managed by from. the be . this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin and forced disappearances of dissidents in china. feels like you've been gone and felt. you're completely cut off from the outlook even if you don't know anything and you're terrified that our correspondent meets a human rights lawyer held in china's secret detention system also coming up

migrants hijack a ship on the high seas but it ends in handcuffs as a more team sport plus an act of piracy or not to desperation aimed at self-preservation data. riches dregs of purses the spiral isis the intelligence the prime minister's plan of voted down terrorism he says she would resign if lawmakers will finally pass called deal. also in the next thirty minutes is drink dancing to sport it's definitely hip and that seems to have decided the question for the olympics is moving to give bricked also some strong or tied at the two thousand men twenty four summer games. welcome. good to have your company. 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 are often held at secret detention facilities and usually be handed over to the judicial system after a confession has been extracted. mathias bullinger met a human rights lawyer who disappeared for six months before he was jailed for subversion here's his story. detention room is like a cooling chambered with a metal door escape from this room isn't possible. thomas. was one of two hundred human rights lawyers chinese authorities rounded up in july two thousand and fifteen. and the 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 upright 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. you don't know anything and you're terrified. of all. can. see any was called to give ministration 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 he didn't come back then later that day twenty police officers came to search their apartment. coby headhunter who i was

absolutely terrified nobody told me he seemed to taint the police such a high spot refused to give any information or. were actually hot to the force disappearances have become increasingly common in the head of interpol former canadian diplomat an exiled writer a canadian businessman and 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 terrified 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 suddenly die you are far too sure. the uncertainty is intentional or thirties use the sites to extort confession. to guards a presence of around the clock. they register every movement you make a little when they observe you to find your weak spot find out what your most scared out of. the good. 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 and 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 due refusing to keep quiet. that. 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 have mainly 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 organisation or no country has found a means to convince the chinese government of ending these abuses of human rights ride him at his villa 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 with some other stories making news around the world at least five people have been killed in a massive fire and a high rise office building the bangladeshi capital dhaka official said several of the dead had jumped from the building trying to escape the blaze dozens are reported to be injured firefighting units are be supported by the military to battle the blaze. hundreds of passengers have been stranded at a camp levick airport in iceland after the country's low cost carrier while air announced it was seizing operations the airline advised customers to contact credit card companies or their travel agency for instructions but says it remains in talks with new investors for a fresh infusion of cash. more

to us 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 sport 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 have so far rescued tens of thousands of people instead the only be relying 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 boat what is their current situation. well they've been brought to the sure 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 they don't what are you hearing then about what exactly happened on the ship reports suggested refugees panicked when they heard they would be taken to libya. the information we have to what i would have used to have happened is that the refugees who were. they were trying to cross the mediterranean they ran into trouble and commercial bank 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 or 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 the 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 toward his course 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 europe. 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 the questions 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 walter will the be the ported back to libya and how will you remember now or handle the inevitable oppression that comes from commercial commercial shipping sector who will say well although there's an international obligation to rescue people see how can we how do we handle that this a difficult complicated question and they're trying drugs in better thank you very much for your reporting. turning now to the political deadlock of a briggs of that spire 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 her twice defeated breaks a deal is approved by lawmakers her offer came as m.p.'s voted on eight different alternatives to end the impossible britain's efforts to redraw from the e.u. but none of them won

a majority the results only ended up highlighting divisions. to the i want to know what there are 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 both with the island with members across this house enough for 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 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 day but just hours later on in foster the leader of the small hardline northern irish party the d u p delivered. 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. where a lot of discovery that's left of our environmental scientists pleasantly surprised that this gas here in eastern greenland used to be want to foster shrinking ice and snow masses on earth but a new nasa study has found is growing again climate research is that the news that they do warn the trend is only temporary. this was glacier semakula yes like in two thousand and fifteen when these images were captured illegally sure had been retreating three kilometers per year and thinning by forty meters annually since two thousand and twelve leading scientists to ring 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 you know twenty seven p. from two. separate. airborne missions we follow that

near the front big leisure has sickened by up to thirty meters now it's almost one hundred feet and one year. and between seventeen and twenty eight in the same thing again scientists are looking closely at what's happening in greenland there's 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 class is demonstrated is that when the class c. was retreating the waters were quite warm and they were beaten fed by waters from the ocean and when the grass here was started to thicken about water is no longer

that oceans of woman it's just the transfer of heat from the ocean to the face of the glass stalls 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. the chemical john monsanto has consistently denied it's read wrong causes cancer and this challenge to scientific studies to the contrary but a court in california has 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 monsanto has lost a major claim involving the product more lawsuits look set to follow victory for edwin hard a man who has cancer he took on one of the most powerful 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 pick products on the market for anyone. 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. and 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 it isn't hard 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 is really as you say he has 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. and that report was by dick williams to a scientist joins me here welcome adenike how significant is this ruling by the california court well it's quite 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

second trial where the plaintiff has come out ahead of monsanto and 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 i'd like to say it has been rumbling on for years in the us is that conclusive proof that it does schools can't 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 from 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 depending on who you talk to to answer your question depending on who you talk to if you talk to a proponent or an opponent of it you're going to get a different answer and they're both going to say there's proof look it is you know why did 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. 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 for the plant that's resistant to

it now crop 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 there are there are 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 there's 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 from a science and thank you very much. and now for some news which could make you happy to be made me happy brick done seen as been given the provisional green light to be included in the two thousand and twenty four olympics in paris now critics argue the pursuit is not strictly a sport and judging routines is too subjective but its proponents are ready to dazzle the wild and change minds. breakdancing is part of

a new generation of sports the international olympic committee has recommended adding it to the program for paris twenty twenty four breakdancing hopes to join skateboarding sport climbing and surfing which have already been approved for the tokyo games next year. all four are. lined with. because they contribute to make the program of the games more trendy. more useful more. traditionalists argue breakdancing is not a sport but china's coach at the two thousand and eighteen youth games believes a limping recognition is vital. to who the tribes are getting a new sports program belongs to the olympics without the support of a big platform for any grass roots culture will become more and more new or maybe

even vanish will a final decision will come next year but breakdancing already looks set to turn the olympics upside down in twenty twenty four. now the was kept secret in the european football is out all of the good us called sky has been appointed as the permanent manager of manchester united on a three a d.m. the norwegian was named interim coach in december off the sacking of. united have been in fine form since his initial appointment including a remarkable comeback win over paris in the chair. however they have lost their last two games. is really recession say they have discovered the world's longest swords cave in mt say damn near the dead sea and it is actually expedition led by the hebrew university of jerusalem spent two years mapping out the modern cave at more than ten kilometers long it's now beats the previous record held by

caves on iran's island of kish more than eighty caves explorers from nine countries to part in this fascinating expedition. you're watching the news coming to you live from berlin up next did this conflict zone speaks to spain's foreign minister and also how fair all the trials of capilano independence politicians keep watching and don't forget the latest news is on the w. dock off.

the. center of the conflict zone the fronting the powerful. the charm of kabul the separatist leaders of the best trial of independence field was late last summer stock divisions in spanish the sun to come i guess this week here in madrid is

strange for mr joseph morales how does he answer the charge that the trials cost fundamental mccombs french. conflict the first. sarno just couldn't get this song out of his head. the college just began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. and found that deep in the rain forest in central africa. the biopic. nothing else. and letting the evil be. my living. he was fascinated by their culture that he stayed.

only a promise to. the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle but. the result reverse culture shock. the prize winning documentary from the forest starts people first on t.w. . the trial of cattle and separatist leaders over their failed independence paid has laid bare some stock divisions in spanish society not least over the justice system my guest this week here in madrid is spain's foreign minister burrell how does he on so the charge that the trials are fundamentally unfair.

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