this is not the news live from berlin you need to say listing vaccine peyton's won't be a magic bullet in the current a virus pandemic it helps 2nd day of talks and a person of the united states concrete pad india's prime minister joined them via video link. dozens are killed in multiple explosions near a school in the afghan capital most of the victims often male students aged between 11 and 50 authorities in kabul when the death toll is likely to climb. and i'm

going to see the full by winnick house one day 9th straight league title with 2 weeks to spend the darien celebrated altitude back up on saturday evening. hello i'm ready to have it it is have wrapped up a 2 day summit by the copa 1000 crisis in india they agreed to restart straight talks delhi but they all divisions of a u.s. proposal to waive patents on current virus vaccines. heads of state and government gathered in spring sunshine in the portuguese city of. optimist in everyone's minds the relentlessly rising death toll in india. the european union turns in force to be there with india at this critical time we always.

mention and we are ready to provide the support e.u. leaders agreed to resume negotiations on a free trade deal with india the talks broke down 8 years ago also dominating proceedings a controversial u.s. proposal to lift patents on covert 19 vaccines india strongly supports the idea as a means of opening up new sources of production but bigger states oppose the plan they want to ramp up their own output instead. i did not believe that giving away patents is the solution to making vaccines available to more people. we need the creativity and innovation of those firms and that is why i believe in patent protection. should. some member states also criticize the u.s. and britain for stockpiling vaccines. for liberalizing vaccines other simpler

things should be done such as removing the export blocked at the u.s. and the u.k. continue to maintain bear in mind that the e.u. exports as much faxing as it gives to its own citizens. as the summit wraps up europe is passing the ball back to the u.s. challenging washington to come up with concrete plans for waiving vaccine patents and to start exporting much needed jobs beyond its own borders. and they don't need your teeth alexander for now and has been following the summit. and sent this. i think it was very telling that both sides the european union and india praised their summit as a pivotal moment a moment of geo political importance they showed that they were determined and

willing to deepen their partnership and to boost cooperation in many key areas including climate change digitalisation and of course straight the announcement to restart negotiations negotiations on a free trade agreement this announcement was very important for the european union of course because they want to have a better access to the market in india and they also would like to see tariffs on european products reduce bert we have to add that the trade policy will be the true test over whether both sides are really able to improve their relations cope with 19 was also on the agenda no doubt about that and the european union made clear that they wanted to help india however they also stressed that they think that india's proposal to lift intellectual property rights on vaccines is not going to be the silver bullet to improve the situation on the ground there are saying that

instead it is very important to increase vaccine production and they also calling on other nations western nations to export more vaccines. and there well here are some of the stories making headlines around the world fighting between militants and government troops have resumed in ethiopia is to a grey region and special food aid convoys were on able to reach civilians off to the minute she blocked a major road ahead of a church has accused the government of carnage in the 6 month conflicts. israel has bolstered its security forces in east jerusalem ahead of expected disturbances following a night of clashes between palestinians and israeli police thousands of muslim washing has got that saturday evening at the mosque full of the holiest night of a don more than 200 people were injured in friday's tensions. at least

40 people have been killed and many more injured in multiple explosions near a school in kabul it happened in the largely shia muslim neighborhood that has faced attacks by the so-called islamic state in recent years no group has claimed responsibility so fall for this tack afghanistan's president is blaming the taliban it has denied the attack instead pointing the blame at. just hours before they were school children preparing for the future now they're covered bodies lying on a hospital floor it is a sight that has become all too common in afghanistan. multiple blasts went off outside the siad i was shocked at school and western kabul as lessons ended for the day. many of the children killed would have been on their way home to break the ramadan fast with their families. would be.

the focus of the night i was with my classmate we were leaving school when suddenly an explosion happened my classmate was killed 10 minutes later another explosion and then a 3rd one everyone was screaming and there was blood everywhere i couldn't see anything clearly the attack come just 8 days after a truck bomb at a university entrance south of kabul left 27 people dead now remnants of china's largest rocket set to plunge blocks through the atmosphere in a mission that's being closely watched by international experts the rockets carry the cool part of the tightest teaches space station the chinese government says most of the day pray will burn off on free entry and is very unlikely to smash on to the ground but u.s. experts warn but potentially dangerous daybreak could escape incineration and this impossible to pinpoint where it lands. well let's talk to jonathan adult and

astronomer at the hobbit smithsonian sensible astrophysics based in cambridge massachusetts thank you very much indeed for being with us here on news tell us more about this massive chunk of metal plunging back to earth how big of a concern is this you know it's a moderate concern individual people shouldn't be panicked because the chance that it's going to hit them is really small but we did see the last 1 time this type of rocket was launched 3 large chunks of metal crashing hundreds of miles an hour into the ivory coast damaging a couple of buildings and really scaring people so. probably because so much of the world is water this will fall on the ocean but there's a significant chance that it won't and so we are tracking this very closely do you know where it's heading exactly. so we're starting to get an idea so we built we believe it's going to come down sometime between 23 hours and 9 hours greenwich

mean time and that 4 orbits of the earth's it goes all way around the earth 4 times during during that time and so we can say some areas now like the western united states or like china in fact are no longer under the potential track of this rocket but there's a lot of other countries that still are so it won't really be until after it crashes that we can really figure out where it came down and you also mentioned previous cases like you said in ivory coast so there have been some cases where daybreak has passed back to us is there anything that can be done to prevent and the not scale damage in this case not in this case it's too late it's going to come down where it's going to come down it's going 18000 miles narrow 20000 kilometers an hour around the earth and it's about 6 150 kilometers up right now. it's going to burst into flame break apart the debris probably about

a ton might survive re-entry and there's really nothing you can do about it all we can do is try and persuade china that for the next launch of this type of rocket they change the design to be more like what other countries do for their big rockets and make sure that this station is not going to orbit is there a break and they saw how 2 months ago space debris if any. you know there's no law all right but there are some guidelines that most countries adopt in terms of how long you should let your space debris stay in orbit where it can be but there's no rule right now about not letting big things fall out of orbit and i think there really needs to be there is a liability convention if your rocket falls on me and my country can and can get compensation from you but that's as far as it goes right now right that is jonathan mcdowell from the hobbit smithsonian center full astrophysics thank you very much for the time you're welcome.

to some football news now and buying munich a bundesliga champions for a record 9 time there row they title was before they had even kicked a ball on saturday as often to beat 2nd place leipsic the day now means a buy in have wraps things up with 2 games left to play and give a perfect sendoff to coach hanson flick who is to meet the club at the end susan so the champions in a relaxed mood against. a spell bad news for the visit has especially with buy ins lethal strike a chasing a record of his own. in munich 9 was the magic number binds 9th street title was in the bag before kickoff well up front their number one robot live in double speak was on a personal quest to break out miller's record of 40 league goals in a single season. the polish predator scented blood and he punched after just 2

minutes for good 37 of the campaign. club but still harbor hopes of european football next season no wonder they were so frustrated when thomas miller's week shot squeezed in to the buyer in. 34 minutes live in his 2nd was a sumptuous volley for goal number 38 then the poll showed his unselfish site to set up. and buy or not sure going into the break my goal 39 arrived from the sport 66 minutes and even zoos red card couldn't stem the flow. this time it wasn't even. i rounded off a humiliating defeat for glaad back in 86 minutes before the celebration started it was as much a farewell to the flick as it was a championship party the coach signs off in style ending his brief stint in charge

with a 7th trophy to his name. and there's nothing new about munich winning the bundesliga title and everyone saw it coming just a look back at how they did it season. coach andy flick was unable to repeat by ends prolific trophy haul from last season and an apparent rift with his superiors likely brought his time at the club to a premature end. but on the pitch it was business as usual by and demolished child to 8 no in the opening game of the season. robert even gosh he proved once again his nose for goals he's well on his way to set a new industry go gold record. and yet so much about this season was unusual the coronavirus pandemic meant that most games were played without spectators for the adjuster and there was nothing normal about buy and losing $41.00 to hoffenheim early in the season the champions responded however in typical

fashion by going 12 games unbeaten and it would be january before the next defeat at mention glovebox. but i think their form was never quite as imperious as in the 1st half of the season but they won when it mattered a one no victory at like 6 in the early april's all but put an end to the hopes of the closest challenger has just voted to protect even click surprise announcement that he would leave didn't dentis players winning mentality and once again they wrap things up with games to spout. off like it's alfie doesn't buy on and with the position of national coach soon to be vacant could it be prudent top germany. and didn't motor racing 7 time world champion lowest helton claims his $103.00 of pole positions the sunday spanish for the formula one drivers to do so the

embassy's ace edged out red bull's max verse stepan howells and leads the formula one standings by 8 points going into the 4th race of the season. what's. coming up next is out tech so. what people have to say 1st to us. that's why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d w. w's crime fighters are back to africa's most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech color of

prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of his those are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to news now. getting stronger and smarter through technology this hi fi dream is quickly becoming reality researchers and developers are driving forth the digital optimization of humans with mind blowing results will be all soon become cyborgs today's topic on. the cybernetic all going ism or side book for short has played a major role in pop culture for example in the movie robocop a police officer with potentially fatal injuries becomes

a super cop with his high tech implants tony stark from the marvel universe can fly in his alma and superman's colleagues highball updates his hardware to get a new powers and skills. these days even real life humans and their bodies with the physical components they call themselves cyborgs or bio hackers and from britain is one of them he's colorblind and has no intent but converts calos into sounds like the human eye his intent i can even detect infrared and i'll show violet he has a chip implanted in his had to make this work pretty intense but actually there are lots of scientists and companies working on brain computer interfaces they allow direct communication between brain and computer so you can control devise with your mind but it's not just a gimmick it can fundamentally improve the lives of people with spinal injuries on your logical disorders us tech titan mosque is developing a brain computer interface at a startup neurally the team implanted chips in both brain hemispheres of

a macaque pager then taught him to play a game with a joystick and is now of signals were transmitted to a computer by a bluetooth pager was fed but nano smooth the through a tube as a reward when the researchers the activated the joystick pager controlled the game with his paws alone the computer had learned to interpret the brain activity but there are devices that humans can control the mind even with the brain chip like by only prosthesis that replace missing body parts british game of daniel melville even uses one when he plays video games prostheses can also give people bred new powers how would you like. this prosthetic makes it possible to do things that usually require 2 hands. it's connected to a wrist band with a motor which drives the thumb to receive signals via bluetooth from pressure

sensors attached to the shoes the user can control the prosthesis by moving their big. lucille and bill. and scientists danny clode developed a 3rd in london she wants to show that prosthetics don't always have to replace what's missing they can also provide an add on and upgrade. what's fascinating is after just 5 days of training with the 3rd you assign them had formed in the test subjects brains and the way they use their normal fingers have changed other developments like this that blur the line between human and machine sometimes on the skin sometimes of the skin it might look like a temporary tattoo but this is actually a communication interface made from gold leaf. skin was invented by the massachusetts institute of technology one version works like

a touch pad while another uses near field communication or n.f.c. technology to communicate with other interfaces. in the future when you walk into a tattoo parlor you would come out with a tattoo like this they will not only be very sophisticated technically but they will become an extension of yourself. often forget your keys eric frisk can open his door in sweden with a microchip implanted under his skin it's the size of a grain of rice and works like a room card in a hotel it's estimated that 50000 people around the world already where one of these plans they can even be ordered. the interesting thing is when the chips start getting smarter and start having you know sensors and things like that so instead of just opening a door maybe i can have continuously record my my body temperature my blood sugar

level etc etc. and actually give me useful information about my body. but. technology that literally gets under your skin isn't for everyone implants are just one way to become a cyborg now also robotic suits called axle skeletons they promise more strength and better. heavy lifting uncomfortable work exoskeletons could someday help people reduce the strain on their backs originally developed for medical and military use they're now increasingly deployed in the automotive industry and logistics many see it as win when employees stay healthier and companies profit from the increased efficiency in production. robotic technology that makes work. under intensive development predominantly in the u.s. in germany but also in china and japan. we

want to create devices that help people in their workplace and to make these tools more accessible and. i don't think humans will ever become dispensable. there are only a few companies that are designing completely automated systems because they require considerate investment so i think we'll always have human workers. on. the exoskeleton created by a japanese company i've told has been in use for years in production. and in japan's biggest airports. the 4 and a half kilograms like a rucksack it has a sensor that detects the wires movements so when lifting 2 motors in the suit automatically support the user's movement. the motors deactivate when the user is

walking. countries like japan are increasingly relying on robotics because with an aging population work forces are becoming depleted. right now we mainly make support devices but in the future we want to create products that enhance people's abilities and add physical functions like a 3rd arm we want to cater to a society in which people of all ages can work without physical limits. and it could get much more spectacular than that that envelop as a has been working for more than 10 years on this meager exercise called neo i was even allowed to try it out during my visit to japan i felt like lieutenant ripley on the side fi classic aliens with supernatural powers the developers claim that one alone can lift up to 50 kilograms its hold that neil will soon at the construction industry or in disaster management. have a growing role in the medical sector as well what's special about this model from

japan is that it's controlled by nerve impulses how is its name stands for hybrid assisted living as an ultimate goal even paraplegics could train with how and learn to walk again my colleagues and robo went to test the exoskeleton at the company cyberdyne in japan so these electrodes here will detect my brain signals and send it to this machine so that it will move for me so now i'm going to try to flatten and move my arm. it detects pretty well and now i'm going to try to lock my arm in place. and it will still move for me. to see that it's pretty cool but i do wonder does this kind of

is this. go out of control sometimes know. the left roads translate cassandra's brain signals into a. mand for the exoskeleton her brain sends the command move to the muscles and via the spine the signal is detected by house built in sensors. the motor receives the signal and pal starts moving. this is more difficult for patients with paraplegia because the nerve connections are disrupted but if there are any remaining impulses how could provide beneficial treatment time for a little test walk because sandra is allowed to wear the exoskeleton herself it's attached to a bracket since it's designed for people with impaired mobility it's a very intimate. setting that is actually really like starting training right now.

i feel a little bit mechanic with my movement. but i think it is just getting used to the machine because now i feel a little more comfortable in it so now he's increasing the speed. the monitor displays casandra and her nerve signals as a way for how works together with other ai systems to analyze the signals and evaluate user data. so how do paralyzed people actually learn to walk again with the activation of muscle impulses creates a feedback effect that enables the brain to learn how to make the body walk again from scratch it's called no feedback training it only works for about 20 to 30 percent of paraplegic patients but the results are still impressive. so with other actual skeletons the movements are preprogramed so patients wearing the suit

will have to rely on it permanently however with hal it teaches you how to walk again basically make. the connections from your brain to your broken sentences so basically these patients they go through the these trainings and at the end of the training they're able to walk again without the technology without the suit hal was developed by japanese roboticist you know. he's the founder and c.e.o. cyberdyne and a professor at the university of to cuba he believes these by only gays and acknowledges are a step into a new age. because the thing we need to get into to is we're constantly wearing technology or strongly connected to it in that sense we're born cyborgs start to think that they want all that as technology becomes more accessible we'll be able to use it without even being aware of it this phenomenon is defeat usually of

humans and technology and this symbiotic relationship will continue to develop i'll be all becoming cyborgs or we already. if the technology becomes available soon won't people get left behind who don't want to be enhanced or who can't afford it what are your views on cyber technology is this the chance for us all to upgrade or are you skeptical let us know for example on you tube there will also find more videos about you know mosques new or they project and the paralyzed man who controls an exoskeleton with his mind take.

entered the conflict zone the government of sri lanka has been strongly criticised of the un human rights council which warned of a raging situation in the country and the marginalizing of the minorities my guest this week is john cullum a 2nd she just because ministry physically johnson is dumb enough to take the criticism seriously and to something about conflicts of the. next. president. of the returns. as long as they are green. with an ecological concept. when they are starting out in business ideas they are setting the financial world on a sustainable course. can create investment change the world. 30 of. these places in our small.

step into more. trouble for travelers discover. record. also in book form. on speed and see all these things well and you don't know that you proud of living in a country where child care lives all get presidential pardon me being. doing something all the government of sri lanka has been strongly criticized with the un human rights council which warned of a deteriorating situation in the country the erosion of judicial independence and the increased marginalize ation minorities my guest this week is john a column by secretary to sri lanka's foreign ministry is there any chance i'm told

that these government will take the criticism seriously and finally do something about the. jagoff gave welcome to conflict zone. in the last few days the u.n. human rights council passed a landmark resolution highlighting your government's failure to ensure accountability for human rights violations and mandating u.n. investigators to collect and preserve data that can be used in future judicial proceedings they did that mr secretary because of your abject failure to do it for yourselves and because of the worsening human rights climate in your country aren't you ashamed of that well let me say the world war ended 78 years later. and we still here see the residual effects on the

environment on the physical things and the good friday agreement was in 1998 and that 116 wars which is called peace was still not we're not talking about is not evil all and mr secretary i was talking about we're talking about sri lanka and your failure to ensure accountability for human rights violations which you've already illinois in which you have denied in other interviews. no we had the war for one more one generation and it takes time to heal completely war and it was a device spitting war it was a brutal war right and we finished the war in 2009 and between 2009 and 201592 percent of the land occupied by the military were released 295000 people who were used as a human shield we integrate and resettle into the community well i

understand i understand all that mr secretary but your your foreign minister has already denied the accusations of serious human rights violations you put up the inevitable barriers of denials and accusations of western bias do you really think that the rest of the world is so stupid that they're going to immediately accept those denials in the face of overwhelming documented evidence of your current human rights abuses i'm not talking about those just in the past i'm talking about continuing human rights abuses in your country in there are these documents can we have a look at these documents that you are referring to the u.n. has said to the to you the u.n. has sent back to you numerous times you read them in the in the resolution of the human rights council so it's a little strange for you to pretend that you haven't seen them. well we have seen this document prepared by the human rights commission now that's ok but you know

there had been 5 i mean from 201220132 those and 14 and now 2 of those went to 21 so every time this government comes to power they said resolution from the united nations human rights council right is that fair i think we have to ask that the human breakup council then that is fair it likely will be held to a country or actions isn't it mr secretary i don't know what your father as one of your foreign minister called the accusations force one complained about the resolution was politically motivated but more than 40 countries co-sponsored this resolution 22 voted for it 14 abstained only 11 against your rapidly losing international support and credibility and the votes prove it to him who are these 40 countries that if a country's are in your wrong right then outside the europeans canada and america england malawi and solomon marshall islands so $35.00 countries got together and

make this an unsubstantiated accusation allegation so this is nothing to do with the human race in sri lanka also that so they're automatically so they're automatically wrong even your good friend india who you lobbied incessantly to vote against the resolution they abstained they weren't buying your denials either were they. but look at what the statement made by the indian permanent representative in the beginning they said this kind of country specific resolutions are wrong and then they said they abstain that is their policy that yes i know your kind are you how that will support you the real question from all this mr secretary is do you want to be taken seriously on the international stage or just dismissed as one more serial human rights abuse or protected by a small gang of other abusers we want to be taken very seriously in the international community and nor other country or entity is more interested than sri lanka to find a lasting solution to the residual issues that we have in sri lanka because we are

a small country small population and the harmony and peace is of critically important for us more than anyone else but it has to evolve within us no one can force a conciliation lets you say you want to hear wounds and you want reconciliation but let's take the un's charge of you marginalizing minorities one of the worst examples has been your instruction to cremate the bodies of covert victims something that you knew would be deeply hurtful to your muslim community and other minorities you've now retracted this order but you claimed in a recent interview that you simply follow the science and the world health organization had originally instructed all covert bodies should be cremated that statement of yours was completely untrue wasn't it they never said anything of the kind. well if you look at the world health organization there said cremation of

all call in bodies it is there of course they haven't they didn't mr secretary they don't get what was 8 what date was that when they could have that out but i will come back to you on this and then lead grounded change that to katie the burial is permitted and now that question is behind us steam we have buried 69 eyes are you are you change the subject but you told that you made a statement that was greatly false since march last year the w.h.o. made it clear that the burial of covert victims was perfectly acceptable its statement called it a common myth that persons who have died of communicable disease should be cremated but this is not true commission is a matter of cultural choice and available resources to date and there is no evidence of persons having become infected from exposure to the bodies of covert $900.00 victims that was march 20th last year but you ignored all that and your government kept on ordering the cremation of covert victims despite knowing that

this would cause untold pain and distress so your excuse for the world health organization said this falls apart it just simply doesn't conform to the facts mr secretary well it was never a political decision it was always a health and science decision only thing years we get fight against the decision to change that took some time and we do understand that past not the best thing to do we didn't hurt the sentiments of a population our community in sri lanka that is not the best thing we could do yes we do understand i'm not arguing against them but now we have corrected it and we have moved on 69 bodies have already been buried and now it's behind us we took time. talking of marginalizing minorities it turns out that your own president has indulged in some pretty inflammatory rhetoric over the last year hasn't he on november the 18th he talked about legitimate fears that the sinhala race religion

national resources and the heritage would be threatened with destruction in the face of various local and foreign forces and ideologues that support separatism extremism and terrorism this was a clear dog whistle to his supporters to be on their guard against muslims another minorities wasn't this wasn't a call for national unity he was blatantly pressing the fear button knowing full well that it would stop the kind of discrimination and disharmony that you claim to be fighting. team you wait and see there is a lot of evidence surfacing regarding the easter bombing easter bombing was the single most devastating act of terrorism which took place in this country nearly 270 christiana's foreigners and 3 hotels and 3 churches were bombed by the extremists you wait and see the 19 that was 2019 and everybody everybody admits there's no argument that this was

a terrible attack i'm talking about what your president said november the 18th last year stoking the fires of into communal hatred as i said this wasn't a battle for the national unity he was pressing the fear button telling people to be afraid of the minorities quite clear from what he said. thing in the same state mon i fail remember right he made it very clear that he is the president for all communities all people in this country although he was elected by the single a majority so you take one portion of that and argue but i can argue back it is not what the president meant president has been very focused on maintaining harmony but on the back of the elections one of the said mr secretary whether or not many did it it's what he said it's exactly what he said he said i am the president and i am the president for all people of this country so there was not only an occasion in

that country later but what it was contradicted by what he said about national resources and heritage sent her heritage will be threatened with destruction but. it's been present for the last 5600 years from time to time yes it does mean yellow not even more and more fearful of minorities let's lower your quality let's look at your anti terrorism regulations which of so upset the un and human rights groups the international commission of jurists has consistently called for the repeal of this act which has been used it says to arbitrarily detained suspects for months and often years without charge or trial why do you keep such repressive laws in place. team from 2015 to 2019 there was a discussion of a counter-terrorism bill the unity government which was formed by coalition of the main 2 political parties with the support of e.u. with the support of u.s.

and other countries drafted the counterterrorism proposal that is the new act but they could not just do it right so there are issues in our p.t.a. we do accept that we need to revisit our p.t.a. we do i said that this long term and i mean given your sending your time on on revisiting it you said that sri lanka has a very democratic regime no repression whatsoever these are your words but your anti terrorist laws make a nonsense of that what place does arbitrary detention without charge or trial have in a democratic country if that's what you are that's what you claim to be this is why i said we need to revisit the prevention of terrorism act and we need to draw lessons from the best practices internationally and we are going to do that given terminal even while you're passing your passing new repressive legislation march

the 12th this year your so called the radicalization regulations these allow for arbitrary administrative detention of people for up to 2 years without trial this is a whole mark of repression arbitrary detention without trial you say you're working on it you keep passing new regulations that are just as repressive as the old ones . well imagine the situation if we did not have the pedia after the 19001000 is the bombing we would not have been able to do anything in this country it would have been at that chaos maybe somebody wanted our country to make our chaotic so i am seeing the p.d. here is in the in the topic of discussion and we are determined to revisit and we are determined to amend and also the long term detainees we need to find a solution but that we do agree that it is wrong if i would charge to keep someone for a very long period president already given that it is for the attorney general to

find a solution to this when meanwhile these regulations are in blatant violation of your international legal obligations and they violate article 13 of the surrey lankan constitution do you know what that article says. well i don't have a copy right now but what it says if i remind you is that it guarantees freedom from arbitrary arrest detention and punishment so you're wrecking your own constitution with these new regulations which you come about because. he doesn't come near him in the beginning i requested you these vague for another few weeks and you will come out i mean we are in this to get us will come out with the real picture and then the whole world will be like has gone underneath we have only seen the tip of the iceberg under is the bombing but there is a whole heap of things that has happened before that and it is happening even now

so things will come out in due course and just. see but there will be new legislation introduced to the country for the protection of human dignity for the short sale how many feet of yours that would that would that would make a change wouldn't because let's look at you know the way you've been handling trials and commissions the main reason the human rights council voted against you was that you've disrupted and impeded efforts to bring justice and accountability for all sides in the civil war that's the u.n. saying that they accuse you of him in trenching impunity for grave human rights violations and abuses by all sides this is not one of the hallmarks of your state isn't it. well it has nothing to do as you say because if you remember if you recall from 2009 to 2015 there were 3 commissions appointed to find out the way forward but unfortunately after 2015 none of these commissions could continue

function and now the president has appointed a commission of inquiry retire the supreme court judge maintaining a balance. gender balance in order to find answers to whether there are any issues to guiding accountability and that there are any issues regarding missing persons so give us time we need we have given them a time behaving themselves you've had time to disrupt and impede the existing judicial processes this obstruction says the u.n. has taken the form of actually arresting some of the war crimes investigators and threatening others the un said one former chief of the criminal investigation division who led investigations into several key human rights cases was himself arrested and another nation for silver from the same division had to leave sri lanka because of threats immediately after the last presidential election and you tell me that's the way a democracy which you claim to have pursues justice doesn't look like it does. well

everything is in the media everything is in front of the commission a police inspector can leave for another country without taking up less than 12 hours it doesn't have to be stressing this particular. we want is our number one who says he was threatened you must not be part of a conspiracy all these things well they will probably give me lots of money to do these things all these i don't know how you don't know that mr secretary that's that's a sign i'm saying that inquiries are coming out all these things that is why i said it will come out with the talk in china in january last year your presidential commission investigating so-called political victimization of public officials began intervening to halt prosecutions including those of 2 former navy officers charged in relation to the disappearance of 11 people in 20082009

this intervening in judicial proceedings doesn't inspire public confidence does it so also this commission has intervened in favor of military intelligence officers interfered in other trials including by withholding documentary evidence threatening prosecutors with legal action running parallel and contradictory examinations all these are accusations by the united nations in other words you've been destroying any chance of a proper trial and bring proper accountability you've allowed suspects to go free you're not interested. in i will not comment on a presidential commission and that people are the court in the country they suppress dissent against afghanistan so i'm not in a position to comment on anything on that presidential commission on political situation because it is a matter of people in the courts. well you may not want to comment on that the fact is that you have been freeing guilty people in march last year the president

pardoned a soldier convicted of massacring 8 civilians including children human rights watch said it showed your government's disregard for justice for the worst abuses mr secretary you pardoned child killers the other no limits to which you won't sink you a child killer convicted child killer gets a presidential power pardon what kind of country you live in you well team do you know that 1500. pardons similarly without any trial did you know that the you know 459 child soldiers as young as 10 were not even considered as americans but considered as victims of war and sent back to school to study with books and school bags and shoes right so we have done both right so i can't argue i can't comment on a decision made by the president to pardon

a person and the devious regime also pardon hardcore terrorists so these are things happening so it is not only like route i'm i come back to this you proud of living in a country where child killers are get presidential pardons you can't sing well i don't imagine you're not you're not holding your own forces accountable the message that that sends to your armed forces is basically you can get away with anything can't you if you can kill is not if you don't kill children in cold blood you can get away with anything it is never like that we will never pardon anyone who is doing something wrong and the president is determined to make things right and make someone accountable if a person has done anything wrong against the law president will never ever. the side of a criminal never ever not just give him a presidential pardon mr secretary your civil war. presidential pardons are there in the world now we're not talking about the rest of the world we're talking about

sri lanka and about my why why you only see longer why you need you talk about one person well then i represent you don't represent our end of the world and talk to the rest of the world about what they do i mean talking to you about censoring lanka does is hypocrisy i mean you are talking about one person in our history and asking you to account for the actions of your government it's as simple as that is just one person and we help and a 100. mr secretary your civil war may have ended more than 12 years ago but since your government isn't interested in accountability thousands of family members from all communities are still seeking justice and truth about the fate of their loved ones and your response to date has been to send state agents to harass and intimidate human rights defenders lawyers journalists social actors and victims of human rights abuses how does how hopeful is that to your declared aim of bringing reconciliation and the count ability to your country how helpful that is

of this of missing person established according to the last one in 2015 and this of this is empowered appointments made by generally locations given given an action plan is requested and they have to produce besides asking you about the harassment i'm asking you about the harassment your police. your police have continually harris to a member of the adversary advocacy group mothers of the disappeared one of them whose son was disappeared in 2009 told human rights watch that officers of the criminal investigation department continually questioned her about who's going to meetings who's going to give testimony in geneva what are they going to say what business is that of your criminal investigation division. well if there is an issue with a person they can always complain to the police and they can see from the judiciary and our judiciary is very independent and in this talk all areas is mostly it is

there all need is who are the judges so this is these are only accusations very conveniently made without any substance why don't they make a complaint to the police where they can make a complaint to the president they can make a complaint to the inspector general law police and the enemy judicially proceeding without doing that you just complain and then you mentioned about human rights defenders we know most of the human rights defenders are receiving money from the west and we know the bank accounts we know how much money has come and gone so these are not born of being the human brain defenders they are playing to the sound none of them you just smear the whole lot of them in one sentence is that really what you want to do you don't have a lot of times to smear and smear a whole raft of your society defending human rights. we are very much interested in human great nor one else is interested in human race than sri lankans and sri lanka that is

a fact no i mean in president about human race and be conservation down sri lankans in sri lanka where not only is your human rights record is criticize you deny everything mr secretary the u.n. insists that you address these criticisms some of which we've talked about during this interview and it also holds out the threat that member states might start applying targeted sanctions asset freezes and travel bans against your state officials and others credibly alleged to have been involved in human rights violations are you ready for that. well you know if individual countries have a separate agenda not necessarily human race but using human rights as a pep and there is very little we can do but let's wait and see i mean we also have support from a large number of countries it was evident in the human rights commission proceedings in the beginning when the report was submitted 21 countries spoke against the human rights commission erst report and in the proceeding discussions

there were a lot of opposition to this of course the boarding they got 22 but even they got one word less than the last time 2014 and there were a large number of absentees that is 14 so this world is divided so you are i mean sometimes it is very very quickly as we're running out of time are you going to take note of these criticisms or are you going to stick to your blanket denials which no one believes where they're yes on a or not we are going to continue in the pledges that we have made to the international community to find answers or in consultation missing persons we are going and accountability we are going to find answers through a domestic mckenney some as quickly as we can we do shed of it from the responsibility to the international community more than that to the ok well of this country we've run out of time john f. column by again thank you very much for being on conflict zone. thank you.

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