here in a big must grieve a lot of foreign media members will never ever. find out that some of their loved ones and it all yeah these in the same source who paid a dear price at the hands of peacekeepers. the special called for sierra leone was established in two thousand and two to prosecute those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the war. sharma hendra was one of the prosecutors at the court and he is now the driving force behind the renewed effort to seek justice a special court didn't have to stick. over nigerian troops we had video evidence. the whole world has seen what has happened.

and it has been probably the easiest cases to prosecute and we did it was just talking peace science. and victims of economic crimes. eighteen years of combined eighteen years of inaction against these nigerian troops despite the most compelling evidence any prosecutor could possibly have that can't be tolerated. over sixteen seventeen years i have this tapes here they just lie there you know got three doors armed kept you know thinkin we seen somebody should just. do something about these. when the call came form karim and shamila i was excited to find them this tapes are going to be useful these tapes are going to be used in a court of law to actually bring. some of these people to our county by piece.

we're collecting the evidence evaluating their goods and. what we can do to assist and nobody has tried in that unical who was who he did to these. those guys we are very inhuman. you treated me like a beast. reds now i don't know how. to turn. them on on me own to go to. the. one. who is walking. or about and they felt. they would spectators of justice. and instead of just skipping through little cracks of justice i think those cracks

became a gaping hole. even if twenty years later we are reopening this issue. then the guy you knock into army are going with ivan be rid of walking come and go and when the us needs shoot no question in fact no one else will when i'm your last one sworn in as iraqi in kill in your mind it's akin. to say we don't want to wait in line. for the only living in bt. up to now and if it's made out between them it's me. if you've been on the one we're up to now. it's on ours he said it was monday on the show he said it all meal in the only war look i'm gonna see since. everyone asked me to.

be defeated see ron noble. i think because of luck i will be stored there will cuba by. the next the. come come tell him i was moved by cards under my last goodbye. about within one. hour she still had lived that long but i just. it went on for hours. and only talk a little maybe talk to me see to cough just. suck. it you can assist. see spirits. suck. seeing that level of cornish meant being

destroyed to your mother and can't you can do anything that's in the us more luck is. in by the waterside. this was going to my mom would be ok. listen i want to buy the content this is. so i see that we're looking to move on and off it was on more than just wish they said earlier five you see that i said my . wife. so and also got one marked for me. i don't know. as a witness in the case sorry a s'more a trouble to the hague in october twenty seventh team to provide his testimony. in my preparation to come and talk to there. you know i took that journey again town and really and i mean this is some of the thinks. he owns.

it's traumatic but. for me it's a few days what these people who saw their loved ones really been brutalized moderate forms of the old eyes they're going to leave it for ever. even if we can register in the consciences of the powers that be that. something like these should move a whole bunch to. so you got my one to start from the baby. because she knew me i was a weird breed i said i'm set you know these guys and she said he should be taken out to. kill him was what i heard.

you say you know you were most good this he didn't finish instead he walked away from the camera. that's. all over him and you. want to thank you. you. really because. i should have saved someone disguise. i struggled i struggled with peace i would beg them to for he for me i perhaps.

i hope you understand. because. he had one hundred t. shirt but no breath no trousers us so they brought him rights to where the bullets where he chain and you put him there you go good. as the way it was you scream. before even touching me you know you could see that. there are something weird i have faced mets mornings in one nine hundred ninety six. i thought he had given up going into a fight i made some he said he found me in the guts that. he was outside with i meant that the b.b.c.

. here was just like some desperate being i don't know what's going on around him we had no idea that it's because he can't talk. what was to come. what a poor boy. he went out for all the rules for these. at the family would not go out. on the echo mall we had very intensify in our area. these same decided to get moses back on the back of the truck and disguise where paunch in the sides you know we do is boots kicking his side when we'll fall slugging you know everyone rushes. to see how he was choked child this is a boy who. should be shot that type of punishment. on that smaller boy. it's on forgivable. belief

that the nigerian perpetrators will be directly targeted by the case has sustained sorious through his dealings with the legal team. but now he his the case is taking a different path. over the last twelve months we've gone through the videos of cyrus mora we've conducted investigations on the ground in nigeria up in sierra leone. witnesses been spoken to statements of being taken and we're now in a position to put for the night claims i tried last year to file a case in nigeria and they wrote back and said well they only had jurisdiction on the territory of nigeria so we were confronted with a problem how to obtain redress we decided the first course of action that was compelling was the one that sought the sierra leone government to do what

a state should do which is to protect the fundamental constitutional rights of its citizens and as one of the relief sought in that claim is for the state to start a proper accountability process because the state in charge of one force meant that they have international standing to make requests to to other states and so they are in a privileged position. this is going to be difficult for all of us i didn't sign off going to be only a student. government initially what i agreed to work on the suit being got this case against in nigeria with me i don't think. it is a syrian government you should run for if you have to go for women and soldiers. it is our hope that in that in this process that there be criminal investigations and criminal cases further down the line in relation to the perpetrators that

appear on the videos that have been named in the statements. but the important thing really is after all these years to start with a claim before a court. in a case that we say well founded. maybe technically the boy is. see that this is the best we tend to speak but for me. i don't think it's right to susannah them at all i personally don't believe that i would give evidence or concerning government nigerian government nigerians or just yes any time. as moyers a fundamental of my fundamental responsibility is to provide objective legal advice to the clients. and it is to try to obtain redress for those clients according to the law and will use every legal option in australia to put forward the best case for those victims to try to represent these. uses of them to this is

very difficult to suppose that. i wasn't thinking i was going to be. tomorrow we are going to be filing. their cases for you before the supreme court and we are asking the supreme court to. give you the address in the last nineteen yes you have been forgotten you are an example of what happened to many many many people unfortunately we can't promise you will win this case but we're trying our best we've spoken to you would investigate we have done a lot of work we pray that the law will protect and address what happened but it's a really worthwhile case so i'm really honored to be representing each and every one of us. the legal case is now with the supremes court of sierra leone and the lawyers await its response the government of sierra leone must decide if it's going to. fight the

case all respond to the month of the day take on responsibility for establishing a process of accountability for crimes committed by nigerian peacekeepers almost two decades ago. we also from our jury an army to respond to read issues raised by this film we have not yet had a reply. a sinister on a guy who secretly controls moldova's condiment own media tycoon misjudged by his

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one of the. former campaign chairman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for bank tax fraud the crimes were uncovered during u.s. special counsel robert muller's investigation into alleged russian interference in

the twenty six thousand presidential election she had was the court proceedings in the u.s. state of virginia and sent this report. the judge rejected the prosecution's argument that paul manifolds crimes were unlike normal financial fraud cases in sentencing him to just under four years with credit for time served this is the only case brought to trial by special counsel robert mueller as part of his investigation into allegations of collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the twenty sixth election but this case has nothing to do with don't trump campaign and so the jury found manifold guilty of bank on tax fraud for crimes committed between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen the government successfully made the case that manifold made tens of millions of dollars through his lobbying for the ukrainian government and then by making misleading loan applications to banks when that work dried up he hid much of that money so it wasn't taxed the prosecution lawyers didn't stop to speak to reporters after the verdict the defense lawyers were to find him a clear except responsibility for his conduct. and i think most importantly what

you saw today is the same thing that we had said from day one there is absolutely no evidence that paul a man of ford was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia thank you everybody for served as an advisor and lobbyist not just the four u.s. presidents but the notorious dictators and u.s. allies like president mobutu of the d r c in the philippines ferdinand marcos he began advising ukraine's victory on a code which in the early two thousand and developed a plan for him to make an alliance with the europeans and move away from russia which was overthrown in twenty fourteen prosecutors say desperate to keep up his lifestyle then fortunately borrowed twenty five million dollars from banks but he was still in financial trouble and an early twenty sixteen he's reported to have seen an opportunity in the trump campaign to kickstart his own career he pitched his unpaid services to donald trump he joined the campaign in march was appointed campaign chairman in june only to lose the position in august because trump

reportedly thought him not tough enough manifold was already being investigated by the government for potential financial crimes but when the special counsel began his investigation in may of twenty seventeen my thoughts connections both to trump and eastern europe were enough to get robert miller interested this is likely to embolden those who dismiss robert miller's investigation as nothing but a witch hunt but it's not over yet for pomona for he's due to be sentenced next week in washington d.c. he could face up to ten years and it's not clear whether he'll serve that sentence concurrently or consecutively. al-jazeera alexandria virginia earlier we spoke to bruce fein who was a u.s. associate deputy attorney general he thinks metaphors punishment is lenient. i do believe that mr ellis the judge has a reputation for disliking special counsels he thinks that they're target people and then look for crimes rather than the other way around and i think you could detect some of his disdain for the prosecution during the trial itself where

he would interject comments suggesting that he didn't think certain things had anything to do with russian collusion why was the special counsel going after mr mann afford for things unrelated to russian collusion was it tempting to get others to volunteer evidence but it's very very under the guidelines that are established at least to provide some general starting point for a sentence of this sort i do think that the sentence will encourage roger stone a codefendant if you will to fight and go to trial and not to plead guilty and expectation that he could receive a lenient sentence if he is found guilty although we still don't know whether the judge in the district of columbia next week will take that three plus years and hike it to ten or more based upon money laundering and violations of the foreign agents registration act to which mr mann afford pled guilty.

over the killing of a witness in a child rape case demonstrators say. by the united arab emirates he was a witness in the. old boy. to investigate. and. they did my presence i was i was crying. and entire. i called on the president to ensure that brought to justice and that my son finally gets. to be the country's biggest blackouts president. by so-called extremists the

electricity provider. was the cause. the power were directed by us imperialism against our people will be defeated nothing and no one will be able to defeat the people of. maximum unity patriots well it's just. correspondence or is a bow just. we're here in the. five o'clock local time there with our all around the country. and many of them.

and the people were struggling to make it back home the power. but also the traffic lights went. off we know all the. people took to the streets with. protesting against the government saying that they're already. with hyperinflation and this situation only. every day the last time that a power like this happened and that. we know that at least four people lost their lives. because the power stations were broken to have one of the most. power. has. power have become a norm. let's get an update from polo he's joining us from colombia venezuela border and even though as tourism was saying power cuts are the norm

a man who. appears to be whiter and reach than the usual ones are you hearing about when the power will be restored. we haven't been able to hear very much out of it as well at all actually as you heard from our colleagues recently in caracas that power outage began at around five pm local time and it's continued it's. nearing midnight that going to be almost seven hours at this point since up our outage began as we heard from theresa this happened at around rush hour local time and get back to us so there were a lot of traffic problems in the city after the traffic lights stopped working outages as we heard are very common in venezuela but this one as you mentioned seems different it almost seems unprecedented in just in that scale. this is the state owned power company they blamed the power outage on quote sabotage of the goody dan this is a hydroelectric plant that is responsible providing electricity for almost the

entire country president mother little took to twitter saying that this is part of being a quote electric war directed by the united states where we are and go. on the border between colombia and venezuela it's almost impossible for us to verify what exactly is responsible for this power outage when it might return or get any other details but we're working on getting as much information as possible on this we we can't actually even verify how much of the country is without power of the local reports that we're hearing here in cuckoo done what we're hearing on twitter from folks in venezuela is this is a near total blackout not in caracas a near total blackout in all of venezuela the opposition leader one wide open as well as up an opposition leader tweeted earlier that twenty two states of venezuela's twenty five states are in the dark that using the hash tag seen lose which means without power so this is this is of course alarming news given the

increasing tensions in the country over the last couple of weeks and something that we should be keeping a close eye on knowing that violence could break out knowing that violence has broken out in the past when the power goes out in the country and as you're saying the president is saying that this is an act of sabotage yet how much pressure is this putting on the majority governments. if this did turn out to be an act of sabotage this would this would certainly be this would certainly be a troubling escalation in what we've seen in terms of tensions we earlier today saw that shipment arrive from the united states from usaid again putting pressure on the on the government of nicole last month again reaffirming that commitment that the united states and more than fifty western countries have for the opposition leader and his support and his campaign for a transitional government in venezuela this is a continuation of this crisis

a continuation of this power struggle between these two leaders the the president of venezuela and the opposition leader. these are this is an escalation of tensions ahead of what is expected to be a tense weekend as both men have called for protests one calling for a quote anti-imperialist protest on march ninth another calling for an anti mother to march to take place the same day and so this is something again we don't know the cause we can't verify the cause of this power outage we don't know how many people are without power but we are trying to get as much information as possible from where we are on the border ok i got it. thank you for that update still ahead on al-jazeera three people killed in an iso attack targeting minorities on politicians in afghanistan kingdom's actions under scrutiny dozens of countries call on saudi arabia to free activists.