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ultimatum from bolivia's opposition that anger against the president spreads to rural areas. for mcconville is rebel leader has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the international criminal court basco and 10 gander was convicted of 18 war crimes including murder rape and conscripting child soldiers the atrocities happened in the democratic republic of congo's northeastern the tory region between 20022003 the ganders jail time is the longest handed down by the hague court to date well has the moment the judges read the sentencing. for conscripts think and analysts think children under the age of 15 years into an armed group and using them to participate actively in hostilities is

a war crime for 18 years for rape of civilians is a crime against humanity and there's a war crime fent the atheist for a manager and that attempted murder as a crime against humanity and as a war crime said he is for prosecution as a crime against humanity said 2 years of imprisonment of more on this let's bring in katherine sawyer she joins us from goma in the eastern democratic republic of congo so catherine what kind of repercussions and reactions is this sentence generating. wealth i mean we've been talking to people in each story when some of these the truck even late night but you have happened and the thing that they've been waiting for justice for so long but they also want to represent the want the government to come in and help them get compensation they said they suffered from many of them one main some of them had

the breadwinner killed as well the family we also went to another town that's not a case in the i.c.c. but in this town will talks to people take one was about that that that was in another rebel group they also committed up to prosecute against them and they also want some of the. boats going tug and i has been nicknamed by the people of eastern democratic republic of congo as the tommy town he's a former rebel leader queues of human rights abuses in several parts of the region . judges of the international criminal court found him guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes including mada child soldiers and sexual slavery finding the crimes committed in turin province between 200220035 the patchy arctic force for the liberation of congo rebel group and gun then led the military

wing thomas flew bangle was the head of the group and the serving 14 years in jail at the i.c.c. this man says his 2 brothers were killed by the fighters. we lost many family members sisters brothers uncles we also lost a lot of property. you to remind me the focus of this case but you now have a town more than 800 kilometers south victims of a moscow a 150 people were killed in one day in 2006 have been falling court proceedings kinley they sent a gun to was one of the leaders of rebel fighters who attacked their villages he says to have been passing the in charge of the q one to killings almost everyone here in q one lost a loved one of those we talked to said. and the fighters he led to use them off protecting a rival rebel they also say they want justice when they queue and rebecca shows us

how. she says her husband and one year old son were killed in. what's happening with an tug on the should be a deterrent to all those who want to come and terrorize us in the villages those people destroyed our lives this part of the country has been embroiled in armed conflict for decades thousands of rebel groups control remote villages and towns campaign as one the government and regional bodies to deal with human rights abuses . we need a proper court here with proper investigators and justice system people want to have their day in court and looked at perpetrators and the i.c.c. is too far away and disconnected from victims in the villages. and that is the 4th person to be convicted by the i.c.c. . sais he deserves to be in jail for life. one judge is still waiting for justice. why don't they can

catch him on time again he was indicted back then and only corrected into dakin and that's because he was very quite well protected after those. who remained again in q one just. like the rebel soldiers. people who prevented the government he joined the ranks of the government became a general and very very influential very protected even the president that there can not be a record of people. a lot of want as many problems here in goma that now have been taken over by the military power lot of people think that might have how long it takes just as finally been done people. think that more needs to be done if then the are because even after all these years this region continues to be as i mentioned in our story in conflict many rebel and roaming around remote

villages and one of the. all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much catherine soy. now cambodian opposition leader sam rainsy says he's been refused boarding on a flight from paris branes is trying to return to cambodia protests against prime minister hun sen that's to take place on saturday speaking to said he was shocked he was not allowed to board. let's take a look at who he is then mo born in cambodia raincy studied and worked in france before returning after the fall of the camaro rouge in 1992 he became finance minister in a government shared between the prime minister knowledge on run rate and 2nd prime minister hun sen in 1971 c. escaped a grenade attack on a political party that killed 16 people shortly after one senses in a coup raincy set up his own opposition party but left cambodia many times to avoid

government charges against him his last departure was in 2015 after he was found guilty of criminal defamation the opposition was outlawed ahead of the 2018 election now raincy says he wants to remove one cent from office earlier the deputy leader and says band opposition party was detained in malaysia while she was trying to make her way to cambodia malaysia's prime minister says moves so who will be deported to a 3rd country scot hyla has the details the deputy leader of the main opposition party in cambodia most what was detained by immigration officials in malaysia now this comes just after she attempted to hold a press conference in jakarta the capital of indonesia but was shouted down by cambodia as a passenger to that country now this comes around the announcement weeks ago by sam rainsy who's the founder of that now banned opposition party in cambodia he was

going to return to cambodia this weekend with hundreds of supporters he said he was going to do that overland through thailand here but the prime minister here in thailand says he's not going to allow that to happen now who is the current prime minister in cambodia he says the moment that sam rainsy or any of his supporters cross into cambodia they'll be arrested immediately he's even put troops at the border between thailand and cambodia. well sam rainsy joins us by phone now from paris so if you can hear me tell us what exactly is your situation right now are you still kind of stuck in an airport. yes i am still and. i've just been denied access to it clearing that would carry me to bangkok have you been able to find out why this point to this thing clear or what the official reason is i asked

the company. they say they have received instructions from very high d not to let me vote 9 very disappointed and very angry. are you planning do you have any other way now which you hope to get to cambodia other than this flight. yes i'm trying to buy another ticket with a a funny to go to another a country nearby crimbo job so that i can go back to cambodia # soon as possible because my people are all waiting 1 for me we have to be together to all goodnight. ration to bring down the current dictatorship in cambodia this can be

a huge surprise though i imagine you anticipated given the call that you've just made to bring down the government that you were going to face some kind of obstacle right. yes but we have for face such problems but we have always some of those problems or do just mention she was the detained kuala lumpur airport for a few hours but eventually she was released and she was free of her movement again so i hope that there will be a solution to the small stuff out the current problems we are facing. you mention that you want to still want to return to cambodia through a 3rd country when asked to give any more details around safety but are you not concerned for your safety to return in the current climate. i know that even in the ruling party ranks or even within

me we have many supporters even though we phrase search but actually we have billy supporters so we can reverse this situation easily you say you want to bring down the current government how exactly do you plan to do that to people power like in the philippines in the 1986 when really on the side of 5 people they want free to peacefully in a nonviolent way a in the army stupid her guide them the army protected them and that they stop protecting defending the dictator then really they had a good look at the change in the philippines so in cambodia i want to proceed in the same way malaysian did an easier time than plenty of the neighbors it seems in that neighborhood don't seem to be really interested in helping your cause how

confident are you are going to find. a neighbor that will assist you in getting in . there are many people in those or countries neighboring countries as young countries or who support the cause of democracy among parliamentarians among human rights activists among the free press there are people who help 1st it one way or another so we are 9 not alone we can see solidarity enough action among democrats all over the world and i could just clarify with your conversations that you had was with the airline staff who told you you can get on the flight and if you raising it yes i asked. # why i am

traveling 5 with my french passport because i also is french and then we are in from how can i be brought from boarding a plane to a certain country it is not controlled yeah yeah but they said they have received the instructions from very high up so they ask the for my understanding it is not their fault i understand them actually they just obey exceptions but politically motivated intentions so i have to sort out those political problems sam rainsy thank you so much thank you. well still ahead on al-jazeera 2 from my employees of twitter are charged in the us hacking the accounts of people critical of saudi arabia plus. threats to rain or people refer to that genitalia

there are 5 threats and intimidation several female m.p.'s in the u.k. stand down amid abuse. hello again it's good to have you back while we are watching in front of our new that is pushing through parts of japan right now and with that we are seeing some snow and some rain pushing across parts of sapporo but that is going to be changing and getting a little bit better as we go towards friday clearing conditions but colder conditions as well for sapporo your high will only be about 40 degrees down towards tokyo it is going to be better weather but also a little bit chilly a few as well with a temperature there of 16 so a very nice day but a cool day at 13 degrees there shanghai is also going to be kind of cool for you as well we're going to see some clear skies but only 18 degrees the expected high

there fuzhou 0 a 24 and a nice day there for hong kong at about 28 degrees and then down here across the south china sea we are watching a tropical storm right now making its way slowly past the philippines but still a very slow storm so rain could still be quite an issue there across the western part of luzon as we go towards friday though the system is slowly going to be making its way towards the rest getting a little bit stronger but we still think it is going to be a tropical storm over the next few days manila very heavy rain for you here on friday but as we go towards parts of vietnam into the weekend that storm system is going to be some very heavy rain along the coast and holcim it on friday it is going to be a cloudy day at 30. 1 in ethiopia and mother put her daughter up for adoption she knew little of lunch was to come. with family bonds. the traumatized child tone between 2

world struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep flaws in denmark's adoption system. a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching our just heard time to recap our headlines a former colonies rebel leader has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the international criminal court go into gander was convicted of 18 war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 20022003 cambodian opposition

leader sam rainsy says he's been refused boarding got a flight from paris trying to return to cambodia to lead protests against the prime minister his deputy was detained in malaysia as she tried to travel to come by with . french police have started dismantling migrant camp says part of a new crackdown in paris people have taken shelter from the rain beneath an underpass as authorities begin to move them along the government wants says it wants to put limits on the number of undocumented immigrants but some see it as an attempt to win over voters from the far right and who was always more unfortunately these large scale operations have taken place before every time we're told it won't happen again but we need proper processing procedures when people arrive in france in order for them to have their rights respected in camps like these about 20 percent of people are refugees who are here legally but have not been. any kind of housing there are also homeless families iran has resumed enriching uranium at an

underground facility the process of injecting uranium gas into centrifuges that it's for though planned was observed wind specters from the international atomic energy agency to harare has been scaling back its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal after the us pulled out and we impose sanctions and iran has cancelled the accreditation of a u.n. nuclear watchdog inspector one of the international atomic energy agency staff was briefly detained last week and had travel documents seized it's believed this is the 1st such incidents since the nuclear deal was signed in 2015. from to have. the latest incident about the i.a.e.a. inspectors being briefly detained in iran what happened last week when this female inspector was entering that tense nuclear facility according to the authorities

here she was discovered with what they're calling suspicious material and she was then briefly detained and later her credentials were taken away from her this comes at a time when iran is scaling back its commitment to the nuclear deal which has placed about 150 i.e. inspectors inside the country the iranian president hassan rouhani announced the 4th phase of iran scaling back its commitment and that is the restarting of 4 grow nuclear facility now this is a facility that has the capability to enrich uranium up to 20 percent and under the nuclear deal of 2015 this facility became a research facility only but as of thursday no longer is one it is now operational all this is happening because iran says since the united states withdrew from the nuclear deal last year and imposed a series of sanctions on iran the remaining signatories of that are the europeans are not upholding their end of the deal now until the europeans show that they are still committed to this deal iran will continue to scale back its commitment and

they are urging the europeans are returned to full compliance to the deal and when that happens iran will do the same. at least 47 people have been killed in a coal mining employees and the q. a convoy carrying staff from a canadian mine was targeted in the east they were being a schoolteacher by the military to former twitter employees have been charged in the u.s. for spying for saudi arabia they're accused of assessing accessing rather the personal account information of more than 6000 tweets the uses think food prominent critics of the saudi royal family. prosecutors say an american and the saudi national were rewarded with tens of thousands of dollars and a designer watch they've been charged for acting as agents of riyadh without registering with the u.s. government a 3rd man a saudi there's also been charged were of rebels has the details. the justice

department announced in san francisco that it had arrested 2 former engineers for twitter they were charged with spying for the saudi arabian government and passing on information about dissidents and people who made true critical remarks on twitter about the saudi regime a 3rd person who was a saudi national was also arrested he is believed or alleged to have been the go between between the passing on the information those engineers gathered and. then to get to the saudi officials the defacto ruler of the kingdom of saudi arabia crown prince mohammed bin samana is actually mentioned in this criminal complaint although he is only referred to as royal family member number one it is believed that one of the twitter engineers flew to washington d.c. in 2015 right around the time that crown prince mohammed bin solomon was rapidly

rising to his powerful status that he enjoys today and met with a member of the royal family and shortly after that the spying commenced the spies gather all sorts of information about people making critical comments about the saudi government including their e-mail addresses their ip addresses their dates of birth and so forth among the thousands of accounts that were breached was one belonging to a prominent saudi dissident omar abdel aziz he was close to the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi who of course as we know was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul a little over a year ago by saudi state agents according to multiple intelligence agencies. least 4 protesters have been killed in iraq capital by gunfire from security forces live ammunition was used as they tried to cross the bridge in an

attempt to block it earlier the european parliament the european union rather condemned the excessive use of force being used on protesters it said the reported attacks by armed groups on demonstrators undermine the rights of peaceful assembly and expression on legitimate demands campaigning is underway in the u.k. for next month's snap election several prominent female m.p.'s have announced they won't be standing because of an increase in threats of violence and intimidation a parliamentary report found to be used against politicians is now common place names barca has more for one than it was a dark moment in british politics joe cox an opposition labor m.p. was fatally shot and stabbed outside her constituency office she'd campaign to remain in the e.u. a killer had shouted keep britain independent if he carried out the attack police of warn people not to inflame tensions caused by bragg said but politics has rarely

been so toxic especially for women caroline spelman was an m.p. for 22 years her stance on breaks had led to months of rape and death threats she carries a panic button and her children's bedrooms have steel doors i asked my male colleagues whether they also get threats of a sexual nature threats to rape or being referred to about their genitalia and then they're horrified why is it that in our culture that this is allowed to happen spelman is one of a slew of prominent female m.p.'s standing down at the next election including the former home secretary amber rudd all because of abuse and intimidation. this of course is where many politicians begin their careers knocking on doors meeting supporters and of course opponents really find a single politician that would do this alone these days many citing fear of violence and abuse despite the risks organ fitzroy is campaigning to become an m.p.

in south london she blames an old boys' network of m.p.'s that includes the prime minister of fuelling the song jenny forrest johnson has been really irresponsible in his language you know he's called muslim woman letterboxes and he just keeps coming out with things like that because he is a privileged white man who is very well protected he doesn't face any of the issues that some of the female politicians and female politicians of color face politics is now full of divisive terms traitor betrayal surrender words used in death threats to female m.p.'s words also regularly used by the prime minister when asked to modify his language this is how johnson responded and the same is a speaker i'm never heard such humbug in all my life. but johnson can't afford to be complacent the female vote matters. to female voters they will be accepting stage left i think voters will notice that and they will take it

seriously in terms of how they just haven't ever and earlier this year the m.p. and the supremes confronted by a mob outside parliament and led to several arrests despite calls for calm research by cardiff and edinburgh universities found that most leave and remain voters now think violence towards m.p.'s is a price worth paying for brick said the finding shocked the research is weeks away from the election the relationship between politicians and people has never look so troubled parker al-jazeera london. the impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up a gear televised hearings are starting next week washington's top diplomat in ukraine william taylor or be one of the 1st to appear he said in earlier testimony it was his understanding trump would withhold critical military aid to kiev unless you krane investigated his political rival joe biden and his son bolivians are

angry at an election they see is fraudulent they've been protesting since the vote last month they want president the remodelers to step down but his people wait for the results of an international audit of the election divisions in the country are deepening so is a boner. was inside the google at the heart of livia's agricultural industry a move is underway to disregard the presidency if there was a. government we are symbolically taking over public institutions because that meeting's nationally we have decided up livings are not in agreement with the frog this fraud that is being seen internationally we want the vote to be respected by all citizens from bolivia last month it will more or less won the presidency with a 10 point difference he's opponent denounce fraud when the vote count was halted for at least 24 hours when the vote showed

a shift that favored abel more or less and that's why people are demanding a new election. he should resign that is what the people are demanding and he owes that to the people that is why we are radicalizing our methods and we are in permanent peaceful protests to recover our democracy and our freedom. on wednesday violent clashes broke out between anti morales protesters and those who support him an example of the deep divisions in the sand in nation. first indigenous precedent continues to enjoy support mostly in rural areas he's followers say more alex opponents are racists and they vowed to defend their president. calling for justice prison for someone needs to pay for their crimes. he's the leader of the. group that has consistently challenge to us since he won the presidency in 2006

i this would be moralists 4th term in office his critics say he has ignored a referendum in which we voted to restrict precedence to 2 terms i the organization of american states is auditing the vote. and it is expected to be completed before the middle of the month but until then tension is unlikely to end anytime soon it is how we'll. come back let's have a look at the headlines now former colleagues rebel leader has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the international criminal court bosco and to gander was convicted of 18 war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 20022003 come bodi an opposition leader sam rainsy says he's been

refused boarding a flight from paris he is trying to return to cambodia to lead protests against prime minister hun sen on saturday his deputy who was detained in malaysia as she tried to travel to compose. sam rainsy spoke to us by phone earlier from paris he says he's still trying to make his way to cambodia company but they say they receive instruction from various 'd. let me quote so. 9 very angry i am trying to fly. with and a a partly to go to another a country. so that i can go back to cambodia # or civil french police have started dismantling migrant camps as part of a new crackdown the government says it wants to limit the number of undocumented

immigrants. iran has cancelled the accreditation of a u.n. nuclear watchdog inspector one of the international atomic energy agency staff was briefly detained last week and her travel documents these days it's believed this is the 1st such incident since the nuclear deal was signed in 2015. the impeachment inquiry into donald trump will be televised on him from next week washington's top diplomats in ukraine will be one of the 1st to appear william taylor said in early a testimony it was his clear understanding trump would withhold critical military aid to ukraine unless kiev investigated his political rivals. the headlines the news continues out that the bottom line.

hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question is there a way to protect free speech on line while fighting misinformation and disinformation let's get to the bottom line. a light can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it shoes the saying might be a few centuries old but it certainly rings true today anyone anywhere can publish anything and if it catches on there's no stopping what it can do either for good or for evil so how can people be protected from the nefarious manipulation of information and the disruptive promotion of false hoods by governments and organizations or should fake news be allowed to compete in an open market with real news fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have the answers to these questions melissa ryan a digital strategist strategist who studies online toxicity and extremism and

writes the weekly blog control all right delete i love that name jody westby a legal expert on privacy and computer crime and the founder of global sick.