Skip to main content

tv   NEWSHOUR  Al Jazeera  September 12, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm +03

9:00 pm
and they needed me to translate my name 1st member and then they mare's it's just the whole firefight. on that particular morning different entities had. information that all saying to be pointing to the same place a suspected bomb building. so. the multi-functional team went out. of. this compound was sort of isolated. as right outside the door the side of like a shower stall. they told me to stand there to kind of make sure nobody comes through. to the afghan nationals agree that they're going to walk in the door and they're going to learn to talk these guys out well as soon as they step through the entrance of the door
9:01 pm
they were cut down by such ballance of action. and then what i've described is play on ball with hand grenades hand grenades just came flying over the wall. one of the 2 day procedure names. and i think there was a good way through and inside the house. and something just exploded beside. i got tossed i don't know 23 meters back. i got up and that's been the last my left eye and my right eye was there pretty badly damaged. and helicopters and airplanes flying me. great opportunity.
9:02 pm
3500 pound bombs dead center of that compound. gradually the guys started treating this as the day things became quiet we moved down a little closer so we had a little bit quicker reaction time that they needed us guys start hearing breaking news that they were streaming and showing and so. i got scared because thinking what should they do which they didn't know what to do. so i was just going to i was going to maybe just scare them away. and i just remember being. dumbstruck that there was somebody alive and after all that bombing after all the war that so we dropped in there somebody was still alive and.
9:03 pm
one was shot and killed immediately. after that one hand grenade. then i think our turn the corner or was shooting that the 4th i think and split when they won and. so he threw a hand grenade. i probably shouldn't even talk about it nobody claims to have seen me through the aid. and this soldier has you know i testified that i was under that debris and they couldn't feed me so i always hold to the hope that you know i mean my memories were not truth. i reached down the move debris there's dead bodies land there.
9:04 pm
the body on top and gaping holes in the chest. and you can see down into the chest cavity and. this is all we think this one might be alive. the soldiers came in and they put me on the ground. see there are some rules the war. anyone would now become your responsibility so this wounded combatant person nyan child terrorist calling what you will you have to treat them in accordance with the law. could or said in perfect english just kill me now and then someone else replied. no you're going to live to tell all.
9:05 pm
i wish i could say i felt compassion for prisoners at that time i really didn't they were the enemy and that's the way it is and that's how it has to be you know it's very easy for people who've never been or say oh you have to have you know you know you can't. the 1st time i saw him or he was really better off he had a really large hole in his chest so it was just you know. he had shrapnel all over his face. i don't know how he lived through it he was really gone. a soul the stitching all over his body he looked like. an autopsy had been performed on what it was a life. where i was 15 and their organs. was really creepy a look like some horrible went down there. people would fit me scream at me
9:06 pm
when in the motor of calling him a killer calling the scum bag they said that he was responsible for the death of an american soldier so they were filled with hatred they would tie me up to the bed. taking him out of the cell getting him. while his hands the shackled while he's got all these wounds and his shoulder on his chest to lift up crates of water pile them up keep them down again and make him palm up again and again. you could hear people screaming all the time. and then a guy would go for a few days and hear screaming screaming screaming and then he would come back. just . destroy person so you can only. imagine what happened to him. they always call me the monster diver very loud voice and you know i was basically yelling and throwing furniture around or going in
9:07 pm
there and performing a stage play in this is the character you have to be well you know i'm going to be that. he had a lot of tattoos the people that he did interior interrogate would come and tell me or stories. they were using stress positions the most common was to have them on their knees with their back straight but off their heels and their hands straight up in the air it's pretty painful your knees start really hurt your whole body hurts and. blows to the stomach slaps to the face trix in the ribs covered a mortar head image from the cold. situation would be strong controllable shaking of whole body doing everything but threatening them and then pours them are all grown up well in their minds take over. he come back tired exhausted. dazed. he was shaken very clearly by the interrogations. he's just a child whose mind that played with. sexual. abuse
9:08 pm
is. to poor drugged. humiliated water boarded dogs sleep terror ation music is just. they throw at you the whole book. the most tranquil i would see him was when he'd sit and read the koran with a voice that is almost or double just enough that he doesn't get punished. it put the rest of us to shame because people always trying to complain about something while the other end of us will explode complaining. i remember just looking at him and there was the 1st time i ever really had any of the moral contemplation of how just a war is that this happens to a child that he gets wrapped up in something like this.
9:09 pm
the criteria to go to guantanamo i was speaking a western which. some generals somewhere decided that hey if this big western language will they're up to no good it was way above my pay grade that was decided at then you know is one of those things that again i thought it was ridiculous but it was my job and hey sorry you got to go to want to know. it would our shave their heads completely shaved to beards burn their uniforms that they're wearing there was and put them into these blue jumpsuit and then they would get these goggles that had green duct tape on the house a lot of them they put those on they would put their money for a rifle range over their years. of an mitts on their hands and then they would be double shackled on the hands want to around the rest waist and leg share long leg shackles and then they would put them on the c. $130.00 or c. 17 and they were cargo strapped to the prisoners to the floor but handcuffed behind
9:10 pm
their back. pretty while human beings doing to. the arm on the most dangerous. best trained bishes killers on the face of the are. terrorists they're bob makers they're members of al qaeda the taliban and i think i know for certain is that these are bad people. there was nobody who sounded proud of having him in custody and it was always something that if you speaking to an interrogator who didn't like you it was something you could get back with other than the octogenarians that you have in custody you also got children like i'm
9:11 pm
a father and if he's in custody being treated this way and he's from a and neighborly allied nation like canada what hope do the rest of these people have in this one guard in guantanamo he would go out of his reach just to humiliate me tag and i as we he was just trying to get me to do something cursed mean you know insult me. and he was really getting under my skin. then i thought you know i want to know who that guy is you know i'm going to stand up in the window and wait for him and know who he is so i can get back at him the next i get an opportunity and i just stood up at the door and i'm waiting and then i was thinking you know if i knew who that person is i'm going to allow him. i'm giving him more power of myself i'm giving him a place in myself but he doesn't deserve. he's not worth me caring.
9:12 pm
we can all remember jim webb this guy is going through a thing is if a person can inflict pain on another person and find pleasure in that. person must be going through a lot of problems like mental problems i don't know how you live with this conscious. he's probably living in the worst pain. these causing it's temporary i'm going to be frustrated for a little bit but he's the one who's going to have to deal with this conscious later . you want to talk or somebody. you know they so. they. want to know that. well not anything i think about that. i had about a young canadian kid who was detained abroad but it was not much information i
9:13 pm
wanted to do something i was just so offended that a law could be so something that. is oh oh oh this is it is it is. is it is there are very busy very. well i didn't really love a really wealthy you know my daughter but i mean you get a good medical care the rwanda your lawyer. i was kinda see omar kind of this young kid i had been fighting for for years and then i am walking to do so. and i see this boy sitting on the edge of a bed and this was cooled off with no windows there were no blankets on the bed
9:14 pm
making prisoners such as room out uncomfortable as part of the program. and he was twitching all over. and i just start of a so incredibly wrong that when you know a young child to beating lot to weigh in a coal doubt limmy said who was chained to a floor and newt like some throws and he had fried child broken it remember thirst ted no i really everything is just a general memory gone time with just so you can i can tell ya boarded period but i can't see it would it be or goal times you achieve in to floor you're you'd be
9:15 pm
launched in this just a complete ironing th song a dime and and i often thought how do you how do you trips the because i get a bit claustrophobic i don't know a would have happened to me if i was close to full rich the venus and soon i was leaving i think gun what i said but i soon a we will be bank and then you said anybody least free i think in the beginning a cat has another guy who says he's he's yourself me add then have cope or dis ferry was just another person you know i was in we're the every i don't think you'll you'll come go come in touch for us i'd misused you include new father i told you that i think it would you know something that is they cure visits. they
9:16 pm
are very interesting though that there are very good and they were very hard at the same time. because you know i was interested in i get adjusted to the life i know what i can expect i know it's going to happen and then you come and kind of remind me of what i don't have. to strengthen the good you have to shoulder good all the more with you come still
9:17 pm
fight against corruption. this for news hero heroes like no who are about to be refused a $15000000.00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine a light let's make iraq a better place nominate your anti corruption era now. 0 world meets 2 arab immigrants who left the middle east and built exceptional lives overseas. weaving into the fabric of society of their adoptive countries finding success in germany and canada yet never forgetting their homelands of syria and lebanon remarkable human. stories of arabs abroad the politician and the inventor on al-jazeera. the spark that
9:18 pm
ignited the arab spring elects a new president what does the political scene look like after the arrest of one of the main candidates in the presidential race joining us for a special coverage. on al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson in doha the top stories on al-jazeera belfast's high court has thrown out a case claiming the brags that strategy of bogus johnson's government is not compatible with the 1908 northern ireland peace accord this comes after the release of the so-called yellow hamel report a government warning of a brags that worst case scenario includes traffic jams shortages of food and medicine rising prices and public on rest also prime minister barak is johnson has
9:19 pm
refuted claims that he lied to the queen in order to suspend parliament. did you lie to the queen when you advised her. to suspend parliament absolutely not. and indeed i say that the high court in england plainly agrees with us but the supremes will have to decide we need a queen speech we need to get on and do all sorts of things 3 afghan soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing near an army base in kabul the afghan minister of defense confirmed the attack 4 soldiers were also killed the taliban says it is responsible so dan's new prime minister abdullah is making his 1st state visit to south sudan juba is hosting talks between the transitional government and several armed groups from dog his way to peacemaking with groups fighting in khartoum one of his main priorities the body of farmers and bubbly and president robert mugabe will lie in state at a stadium in harare that's where he took office the leader nearly 4 decades ago is
9:20 pm
to be voted on sunday but there are ongoing discussions between the government and his family about where he'll be laid to rest the supreme court has ruled in favor of president donald trump's latest effort to restrict immigration the court allowed a ban to go into effect on nearly all asylum applications at the mexico border people will now have to apply for asylum in a country before they reach the us that effectively blocks most applications. cuba's president says this country will soon be in an acute fuel shortage unless emergency measures are taken we've. says cuba is feeling the effects of the united states' block of oil shipments to the country. protesters in argentina are demanding the government declares a food emergency after shortages hit the country argentina has been battling an economic crisis with inflation forecast to hit 53 percent in coming months those are the headlines the news continues here the knowledge after witness on tunnels
9:21 pm
child or makata. orders. for the 1st few years in one ton of i was just all over the place more surely and. ideologically just a mess i would be around a bunch of people out start acting like. talking make them just say everything they're doing and then they'd move me to a different place and i had to adapt to the new us neighborhood. or are obsessed about. me as a person. but all of us as physicians particulars
9:22 pm
psychiatrist and is senior officers get too much experience with people who are highly manipulative so i ask myself when i met omar where's the manipulation not if. there is a manipulation where's the manipulation you don't get. why you care but i want a lot of the almost all of those ah yes. i thought of this all over the yes there was. always very enlightened ready. or is he a very. you know. busy
9:23 pm
as he was being questioned by the americans he was of course given water to try. but that he was not allowed to urinate and he had to have some point felt that he was going to splatter was going to burst and he was told he had to urinate on the floor and then after urinated on the floor he was told well now he had to clean it up and that he was not given towels or allowed to take his shirt off but they had to unfactual roll around it to clean up the urine on the floor and that's what has been described as the human mop to me. and i just couldn't believe what had happened to. you know here so here's a young man younger than my own children who's been there at that point for 6 years. but story to. tell me
9:24 pm
something that you helped me that you show my government that you're willing to help us against a group of people who are bent on doing bad things she looks. like. but i want you all i just want to tell them. you know like. everybody recognized the presence and the soldiers those who are true to themselves those who are true understood that they're all roots. of children at war that the american military and everybody else is supposed to study and know we have over 1200 american soldiers killed in afghanistan. i'm a 15 year old boy. and
9:25 pm
these guys went to camp and they were making smores and learn how to tie knots they're learning how to make bombs and kill americans of course he defended himself he just did not give any you know i i thought they were video simple kits but it turned to be the at once if you are in that situation would you have done. i have the last drop of blood for want of me to you know that he didn't buy it for 4 hours 3 of his friends were with him and been killed use the only sole survivor what do you expect him to do when any kind of fire for happens anybody who's still standing is fair game because anybody who's not taking part in it's going to have cover when the war you're shooting at him why did he shoot at you if you kill 3 why can't he kill one many why is it why does nobody say you killed 3 of his friends what does everybody say he's killed an american soldier and we're going to hold terrorists accountable when they kill american military forces he's
9:26 pm
a terrorist when i took the job i came into it believing the whole worst of the worst montra you'll see evidence when we get into the courtroom of the smiling face of omar kotter you know as he builds bombs to kill americans. there's 18 years there is that one member. and i just took it as being fact until we no one got into more and you know this is started talking. i heard different figures or what have. you lost consciousness for over a week. though is my memory more accurate a soldier who was. actually there. are one side over. that person there and the other side it really. does make a difference. it's a mockery of justice. we had to fix done from start to finish. no evidence of
9:27 pm
torture was committed. there's a visitor of any defense. in order to conclude this is a rigged system. i think you have to infer that the president the congress neema prosecutors the judge the jury the convening authority the court a military commission to review the d.c. circuit court of appeals and the u.s. supreme court are all corrupt i felt like mickey mouse disney world you know they wanted to call this military justice by having a 2nd rate process. and so in order to call it military somebody had to put on the costume. the joke we used to make yet to lose to win because if you get charged as a war criminal and convicted with a room with 7 people that have been convicted and sentenced 5 of the 7 aren't kuantan a mono so if you actually get charged and convicted as they were criminal you've
9:28 pm
got a 5 in 7 chance of going home. if you're never charged with a crime you could spend the rest of your life sitting on top of it which is extraordinarily ironic i persuaded omar to plead guilty to take a deal and wanted one of his 1st thought as far as the canadian public will believe i'm a terrorists and i said to him you know if he don't do it to me you'll spend the rest of your life here. but i was the only way out. which i decided twice and both times they just suspended it. so i knew that i was never going to be charged in a magical missions the only way to get my case resolved to take a plea deal e.g. use one you know one time when the rest to come back to canada there's no injustice
9:29 pm
that was done up until 2010 when we went down there for trial and offered a plea bargain that might have been an injustice because that was of what i felt was a political decision they did not want him to be the 1st one they did the guantanamo child was the 1st one he had like that well for ever be a murderer and. a you did my children my entire family well more carter is a well known supporter of the al qaida terrorist network than a convicted terrorist. caught her family was viewed as canada's 1st family of terror and no one was really rallying to bring him home. press families they're very opinionated and that's not always a smart thing. they've said things that. was not
9:30 pm
a very smart there that they should have said well if you didn't go and meet kids on the street who are nothing to do with and and to and if you like to die in your bed to die is he as a martyr yeah he answered and i know. you've been a symbol very very symbol now he is having its have it you know i've been me one time i'm all for 20 years and if there is any place where i was going to be brainwashed was in guantanamo where i only had. only one source and florence and that was not necessarily their healthiest and i think i did ok here i live in canada my family is only one 3rd of and 4 and. 5 but i have a 1000000 other in forums so all i don't think people should worry about my family
9:31 pm
if anybody's going to be. affected i think they may be affected by the 3 of them there. i hope so any race his notoriety or his fame or infamy what do you want to call it in kuantan a mole is one that's been created for him by those who are holding him he didn't do it himself he's nothing he's really done in incarceration in custody that has made his case more prominent than anybody else's his circumstances of what what's made that happen and his treatment and who he was when it started i.e. a being a child the child who grew into a man in kuantan among knows nothing other than that you know you raise your children to own up to what they do you accept responsibility for it ask forgiveness and we don't conduct ourselves that way as a country and that's really just bewilders me. there's
9:32 pm
a saying that's attributed to gandhi is through our suffering they're going to see the error of their ways through our injustice they'll see the error of their ways and worse through mars' injustice that definitely i started to see there if you wish to know it was definitely here or to help me in that sense in the sense of regaining my humanity was was partially because or him i guess i want to thank him for that. after a decade long legal battle hallmarks catterick is back in canada. this whole trans fat has been quite a shock to my system at least in one town of maule he had some come up camaraderie from fellow muslims. and the moment to ride on canadian soil. was an attempt to stab him you know have interest then i was able to negotiate his transfer to reverence and since he's arrived in edmonton he's a life has been miserable. this course of privacy just. as threatened but
9:33 pm
i have never met anybody who's been so abused and so abandoned by so many we should know better. than omar khadr. that this guy came up to me and tell me he killed that soldier and my family is in the military and i'm going to punch you . there was a mistake on my door that opened you know that chance i have seen the face. i try not to on the past. it was either that. or. be. you know who calls to in aid and misery and think of how bad life is but that's not going to get me anywhere i try to think about things that will hopefully make my life and hopefully the life of the people around me better.
9:34 pm
one more quick thing out to the families to be with you for a long time. and i really appreciate him. for 3 for the last 11 years. when he rises not to give me a pretty big bill very very private very good night and the problem with what i'm saying is people are just going to think that i am. you know you go through a struggle you go through a trauma you're going to be bitter you're going to hate some people it's just a normal thing to do and this guy i'm not having these natural emotions it's probably hiding something it's exceeded words and he's just trying to find his new balance a 0 it will be i'm sure it will be great for have to have a chat with you hey you. sure that's. what time did you get to see it you know like for. i could've stayed
9:35 pm
up all the. as that are so i still feel that i want freedom why i can just go on out i'm tempted to see how far i can go without sleep to. jolt clearly you've done that once before years ago it's not a good thing if her were not always the difference seriously. how much too much of the oh you well know i don't want to know where it's normally stop or it's. called me a. place to go before you know i said to me breakfast really very much this is the real thing that will last me creasy to the p.c. could you. know my stuff the think he's trying to see if.
9:36 pm
i could. be reading through forever. to fix your for good you know you do it 10 o'clock on a few ish hour that means you got to be to bed by 10 o'clock. the blues album. does. no good so somebody says complained i hear they're going to we're not feeding you enough. then you say goodbye tree when you see my wife. you feel you don't hunger strike you. is just like everything no suitor it's not i'm sorry i'm sorry. there are no secrets here. it's just that both will. do just about right but.
9:37 pm
i have to plug it in less. 24 hours for 2 hours. but every get around to. be asserting it here and there and this is who i was really up to it. it's part of leslie goes 1st for that side of it it's just. what you're you're there you day. i don't wish people to love me i don't wish people to hate me i just wish for people to do steep turns. even though i don't like the big a list of. a lot of ways so luisa had. been the custom to just. keep eating. the same thing
9:38 pm
in bed with him in guantanamo. buildings are very close so when you look up there's always a building around somewhere so i almost forgot to list the sky was very low it's been larger. i would like to be given the chance i spent i don't know i don't think. i've done 13 years and. police is here. if the cops are here they're going to want me to stand out there and. almost. welcome. to the beginning we do know what they're sure the show the best earth
9:39 pm
hope is that if things go very well and i guess just to reassure us well they're surveyed and. that you're how you're fueling. your experiences but we are here to help so if we go away for weeks total just and don't do the job well without fail it's makes it easy thing arises where someone is less than friendly or you do encounter some issues with worms it's there are some problems that come up please do let us know and we can hope you noticed as best we can eventually we're going to have to do a listen cause. we're here to work with us from charlotte smith and hardy luck to you thank you very much it's like this like today very thing you think of it just taking it to far it's good luck thank you. for the longest time. anybody is that i wish that i could just get out of prison and the next door on the street who nobody knows. nobody gives is taken
9:40 pm
care of. that would be. discarded yeah i'm serious i make it oh yeah it sure was worst interest to tell you larry you go love something in life and i love song. what do you know thoughts i'll start i don't have anything. mature this ticket like i like goodness and make. peace happiness i like joy it's all abstract ideas. i'm still new in the material world so i have to figure out. what other people have utilized we should be international usia like people those are beautiful things either.
9:41 pm
just. make. a difference. i wouldn't wish this experience on anybody but i have a hard time thinking about wishing that i haven't gone through this experience that people today say happy fairy cliff you can go back would you change anything i would change you know the firefight mary but within that means a lot of. things that i've come to know wonderful people i've come to know myself because of this experience. and it's a very hard trade for me. but things happen for a reason and sometimes you have to fall. to be able to appreciate standing upright it's been an incredible journey
9:42 pm
routinely in this it's just. it's just the beginning. this guy's not going to be easy. you know he's a cutter these guys are stubborn streak and. you know that's what kills me. so. that's one of the basic skills i went to learn this photo from a window. my problem right now is i'm trying to do everything all at the same time.
9:43 pm
i don't know if i'm worried there is a plan just there were in that it's not going to just go into to experience everything. it's. a few days and. call down and start taking thing is a little bit slow or. try to enjoy. is the small things around. the effects of the incarceration i don't think they manifested in day to day life they manifested at night when you're alone with your thoughts and then they will come rushing back when you're not busy and that's when it happens and it still happens. from time to time the effects of that. but most people don't get to see that. i think for a moment it would might be quite different because. for a significant portion of life i think probably not the majority of his life he's
9:44 pm
been more present in the not so he will require a great deal most of what i know this is real but. being living christian for 12 years or 13 years and i've been carrying myself and in particular way for that long . and it's going to take some. of a not too long take some time to go kind of ease up and. the guard down. no one of those days of just jumping to the good crawl under the bed ready and just cram as a. from
9:45 pm
inside the walls of a west african prison comes home. a chance to create to express emotions and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. a renowned choreographer has shared his passion for darkness inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of the past and the confines of their present to the dance of the us a witness documentary on al-jazeera.
9:46 pm
hello again to welcome back to international weather forecast with this i want to take you down here toward southern brazil center catarina state where we are now experiencing wildfires across that area that has been very dry as of late and these are the most current video coming out of the region now they are trying to battle this with planes as well as firefighters on the ground but unfortunately has been quite dry has been quite windy as well now over the next few days we are going to experiencing still some very windy conditions but we do have a funnel boundary just to the south of this area once this pushes through we're going to be seeing still the winds across the area but we could pick up a few showers as well as some cooler conditions once the front pushes through up towards rio though it is going to start to get a little bit more cloudy with a temperature of $25.00 well here across the southern parts of the bahamas as well as the northern parts of cuba we're going to be watching one particular area right here for possible tropical development now the hurricane center is saying that in
9:47 pm
the next 2 days we do have about 50 percent chance of development as we go towards 5 days 70 this is going to bring bring some rain across much of the area including parts of freeport now some of these showers are going to be quite heavy of the next few days and we could be experiencing some localized flooding there so finesse also some rain in your forecast with the temps there of 29. the weather sponsored by qatar. i didn't know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. rank outsider. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will monitor the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al-jazeera is no one way of telling a story keeping is telling right and to be respectful best answer is great just get
9:48 pm
to know the person from the top. he did asia is in the grip of an extinction epidemic with endangered species disappearing at record levels can it be stopped before it's too likes one when a still best to gates indonesia's wildlife crisis on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes this is a worst case scenario which civil servants obviously have to prepare for the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson downplays his government's report on the possible
9:49 pm
chaos if it leaves the e.u. without a deal. this could be. investigation that will allow us to travel whether to recommend articles of impeachment or u.s. house judicial committee meets to vote on a resolution to allow impeachment hearings agonise president's donald trump. a push for peace so dan's new prime minister meets armed groups to end the violence in the country's south. battling misconceptions about vaccines we report from malaysia where compulsory immunization for children has been considered. well there's some relief for the u.k.'s embattled prime minister northern ireland's highest court has dismissed a challenge to barra's johnson's bragg's it strategy the court threw out a claim arguing a no deal bragg's it what undermined the region's $998.00 peace process but johnson
9:50 pm
still faces mounting pressure after a scottish court declared his suspension of parliament unlawful critics accuse him of misleading the queen on the matter. did you lie to the queen when you advised her to provoke to suspend parliament absolutely not that indeed i say that the high court in england plainly agrees with us but the supremes will have to decide we need a queen's between to get on and do all sorts of things so he and his cabinet ministers are also downplaying his government's report on a no deal bragg's scenario that predicted food and medicine shortages and after a meeting with european parliament presidents on thursday the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel barnier said he was ready to discuss any legally workable proposals from the u.k. but he hasn't got any yet or let's go to john holl he's live for us in london jonah 1st of all just bring us up to speed with the lake latest on the legal ruling from ireland. well the judges in northern ireland have
9:51 pm
taken a somewhat similar view to the judges in the high court in england in that they have failed to find that boris johnson suspension of parliament was lawful as the as the claimants contended it's not the same as saying that boris johnson and his government have done nothing wrong they have found on the basis rather of the separation of powers that the courts really aren't empowered to rule on something that is essentially a political decision and part of the political process at that couldn't be further removed from of course the scottish judge's decision handed down on wednesday that very clearly suggested said that it was an unlawful move that the advice given to the queen had been unlawful all it motivated by the improper purpose of the judges of trying to stymie or or muzzle parliament in its ability to scrutinise the brig's
9:52 pm
of process so if you like on the sort of legal challenge scoreboard it's $21.00 now in favor of downing street and boris johnson or for that now goes to the supreme court next week where the decision there of course will be absolutely final and if the supreme court were to find it against the prime minister or that could be very very difficult for him indeed and john of course as we mentioned before there are these accusations that boris johnson may have lied to the queen what more is he saying about that. well that comes out to the scottish high court judgement on wednesday when as i said they ruled not just the decision to suspend parliament illegal but the advice given to the queen advising her to make that decision to suspend and it was unlawful and improper because it was based on this alternative idea of muscling parliament rather than the government's insistence that they were simply following parliamentary practice bringing one session of
9:53 pm
parliament to a close in order to reopen another one opposition m.p.'s of course leapt on that said if he did deliberately mislead the queen he should resign when he heard forrest johnson there absolutely not no misleading the queen they took sound legal advice they did for sound of proper purposes and that until next week until the supreme court does or doesn't find otherwise is where the government stands donna thanks very much indeed and i we spoke to alex the writer from birmingham city university about the government's no deal preparations. you know clearly put the operation go and report drives home the fact that in who in medicines and in manufacturing think automotive been burning the rich movements there will be significant disruption and that simply is because the 2 things that we depend on the european union greenport in a lot of these materials and trading and they eat because of the circle just in time make sure modern day supply chains if you think of fresh food coming in
9:54 pm
conspire new there's a limit fights on what you can stick it in where else the same idea goes with broccoli in approximately 70 percent of the crops in this country have to cross a channel at some point in production and use it for a lot of those folks the time sensitive that they're not in within a day and then use so i think these are not worst case scenario if you see a baseless area and if as we understand that you know over half a cup runs in the u.k. don't ever represent i would go with her french customs and they recently going to be facing the lows of the day and what we simply don't understand given the complexities of the logistics is to what extent the amazing talent with that knock on effect back on the part that's coming into the u.k. lawmakers in the u.s. are edging closer to deciding whether to recommend the impeachment of president donald trump the 41 member panel is voting on a resolution allowing it to designate hearings as impeachment proceedings. this could be is gate to gate will allow us to serve it whether to record it articles of
9:55 pm
impeachment spect to present it. that is what we are doing so cool this crisis. so. there's the geisha the legal difference between these 2 groups look at care to argue about the. well for more on this let's go to mike connor he's live for us in washington d.c. we've been hearing the word impeachment for several months what's the significance of what's happening today. but we heard there from the committee chairman is no longer prepared to hear argument about whether or not these are impeachment proceedings but to speak very strictly these are not strictly speaking impeachment proceedings at all what they are is a process of investigation the resolution what will be voted on at the end here is investigative procedures that may or may not down the road result in impeachment not the differences arise from where or where people do not stand on the spectrum
9:56 pm
of whether impeachment is desirable though indeed necessary now the committee chairman that the democrats along with some other democrats in the judiciary committee do believe that the should be part of a to make each been process however republicans in that committee i've been arguing very strongly that this is no more than a sure rod that this will not necessarily lead to impeachment proceedings and that in fact democrats like the committee chair are using this as a political point to keep alive in the public discourse the idea of an impeachment process where none strictly speaking does exist so in practical terms might in if the resolution is passed at some point what happens next. well they voted on the resolution at the moment what happens next quite literally is that the discussion about invest. because of procedures in the weeks and months to come will
9:57 pm
go to a series of subcommittees of the judicial commission that will be discussed ad nauseum for a long period of time so that is what this vote is about and that is what this both would end in the rubber would only really hit the tom that when the judiciary committee recommends to the house that it should vote on of impeachment that is a critical point at which all of this discussion becomes completely moot and then the reality of an impeachment process is in place to once again make very clear here impeachment ought to girls in the house require a 2 thirds majority it would appear from headcounts by various news agencies that that is very far from any form of realize sation secondly and the most important point is that even in the unlikely case that the house should vote for impeachment or articles of impeachment it goes to the senate where a trial is once again a 2 thirds majority in the senate would be needed there is no possibility of that
9:58 pm
if representatives continue to vote largely on party lines as they have done so stand decided to pen's where you stand within the section those democrats arguing for impeachment would see this as the very 1st step in the process those who do not want impeachment at this stage democrats and republicans be it a political mistake some would argue would see this as a in vista get to procedure which will define how the judiciary committee investigates ongoing allegations or questions about the trumpet ministration and campaign in the weeks and months to come thanks mark. hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets across sudan demanding reform demonstrators say sudan's legal system is still dominated by members of former president omar al bashir regime months after he was removed from office they want the country's new ruling coalition to purge the judiciary of those allies and they're calling for all former
9:59 pm
members to be brought to justice sudan's new prime minister about 100 doctors making his 1st state visit to south sudan in his new role juba is hosting talks between the transitional government and several armed groups 100 dogs has made peace making with groups fighting khartoum one of his main priorities since 2003 thousands of people have been killed in civil wars between sudan's government and armed groups this includes the conflict in darfur where fighting between armed groups of farmers and government forces as displaced around 2500000 people fighting in the region has subsided over the past 4 years but the on groups are still active and skirmishes continue to pop up reaching peace is a priority for the new transitional government largely because it's a key condition for getting sudan removed from the u.s. sponsors of terrorism list hit morgan report brings us more from juba. it's the sudanese prime minister's 1st foreign visit since he was appointed last month and
10:00 pm
is scheduled to last for 2 days now the prime minister will be meeting with the head of state of south sudan salva kiir mayardit who is also at the moment the mediator off the peace talks between the sudanese government and the armed group called the sudanese revolutionary front and the sudan people's liberation movement north the prime minister is also scheduled to meet with the heads of these armed groups because he says that when he was appointed he made a pledge that his transitional government will prioritize peace over anything else and we'll try to achieve it within the 1st 6 months of the 39 months transitional period the prime minister has also said that sudan will be an open space and will build its foreign relations based on common interests and interests between south sudan and sudan 2 countries that were one to one go very deep other to share a mutual economic interest with south sudan taking with its 75 percent of sudan's oil facilities.

62 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on