charry exports to china. counting the cost on al-jazeera. be the hero or world news. washington. think this is al-jazeera. hello there are a hell of a hit it with the al-jazeera news are coming to you live from doha. the at. a military coup in myanmar and the violent reaction to protests comes under the spotlight at the united nations. anxious parents wait for answers after more than $300.00 school girls are kidnapped in northwest nigeria. the u.k.'s top court's

rules that shamima begum women who join deisel in syria cannot return to challenge a decision revoking her british citizenship. and hundreds of opposition supporters in armenia demand the prime minister's resignation over last year's defeats in the war with us or by john. and score a former u.s. gymnastics coach facing multiple abuse charges has committed suicide john get at her close links with disgraced team doctor laurie nasa. well it's been 4 weeks since a military coup in myanmar overthrew its democratically elected leaders triggering the most widespread protests the country's seen in years. and now for the 1st time

the u.n. general assembly is meeting on the coup and the crackdown and here's why this was friday morning in myanmar's biggest city go police use stun grenades to despairs protesters so far they've been no reports of injuries but several people have been detained while demonstrations have continued across the country despite the military's attempts to suppress them at least 3 people have been killed since protests began shortly after the february 1st coup. well let's speak to our diplomatic editor james bays c joins us now live from the united nations james we are expecting to hear more about the events in the me and more in the minutes to come just give us a sense of what we should be looking out for. well i think the security council which as you know is the main body that deals with peace and

security issues has gone about as far as it can on this issue so far they did manage and it defied the expectations of many observers to get a pretty strong statement out it didn't have the word coup in it but they managed to go see it in a statement and that was important showed that china was prepared to criticize what's happened in myanmar but many security council members want more pressure on the military in myanmar and that's why i think they've now. thought that it was a good time for the general assembly the other big organ of the united nations to have a meeting on this a meeting called by of all canvas skeer who's the current president of the general assembly in front of all of the 193 nations that make up the united nations to give us a situation report on what's going on in myanmar some almost 4 weeks we are 26 days since the coup took place and we have the special envoy for

the u.n. to be on mark christine shawna bergen who is about in just moments to speak to the general assembly that the meeting in session and she is going to be briefing from burn in switzerland from the swiss capital to explain her view of the current situation jim as you mentioned there that the security council had put out that statement but now the u.n. very much looking to put pressure on me and mar to see if they can bring about some kind of change where is that pressure likely to come from. well most of the pressure is using the bully pulpit of the general assembly of the podium at the general assembly to say to me on bar that the situation is unacceptable with the general assembly you never quite know know exactly how the meeting is going to pan out and i can tell you that the president of the general

assembly we didn't know he was going to do this but he's making an initial speech vulcan buskin is addressing the other gets in the general assembly hall and then we'll hear from the special envoy her words i think will be important remember that in the early days after the coup the u.n. found it extremely difficult to get hold of anyone from the military to work out what was going on and to make their submissions to them that clearly the key democratically elected leaders of myanmar should not be imprisoned and the coup should be reversed i can tell you that this special envoy more recently has had a dialogue and there's an ongoing dialogue with the military what security council ambassadors have told me is that they are watching what the general assembly will do and the fact this is being raised in the general assembly with the other place they're watching is diplomacy in our zeon which obviously is the important regional

group here and particularly diplomacy by 2 countries thailand which has recent experience of coups of his own and indonesia that has a history in the past behind the scenes of work on me and maher and they're hoping those 2 countries can put fresh pressure on but security council officials and security council diplomats telling me that they do feel it probably time now soon to have another security council meeting and of course the next stage would not to be have a closed door meeting would be to have a public meeting of the security council to call. out of the military regime that is not being decided yet what will happen in the coming days is the start of the new presidency for march of the security council and it's going to be the us that's presiding over the security council so the biden administration have the presidency of the security council and the brand new ambassador linda thomas greenfield will

be the president of the security council was telling you that she only took up her job in the last 24 hours this her 1st full day of work we are expecting her to be in this general assembly meeting and we are expecting her to give the u.s. beach ok james bass a diplomatic answer live from the u.n. james we'll check in with you later but for now thank you very much indeed well in me and mar own sense of she hasn't been heard or seen since the coup itself she remains under detention while protests continue across the country calling for her release here scott. that's where the protesters usually have started their gatherings you know the last 3 weeks plus that we've seen them come out that's where a lot of those images that we were just showing came from where the lines of riot police and the use of stun grenades the groups has to be said are a little bit smaller today than we've seen in previous days but obviously that didn't stop the police from trying to break them up trying to prevent them from the

even really forming in 2 larger groups you know stun grenades were used now this came after a night of late night and one neighborhood of yangon that also saw a kind of police dispersal like this kind of a heavy hand by the police that is because in the neighborhood the residents were upset because the military appointed a local councillor for that neighborhood so that kind of flared things up so that might have been part of the reason why we saw a little bit more of a stronger stance by the police today on the streets of yangon also we have found out that they're. afraid that japanese journalist was detained by the police he was able to contact one of his colleagues as he was being detained around midday me m.r. time he said he said it was ok but that's the 1st german foreign journalist we know has been detained by police it's the 2nd foreigner to be detained since the coup on february 1st an australian man was detained weeks ago who was an advisor to on song

suchi. let's take you to northwest nigeria now where police say a gunman have kidnapped 317 girls from their school it happens in the town of john gave me in some far a states the police say they have information that the abducted girls have been moved to a neighboring forests let's get more now from al-jazeera a committee driessen joins me live from a butcher up with what a few learns in the last couple of hours about the situation. well officials say must save money hunt grown and offensive or permission has been launched immediately and they are in fact chasing after the band it's not also includes local vigilant just like hunters and people supporting local communities to protect themselves in the absence of security forces so they are on the trail of the kidnappers and they think that they could make headway before sunset today this

is coming at a time when just 9 days ago dozens of students were taken from another boarding school now as dr saeed locos or other residents of. really. protested today attacking a convoy of government officials that attempted to go to the town process the situation there and caught in the crossfire which of course a number of journalists or a number of journalists were affected in the process not knowing that they were also they were not related in any way with that the government delegation attempted to go to john gabriel so the situation is a bit calmer now what we understand police and military deploying in large numbers and the locals are also said to be. asking the government to bring back their children and be at the condition of a lot of government officials is when they see their children back safely in the community ok apas e.g.

stepping is the very latest live from a big thank you very much indeed. thank you but as president we're secular a very severe general assembly where the u.n. special envoy for me anymore is the president a christian friend or bergen or act all stakeholders in myanmar as the army insists that the state counselor or and san suu kyi has to meet its 3 combinations threats and a takeover she did not agree need to these conditions of dialogue a ph to follow or and i hope until the end that the at them did prove would not take place unfortunately it took captain. i told you in 2 towers 19 that i don't sound the alarm if necessary this is now the case i'm bringing in dol armed else i strongly condemn the recent steps taken by the

military and urge all of you to collectively send a clear signal of support of democracy in nara at this moment crafted processes have been pushed aside and elected leaders including the state councillor on san suu kyi and president of the union and republic reign remain detained. i have warned many times that as we support in your hearts transition the urgency in helping lay the foundations of a plurality democracy should be balanced least your consideration for the various conflicts the mess to challenge us the city and leadership face. i have tried again and again to explain the complex situation namely that the army holds the real power sri ministries where occupied by members of the army and the police in particularly when where subordinate to eat jeannine democracy requires

civilian control or the military 25 percent of parliamentary seats where with their reserved for the army under the military draft the 2008 arms to choose changing the constitution requires more than 75 percent of well you can imagine the challenges he's post for the national league for democracy and a new government in pursuit of reforms. the military was not on yet not separately for but has initiated to reverse soon the process of many positive measures introduced by the end of the interests instead of resorting to differences to establish legal mechanisms the military exploit that difference to try to justify an attempted coup i say at hand that since the takeover

has not stopped our lives it would appear to be roundly rejected by the people it is important to the international community does not lend legitimacy or recommission to this region even i also say a coup because the military takeover and sticker ration of the state of emergency also a clear violation of the constitution regard less of what they plainly. meanwhile democracy elected 3 percent it gives were able to be sworn in according to the constitution on force february and have formed at the county or presenting yadav who are the c r h e's parliamentarians have courageously sought to up hold their obligations to serve the people who wanted for them and it is important they are not even

a platform. mr president as i briefed the security council on 2nd february the gene will of the people of myanmar must be upheld the result of the election of november 2021 year with 82 percent of the war just for the n l t there is no justification for to military actions and we must continue to call for the reversal of peace in her miserable situation exhausting all collective and bilateral channels to store only arms passed on operatic reforms. he spied at parents by the military and the appointed offie shills to justify its ongoing violations of looting that killing of peaceful protesters and the continued detention of all equally leaders civil servants and others let us be clear there

can be no business as usual and that the current circumstances. before the surprises we know more about opening up including the economic following the case of military rule it has become interconnected to the global economy supply chain investment and banking these brought to is it not on the potential for national prosperity a sense am on the people of myanmar that positive opportunities lonely night to them who talo going back to isolation will bring economic and political pains the people do not deserve. mr president the secretary general has called on myanmar's military and police to ensure the right of peaceful asked somebody is fully respected and then wants traitors are not subjected to reprisals. according to the n.g.o.s assistance association for

political prisoners around 700 individuals have been painted namely arbitrarily and who's out charges trials and legal representation and the families are not able to locate or contact them equally concerning are the restrictions on internet and communication services they must not eat instructed to ensure the right to freedom of expression which includes access to information on growing wild lands intimidation and harassment by security personnel and deliberate acts to create an security instead of an easy as well as to enact meant offtrack canyon loans which deprive people of their basic human rights are a granges some of them are also in violation of their own constitution

we should not forget that most of the civil servants hired by the end of government are still in peace many have been intimidated and harassed forced to change sides it is also our thanks myanmar's embassies around the world. yet meaning armed groups who are signatories to the he story of 2015 nationwide cease fire agreement collectively announced to suspend dialogue is the military this is remarkable and reflects the main interest 2nd acts the current situation has predicted. the military's decision to release around $23000.00 prisoners among them and those associated with political murders and divisive figure as who have incited communal tension is regretful weaponize in such in the well as to cause an royston in europe it's crossed the trail to the people

the military has sworn to protect nobody don't restrict greater national interest genuinely in mind or to create these level offs and knots you are in a pandemic which requires an effective inclusive response an important opportunity to build you across the country in the fight against poverty 1000 has been lost and is a great danger for the people in our and also or for the region. mr president if some remarks on human rights of rohingya muslims and other minorities the united nations system will continue to stand with the people of myanmar and i appreciate the security council's call for same in m.p. dept of humanitarian access to all people who need humanitarian need in myanmar

remains acute with more than 1000000 people in need with many of those living in areas currently or provides links up check to conflict with the military. for the 126000 who remain confines in iten people camps in iraq time there must be jingling progress to provide them freedom of movement and there are also who should to return to their homes. we must ask ourselves and we must ask how can we rely on a military genius when the wherry same lead the security operations leading to the human rights violations and forced displacement rocket people and doubters from their homes. in my discussions with the military leadership after he had them in the coup i was given assurances efforts in jihad that by the end of the government

to our screen a thief on whose if politicians for the 5 lalan terry sane and sustainable impact ration of the right who never effigies to their place of origin or choice would come to new however our recent reports stated that the military who lounge in mystification is into the work of advisory commission on rockline state in shake the piano and take action against those who act that i brought in the self interest of an individual are without taking national interests into ponsi duration and to what needs is deeply concerning the same has been announced for the activities of the independent commission of inquiry i.c. or even so all who worked to protect us and where in favor of accountability are now under strain we must be clear accountability for

previous and current crimes will not go on hamish. mr president we have a collective responsibility in my discussions with them in telling military leadership including several of his that if a commander in chief i have a card these concerns i'm 35 the secretary general's has seen and requested to receive to myanmar and that a conversation i can move to was detained by our many leaders my intention was to come when directly to concerns of the international community and help resolve differences through peaceful dialogue which is the end of our holding the winner of the myanmar people. regrettably the current regime has so far as community to post on n.b.c. . it seems they want to continue making large spain arrests and have been more suv

people to testify against and the parliament he says is cruel and inhuman but we've been listening to the u.n. special envoy for nguyen mark christine shane or burgen or giving an assessment of the situation in the country since the military coup took place there 4 weeks ago and she was very keen to stress that this is a coup she also strongly condemned actions of the military and urged the u.n. general assembly to send a strong message a tone of frustration at the top of a speech very clear this was not an unforseen able event stressing that genuine democracy requires civilian control of the military something which is not the case in myanmar let's head across to new york and talk with our diplomats get search

teams basically joins me from the united nations james we've been listening to that a fairly damning assessments of the situation in me n mark what stood out to you in that speech that she was giving to the general assembly. well worth knowing that ever since the coup took place the special envoy has been trying to get to me on mar but she's had a clear condition from her boss the secretary general and from herself that she's only going to go there if she on that visit is allowed to see the detained leaders the real leaders of the country including un sun suu kyi and her condition and her visit have not been accepted by the military at this stage and she told the general assembly just moments ago that's because they clearly want to carry on their program all the arrests arrests of peaceful protesters that have included in cases

she said protesters being killed clear that she wants the international community not to start dealing with this military regime clear that she's calling it an attempted coup rather than a coup because she says there's still a great deal of opposition on the ground an up rising of people against what the military are doing very brave people on the ground i think what we're going to see now is how the membership of the general assembly respond to this when she finishes her speech we won't get an order of speakers the way it works in the general assembly for a meeting like this is that you make it clear that you want to speak there she has ballot tronic voting buttons i think we're going to hear from some country groups 1st and then individual countries now the one that i think will be most interesting for us as we watch this is the united states because we are going to hear from a new member of president biden's kamut cabinet linda thomas greenfield who will be

in the u.s. chair in the general assembly and if she gives a speech on this subject it may well be some of the fullest comments we've had yet from the biden administration and how they're going to deal with the coup leaders in myanmar. ok james bays. live from the united nations james thank you very much indeed. my. bus returned to nigeria where police say a gunman have kidnapped 317 girls from their school amnesty international says its document saying i'm alarmed an escalation in attacks and actions since january last week one student was killed and 42 people abducted in an attack on a boarding school in the sheriff states they remain missing in december and 344 boys from their boarding school in katsina they were released

a week later well amnesty says across the northwest on's gangs who rob and kidnap for ransom have killed more than one phase and 100 people in the 1st half of last year in northeastern nigeria a grenade attack by boko haram on the region's largest city might agree killed at least 10 people more than 30000 people have been killed by violence in the region over the years with iran's 2000000 more displaced. well let's get more on this now from gigo she's the director of amnesty international nigeria and joins us live from a booth via skype skits have you wear this on the news there is quite an alarming surge in violence that we've seen over the last few months how do you explain this what's happening what's causing the surge in violence.

it's quite a worrying trend very sad because it just shows how desperate 3 the security situation is in nigeria at the moment what is and what tends to stress right now is that the latest abductions have not when. or not the nigeria while in the pa abduction of school children women and girl has been vocal in areas controlled by boko are on when not a lot of kidnappings and not the hottest mean in other parts of mother nigeria and what this tells us is that the general is security situation which we have to last many times with the authorities but when you find. in some part of the. 27th you think he literally you need to display the community that creates have all

that the response the security reform that is needed has not been adequately provided and that these bandits and crimean a guy that gets in more confidence in the attack why is the nigerian government unable to detect these attacks it just seems that the government just unable at this stage to protect its own people why is this. it's something that i think we all need to join voices to ask the manger am governmental evil to its responsibilities it's about people's lives and you'll notice that many of these communities that i think that in rural area they are poor or and so again likely outside their means whether the governor mitt exists so there's a possibility that these communities that have been ignored what the reality now is

that. we've got to step in the attack the frequent the in the act and this this this this particular act is just because of the large number of children they were taking their stories on a daily. basis that we receive all the abduction in the bush that's why people are not going to get guns that's. so much as to be out of their homes at magh so all the authorities need to prioritize the likes of all major areas not just doors in the cities and. for to provide private security for themselves would you say this is a political problem or is the nigerian army not. i think there are so many factors one inspiring like i said previously a couple of months ago when we had the ends that was a protest in

a chair it was about police brutality i want of the things that came out was the issue of the kitchen of security officers it was discovered that quite a number of police officers have been outside outside of their primary duty so yeah there are techniques in order to show or to be mass signed to specific private institutions to provide security in their absence or if already when in a country where we don't have enough police officers to go out and the number we have another large number is being asked signed not on public services then it's begs the question as to one how does the government respond to these security incidents that we're seen looking at seats from irresponsive point of view and secondly how to recognize the right to life because what is happening now is in big

legs and it's sure that. whatever the government to be doing now be reactionary so it means that they need to really step up to take steps that identify with this culprits on what their sponsors what is happening to them and use the intelligence services now in modern state people rather than dispelling the limited security forces we have on issues. which are outside the hands that to 3 rules in society ok i'm afraid we'll have to leave it there but thank you so much or say or do you go direct survivalist international nigeria for joining us on the news or thank you for having me. now the united states military has launched air strikes in syria targeting facilities used by iranian backed militias the main target was the military base there are books that school

says syria's border with iraq the pentagon says the operation was in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq. would. be targeted. in. the past but it was. a militia. that did the strike. but we've got 2 correspondents on the story for you this hour our white house correspondent kimberly hawkers is live for us in washington d.c. but 1st let's talk to someone of 14 he joins us from the iraqi capital baghdad some more or less have been any reaction to this airstrike from the region. well we have just heard from the iraq here defense ministry which issued a statement expressing its surprise about these u.s. strike strikes on iranian backed armed groups in syria and emphasizing that they

did not collaborate of the united states on this matter that they only work together with the u.s. with comes to fighting i saw here in iraq and the statement stopped short of condemning those strikes in syria and that is exactly what those troops that have been targeted would have wanted the iraqi government to do they have been insisting that these strikes have happened very close to the iraqi border some even claiming that they happened on iraqi soil which is not true and claiming that they killed one member of the popular mobilisation forces which is of course part of the iraqi security infrastructure and so they have been pushing the iraqi government to condemn those those strikes and the iraqi government hasn't done so because they did not really occur on iraqi soil now what remains to be seen whether these

strikes are actually effective ok so one of my friends who i haven't claimed to have targeted their interests i'm sorry to cut you off some more we have to head back to the u.n. we were listening to the representative from me and mar addressing that statements on the to protest let's listen in. individual kempley. the landslide of the national league for democracy the general elections clearly many 1st that the people are united behind. and prosperous society. will be enormous. mr president completely ignoring the people's desire that that model stage

on 2021 that's what the day that the new parliament supposed to convene it's fast meeting the military did danes take counsel out on san suu kyi president and other political leaders and civil davis since then people from all strata of life have come out on the street all over the country and a suppress their disappointment with the military coup as well as demand that the immediate release of or detainees and return of the state power to the people through the elected government the people of myanmar are resolute for achieving that demand i agree with the secretary general that the military is not a step that will that the military is not a step they will in this modern world and the mass. the people of myanmar are

resilient the server and united in fighting for the and of military. immediate release of all and law for detainees return of the stick power to the people restoration of democracy in myanmar it is attested to by the on going past to stand protests throughout the nation sit in their military coup it is crystal clear that we all do not want to go back to this is dan we used to be in believe before here i wish to recall the what the on san suu kyi in inspiring book friedan from fear i cooked within is this which denying the existence of our basic human right fear dance to be the order of the day and quote. mr president at this important juncture to continue and strong support from the international community is imperative for the bebo of myanmar.

in our 5 against the military regime taking this opportunity i would like to thank all countries who have expressed their support towards the people of myanmar i also during the secretary-general special envoy and a special report on myanmar for their support but the people of me a master if we have less mr president if still in cease in addition to the existing support we need find our strongest possible action from the international community to immediately and a military coup to stop or pressing the in-laws and people to return the state power to the people and to restrain their democracy as such i would like to a p.c. all member states and the united nations as follows one issue public

statement to strongly condemn of the military. to do not recognize by any means the state administration council and the military regime the re are the military to respect the results of the free and 2020 general elections for do not cooperate with the military and the return of the state power to the people through the elected government 5. take all strongest possible measures to stop the violence and do tricks commit to bind the security forces against the most brutal and the military coup immediately 6 support the c r h in conclusion mr president we will continue to fight for a government which is off of the people buying the people for the people

the people and the end will be led government were double our folks to make the cantley. federal union i wish to require the international community to extend their continued support in this but mr president i believe that our fellow. seitan outside the country are following this meeting. with high interest police army to speak a few words in myanmar. mingle our. the union on the. ok with your listening to us ambassador to the un that was cured. who was urging action from the international community asking the international partners to support the people of myanmar who are resisting this coup attempts by the 1000000 mar military let's

get some analysis now from our diplomatic editor james bays who is live at the u.n. jeff just talk us through the significance of what we've been hearing there from the ambassador. you've just heard one of the bravest people in the world i think right now this is the man who represents me and mark at the u.n. and he has decided to speak up against the coup and are spoken to u.n. officials about what they thought diplomats might do just a couple of days ago that me and mars. to the u.n. in geneva resigned his job but said nothing this ambassador is staying in his job and speaking up u.n. officials have told me that they fear the the reason that people weren't going to speak up is that they would be worried about retribution against their families in

myanmar there are there are lots of things that could happen to the family of the ambassador who's just spoken it reminds me going back 10 years during the uprising against gadhafi when the ambassador. and his deputy deputy even him dabashi denounced gadhafi and defected this isn't quite a defection because they were the there was appointed by the civilian government and the coup has taken place since but very bravely denouncing the coup and i think his words will have a real impact on all the other ambassadors sitting in the room listening to this for example a lot of the european union giving the use response right now all of the country blocks all of the member states i think will hear those words and they'll be hard for some of those in the region who want to deal with this rather quietly quiet

diplomacy which tends to be the ac in a way to follow that i think this may well be a bit of a game changer certainly in terms of the diplomacy and of course it adds to the quite strong speech we heard from the special envoy describing it as an attempted coup. so far because of the amazing will of the people that we're seeing every day defying a military regime in myanmar and so so given the significance of that speech from the. mood to and he signed it it has to be said quite emotional at points as he was addressing the general assembly in english is there a chance that this could push other members of the general assembly to take action what kind of concrete steps. can happen as a result of this meeting. well among that among the things that could

happen is i suspect he will get repercussions from the military regime in myanmar and try and withdraw him and sack him from his seat the u.n. could take a stand there the general assembly has a credentials committee and as we saw with libya they could decide no he's still the legitimate. bassa i think also their actions that the general assembly could take this is a meeting to listen to a current situation report from the special envoy but the general assembly could come up with a resolution which would be a powerful message to the regime in myanmar that's not going to happen at this meeting but it could happen going forward and of course that could i think have knock on effect in the dynamics in the security council where the security council surprised many people early on after the coup in managing to get a joint statement they weren't able to get the word coup into it but they got

a statement there which surprised people because people thought that perhaps china might block a statement could you actually get further from the security council which i like the general assembly has real teeth it can do things like put sanctions into place could you get a security council resolution denouncing the coup and threatening action against the military in myanmar that has seemed pretty unlikely until now but certainly i think this speech changes the dynamics of the diplomacy in the u.n. it will be interesting to see you see how other. countries respond to that speech interesting to see what china has to say in this meeting and interesting to see what the bike ministration has to say linda thomas greenfield the brand new ambassador in her 1st full day and in the job is going to be speaking in this meeting a little later indeed well we'll let you get back to that thank you very much indeed that's james bass al jazeera diplomatic editor joining us live from the u.n.

. now the u.k. supreme court says ruled that a woman who ran away as a teenager to join eisel should not be allowed to return to britain to fights for her citizenship should be i'm a big i'm left london with 2 school friends at the age of 15 and marries and i saw a fighter she was stripped of her persistence and shipped on national security grounds have to be discovered in a refugee camp in 2819 well u.k. government has argued that is bangladeshi by descent so she could live there let's get more from evan lawrence kansas terrorism and security specialist at the university of central lancashire i do beg your pardon she she joins us now. from from manchester by skype thank you so much for talking to us here on the al-jazeera news the british government. says

a big return because she poses a security risk. as an expert in this field could you just explain to our viewers what sorts of risk this young woman pauses well i think because she still lines are stouts with isis she's been seen to be kind of one of the faces of isis for quite a while now by her going out and becoming a jihadi. and all that that there are certainly. believe that she can recruit others that she could still be involved with the group. that you know. at this point. i would imagine that's what the security services and the police are worried. but is it not the case that the u.k. has taken citizens back you have been involved in these activities why would they be unable to. protect the public from this woman in prison i mean does

this not say something about the abilities of the u.k. to protect its own citizens yeah i mean i think it's it's very contradictory us to our structure of our citizenship and i think that you're especially considering that she was only 15 when she went on which when she went out to join isis. you know there's a lot of controversy surrounding. her. lao in herds you come back to participate in the trial what sort of precedent do you think this sets in terms of the way countries deal with their citizens who commit crimes overseas i mean is this something that we can expect other nations to do when it comes to tackling people who run away to join groups like eisel. i know it's certainly an issue that lots of countries are facing right now we're we're

seeing some of. these look at whether they can do this france certainly has gone down that path as well. you know and i think it. it sets a lot of presidents because mainly because of her age there are other people who are in the same situation we're unaware of what their circumstances are but with this case because she's 15. when she went out she's still considered child and so treat her as though it was fully aware of what was going on all of the repercussions that happened because of her decisions i think is is unfair i think. you can go read the criminal justice system needs to have a little bit of understanding and i guess sympathy for this girl who

are otherwise would be. a lot who has been drawn into what we would consider sexual exploitation of human trafficking yes she may have committed crimes of that in the process but fundamentally she's a victim of human trafficking ok we'll have to leave it there unfortunately we are out of time but evan lawrence joining us from manchester thank you very much indeed . the united states has joined russia in calling for restraint in armenia as its prime minister faces pressure to resign opponents of nickell passion yan are protesting in the capital yerevan demanding he step down he's rejected calls to quits and has fired his military chief accusing the army of attempting a coup or passion and has faced prove sest since losing the war with neighboring azerbaijan last year over the disputed region of nagorno karabakh.

former u.s. president donald trump is set to be the keynote speaker at this weekend's conservative political action conference c pac is an annual meeting of conservatives and acts of. across america will discuss what direction the real republican party should take after trump's seconds impeachment trial well john hendren is live for us from orlando florida where that conference is being held joe and it seems like the featured direction of the of the republican party would likely be decided at this conference what have you been hearing. well that's absolutely right this is a conference each year that determines the future direction of the republican party in this year the question is will donald trump leave that party and i can tell you

from going to an event last night that based on the merchandising and chalking to people who were there there's a lot of support for donald trump is the head of the republican party going forward even though he's no longer president and i've got a senate candidate here luis miguel is running for senate in the state of florida and he's running against marco rubio as a republican from the right so let me ask you 1st off a week what brings you to see a guy speak for the millions of americans all throughout this country who are absolutely disgusted with the direction of the party took him betraying the man that we trusted the man we love donald trump us mentioned the future of the party and without a doubt donald trump is remains and will be the leader of the party in a direction that he led the country in the tropics and america 1st bag is the future the policy direction this country needs and i'm here because so many people are fed up with the way to establishment mitch mcconnell the leadership in

washington a lot of stay. not only him in the back but us in the back all of us who put our trust in him if say donald trump were to run for president again in 4 years which he has talked about would you support him by then there's no doubt about that he very much like i said is the standard bearer of the party he understands the issues to pick common a working man is facing not wall street like mitch mcconnell like marco rubio that's the interest that they're beholden to the president from put forth a platform that truly in which the working people of the forgotten men and women for so long have seen their jobs or opportunities the american dream itself shipped off to foreign countries or are flat out shattered into pieces. for our viewers who one of the questions they're going to have is you know donald trump is been credited or blamed depending on how you look at it with the attack on the u.s. capitol what do you have to say about that if you have any criticism for the former president on that score well you know the president himself was very clear and very

direct when he organized a rally in a protest it was supposed to be peaceful it was meet people raising their voices in order to use the mechanisms provide constitutionally in order to address voter fraud and you know we've seen a lot of things out there i've covered myself in my capacity as a writer any american how many of the people who are actually causing a ruckus in their head left wing ties now i mean i do want us there just because we're running out of time luis but thank you very much that's luis miguel he's running for senate in the state of florida and he's here at the see pat conference the conference at which donald trump himself is expected to speak on sunday and he will make his pitch for being the leader of the party on that day ok john hendren that live from orlando florida thank you very much same time for the sports here's andy thank you so much how well former u.s. olympic gymnastics coach john get it has died by suicide just hours after he was charged with crimes against young gymnasts the charges included sexual. salt and

human trafficking got to let the u.s. women's teams for gold at the 2012 olympics at close links with disgraced team doctor laurie nasa who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing athletes 3 years ago we've been talking to sportswriter casper b. and he fears the kind of abuse get it was charged with is widespread in gymnastics . it got the gold into gold and that's the biggest honor you can get so in in old janessa exports he was well well respected man also known as harsh but that was normal in many guidance of regions in the sport also utils known as as as a father and then i fell many men and a good man for everybody well the things that were not in the big chair were us what happened behind the closed doors of course because there are such big things happen in the usa but very soon and all the other countries g.m.'s recognized what

happened and they could have for us almost every country in europe people and eunice are making their cases against the federation or against the coaches federations it cannot quiet everything's already have to do starting there's a geisha is there a region where i am work of working in and in belgium there's an independent investigation and all months of my own country the war it started an investigation into 2 misconduct of coaches and also what's going to bet and will bend it in the culture because it's also what's most wrong in the values of the sport and it's very widespread it's it's it's everywhere now and there are almost no exceptions. now running champion's car seche friends have made a winning start to the new season cus i keep beating a hole in the f. minus to know as i am so win this title for the full time in 5 seasons and you can

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