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in the light at the height of the storm the with the high it would be the way this is an important part of the world people picking people going now does it is very good to bring in the news to the world from here. on or about this in and the top stories on al-jazeera the deployment of troops in memos biggest city is raising fears the military could intensify its crackdown on protests now in their 10th day vehicles carrying security forces aligning major roads civilian leader also cheese detention has been extended scott has the details from across the border in bangkok but we're hearing now from her attorney who said that there was a conversation with the judge in the for the capital that now it won't be until
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wednesday so wednesday the 17th so we don't really know if that means that she will be released on bail and then these charges are still there or they're going to be different charges put on top of that we're not sure just yet but bottom line is we thought there be some type of movement with her the case against her or why they're keeping her in detention today on monday but now we're hearing that's not going to happen until wednesday. diamond as a human rights specialist to fortify rights in young gone he says there's no end in sight for the protest movement. today we call the nationwide c.d.m.a. this already and movement now a lot of work after in front of the thunder central band so this is duration last night a very intense we have internet blackout while i am tonight and also during that time military start arresting people are all around the country we don't know how many people are arrested but the situation is very intense during the election we
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have a different type of the group. because of this military crew all people in the country the united against the military even those who dislike the n l d right now and they are marching on the street who who are not vul and also they are mostly on the street again the military military coupe so that happen and also that also we are now united again the military the world health organization is planning a rapid response to an ebola outbreak in guinea valve to the 1st signs of the disease there in 5 years 7 people have tested positive for the virus and 3 have died. one of our citizens became ill and unfortunately died his burial took place on february 1st and a few days later some people who took part in the funeral began to experience diarrhea vomiting bleeding and fever the 1st samples were confirmed on february
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12th syria says israeli jets have fired missiles near the capital damascus after flying over the occupied golan heights and says most of them were intercepted by air defenses activists say israeli missile missiles have targeted iranian backed militias in recent weeks dozens of people have been killed in fighting in northern yemen who think rebels are trying to seize the city of body but and they've intensified their attacks against forces from the internationally recognized government. catalonia separatist parties are on track to win a majority of seats in the regional parliament after sunday's election the socialist p s o e is projected to win the most votes over separatist parties are set to claim up to 60 percent of seats they're expected to push for another referendum on independence from spain. and early results in kosovo's election suggest there will be a major political change there with a win for the anti establishment. party former prime minister alvin cortis declared
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victory is promising to fight corruption but also to take a hard line in relations with serbia the semi autonomous kosovo region declared its independence in 2008 but that hasn't been recognised by serbia you quarantine rules for incoming travelers a jew to come into effect in the u.k. for monday people arriving from 33 high risk nations will have to isolate in an airport hotel for 10 days but officials at london's heathrow airport say there's been no guidance about passengers and stuff mingling when travelers disembarked argentina is observing 3 days of national mourning after the death of former president carlos menem at the age of 90 as caskets arrived at the national congress for the wait let him lead the country for 10 years from 1809 and bracing closer ties with the u.s. it was in the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's libya and speak.
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there is no such thing as a clean wall war allows every kind of atrocity. rape is a shocking but increasingly common consequence of war. collateral damage. a side effect of the fight. but there's evidence that it is now used as
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a military strategy. of all war crimes great is the most difficult to cover making it the perfect crime. in bosnia rwanda that there are critics republic of congo and syria women and children have usually been the main targets but in pre and post revolution libya it's men has often been the main victims but no one has ever been able to prove that.
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in libya rape is a taboo subject mentioned the word silence prevailed and. one woman did speak out in public in march 20 levon i just thought of that evolution. that. the man in our baby was accusing the gadhafi regime of raping opponents and i cry resonated around the world. gadhafi was overthrown but libya was plunged into a civil war. the rumors of rape continue and while the international community expressed concern this did not turn into action. libya is still in a state of political and social chaos and tens of thousands of refugees have fled
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many towards europe. it effectively has 2 rival governments militias rule the streets and the rumors of rape persist but no one would confirm them. then a libyan magistrate now living in neighboring tunisia decided to speak out. on
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this given that leave you. for. the next 7. give you. might out of the school of law school i mean that's what i'm here to learn i mean my easy. money. mr moore how did you finish out of me and i met your love. in libya and i'm a done allah man you was a public prosecutor in the chaos that followed the overthrow of gadhafi in october 2011 he said members of the opposition to jail for murder the very next day they were released and threatened to kill him so just. so he left
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libya. in tunis he has joined a group of libyan activist fellow exile. he's put together a group which now tracks alleged crimes committed in their homeland. the video evidence brought to him by a man is shocking. so much to get people. to believe you call a. marine one of the. emoticon for office if you do have that he doesn't even know. what do you think of address by this letter when you video just don't get a. look at me. so.
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just. never. said he said the landlady. said no. he thought of computer book of yeah and then the thing you have to get out of. staff and if you think. i'm a lot you know my lot in the cuttack a mother i'm a father can be a really. really good to see that kind of pain and. so to be with my father going to tell us no. doubt a few $100.00. 100 as a. kid. was i got. the $100.00 out of it
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kind of how do we deal with the fullest. but that's not the full in the 4th quarter. so if you will of the little booklet. and you know we could go you know you could. well into the whole kitchen much of a lead on a mock. quiz for us called when you want to step can make you still miss that city if you get out maybe looks the magic to a life learned some last maybe looks. action that of god yes i got a good action and up above the bottom of the fly you have your pov on something. i go look all you see. instead it would. have then i'm going to tell you something son a mission. in libya reap is such a taboo that is simply not open for discussion.
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i meant is a human rights activist operating on the ground but he's determined to bring the issue of rape out into the open. because he has received death threats imad carries his entire life in a suitcase and he never sleeps in the same place. one of his contacts is a man known simply as a sea. change
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or she will be will be looking for. a local school. i thought oh. look it's one. for years just see really inside but all the time he knew about men and women who had been raped and who needed help . in fact he was talking about himself. when the scene arrived in tunis he didn't want his identity revealed and his voice here is this guy. you know i think it will have a by which i mean i did to want to you have to really think
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i had it we were going to air this office office i just hate it was never going to. look at the high have future feel whole feel. you know. because. people. you know me. you know us for. we. could have taken any.
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testimony gradual revealed the horrors of a hidden war civilians rounded up on the street secret prisons and torture. he talked about men raped and then released. men whom no one ever mentioned. the question was now how many of them were now wandering the streets of tunis before returning to libya and hiding their shame inside. and the women the men asked. them why let's down the list. why you. see them just a lot better than just some so i just left. i looked this up my best.
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wish for a little high enough so it can. every day a mad meets victims of abuses suffered in libya and meticulously records everything they say. but most refused to talk about. this man in his ear had been imprisoned for 6 years. so you have a sense of the got here. she shifts shift mommas of to. shake out north ideas. to feel. good god even when are you going to prove
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that the work on. the mother died on the area we. don't believe them when you did offer them gammas it was kind of the truth not as it's over your book and it's a. little of zimmerman a little clinic going out of session at the bottom. how to show. that they're going to. get other mostly of surgeon or guardian let alone their reasonably honest look and he can move into. the legal guardian. would warm one of them over the difficulty year of the duration of. louis. he saw him awfully must go to school fleet we're.
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sure yet. from the. letter and. when there will be a few support of. about the ship lee. if it will mean that you have been of. decision letter to saw. what a book you were in a family. like many others nazir simply avoids the question only revenge matters to him. but without official complaints and statements he may not count any sheet and eagle proceeding the rape trial remains empty the crime simply doesn't exist.
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and a man spent several months listening to many libyan victims of abuse gathering a wealth of detailed information. but they case still lacked the kind of hard evidence they would need in order to make a case strong enough to stand up in international criminal court. they also badly need outside expertise. cillian by day knows well. she's
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a french lawyer specializing in international law and has 20 years of experience tracking sexual violence in conflicts around the world. in 2013 she helped draft a law aimed at protecting rape victims under the gadhafi regime but diligence lation was never elected. by dates experience is that the war crimes do not simply go away if no legal action is taken they will continue to be committed. we are. a team it's not just me and imad we have many libyans here and we have our need to work inside on the ground and what we are trying to do we have trying to collect a lot of documentation from different organizations sense 2011
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since ok since just how many lives and 1000 to live. there is sometimes not just militias. do the crime there is people working for ministry of the. minister fun tear out can deal with this kind. you know that recently at the i.c.c. for rape you know the case bomba he was sentence and he didn't rape nobody but she was sentence for rape because he ordered it for him knew that it was happening and he didn't do nothing so that's a very important case because night existing the jurisprudence and this is also something we can use in our our case for almost 2 issues really so close of what
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you were to mention how we count toward together our team and you and your team to solomon this case is internationally going to you know of the idea is all the case you have each individual situation that you may have collected each time we need to look at when it happened and where it happened because if you don't do that you get killed before a court that's why i am telling you this we have to work on that and to to show our systematic it is you know and then you have a case. legally speaking. you are in the. in a special situation. because you cannot bring a case ok but it doesn't mean that it does to stop now i think we can work on that to put pressure towards international in stones you are been you know nick cetera
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and prepare a case for the i.c.c. and we need to push for the i.c.c. so we have to show that this is a priority and to bring a something like. love. is room. for the international criminal court to agree to take on a case because believe in human rights activist in tunis would 1st have to establish that the war crime had been committed in their homeland. meanwhile you're seeing resurfaced this time ready to tell his story. it revolves around the siege of his city misrata by government troops for 3 months in 2011. the forces were based in 2 out of the 50 kilometers away whose residents were then accused of supporting the government action in the. we.
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misperceive i wonder you know. popular in the far. you can do in the mean ministry are unique and you need ok in the bum but he thought i was in as to one cause in the car and an 80 in the 100. 3 motor boat. that was in them in the ministry. it's that he'd been in there on the your logic of the got to be cuts because they had also which models. you need a different but would have. been in the had it in was more. it's a wash. and you bit that deep. in it that deep it will fly
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hostler. he thought that he had them. with a power which it seems to hate in the wonder we had for him to be he missed that he. couldn't even admission a 40 i'm going to condemn had he had them accurate assessment in. he has seen believes that since that night in march 2011 he's become sterile but he's never had a test because he didn't think you could trust anyone to do it. however
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tunas offers him the anonymity he needs to see a doctor ahead of you. in the really. tough. new system you have this is. what it. is. you're seen apparently needs more tests and medical examinations but it seems to be too much for him and he disappears off the radar again. he said but that put into the national. military's a policy that tipped off it was pretty. if you persevere with a love interest you can make a living here in your body or not if you have the fisher and the employee says if i'm not fully recently you might say of course you completely get the intended to be quite fill of uli usually i thinking mark. but don't these are going to bite if
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you don't leave your report look really really poorly listening to the staff yeah yeah to somebody. initial made in a dimly if you're not part of. it if you're a yes but the mother don't need the city. it s. we feel compassion that you don't get it in the open with younger. this stage is set and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think you can ask me questions now as a new host on the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only counted the list leaves them closely into the headlines join me as i take on the
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so wednesday the 17th so we don't really know if that means that she will be released on bail and then these charges are still there or they're going to be different charges put on top of that we're not sure just yet but bottom line is we thought there'd be some type of movement with her the case against her or why they're keeping her in detention today on monday but now we're hearing that's not going to happen until wednesday the world health organization is planning a rapid response to an ebola outbreak in guinea after the 1st signs of the disease there in 5 years 7 people have tested positive for the virus and 3 have died dozens of people have been killed in fighting in northern yemen the rebels are trying to seize the city of motive and they've intensified their attacks against forces from the internationally recognized government it's catalonia as separatist parties are on track to win a majority of seats in the regional parliament after sunday's election the socialist p o p s o e is projected to win the most votes however separatist parties are set to claim up
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to 60 percent of seats they're expected to pose for another referendum on independence from spain and the early results from costs of those elections suggest there will be a major political change with a win for the anti establishment party the former prime minister albon kirti has declared victory he is promising to fight corruption but also take a hard line in relations with serbia. nucor indian rules for incoming travelers are due to come into effect in the u.k. for monday people arriving from 33 high risk nations will have to isolate in an airport hotel for 10 days and argentina is observing 3 days of national mourning after the death of the former president carlos menem at the age of 90 men and lead the country for 10 years from 1809 embracing closer ties with the u.s. those are the headlines it's back to libya unspeakable crime.
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there is no such thing as a clean war. war allows every kind of atrocity. of all war crimes rape is the hardest to uncover making it the perfect crime. to. lead to where the bomb the. now came to saw and sound noise and shout or. to set off the.
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french human rights lawyer selene but that much fatima. she is not libyan but she lived. she was kidnapped and raped like you see we saw earlier during the siege of misrata and is now trying to pull her life back together. from. coming to.
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the human rights groups of libyans operating out of tunis. he was a desert. and his unit took part in the government seizure of the opposition city of misrata in 2011. he also wanted his identity concealed and his voice is this cost you. see did you. begin to question the question again and. again and again i feel the fear. but it is him since i mean look at the been. saying. an ascii. more number of lasky. if he'd been out of the media. he feeds the. whole get done now you know.
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he would look for those that have been taken from them to be a school going to get the money he needs. to. i think you're going to give me an inch of the most. political symbol. on the back on the. button that. says it will be. on your bill feed not the new. look in the movies and make any deals not to get you the most forward.
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looking on federal law. no. the 1st instances of where by the gadhafi regime against opposition supporters then the tables were turned and those taking charge after the revolution adopted the same practice. in the spring of 2017 the international criminal court took action issued an indictment against a former senior government official supporter. to be committed during the revolution. the
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badly needed concrete evidence particularly to demonstrate the district of rape has continued long after the revolution. for this and the spied the risks they had to return to. the 5. what a lot of guts to. have been with the what that money is like that get on with it after that. one can look. at what names we get to what it will be for good which happened that night that in itself has a son who's good at the book we get to. know how pretty noble any.
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more for i reckon the fish fish higher than you. look at the good lord with the only one at the ship of. the group arrived in the capital trip which is still in constant state of flux one minute erupting like a volcano the next lying deceptive little. what if i man was a man from the water only just been released from 6 years in prison after being caught up in the backlash against his city. known as i leave his identity and voice also disguised here kind of end of hazard to be. you can literally. force the struggle for the better believe it or.
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over. said that it would laugh and he could. be the going to go to for. it if. you can but that he will be the bookish. but she surely saw. him to hack into that deed to. be able. to keep kitchens or what if there were if you get into do you got this more powerful they were born for problem. here and have us. she will go to something. long running before they bother. to live there.
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she saw. but i. missed. it it says and i just before show foot snake she says she's listening bullshitters all her. time to feel i must. come to. you with a start so. let's show them. what. we're . going to do good just go. completely love us and. 10 feet and i could tell you at the moment look you want to block. its share of. the
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gun stores. if you need it. for. the fall see the shape. of the. delta fox or the model in the middle. that little that we. do here. at the capitol. in order to. do. so. yes it's. time to. i am to i'm going to. be. ok for you.
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and. i least testimony also reflected the fact that being from the twilight he and his fellow residents were designated for special treatment. of guns were largely descendants from slaves and so are black so they were often considered 2nd class libyan citizens but then they were also accused without conclusive proof of having supported the government sees of misrata and taken part in rake along with the gadhafi supporters and rebel cities like misrata.
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a madman activist from 2 hours ago who had recorded the abuse suffered by the people. we. know they have lists of missing persons former prisoners the names of secret prisons and exact dates. the case was that water guns were being targeted kidnapped and systematically persecuted. yes. yes. the evidence pointed towards having become a major target. the
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implications were that a major human rights violation and alleged crime had been committed. time was a fest. so despite the obvious risk to his personal safety a man decided to stay in tripoli he tried in vain to contact other men.
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but a female victim did agree to meet him. at these you had never spoken out before her identity and voice are again discussed. well never. ok so. we're going to take a look at the numbers this is something. there how the. we were hard driving no one there and i've been saying you know for certain that the hardest will be. for the house did this come osha has come a hum so. we decided at this point some. should go to where easy it would be intimate from what i understood the consultant to a different sort of don't feel like having a good cup of coffee is you not
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a good person are going to get up and soon set off in the dark that if you're not from generally but really. it's. yours. and it's your fault but not the company 1st ruins mafia pretty. good look good for the gifted i know if it. has are going to only go and so has the scene and to me that would have to something that. i didn't have to from the start but the mint standard situation. decision ends on a new one to 9 months in the 1st and on the part of the nudity term i looked at him and into boarding an intercity should go and recommendation. the bullet
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more look at the dentist in the master bedroom shall go to sleep when i have that kind of you know stonyfield absentee man. is an attorney and it's not for certain but you have to look in the sense that it's a. gap and perhaps that the tenets you're standing on for starting a law that are out of mine are for my fantastic start to be sort of an option and lose the whole island but. what this book will. come got to defend. that. would be. one call.
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could we actually. ship. the scene for dinner i know is there a commitment we took. who had to live there think it was nerves. of steel. men was to keep me out of it if i wanted money got nothing to do with modern understanding. what moderates could. lose but the problem did not stop clinton and a bit earlier for. something a dentist unless like the one supply from
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a certain type of. conductive in the correct way. to go good that's where the bad story about mcknight made that hesitation i wanted to calculate had nothing that i don't think matters. if i lucked into will to go beyond the love island or be done cool. shit ticket there is a talking to that is at the heart of see. when to get their little it is my fault but the result of the is that this name for. the
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low risk of the 3rd lauren of wilson right now and then to learn to chant for gladness i sing. again son and. i'm glad not a member didn't and now and then the thought of arctic. especially when you before you learn to really make it. front. the people of that water i was finally allowed to return to the ruins of the city
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in 2018 but a marriage human rights group concluded that discrimination against them continues and that as a people they have become demonized in post-revolutionary a form of collective punishment. that must have been. to have. little need to. worry. about difficult mission work under mad. how they do feel what money. on the wrong track. you have felt for them and the list said. it was ridiculous skits likely have a lot. of your. take you won't when you have massive i'll tell you. that i want to get it to do now an example.
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i read they came together they can control humanity can you say yay or nay 20 years i think i say we're going to put it on what you can sound you need. as said all the while now. type. 6 in line to get his genius it passed. then. discovering. it is. the scourge of wa and the squares on top of the only epithet posh the south is in that's tricky for infocom forces any amount of strong escapade that comedies any man that austria division has shown a little. drawing on scene by this experience in bosnia may help the tunas base human rights group build a solid case against the perpetrators of these shocking abuses but it took 20 years for the u.n.
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tribunal to convict those responsible for the srebrenica massacre. the case of post revolution libya has highlighted the use of rape as a calculated instrument of war. the international justice system must now pick up the battle but this is no easy task i mean the ongoing factional fighting in today's libya. a year had passed since his scenes 1st arrival in tunisia. he stablished that he was not steroids. and with the passage of time his talents have soft being more concerned with justice than revenge. and if you can they take on life change. ok he crashed back and you
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could have called cad and let. him take any quality and he had a little. known and sick. and she had i am going to tell him that you know the elena. if he has. the challenge now is to achieve that on behalf of you see rosie or. ali. and all of the libyan rape victims.
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