the white house is standing by donald trump's tweet about a muslim congresswoman despite accusations it was putting her life at risk trump selectively quoted a speech by making it look like she was downplaying the nine eleven attacks press secretary sarah sender said omar deserved the criticism that democrats should join him castro has more from washington d.c. . the several members of the democratic progressive wing have rushed to congresswoman omar's defense the reaction from the more moderate leadership and in particular house speaker nancy pelosi has been much more cautious she did condemn the president for his tweet attacking omar but she did not go as far as to defend omar herself and this disconnect between the moderate leadership and the progressive wing of the democratic party is a vulnerability that this president's spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders pointed out this morning certainly the president is wishing no ill will and certainly not

violence towards anyone but the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her not only one time but history of anti-semitic comments the bigger question is why aren't democrats doing the same thing it's absolutely important the comments that she continues to make and has made and they look the other way find out what her comments to be absolutely disgraceful and unbefitting of a member of congress and i think that it's a good thing that the president is calling her out for those comments in those who have condemned trump's tweets have focused on the potential for it to incite more violence against congresswoman omar and this is fear that has some credibility to it because it was just last week that a man who is an avowed trump supporter was arrested by the f.b.i.

for having threatened to assassinate omar and so those who are defending her language are saying that this sort of threat toward her only puts her life in more jeopardy. another call for a nationwide protests against venezuela's president as his rival for this an oil rich region warning from deep. underwater the president of an island nation talks about the perils of global warming. and we've still got plenty of clowns spiraling its way across the middle east at the moment you can see what area in the eastern part of i'm not working it's way over possum iran's spiraling up into afghanistan and bringing us some more rather useful rain said we're all the way it's for many of us here during the day on

monday that system will continue his journey eastwards as we head into choose day turning wintery as they hit some of the high grounds and then further west we've got yet more cloud of rain making its way in from the mediterranean say for some of us in turkey and all the way down the eastern coastline of the mediterranean soaking pretty wet day if they choose days and roll the shop show is a likely hit towards the south that is be rather crowded here in doha of the last couple of weeks really with a few outbreaks of rain all of us now kids so expect things to get pretty hot as we head through the next few days as temperatures really will be rising so thirty four degrees will be the maximum as we head into chews day still a bit of cloud forming to the north of us though so there is the chance that we could see a little bit more in the way of unsettled weather before things finally settle down for the very long summer but as it was the south plenty of showers here you can see them stretching all the way down through madagascar fairly subdued at the moment though not too many of them want to say will still be with us as we head through the day on monday you'll also notice more rain for the eastern parts of south africa durban is looking wet.

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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's main protest group is demanding an immediate handover of power by the military to a civilian government their representatives have been meeting army leaders in the capital khartoum to reach a consensus on a transitional government in libya as the u.n. backed government forces say they've shot down a fighter jet belonging to the world. these pictures appeared to show the aftermath of the crash in the south of tripoli you have to us forces say the plane crashed the white house is standing by donald trump's tweets about muslim congresswoman. despite accusations they were putting her life at risk selectively quoted on war making it look like she was downplaying the nine eleven attacks. families of more than one hundred schoolgirls missing in nigeria have marked five years since they were taken they gathered and she broke in northern borno state where the girls were abducted by the armed group boko haram fighters stormed the school they took two hundred seventy six pupils but some have been rescued or freed

the international outcry sparked the bring back our girls movement which continues to this day catching up as hayat has more. zainab doesn't know if her daughter is alive ever so often she sorts through the books in homework what's up to school on the day she was abducted five years ago over the years her daughter's absence has weighed on the entire family. had a our you know she's the only female of our family my other five children are all boys i hope the government has pity on us. her daughter is among the two hundred seventy six schoolgirls who were kidnapped by boko haram fighters on april twenty fourth team. the military has rescued or found one hundred seven of the kidnapped girls some were freed in exchange for fighters a negotiation between book are wrong and the government others escaped it's

estimated that about one hundred girls are still unaccounted for. in nigeria's capital there are a new calls for the search to continue security and welfare of the primary responsibility of the government has promised to destroy her arm but its attacks have continued more than twenty thousand people most of them civilians have been killed since two thousand and nine this family like others in the neighborhood hopes their missing daughter is not one of those victims. we've heard that some parents have been reunited with their daughters hasn't come back home yet we are losing hope but we're calling on the government to invest more resources to bring back our girls. despite the pain this mother still hopes she will once again see her daughter alive katia lupus with a yawn al-jazeera facebook instagram and whatsapp have largely restored services

after going down across the world earlier on sunday down detector dot com a site that monitors site outages said there were reports of problems in the u.s. europe and parts of asia hash tag facebook down hash tag instagram down and hash tag whatsapp down were also trending on twitter facebook which owns instagram another major outage just a month ago u.s. president donald trump says he's open to a third summit with north korean leader kim jong un he was responding to kim's offer of more talks by the year's end if washington comes to the table with the quote right attitude the two left february's summit in vietnam without an agreement on denuclearizing the korean peninsula prescription drugs prices in the united states are among the highest in the world and members of the u.s. congress are under increasing pressure to lower the costs of zeros kristen salumi spoke to one family struggling to pay for a life saving medication. hunter sego went off to college to study biochemistry and

play football but he put it all that risk due to his worries about his family's finances a family sacrifice to keep me alive it was costing them fourteen hundred dollars a month to pay for the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes even with health insurance wiser and rush more insulin. to suffer for. so he cut back his treatments and ended up in the hospital. al-jazeera caught up with his mother a schoolteacher in rural indiana via skype and she talked about the choices her family had to make. oh. yes. i'm not sure. i just. rationing medication is increasingly common according to the american diabetes association the price of insulin has nearly tripled uninsured families are facing

this families that may have insurance are also facing the high cost of insulin recent congressional hearings have pointed fingers at so-called pharmacy benefit managers middlemen negotiate discounts on drugs for insurance companies and my experience that kind of negotiation rarely results in an act of charity for consumers but ultimately its promise to go companies that set their own prices a cost that isn't fully covered by many americans health insurance policy if a company raises the price of a product by twenty percent and then another company comes in and says that we're giving you a twenty percent discount. you know have they really saved you money lawmakers have indicated that they're working towards legislation that will limit how these middlemen make money and provide more transparency to the process kathy sego tells us something has to be done and quickly. so i know what.

i want everything she's become an advocate for reform knowing other families have even the last with which to make ends meet and it won't be long before hunter graduates will need to find a way to pay for his own health care christian salumi al-jazeera fund as well as opposition leader hijos in the oil rich state of sunni oh where there have been demonstrations against power outages by the who is recognized by the u.s. and fifty other countries as interim leader is trying to organize nationwide protests against president nicolas maduro on saturday maduro called on more than too many a militia members to defend his government reports from. a show of bravado on the tenth anniversary of venezuelans bolivarian militia but. we are ready for the americans if they come let there be no mistake if they enter they want to make it out. this is an emblematic anniversary for the bolivarian

revolution able thirteenth two thousand and two was the data that its leader. was able to overturn a coup against him that briefly ousted him and installed an opposition leader. as then his will is transitional president now his successor is here surrounded by the militia and the military to send the message that any attempts to oust him will meet the same fate. model is under unprecedented domestic and international pressure to step down and allow a transition government to hold new elections so. they are just saying right wingers who for the last seventeen years and now more recently continue to tear dick country apart. they want to install our government over our wealth to the imperialists. as he spoke opposition leader fund why dog was rallying support in the oil rich tourist western state of. it's been the worst hit by power

and water shortages with more than a month of almost round the clock blackouts and the temperatures that surpass forty degrees. after visiting soulis patron saint why don't predicted that the people of molokai will and israel a second largest city would be the ones to lead what he called the final insurrection against my little get down we're here not to rise up because it is going to rise up that will show its pride and of course you have the national assembly and me to accompany this process of reconstruction of venezuela. while power has been restored to most of the capital it's been at the expense of other states like. the government is saying very little about plans to restructure the electrical system which it claims is being sabotaged. instead by looted that cleared all of next week a public holiday to commemorate easter reminding the militia that after their break

they will be expected to return to their posts to defend the revolution. you see in human. us the president of the face cells has delivered a plenty to say below sense from deep underwater. hundred and twenty four meter. below the orson sufis. it is a privilege to address you from the beating brouhaha of all planet than a foreigner was on a submarine under the indian ocean as part of a british led research expedition the seychelles is one of the many island nations threatened by global warming farai says the science of international action is needed for the survival of humanity. from this. i can see the credible wide life that needs our protection but we have managed to seriously impact this class environment through climate change. ocean

acidification overfishing plastics and other pollution we have created these problems. we can solve them. we can solve them together and climate change has been a prominent issue in finland's elections where polls have now closed the left the social democrats have taken early and they are favored by voters worried about spending cuts and the future of the welfare state now dean baba reports. it's a nation of five and a half million people which tops the united nations world happiness rankings but voters in finland do have their worries they've all played into the uncertainty surrounding sunday's parliamentary elections four years of austerity cuts have helped push the social democrats the center left opposition into the lead ahead of the vote there promising to increase taxes to fight inequality the big question is how to reform education how to reform the source of the very first east and how to

care for older people and those are very big questions for us also you know our part but also in fairness shows i think last month the government of prime minister you have resigned after it failed to achieve a key policy goal on social welfare and health care reform how finland which only emerged from recession three years ago continues to fund its generous welfare state is one dividing line another is immigration the social democrats favor a work related immigration policy to compensate for the aging population and declining birth rate but the nationalist finn's party which has been running a close second is proposing tougher limits on immigration we want to reduce to a slower. possible. the kind of human gratian that is you know or opinion damaging to the public financing something contrary to the safety and security of people that's news to most so-called humanitarian immigration from the third world

the finns party has had an effect on the way that we speak about immigration and other parties are being very cautious about their stand in the immigration issues because they are fearing the things party or their support will leak into the things party another issue on many minds especially in cities like the capital helsinki is climate change and the environment. same politics part is like year after year. you know we have this offer here. we have to respect back to the mother nature i wish that there will be. elected government that are like wanting to. take care of the climate and are. more cautious the environment which have a policy gets the most votes it will almost certainly have to form a coalition to govern but finland could be about to get its first left wing prime

minister in two decades al-jazeera it was an unusual scene in ukraine president petro poroshenko debated an empty podium ahead of next weekend's presidential runoff election front runner and professional comedian lenski did not turn up choosing a debate on friday. or sankoh is seeking a second term but many ukrainians are unhappy with the economy and corruption in the first round of voting selenski secure at thirty percent of the votes ahead of the president sixteen percent and polls are predicting a win for the political novice. headlines on al-jazeera sudan's main protest group is demanding an immediate handover of power by the military to a civilian government their representatives are meeting army leaders in the capital hard to him to reach a consensus on a transitional government the military council says political parties can decide on

a civilian prime minister but once to hold on to the interior and defense ministries. we are your brothers in the armed forces are asking you to support us with your initiatives to break through the transitional period we need and hope all of you within a short span of time come to a consensus and agreement upon one figure a patriotic independent person to lead the government libya's government forces say they've shot down a fighter jet belonging to warlords after these pictures appear to show the aftermath in the south of tripoli in the area of. half that is for sale. plane crashed they launched an offensive earlier this month to take control of the capital algerians living in paris and london have gathered in large numbers demanding the resignation of the interim government led by a. that he had replaced. who resigned earlier this month after weeks of protests families of more than one hundred schoolgirls missing in nigeria have

marked five years since they were taken they gathered in northern borno state where the girls were abducted by the vocal fighters stormed the school and took two hundred seventy six pupils but some have been rescued or freed the international outcry sparked to bring back our girls movement which continues to this day. the white house is standing by donald trump's tweet about a muslim congresswoman despite accusations they were putting her life at risk trump selectively quoted a speech by. making it look like she was downplaying the nine eleven attacks the press secretary sarah sandra said omar deserved the criticism that democrats should join in voting has closed in finland's general election on the left as social democrats have taken an early lead there favored by voters worried about spending cuts as well as the future of the welfare states those are the headlines inside

story is coming up next then it's the news hour i'll see you then. getting away with murder and how do we ensure those who commit atrocities face justice there was an international court for war crimes and she invites violations boss more and more perpetrators are escaping punishment so how can we hold them to account this is inside story.

and welcome to the program. murder war crimes crimes against humanity including genocide these a some of the worst atrocities and international law from conflicts to the persecution of minorities because of religion or ethnicity the world is facing more instances of human rights violations and increasingly the people responsible for getting away with them cut it was holding a two day conference on the issue attended by more than two hundred fifty representatives from the un you and various rights organizations they're discussing ways to ensure the perpetrators of such crimes don't escape justice and are held to account there are calls for the un to appoint a special repertoire to combat impunity the un's human rights chief says they can't be piece of thoughts responsible for crimes don't face justice. society says cancer it's a face and saying turn readings must however be the suppress the reference when you see firsthand accounts of men women and children who have been subjected to

remember horrific crimes massacres torture sexual violence displacement separation denier's access to basic medical care to education we've asked the mayor to bring the perpetrator of this class to justice and to protect the buttons victims have a right to justice an average. trip takes a stand or a piece of the conciliation this is a must al-jazeera as a solomon job it has more from the conference and the. basic human rights and civil rights exist on the statutes of most countries in the world but human rights workers and activists say that they are constantly being pummelled on a gathering of more than two hundred fifty representatives of non-government organizations as well as stakeholders from various parts of the world have gathered here in door to discuss efforts to try and end that impunity with which rights are floundered people here have been talking about rights of in combat zones in places

like syria and yemen to libya and other areas where there are sprouting sense of achievement by the people similar to what is happening in sudan and this is what the organizers have been telling us that they've been trying to achieve is to bring people under one roof where these ideas can be formulated into a framework which can be then presented to various human rights organizations in the world who can try and see how these basic rights can be given to the people and we've been hearing stories of frustration from activists from all over the world who say that yes there have been conferences but these tend to become echo chambers of similar voices and the people who are actually carrying out the violations of the. yes rights are never part of these conferences and that remains to be the challenge in not just conflict zones but other parts of the world where the right to assembly the right to free speech the right to housing or various other rights

are not being it had said this is what activists have been telling us that they want the world especially in the case of syria activists say that they want the world to take north of what its inaction has achieved and they want people to hold responsibility and then also people who have been violating these rights to be held responsible for inside story i was all a big job in the. let's take a look now at some recent cases the cia reportedly concluded that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salam all of the murder of journalist last october but u.s. president although trump has avoided implicating him saudi arabia has detained eleven people but none of them other close aides to bensalem alt's want to be involved in killing saddam's deposed leader or model bashir it has evaded to international criminal court arrest warrants are war crimes and the army says it won't extradite him to the hague syria's president bashar al assad has been accused

of war crimes in the eighty eight conflict but has ally russia has vetoed un resolutions to refer the matter to the i.c.c. . well let's bring in our panel now joining me in the studio is toby cadman international human rights lawyer and barrister at going to thirty seven that's an international law firm in beirut as rami who we professors of journalism at the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard kennedy school and also in the us from the conference is more. chief of the rule of law equality and nondiscrimination branch of the office of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights a very warm welcome to all of you. before we talk about more in more detail about those specific cases that we mentioned let me start with a general question to you why are we seeing a rise more human rights violations and war crimes and does impunity and the lack of accountability that mean that such crimes will only continue. well let me

just start from perhaps a different point of view that. where you actually posed the question i'm not sure we are seeing more impunity actually we are seeing more awareness of human rights violations are taking place it's thanks to a book at the civil society to human rights defenders a lot of special representatives questions of inquiry very active human rights council u.n. human rights council that is why the knowledge of what is going on in the world and basically we are a lot more aware of what people are going through in different parts of the world where much more for that there is not much more information. flow and that for me gives us there is an urgency to deal with what we know the good story is that we have a framework we have

a framework we have all saw institutions that are in place and we can do something about it we need the political will we need the support to be able to move forward and that's actually is the responsibility for all members of the international community to make sure that this is happening ok so possibly not more crimes being committed but definitely more awareness of the ones that are so how do we take that awareness and hold people to account had been let's talk about some of the cases that we've already mentioned there are plenty of big cases of possible immunity impunity here rather and what can be done if we look at the most recent one the toppling of long time sudanese leader or the sheer who's wanted for war crimes you know for his role in the deaths of millions of people and that for between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight the military who are now in charge in sudan have said they want to extradite him to the hague they will try

him one of the chances that omar al bashir will face a fair. trial and saddam was a big question that the i.c.c. is going to have to deal with now because as he's indicted by the i.c.c. the i.c.c. has jurisdiction but of course the i.c.c. operates under a principle complementarity as a law a court of last resort and so it is preferable that cases such as this all are tried to mystically in the place where the crimes were committed so as an advocate of justice not because of the dims rights i always want to see justice. in in the areas where the crimes were committed but it can be very difficult to put an individual such as al bashir on trial particularly during the the current situation with the with the military rule and whether there would be a sufficient legal and institutional framework in sudan to try him in a civilian court that would meet fair trial standards and that will be one of the

questions that the i.c.c. has to ask recent when they've been put in the same position as far as libya is concerned and they allowed for a trial to go forward in libya most international lawyers such as myself thought there was an absolutely ridiculous situation and so i think they're going to have to look very very carefully at what legal institutional framework they have in place to put him on trial that there is not the death penalty and to what extent the international community will be able to support it i think the likelihood is that people will want to see him tried in the hague at the i.c.c. but it's quite clear that this the sudanese or thirty's currently in place are not going to hand him over and we also have to understand that the military rulers who are in place are part of a system that have committed crimes over a lengthy period of time and so they're not going to want to see him hand them to the i.c.c. and so that's that's also

a problem. mr cody i want to bring you in in on this i know that you watch events in the region very closely how do you see what's unfolding in sudan envenomation to or. and will what happens to him depend on whether the military stays in power or a civilian government is a mountain those two things will be important and the great dynamic that's taking place right now in algeria and in sudan is a historic unprecedented and really pivotal moment when millions and millions of citizens are peacefully trying to actually put into practice the principle of the sovereignty of the people in the consent of the governed. the governance of the arab world for the last fifty years or so has been dominated by security and military services and this is what these uprisings have been all about they started eight years ago and now they've reached a dramatic moment again and. and so that if you can get

a genuine civilian legitimate accountable participatory and democratic and for listing governance which is what the people want there's a possibility that we can then re furbished our judicial system and allow for really high quality accords of international standards the likelihood of that is there but it's going to take a long time in the meantime the real problem we have with the i.c.c. in the international system is that it seems to be a kind of a new form of western imperialism or colonialism where basically these institutions are dominated by the permanent members of the security council the ultimately go back to the security council in most cases and the permanent members of the security council the great britain and the united states and france and russia are all actively at war in the middle east they're selling millions and billions of dollars of arms they're actively fighting in places like yemen and syria and other

places. so that libya the french and libya and so the idea that the r.c.c. will actually hold accountable people all over the world people level of justice is not a very realistic one unfortunately that's why it's been mostly topless african tyrants who have been put on trial with a couple from former yugoslavia so this is the problem that we see a kind of a double standard and it's not easy to see how almost hassan bashir will be held accountable mr. cadman i do want to bring you in on this now because i know that you were you know you have a lot to do with the i.c.c. but before i do mr shaunie what do you make of that you know the fact that. the i.c.c. and who has power and the international criminal court make up the permanent members of the u.n. security council who are also involved in different conflicts around the world including arming conflicting parties well perhaps is that is

known only three members of the security permanent members of the security council are members of their own statute and there are two important members the u.s. and russia which are not party to their own stature and that's a problem and that itself doesn't and that that's a problem in itself as into the united states that china russia and members of the international criminal court. yes i think that that that is than issue but as we know universal three theory is fine for them to be taught the universe though and totally and this is the this is of course very important that all members of the international community all members become party to the rome statute but that actually the we also the issue in a different way the international court of criminal court talks. fifth you wish it was in place and when they to. opens investigations as these investigations are

either defer to by the security council or a member state itself brings the situation to its attention to situations where referred by by the security council this is a situation in the road for banks to a very comprehensive commission of inquiry on the fourteenth two thousand and five and is the situation in libya the other situations that are before the international criminal court were more slee refer to it by the state itself the prosecutor took the initiative in a few few of the few situations but these are not really the big the big majority of five so really it's thanks to the state's corporation with the international criminal court that we have the situations which are being addressed right now in the court ok i want to talk now about situation and then i want to when i was. just going to bring mr cabinet now on a situation that is not being going to be investigated by the international

criminal court they ruled on they will just yesterday that that the international criminal courts chief prosecutor cannot look into war crimes in afghanistan now they said that it wouldn't serve the interests of justice if an investigation into crimes against civilians doesn't serve the interests of justice i mean how will justice be served. well i think it's fair to say that the decision by the pretrial chamber in relation to the situation in afghanistan has been widely condemned by international lawyers around the world myself included the there are a number of problems with the decision of reach first of all by applying the the interest of justice to test now the interest of justice tessie's ordinarily a test that has to be applied by the prosecutor in not opening an investigation. so for the for the judges the pretrial chamber to apply that is problematic as to

whether it will has even jurisdiction to apply such a test the the other issues of course this is come on the back of a very. bullying campaign by the united states and so the message that that sends is incredibly dangerous yet at the same national said a craven capitulation to america's bullying absolutely and you know this is not the first time we've seen this we we saw this many many years ago with us trying to convince other states not to. ratify the rome statute says not the first time we've seen that and we've seen this of bullying tactics over a period of time. and so the decision is going to be interpreted in such a way and that's going to give other states the strength to stand up to the i.c.c. and not cooperate so that's that's dangerous in itself the other issue that has been raised by the i.c.c.

pretrial chamber is the inability to effectively investigate there of course prosecutors around the world on the national or international level will always apply a test of whether there is a reasonable prospect of successfully prosecuted the case of course you look at that that's a process prosecutors test not not a judicial determination and what we are seeing is a situation where there is constant battling between the prosecutor and the judges as to who has the discretion to determine cases and when we're looking at the inability to investigate they're talking about the situation in afghanistan is very different now to when the inquiry is first started the position of the united states not cooperating. but if we if we go back to some of the other situations that have been investigated in the sudan as an example there's been no cooperation from from the regime. the pretrial chamber one ruled last year that it has jurisdiction in respect of mind ma right by by using this

new form of jurisdiction which is which is very innovative and the judges were the ones that agreed to the prosecuted did have jurisdiction group was one that's. because bruce saying that the court does have jurisdiction and we've not followed up with a filing in relation to syria and jordan so we want the judges to expand their jurisdiction but so it's very difficult to understand how the judges can say that it is too difficult to investigate in afghanistan so we're not going to have to go to it when they have made rulings in other cases and as as other guests have said. particularly the point that when you're looking at this killer realism imperialism right the odds have been made. serious criticism of the i.c.c. and the one case that they fall on is against united states and that is really

playing into into into this for criticism absolutely a lot about i.c.c. and their role in combating impunity but mr hawtrey i want to bring you back in now on one other specific case that doesn't involve the i.c.c. yet anyway which is that of the murder of a journalist you knew well gee and what saudi arabia is doing detained eleven people and carrying out a trial in secrecy we don't know the names we don't know the charges and despite the fact that the united states the cia and the u.s. senate believe that crown prince mohammed bin sound man was ultimately responsible are we going to see him and tried over this will he face justice for this. it's unlikely that some of been some man will be put on trial anywhere but that's not really the criterion that we should be looking at what's fascinating is that he's already had his wings clipped

a little bit the crown prince of saudi arabia in different ways that the press the king is taking on some more authority in foreign affairs the second important thing about saudi arabia and the killing is that while the american government trump in particular have essentially supported the crown prince and said leave him out of this the congress has taken serious action passing laws about yemen about saudi arabia about accountability and some european governments the norwegians the germans others have suspended arms sales and another symbolic moves so we are seeing some significant practical actions friday seen by some elements of major western governments but on the whole there isn't a big direct move to bring him had been summoned to trial but we'll have to give this some more time and see how those who are pushing back on him get their work done mr smalley i want to bring you in now on another subject that we mentioned at

the start of the program which is of course syria interesting you know omar al bashir was in syria in december missing from syrian president bashar assad we've had the united arab emirates open the embassies in syria and both the united arab emirates and saddam asking the arab league to allow president assad back in some five hundred thousand people killed in the syrian civil war is russia going to face justice. the file of syria is really a very painful because we are talking about really as you said hundreds of thousands perhaps of people who were who were killed millions but haps this internally and outside the country and really the destruction of our country is really really enormous as you know we are talking about the huge. and human rights

crisis in the country to me it's very important that those responsible for what is going to about twenty seven million people in that country actually one day face justice as i said before i think we have an important framework that and we are working to words this we have a commission of inquiry that keeps highlight the various aspects of this whether it is detention. executions the penalty. starvation various aspects of it we have now the independent in depend on the question investigative mechanisms of what is known as the. which is collective and according to information we have the commission of inquiry is identifying perpetrators ok so what you're saying and what is missing to it is there's additional mechanism right so there's additional. haven't i can see you

want to come in we don't have a very fundamental the program so i'd like to ask you so we have framework judicial mechanisms missing in some places what is it going to take what will it take to end impunity for criminals well very very quickly looking at syria in particular i think mother is quite right in what she's saying and highlighting the role of the commission of inquiry and the role of the trapline the mechanism there's a really really important. when you look at syria you've got to a situation such as syria you got to think we've got to collect the evidence we've got to safeguard the evidence because for future prosecutions we never thought that charles taylor would be held accountable we never thought that right of on target who has just received life and president would be held accountable the those who are responsible in syria will be held accountable the i.c.c. doesn't have jurisdiction over syria as i said what we are trying to do now and we follow the beginning of march with the prosecutor which is now being considered it

is for the crime of force deportation the same as the situation of my mom and our group is hopeful with the support of the trip and the commission of inquiry that the prosecutor will be given sufficient evidence to to investigate and then potentially bring charges but what you've got to understand and i say this having dealt with those near rwanda iraq libya is that we can't expect this to happen overnight it won't happen overnight and the majority of the situation is going to fall on syrians and syrian institutions and over a long period of time that's where we also need to be dedicated in support i would like to see the trip and other institutions providing support to help train syrian lawyers and judges because they're the ones they're going to have to deal with this in the long term in this cabin thank you very much for that unfortunately we have run out of time even though we have so much to discuss on this but i'd like to thank all of our guests toby cadman rami who are in beirut and more also here in

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transfer of power to civilians as their representatives hold talks with the military. libya's u.n. backed government forces say they've shot down a fighter jet operated by troops loyal to the world. also the young the u.s. fleet who puts his life at risk by rationing medication and why stories like his are becoming more common and i'm lee harding here with all of your sport where the masters is heading to a dramatic end there are seven players still in contention for the green jacket tiger woods being one of them with just a few holes left to play. polo protest organizers in sudan are once again calling for him an immediate transition to a civilian government activists are still out on the streets there holding a vigil in front of the army headquarters and hard to right now this comes as office groups hold talks with the military which deposed longtime leader on how to

share the military council wants to hold on to the interior and defense ministries in any transitional government and says political parties can decide on a civilian prime minister. on. we your brothers in the armed forces are asking you to support us with your initiatives to brave through the transitional period we need and hope all of you within a short span of time come to a consensus and agreement upon one figure a patriotic independent person to lead the government have a morgan has more from cartoon. at the moment there is a bit of a difference about how the transitional period should be led the military council as you've said once the defense ministry and the interior ministry and the political parties want to appear in government but one of the main points of contention between the two sides is how the transition period should be run the military council wants to be the one supervising the transitional government until

elections are held in two years to a time now most of the political parties are saying that this is not something they want they want to be an independent transitional government they want to be the ones running their own affairs deciding what happens with the country and of course we have the sudanese professional association which is not a political party but it was the one that was here spearheading the calls for protest and still as it's made it very clear that people should continue to protest and till the military council agrees to hand over power to an independent civilian transitional government until elections are held so at the moment there's a bit of a division about not just how long the transitional period should be or how it should or what should it should comprise of but how it should be run who should supervise the weather should be independent or whether the military council should be the one running as well as points of contentions include what rights do the military council have what should they do and what they cannot do these are all points that are currently being discussed and we are waiting for them to come up with

a statement to know if they've managed to agree on how the transitional government should look like for the next two years there in. funding is the dean of social sciences and humanities of the institute during the one thousand nine hundred she was also a diplomat in sudan's foreign ministry and he says the two sides need to reach a compromise. it's simplistic to believe that the military will hunt the government . and the elected civilian. group because it's not clear who is in charge of this group and who is going to so they have to have negotiations about transition i think i think there could be a power sharing maybe between that. professionals association and the. that and the military as happened was sort of to have in one thousand nine hundred eighty five or some some form of forming about i think. they should be some kind of a met with by

a competent civilian. hasn't actually. given powers and the military should just be like a rancher's of peace and security for everybody some medical has to reach i think everybody knows the military you know and the civilians know that we have to have a kind of. agreement you cannot for example. hand a government to any elected group you have to be some kind of transition where by in this transition during the transition some caretaker government whether military oath to the nation be there and then people should agree also about the basics how are the what how the country to be run but are the rights of people who are not part of the government what are the rights of minorities. that sounds issues good just about some of the.

proceeds to do it like. some tricks and violence libya's u.n. bad government forces say they've shot down a fighter jet belonging to warlords. these pictures right there they appear to show the aftermath in southern tripoli have to troops however say the flame crossed they launched an offensive earlier this month to take control of the capital. let's. cross over to tripoli bring in ed he's joining us from there michael does were saying the u.n. by government saying that they've shot down a fighter jet belonging to. have to his forces say that that is not what happened what are you hearing. well. it's been confirmed by the government of national accord which is that its forces shut down

a fighter jet belonging to the world have to or. that is near a disused international airport on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital also have those forces confirm that they have lost a fighter jet in neighborhood the. pilot managed to escape with a parachute we know that have to as warplanes have been targeting several locations by air strikes over the past week in and around tripoli also have planes targeted a location two days ago in western the coastal city of as wilder and the government of national called has been accusing have to his forces of committing war crimes by targeting civilian areas as you know daily in that one hundred. people have been killed since have to have his forces launching the military offensive to take over the capital tripoli on april fourth and many of the casualties are civilians that

according to the health ministry at the tripoli. government we know that concerning that the military confrontations on the ground today was the least in terms of intensity of military confrontations but still the government forces they still maintain their locations remember that among the civilian areas targeted by have to his forces by warplanes made the only operational airport in the city and speaking of civilians. how are they coping with this potential fight that is getting closer and closer to the city center of the capital. well it's a disaster we have just spoken to civilians regular lay people in the streets. there is a lot of the bill more than nine thousand five hundred people have been displaced since

the war started on april fourth and many of them didn't have shelters some of them have been getting shelters from our local donors others are from relatives but they say that the government support in this regard is very little and they're. counted have been receiving have been receiving displaced people from the areas near the fighting areas but in all cases there is a lot of people who have been also wanted by random rockets in areas like work that will be a bit of sheer swanny and also. they did what as the fighting continues they say that. the fighting continues there might they might not fight in their houses because the fighting as you know is going on in net civilian areas currently between have to his forces and forces allied with the government of national accord all right thank you for that update from tripoli so as one who mentioned more than

one hundred possibly one hundred twenty people have been killed during half that is offensive to take tripoli that's according to the world health organization. this strike by have to jet in the town of einstein ahead a school in a refugee center no casualties were officially reported there but you when bad government is accusing have to out of work crimes. as fighting goes on refugees on migrants in libya say they're terrified of what might happen to them most people trying to reach europe from other parts of africa do so through libya and now many are going back to some of the countries along the transit routes. the disease has more from neighboring tunisia where. officers and locals here are telling us dozens of people are crossing the border from we don't mean to agonise every week that is the position right now you know that is in addition to the thousands of migrants

who are still trapped here are people who fled recently from libya into are going to trying to find refuge from the ongoing crisis in that country and there are more people by the way who are coming into i get is try to wait out of this equation in libya waiting for the right moment to cross the border into libya as a transit point and then into europe now the horses here and i get is including humanitarian workers like the united nations high commission for refugees and other nongovernmental organizations have risen up for a massive inflow of refugees from libya the traffic of human humanity or more by grants is now on going to fly side people instead of going to libya by now coming back to hillary negatives where facilities are overstretched or obviously are really concerned about health impact infrastructure is not adequate enough to cope with a large influx as well as security so the united nations is telling al-jazeera that they are also making the necessary preparations they don't see it right now but

they're making preparations in case there is a massive flow of refugees from across the border in tunisia and here there are also concerns in tennessee about asylum seekers have come from libya trying to cross the mediterranean by boats over the past year hundreds from several african countries have ended up on to his insurance has this report from. back in his boat tunisian fisherman was arrested last year for helping save fourteen african migrants at sea the telling because guards accused him of human trafficking he faced fifteen years in prison but was later released after months in detention. a member of your human memory i didn't commit a crime and i would do it again we cannot abandon them with our faith cannot allow us to abandon the.