this is. a policy of making problems go away. on china's forced disappearance fs. it feels like you've been locked up and. you're completely cut off from the world. you don't know anything and you're terrified. when rights activists and say the problem is getting worse we'll

hear from a man who vanished into china's secret detention system also coming up a third try for. british lawmakers to vote friday on a deal that they have already rejected twice. as they trying. to do starting. also coming up iceland's budget airline while. cesar's operations stranding thousands of passengers in europe and north america and police in malta arrested five migrants for hijacking in. what's next for the man who's seized control of the vessel after rescued over a hundred people from waters off libya.

good to have you with us we begin tonight in china a recent spate of high profile disappearances have attracted international attention being disappeared as people in china call it seems to be a common practice and is getting worse dissidents are often held at secret detention facilities and usually only handed over to the judiciary system after a confession has been extracted. 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 chamber with a metal door escape from this room is impossible. to thomas. was one of two hundred human rights lawyers chinese authorities rounded up in july two thousand and fifteen. 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 on 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. all. i can. see and he was called to the administration of his apartment complex he didn't suspect anything. there are 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 partners could have had to eat and i was absolutely terrified nobody told me he contained the police searched the high spot refused to give any information you were doing their usual rational. course disappearances have become increasingly common in china they head off into a. former canadian diplomat an exiled writer a canadian businessman an activist and a photographer a lawyer booksellers. and a billionaire just a few of those who disappeared in the last two years. facilities all from 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 without success.

kuga you know what i tell you if you want how she was even more terrified than i was. she kept asking when have they taken my son. she said young you might never come back. i could send you for twenty two days after my husband disappeared she suddenly died on heart. the uncertainty is intentional or thirties use the sites to extort confession. to guards a presence of around the clock and very much. the register every movement you make . they observe you to find your weak spot and find out what you're most scared of. they don't allow you to change positions when you sleep with. them and they deprive

you of your slightest freedoms. here the few have to ask even if you want to drink water from. your home 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 if you're. going to hold attention a facility is designed for you to understand that you are under their control or. 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 when you get down to quality quiet. 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 she even had his license to practice law revoked but he is still refusing to keep quiet. are for more on this we want to go to washington d.c. i'm joined now by so if you richardson she is with human rights watch she is the china director there so it's good to have you on the program how widespread is this practice of forced disappearances and is it correct when we say that this really is a a policy that she's in pain has has foot pushed and increased well let me answer the first part first which isn't saying we don't know i wish we didn't know how many disappearances there have been over the years there are the cases that we . hear about because family members are willing to talk about it publicly but often they are not because they're terrified and they think that if they stay quiet they stand a better chance of getting information about what's happened to their loved ones that it's not

a new apology and certainly previous governments did this to you but i think what's different about presidents use the term is that he's been willing to use literally and use their colleagues have he's attacked some fairly high profile people my own way as you've said that he's mentioned when hiatt sweeter citizen and even from big bang your. block the red carpet can and i think that suggests just what training the current government has for anything remotely resembling the rule of law. and when someone is disappeared or vanishes recourse does that person's family have or do they turn up for help and what happens that well families have virtually no recourse there and mind you nobody's hand and the disappeared person the once there's no information about where the person had gone or where they're being held there is no charge you know and it's nonsense

a person then disappeared can call family or call a lawyer so it's really up to the family members to try to navigate to get information from local officials marty number three employers to try to find out what's gone on but you know the whole point it's the people isolate it without information and terrifying. and is china facing international pressure over these disappearances we know that the u.s. and e.u. leaders have been very vocal about warning about china's growing global influence but what about this practice that's happening inside the country. certainly governments have raised cases particularly when it pertains to their national ensuring that you know interpol prides itself on being a global standard of policing couldn't bring itself to express any concern but its former president was just here in britain recently at the un human rights council china was pressed to join the international convention against parents that in

china rejected that recommendation on grounds that quote further observation is needed to ascertain universality of this convention essentially china said that's really a fine and since you don't something that we're going to decide on our own which is really their way of saying we're going to keep disappearing people because it's politically convenient for us and it seems to work i mean you brought up the case of the chief at interpol a chinese citizen here who disappeared during a trip to china i mean was there any explanation as to why interpol did not come out more publicly against what had happened to the boss. you know who never explained its business some never elaborated on and as far as i know hasn't commented on it since saying that it had accepted his resignation which was a nonissue statement given that at the time he would have sent that resignation

nobody knew what you know and. i think it speaks to a brazen. frightened people inside and outside you know it's a very good point of brazenness that apparently is working for china at the moment so if you were just in china director with human rights watch joining us tonight from washington thank you. well maybe the third time will be the charm of the british government is set to hold a third vote tomorrow on prime minister teresa mayes controversial breaks it deal of this time around parliament will be asked to approve or reject only the divorce aspect of the deal and not the part governing the u.k.'s future relationship with the european union all makers have to approve both parts if that agreement is to be ratified but the government is hoping to avoid another heavy defeat by separating the elements this way of the speaker of the house of commons ruled that the government could tabled the motion after previously blocking that hear some of what

the speaker john bercow had to say earlier today. i am pleased to report to the house that the government's mission for tomorrow's debate complies with the test set out twenty people position of a on page three hundred ninety seven missions which are the same will substantially the same must not be put to the house more than once in a parliamentary session in short the measure is new substantially different and in conformity with the requirements of my ruling of the eighteenth of march reiterated on the twenty fifth and twenty seventh of march are listening to our correspondent now in london she lots of pots but even the usual are so we just heard there from the speaker he has agreed to a fresh vote tomorrow a third try with teresa mayes plan what is so different though about this plan that

is being submitted tomorrow for a vote. but was that clever move from teary some government because essentially what they did or the big question was how do you change a deal when the other side has basically said the european union that they are not going to be any changes anymore you can't do it unilaterally so the government here has separated the withdrawal agreements so the act of the divorce the divorce papers so to say from the political declarations so from the way forward is the intention is how you want the future relationships to be and they have by the deal is now substantially different and can be voted on tomorrow in parliament. i mean is the european union going to even recognize this if it's not the deal that they negotiated with theresa may and what about to resume she has offered to resign if the deal is passed is that the way out of the deadlock well shouldn't terri some

may is determined to get this deal through and she is rallying votes this minute as we speak basically she has offered in front of her conservatives yesterday to resign for any future negotiations at that point if good deal gets through and some tory rebels have already said that they are now on board with her deal that they are going to support it and vote yes for example boris johnson who has really smashed a deal for months and months but the question is are others going to come onboard because that is definitely not enough and for example the northern irish do you peter ally they have already said that they are not going to support the deal and most of the labor m.p.'s won't won't support it either so it really looks very unlikely at this point that she is going to get that was drawled agreement through parliament tomorrow and then what happens if this deal is rejected the third.

well the default option is still that the u.k. leaves the european union without a deal on april twelfth the so-called brics a day chaotic grex it i mean the u.k. could potentially ask for a longer extension so this could go on for months and months but they are trying to find a way forward but at the moment m.p.'s here are worried that a no deal scenario becomes more and more likely we've been hearing members of parliament worrying about that today and an internal cabinet report showed actually how unprepared the u.k. would be for such a chaotic scenario so a lot of uncertainty still for brits abroad for europeans in great britain and frankly for the people in the u.k. so at the moment everything is still very very unpredictable here you have we're also hearing that european union leaders are also bracing for. a. show on the part of the story tonight in london you want to thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world hundreds

of protesters took to the streets of the jury in capital again today to demand the president's resignation on tuesday after weeks of protests the army called for president. had to be declared unfit to rule but protesters oppose the military's plan to retain the current constitution there urging an overthrow of the entire ruling elite the number of fatalities from a suspected terror attack in the dutch city of has risen to four a seventy four year old man has died of the injuries he sustained during the shooting in a tram ten days ago a turkish border man has been charged on suspicion of murder with terrorist intent in the somali capital mogadishu at least fifteen people have been killed in a car bomb attack near a hotel and restaurant there was no immediate claim of responsibility but the explosion took place in an area targeted by islamist militants in the past over a dozen people were injured. boeing has delivered

a software update for its seven thirty seven max passenger jet that's meant to prevent failures of the aircraft's anti stealth system the jets have been grounded worldwide following the deadly ethiopian airlines crash earlier this month boeing says the timing of the upgrade was not related to the accident. as speaking of airlines iceland's budget carrier wow air has halted operations and canceled all flights after attempts to find a buyer collapsed while specialized in low cost connections between europe and north america with its base in the icelandic capital. the airline's closure could the deal a heavy blow to the country's booming tourist industry meanwhile thousands of passengers have been stranded on both sides of the atlantic. about four thousand passengers are stranded at well as various destinations after the company ceased operations and canceled all flights. were canceled yesterday to try to get

something else we were supposed to fly to frankfurt when we came here they were saying the flight got canceled and you would have received some kind of e-mail communication and nobody received any done if even a communication the collapse of the troubled airline comes after talks with rival iceland and philip caught it early this week opto first day morning well air had transported more than a third of people who visited iceland in a tourist boom which had revived the island's economy in the years following the global financial crisis well air founded in two thousand and eleven exploited iceland's location in the middle of the north atlantic to offer a low cost service between europe and north america last year the no frills airline carried some three and a half million passengers however it had flown into financial trouble in recent years due to heightened competition and rising fuel prices and had been searching for an investor for months. malta's armed forces have taken

control of a tanker that was hijacked by migrants who were rescued at sea the turkish vessel has arrived at a maltese port with military personnel on board five people were handcuffed and escorted off the vessel about one hundred migrants and refugees had been rescued in the seas off libya some of them took control of the ship when it was re order to return to libya and they forced it to head towards europe instead. the arrival of the turkish tanker in malta multis armed forces with the help of speed boats on the helicopter had brought it under control on the open sea. for hours migrant hijackers had been at the helm. the crew rescued around one hundred migrants and refugees among them twelve children off the libyan coast after the ship was apparently ordered to return to libya some of those

rescued then took command and forced the crew instead to head towards europe. italy's interior minister material salvini views it as an act of piracy. this is about criminal people trafficking criminal because they hijacked those who had previously saved them who had taken them for the ways. but refugee organizations called for sympathy for the migrants citing the near total absence from the mediterranean of rescue ships. by the fact that in these moments since there is not enough presence of rescue ships at sea with a good season if there are more departure we will see more. police arrested five migrants while the remainder were brought to a reception center it's unclear whether they will remain in multan. joining me now from malta is richard with mission lifeline that's a european in geo providing civil rescue operations for refugees in the

mediterranean its ship was grounded by maltese authorities about nine months ago it's good to have you on the program richard tell me do we know just based on what you've learned in your experience what is going to happen to these migrants these refugees who are on board that tanker. hello what i've seen is quite a similar situation like we had in the head last year when we came into the harbor there were a lot of cars from detentions and bringing taking the. warranty is quite a big growth since that's happening there are a lot of policemen standing on the on the morning station and. five persons that brought in hand counts as well. it's quite the normal situation that happened here they were approached into a detention center. what brought identification

as well and this is what we saw here at the moment today richard what are you hearing about what actually happened on board this tanker and we've got reports telling us that people panicked when they heard that they were going to be returned to libya. this is quite a normal situation we had last year when we met with the new can coastguard all the people on our boat must frighten them as well as well i think when they heard that they have to go back to the right to say it to be a situation that makes something like a panic on the border and i think this would be the best argument to say ok we go not to you for the crew and we go back we go direction north and this means what happened now they can't do much else and this doesn't bode very well for organisations that are trying to rescue migrants does it mean what's happened to the work for example that you're in go does what's happened to you since this

crackdown began. yeah i will go to see since nine months now and they now and it's quite a very. depressing situation for us we have perfect the equip for doing rescues and they brought in so-called new coast guard who has spent. thirty cases not reachable and this is not a good situation and we are here. as well as of organizations and can do anything in the world one of balance vessels operating in the mediterranean when they hear reports of migrants being rescued then turn on the ships personnel and basically hijack the ship what do you think that's going to do to the general mood in the environment regarding rescuing migrants from north africa. i do the situation it's really crazy in the moment very unstable country is

specially of the so-called coast guard so there's no manual that you can follow as well as a crew on board off a commercial. and this makes everything very complicated as well i think the crew now decided to say that it's not a safe harbor and that's why they go north. it sounds like the dangers are certainly not decreasing there in the mediterranean that's for sure richard britta joining us tonight from voletta in malta richard we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight thank you thank you. breakdancing has been given a provisional green light to be included in the twenty twenty four olympics in paris that's right critics argue the pursuit is not strictly a sport and that judging routines is simply too subjective but its proponents are ready to the world and to change people's minds.

breakdancing is part of a new generation of sports the international olympic committee has recommended adding into the program for paris twenty twenty fall break dancing hopes to join skateboarding sport climbing and surfing which have already been approved for the tokyo games next year. clearly in line with. the. because the beauty to make the program. more. more useful more. traditionally breakdancing is not a sport but china's coach at the two thousand and eighteen youth games believes a limping recognition is vital. getting no support for graeme belongs to the olympics without the support of a big platform for any grass roots culture will become more and more news or maybe

even vanish. a final decision will come next year but breakdancing already looks set to turn the olympics upside down in twenty twenty four. have to be limber that's for sure you're watching news at the top of the hour i'll be back with more world news followed by the day before we go right now we want to show you some footage of a hair raising incident in southern turkey a c.c.t.v. camera captured these images of three men battling gusty winds to keep a large parasol before one of them was lifted white off of his feet look at the local markets. worker was hoisted over three meters into the air as he explained after jumping to safety his skate with a minor ankle injury will say good bye for now by letting you see again those images in slow motion amazed.

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