forty years since ayatollah khomeini's returned from exile and the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution in the weeks that followed how many's philip followers took on loyalists of the shah including police and soldiers shot had fled at the height of violent protests against his reign of course one of the same best ravi has this update from tehran. we're here at the shrine of ayatollah ruhollah khomeini the founding father of the islamic republic of iran if and here there are thousands of iranians coming together to commemorate forty years to the day since he returned from exile and rock the slummy revolution with now forty years later decades later the ideals of the revolution that he brought continue to fuel holocene here in iran and it continues to be a sort of living thing for which iranian leaders across trying to for example rally support for foreign wars that iran is involved but they simultaneously speak of

this revolution to something fragile and precious that needs to be protected from external threats and while that may be the case that the revolution is also coming under criticism internally domestically the country's economy forty years later is suffering president possible heidi by the president visited this shrine just days ago and he said that iran's economy was one of the worst days that it's ever been and he put the ball squarely on the show of american say all i can still write off even as supporters of the clerical system of government that khamenei established after the revolution come together to celebrate the anniversary this year there are a rival of frost the country who say that they feel the left behind many people that we've spoken to told us that they helped protest against the persian king their khamenei unseeded as he took control of the country and at the time they were

protesting and rallying in support of the role of from a need for change and for prosperity forty years later many of them say that the caretakers of the revolution like am after the founding father of the assad public all they feel is caretakers have let them down by their suffering i mentioned. forty years on and many of the promises of the revolution very few or no have been broken. some ahead on alex's reaction from moscow office the u.s. announces its plans to leave a nine hundred eighty seven nuclear pact with russia. and the face of a long fight against more time sexual slavery the funeral for one of south korea's so-called comfort women.

hello there were plenty of showers across the southeast in parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture is showing most of those over borneo but some of them also over jobber and up through symmetry and i think it's this region again where we're going to see the majority of the showers as we head through the next few days further off they could be one or two over the southern parts of thailand but nor force in bangkok cannot say shame because the air quality here is really quite poor at the moment and we could do with some wet weather to clear the atmosphere before the south so we don't need any more rain here we've had this area of low pressure over the northern parts of queensland for a good few days now and it's already causes a problem with flooding and a few landslides as well these are the pictures of from townsville at the moment certainly a lot of rain there and plenty more still to come in fact we're expecting around four hundred millimeters more in the next few days so plenty of what weather for saturday and sunday not only in townsville but also for many northern parts of queensland and across into parts of the northern territory as well further south just staying incredibly hot for us here in melbourne thirty nine degrees by the

time we get to sunday those temperatures shooting back up once more every towards new zealand definitely cool for us we're looking at eighteen in christchurch in force in oakland it should be quite pleasant or temperature getting to twenty five . tortured detained in their home where chinese readers are freed but is there a safe place to go one of many as far as their perilous journey to an uncertain future. fund al-jazeera. zero.

zero again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour senior figures and ruling class you have met the u.n. and best case looking into the mud of the sides need. to advise the president has said iran will listen to the audio recordings of the mud. drums as progress has been made during trade negotiations with china bought says no deal will be finalized until he meets the chinese president xi jinping. and thousands of iranians have gathered to mark the forty thousand three of the islamic republic and the ayatollah khomeini's for tun from exile a revolution was followed by weeks of confrontations and undressed. but as well as

opposition leader has warned national security forces the president nicolas maduro to stay away from his family. showing up at his apartment was his twenty month old daughter was at home and cinnamon reports from caracas. in the past southport famed interim president why dog had finished presenting a planter national recovery at venezuela's central university when he made a personal announcement at this hour special forces agents are at my home asking for my wife. accompanied by diplomats opposition leaders and the media rushed home residents told us the police agents on two motorcycles had been there but had already left out of the years i ordered a soldier so this country not to intimidate us or poles has remained firm we are speaking of the national plan while they were harassing my family because that's their modus operandi. the u.s. government has warned of severe consequences should anything happen do i lol

government supporters call it a cheap publicity stunt opponents a useless attempt to intimidate them and to add more drama to the day the interior minister announced what he called a plot by mercenaries allegedly paid by the opposition to assassinate keep politicians and members of the military this he says in order to raise the level of upheaval in venezuela. and that is that if you evidence the telephone analysis and interrogations and i produced this morning to capture petard conal. not only is a cruel it's fifty four years old wanted for attempted assassination treason instigating an uprising attacking military facilities. earlier had presented the opposition's plan for the nation a road map pretty good political stability. the first priority he said is to obtain

urgently needed humanitarian aid and that could put the army and president in a dilemma. neighboring colombia and brazil are offering to send the transition government food and medicine immediately now now i mean in the next few days the next few weeks so it's up to the armed forces it's up to the military if they're going to allow that food and medicine called to the border or if they're going to you know keep supporting the block so they're going to have to choose between their families and their leader or at least their what they call their present the. so far there are no signs that the military high command is planning to break with my little who insists that he's the victim of an imperialist could a ta. see in human al-jazeera products. the u.s. is scrapping its nuclear agreement with russia that's according to american officials the reuters news. c. into means it rains nuclear forces trees you know i

n f was an arms control signed by the us and the then soviet union in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the treaty banned all land based missiles with a range of five hundred to five thousand five hundred kilometers now the us and russia are accusing each other of violating the treaty and donald trump has warned hell leave the pats on february second if russia doesn't comply for a challenge has more from moscow well russia has certainly been expecting this announcement in the run up to the february second deadline that washington had given moscow to comply with the i.n.f. treaty there have been various talks going on to try to find a way through the impasse talks in geneva talks in beijing basically the united states says the range of a russian cruise missile the nine m. seven to nine is in violation of the treaty the treaty says that you can't have any

land based crews or ballistic missiles with a range between five hundred and five thousand five hundred kilometers and this missile the united states says is in the banzai and russia says nonsense that the range of this cruise missile falls ten kilometers short of that five hundred kilometer cutoff it's also accused the united states of its own. treaty violations and says that the u.s. has long wanted to rip up this agreement so that it can start a new arms race and says that washington's blackmailing tactics won't work. israel is moving forward with plans to build a cable car for parts of occupied east jerusalem the walls of the old city government says it will reduce congestion and be a tourist attraction the palestinian critics of the plan says linked to a program of cementing israeli control over the east and sector i force that of course. so this is the area where the cable car is due to terminate just outside

jerusalem's old city walls very close to the western wall very close to the locks a mosque compound berners the temple mount to jews it's being promoted by the israeli tourism minister and the marriott jerusalem as a traffic easing tourist attracting measure it's also being promoted by the city of david foundation which is due to build the visitor center cum cable car stop that's also the organization which is behind a lot of the archeological digging that takes place in this area and it's behind attempts to try to increase the jewish presence in the palestinian neighborhood which abuts this area the neighborhood of so one which is in this valley just below us here now that's one reason why palestinians are opposed to all this the very funding for this project was announced on jerusalem day in may last year part of a two billion dollars slew of projects of the israeli government announced including trying to increase the uptake of the israeli education system in palestinian schools increase business infrastructure increase the amount of

archeological digging in areas such as this one so many palestinians see this as part of a wider attempt to cement and solidify israeli control in occupied east jerusalem there's also been opposition from israeli architects and n.g.o.s who say this will be a blight on a beautiful landscape that the fifteen pylons that will be used will be much bigger much more obtrusive than are been argued by the proponents and they also are attacking the argument that this will reduce congestion in the area they say that will merely move that congestion to other parts of jerusalem nonetheless the plans are now published there are sixty days during which members of the public can either support suggest or oppose them before they're put for final submission. u.s. senate has backed a bill amendment opposing president trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan the senate voted sixty eight twenty three on the measure but for one georgia leader mitch mcconnell it says pulling out could allow eisel and al-qaeda

to recruit and destabilize both countries it's a rare rebuke of transformed policy by the republican controlled senate. at least twenty nine children have died in a refugee camp in north eastern syria over the past two months most of them from hypothermia more than twenty three thousand people most of them women and children escaping from fighting have arrived at our whole camp since the end of november but health organizations as many families made the journey on foot and friends in conditions. romania is celebrating taking the presidency of the european union for the first time but it's already proving controversial the government is facing widespread allegations of corruption and mismanagement environmental activists have also told al jazeera the government has been complicit in the destruction of some of europe's oldest and most important forests there is live reports from the seven a national forest in western romania. these high hills approved rich pickings for people who show scant regard for the importance of ancient forests

supposedly immune from exploitation they don't even try to hide their business it's all piled up on the roadside despite commercial logging in the national park being illegal nor did it take long to find the law because we've been warned they might be so we kept our camera at a distance they insisted it won a government auction which allowed them to do this fairly. the environmental activists trying to stop it's say none of this could happen without the government knowing if you slogging conservations are most of the times approved by the state but when we write letters and make complaints the minister herself is answering to our said there should be no logging in national parks so there is a little contradiction here they approve it and they say it's not legal at the same time but you can see it i mean we just drove up the track and it's here you can't you can't miss it all over in any nation are parked in the town which sits below

the national park a huge steel works used to provide employment for nearly everyone but not anymore nothing was found to replace the jobs so it's easy to see why logging became such a large industry romania's forests are vast which is partly why the locals get away with it some of this woodland is among the oldest in europe but large areas have been cut out of it the government keeps secrets any records of what's legal and what isn't so global companies which buy romanian timber furniture cannot know the origin of the wood alina worked for the forestry agency for fourteen years when she complained about all of this she says she was intimidated and isolated ultimately forced to resign and first came out the law or the addict out of the bottle i was questioned by my directors as a biologist i was prevented from doing field work that didn't from going to logging areas in the park they kept me on minimum wage they did everything they could to stop me from being able to speak out they cut me off remain you're currently enjoys the privilege of holding the presidency of the council of the european union which

means it has the opportunity to set policy objectives for the whole of the e.u. including on the environment and yet despite all the evidence to the contrary the remaining government still insists that nothing illegal has been happening inside its own protected forests. i mean their own ministers have been saying as much to the european parliament even though it has been presented with evidence suggesting the very opposite we are talking about illegal logging in private forests where there were no proper services for guarding these forests thirty years ago the remaining people rose up against their dictatorial leader nicholai ceausescu and embarked on a journey to democracy which for the first time has put their country into a leadership position across europe for all of that remaining maintains a reputation as having a thick covering of corruption it seems unable to shake off largely al-jazeera in western remain at the funeral of an activist who sought justice for victims of

wartime sexual slavery has been held in south korea kim but dawn was one of thousands of so-called comfort women forced into brothels run by the japanese military join the second world war so one of the first victims to speak out following decades of silence save the controversial s.c. protesters marched alongside the coffin sami in seoul calling on japan to atone for its actions well but pride has more from seoul. a highly charged ceremony often very emotional literally hundreds of people following behind the funeral cortege through the streets of seoul to here in front of the japanese embassy ninety three year old kim has come to very much symbolize the plight and the suffering of south korea's comfort women there are some twenty three who are still left alive she was probably the most prominent among them she'd spent the latter part of her life traveling widely speaking on the subject campaigning for not only

the comfort women but for other young victims of sexual violence in conflict areas she her lifelong wish of course had been for the prime minister of japan to give an apology on behalf of the japanese people that of course has never happened as far as the japanese are concerned they believe that an agreement signed with the previous south korean administration back in twenty fifteen was meant to have resolved this matter once and for all the fund was set up to compensate the comfort women who are still alive and have q.'s the current administration of effectively run they're going on that deal. and says now sarah these are our top stories senior figures and talking through an act poncing you have a u.n. investigation looking into the murder of thousand journalists. and advises the to

his presence has said nuland teen sings the saudi crown prince as the prime suspects. here as president says progress has been made during trade negotiations with china officials have been missing in washington to try to end a trade war but trump says no deal to finalized until he meets chinese president xi jinping. north korea has agreed to dismantle two of its military sites and open them up for outside inspections of an expected summit between donald trump and kim jong il u.s. special envoy steven vigeland will meet north korean officials next week discuss the next steps washington as a list of demands have gone young including the destruction of all of its enrichment facilities thousands of iranians have gathered to mark the forty year anniversary of the islamic republic and the ayatollah khomeini's return from exile after fourteen is iran revolution is followed by weeks of confrontations between

harmony's followers and the loyalists venezuela's opposition leader has warned national security forces to stay away from his family says officers loyal to president x. but dora turned up at his apartment when his young daughter was at home. so i say to the gentleman. here you are with my wife my daughter in my house and i will hold you responsible for any. who is only twenty. each what they do to the whole country and i say from here leave my home the u.s. says it will scrap its nuclear agreement with russia intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i n f it was an arms control pack signed by the us and the then soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seven the treaty banned all land based missiles with ranges of five hundred to five thousand five hundred kilometers but the u.s. and russia are now accusing each other of violating the treaty. and

a developing story out of south africa three children we're hearing have been killed after a walkway collapse at this school near johannesburg bring you more about that story as it becomes available if they will the headlines what i want is next. in china's western border region of xing junk the government has launched a widespread crackdown on its muslim population. an estimated one million readers have reportedly been forced into detention camps for so-called reeducation. the chinese government

says it's to prevent religious extremism. i'm cool we will change you really good i'm sure. who are the shoe for. those who can are leaving the country but are finding china's growing international reach hard to escape. i'm steve on this episode a one on one east we followed the weavers fleeing repression and ask can we find a safe refuge. is stand by for centuries the turkish city was a key trading post along the ancient so growth running from china to europe. today it's the end point in the long journey for we escape in what they say is china's harsh rule we. are you and i am. i

feel thankful that i can see this. because i haven't seen sunshine for a long time so for me. sunshine is freedom. have to worry is from the city of cashcard inching john it's there he devoted his life to teaching young children the weaker language. i love my language it's good full we're going to use my mother language it's more than one thousand five hundred years written history and her to literature. but add the world he says one day chinese authorities suddenly ban students from learning weaker and he was thrown in jail. and wanted to see if you are one of them now having fled to turkey or do well he is

speaking out about china's secret detention centers where he says we are being beaten and tortured it haunts him to this day it's always on your mind. there's no escaping it no because our fall. our heart is still there the import of we are presently here my body is here but my. you. for years the chinese government denied the existence of these facilities but with satellite imagery we were able to locate where abdul while he was jailed over a period of fifteen months he says he was moved between these three centers in the city of the room. other muslims have also reported being held in these locations. a human rights group secretly recorded footage inside this center. chinese

officials say they are for voluntary job training but the individual cells with bars locks and surveillance cameras suggest something much different. experts say china has build more than a hundred to imprison we. do well he likens them to concentration. they are in faith told officials in st what do you think their and goal is they want to. delete were they want them. to believe the chinese communist party has a god this is what hitler done poor israel people jewish people you just said that you see the chinese government acting like hitler do you believe that's true yeah it's true because you put more

than one million in concentration camp what one can describe it. abdu well his account of his treatment within the walls of the facilities is horrific. prostate is very bad. the first thing they ask me to. look at my clothes. my clothes and they slip my step my but. they have used me more than twenty chinese guy. used here. that any man can except that you're saying he raped you. so i

cannot again forget that i didn't tell anybody after him until now i have talent. because i'm if you show me in the morning three police ask me one day if you guys in power what you will what you will do to us. look i'm human be i and the animals like you. what followed he says was more violence this time at the hands of inmates they put me in the hell with the drug addicts and with the killers. and they beat me. twenty four hours and where were the guards were. the guards. don't care they want

to be tortured like this. if you torture the law it means that you cooperate with them during the interrogation. do well he believes the rapes and beatings were orchestrated to force him into admitting he was a terrorist. i am a scholar i'm a writer and i have never thought about that i'm not a terrorist i'm not to separate and what they confess. to one east interviewed more than a dozen other former detainees all share similar stories of abuse. and do well he says even outside the facilities almost every aspect of daily life are we is controlled. there are reports more than a million chinese officials have moved into weaker homes to monitor families up close. the authorities justify their actions saying violent riots in

attacks by weaker separatists over the past decade have killed hundreds of people. the government says they are trying to stamp out extremism extremism what kind of extremism for example my younger sister she's teaching job at the high school and. is she extremists. do well he says several of his family members have been sent to detention centers as punishment because he fled china. the fate of his younger sister the geography teacher worries him most. you can all tell you had. two kids one this six years not. but in the water to. the next day i do well he takes us to meet another former detainee. who are we

going to see her and she is because i guess the answer is from kazakhstan and she recently came over here yeah earth two months ago. to well years documenting the abuse detainees say they suffered hoping the world will take note and hold china to account. most of us kate the camps are too fearful to talk worried china will target their families but global hard to lower is angry and wants to share her story. yes this is. how long were you held for. which one can you count every single day calamitous the numbers parklands on your plans on what assad back at the bus stop.

google says she and other inmates faced constant humiliation. this can move the kim dejected ams the ship. at night the cells brought more misery for become of them to the position of the me up and said them must have had to be low cut out of the atoms wonder what comes. of them when they're there me i want to get them disbanded times had was almost a little skit see towards the men i have to live in school and you may get the applies for some of the most of the mayor. says the police had no reason to arrest her she'd been visiting to buy clothes to take back and sell in cars and start. she isn't even chinese but is

a card like citizen something she says police changed on her records. mean five million but you get the memo six hundred moment a bit of pleasure to be in the books of wonder woman with kazakhstan because the bitter i mean a bit of it is this because this is my main problems from the first day what did they say to you when you told them that you are citizen the manderson film also dr phil sutton seemed constructor bilodeau. must have that moment in his bed that was muslim rebels and business that's the kind of just. a jungle no women couldn't have the numbers. during her time in detention. she was never charged with a crime and never appeared before court. instead she was subjected to terrifying

interrogations that sometimes lasted twenty four hours intermission in the period with them. they got most mission call particular questions all the. time with sean so. this was a look at some. could have been a third. party. started in detention. last thirty kilograms and his constant nightmares mainly local bench the men look. good doing it although the. china defends their training centers releasing this fifteen minute video on state television. we are shown eagerly learning chinese. getting job training and dancing and singing songs praising the communist party.

i want to show you this this is china's version of what is happening in these tables. where you shop them. or term issue the. saying china is lying in this view. the other now louder than the watch going. to see. one day says authorities suddenly released her and put her on a plane back to kazakhstan. feeling unsafe even in her home country she fled to turkey and now lives with other former detainees.

i can sense you're pretty upset by this they're curating the humanitarian disaster and they are growing seedless of. last november that hatred and anger spilled onto the streets of geneva in switzerland. as china appeared before a united nations human rights panel protesters marched on un offices calling for the release of all we all i'm sure the protests. in the. first.

player who is taking care of us inside china's actions were being questioned with some countries calling for the centers to be shut down we are deeply concerned by credible reports of the mass detention repression and surveillance of course and other months but chinese officials remain defiant about. quote you don't do that but. while china denies it's persecuting people based on their religion an unlikely source says otherwise and you say you know there are. use of is a wee girl who says he's a chinese spy. he claims the information he's gathered has sent people including his own family and neighbors to the camps. of players gone before.

jewish young. so are the evil going here. or do you hear the. use of tells us he originally agreed to spar to protect his family and to be treated less harshly as a weeder yanks for the where the poor dog but with our full. water therefore will go to. the use of says his fellow weaker as can be locked up for almost anything read in the koran having a long beard wearing a headscarf studying abroad or even talking to people outside the country. for sure she'll.

washington. and according to use of china's reach is growing he's spied on weaker is in several countries including turkey and says agents have even abducted people and returned them to china i'm a child payer paid off by just a. short yvonne wishing till your time of the. tongue. despite helping the authorities his family was still imprisoned. in your home where you. were going to heal. some of them. for you. barbara. i or the giorgio.

punk. doyle we were. boy. he expects retribution for speaking to us but believes he needs to clear his conscience. to answer playing i'm sure. i say. you call. me. for the change. that. sawyer or crazy as she went into. a war. yeah or the shining. city heads to town. hall.

leaders in turkey have more to fear then spies. after years of offering them a safe haven turkey's president has begun making deals with china with trade now worth twenty eight billion dollars a year. we girls are afraid turkey will choose its economy over their welfare. for some the time has come to move on yet again. that's a group of canadian readers are here trying to help registering those wanting asylum in canada organizers here tell us that in the past three days more than one thousand five hundred people were put in applications to receive is just another indication of how desperate people are to find a safe refuge. the longer they stay here in turkey the more difficult their situation. their passports are expiring and china is refusing to renew them leaving

them in limbo. there is no way to get even the. chinese past for missing at the present he is a status how common is his story his example people i have interviewed so far hundred percent his case is just a rule this is not an exception. turkey once granted we get citizenship but that's become much more difficult there is a level of desperation. yes yes you cannot open bank account you can rent a house you can go. or we have been persecuted in china we have sought that you know once in turkey we will be able to build a new life where this is not the case. i do well he faces the same uncertainty his passport expires without papers he's not officially allowed to work. here at home at night he tries to stay

positive for his wife and two daughters. well with growing pressure from china and turkey feeling less welcome he worries what the future holds in our homeland we are not accepted by trade dormant as there is it isn't and in turkey we are not accepted as like to take brother here to live just as a thief not as a. man like equal with. that frustration is pushing some weekers to the end. a day's drive from istanbul is the town of chi syria. nestled in the anatolia plains say it looks a lot like their homeland of shin joan. a thousand wiggers have now made of their

home away from home a place where they can live the kind of life denied to them back in china slum right. after prayers we meet some of the men of the community most say they suffered in change or before escaping the crackdown. you know i'm in a negative. and i want to spoil. sport but what they went through they say is nothing compared to the pain of leaving their loved ones behind. him. honestly and as a company. turismo women who go on them to send all of the birth of them. to some of them old number one on the. what little news that does get out worries them even more. just don't belong to

a child out of the. well. most of. the so this committed. all this he's feeling a deep rage i guess it will be. up and. it was that. we would do that will to get it how many people here don't believe that we need their own independent state. because had to put it on them was to get a kid have to live better get a kid. with. community

leaders say it supports his people's resolve to fight by saying that we should be fighting for an independent state. are you not thereby becoming the separatists that china says you are busy to look for those just in the histories among bob's asylum there is a bit slow on this just a bit limited but kitchen it was a while music the fact that there learned that it was a topic your imho it was not for such a general address. but. tom amen we're going completive ledges out of the topic in. the cold. we contacted chinese officials seeking a response to the allegations we've heard of detention spying and torture there's been no reply. in stamboul

well he says he's telling the truth about what happened to him in jail. but rather than taking up arms he's fighting back in his own way. he's passing on his culture to the next generation. of. the. homeland if the district and we can oppress our culture. when our we have a chance there are we have a chance we need to cherish it we need to preserve it to keep it alive. those chances are getting more limited in

a world where china is increasingly calling the shots. for now at do while he can only dream of a solution to their plight. a safe place to call home. business updates.

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hello senior figures in turkey's ruling ak party have met the un human rights investigator who is looking into the murder of saudi journalist. they say agnes calmar shares their frustrations and fears that there won't be full justice for everyone suspected of involvement in the kingdom insists its rulers had no knowledge of the killing inside its consulate in istanbul last october stephanie decker is just outside that consulate in istanbul what more do we know about this meeting stephanie. well at last about an hour and a half ago yes and as a senior advisor to the other parties also the forest official that the fiance. cooled when she was standing outside here and he never really emerged from that concert almost four months ago we know that he's also a friend of democracy so he would have given him his impressions we've just spoken to him and he said that he told this that he believed that the saudi crown prince

home had been some and was responsible that he did speak to reporters just after that meeting in this is what he had to say. to. the united nations delegation has shown that their objective is to convey the facts and deliver true evidence in case to the whole world they have listened to my testimony as a friend of jamal khashoggi we have no hope of reaching justice as long as the first suspect the saudi crown prince mohammed bin is in full control of all aspects of governance including the judiciary the united nations investigation team has the same suspicions and are trying to reach the truth objectively and therefore they are seeking help from turkey and as for telemark her mandate there for the week stephanie has she managed to gain access to the consulates. she has and we actually did to her when she was just touring around she said she wanted to get a feel of it and she said that she had requested access to the consummate also requested access to saudi officials here in turkey that hasn't happened yet she's

also wanting more evidence shared from the turkish authorities as of yesterday she hadn't been shared the order recording of course this is the key order cording turkey says it has of the murder that happened inside there she's currently at the intelligence headquarters in ankara so this is me speculating perhaps she will be played some of that is certainly in the in the words of tell you she's just met he said that he believed she would be made to some of that order record and she also wants access to forensic and scientific reports she does have two other people with her one of those is a portuguese forensic specialist also a british lawyer so this is really something that she's taken upon herself in her edict let's say as the un special rapporteur for extra judicial killings because she said that the united nations nor member states seem to be pushing for an independent investigation during this is of course a story that is hugely politically loaded is a political minefield if you will of all the countries that want to sort of say

gain some kind of benefit out of this the pressure that's putting on saudi arabia so this is the the puzzle let's say that she is navigating at the moment we know that she wasn't fully satisfied as of yet of what she's been presented by the turks let's wait and see whether they are going to be presenting her with that order according with more details before she leaves and she's scheduled to leave here tomorrow all right stephanie decker for the time being thank you. the u.a.e. has denied using spying software to hack the i phones of what it called friendly countries it follows an investigation by the reuters news agency which found hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen a team of former u.s. government intelligence operatives working for the u.a.e. hacked into the i phones of activists diplomats and rival foreign leaders including qatar's in mir and a senior turkish official the u.a.e. confirmed it has cyber capabilities and did not deny the wider hacking claims

the u.s. is expected to announce within hours that it will stop observing a decade's old nuclear missile pact accusing russia of violating its so the kremlin denies that and says the trumpet ministration made up the allegation to get out of the treaty and develop new missiles were a challenge joining us from moscow what's the russian reaction rory. well the latest lines are account from dmitri pascoe of is the spokesperson for the kremlin that it has no official notification yet from the united states about the u.s. withdrawing from the i.n.f. treaty moscow is expecting that to happen off the fabric the seconds that is the deadline that washington gave moscow. once it has this russia will consider its response they also went on to say the kremlin the washington decided to break the

i.m.f. treaty long ago that's been indicated by the u.s. is unwillingness to have talks with russia something that moscow says it regrets and i think we can listen now and watch a report that i put together explaining some of the background to this whole issue . it's a version of this russian cruise missile that brought an end to one of the nuclear age is most important arms control agreements when russia displayed the nine m. seven to eight last week it insisted the range of its update the nine m. seven to nine is too short to fall into the ban zone for the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i am af but the us hasn't believed that since the first raise concerns in twenty fourteen. standards are. consequent to. the standards so parties are.

standard. by by that standard other parties are allowed to manage it now standard that undermines all of our arms control. last ditch talks as an international nonproliferation conference in beijing fails later on friday the u.s. is expected to say russia has not complied with its february second deadline to come back to the i.n.f. treaty and therefore the us is suspending compliance itself it has support from nato and e.u. allies when it was signed by the united states in the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seven the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty banned a whole class of weaponry both pledged to give up possession and development of land based crews and ballistic missiles with a range of five hundred to five thousand five hundred kilometers but in recent years the agreements been pushed past breaking point the united states says the russia has been lying about the capabilities of its newest cruise missiles russia

says that isn't true that it's the united states that is violated the i.n.f. treaty and that washington has long wanted to start a new arms race. it's also accused the us of blackmail tactics. here. as far as russia is concerned we're not to blame for anything we're open for talks on all issues even the most acute problems and we're willing to be as open as we possibly can. the united states says it will take six months to complete the i.n.f. withdrawal process all this fits into a pattern of donald trump's behavior certainly in recent months and the last couple of years he has torn up things like environmental treaties and trade treaties as well in that he walking away the u.s. can force international. partners countries except through to come back to the

negotiating table and there. have been various critics across the spectrum that have said that the i.m.f. was out of date anyway because it was something that the united states and the soviet union agreed to but countries like china et cetera houghton's and they were allowed to forge ahead with missile development as they wished the problem is of course that at the moment there is no replacement for the international intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and there doesn't seem to be any work in progress to try and get a replacement treaty in place ok a challenge of the update from moscow thank you let's take this on with laura rockwood she's the executive director at the vienna center for disarmament and nonproliferation she is joining us via skype from vienna laura rocker thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera so there is going to be a six month withdrawal process in your opinion what is the likelihood of a new treaty coming into place or things being negotiated within the next six

months or are we now facing a scenario where a new arms competition is beckoning. i think to the effect of concluding any international agreement within six months is a dubious at best i think it would be best to keep the i and everything place you don't toe the baby out with the bathwater it's been an extraordinarily successful arms control treaty there have been concerns about competition by china but perhaps the better way of addressing that rather than scrapping the n.f.l. together is to try to engage china either on a trilateral basis or a separate bilateral basis to try to cap their their innocent programs or what does trump have a point when he said look we're withdrawing because the russian service simply been violating it. well as i said they may be there is a view that they are violating the treaty but there is also the mechanism under

special verification commission which could be invoked and hasn't been as far as i know since two thousand and seventeen and perhaps if the two parties were willing they could sit together and try to find a way to agree to a verification that the americans go see the nine and seventy nine and let the russians view what they perceive to be these are offensive missile defense systems there must be some way of saving the treaty and recognizing that both sides have concerns how the europe deal with the consequences of the certain this will draw. or that remains to be seen i understand that the european countries are concerned about certainly about the possible russian byelection but probably more concerned about the i.n.f. treaty going away altogether is certainly protected their territory poor many.