deployment comes as preparations continue for an expected government offensive against may bring it to the province syrian president bashar al assad says he's determined to retake the province turkey is against an offensive but president warning he won't turn a blind dive civilians are killed and it leaves the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as fighting begins again around the city of her data it has a key port that's the entry point for most of the aid sent to yemen the saudi

immorality coalition and government forces are battling who the rebels for control of the city have been alone in the fighting in the run up to plan talks in geneva last week coalition commanders now say they were in control of a key local supply route but the who things dispute that under simmons are small from neighboring djibouti. it's now becoming clearer that the fighting is escalating around the red sea port of data and hooty rebels have tried to repel the u.a.e. saudi led attacks but without success it seems there has been a cut in the supply line between the port and the rebel held capital sana'a now that has massive implications because say the children say millions of children's lives are at risk because of this with food supplies not getting through and other supplies medicine along with the vital supplies for the hoochie rebel fighters as this fighting goes on the attempts at getting some sort of dialogue

revived by martin griffiths the un special envoy goes on he's in the amount of capital muscat and he's been talking to a delegation of who is the delegation that was meant to go to geneva led by mohammed abdul salam and he has said that some sort of dialogue will continue there is nothing substantive coming out of these talks publicly anyway whether or not he goes on to sign or is unclear but he is destined for riyadh and time is going by at a rapid rate with all this fighting escalating and this critical situation that gryphus himself warned about the economy plummeting and the danger of more deaths not through fighting but through famine right there for everyone to see but then what does everyone do it is a very very dangerous situation. spain has decided to go ahead with the sale of four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to

cancel the order the move is on that activists who say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians in yemen the cancellation of the deal if the concerns about spanish jobs and the future of a more lucrative contract to supply warships will take gould is from friends committee on national legislation c says a strong message needs to be sent to other nations was to supplying arms to saudi arabia it's truly a shameful decision we're seeing with this reversal that spain instead of sending a red light to and mass slaughter in yemen that spain is changing that to a green light to green lighting the continued indiscriminate killing of civilians and targeting of civilian areas like hospitals and schools and most recently a school bus full of yemeni children so it's truly a shameful decision and spain should rethink this and also other countries should step up to the plate and stop sending.