you know here area we just took up arms to defend our city and on a half to forces came a thousand kilometers to enter our city we didn't go to their ears the homeland is our cause it has taken lots of blood and souls we will return to carry on no matter what it takes. them and when tripoli but have to those forces went through very yann since april fourth they have been fighting forces loyal to that you recognize the government on the southern outskirts of tripoli where the world health organization says close to three hundred libyans have been killed in the three week battle for control of tripoli and tens of thousands forced from their homes many civilians including women and children were killed by indiscriminate shelling the government accuses have to his forces of targeting gray's attention areas with

heavy weapons more than thirty thousand people have been displaced and aide workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of tripoli the forces of the u.n. recognize the government to push after the forces out of tripoli. fighters lake mohammed and his comrades are determined to reclaim the city but with no sign of the fighting in any time soon there are likely to be many more commemorations in this main square where that they were hit al-jazeera tripoli. whether it's next still ahead on al-jazeera and. old friends north korea's leader kim jong un meets the russian president for a fast time. and the war on migration. comes to u.s. pressure and cracks down on central americans traveling.

however we've got the weather going downhill across southern parts of china over the next couple of days but some places a cloud into those central areas as well links back with some sickening clouds down to southern parts of china so there will be rather more in the way of wetter weather around hong kong lossie dry and settle this we go through friday as a case to down towards the southwest of cool chance of one of two spots of light but they supposedly become a little more widespread as we go on through sas day for back in hong kong to wrap twenty seven degrees celsius bright skies the sunshine there fish and high around nineteen celsius son shot in showers meanwhile across southeast asia philippines basi fine and dry malaysia know the positive indonesia that usual rash of showers heat of the day south of the sunshine in the daytime become the afternoon you will

just catch you out shafir around twenty minutes off an hour as per usual little change as we go through friday and on into sas day a sticky thirty six celsius there for bangkok it is lousy dried is law as you drive across much of south asia area cloud here we've been talking about for the recently swelling is way sun part of the bad been go moving rather recross disallowing over the next day or so we could see increasing rank coming in here saturday. sponsored by countdown and. refugees heading for a better night in australia. and sent to remote island indefinite detention conditions get a conscience. understand how to do this to smuggle dot for each and eye witness accounts the main thing you're doing for paper asking in no time. to kill the internals witness chasing

a sign. on al-jazeera. hello again i missed as. a reminder of the news this hour tree line because health ministry has revised the number of people killed in sunday's suicide attacks down by more than one hundred the prime minister says some body parts were wrongly counted and the death toll now stands at two hundred sixty. sudan's military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but insist they will retain the leadership of the transitional process in the capital khartoum that tens of thousands of protesters including judges have been camping

outside the military headquarters demanding civilian rule. the international committee of the red cross as warning residential areas of tripoli are being turned into battlegrounds at least three hundred people mostly civilians have died in three weeks of fighting for libya's capital. russian president vladimir putin says he wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the united states he was speaking after his first face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong un step fasten reports from. it's almost a year since russian president vladimir putin invited north korean leader kim jong un to russia now they finally met face to face for the first time thank us while russia and north korea and neighbors their ties have become more distant since the collapse of the soviet union both leaders say they want to change that. i am proposing

a toast to happiness and the beautiful future of our two countries people as well as the health of our comrades and friends here. do you know isolation dominated the two leaders nearly two hour long private meeting with inside the united states and russia have mutual interests and that is a north korea without nuclear weapons or. what is denuclearization it is to a certain extent disarmament of north korea of course i have spoken about it all the time and can confirm once again the north korea side speaks about it as well democratic people's republic of korea needs guarantee of its safety and sovereignty . even though no concrete results were announced him and put in both used this summit to send a message to the united states two months after denuclearization talks with donald trump in vietnam failed they praised each other extensively clearly showing the world that their very first meeting was a success it's

a third foreign trip this year for kim jong who is staying here at the university campus his long and what he described as candid discussions with flooding not only show that he has to turn to but also that he has options before considering signing a. deal with the united states put in said kim has asked him to convey north korea's position to the u.s. government the russian president will also meet chinese president xi jinping in the next few days while russia has not been included in talks about the korean peninsula for some time this summit might have brought putin's involvement a little closer step fastens al-jazeera to russia. well former u.s. vice president joe biden has officially entered the twenty twenty race to the white house and locks his third attempt at the presidency and as our white house correspondent can be held at explains his candidacy is not without its challenges

so glad to be here with you today never before have the candidates to become the u.s. democratic presidential nominee been more diverse of the. twenty running many are candidates of color and female joe biden is neither in the battle for the soul of this nation that might be one reason biden chose the issue of race in his announcement video to be a candidate for u.s. president books america tonight dear idea is stronger than any army figure in the ocean more powerful than any dictator tyrant he's confronting his vulnerability and selling it as a strength. he says with u.s. president donald trump blamed the deadly twenty seventeen white supremacist rally in charlottesville on both sides are new through tuesday. like any are never seen in my lifetime biden argues that despite looking a lot like trump his views are starkly different or touch with the issues progressive and younger voters care about but biden's decades of experience as

a vice president and senator also present challenges will be scrutinized for past traditional views he says have changed over time on issues of race and women's rights last month he defended himself against accusations of inappropriate touching of women. changed. given five and shifting positions many younger a progressive voters continue to support senator bernie sanders candidacy. they see biden as the old guard washington failed to stop trump any progressive see sanders as a consistent challenger of the democratic party's establishment wing joe biden has a wealth of experience decades of experience the problem is joe biden's record is all over the map but perhaps one of the best measures of biden's vulnerability

comes from his former running mate president barack obama america's first black president obama's spokesperson so far has. praised biden's candidacy but stopped short of a door survive it. joe biden will have to convince the diverse useful members of the democratic party that is seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome really help get al jazeera the white house while the seventy six year old who has already run twice for the presidency and has what's already a crowded race for the twenty twenty democratic nomination joe biden is the twentieth politician to announce his intention to run as the democratic party candidate and five more democrats are expected to announce their campaign soon the candidates will face off over a dozen debates and contests state primaries and caucuses in the coming months the

candidate who receives the support of a majority of his or her party's delegates will win the democratic nomination while michael fauntroy who is the acting director of the running waters leadership and public policy center at howard university says joe biden has a good chance of winning the democratic nomination. it is a very crowded field and under ordinary circumstances i'd say his chances are not particularly straw but for what it's worth all of the polling that's come out of the course the last few months measuring public opinion among democratic voters shows him consistently at the top of the charts now still early and there's plenty of room to mess up if you will but at least at this point he looks good the reality is that too many candidates and it already is too many choices not enough attention being paid to some of the candidates who are credible in many ways but just don't

have a lot of attention a lot of space to build the name recognition and so at this stage of the game somebody in joe biden's position is much better situated going for bernie sanders is a dollar white guy fact bernie sanders is older than joe biden so it people can gravitate toward bernie sanders and has no reason why they couldn't do the same thing for joe biden ultimately though i think this election is going to come down to who who can be donald trump and all things wait i think it's more likely to be somebody like joe biden or bernie sanders than it is any of the others who are on the right . well now mexican immigration agents have detained over three hundred central american migrants have attempted to cross over to the united states this week and said largest trade they've carried out and more than yes the detainees are part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico and with immigration checkpoints now dotted around the south of the country people are taking more dangerous options

now resorting to sitting on top of a train known as the beast that has seen people die only as names in the past after falling off as there is money or apollo has more than arriaga and seven chapters. were standing near the railroad tracks in the town of out of the agony in southern mexico just under three hundred kilometers north of the mexico guatemala border and it's kind of a surreal scene to my right is a freight train known as a lobbyist the over the beast in spanish and to my left a group of central american migrants and all i would say that there's some around three hundred central american migrants that are waiting to climb aboard this train now the reason that we're seeing so many of these people opting to climb aboard this is the specific freight train which has been known in the past to claim the lives of migrants who simply fall asleep and fall off the side of the train cars is that many of them are afraid to walk on the highway or hitch rides on the highway given a change in attitudes both by the mexican people and the mexican government themselves

and i say this change in attitude because in the past when we would see migrant caravans making their way north across the mexican border with the wal-mart with guatemala we would see people welcoming these migrants with open arms we would see donations taking place and we would see mexican officials simply allow them through the mexican government was even handing them humanitarian visas to allow them to transit freely throughout the country none of that is happening any more it's almost a night and day changed here that that's a train signaling for more people to get ready the trains getting ready to move now . most of the people that we've seen have already climbed aboard but what we're hearing overwhelmingly. american migrants are dominantly from honduras is that they're afraid they're worried they're uncertain about what their next steps are going to be but they are determined to make their way through the u.s. southern border. thousands of bosnians of attended the funeral of a prominent bosnian serb businessman and government critic. and his bodyguard was

shot dead on monday the forty eight year old was a vocal opponent of bosnian serb nationalist leader dick and had accused him of stoking tensions to divert attention from his corrupt practices while in mozambique tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes after psycho and kenneth made landfall on the country's north coast mozambique is still recovering after the devastation from die just a month ago kenneth first hit the french territory of my alts on the indian ocean and killed three people on the islands overnight. an eleven day campaign of climate protests designed to cause major disruption to london has now come to an end the extinction rebellion demonstrators targeted the city's financial district on the final day of protesting they've been calling on the u.k. government to declare a climate emergency and take radical action on climate change. or french president emanuel offered tax cuts for middle class workers in

a bid to end months of anti-government protests but supporters of the so-called yellow vest movement say that's far from enough many are planning to take to the streets once again on saturday natasha but the reports from paris. at his first presidential press conference on domestic affairs emanuel mark all said he'd listen to people's grievances over social inequality and the french political system in response he offered a raft of new policies including a reduction of m.p.'s and income tax cuts for work let me you're going to fuel the best way to address the needs of fiscal justice is not to increase the taxes of dispersal of that person no it's rather to lower taxes for the greatest number of our fellow citizens in particular for those clothes and part of the middle class is also touched on personal matters saying he regretted some people considered him arak and. i've given the impression of always giving orders of being tough and at

times unfair this i regret because it's not why i am and it's not helped our cause . macro's new policies were based on the findings of the great debate an initiative he launched in january to give people a chance to discuss their concerns at a town hall meetings and online an attempt by the president to end months of yellow fest street protests if the cost of living in the state of politics emanuel not all hope that his speech in new policies will convince french people that he's heard their concerns over the social inequality and he's trying to help he knows that if he fails to persuade them his credibility his popularity i does a policy to continue with his reforms wealth. in paris yellow vests supporters gathered after the president's speech and said that not out there back of the sort of my reaction to he says speech is one ward resign when a government does not answer to people who need it is necessary to hold elections

again we will continue your demonstrations to convince mr mccraw and to this of these government. the real test for macro will be how the wider public will regard his new policies and whether he's managed to bury his reputation as a president who favors the rich this little doubt that the timing is vital halfway through his presidential term and just one month until the european elections he urgently needs to rebuild trust the special buchla al-jazeera paris. hello i'm the star of the italian doha with the headlines on al-jazeera tree lanka's health ministry has revised the number of people killed in sunday's suicide attacks down by more than one hundred the prime minister says some body parts were wrongly counted and the death toll now stands at two hundred sixty sudan's military

leaders say they are willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but insisted they will retain the leadership of the transitional process in the capital khartoum and tens of thousands of protesters including judges have been camping outside the military headquarters demanding civilian rule. of combat. because. it's. i think we're not. quite. this new. agreement. is. residential areas of tripoli are turning into battlefields that's the warning from the international committee of the red cross after three weeks of fighting for libya's capital at least seven

fighters were killed in an airstrike south of tripoli on wednesday forces loyal toward khalifa haftar fighting against the un recognized government of tripoli. russian president vladimir putin says he wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the united states he was speaking after his first face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong. mexican immigration agents have detained over three hundred central american migrants who attempted to cross over to the united states this week it's the largest raid they've carried out in more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico and with immigration checkpoints now dotted around the south of the country people are taking more dangerous options they're resorting to sitting on top of a train that has seen people die or lose limbs in the past after falling off. those are the headlines join me for more news here after inside story do stay with us.

there was not supposed to be a controversial issue but the united states checked in to a un resolution and sexual violence in conflict on the text was amended so has the us failed right victims in walls and how much politics is at play this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm in wrong on the international community agrees

that rape must stop being used as a weapon of war the united nations' pasta resolution to combat sexual violence in conflict zones but it was watered down the u.s. oppose the use of the words sexual and reproductive health which stella geisha and fed employed it supported abortion thirteen countries eventually voted for an amended text without the controversial phrase the fun of a also removed a reference so u.n. monitoring body that would report acts of sexual violence are difficult to get its james bays has more from the united nations in new york. the german foreign minister chris i did over this meeting about one of the grave issues possible women and peace and security sexual violence in conflict. you'd think there'd be unity and joint resolve but as ambassadors arrived here for the meeting it was

clear there was deep division this is a dark cloud on this group a concert on an issue that we supposed to be closing ranks and i agree we're on unfortunately a politics of this if we believe in the values of the u.n. we believe in the values of women rights this is a real fight and ironed out their attitudes that we just don't have history as the council heard from the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists a nobel laureate snoddy him around and dr dennis mccuaig a tense negotiations continued about a draft resolution written by germany the us authority fought to get references to the international criminal court removed but backed by china and russia it also wanted changes to the words sexual reproductive rights because it argues that phrase implies support for abortion the campaigner and lawyer a mole clooney made it clear the council would be judged by its actions this is the

your nuremberg moment your chance to stand on the right side of history. and to the thousands of women and girls you must watch i think members shave off their beards and go back to their normal lives while they the victims never can in the end the german delegation rewrote their resolution it passed with the u.s. support but with abstentions from russia and china after the controversial wording was removed the council effectively caving in to u.s. pressure. thank you very much. hard work. european nations say they are dismayed by the u.s. position and believe this battle is not over yet they detect the hand of the u.s. vice president mike pence in trying to roll back the internationally agreed position on women's rights for the last quarter of a century one diplomat described the alliance between the u.s.

china russia and others outside the security council including saudi arabia and the vatican as the axis of the mediæval james plays out zero of the united nations. let's have a look at some of the sexual violence cases in different war and conflict zones and it's estimated that more than twenty thousand muslim women and girls were raped during the bosnian war between one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety five the u.n. says more than six thousand iraqi izzie women were kidnapped and sold as slaves by eisel fighters in two thousand and fourteen in the democratic republic of congo a report found that there were average forty eight rapes every hour i mean in march through accuse of systematically raping rangar women in iraq in state. let's bring in our panel joining me on skype from washington d.c. rhenish are republican strategist and consultant from new york and tonia maulvi

executive director of legal action worldwide and also on skype from uppsala in sweden. sellstrom university of uppsala as department of peace and conflict research welcome to the program let me begin with you in d.c. first what should have been a easy resolution to pass was made more difficult because the u.s. had a problem with just a few words sexual and reproductive health can you just explain to us why this administration has such a problem with something so simple. well i think we have to look at the source here and the driver on this issue is vice president mike pence if you look at his record back in the indiana state house and and frankly all the way to the u.s. congress i was on capitol hill as an aide at the time he was a congressman he has been fervently pro-life and he's had a problem with the lexicon around pro-choice language for a very long time so i think that this could be coming from secretary pompei o or

anybody else within the administration would be misguided this is entirely coming from vice president pence and it's coming now because of seen as a political chip this is a win for the evangelical base of the republican party that brought donald trump to power in two thousand and sixteen so i don't even think president trump has anything to do with this i think this is purely a political move and it's ideological entirely for vice president so those of us who've been pro-choice in the party for a very long time there is no changing the minds of those who are driving this and it's simple it's not it's something that they're doing because donald trump is any back on the ballot and they want evangelicals to feel certain that this administration supports life so this is about domestic politics not about international politics not about foreign policy correct the end they're not thinking about the foreign policy implications they're not looking at the record of president george w. bush who made exemptions when we looked at non-governmental foreign organizations

that were doing so much good in places like africa to help it rid us of these these awful things you know each i.v. let's talk about what's happening to young girls again raping us as a weapon of war i just want to add really quickly a little bit of color in two thousand and eight i was a capitol hill staffer and i at the time i happened to work for the only member of congress and still was against abortion in the case of incest and rape so the republican party was not always this way it was shocking when i found out the member of that i work for did that but it also told me that the party was still very understanding of this issue and willing to flex its gone to complete different direction now just for a story just very quickly are you still a republican after this is such an. i am i've made my career in the party and though i have not been very supportive of this administration i'm willing to look at the good they do it this is not an area where they're doing anything right

they're not listening to advisors they're not understanding the implications of the bad implications of this going to have on us foreign policy moving forward even after president chavez of office they're in there just being very box stand and this is about domestic policy as you put it so it's hard for me to support the party but i also believe that i'm part of this next wave of agents of change that will be here to hopefully get back to the core principles of the party after the trumpet ministration is long gone. in sweden let me bring you in hey you've had a republican strategist say that she's actually disappointed in this decision what did this decision mean for you. i'm not acts. of domestic foreign policy and or on you know the republican party's internal dynamics and pres vice president pence's views i've i mean everything that has just been said points to the fact that this decision and the sort of obstruction of

language around sexual and reproductive health or around mechanisms of accountability in this in this security council resolution resolution all of these mathematicians are really against evidence they're not based on the evidence of what sexual violence in armed conflict is or are the kinds of map of initiatives that are necessary for helping survivors of sexual violence rebuild their lives heal physically integrate better into society after a walk after war. or just in general for are to have a greater sense of accountability for perpetrator here perpetrator or perpetrators of these acts so what i have and what i really feel is the obstruction of that kind of language is just a way it's a it's

a political act and it's it's going in the thesis of a lot of evidence of that of how this violence occurs in war how it's used as part of war and it's it's going against the distinguishing between whether or not such violence requires particular measures to help people who are completely innocent and have really been victimized by these horrors and i just i really wish that there would be more effort to educate evangelicals to educate domestic constituencies to educate the public and. really raise awareness about what is sex sexual violence on casting it really truly is and sonia in new york you've heard our guest in sweden say that this is this is seemingly a political thing legally speaking is there any recourse the security council has kind of come back tough in this legislation or is the legislation in your opinion

now we can because of the the change by the u.s. . well we have to look at the facts on the ground and as a former u.n. investigator for sexual violence i interviewed hundreds of rango women who'd been subjected to brutal gang rape and when they crossed the border from me a mile into bangladesh there was a lack of access to reproductive and health sexual services and it resulted not only in some of the women and girls dying but them being having children born of rape so we have to look at two parts of it one is the security council resolution itself and the absence of these services but what has been the impact on the ground and how are we going to improve services to women and girls we're representing women and girls in south sudan who are brutally gang raped and subjected to sexual slavery when they cross the border from south sudan into uganda there was also not evade ability of these services so the u.s.

is this is a culmination of its policy of not just support organizations to assist women who have been survivors of brutal sexual violence and i think we have to look at the bigger picture and what is happening i also want to add that if we look at that resolution it was not only the absence of reproductive sexual services but it mentioned did not mention the rights and also women rights defenders and so the u.s. also did nothing to address that matter and that's also extremely concerning do you think now that her antonia that this resolution is a nonstarter or do you think yes it has been weakened down but we can still use that as a framework to move forward. well you know i think overall it is actually going in the right direction so we have three losses that i just mentioned but i would say there are five wins in this resolution firstly it focuses on the victim centered approach and we saw not the security council speaking secondly it emphasizes the

role of civil society organizations like mine legal action worldwide that represent victims in a quest for justice thirdly for the first time it mentions about sexual violence against men and boys fifty it took forty eight talks about children born of rape and fifty about the role of the recognition of un investigations and fact finding missions of commissions of inquiry and that's really important so i think we are moving in the right direction and we should look at those winds as well. in sweden what do you think do you think you are moving in the right direction with this are used but more pessimistic. i'm. i don't i tend to be more optimistic and has a mistake i think that i agree that there are really important. steps within this resolution and even in the process of negotiating the resolution and the and fall i mean you can see from the text and the coverage of the debate that civil society has been really active and recognizing contributed to finding solutions and to

developing different operate tactical measures are around a whole range of things and i think that's really important but i'm a little bit alarmed that we seem to be moving along you know backwards most of the women peace and security resolutions since two thousand and now we are in almost twenty years since the first resolution on women peace and security was passed in the u.n. security council most of these have received you know increasingly sort of. a universal approval and acceptance and so now we find a situation where china and russia have abstained from the resolution on sexual violence and we find that their language has been watered down and that the country that has been pushing the resolution had to make an important compromises not that it's not a deal breaker i think that it's better we live in

a better world today because of this resolution than without it but i do think that there are some real cause for alarm that now that this is become much more politicized than it's it has been in the past and so that would be my my concern rina in d.c. the americans seem to this administration seems to be taking a go it alone approach it's not listening to its allies certainly not as much as previous republican administrations or even democrats for that matter it went against the germans the italians and the british in this particular decision you're going get your allies now i mean how alarming is that for you. well it was less alarming that it was two and a half years ago because it's been two and a half years of watching this administration forget who its allies are and forget about what america's real role of the world is and i think overwhelmingly the american electorate still is that very philanthropic we are the number one most philanthropic population in the world we believe in doing good across the world

spreading that good in ways in which this resolution could do however i think when we get to the root of why this administration being is this action in this way it's because of. our role with the u.n. what is the u.n. need to us would to me mean to the u.n. there's almost no regard for it and that frankly if they go it alone be isolationist approach this is just the trademark of this administration he the president of the united states donald trump has come to disrupt and so if he isn't turning things on his head in his mind and in the minds of those around him he's not really doing his job so essentially i think what this really is and this is really sad is that there is a sense that americans they think the administration thinks that americans don't want their tax go dollars to go to or it's funding abortion and i think again if you look at how the of the partisan breakdown is on this issue obviously we know

that more republicans care about that but it in at the end of the day i just don't see any movement forward and that's what also troubles me is i think we're going backward on women's issues and we're not doing what we should be doing as good stewards of issues women's issues we've been leading the way for years where does this put us now and if our you know seemingly be allies follow that really means that things down the road who are our women's reproductive rights and sexual health so i'm really concerned i am just there are a number of countries in the world there are a number of people in the world will be watching this and wondering why abortion the woman's right to choose is such a hot button issue in the u.s. i wonder if you could just very quickly explain to all of us why this is so controversial in every other country it's just normal. yeah well we have separation of church and state here but if you look at this issue you would think that's the

case because again there are so many lawmakers there but united states and state houses across the country that seem to legislate it with their holy books and so you know there is a sense that people do come to public service with their views and tact and a lot of those these are guided by religion however i think if we had more servant leaders people would be willing to accept other ideas and opposition to their views but we're just in this moment of hyper partisanship where this hot button issue that it's been for years is even more hotly contested now and republicans are unwilling to bend because it all comes down to my taxpayer dollars we pay high taxes and there's a sense of what does that go to is it going to nation building outside of our borders are we going to start building with that and that's what this administration is trying to guide the narrative down that road and turn in new york clearly the u.s. is a very big player when it comes to this as security council it's opinions count and they can do things like change the language and united and united nations

resolutions but i have to ask the question how do you fight what reno has described as being a hard right religion a religious wing of the u.s. how do you get what you want what you see as being right into the language into the united nations. i think it's quite shocking what the u.s. is stand some what we saw during the security council resolution debate the four weeks prior to it and during the discussion and i think we can't distance ourselves from the administration's decision and and say that trump did not support this because he could have stepped in and if we look at the u.s. increasingly as isolating itself as you mentioned with the european states i hope that they will come together and band together to to to stand up against the u.s. and maybe this will be a uniting gnome and i mean if we look at international just. this and the us it is very dismaying we saw recently for the first time the us has taken away as we

understand it the i.c.c. prosecutor has a visa to enter into the us and threatened i.c.c. judges i mean what does this say for the us and was a lot more outcry about it so i think that we you know i would like to see european states certainly civil society organizations like mine will be lobbying them and how can we reach out to other civil society within us to stand up against this administration because it's going to affect let's be honest hundreds of thousands potentially millions of women and girls also men and boys who have been subjected to brutal sexual violence let us not forget that in syria right now there are. persons have been raped and they have very little recourse to access to justice and the u.s. is not supporting. passing to the i.c.c. for many of these situations or the ability to even take cases when the within the u.s. so i think it is a very concerning moment. in sweden it's

a very concerning moment also what antonia said was that this was a moment that needed that needed more outcry we haven't seen that kind of outcry from individual nations particularly european nations what do you think that is a walk tougher stance can you take against the united states if i think it mean that it well that depends i mean i think that on sexual violence and women peace and security edge and up i do think that many of the not permanent members of the u.n. security council have a really strong role to play sweden where i sit now has been instrumental for example in this stablish thing. really gets flagged down and around a lot of these issues around and making big commitments to multilateralism to accountability and rule of law and the international system to strengthen anywhere

and it has a feminist foreign policy the first family's foreign policy in the world so i do think that many other countries will step up and they have stepped up in the past and in a way they they are the ones who have really pushed this agenda forward because i mean let's be honest i am i think that what's happened now ins extreme this with this resolution and what this particular administration the trunk administration has done is very extreme but i do think that there has been a there is a. document sort of tendency was in the greater american. public sphere to really distrust international system the international system and multilateral organizations and to really pursue and to distrust the u.n.

. and to pursue a kind of. special road and it is very individualistic and exceptional last position i mean so is the army that we are running out of how to do want to bring in rina from d.c. here from our other guests you have heard let's say cautious optimism this is a good resolution however we're very disappointed in the u.s. as language and we hope the u.s. language changes i just want to ask you very quickly do you think they said ministration is capable of wheeling this back and it will change its mind or do you think this is set in stone i think as of right now because of the way the political winds are shifting in this moment there's no change there's no going back they need this when donald trump is on the dollar twenty twenty this is a political check that they will say we got she something the evangelicals are not happy despite getting two justices on the supreme court they want to know that this

president really means business when it comes to the issue of life and so this is their best way of showing that and this is about ensuring reelection so there is no going back i think this is set in stone which is very sad because i do think of a good child the daughter of the president may have quietly lobbied about this but was unsuccessful thank you very much to all our guests richelle and ternium all of the and the all new sellstrom and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site out is there a dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me in wrong car and the whole team here by phone now.

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socialist alliance hold on to power stay with al-jazeera for the latest on the spanish election. yes. i do. and i do. some of it i like. how i missed. with the top stories on al-jazeera sri lanka has revised down the death toll from so sunday's so aside attacks but people are being warned they could be more attacks coming five days on the prime minister has. admitted intelligence failures and confusion over how many were killed in the blasts at churches and hotels he says the toll is likely around two hundred sixty about one hundred less

than previously thought as foreign story reports tough new restrictions are now being imposed under a state of emergency armed patrols random searches the increased security can be seen everywhere on the streets of colombo as the hunt goes on for anyone involved in sunday's attacks it's not just the police and the army but the navy an air force are mobilized to. the prime minister running. told al-jazeera that the extra security measures are necessary and people have been taken in i am sorry i cannot be you know the number but some are on the run and the third following them remain for the first is to round up the. intelligence services and the government has been criticized for not acting on warnings about possible attacks defense secretary hemisphere if a non was asked for his resignation by president may three palace or a center has agreed to stand down a limited state of emergency has been enforced since tuesday giving security forces

greater powers to detain and interrogate further details of those emergency powers are emerging among them is censorship of the media and internet and limiting the right of assembly the wider powers given to authorities are reminiscent of what happened during twenty six years of civil war the fighting ended ten years ago in sri lanka is once again on edge more arrests have been made and police have released the names and photos of suspects in the capital bomb scares cost a temporary lockdown at the central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagoda forty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the

cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomb as they have said they came from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and got their man married. me that muslims who are my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence al jazeera colombo. sudan's military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but insisted they will retain the leadership of the transitional process in the capital khartoum tens of thousands of protesters including judges have been camping outside the military headquarters demanding civilian rule residential areas of tripoli are turning into battlefields that's the warning from

the international committee of the red cross after three weeks of fighting for libya's capital at least seven fighters were killed in an airstrike south of tripoli on wednesday forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar fighting against the un recognized government of tripoli russian president vladimir putin says he wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the united states he was speaking after his first face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong un emanuel macron says he wants to significantly cut income tax as part of reforms to transform from speaking in response to months of yellow vest protests the french president also said he'd make it easier to hold referendums on national issues and in mozambique tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes after psycho and kenneth made landfall on the country's north coast mozambique is still recovering after the devastation from die in the last month those are the headlines the news continues here after witness.

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a month you have to let them know all you. can see and if you know. we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they found . you just. continues sending a signal to the rest of the world that this is a nation or please you just a nation. this has to die can send a very clear message to a solemn seekers who are contemplating risking a voyage. and that message very clearly is diet risk it don't give your money to a papal smuggler because you will not be better off. by make absolutely no apology whatsoever for taking a hard line on illegal immigration to australia. what the australian people elect.

thus there was this stuff because. this is a national emergency we've got to treat us as such.

and so is i. i mean it was intentional. i might even tell you that i mean i think. that people look in photos. that they. can. fat people have already seen a five. four hundred five hundred days. i didn't know they'd be so many security personnel.

it feels militarized. a friend of mine called me and told me hey that hiring people to. you're interested in the sausages and i thought yeah yeah i guess i am so i did she gave me this number and she got the number for facebook i'd leave it on her and i called this number and said i'd like to go to my room and the woman said sure when to leave. i was not mcrae any and sidney and i joined the salvation army society on facebook and they posted an ad about good. at the time they made it sound like a really nice thing but they made it sound like it was just a two week kind of holiday you could bring your friends along. and two to three

days a dozen never it was two of my best friends from school for a wide range of people and though you know eighteen year old university students advertise and the only thing that we had in common was that none of us had experience working with refugees before. i can't stress enough the remoteness of the location and. it's in the middle of the pacific ocean. it's an island of ten thousand people. it takes twenty minutes to drive around the island it's extremely hot. humid and. just how poor the island is. in this trend of mccombs the non-government and says we're going to a few billion dollars over the next seventy years to has a few thousand asylum seekers for a failing economy like never i can imagine it would seem like

a very. good option. on my first day we went up to the town. the salvation army to have a serious small briefing and said go out and help the men. and be their friends. a lot of people were really confused when they first arrived in. i remember one particular intake a lot of the members saying to me where are we i thought this was part of a strategy or. so it was up to us to tell them that no you know didn't stray there you're not really. one of my most

vivid memories was assigned being on the wall of that said stuff would have to be trained how to use a hoffman. when i asked what a hoffman's knife was it was the knife used to cut people down when they found hanging. quite quickly i started to realize that i had sent myself to a place which i never would have gone. the day the prime minister of public enemy and i are announcing a major initiative to combat the good people smuggling. but now all the asylum seekers who arrived in australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in australia as refugees.