international and one of the researchers behind the amnesty report and amsterdam and he the shug she's head of women and children affairs at the european council and me and our eileen mccarthy she's an advocacy manager for save the children and we won't be seeing aileen jury in our discussion that's because save the children asked us to protect her identity due to the sensitive nature of her work welcome to all of you good to have you here in the stream so i'd like to start of course it's with this headline because it is such a strong point that headline from amnesty international me and martin no one can protect us of course that's in quotes war crimes and abuses and me and maurice rakhine state talked to us about the impetus behind this report so in early january that morricone army which is an ethnic rakhine an armed group of predominantly buddhist minority in rakhine state launched attacks on police posts and after that the military moved in a large number of troops into rakhine state and i've been carrying out intense operations sense and what we have seen is that the military has

in the stream is myanmar's army still killing people and reclined today we discuss a new report by amnesty international that accuses the military or fresh atrocities tweet us your comments or leave them in our lives you tube shot and you too can be in the stream. the massacre of ethnic groups and myanmar's rakhine state hasn't ended according to a new report by amnesty international now the group wants the u.n. security council to refer the crimes to the international criminal court or kind state is riven by ethnic and religious divisions and was the epicenter of the bloody military crackdown against for him the muslims in 2017 much of the continued violence though is between the myanmar military and iraq an army a group of ethnic rebels a woman widowed following an attack in march once both sides to lay down arms and talk. it's like both sides are too proud now my husband is dead they wrapped up his body in plastic they didn't even allow us to touch or she would love a clue. so what will it take to stop the bloodshed well here in our studio to discuss matthew wells he's a senior a crisis

republicans from the house, these seven republicans agree to give a path to citizenship for amnesty to 2 1/2 million dreamers with no resolution for the crisis at the border. these people should be ashamed of themselves. but in the end -- >> the problem with passing something only by itself, you don't get -- if you just make a bunch of people legal and give them amnesty, you don't take care of that permit problem you need working out your culture and the high-tech sector. you don't secure the border. so that one thing only doesn't work, and that's the problem. the democrats haven't put anything on the table. when the republicans did do it with the support of the president the democrats didn't vote for it. elections matter. and i think at the end of the day the american people have to demand reform. judge jeanine: as i said, they should all be fired. i am going to ask, nancy pelosi made a statement on the trump administration's threat to mexico. she said president trump must stop sabotaging good faith bipartisan efforts in congress to address this complex problem in a humane manner. wha

and i'm joined now by to run a house on in london she is the director of amnesty international's crisis response team thank you so much for joining us to speak with us this afternoon we just heard in our report we got a glimpse of the row him just situation in myanmar what are the biggest challenges that they're facing today. well it's not just the refugees which displaced do bundle of it's also the internally displaced in the complex that we hear much less about in the north of the country in question and chance state for example and some of the biggest challenges that we're hearing is the older people is that they're literally invisible so the humanitarian response is trying its best to cater to you know these masses tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in bangladesh but the elderly population is somewhat invisible they have mobility issues they have health issues and the camp and the terrain is incredibly difficult so you can imagine when you're living amongst its hillsides and in mud and in plastic sheeting just this simple task of being able to walk to access a litt

i'd like to welcome now francesca teles she is a researcher and advisor for refugee rights at amnesty international a very good evening in our report that we just aired week we got a glimpse at the we're hengist situation in myanmar what are their biggest challenges today. hello and thank you for having me yes so you heard about some of the challenges that we have allied did that are particularly important for elder reed ranger if you g.'s in the camps. in bangladesh one of the main problems that they have. access to services due to all bt. because the camps in bangladesh are very heelys so it's a very difficult terrain to navigate for everybody but then of course when people have mobility issues due to age then becomes even more difficult so there are other refugees that are just unable to go to look for example and do something as basic as that and also accessing other services that are in other parts of the camp so there are problems for example reaching health clinics and of course people of elderly they sure often have health problems it's very important to be able to receive hea

if enacted this would be the largest amnesty in u.s. history and would do nothing to enforce our laws but reward law breakers. this legislation actually grants gang members to a path to citizenship and incentivize more migrants to come to the united states. congress must stop the surge of illegal immigration. my constituents have made it clear that the arizona's 4th congressional district does not support amnesty. this bill does not promise the american dream but rather a crisis. this crisis is doing real harm to arizona and all of america. i encourage my colleagues not to vote for h.r. 6 which would enable the humanitarian crisis on our southern border and does nothing to close loopholes. i find this legislation to be a disgrace. the american people deserve better and time this congress puts american citizens first. it came as a closed rule. it is bad process and bad policy former u.s. supreme court justice bran dice said, the government will be imperiled does not enforce the law scrupulously. if the government becomes a law breaker an

stores and homes were torched by a peer a military group called the rapid support forces or r s f amnesty international says it has evidence proving the r.s.s. is committing war crimes in the region and internet blackout and reports of electricity outages in the capital mean information is slowly trickling out tuesday it was the 3rd day of a nationwide strike intended to show the transitional military council that protesters may not have weapons but they have power. protesters say last week's military crackdown that killed almost 130 people only fortified their resolve the good thing that the syrian community is going to buy anyway to. neighboring their. writing food providing water for the neighbors when needed with an ethiopian delegation mediating the 2 sides reached an agreement to return to negotiations or guarding a future government. agreed to take confidence building measures including the political. spark. to call off the. protest leaders are also demanding the transitional military council restore access to the internet lift restrictions on journalists and ultimately allow civil

illegal alien amnesty only be gets and encourages more illegal conduct. socialist democrats careless disregard demonstrates just how radical socialist democrats have become. however, if you understand the underlying reason for the socialist democrat open and dangerous policies, this makes sense. about 70% of households with an illegal alien in them live off welfare and on the backs of american taxpayers. since they are heavily dependent on welfare, once they get the amnesty and citizenship, that makes them reliable socialist democrat voters. after all, socialist democrats are the party for taking much needed money from hardworking american taxpayers to pay for welfare for those who prefer to vote for a living rather than work for them. they don't give one twit about the thousands of dead americans who die each year because of illegal alien homicides. they don't care one twit about american blood on their hands. they have political power and they see open borders, amnesty and illegal aliens voting as the way to get it. so many socialist democrat cities lik

but sooner or later they would give you amnesty providing yet another incentive for illegals to cross. so they say to themselves what have you got to lose? the house in their largess in granting that amnesty does nothing to address the crisis at the border and the bill does nothing to secure the border or enforce our laws. the president offered a bill that did both. but no one in congress was interested. legal status for dreamers? temporary protected status and money for the wall? these republicans supported the democrat effort that provided no resolution for the crisis at the border. so the president is left to go it alone. congress has failed every step of the way while attempting to give itself a raise. what can be done to fix the crisis? this is the kind of answer you get from the left. >> i asked you the first time, what would you do? you said the president should pass a law. and that isn't how sit works. i am asking for one suggestion from you as to something that would be concrete to stop the influx at the border right now. specifically. >> okay, i can give you three. but let's

says releasing dozens of political prisoners arms of a controversial amnesty law it's an attempt to free those detained last year but there will be government protests and ses the country's political standoff has minimal republic with the details. of the anti-government protesters and you can i well were reunited with their families on tuesday many of these former political prisoners had been jailed for months the government agreed to the demands of opposition leaders to release political prisoners by june 18th. the news director for an independent media outlet critical of nicaraguan president daniel ortega was just released after 6 months in prison his news channel was shut down but i wasn't i don't think and that is the reason they shut down my channel the wealth of the news source is its credibility it's being close to the people and telling the truth that's what how t.v. channel has and if they steal our infrastructure then we will simply start again from the bottom but of course we will continue we will continue to inform the people and. the freeing of political prisoners was announ

the freeing of political prisoners was announced as part of a controversial new law which grants amnesty to anyone who participated in last year's unrest the amnesty law has been criticized by dozens of human rights groups who say it makes it difficult to hold pro-government paramilitary groups and security forces accountable for the deaths of more than 300 people since the start of the country's political crisis more than one year ago no i see really that you cannot be amnesty for crimes against humanity these are crimes that remain and no law signed by the government to protect those who perpetrated these crimes to me many former political prisoners expressed relief for having been freed but said they would continue to demonstrate against the government and demand justice for the killings of hundreds of peaceful protesters was look we will continue to fight we are united as political. knows this government wants to divide and conquer we are united for free and the correct you are. negotiations between the government and opposition groups continue to barely drag on since the political u

this is an amnesty bill. and it goes a long way toward the destruction of immigration law when you send out an advertisement that if you can get into america, you get to stay in america, people are going to keep coming here. and it doesn't stop until they have to go back home again and tell those folks that they had recently left, you know what i didn't get to stay in america and discourage the rest of them them. here's an example in a briefing from the director and most recently retired director of uscis, he gave us these number he said 100% of those who apply for asylum, there will be 60% that show up for their asylum hearing. i thought the number would be maybe 95% that wouldn't show up. 60% show up. 40% do not. of the 60%, 10% do get asylum that means, that's 6% of the whole. 40% don't show up, 54% then get assigned a hearing for ea deportation hearing and they don't show up at all. 10 when you add 40%, 54%, 6%, that's 100% of them that get to stay in america. i recall a night when i was in serbia in the

if this moves forward and the amnesty program takes effect. the next process will be te tenants. this is what would do, what are we? we have to determine what you are and that will inform which path you may go down. if you are an office use we would not move it forward. if it is a seemings that there -- determination there is another use they could know through the amnesty process. >> i don't feel comfortable with this given the reality of the tenants in this space. >> i want to add some context. i understand the concern here. the department and the commission has had a long standing policy trying to preserve as much pdr space as possible. we are now where there are more pdr jobs in the city than there was 10 years ago. the vacancy rate is 5%. the issue is cost. the city is losing artists every day because they can't afford $. i am not suggesting -- i think we all agree we need to maintain this community of people and that you understand that. i don't hear you saying we should stop pdr conversion. yes, we should. >> that is the artist space. it is some of the most challenging spa

our immigration system or ensuring criminals do not the border and their policy of wide reaching amnesty. at work, they're encouraging it. a lugs enforces law this remedies or immigration systems. republicans recognize that america is a nation of immigrants. and also, the world changed along the southern border. we need immigration laws reformed. that pill would allow recipients to pay legal status and recognized many entered through in fault of their oeb own, but in this country and we needed a solution. that authorized a border wall and ver byes visas for skilled workers needed most. and the bill offered reasonable reform, but not one single democratic member of congress voted in favor of it. cliques are advancing a bill offering no reform to the legal immigration system, no border security, no solutions for crisis happening every day of the border and come was a 35ss billion price tag. facilities are beyond capacity. and thumb of people apprehended surpassed every year since 2009. we must develop and implement a solution immediately. this bill has in chance of being signed by the pres

us these run table discussions where we had policy makers discussing that in as much is granting amnesty or do you can just in the prisons is probably a short term basis to other issues that need to be looked into record mandy the board which is established in terms of the prisons acts to actually be put into place in order that in the long term we have those of us serving longest instances put on licensed release so that we don't have congested prisons as well as looking into training of prison officers or the correctional officers that are actually working within the prison 6 or more human rights approach to much of the un standards so i would say with their reception moving in the create direction in zimbabwe right i mean it's talk about zimbabwe and the current economic climate this is a country where the man in the streets is struggling to get by basic things like grid and even water in some cases do you find that the prison is all people in the countries jails really become the laws of the government's worries in a in an economic climate such as what the country is and the right no

in germany a one year weapons amnesty ended in mid twenty's 18 illegal guns could be handed over to the police within the community here at the bomb disposal center in boston but they are collected and destroyed. with and this is a machine gun and infamous heavy machine gun you can tell that from the sound when it's fired but this is our comes out once we put it through the incinerator. tell what it was. the guns are burned to separate the words and other materials from the steel anything left ends up in the smelter. was. legal guns were also surrendered during the amnesty in germany they're only allowed with a firearms ownership license and have them on you within reach you need a license to carry. most guns in germany are owned by hunters 417. 1000 hunters are listed in the gun register there are also 376000 recreational shooters and 97000 people who inherited guns but who's prepared to hand i mean. there's the classic case of a deceased grandfather who was a hunter or a sports shooter and now the weapons legally. of course there are also illegal weapons and decorative weapons that pe

you're getting we know that shortly after he became president and assume that god will granted him amnesty to about 3000 prison is and that was a big as i understand to decongest the country's jails is this something that he's a willing to work with you and organizations like yourselves on. absolutely our own basement has been pretty good we recently had a roundtable discussion 1st of 4 with civil society organizations that are working within the prison sector we also had a run to us these run table discussions where we had parties to make is discussing beds in as much is granting amnesty or do you can just in the prison is probably a short term basis to other issues that need to be looked into we recommend the old board which is established in terms of the prisons acts to actually be put into place in order that in the long term we have those of us serving longer sentences put on licensed release so that we don't have. prisons as well as looking into training of prison officers or the correctional officers that are actually working within the prison sector to have a more human rights appr

releasing dozens of political prisoners under a controversial amnesty law as an attempt to free those detained for their old protests and to ease the country's but it's all stand off his man with the details . of the anti-government protesters and he can i well were reunited with their families on tuesday many of these former political prisoners had been jailed for months the government agreed to the demands of opposition leaders to release political prisoners by june 18th. the news director for an independent media outlet critical of nicaraguan president daniel ortega was just released after 6 months in prison his news channel was shut down but i was and i don't mean is a reason they shut down my channel the wealth of the news source is its credibility it's being close to the people and telling the truth that's what how t.v. channel has and if they steal our infrastructure then we will simply start again from the bottom but of course we will continue we will continue to inform the people. the freeing of political prisoners was announced as part of a controversial new law which grants

the human rights organization amnesty international interviewed more than 150 displaced rohingya its 54 to 90 andound eight agencies had not done enough to address the needs of old refugees -- eight agencies -- aid agencies had not done enough to address the needs of old refugees. >> the latrine is not that far for people who can walk well. it's only a problem for me. >> i'm wary of going to the clinic. they do not provide good care. >> this man was able to reach a designated h-friendly clinic, but such places are rare in refugee camps. researchers documented cases of older patients foregoing medicine because they could not navigate the challenging terrain to the clinics. despite the challenges, these are the lucky ones. many other elderly rohingya were unable to flee when myanmar's army attacked their villages. >> we were in the field. the soldiers were chasing people and shooting. evil who could run managed to escape, but those who could not run were killed -- people who could run managed to escape. >> when the soldiers set our house on fire, my parents were inside. for the last fi

now we are providing amnesty, providing more amnesty, we provided amnesty through da ca and folks thatd by storms in central america. we can't continue to reward illegal immigration because the more you do the more you get. jillian: these states that have laws requiring law enforcement to cooperate with ice, a small list, alabama, arizona, georgia, iowa, north carolina, mississippi, missouri, tennessee and texas and another graphic showing $98 million is the estimated cost to provide health insurance to illegals. look at the number, the fact that more and more states starting to get on board getting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants or seems like there is so much more they can utilize and access. >> let's talk about the drivers license issue. these folks will get drivers license, hopefully they will get insurance but the fact of the matter is they are still here illegally in the united states. you are rewarding folks that came into the country without permission and as long as we continue to do that we are going to continue to get more. rob: a lot of asylum-seekers, 90% not showin

international is highlighting the particular difficulties facing older refugees and to do that amnesty took cameras and recorded at camps that hels were hinge or refugees for me and more after a crackdown by me and mars military almost $800000.00 virgin just fled to bangladesh and many of them were elderly. life in bangladesh so crowded refugee camps can be a constant struggle. for the elderly it's often nearly unbearable the human rights organization amnesty international interviewed nearly 150 displaced provender shifty forto over 90 they found that agencies hadn't done enough to address the needs of older refugees. not that far for the people who can walk well it's only a problem for me but. i don't go to the chemical they don't provide good treatment they usually only give one or 2 tablets when my son buys medication for me i take that i'm wary of. everybody and that this man was able to reach a designated age friendly clinic but such places are rare in the refugee camps for the elderly food medical and sanitation facilities are often difficult to reach researchers documented cases

for more on this i'm joined from hong kong by amnesty international's hong kong director. mr dan good to see you and thank you for making the time for us. the leader of on kong has said the government will in any case go through with this bill as part of what she called the government's commitment to hong kong other planned protests on wednesday therefore futile. well i don't think so will carry them to push forward with these changes is actually an insult to the one we in. this week's on sunday who call for the danger as a citizen i managed to be wrong it is wrong. i was 8 that is the policy on this and equal but then the government doesn't seem to be listening to the people and this is not the 1st time protest such as these are happened in the streets of hong kong. well i i see what you mean and i think that we have been through the sky and know that's the ration not only this time but also. when the national security law was proposed also. all. the young. and bold we manage to. do all the national security at all and then. we actually opt to. be a. new democratic. off l

this is also the amnesty policy. we interviewed this policy in february to provide amnesty to over 100 businesses that were facing imminent closure in the mission to start. we learned in early february that close to 100 businesses have active space, which is a property located on 3150, 18, we are facing displacement and finds due to possible violations of existing zoning regulations. this -- these businesses are small, very small owner operated enterprises, and most of them are health and personal services including acupuncturists, massage practitioners and tattoo artists. they think closing over 100 small businesses on the same block all at once would have been an economic crisis in the mission. our neighborhood is already severing from the displacement of hundreds of small businesses and thousands of working-class residents due to gentrification they will prevent the displacement of these businesses by providing amnesty to them under the planning code. it will allow the business is currently operating at the space

international is highlighting the particular difficulties facing older refugees amnesty filmed in camps that hells were hinge of refugees from me and more after a crackdown by b.n. marge military almost 800004 him just led to by english dest many of them were elderly. life in bangladesh so crowded refugee camps can be a constant struggle. for the elderly it's often nearly unbearable the human rights organization amnesty international interviewed nearly 150 displaced 54 to over 90 they found that aid agencies hadn't done enough to address the needs of older refugees. not that far for the people who can walk well it's only a problem for me but. i don't go to the camp to nick that they don't provide good treatment they usually only give one to 2 tablets when my son buys medication for me i take that i'm wary of going there that i don't know i'm not gonna get. this man was able to reach a designated age friendly clinic for such places are rare in the refugee camps for the elderly food medical and sanitation facilities are often difficult to reach researchers documented cases of older patien

amnesty said mr morsi's death raised serious questions about his treatment in custody.sor of political science at long island university. she is in new york. welcome to the briefing. give us your take on the treatment of mohamed morsi. so while many of us are shocked by his death, none of us are shocked by his death, none of us are surprised. the reason why is in 2017 president morsi in court said that they are slowly trying to kill him, and by they he means the state. the same year, human rights watch released a report saying not only is he lacking in due process, but the conditions he is being kept in could lead to his imminent death. just last year a delegation of british mps led by christian blunt said his conditions will lead to his premature death. president morsi was arrested and ta ken premature death. president morsi was arrested and taken into custody at the age of 61. the conditions he has been kept in have been prolonged solitary confinement, inadequate medical care. he is diabetic, he has gone into several diabetic comas, he has allegedly gone blind in one

the freeing of political prisoners was announced as part of a controversial new law which grants amnesty to anyone who participated in last year's unrest the amnesty law has been criticized by dozens of human rights groups who say it makes it difficult to hold pro-government paramilitary groups and security forces accountable for the deaths of more than $300.00 people since the start of the country's political crisis more than one year ago no i believe that they cannot be amnesty for crimes against humanity these are crimes that remain and no law signed by the government to protect those who perpetrated these crimes i mean it was many former political prisoners expressed relief for having been freed but said they would continue to demonstrate against the government and demand justice for the killings of hundreds of peaceful protesters was look we will continue to fight we are united as political prisoners this government wants to divide and conquer but we are united for free and it could argue our. negotiations between the government and opposition groups continue to barely drag on since

stores and homes were torched by a peer a military group called the rapid support forces or r s f amnesty international says it has evidence proving the r.s.s. is committing war crimes in the region and internet blackout and reports of electricity outages in the capital mean information is slowly trickling out tuesday it was the 3rd day of a nationwide strike intended to show the transitional military council that protesters may not have weapons but they have power. processors say last week's military crackdown that killed almost 130 people only fortified their result the good thing that the syrian community are going to buy anyways. neighbor and there will be much of the border food providing water for or for the neighbors when needed with an ethiopian delegation mediating the 2 sides reached an agreement to return to negotiations or guarding a future government. confidence building measures including when it's going to be. on its part. to call off the. protest leaders are also demanding the transitional military council restore access to the internet lift restrictions on journalists and

no we want to address it i said that we haven't proved i said that we have welcomed the emptiness amnesty international report i mean once again we are she also you are not living up to your committee exactly and we have welcomed that and we said that we are working on this there is a huge difference between having violations that are systematic and violations that happen because of the complexity of the situation you feel no shame to you for putting people in these conditions to you we're not putting people under these conditions. none of who we are in the deportations and the ones you again no one said no this is completely not acceptable this is what i said what i said was very clear there isn't something that's a systematic and as soon as we discover a violation we act upon that there is no question about this look at the blockade after 2 years for a blockade from the arab quartet your foreign minister recently returned in the last few days summits in saudi arabia does this mean the block is the promise of yes yes no no doesn't this only shows our commitment to a corporation basically

and february this year sexual violence forced displacement and other abuses were also documented amnesty is warning that the planned withdrawal of u.n. peacekeepers could further in danger lives. there have been more protests in hong kong against a proposed extradition bill security was tight around the legislature building with riot police deployed in some areas the proposed bill would allow people from hong kong to be sent to mainland china for a trial it's due for a 2nd round of debate in a legislative council controlled by a pro beijing majority until he died for you i'm urging schools parents organizations businesses and unions to seriously consider if they encourage such radical behavior what good does it do for hong kong society everybody should know there are consequences when you break the law these consequences have a huge impact on both adults and young people china's leaders continue to voice support for hong kong's leader adrian brown reports from beijing where legal experts are defending that proposed law. china began aggressively pursuing chinese fugitives over seas 5 year

amnesty international is urging saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy 18 year old montage aquarists has been detained for the past 5 years for taking part in anti-government protests is awaiting his next trial session for alleged offenses dating back to when he was. just 10 years old saudi arabia has a long record of imposing the death penalty including against children which is illegal under international law amnesty international says 149 people were put to death in 2018 and this year that figure is already more than $137.00 mostly shia men were killed in a public execution on terrorism related charges 2 were publicly crucified at the amnesty international human rights watch oppose saudi's use of the death penalty saying many confessions are extracted under torture. mad as director of the gulf affairs and to to pay raises quite serious concerns about the saudi justice system . this saudi government has executed children before including. in the past few months. and it has done that over the years i have recorded many cases of that moving the cases of these 7

s amnesty obviously were extremely concerned about calling it a defense force to be transparent about these control crimes of the many many. these if it now just on the freedom of the press in their importing of these incidents is extremely alarming a free press is crucial to a healthy democracy and i mean he's always championed that and to really show the strength what recourse do journalists have when something like this happens. well at the moment that is being very much what they are obviously signature of the universal declaration on human rights freedom in the press is something that is held out by many in our communities being extremely important we need to understand have the strength and abilities of an act of these rights have they acted on the direct coal of the government that certainly needs to be understood but it wouldn't be coming just days after an election here where government was in charge when these you know alleged crimes were committed you know what role as you that is it isn't really question that the government now needs to ok we'll continue to follow this tim