ago led hundreds of thousands of britons of muslims to flee the country to get reaction from amnesty international. germany hundreds joined far right protests in the eastern city of quetta nic sets off the fatal stabbing of a german national during a dispute police say involved people of various nationalities. and who can keep part of munich from winning their seventh straight bundesliga title after the first weekend of the season dortmund is this all right making people in the running after they demolished their strong light team on sunday. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring thanks for joining us united nations investigators have released a damning report on myanmar's military calling for the prosecution of its commanders for crimes against humanity the investigators say they orchestrated the military campaign against the countries were injured muslims with coke quote genocidal intent they also announced they now have enough evidence to prosecute six top generals for those alleged crimes. the mission has. included that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on t

well, first of all, amnesty international is not totally independent.onal usa until recently was a person who was very closely associated with hillary clinton and who worked in the state department under hillary clinton. it is based in the west and it is based on western so—called values. i wonder what those are at times. but when it comes to... if you're talking about political prisoners, it would be good to include people like julian assange, who is right now, in my opinion, a political prisoner being held in the heart of london because he's exposed the crimes of the united states in iraq, because he's exposed how hillary clinton used the democratic national committee to cheat her rival, sanders, from being the candidate for the democratic party. and now he's being punished for it. he's been accused of raping two women, falsely accused as far as we know. then you have other examples. you have people like helen thomas, who was the white house correspondent for nine administrations. professor marandi... you will have the right to question what happens i

first of all, amnesty international is not totally independent. antil recently was a person closely associated with hillary clinton and who worked in the state department under hillary clinton —— until recently. it is based in the west and it is based on western so—called values. i wonder what those dark at times. if you are talking about political prisoners, it would be good to include people likejulian it would be good to include people like julian assange, who it would be good to include people likejulian assange, who was right now, in my opinion, a political prisoner being held in the heart of london because he is definitely has exposed the crimes of the us and iraq. because he has exposed the way hillary continues the democratic national committee to cheat her rival bernie sanders to be the canada for the democratic party, anne aly has been punished for. he been accused as reading two women. fa lsely been accused as reading two women. falsely accused as far as we know. then you have other people like helen thomas —— raping two women. you will

is the advocacy director for that africare amnesty international he says the video is evidence of a culture of impunity in cameroon's minute tree. the video documents. cameroonian soldiers basically lining up men women and in the our north and basically committing action to destroy executions the soldiers and can be heard on the tape saying that they are committing a coming cause the type of operation it seems like the footage west by one of their own soldiers so it is very clear we've been able to confirm that these are indeed cameroonian soldiers and that they are not. operation based on the fact that this has happened before and that this seems to be a pattern of operation by the security forces in the country in twenty seventeen we released a report that documented incidences of torture by the korean security forces the elite forces known as the her who had been living in a camp call sound like these kinds of. treatment beatings in action for executions even proceed those kinds of incidents there's years a culture of impunity the government has been fairly dismissive calling the concern

. >> amnesty international has accused indonesia's security forces of using force againstal crim ahead of this year's asian games. the sporting event ope on saturday with athletes from 45 competing.anies they are breaking up organized groups of pick pockets before the event. reporter: bag stanners, body searches, even facial recognition software, indonesia has suffered several terrorist r attacks oveent years, so this year's asian games will er take place he amid tight security. >> i'm not worried at all. we have been waiting for this event for a long time. we're not afraid of an attack. police have reallycked down so i feel like indonesia has a relative safe security situation. reporter: 17,000 athletes will take part with 462 gold medals up for grabs and with tens o thousands of tourists expected, indonesia is determined tta out petty theft, but amnesty international says that crackdown on criminals h led to unnecessary violence with 31 people killed in police rai and dozens injured. pollutionsecurity, has been high on lists of concerns, despite attempts to take cars off the road, th

amnesty international has accused indonesia's security forces of using excessive force against suspectedn games. the sporting event opens on saturday, with athletes from 45 asian countries competing. police say they are breaking up organised rings of pickpockets and bag—snatchers, ahead of what is the world's largest multi—sport event after the olympics. andrew plant reports. bag scanners, body searches, even facial recognition software. indonesia has suffered several terrorist attacks over recent years, so this year's asian games will take place here amid tight security. translation: i'm not worried at all. we've been waiting for this event for a long time. we're not afraid of an attack. police have really cracked down, so i feel like indonesia has a relatively safe security situation. 17,000 athletes will take part, with a62 gold medals up for grabs. and, with tens of thousands of tourists expected, indonesia is determined to stamp out petty theft. but amnesty international says the crackdown on criminals has led to unnecessary violence, with 31 people killed in police raids and dozens

sherine tadros is head of the un office of amnesty international.t people have been saying about kofi annan‘s legacy. it's quite incredible, really, the outpour of adoration that we're seeing, both within the un and also without, all of the world leaders that we've been hearing from all across the world really talking about the same thing. and this is something that the un human rights chief also brought up, which is that right now, in the world, we have a lack of leadership, a lack of people to speak truth to power. those who really put themselves out there, and don't think about their own political survival, in order to do the right thing and speak up against atrocity. and this is what many see that kofi annan was able to do. it's true, as your reporter pointed out, that there certainly were failures and mistakes made during his tenure as secretary general, and even before, when he was head of un peacekeeping operations. but really, the power of the secretary general is often very limited, and much more limited than i think we on the outside can a

but klopp call that amnesty international jumped up just talks about this torment in the summer can i see the timeline the overview here. here this not so those guys they play this is the nation's league they are going to replace most of the friendly's at the end they play a tournament in. summer nineteen so that the extra games is just this tournament and the tournament. will be you know only the teams of a leak a will participate in this tournament. and those of the big teams and only the players of the big teams play in the champions league so it's the storeman of the tournament has four games so it's not you know it is a plus of games but at the end i think we'll see a tournament with you know so use with young players with the contact card which you know you're supporting this you like the idea no i think we don't you know that this tournament no one hit nobody's going to watch it like the concept cup is going to be like the u. twenty one the united in his going to play but. this monster i don't know i'm not sure about the friendlies where we're where is. that i don't i'm not s

a turkish court has ordered the release of an amnesty international chairman who's been held for more than a year without trial. was charged with supporting us based businessman for to legoland in turkey accused of orchestrating a failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen amnesty international said he could be released later on wednesday it's accused turkey of human rights abuses over detention still to come on the program really for palestinians in gaza as israel reopens a vital border crossing a sign perhaps of easing tensions and find that was killing sea life and harvesting to resume along the coastlines of florida and the caribbean all that and more when we come back. hello looking back to international weather forecasts well across parts of china we have been watching a lot of tropical activity over the last few days and today is not any different than those we are watching one system down here across the south china sea as well as up here across the eastern coast of china let's take a look the forecast as we go for the next few days because we are going to be seeing plenty of rain

well johnny joining me now via skype from johannesburg is amnesty international secretary general could mean idea you were closely with kofi annan as a human rights activist thank you very much for speaking to us western idea he spoke as we said you worked very closely to him spend a lot of time with him if you had to just outline some of his probably the specific qualities that made him such a respective respected leader what would that be. personally i would see was a vision of the was willing to push us will be on what the limitations of the u.n. is structurally alex jones and sort of allowed him to do he was as the report says fights but and was able to get results from many things and the i would say that distinguish themselves in that will we always the mind of the world what the only charter of the united nations said it starts with the words we have the peoples of the united nations it doesn't say we the nation states of the united nations only therefore use that line in the charter to argue for much greater role for civil society and non-state actors in the world cup the united

says it will investigate a video which appears to show soldiers shooting at unarmed people amnesty international says it's very fired the video through witness testimony and analysis of weapons and uniforms it was reportedly filmed before may twenty sixth seen in a village in the far north of the country a spokesman for president paul beer says the video was released to undermine the government ahead of elections in october i just a are quasar advocacy director for africa at amnesty international he says the video is evidence of a culture of impunity in cameron's military. the video documents. cameroonian soldiers basically lining up men women and in the far north and basically committing action additional executions the soldiers are can be heard on the tape saying that they're committing at comic-con is the type of operation it seems like the footage was taped by one of their own soldiers so it is very clear we've been able to confirm that these are indeed cameroonian soldiers and that they're not. type operation based on the fact that this has happened before and that this seems to be a patter

says it will investigate a video apparently showing the military shooting at unarmed people amnesty international says it's very hard to video through one of testimony and analysis of weapons and uniforms. for president paul beer says the video was released to undermine the government ahead of elections in october but are those they are the advocacy director for africa at amnesty international and he says the video is proof of a pattern of impunity by the military. the video documents. cameroonian soldiers basically lining up men women and in the are north and basically committing extradition executions the soldiers are can be heard on the tape saying that they're committing a comic how is the type of operation it seems like the footage was taped by one of their own soldiers so it is very clear we've been able to confirm that these are indeed cameroonian soldiers and that they're not. type operation based on the fact that this has happened before and that this seems to be a pattern of operation by the security forces in the country in twenty seventeen we released a report that documented incidenc

in other areas such as building roots of the expression the detention of shogun allam whom amnesty international considers a prisoner's conscience meaning that he's only been detained for peacefully expressing his views and that he should immediately and unconditionally release is a stain on the government's record it has used legislation like the normal that was used to charge section fifty seven of the i.c.t. act in very deep and coercive knowing that criminal as we go expression so we hope that it will actually reverse course so let me ask you do the laws need to change and why is the government apparently arresting journalists and protest as arbitrary . the government itself is that mr that this law is floored and yet it persists with its use we believe that the rulings to go that freedom of expression where it's peaceful nice being protected as there's freedom of assembly and so on unfortunately the government seems to be pressing ahead with these measures but we hope that there will see since there have been lots of this use of public concern both have affected people and they should be al

chelsea speak which is trying to promote the story and get amnesty international which is launching a petition also to try to to get them to change their idea of the whole point she is going to be speaking hopefully if so won't be speaking out the sunday this sunday night at the sydney opera house for the antidote festival which was also going to be she's also going to be travelling to brazil and melbourne so hopefully australia you get to hear chelsea speak i would hope so and you know in what goes on at the time this really goes to how do we treat our heroes at the end of the you know and to me josie manning is and always will be a hero for what she did she blew the whistle on a terrible amount of devastation corruption and lethality by the u.s. military. in march of twenty fifteen model botha london walked into the n.y.p.d. is my precinct and accused harvey weinstein of sexual assault however despite the hard work of the n.y.p.d. special victims division to getting weinstein to admit his crimes on tape and to protect. from harvey weinstein's high powered attorneys private investiga

involvement in it has been extremely under reported amnesty international calls that the forgotten war spoke to me about some of the factors that make reporting on yemen so difficult i think often what people presume to be a dis interest on the broader part of the media is that we've actually just an inability to get on the ground we are trying in different ways we are learning as we go along as other people in the media landscape how are we going to report on this war that is in place and a conflict that oftentimes people don't really have a great deal of knowledge on but also that is incredibly difficult to get access to in and i think we are which trying our best to figure it out as we go along and it's important to note that access to the war front and yemen isn't just being limited by the saudi let forces but also the who to let govern.

. >>> amnesty international says the u.s.ber of deaths is likely much higher than first thought in raqqah. after strong denials, the early air raids killed 77 millions. they said this is only the tip of the iceberg. cnn's arwa damon has more from istanbul. arwa, what are you seeing? what are you hearing about what is actually happening on the ground? >> reporter: you know, it is complicated because the u.s. military historically has been reluctant to acknowledge civilian casualties and tend to do so when they received credible information that had taken place. that is what they are doing not just in raqqah, but mosul as well. when you take into consideration the bombardment and isis is known for holding hostages in their homes especially as battles were intensifies for raqqah and mosul, the numbers are certainly going to rise at this stage when you went into raqqah and the days after it was recaptured from isis, there were parts, phil, where you did not see color. that is how decimated everything was because everything was gr

a turkish court has ordered the release of an amnesty international chairman who's been held for more than a year without trial time to kill it was charged with supporting us business based businessman for two the girl who turkey accuses of orchestrating a failed coup attempt twenty sixteen amnesty international has accused turkey if human rights abuses over kill just detention. protesters been killed in the city of basra as rocky security forces broke up a sit in organized by activists near a foreign oil and oil field two other protesters were also injured is the latest in a series of demonstrations against overseas oil companies operating in the wrong. more than one hundred migrants rescued in the mediterranean sea are due to arrive in malta where they'll be distributed between e.u. nations their rival ends a five day standoff after the rescue bill was docking instead fulfill its one hundred forty one migrants on board will be taken in by france germany luxembourg portugal and spain doctors without borders says some of the migrants are escaping torture forced labor and sexual violen

shooting at people it was reportedly shot before may twenty sixth in a village in the far north amnesty international says it's verify the video through witness testimony a spokesman for president paul beers says the video was released to undermine their government ahead of elections in october. dozens of people have been injured after a romanian police used tear gas and water cannon at an anti-government rally in bucharest thousands of romanian ex-pats have been demonstrating calling for the government to resign and many drive across europe to attend the protests against the governing social democrats they blame the party for corruption and a lack of opportunities relief agencies are warning of the potentially catastrophic impact of a heatwave in north korea there's been no rainfall since july with the temperatures soaring to an average of thirty nine degrees celsius it's causing volatile crops to weather and creasing the risk of a food security crisis u.s. fireman a building barriers to try to contain a slow moving wildfire in southern california well the twenty one thousand people have been told t

pacific program at chatham house in colombo via skype omar waraich deputy south asia director at amnesty international and also in london david bergman a journalist who was formerly based in bangladesh for thirteen years welcome to you all charu i want to start with you today look many have said that these protests are about far more than just road safety or traffic what in your view are the issues that led to these demonstrations. i think the fact remains that they said being deceived by an idea that dissent has been suppressed for too long a questioning of the government is something that is not being tolerated and let's bear in mind that its board. its all factions all political parties across the board currently we have the army leak we is trying to bring in what is called the digital think killer t. act are hugely the cornea piece of legislation which would seek to suppress and undermine the media so i think with this a third of widespread protests by students in the light of a lot that is going on within the country in terms of freedom of expression suppression of the st and therefore has to be

mcgregor she was twenty eight years old when she took her life earlier this summer and she was interned amnesty she worked in geneva according to her father she developed health problems because of stress and she committed suicide just a few days after returning home now that happened five weeks after another suicide within the organization which is so rocked it this guy sixty five year old gabe was a veteran research he'd spent over thirty years in west africa he was found dead in amnesty's paris office and he left a suicide note in which he described pressure work and the lack of management support a former amnesty employee shared her experience working there with us too. but i was the former researcher for israel and palestine based in jerusalem i resigned in two thousand and eighteen due to security and safety issues as well as a lack of support from management when it came to dealing with the stress i was basically put in danger and my family was put in danger because of the work that i was doing with amnesty because i didn't even take the necessary precautions to protect the staff before

amnesty international says hackers recently targeted one its staffers in a sophisticated surveillance effort by a hostile government t to spy y on the g's work. the staffer,r, who was working n a campaigngn calling for the release of jailed women's rights activists in saudi arabia, received an anonymous message in arabic in the whatsapp smartphone application. the message was found to contain a link that would install the malware program pegasus -- developed by an israeli cyber-intelligence firm -- which allows a third party to spy extensively on an encrypted phone's calls, photos, and messages. amnesty warns the attack was likely part of a much broader effort to spy on activists in several countries across asia, africa, , and europe. the trump administration has cleared the way for insurance companies to expand their sales of inexpensive health care plans that circumvent many of the protections of the affordable care act. under the new rules, health insurers can sell plans originally designed for short-term use for up to 12 months, with an option to renew each year. the plans don't h

amnesty international is blaming hostile e.u. policies a more refugee deaths in the mediterranean rights group estimated more than seven hundred people drowned in june and july and that's despite fewer people attempting the paralyse journey from africa to europe some of the ago as more. don't really go through a frantic charge towards a rescue ship and a desperate plea not to be sent back to libya on the t.v. that dubiously wonder what. all eighty seven people stranded off the libyan coast saved by a spanish charity vessel a week ago after a brutal journey libya the port of which was no good and it did not know what that one thing they are among the tens of thousands of people who have crossed from africa to europe this year the ones that make it a lucky ones many do not survive. amnesty international says that in june and july of this year more than seven hundred people drowned in the mediterranean an increase in deaths from the same time last year and that's despite a drop in the numbers of people making that same journey. alon

amnesty international says that in june and july of this year more than seven hundred people drowned in the mediterranean an increase in deaths from the same time last year and that's despite a drop in the numbers of people making that same journey. alongside this there has also been a dramatic rise in the number of people being held in overcrowded detention centers in libya in recent months the number of detainees has shot up to four thousand four hundred in march to more than ten thousand by the end of july nearly all were taken to centers such as this after being intercepted at sea and returned to libya by the libyan coast guard. the search comes after a backdrop of intensifying anti migrant politics in europe germany's chancellor angela merkel faced a fierce backlash more than a million refugees mainly from syria and afghanistan into the country now the government to seek new agreements with fellow members of the european union to send my kids back to the countries where they initially registered but this has done little to calm populist figures all over the continent who are kee

then in june twenty eighth amnesty international published the results of interviewing over four hundred people in bangladesh and with an ra kind states they revealed the plans and systematic military campaign with satellite evidence of attacks on villages in which only the ranger homes were satellites villages were surrounded by the myanmar 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 world soldiers or units involved units. across a large area but this was a pattern carried out and therefore suggests that it was a pattern carried out pursuant to a common plan. amnesty also join the international voices calling for those responsible to be sent to the international criminal court was unleashed during twenty seventeen clearance operations recent incident in bahrain is a own ethnic group and made absolutely no mistake the crimes against humanity we actually about rape murder torture or starvation in eastern land mines and targeted larg

human rights watch and amnesty international are reporting that two prominent women's rights activists have been arrested in saudi arabia the arrests of some are we and this e-mails to die a signal that the saudi authorities see any peaceful dissent whether past or present as a threat to their autocratic rule this unprecedented level of persecution of human rights defenders in saudi arabia is a disturbing sign that the crackdown is far from over the rest of the activists were protesting against laws which compel women to get permission from men to study marry or travel abroad now there's a long time campaigner for women's and shia minority rights the other arrested activist says some of the delhi also a veteran activist for women's rights in saudi arabia for her brother raul dissident an activist you may recall his name he's serving a ten year jail term for insulting islam online some are receive the twenty twelve international women of courage award from their u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. so you are a human rights activist a monitor of human rights in your country of saudi

let's get more on this knowledge oin by the advocacy director for africa at amnesty international and he's joining us on scott from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on algis they are so firstly tell us more about this video and what was seeing it yes thank you very much for having me that video documents. cameroonian soldiers basically lining up men women and in the far north and basically committing actually judicial executions the soldiers and can be heard on the t.v. saying that they're committing it coming cause the type of operation it seems like the footage was by one of their own soldiers so it is very clear and as you said we've been able to confirm that these are indeed cameroonian soldiers and that there are no. operation based on the fact that this has happened before and that this seems to be a pattern of operation by the security forces in the country well that's right amnesty has said that this is more credible evidence to support the allegations that cameron's forces have committed grave crimes against civilians. that is correct. in twenty seventeen we rele

ago led hundreds of thousands of britons or muslims to flee the country to get reaction from amnesty international.

human rights watch and amnesty international reporting that two prominent women's rights activists have been arrested in saudi arabia. the arrest of some arpad our we and the c mouse to die signal that the saudi authorities see any peaceful dissent whether past the present as a threat to their autocratic rule this unprecedented level of persecution of human rights defenders in saudi arabia is a disturbing sign that the crackdown is far from over when they arrested activists were protesting against laws that compel women to get permission for men to study to marry or travel abroad naseem of souther is a long time campaign of women's and shia minority rights she put herself forward to run in local elections in twenty fifteen but was barred by the authorities the other arrested activist is some other name may sound familiar also a veteran activist for women's rights in saudi arabia a brother rife run a website encouraging political debate in the kingdom he's currently serving a ten year jail term for insulting islam online summer said foreign recognition of having received the twenty twelv

the n.g.o.s that soros supports are being harassed like amnesty international not long ago legislation was passed that made it much harder for n.g.o.s to operate in hungary aiding refugees is now punishable by law and that's whether you will. fits neatly into or illiberal democracy that tries to silence those who don't want to live in such a democracy. government has been combating independent civil society for five years with varying intensity hearts but without stopping to get an. eye or bones goal is to preserve his power so he can continue ruling as he pleases he and his party control everything in hungary and have created and illiberal state in which he controls all checks and balances himself governing with no resistance government officials close. i'm it's the will of the people checks and balances the checks and balances are as strong as ever or even stronger it's true the first eight years we were in power we had the opportunity to nominate and elect a number of people. but hungary's majority leans to the conservative side. and our constitutional bodies can independently come

with me to reflect on the visit so far i have the director of in this dms —— amnesty international here for justice? abuse by a priest. are you still waiting forjustice? thankfully i've been able to find a bit ofjustice ina require been able to find a bit ofjustice in a require rehear. i successfully sued the church here in ireland. i also exceed one of pope francis's predecessors. we knew that he had been made aware of the abuse. and that the church had known about this priest being in abuser before they ordained him. he received diplomatic immunity. since i've been calling on hopes to tell the truth of what they knew of how their institution worked willfully, deliberately to cover up the crimes of clergy. this was a cover up the crimes of clergy. this was a cover up that was underpinned by the laws of the church. it was not an accident. it was not because they did not have knowledge or information, it was intentional and deliberate. to this day, no pope including pope francis, has acknowledged that. it was said today that pope francis did take the opportunity to acknowledge the shame

but it has to be done in a way that the saudis feel appropriate and not insulting roughen amnesty international has called for the international community to speak out against rights abuses rights abuses in saudi arabia can we expect to be hearing more from countries specifically the u.k. and france at this time. if the u.k. france and other e.u. states other countries allies decide to review and care about human rights care about women's lives as they supposed to according to their charters and within their own laws they should be standing up and declaring their support for what canada has said and urging the release all of these activists inside rebiya the fact that they have been silent so far is deafening the silence is absolutely deafening and it sort of leaves the side raving authorities much more emboldened because what that's what they really doing is they're trying to silence all of their critics not just internally but externally by reacting so harshly and so aggressively against the canadian authorities they want to make it clear these are the consequences of what it means when you c

involvement in it has been extremely under reported amnesty international calls that the forgotten war elbagir spoke to me about some of the factors that make reporting on yemen so difficult. i think often what people presume to be a dis interest on the root of part of the media is that we've actually just an inability to get on the ground we are trying in different ways we are learning as we go along as other people in the media landscape how are we going to report on those who it is in place and accomplish that oftentimes people don't really have a great deal of knowledge on but also that is incredibly difficult to get access to in and i think we are which trying our best to figure it out as we go along and it's important to note that access to the warfront and yemen isn't just being limited by the saudi let forces but also the hooty led government that has been very hostile to the media ok thanks joe. turning now to palestinian journalists and activists and the twin inescapable realities of surveillance and censorship since two thousand and fifteen the authorities in israel have arr

then in june twenty eighth teen amnesty international published the results of interviewing over four hundred people in bangladesh and within racking state they revealed the plans and systematic military campaign with satellite evidence of attacks on villages in which only the ranger homes where satellites 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 systematically burned down it was and what this shows is that this was not the work of world 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 a common plan. i missed he also joined the international voices calling for those responsible to be sent to the international criminal court. was the only shooter in twenty seven days clearance operations one recent incident involving is a zero and every count and made absolutely no mistake these crimes he is you know we actually running. water. nation in the land mines and targeted large

number of people going missing at the hands of the government in twenty fifteen we're told amnesty international up to four people were abducted every day three hundred seventy eight cases of enforced disappearances between august twenty sixth dean and august twenty seventh in hera's hussain bomi who is an egypt researcher for amnesty international joining us on skype from tunis. the thing which strikes me here is that there is no accountability for this if it's the government that is forcibly disappearing people then who's going to police it. well i mean isn't a good question would have been asking that question for a long time but the issue is that this isn't actions that sanctioned by the political leadership isn't action it's supported by the political leadership it's not just individual members of the security forces that are getting having people forced disappearance in for their own personal gains it's not just gangs it's not just armed groups no it's the security forces acting as part of the state and as if it is protected because leadership is protecting them from any sort of questionin