the bad. news this is deja vu news law from berlin taking a stand at the international court of justice mean mars on santucci says there is no proof that her country's military carried out genocide against rohingya muslims and prosecutors are seeking to prove her wrong. also coming up hoping for a breakthrough u.k. politicians crisscross the country on the last day of campaigning for what's been called the most important election in a generation. because they've been training for more than 8 years now for women from hamburg are preparing to embark on the journey of

a lifetime as they take part in the world's toughest rowing race. the ara. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us mean mars de facto leader aung san suu kyi has told the un's top court that there was no proof of genocidal intent behind her country's military campaign against her hand young muslims speaking before the international court of justice in the hague the nobel peace laureate said it couldn't be ruled out that disproportionate force was used by me in mars' armed forces but she denies that any crimes committed fell under the international definition of genocide but in 700000 brain yes led me in mar to neighboring bangladesh to escape what has been described as an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes and killings let's hear what she had to say . these been mind this complex situation and the challenge to sovereignty and

security in our country when you're assessing the intent of those who attempted to deal with the rebellion surely under the circumstances genocidal intent cannot be the only hypothesis. let's bring indeed if you correspondent max sander he's following the proceedings for us in the hague and joins us for more hi max good to see you we saw on santucci speaking earlier there at the international court of justice how would you sum up her defense will also in sochi have the same message that she had time and time over again she denies the accusations and she says there was no genocidal intent at no point in the last few years she ruf you referenced the 2017 uprising against militants and said that the state her government carried out a simple anti terror operation against them and she also said that at some point this could have been excessive but this is me and mars responsibility to do with

not the responsibility of an international court and she also said quote unquote that no stone would be left unturned in order to bring those to justice who have committed possible war crimes and she also said that the mass exodus of roughly 700000 rangle muslims to bangladesh is tragic and that myanmar could have done more in the past to help diversity in this country max you know we can't understate the fact that she is a nobel peace prize laureate as she's seen as an icon of peace and yet she was here at the international court of justice a defending a regime that's being accused of genocide why would she take that risk. well 1st of all the nobel the nobel peace prize that she was awarded with back in 1901 is it is not in danger and the nobel peace prize committee said last year had to shoot saw itself forced to issue a statement that the prize would be only awarded to people that would be awarded to

people for their acts in the past and it was against the rules to strip a nobel peace laureate off the prize she is the foreign minister of myanmar she's the de facto leader and she's part of the regime herself and in her eyes this is an internal conflict and the which the west is no meddling in i'm from what she said. there have been there might have been problems with the with the with dealing with insurance and see in the country but her country is committed to the rule of law and wrongdoings will be brought to justice and back home also instead she has support of people right now from where i'm standing right now i can actually see the scores of people standing out there with the posters of their leader people who came from all the way from from canada from other countries and in europe here in supports a to support their leader so this is her to reputation on an international level this case but back home she does have the support. of these correspondent max and

a reporting there for us from the hague thank you very much let's get more now on the alleged atrocities that took place in rakhine state and the way the hearing at the hague is going down indeed mark. more than 700300 ms lynn's lead me on mar when the military launched a crackdown in racking state in august 27th escaping what's been described as an ethnic cleansing campaign most of the refugees now live in crowded camps in bangladesh. but when it isn't over yet they tortured mothers and daughters they burned our houses they also raped me and i am grateful to god that now maher is facing trial for that. although united nations investigators called for genocide trials after finding quote the greatest crimes under international law no court has examined the evidence until now i

was going to work. and sun city's decision to defend her government at the hague has both shocked her critics and galvanized her supporters. we stand for her and we are on her site and she stands for us she stands for the whole bench for every religion every people of. every. not only. i came here to support i am in rwanda i support what peoples because we are many is suffering since long time myanmar's government and its military leaders continue to deny accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide and maintain that what they call their clearance operations were essential to defend the country from terrorists. genocide is a very difficult case to prosecute really whatever happens we know lays it will

send a very strong message that is generally just 3 cases of genocide have been recognized under international law since world war 2 what happens in the hague this week will have enormous record cautions for myanmar it could face sanctions affecting foreign investment and international aid and we can speak now to david griffiths he's the head of the secretary general's office at amnesty international in london david thanks for joining us here on d w i want to ask you about cheese defense in front of the international court of justice she said earlier there was no proof of genocidal attend intent against they were hanged what do you make of that. well i think he has. today yet again had a spectacular fall from grace should have been she should be standing shoulder to shoulder with a bit and yet she's chosen to stand on the side of the military defending the

keys the horrendous atrocities against the french and defend the day has been extremely then she once again fails knowledge the range of my name she's failed at knowledge the severity and the scale of the atrocities against them and the level of denialism is but dangerous and delusional. what do you think about these proceedings david what are the consequences for me and mark. well let's be clear the net is beginning to tighten and this is not the only mechanism. that could provide justice and should provide justice for the rogue injured people who've been holding the brutalized this has to be the beginning not the end and really you know this case itself could bring about some important measures to protect the 600000 injured who are still risk of atrocities from the me and the

military in russia kind of a living and a regime that that's the 1st and immediate consequence potentially of this case but it could and should also. stage them the u.n. security council into further action you know this needs to be taken out by the international criminal court by the by the security council they need to impose universal law and involve targeted sanctions against those in the military who are responsible for these atrocities that is nice in the beginning to tyson and this case is a really important part of that. you mentioned what's at stake for the rohingya here david they have said that they are seeking justice but what kind of actual justice could they get from this case. well as i said this is a this is one of the stage and needs to be multiple different avenues no stone should be left unturned by the international community in seeking justice and that

both. the rohingya who being directly targeted and those who are that risk of further trustees in recurring state so you know this needs to be. a pinprick to the conscience of the world to persecute every possible avenue to bring those responsible to justice david griffiths head of the secretary general's office at amnesty international in london joining us there thank you very much thank you. let's check in now and some of the stories making headlines around the world saudi arabian oil giant armco has become the world's largest listed company after making its debut on the country's stock exchange the state owned energy companies $25000000000.00 initial public offering is the biggest ever in history saudi arabia is privatizing assets as a step towards reducing its reliance on oil. environmental activists granted to

embark has told the u.n. climate summit in madrid that richer countries must do their fair share to tackle climate change also q. states of misleading people with what appeared to be quote impressive climate pledges that didn't add up to much points and at least 6 people including one police officer were killed in an hour's long gun battle in the us state of new jersey the officer was shot dead near a cemetery and 2 suspects then fled to a supermarket 3 people on the 2 suspected gunman were killed in the gunfight inside the supermarket. in the u.k. there's just one day to go to what's being called the most important election in a generation and politicians are making a final push for votes the election is likely to decide the fate of bragg's it the u.k.'s attempt to leave the e.u. the conservative party of prime minister boris johnson has been leading the polls for a while but a recent survey shows the race tightening the conservatives seem to be on course to win 339 seats in the 650 parliament against 231 for the labor party

but pollsters say other outcomes are possible including a hung parliament or a landslide victory for johnson let's take a closer look now at the conservatives election campaign i. think he will do it i think he's a man the way he's doing people of seeing through boris johnson i think really prime minister love him or hate him almost everyone has an opinion on britain's incumbent prime minister the man himself is on a charm offensive visiting every region in england and wales. including opposition labor heartlands that voted to leave the european union like the no then town of grimsby where he toured a fish market he's cast himself as the man to get breakfast done appealing to leave voters no matter what question comes up he has her own the same message to move forward as a country you'd be making now to get that done we can we must have

a poll of next year he's focusing on those issues he's focusing on that agenda is driving this country not wasting time again for another year old threats and pointless wrangling. despite repeated scandals and defeats in parliament boris johnson's party is still ahead in the polls and that's even though the conservatives are bitterly divided. earlier this year johnson $321.00 and peace out of his own parliamentary group for not toeing the party line among them winston churchill's grandson was the former chief public prosecutor. pounds the former finance minister and johnson's own brother resigned along with several other veteran tory m.p.'s it's populists it's telling the public was. they . they think that the public wants to hear it's over simplifying the issue but the

prime minister is undeterred he says he'll pass his press a deal in january and strike a free trade deal with the e.u. by late 2020 which observers believe is impossible get a break sit down. that's his mantra and he's sticking to it on thursday british voters get to decide in what could be britain's most important election in decades i think in france prime minister edward phillipe will announce details are proposed reforms to the country's pension system. plans have triggered mass strikes and nationwide protests which started last week much of the country came to a standstill as only a few transport services continue to operate unions are concerned that the pension reforms would force workers to retire later. u.s. president donald trump has come a step closer to becoming the 3rd u.s. president in history to be impeached democrats in the house of representatives have

set the process in motion by announcing 2 articles of impeachment against him. it is the next chapter in the impeachment process at a news conference the democrats announced they would bring 2 articles of impeachment. on this solemn day and i recall that the 1st order of business for members of congress is the solemn act to take an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the united states abuse of power and obstruction of congress those of the 2 articles brought by the democrats the charges are based on president alleged efforts to solicit foreign interference in the next u.s. presidential election and hide evidence of it from congress. present from solicitor for a nation. to publicly announce investigations into visible. and

baseless conspiracy theory promoted by russia to help his reelection campaign. president used the power of his office to fishel x. . rays to help us relax trump was swift to reply the president deployed his usual strategy of insult a seat announced house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff corrupt at a campaign rally in hershey pennsylvania trump called the articles of impeachment flimsy and pathetic insisting on his innocence there ever be cheating me and there are no crimes this has to be a 1st in history there impeach him you know why because they want to win an election and that's the only way they can go. to the house of representatives could vote on the articles of impeachment as early as next week if the house approves them they will be sent to the us senate where trump's party has a solid majority. do you know these william know a good prophetess following this story for us he's with us here in studio hi

william we've been talking about various possible articles of impeachment over the last few weeks why did democrats choose these 2 right there's been a lot of speculation about what exactly are these articles of impeachment going to be they said about abuse of power obstruction of congress they didn't go with some other ones that have been floating around the last few weeks obstruction of justice which is slightly different you remember from the mulla report the muller investigation found as many as 10 possible cases of obstruction of justice they put those aside no mention of bribery or extortion these are more legal cases these are codify that in law what bribery extortion already actually is and it can't be said enough that impeachment is a political process not a legal process so they want to make a political case not a legal case so democrats here are going with the strongest case they can make that they can make politically and ensure they have the case that the most amount of democrats of people in their own party can be comfortable with let's not forget that when the inquiry itself was formalized several weeks ago they lost to

democrats which was which they were still safe and getting the inquiry formalized but politically speaking it made the republicans gave republicans fodder to say you democrats are not even together on this so they really can't afford to lose any democrats in the upcoming impeachment vote that's probably going to happen next week well we know the republicans and the president don't think much of these proceedings what about the american public that is always very difficult to say because these events are moving so fast and it only takes a few days for polls to catch up with events so we don't know exactly how the latest events have affected public opinion but we do know that opinions are pretty set nothing's really moved there is still overall general support for impeachment not necessarily removal from office but impeachment which is the process currently ongoing and if you break it down by party of course democrats massively in favor of impeaching and removing the president republicans massively against and independents somewhere in the middle basically comes. if you like president trump you don't want to see him impeached if you don't like president trump you do want

to see a speech ok at the same time as all of this has been happening the new nafta trade agreement between the us canada and mexico that looks like it is going to pass how does that fit into this impeachment well republicans one of their many arguments against this whole impeachment inquiry is that it's been distracting congress from getting legislation done and accusing nancy pelosi and the democrats as do nothing democrats and one of the main example they've been saying is this u.s. m.c.a. the new nafta agreement that this has been sitting on the table for more than a year and democrats have done nothing with it as a way to punish dollars because this is the core piece of legislation in trump's agenda so here we have literally on the same day within 45 minutes of announcing the articles of impeachment democrats also going to donald trump and saying we're with you on the u.s. m.c.a. what republicans don't like to focus on so much is democrats have actually got a lot of concessions from donald trump to strengthen this new trade agreement with mexico and canada in a way that they see as beneficial so it's also a way for both democrats and republicans to go home to their constituencies before

the christmas break and say we're not only focus on impeachment look we also got this major legislation done that everyone says on both sides of the aisle is good for the american worker ok so a lot has happened what happens next what happens next the committee will vote on these 2 specific articles that will then allow a vote to happen in the overall house probably next week. democrats are likely to prevail in impeaching the president which means the donald trump is then the 3rd impeach president in united states history which then sets up after christmas after the new year for a trial in the senate senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has already said they will move swiftly there will be a trial probably in january but the exact rules of how that trial would take place how long it might be that remains to be remains open but he said in a press conference yesterday he would be very surprised if the democrats can get the 67 senators they need to successfully remove donald trump from office our report it will know

a globe. looking into the impeachment inquiry for us thank you so much for joining us here in studio thank you. in new zealand police say any attempt to recover bodies from monday's volcanic eruption has to wait because the island is too dangerous to set foot on poisonous gases are venting from the volcano when the island is covered in acidic ash the bodies of 9 people are thought to be on 22 survivors are being treated in the hospital many of them have severe burns earlier we spoke with auckland based journalist congress upon a meta she told us about the condition of those who were injured in the eruption the number of people killed by the white island eruption has increased to 6 with a patient at a hospital and often succumbing to their injuries for australian victims have been identified and confirmed including mother daughter and there are 1200000 square centimeter substance in enough for the ongoing needs of the patients coming to new zealand from the united states 30 patients remain in burns units

across new zealand 22 of whom still need airway support the nature of the burn suffered it's complicated by the gases and chemicals in the eruption unfortunately . meanwhile doctors are close to full identification of all patients although there's not a formal list at this point that they. published today the local media is pretty much filled with stories about evacuation efforts right after the russian on monday including a helicopter pilot who rescued 5 people who described how those people lying in the crater covered in ash were crying out for help as he carried them to his highly copter and unfortunately how he had to leave 2 people who are just barely alive behind. now for some more stories from around the world the south pacific islands

of bogun feel have voted overwhelmingly to break away from papa new guinea the vote paves the way for it to become the world's newest nation with a 98 percent of voters back to the pendants police and students have clashed in the colombian capitol hill to die another day of protest against the government police used tear gas and water cannon to try to curb the protests union and student student leaders called the protests as lawmakers consider cutting the minimum wage for young people. and a giant sinkhole that swallowed up at least 4 cars in the capital of brazil it happened when a road next to a building site impressively out partially collapsed the cars that fell into the sinkhole had been parked on the street at the time and there were no injuries. now it's known as the toughest rowing race in the world and 4 women from hamburg want to be the 1st german women seem to compete at it the epileptic challenge season make a 5000 kilometer journey across the atlantic from local media and the canary islands

to antigua of hamburg 4 have been training for a year and they will set off on thursday morning. lean forward push let go lean forward push let go this movement will dominate the lives of these 4 women for 50 days starting tomorrow they are the 1st german team to take part in the world's hardest rowing race the telescope whisky atlantic challenge that means 2 hours of rowing to our sleeping always alternating 24 hours a day. she always has also i think i also want to get to know me a little bit better and from a different pond a few just doing something crazy at another and she lets me. british pitcher has custom built the team boat for the specific challenge 3 of the crew were on hand for a 1st look. at. the

boat it will be their home and life raft for the coming weeks during the 4800 kilometers long race it has to protect them from waves up to 10 meters high scorching heat as high as 40 degrees alone in the ocean for the past year the 4 has been trained on land and in the water under the guidance of. former rowing world champion his message is clear. about it and become a part of the sea as cheesy as it sounds but i don't think it's possible in any other way as we sit here right now we can imagine the strain they're going to face . in order to build as much strength and harmony as possible the crew maximize their time together on the water no matter the conditions there are 2 safety boats supporting the teams as they cross the ocean. the crews are also supported 21st 7 by to lend best u 2 officers the briefing is also crucial for the team who will walk through every

step that will keep them alive and afloat for the next 50 days. you know there are risks yes is risks of bad weather and capsized and they have injury and illness but it is the personal dynamic that's a really most important and potentially dangerous thing in many ways one year of training is now down the last critical task to pick provisions everything is precisely rationed now comes the hard part. now a white rhino calf born last month at a zoo in california has been named the future and the zoo says the name is meant to be a message of hope for rhino conservation efforts around the world many rhino species are heading for extinction and sandiego zoo where this calf was born is now using artificial insemination to try to save some of the world's endangered at us.

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