deadly. 3 princes. dream of the arab world. the life of princes of gold starts november 27th on t w. there's . a show coming up running for change 1st time candidates throw their hat into the ring in hong kong's upcoming local elections from the city on the political. scene as for testers fight for it on the streets. drag to court over what the u.n. calls genocide. action against for not doing enough to help the rohingya. and the

2nd coming. to thailand started by. process heads to the kingdom. pulling out all the stops to welcome. welcome. it's good to have you with us now it may not look like it but hong kong is headed to elections the elections for district councils ordinarily aren't a centerpiece of the city's political felon but this time around they've been seen as a referendum on the protests it's also the only chance locals could have of being in a position to affect the election of the next chief executive of a correspondent phoebe kong reports from hong kong.

luncheon is getting ready to hit the campaign trail as a newcomer to politics the 27 year old is not taking the conventional route the guy for which i tell him i organize weekly runs in my neighborhood. and i hope we can keep everyone healthy because we need to be fit to be able to cope with the chaos here it is really sad lammas running for a district council sees together with other young protesters over half of the candidates from the opposition camp have no political experience they're also not affiliated to any political party and most of their campaigning is coordinated online. used to work in a bank if the protests had interrupted he'd still be there. for him though it was now or never stand up for his beliefs. i realize there are more important things than money if we lose our freedom

democracy our hometown and it's meaningless no matter how much you word i would later regret it if i didn't take a stand that's why i quit my job ok i see that some of the candidates are familiar faces tommy chong was among a group of former students convicted for their roles in the 2014 umbrella movement now the 25 year old activist has taken a step back from the frontline to fight on another battlefield. i did plan to study abroad once i had completed my community service sentence what happened to the on bella movement made me feel powerless and a failure but those feelings have been washed away by the current movement that gives us hope again i failed to achieve anything 5 years ago so this time i am standing up for my beliefs in a different way. that. over 4000000 voters will allow. candidates to some $450.00 seats although the cancel is just an advisory body

members are eligible to run for the committee which picks the city's top leader. with demonstrations still continuing after almost 6 months and with no end in sight the opposition says the poll is a referendum on their demands. for. elections become less credible when people are blocked from standing in them but democratization has taught us not to give up any chance to vote street fight shouldn't be the only way for people to express their will we not only to win seat but to bring about political change. i would rather lose the election than lose the movement because lots of hong kong people have sacrificed so much some have lost their lives some may be jailed for 10 years but we still have a long way to go and i hope that people will keep on pushing for change no matter how the movement develops. it's unclear whether ballots kind of venture the stop

the bullets many in hong kong hope they won't have both on election day. should these 2 people behind me face justice over an existential threat to the people some rights group of think so and it's part of a lawsuit filed in argentina to my right is nobel prize winner and de facto leader of men maher. and to my left is min army chief mean. they are among the top political and military leaders named in the also seeking justice for the more than 700000 that had to flee myanmar 2 years ago to escape a brutal military crackdown against them interestingly the lawsuit has been filed in argentina under the principle of universal jurisdiction that says some crimes

such as war crimes and crimes against humanity are so horrific they can be tried anywhere. for more i'm joined on the line by john is dave going about from younger on did welcome it isn't just the case in argentina it's also the gambia that does find a genocide against man mine the international court of justice and the i.c.c. that has opened an investigation into the events of 2 years ago what has been the reaction in minda. while her the international criminal court i mean e.m.r. basically rejects that they have any jurisdiction regarding me on this because the americans they are not a signatory to it but the i.c.c. has said that since the engine want to 700000 went to bangladesh and bangladesh is a signatory but they do have jurisdiction on this case and you know investigations are are beginning when these so we are they will not respond to the day they're going to try to show the id to know what that will be about the m.r.

does acknowledge the u.n. the international court of justice on this with me mark being a member of the u.n. in the case and there basically those hearings are going to start in the numbers you know are take the bait that we've been that they are has a legitimate counterinsurgency campaign that they have lost any cases where sources of overstep the line they say that they will propagate but there have been so those cases been built a few and far between that me and our actually done anything so far with that so basically you see me in the m.r.c. trying to just trying to play the card that i think began on the phone about the role of aung san suu kyi she's the defacto need well what about hundreds of publicity if i can point to that in all of this did she do all she could to stand up for the rohingya through all of this. right we'll continue to make sure people understand that you're in the m.r. the civilian government has no direct control over the military the senior general the commander in chief men online users on. but in the case in argentina you know

a lot of people think that so much of what happened here could not have gone on without the complicity of the disability inside of government and she not only been in on something she was the counter but they made the former president kim jong un he was basically just a puppet president who did what on some he whole and then you have the president before him did have our. president cheney so they're all they're all part of this early on from d.g. it's not that up there and john the case and the situation here in many ways he's given the military cover certainly he did not come at least certainly he has my command of any soldiers to do anything to then to take him in any of these alleged atrocities but she certainly has not stood up for them and she certainly has not tried to change the narrative in this country with her and gerard despised by so much of the population of this goes back for generations and she certainly has not

done anything to try and change that. speaking to us from jang song thank you very much for that sure. pope francis is setting off on a historic visit the time that this speech is the 1st one to have to travel to the laws of the buddhist country in nearly 4 decades francis from preside over a range of from a just set of remains and meet with members of thailand's small but significant kept the community when you have been prepping for the visit for weeks. your. own thailand's catholic community is abuzz with excitement the students are rehearsing for a performance at the national stadium in bangkok where pope francis is shitheel to hold a holy mass. news about the pope's arrival has made all of us feel very excited i've never seen him in person so i make stream me eager to show

him how strong i believe i am in catholicism. at a convent in a different part of town seamstresses have been working overtime to ensure the pontiff and just entourage decked out in the country's finest threads. they've prepared more than 200 ceremony of robes and head with the papal visit. it's been so long since the pope travel to thailand that the video footage is grainy. john paul the 2nd was the last to include the buddhist majority country in a papal janie's that was in 1984. so the fact that the current pontiff hasn't left their country off the map is a big deal for thailand's tiny catholic community. christians make up just one percent of the population and most live in the north of the country but they can

also be found in the nation's capital including in one of bangkok's biggest slums. but. father. emission theory says christians here are eagerly awaiting the visit of pope francis because they see him as a champion of the man rebel the poor people in their day nor the. time to make the voice of the poor so loud loud saw. it in an hour and especially the ones that i have the gift to give you for the 3. waiting for this. in bangkok and across the country thailand's diverse catholic community is looking forward to publicly celebrate their face.

and the pope begins that visit in thailand from wednesday and then be more of that visit and also this show available on our website that's dot com forward slash shop that's our show for today make sure to check us out on facebook and twitter as well . with pictures of the german embassy in seoul south korea where a giant animation was projected mocking the fact that i don't know street german unification thank you for watching you next time.

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