this amnesty international report dubbed war of the hill lation devastating tolls on civilians in iraq or syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as

the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties you know when you're finding it and me. uses noncombat as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you fight it we like to completely avoid. any casualties of war like that but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. to minimize civilian casualties the cost. the coalition's claims that its precision air complains allowed it to bomb islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq who witnessed a level of destruction comparable to any scene we've seen in decades of covering

the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that one hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment in our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties the coalition's claims that it's precision air campaigns allowed to bump islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq we witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we've seen in decades of covering the impact of wars you know when you're fighting an enemy. uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when the wh

amnesty international is also concerned about what's been happening in syria is accusing the u.s. led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the city of rocker from islamic state the rights group says the strong evidence that america and its partners used indiscriminate and disproportion. force of the impact was catastrophic more details now from us to see a check into this an amnesty international report a dubbed war of and they have nation devastating tolls and civilians in iraq a syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that one hundreds of peop

you have amnesty international saying to quote that there was a horrifying use of live ammunition against armed protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people were killed in nine weeks of violence the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we're bracing ourselves for those figures to climb. form of there also in tel aviv waiting to talk to us journalist and filmmaker david she david welcome to the program just been reading up about you i know that you've been promoted for officially immersed in what's going on there for years now from human rights through to the religious underlying causes of this and you know how complex it is in gaza right now so what do you make of the u.s. ambassador's comments have a lot of journalists show a lack of willingness to understand those complexities. well it was actual quote was keep your mouth shut until you figure it out so essentially he's saying you can't report on any massacre doesn't matter the death toll goes up into triple digits or if there's medics or whatever jo

honest no one will ever know anyone who claims they all know is lying when this comes after amnesty international accused the us led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the syrian city of raka from islamic states more now from us to see a church. this international report dubbed war and they have nation devastating tolls on civilians in iraq to syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. we did everything we could in our intel

you with al jazeera live from london much more ahead on the program amnesty international uncovers more evidence of atrocities committed by myanmar's military on ridding the muslims and says it was all planned. and anger in morocco after a popular protest leader is jailed in casablanca. it's been raining heavily. and in. the last but it's an satellite picture to see beyond the runners have been drawn through central china but the line is developing again. valleys from shanghai west was to sichuan occasional but useful damp will seem likely it is she made to the south of course but the time being the rain is taking a back seat so it looks fairly dry for hong kong dry back to the border of vietnam in fact if anything the rain is further west so particularly for myanmar has become wet recently adding togs i'm sure you're aware but the monsoon is started to try and burst the head where it should be that these are only actually quite small showers of adelie and dancer rushes down given a couple of minutes the moment air quality on the whole is a little bit better in delhi itself the real hea

amnesty international went on to win the nobel peace prize and lead the way for the modern human rights movement. his political skills worked great for getting the organization started and growing. he had a keen sense for power and symbols, amnesty has this candle with barbed wire around it and its logo but he had charisma for that level of motivation. when it came to running an organization, he was terrible and also had a variety of not money scandals but certain kind of scandals started to go to his head so his skill set as a peacemaker, he lived until 2005 and never again had a role in amnesty international. others came to run it into to get to a successful level and today it's not necessarily the most active human rights organization, there's one called human rights watch and a variety of others but i talked about how he did the human rights movement and seated leadership of it. so it really leads into talking about the role of ngos and nongovernmental organizations and human rights organizations in the 21st century and the argument i made his while governments can't say they have n

amnesty international accuses the country's army chiefs. last—gasp goal from argentina sends them through to the last 16 of the world cup. we will bring you all the latest from moscow. president trump has scored a major victory at the us supreme court. by a majority of 5—4, the justices upheld his travel ban which targets a number of muslim—majority countries. mr trump's critics were quick to condemn the decision, but he called it a profound vindication after lower courts had blocked the ban. here he was earlier at the white house. today's supreme court ruling, just coming out, a tremendous success, a tremendous victory for the american people, and for our constitution. this is a great victory for our constitution. we have to be tough, and we have to be safe, and we have to be secure. at a minimum, we have to make sure that we vet people coming into the country, we know who's coming in, we know where they're coming from. we just have to know who's coming here. omarjadwat is the director of the aclu immigrants‘ rights project. he says this i

the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that one hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment in our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties the coalition's claims that that's an air complains and allowed it to bump islamic state while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq we witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we've seen in decades of covering the impact of wars you know when you're fighting an enemy. uses noncombat as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when the when you fight i

the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. you know when you're fighting an enemy. uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you fight it we like to completely avoid. any casualties of war like that but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. this to minimize you know civilian casualties that cost the coalition's claims that it's precision air campaigns allowed to bump islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq we witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we've seen in deca

well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight members in one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes read some of the testimony from those from those is just truly heartbreaking isn't it ok for now to search in london thanks for that. still to come this hour i'm glad merkel's under pressure for an action over an asylum corruption scandal unraveling in germany we'll have the details of that for you after a

using overwhelming force particularly in in syria and also in mosul in iraq the find is now of amnesty international to what extent could the change the rules of engagement in the near future if the coalition meets similar situation in different places amnesty and. reports that they had that if you had dozens of people each one of them told what. was with them and their families many people from their families were killed and the one being of the. coalition and the cats still in front of these witnesses who saw their families. being killed so there are people killed there are someone who killed them the u.s. led coalition so to do what very thick

the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. you know when you're fighting an enemy that uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you fight an enemy like that you to completely avoid. any casualties of war like that but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. this to minimize you know civilian casualties at all costs the coalition's claims that that's precision air campaigns allowed to bump islamic state out a frock while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq who witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anyth

causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny based on information from amnesty internationalis filled investigation and public reporting coalition or an artillery strikes killed hundreds of civilians and injured many more open amnesty's report and you'll find words like this proportionate indiscriminate bombing the use of white phosphorus claims which could turn into a reputational disaster if proven things that amount to war crimes the u.s. led coalition mission to free rocka went on for more than four months from june sixth to a cobra twelfth last year and the pentagon proudly told the world they'd fired thirty five thousand artillery rounds while they were at it they fired more rounds and rockets syria than any other marine artillery battalion or any marine or army battalion since the vietnam war yet we kept hearing from those whose orders matter how cautious they war there's been no military in the world's history that is paid more attention to the limited. view of ministers from the battlefield and coalition military we're not perfect guys we can make a mistake. and in t

greetings and salutation it's war is never pretty quaters war is hell this week amnesty international released a blistering report on the u.s. led coalition siege on the isis controlled city of raka syria a further proves just how truly hellish war could be especially on the civilians caught in the crossfire according to amnesty international there is strong evidence that coalition air and artillery strikes killed and injured thousands thousands of civilians including in disproportionate or indiscriminate attacks that by a late international humanitarian law and are potential war crimes. in the report amnesty highlights the losses of four families living in rocco who between them they lost ninety relatives and neighbors thirty nine from a single family almost all of them killed by coalition air strikes. this report of course flies in the face of the official numbers coming out of our friends our good friends at the pentagon which claims that the united states who was responsible for ninety percent of the airstrikes on rocka and coalition forces only killed five hundred civilians in in

this fellow who started amnesty international. not very will loan british barrister ran for the house of commons and lost and wandered around civil disobedience and christian is him but then he published an op-ed in the british newspaper called the forgotten prisoners looking at prisoners of conscience in the communist world and the west and in the developing post colonial world. this is long before facebook or twitter or the internet but it went viral. it was picked up by newspapers around the world one of the most famous offense in history. when it is that ideal moment so the nation started when i found out other information for those prisoners of conscience. it operated that every chapter would support three prisoners and they have to be nonviolent. so interestingly 1962 they refuse to support nelson mandela because at that point the enemy of the sphere after great frustration with the system although he returned to brief. the violence. so they would not support him for that reason. by 1964 amnesty international went to 400 cha

called for to be replaced well this comes as amnesty international has named more than a dozen myanmar military personnel that they say are responsible for war crimes against the ranger in its latest report the human rights group documented what it called a planned and systematic campaign that involved murder rape and forced starvation our diplomatic editor james bays reports. amnesty international researches say they've uncovered devastating new details about the crimes committed against these people the right as they were expelled from their homes they interviewed more than four hundred people mostly survivors and witnesses here in the refugee camps of bangladesh and inside rakhine state in myanmar and they give a clear picture of a planned and systematic military campaign in each case villages were surrounded and then attacked many were killed where i lived alongside other communities only the rectangle homes were torched. the villages were surrounded by the me and my military soldiers swept through they opened fire on men women and children as they were running away and they system

to minimize you know civilian casualties that cost well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight now. ambers and one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost eighteen and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes or two he was in syria while the u.s. led campaign to liberate iraq was ongoing these are some of the reports filed the by our correspondent on the extent of the devastation and residents were affected by the buck the u.n. estimates that's an

the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that one hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties.

matthew wells, a senior crisis adviser at amnesty international.it to the last 16 with a 2—1victory over nigeria, sending the super eagles out of the tournament. croatia took a 2—1 victory over iceland to qualify for the last 16 at the top of group d. and france finished top of their group, after a goalless draw with denmark. 0ur correspondent 0lly foster has the full day report from moscow. all eyes of the world were on st petersburg. would argentina really be packing their bags early? they had to beat nigeria, and hope that the other group game between croatia and iceland went their way as well. well, let's tell you what happened. lionel messi, would you believe it, actually looked like lionel messi at this tournament? he scored a wonderful goal to get argentina going. but nigeria — i mean, they've really sort of found their feet. and victor moses got a penalty, it was well deserved as well. javier mascherano had brought his man down. and we were five minutes from full—time, five minutes from argentina going home, but the most unlikely of goals c

washington-based offices by for example the international league for the rights of man or amnesty internationalusa branch. these activist located the united states both in values and its power is the center of the international system. such a vision illuminates how americans can see that the roll in u.s. foreign policy making and the role of the united states and the world. the 1960s were a period in which americans fought against racial does commission against support for oppressive regimes and against the use of torture came to adopt the lexicon of human rights to describe their system. for example eldredge before the fraser report and this is a report that came out a donald fraser's 1973 hearings on human rights. before the fraser reporter didn't think of what i was doing his human rights work. charlie changed over the time i am studying. why is this important? i think why americans came to care about human rights in the 60s is important because the reasons for the activism were desired in cheapy the human rights violation at the center of my count torture racial discrimination and religious

let's get more on this now from on the tele rivera who's a senior crisis response advisor for amnesty international she joins us now from london donna teller good to have you with us. the coalition rather boasted at the time about the precision of its military campaign but amnesty is alleging that it wasn't that precise at all. well precision munitions are only as good as the intelligence and the question really is about the. steps that were taken by the coalition to barry fied those targets because i was in iraq investigating on the ground in looking at sites speaking to survivors in the witnesses and we've come across case after case is of houses full of civilians who were bombed and pulverized by coalition forces now with so many occasions having clearly gone wrong there are questions that arise from the choice of munitions but also saw the way in which the targets were verified who was calling in the air strikes how good was the surveillance was the coalition putting in the necessary resources to keep the places under surveillance to establish whether those who were in this houses were civilian

amnesty international. details about the. crimes committed against these people the right as they were expelled from their homes they interviewed more than four hundred people mostly survivors and witnesses here in the refugee camps of bangladesh and inside rakhine state in myanmar and they give a clear picture of a planned and systematic military campaign in each case villages were surrounded and then attacked many were killed where i hang get lived alongside other communities only the wrecking the homes were torched. villagers were surrounded by the me and my military soldiers swept through they opened fire on men women and children as they were running away and they systematically burned down their wishes and what this shows is that this was not the work of rogue soldiers or units involved units across a large area that this was a pattern carried out and therefore suggest that it was a pattern carried out pursuant to me a common plan the human rights group is naming thirteen commanders and offices who believes are responsi

amnesty international has dismissed the entire case, calling it baseless. the turkish government has refused to allow a member of the german parliament to enter the country as an observer for this weekend's election. a member of the german left party wanted to travel to turkey to represent the organization for security and corporation in europe. yet previously condemned last year's constitutional referendum in turkey as unfair. the turkish government has accused him of sympathizing with the outlawed pkk party. many turks fear the outcome of the weekend's election could be fixed. allegations of tampering emerged after last year's constitutional referendum. resident erdogan sharply reject -- president erdogan sharply rejected those accusations. this time around those suspecting potential fraud are on high alert. our correspondent has this report from istanbul. reporter: this video shocked millions of turks. it was recorded during the constitutional referendum last year. the footage purports to show dozens of ballot papers being stamped as valid after the vote

at amnesty international accuses members military of a planned and systematic assault on the country's range of minority. leaders of south sudan's warring parties of side the peace deal aimed at ending the country's five year civil war under the deal a ceasefire will begin in three days time president salva kiir and rebel leader rick bashar signed the agreement in the sudanese capital khartoum where they've been holding talks at least fifty thousand people have been killed and around four million displaced since the conflict began in twenty thirty. up women and ceasefire . through. force. al-jazeera said morgan says that other peace deals have been signed in the past but of all of the problems well first of all the touring sides have agreed to a cease fire that would be effective within seventy two hours they've also agreed to a four month period which would be followed by a transitional period that would be going on for thirty six months now let's remember that there was already a peace agreement between presidents our care and opposition leader rick my chart which was signed in augus

this an amnesty international report dubbed war of any hell.

al-jazeera brownsville texas amnesty international is accusing me and mars army of carrying out a planned and systematic campaign against. its latest report names of thirteen military personnel that it says are responsible for war crimes including murder rape and for starvation human rights group says that they should be tried at the international criminal court our diplomatic editor james bays has more. amnesty international researches say they've uncovered devastating new details about the crimes committed against these people the right as they were expelled from their homes they interviewed more than four hundred people mostly survivors and witnesses here in the refugee camps of bangladesh and inside rakhine state and myanmar and they give a clear picture of a planned and systematic military campaign in each case villages were surrounded and then attacked many were killed where i lived alongside other communities only the rectangle homes were torched. the villages were surrounded by the me and my military soldiers swept through they opened fire on men women and children as they were ru

amnesty international accuses the country's army chiefs.e'll bring you all the latest from moscow.