to islamist terror. until now you see sorry guys i mean my city has to be resold. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the sights of my ass starts april eleventh on d w. the european union and the united states are where we of growing chinese influence around the world but the chinese threat is not reserved to exports inside the country dangerous and disturbing things are happening but there the west is noticeably saw tonight exclusive look at making problems go away china's forced disappearances i'm off in berlin this is the day.

at the top but they come up oh i didn't lose that on how can you can fix someone because of words which words can we use and which ones not as when it was all the way whenever you criticize them about their human rights record and they would take it as. something that he told me to. get he had been followed by slowly being totally at doing his job defending for human rights then there's china . which is isn't it a league of its own when it comes to human rights violations. also coming up tonight will it be three strikes and you're all for teresa mayes breaks at play in or third time lucky in the british parliament the scene is set for a friday vote. by. kerry honorable and right honorable men days to support this measure and the how. we can leave it in

the way. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with china's disappearing voices of dissent chinese president xi jinping has launched a campaign to root out corruption and disloyalty in the communist. party but human rights groups say the state is casting its net to catch more than just political dissidents and a disturbing pattern has emerged those whom the state considers problematic are simply vanished last september the chief of interpol main congo way went missing while visiting his home country china he later resurfaced but only when he was kicked out of the communist party and the chinese government launched legal proceedings against him accusing him by the way of misusing funds or tonight in

a exclusive we introduce you to someone caught in china's web of detainment and disappearance a man out of sight but for now not out of my. 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 fifteen. percent of 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 he 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 it.

can. see and he 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 he didn't come back then later that day twenty police officers came to search their partner. koby headhunters i was absolutely terrified nobody told me he contained the police searched the heist but refused to give any information you or your joy were actually hot to the force disappearances have become increasingly common in china the head of into. former canadian diplomat

an exiled writer a canadian businessman and 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 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. kuka you what i tell you what she was even more terrified and i was. she kept asking when have they taken my son. in she said young you might never come back. i couldn't stand to hear twenty two days after my husband disappeared she suddenly died are charging. the uncertainty is

intentional or thirties use the sides to extort confession. to guards a presence of around the clock. the register every movement you make or do 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. 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. the whole detention

facility is designed for you to understand that you were under their control are. 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 detailed account of the secret detention she even had his license to practice law but he is still refusing to keep quiet. like to bring in. chinese human rights lawyer and activists his fight for human rights inside china has landed him in hot water with the chinese communist party he

joins me tonight from new york where he's a visiting fellow at n.y. you welcome to the show we appreciate you talking with us tonight i want to ask you what is the story here is china's policy of forced disappearances is this a recent development or is this a practice that the west is just now giving its attention to. it's nothing new. these companies used force if you say if your is. many many years ago for example nine hundred ninety s. was disappeared when he was only six years ago and. last year if i don't know what the figures actually is i'm drinking was also disappears and many. human rights lawyers bloggers doing in its appearance so it's not new. are you now so you know it's you know i think ninety eight know he

sent. the card and it's criminal law so ridiculous lay this criminal are no. legalized disappearance and tell me. all your fight for human rights i mean it put you on the radar of chinese authorities they know who you war with this threat of force disappearance is increasing what about your case would you dare to return to china now. as an activist. when i was in china i was kidnapped and disappear with flow three times. the second time i was kidnapped by the secret police and it tends in. place where. you don't know and follow seventy days i was good

experience almost sort of three confinement and it's a great and mentally punter i was also banned from teaching and for art by the university and also and my family members were also targeted so. i cannot go back to if i go back to attendance a day i would be definitely sentenced full term well tell me when you disappeared these times that you're talking about did you know that you would be released a la eve or did you fear that the authorities were going to try to kill you. i didn't know. he scratched. it experienced was cries similar so i didn't know anything i couldn't

write i couldn't reach and they never. told me why and they. released me. and i was also transferred from. place to another and i was so scared that i thought they may. meet so there's a nest there. they're they're intimidated yeah yeah it must've been a horrible experience you are aware as we are that the united states the european union they have been very vocal about their concerns over china's growing global influence amine you know about who way and the five g. networks story the french president microland warning about chinese investments in

europe how do you explain the silence of the west concerning what is going on inside china at the moment. you know how see you different reasons briefly speaking the first one. west. doesn't want to loose their current reason and participation of the chinese government in terms of their new clear a concert tour is south korea they they want. to call treason from chinese comment and sentence they don't want to do. sanctions market through western governments west in compton is the earn a lot of money. from china so they want to keep goods released and is sending these comments and the third is the propaganda of chinese

communist party is. working so. most of western. democracies adopt a policy of engagement so the thought that chinese government will keep its promise why didn't they. get here all when they host. one of the fights wanted twenty five human rights internet snooky matuidi is actually he's government didn't keep his promise so this major reasons. in chinese human rights lawyer an activist joining us tonight from new york we appreciate you sharing your story with us tonight and sharing your insights thank you. so you think treason they should resign if it helps get bricks it through parliament couldn't care less. well it is

it is the british people who have to make up my mind and i'm really tired of thinking about what should help and what not. to do with. board with that was the kind of reaction that reporters got today here in europe the events in the british parliament late last night only added to the high level of bragg's that fatigue and frustration and there is more to come tomorrow lawmakers will once again debate and vote on prime minister teresa mayes divorce deal with the european union now keep in mind they already rejected it twice by huge margins perhaps a third time is what it will take time by the way is running out quickly the european union has given the u.k. until tomorrow to pass theresa may's plan in exchange for a delay if that does not happen britain crashing out of the e.u. without a deal could become reality e.u.

leaders tired and worried he. has more from brussels. brussels gave the u.k. until midnight here or eleven pm london time to pass this directive deal once and for all or face being kicked out of the e.u. deal or no deal by april twelfth prime minister may solution was quite creative to just vote on that withdrawal part of the agreement and thereby allowing third vote but the problem remains that she has so little support it's very unlikely to get passed so the most likely scenario is that in twenty four hours we here in brussels are sitting here yet again saying the ball is in the british court and we have no idea what they want to do next now having a plan put forward would be required for yet another extension of article fifty patients isn't short supply here in brussels these days on one hand e.u. leaders would like nothing better than to see bret's that abandoned altogether and council president made that clear yet again yesterday and reaching out to all of

these u.k. citizens who are marching in signing petitions against article fifty on the other hand no one wants a heart rex it so it seems that yet one more night one more day we're going to be watching that feed of the british parliament waiting to see what they want to do next gary schultz there reporting in brussels over the pole in simon what he is deputy director of u.k. in the changing e.u. that is a bright sit think take so i mean it's good to have you on the dais so i guess we're all looking to friday aren't we we know that parliament is going to get a chance tomorrow to devote a third time on teresa mayes for exit plan talk to me about the numbers here do you see any way of parliament passing the deal to more. well as it stands i think you have to doubt the government's chances is he was saying the government has already lost two times on this votes and even

a slightly different proposition to be considering today what we're looking at is a government. doesn't have a reliable majority so during the softening the northern irish policy d.e.p.t. the supplies the majority to the tory government has said that it will vote against this smart so if we assume the opposition parties are going to carry on with their opposition largely in the heart of the this will bring about the end of the governments it's really hard to see how it's reason i can get this over the line. what will happen if may's deal then is indeed rejected again let me ask you should theresa may should she still result. well this is i think a really uncertain area the deal that she made with her posse

yesterday was the if they got this deal through and approved in into effect that then she would step down before we moved on to the next round of the negotiations so if they can't do that for her if they can't find a way of building majority getting those extra votes to get a get it through then i think she would feel that she's within her rights that she should stay in post and. i think really from her perspective that given her time as prime minister is going to be entirely collards by the brics it issue i think she feels very adamant that she needs to see this through that she can just leave it was a joke three quarters done she's negotiated the deal she's brought it's a palm and now she wants to get it actually on the statute books and in effect so for her i think she's going to want to stay in place because she how best to for

making sure that this actually comes about because as we know the m.p.'s yesterday and again on monday have been voicing about the different alternative options that might be out there you know a bit this is why she's brought a time ill of me ask you about that we know theresa may has a credibility problem because of bragg's it but it seems the that the lower house of parliament does as well i want you to take a listen to what happened last night in the house of commons we call this the highlights of a night full of nays take a listen. so the news copy of the news having so the news having the news having the news not being the news having. had so the news having. on. that issue. i mean you would you want to laugh right simon but you don't know if you

should laugh or if if you should cry i mean eight alternative breaks of plans last night not one received a majority and correct me if my math is wrong but the one alternative they got the most votes was the confirmatory vote which is basically a second breaks that referendum. i think i think it's important to unpack this a bit because what yesterday was about wasn't about trying to get pollens to make. a choice about what it wanted to do it was about testing the water so the m.p.'s were being hasta for each of those eight options do you think it's acceptable or don't you. and as we know you and we've known for a long time there isn't a reliable majority for anything as things but what we're going to see on monday next week is another round of voting which i think they still have to work out the details of this but with should try and force m.p.'s to think about compromises

where they might be able to move to what they could live with this they couldn't get the first choice and i think that you're likely to see something get over the line and as you say i think it's quite striking firstly the idea of another referendum did as well as it did because until now the indications haven't looked. good for that and i think that reflects the frustration of the house of commons that they're not sure what to do that that losing the confidence of voices and that this might be a why all of reconnecting with people but framing it very much as we want you to confirm that the choices we've made for you in this long process are the ones that fit with what you wanted rather than framing it as we think you got it wrong the first time back in twenty sixteen and we'd like you to try again and see if you can get the rights oncet i mean i see what you're saying so i'm a but you also have to admit that what we saw last night was a parliament that is really struggling to find consensus to find common ground and

that begs the question should there be a decision made to return this issue to the british people is a general election going to be the solution to the brics impasse. well that's something that looks more on the cards i think what we've seen the last couple of weeks is a collapse in the government's authority a lot more m.p.'s feeding that they don't have to follow the instructions from the government on how to vote on one key pieces of legislation not least the ones around brics it so i think there is a science to reason my is at the end all the time in office whatever happens and that that might open up an options you for a general election the thing that holds it back is a real concern about what that election looks like what's the the manifesto of the conservative party going to be he's the leader going to be is treason my going to

be allowed to lead them into another election after that disastrous showing few years ago and also from the labor policy side the main opposition they also don't have a clear policy and they have real concerns about what i say i think there are lots of challenges before we get there and it might be that many m.p.'s in governments like being in government so they'll hang on as long as they can yeah that's a very good point simon simon to share with the brics it think tank u.k. and a changing. you we appreciate your insights and we appreciate you looking in the crystal ball with us tonight simon thank you. and. forces have taken control of a tanker that was hijacked by. rescued at sea the turkish vessel has a. poor with military personnel on board we understand five people were

handcuffed and escorted off the vessel about one hundred migrants and refugees had been rescued in the mediterranean off the coast of libya some of them took control of the ship when it was ordered to return to libya they then forced it to head towards instead. the arrival of the turkish and multi multi as armed forces with the help of speed boots on the helicopter had brought it under control on the open sea for migrant hijackers had been on 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. views it as an act of piracy. this is about criminal organized people trafficking

criminal because they hijacked those who had previously saved them who had taken them for paul cost always. at the cape. but refugee organizations called for sympathy for the migrants citing the near total absence from the mediterranean of rescue ships and you're quite worried 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. for the day is almost over the conversation continues online or find us on twitter in the news or t.v. don't forget to use the hashtag the day we want to leave you tonight with protesters outside the u.k. house of parliament where on friday they will be awaiting the results of that third every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll

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this is g w news live from berlin breaks it fatigue and frustration on the eve of a third vote on teresa mayes controversial break to plan the government tells lawmakers they'll be voting on only one part of the country's withdrawal deal from the european union that's an effort to pressure him piece into backing the broadside.