the at. the at. this is the job the news coming to you live from violent force disappearances of dissidents in china. it feels like you've been blocked up until. you're completely cut off from the war again you don't know anything and you're terrified . comes on and meets a human rights lawyer held in china a secret detention system. also coming up migrants hijack a ship on the high seas but it ends in handcuffs at the border to support was the

act of piracy or an act of desperation aimed at self-preservation. the arab part drags it through the satellite system turned into the prime minister's plan put it down to reason essentially designed the door makers we finally passed a deal. hello and welcome i'm under that shima we begin in china a recent spate of high profile disappearance cases have attracted international attention being disappeared as the people in china call it seems to be a common practice dissidents often held at secret detention facilities and only handed over to the dish and system after a confession has been extracted did obvious mathias bullinger met

a human rights lawyer who disappeared for six months before he was jailed for subversion she has a story. the detention room is like a cooling chamber where the metal door escape from this room is impossible. thomas . 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. it feels like you've been locked up in hell. you're completely cut off from the world and. 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 be a headhunter who i was absolutely terrified nobody told me he seemed to taint the police searched the heist but refused to give any information or. were actually hot to the force disappearances have become increasingly common in the head of into. 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 but without success. called you've got if you want i tell you how she was even more terrifying than i was. she kept asking where have they taken my son. been she said young you might never come back could listen to her twenty two days after my husband disappeared she said in the dying age our heart to.

the uncertainty is intentional thirty's use the sites to extort confession. to guards a presence of around the clock move. the register every movement you make. they observe you go to find your weak spot find out what you're most scared of. 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. or the whole detention facility is designed for you to understand that you are under their control. are

for 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 even had his license to practice law but he is do refusing to keep quiet. that support buddy. who now joins me from beijing what is 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 these 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 this 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 issue is 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 right images villain here in beijing thank you for your excellent reporting and your insights into this practice of enforced disappearances let me now bring you up to date but some other stories making news around the world a huge blaze has broken out in a high rise office building the bunker bishop kept it tucked out. more than a dozen firefighting units on the scene officials said at least twenty seven people have been injured somebody trying to escape by jumping out of the building their

fears oster trapped inside. hundreds of passengers have been stranded at keflavik effort in iceland off the country's a look cost carrier while air announced it was seizing operations and unadvised 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. the motors armed forces have taken control of a tanker that was hijacked by migrants and refugees rescued at sea the ship has arrived at a morty's port with military personnel on board five people have been arrested the incident comes only a day after the e.u. decided to suspend maritime patrols in the mediterranean rich so far have rescued thousands of people instead they would only be relying now on air patrols. joining

me now is veteran burke is a senior journalist for the times of malta in a letter welcome to you bet on what is going to happen to the refugees on the border what is their current situation. well they've been brought to the sure and 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 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 we're just what are you hearing then about what exactly happened on the ship reports suggest the refugees panicked when they heard they would be taken to libya. the information we have to what what appears to have happened is that the refugees were. they were trying to cross the mediterranean they 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 centrally 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 there was no move this seems to have been no violence. the a.f.m. the armed forces of malta took control of the of the vessel and led

a tour towards these ports and as i mentioned the european rescue mission selfie 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 but i my personal sense is that this could be a turning point but not rather than for the refugees themselves for the moment some says rather for policymakers and let's remember that although itself was not officially stopped yesterday it had effectively been dead in the water for almost a year and the last rescue mission to feel a rescue mission was to close i believe in june or july of last year and its peak was in back 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 migrants

queues 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 are arrested will they be will they be charged and sentenced and waterloo be the ported back to libya and how will you members now handle the inevitable oppression that comes from commercial commercial shipping sector who will say well there's an international obligation to arrest you go see how can we how do we handle that this is a difficult complicated question and they're trying brogue in the letter thank you very much for your reporting the chemical john one santa has consistently denied its read to get out of round up causes cancer and has challenge 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

a total of eighty million dollars in compensation it's not the first time one santa has lost a major claim involving the product more lawsuits look set to file. the victory for edwin hard in that 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 record 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 help 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 of us and 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 as. 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. and that report was by dick williams sciences joins me here welcome and derek how significant is this ruling by the california court would twice significant because it's what they would call a bellwether trial it's one it's one that's going to set precedents this is the this is the second trial where the plaintiff has come out ahead of monsanto and in terms of in terms of what the decision was and it's not likely that monsanto or that buyer is going to in the long run end up having to pay all of it they're going to appeal of course but and judges do have a way of of cutting off cutting down the amount of damages but it does set a precedent as a bellwether trial for possibly thousands of other plaintiffs to come now come forward and say hey this happened to me too and this controversy of a good life was it has been vomiting on for years in the us is that conclusive proof that it does cause cancer i think well that depends very much on who you talk

to there have been hundreds of studies that have shown that it's not carcinogenic but on the other hand there are many more that say it's definitely a suspicious substance and in twenty fifteen there was a the an agency in the w.h.o. the world health organization came out and said it's probably a carcinogen but on the other hand you also have government authorities for example the european food safety authority or the e.p.a. the environment protection authority in the states who say that say it's doesn't pose a health risk and so you depending on who you talk to the answer your question depending on who you talk to if you talk to a proponent or the opponent of it you're going to get a different answer and they're both going to say there's proof look it is there why do ethical dilemma at stake you have because if you're not sure and if this is there has to be a benefit of doubt given surely one must act. on the side of caution

with the problem with crop sciences is that you have to you can't forget the other side of the equation which is bound up. this coupled together with with with seeds that are roundup resistant the reason that that it's so successful worldwide it's used in one hundred six different countries all over the planet is because it's so effective at killing basically everything except the plant that's resistant to it now crops sciences companies say the reason we're going to need this technology when there are ten billion people on the face of the planet and then you're twenty fifty we need technology like this to feed everyone so they're there also when you talk about ethics there are the environmental aspects of it particularly i think for farmers there's the there's the health aspects there's the environment aspect so the question of feeding populations so it's it's there's a baby and there's about water and sometimes it's really difficult i think ethically to differentiate between the two right dead equips for most science if thank you very much if you tell me not the political

deadlock of a breakthrough that's far lies in parliament in the u.k. during the last twenty four hours to resume has said she would quit as british prime minister if a twice defeated brags the deal is approved by law make us off a came as m.p.'s votes in eight different or tentative to end the impossible of britain's efforts to rejoice from the e.u. but none want a majority that results only ended up highlighting divisions. i want to tell her i doubt that 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 brakes 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 e.u. and with members across this house there must be to 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 hand 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 he faces a just hours later on in foster the leader of the small hardline northern irish party the d u p delivered

a hammer blow. 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 a no deal where the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. is still the default position and still a very real scenario. in the. uncertainty of the vegs it has huge ramifications including for many university students in europe who are worried about the education plans if britain leaves the e.u. without a deal the country could for outside the popular erastus exchange program is that many european students to study in the u.k. . for going through studies linguistics and berlin she's just scored a place as an exchange student at britain's cambridge university it would be great news if it weren't for the cloud cast by breaks it.

i don't know what to do if it doesn't work out of course i hope very much that it works out and that i can start tobar but i don't really have a plan b. . britain is likely departure from the e.u. would endanger the european university exchange program with the u.k. brussels could suspend the stipend each student receives currently four hundred fifty euros a month yet the one word university one and five a rest most participants chooses to study in the united kingdom it's the most popular exchange destination for balance students and this year once again many have decided to apply for far it's a mess that arrested a scholarship despite the threat of bricks that. no funding would mean that many german students couldn't afford a semester in the u.k. . how far along in preparations. were for

a rasmussen caught in a time the program has been around since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven allowing students to study in foreign countries with e.u. support arrest most coordinators stephanie tree good it says the program promotes international understanding among former enemies. he's been in the hof go back when there were still border controls students who do in iraq's most exchange have never experienced hard borders but all of sudden they're coming back. europe is suddenly short one country also paul's that's never happened and it's very sad that it's the most important exchange country in our program and that even. down our faltering who wants to go to england no matter how watched even if it's a financial stretch it wouldn't get off me i would take out a loan i'm not even allowed to work in cambridge. and can look for gotten for donna and other rescue students the pro long breaks that negotiations mean more reasons

to worry it's not just the educational opportunities a german academic exchange service study showed that german arrest missed you can start up personal relationships with foreign partners twice as often as students who have not spent time abroad so i'm enter the u.k. exchange program would probably also lead to a devastating and to german british law. that the book by the judge is going to catch us time now for some sports and women's champions league where to offer europe's top clubs met in the second leg of the quarterfinal germany's involves the coast of defending champions league but the french club already holding a two one lead she has what's happened. eight minutes into the match and wolfsburg hopes of the comeback were hit when goalkeeper ahmed chilled underestimated jennifer shuns free kick. the german national player but leon ahead.

later in the half another mistake this time in the midfield. a desperate show followed in the area and the referee awarded the clear penalty. twenty of the nod had no trouble converting and 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 level the scores at two all and most birds were dreaming big but their chances of progression evaporated on the hour mark. man made it three two on the night that some air later added another for a six three aggregate when defending champions leon move into the semifinals. it watching the diving news coming to you live from berlin i have more news for you at the top of the alba do remember this more on our web site that's dot com and of

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