or let's bring in our panel jim warmington is on skype from abidjan ivory coast's is a researcher at the africa division of human rights watch also on skype from the cost senegal is a political analyst and founder of the watty think tank and in berlin is mark ericson deputy director of the foundation and author of justice in conflicts the effects of the international criminal court interventions on ending wars and building nice gentleman thank you all for being on inside story thank you for joining us jim warrington in abidjan the acquittal of law back both celebrated as we saw by his supporters but disappointment of course for the victims of the post-election violence of twenty ten twenty seven what implications for peace and justice in ivory coast. that's the question that everybody is asking here in abidjan but i just want to touch on on your point about victims and. as you sir in the reporting that preceded this conversation this debate there's no doubt that awful crimes were committed in could you aren't ready ten twenty eleven people alive in the streets women were raped people

or let's bring in our panel jim warmington is on skype from abidjan ivory coast's is a researcher at the africa division of human rights watch also on skype from the cost senegal is a political analyst and founder of the watty think tank and in berlin is mark care of sin deputy director of the foundation and author of justice in conflicts the effects of the international criminal court interventions on ending wars and building gentlemen thank you all for being on inside story thank you for joining us jim warrington in abidjan the acquittal of law back both celebrated as we saw by his supporters but disappointment of course for the victims of the post-election violence of twenty ten twenty seven what implications for peace and justice in ivory coast. that's the question that everybody is asking here in abidjan but i just want to touch on on your point about victims and. as you sir in the reporting that preceded this conversation this debate there's no doubt that awful crimes were committed in warranty ten twenty eleven people were alive in the streets women were raped people were kill

or let's bring in our panel jim warmington is on skype from abidjan ivory coast's is a researcher at the africa division of human rights watch also on skype from the cost senegal is a political analyst and founder of the watty think tank and in berlin is mark harris sin deputy director of the foundation and author of justice in conflicts the effects of the international criminal court interventions on ending wars and building nice gentleman thank you all for being on inside story thank you for joining us jim warrington in abidjan the acquittal of law back both celebrated as we saw by his supporters but disappointment of course for the victims of the post-election violence of twenty ten twenty seven what implications for peace and justice in ivory coast. i have asked the question that everybody is asking here in but i just want to touch on on your point about victims and. as you sir in the reporting that preceded this conversation this debate there's no doubt that awful crimes were committed in could you aren't and idea that when people were alive in the streets women were raped peopl

two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simona in a hotel room in the ivorian capital abidjan a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power after an election defeat to alison ouattara supporters known as the young patriots went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara three thousand people were killed in the four months long civil war now they're back on the streets in the popular neighborhood of a bad stronghold. the chance is finally free for the people of. this is a cause of celebration that part of this trial at the international committee of. the. judge's decision is a setback for prosecutors and thousands of victims of the civil war who continue to call for justice to no one under way. is free to violence will come back and it could get even worse might be another person will take power and create the same problems we don't want to see he will cut way from his crimes. still be considered a war criminal by some a hero to others. this in a country trying to move on from a violent past in sea

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a folk hero for the people of you put on a popular suburb of abidjan. like he does the breeze i'll go with me if you like that the i.c.c. has made him even more popular he is not a man of violence but a man of peace we need him to come back and it's to come back to the other man it's the only way this country can afford accused of crimes against humanity judges will rule over by bush requests to be acquitted and released after spending seven years in prison. he was picked up in two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife's money in a hotel room a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power to newly elected ouattara stoking divisions and calling for ivorians to throw out foreigners was air force lead by example bombing a french military base killing several soldiers from the former colonial ruler quickly intervened in support of ouattara but was supporters known as the young patriots went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara in four months three thousand were ki

or in certain areas or abidjan where very resigned and that maybe they could again be targeted as it was the case during the process. in fact two thousand and eleven three thousand died and tens of thousands who were displaced when law refused to hand over power in a contested presidential election in two thousand and ten. promises made by the government for reconciliation have largely been left unfulfilled victims and survivors of the crisis are still waiting for compensation and justice. it is. many ivorians say that as long as bug bo has not returned home there can be no reconciliation he is the one that will bring the reconsolidation. i ask when he will return to ivory coast since. i don't know when he will return back to the motherland soon but i don't think he knows himself when he will return home. while many may fear return. for his supporters the party has just begun nicholas hawke al-jazeera beach on. there's just a month to go until nigerians go to the polls at least ninety one political parties have registered and more than seventy have put forward presidential candidates

two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simona in a hotel room in the ivorian capital abidjan a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power after an election defeat to alison ouattara supporters known as the young patriots went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara three thousand people were killed in the four months long civil war now they're back on the streets in the popular neighborhood of a bad stronghold. the chance is finally free for the people of. this is the cause of celebration that part of this trial at the international committee of. the. judge's decision is a setback for prosecutors and thousands of victims of the civil war who continue to call for justice to no one under way it. is free to violence will come back and it could get even worse might be another person will take power and create the same problems we don't want to see he will cut way from his crimes. still be considered a war criminal by some a hero to others. this in a country trying to move on from a violent past i

a victory for his supporters especially in this neighborhood over to control a popular suburb of abidjan at least song at the international criminal court itself and of course. the charlotte beleaguered a vibrant right now and man hugging. a bug both really and at the same time here in the song the same ultra right i'm seen when painting on the screen for the an encore of a joint here on the streets of youthful why well because despite being held at the international criminal court for crimes against humanity he remains a popular figure of the opposition here in an ivory coast but there are the eighty thousand victims. of the civil war and of this contested election of two thousand and eleven we still want to see justice for some of the banks that by boat has been freed from the i.c.c. rightly cleared from detention is a move forward to reconsider the ation but for others it's a blow towards. to certain type of justice that people here are seeking the countdown is on in the u.k. to a vote on teresa mayes deal to leave the european union prime minister is warning politicians to back the a

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a folk hero for the people of you put on a popular suburb of abidjan. like he does the reason i will go with me if you like that the i.c.c. has made be even more popular he is not a man of dollars but a man of peace we need him to come back and it's to come back to the other man it's the only way this country can afford accused of crimes against humanity as judges will rule over by bush requests to be acquitted in released after spending seven years in prison. he was picked up in two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simone in a hotel room a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power to newly elected ouattara stoking divisions and calling for ivorians to throw out foreigners was air force lead by example bombing a french military base killing several soldiers france the former colonial ruler quickly intervened in support of ouattara but was supporters known as the young patriots went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara in four months three thousand were

in abidjan i think is what geoffrey nice is a law professor at gresham college and a form i.c.c. prosecutor joins us via skype now from the hague thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of this decision that. i thought i was in the prosecutor the as he was at the us our tribe you know where i prosecuted not which this is a and an interesting and another disturbing decision so rare that has ever stayed a little what it ever could be released unconditionally after a long period of time in custody it's a decision that is split two to one which has consequences to which our will turn but the first thing that we all ought to recognize is that you set up legal systems with apparently experienced knowledgeable judges who should be able to reach decisions and then you have majority decisions which leave things in effect on resolved after seven years of custody and a couple of years of evidence and what sort of confidence does that give the ordinary member of the public and in particular victims of confidence in the international judicial system and the answer must be not v

accountability for these types of crimes again i think particularly from from from government actors jim in abidjan there are many countries especially in africa who tend to the i.c.c. because they are unable to bring prosecutions themselves how does the i.c.c. become more effective how does it become more effective if it wants to be taken seriously. why the to such on your first point and could you why had a very strong national justice process to address the crimes of the two thousand and eleven crisis with tar as you said he repeatedly promised that he would deliver justice will science he set up a special tasca force of judges to investigate and they actually managed to challenge some greedy high level come on isn't officials both on the back those items which are a sign that it's a huge step forward but i think it could you obviously what we should ask ourselves is why you haven't been able to build as human rights groups obviously you'll say because it is a horror and that groups and i'm worried victims why we haven't been able to build a border coalition for justice to show that justice is a

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points from abidjan the. supporters of former i rico sleeves are long gone by both celebrated as news of his acquittal spread across the country. the international criminal court ordered his immediate release will do. better but it is a moment of incredible joy we feel like we all have been freed he is our leader our president a man of peace. eighty witnesses gave evidence thousands of documents were produced but after seven years in prison the judges say the prosecution failed to prove that by going codefendant charles bleakly they were guilty of crimes against humanity including murder rape and persecution for all these reasons the chamber by majority here by decides. that the prosecutor has failed to satisfy the burden of proof to the requisite standard as for seen in article sixty six of the rome statute grants the defense motions for acquittal from all charges against mr bloomberg and mr childs legal. orders he made it release of both accused bush went to article eighty one through no. please. can you th

meantime i reproach is holding its breath al-jazeera is nicholas haq following the story for us from abidjan thank you nic several people have been killed in zimbabwe during protests against the doubling of fuel prices another two hundred people were arrested during the first of a planned three day antigovernment strike on monday there have been days of marches in cities across the country confirmation hearings for president donald trump's nominee for attorney general should begin in the coming hours william bars proceedings are expected to be dominated by questions about the miller investigation and the potential link between the trump campaign and russia alan fischer reports. he's the man donald trump wants to run the department of justice respected by republicans as respected by democrats he will be nominated for the united states attorney general. hopefully that process will go very quickly bill boehner has already been attorney general he served for two years during the george h.w. bush administration in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it's the attorney general's responsibility to

media driven east of both accused let's go live now to nicholas hatcheries standing by for us in abidjan nic what kind of reaction we seeing on the streets that. by i think you can see right behind me i mean people are streaming being out to their work place to own to the streets just a moment ago that the crowd behind me were chanting. free free victory for his supporters especially in this they prefer to be. a popular stop or . we thought at the international criminal court itself or. bleakley de facto is right now a man hugging. a bug really and at the same time you hear you know. i mean one thing being on the streets really you know more of a joy here on the streets of you people why well because just by being held at the international criminal court for crimes against humanity he really ocular figure of the opposition here and i recall notably. the liberation of his white human backbone that happened just a few months ago she was being held on charges of crimes against humanity here it accords in ivory coast and was released and she and the announcement made that very thing that her

to his supporters the party has just begun nicholas hawke al-jazeera abidjan to grace our prime minister and the press has survived a confidence motion by just one vote suppressed call the vote after his government lost its pot of entering majority on sunday when his main coalition partner walked out as the result of a controversial deal to rename going since may but macedonia northern macedonia and an attempt to resolve the twenty seven year dispute between the two nations and now a victory should pave the way for going to ratify the name changed johnson awful us has moved from athens. the government has survived to this those who have confidence by rebuilding its majority in parliament by attracting six employees that it needed to get fifty percent plus one vote so it's a razor thin majority but it is a constitutional majority of the opposition accuses it of creating a majority of convenience in order to remain in power rather than one based on conviction the government says that it wants to remain in power for the last few months in office until october in order to pass a series of le

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two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simona in a hotel room in the ivorian capital abidjan a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power after an election defeat to alison ouattara supporters known as the young patriots went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara three thousand people were killed in the four months long civil war now they're back on the streets in the popular neighborhood of ukraine a backdoor stronghold. the chance is finally free for the people of. this is a cause of celebration that was this royal at the international committee of. the. the court has come under criticism for targeting african leaders more than others the last one was good. joy it's joy because justice has been reestablished these men have no reason to end up at the i.c.c. it was a great injustice against them it was cruel today the three judges have the courage to reinstate the truth the truth has been restored and i'm joyful that. the judge's decision is a setback for prosecutors and thousands of victim

candidates including the incumbent president who is seeking a second term nicolas hark reports from abidjan. the announcement made by the constitutional court stun many and came early it came in the form of an a four piece of paper plastered outside the courts listing those illegible to run for the upcoming presidential election missing on that list are the popular mayor dick park police and the opposition figure karim wadded from your wallet is currently in exile in qatar he served a prison sentence on corruption charges but then was pardoned by the president now the reason given for him being dismissed from this list by the constitutional court is that he is not a registered voter and as such cannot be registered someone wanting to run as well is her. he is not a listed because he is serving time in prison on corruption charges now that paves the way for present myself to run a second term with no real opposition figure except one sound go an outsider was popular in social media amnesty international has criticized this government in the ruling party clamping down on the opposition but ce

older even adriel ease of both accused and brings us more now from ivory coast capital abidjan where the victims of the the atrocities and the torture and the killing of the two thousand and ten if you count unleavened contested election they do not want to see them back go back into the country they say that justice has not been served but if you speak to the supporters of laurent background there are many in this country is in this neighborhood in particular where i sound neighborhood a public neighborhood if you provoke a folk hero or a hero. if you judge but what we've seen this morning after the announcement of the judge where we saw people working on the street screaming isn't a damn thing it is celebration continues right here right now and then he threw out a different point of the capital he would have a hero's welcome back to the country tomorrow. turkey's president says his troops will establish a thirty two kilometer safe zone in northern syria russia type. just tickle and financial assistance from the united states to establish the area after discussing it with president

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anger in abidjan after be i.c.c. rejects an appeal against the former ivorian president shah ecuador. he will pursue relentlessly. wherever they will be until they are still. to come. kenya's president vows to bring to justice attackers who killed fourteen people at an eye robey hotel and find out who came on top in south korea and china met to decide top spot in the asian cup to group c. that's coming up a little later in sport with me. but first the international criminal court will release former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo after rejecting a prosecution bid to extend his detention the court in the netherlands ruled by a bow is free to go a day after his shock acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity they related to post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed the prosecution had planned to appear on that i should butler is joining us from the hague to tell us about the reaction when it was announced that bagwell would be released. as i will when the judge period

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seven candidates including the incumbent president who is seeking a second term has more now from abidjan. the announcement made by the constitutional court stunned many and came early it came in the form of an a four piece of paper plastered outside the courts listing those illegible to run for the upcoming presidential election missing on that list are the popular mayor of deckard khalifa saul and the opposition figure karim wadded from your wallet is currently in exile in qatar he served a prison sentence on corruption charges but then was pardoned by the president now the reason given for him being dismissed from this list by the constitutional court is that he is not a registered voter and as such cannot be registered and someone wanting to run as well is courier. he is not a listed because he is serving time in prison on corruption charges now that paves the way for president monkey cell to run a second term with no real opposition figure except one sound go an outsider was popular in social media amnesty international has criticized this government in the ruling party clamping down

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even release of both accused or let's go live now to nicholas hawk who is in the ivory coast capital abidjan nicholas just how is it how likely is it you know whole rather how how prepared is ivory coast for the return of. well how is that it depends when you speak to you because for the victims of. the atrocities and the torture and the killing of the two thousand and eight two thousand and eleven contested election they do not want to see long back go back into the country they say that justice has not been served but if you speak to the supporters of law wrong by going there are many in this country is in this neighborhood in particular where i sound the neighborhood the popular neighborhood if you don't know here are a hero. if you judge but what we've seen this morning after the announcement of the judge where we saw people already on the street screaming isn't a damn thing in the celebration continues right here where i stand and different points of the capital he would have a hero's welcome back to the country tomorrow now that's not for them to decide that for the prosecution and the

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