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i'm going to welcome to news asia that you could join us for u.n. report seeking an international criminal court investigation into sri lanka is being discussed today at a meeting in geneva the report by the un stop human rights official michel also called for sanctions against option i'm going to fish and accused of war crimes the report accuses the government of sri lankan president rajapaksa of clamping down on democracy in the country and not bringing to book people responsible for rights violations. decades long civil war for 26 yes tamil separatists battle the sri lankan government for a separate state the war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the rebels but it also left significant casualties among the civilian population for many of the tamils who lost loved ones the search for accountability has made little progress. this is

the number of days these mothers have been protesting for 4 years they've stood on the side of the road in the town of junia in the north of sri lanka the women want to know where their children and husbands are they've been missing since the end of the civil war in 2009. jail when he took us here poli has also been here every day for for us she's looking for her daughter. that learn all about the good but that we need each other my suffering is also felt by these other mothers because of that i keep on fighting not only for my child but for only children and husbands who went missing we have to find out what happened to our children that all these mothers believe that their children and loved ones will return they can't lose that hope. 52 year old says she recognized her daughter in this photo from 2015 it apparently shows the girl standing next to form a sri lankan president much or a palace or a cena. signifies

a spur to initiate the mother's protest. the family belongs to the tamil minority during the last days of the civil war they were forced to leave their home and were taken to a camp run by sri lanka's secret service and interrogators on the way i want to take us into light says her daughter was kidnapped by whom is unclear. shortly before the end of the civil war in 2009 the sri lankan army combed tamil territory the soldiers were looking for fighters from the tamil tiger liberation organisation or ltd who were fighting for independence according to the un both warring parties committed serious war crimes up to 15000 tamils are officially messick the united nations believes the number to be much higher. it has been impossible for this family to find peace since their eldest child disappeared they have been to the police time and again and even called on the un refugee agency and the un human rights commission to get involved but in vain fill

a good lot of blood then they about it it's very difficult now that my wife stays in london for me at the protest site but i'm with her and thought all the time about them and i keep telling my wife to bring our daughter home. or that they were already going there and i'm convinced that my daughter is still a life of earlier. protests spicer lanka's tamils are growing. thousands took to the streets for 3 days in early february demanding the government clarify what happened to the countless missing sri lanka's current president got a biologic hoxha declared all missing persons to see east and 2020 including the daughter of j a n e take a supply. rajapakse that was the defense minister during the civil war the un commissioner for human rights lays the blame for alleged atrocities committed during that war on rajapakse this current army chief. the women simply want to know what happened to their children so far no sri lankan

government has offered to help them. and for some perspective on this i'm joined now from colombo by south going out on a former member of the human rights commission of the longer welcome because why is it so hard for victims of a civil war that all the country apart to get any justice. well i think it's difficult to pick teams to get any justice this government in particular the guy that was unity. hence the root cause of those of the conflict is just not even trying and the victims are not high justice for instance we have a member of the new or disappeared or something yet the government now says that those over where all are to be a t.t.t. and i mean it's not a manager in a lot that gets are justified and there is a culture of do not in the culture. in this context find it very difficult to have

their voices even required let alone actually you know get access to things. or human rights commissioner bhatia ministers and out of court that events over the past year in sri lanka have court order democratic checks and balances and civic space and reprised a dangerous exclusionary a majority of tedham discourse yes you're right he is i mean i'm sad to say but she is right because we have seen since the election and the government in november 2019 is a concentration of power in the executive we have seen the 20th amendment in that constitution which also has provisions that undermined the independence of the judiciary i don't want to fight i don't mind the independence of. the rights commission the national the all seeing that made me try station there should be no

city to play in the conflict and not an east west civil society organizations are subject to surveillance intimidation and harassment by security agencies we fire people are censoring and that is the climate of the earth that you are critical of the government that my brother frazzled i will be called that she tried national. we are talking about a country america that has emerged from more than 2 decades of civil war the kinds of things you were describing should have patently be the exactly the kinds of things that the government should avoid and therefore i wonder why is the government of god forbid our departure pursuing this agenda i mean that's a very good question and i think it goes you would actually. have a majority cherry state i was now more so on this government in particular practices known nationally and i think they do not you know minorities on the right

for minorities and the muslims as equal citizens and hence there is no way if i didn't like the full masons all that was good or great in that climate to damage according to daddy strategies i suppose this would make soldiers. do you think there is a danger and because of the vis sort of from a gender from the government could give rise to a new cycle of violence in the country i think this kind of intolerance discrimination is what led to that they have. suffered with 30 years or who are. we all still are i believe the kind of intolerance it seems to me that didn't eat too radical i think. in that context we are told maybe our economic hardships that people are facing at the moment i think

all that is a recipe for definitely more more violent it's society and potentially down the law you have another conflict. become reserve bashir has called for international action in floating targeted sanctions and taking the matter to the international criminal court all those the only avenues left to achieve reconciliation and human rights accountability interline go. i don't see right now yes. last. time i saw. the guys not even. on their own all domestic and. all i know very well the national. you know awful. right now of the day that is the only option in the law march towards. america

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outside garage are mired in a legal tangle state officials oppose the move they say goodreads preserve is best equipped to protect the lions more than half a 1000000 tourists come to catch a glimpse of the big cats each year park rangers now use g.p.s. trackers to monitor their health and movements their hope more fit beasts and fewer dangerous encounters between species. keeping the pride alive. today with the images of protest and security ensure long the un human rights chief. has warned against sri lankan governments. of civilian functions and intimidation of civil society groups you tomorrow.

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surviving family business in venice making gold leaf. pots we begin with the australian musician tassel tom a multi instrumentalist with a bag full of talents who came to the world's attention value to time superstar the 1st single jungle having gone to davy 100000000 clicks on you tube tasha's non-binary and wants to be referred to as they however are not to be confused it's just one person producing this music and playing all the instruments. i. i. i. i. am a living room out into the wide world tash whole town a song jungle is a viral hit. aren't that song when i was fresh out

of high school i was 18 years old. cash full time his videos of busking in downtown melbourne and veteran performances have been watched by millions of people. in the fact that it's turned into this thing could live. where it's like a korea and it's proper and it's real is just not because i 7 want to do. music has always been a vital part of the 25 year old's life. i just came out as a crazy. my parents would say that i would just pick up anything in the shape of an instrument. china got their 1st guitar at the age of 30 from their grandfather then school they used a fake id to perform in the bars and clubs in melbourne using

a loop station sultana was soon able to recreate the sound of a full band without one person show approach they released their 1st album flow state in 2018 followed by concerts around the world. my wife used to play as many instruments as possibly can and there's nothing special about it anyone is completely capable of it if you are hungry to get it. over the years tash sultana has further developed musically and loves their artistic autonomy resulting sound is a collective defining the usual categories. i am not a genre best artist i just it's just like me as

a person i just am me and i just do me and that's just what i do in a musical sense as well is whatever comes into my brain it's just a collection of slack where. tassel turner also rejects gender labels identifying as neither male nor female for them being non-binary means not seeing the world in black and white but recognizing all its diversity and complexity and the bracing the freedom that comes with that. control what others want to think and feel i can't and you can as well because if we start caring about what other people thinking what other people feel and where they put us let me just get sorry it's just such a heavy feeling all the time i just make my art and i let it. there's an international tour planned for 2021 but as with so much these days it's not

clear whether that will happen. let's be honest it's looking pretty grim and. it's looking a little bit di our little secret but you know what if i can't get in there i can't get in and work i'll be ready and when i go on to earn again i will never ever say that i want to hire. ever. so for now not hash full time i will keep making music while waiting for a return to normality. when the state of israel was created back in may 9048 it welcomed jews from all over the world including german speaking jews 1st they were perhaps not so well received but gradually integrated into society their bringing their own skills and culture today these are celebrated in the german speaking jury heritage museum also known colloquially as they yak is newsy. the mountainous landscape of galilee makes for a beautiful if unlikely spot for

a museum or the museum is well placed here in tatton to tell the story of jewish german immigrants but unfortunately it now has to move. affect the curator herself a german speaking immigrant. from the early 1930 s. on increasing numbers of jews flee nazi persecution left germany and headed for the promised land but the newcomers soon found they were unwanted. men has against and for they were ridiculed and laughed at their behavior their punctuality their neatness it was all very strange and yet code was an insult and seen for probably referred to the newcomers habit of wearing inappropriate suits those who could drop their possessions with them like auto maya one of the founders of the city of nahariya who fled germany to find him. self in this hot rocky landscape wearing a suit jacket is what that nicholas word yes probably came from the short jackets

that the german jews wore on the polish and eastern european jews wore long kaftans much longer coats. remain cool. most arrivals to the area were assigned a corrugated metal hut to live in this one used to be number 2 fights main street ot off work has kept the heart in its original form the new life here was a tough one especially for those more used to working with their heads and their hands. see how long stick land because they also got a piece of land and sometimes some chickens dr flits wife who was also a lawyer said to me once that when he got his chickens he didn't know which end the eggs came out of from any of the family in. the newcomers presence soon began to have an impact on the wider community german art and design became popular setting the tone for the young israeli society. people

had never seen graphic design like this the style is very very german woods the heck is also did well when it came to business and science but good and hina could only be quoted in private here the language of the nazi perpetrators was frowned upon men had mutambara i was always told for example you should only speak german quietly you don't want people to know you speak it. this friction meant that many yakkers were not able to assimilate. the ethnic in the 1st generation didn't really find their way it didn't work out for them they just stayed within their own culture and they were proud of it and the stones of the. effect hopes to move the museum to the city of haifa it's a tall order and she's still looking for sponsors but he echoes never given. now the use of gold leaf in paintings decorative ops and architecture dates back thousands of years but it's becoming increasingly harder to find hand between gold

leaf in today's day and age and that's because it's a fading craft for example of venice in 1700 there were 300 so-called gold beaches today however there's just one family dedicated to this ancient tradition. much of what glitters here is indeed gold. for centuries spent as has flaunted its wealth with this precious metal. now there are very few workshops left that work gold by hand. one of the world's last gold beating shops is run by the men account so family under the name madill down but a lot of. the purest $24.00 carat gold is melted at more than $1000.00 degrees celsius and cast as a small bar which by itself has a value of about $6000.00 euros. a

little gold bar is about 120 grams depending on the thickness required of the gold leaf we can make 80026000 pieces from a thing you know for your. first the gold is passed several times through a rolling mill which press isn't thinner each time. it's rolled into a long ribbon heated over and over. and put through the mill again. the colors nice and yellow you know the gold is pure. the hue tends towards a reddish you know it's an alloy. it might then contain silver or of little copper or the d.v.d. . when the gold ribbon is several metres long it's cut into lengths folded and cut again into little squares sort of minute out so lays these between

sheets of parchment to separate them during the beating. he was a packet consists of 331st they're beaten with the machine and then quartered once more and then they're worked with a hammer the wood on they so they offer to muck about up with obama. the final step is the hammering this is how gold leaf was made in venice a 1000 years ago at that time there were no machines to help with the heavy work. hammer ways to kilos almost nothing this one weighs 4 kilos so it's a bit heavier but for me that's nothing that well this one's pretty heavy. for hammering produces thousands of these gossamer leaves a single leaf weighs barely as much as a human hair does the specialized handicraft is in danger of dying out there is

still a demand for. art restorer and builder and he's about to my song uses a great deal of madea bathtub but a lot of gold leaf in her workshop. it takes a steady hand of the right conditions to work with this delicate material even a gentle breeze could ruin everything yet the handmade leaf is still less fragile than industrially produced gold leaf. the angel atop st mark's company layer is among the works restored using gold leaf from audio data but a lot thanks to an age old handicraft queen of the adriatic shines on. finally will play out today with a song from the legendary brazilian musicianship bet those who with the photographer gado is supporting a reforestation project to plant 1000000 trees in his country every year good luck to them this is a song called ray flores stop in support of the efforts by. the

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