[000:00:00;00] the i'm louisa pill beam and joe hall, the top stories analogies era. syria's president has responded to a series of attacks involving fights is loyal to allister president. basha ala says, ahmed el sharon says anyone who attack civilians will be held accountable. the president was speaking to the 1st time officer attacks on government forces in which thousands of people were killed, syria, now me full says was employees to attack. yeah. and one of the largest security challenges the new government has faced. why not going be how the you committed to graven unforgivable since the response you cannot send your has come to you. so surrender you went and yourselves before it's too late. let's say you have someone

who is up and anyone who commits violence against on, on civilians will be held accountable. it's our duty to protect people in the coastal areas from the guns of the folding machine. the fighting has been taking place in the port cities in the attack. yeah. and, and told us on the mediterranean cars, several other barriers have been affected. the talk yet and tells us was strong holds of the asset. the regime of government sent military reinforcements and costs use have been impious us present. donald trump says he's considering large scale functions on russia and to the see spot deal with ukraine is reached. however, i was, liza trump said he truss russian president vladimir putin, and it's up to keith to make peace. last week, the us administration for his military age for ukraine, off the president for the ultimate event skate left the white house with our should deal and it ends in the world. sewage and seal stokes are running low and gall. so what is route has blocks all supplies, and event, atari, and age for 6,

the day it has ignored cools to let a didn't have us to be and living in nights just shelters all struggling with home . getting cold. rain is, was thing the living conditions, the char, she can says trucks loaded with food, medical supplies and shelter. scheduled to arrive in the coming weeks have been stopped by as well. triple co sign car and alfred have spain has been downgraded to a low weather system. now as it approaches australia is east coast, at least one person is missing though, and to 240000 times without pilot in queensland and new south wales residents have been willing to stay in doors with heavy rain full. i'm flooding expects. it's those all the headlines, your right up to date more and all websites off the head to hedge. welcome back to elgin 0 is had to had my guest tonight is running a week from a single former prime minister from

a president of suite and run over to michigan. thank you so much for being here tonight. we talked in part one about your presidency. we talked about the east to sunday attacks through long because brutal civil war last at 26 years that claimed the lives of an estimated 100000 people more. your yourself tried to broke, receive spot with the l t t, also known as the time altogether in 2002. but last year, when you were present in the u. n said to date, the government has rarely even acknowledged the serious violations that occurred in the conflict or provided victims with adequate redress. in the 16 years since the end of the war, you've been probably minutes to 4 times and president wants. can you tell our audience today how you believe justice is being served on your watch for the victims of the civil war? no contest. you and i said that i'm not going to the next question please. so that wasn't my question. my question was, how is just as being served on your line, your going to the victims? i said, no, i don't. i mean, i mean you're,

these are do say if i go to on. so you would, if i felt on me. so i was like, you to do, you have to add, you know, conditional, what do we do to get to the next? so you believe this victims of the civil war, the, you know, not giving me a challenge this week. so i'm not saying anything. i said no country. so being the next question, please. a little bit childish for from the president, the able to, i for not. i'm sorry. if i'm changing the i'm the will also try to do so. i'm wondering, we're going to be on the didn't answer into the question heating into are you doing don said into your in your research quotes, he didn't do no history. what can i know? see i don't not know island mission media. i'm the model in the are a non violent nation. yeah, and i'm, and i'm not, i'm just going to ask you about civil the last the 26 years and killed over a 100000 people in the city you're offering to us. it wasn't, there wasn't a symbol, you didn't speak without that up thing. then i'm gonna say i can't get onto the question. yeah, no, no, no. you don't want somebody to give it to me. i said no,

going to ask you, was it that making 40 because for each of them 40 dasia, so no contest to get onto the next one. okay, let's try this on your watch. that was an office of missing persons that you set up, your office investigated 6000 cases of disappearances. can you tell us how many people were found by the investigating? say if i say anything, it's important because we just off the how many i v v v i, i read a 6000 disappears. this is dropped here. what's the number who disappeared? the according to frontier is us find while we are trying to put on and then i'm gonna see the see 1000. i'm 6000 because i knew what some of that was. 14000 names that that com. so if you're trying to do that again, speed didn't mean to pull it out. those way more, the more you i thought of the incident and those were outside, but it's not only the law that we were talking on duty. so being this out then i just didn't want to identify them where you like that that's definitely the problem . then i yeah, the numbers, because 40000 wasn't not the big number that came then disappeared and says many of

them is we have seen of going on. how many were found by your office? why did such a hard question, if you don't put 6000 disappearance, we investigated how many people with our 14000 i'll reach me via a day it's due to going on. so i've seen 16 people were found. isn't that an embarrassed somebody? i tell you what truly 16 people, 16.3 percent of the, sorry that that they've done through different groups. large number i'm using, we had to it and it conflicting the country is something we test stuck. all of us at large number. you'll hear me call as you're going to be reading that not so late estimate. if that's the look at how we're going to solve it. not only the question i'm using $0.05, but what does happen is not the same but see readable i such she left for disagree . but i, if you're not allowing me what to say and how would that vehicle and bringing that around as just as being served to the communities. okay. why was just and also have it on there, okay. i have on. so do you have questions that you have not being had a question about alphabetically? what do you say or what?

okay, why did you read a point last near is your understanding of a man named generalship vendor of silver who the us government blacklisted for gross violations of human rights. namely, extrajudicial can. how can that make truth reconciliation and unity, which is the commission you started when you're keeping on board generals accused of gross human rights violations in that conflict. gender as a shelby. and as i said about was dad. he said he's willing to stand any inquiry. you know, once we had not been found anything there, the money comes door there, blacklisted him con, say what it is about. the sam in u. n. n 5 and office 5. i was concerned. it's a practice not to replace me to come on. does doing election, i didn't want to go into and did, but when i took over, i checked on it and now satisfied that again to see what was not involved in me it's, it's the us that they've done it, us and the you in high commission of human rights. michelle bus routes and the, you know, the european union,

my dad is known to us. they have no charges. he's reading. he in fact, he's one of the ones that was tentative conservation commission because i'm going to be so you set up this truth and reconciliation commission. and last year, when you were president, you got an opening data from victims of the civil war journalist activists in the north, on the east. and they said there's no point to this commission when they're still being subjected to quote surveillance, intimidation and harassment by security agencies. and land grabs why we will security agencies, subjecting them to surveillance harassment. alondra cannot be many. i mean, that would be in some instances we stopped, but i did not deal with it, but i could upheld but it's hard to talk about the truth and reconciliation of people as still being subjected to human rights to be as, as to what you mean. quite some work, i think someone not, but i, i really not. i am not going to answer any more of these. i feel that a lot more to be done to get out to these for the people of the country. what that means. okay, let's go to my door a rest. all right, let me just senior politics, electricity, university, executive director of public advocacy groups. time on human rights and so on. as a tom on missouri. is it fair to say that the 2 people that a lot of times in st lanka want to see in a court of law and,

and go to by roger packs that who respectively president and defense minister for the last most violent years of the civil war both of them accused of multiple credit should they have been put on trial by now, by success or on can governments including mr. rick were missing cuz i think the, the time for justice is long past mr. wick promising is aptitude to your question about justice for the victims. the callousness is just exemplifies the attitude of this. we're not going to stablish ment with lodge and how we got to a point of you know, mass atrocities right on that scale. and just to say, of course, garza is very much on our minds at the moment, but there are unbearable similarities between what happened on the beach as of monday by calling what happened in garza, in both cases, you have populations hemmed against the c subject to humanitarian siege conditions, incessant aerial bombardment, with atrociously high casualties. you know, medical procedures being done with that kind of static on purpose. the u. n.

estimates that about 40000 people died in the space of 5 months. at the end of the war, a 1000 people were dying a day. many, many more on accounted for those crimes occurred because you have a political system of which missed a week from a single reserve part for the past 70 s. that is prioritized as no project politics pleasing the majority at the expense of good government at the expense of fans at the expense of justice, right at the expense of efficiency. so what happens when you get that, you get escalating hatred against the gross when you get pull governance leading to economic collapse. let's bring a nice day about who's a former british and pete served as an invoice for president bicker missing it. when he was an office, we just respond to what you had from the door that about both the callousness of the approach to the wall, but also the lack of accountability for the roger foxes. if you knew what part of the conservative party in the u. k, you know, the david cameron conservative is called for international investigation. amazing. watching this interview, guys on the line spent,

which you need to recognize. and that sees that the enforcement of it on all day and see lanka is much wanted face. it didn't become a seeing her own house with all these patients, books and paintings. but, but to this day, not a single person has been interested. so the question is not one president, victor, i'm seeing a can all, and i'll to is whether that's that was a system or just east viable id to be here. fall. now that these valley, or should focus high attention if you want to look had problems with commencing as role in this. i think wall look at what he did when he was prime minister. when he invited the mtv to came up bob's and coming to the democratic system and what's happened, he broke the theme to one houses and see if you decided to come into the democratic for the. i mean, quite frankly,

you see thing in the british problem and as if you ever, if i was outraged the categories well now he wouldn't cause and he would see to ponder. ms to become a thing you didn't investigate. we just talked about the roger fox as a war crimes. some people say you should be investigated during the early part of the civil war. this are renting government facing, uprising is you know, from the g p, a left his group, his current leader is now the president said, was his government commission of inquiry the found in the late eighty's, you quote, a main architect of securing a housing complex that was used for the purposes of immediately detaining, torturing and killing individuals linked to the j. v. p. the government inquire and reported that you quote, to say the least knew it was being used for in ego detention and torture while you were living and watching that. you didn't know what was going on that you weren't involved. right. the people, sorry. right. 34. it's called about the commission or the need for the from the report. i just did read from the report. indeed from the report. it is quite clear from the available material, the in so far as the clearing on allocation of the houses in the,

your really the main, all types of being the then minister of industries mr. run over here. missing a read. i denied all i know a television and i'm asking you to quote that commission report before it's supposed to be sent to the to original. so that the commission grade that somebody showed me for being day. but there's a lot of evidence in this for what i might do it based on what they were doing. there has to be a commissioned report at the origin of what's called the commission, the commission report. the commission report has to be there by don't. okay, but the report still exists, whether it's type of the button bottom one is on people in the report, a key witness who was you'll catch a cut and quote, trusted employee, testified that you were leading meetings about the torture of detainees that he died. he was 36 years old just days before you testified to the commission. vinson fernando is his name and he testified that you wanted the suspects of beth alonda quote, destroyed. that's what he tested for. you never gave me evidence. you did give evidence no report that day,

but there are nothing to be found against me that but that doesn't mean cams after the established in a novel form a housing scheme. at any case, that's probably not a bully environment that nothing to be found that in st. vincent stated the what he understood under the circumstances was it midst of it from a single one to the suspects, destroy nothing for the sense of despair there. i've had nothing to going when i was in the position i have even dealt with you like the news. you know that was don't know, don't know. know he for. so you'll yard folding like density for the same industry . no, but i'm telling you that i'm not able to do other appointments. obviously that's right in front of the house and the babies and correspondent the problem is what do you make of what you're hearing about the bottle and what is the lack of accountability for best alonda the civil war? what does it mean from annually? i'm flap. augustus, i mean i have a copy of the report to says print the government dictates on, i'm sorry, but the not the you. i mean what you're hearing from, from the present vicar missing his brother in law. would you mind just as long as you're asking his remarks about shipment or sales or the general he referenced?

i mean, those are astonishing to say that there isn't a case push of interest over to answer when the united states on the stage out to you and have made a case against him is awfully insulting to victims. and i think it just shows the impunity that he has. so fortunately, that's absolutely shocking. and we look basically at the j b p out sizing time the late eighty's way towards who is endemic, when full disappearance happened on a massive scale. and we looked at the connection between that and the civil war, and was it the connection is that you see the same electric perpetrators. and you might say also to some of the same politicians who involved in one area, violence went on into the next day or on the thought of violence. and that's because there was never any accountability because it was complete impunity. and this is a cycle that repeats itself, and i'm afraid that somebody who's been empowered, that long needs to be answerable. so that is about the problem. no accountability, sorry, process. highlight the in the position you've off the going month to prosecute me if there's something wrong. and they said there was nothing to be prosecute done.

hi, once here in london, i was in the hospital and i was in the process there time with the last 2 weeks of the wall trying to get in to see what really that can be do. and let's take some questions from this. let's go to the gentleman on the 5th row with the brown jumped mister with from a single you said in previous forms that you support that palestinians enable rights to self determination. you've applaud in south africa. so the actions that they're taking at the i c, j. e spoken about an independent southern state for the palestinian people. why is this the policy and double standards? why from the time people not also have their own right to self determination and also their own international action that faces like the i c, j, the i c. c. the palestinians have been recognized as a separate speed, or that has no internet, generally, cognition. quite a bit, but the time you state in 3, like having said that,

that is an issue which we still have to sign in on that the classroom that took place from 1983 to 2009, the number that would be sophia on a lot of sites, the people are working and that we are moving towards by getting different rules right now. what's basic don't how you guy or i demanded wouldn't be coming back on track. that's a lot more to be done. deadlock off the ground, but this new going monthly line, so they have, let us know what the, what do you see that on the economy? the said that going ahead. we thought i started. that's good. then they really have to seek don't was than that to fight to the and decide how it is to be taken forward. gentleman here in the 3rd row. yes. why is that the optimal for the civil war? the economic crisis, even off to this? no, i mean the east, the bombings, we can never get a clear answer of what's going on. it's like what mom and not to talk to said about your liking, cricket, you know, bunch them up. it's headed by jacob. no i,

i must say one thing. a lot of reports where are the details? i'm sorry, i couldn't do much, but i, i my, my new the i the limited mandate that was made basic then it degree month of the body that the hands of the phenomena issues have done that. and we go in for elections and then you'll bottom ones, we take all the stuff. so he keeps going state of being pending cart on the show that they want them to know. it doesn't matter what the state of things, but that's still not complete. so you asked me why, why are you telling me what specific issue you've yes. busy and he's saying that i've been asking specific questions about disappear and susan kelly, i've tried to get on these appearances that have student investigations going on. does not promote to be done. we cannot locate a reminder that most of them are not among the leaving that's, that's on. okay, let's take the questions. i need to ask you a question. i as a witness from the kill itself on a survivor of the back of the war. i think i have the right to ask this question. when the international community tried to bring the international criminal

persecution mechanism for the atrocities and the genocide, the has committed against talked in 2015. you hijacks and pretended to call sponsor a hybrid mechanism. and made sure it failed. i wanted to ask you if you are afraid of the mechanism coming to in place and what might come out? a leave of austin. yes. hi. yes. hi. yes, definitely. see done by the us to correspond to 18 uh 2015 penny agreed to the fullest pharmacy. he asked me, oh, sorry, i said go ahead. correspond say read can these sites that were 2 different views. so i said, let us 1st come to an agreement and you can take it on the next day. and loud section reach and even going through against full spawn setting. now, uh, not really to sit down and talk how, how we come to a find that set to mind briefly for us very. the other thing is about a political settlement. this is the truth and justice about

a process that holds people accountable for gross. you know, violations of human rights, and that's what she still came out of. i was asked live equal sponsor deep the c n y v. i didn't during this time because we were able now to get people who are opposing the same down at the we hadn't received any case you started are going to be or, or going to the, to print before the $35.00. we may be, we've agreed to roll it over and pick up our positions in 2025. i wanted to form one position. okay. yeah. because you're going to get a gentleman here. yes. you signed up one months after the war and gaza started a right wing american at think time published an article called a roger packs applied for the complete destruction of thomas. and it went on to argue that israel should employee precisely the tactics that the wrench of boxes had implied on these tactics. as we know,

involved basically heading hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians into circle the know 5 seconds and then still offering them and bombing on. but importantly then went on to say, is, is to israel should then do the roger products is that i'm having nothing to do with any kind of international inquiry or process of accountability. does it, what do you, but you say yes to ensure that there was exactly such a process has actually encouraged, led to legitimize some justified the kind of ignoring of international humanitarian law that we are seeing was such a tragic consequences today and gaza. i haven't written that down because i really don't know what what, what exactly that i couldn't comment on it. but the idea that some people on the pro israel side seat, the roger puts a model of war crimes of attacking hospitals, something to emulate. no, i that that wasn't all right, that's on her speak to the except kaplan can, can, can you let me finish say, tax on hoss we do? i didn't what, what do you them,

when do i got about the media in the i was kind of hard to those came are the ones that play. i'm glad into. there hadn't been the locations we had the uh yeah for said bummed. any action was taken again, some of them, but the large scale, these thing, i wouldn't say that i have been one of them who have been interesting that on costs meters should not be touched. and we've been through that. what happened during the last stages on the wall? yes. that well problems the i i mean that i wouldn't say north of that. us found that throughout the farm and the fact and i've actually every hospital in the vonnie area where the family level makes you and the campus and my thoughts. and i know that that one of the alpha was bombing that be not duty for the shows that had fallen at that time. but in each instance, as we've been able to intervene, has opposition. items back falls as the delivery of humanitarian age sounds very. is there any introduction you're going to you and title establishment bunkie, moon surrounding government forces blocked the delivery of a to victims of the war. sounds very the issue and that's what i'd be at these

tonight with that took place we were talking about. the also is bombing that, that told me that i want to go into the wood instead of judgement waiting, but no chairman, can i just briefly in a quick update. you got the wrong guy here off the a b last question. you should have roger proxy. yeah. because he was destroyed by roger fox, who stood against roger. if i saw him thinking it was the best thing, right, is that the question? no problem, additional for him and even i do need was a demo for 1983 full of full grown. well then 3000 and tom was working. some of them bunch alert height, very nearly got killed converters, gl road to my friend, and he's done well also lucky. people going to lives on the road. the businesses and houses of commerce are burnt as a cabinet, at least at the time. what did you do, whether respond to by for running, or that if you what he said, it does, but luck we've been through. yeah. why?

the new mind i, i've seen might that mean certain stuff for me? i am in no way of defending that that positive wrong. because for that did people are getting killed. we try that best and stop fan with the key thing, but i immediately opened up the schools said they really want to come in and started supplying phones. so that's, that's what type of do that may not be enough, but i did what type of do. but we also thing the 1st 2 days of waiting all out. uh, i know places and yeah, i want to know is also doing a lot from there. but i won't go into the details. accept what was the wrong. we accept restaurants in the full time zone committed inside. we knew, let me finish was you know, it was don't at all times we. i mean you didn't, you didn't during the whole crime supplement, i might, i have said yeah, sorry about that that. but what i want that's on the car insurance global for times, they don't want the horrible things, you know, look that out, right? so, you know, we're not going to put a good button, but we have some normally what, that's what it was wrong. and that in the beginning of a good day, are we taking las questionnaire?

we're out of town. yes. if you want to send them. yes. in october 2023, you owed it to police to release land and minus the money mazda. when i bought the car back to the tumble farmers, how that you couldn't get it done until this day singleness of clothes and a buddhist monk continued to encroach on these lines. so given too long as long history of failings are on such issues, doesn't this reflect the deep problem of single up with a nationalist as not receive within the state doors away and grow chinese? that's the one out. we had asked the police to, going to ignore this, and system b land seems to be good for people in particular. what that means and the most name system be in scans managed for them. and also how come i chose to develop much. so that's, that's the ruling idea of so that land has to be given there how to distribute into our, to do the different issues by data that can be no encroachment or lands given there . but the system see was given to the st. mary's last question for me, you've uh,

you've run for president several times and i'm lost. do you plan to run again? i had no plans around this time except i became president and i felt that i shouldn't be with the country of john's these like i am done. you know what you want to, but he's a complete outcome bad. no, no one got to what automate your team to have you have to fight these. no, i am not. i won't be any. i read just watching you as you did. i do have dental that you'll be bid a minute. that's all. okay, thank you all for joining me here in london's come way. oh, thank you to a panel of experts for joining us tonight. thank you. run a little bit cr missing of that was had to head on out to their english. appreciate all of you on board the, the the, have that, let's have a look at the weather across north america. and

a significant storm system is pushing its way out east, bringing some snow, some very gusty winds to the northeast of the us and on to eastern parts of canada . and we will still see some snowflakes. light lake effect, snow across the great lakes on saturday. there's another system coming in behind that out west bringing some heavy of snow. however, to west in pots of canada, some west of weather, to the pacific northwest. before much of the west coast of the us. it is a pretty fine and dry picture. we'll see the won't pick up here in the days ahead. there's still some heavy snow to come across parts of the south. northern parts of texas, the rumble of thunder storms from that area of low pressure rushing out across the gulf coast. folding quite heavy is that rain on sunday in florida, and you can see behind me another system starting to pull in of the west coast, but from now pretty fine and dry in los angeles on sunday, 21 degrees celsius and is also being pretty fine. and dry for much of mexico is 36

degrees celsius in monterey on saturday. but we'll see an uptick in the rain across most central areas on sunday, mexico city at 29 degrees celsius maximum high. the challenges with the hard hitting interviews, the results of the referenda this p and a half percent to $49.00 and a half percent. this is all this the physically impossible unless the some serious interference facing realities. what deposit guaranteed in series of bible democracy based on the approval and based on the toner,

representative of the entire spectrum of the people who wish to have the people who are presenting, went and said, thought providing on, sending these voters or expecting your government to deliver how do you do? well, 1st of all, i think you have to put in solution is that what he of the story on the top to out is era. not on al jazeera from trade was to size, make shift to us policy on garza and ukraine. president donald trump is shaking up global politics. rigorous debates, unflinching questions upfront cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom on the 14th anniversary of the city and revolution, the phone of the outside regime as all shooting a new era as syrians rebuild their nation in a wheel and is ready to make a discovery of palestinian film archive cease from the piano in 1982. it raises important questions about palestinian identity. while the buffalo rages on the front lines, the diplomatic pursuit for peace is in crisis. however,

critical moments ahead. in fact the ukraine war on the world order much analogies era the . ready so serious president calls on the outside regime loyalists through surrender offices placing kills thousands of people. the i'm really hoping this is out. is there a line from jerry how also coming up us 1st until new trump directions? most functions against russia saying he's considering large scale measures because