and that is why many countries and many international organizations, including amnesty international, have been calling for the establishment for this international inquiry. so it will be a close vote if the vote happens there say or friday. it is going to be close. i think out of the 47 members of the human rights council, it is a must split now. we're all watching very closely. that it will pass. because having an international body to investigate these war tomes is extremely important hold individuals and governments who have committed violations, to hold them accountable and to ensure that future attacks will also be investigated and any potential crimes will not go unpunished. amy: raed jarrar, thank you for being with us, advocacy director for the middle east and north africa at amnesty international. later in the broadcast, we will look at the nuclear ban that over 50 countries have signed onto, the nuclear weapons ban. gathert up, thoands outside washington, d.c., to remember the human rights activist and comedian dick gregory. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: ayanna gregory

and that is why amnesty international is calling for an international investigation into what happened, into this particular incident and into other incidents that appears to be violations of international law by all parties, including the saudi-led coalition. amy: how did you access the shrapnel in order to identify the bomb that killed buthaina's whole family? >> a local yemeni journalist took pictures of the building. went through the rubble and dugout parts of the shrapnel and took pictures of them and sent them to amnesty international, to our team. and so what our team of experts ofnd was a small piece computer board, a motherboard, that is linked to guided missiles. so u.s. laserguided bombs. they identified that it is 100% linked to u.s.-made guided bombs. so the information came through the local journalalists and analysis hapappen through oururm of experts. amy: can you talk about the larger role of the u.s., this being one example? inthe u.s. is very involved the war in yemen. the u.s. is very involved in multiple armed conflicts in the middle east region. cases,olvement, in

as if david gryphus from amnesty international in london welcome to you so your organization has accused down some suchi on her government of having their heads in the sand over this crisis what do you mean by that. well i mean what we heard from anson city this morning was a whitewash frankly the speech had no sense of urgency about what is an appalling situation of ethnic cleansing of the range of the population across runtime state and you know there was no no script no sense of scale no sense of urgency that came across from where let's give a little bit of a sense of proportion of what we're talking about here for the past three weeks that me and mum military has carried out a scorched earth campaign targeting the revenger population across the state. soldiers in armed groups are surrounding villages firing indiscriminately as civilians flee for their lives and four hundred thousand row injured have crossed the border into bangladesh that's more in the past two weeks than the entire number of people who tried to cross the mediterranean in two thousand and sixteen it's the world's fa

so david griffiths at amnesty international there in london and who can rein in the military doesn't sound so she have the authority. well first of all let me say that the secretary general well of the un is absolutely correct not only to the abuses have to end but the situation experienced by the range of people that discrimination and segregate occasion their denial of citizenship for decades has to be brought to it and indeed it is me and my government which is responsible for doing that both the military and sense that she and she needs to bear responsibility to use political and moral of our to bring an end to the violence now and indeed to address that horrific discrimination. which right in the population has experienced for such a long time so yes there is plenty within her power that she can do and she must do and we have to start doing that as soon as possible. david griffiths from amnesty international in london thank you so much for the more than four hundred thousand to head to refugees in bangladesh facing an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation the doublings b

amnesty international is use satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to bun range of villages in myanmar the rights group has detected eighty large fires in iraq and states since august twenty fifth when a military crackdown began myanmar's army says it's targeting armed groups in the area almost four hundred thousand range and more than half of them children of fled to bangladesh in the past three weeks we've documented through through a number of different sources it's really clear campaign of the consing by the media more security forces. rakhine state it's on fire we document the least eighty large scale burnings across the whole state. but it's very very difficult to conclude that there's anything else but a deliberate effort by the me of a military to to drive or hinge of their own country. by any means necessary tanya choudhry is on bangladesh's border with me on mine. i mean shop. on my backside on the other side of the border in between is the enough about now you can see behind me smoke rising this i realize has been done by the myanmar security

go back to one of the first points you made you referred to amnesty international international can only successfully work and conduct its important mission in protecting human rights in the kurdistan region and in areas protected by the peshmerga amnesty international correctly focuses on human rights and the rights of minorities and there's a very simple test of whether kurdistan is a safe place for minorities it's the place where the refugees and the i.d.p.'s all accumulate because they know that their they will be well treated their lives will be protected and their rights will be protected unlike elsewhere in iraq it's in fact a shocking indictment of the federal government of iraq that there are so many refugees living inside kurdistan none of whom are supplied by the resources of the federal iraqi government so i don't recognise the picture that you're painting it's not consonant with my empirical experience on the ground i would like to ask you about the question of time because the referendum was announced and delayed on several occasions and i think it's clear that the kurdish

office for amnesty international in yorkshire thank you. russia and turkey have agreed to boost coordination in their efforts to end the conflict in syria russian president vladimir putin held talks in ankara with his turkish counterpart breccia type out of the heart after previously backing opposing sides in syria the two leaders have now agreed to push for deescalation zones in syria's province andrew symonds has more now on that meeting from unca. it wasn't a long briefing but judging from what the two presidents had to say there were no major fallouts but no major breakthroughs either they discussed syria they discussed the a start a process for deescalation zones primarily because this involves turkey more than any other country to try to get access to the opposition groups and corp there will be military observers put on the ground there but no real detail was given of any progress on this lot of mir putin said what a difficult situation it was but he believed in the deescalation zones and said that that was the political process that

amnesty international has use satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to burn or henge of villages in me and mark the rights group has detected eighty large fires in rakhine state since august twenty fifth but a military crackdown began almost four hundred thousand or a hand to have fled to bangladesh in just the past three weeks in lara's army says it is targeting armed groups in the area but we've documented through it through a number of different sources it's really clear campaign of the consing by the mia more security forces. rakhine state is on fire we looking at least eighty large scale burnings across the whole states. but it's very very difficult to conclude it was anything else by the liberal effort by the me of a military to to drive a hinge of their own country. by any means necessary. various at bangladesh's border with me and mark i'm in shop. on my backside on the other myanmar side of the border in between is the now free bar now you can see behind me smoke rising is our village has been banned by the myanmar security forces within the las

mr bloomquist thank you so much for talking with us that was first there from amnesty international in bangkok . well as we mentioned more than four hundred thousand muslims have now fled across the border into bangladesh from myanmar they are languishing in desperately overcrowded conditions and one of the world's largest refugee camps he. sent us this report from bangladesh. they keep on coming. more than four hundred ten thousand refugees from me and mark have already crossed the border into bangladesh and no one knows how many will still arrive. in the camps the situation is already at a breaking point. food water shelter everything is scarce here. many of the aid deliveries are organized by private bangladeshi citizens. and. if we do not help the government of bangladesh this problem will be difficult to solve and how do we don knotts not see the refugees are getting increasingly desperate and distributing aid to those who really need it can't be done from the back of a truck. the problem with the way this aid is being delivered is that it doesn't reach everyone and that it's a ma

let's bring in our guests joining us from new york is sally or shetty the secretary general of amnesty international from oxford the author douglas johnson and here in doha in the studio marc far system professor of politics and international relations at the doha institute welcome to you all douglas johnson in oxford what was the united nations set up to do all those years ago. will serve to regulate interstate relations to try to promote. negotiations and. avoid into international tensions it was really set up for international for intrastate relations rather than for internal political issues of the sort that it's now being asked to do so here shetty from amnesty is it managing still to do what it's supposed to do. i didn't start to think that the security council which is the most powerful body in the united nations itself is deeply divided on every single issue we have to remember that the united nations is only as strong as its strongest members and allow it to be we know that president jiang. dispensation don't like the u.n. so much so that's a struggle but even leaving aside the charm phenom

amnesty international for example claimed that after the kurdish regional government to control of their disputed territories in the north it in gauged in their quote unquote concerted campaign to displace arab communities in northern iraq in hindsight it all looks like part of a larger pre-planned nation building campaign. didn't just randomly fall to benefit the kurds. i don't think this is an accurate account i'm afraid if we. go back to one of the first points you made you referred to amnesty international and i'm just international can only successfully work and conduct it's important mission in protecting human rights in the kurdistan region and in areas protected by the peshmerga amnesty international correct the focus is on human rights and the rights of minorities and there's a very simple test of whether kurdistan is a safe place for minorities it's the place where the refugees and the i.d.p.'s all accumulate because they know that their they will be well treated their lives will be. and their rights will be protected unlike elsewhere in iraq it's in fact a shocking indictment

is happening we were let's get some reaction to that speech now with david griffiths from amnesty international in london he joins us on our program thank you david now amnesty has put out a statement saying that she and her government have their heads in the sand on the crisis what do you mean by that. well let's get a little bit of a sense of proportion about what's happening in record instead. we're seeing ethnic cleansing happening on a horrific scale almost half of the injured population is being driven out of rakhine state we've identified eighty plus sites which have been razed to the ground we have plenty of evidence from eyewitnesses backed up by satellite and fire detection data telling us about the kinds of abuses that are happening security forces surrounding villages firing at people as they flee in panic and then setting their homes on fire this is a horrific campaign of ethnic plant saying and since she's words were frankly of the butt of a whitewash but david what do you expect from her she's in a difficult position isn't she the military leaders are watching her every word and

since then four hundred thousand rohingya have fled across the border into bangladesh amnesty international called it a scorched earth policy by the army dozens of writing of villages were burned to the ground. on song suchi called some of the media coverage of fake news and that there was an iceberg of misinformation. to take. disillusioned by her recent actions some international observers feel she's not the same leader she was when fighting for democracy she entered essentially an informal compact whether she realizes or not when she asked for the world community to use your freedom and promote ours someone who believed in human dignity and the importance of every person and i think that now has been a real major letdown for the world community that perhaps she's not the person they thought she was perhaps you know she's we're negative on this compact. a united states state department officials expected to attend televised address to the nation on tuesday the u.s. has called for more access to the conflict area for humanitarian workers and the press on sunday suit she is skipping the wor

and amnesty international says it has evidence meon mall security forces bund revenge of the edges as part of an orchestrated campaign . on putin's limit in doha with all your sports news as the international olympic committee insist again that there is no plan b. for february's killing chan winter games after north korea fires its and latest missile. the us secretary of state rex tillerson says north korea's aggressive regime threatens not only the region. but the entire world is commons comma after pyongyang five yet another missile over japan the second in less than a month the un security council is due to meet in the coming hours to discuss the latest provocation will be live in new york later in the program now craig leeson has this report from tokyo the missile launch followed a familiar pattern it came early morning two minutes before seven local time with japan in its path launched from the capital pyongyang the missile flew three thousand seven hundred kilometers over the northern japanese island of hokkaido reaching a height of seven hundred seventy kilometers before crashi

also banning imports of textiles one of young aims last a major source of foreign revenue and amnesty international says the henge of villages are still being current in me and mark contradicting the government statements that military operations have and the group says new satellite images and video shows smoke rising from or henschel villages. prime minister bill english as national party has the early lead in what's expected to be a tight election in new zealand polls close more than an hour ago and almost twenty percent of the votes have been counted english faces a strong challenge from just send ardern who took over the labor party leadership this week south from the election neither of the main parties are expected to win a majority so a coalition government that is what's likely t.v. reporter chris chang has more from auckland. well the polls have closed this evening in new zealand and it is neck and neck between national and labor as it has been for the past six weeks in fact labor were flying in the polls on august first when just took over from andrew little and she has turned around the

trying to increase its troop presence there and take a look at those claims and rights group amnesty international releases a new report documenting the deadly bahraini crackdown on government critics the cases britain and the us of turning a blind eye to the abuses. from moscow you're watching international. now the u.s. state department has been facing a grilling over the seizure of the russian consulate in san francisco and even accused sounding too much like take. just normal the writing programs are so what's your name let's move on move on to something else if you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those property searched because there was a concern that they were being used for intelligence purposes which would be like a different issue i'm just not going to get into that let it lead in this let's move on to something else there in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that have been deleted have been searched by the host. governments you know what i don't know if you are working for r.t. today or what but i think you might remember. what a response r.t. said t

not been left unresolved for far too long amnesty international has accused aung sang suu kyi and her government of having their heads in the sand over they were hendrik crisis here's david griffiths from amnesty international in london. well i mean what we heard from answer this morning was a whitewash frankly the speech had no sense of urgency about what is an appalling situation of ethnic cleansing of the range of the population across rakhine state and you know there was no no script no sense of scale no sense of urgency that came across from her words let's give a little bit of a sense of proportion of what we're talking about here for the past three weeks to me in the military has carried out a scorched earth campaign targeting the rich and your population across the state. soldiers in armed groups are surrounding villages firing indiscriminately as civilians flee for their lives and four hundred thousand right in jet have crossed the border into bangladesh that's more in the past two weeks than the entire number of people who tried to cross the mediterranean in two thousand and

to other world news now and amnesty international has released satellite imagery showing what it says is an orchestrated campaign to burn and wipe out rohingya villages in myanmar the right school has detected eighty launch fires in rakhine state since late last month when a military offensive began almost four hundred thousand running and muslims have fled or tried to flee to bangladesh in the past three weeks on mars ami says it's talk of getting on to groups in the area but those who escaped the fighting say soldiers are going after any rohingya people it can find what we looking at them through through a number of different sources it's really a clear campaign of the counselling by the media more security forces. we're kind state is on fire we're talking on the least eighty large scale burnings across the whole state. but it's very very difficult to conclude there's anything else but a deliberate effort by the me of a military to to drive a hinge out of their own country by any means necessary al-jazeera time dear child is on bangladesh's border with me and maher with more. i mean

is trying to increase its troop presence there and take a closer look at those claims and amnesty international accuses bahrain of mass torture and a crackdown against government critics human rights group also blames the u.s. and u.k. for ignoring the problem. good afternoon just turned to a call here in moscow you're watching international. now the u.s. state department has been facing a grilling over the seizure of the russian consulate in san francisco which is appears that r.t. is becoming synonymous with uncomfortable questions during its media briefings. people say oh i'm sorry sir what's your name let's move on move on to something else you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those property searched because there was a concern that they were being used for intelligence purposes which would be like a different issue i'm just not going to get into that let's let's move let's move on to something else here in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that. it's been searched by the host. government you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but

amnesty international says it's documented a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the head. of the latest sports news including the international committee insists again that there is no plan b. for february. winter games after north korea fires its latest missile. british police are treating a blast in a london underground train as a terrorist incident the explosion happened on the district line in the city southwest during the busy morning rush hour the british. on minister has convened the countries in the agency committee will be live in london shortly but first mariana hong looks at what happened. this is what's thought to have brought london's underground system to a halt that we got back from filmed from the train platform what appears to be a back it is burning inside the train we want to go i think it's clear why anyone would want that you know the result was no emergency units responded at eight twenty in the morning that seven twenty g.m.t. to reports of an explosion on a train at parsons green chub station in southwest london it was rush hour a time when london's

general assembly today well for more on the story i'm joined now by all of this tease from amnesty international he joins us from bangkok now your organization has just put out a statement saying that she and her government have quote their heads in the sand concerning the revenge refugee crisis so what do you mean by that. oh you know thanks or i'm going to have you know i think the most confirm concern you think about institutions. you know but look to live in canada violations stopping in iraq trying to stay through security forces why is that what many of the right decision look it's clearly ethnic cleansing unfolding this is a vicious military campaign in the storm hitting the leadership populations of all it's been protected by the or by the police or security forces of fortune the arms as she had an opportunity to really take talks against the army but she failed to do so. as long as she under government if it's recognized the reality of what's going on in myanmar it's very difficult to see a solution to this issue now sochi is obviously in a tight spot over the ridge a crisis with the mi

will yes absolutely we don't see you quoting well if i was looted we will see you quoting amnesty international a will of the un high commissioner for human rights watch or the european parliament i don't see you working any longer to is jump on the bandwagon that's being whipped up by the hysteria of the right wing totally un high commissioner for human rights does no one on the eight ball i'm going to stand aborted attempts we condemn him we condemn any huge where it's fire where did you connect them with the widespread and systematic now widespread and systematic use of excessive force in the next against salman's you know it hasn't gone as well pollution i'm condemning any form of attacks on human rights now but we might have a government by the government and security revamps else we've got does not appear we know your whole unit on a whole history of latin america being attacked where is i didn't hear you or anybody else attacking colombia when thousands of trade unionists i don't know man i mean state we're talking about are you taking out where the stands are simple we defend human righ

amnesty international says it has evidence mammo security forces burned the hinge of villages as part of an orchestrated campaign. and you ask me for the first time in two years as opposition to the independence plans mounts. we start with the korean crisis the white house national security adviser general. has warned that the united states was approaching the limits. on diplomacy can accomplish when it comes to reigning in north korea's weapons program. for those who have said and been commenting about the lack of a military option there is a military option now it's not what we would prefer to do so what we have to do is call on all nations call on everyone to do everything we can to address this global problem short of war so that is implementing now these significant sanctions that have just now gone into place and it is convincing everyone to do everything that they can and that it's in their interest to do it. his comments come after pyongyang find yet another missile over japan the second in less than a month the united nations security council has now concluded an emergency me

and one of the stories we're following amnesty international says revenge of alleges are still being torched in myanmar contradicting the government's statements that military operations of ended the group says new satellite images and video shows smoke rising from range of religious around four hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled since the latest outbreak of violence began less than a month ago the details were released as doctors without borders told al jazeera that otherwise healthy adults and camps are on the brink of death because of dehydration. meanwhile human rights watch says it has evidence myanmar's army has been laying landmines on its border with bangladesh to ensure the fleeing ringette don't return. this is really heartless beyond words or. landmines being placed by the burmese military in the past being refugees not only at the border but also in areas around villages where. the cleansing is being done and people are fleeing the villages then there are encountering landmines on the roads trying to get out of that area so it's doubly cool these are weapons which

according to amnesty international ranger muslim villages are still being burned in myanmar it says new satellite images and videos show smoke rising from the hinge of villages this contradicts claims by me and ma leader aung sang suu kyi that military operations there have ended around four hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled to camps in bangladesh and less than a month mexican rescue crew curious are refusing to give up hopes of finding survivors three days after an earthquake killed at least two hundred eighty six people and rescue operations been extended and foreign crews hoping sift through the rubble live pictures you're looking at from the search more than fifty buildings collapse in mexico city in tuesday seven point one magnitude quake tens of thousands of people in puerto rico are being moved from their homes their fears a group as the headlines talked al-jazeera is next. if you turn your back on the fire. this would be collateral damage. and the might. this would be an overreaction. and fish a prey should cost. just your clarity by contrast. with you in the world.

to challenge this case so amnesty international you know considered this is a travesty of justice what we want is an immediate and unconditional release of kim so however what's happening. is part of a synchronize pattern of what's happening in cambodia in the last few months several ministries such as the ministry of interior the ministry of information the ministry of home affairs i see one of the general department of taxation have single being jointly moved to cup opposition party activities. the free press and n.g.o.s for example the situation room a coalition of election monitoring n.g.o.s. simply forced to disband following orders from the ministry of interior interior citing and geo laws similarly several n.g.o.s were also called in for questioning due to import from the general department of taxation and their sources of funding and finally n.d.i. was forced to shut his office from a directive from the ministry of foreign affairs and so on so you see here a class of you know civil society groups evolving election monitoring you know being taken to task the united nations is ca

amnesty international is using satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to burma hinge of villages. the rights group has detected large fires in state since august twenty fifth when a military crackdown began. the french president has called for the lifting of the saudi led embargo on cats are. common in a presidential statement released after his meeting with shaikh to me. funny in paris. russia iran and turkey have a great a new deescalation zone in syria's northern province the agreement was reached after the six round of talks in the capital and once finalized which is mostly on position would be force. in syria. the parliament of iraq's kurdish region has supported plans to hold an independence referendum later this month the decision took place during the first session since parliament was suspended two years ago it comes to opposition from iran iraq and turkey from now up front is coming up next. nuclear weapons threats of annihilation of volatile leaders of the us and north korea on the road to war from special. foreign fury like the world has nev

human rights watch today followed an amnesty international report from yesterday with more satelliterohingya villages targeted by arson attacks. access for reporters and aid workers has been severely restricted and today the burmese government denied a visit of a us deputy assistant secretary of state to the region, saying it was off limits. the bbc‘s south asia correspondent justin rowlatt reports from bangladesh, where thousands of rohingya refugees have arrived from myanmar. this contains scenes and content which you may find upsetting. the scale of the atrocities that have been committed in myanmar is only now becoming apparent. "how many of you homes were set on fire?" asks the translator. so, that's virtually everybody? virtually all of them say their homes were attacked? this group of women have crossed over from myanmar in the last few days. seven members of tayeba begum's family were killed by soldiers. she counts them off on her fingers. shabia, my sons sadhu amin, rahul amin, kahrul amin my son, my two daughters, asmat ara and fatima. and my granddaughter, jannat ara. tran

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convincing everyone to do everything that they can and that it's in their interest to do it amnesty international is using satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to ban re hinge of villages in mammal the rise group has detected eighty large fires in iraq and state since august the twenty fifth when the military crackdown began the french president has called for the lifting of the saudi led embargo on cattle and manual macro made the comments in a presidential statement released after his meeting with shaikh time in bin hamad al funny in paris. what. we talked about the regina's of qatar to sit down at the table and to discuss and solve the issue we think germany for its effort and also i think the chancellor of germany has a role to solve the problems around the negotiating table we think you for your support of the kuwait initiative which qatar has support to since the beginning and will continue supporting until we get the solution to such fights all the parties russia iran and turkey have agreed to a new deescalation zone in syria's northern province agreement w

now amnesty international says satellite imagery shows burned rangar villages in myanmar they say they have detected up to eighty large fires in rakhine state since august but have been corroborated with photographs from the ground almost four hundred thousand range have fled me and since the military launched a crackdown in rakhine state the army says it's targeting armed groups in the region aid agencies say they are overwhelmed by the crisis what we documented through through a number of different sources is really a clear campaign of counseling by the me a more secure. the forces. were kind state fire. the large scale burning so across the whole state. it's very very difficult to conclude this anything else the deliberate effort by the me of the military to drive the hinge of the country by any means necessary well tanveer challenge he joins us live now from bangladesh's border with me and so what more can you tell us about these photos from amnesty that claim to show a number of villages on fire absolutely i mean the area called shop. on the back side is an icon which is that me o

amnesty international has used satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to burn one hundred villages in myanmar the rights group passed detected eighty large fires in rakhine state since august twenty fifth when a military crackdown began almost four hundred thousand right hand to have fled to bangladesh in the past three weeks in march army says it's targeting armed groups and the area. through a number of different sources it's really clear campaign. by the mia more security forces. fire. burning so close to home states. that it's very very difficult to do this anything else the liberal effort by the me of a military to drive through his country. by any means necessary. support or with our i mean shop. on my backside on the other myanmar side of the border in between is the enough about now you can see behind me smoke rising as i realize has been done by the myanmar security forces within the last several days thousands of people are trying to cross into bangladesh through this river crossing many of them are unable to cross because the boat men are cha

amnesty international says were henges villages are still being burned in myanmar and that contradicts government statements that military offer ations have ended the group says new satellite images and video shows smoke rising from or henge of villages around four hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled since the latest outbreak of violence began less than a month ago the details were released as doctors without borders told al jazeera that otherwise healthy adults in camps are on the brink of death because of dehydration still ahead on al-jazeera the number of people killed in mexico's earthquake rises as rescue workers refuse to give up hope of finding survivors. welcome back now look at the weather across asia in northeastern areas we've got this frontal system it just got a little ways on a sunny all way down towards the southwest so it's a given some very heavy rain across parts of japan there's still the chance of some rain coming up across southern areas and maybe even up into tokyo for a time further north looking dry and russia quite sapporo and look at my sort of twenty t

amnesty international says range of villages a still being burned in myanmar contradicting the government's statements that military operations have ended the human rights group says new satellite images and video shows smoke rising from range of villages and the castle and government says it won't be handing over control of the regional police forces ahead of october's referendum on independence from spain the spanish government has called the vote illegal and says it will begin coordinating all police efforts to crack down on the preparations well that's it for myself from the team here in london europe's speed with all of our top stories but there is more news coming out from doha in about half an hour's time stay with us. al-jazeera has asked where ever you are. tens of thousands of demonstrations erupt across china each year driven by anger over corruption and the illegal sale of communal land most protests fail to make an impact but in two thousand and eleven one of the checketts of corruption. was. a major crackdown activist shreds and board died in police custody. that we can achiev

since then four hundred thousand rohingya have fled across the border into bangladesh amnesty international called it a scorched earth policy by the army dozens of were hit villages were burned to the ground. on song suchi called some of the media coverage fake news and that there was an iceberg of misinformation. to take. disillusioned by her recent actions some international observers feel she's not the same leader she was when fighting for democracy she entered essentially an informal compact whether she realized or not when she asked for the world community to use your freedom from ours someone who believed in human dignity and the importance of every person and i think that now has been a real major letdown for the world community that perhaps she's not the person they thought she was perhaps you know she's we're negative on this compact a united states state department officials expected to attend televised address to the nation on tuesday the u.s. has called for more access to the conflict area for humanitarian workers and the press on some suits she is skipping the world's largest a

but let's move on for now amnesty international has you satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign to burn revenge of all ages and myanmar the rights group has detected eighty eight large fires in iraq and states and the twenty fifth of august one a military crackdown began almost four hundred thousand one hundred have fled to bangladesh in the past three weeks. me says it's targeting armed groups in the area . but we documented through the number of different sources it's really clear campaign of the counseling by the mia more security forces. we're kind state it's on fire. large scale burnings across the whole states. but it's very very difficult to conclude there's anything else by the liberal effort by the me or military to drive or hinge of their own country. by any means necessary the afghan air force has received its first black hawk helicopters from the u.s. in the latest step towards modernizing its fleet but it will take months before the aircraft can be used and years before it can operate and tali on its own jennifer glass reports from kandahar.

pretty clear indication of just how strained relations are now between pyongyang and beijing amnesty international says satellite images shows burned rangar villages in me in march they say they detect up to eighty large fires in rakhine state since august but have been corroborated with photographs from the ground almost four hundred thousand range fed me and mark since the military launched a crackdown in rakhine state the army says it's targeting armed groups in the region aid agencies say they're overwhelmed by the crisis but those are the headlines and his continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera world stage and that's what. ily ily ily . it's ten a.m. in the morning in san diego california and a major brand is starting on a journey halfway across the globe to cars are palestine. the reason for a trip is a seven year old girl named fire. fighter i was only three years old when i first met her in the most challenging circumstances. fight i was injured in a bomb attack on our home in hostile and her bad crossed with a mild leading to a relationship that can be given no name. yet among find

amnesty international says where henge of villages are still being burned in the end maher contradicting the government's claims that military operations have ended the group says a new satellite images and video shows smoke rising from or henge of villages around four hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled since the latest outbreak of violence less than a month ago the details were released as doctors without borders told al jazeera that otherwise healthy adults in camps are on the brink of death due to dehydration . holes have just closed in what's expected to be a new zealand election the prime minister bill english is facing a strong challenge from thirty seven year old who took over the labor party leadership just weeks out from voting it a party is expected to win a majority so a coalition government as likely to happen with smaller parties it's the final day of campaigning and germany terminate so elections on sunday the chancellor merkel leads the polls by a wide margin and his wife expected to be a chancellor for a fourth fourth term her rival martin charles of the social de

critical of the methods used by the united states to count civilian casualties for example amnesty international has criticized the methods used by the coalition to calculate civilian casualties for the fact that they don't visit the sites of these airstrikes and they don't seem to interview survivors this is what amnesty international said. relying on this limited methodology leads the coalition to discount to mature to frequences non-credible are inconclusive and to subsequently clean that civilian casualties account for only zero point three one percent of one gauge mints. now u.s. secretary of defense james mattis he said that civilian casualties are just a fact of life and that the important thing is to determine who are the good guys and the bad guys this is what james mattis the u.s. secretary of defense said we are the good guys and munition people on the battlefield know the difference. locals on the ground however beg to differ. i saw with my own eyes three houses destroyed and then astroid isis fighters first went there and run away then the jets bombed where they were seventeen civil