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military at a time. tried to go around. and i was kind of like wondering what's really going on. inside. the hotel business each time and ray and i were on the roof when we came on the fire. and i was in the lobby on equasym militia man with a sword try to attack the journalist. we filed our last report. here it's all about the. off the field. the next morning we were forced to leave the indonesian military came to town put us onto trucks and drove us to the airport and. we were moved from one of the largest international stories at the time. we were devastated angry frustrated it was a horrible empty feeling for andrea to be denied the ability to cover the event
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that we all knew in abbottabad we feared for the lives of many and it was almost no one left to tell the world. we were forced to cover the story from a far back into. the e.b.u. meanwhile find a way to get journalists back to dili as soon as australian peacekeepers arrived word got out that the european broadcasting your newbie you had charted and they managed to get approvals to land an aircraft in dili. once the airport had been secured because we knew viewers coming in we set up a table. out of the mandarin oriental so we just shut up put their names and their contact details and pay for them out of this one way trip to east timor. come to the mandarin oriental hotel poolside will be someone there to meet you the
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cost is that i think a thousand u.s. dollars for this one way trip you're not coming back to get on that aircraft or getting off at the other end so it was not chips at all. or even you would i describe myself like i really would pay this much my needs like to get to have one way ticket to hell and then pass a law student this showed up with his friend. to start a conversation from me. he struck me as a very friendly warm hearted kind of person i want to be a problem i want to meet him that way ok sure and he wrote down this name and this sums your voice from somebody you know yeah they speak very fluent in bahasa and so i had to blanda oh ok so from all and and they were sending phones very friendly
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very. interactive and. from what i remember jane you just met there never met him before never knew him before and he just like. everyone clicked with sam or you must that kind of man young smart. he and i were part of a small group of dutch journalist based in jakarta friends who she had stories and travel around the country we love so much and it was the financial times correspondent and was as unlikely as me to become a war correspondent so quickly i need to understand more about the people who killed him. these are the remains of battalion seven four five the compound where they were based but also where they started their bloody retreat. people were very very much afraid of seven four five in the last palace they know that these soldiers. were pretty violent.
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along my day milligram among. the. america. this was also not the only camp they had many more in this in this little town basically this town was dominated by seven four five. the people here were always reminded of the indonesian presence because of this this battalion. you can actually see seven four five seven four. five. it's still here. they try to remove it but it didn't really work. the out of america back with a big. budget monitor back to barrow who were in their own.
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goggled and i don't think i'm going to listen to. any. yeah kicked up though and i actually got on that i had to shoot him a goblin but on a low caliber alum referendum netiquette smiled and when they come by and of a moment. he had entered on that i'd always had the last ally that i was other than that but now that i come i could just as i got an imbalance and then say more than one and then they don't a share then i can mimic what i had then minox again i had. to play an english error. on the morning of september nineteenth one thousand nine hundred ninety seven for find the departed lost palace and barked under drily. as they began with roll they headed. towards the beach at.
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the departure point of the battalion most of the soldiers left east timor back to indonesia right here. and the supply route for them so they kept their main supply. they didn't want anyone to have any profit from those supply so they destroyed everything. and it was a group of italians one hundred twenty members not allowed to go on the boats but they had to go back to indonesia and they had to bring back the vehicles so sixty trucks and thirty motorbikes. from here and one in fourteen destroy and kill everything you find on your way. to the.
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city. this is. an italian members who hadn't set sail those charts which were turning to come for you to indonesia come down in lao to for the night. they left early on the morning of september twentieth the orange glow of everything that had satellite filling this guy. their route was now to the west following the coastal road along the northern shore of east timor towards laga once there they came down for another night at one of their supply base. on the morning of september twenty first one thousand nine hundred.
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four still leave but nervous and scared but what we would fight. for cites from the plane confirmed all worst fears destruction on a scale you could not even have imagined you ready dos also one of the hardest stories would have to cover. at the same time as we had set off on a journey to help the soldiers of battalion seven four five ready themselves for day a departure from lag on a journey of a very different intent. what was to become a very dark day began here with a day that would affect so many families not only in east timor. having set their base alight with a talian departed towards delhi and began
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a pattern of violence that would continue for the rest of the day but. it wasn't long before the battalion met their first victims that morning. within ten minutes of leaving the base they came across two men on a motorcycle unfortunate enough to be on the same stretch of road at the same time it says two man were killed here by the indonesian military. twenty first. of succumb to the member one thousand and one. and i know these two guys or two brothers their names were gus and. unbeknown to the battalion the actions were witnessed by seeing me up into a. moment and land at a stand for some to quit does make the person nuba the qualities drop but what is in their best of them to give it began and i think i think if you look. at their
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own battle isn't my and that doesn't stand a. them develop a balance and a lot of my a lot more don't want to come i had a bad think about him about the army. and i got in was in my business but then i'm sick and then bang my. dinner as a deal to be reminded doesn't. the meat of him at the pentagon have a don't let me see the deal doesn't. that are not want their way out the kid and i am a one man said about the most adult of a set i have the as a parent they have it out on me. it will not get out of eleven out on out my sock a little of this is dog bare ass i don't have on a set of women that out of a bit of a lot of a solid dome complained of ill ghana that was lee of.
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that of them at the name on it. since then. i mean and. say yes bitterly sad story was the first of many tragedies that occurred on september twenty first one thousand nine hundred ninety. s. i continue to retracing the battalion's journey i met more and more people who had witnessed their violence and was she had with me story after story of grief and sorrow. just outside about crowd this man show me where his uncle was gunned down in the doorway of his own house now abandoned and overgrown. this family lost a daughter a young mother callously shot in both lax she bled to death in front of them on this spot holding in her arms her infant child. now a teenage girl will. retracing
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the steps of battalion seven four five was never going to be easy physically or emotionally and i'm finding it disturbing in every way and i know there is more and more to come. and there's still some way to go before i have to deal with how the battalion affected me. i reached the center of back out and like the battalion my straight. everyone at flight the mt town the beautiful market building had already been destroyed years before. by now what had to reach the file until soldiers hiding in the mountains sacking with battalion seven four five was doing. in the economy saw as usual every day the common man does this sort of us from the yard is a set of procedures the same auditors does a set in this three of us. of course evil but only
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a cell. that care. i mean your farmers that there may not i gather. the president last place you know went. crazy it said oh it will. probably get. the oxy semele up. that it. broke but make up but at one hundred eighty. so even when did i beat up on the clinton going to go up each at our other intimacy that a month ago about what was. despite the general's wishes some fellow soldiers could take it no longer. they hid in the land next to this bridge and it was here that the battalion met with the only resistance they were to face that day there was a shoot out of around two hours between the indonesian soldiers and the fall until the fight us not of the indonesian soldiers died but for members of al until they
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got killed and then the indonesian battalion moved on and killed more people on the other side. having survived the felon to ambush the battalion struck again just beyond the bridge a young man with his friends unaware of the danger return to his village to collect supplies. his own just in time told me what happened. more shocking a night out i imagine. adding to being on the mountain man and little lady. out that show that i'm wanting to eat nothing i'm a medic at the room. and a good deal. but how does she need to be nude being an active data. medica why would we need condi chalk to challenge chalk she like
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receiving a presidential pardon on monday so the headlines to keep an eye on al-jazeera much more news to come out is there a correspondent as next. when andrea and i boarded the e.b.u. flight bound for east timor on september twenty first one thousand nine hundred nine to get a word sander to us all dylan and all the other journalists we weren't the only people heading for daily italian seven four five was approaching from the east and coming in the opposite direction from west timor where john swain of the sunday times with american photographer chip piet they were the top hauser's shells of homes that will possibly be on the roads streets very objective and security
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had completely fall apart delhi airport was eerie when we came in at the same time as aircraft that is training in peacekeeping forces the f one building was deserted and partially destroyed were no formalities and all security checks. nor was there any transport and other traditional cried anyway. we managed to flag a cattle truck but i can remember sir standing at the front of the of the tip. with his head up above looking down the highway the australian peacekeepers that set up in one of the beach front row tells him in dili the ring didn't steal that made their headquarters in the main hotel which is called the tourist my hotel which is also on the beach we didn't want to get involved with the australian army we didn't want to be controlled in any particular way we wanted to. stay independent because we hadn't flown in with the australian forces we were prevented from entering into
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that protected hotel and instead walked down the beach from the problem about three hundred meters to where there was a nunnery an abandoned nunnery. andrea and i also took shelter in this town from that day. this is the first time that our free turn to one thousand nine hundred nine and it's only partially familiar i've come back to independent east timor many times i have avoided the nunnery for fourteen years. i really very strongly remember how afraid we were when we were staying here and what we thought it would be a lot safer before we actually went to the lead and we experience when we actually got here. it was very unpredictable very eerie. you know the gunshots fires we did we just didn't know we had we had no idea where we had to look out for. we thought that the indonesians would have left but many of them were
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still here. but there was no time for fear we were all here to work and that's what we did our story that day was right across the road from the convent where thousands were crammed together on the beach looking for safety going out to interview them i saw this huge collection of. humanity on the beach and went to talk to the refugees and found this young refugee family headed by sweet young i'm cool and i try to saw. spoke some english and said well i'd like to use you as an interpreter but we need some transport so they are not there to. come in my city i see them with so family and their close to coming summer summer they will see the depth the more. the interview my problem i'm with or. at the more likely one by one or no he didn't
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want to go very far we didn't want to go and you are unsafe particular here so our first day in delhi. florindo around you had been driving journalists around delhi on the back of his small motorcycle all day as he dropped one of them off at the turismo sandor was next in line. at them was a way to get their beloved. in the band. and that's a record in the quote that earlier there without any policemen at that we'll have. a chorus everyone because there's a lot of. good in. that way dear to them oh they must have. that is our idea. having said of earlier then florindo and sander john chip and i'm a plateau in central ramesses car was some way you had on the same stretch of road . a would be to first meet
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a battalion. that's just beyond the city limits ready bought off among us because. that was noise of motorbikes arriving they came around the corner and there were about thirty or forty. men on motorbikes with. several of. the sort of them up to. one of the first scenes that it was they attacked my driver i watch them up and my time up coming in. at last. the last. one of them just took his rifle and bashed his eye out with the rifle but. i just saw it. coming down his face like a. snake ready it was just like a break and says he done that on his cheek. to see through to those who spoke with what. they were suspicious very suspicious of him because he was with two western
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as i said. i'm in charge you could to get. those down. it's. not a question i do more with. we were ordered back into the vehicle and driver with his eye still hanging out it was ordered to drive the car down the hill . to beg him on essential imo bill they had said to my thank you mark good to spare my supper was a while when we would give me something. well up. to the motorbikes swept and stopped in front of us so we couldn't talk to them don't. we couldn't go any further. so it doesn't look good it did it that was all about money yes i was up to come on
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down below the dose of it i love boom boom medical i did want to be that them i got it were locked down there mark better luck on tuesday that there are thumbs up to be our best buddies to you the way you do. i said to chip and to to ramos i said. we've got to get on to we're dead. to the law so low somebody. buttercup them up to the scummy there was a lot of good. care wallace who moved those. two bloody blew up monasteries with that at the logging i don't mean they came off to us short which you can really look behind me just kept going as fast as we could we could and looking for cover. so that it was a lot of luck to them but us. circuit you know. what our society the rules were. for god. we didn't know ramos is gone he had his
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you know ideas of where it was safe used to be and. you know he's he's an east timorese and in that time he might have grown eyes that he was safe was beyond he said i was bibi to westerners who took this terrible. episode of. john and chip it through didn't i'm sure of what had happened to any to unsigned. italian in the meantime continue on its bloody route of destruction. and getting this. and that they and i see that people see through what i did. see him up this is that it says that that guy that. they got more thought it through and then what and it. it will grow on the consumer like up on since other. ballot model i reckon i was on the thing to get out and if it did that for sarah palin america
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so a lot of americans who read it they did it with the unit. to mark this more. than a say a given but that if they didn't say that giving the. goodness a lot of truth truth. and id or get one thing wrong in this comic it's about the nit in the mouth of its ilk alone that they've said. and most of them look at every said in a very nice and deceptive recompiled is legit but it was a. little something beginning. of medical last week with. him but. he has got a lot of it with him but that's a develop a matter of the rest of your last. hello stuff he says with a look at him what did the little guy at the political and i say so that obama got it out of the horse i would end up dead there might be. a lot of their own idea.
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battered bruised and bleeding in a rainbow made his way to the turismo tell everyone he could what had happened. we heard that sound it was missing so it was very confusing. my husband and ray was looking for him next door in the tourist motel while i was still working i had to keep working because i had deadlines and so it was all like really. messed up because we were also really worried about your own safety i mean not much was standing lots of for building still burning you could hear gunshots so it's very very times very eerie situation here. you don't feel learned very safe.
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that all night i spent here with my friends with colleagues trying to make phone calls like really you know trying to get through to anyone who would have any news about and. the following morning paul dillon was one of the first journalist to find her out of the convent. to reste guy came up to me sort of talking he said i know where there's this step for a joke we take you. so there we have this long. thirty thirty minute walk out to the corner. and then off the left hand side of the road to a small gully looked up almost a driveway was senator joe. want to side. it was new it was a very unpleasant you know you get used to seeing bodies in repose if you like almost with a sense of sort of calm. but i didn't get that often i didn't get that sense.
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i got a sense of reaching. you know. the only thing i could imagine with. his family friends. fellow journalists. i could hear people crying in the corner. very real moment for everyone. could just as easily be. anybody else in the nunnery that way. as the part of it but. it's cool. that he wished.
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something else that. i've learned if. he were woken up here by our friends and they burst into the room and then the first thing they said yes we found. and of course then you know and it went into a whirlwind of of events. we cried together what are the trends trying to grasp what had happened meanwhile painful gruesome things had to be done. and this body which had finally been recovered by those training peacekeepers needed to be identified. my husband andrei help for this task an experience that really traumatized him. jon swaine and chip high. spend the night within metres of sand as body without realizing had been assisted back to delhi by peacekeeping forces the question was. what happened to ramos and what happened to ana tatar. with the
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rising of the sun we heard that a dutch journalist have been killed or a nearby my immediate reaction was that he'd been killed by the same group that attacked us it just made perfect sense as would any american photographer. agreed to take me back in his motorbike to. where the whole incident happened that i was going to try and find. ramos we got back to where the attack happened and the old battered old taxi was still there with his windows all bashed out. tires flat from but it holes. bargains are. for the good what about multiple. at the mall a said to somebody and suddenly there's a rustling in the bushes and romance in running up in his eyes don't you know who the ok. you have been had three on
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a motorbike. and so he was in the middle of iowans run him give him study. we decided to take him to the australian. military hospital they set up with. at that moment the command of the australian forces general cosgrove right i turn to my crap to melissa to general you know this is what happened. out of my drivers had his eye bashed up and he needs to medical care. can you authorize it and some sort of way and he turned to his men and he said get this but on the first flight to dollywood. in a strain the essentials received emergency surgery and the sight in his remaining i will see. as for my interpreter and i clatter. of course it was a devastating thing to have happened. not
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something new to. not something to use a journalist i want to have to go through anyway. her read officer made inquiries about what had happened to him and no one could give any real explanation. but later i learned that he had to them being taken with a group of other prisoners and paraded. up the army base. and being beaten up and that was the last anyone ever saw of him. i suspect that any plato like so many of us was ultimately taken to jack after not the capital city of indonesia but to a cliff south of dili and then troll now. gleeful cynically named by the indonesians because the families of victims taken their toll that it was to jakarta and their loved ones had flat. i think this journey is for me. looking for some kind of closure and i'm not really
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sure closing what exactly. the idea when you are late but early on to gently my luck to mark a spot. where your brush arguments are. under way at the men's hockey table you're behind the money barnett's a great time of the messiah and upwards are you today of early morning go might be the same but. i get up each one of you did you know we got up to a. police investigation shows that sandra was most probably still alive and the soldiers picked up his body and directed of the room. that brought him to a piece of scrap and behind the house in shock. the liberty in the back. by the time his body was found his face had been mutilated beyond recognition. probably by his murderers.
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by a by a muscle seven job or. opened it up like to do this at our last set of my. daughter. so i think that it will stop a. young fella killing. a mummy my. guest must allow it but i'll put up by this i. hung up a big muscle i'll be on the go look that's what get you got the side. so dusty up marty if you ever felt responsible for what happened in east timor. oh and that is one of the always is say i told you many many know. this is over youse on the. mutallab made it up but i'm a jackal. and little for
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a wicked man she lives lost and the old now is all on the pursues its article. i always thought they're just going to chase us away to make us they want to make us scared they don't want any witnesses. to see the plan they had to file and says they had planned on healings and they succeeded many journalists including me had to leave. and when we came back we thought you know it's over it's better it's safer in. general we had to use eventually indicted by the special crimes unit in delhi for gross human rights violations but he never appeared in court. to be gittin to be taken so you're on behalf. of us probably just a bigger your own their own home into a dollar when you're going to be judged in the gutter the state policy and state policy are that it should be done so you could when do comes to policy.
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look he may see everything the world is not blind that it is that told you i have done my job show me the fact that they were instructed by i b b to kill. sean. o'keefe. let me hige the past we look for in the future. and the future that we are on two aims for is becoming the president of indonesia in the twenty fourteen election. the former east timor guerrilla leader has become the president of his country and he leaves me with a very warm message. formularies
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they'll. all be three more. in the. air later. establish a message for. the event in east timor one of the most traumatic events i experience not only as a journey journalist but as a person. and these events have led to a lot of other events in my life that are also traumatic so being here of course has something to do with. it's. my always believe some kind of spirits are in birds. for some reason and now good to
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pass and. as i sat at the start of this film this journey was something i could only do alone is a very sad reason for that. everything that happened here was very traumatic for andrei and he decided not to work in conflict areas anymore. not long after he started to suffer from depression minor ones at first but then more and more severe. three years ago life became to my trainer and he decided to end it. but as i learned in indonesia in east timor. life that. we need to accept them as they come. and things do change for them back to
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two so the only way to be who sold me the ticket at the mandarin oriental hotel my one way ticket to hell is my wife of seventy years. seven years to kill me when we do it again two thousand and four two thousand and thirty nine years we couldn't ask are we really last. happy with a. family who cares one way one. look at this. and what of me i don't have andrea in my life anymore but i do have a wonderful son a miss. he's thirteen years old yes we conceived them together during that terrible time indeed. i see in him every day the spirit of andrei moved the absolute love of
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my life. it seems that true beauty can be born of tragedy after all. it wasn't i was a little boy in india my dream was to make body would films so five years ago i decided i was finally going to do it one man's quest to realize a lifelong ambition the story i chose was of my own wits and it stands for mission going behind the lens as gautam saying brings his personal story to life. al jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood.
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by the springtime flowering of a mountain lake. to the finest smoke on a winter's day. we got some very heavy rain affecting peru recently some big downpours right across the amazon basin but just to the southeast of lima we saw a massive downpours mudslides and the inevitable widespread flooding hopefully things will ease a little as we go on for the next couple of days still quite a rash of showers right across the amazon basin into peru into ecuador points further north seven a weather to into northern areas salvati and tina just around the river plate looking very disturbed at the moment so the best weather is just to the north of that pushing up into power that's are major achieved by going on and see where the state does sink a little further south with want to say i was out around twenty three degrees a hot one there for santiago aussie dry but some lovely still to the possibility
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temperatures at around thirty degrees celsius lotty dry across a good part of the carabineers gorgeous sunshine coming through i think a little more cloud always a possibility into the western side of the region having said that so you will see a few showers being driven into the western side of the caribbean might just catch a little bit about weather pushing its way into jamaica as we go through with as we go on through wednesday further east the leewood and the wind would say look fine and dry with plenty of sunshine. the weather sponsored by cats own race. generation after generation men work under the merciless sun of northeastern state . in this slum there's no sewerage running water or other basic services sixty percent of the people here are not living in poverty their needs are so great and their pockets so empty that they are easy prey during election time for
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politicians they can come here and buy their votes for as little as ten dollars of course if i'm a politician and i give culture and education to people i'm impairing them and if i'm impairing them they may not vote for me so that's why it's in their interest to keep things as they are. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and governmental stared that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even if the next government can start the recovery process those living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit. this is zero. glamour shot harry this is the news hour coming up in the next sixty minutes the
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saudi crown prince is expected in tunisia as opposition grows on his first overseas tour since jamal khashoggi his murder. a warning from russia that ukraine's decision to impose martial law to escalate tension after a confrontation in the black sea. the afghan president leaves behind protests in kabul for a conference in switzerland to reassure world leaders about his plans for peace plus. touchdown compared. to bill ation as a. probe lands on mars to study it deep inside the red planet. saudi arabia's crown prince is facing legal challenges and protests during his first tour abroad since the murder of journalist. human rights watch has filed a legal complaint in argentina it wants an investigation into the role and. it's
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also asked for an inquiry into suspected war crimes committed by saudi forces and yemen and tunisia where the crown prince is to land on tuesday activists are asking the courts to keep him out reports from tunis. first stop him have been some man's regional tour was to his closest ally mohammed bin zayed crown prince of the united arab emirates his saudi counterpart eager to show that it's business as usual for him and that he hasn't been affected by the fallout from the murder of jamal khashoggi bin sandman is also visiting behind and egypt as part of his trip both countries have close ties with riyadh so close there seem by many to be excessively controlled by the saudis no surprise then that he was welcomed with open arms but in tunisia the birthplace of the so-called arab spring a different type of welcome awaits the prince to newseum protesters angry that their government is welcoming the man widely believed to be responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi on the eve of his expected arrival the
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journalists union together with a dozen or so civil society groups held a press conference denouncing the visit and holding on to new zealand's to take part in protests nationwide among them the head of the tunisian national union of students the subject of a new meal for the tunisian people reject hosting someone who continues to kill and commit crimes against humanity in yemen we reject welcoming a man who continues to crack down on basic human rights. human rights groups and activists say that the proposed visit is an attempt to legitimize the crown prince and whitewash his crimes something they say must not be allowed to happen my husband said men want to continue here just to give an idea that to be accepted by the people to show that he is welcomed everywhere he goes and i think the position of the tunisian government the position of civil society sorry does show that. if
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is welcomed by the government that in a sense of a society refuses that. we approach several politicians and i'm pleased to find any who openly support the visits but none wanted to appear on camera possibly because it appears the popular opinion is so against welcoming this saudi royal. item or had be we shouldn't be welcoming him if it were up to me i wouldn't let him into my country and the people are against him he's coming to tunisia to clean his image they are going out of his way and i don't know why this visit is happening is that for economic reasons i don't know but i'm against it too new suit not side with this man. live in tunis let's talk to him now is not what's happening with that with the protests. well rachele is just round it down now while the past the hour is maybe a couple of hours there was a few hundred people who have gathered in the center of tunis despite the rain and
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cold weather but it was a pretty loud demonstration people angered by the visits rejecting the fact that the crown prince is going to be welcomed here by the president of tunisia the birthplace of the so-called arab spring one of the only countries that remains in the region pushing for some sort of democratic reform in century there were three main objections to muhammad his home on the well being expressed by the protesters number one namely obviously the most recent maybe crime that so many believe he is behind which was the murder and killing of john monocultural crazy saudi journalist assassinated in the saudi assemble in saudi consulate protheroe in istanbul number two the war in yemen and the killing of so many people there were a number three there was a lot of criticism with regards to freedom domestically in saudi arabia so the people were very much on go just for the job which is meant to be seen as maybe the
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closest there is to a success story in terms of popular reform that has taken place in the arab world over the past five years would be welcoming somebody like that and therefore they felt the origin not only to make themselves heard zero but as many of them told us that they are essentially representing the voice of the voiceless that is the millions of arabs around the region who are unable to take part in protests like this particularly like in egypt or behind the united arab emirates the stops where harbison money is visited prior to coming here because they use those as also riparian countries where by public or there where there is limited freedom of expression and jamaal those countries that you just named yes it would make sense that he's visiting those countries why is a visiting tunisian. well that is a good question and people here over there not quite sure what it is he's trying to gain in terms of tunisia because obviously geopolitically it is not that strategic
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with regards to saudi interests obviously some analysts would say the reason very clear message here that mohamad since on monday wants to make it very clear that he is still vote only in power but he's also going to continue pursuing those policies which people viewed as i don't see revolutionary for the arab world supporting those regimes that maybe aren't in favor of what was called the arab spring and coming to turn is you know is not just a demonstration of his continued or forward she domestically in saudi arabia but a very clear message that if people fault that's the outbreak or the out for rather for now for other obvious hussle three cases going through maybe five lines have been some and then the opposite is true and that he will continue to do so albeit see also there is a very important point here that as you mentioned it was expected that he would be welcomed in egypt a button and the united arab emirates after all saudi had created that port
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a couple of years ago when it's begun that blockade of qatar with those countries tunisia isn't necessarily seem to be part of under the sphere of saudi arabia but the fact that he is maybe trying to demonstrate that he wants to find those influences is also a clear message but what is also very clear and what was made very loud it was a message that was spoken very loudly by the protesters is that while the regimes may be welcoming him there is definitely popular opposition to such a man catch a model shall live for us in tunis thank you a crown prince is also expected to travel to argentina for the g twenty summit human rights watch has filed a submission with the courts and brown authorities calling for him to be held accountable for suspected war crimes by saudi forces and yemen sylia within organizations executive director for the middle east and north africa says prosecutors are looking closely at the submission. it is up to the prosecutor to do
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to decide how to proceed with this investigation we are very hopeful very he will do a very careful and thorough examination of the facts of the evidence that has been presented not only of course by human rights watch but by various organs of the united nations including the panel of experts at the security council including the investigative commissions appointed by the un human rights council you clued in by the un high commissioner for human rights which have repeatedly found that the saudi led coalition has committed grave violations of international home turn many of which very strongly couldn't mount to work rhymes for that reason alone there's an extremely strong basis for argentino to closely examine a very broad record of documentation and facts in this regard if they are fortunate enough to have the crown prince visiting them the international community
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people around the world are desperate to see real accountability of people who are getting away with terrible crimes and this is a great opportunity for the argentinean people to stand as leaders in the world to show that they will not let crimes like this go unpunished that they will seriously investigate them and prosecute them if possible the u.s. secretary of state and defense are expected to brief top level senators on relations with saudi arabia on wednesday they're demanding answers on the myrtle of murder of jamal khashoggi specifically the saudi crown prince his role in that killing also there's also growing condemnation of riyadh's involvement in the war and yemen mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . senators have been demanding a briefing from the trumpet ministration on the murder of jamal khashoggi and now they've got the secretary of state and the secretary of defense will come to speak to them but a couple of unanswered questions will the briefing be in public will it be to the whole senate or just to the intelligence committee
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a third and very important question will the director of the cia be present many senators have demanded a briefing directly from the director of the cia with regard to the murder of jamal khashoggi particularly with reference to the possible involvement of the crown prince of saudi arabia there are a number of legislative moves in the senate as well one with respect to saudi arabia's involvement in the war in yemen and the u.s. support for that legislation along the lines is likely to be tabled during the week but also senator lindsey graham insisting that he's going to introduce legislation with respect to the crown prince in particular intent on finding out the full extent of the crown prince's involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi and what the senator terms his erratic behavior particularly with regard to the war in yemen and the establishment of a blockade against cutter so congress continuing to flex its muscle clearly
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angered the president trumps attempt to simply brush this whole matter aside and move on the senate in particular making very clear it is not going to allow this to happen meanwhile u.s. media are reporting donald trump son in law pushed the department of defense officials to inflate the value of arms deals with saudi arabia to increase their perceived importance a.b.c. news says kushner successfully had a fifteen billion dollars deal recategorize has been worth one hundred ten billion dollars after a presidential visit to riyadh in may of two thousand and seventeen that order has not yet been fulfilled many democrats say they'll investigate the trump family's links to saudi arabia more on this from kelly how could he joins us live from washington d.c. complete that one hundred thousand dollars number we've heard donald trump say that .

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