don't respect. this is g.w. news why but from berlin tonight guilty of crimes against humanity that is the verdict delivered today against a former rebel commander from uganda the international criminal court ruled that will mortgage resistance army commander. committed torture and murder and that he in slaves and children in healthy says life in prison also coming up an iranian diplomat convicted of plotting to blow up crowds of people in france tehran has

condemned the verdict describing it as a legal and a violation of international law. and pandemic positives climate scientists are using technology from $1000.00 vaccines developed a powerful weapon in the battle against cancer plus they protested in moscow and now they say they're paying the price tonight will speak to friends and relatives of those arrested in protests against the sentencing and crippling predict alexina of only earlier this week. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome the international criminal court today convicted a former rebel commander from uganda of war crimes including murder rape and systematic forced marriages. judges in the hague found that dominique ongoing was

a former commander in the lord's resistance army now he's the 1st lorry commander to be put on trial and convicted by the court after sentencing he could face life in for his children's drawings of executions mutilations torture making these pictures helps them process what they've been through in northeastern uganda more than 60000 children were abducted and then abused as child soldiers or sex slaves to do that more than 100000 ugandans were murdered over the course of around 25 years dominic on when the former commander of the lord's resistance army was among those responsible for these crimes that the i.c.c. has now found him guilty of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and for the 1st time ever a conviction has been handed down for forced pregnancy post-marriage told rape sexual slavery and sleeve meant false pregnancy and all great is upon personal

dignity but on one himself was once a victim he was a child soldier and tortured and abused before becoming a perpetrator almost every family in uganda as north has becomes to mourn victor ojibwas also abused he now stands up for victims and survivors and was nominated for the nobel peace prize in 2015 it is a good move that is. just. not. a lot of good or bad. before that. by the being the court must now decide on one sentence but after being found guilty on $61.00 counts dominick on when faces a life sentence. well earlier i spoke with james of heloise cycling interest in trauma therapist in uganda he said that the verdict was vital for the victims of these crimes to be able to move on with their law it's. nothing quite as my truth

for a long time the child focused on describing the traumatic experiences you think mitchell violence up the option for constipation but now. see in that shift to some extent we can now focus on those in the problems look across the delmarva as i cannot but also the consequences of trauma including depression anxiety predicted an actual behavior and the likelihood of life so i think now we can go on to addressing the actual effects of the trauma which is what some of the contributors not that different called because i don't believe i'm now who've been through this if it has been a complete and not one to provide one in which we can now address the actual effects of trauma including group originally. that was james a kilo there speaking earlier from uganda well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.s.

president joe biden is pushing ahead with plans to change the direction of u.s. foreign policy he will not support saudi arabia's military offensive in that long running war in yemen and he plans to halt the withdrawal of thousands of u.s. troops from here in germany the u.k. regulators had stripped china's state television channels c g t in of its broadcasting license forcing the channel off the air the british media watchdog off tom said it was against u.k. broadcasting law for china's communist party to control the channel beijing has hit back accusing britain's public broadcaster the b.b.c. of inaccurate reporting on covert 19 in china. an iranian diplomat has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for masterminding a bomb attack in france back in 2018. assadi was based in austria when he was arrested his request for diplomatic immunity was rejected he

did not attend the court hearing in the village and city of antwerp and he refused to testify at his trial last year at which prosecutors said he had been behind a plan to attack an exiled iranian opposition group meeting in france iran has condemned the verdict describing it as illegal and as a violation of international law. correspondent she's in brussels she has more background on this story good evening to you. what is the background here. the background is straight out of john the curry i mean this is the spy that came from vienna this man he was the resident off the iranian secret service at the embassy in vienna for years and he had been working throughout europe all over the place italy the czech republic germany france wherever and traveling constantly and in that sense sort of abusing his diplomatic status and what he did

was he imported a handy little package off explosives on a regular flight from tehran to vienna then traveled to luxembourg can get this little package complete was the explosive it was detonator and everything you need to make a bomb. iranian belgian couple who then we're on their way to go to paris and blow up or at least cause big damage. during and at this big meeting of the iranian opposition organization that meets every year there and there were international guests for instance the former. lawyer often done a trump rudy giuliani many members of parliament from european countries so this was a big event and of political fallout would have been tremendous you know luckily for everybody involved. the israeli secret service who has an everything

a rainy and throughout the world gave it to tip to the belgians to the french and to the germans and they could pick these people off the road before anything could happen is this court ruling is going to affect the tense relations that already exists between iran and the west. the relations can't really get any worse they could only get better but what this means of course it is a political message of european countries to the government in tehran and the message says we see you we know what you're doing because this has been going on in europe fully you is just 2 years ago there were attacks against could politicians in the netherlands and there was an aborted aborted plot before that in denmark on and on so these attacks are commonplace and the european governments are now saying we want this to stop we're going to tolerate this anymore and this is the reason like they have picked up the scoop and why they are now ready to throw us into jail

and just to sit if. we don't tolerate this anymore on our soil you will have to withdraw these people you know use barbara things of the latest tonight from brussels barbara as always thank you were just days after launching a military coup in mars' generals have now blocked internet access to facebook the social media app is a popular news source in myanmar it's been used extensively to coordinate the growing campaign of civil disobedience and among those opposing monday's coup which saw the arrest of elected leader aung san suu kyi or the country's medical staff who say they are refusing to work for the military government. this video of anti to protesters in mandalay on thursday was shared on social media. it could be one of the last for a while. resistance to the coup had been surging on

facebook with calls for civil disobedience the platform was often used by the nih as did government to make a management the new military government's move to block facebook phone taps including instagram and whatsapp has left many in the dark yet. we have no access to any news no news about mother own sons hoochie i feel so sad it gives me a pain in my chest. blocking facebook means the freedom of young people is restricted. this military coup has started casting aside jobs and our education is in trouble too. with armed soldiers back on the streets of major cities most of the protests have been under the cover of darkness residents and young gone by and parts over night and homes car horns. among those who have openly shown opposition a medical person though who have declared they won't work for the military

government. you know this government was not elected and verted for by us we don't accept them or work under their command so we have stopped providing services a government hospitals instead we will consider providing free medical services through external doctors and in other ways. it comes after the detention of aung san suu kyi and other civilian leaders on monday plunging the southeast asian nation under military rule. suchi has not been seen in public since she was detained is being charged for illegally importing walkie talkies. the minute tree has justified its coup by alleging widespread fell to fraud during november's election which still see civi win by a month slide. the technology being used in a number of coded 19 banks seeds also promises to be a powerful new weapon in the fight against cancer today is world cancer day and

we're taking a closer look at a new treatment tailor made for each patient thinks to the manipulation of messenger r.n.a. . a customized vaccine created for an individual patients particular tumor fast effective and with few side effects that's the promise of a new m.r. and a technology in the fight against cancer. malignant tumors can slip past the body's defenses for years with camouflage so clever that the immune system doesn't notice the invader before it is too weak to keep the cancer cells at bay allowing the tumor to grow on the hindered. typical treatment involves surgery followed by chemotherapy to destroy any leftover cells it continues to fix in a doctor can't change the biology of this disease we know that latent tumour cells can survive inside the body for a long time and they can wake up and start to divide and proliferate again some of

them from the disease. the messenger r.n.a. vaccine is a totally different approach it's injected into muscle tissue where it provides the blueprint for a specific tumor protein once it has the blueprint the body then produces its own tumor modules the immune system recognizes them as foreign and produces anti-bodies . the body is now armed with the knowledge of its enemy. it's basically reversing the production process instead of making it and a laboratory with all the technical procedures it start. inside the patient's body which ultimately produces it on its own to teach the immune system what it needs to know. about. the m r n a vaccine and the study is made by german pharma company beyond terry whose coded $1000.00 vaccine is based on the same technology cure a vaccine and a u.s.

based moderna are also using m.r. in a technology in the fight against cancer as well as covert the goal is to give cancer sufferers personalized vaccinations in the near future. this is a real milestone we're no longer talking about months or years until it's ready just weeks well its significance and potential efficacy have opened up a whole new playing field and. much work remains to be done but oncologists worldwide are confident that the new technology will become a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer. and this really is the positive out of this pandemic to talk about that let's go now to our science reporter. to you we've got a vaccine against a virus people understand that but how close are we really to having vaccines against cancer. yeah maybe not as close as we would like to be

yes definitely that we now have this technology for the 1st time ever it approved and on the market will also give cancer research in that field a particular boost and as we heard in the report once it is approach approved it really is just a matter of weeks of getting. cancer patients that's treatment but it is not yet there are still more studies and need to be conducted before we can get an approval process started and we don't know yet exactly how effective it will be than so it might just be and addition to the tool box and not replace all the other treatments we have at the moment because we know that a lot of people around the planet have been what they've been stakeholder how his then did the fight against cancer. yeah again we don't really have the definite data on that yet but there is research just suggests that

simply because screenings cancer screenings were postponed people didn't go to the hospital to get their treatments we might see a little bit of us bike and cancer cases in the upcoming months and years we might detect more late stage cancer simply because those people were knobs and diagnosed as early as they could be during this pandemic and that might also impact mortality simply because the earlier you tacked cancer the better you can treat it. early you can find the saying that you have you're in a good health care system the pandemic has exposed the inequality exe of health care systems around the world how does that impact cancer care. yeah it does impact cancer treatment as well of course am so at the moment one out of 5 will get cancer at some point in their life. but when we look

at the what's going to happen in the next let's say 2 decades then research suggests that we will see an increase in cancer cases especially in the away and middle income countries and that is because people simply will live longer in the these countries and the longer you live the higher your chance of developing cancer at some point there's also some socio economic change in those countries that impacts lifestyle so people drink more alcohol or smoke more and that's been the higher risk for developing cancer but this will be a burden for those health care systems because they don't have access to high quality treatment like high income countries i just want to give you would like one example if children are diagnosed with cancer in low income countries 70 percent of them won't survive the following 5 years whereas and high income countries the majority of them will survive the same period of time so i think we really have to work on that inequality because the best cancer treatment can really

make an impact if it's not available in low income countries it was even worse is knowing that there is a treatment available and you don't have access to a science reporter mirror mirror thank you. well the coronavirus pandemic has turned the children's lives upside down with schools closed activities cancelled it's not just their education that is suffering restrictions and lockdowns are also having an impact on their development and their general wellbeing german chancellor angela merkel today hosted a virtual meeting with citizens about family issues she promised to work towards reopening daycare centers and schools to give children back a piece of normality and children from poor backgrounds are at a particularly high risk here in germany children's organizations are calling on the government to provide more support for young people during this crisis. i

real quick about it friends now feels like a front to say for children like 9 year old luna growing up during the pandemic has often meant missing out. is the hardest thing was spending days weeks and tomatoes without having much contacts of the people of the few contacts and i'm missing them. from my own care but i mean it's changed my character a bit and i've been lonely without anyone to do things with. and i've really missed spots. but not before the pandemic around 30 children would come to this after school club and then every day now they're making do with $1.00 to $1.00 activities for a couple of hours a week or. some relies on the cloud for a hot male just to make sure they don't go hungry directive bianca's on the fed's proposed 10 to 20 meals

a day for the kids to collect. but most things children made contact time to take. people from an educational perspective it's be encouragement we give every day that's being lost and that's what's really difficult one group at the moment i can't carry out every day we're. in terms of inspiring the children crowd sharing the new perspectives and. the conversations we have here often opened up a whole new world for these children and if that's not possible right now that's really sad. it's kind of. the crisis has hit children from poor families especially hard one in every 5 children in germany is growing up in or at risk of poverty with a household income of less than 60 percent of the national average but they often have less space at home like the equipment they need for online learning and restrictions have made it harder to access supports. for the community and i would

all the children growing up in poverty this is a very hard year a last year when it comes to the education and social development and they just won't be able to catch up no or so it's important that we support these families now and don't wait until the crisis is over with do you think because of a. childhood can't be put on ice for all children's resilience and adaptability this period will have long term consequences. well thousands of people have been arrested across russia this weekend massive protests against the imprisonment of kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina vaulting around 500 people are being held at just one detention facility near moscow that's inside and outside their friends and relatives wait for news our correspondent yury he spoke with. who is number 15 and 9 if this woman asks she's one of the volunteers outside of

the sakharov a detention facility at 2 hour drive from moscow these people have been standing in the freezing cold since the early morning. they wanted to help as their friends and relatives people who were arrested to during the protests. some of them are waiting for their sentence some are already serving it to be shared with you that we have collected warm things this is a sweater this is a blanket because we don't know if our friends in there have anything to cover up with. the terrorists subs underwear t. shirts and wore gloves just in case all of this is awful even cried a few times my friends are in there. looking back. more than 7000 people have been arrested across russia in the past 10 days. the police were

particularly brutal during the last protests in moscow and st petersburg on the weekend and after alex enough on his sentence some time security forces dragged people into police buses for no reason some of them were random passers by several cases are now being investigated the police. authorities argue that the protests were not authorized and therefore posed a security threat in reality however the police officers themselves have at times become a security threat to some you know sent by. these young people say they spent up to 12 a loss as a courthouse after being detained apparently they had to sleep on the floor they were sentenced to several days in prison but since prison space seems to be running out they have had to wait for hours in a police bus. it's stuff you want young man explains he says he spent 7 hours in

he has so far. it's now afternoon in front of the sakharov a detention center the q. has a barely moved. the also taking their time accepting the packages and a searching each one carefully at the couple of the families because this is all so surreal we don't know what all this will lead to but we want to continue fighting for our rights and our freedom was much to give you my guests of course were also scared but many people want to keep fighting for their future on the streets she wanted to push to be part of something. more than 500 people to be in detention behind to these fans and to more young people i expected to arrive here from moscow carts and especially if the protests continue. in the united states a man who was left badly disfigured by a car crash is now able disloyal again 22 year old joe de mayo from the state of

new jersey just underwent the world's 1st face and double hand transplant doctors at his new york hospital say the procedure was a success. i want to share a story for gaping hole hope and the world. i'm going to have to face and or hand transplant. second chance at life. been 6 months since operations and speech is still difficult for him but the fact that he can talk at all is a medical sensation. for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain

successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 23rd 22 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face. in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he supports a new look. the 1st time. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy joe de mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he

has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. amazing story you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight u.s. troops stationed in germany will be staying in germany we'll explain after the.

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