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w dot com. who ordered last year's poisoning of kremlin critic alexy an evolving today the united nations reported the findings of its investigation the conclusion the same as mr know of all news the order to kill him came from the top the woman who coauthored that report is a un specialist in recognizing state sponsored murder in a moment she'll join me and she has a warning for russian president vladimir putin but does she does anyone have the power to make putin care i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day. we believe and i can tell national investigation shouldn't be carried out and a matter of conscience sleep intent on this and not on newsnight did not demand he

used or he just came in kuwait then he was on the air at times. oh i'm sure killings it happens because of who he is and what he has been doing. these are all conclusions that trust him at least response he will probably want them to be cheery. also coming up takeaways from last night's golden globe awards for t.v. and film the lack of black behind the scenes and movies as mirrors showing us what we really are. democracy was it really. you know the seventy's made through the massage may have become overt racist wound proud we have one who is the president is really helped by social media as well and i felt i could do was pull out the gray suit. which of our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day

with a case of suspected attempted murder and yet another finger pointing at russia today the united nation's top human rights investigators blamed russia for last year's attempted murder of criminal critic alexina balding the ball he almost died after he came in contact with the nerve agent no beach up he was treated here in berlin and has since returned to russia where he was immediately arrested and sent to prison the bone he has always maintained that the russian president vladimir putin ordered the poisoning to silence him and today's u.n. report gives credibility to that claim in a moment i'll speak with the co-author of that report a report that puts the you went on the same page with the european union the u.k. and the united states and with some people in russia this is what people are saying outside the prison where and of all he is serving his 2 and a half year sentence. but we're living in

a police state and of around the went to prison for absolutely nothing. in the national stuff now a state speech some people expect some moves on. you know it's not that he's been moved here. i don't really believe it but it will happen but i hope that justice will prevail and he will be free to do what you can let me know it doesn't matter for us which prison he sent the most important thing that he's behind bars for what he has done. they say it's one of the most severe colonies in russia maybe that's why he's been transferred here. in the conditions that are such that god willing he will come on to life but he definitely won't be coming out of that healthy nothing good will happen to putin calms down he's the source of all this. on my 1st guest tonight presented the findings of the u.n. human rights investigation into the case of alexey of all the. market is the un

special rapporteur on summary and extrajudicial killings she joins me tonight from maher say this government is going to have you on the program you said today that russia is responsible for the attempted poisoning and murder of mr noble to be clear here do you mean that russian president vladimir putin ordered the poisoning . no i did not we did not we conducted a human rights investigation we did not to seek to identify who will end the state and all didn't the killing what we did find is that on the basis of the evidence that we collect and there is no doubt that the response to media and the state all russia is involved in the attempted killing of me still not of any when they are all not in the state as all due to the killing of all whether it does failed to

take me still have any against and the killing its response to really t. is deeply involved what was it what evidence did you see that convinced you that this poisoning had the signature of the russian state on it. well see more of its 1st the use of know the choke when she's a signature poison it was created by the soviet state it has been developed told by russia and to the best of international our knowledge there is no other state that currently has store was no the choke the fact that deploys only used against me still have any is a novel form of no that showed it is different than the one that was used in $29000.00 insourcing barry and that andy kids early on development around know each other kind of development that he's only access seaboard to

a student engine sees and therefore in piskies to russia the fact that to use an only child human need a highly qualified individual or when they will contaminate themselves the fact that he's done that when he was under intense and due time of the attempted killing syrians by interstate. rush it just doesn't work when cannot explain that d.c.i. else would not have captured anyone else and tempting to poison him in his hotel room the fact that in senate and been targeted by the state before including poisoning and finally the fact that unfortunately rush out as a history of targeting d.c. downs including extraterritorial including to the use of police and all of those factors all together which lead us to the conclusion that their responsibility of

the state in ordering and implementing the killing of the attempted killing of mr member and he's easy involved and because of all of this you have called for an international investigation into this case what would that look like. well what we did is are human rights inquiry weasely meetings show such as a special. limitation is what we are calling for is an investigation which is political backing wheezy agreement from russia and any investigation that we uncover or is a fact in relation to these attempted killings and indeed that we look into individual responsibilities for the killing so far european state and identified a number of individuals who only have sanctions. but it needs to be done at greater length only needs to be done in our opinion at an international level given the

seriousness of what happened this is not just any kind of attempted killing it is an attempt at killing me using a band probably beat to a chemical weapon is going on you know that the kremlin has denied any for to submission whatsoever in the poisoning do you have any reason to believe that the kremlin that the russian president with a well this type of investigation to take place. you know if if i were to only ask when governments are prepared to do i think i will be silent to 90 percent of the time so let me just say it is incumbent upon me upon my mandate to to demand what international law demands it demands or an investigation by russia so far * russia has the refused to conduct an investigation it is denying its highest force abilities even whole every single piece is already done so point to the rest of the stand to our atia and odorous conditions it is incumbent upon

my mandate on that the reason for which i was selected to do these jobs to demand that an international investigation be carried out and to put under pressure on those reasons influence to make it to happen that is also a member state possibly germany and a random order states as a 1st step they should really act jointly. totally human rights council to denounce went out and to denounce the use of a pony beach and went on to denounce the treatment against mr member and that must be done as a 1st step that the case of alexian of all the it seems to be part of a much larger and missing force or threat if you will this is what the french foreign minister said last week at the un human rights council take a list of you know we see that in belarus the democratic aspirations of the people

were swept away a russian political opponent was a victim of an assassination attempt to using a russian made military great nerve agent was of a after narrowly escaping death alexei navalny is now in prison. these regressions are accompanied by a wave of questioning of the very universality of human rights under the multilateral system that we have patiently built to defend and promote and we cannot resign ourselves to this is the only thing. the work you and others do it is becoming more difficult if there is there are more pushback from governments and is there more competition for the right to claim to know when to possess the truth. well you know we live in a very unstable world a different court there is a real configuration of international relationships and there are simple actives including russia china and the united states our fight in gemini all of those are

creating. back to those that are not going in the sense of greater protection and they are going into a sense on their race for armaments a rest are always going to control a territory is and so on and so forth so the conditions are not there. comes trees governments and non-state tactiles to take human rights and them drive her full foreign policy all meaningful no mystique polisi so yes the environment to small is more difficult but what it means either which we must be more courageous we must be more all going to we must be prepared to stand out you know even these don't know how many barely escaping death stephen week recall hearing from a must terry born attempted to ease life was prepared to go back to russia is

now in one of the most terrible in prison in russia if he could do that surely surely we can stand up and we can speak out and we can ask all of our governments that they do the same and just tell them are the u.n. special report who are on summary and extra judicial killings this calabar we certainly appreciate your time if your insights tonight are doing valuable work thank you. thank you very much. well the united states may not be done with donald trump just yet last weekend the former u.s. president hinted that he may run again in 2024 it was his 1st speech since leaving the white house and it was delivered before an audience of admirers attending these convention the conservative political action committee he is washington bureau chief in his poll reports tonight from florida. it feels like

executing a time machine lending in the days when donald trump was the president of the united states i don't know connor's the co-chair of the flowing off adoration of teenage republicans they have a standard c.s. c.p.a. the conservative branch of the grand old party is holding its annual meeting in orlando florida at a time when the republicans are doing some soul searching about the future we're going to situated right now we're going from the republican party lindsey graham to the republican party of president donald j. charlie we have the newcomers coming out like not it's a massive call doing a really great change of party and good change. yes for every party and successful fight for the young voters will be crucial for the future of the republicans generations here which in my current age group is very conservative because we saw that the backlash you know the millennial of being like more socialist and we feel like we're out there rob saw on the doshas the daughter of indian immigrants she

says trump whites all she needs to be a free and successful business woman i want him to say he's running for 2024 and make america great again because right now i don't think it's great since ronald reagan and see peg is a forum for conservative ideas a barometer to identify the future leader of the g.o.p. this year it is all about donald trump every person i talked to didn't leave any doubt that he is the only presidential candidate they will vote for in 2024 making it very very difficult for the republican party to ignore him even so this year's event is pretty empty. and finally he's here for the last act of this year's conference. but who knows i. no. i may even decide to beat them for

a 3rd time ok was. this message is enough to keep the whole supporter i'm very excited you know so i said everything i wanted here the young republican going forward with the republican party so you know i'm excited you know that very happy to see the future the public parties and that is. for now the republican party seems to be going in one direction. so there are several criminal investigations being conducted with donald trump at the center depending on what happens the former u.s. president could be facing a similar to former french president nicolas sarkozy today sarkozy became the 1st french president in modern times to be convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison although it is unlikely that sarkozy will ever spend time behind bars beyond his home we have this report. nicolas sarkozy leaves court a convicted man

a spectacular fall from grace for the former president once the most powerful man in france. the court heard how so cozy told his lawyer to offer magistrates a cushy job and exchange for information about an inquiry into his campaign finances just found him guilty of corruption and handed down a 3 year custodial sentence the prosecution such a verdict was never in doubt. so i did. it would have been impossible to have an of a decision his. citizens should be reassured rivera know double standards in france and that he just show every is independent of he's. in a post on instagram sarkozy's wife called the verdict unfounded and unjustified and that her husband was determined to clear his name the verdict is

a blow to sarkozy's plans to relaunch his political career and it puts him on the back foot before he's jew in court again next week on separate charges that he overspent in his failed 2012 reelection bid. but it's unlikely to former president will spend a single day in prison 2 years of his sentence was suspended and the church said sarkozy could spend 4 remaining yeah home wearing an eloquent tag. well i'm joined now by nick hewlett he's head of french studies at the university of warwick in the u.k. he's written numerous books on politics in france including a biography of the former president in titled the sarkozy phenomenon naked good to have you on the program how does today's how does today's conviction and prison sentence how do they fit into the sarkozy phenomenon. i should just correct you the former head of french of is now nurses professor that's ok.

you know i was asking you how does today's conviction and the prison sentence how does that fit into what you have called these sarkozy phenomenon. well not suckers he has always been a deeply controversial politician he came to power in 2000 years elected and president of the republican 2007 and he served his term was going to be dominated by walking cold to a break complete break with the best didn't but turned out like that but nevertheless this is the sort of image he wants it's portrayed he had a very colorful private life which became a bit mixed up with the politics and he didn't try to hide any of it he came. to power on during his campaign he used to quote the italian marxist antonio

gramsci for example which is very controversial for somebody on the rights of french poets as he celebrated in a very swanky expensive restaurant on the show as it is a when he was elected and immediately went away on the on a yacht trip to celebrate a yacht lent by one of his extremely rich friends so this was somebody who is always a a controversial figure and the have been various. cool cases and still cook aces pending as you are all said and so is not oh it's a got a surprise and was. in court today then you know how it was significant is today's ruling for the person nicolas sarkozy and for the office of the french president.

i think it's quite significant for both really for the person's crusie. i mean he he was a possible center right candidate in next year's presidential elections and the chance turns to president's reelection xolair that was all to play for a course that had not by any means been ruled out it now seems rather unlikely that you know if so who is he is. wearing an alley tack to make sure he doesn't leave home or to go too far from home it's pretty unlikely he's going to be a candidate for president but as i was saying he has got other cases pending against him i mean. yes we can move on to the the the role of the presidency itself the office of president say i mean there are precedents for this as. a former presidents also in the sense of right who died not so long ago

he was given a 2 year suspended sentence and. in the last way in the past incidentally but nonetheless. he was acquitted of all creating fake jobs in when he was married parents this is a shock and as i say condemned for 2 years in prison so a lot of that person's nick hewitt unfortunately we're out of time but we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thanks very much for. some history was made at the golden globes for film and television last night which were handed out in a mostly virtual ceremony director chloe gel became the 1st woman of color to take best director a live audience was limited as the show was hosted in both los angeles and new york . chloe shelves movie is in titled nomad and it stars frances mcdormand it also

picked up the evening's top prize best movie draw or the best movie comedy went to saussure baron cohen's 2nd. golden globes are wanted by the 87 members of the hollywood foreign press association. and that takes us to k.-j. matthews she is standing by for us in los angeles good evening to you k j let's start with this message from jane fonda that was delivered last night what was it and to whom was it directed. well you know her speech went on i would say about all 5 to 7 minutes long but you know she thank the academy for giving her the cecil b. demille warthe and then she would on to talk about all of the other great films by women of color and people of color that did not receive nominations and she talked about why it's so important to have such diverse storytelling and why these films

are important and how she learned about the muslim experience about the black experience about the immigrant experience from watching these films i think her message was really geared towards the academy members and to people in hollywood who may be dragging their feet not understanding why there's so much hub bub in controversy about the fact that the hollywood foreign press association does not have one black member so her audience and her her message was targeted i think it landed well let's take a listen to what the host of the award ceremony said last night about the hollywood foreign press association take a listen oh you know this is probably something we should've told you guys earlier everybody is understandably upset at the h s p a and their choices look a lot of flashy garbage got nominated but that happens ok that's like their thing but a number of black actors and black lead projects were overlooked and look we all know that award shows are stupid yeah they're all a scam invented by big red carpet to sell more carpet we tell them what

is even the stupid things inclusive it is important and there are no black members of the hollywood foreign press i realize it's f.p.a. maybe you guys didn't get the memo because your workplace is the backbone of a french mcdonalds but you gotta change that. i mean that is definitely hitting your employer where it hurts right. yeah you know they tried to make light of a situation they knew that there was controversy and the elephant in the room was the fact that the hollywood foreign press association had been called out for not having any black members so they did the best they could but you know the times up organization right after this award show issued a statement they basically said look there was a lot of cosmetic changes in this ceremony at 3 hour ceremony but the reality is they need to do longstanding long term changes and to be honest there wasn't very much they could do in

a 3 hour telecast but acknowledge the problem and say they're going to do better what i would have liked them to do is say look we got it wrong we know we should not have waited to 2021 to even talk about the fact that we don't have black members so going forward we would like to sit down with journalists of color and talk about a long range plans they didn't do that i would have loved to have seen that but we'll see if things change between now and the next golden globes next year if that happens he says with all of you talking about that as well t.j. matthews in los angeles as always t.j. thank you thank you. well the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either d.w. news or you can follow me at britain go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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