yes and there was a lot of talk about this here among the turkish leaders saying about if nothing else works for them this firehouse to be taken to the u.n. and it has to go into an international investigation to bring justice to the slain journalist. all right mohamed volodya for us in istanbul mohammed thank you. say has spoken to al jazeera about her fight for justice it has been seventy days since her. last saw the journalist alive outside his country's consulate in istanbul he was there to collect papers for their upcoming marriage but instead walked into a death trap saudi crown prince mohammed bin sama is being accused of ordering his murder you know for the sort of i want to expose the details of this horrific crime identify the perpetrators and put those who carried out the killing on a fee trial including those who ordered the hit so they get the punishment they just on behalf of jamal's relatives and loved ones and i say this is i'm one of

them we need to know the whereabouts of his body this is a basic human right. to call just innocent. human rights activists not even murat have been jointly presented with this year's nobel peace prize and they were chosen for their efforts to put an end to rape as a weapon of war and her speech that the rights of the international community has failed to protect is the women and the only way to restore their dignity was to prosecute the eisel fighters who abuse them. well they've been much them how if no justice is done genocide will be repeated against all the vulnerable communities it's the only way to achieve peace if we don't want these rapes to be repeated we have to bring those perpetrators to justice those who resorted to sexual abuse against women and call for peace in his homeland. if. the challenges are clear and it is within our reach for all sorrows for all men women and children of congo i launch an urgent appeal to all of you which is not

just to give the noble peace prize but to stand together and say in a loud voice that violence in the d r c is enough enough is enough we want peace now. whether as next then french president is to address his nation in the wake of the violent protests in paris. ever just to rubble one palestinian families in occupied east jerusalem say they're being forced to demolish their own homes. and we've got yet more rain working its way towards parts of the middle east at the moment we take a look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud that's edging its way across parts of turkey but then the making its way in from the west a mat is giving us and fairly heavy downpours and some pretty strong winds too so

there is the area of low pressure as we head through the day on cheese day all the winds circulating around that plenty of rain here plenty of strong winds and then we've got this dangling area of cloud making its way down through parts of lebanon giving us some wet weather hits who said generally speaking this whole region looking pretty unsettled as we head through cheese day and on wednesday that system just pushes a bit further eastward so more rain more snow and will strong winds to do with his further east loquat tahir terror on up a pleasant sixty of course into will be just for that here in doha temperatures are really quite nice at the moment getting to around twenty six no major problems for us in solar is a little bit warmer where she gets to around thirty degrees and they made changes even as we head through wednesday but the southern parts of africa though the weather is far more to step with the shoes area of cloud stretching down through the eastern parts of south africa will say through many parts of mozambique too and this area is likely to stick around as we head through the next few days yet more wet weather to come that's also affecting us in madagascar too.

to watching out to syria let's recap the top stories this hour britain's plan to leave the european union has been thrown up in the air after prime minister theresa may decided to delay a parliamentary vote on her brics a deal europe's top court has ruled that britain's parliament can cancel practice that without asking permission from other in you members. turkey says the suspects involved in the killing internal is jamal khashoggi should be tried under international law this comes after riad rejected ankara's request to extradite the eighteen suspects to stand trial in turkey. and congolese kind of call just and it's quick and easy human rights activists not even murat have been jointly presented with this year's nobel peace prize and also low or what they were honored for their efforts to end of the use of rape as a weapon of war. or leaders at a u.n. conference on morocco have adopted a pact and that improving cooperation on migration but almost thirty countries including the u.s. stayed away from the ceremony the u.n. still hopes the pack will help them more than twenty one million refugees around

the world. today more than eighty percent of migrants move it didn't come to these in a safe and orderly fashion but and regulated migration is a terrible human costs of the lives lost on any lives jonah's across the oceans and rivers and the cost in lives ruined the hands of smugglers and script was in lawyers and other. more than sixty thousand migrants ever died on the move since the thousands and these is a source of collective shame. thousands of central american migrants are not giving up hope of seeking asylum in the united states many have camped out on the mexican side of the border and they're anxious to climb the fence and claim political asylum once arrested on the other side of bellamy that one family planning such an attempt. if anything mexico's northern border is

a symbol of inequality on one side a world of privileges and on the other stories of people in search of an opportunity. this family from an salvador came first in the early morning to check to situation climbing is not easy. the boys are petrified and one shouts don't hurt my mama oh my papa. was a lucky punch trying in eyesight of the american border patrol flood li. as they fade in finally walk off exhausted. this part of the wall was built nearly twenty five years ago during the clinton years it's been fortified by several administrations since the razor wire was added a few weeks ago. if the heavy presence of the american border patrol is meant to be a deterrent it's not working these young men jumped over in

a matter of minutes they have nothing to lose for about an hour later another group arrived killing maldonado left honduras with her twin daughters along the way she became friends with and her three children they're relying on each other to take the leap across the border killing was hesitating at first she told her daughter she was risking so much so they could get an education. but then. it goes very quickly the men first then one child another and yet another it's now the turn of kenyan and. it's too difficult the border patrol has a radius around with those who jumped. right. it's too late for them one of kellin daughters sneaks back through the bars she pushes her back into the united states a desperate gesture by an anguished mother who has little to offer one particular

concern. i have to go to my children she keeps on repeating as a border guard carries them away the rest of the group is also led the way detained but now they have the right to claim asylum. that is in pain and wonders what will happen to her eighteen month old baby she was still breastfeeding can we ask where the children spend the night i don't know is dns server. then it slowly sinks in the children are in the us but killing an elder are still in mexico separated by the wall they will try again and again this time in search of their children held somewhere in america without that hammy al-jazeera along mexico's dourdan border. a former policeman believed to be russia's most prolific serial killer has been handed another life sentence and prison

a couple killed seventy eight people mostly women are talents as more from moscow. recall was known as the maniac also the werewolf he was already serving life in jail for murdering twenty two women and he's just been found guilty for fifty six more murders they happened between one thousand nine hundred ninety two and two thousand and ten and eighteen year killing spree the mutilated and often rapes bodies of women were found in the cemeteries forests and roadsides of the siberian region of. he was arrested in twenty twelve because police matched tire tracks found near some of the bodies to the type of car that was driven by public over the twist in the tale here is that the murderer was himself a police officer and for at least three of the murders he was on duty when he

committed the crimes also using his service. to american tech giants are having a legal battle in china and that's causing jitters on wall street all concepts it's owed money by apple suppliers for its patents and intellectual property and a chinese court has agreed granting an injunction against apple the court decision bans the important sale of nearly all i phone models in china apple is fighting the ruling it says all clones efforts are quote desperate. as president manuel mcgraw all addressed the nation later after holding talks to try to resolve the yellow vest anti-government protest movement cabinet ministers are also joining the talks in paris alongside union leaders across has been largely silent following the fourth week of demonstrations across france which have turned into riots dominic kane as the latest from paris. monday is a day of meetings and speeches a president mccall he's meeting trade unionists and delegations from local organizations and business leaders trying to get

a sense of what they think needs to be done to justify front's the people of frogs this problem is the old vote he has the majority support in parliament he does not have a majority of support amongst the people is approval ratings are down as low as twenty four percent in other words more than three quarters of people in france disapprove of the way that he is handling the government of france to make things worse for him on monday also the opposition parties who don't have many votes the seats in parliament put down a motion of no confidence which will be voted on wednesday it's very unlikely that they will win that as i say his movement. has a majority in parliament but clearly it does not command majority support amongst the people what can he do to resolve this well traditionally when presidents are fronts of seeing such social unrest it's not the president who pays for it it's the prime minister who pays for it and the president tries to find another person who can command a majority in parliament and come up with measures that pacify people lots of

questions for mr macro and today question will be does he have the answers the placate the people. thousands of palestinians living in occupied east jerusalem face the threat of having their homes or businesses demolished by the israeli government many properties have been declared illegal because owners were unable to obtain a permit and i met one family it was forced to bulldoze their home. with no more fight left and all. gone even the youngest members of the family knew the bulldozer was coming they want to diminish my house i don't want them to diminish my home. the palestinian family repeatedly tried and failed to get a permit from the israeli government to expand their home in occupied east jerusalem human rights watch says it's a system that discriminates against palestinians and is part of an israeli policy

to maintain a jewish majority in the holy city the house she has built anyway and then spent the last twenty years trying to keep the walls standing for days before the israeli government's bulldozer was supposed to arrive they made a heart wrenching decision. they would demolish themselves so they could avoid more than fifteen thousand dollars in fines and fees and a possible prison sentence. in the higher the my husband isn't just destroying the house he's destroying his life the children a second has been and life is really high. the human rights group that salem says since two thousand and four more than one hundred families have done the very same thing as the head. approximately seven hundred eighty palestinian housing units have been demolished so far. in the shaky neighborhood there are forty five

palestinian families facing even action including these elderly men one is a refugee the other lost his previous house in west jerusalem years ago now as they approach the last years of their lives they worry about being homeless. they not only want to evict us but the entire neighborhood to build houses for the settlers given that demolition orders can take decades to enforce these men may not live to see their homes reduced to rubble the same cannot be said for their loved ones and so many other families natasha. occupied east jerusalem japanese prosecutors have charged two former nissan executives with final financial that is misconduct former mason chairman carlos kushan and director greg valliere of his defender recording their salaries and using company assets for personal benefit at a maker itself has also been indicted for making false statements and annual

reports. tanzania's president has brought radical changes to the country since he came to power three years ago. michael fully has introduced ways to save money on corruption and got rid of so-called government ghost workers but a clampdown on other areas is gaining him many critics catherine sawyer ports and our salon. massud keep expresses his art through caricature his political messages as subtle but provocative he has drone through three governments but it's this one of president john mccain forty that he says worries him the most the platform is more that. we are being followed. because. sometimes when you sound like a clone to. the editor who tells openly about you know before we have to be careful we cannot publish this model fully has been in power for three years in tanzania

some call him the bulldozer of it no indeed of course he's been credited for his fight against corruption which has been a problem here for years he has done on civil service expenditure and he's overseeing major projects like the construction of this really the two link different cities the studies we've. focused to make sure that turns on the uncertain the development we want but these are studies also to change some of the mistakes of that part of the past but critics of the president say he's a dictator last stifle the political space and curtailed freedom of expression and media if you decide on something he does it and go with it or the way bought or at the same time very autocratic. so you have a way that you don't have a feedback mechanism you know to improve the decisions that are that have been taken and that's why we have a situation when the country everybody is in fear of

a he does enjoy popularity amongst some president john magaw for he has been described as a populist he often says what ordinary people in tanzania want to hear and mostly so i need to take this fish market for example it was on his evening walk in october stop here talk to the traders about the problems and give them money to build an office cooking area and trading sheds market trader a miriama chooses where the office is being built. i have been here for about two years but i haven't i was the president most of the poorer than before he started with us on a wooden bench i'm to be a decent many people in tanzania say the president has proved himself a symbol off decisiveness and integrity but some also say he's autocratic style of leadership could only have tons anya's democracy catherine saw.

pick up the headlines now on al-jazeera friends plan to leave the european union has been thrown up in the air after prime minister theresa may decided to delay a parliamentary vote on our bric city will europe's top court has ruled that britain's parliament can cancel that without asking permission from other e.u. members. if we went ahead to the coach tomorrow the deal would be richer was significant. we will that food if. not proceed to divide the house this time turkey says the suspects involved in the killing of journalists from all show she should be tried under international law this comes after rejected ankara's request to extradite the eighteen suspects to stand trial in turkey the turkish justice ministry also says finding the show she's body is a fundamental right but it's been seventy days since her to say she last saw her

fiance journalist alive outside his country's consulate in istanbul and an interview with al-jazeera she says that she will fight to ensure everyone who's responsible for his death is brought to justice congolese kind of colleges tennis mccuaig human rights activists not even murat have been jointly presented with this year's nobel peace prize. they were jews and for chosen for their efforts to put an end to rape as a weapon of war and her speech not a mirage said the international community has failed to protect women and the only way to restore their dignity was to prosecute the eisel fighters who abuse them. were leaders at a un conference and morocco have adopted a pact aimed at improving cooperation on migration almost thirty countries including the us stayed away from the ceremony and still hopes the pap will help

the more than twenty one million refugees around the world as have the headlines keep it here much more to come inside story is next. a universal declaration of human rights it's been seventeen years since the document was adopted to ensure equality and justice without discrimination but as it made the world a better place and what of the human rights issues facing the world today this isn't.

hello welcome to the program on imran khan december tenth marks the seventieth anniversary of the un's universal declaration of human rights the document outlines the fundamental rights that should form the basis of democratic societies the u.n. says it's as relevant today as it has always been but with multiple examples of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity just how enforceable is it mike hanna takes a look at the birth of the declaration and whether it still holds any influence. borne out of recession the devastation of war and an act of genocide executed on industrial scale the declaration was passed by the un general assembly in one nine hundred forty eight with the us ambassador eleanor roosevelt a guiding force its intention to ensure that such tragedies did not occur again

but in the decade since the declaration has been marked more by transgressions and example the key problem the lack of enforcement the body established to protect these rights is a un security council and often divided body in which national agendas rather than individual rights remain supremum. the syrian state that carries out chemical attacks against its own people is shielded from sanction by a russian veto which is joined by china in blocking any action against north korea and in threatening a veto to hold the myanmar military to account for what the un own investigators call a genocide. any attempt to take action against israel or even condemn a transgression as an occupied territory is routinely blocked by a u.s. veto and even former champions of the declaration do not live up to their promise the u.s. president insists the maintenance of trade is more important than seeking accountability

for a murdered journalist. the killing of jamal khashoggi contravened a number of articles of the declaration yet despite what many including u.s. senators maintain is compelling evidence of guilt the crown prince of saudi arabia remains unsanctioned him or her show she is one of those cases where you look at it and you go you know what is the point of fighting for human rights when you know a man can walk into an embassy and be cut up into pieces and tortured and there's no accountability i mean article fourteen states everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. but in what he describes as putting america first president trump is in daily transgression of the document a u.s. ambassador helped draft seventy years ago as you know mark lateralus my son that attack and and there are some pushbacks and human rights too it gives it gives me

the impression that sometimes when some leaders of the world speak. relativizing human rights and say that or multilateralism other feel like this license to say it also seventy years on in the world may not be the better place the drafters envisaged and yet the universal declaration of human rights remains as testament to what should be a living reminder of the philosophy that individual rights are intrinsic and cannot be indulged or taken away michaela al-jazeera united nations. don't the same a smart woman of the afghan independent human rights commission thank you for joining the program not only are you a medical doctor but you're also a passionate defender of human rights i just want to begin by asking you when did you become such an advocate of human rights thank you fit very mad for having me and to prove that born in afghanistan as

a female and seeing all of this current mission at this moment and also gives the different minority groups in afghanistan and the continuing conflict in the country a sense for tears as you not if put me in a position to fight for equality and human rights now it's the seventieth anniversary of the un declaration on human rights that decoration gave a framework towards human rights when did you become aware of the declaration of human rights and how much of an impact it has it had on your work in afghanistan and became aware of the human condition of human rights and i was quite candid maybe around seventy five and i think the equality in and put their human dignity in the focus was a reason for me to fight for it and use it as a tool for fighting for equality and human rights and i think it's a it's

a document i believe that draw a clear line between aggression violence and civilized tolerance work of course focusing on human dignity in equality between any person without ignition off their geographical position or color religion believe their language and so on. so that is true to be used for promotion of you want me to. everywhere in particular in my country not funds if people are prosecuted for war crimes for crimes against humanity in conflict zones do they feel that they can get away with doing more and more violations against human rights of course not at think that's why i am saying that it should be a mechanism in order to deal with those things because if the really. continue like

this without any accountability in missy more and more a commission of poor crimes and crimes against humanity around the word and nobody is keeping him accountable and i think in order to see if you match amity in order to save the human dignity we need access to justice and in my view access to justice is not collection access to justice n. had it living in jest society it's a basic human right and everybody has a right to look at that election go to zero some are thank you very much for joining us on the program thank you. let's bring in our panelists in bangkok we're joined by benjamin is wacky a human rights researcher in cult test jeff gilbert professor of international human rights and humanitarian law at the university of essex and in stockholm you had this mosque in director of communications at the right livelihood award

foundation welcome to the program let me begin with you benjamin so wacky in bangkok first is the universal declaration of human rights a gold standard or is that is it the baseline the the bare minimum countries should be adhering to. well it was intended as a baseline minimum in ah seventy years ago in the wake of roadwork to the world was perhaps more memorable than it is seventy years on to consider in these rights in a green almost universally across the board when you look at the number committee that drafted the declaration to accepting these rights and agreeing to hear them seventy years on they're being seen now as in almost an hour and now it was always a declaration it was never an forcible convention or trees that were not sense it would be difficult to press a legal case to begin with although these days even conventions retreat or not it seems were they were seventy years ago either let me bring in our legal expert hair

from culture professor jeff gilbert's jeff we've heard a lot in the last few minutes about accountability about enforceability because this is a declaration it doesn't have any real legal teeth to take in international law is that right the declaration like any other general assembly declaration does not in and of itself have binding legal qualities but over the seventy is the declaration has come to reflect customary international law which is binding on states the problem as always with international law is enforceability it's all well and good to have documents treaties or declarations that sets out rights the difficulty is always trying to get those rights are held by states and that requires states to stand up and be accountable and to hold the states to account it requires mechanisms for individuals to make complaints and it requires the

international community as a whole to put in place procedures so that rights can be. verified and commented upon and although systems are now in place that were never there back in seventy years ago what i think the universal declaration of human rights has done more than anything is that it's made it unquestionable that states are held to account when those rights are seem to be violated nobody would expect silence anymore when rights are violated what we now need is of course food greater accountability greater and for civility and for mechanisms to be respected and for the rule of law to be upheld let me bring in stockholm here and you have this mosque and is that right are states paying attention to the universal declaration of human rights are prosecutions taking place it feels like the we are in

a place now where human rights violations are simply seen more because of the twenty four hour news cycle because of social media because of the media landscape that we're in right now but things seem much more bleak when it comes to human rights globally than ever before perhaps. well i think that answer is not as you know black and white yes we see accountability and yes we see how important the universal declaration of human rights has been and how important is everyday. advantage in a more just peaceful and sustainable growth but of course at the same time a very much you know i agree also with the picture you're painting with lots of states getting away with with you know the most horrible violations of human rights within their own countries and also abroad so i guess the major thing lacking is political willingness and courage to actually make sure that the. human

rights are being respected now let me bring in bangkok here and benjamin's working is there a structural problem here with the way the united nations works because it doesn't have an enforcement policy or is this simply that states are paying lip service to the universal declaration of human rights but actually they're not really pushing forward within their own countries to prosecute those responsible. well it's a combination of both you have suffered from from a structural deficiency ever since the security council which was founded in the wake of world war two and of course seventy years on it's almost anachronistic not to when you look at its composition i think more importantly what you have to do twenty first century in contrast to the middle of the twentieth century is number one a situation in united states in which it's an executive chief executive ever since the turn of the century has either been in the case of the obama administration

well intentioned but extremely weak in its execution and prosecution of human rights and in the case of the of his predecessor and successor successors in bush and trying to individuals who have been opened and demonstrably all opposition to human rights on the other side of the globe literally you have china which is a vastly different country now than it was seventy years ago and which has been in opposition to human rights really from the very beginning seeing it as largely a western project and whose foreign and domestic policy both do not take human rights into account so absent leadership on the side of the world from the two largest the most powerful powers what united nations does and does not view becomes far less relevant when those two actors permanent members of the security council no less are unable or unwilling to enforce these mechanisms let's bring in. and stop. all other any successes that you can point to. that the universal

declaration of human rights has made human rights violations prosecuted people have been sent to jail for their violations because of the act itself old the declaration itself all the any successes. yeah there are several of . such examples i'm thinking for example one or laureates shooting with dana from chad who is you know been engaged over decades to bring in the former dictator has been a bit too well you know to take him to court and he was finally after many many years he was sentenced so yeah there are many other such examples the problem is that there are too few the legal framework for all of this suggests that there needs to be more accountability we have actually discussed that but is there a solution to this that acceptable to the entire international community all the

law all that tough enough laws that can be brought. i think let's start by saying that the universal declaration of human rights was never meant to lead to prosecutions ok criminal or is one thing international criminal or is one thing international human rights law is something else and what we are trying to do with universal declaration is whole states accountable say to states these are the minimum standards that we expect you to employ with respect to all those within your territory subject to your jurisdiction and that's the idea behind the universal declaration of human rights is the idea behind all human rights treaties and we have seen since nine hundred forty eight many many states held to account either before treaty bodies at the regional level or international level human rights committee the committee against torture or civil the special procedures that

take zest such that the special rapporteur violence against women the special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons special operator on torture go into states they're there what we have seen through the human rights mechanisms is states being told this far and no further of course there are going to be violations there's violations every day of domestic law and nobody says that the legal system of view knighted states or the united kingdom or sweden or thailand is ignored without consequence what we see with the universal declaration of human rights is the starting point for the world to acknowledge that the way states treat their own populations is now a matter of international concern it is not something that's just hidden away and one of the biggest changes that was brought about by the universal declaration of human rights it was the stepping stone to grow to speedier de colonise asian

or by western powers it's part of all. yes yes we now see with the international criminal court the opportunity to prosecute people who commit war crimes crimes against humanity genocide but that's a parallel path to holding states accountable for their human rights violations and that's much better now than it was seventy years ago it's a style of my stomach tight approach of one if you must steady drip drip that improves things is it perfect now why have i got a job because it isn't perfect and i am going to keep on trying as long as i keep working to improve human rights around the world as are all the other people speaking in this discussion but dr jeff gilbert is it is it a strong enough mechanism for you to do what you just said to him to try and improve human rights around the world or is it

a floor documents could it be better yes of course it could it it's the best i have got know the universal declaration of human rights was the starting point we've had a series of treaties since then but treaties have to be ratified what the universal declaration of human rights does is say to every state around the world this is the bare minimum this is what you've got to try and uphold and of course in the past ten fifteen years we've seen universal periodic review where and regular basis states abroad before the human rights council and have to account for their human rights record or want to other states in the global community this is now something that is so much. so much that was unimaginable in one thousand nine hundred forty eight that states all states have to come and account for their human rights treatment record the human rights record on

a regular basis i mean guess could it be better am i going it would i like it to be better cos well my good i guess we all they also yes call and keep on trying to improve things but all states are equal benjamin mention china and the us there let me just get back into there are some states deliberately either bending the rules or simply ignoring the universal declaration of human rights for their own interests. yes i think that's that's clear that's that's the case not not all human rights violators are the same but often upon the same token not all human rights violations are the same i think the reasons that i would disagree with the former panelist about things improving as opposed to the trend moving in the in a more negative direction is that when you look at human rights too often both state actors and non-state actors international organizations n.g.o.s etc often see human rights as being equal across the board and they are not very universal and

they are invisible yes but there are certain human rights violations that are considered the most egregious of all and you mentioned them earlier in the program genocide crimes against humanity ethnic cleansing and too often we see states deal with those crimes in the same way that they might deal with for example attacks against the media or arbitrary detention or something of that nature which again are unacceptable violations and yet in the world of wine aren't human and financial resources unless there is a more concerted effort going out are the most egregious violations first and foremost we're going to see states openly flout these laws and indeed get away with it let me bring in you had as well skin head of i guess i've had to say is it time then full a refreshing of the universal declaration of human rights or is the document itself profound enough to last another seventy is. well it's quite astonishing how

well it was formulated needs was mentioned yeah there are probably room for improvement but thinking of other things written seventy years ago it's quite amazing how well it's it can be used to adopt also to new challenges and. i think the major problem is not changing any and or do it making any amendments to the universal declaration of human rights it's really comes down to the political willingness we have heard about you know that the u.n. security council has one of the major obstacles moving ahead and yeah i think it really comes down to two states to show another type of courage and politico willingness to actually respect the rights we have rather than a great need to sit down everyone together and reformulated professor jeffco there in the political willingness that we seem to keep coming back to that but without

enforceability political willingness just will never be that. but political political willingness only comes apparent by people campaigning and keep on holding states to account even if there isn't a place a forum in which you can try and get these rights of held so the states are held accountable what you can have and what this program is all about at one level is saying to the world these rights exist these rights need to be remembered at all times and governments need to be reminded that they have to live up to the standards what is interesting is that states very rarely say we are violating human rights who cares what they actually say is we are not violating human rights what we are doing falls within the standards that we are meant to meet that is what has to be challenged and it is challenge not just by other states it's challenge by

activists. academics and by the general people saying this documents exists how you fulfilling its obligations i'm just going to ask each of you the same question if you can keep it short because we are coming to the end of the program start with you. bangkok universal declaration of human rights is it a flawed document or is it simply a document that is absolutely necessary in this day and age and also all three of you the same question you could just as very quickly it is absolutely necessary but it is your law in that it does not have an unfortunate mechanism in an era in which trying to name and shame states as the foremost reason means at least a carol it's simply insufficient seventy years on our. graph professor go but what your thoughts. it was never intended to be the end of the line and yes we've had much better documents in terms of drafting in terms of in force ability since

but the universal declaration of human rights is the one that we can always turn to and always holds all states accountable to that those standards because it's universal in its application. boskin finally will end with you what your thoughts. yeah definitely i would say that we should look at it and so serve as a living document can be used to to. meet new challenges and. even daughter yeah the major problem is is that political willingness and many thanks to all our guests. jeff gilbert and you know i had a small scan and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from a in long car and the whole team here by fellow.

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a significant challenges. facing certain defeat the british prime minister don't. is a parliamentary vote on her e.u. withdrawal. turkey demands those behind the killing of saudi journalist be tried under international law plus. the winners of this year's nobel peace prize call for an end to the use of rape as a weapon of war. and i'm peter simmons with the base schools including river plate fans take to the streets of going outside is to celebrate their team's cup of the better though it's triumph over a bucket you get on a vest and plenty more it's when the program. britain's plan to leave the european union has been thrown up in the air after prime minister theresa may decided to delay a parliamentary vote on her breaks a deal explaining her reasons in the house of commons she conceded she had no chance of winning the vote if we went ahead and count the votes tomorrow the deal

would be rejected as significant entre. we will the food defer the coaching for tomorrow. and not to proceed to divide the house at this time. so what happens next is hard to say possible options include britain crashing out of the e.u. with no deal another referendum on e.u. membership or a last minute renegotiation of teresa mayes deal including the or something rather the european union says it's not going to happen earlier in the day europe's top court confirmed the u.k. could call the whole thing off without seeking permission from the e.u. the prime minister describes that ruling as meaningless as she has no intention of halting breck's it honestly is outside of the house houses of parliament rather and london it's been a very dramatic historic and somewhat chaotic day lawrence. well

yes i mean i think chaos is the only way where you can really describe it and without putting too fine a point on it the prime minister really has now lost control of her own policy agenda she's lost control of her own cabinet her in the group of ministers and she lost control of her own parliament she policy to really in you know listening to that those those exchanges in the commons there you know when she said well we've had to listen to what people think and i don't like it very much there which is a house of derision really from from from right across the floor and it's you know she's she's in a terrible hole now because she you know she she she doesn't have the confidence really of the whole of parliament and it is very very difficult and sits in though where she goes from here she said she's going to go back to brussels and try to ask them if they'll help and they've already said they won't do that it isn't even clear now when the vote that was supposed to happen some morrow might actually happen and it had been assumed it would be january but now it is i'm told that it could actually take place right at the end of march of the point when the u.k.

supposed to leave the european union and given that if the vote still come part of the default position is no deal and crashing out that's extremely destabilizing for industry and business that the pounds of the big tumble against the dollar today so they have totally lost control of what it is they're trying to achieve and having spent the last two years trying to find a way to leave the european union it seems now that actually can't do that but just take a listen to the atmosphere inside parliament today when she was speaking in the opposition was speaking it was absolutely raucous. does this house want to deliver bricks it. clear a clear message from the s.n.p. but if the house does does it want to do so through reaching an agreement with the

e.u. if the answer is yes and i believe that is the answer with the majority of this house then we all have to ask ourselves whether we're prepared to make a compromise because there will be no enduring and successful brics it without some compromise on both sides of the debate. the government is in disarray uncertainty is building for business people are in despair at the stage of these failed negotiations i'm concerned about what it means about their jobs their livelihood and their communities and the fault lies soley at the door of this shambolic government my goodness and a war and this this chaos this disarray in the u.k. how is this being seen by by a new members. well i think i mentioned before there's

insurance if you you know some people think if they steals no good then maybe they'll go for what's called the norway option which is to join the the f. to group of countries but norway has come out and said they don't want the u.k. to join and they're. minister was interviewed by a british t.v. channel the other day and she'd like in the u.k. to use her metaphor as a. whole if you comes to the christmas policy starts to spike everybody else's drink and she basically said we don't want the u.k. in the group because they might mess it up for us in the weather you've messed it up for yourselves and you know there is this sense of europe just just holding its head in its hands the will if you will believe in just go ahead and leave but just don't make all these demands on earth and then come back to a saying that you can get it through poland from a bit more this i'm joined by julian who is from the from the think tank focal europe. you spend a lot of time you think using your french self and lots i'm speaking to. europeans

about all this how have how do they see this do you think so in europe has this. you've got one half star just confused by the fact that the ones. diplomatic corps of the british of the british people are just incapable of coming to deal that would suit everybody and satisfy parliament's needs you have a lot of frustration about the fact that british are seen as living in a reality of there are. some conditions. and you have this really almost a sense of betrayal in that not only is britain leaving the e.u. not only is britain effectively cutting ties with the e.u. to an extent. not only is brits ignoring everything it's for partners. its partners intelligence for its words and also is behaving in a way that's highly destructive to not only. the relationship great britain itself . i mean given all that's in the sense of the british arrogance if you like the the

here over and over again when she goes back to brussels for the for the european council at the end of this week and says to them you need to give me something more that i can sell into the british parliament is there anything they can say to her you think we're not first to clarify that that while there is a sense once of arrogance this is focused primarily on people like boris johnson jacob lew smaug david davis who have shown. as many have some people said to me the worst qualities of the british people these are leading grex it's as if people don't know who. the critics say think they can have exactly what they want to all the time and this is what i've heard from friends. however while people such as former president prodi have says to you will never be negotiated this deal is voted down firstly a bit of nit picking hasn't been voted down yet it's just been completely refused secondly the european union has only really committed to having

a sort of rewording of such encloses things aren't going to be renegotiated because for example. the main issue on hands was proposed by the british themselves to be the europeans all see as being the thing to renegotiate why did you do you think in the end there's a sense that if if it is only the minute as you say not and not the substance that could be renegotiated and they know perfectly well in europe that there is no parliamentary majority in the house of commons that leaving the european union without a deal of tools is an assumption that if they just keep pushing to reason may down this line then eventually they'll just cave in and say you know what we're going to suspend article fifteen shut down the road and actually not leave the european union it's all is that the end game i think. especially in this in our it's a very dangerous game because we don't know what's going to happen because for example we don't know if there's a majority in parliament to hold a second referendum. fifty to get rid of article fifteen of it's all balanced on

the m.p.'s want one option i'm afraid there's not really a majority for anything at this time there is that we've got to leave it there thank you very much for all that there were no witnesses going to happen final wilson. lawrence. lawrence thank you. turkey says they says that's involved in the killing of journalists should be tried under international law this comes after riyadh rejected ankara's request to extradite the eight hundred suspects to stand trial in turkey the turkish justice ministry also says finding to show she's body is a fundamental right adding it saudi arabia must hand over the suspects if it's interested in finding out the truth behind the journalist murder mohamed vall has more from istanbul that reaction and that response has created a lot of unhappiness here among the government a very strong reaction this evening by the director of communication for her soon

who gave a statement to writers saying that this response from saudi arabia is very disappointing to turkey he said that saudi arabia has sent the government has sent a team of experts including forensic experts a team made up of members of secret services in saudi arabia to commit a crime in stumbled on a turkish soil so this is not a crime that has been committed by just anybody in saudi arabia it's a crime committed by people who are related to the highest levels of the government in saudi arabia saudi arabia is responsible for this crime as a government and they have to hand over their suspects and he also said that they refused the saudi refusal to hand over the suspects confirms the belief among many here that saudi arabia wants to cover up for this murder he said this team or so has not only these people he mentioned but also the consul of saudi arabia in istanbul has been accomplice according to all of the evidence his accomplice in

this crime. but in your head of the news hour including efforts to stop scenes like this are dealt a blow as key countries refused to back the un migration path. reduced to rubble by palestinian families and. they're being forced to demolish their own home. and. another n.f.l. record. for. more than one hundred fifty countries have adopted the global compact for my gratian which will be formally endorsed by the un general assembly but it's unclear if the deal will make any major impact on millions of refugees as the us italy and other countries withdrew saying the pact is against national sovereignty courts from america. it's the millions of refugees.