this is e w news live from berlin dubai royal disappears after an escape attempt on the high seas princess looking for has not been seen for months in a video released after her disappearance she says she was fleeing torture ordered by her father the ruler of dubai we have a special report also coming up on a path of destruction lava from the hawaiian volcano moved in on a geothermal power plant raising fears of toxic gas emissions that could prompt a mass evacuation.

i'm sumi so much going to good to have you with us a missing amorality princess a french spa a yacht seized in international waters it has all the hallmarks of a bestselling geo political thriller but this is no novel princess latifa of dubai disappeared after she tried to escape her family and her father the ruler of the emirates she had made it to the waters off india before she was apprehended human rights organizations are urging dubai authorities to reveal her whereabouts paula you still the chart reports. it's not such a. thirty two year old she wanted to flee from her father the ruler of dubai and prime minister of the united arab emirates shaikh mohammad bin rashid al maktoum.

to. teach us friends released this video after she was abducted attempting to escape they want to raise awareness of her disappearance these messages where the last that they ever heard from her the last people to see what he found where those who helped plan her escape from a french spy her bare and a friend from finland and then. new. one with. some voice or i don't have to say. fled to dubai in february twenty eighth together with tino they drove to oman's capital most cat and then sailed on a small boat into international waters there was waiting for them on his yacht one son board they sailed for go on in india. after six days at sea they noticed they

were being followed their pursuers then boarded their wessel. we heard some noises . that sounded like gunshots. and we got very very scared and we looked ourselves into the bus. and soon after their whole gabin started dealing with this monk we were basically mixed with. men dressed in black. who values are don't. die using. like. they were going to killers later on and i saw let's see following on from that she was repeating that she wanted to see what wanted to go asylum. but they were not listening to her and she said shoot me here don't

they don't take me back to you eight. that was the last time tina and i have a solid they claim their wessell was supported by iraqi forces assisted by the indian coast guard but the authorities are not admitting anything. think we have real concerns about the issue of force disappearance so to force disappearances when a government detain somebody and then they refused to confirm that that person is in detention. latifa seen here skydiving has disappeared without a trace and ready media are keeping silent about her disappearance and anyone who asks questions has risks reprisals. we've got bomb threats i had surveillance outside my home i had people you know coming into the garden banging on the windows anyone who would dare to criticize you edith ortiz could face arrest could be disappeared. you know the situation there in terms of respect for basic

rights respect for the right to free expression free association for use and means absolutely. the teachers lawyers have filed a complaint with the united nations in the hopes that it will help free her. if the teacher is alive and we can get around the magnitude of this for women's rights in the whole of the middle east he's groundbreaking. changes about lity for was aiming for she wanted to flee to torture and control of her country especially when it comes to women's rights and basic freedoms. that report from date of these polo you still beaches she's with us now to tell us more hi paula thanks for joining us you followed the story closely a lot of people might think this is a princess who might have a privileged life what was it that made her attempt to flee well most importantly she wanted to live a life of her own not restricted by her father and his conservative rules we spoke

to her lawyer who said that she couldn't for example just go out with side lay under discards alone she was always chaperoned and this is something that we take for granted while this isn't uncommon in these countries to have such security measures for prince this is what's made latif as life really unbearable within the family is this is what she saw happen to her sister so her sister broke these rules that were put there by her father she tried to escape and then she was jailed and she was tortured for that for that so far really saw the true face of her father and she wanted to live somewhere else so that's what she tried to do how are you able to confirm that the details of the story about latif are true so we have the witness reports from the people that i spoke to they showed us the messages from latif from the time when she was on the boat and also the g.p.s. data from the boat which we verified and it corresponds to her story and also what

latif i spoke about in her video she talked about her experiences in the past about the church here in the past so it also gives credibility to the most recent events where do things stand with the phone now is there any hope that she will be freed well her friends have real concerns about her well being since no one has seen of her they think she's probably locked up somewhere in dubai heavily medicated obviously without any access to the outside world but that being said there is still hope her friends would be doing what they're doing right now if they had lost all hope so they are they have been talking to the u.n. this is an organization that has been successful in pressuring hughey to release their detainees. before so there certainly is hope you mentioned her sister she so this has happened before yes exactly even though these cases don't always involve royal family members such disappearances of government critics in the u.a.e. are quite common as human rights watch has reported on such cases so and what is

most concerning is that usually these people who are detained they don't stand a chance for a trial or a fair fair trial at least and this is actually a violation of several international treaties. paula you still reach out thank you very much for keeping track of that story for us now to some other stories making news around the world a court in india has halted the expansion of a copper smelting plant as protests against it turned violent at least eleven people have been killed in two days of demonstrations demanding the closure of the site in to activists and residents say the plant poses a health risk due to pollution emissions officials in sri lanka say heavy rains and landslides have killed at least nine people and displaced around a thousand authorities are asking people to take precautions as forecasts suggest thunderstorms are on their way hundreds of police and soldiers have been deployed to carry out rescue operations and relief works dramatic pictures have emerged of

the moment a sinkhole swallowed several cars in china the incident happened early saturday in the eastern city of hunger state media say it occurred following heavy rainfall and as repair work was taking place on drainpipes your buck. a group of foreign journalists are on their way to north korea's remote nuclear test site and ahead of the planned dismantling of the facility among them a team of south korean reporters after the two koreas resolved a diplomatic spat over their attendance reporters boarded buses in the north korean city of one sign from where it will take them around twenty hours to reach the nuclear site kyung yang is portraying the dismantling as a goodwill gesture ahead of its planned summit with the united states. the white house on a guard strutting their stuff on tuesday but will they get to attend the plan's june summit in singapore between the u.s. presidents and north korea's leader out concerns it might not happen tops the

agenda when donald trump posted his south korean counterpart in the two discussed efforts to convince pyongyang to denuclearize and accept a lasting peace deal but the north has reacted angrily to u.s. demands in recent weeks. it refuses to completely dismantle its nuclear program with kim jong un saying he needs it to guarantee his political longevity well we're moving along and we'll see what happens there are certain conditions that we want and i think we'll get those conditions and if we don't we don't have the meeting and frankly it has a chance to be a great great meeting for north korea and a great meeting for the world. if it doesn't happen maybe it'll happen later maybe different. if the summit is canceled this newly minted memorial korean could be the closest trump and kim get to each other. at the korean border tourists from the south are hopeful of a face to face meeting. without forcing kim jong un

into a corner. of a political party or group we belong to. the giving one a hug city a chunk of haydn's i certainly feel this time that's different from the past that there is a sense of change so i really hope it goes well but at some point i have down the result and whether kim jong un has good intentions or not talks in young. there's no doubting optimism about the summit has hit a roadblock with the historic meeting now looking a bit further off than it once was. authorities in the u.s. state of hawaii are scrambling to protect a geothermal power plant as that could kill a way of all kaino continues to spew lava the fiery flow has entered and is now stalled in the facilities property there are fears that the lava could mix with the chemicals on site to produce hazardous gases and that could prompt

a mass evacuation. a spectacular show of nature's force on an island known for its tranquility and beauty more and more fishes have appeared around mount killer whale and the volcanic activity is becoming increasingly intense lava has been bubbling up and forming rivers several kilometers in length. geologists say more is install we're going to see increased activity potentially higher fountains more flows. among the risks people face who are also flying rocks. see what i mean donna muller and her family have decided to leave it's just too dangerous. it shows me the power of the power of our earth. is also pouring into the pacific ocean setting off a chemical reaction and sending plumes of steam into the sky laced with

hydrochloric acid and particles of glass of bats very bad for the lungs of skin and eyes. a number of roads are blocked including evacuation routes lover is also threatening a geothermal power plant that usually generates a quarter of the island's electricity it's had to be closed down. geologists say the volcanic activity around mt killer whale is likely to continue for several weeks longer. one of america's greatest modern writers philip roth has start he was eighty five years old roth push the boundaries with his fearless explorations of sex death and assimilation the lot of author one every major u.s. literary award including the pulitzer prize. reclusive and often reluctant to give interviews philip roth was known for his provocative and uncompromising novels about the american jewish experience there's a certain order acidy in writing books without the audacity of can't write books

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