officials to the nonprofit organization human rights watch the letter condemning the organizations for evolving your relationship with the u.s. government and at the response from h r w this group of signatories has now released another letter doubling down on its claims in it they write concrete evidence of a revolving door phenomenon between a george w. and us government renders crucially incomplete because that mission but it is true that some serve in the u.s. government before or after their involvement with human rights watch we provided examples of those who served in the u.s. government both before and after their involvement with h. r. w. a normal widely recognized generate perverse incentives and undermine institutions reputation for independence so to talk about this ongoing feud between the two parties i'm joined now by signatory writer and activist thank you so much for coming on keen for you to be so really quickly remind our audience why initially two months ago you as well as so many others wrote this letter and what you were calling the organization to do what the impo

government before or after their involvement with human rights watch we provided exam. of those who served in the u.s. government both before and after their involvement with h.r. w a normal widely recognized generate perverse incentives and undermine institutions reputation for independence so to talk about this ongoing feud between the two parties i'm joined now by signatory writer and activist thank you so much for coming on keane it will be really quickly remind our audience why initially two months ago you as well as so many others wrote this letter and what you were calling the organization to do what the importance of this letter is to strengthen and to reemphasize the stated claim of human rights watch which is. a claim of independence and if it wants to maintain that pretense of independence it must address this question of this revolving door phenomenon if it wants to have it both ways that's simply untenable either it remains a credible internationally respected organization or it maintains a revolving door into human rights violating arms of the us governmen

and where they ended up with human rights watch agreed to debate me on democracy now and spokesperson reed brody insisted that it was limited to just one person and then when i brought up another case maybe two people and now here's another core you know problem which is that nick steinberg who is their senior researcher for the americas division up until may sent out a letter express. in his new transition into the office of the u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power and that raises really serious questions because this is somebody who has said it repeatedly that the united states is the greatest country on earth that it has nothing to apologize for and of her that it's the record on afghanistan is completely clean and the united states has nothing to apologize for there recently she actually engaged in a coordinated media event with henry kissinger whom reed brody himself referred to as a war criminal previously so that proximity to power that proximity to the lone military superpower in the world is indicative of this lack if independence of what we're doing is what w

on a human rights watch report finds a terrible trend in u.s. counterterrorism it highlights cases of alleged improper profiling extensive sting operations and conditions of confinement and more in the findings coming up. and hundreds of detroit residents have been without running water this summer that the city's water department will suspend the shut off for fifteen days more on their water woes i had. good evening it's tuesday july twenty second eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america. with investigators on site beginning to sift through the evidence and the public demanding answers to determine what happened on the fateful day the malaysia airlines plane was brought down in eastern ukraine the u.s. intelligence community has finally made public some of its findings on how the crash may have been caused and who it believes ultimately was behind this tragedy artie's america david has more on this breaking story. senior u.s. intelligence officials reiterated early this evening that russia was respons

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this week human rights watch the ukrainian army for launching on guided grodd markets into populated areas and the rest of the group says the opposition controlled city of donetsk came under such missile attacks four times in mid july the group warns the grad rocket system cannot carry out precise attacks on the up their use in residential areas can be classified as a war crime human rights watch has appealed to both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weaponry as more lives are at risk one of the authors of the report says ukrainian military should not get away with killing innocent people. neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when needs these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk for civilians to be injured and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets we were able to by looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these r

human rights watch has accused the f.b.i. and the u.s. department of justice of creating terrorists out of law abiding citizens the group study found that the bureau sometimes went as far as funding potential terror acts encouraging people to commit them in many countries that would be considered entrapment but not in the u.s. report i expect. i'm in america's war on terror hundreds of american muslims have been arrested prosecuted and imprisoned for attempting to carry out terrorist attacks but according to a report released by human rights watch most of the high profile terrorist plots that were foiled by the f.b.i. were actually manufactured and orchestrated by the government to talk more about this human rights watch report on day one by one of the co-authors tarkus smile thank you very much for joining thanks it's a pleasure you guys found that the government was actually creating terrorists out of law abiding citizens house but we looked at twenty seven cases that we thought would give us a good idea of what's been going on since se

and as a fighting continues unabated human rights watch urges to stop using unguided rockets in densely populated residential areas saying it violates international law and could amount to a war crime. from moscow this is arch international thank you very much for chiming in you're with me . we start with breaking news israel has approved a twenty four hour extension of a cease fire in gaza which will now end at midnight on sunday local time from us however has rejected the proposal over one hundred bodies were recovered from the rubble during the low in fighting on saturday bringing the palestinian death toll to over a thousand let's get to the details now from a policy here in jerusalem who joins us live paula can you tell us more about the latest development including that last sees fire that just ended. well there is when security cabinet has agreed to a twenty four hour extension of those united nations humanitarian ceasefire that was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials also saying that they will however observe the cease fire if there are not any violations and t

well to you also spoke to the deputy director of the washington broad of human rights watch she says prosecutors use the fear of terrorism to sway juries. the informant might spend weeks or months developing a relationship with these people sometimes showing people inflammatory photos of violence perpetrated by americans and encouraging them to plan terrorist attacks and then the f.b.i. of course provides the means to commit the attacks pretty quickly they provide it weapons they have provided money to allow people to travel to locations to plan a terrorist attack so in some cases we've documented the f.b.i. essentially manufacturing the entire plot the prosecution then can admit evidence totally unrelated to the defendant but about terrorism in general and that inflames the jury the jury is scared of terrorism what we've seen is law enforcement targeting people at times based on ideas and thoughts and speech that should be protected by freedom of expression was. now remind of our breaking news this hour a military jet has reportedly been brought down in eastern ukraine and kiev mili

and as wanting continues unabated human rights watch are just you have to stop using unguided rockets in densely populated residential areas saying violates international law and could amount to a war crime. a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our to international live from moscow this evening. israel has approved a twenty four hour extension of a cease fire in gaza which will now ended midnight on sunday local time hamas however says it wants stop firing rockets across the border until israeli troops leave gaza over one hundred palestinian bodies were recovered from the rubble during the infighting on saturday bring in the gaza tel death toll to over a thousand is policia with the details. because when security cabinet has agreed to a twenty four hour extension of this united nations humanitarian cease fire that was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials are saying that they will however opposite of the cease fire if there are not any violations and that if in fact they are they reserve the right to act they're also saying that during this twent

human rights watch says the ukrainian military committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets plus. israel and hamas temporarily laid down twelve hour humanitarian truce in gaza. really just minutes before the polls began bringing the total palestinian death toll to around nine hundred and forty people. you're watching international we're coming to you live from moscow a british journalist graham phillips who's been reporting for us from eastern ukraine has been released by the country's security services he told us what happened when he went missing on wednesday. i mean poland i'm not even exactly sure i might just go to the border by this quite recently so i'm just kind of get my bearings way started by three days ago i went to film or at night you told me not to go in strong terms but i went anyway with the local journalists and we were taken by ukrainian soldiers and i was prepared to be the mark of front of me i saw him getting pretty severely beaten by soldiers on the ground his head in the ground just a young guy and they were punching and kicking him and then y

and human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes. very good morning to money kevin owen thanks for being with us i must just mention the masses resumed rocket fire into israel of projecting a proposal to prolong saturday's humanitarian truce the four hour extension offered by israel has now ended bringing a day long to speak to an end. these were recovered from the ruins during the pause there bringing the palestinian death toll to over a thousand but the catch up with our middle east correspondent paula slee a little bit later would still try to make a connection with the at the moment we hope to get to for the latest in a minute or two is time the time i spoke to a palestinian politician activist a stuff about good he told me that israel should be held responsible for forcing the peace efforts the fairest people who are asked for a cease fire with the palestinians and we asked the united nations security council to issue a cease fire. resolution it was israel that bloc

human rights watch says the ukrainian military could have committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets and. they put a gun to my head british reporter graham phillips gives r.t. a first hand account of his capture on interrogation by ukraine's security forces. are welcome along the international we're coming to you live from moscow where it's now three pm here in the russian caps and it's good to have you with us and our top story this hour more than a thousand palestinians are now thought to have been killed in the israeli offensive in gaza the spike in numbers is due to bodies being recovered after days of shelling a twelve hour humanitarian truce is in effect but none of the previous pauses in fighting have held the israeli army continue to pound gaza in the final minutes before the cease fire took effect on saturday morning medics a tank shelling killed nineteen members of one palestinian family right before the truce started the dead include ten children emergency crews had to pull bodies from the rubble and the family's house collapsed. it is. it's using the huma

. >> the accusations laid out before congress are grave: human rights watch says venezuela's government is using armed gangs against peaceful protestors. >> we found that security forces tolerated and sometimes collaborated directly with armed pro-government gangs that attacked protesters with total impunity. >> it's about the venezuelan people. >> for now, the state department is resisting sanctions. >> i think they would serve to reinforce the narrative of this being about the venezuelan government standing up to the united states. >> we tried speaking with the venezuelan government for this report. all of our requests were refused. >> outside the courthouse in downtown caracas, gerardo is waiting. he wouldn't tell us what the students have planned - but suddenly, it starts. they're chaining themselves together outside the court in protest at the thousands of detentions since the unrest began. >> the security guards have just come out from the court and they're trying to cut the chains. the protesters are trying to stop them. >> the students have been praised as national heroes by ven

and human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes. the masses rejected israel's proposal to prolong the humanitarian truce by four hours putting their fragile cease fire under threat the i.d.f. said three rockets were fired into israeli territory after the original deadline extended cif ceasefire was due to end in two hours time still if he's had been suspended to try to allow aid supplies in and recover the dead and wounded the number of deaths caused by israel's onslaught on garza's now reached a fiery milestone there are now more than a thousand victims the fig. leaped as bodies began being recovered from the rubble israel continued to batter gaza or until the very last moments before still ities were halted on saturday morning medics a tank fire killed nineteen members of a palestinian family just minutes before the truce started. and there are now fears that are still a tease will break out in the west bank which had been relatively calm in recent years in bethlehem

human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes. the number of palestinians killed in gaza reportedly climbs to over a thousand as more bodies are pulled from the rubble during a humanitarian truce which expires in five hours. international coming to you live from moscow. this graham phillips has been deported from ukraine and banned from entering the country for three years on the grounds that he's been working for me he's been held in captivity by the security services for three days after going missing while covering the conflict in the east his will graham told us after he was released. i mean poland i'm not even exactly sure i might just go through the border by this quite recently so i'm just kind of get my bearings way started i three days ago i went to film or at night you told me not to go in strong terms but i went anyway with the local journalists and we were taken by ukrainian soldiers and i was prepared to be the mark of front of me i saw him getting pretty

and human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crime. good morning my name is kevin zero in this is r.t. international it's just past midnight here in moscow now first some us has rejected israel's proposal to prolong a humanitarian truce spied for hours putting their fragile cease fire under threat that the group which controls gaza also confirmed it fired three rockets into israeli territory shortly after the original deadline extended ceasefire was due to end an hour's time. had been suspended to allow a. aid supplies to recover the dead and wounded the number of deaths caused by israel's own children gaza has now reached a howard milestone a little more than a thousand victims the figure led to search teams began retrieving bodies from the rubble israel continued about the gods or until the very last moment before still ities were halted on saturday morning medics a tank fire killed nineteen members of a palestinian family just minutes before the truce started and there a

human rights watch have to stop using unguided rockets which have already claimed near as innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes plus. the number of palestinians killed in gaza reporting climbs to over a thousand as more bodies are pulled from rubble journey humanitarian truce which expires in four hours. but i welcome along to international we're coming to you live from moscow. british journalist graham phillips has been deported from ukraine and banned from entering the country for three years on the grounds that he's been working for a he's been held in captivity by the security services for three days after going missing while covering the conflict in the east and we now have the chance to speak live to graham he joins us from poland graham it's good to see that you are alive and well our team lost contact with you earlier this week we had no communication for three days just tell us what happened. i was taken by the ukrainian military scare poor tuesday night there was held in captivity by them i was put in a room next to an artillery position that they were firing he

human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes. and the number of palestinians killed in gaza reportedly climbs to over a thousand more bodies are pulled from the rubble going to meditate truce which is due to expire just one hour from now. this is r.t. live from moscow a very good evening for me kevin i mean if you just joined us it's eight pm here now first and tonight british journalist graham phillips has been deported from ukraine and banned from entering the country for three years on the grounds that he's been working for us. he's been held in captivity by the security services for three days the last word we had heard from him was a message saying all was fine graham is now in poland he told us why he was unable to get in touch. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all is fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to you who is this pers

human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes and. israel agrees to extend the humanitarian truce with hamas in gaza for four more hours as of now as the number of palestinians killed climbs to over a thousand. kevin i would hear it out international headquarters in moscow tonight just after nine pm as it is now first british journalist graham phillips has been deported from ukraine and banned from entering the country again for three years on the ground that he's been working for us at r.t. he's been held in captivity by the security services for three days the last word we'd heard from him was a message saying that all was fine graham is now in poland he told us why he was unable to get in touch. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all these fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to you who is this person how do you know this person was

>> civilian homes are not being bombed. >> human rights watch is wrong in this report then? >> if human rights watch have credible evidence, they should put it on the table for it to be vetted. the israeli military has a long well-known record of monitoring and criticising itself, and up in syria we have allowed and agreed the media coming in. and have a look at what is going on, it's difficult. it's a tragic environment and the reason again why we didn't want to be in the conflict in the first place. it has the obligation to defend and protect the republic of israel. two dozen rockets have been launched, over 140 have been from the neighbourhood from the last couple of address. the second leg of the hamas military record. for days we begged the residents to move out. take refuge in other neighbourhoods. i don't think it's an easy situation. don't get me wrong. we are taking unprecedented steps and grieve the loss of life of civilians on both sides of the conflict. >> we'll have to leave it there. >> let's go back to stefanie dekker. she joins us lie from gaza. >> we had wor

civilians with an unguided grad rockets and that could amount to war crimes according to human rights watch which documented four missile attacks on the opposition held city of donetsk. and the group warns the grad system is not accurate enough to be used in populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weapon system if indeed they want to save civilian lives and the use of unguided rockets is also being labeled a violation of international treaties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should be called to account for killing civilians. neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it civil reading my wrist proceedings to be injured and killed and that's what we saw in the district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets you were able to buy in looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these

human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which already claimed new britain is and lives saying this could amount to war crimes and. then. mass reportedly fires three rockets at israel just minutes after televisa greed to extend the humanitarian truce until midnight local time the number of palestinians killed so far has now climbed to over a thousand. ten o'clock saturday night here in moscow kevin only with r.t. international thanks for watching us first the now is just mentioned british journalist graham phillips has been deported from ukraine and banned from entering the country for three years on the grounds that he's been working for r.t. he's been held in captivity by security services for three days the last word we had from him was a message saying he was fine grain is now in poland he told us why he was unable to get in touch. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all these fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to

human rights watch says the ukrainian military could have committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets and israel and hamas agreed to a twelve he manage terry introducing an airstrike on friday killed dozens bringing the total palestinian death toll to around. there is good to have you company with r.t. international. british journalist graeme phillips who's been reporting from for r.t. from eastern ukraine has been released by the country's security services he told us what happened when he went missing in the region on wednesday. i mean poland dumb or even exactly sure i might just go for the border by this quite recently so i'm just kind of get my bearings playstyle i die three days ago i went to film or at night you told me not to go in strong terms but i went anyway with a local journalist the dean and we were taken by ukrainian soldiers and i was prepared to be the mark of front of me i saw him getting pretty severely beaten by soldiers he was on the ground his head in the ground just a young guy and they were punching and kicking him and then you took him away a

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government a lengthy report released by human rights watch finds that nearly all of the highest profile domestic terrorism plots post nine eleven featured direct involvement by f.b.i. informants who recruit the targets and induce them into taking part in would be terrorist attacks now most of if not all of the targets are muslim the role that the f.b.i. informant or agent provocateur plays is that he sets up the plan he provides the weapons he encourages the target and even at times induces him or her by promising cash to carry out the would be attack now human rights watch focused primarily on twenty seven cases and found the following that the federal bureau of investigation may have created terrorists out of law abiding individuals by conducting sting operations that facilitated or invented the target's willingness to act in one case a judge said the government came up with the crime provided the means and removed all relevant obstacles the report also says that in aggressively pursuing terrorism threats before they even materialize u.s. law enforcement overstepped its role by effect

precise attacks and that they use in residential areas can be classified as a war crime human rights watch is appeal to both sides in the conflict to stop using this kind of weaponry as more lives are at risk and one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military shouldn't get away with killing innocent people . neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk receiving the answer the injured and killed and that's what we saw in the petrowski district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets you were able to buy in looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these rockets so if it's if the rocket hits the western wall of the building it's coming from the west by doing that we were being we were able to establish where the attacks were coming from in for attacks they were coming from areas under the control of the ukrainian army and the ukrai

if the group warns the grad system is too accurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the call for it to stop using this kind of weapon system if they want to save civilian lives or the use of unguided rockets is also being labeled a violation of other international treaties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should be called to account for killing civilians neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk facility in st anger and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets you were able to buy in looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these rockets so if it's if the rocket hits the western wall of the building it's coming from the west by doing that we were being we were able to establish where the attacks were coming from

in a new report, human rights watch and the american civil liberties union, warn that "large-scale surveillance is seriously hampering u.s.based journalists and lawyers in their work." the report is based on interviews with dozens of reporters and lawyers. this is ryan ross, chief investigative correspondent for abc news. feel sometimes feel, or i like we are operating like someone in the mafia. you have to go around with a bag of quarters, or that drug dealers, throw away the learner phones. these are steps to take to give trail.n electronic it makes journalists feel like we are criminals, like we are doing something wrong, and i do

were actually manufactured and orchestrated by the government to talk more about this human rights watch report on joined by one of the co-authors smile thank you very much for joining me you guys analyze and focus primarily on on twenty seven of the most high profile cases boiled by the f.b.i. you guys found that the government was actually creating terrorists out of law abiding citizens. but we looked at twenty seven cases that we thought would give us a good idea of what's been going on since september eleventh and the cases we looked at were made up of some sting operations as you say and we looked at other cases where overbroad material support laws were used to prosecute people for things that they said the f.b.i. was playing a major role instigating and often offering many of the tools that the individuals who were arrested and convicted needed in order to be successful. pulling through with the plot that the f.b.i. accused them we have a discrete and insular minority the american muslim community being targeted by the f.b.i. in a way that special everyone is under surveillance as