but of this is 47 to day yesterday another 50 and so on so forth it would exceed the maximum estimate of the number of good in those in this in this area the number of insurgents with exceeded by 4 so we have to be very careful there but if there was a 385 i confiscated then we're talking about a significant blow to. sign up or if it was the target organization. the un security council is holding talks on the recent spate of violence in the sun whole region of west africa but in a fossil is representing 5 countries in the region and asking the council members for help to combat armed groups operating there and missing in new york formals when c. is attacked in the share in which 28 soldiers were ambushed and killed lou for example enormous removes it from the threats from these groups remain strong and exerts an enormous pressure on our states and all across the threat is gaining territory it is no longer contained to the north of mali or the deserts of broken a fossil or along the mauritanian borders it has taken new forms with more terrible

consequences. where is it from a scared star james bays was following that meeting and sent through the substrate . they're asking i think for money and equipment because there has been efforts in recent years particularly by the u.s. to cut the budget spent by the international community on peacekeeping and that means that in this area in the sahara area you have a somewhat piecemeal and patchwork approach to the problem in terms of international peacekeepers you have a big force 13000 peacekeepers in mali a u.n. force but they're only allowed to operate in mali then to deal with the growing problems across the so how will you have the group the g 5 sale joint force now that's hardly up and running it's staged some 7 operations this year but it doesn't have the budget to do the job it doesn't have the equipment to do the job and it is now trying to get the un force to provide basic things like rations and

fuel so it can do more of its work and that certainly of repose or by the u.n. secretary general temporarily at least for the u.n. and the e.u. to provide funding there are other forces in the region the french special forces are operating in the region the you have a training mission in mali there are also u.s. special forces although the pentagon no longer gives any numbers of how many there are in that region and we believe the number has been draw down significantly in recent months so lots of different efforts of the international community but nothing that seems to be particularly well coordinated giving given the scale now of this problem across so many countries. as mentioned earlier one issue is the escalation of violence in britain a facile. has the latest from the capital what is it going. there's been really an

increase in intensification of attacks not just in berkin faso in neighboring mali in the share and also in bin then of course a lot of countries including france the foreclosure power are calling for for more more armies more boots on the ground and just in december the g 5. convene a meeting and there was pledge of a half a $1000000000.00 in aid for the security sector so far only $63000000.00 from the european union has been disbursed now according to the united nations here there is 1.2 children that are in urgent need of assistance there's been 200000 people displaced so yes this is an emergency situation that's being played out out of sight deep in the health and really the whole u.n.

security council and the government here in britain of us are really trying to alert the international community to try to help them with this situation. but it's more still to come on the news hour including we'll be in sri lanka to find out what's behind the recent wave of attacks against muslim minorities at the soul change of the jitters italia peter has the details of the new man and the pink. restaurant his government says the country's peaceful enough that it can lift nationwide evening curfews that have been in effect since monday they were imposed after gangs attacks mosques and muslim businesses the government says hardline buddhist groups are under investigation over the attacks bernard smith reports from the northern sri lanka. a chat with almost any village monk will give you an idea

of the challenge sri lanka faces in repairing relations between its muslim minority and buddhist majority population i think and we'd like to talk with muslim and muslim community leaders to have a discussion and live in a couple way to be able to live harmoniously and muslims need to realise this is not arabia this is sri lankan lanka has a culture and a civilization and it identity 31 men from this village are in police custody after violence in northwestern sri lanka on monday. very. open under their oath says the men were protecting the village and didn't attack muslim properties 9 mosques were vandalized and hundreds of businesses in more than 30 towns and villages were ransacked by what witnesses described as sin healy's young men a sailor wickramasinghe is not advise or to one of the buddhist nationalist political groups that are now the focus of government criticism after this week's violence if i go to saudi arabia if i say i am

a buddhist person i need the right if you're talking like that what will happen to you. saw me how do i understand the reality i had this is a mad already there were these people are saying that is the norm now the muslim people they understand their video of a police raid on a mosque where large knives were seized spread quickly on social media it's thought this helped fuel anger so the government shut down access to apps including whatsapp and facebook but we're missing a says the government hasn't done enough to calm the tension if someone said this there is a way. in this must see them you know on these muslim houses then of course emotionally raw trying to protect our children right so we we expect from the government to take a necessary action. this control this current situation at st

sebastian church in the gumbo they're continuing to repair the damage caused after one of the 8 easter sunday suicide bombers blew himself up here he killed more than 100 of the 253 people killed in a series of coordinated explosions across the country most of the victims of the bombings and christians but they're not the ones that have been involved in this week's attacks on muslims rather one minister is blaming buddhist extremists are trying to tarnish the reputation of the government bernard smith al-jazeera and the gumbo in western sri lanka. the rights group amnesty international says it had it has evidence war crimes may have been committed in libya or a lot of there has waged a 6 week long offensive to capture the capital tripoli from the un recognized government the city has gathered witness statements sans compiled satellite images which it says reveal on law for rocket attacks on a neighborhood of tripoli the group is calling for an international investigation

earlier we spoke with the animal cry me who is the deputy director of middle east and north africa at the sea international she says several attacks have been launched on civilian areas and migrant detention centers. we believe residential areas residential neighborhoods where no obvious military target was i don't hide were being targeted with unguided and precise. rocket we've also looked at 2 attacks that have struck migrant detention centers. including an airstrike at a warehouse facility located in the immediate vicinity of an immigration detention center as well as a direct attack against migrants and attention refugees. being

detained in a immigration detention center in tripoli our research has revealed that you know both the n. and i as well as the g.n.a.t. . include 107 millimeter rockets as well as grad laundress and their arsenals the fragments of those rockets have been found at the site of you know the indiscriminate rocket attacks that we have identified in the absolutely area the epithelium area though is it is it is although it is controlled by forces affiliated with a government of national accord according to eyewitness testimonies that we have collected no fighters were being present in the area at the time. well let's cross now to the u.s. house foreign affairs committee there was i guess question hearing on the dangers of reporting on human rights as he says

a field say of the murdered saudi journalist is expected to address the forum they are currently introducing the speakers and one of the 1st speakers jus to give evidence at this committee will be george simon he's the. executive director for the committee to protect journalists opening the session we're showing you pictures now all of the fiance all of the murders saudi journalist jamal khashoggi of course viewers will remember that these changes waited outside the embassy for 2 days while she waited for news of her husband's we will be listening in to this coverage where she has worked since 2001 prior to that miss hope was a successful t.v. personality and journalists in china as we are region with chinese state media but after hearing r f a's we just service news broadcasts she decided to leave china

and join the us is effort to provide the we judge people with trustworthy uncensored journalism again thank you so much for your participation today and you may begin mr simon. i thank you. thank you reg number smith and other distinguished members of the subcommittee thank you for inviting the committee to protect journalists to testify as executive director for an organization that advocates globally for press freedom and as a former reporter in mexico and central america where i saw firsthand the violence encountered by local journalists who cover human rights i commend you for holding this hearing press freedom is among the most fundamental of human rights it is essential to democracy accountability and global security the u.s. plays a vital role in ensuring that this right is protected. governments around the world

seek to censor human rights coverage by criminalizing journalism this is how me and maher retaliated against reuters reporters while lone and quasi who were jailed for over $500.00 days after reporting on a massacre a reckoning a muslim of the minority in that country their part in their welcome does not undo the terrible injustice committed against them at the close of 20082 you can see p.j. recorded at least $250.00 journalists behind bars of these $151.00 had reported on human rights issues in 70 percent of all of these cases the journalists were jailed on anti state charges including accusations of terrorists turkey egypt and china all had high numbers of journalists imprisoned for reporting on human rights and i want to make one point about china

which is that half of all the journalists jailed in china according to c b j data where we are journalists which gives an extent which gives an indication of the extent of that crackdown and what's also alarming is that the number held around the world on false news charges that was $28.00 globally compared to 9 in 2016 it's disconcerting to see that governments most recently russia and singapore justify repression by claiming they are cracking down on fake news denouncing critical journalists as fake news can also spur online attacks and inflame public opinion making it easier for repressive governments to justify the goal action philippine journalist maria ressa rappler is facing a slew of legal cases over that publications investigation into abuses by the government of rugby go to charity. he ultimately form of censorship is of course

the murder of the 54 journalists killed for their work in 201813 reported on human rights and 8 of those were targeted for murder since 1902 c.p.g. has documented at least 1340 journalists killed in retaliation for their work at least 285 of those covered human rights this brutal method of silencing critics was seen last year with the murder of washington post columnist joe moakley shogi he was killed by saudi officials dispatched from riyadh for that purpose i commend the committee for making because showpiece case a focus of today's hearing and i also urge that you consider the role played by technology a digital rights group reported that pegasus and advanced cyber weapons sold by the israeli spy work company n.s.o. group likely allowed the saudi government to listen to calls between chris shogi

and a saudi dissident because showed his killing was that abominable crime that has thus far gone unpunished c p j has found that in 9 out of 10 cases of murder journalists the killers are never brought to justice this impunity sense that empowering vestige to those seeking to use violence censor journalists the us record on press freedom is not perfect but has long been a leader in ensuring robust protections both at home and abroad unfortunately the current administration has not been a forceful advocate for press freedom to the contrary president donald trump has fought the deal a gentleman's the work of news organizations has failed to criticize repressive regimes and has praised leaders who crush the set. to counter this congress must step up its efforts we applaud pax past action and call on congress to ensure that

the state department applies pressure on foreign governments to release imprisoned journalists and short justice and burgers and reform laws or practices that infringe on press freedom it is vital that congress speak out when these rights are violated finally as the author of a book on poll on hostage policy i have a special interest in the fate of american journalist taken hostage overseas congress should insist that the administration do all it can to ensure the safe recovery of austin tice who was detained in syria in 2012 congress should also assume insist that the 2 men detained in syria who are suspected of murdering journalist james foley journalist james foley and stevenson loft and the u.s. humanitarian worker peter costello are brought to justice to stand trial in a u.s. civilian court thank you so much and i welcome your questions mr bush.

chairman and bass ranking member smith and members of the subcommittee it's an honor to testify before you today ask for my full written statement be submitted for the record you speak just a little louder yes ok well let's let's cross to mike hanna following this hearing far as over in washington d.c. mike we're just hearing there from joel simon the executive director for the c.p.g. interest saying in his statements that he raised press freedom which is of course a big a very hot topic in the u.s. with the press in the u.s. feeling significantly attacked that something he underlined in his opening statement just how significant is this hearing at this time in america. well it certainly is very significant at a time when as you mentioned the media sees itself as coming under attack from the

executive of the united states from the white house itself this hearing itself is looking at the dangers of reporting human rights across the globe but we heard there from joel simon that the u.s. itself cannot go blameless in terms of dealing with the reporting of human rights abuses and he made the very strong point that by president donald trump labeling news as fake he is empowering autocratic leaders around the world to use the excuse of fake news as a way in which to suppress those journalists investigating human rights of course the case of jamal khashoggi murdered in the turkish consulate coming under close scrutiny during this particular session of the house committee his fiance is there she will be giving testimony a little bit later but the issue of the shorty as well raised to buttress the point that of those journalists recorded by the committee to protect journalists having

been murdered for their work the killers of 9 out of 10 are never brought to justice this is a particularly shocking statistic that has been brought up we're likely to hear more as this hearing goes on ok mike hanna thanks for that we'll let you listen back and see. a committee hearing but for now let's move on to other news and the al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein a spent almost 2 and a half years in an egyptian prison without charge trial or conviction and say in an egyptian national was detained at cairo airports in december 26th seen after arriving to meet his family he was accused of spying and disseminating false news gyptian authorities have renewed his detention at least 18 times al-jazeera strongly denies the allegations and demands hussein's immediate release.

now the u.n. says at least 10 palestinian refugees were killed when rockets hit their camp in syria's aleppo province 4 children including a 6 year old are among those killed 30 others are believed to be wounded. and in northwestern syria at least 150 civilians have been killed during 3 weeks of the syrian government's offensive back spine russia the violence put a strain on a cease fire agreement struck by turkey and russia last year saying aha the reports from beirut's. people's lives have been destroyed while their neighborhoods are reduced to rubble i don't know how but the law schools mosques and hospitals have been hit. for 3 weeks syrian and russian jets haven't left the skies over northwest syria opposition controlled villages across southern it lead and northern hama and provinces have been targeted like about us and elsewhere and as in the middle that the majority of the people flew to earliest further north many were injured and

killed in the bombing of a solution that is now a ghost town empty of its residents. it's the biggest military escalation since the ceasefire agreed by turkey and russia last september that agreement is now under strain turkey says it is intensifying diplomatic efforts with russia to deescalate the violence but it seems moscow has its own agenda but rather the structure. itself was also russian it's not sure. what's what's the reaction. because. in a situation that's what's wrong in. nato ally turkey is in a difficult position going ahead with a deal to buy russian made s. $400.00 missile system would worsen a troubled relationship with the united states which is threatening sanctions. i

president treasurer type or to the un was also careful not to mention russia's role in the violence in northwest syria he accused the syrian government instead of seeking to sabotage turkey's relations with russia the 2 countries don't just cooperate in syria. turkey is increasingly reliant on russia for its. power just to cut into that report says head back to the us house foreign affairs committee we had to guess fiance of murdered saudi journalist jim marcus shoji is addressing the forum let's listen and me at this hearing i am not going to read my false statement today but i will provide a short summary. i am apologies there we have this is not had these changes this is the representative weaker journalist who is addressing that foreign affairs committee we are expecting. fiance to be up next but for now just we are standing by to take that testimony from the us house foreign

affairs committee special hearing on the dangers of reporting on human rights to stay with us. excusing. it serves. no it's the 2nd last day of campaigning for the 7th and final leg of india's parliamentary elections the election commission or the campaigning in the west state of west bank will be wrapped up a day early after violence at a rally on cheese day when 100 people are eligible to vote over a 6 week period across the country the last trains is on sunday may 19th prime minister narendra modi is hoping for a 2nd term. ok let's say i had back to the states assigned as a donald trump as a base and failed his new plans for the u.s.

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underfunded and woefully inadequate we scan only a small fraction of the vehicles goods and all of the other things coming across including people and sadly the drugs poor across our border we're going to stop it investment in technology will ensure we scan 100 percent of everything coming through curbing the flow of drugs and contraband while speeding up illegal trade and commerce it's the most heavily traded monetary border anywhere in the world and it's not even close to make certain that ready we're constantly making the upgrades we need our proposal very well the prospects 0 the house foreign affairs committee where has he to change addressing before him mentally 8 months i have been living with up the money since the days of

tragedy i don't know how am i going to sum it up here in such small times when i'm hopefully you will have a general idea i think this is a important. thing. months sort of a time but i would like you to get the general idea if i can. i don't think that's an automatic at the negative bit. to learn the art it did on their part of the addition of this you know it can be in the can show cash on the. anomaly be. the on in a number called the number tiny thing on bitterly than inside all that i put the can smell been she will not be it rama when we were talking 7 months ago what we would do in the united states after we got married what travel plans we would make to be here. witness of

a very important tragedy is actually a trauma for me. is that my body wasn't alone talk that she had all the number to go live with a month well it took the head coach arm of the. america i think now died of medical . meaning made me to be told she there are lots of gamble ahead on the basic living tissue that made also the medic of the guy at the diagram of the samea by some of which she. jamal told me that washington was a beautiful city and that we would have a beautiful life and he would tell me about us politics details that i did not know and he wanted to he wanted to push me on to be interested in the united states before i arrived took the. view but i learned about ms a lot about others 1st and talk that you know a lot about. what he did journalistically jack each other me jackson to help. been in. america the guy out to montauk the hogs that are also on this you know the

and on the phone or. he told me that there were large gardens museums shopping opportunities he told me that i would not be bored and that i would not be missing turkey and that's i would be very happy in the united states. god is a monk and so would i when he came to turkey to get married to this woman abbas of the we start. making plans for the marriage very we were very busy every day we were busy buying. a house needs we were i was brady i was trying to get ready to become a wife. we were starting a new beginning and i was very very happy i was so happy. that this feeling i never i never felt before in my life.

as you know sometimes women have these i was planning my dowry was very exciting and i was happy to be alive than i have ever been my life. and. it is why sandwich the bus they are in and after such an excitement beginning story started as such an odd beginning and it ended. in such a sad. consequence even now when i'm talking about this in here i feel like maybe i will wake up one day and i still feel like this because i still can't comprehend this i still can't believe. what happened i can't believe the world is so tragic and i cannot believe that nothing could be done about this still for it's got suddenly caught on oct 2nd i cannot i still cannot make human

sense of it i still cannot understand. i still feel that i will wake up and it will get back to that and i cannot understand that the world still has not done anything about this. so. while i was coming here. i had opportunity to walk in washington street and i was thinking to myself if someone would told me 7 months ago i would have come here without jim my talking about jamal and to pursue justice for him i would never believe it before i got here and if someone had told me 7 months ago that i would come here with. but to ask for something about some sort about justice for him i would never believe that i'm not sure on the question but it was at the moments i have these people that i've seen.