not the turn on broke it gets more residuals from their. last international trade and. the but. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin and forced disappearances of dissidents in china. feels like you've been locked up and felt. you're completely cut off from the world talking to me if you don't know anything and you're terrified that. correspondent meets a human rights lawyer held in china

a secret detention system. also coming up refugees and migrants hijack a ship on the high seas ends in handcuffs either more to support was it an act of piracy or desperation. bad to. britain's disorderly lawmakers vote on full turn into grids with plans to all options are rejected to resume says should resign if father michael finally pascola dean. and a melting glass here in greenland makes a comeback but scientists say a pill to get too optimistic you were born is not slowing down the. cone of a warm welcome to you i'm on the. we. begin in china

a recent spate of high profile disappearance cases a tract of international attention being disappeared as people in china court it seems to be a common practice dissidents often held at secret detention facilities and usually only handed over to the judiciary system after a confession has been extracted did mathias belinda met a human rights lawyer who disappeared for six months before he was jailed for subversion historied. the detention room is like a cooling chamber with a metal door escape from this room is impossible. was one of two hundred human rights lawyers chinese authorities rounded up in july two thousand and fifteen. everything inside is wrapped in soft material the walls the table it so you can't kill yourself. i didn't see daylight for half

a year a bright light is on twenty four hours a day you don't know if it's day or night. feels like you've been locked up in hell. you're completely cut off from the world . you don't know anything and you're terrified to. see any was called to the administration of his apartment complex he didn't suspect anything. there several plainclothes police were waiting they blindfolded him and shoved him into a car. with his wife and children were wondering why you didn't come back then later that day twenty police officers came to search their apartment. could have hundreds and i

was absolutely terrified nobody told me he came to taint the police searched the heists but refused to give any information. to. force disappearances have become increasingly common in china to head off into a. former canadian diplomat an exiled writer a canadian businessman. activist and a photographer a lawyer. and a billionaire just a few of those who disappeared in the last two years. facilities all from inside military compounds they are secret but activists have tried to find some detainees are not in the judicial systems database sienese wife and his mother herself a lawyer then did everything to track him down and without success. called to cuff you what i tell you what she was even more terrifying than i was.

she kept asking where have they taken my son. now been she said yan you might never come back could listen to her twenty two days after my husband disappeared she seven me die you are far too sure. the uncertainty is intentional thirty's use the sites to extort confession. to guards a presence of around the clock. they register every movement you make little things they observe you to find your weak spot and find out what your most scared of. you are. they don't allow you to change positions when you sleep. and they deprive you of your slightest freedoms. if you have to ask even if you want to drink water.

or they make you sit on a wooden block for sixteen hours until you can't feel your limbs anymore. you can't even go to the toilet because your d'oeuvres seem dead. the whole detention facility is designed for you to understand that you are under their control or. if they want you to live you will live if they want to die you will die if they want you to suffer you will suffer if they want you to be happy you'll be happy. sienese whereabouts were unknown for six months later he was transferred to a regular detention center and jailed for two years after his release he wrote a detailed account of the secret detention and even had his license to practice law

revoked but he is do refusing to keep quiet. that support buddy. who now joins me from beijing mathias firstly how widespread is this practice of forced disappearances in china. it is becoming increasingly common that is within the fact last five years of course a lot of the things that happen in the secret detentions have been common in china torture mental torture isolation extortion of confessions all this has been happening before but this systematic and comprehensive. use of disappearances is something we have seen during the siege in ping era. it has happened to lawyers to dissidents it has happened to foreign nationals it always seems to be modeled on the. treatment of corrupt officials the communist

party usually takes these people in its control in its own control after they are expelled from the party they are handed over to the judicial system so this is what we see recently so when someone is disappeared all that misha's what recourse does the family have who do they turn to for head. well you can imagine what they do is they try to find any information possible they go to state organs prosecute. detention centers legal criminal detention centers police stations but they do not get any information so the only thing that they can do is to make this public to hope that the international press that diplomats become aware of the case and keep raising this case this might not really protect their relative or release their relatives but it might offer some protection from the

worst abuses that's at least what they hope and this is china facing any international pressure over these disappearances. china is facing pressure on a lot of individual cases the ones mentioned in the report they were all reported by the international press they have been raised by international diplomats diplomats appear when they hear of human rights defendants being put in court they appear in front of the court they're never admitted but they stand there along with journalists to show that they care they keep contact with their relatives all of this is happening but no international organization or no country has found a means to convince the chinese government of ending these abuses of human rights ride in what is very little in beijing thank you for your excellent reporting and

your insights into this practice of enforced disappearances. that would have been the opposite with some other stories making news around the world a huge blaze has broken out in a high rise office building in bangladesh's capital taka more than a dozen firefighting units on the scene supported by the military and navy officials said several people were injured trying to escape by jumping off the building their fears that others are still trapped inside. hundreds of passengers have been stranded at careful airport in iceland after the country's new cost carrier wow air announced it was seizing operations the airline advised customers to contact credit card companies or their travel agents for instructions but says it remains in talks with new investors for a fresh infusion of cash. boeing has delivered

a software upgrade for its seven three seven max passenger jet that is meant to prevent failures of the aircrafts and to store system of the jets have been grounded worldwide following the deadly if you pm airlines crash earlier this month boeing says the timing of the upgrade was not related to that accident. forces have taken control of a tanker that was hijacked by refugees and migrants rescued at sea the ship has arrived at a sport with military personnel on board four people have been handcuffed and the squatted off the vessel the incident comes only a day after the e.u. decided to suspend maritime patrols in the mediterranean which has so far rescued thousands of people instead they would only rely on. joining me now is a senior journalist for the times of malta in

a letter welcome to you betty and what is going to happen to the refugees on the border what is their current situation. well they've been brought to the sure of now they were brought to shore around nine thirty this morning. we can assume with this is that what we know for sure is that five have been arrested it was four now we've confirmed it was five of the one hundred eight have been arrested and taken into police custody presumably the other the remaining ones will apply for asylum. and better what are you hearing then about what exactly happened on the ship reports suggest a refugee is panicked when they heard they would be taken to libya. that's the information we have to what out what appears to have happened is that the refugees were. in they were trying to cross the mediterranean the ran into trouble and commercial paper or the el hebrew one picked them up at some point yesterday

yesterday morning the captain began taking them back to tripoli. but when they were around six nautical miles from the libyan coast this small group of five six people were in teams that looks like it was five and seemed to have rounded on the captain and his crew and ordered him to change course and force him to head north and we found out that the situation was. the ship was heading towards more than a century yesterday evening. maltese coast guard intercepted at some point early in this morning you know three four am and thankfully the. intervention was a pacific one it was now and there seems to have been no violence. the a.f.m. the armed forces of malta took control of the of the vessel and loaded tool toward his course now as i mentioned the european rescue mission sophie has been stopped

or does this latest incident indicate that very few jews are going to use more and more desperate means to come to your ear. it's hard to tell i my personal sense is that this could be a turning point but not rather than for the refugees themselves for the migrants from says rather for policymakers let's remember that although it was not officially stopped yesterday it had effectively dead in the water for almost a year and the last rescue mission to feed and rescue mission was to close i believe in june or july of last year and its peak was in that in two thousand and sixteen so all for the past couple of years there hasn't been all that much in terms of an officially your rescue so most mike and rescues are happening. in other through other means what i what i get the sense is that the question's at their

eyes now is what will happen to the five people who were arrested will they be will they be charged and sentenced and walter will be the ported back to libya and how will you now handle the inevitable pressure that comes from commercial commercial shipping sector who will say well although there's an international obligation to rescue people how can we how do we handle that this a difficult complicated question and they're trying brogue in butter thank you very much for your reporting you're welcome now the chemical john one center has consistently denied it's ridiculous randolph causes cancer and has challenged scientific studies to the contrary but a court in california has now ruled it's a major health risk awarding the plaintiffs who sued the company for a total of eighty eight million dollars in compensation that's not the first time

monsanto has lost a major claim involving the product and avalanche of other lawsuits looks set to fall. victory for edwin hart a man who has cancer he took on one of the most powerful agro chemical companies in the world and one the jury said round up was defective and the company deceptive today the jury sent a message loud and clear that company should no longer put products on the market for anyone to buy without being truthful without testing their product and without warning if it causes cancer the jurors said monsanto had been negligent by not using reasonable care in borning hardiman about its products potential risks last year a court in san francisco also found in favor of a groundskeeper who said roundup had given him non hodgkins lymphoma yeah. this is the second case where the jury is shamefully held that round up causes cancer and

monsanto and bayer need to take note of that and they need to change their business model and their business practices by robot monsanto in mid twenty eighteen for sixty three billion dollars it continues to insist the herbicide is safe when used as directed but with share prices sliding almost forty percent since the acquisition the purchase came at a higher than expected cost you just annoyed we know today that because of the american securities laws by a couldn't look into the charges against monsanto's or into its books it was buying a black box and the risk in buying an unknown entity is being shown right now it's got it hundreds of studies have shown that the active ingredient in roundup lifeless eight is safe while many others have found it a health risk after two years of fierce debate the e.u. decided in twenty seventeen to renew the weed killers license for use in the block for another five years but no bio faces more than eleven thousand lawsuits

involving round up in the us alone. tearing out the political deadlock of a briggs of that still paralyzing parliament in the u.k. during the last twenty four hours to resume a has said critics as british prime minister if a twice defeated breaks a deal is approved by lawmakers the offer came after m.p.'s voted on eight different alternatives to a plan for withdrawing from the european union but none won a majority the results only ended up highlighting divisions. that the i want to know. even by the standards of the british parliament it was an unruly session. the hope was that the votes would point to a way forward out of the breaks a crisis but in the end all eight options were defeated highlighting the deadlock. the government said it strengthened its view that prime minister may's deal was the

best solution to straights that there were no easy options here there is no simple way forward to deal the government has negotiated is a compromise with the. with members across this house they must put it some members of parliament pointed out last night's voting was only the start of efforts to break the impasse so the idea was to come up with a shortlist of alternatives and for the debate to continue on monday. to have to resume a those still hopes parliament could pass her deal. on wednesday she took the extraordinary step of offering to resign if lawmakers backed the agreement. this prompted some hardliners such as boris johnson to have a change of heart and offer their support. that they just hours later on in foster the leader of the small hardline northern irish party the d u p delivered

a hammock. she said they would not back the deal under any circumstances they fear it threatens the integrity of the united kingdom as it requires northern ireland to remain more closely aligned with the e.u. . so for now no deal with the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. is still the default position and still a very real scenario. that keeping track of all things drags it is the w.'s biggest moss who joins me now from london welcome a big good now it options before parliament yesterday or rejected where does this leave us. well it actually gives us closer to no deal closer to the u.k. leaving the european union without any transition period with all the disruption this would bring to business to travel to food security so this is something that

parliamentarians do not want but if they don't find a solution if they don't find a way forward this is the default option now you have mentioned in the piece that there is another process so next week mondays and visit to be a second round and the hope is that somehow a solution will be find it will be that all the options will be whittled down to two a way forward that at least polman can reunite behind but it's not clear what that happens because the reason may has said she would engage constructively with this process but it's non-binding so we're really not very clear what happens we just know that in two weeks time if there is no deal found that the u.k. will then leave the european union and to get out of this impasse and do with tourism me she has offered to resign if her briggs deal is approved by parliament

will it work will it increase support for the for the deal. well we have seen some of their relieved very skeptical m.p.'s rallying behind her because they want somebody from their side the so-called bricks of heroes who have always fought for breaks and they want somebody from their side to become prime minister in order for the second phase of this crucial process to to negotiate with the european union from what they see more from perspective they accused there is a mayor of having given in too much to the european union and they want somebody to take over for the next phase of negotiation who stands up to the more so what they they see it but this is not yet enough from what we know she doesn't have the majority just yet and it's not yet clear if and when this meaningful vote if that meaningful vote will happen oh maybe will not happen so the uncertainty continues

big masses in london thank you very much. you are watching the news coming up ahead in sports we find out evolves but could mount a comeback in their women's champions league quarter final with the repeat of last season's final was packed with goals. but first to a discovery that's left environmental scientists present to surprise a vis glass here which is in eastern greenland you see one of the foster string ice and snow mass on earth but a new nasa study has found that it is growing again that climate researchers have burst in the news that they do warn the trend is only temporary. this was glacier. twenty fifteen when these images were captured quickly sure had been retreating three kilometers per year and thinning by forty meters annually since two thousand

and twelve leading scientists to bring alarm bells. but a recent study by nasa shows that the glacier has begun to expand again at about the same rate. between twenty six twenty seven feel from two. separate nasa airborne missions we follow that near the front diggnation has stricken by up to thirty meters now it's almost one hundred feet and one year. between twenty seven pm and twenty eight in the same thing again scientists are looking closely at what's happening in greenland there is enough ice sheet here to make global sea levels rise by seven meters the latest finding a glacier salmon came as good news but the authors of the study and other scientists agree this changing trend is temporary. they believe a natural cyclical cooling of north atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to

stop shrinking for now. what the measurements in the for your where this last year is demonstrated is that when the last year was retreating the waters were quite warm and they were paid in fed by bob waters from the ocean when the class it was started to thicken that water is no longer that most of the say the oceans all warm and it's just a transfer of heat from the ocean to the face of the glass has stopped too little too late that's the researchers message there's no sign that global warming is slowing down instead they say what's happening in samara is worrying proof that the speed of change in ocean temperatures can affect greenland biggest glaciers. just four and two the women's champions league two off europe's top clubs met in the second leg of the quarterfinal germany's vote of the coast the defending champions league with the france already holding a two one lead here's what happened. eight minutes into the match and wolfsburg

hopes of a comeback were hit when goalkeeper i'm not sure underestimated jennifer emotions free kick. the german national player put leon ahead. later in the half another mistake this time in the midfield. a desperate show fouled in the area and the referee awarded the clear penalty. when the user not had no trouble converting it was two nil meaning wolfsburg needed four goals at that point to reach the semifinals just after the break they got the first thanks to denmark forward printed the haka. a couple of minutes later to let all the scores that to all and most third were dreaming big but their chances of progression evaporated on the hour mark losing near lessel man made it three two on the night that some air later added another for a six three i get when defending champions leon move into the semifinals. is

really research a say they have discovered there was a long list sorts cave in months said on the dead sea an international expedition led by the hebrew university of jerusalem spent two years mapping out the must have came more then ten kilometers long it's now beats the previous record held by kids on. more than caving stories from nine countries to pot in this one for the expedition oh. that's it for me coming up at the top of the out.

because. entering the conflict zone confronting the powerful. the trial of conflict separatist leaders of the failed independence food was late last summer stop divisions in spanish society i guess this week here

in madrid is sprains for mr jones at a rally hundreds he ons of a challenge to the trials a fundamentally unfair. conflict so far. stuck in traffic for hours spoiled cargo she mustn't come out that could be trucker eric hearing this new reality after break it a focus on europe takes a road trip from brussels to bring. chaos at the border oh my god such good brakes it. into a nightmare. in sixty minutes. you

know that seventy seven percent of applicants are younger than thanks in part. that's me and me and you. and you know what it's time all voices. on the seventy seven percent to talk about the issue. this is where. the seventy seven percent starts april sixth on d.w.i. . the trial of cattle and separatist leaders over their failed independence has laid bare some stark divisions in spanish society not least over the justice system my guest this week here in madrid is spain's foreign minister you know that burrell how does he answer the charge that the trials are fundamentally unfair.

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