tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 28, 2022 9:00pm-10:01pm AST
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ah, welcome to the news hour, the u. s. house committee investigating the january 6th riots on capitol hill is hearing how donald trump knew some of his supporters were armed, but wanted them in the area where he was giving his speech anyway. this is the 6th hearing and a former aid to the former u. s. president. donald trump's chief of staff says that he was aware that crowds had entered the us capitol with many weapons heidi's casters joining us from capitol hill. so some pretty explosive testimony from cassidy hutchinson just to talk us through the highlights. heidi absolutely what she just told this panel really made people's jaw dropped. she described a, a story that she heard from another trump aide in which described the president that day on january 6 as he was being escorted from the ellipse where he had just
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given his speech, rallying up. so his supporters telling them on state that he was going to march of the capital with them to disrupt electoral count. and when he got into the presidential motorcade the beast as it's called, according to this witness, he was so angry when told that he wasn't allowed to go to the capital of due to security concerns that the president allegedly reached over took the wheel, the steering wheel, with one hand tried a physically change the direction of the vehicle to take into the capital and with his other hand, according to this testimony, which for the clavicle of the secret service agent. a physical altercation as described by cassidy hutchinson, the former aid to president trump's former chief white house, white house chief of staff. certainly a vivid moment. she was asked then whether there was any reason for her to doubt
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this account. she said no. she said that it was corroborated by multiple other former trump aids. so certainly this may be the reason to read why this sudden hearing was called. this was not planned until just a few days ago when the committee announced that it had received new information in its investigation that it felt needed to go public as soon as possible. and very likely that was a key element of that new evidence against donald trump. yeah, that's what i wanted to focus on with you heidi at now, because as you're saying this really was a surprise hearing that there was unplanned. tell us how this came about. that's right. the committee usually announces to the press who they're going to be interviewing, and what the focus of the hearing was. what was very different for this 6 hearing different from all the other previous ones. in that there was a big question mark, a big mystery surrounding this. and that's why we, in the press,
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many observers were all wondering what the big announcement might be. what would justify this sudden change in plans? and we are hearing this jaw dropping testimony from the 1st white house employee in the trouble ministration to come forward and take these questions in public. cassidy hutchinson already had been referenced multiple times by other live witnesses and she has been the source of other big reveals in the january 6 panels investigation. to add this, this sort of visceral description of the exact moments of trumps actions and, and around that riot of january. 6th, it is some powerful evidence that she is still delivering or thank you so much. how does your password reporting for us from capitol hill or staying in the us and they were found in sweltering heat inside and abandon truck in texas. at least 50 people
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have now died. and what's been called one of the worst tragedies affecting migrants along the us, mexico border. the white house says it's committed to act against humans smuggling networks. victoria gate and b has more. the grim discovery was made in a remote area on the outskirts of san antonio in texas, a man working near by her to cry for help and saw a trailer with the door partially opened. inside, there were dozens of bodies piled on top of one another. temperature in the area had reached 39 degrees centigrade on monday. those who survived mostly young adults and children were too weak to get out of the trailer paces that we saw were hot to the touch. they were suffering all from heat, stroke, heat exhaustion. ah, no signs of water in the vehicle. it was a refrigerated tractor trailer. but there was no of visible working ac unit on that rig. the victims believe to be migrants who crossed the us mexico border looking
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for a better life. this appears to be one of the worst cases of migrant debts in the us in recent years. so the point of migrants sitting refuse is always you her monitor in crisis, but tonight we are dealing with a horrific human tragedy. so i would urge. busy who have been compassionately and pray for the deceased the ailing. the families, the trailer was found near a major highway that stretches all the way to the border with mexico. san antonio police have made arrests. we have 3 people in custody. we don't know if they are absolutely connected to this or not. this investigation has been turned over to a cesar. it is now a federal investigation. the migration crisis at the u. s. saw the buddha is a problem for president biden, whose approval ratings are low. republicans are focusing on the issue ahead of the
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mid term elections in november. human rights group say the crisis is being politicized by both sides. in the meantime, migrants continue to cross the border. in this case with tragic consequences, victoria gate and be al jazeera or many of the victims came from mexico and parts of central america. we have john holman standing by for us and mexico city. but 1st let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly halted to tell us so more about the reaction. kimberly that's coming from the white house. as a u. s. president has released a statement, the white house calling this a heartbreaking and tragic loss of life. the president joe biden saying that he is still learning all the facts. we know that he is getting updates regular updates from the ground and the initial reports, according to this stave and say that this has been caused by human traffickers who have no regard for the lives in danger and exploit to make
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a profit. as the president goes on to say in his statement that this underscores the need to go after the multi 1000000000 dollar smuggling industry, that is praying on migrants who are simply looking for a better life. and the president also knows that he, in just a few weeks ago, was in los angeles where he announced an anti smuggling campaign. noting that already there have been upwards of 2400 arrests in this effort to apprehend those that do prey on those looking for a better life. and he does point the finger at those politicians that are criticizing his immigration policies or border policies. he is referring to the texas governor greg abbott, who says that essentially joe biden has blood on his hands for the slave is an incident. in fact, the republican governor says that the latest deaths are a result of jo biden's friendly immigration policies or failure to enforce border
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policies that have led to these death. the fact that so many migrants have been flooding the southern border of the united states and mexico since show by the took office. and so the president says that this is nothing more than political grandstanding something he calls shameful. he also says that he is going to do everything that he can to stop humans smuggling, including announcing that he will a meeting with the mexican president on july 12th. and among the issues that he will be discussing is migration. ok. thank you so much. kimberly hancock reporting from washington d. c. let's a cross over to mexico city ranger holman. so what are the mexican authorities saying, john? it sort of reinforces a little bit. well, kimberly was saying that this is about large smuggling operations. the met can,
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foreign minister is just tweeted, the mexican authorities will be sending a team to investigate what happened to san antonio. and that not only reflects that 22 mexican nationals died in this tragedy, but also the fact that further down south of the border into mexico as well, there are people smuggling operations. they can sometimes be linked to the cartels in the country to a larger web of organized crime. and we've actually seen a truck for ourselves and convoys of trucks in the past. heading from the country southern border we guatemala clandestinely to try and get up north of the country. the u. s. isn't the only one we've quite strong board of restrictions. mexico has also been doing that in the south of the country under pressure from the united states, set its national guard down their points, and it's also got a web of checkpoints. so these sorts of clandestine ways to avoid that sort of detection have become common just a 6 months ago. now, there was a tried to be a mixed term which a trailer crushed in the south,
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the country korean carrying migrants and more than 50 people died. so this is related to this country as well. now what's the solution to all of this? of course, it's going to be several solutions. what is a multi technical problem problem? as kimberly mentioned, the president, nope, is over the door, is traveling to the white house to meet with president biden on the 12th july faxing, just more than a 2 weeks. what he's saying about this is there is to do a painful smuggling, but it's also to do with the poverty and desperation that people face in the home countries be that in southern mexico or countries like us, guatemala, salvatore, those further down the route and that they're trying to flee from president biden and president of his daughter, sort of on the same page about and trying to push some sort of plan to deal with those root causes of migration and saying that that is part of it. the problem is how that's implemented. and how to take care of where the money actually goes to
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when it gets to countries that have problems with corruption. but we'll see now if this does push, start any sort of more conversation on that and on the border restrictions, for example, tied to $42.00 crime the us border, which means basically because there's a pandemic and there's health problems, it means that anyone can be kicked out of the country nor offered asylum. so we'll see if this moves to dial on any of that in the coming week. yeah, we'll have to wait to see john home and thank you so much. john is reporting for us from mexico city. while the number of migrants at the u. s. southern border has risen to its highest level and more than 2 decades. in 2019 the number of monthly encounters peaked at around 140000 in may. that dropped significantly in 2020. as a result of the pandemic, since then, there has been a sharp rise to well over 200000 the summer, most of the people were deported. that's because former president trump invoke the public health order. john was just mentioning it, it's known as title 42,
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to slow the spread of co with 19. well president joe biden, to his office to keep the controversial rule and other strict border policies in place. let's bring in madison him on. got so who's the senior director for advocacy and programming with the whole border institute? that's an organization that works with migrants in the us mexico border region. she's joining us live from el paso in texas. we thank you for speaking to us on al jazeera. just give me your initial thoughts on, on this tragedy with the migrants in texas. thank you. i and i think i speak on behalf of many people. we got it. this been completely avoidable tragedy. the last human life of mother saw their sisters and brothers were no longer with their families, loved ones taken from us. and the tragedy been something that the unique perspective of the southern border of the united states, but is also part of what needs to be done to stop this risk to people who are just
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ultimately trying to get a better life. so we have over $80000000.00 people around the lo bring to you and each the, our data and people that are forcibly displaced. and we know that those people need protection. we do have legal pathways for protection in the united states through the process and mechanism. and unfortunately, right now through the policy we're just mentioning to but it's become inaccessible for people and the needs. and so what we see are people coming from all around the world to this border, primarily from latin america and be on central america, mexico to speak protection, but the real pathways. and so when you are persecuted with you are a target for organized crime. and for violence in mexico, family can be desperate, and some time, various actors take advantage of that and human trafficking is the result or
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perilous condition. and unfortunately, new people perish is the result. so what we need is the restoration of the, of the border. we need true partnerships with organizations on the ground and other countries to develop processes that addresses drivers with migration. and we need to really think critically about diverting the resources we put in deterrence and militarization into humanitarian accompaniment. and to welcome, are you optimistic that anything will come out of the meeting? the upcoming meeting are correspondence. we're just saying that president biden is going to meet with a mexican president next month. what are you going to be looking for? i'm going to look for signals that there is more of a migration that is mutually beneficial. i think store 3, there's been a power imbalance between united states and mexico, which has caused both to act accordingly and tried to use the levers that they have to control the southern border, the us northern border,
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mexico. and when we have many things, some of the united states, unfortunately, some of our deterrence. militarism is another thing that we export and happen to in countries across him. here i would like to see follow up to the dialog section place or where to take place. but the, somebody of the americans and the declaration, i would like to see how those 2 leaders will impact that wouldn't mean for them and their unique position. countries, the origin and destination for people on the moon. and really thinking about how to respond to real time, especially when it comes to the employers state governments in both texas and mexico. thinking about governor abbott and he influence with other mexican state partners in the northern part of the country from the state to someone in less than others does cause a lot of challenges to how they address that together. all right, so we thank you so much marissa, lima, gods for speaking to us are possible. texas plenty more had on the all,
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just they were news our including in ukraine, a desperate search for survivors who are buried under the rubble of a shopping mall. hit by a russian missile after decades of conflict, columbia, we'll hear the truth. we'll have more on the report that being billed as a step towards reconciliation and a former f one champion facing allegations of racism over what she said about lose hamilton. that's coming up and support i but 1st there's been a summit of 7 of the world's riches democracies in germany, leaders there pledged 4 and a half $1000000000.00 to fight global hunger. that's as the conflict pushes up food traces, adding to the economic impact of the pandemic to boston, reports from germany. it was the summit of strong language emit scenic views,
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lead us up to 7 highest income countries, stressed how united they are in the condemnation of russia. and ukraine missile attacks on q and a crowd, a supermarket in common, took taking place during the summit, only increased their anger. we have addon fighter, we will continue to hold up and drive up the economy and political cost of this war for president putin and his regime to that. and it's important to stand together also during the long haul. and that will surely be at stake here long and, and we will also resolutely counter the russian narrative that this is actually a conflict with we're only the west and the so called global west if condemning this attack. and otherwise, the world is watching what russia is actually doing. that is not the case, isn't leaders acknowledged to fall out of the war is increasingly been felt around the world and need urgent action. but they sat little about a possible solution to a russian blockade of ukrainian grain. an additional $4500000000.00 package to
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protect people around the world against hunger is seen by 8 organizations as disappointing. the focus is on the warranty, ukraine, and they found billions and billions of dollars for that. and they haven't found the money that we need to, to find hunger for their own. communicate. is that over $323000000.00 people worldwide, a new record could face salvation in the next few months for how many dollars is a drop in the ocean from that? so it's a real finding by the g 7 with the war in ukraine and the energy crisis, taking nearly all their attention. the main loza here seems to be the climate. a german lat, reversal on a band for public funding on fossil fuels seen by environmental brooks as a real setback. while still, depending on russian fossil fuel, so their energy supply, g 7 lead us appeared more concerned with lowering energy prices and trying to reduce rush us large profits on oil and gas. they agreed to investigate whether to
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impose a controversial price cap on russian oil. let messages from from here, they will keep that on perception. the situation is absurd. the rise and global energy prices helps to fund the war in russia. that's the reality. so the idea to cap prices is a very good one. the difficulty is the technical one. russian oil doesn't flow only through one pipe at sold in several countries. and if y'all be with many crises unresolved, the leaders are traveling to madrid, to join other nato partners at a summit, which will determine the future of the alliance. step fats and al jazeera in garment, packed and kitchen on the ground and central ukraine firefighters are looking for survivors trapped under the rubble of a destroyed shopping mall. the russian foreign minister has denied targeting the shopping center where at least 18 people were killed in mondays miss hall strike. world leaders have condemned the attack and france has called it a war crime. charles stratford reports from keach bloodied
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bandied faces, and in short, ah, husband and wife, nicola and luc miller tried to comfort each other. they were inside the shopping wall. when the missile hit her shoes, the gear shall rose. i flew head 1st and splinters hits my body. the whole place was collapsing. i then landed on the floor and i don't know if i was conscious or unconscious. i didn't understand anything. i opened my eyes, i saw a big piece of rubble was on top of me. i started to scream, help me. what was coming from somewhere? the water woke me up tie. this bicola describes the c one if glare he poll michigan. i saw lots of wounded people, you burned people, some were covered in blood. one girl fell down and we helped pull her along. you know, hospital staff worked all night, treat that, doesn't it wounded people,
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but not every one thought to the hospital supplied. outside people registered the names of friends and family, they cannot find the opera to also i was working and i heard the explosion and i saw the fire for what i thought my friend's name on the list. but we have no information about whether he's alive or not. a burnt out shell is all that remains of the shopping center. emergency services, such in the rubble, the survivors remains. so move, i'm terribly, eula. was working in a shop across the street in the attack. happened. yeah. be little. yeah. you know, they hate us. i'm bella. russian. i was born in belarus. this is my fatherland, just did not ashamed. president laudermill zalinski said there were around a 1000 people inside them all the time versus kilda or the relating on what center of common shooting today's russian strike on
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a shopping center in chrome. and chuck is one of the most daring terrorist acts in european history and a peaceful city. an ordinary shopping center inside women, children, ordinary civilian. the lawson bullied ukraine's national security and defense council said preliminary data, suggested the russian strike was from one of 2 x $22.00 cruise missiles fired from an aircraft. crumb and shook has been hit by russian missiles at least twice before . but they didn't leave this scale of death and destruction. moscow says it's trying to avoid civilian casualties, but hardly a day goes by. when a civilian isn't either killed or injured in a russian missile, strike a long way from the front lines. charles, trifle, al jazeera keith, the leader to finland in sweden have met with the turkish president, ga, play berto on madrid ahead of a crucial nato summit. and we're getting some details on that meeting life to john
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hall to tell us more, jonah, well, that meeting came to an end a short while ago. and we've just moments ago seen a signing ceremony and shed do taking place, including president of turkey and the leaders of finland and sweden in the presence of jen stoughton. but the native secretary general and according to a statement released by the finish side, this is a signing ceremony. completing a memorandum between all sides agreed to respect each other's security concerns and turkey. crucially, agreeing to support the membership bids affinity and sweden remember, they were to essentially to have been celebrated at the summit approved unanimously by the 30 members of nato, finland, and sweden, agreeing to lift their traditional military neutrality in the face of russian aggression and the war in ukraine, turkey had issued objections to that president was standing in the way of those, those bids going ahead because he raised concerns about those northern countries
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providing a safe haven for courage militants, particularly the current workers party p k k. we don't know the precise detail of this memorandum suffice to say, said the finish side indicating that the checks have lifted their objections. president one will go on to meet with president biden on wednesday. he has other concessions that he potentially will try to squeeze out of nato allies, potentially in return for lifting his objections. he wants to have 616 fighter jets provided as part of a deal offered by president trump. he wants perhaps, to look at washington support for y. p g fight is in northern syria. kurdish fighters there before the backbone of the syrian democratic forces supported by washington. these are all difficult concessions. they may be on, on something on table from the americans. we simply don't know, but remember this was always going to be the big prize of this summit, new membership for finland and sweden and expansion of the alliance in the face of
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russian aggression. it was always going to be when not if i didn't now it looks as if it will come to pass. yeah, jonah, and like saying, i suppose the devil is in the details. we'll wait to see more details on that memorandum. let me ask you all, have you with us regarding what else is on the agenda? ahead of the been a to sunday because we've heard a little bit from the secretary general and he's been laying out the picture a little bit. what has he said, this is told, doug has talked about the most transformative summit in a generation, the biggest change to defense posture of nato, since the cold war, to give you a flavor of a short while ago. we heard from the rich go brothers vitale, cliffs go to the mayor of kiev, and his brother led me both for boxing champions. they spoke to us here and they said this has got to be stopped. they called what's happening and ukraine. war crimes, a genocide, defensive weapons, they need defensive weapons. they need troops as well. they said what happens next? it's time to wake up guys. this thing is going to be knocking on your doorstep soon
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this summer because he had up to try and confront that new russian threat. they'll be big rise in trip numbers in terms of the rapid reaction force. kind of the 40000 . that'll go up 230-0000 battalion size battle groups in the baltics and 4 other eastern european countries will be lifted to brigade size doubled or trebled inside . they'll be a new package of help offered to ukraine as well known lethal help everyone here, of course, looking at how far the alliance should go, can go to aid ukraine, but very careful to avoid the very dangerous possibility that president putin managers to turn this conflict into not one between russia and ukraine, but one between russia and nato. r. i jonah, thank you so much. john hall is reporting for us from madrid. and just a reminder of that breaking news we just heard from jonah a moment ago, is that so this is according to the finished president. he's saying that turkey has agreed to support, finish and sweetest memberships of nato, that news coming in just
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a moment or so ago. here with the news our on out there are still ahead demonstrators and gone off the government to fix the country and help them cope with the rising cost of living. a prominent journalist is arrested in india. critics that use the government of cracking down on freedom and in sport and must have announced by the mind letting learn to one of its greatest sporting achievements. we have detailed later on the new challenge. ah ah, flooding has been a bit of a problem. just the last few days around the black sea is big circulation cause flooding in such in southern rochelle, in crimea, and also in turkey. we've had recent flash flooding. this a picture from synthetic policy, z waste deep water and bit further south in crimea. that was also flooding. this is
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just the north coast of turkey. big enough floods hit a wash, a bridge away. it hasn't yet finished either. the rain is still falling. as you can see, devastating it is for take you through the rest of tuesday into wednesday. it's daughter's extreme as it was still an error in northern turkey, looked at risk. now that slowly fades away, more normal weather can be seen further south, the winds are quite strong out of iraq. they're hot and dusty the eastern side of sadie, meeting up against them on soon. flo. now she's notable. and in, ceylon, that means a lot of this, some parts of the amount of coach it'll be cloudy for a few weeks if not months. now, without increasing the flow of the monsoon, ought to be good news is not normally a wet months in our the somalia, or can your ddc opiate. but this bit of a push is hans, went in the cloud and the moisture bearing time might bring some right to somalia and kenya and kick up those showers in ethiopia. ah,
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think it it lou ah, with the news our on al jazeera. here are the top stories. the u. s. house committee investigating to january 6th riots on capitol hill has heard how donald trump knew some of his supporters were armed, but wanted them in the area where he was giving his speech anyway. turkey has signed a memorandum of understanding to support sweden and finland application to join nato therapy had previously been blocking their application saying they offered safe haven to kurdish arm roofs. the white house says it will take action to disrupt human smuggling networks. that's after with these 50 people were found dead
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inside a truck. in the state of texas, 16 survivors were taken to hospital suffering heat exhaustion. we have breaking news out of new york, the former british socialized gillan maxwell, has been sentenced after being convicted for child sex trafficking last year. let's bring in a gabriel is on though, who will tell us so what's, what's the sentence? april the judge just handed down the sentence and it's 20 years in prison. forgive elaine maxwell plus 5 years of supervised, released after that. so she's 60 years old. so that means the 1st chance dickie lane maxwell could see. freedom again. she would be 80 years old. now the prosecution had asked for as much as 55 years. the defense was asking for between
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4 and 5 years. but the judge saying that the sent seen guidelines based on the crimes that she was convicted for by a jury in december. the guidelines were 18 to 20 years. and the judge just within the last 2 minutes or so issued her a verdict of the sentence of 20 years. this will now conclude this long awe drama and saga of one of the most high profile, international ha, sex trafficking cases in recent memory. i can tell you that nobody has come out of the court house behind me yet again, this sentence just brought down within the last 3 or 4 minutes or so. during the sentencing, which took over 4 hours. we did hear from several victims victims who spoke to the judge and in some cases directly to gillen maxwell telling her how much pain her actions had caused her one woman
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stating that she was sexually trafficked to go to geoffrey epstein bigler maxwell. and while she was a young girl, she was so desperate to get away from jeffrey epstein. angling maxwell that she jumped off a cliff outside his home in the virgin islands, into shark infested waters, just to try to get away from them. so there is very powerful testimony from victims . a speaking directly to the judge and speaking directly to elaine maxwell for her part, you ain maxwell, i was in court for the sentencing. she was shackled and she was wearing a blue, jumped suit that is traditionally worn as a uniform by prison inmates. she did speak during her sentencing, and she did not directly show any remorse to the victims. she did
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say, i'm sorry for the pain that you have gone through. but elaine maxwell never directly accepted any responsibility when she took the stand. not too long ago during the sentencing procedure. she spoke for less than 5 minutes or so. ah, and then then ultimately it went to the judge and when the judge issued her sentencing, the judge actually said, ah, miss maxwell deserves a very strong sentence for her crimes. also because of the lack of remorse that she showed again. so elaine maxwell, once a woman that would rub shoulders with powerful politicians and princes, now her full from grace is complete. 60 year old d lane, maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison here in new york. thank you so much.
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gabriel is on the reporting from just outside the court house for us in new york. now our committee created under the 2016 piece deal with colombia, fark rebel. it says released its final report on the country's decades long civil conflict. almost 30000 people were interviewed during the past 5 years on the founder and petty is life for a symbol. that's where the report is being submitted. so talk us through the significance of this report on the sandra there in this report has been longer, wasted. has been controversial, obviously you can imagine the difficulty of trying to create a sort of a shared history of what happened during get 50 years of civil conflict in this country. a country that remains extremely polarized. for truth commission heard from almost 30000 people throughout these years of investigation,
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add to produce a very long report, 10 chapters that tries to clarify the facts of what has happened here. the reason the context for so much violence for the reason why this conflict was able to continue for so many years and actually worse than throughout the years in particular, throughout the 99 days until 2005, the president of the truth commission, a father francisco the rule went through the long list of horrors that this country has been to from extra judicial killings to massive kidnapping that massive cases of sexual violence and so forth. committed by different armed groups. right wing paramilitaries left wing a gallery. yes. but also a large, also responsibility on part of the state and columbia as military,
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in many cases of the human rights abuses, he said that if they're a country wanted to do a minute of silence for each of the victims of the conflict, the it would take 17 years of silence, we're looking at 260000 debt, millions of people who have been in this place that will take time to go through the entire report, obviously. and now it will begin processing, which this report will be presented to different people across the country. i think that very telling little missing that i was the current president of columbia, yvonne do instead, the president was the newly elected president, elect gustavo pedro, who was the one who received the report from the trade commission and promised that throughout his government he will do everything that is necessary to implement that
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there were many recommendations that the to a commission as the as proposed to the new government. and in particular that have a fully implementing the reforms that were announced the width of 2016 piece deal in the country. thank you so much. i'll sondra sandra and patsy reporting for us from buddha. tom. so that tribunal center was mentioning, began in to 2018, and its main tasks were to investigate work. crimes committed during the civil conflict between government forces and fark rebels. the commission works outside of the judicial system and has 15 years to prosecute crimes. it will recognize victims of a conflict running for 6 decades until the 2016 piece, a cor, was signed in that period more than a quarter of a 1000000 people were killed. let's bring in horror at a step o, who's the director of the conflict analysis resource center, which focuses on conflict resolution on piece research. he's drawing us from both. are welcome back to al jazeera or so we see after conflicts. truth commissions have
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been a key step towards reconciliation in this case, do you think this report is a step towards reconciliation? could help in the healing process in columbia or the risk further dividing society? i think it will contribute in a, in a systematic and decisive way to reconciliation. colombia is ready to start leaving behind these very painful decades. you know, or history these none, this her, you mean that we're not going to suffer and to relieve the being that we have li through these very many years to violence. it will be difficult. it will bring about very difficult conversations, both at the public level at the private level in every table of every home in this country. because he is supposed to, to look at us at where we suffer,
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what we do to each other and what we need to be able to reconcile as a society opened a future. are you anything in particular that's that out for you? yes. a several warnings. first, oh, good, creamy, no organization where are able to grow up, strengthening and become indeed formidable and criminal organizations. besides the goals, how does stage was one of them made perpetrators and how also these groups that we call, but i'm beecher groups. these are, in very many cases, supported by companies, by the stage, by political leaders were also enmeshed into the sauce, into the conflict itself. and finally, all day maybe tasks that we need to in terms of policy purposes, for example,
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in terms of the security policies, in order to not repeat the situation. right. what about this, this point? that's it. i mean, the dick declassified documents highlight the u. s. as role in the conflict, and this is what it says. it says that the u. s. believe the colombian military was behind a wave of assassinations of less leftist activists at the time. yet what the u. s. did is spent it spend decades deepening its relationship with colombian armed forces. do you think that this report is going to shape a columbia's future relationship with the united states? each will show ha, oh, these conflict grew up of the cold war and how that element over aunty communism, you know, pray 5 to 1960 and 19 seventies. indeed, macon,
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bringing in our conflict, but also it was show how more recently we started to see back again, that international emission articles on how we needed to resolve these on the boards and contribution of the international community. both european countries, asian countries, even african countries. i need to make to do the resolution, all the calls, the kia i contribution that i have to say was critical in order to achieve these, these agreement in 2016, i was critical. the contribution for example of cuba, venezuela. i'm chilly and how to keep that controversial going on is important to maintain and to sustain vc, columbia. thank you so much for joining us from bogota. pleasure ecuador. as
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government has suspended negotiations with indigenous groups and the strike after a soldier was killed in an attack, talks had continued late on monday to secure a deal to end high cost of living. president guillermo law, so an address to the nation accused indigenous leaders of serving his political interests. demonstrators have been protesting for 2 weeks, demanding exemptions on fuel and tighter limits on oil and mining development. police in india have arrested the co founder of the fact checking website. old news mohammed zubair has been a critic of prime minister, never injure modi's government. zubair had exposed controversial comments about the prophet mohammed by event b. j. p spokesman, the committee to protect journalists has condemned the arrest. let's speak to so they'll shut. he is a former secretary general of amnesty international. he's joining us from london. leo says he welcome back to al jazeera sir. how worrying your development is this? it's, it's ready, buddy, and i,
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i think the 1st thing we need to do is that there has been a killing unfortunately today. oh for innocent dealer in many ways and, and now the not the intensity of the day or oh, but a booty killing and you love so condolences to the loved buds. the fust i think steep bank has to start with. i think it's a little desk for the government now as to how they're going to manage with frankenstein that they have on least. ready your view as of be aware that for the last 8 years since the government this, this, the g p government has come to power. there has been constant attack on minorities, but most terms and questions the rest of is obeyed. who was actually one of the most, they have to do fact checking up, you know, exploits and india is really linked to the fact that he's almost more than dance. and as being of cds of protection against muslim a muslim youth, they have been arrested and adapted so. busy anyways and um and increasingly in the last one week itself there's also been arrests of other human rights defenders who
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have been fighting for the rights of oscars like thesis at the right was. busy around on civil rights activist, so i need somebody running development because as knowing is she with a very large population, 200000000 or so and at least 2 thirds of them are young. so you leave playing with fire. busy to provoke it all, and he didn't list them or not radically said a little he all but a reasonable, you know, not at all in the attic schema suisse, i think building them constant. geez, are ready. ready, bend is gabriel playing with fire? yeah. right. but i have that, i you, i mean, the government says that that, that's as a bare was detained over a tweet that he posted a few years ago insulting into his religious beliefs will what he make of their response. no, i mean i've seen the tree which she did, she sent out. it's so slow. it's already gone to the police station are complete case. the issue in savannah that he exposed the b j. b spokesperson,
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who you referred to word hood. you know it back on muslims at the prospect in particular, which is what's really antic mazda of young muslims in the country. so i think this was simply a fig leaf. i think that very, you're probably aware that on this aqua human as to friend does a fact minorities, india has led to india slipping back on almost every single democracy, backs and children rights and bricks and the world is watching despite our he does going to it's bachelor for a leg, g 7, i get off stock, you more democracy. i think the 2 most powerful countries of the world are not stupid. they're watching and they know what's happening and she and is going to affect the economy as well as businesses of. busy she has when they were very unstable but i'm still social situation. the country it starts. ringback to. ringback me as well right. and it seems as darting really high. so i think i think the government needs to focus on dealing with a real problem and people are not polarizing. ready that is,
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so my said else that we have to leave it there, but thank you so much for speaking to us from london. oh, that is the nato secretary general, eons thornburg who was speaking in mid red dots after turkey signed a memorandum of understanding to support sweden and finland application to join nato. let's listen to what he had to say. just a few moments ago, please. we'll just finished a meeting with the wrong because the new song to the way or to find a
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a, a, a door in the joining city problem on the other big, i'm not only involved in the sex trafficking operation, but it's better being traffic to world wide depressed and is that natal store is all you have to remember in december last their president putin put forward so called the security treatise to be fine with natal. and one of the most important message just from percent truth, and there was that he was against any further nato enlargement. he wanted less natal. now kristen put in is getting more natal on these borders. so what he gets
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is the opposite of what he actually demanded. douglas to ne, thought to close its source, we are demonstrating natal stores are open, they the store is open. and then, well, while about this for 30 parliaments to design, i know that many polymers, how old is start the process. so i think there's a strong willed among allies to dr. far as soon as possible. but i cannot promise entity will to half of 30 balance ok sky. and deborah haines, sky knees, and k, to say clarity. what message do you want this decision to send to let him know peyton, what messages nato sending and not just from finland and sweden decision, but from the summit. and just secondly, how worried are you that this decision to, to, to invite sweden and finland to join the alliance could actually expose the 2 countries to greater risk, to greater threats from russia. the most important message,
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this decision, the sense is that every nation has the right to choose on path and that need to respect the sovereignty or a venetian to choose his own future. of course, we'd expect that for many, many years. the decision by finance, in not to join nato, to be neutral congress and we worked together with them as highly valued a partners. then when they decided that they wanted to join nato, then we have demonstrated our budget decision that leaders will take the day. and the agreement was in finance, sweden, and talk to you today at least to take the moron and the and finance written agreed with turkey today that naples door is open and that it falls full to join the alliance. and, and that's exactly the opposite or what a president couldn't wanted to achieve with the security agreements. he wanted to sign with natal before invaded ukraine at, well, this is
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a finish. as we did a decision, i'm very confident that the right decision and at those strength, no security at the stand together covered by naples or calling to secure dantes political thank you very much and yawned the memorandum of understanding with finland in sweden. did nato allies provide turkey with any further assurances, for example, and as he's like a sailor fighter jacks. know what, what you have agreed to day, and that's an agreement between a turkey year and a dry light and a film. susan, is this a memorandum under or disagree? there is. it's what this state the very, it's not no reference and it's specific or types of weapons, but there are a clear references. so to the fact that so now finland, sweden will have no arms embargo against the turkey and i welcomed up because i don't believe that allah should have arms and board was against each other. and
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i've said that and said that for many years, never over. of course i was a welcome to the dish, my financing a blue bug. thank you so much. and natalia just say from bloomberg. i just wanted to clarify it. was there any sort of message, a warning from president earl on, or the turkish delegation, that they might go back and potentially block down the line is 7 in sweden didn't fulfill the pledges that were outlined in the memorandum of understanding. and secondly, is there any sort of timeline that these countries have to abide by to to meet as much of a we have very constructive angle talks are today in a constructive in good atmosphere. and of course it is also the vaunted stop term. we have the officials,
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so the am and the high officials who are worked on on this issue for some a week and i will have to thank them for their efforts and all they have done and, and i'm, and then we read. and then it is obvious that who, of course tortilla will reflect their decision to support the invitation of finance. when to join, i thought that would be reflected in the natal decisions that they can the moral buy all alice and then finance sweden have all of the started a to to take measures to step up or in the fight against those who thought it was an alignment legislation on the terrace, g o t h t r t walking or not go off. sick with the understand that there is full cooperation with julia in the fight
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against the people j. k. and it's affiliates, a y p g and p. while the terrorist organizations, can you please give us more details on the a scope of these corporations. thank you. well again, i will refer to that. so that's the role of morale nicole's. there you have older text and all the details and, and i think it's important to refer to that precisely. but it is clearly stated that a finan sweden will work together with kia on a fighting terrorism. and they will demonstrate their solemnity, m, with turkey in the fight against terrorism, in all its forms, among stations, which constitutes a 3rd party ted to the national security of allies, as well as king nozzle piece and the security and ask prospective neva,
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life finance. we have an extender full support to turkey, n against fits to its national security to that effect, finland and sweden will not provide support to y pgp. and the, and the organization describes a factor in to kia to t to key also extends its full support to finance, written against threats to their national security and finance reason rejected and condemned terrorism in all its forms. the manifestations in the strongest terms. i don't think there's a need for me to continue to read from the drunk decoration around them. you will see very soon if not all of the published. and then that's what we have agreed to take my final question from frank fidel. good morning. thanks a lot too much. gotcha. banqueting amended search on secretary general. you just said that allies should not have arms embargo against each other. obviously they are lice who still half an hour and embargo against turkey. germany. germany is one of them and they are.
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