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

i for the elderly it's often nearly unbearable the human rights organization amnesty international interviewed nearly 150 displaced road injured 54 to over 90 they found that aid agencies hadn't done enough to address the needs of older refugees. not that far for the people who can walk well it's only a problem for me. when i don't go to the come to nic they don't provide good treatment they usually only give one of 2 tablets when my son buys medication for me i take that i'm weary of going that. way but it was not the end that this man was able to reach a designated age friendly clinic for such places are rare in the refugee camps for the elderly food medical and sanitation facilities are often difficult to reach researchers documented cases of older patients foregoing medicine because they could not navigate the challenging terrain to the clinics. despite the challenges these are the lucky ones many other elderly wrote enjoy were unable to flee and me on mars army attacked their villages in rocky in state. you know mothers that we were in the field the soldiers with chasing people and shooti

massacre of ethnic groups and myanmar's rakhine state hasn't ended according to a new report by amnesty international now the group wants the u.n. security council to refer the crimes to the international criminal court or kind state is riven by ethnic and religious divisions and was the epicenter of the bloody military crackdown against for him the muslims in 2017 much of the continued violence though is between the myanmar military and iraq an army a group of ethnic rebels a woman widowed following an attack in march once both sides to lay down arms and talk. it's like both sides are too proud now my husband is dead they wrapped up his body in plastic they didn't even allow us to touch or she would love a clue. so what will it take to stop the bloodshed well here in our studio to discuss matthew wells he's a senior a crisis advisor at amnesty international and one of the researchers behind the amnesty report and amsterdam any to should she is head of women and children affairs at the european council and me and laurie eileen mccarthy she is an advocacy manager for save the children and we won't be

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

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

don't know we acknowledge that and we acknowledge that as a matter of fact the most recent amnesty international report we have welcomed that human rights watch are welcome to doha on a regular basis and we receive their criticism very well yet we may still say you're dragging your feet yes but they said that they we made great progress ilo in november 2017 closed the issue the case against us and we have struck and you and a full investigation and if you didn't clean up your act you know i'll tell you what they have to threaten you with the know they know nothing else and little to do so fact and no the thing is that but this is the difference we deal with constructive criticism very positively that's why we receive any constructive criticism very well so let me just continue that port after closing the complaint against what are the ilo november 2017 we signed a 3 year agreement with them and the ilo issued a statement saying that should all the measures and that agreement be implemented others will be needing example in the region this is what we aspire to and there is no question about our c

amnesty international says egypt is using counterterrorism as a cover for crackdown on its opponents it follows the arrests of 8 people including human rights lawyers journalists politicians and activists they're accused of having links to the band's muslim brotherhood group they're also accused of plotting protests during the upcoming anniversary of the military coup which deposed president mohammed morsy in 2013 morsi died last week after collapsing in court when i speak to diouf amina who's an assistant professor at long island university and a member of the gyptian rule of law association she is via skype from north runs week in the u.s. thank you so much dalia for being with us amnesty international says the egyptian authorities have intensified their crackdown on opposition and civil society what is fueling this what's the reason behind the renewed crackdown. so there are several reasons amnesty international actually declared today that egypt has become an open air prison because there is no space for opposition or any independent reporting now if you look at who was arrested

amnesty international is saudi arabia as a rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy 18 year old. could a this has been detained for the past 5 years for taking part in antigovernment protests he's awaiting his next trial session for alleged offenses that date back to when he was just 10 years old will saudi arabia has a long record of imposing the death penalty clude ng against children which is illegal under international amnesty international says that $149.00 people were put to death in 2018 this year that figure is already more than $100.00 in april $37.00 mostly shia men were killed in a public execution on terrorism related charges both amnesty international and human rights watch oppose saudi arabia's use of the death penalty say that many confessions are extracted on the torture that speak to rodney dixon via skype from london he's an international human rights lawyer who last year presented the report to the un on saudi arabia's rights record let's stick for the moment this particular case of a teenage boy what do you make of it. it's quite shocking when you hear that th

the security chief of organizing the rebellion amnesty international is accusing the government in eritrea of intimidating and harassing critics living in exile they include the eritrean activists living in the u.k. sweden and kenya malcolm webb has more from the kenyan capital nairobi. or tamil b.-ball the home or not so she's never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritrea is rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she's seen here in one of the rebels' mountain hideout in the 1980 s. independence came in 1901 but she says freedom did not if they want to kill you they can kill you automatically. she owned a factory but she didn't join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says she's been harassed ever since including here in kenya's capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her arrested by local police is involved in. business tonight he took his saw was like 56 they. had caught the. things he tried to deport does. rights activists say that the kind of harassment that a biebe

say how tecla is a research of ethiopia and ever try amnesty international and he says that the ever trained government is determined to silence the human rights defenders living abroad. and parents and other people who dare to criticize a human right condition you need to face number of repression harvestman pendar talks and. so that repression will marry prayer is not limited we can you support that that it is happening everywhere so i was very frank about imad a determined and committed and supporters including to the silent here but i defend us outside their country not just into that they used to start their own government support since i despaired of their meetings of the people. embassy. officials. treats about people they saw. do conduct that are such a nation of. probably not tomorrow or defendants including like martin plaut men on this group are not so they use every possible to me every valid business to silence criticism that this intolerance for criticism is also reflected outside of their country songs they don't like anyone got an opinion or not to criticize their hum

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

for the elderly it's often nearly unbearable the human rights organization amnesty international interviewed nearly 150 displaced row injured aged 54 to over 90 they found that aid agencies hadn't done enough to address the needs of older refugees. not that far for the people who can walk well it's only a problem for me. when i don't go to the camp to nic they don't provide good treatment they usually only give one of 2 tablets when my son buys medication for me i take that i'm wary of going that. way but it was not the end that this man was able to reach a designated age friendly clinic but such places are rare in the refugee camps for the elderly food medical and sanitation facilities are often difficult to reach researchers documented cases of older patients foregoing medicine because they could not navigate the challenging terrain to the clinics. despite the challenges these are the lucky ones many other elderly wrote enjoy were unable to flee and me on mars army attacked their villages in wrecking state. you know mothers that we were in the field the soldiers with chasing people and sho

and little certainty about how things are going to move forward stephanie decker al-jazeera amnesty international says of the military council must withdraw all members of the rapid support forces from the streets secretary general kofi knight who says what we've witnessed in the past 3 days is horrific and barbaric the senseless killing of protesters must be stopped immediately of those responsible for the bloodbath including at command level must be held fully accountable for the dreadful actions . rupert coville is the spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for human rights he joins us now via skype from geneva report thanks for being with us the commission has said they continue to be gravely concerned about the situation in sudan but what's to be done about it. well i think a number of things we requested for us to the government to get the u.n. human rights management team into the country as quickly as possible. but one thing i think the other thing is to rein meeting the rounds of golf course. immediately because this group has a very very checkered history. and it has been at the ce

amnesty international appeals to saudi arabia not to execute a teenage boy in jail since he was 13. but it is a very remarkable day. and nasa says it's opening up the international space station for tourism and other basements. now the u.s. is suspending plans to impose tariffs on mexican goods after the 2 countries reached a deal on migration under the agreement of migrants from central america who are currently in the u.s. awaiting asylum will be sent back to mexico until their case is a result rob reynolds reports. the u.s. threat to impose punitive tariffs on mexico led to a week of intense negotiations ending in a last minute accord president donald trump announced in a tweet the united states of america has reached its signed agreement with mexico the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border this is being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico and into the u

amnesty international describes the crackdown as a "bloodbath." from the sudanese capital, khartoum. this streetjust behind me leads you to the former protest area outside the army headquarters. just a few days ago there would have been thousands of people walking down this street, going out to demonstrate for a civilian government. but today you can see it's quiet. we can't get much closer because there are members of the rsf militia group as well as government soldiers guarding the area, but what we've learned from eyewitnesses and protesters who were there on monday morning when the area was attacked is that they felt surrounded. at around 5:00am, they saw members of the security forces surrounding the protest area, gunshots came in from different directions and in some cases there were snipers on the top of buildings. they say there was chaos, people running. some tried to save those who were injured but they were not able to. worryingly, there were also reports that some women were raped on that morning. there has been international condemnat

amnesty international has urged egypt to order an impartial investigation into the death of the former morsi, who collapsed during a court apperance. egyptian state television said the 67—year—old muslim brotherhood leader died of a heart attack. amnesty said mr morsi's death raised serious questions about his treatment in custody. dalia fahmy is associate professor of political science at long island university. she is in new york. welcome to the briefing. give us your take on the treatment of mohamed morsi. so while many of us are shocked by his death, none of us are shocked by his death, none of us are surprised. the reason why is in 2017 president morsi in court said that they are slowly trying to kill him, and by they he means the state. the same year, human rights watch released a report saying not only is he lacking in due process, but the conditions he is being kept in could lead to his imminent death. just last year a delegation of british mps led by christian blunt said his conditions will lead to his premature death. president morsi was arrested and ta ken premature death. p

amnesty international americans advocacy director charanya krishnaswami joined us from our washingtons been appalled by the treatment of unaccompanied and vulnerable children in detention. you know, iwould you know, i would say we are not at all surprised. we are deeply disappointed and we are appalled but we not shocked. what we hearing out of the facility in a cleaned, it is very much with what we have heard coming out of other border facilities. you are saying this is more widespread and happening along the border? it is difficult to say precisely because organisations like amnesty international have historically had a very difficult time getting access to these facilities. they are notoriously secretive and difficult to access. the only reason we know what happen ina the only reason we know what happen in a cleaned is because of the attorneys who were they had a court mandated to be there and monitor the facilities and of the conditions in which kids are being held in border patrol facilities. itjust so happened that the attorneys knew children were being held and that is how they

well as you mentioned amnesty international are calling for an investigation they say that because president morsi was held to solitary confinement in almost a full 6 years that that reaches the standards of torture and international and that they say the egyptian government is required to investigate the reasons why president morsi jockey's there was also a group of british m.p.'s who formed something called the detention rebuke which investigated the conditions under which the president morsy was being kept and they said that the lack of medical care in inadequate medical care he's not a disease and diabetes meant that he was a risk of credit to a death which they declared in a report last year. and so you know there are many groups that do it long term attention to the conditions under which he was being helped there is a lot of questions out there a lot of allegations what's egypt's in government saying about them and about how he died. was he mentioned egypt's public prosecutor said in a report that they would investigate they also said that should be before. 5 pm in cairo time yesterda

stream is myanmar's army still killing people and replying to the we discussed a new report by amnesty international that accuses the military of fresh atrocities tweet us your comments or leave them in our lives you tube chat and you too can be in the stream. the massacre of ethnic groups and myanmar's rakhine state hasn't ended according to a new report by amnesty international now the group wants the u.n. security council to refer the crimes to the international criminal court or kind state is riven by ethnic and religious divisions and was the end.

want to address it i said that we have improved i said that we have welcomed the emptiness amnesty international report. i mean once again we are sure also that you are not living up to the lead to your committee exactly and we have welcomed that and we said that we are working on this there is a huge difference between having violations that are systematic and violations that happen because of the complexity of the situation you feel no shame to you from putting people in these conditions to you to we're not putting people under these conditions. you know who we are in the deportations and once you get no one said no this is completely not acceptable this is what i said what i said was very clear there isn't something that's a systematic and as soon as we discover a violation we act upon that there is no question about this look at the blockade after 2 years for a blockade from the arab quartet your foreign minister recently returned in the last few days summits in saudi arabia does this mean the block is ending the promise of yes yes no no doesn't this only shows our commitment to out of coope

letter to african where amnesty international is accusing the government in eritrea of intimidating and harassing critics living in exile nothing to the eritrean activists living in the u.k. sweden and kenya where a person more from the kenyan capital lower open. years for tomorrow and bieber was a high minot says she's never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritrea's rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she seen here in one of the rebels' mountain hideout in the 1980 s. independence came in 1901 but she says freedom did not if they want to kill you they can kill you automatically. she owned a factory but she didn't join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says she's been harassed ever since including here in kenya's capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her arrested by local police is involved. isn't it right he took his saw was like 56 they. had caught the same nonsense things he tried to deport us. rights activists say that the kind of harassment that a bieber

arrested the opposition doubts the killings are being properly investigated also in sudan amnesty international says it has new evidence of killings and abuses in the darfur region the rights group says satellite photos as well as testimonies confirm government forces and armed groups attacked 45 villages between last july and february this year sexual violence forced displacement and other abuses were also documented amnesty is warning that the planned withdrawal of u.n. peacekeepers could further in danger lives. there have been more protests in hong kong against a proposed extradition bill security was tight around the legislature building with riot police deployed in some areas the proposed bill would allow people from hong kong to be sent to mainland china for a trial it's due for a 2nd round of debate in a legislative council controlled by a pro beijing majority until he died for you i'm urging schools parents organizations businesses and unions to seriously consider if they encourage such radical behavior what good does it do for hong kong society everybody should know there are conseque

arrested the opposition doubts the killings are being properly investigated also in sudan amnesty international says it has new evidence of killings and abuses in the darfur region the rights group says satellite photos as well as testimonies confirm government forces and armed groups attacked 45 villages between last july and february this year sexual violence forced the placements and other abuses were also documented amnesty is warning that the planned withdrawal of u.n. peacekeepers could further in danger lives. another mass protest is planned in hong kong as politicians debate a controversial extradition bill the. only. pro-democracy leaders surrounded the legislative council president will be chairing that debate andrew leone says he is aiming to put the bill for a vote in 9 days an estimated $1000000.00 marchers took part in sunday's rally to protest against the bill the city's leader warns companies and businesses against encouraging employees to join wednesday's planned rally until he don't die for you i'm urging schools parents organizations businesses and unions to seriously conside

that amnesty international has accused the government of eritrea of intimidating and heresy in critics who live in exile and they include eritrea that to us who live in the u.k. in sweden and in kenya has more now from the kenyan capital nairobi. or tamil bieber waldheim a not so she's never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritrea's rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she seen here in one of the rebels' mountain hideout in the 1980 s. independence came in 1901 but she says freedom did not if they want to kill you they can kill you automatically. she owned a factory but she didn't join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says she's been harassed ever since including here in kenya's capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her arrested by local police. isn't it tonight he took he saw was like $56.00 they. had caught the same things he tried to deport us. rights activists say that the kind of harassment that a bieber says she's experienced here in nairobi is just the

here's hoping how shaq a cow fund director law and policy program for amnesty international thank you so much for having joined us thank you. now 11 republican senators in the u.s. state of our. again have refused to turn up to work for a 6th day in order to avoid voting on landmark climate change legislation state gov kate brown deployed a police to find the republicans last week but many have fled the state the proposed legislation would dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in oregon by 2050 and require businesses to buy or trade pollution allowances republicans though believe the bill would affect their rural voters and damage energy intensive industries 5 invent endangered eastern black rhinos have arrived in rwanda after a 30 hour 6000 kilometer journey from a safari park in the czech republic the relocation of the 3 female and 2 male rhinos was part of a years long project to return the animals to their natural habitat the herd are expected to remain at the active gera national park until they're ready for life in the wild after decades of poaching fewer than 1000 easter

harassed intimidated and even beaten by government supporters so as a reporter's rights group amnesty international says it's documented cases of harassment and intimidation of eritrean human rights activists over the last 8 years has published a report and its research is say those in kenya the u.k. sweden and some other european countries a most risk yet their government he's gained of exporting their repression from from its territory to another country and it doesn't look good. on your moderate record and it doesn't look good to the recovery of a country where it is repression is happening the report document seemingly coordinated threatening tweets from staff at eritrea's embassies its ambassador in kenya didn't agree to give us an interview. abebe says the harassment has made her more critical most of her activist colleagues here in nairobi were too scared to speak to us is that she's campaigned for 4 of her friends from her days as a rebel who were since arrested in eritrea she doesn't know if they're still imprisoned or dead the same fate she says awaits her if she ever goes home malcolm we

one other story amnesty international is calling on saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy. who was arrested 5 years ago at the age of 13 for taking part in antigovernment protests he's been detained ever since he's now 18. the united nations says at least 4000000 people have left venezuela because of its worsening economic and political crisis it's described the figure as alarming and says urgent help is still required. to host them in other countries in america. now reports from santiago the chilean capital. over the numbers are staggering and unprecedented every day thousands of more than his wayland's join the exodus the vast majority by 1st crossing over into neighboring colombia which has already received more than 1300000 economic refugees and. is one of the newcomers at this un refugee camp. my children went 3 days about eating anything it's very difficult as a mother my mom isn't here she's over there suffering from hunger and that's why i was eager to leave and work to send her something. the u.n. predicts that before the end of the year the venezuelan