tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera October 17, 2018 1:00pm-2:00pm +03
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that is our diplomatic editor james bays. it has the worst humanitarian situation on earth with the u.n. warning that yemen could soon face a full scale final. zeus' it led a military intervention in its southern neighbor three and a half years ago saudi arabia and its allies have breached the basic rules of war civilians have been repeatedly targeted with some attacks on schools and hospitals a un panel recently accused the coalition of war crimes so many people talk about yemen as the forgotten war but here at the u.n. it's not a forgotten war we have sometimes monthly debates and meetings on the what's going on in yemen it's an ignored war and it's ignored because so many at the security council table are directly or indirectly involved and shielding foud eurabia from any criticism and they all have blood on their hands those countries include the us france and the u.k. friends of saudi arabia with huge investments and trade deals all three supply the
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saudis with weapons the u.n. secretary general has also been muted in his criticism perhaps because of the country's regional influence and the scow here deputy crown prince mohammed bin salman presents secretary general antonio good terrorists with a check worth almost a billion dollars from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for humanitarian assistance in yemen some of the time muttered this was blood money but of course no diplomats would say that in public seclude what happened to jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in turkey be a turning point in yemen in the past the saudis have held a number of key cards that have protected them from criticism their economic dominance their regional influence and the fact that they control humanitarian access by sea and land into yemen. but by far its most important card.
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has been its alliance with the us will be seventy years and alliances be strengthened since president trump took office with the president's son in law jared cushion a building an extremely close bond with the saudi crown prince that's why the saudis need to be very worried about what happens next in the u.s. congress where the fate of mr cash has led to anger and revulsion if members of congress keep up the pressure other parts of the international community are likely to follow suit and saudi arabia's disastrous campaign in yemen is likely to face much tougher scrutiny james bays out zero of the united nations chinese state media has raised video of internment camps for we get muslims in the western region of gen jang despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority community it claims its ridge occasion them so that they can be part of a modern civilized world up to many and weak as have reportedly been put in such
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camps the russian orthodox church is cutting ties with all other branches after a decision by the international governing body to grant ukrainian clerics independence from moscow but that ruling by the istanbul based leadership ends more than three hundred years of control from moscow and follows the annexation of crimea by russian troops four years ago clair shores an assistant professor of modern russian history at work university she says the split has very different meanings are worshippers in both countries. and if you look at the response from the persian co the president of ukraine to this decision and it is seen very much in terms of liberation so the liberation of the ukrainian orthodox church from the subjugation of moscow and they took a very much in those kind of nationalist terms for the russians i think it's a very different story for them this is quite a blow russia. is considered to be the cradle of the russian orthodox church so the russian state originated in kiev and for them this is very
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much cutting them off from their heritage from their religious and their national heritage if we think about a president who he has a very strong and very public relation ship with the russian orthodox church which he has fostered over the last two years. he has a very strong relationship with kerio the patriarch the patriarch has very famously exalted the faithful to vote a person so he gains a lot of cultural power and political power through the church so i would imagine that there probably is going to be some kind of pushback what that pushback is at this stage it's very hard to say i mean as prime minister nicole passion iyam has resigned to trigger a parliamentary elections in december he's enjoying a wave of popularity six months after coming to power in a peaceful revolution been forced to walk reports from the capital you're about. to fashion a card a copy of the armenian stone you need patience and time hamlet says that like a craftsman his country's new government is still learning its art. could measure
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what's important is to work hard not to stray from the chosen path of work towards that goal and everything will happen in times everyone including the ordinary people need to be here's the thing you're doing since coming to power because past unions government has moved quickly against suspected corrupt officials. and it has opened parliament to the public for the first time since the country's independence they call passion yan intends to break down the barriers between government and the people. and it's an indescribable unexplainable feeling i can't put it into words. people are happy they started to believe and that's very important for society but they're not about salutes and opening the gates explains everything it needs to be open to the ward and to each other this openness is the kind of change people can really see and experience for themselves but the big change will come if
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nicole passion can take control of the legislature in the parliament officially parliament is still controlled by armenia's former governing party and its allies. but when they try to vote against nicole passion yan earlier this month they learned that he still has the overwhelming support of the people. in the year of urns recent merrill election passion yearns candidate picked up more than eighty percent of the vote a snap general election will likely give his government the mandate to move forward with reforms right now it's freedom obviously there is no way back but still because the majority of the parliament are out of the old faces and it creates a lot of. insecurity it's creates a lot of tension so the sooner we get rid of this tension the better it is for
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everybody. armenians expect last thing changes but need patience call refashioning armenia will take more than just elections it will take time to walk or al-jazeera yerevan. for the last number of women not having to be elected for the first time in next month's us midterm elections they include the first of a native american happened to become a congresswoman robbins reports from mexico. debbie holland is running for congress and hoping to make history never having had a native american woman in congress congress has never heard a voice like mine campaigning at new mexico highlands university holland who is a member of the look guna pueblo native nation said her number one issue is protecting the environment should also always be money it should be a. lot of or a way and you know respect for people's souls here. holland is part of
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a large influx of democrats women minorities and other marginalized groups seeking office many for the first time i think representation matters a tremendous amount and i think diversity really matters and so yes all those voices and the large number of women who are running for office i think we can change the trajectory of our country the new mexico district holland seeks to represent includes part of the city of albuquerque and tilts heavily democratic polls show her nine percentage points ahead of her republican opponent janice arnold jones who in an interview seemed to question holland's native heritage but she is a military brat just like i am and so you know i could get it evokes images that that she was raised on a reservation holland supporters say if she's elected she would bring a unique perspective to washington not only would she bring the contemporary
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information and knowledge that she needs to make decisions to all of it also have this grounding of of time and grounding of making sure that this is that she makes are centered for the future across the country native americans are. are demanding a stronger political voice according to the national congress of american indians more than one hundred native american candidates are running for federal or state office in the u.s. this year graduate student renee mondragon listen to holland speech and came away impressed i'm in the minority hispanic minority well i'm not native american she speaks for me too it's up to us to stand together united and kind of push forward for what we believe because we are the majority a candidate like none before in an election season like no other robert oulds al-jazeera las vegas new mexico palestinian children living under israeli
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occupation faced many challenges in getting to school but the bedouin kids it's even more difficult as part of a series above the rubble the touch of the name reports from the occupied west bank . it's a two hour ride on a donkey for some for most it's scaling up and down a dusty rocky mountain or to the city that going ragged during the winter it's very cold and we don't have time to get home before time to walk is the most difficult thing. these are the students of elman tar school it's in a bedouin and refugee community east of jerusalem thirty eight children are trying to study here but the minister of education at mit's the school doesn't meet how listin ian or international standards. should that it's nothing good here. these lights are just for show there's no electricity students climb over this
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rickety bench to get into a classroom the size of a bedroom. i want a computer with a microscope and a playground for a second here. the purpose of elmo entire school is made clear in science posted by the european union which funded it to protect palestinians in the west bank from forcible transfer according to u.n. figures this is one of forty two palestinian schools in the west bank at risk of total or partial demolition they've been built without obtaining building permits from israel and deemed illegal however palestinians say obtaining those permits is almost impossible we would not have accepted to leave people without access to the basic right which is deficient so we have decided to go ahead and build these
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schools. israel's ministry of defense says in the last five years it has granted nine permits for schools in the west bank one requests for permission were made by international n.g.o.s. montara school has spent half of its two year existence fighting a legal battle to halt demolition. that fast and i'm not going anywhere students often feel anxious and can't focus to ease their fears the teachers assure them if the israelis demolish the school their education will not stop even if it means using a tent as a classroom on top of the rubble natasha going to name al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. town for a quick check of the headlines here the sa search by turkish investigators of the
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saudi consul general's house and istanbul has been put off because of no cooperation from saudi officials it comes as gruesome details emerge of what happened. after him to his country's consulate two weeks ago has not been seen since. u.s. secretary of state is on his way to turkey meeting with saudi leaders in riyadh my pompei it says the saudi leadership pledged to comes up to thora transparent and timely investigation. they made a commitment to to hold anyone connected to any wrongdoing that may be found accountable for that whether they are a senior officer official they promised accountability for each of those persons whom they determine as a result of their investigation as it deserves accountability including members who were they made no exceptions to who they would hold accountable they were they were just very they were very clear they are they understand the importance of this issue they are determined to get to the bottom of it and that they will conduct the
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report more it will all get a chance to see if they they each promise that they would achieve that force the u.s. treasury department has hit iran with a new round of sanctions it's accusing a faction of iran's military recruiting child soldiers to fight for bashar al assad's regime in syria for the measures parmelee target the bases resistance force . of the revolutionary gun washington also impose sanctions on a network of firms it accuses of financing the bush including iran's minot but as well as manufacturing companies. british prime minister to resign may well address e.u. leaders at a meeting in brussels later on wednesday talks of stalled once again never want to happen with the irish border and northern ireland in the rest of the u.k. the e.u. in march may met her cabinet on tuesday to discuss the status of the talks she's confident an amicable divorce deal still can be achieved a senior even figures disagreement. on chinese state media has released video of internment camps for we get muslims in the western region of. despite international
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criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority community it claims its rigid taking them so that they can be part of a modern civilized world up to a million we have reportedly been put in such camps for. right well those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera of the stream is that your that's what i thought in the lead up to the u.s. midterm election we'll be talking to the american people looking at the key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles to health care system to racism and women's rights join us throughout october for special coverage and analysis of the u.s. midterms on al-jazeera. how do they know in the stream and i'm femi oke a how can principles of human rights and justice combat climate change that's just one of the questions that i will be asking former irish president mary robinson in
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our special show today if you have more questions and comments let us know on twitter and each. mary robinson has an all special reputation as a stateswoman and a defender of human rights now she is focusing on how grassroots activists can tackle climate change robinson has a storied career in politics and advocacy she became island's first woman president in one thousand nine hundred ninety she surface seven years before her appointment as the un's high commissioner for human rights efforts with key to placing justice in equality the very core of the un's work other major u.n. responsibilities followed including a year serving as special envoy for the great lakes region of africa and that was in twenty thirteen more recently robinson has focused on tackling climate change
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she served as a un envoy on climate change in twenty fourteen and a un special envoy on el nino and climate in twenty sixteen she's now merging her commitments to human rights and the environment through the mary robinson foundation climate justice the organization places justice equity at the heart of responses to climate change and those values are also at the heart of the new book climate justice hope resilience and the fight for a sustainable future so mary joins us from dublin ireland to discuss climate justice and her lifelong commitment to human rights robinson is so good to have you on the street. great to be with you for me you dedicate your climate justice book to those whose stories of hope and resilience inspired the actual book i would love you to tell us a story about ugandan woman who had the remnants of a house still standing no roof and
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a multiple number of people all staying with her because that was one of the moments that pointed you to realize that there was a link between human rights and climate change. yes it's very true i mean i'm quite humble about it because when i was serving for those five years as u.n. high commissioner for human rights i didn't make the connection between human rights and climate change it was when i was in africa and meeting people like constance of keller's from a village in uganda who became a claim as wise woman she was found in fact by oxfam and i was on re president fox for oxfam and i first met her when i sat on a tribunal with our street doesn't tutu and we listen to five farmers from different countries in africa and four of those five are women which makes sense because women do someone so much of the farming in africa and it was constance when she stood to say very with great dignity you know when when i was asking is this
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a question of farmers always complaining about the weather and she stood and she said no she said this is outside our experience and that really struck me and i wondered you know in an african village how long is that. and i work though to myself if you think of a grandparent talking to a grandchild and that grandchild talks to his or her grandchild that's probably the best part of two hundred years and so what constant was saying was this is so different and. in two thousand and seven a huge flood destroyed her village and destroyed school and she formed a women's group to fight back and become more resilient and first of all had to beg for food and then got micro-credit planted trees began diversity begun teaching began to learn about climate change and became this voice of various conferences now in a very good friend where grandmothers together with grandma so on twitter lots of
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comments and questions for you mary here's one from dee prints climate change is a big threat in africa it's impacting hard on agriculture products drought flood except try to mitigate this effect we need to adopt c.s.a. measures and the majority of our local farmers lack the basic knowledge of climate change and measure to mitigate its effect. it's very true and you know there is also the gender dimension that affects women even more they have to go further for water further for firewood have to put food on the table maize doesn't do well in extreme drought and so on so you need the diversity of crops and so we need far more attention to supporting farmers and in particular even with learned rights supporting women to be able to become more resilient and to cope it's amazing what women are doing and i'm very impressed but they're not getting enough help and farming communities are at the front end of the
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injustice of climate change because those farming communities in africa that are sort of factors haven't been responsible they don't drive cars they don't have big manufacturing and central heating in fact they often don't have access to electricity which they should have and that's that's the upside of what we must do for climate justice is get off grid clean cook stoves and solar and other hydro and wind power where it's appropriate so there's everybody has access to electricity so they can take themselves out of poverty and cope with the shocks of climate change i've heard you talk about climate change as a manmade problem with a feminist solution that is pretty radical in terms of feminism can actually take the world and your path that a little bit mary. that's part of the pod cast that i'm doing on mothers of invention and we make it clear that you know climate change is
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a man made problem which includes the generic term that includes women and a feminist solution definitely includes men in fact our most recent episode which we did live in new york during climber's week at the end of september included do you know head of amnesty international and he was delighted as a man to be talking about the feminist solution so it's you know that's the way we approach it but we listen to mostly women of different from different countries from different walks of life incredible stories of what they're doing either coping in the way this conference of colors was coping in her village in uganda or inventing inventing. digestible. cups first of all and then straws to sort to get rid of plastic straws and two young women in the united states are developing. plastic stores that are edible to avoid the plastic we have an enormous range of women. from various parts of the
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world who are showing their inventiveness their entrepreneurial spirit but also their commitment to climate justice and you know black lives matter young black lives matter person who is also a woman who's working on also on environmental issues impressed me greatly i want to show our audience a pale one has a little bit of your pockets anything someone says sex and this is a little a little excerpt from episode one where there's a very young climate change warrior climate action where he's deciding to take some action in the united states have a listen. my name is kelsey cascadia rosalie on i'm twenty two years old i live in eugene oregon and years old i filed a lawsuit against the governor of oregon then when i was nineteen years old a federal government. there's twenty one young people from across this nation
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who feel strongly enough that yes this issue of climate devastation is important to them yes they're feeling the harms right now from climate change and yes they want to represent their voices but also their peers forces and future generations voices in front of government through the courts. so agatha says on twitter about the poll cost i love the dynamic between mary and mays hagan's at how mary's long career is shared so honestly providing both a learning experience and a source of inspiration for a maid and the audience and how they approach the climate change issue from different angles profiles different climate warriors so this is an accessible way to get into the whole issue of climate action and climate justice you also have a barometer mary which you use with taxi drivers as you're driving around your home which is what is the taxi driver barometer that you use.
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well you know ten years ago taxi drivers were the most skeptical in dublin and they do talk a lot and they know everything they think they know everything and they knew everything that denied climate change they have completely turned around there are no very strong advocates for arlen doing more our country is not doing enough on climate change they want electric cars they want hybrids at least and you know there are real voice know which is good the key is the do the clip that you just did from the mothers of invention is a very very important case the children's trust case it's coming to hearing in the court in oregon this month it gets the federal government that the federal government is not protecting people from climate change this could be an extraordinarily important case and it's only one example of the the what i've learned from those that were interviewing on the program but of course move keeps these very funny remarks room we were talking for example about waste and the fact
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you're on the on the series on plastics that countries of the west of sent their waste to countries like china and china is refusing to take the waste now from developing countries and catherine wilkinson an expert was talking on the program and she said you know it's not even recycled waste it's often dirty nappies and then move starts to rant about the responsibility of babies to these dirty nappies we all rural africa and you know i like that because it. you are is important and i think young people you know are very able to take their serious points with a lot of human which is really good i want to introduce you to mary to another young person her name is the hendra and she is a climate y.f. an organization impale peru court activity she tweets festival that the key to climate justice and gender justice in peru understanding the feminize a sheen of the countryside where women stay to work the land while men migrate to
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cities to work increasing both women's exposure to natural disasters and constraining their financial capacity to respond so much in that tweet and she has this to ask you matt i have a letter. my name is one hundred thirty s. and i'm from lima. i think one of the biggest challenges that we're facing now is well some writes by the most recent i.p.c.c. report which states that we need to peak global emissions rapidly and drastically my question for you would be as a former head of state what strategies do you think are most feasible in this current political context to make those changes happen we know change needs to be from the bottom up but there also needs to be clear cut action taken from the top down thank you so mary. thank you for such an important question i agree with you about the importance of that report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change telling us what staying at one point five degrees of warming
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means to the world and the difference between one point five degrees and two degrees and that's really important that we understand that two degrees is the outer limit of dangerous and that we must stay at one point five degrees to have a safe world that means as you said we have to reduce the emissions by forty five percent by twenty thirty which is less than twelve years away and we need a carbon price globally on carbon so that people move away from carbon towards cleaner energy we need to remove all the subsidies on fossil few we need to have incentives to move to clean energy and you know top down but the laws of governments matter a great deal but also bottom up if people begin to take it seriously in their own lives then they begin to put pressure on governments they use their voice and their vote and their pressure to make sure that governments are much much more ambitious the small own states and the least developed countries are the most ambitious no
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for example the marshall islands has said it would be carbon neutral zero carbon emissions by twenty fifty we're trying to get the european union to make a similar commitment with the european union is rich rich countries they should be making that commitment no and i think this is the pressure that we need hey i'm hearing climate optimism from here but online i am seeing some climate skepticism let me share this if you mark macor climate change is the greatest threat to humanity ever i do not believe governments will act and if so it will be fighting a little far too late one more than thelma a young there's a new kind of climate denial well leaders like justin recognize that climate change exists but then still approve pipelines how do we push world leaders to do what is necessary. i think you know governments are not at the moment doing enough there's no doubt about that so we're not on course for a safe world and that's serious and that's why we need
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a really urgent conversation at all levels about this and we'd governments to step up more to the plate and to do what is necessary and we're going to have the climate conference in poland and kind of each are very shortly i hope that governments will take things more seriously what i'm hearing which is quite encouraging is that the business that is not fossil fuel business is beginning to really understand because they plan a bit more long term than the the election cycle of many governments which is two three or five years and then you're fighting the next election that's your focus but governments sorry business is planning you know ahead and they're seeing that this is not going to be a safe world unless emissions are reduced and i'm seeing more and more businesses that are not fossil fuel committing to no zero greenhouse gas emissions in their companies and in their supply chain by twenty fifty and we must encourage that it needs it needs business it needs cities needs governments it need states that are
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below the government level local governments regional governments but it also needs civil society to call for an absolutely insist on a safe world for our children and grandchildren that's what we're talking about well it's fascinating watching now because you are so while versed on climate action climate change the science the human rights angle of it you have all of that down and i'm currently looking at a picture of you which is a campaign picture from the one nine hundred ninety mary robinson a president with a purpose you barely look different between that time and right now but the purpose back in ninety nine hundred what was it that you wanted to do as an independent politician. the purpose was to open up irish society which was very dominated by the catholic church in
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a kind of old fashioned way our laws reflected that etc and i felt not least if we were to open up to northern ireland but open up to the world then we must amend our laws or muscle and our laws remove the ban on divorce and legalize family planning and remove the stigma of criminality on people who are gay and the first measure that i actually took in one thousand nine hundred eighty one was to legalize family planning and i learned a big lesson for me i got very. you know hate letters and pressure and i learned that if you really believe in something you must be prepared to pay a price you must be prepared to be unpopular for a while in order to you know do something that might be difficult at a particular point in time i think governments know have to learn to be unpopular in certain measures in order to get us out of this real problem that we're in with climate change we've got to take hard decisions now because they'll be super charger in a few years time and we won't have that window of time that we have at the moment
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according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change we have that time before twenty thirty but we must take hard decisions and put a strong price on carbon that drives up the price of diesel and gas and oil etc therefore families that are poor must be protected from that but the rest of us must bear the brunt of it so that we get of safe world that's a hard decision and we have to be prepared to take these hard decisions young mark he's probably thinking right now i wish he could run for president again maybe when you said unpopular i think he kind of glossed over what he meant by unpopular there was hate mail and a lot of hate mail. yes and even denounced from the pupils in catholic churches and i'm from a catholic background and it was a great pain for my parents who were very paid up catholics and you know. at the time i was very young i was twenty five twenty six twenty seven and nick my husband
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we were married in december one thousand nine hundred two he burned all the hitler for us and now we regret that because that's part of kind of a social record we're very we believe in archival material but actually some of it was burned because i was so affected by it but i learned you know to become tougher and to develop the scar tissue in order to be able to move forward and just believe in something not arrogantly but if you know that something has to be done and pay a price for it but go ahead while you're not off this time mary. interesting that we should be out of dipping to some of your colleagues your other climate warriors christy i think eris is part of the architect of the paris climate agreement and that agreement was the members of the united nations saying it is about time we need to take climate action and this is what we're going to do by
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twenty twenty that is christiana she also happens to be a friend of mary robinson as a friend mary she asked you this dear mary one of the things that i love about you and the many things i love about you is how often you have encouraged and even incited young people to all types of rebellion we are just that my students come from inside of you know. that's easy to answer christiane or i grew up in the west of ireland as the only girl among four brothers two older than me and two younger than me so of course i had to have an early interest in human rights and gender equality and even using my elbows and but you know and i had parents who told me that i had the same opportunities as those brothers even though the wider irish society wasn't telling me that it was telling me you know that boys were more were going to be altar boys they were going to be priests they were going to be important in society they're going to be decision makers that there are girls and so many hundred cups but
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christiane are you been a wonderful champion of what we need to do on climate i love your mission twenty twenty i love the optimism but you always heard i actually am influenced by desmond tutu when i was on a panel with him in new york and he taught me a lesson when he was accused by a journalist of being why you saw optimistic and he replied oh no i'm not an optimist i'm a prisoner of hope and that for me was a really important lesson because if you're a prisoner of hope you've got to see maybe the glass isn't half full there's only a little bit in it but whatever is in the glass you work on it you make sure that you are actively making a difference fighting back becoming more resilient arguing for change warning about the possibility that we're not on course for a safe world all of that a little susan's basically says what you were just talking about she remembers that
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quote from archbishop desmond tutu to be a prisoner of hope and then as we were chatting to her she wondered whether you have this attitude of for teaching in adversity and to young to remember the war but perhaps it was a little of what those brave people had that you still you're not a climate skeptic and you think that. time action climate justice is still very much possible where does that come from. i think i was very influenced even during my five years when i served as high commissioner for human rights i used to go to the places where there were the worst violations of human rights to the democratic republic of congo to chechnya to colombia when there were when colombia buggered her was a terrible place for human rights defenders and human rights defenders were teachers trade unionists ordinary people defending their human rights and the courage of ordinary people and their the importance that they placed on rights and
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now we hear a lot about the shrinking of civil society space that people have less room that if you speak out against a government you can be branded a terrorist even though you've no no no idea of violence or terrorism but you could be called that because that's what happens now and we have to understand that this is a bumpy time and we have autocratic leaders we have a populism we have a nationalism that's very centered on countries rather than solidarity of a more global sort and all of this means we have to struggle and that's the lesson i learned human rights is a struggle doesn't always go smoothly forward but you have to keep fighting for what is right and what is true and what is important to people and people all over the world wants their human rights they want to be free they want to have freedom of expression they want the space to develop and have a fairness in their society and these are things really worth fighting for human dignity and human rights are just squeezing jungle law. youth envoy adequately.
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hi my name is jamie moore and i mean you in new delhi get frightened my question is how can we make it a priority for governments to develop meaningful your participation structures at all levels of the moxi especially for those who are more seldom heard in an effort to make human rights global issues and development education more elephants to today's young people and its future generations mary just a thirty second offset why did the end of the love. you know i actually love the voice because young people have such abilities such knowledge of what the solutions are they are the leaders of no not of the future of no let's give them the opportunity let's make space for them let's hear those voices let's make them part of the decision making i'm all for that i'm going to end with a final tweet before i thank you mary robinson this is
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a live head on who says on twitter she just sent this to us. she says mary robinson seeing you in my early childhood leave the country with the first woman to do so and then advocate for human rights globally by me never question what i could do as a young irish woman including what i do today work of the united nations in south sudan and it's been a pleasure having you on the street thank you so much. i'm historic day for the but i mean people every week brings a series of breaking stories told through the eyes of the world's journalists these two voices journalists were one of the few journalists that were actually doing investigative work. post as we turned the cameras on the media and focus on how
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investigating the fate of the missing saudi journey. this guy is a wrecking ball he had discovered murdered in a consulate is a call for tough u.s. action against riyadh even as the secretary of state says saudi arabia is committed to holding its leaders accountable. along down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up still no sign of a deal with the irish border the main sticking point ahead of wednesday's e.u. summit in brussels. never having had a native american woman in congress congress has never heard a voice like mine and then we look at the diversity will play in next month's us. a search by turkish investigators of the saudi consul general's house in istanbul has been put off after police received no cooperation from saudi officials it comes
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as gruesome details emerge of what actually happened. after he entered his country's consulate two weeks ago has not been seen since despite widespread international concern over the if the president has defended saudi arabia in an interview to the associated press he said riyadh cannot be condemned until the facts are proven says the saudi crown prince has denied any knowledge of what happened inside the consulate but pressure is mounting on front with senators calling for sanctions meanwhile g seven foreign ministers are demanding those responsible for his disappearance to be held accountable they're also calling for more turkish saudi collaboration. the latest from istanbul. yes more twists and turns in the case of jamal khashoggi on tuesday the saudi consul general who was the most senior saudi diplomat in istanbul the second most senior saudi diplomats in turkey the man who was responsible for the building behind me when he entered
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two weeks ago the man who told you could come to this building and process his paperwork decided to leave turkey believed to have fled the country this was just moments before turkish investigators were due to go into his home as part of search part of the investigation part of this agreement that they reached after saudi king saddam and spoke to the turkish president to one and they agreed the formation of this joint investigation committee however possibly as a result of the attorney general's office telling al-jazeera exclusively on monday evening that's after searching off these teams searching the building behind me there covered more evidence that's proved she was killed the consul general decided to leave the country not only that after prosecutors and their investigators arrived at his home they spent several hours waiting to be allowed in the saudis refused they relayed on that's another development that's
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a place on tuesday was sources close investigation told al-jazeera some of the details of what's happened when jamal khashoggi answered and they are gruesome to say the least the journalist and child was taken to the consul general's office there he was beaten by several officers and special forces agents who were sent by a two year old earlier that morning he was then injected by what appears to be some sort of legal lethal substance i'm not killed him all of this in front of as the turks say the consul general himself he was then taken to another room where one of saudi arabia's the leader autopsy experts lead forensic experts who works for the the saudi. forces this member. body some of these details are truly horrific made on turkey's president and said investigators are studying the consulate building and are looking at every possible clue to find answers. right
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now as you are aware as a result of our intense contacts the search process in the consulate has started yesterday there was an intense process until morning and it we continue my hope is that we can reach conclusions that we give us a reasonable opinion as soon as possible the investigation is looking into many things such as toxic materials and those materials being removed by painting them over. well the u.s. secretary of states now on his way to turkey after meeting saudi leaders in riyadh might pump aoe says the leadership has pledged to conduct a thorough transparent and timely investigation into the disappearance of. the saudi crown prince denies any knowledge of what took place at the consulate in istanbul my kind of reports. might pompei you held meetings throughout the day speaking to the king the crown prince as well as the foreign minister he came away with saudi denials and the pledge that
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a credible investigation is already underway they made a commitment to to hold anyone connected to any wrongdoing that may be found accountable for that whether they are a senior officer official they promised accountability for each of those persons whom they determine as a result of their investigation has deserves accountability including members who were they made no exceptions to who they would hold accountable they were they were just very they were very clear they are they understand the importance of this issue they're determined to get to the bottom of it and that they will conduct the report more war get a chance to see it be they each promised that they would achieve that force president tramples i spoke to the crown prince on the phone who he says totally denied any knowledge of what took place in an extraordinary statement to associated press president trump says that allegations of saudi complicity ah and i quote another case of guilty until proven innocent this in reference to his nomination as
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supreme court judge read cabin all who was accused of sexual assault but together with the statements by mike pompei oh it would also appear to be part of a concerted strategy by the trump administration to insist that there is no complicity among saudi leaders but the shop here dogs with views expressed by congressional leaders senator rand paul tweeted saudi arabia is not our friend they fund radicalism around. the world we don't need to be arming them they are the worst actors out there promoting terrorism. and strong criticism from another republican senator of the crown prince referring to him by his initials m.b. s. this guy has gotta go sorry arabia if you listening there are a lot of good people you can choose but m.b.'s his tainted your country and tainted in congressional anger supported by a former director of the cia i do hope that they're going to draw the line at this and hold not just the saudis and mohamed samantha account but also the top
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ministration and not let the saudis get away with what appears to be the killing of a u.s. person a permanent resident of the united states and a journalist for the washington post they cannot get away with this i think that this is basically the downfall of mohammed salma and in the new york times a picture of a man allegedly identified as a suspect right turkish authorities he's described in the report as a frequent companion of the crown prince in a blow to muhammad bin sour months insistence of innocence three other suspects are said to be part of his security detail mike hanna al-jazeera washington well of course over to charles trafford joins us live now from istanbul turkey investigators say they were denied entry to the saudi consuls residence and now there are some reports suggesting that the saudi consul himself has fled to turkey what more can you tell us. that's right yeah we've just come off the
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phone to speaking to the chief prosecutor's office here some more details coming through as to exactly what happened last night apparently it was not the full joint investigative committee that had come to the consul general's home to try and conduct this investigation last night it was members of the turkish team the prosecutor the prosecutor's office is saying that phone calls were made to made inside told made to people they thought were inside the consul general zod home nobody picked up and that they were forced to leave we understand according to the turkish government it's expected that that investigation including both sides of this joint investigation team all of the home of the consul general will go forward today. but of course as you say the consul general himself left the
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country we understand that the country a couple of hours big full those two vehicles so we've been told a couple of vehicles including the with members of the turkish side of the team arrived to the consul general had already left the country of course he is key in this murder investigation and we understand that he was able to leave it was the on the diplomatic immunity diplomatic immunity let's remind ourselves that the u.n. human rights chief is cold to be lifted in order for this investigation to be sorry and open such as where does this then all leave the turkish investigation and when are they likely to reveal their findings. i think it's fair to say as this goes all in the eyes the same delays starts to appear as we saw last night no access given to the consul general zero the investigation is turning into a little bit of a farce it took two weeks to get access into the main. alleged murder
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scene the consulate behind me and despite these schools from the american government the trump administration and the saudis promising that a full and transparent and open investigation is going to take place. the fact of the matter is is that as i say took two weeks to get inside the consulate and hauffe the team this joint investigative team of the deal sorties over the country who are obviously being investigated for this alleged crime what's interesting is that the more delays there are it seems the more leaks are made to the media by turkish government sources and as we've been reporting some very gruesome details from government sources to al-jazeera last night. we could expect some more details today as well and of course the president ordered one himself yesterday saying that the investigative team were looking into what he described as toxic material that
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may have been covered up with fresh paint so as indication that the turks are getting frustrated themselves with how this is going forward seventy two or three days ago they said sorry two days ago they said that the results of this investigation was going to be made public in three days well that's only a day away from now we haven't been inside of the team and not been inside the consul general house and there's no news either on the investigation of those vehicles that were registered on the consulate that are so key also to this investigation all right in istanbul tony thank you. british prime minister tourism may will address e.u. leaders at a meeting in brussels later on wednesday negotiations the stalled once again over what should happen with the irish border where northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. leave the e.u. in large may met her cabinet on tuesday to discuss the status of the talks she's confident an amicable divorce deal can still be achieved if we use chief negotiator
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