but when you lock at the definition of what he's calling amnesty, it's not amnesty as everybody elsehe world knows it. he's basically just reducing punishment, instead of the death penalty, you get a life sent tense at a labor camp. does anybody in syria believe that when he's offering amnesty? >> first of all, our prisoners are not criminals and we refuse to use the word "amnesty." we are not criminals to have amnesty from anybody. the regime, who should ask for amnesty from its own people for the crimes its committed against them during the last two months, this is from one side. from another side, yes, they might release some prisoners just because of all the pressure now on the regime from the street and the international society. but tomorrow they will arrest more people. so it means nothing if they will continue to arrest more people. >> razan, stay strong. thank you for being us. >> thank you, bye-bye. >> her husband was taken by security forces weeks ago and she's had no word of him since. >>> a lot more happening tonight. isha sesay joins was a "360" bulletin. >>> the pentag

most people don't believe that this amnesty will happen at all. been passed that's coming out on state media at the moment, you'll see no prisoners are getting pardoned, various people who have been convicted maybe have the death sentence, instead of the death sentence, they'll get a life of hard labor. also, this probably won't apply to the 10,000 or so reported protesters who have been arrested and have basically disappeared here because they haven't actually been convicted yet of a crime. >> and presumably those ordinary protesters would have to admit to be belonging to a party that they may not be a member of in order to be freed. >> right. exactly. and also, many of them would have been arrested as criminals and this applies to political prisoners only. >> and the muslim brotherhood is still banned? >> yes. the muslim brotherhood is still banned here. i think the reason the muslim brotherhood was put into this law was because the president is saying he's giving confessions to various political parties, maybe trying to apiece the rural conserv

so i think someone doesn't really know what the word amnesty means. slow down there, rainbow bright, that's going to leave your re-election chances vulnerable to being soft on crime. i guess to assad sam nest ash-- add nesty is just the return address on all the junk mail he throws out. i think i hear from the audience we got time for one more spin. (cheers and applause) help, help, help, oh, why, stop, i'm starting to feel good, oh, never mind,out,out,out why, why, help, help, help, oh, god,out,out oh!, oh! >> indecision. games of chance, what are you going to do? rep cans running for that party's continue to try tos we are well anthony wheep enary control of the news cycle. some candidates are making the case for straight talk. >> i'm willing to tell americans the hard truth. i went to iowa and said we need to face out federal ethanol subsidies. i went to florida and said we need to raise the retirement age for the next generation. i went to new york city and told wall street that the era of bailouts, carveouts and handouts had to end. >> jon: i wen

tuesday, he announced a general amnesty for the opposition. but the protesters on the streets have heard these promises before. it will continue to take to the streets and secretly up load videos in the hopes that eventually all syrians will change their view of the regime. >> i am joined by a journalist who has lived in syria. christine, thank you for joining us. bouar the group's -- who are the group's meeting right now and how close are they to the events on the ground in syria? >> it is a broad spectrum of the opposition, the muslim brotherhood, secular figures. the problem is most of them, almost everybody there, lives in exile, which means that have left the country some years ago, some decades ago. this is the problem. they're trying to benefit the protest movement on the ground, and they are trying to be people that the international community could talk to. the opposition figures and side of syria say they do not want foreign interference, meaning even if they a finance conference. this is the biggest challenge for them, how to intera

. >> explicit amnesty. >> a way of saying amnesty. >> amnesty of up to two million people. >> payingce far crime you've committed isn't amnesty. >> jon: but illegal immigrants are still committing a crime. >> or is it entrapment? america the beautiful, purple mountains majesty? this place has got it all. mexicans can see las vegas from their casas, jon. hmm, what am i going to do? i can get beheaded on this side of a border for driving down a street controlled by some scarface wannabe, or i can go over to the shiny place where big boob blonde girls in dolphin shorts serve me cocktails while i play blackjack. hit me. >> jon: i guess we make it kind of hard not to come here. >> you're getting something out of it, too. >> jon: like a cheap labor force? >> and self-esteem. undocumented workers aren't just taking the jobs you don't want to do, they're taking the stair types you don't want to be called, like lazy. >> jon: al, everybody calls americans lazy. >> yeah, but the good kind of lazy, rich lazy, spread out on a leather couch watching "the price is right" while the roomba vacuums yo

most people do not believe this amnesty will happen at all. if you look at the law that has been passed and that is coming out on state media at the moment, no prisoners are getting pardoned. various people who have been convicted will have live with hard labor instead of the death sentence. this will not apply to the reported protesters who have been arrested and who have basically disappeared here because they have not been convicted yet of the crime. >> those ordinary protesters would have to admit to belonging to a party they may not be a member of in order to be freed. >> exactly. many of them would have been arrested as criminals, and this applies to political prisoners only. >> and the muslim brotherhood is still banned. >> yes. the muslim brotherhood is still banned here. i think the reason it was put into this law is because the president is trying to say he is giving concessions to various other political parties, may be trying to appease row conservatives here. -- royal conservatives. >> it now appears they are simply protesting --

the fact is that it is the most comprehensive amnesty in 23 years. i believe a similar one was given in 1988. nevertheless, it should be more comprehensive. we do not usually address names but criteria, like things to give amnesty to all except for drugs, terrorism, weapons, issues of public morality, etc. in spite of this, and based from what i have heard, i received information from people i did not meet. i will have a steady in order to make the amnesty more productive. we wanted agreed to include all of the others without undermining state security interests. and the one hand the rights of private individuals like those whose relatives were killed by the other. the second component consists about laws and those who are wanted barberries criminal cases who were found in the state's institutions as our enemy and our targets because they propose an obstacle to their interests and they are caught by the state institutions. for those, the golden opportunity should be taken in order to ensure they remain free in their liberty activities. it is only nat

mostly exiles rejected dialogue and amnesty. the security forces have continued their violent suppression. >> from a distance, the unmistakable sound of gunfire and shelling can be heard. reports say more than 15 people were killed on thursday, around 50 killed since the military operation began last week. now the fighting has provoked a response from the exiled assyria opposition. a range of ethnic and religious groups gathered in turkey with a clear message. >> as we are offering him to resign immediately. as well as authorities so that the syrian people within a year can prepare themselves for a democratic process. if not, we will support the revolution in order to force him to leave syria and. >> and the meeting was the first of its kind since the anti- government uprising began in march. there rejected the offer of amnesty but said they were not a government in exile. >> we have taken an of. everyone of us, >> despite growing pressure from washington and elsewhere, the regime is showing few signs of stepping aside. more tha

for that and what she did was she spent three months investigating these claims so far night that amnesty international no human rights watch every investigated gleams the west has conducted a systematic killing of civilians so you know what i would say is that i was the pm she is making a significant and the need to be investigated and i frankly don't understand how the great organizations like amnesty and human rights watch spent a lot of their resources investigating walk by the other side but that's why it's. a comprehensive report about war crimes from me to and from the united states and much the same goes to the campos office at the hague. will use this fact team that's why i was being given the creeps a claim though completely you know at least from amnesty international opinion that has been debunked even by ok nothing about need to a crime all right certainly a lot of things to talk about here i'm sure we can go on around the time we did respond director of international studies at trinity college and we're out of time here for more on the stories we covered.

well i would say that you know done a filler of the amnesty international spent three months investigating claims that the good athlete or g.m. was using quagga with its troops and she came back and said that is absolutely untrue there is no evidence for that but what she did was she spent three months investigating these claims so far night international noise human rights watch i mean best to do to chremes the west has conducted a systematic killing of civilians so you know what i would say is that i was she is making a significant and we need to be investigated and i frankly don't understand how the great organizations like amnesty and human rights watch spent a lot of their resources investigating walk by the other side but that's what i see is different by the comprehensive report about the war crimes from the need to look and found the united states and much the same goes to the campos office at the hague you know what temple used as fact ladder was being given to the troops a claim though completely you know at least from amnesty international a claim that is being bugged me was ok

because it's not exactly an amnesty in many cases.o have been detained for belonging to, say, banned political movements such as his muslim brother hood. >> so do you know what the next steps are to expand that kind of -- that kind of potential amnesty? >> well, these are offers of reforms. again, coming from a set of contradictory messages from the government. an offer of reform on the one hand. but then crackdowns.

the amnesty, so called amnesty. is that meaningful at all? to whom is he appealing? >> the regime, the ruler can both grant life and he can also kill. so this is him showing the syrian people, i master of your universe. remember, there were only 6 million syrians when the father was president. now there are 22 million syrians. 16 million people have known no other president than them. so the message is we have the power to grant pardon and we have the power to kill children. >> and the capacity seems unabated, unlimited by moral dictate. the images of children marching in the street. and we have no idea how widespread that might be. does that crystallize -- does that happen in assad where fear is the dominant emotion? >> i think people are not afraid. and he's wondering, why aren't you afraid of me as your elders were afraid of my father? i think the barrier of fear has been broken. and you have a standoff between the regime that cannot be overthrown yet and a population that can't be sent back to their homes and back to the fear. >> so does this stalemate of brutali

there will not be an amnesty bill in the next two years. but even if you're going to have a small amnesty, we should at least do it by way of chain migration. it is our top priority to do away with chain migration. families should not bring in extended families traditionally bring in -- extended families. they should only bring in small children and the immediate family. our feeling is, and certainly the jordan commission cozy feeling is that concerns about race and ethnicity and -- the jordan commissions feeling is that concerns race and ethnicity, we do not think that should be in policy. there are people on both sides of this debate that think it should be. we do not think so. that is a result that happens, but basically, we should have a color blind and national-origin blind system, we think. host: if we cut the population of the u.s. in half, one person tweeds, -- guest: first of all, there are 7 million illegal aliens holding construction and transportation jobs. this is not agriculture. we have 22 million americans who want a full-ti

amnesty international is selling countries that he is visiting to arrest him, right?indeed the case. the president is due to be in malaysia. they must either arrest al bashir or prevent him from entering the country. >> does that help the situation? sudan is already facing so many obstacles right now. do you think throwing that into the mix would help. >> he is wanted for genocide, crimes communitied against humanity. similar crimes or perhaps of a similar magnitude are being committed in south sudan committed during the civil war. we have a situation where people are being shot and killed, women and children are being internally displaced. our population is 60,000. 53,000 displaced is unacceptable. it has to stop. >> and the ethiopian troops are suggested to come in and control the border between north and south. do you think that's a good solution? >> it is a solution. because at the end of the day what is important is civilians must be protected. and forces will be able to under take that. but the sudanese government must stop using force. they continue to do with.

muslim brotherhood amnesty was declared as the u.s. state hillary clinton strongly condemned the country after the port security forces to treatment killed. she also said the recent violence symbolizes the total collapse in the effort by the syrian government to work with its people. japan underestimated the risk of a tsunami or a nuclear power plant and much continue in safety inspectors the country fail to plan for a wave that would overrun the great water plant despite multiple food costs such a risk was like a nuclear experts visiting the country to highlight weaknesses contributed to the worst disaster since john noble japan there's also been a rise to closely monitor the health of workers and the public. five men accused of plotting the nine eleven attacks are facing fresh conspiracy and murder charges. he was the self-proclaimed mastermind of the trustees. five has previously been charged at the guantanamo bay detention center they were set aside one person to bomb unsuccessfully try to move the case to civilian court prosecutor

you know the time that ronald reagan did his his amnesty for three million people we had about a half million people come north into the united states every year for the basically the crop picking season and then they go back down south and you know just continue that way and it's been it's been basically reagan did the amnesty and then stopped in force in the laws against employers president obama has done more about illegal immigration than any president in recent history more troops on the border or deportations but one thing he hasn't done and what reagan didn't do and what no president has done is put rich c.e.o.'s in jail so he got his magnet for you make good plans and you know why not why are we going after human beings why are you so so worried about somebody's going to get money out of them. women and infants and children program when we show you we should be we should be as a stead saying that that this is it is wrong you know being a meat packer used to be a career in the united states the union built the green bay packers football team now you the meat packers union the c

the fact is it is the most comprehensive amnesty and 23 years.ieve a similar one web was given in 1988. we do not usually address names. we put criteria like say we give amnesty to all except drugs, terrorism, weapons and issues of poor -- public morality ephedra. instead sight of this and they someone i heard from a number of people and information i receive from people i did not meet i will ask the justice to conduct the margins we can use in order to make this amnesty more comprehensive. even in the future decade, pardon me, decree which includes all the other without undermining state security and interests. on the one hand on the rights of private individuals like those relatives whose relatives were killed. the second component consists of outlaws and those who are wanted for various criminal cases who found in the state institutions and our enemy and the target because it poses an obstacle to their legitimate interest in because they are sought by state institutions. for those opportunities should be grasped in order to maintain a remain f

well i would say that you know done it a little bit of the amnesty international spent three months investigating. the fusion was reading. with it straight and she came back and said that is absolutely untrue there is no evidence but it is what she did was she spent three months investigating this claim shows. international law human rights watch i remember speed. it seems that the west has conducted this is dramatic killing of civilians so you know what i would say is that was the claim she is making a significant and the need to be investigated and i frankly don't understand how the great organizations like amnesty and human rights watch spend a lot of their resources investigating walker and by the other side but that's what i see is different but the comprehensive report about what crimes from me to and from the united states and much the same goes to the campos office at the hague book.

. >> syria oppose the president has declared amnesty for political prisoners serve -- political prisoners. they show the latest demonstrations. activists have dismissed it as too little too late. it is a major legal setback for the russian oil tycoon. it is an unexpected victory. he was jailed back in 2005 on tax evasion. >> he is behind bars. in 2003, the zero oil billionaire was arrested and went on trial and was found guilty. many of observed the the kremlin not targeted him because of his political activities. they believe they wanted to neutralize a potential presidential rival. his company was broken up have sold off by the state. it is a symbol of the ruthless hold on power. and i see him as the most famous victim of the authoritarian regime. he refuses to maintain his innocence. they say he violent -- he violated his rights. >> russian police have accused a man. the suspect was arrested at his parents' house in chechnya according to his lawyer. he has been on the run for several years. she has been an outspoken critic against insurgents. we're going to switch gears. my colleague a

amnesty international says violence is still used against protesters.egyptian woman played a part in this springs protests. but they were not consulted on constitutional reforms. in syria and lyibya, thousands have been killed. in bahrain the regime has taken back control. shia majority protests have been put down, violently. >> the former tunisian regime regularly rounded up democracy activists. most disappeared in jails. the most articulate activists were subject to torture and executn. since tunisia and that harry g. have their jasmine revolution, there has been an improvement in human rights. but the same people who profited from the police state remained in their jobs. this keeps in asia from moving forward in their quest for more democracy. >> this has a collection of books on dictatorship, democracy, and human rights. these were unabvailable before the revolution. the book she is looking at is "the fall of the dictator." bin-ali with a hitler m ustache. she has been persecuted and nairlrrowly survived two murder attempts. this bookshop ois a voca

he also hopes toreate a committee to study constitutional reform and possibly granting amnesty to political prisoners. there have been growing anti-government rallies in syria. some 1400 syrians are believed to have died as the government has used tarnnks and armed helicopters to suppress the unrest. more than 10,000 have escaped to neighboring turkey. the u.n. security council is working on a draft resolution criticizing syria in response to increasing international pressure. >>> the united nations says the number of people forced to flee their homes to escape war or oppression has risen to its highest level in 15 years. they released the latest report on june 20th to coincide with world refugee day. the u.n. report says 43.7 million people were displaced worldwide in 2010. that's an increase of 400,000 from a year earlier. it includes 15.4 million who fled their home countries, and it found that afghanistan accounted for the largest number of refugees. 3 million people have left the country as the taliban gains strength and security conditions deteriorate. 1.68 million people escaped from

that salah step down after he repeatedly reject eed deals to leave office peacefully in exchange for amnesty. now they're forcing him to leave, through protests, or it seems, by killing him. and brian, yemen isn't the only country boiling over. in syria, protesters are continuing to grow. in part, motivated by the death and apparent torture of a 13-year-old boy. a video, a very gruesome video of his body has been widely circulated online today. there were more demonstrations in syria, and according to witnesses, at least 30 people were killed when security forces opened fire. today, the syrian government shut down most mobile phones and internet service in the country. >> yemen and syria, two countries by the way, we western jou journalists can't get in to cover. what about where you are and where gadhafi is hanging on. >> after months, we're seeing signs of progress. they're advancing toward the capital of tripoli. and many night there are clashes on the outskirts of tripoli. the economic sanctions are having an impact here. c it could take days fill up your car. the banks areabout giving o

there will not be an amnesty bill in the next two years. but even if you're going to have a small amnesty, we should at least do it by way of chain migration. it is our top priority to do away with chain migration. families should not bring in extended families traditionally bring in -- extended families. they should only bring in small children and the immediate family. our feeling is, and certainly the jordan commission cozy feeling is that concerns about race and ethnicity and -- the jordan commissions feeling is that concerns race and ethnicity, we do not think that should be in policy. there are people on both sides of this debate that think it should be. we do not think so. that is a result that happens, but basically, we should have a color blind and national-origin blind system, we think. host: if we cut the population of the u.s. in half, one person tweeds, -- guest: first of all, there are 7 million illegal aliens holding construction and transportation jobs. this is not agriculture. we have 22 million americans who want a full-ti

they just give it for money. >> amnesty international says that syrian soldiers are being told to fire on unarmed protesters. we've certainly seen this in video after video. but they have actually interviewed most recently one syrian soldier who was able to escape who refused to fire on civilians. are there many soldiers who are refusing to fire? >> everywhere, every city, dozens of soldiers refuse to participate in attacking the cities and injuring the people as a result, they were killed. until now we have about 300 names of soldiers got killed because of that. >> have you heard any word from your husband who was arrested and has disappeared? >> no, eheard nothing about him. i just heard some rumors that he got tortured very badly, and he is in very bad situation. i don't know if it's just messages by the authority for me to put more pressure on me. i really don't know. >> how are you able to keep going? how are you able to stay strong and optimistic? >> i see the freedom very close. i can't wait to see it really and to feel it really. we just continue, just go on until we reach ther

. >> president assad has said that they're going to grant amnesty to protesters.d about yesterday, his definition of amnesty, people who got the death penalty, maybe they'll be reduced to life at hard labor. but human rights groups says 500 political prisoners have been released. have you gotten any word from your husband? has he been released? >> no, not my husband, and also none of my friends who are in detention right now. none of them have been released yet until this moment. and i just want to tell you how it's painful for thousands of families who are waiting to be released now. they don't know if they will be released or not. >> what keeps you going? you're in hiding, you're at risk of being arrested at any moment. what keeps you going? >> we have a dream. we want all of this to end. it's our moment, and we will continue until the end no matter how we suffer now, because what we are suffering now we have been suffering for decades now. but now the difference is this moment all syrians are saying it's enough. all syrians want this to end. >> razan zaytouni,

that was when amnesty international, they reported that a manhunt -- i am quoting now from amnesty international. what i said right here from this podium that a -- quote -- "manhunt was launched against gbagbo loyalists in abidjan and several senior officials close to him were beaten in the hours after his arrest." that was two weeks ago. i'm further quoting now from the amnesty international. "in the west of the country, thousands of people fled their homes, and many are still living in the forests, too frightened to return." locket this. this is the burn, charred bodies of people who have been tortured to death. it just happened. it's going on today right now. there's a man who is severely beaten. he died right after that. a little small child was put to death in the same way. there they are in the middle of excuses. that's going on now. and gaton mutu said "human rights violations are still being committed against real and perceived supporters of lawyerent gbagbo, alassane with a tear rase failure to condemn these could be seen as a green light to continue. quattara must be publicly state tha

dena al mamoun is the spokesman for amnesty international and joins us now.nk you very much for joining us. with the president in saudi arabia recuperating and the interim leader, a vice president in place, there's a lot of concern of a power vacuum in the country. we've got tribal leaders, tribal groups saying they want some element of parallel, at least trying to bring down or calm the violence protests taking place right now. there's a massive power vacuum. when you look at problems like al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> but however we have seen that since at least friday, there's been a marked reduction of violence against protesters. so we haven't actually seen any protesters being fired at, the way that we have been seeing since february of this year. what we have been seeing is armed clashes between what is said to be government forces allied to the president, and tribal, tribal leaders who are trying to vacate some of the areas where the security forces have taken power. so that is the, at the moment actually, we have seen this reduction in the vi

and the politicians, they say their hands are tied due to the amnesty law of 1978. spain's conservatives are especially hesitant to start digging up the past. >> the government didn't exist back when all that happened, which is why it doesn't have the authority to reclaim the property today. >> but tata's left-winning mayor sees things differently. he's been fighting to have the property returned to the people. >> i'm sure those who gave it to the dictator back then, assuming that the accept it was a gift, i'm sure they didn't want to give it to his grandchildren. they gave it to franco as the head of the state he was then but you can't hand down something like this. there isn't a comparable case in all the democracies of europe. >> spain is reluctant to come to terms with its fascist past. juan and carlos babio's family almost never talk about it. the mother and grandmother suffered greatly under the dictatorship. the two brototrs think it's high time for the property to be nationalized and it seems the only way to do that is to ex-procreate the property and pay th

uncomfortable doing this, but what's so nice about your interviews is they provide context but not amnestyve this incredible ability to bring out the layers of a story, but not to excuse anything elsement and you may just nod if you want. [laughter and applause] i really appreciate it. so what's your... when you approach an interview, what's your... what's your preparation like? >> well, first my folks and i try to figure out the difference between the important and the immediate because the immediate is not always the most important. and who can speak to what we think is important? we do a lot of research, a lot of reading, a lot of talking and all of that. you know... [laughter] >> jon: i'm going to put star by that. >> i don't think you told your friends here about the first interview. because i'm a pretty good choice. the first interview in this book is who but you and i having a i>m9ythat's first one. >> jon: that's what drew my eye to the book. [laughter] >> well, we started not necessarily with the smartest, but with the most... >> jon: thank you. thank you. [audience reacts] he's r

my name is james patrick carroll, representing amnesty international. i'm also a democratic candidate seeking the mayoral position in november. i very much appreciated ms. lee's comments. i share her concerns for sanitation and cleanliness in the city. supervisor newsom, in his seven-year tenure as mayor did nothing to clean the feces and urine which still exist in the tenderloin. he was handed 31 businesses and ended up costing the city over $300 million in total. i'm also concerned are about the $40 million in cuts, which are proposed to the substance dependent adults programs in the city, as well as the services, which are now in place for marginally-housed adults. these programs have saved the city tremendous amounts in human will capital as well as in dollars and cents. a human being who is housed has a five times less chance -- lesser chance of making a police contact. a human being is -- >> thank you very much. thank you very much. >> -- has five times lesser chance of going into an emergency room. it's saving the city a great deal of money. i wo

most recently he declared an amnesty for anyone who has committed any crime up until may 31st.owever, ended up not really being an amnesty in the sense of a general pardon, although we did see hundreds of prisoners the majority of them really only had their sentence reduced. when it comes to the demonstration, the government continues to say that there are people that carry weapons and, yet, we have not seen any sort of concrete evidence of this. we cannot independently verify any accounts who think the government is still not allowing this from syria and also yesterday's demonstrations, for example, were dubbed demonstrations for the freedom of children. they were in honor of the dozens of children that activists say have been killed, especially the case of 13-year-old who was horrifically mutilated and the images on youtube came a battle cry for the opposition and that is evidence is the opposition says that they are not armed. that there are children out there on the streets. the regime is independently even targeting children. and, so, you do have the regime saying that it'

. >> assad promised to look into broadening amnesty for his political opponents. he also announced that parliamentary elections originally scheduled for last month will now be held in august. president asssad's supporters were jubilant, but soon after, rallies were reported in damascus. for many in the opposition movement, the president's speech offered too little, too late. >> in washington and in capitals around europe, there was disappointment in the message from assad. the white house said it wants to see concrete action and reform. another said the stubbornness of the syrian leader is, quote, " shocking." >> when we talk about the region, we are all very concerned, particularly about the recent developments in syria. the news arriving from there is very shocking, but it is also shocking to see how unwilling the syrian government is to acknowledge a problem. this oppression cannot continue. >> that was the german foreign minister there. the head of the u.n. nuclear agency has called for international safety checks on all nuclear reactors to help prevent a repe