amnesty international's donatella rivera speaking there. now life coach and media personality fahima muhammad has joined us on the sofa for the palestine in the media segment of the program with her tranch of how the media have been covering the ongoing work. we're all ears. hi, well, just echo what everyone's been saying so far, we have the first tweet by law discoveries authority reacting to the labour leader sakir starma when he basically is talking about islamophobia awareness month, which occurs every november and started in 2012, funded by several muslim organizations, and this is their tweet, sort of giving a history about the islamo. awareness month, but also saying that lot more needs to be done than just you know sort of talking about the actual um law in itself, but lot more needs to be done you know as recent conducted. by the labor muslim network released demonstrating views and perceptions of muslim labor party members from 2020 reports found that they are really uh rising with their concerns and over 20% since that report sho

it is difficult to get numbers from china is the one caveat that amnesty international does make.herere other concerns as well. these relate to the rights of women, the criminalization of homosexuality, as well as restrictions around free speech. but saudi arabia rejects these criticisms. when asked about sportswashing previously, the crown prince said "if sportswashing is going to increase my gdp by 1%, we will continue doing sportswashing." rajini: we have plenty more on all of the day's news on the bbc news website, and we are running a live page of the u.k.'s covid inquiry and the developments in the middle east. i am rajini vaidyanathan. i will be back after a short break, so narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... woman: architect. bee keeper. mentor. a r

amnesty international has been documenting human rights violations and unlawful feeling that it says must be investigated as war crimes. but when, and how can accountability happens to wanting me to discuss this is this which headliner amnesty international secretary general on? yes, the news caught them on a thank you so much for joining me on upfront. thank you. these really offensive in guys is entering its 7th week in thousands have been killed. and the enclave is effectively on the brink of collapse last week. actually if a hospital was attacked and read it. and then there was a saturday morning bombing, a vision valley, a refugee camp in north guys. it is real. have said that it's focused on rooting out from mass. uh, but the question is, what costs are they willing to do this? you're the head of amnesty international, your organization, documents, human rights, violations, and war crimes around the world that are committed by all sides of a particular conflict. in this case, what violations and what crimes has your organization discovered since october 7, october of 7 attacks

you're the head of amnesty international, your organization, documents, human rights, violations, and war crimes around the world that are committed by all sides of a particular conflict. in this case, what violations and what crimes has your organization discovered since october 7, october of 7 attacks by how much culture? a number of war crimes and policy for crimes against humanity. a. d, a response by ease, right, does fall. i includes are lead to need of human rights violations, which also amount to what crimes. unfortunately, what else we have documented the use of salvation as a weapon of all the was a water as a weapon of war. the use of medicine as a weapon of war we have documented inc discriminate disproportionate and clearly you know, opinion targeted fx on civilians and civilians. object we have documented the use of collective punishment which is also a wall crime to. busy the, the volume issues committed by these riley forces in their response to have masses, or war crimes been sadly and less. and they go to the diction weighs in till now. sure. your mind is general. so

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because of these phosphorous bombs, they sent the pictures and put so much pressure on amnesty international that it was forced to issue a statement saying that the zionist forces in southern lebanon and also in the gaza strip are prohibited from using phosphorous bombs. using it and causing injury in southern lebanon a number of citizens continued the process and whether the northern front will be activated or not. maybe all eyes are on the lebanese hezbollah secretary general's speech tomorrow afternoon, but what we witnessed here today is in southern lebanon. hezbollah is fully prepared, that is, this volume of operations to target 19 bases at the same time, perhaps the extent of this operation was not even imagined by the zionist military, because the shock of their artillery was really clear, and it was clear that it was rushing to leave southern lebanon in complete chaos. it may take some time for their drones to aim for the first time after hezbollah's operations, we could not be heard quickly in south lebanon and it took a long time for these winds to rise and fly in south lebanon .

live now to sacha deshmukh, amnesty international uk s chief executive.ery much for coming on the programme. thank you very much for coming on the programme-— thank you very much for coming on the programme._ what l thank you very much for coming on | the programme._ what is the programme. thank you. what is our the programme. thank you. what is your reaction _ the programme. thank you. what is your reaction to _ the programme. thank you. what is your reaction to the _ the programme. thank you. what is your reaction to the details - the programme. thank you. what is your reaction to the details that - the programme. thank you. what is your reaction to the details that we | your reaction to the details that we now know of this pause in the fighting, if it kicks in tomorrow? of course any pause is welcome, but i think it is important to realise that a brief respite is sadly not nearly enough to alleviate the appalling civilian suffering that we have seen in this crisis over the last six weeks. i think it is critical that the parties involved in negotiation

amnesty international has been, you know, working against this for some time. do you think that this now could help put more focus on this issue and perhaps lead to change? >> it is obviously unfortunate that it took this for people to pay attention to the fact that there are thousands of palestinians who are either held under administrative detention or are held after being tried by military courts. many of them can't stand years without being prosecuted at all. but it's important also to use this opportunity to remind people of the two-tier justice system. so just one example, this -- the same children who live in the west bank, one lives in a palestinian village, the second lives in an israeli settlement, they can't commit the same offense that palestinian trial will be tried before an administrative court. they may be held under administrative detention, and be tried before a civilian court and given his right to due process. palestinian-detained children are not treated as children by military courts, they are seen as criminals. israel prioritizes the puni

the pakistan government says it is following its own rules, but amnesty international and other humanicised the policy. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies has more from islamabad. we've already heard that there have been arrests. that's in karachi and peshawar. we've already seen footage that the police here have put out of people who are already being deported. they've been loaded up onto coaches and then taken to the border with afghanistan. now, journalists are not allowed, at the moment today, very close to that border. they've put in a boundary line and have stopped people from coming in close to be able to film, so we can't see exactly what is on the ground, but yesterday me and the team were very close to that area. we were in peshawar, which is one of the main roads on the way up to the torkham border, a big crossing between pakistan and afghanistan, and we could see lorry upon lorry of people that were travelling from across pakistan to go to afghanistan, people who were afghan nationals who were worried about what might happen to them if they decided to stay in the c

what's the reason for these really ministry of foreign affairs called an amnesty, international anti semitic, and a quote propaganda organization that's working for him as terrorists? how does one thread the needle between dismissing the idea that all support for palestine is anti semitic? without the legitimize of the fact that there is a very real rise in anti semitic hate. crimes against jewish people going on, right? as we speak, whenever you have a tragedy, like the one on folding in the line to further sign is up to date. the x themes out of a great beneficiaries. on the one hand, the gross, i'm the semites, and all the other hand, the gross. i hate you know, hate that it's a better stance, but allow me to answer by me. so the person story. i grew up in a fascist dictatorship, heating grace, weird cut on those dining room industries. they were abominable. they were imprisoning. good democrats. we lived in fear for 7 years, only, only a part of my life. now whenever, as far as the gentleman, chances are of the time, the brunt. great ma'am. who decides the government? he was bein

they just helped start the very first chapter of amnesty international usa in new york. they invited me too come down and tell them so i joined that very first very small chapter. and was off and running for amnesty. and a couple of years later they asked me too go to chile, that was my first mission for them. i took my 17-year-old daughter along because she spoke great spanish. and i am a terrible linguist and i did not want to miss anything. firstmade that the chapter and then i went back to my childhood and the second chapter. >> because the audience is interested in memoir writing, i want to stay in the space for a minute. going to ask a memoir writing questions and eight life question. rose, that's where the book starts. that is where the book starts. is that where the writing started? when you started writing your memoir. where did you start? >> and no, that's not where the writing started. it started on a prologue it's not there anymore but there is a reference to it. where as quite a number of years earlier jackie kennedy had bought a house on martha's vineyard wh

neighbor of ours had a wonderful girlfriend who had just helped start the very first chapter of amnesty international usa in new york, and she invited me to come down and telll them. so i joined that very first, very small chapter, and was off and running for amnesty. and a couple of years later they asked me to go to chile. that was my first mission for them, and it took my 17-year-old daughter along because she spoke great spanish, and i'm a terrible linguist and a did want to mess anything up. so we made that the first chapter. and then i went back to my childhood, the second chapter. >> so because the audience is interested in memoir writing, i want to staym in the space fora minute. when asked a memoir writing question and and in life qu. rose, the memoir writing question is that's with the book starts. that's where the book starts to is that where the writing started? when you started writing your memoir. >> yes. >> where did you start? >> no. that's not where the writing started.d. it started on a prologue which was actually it's notot there anymore but there's a reference to it, where as quit

as according to an amnesty, international senior investigator, this is the organizations 2nd zation, the guys do as well from using the deadly chemical since the beginning of the concept. as we fob's g o k 2, then very side videos that show artillery shells being air bursted, overdoes and overlapping on deploying wide phosphorus. and we had spoken to doctors who have a 3 to 9 people in south lebanon would been impacted by why fos 1st and, and so the evidence is quite incontrovertible. and that's why we're calling for an independent investigations into all of these violations of international humanitarian law. reports statements, footage, and i witness accounts heavily suggest israel has used wide phosphors against civilian areas in gaza as well as loved and on. this is a matter of concern for a number of different reasons. firstly, it is of course banned under the geneva convention, but the use of white phosphorus in and of itself is not necessarily illegal. what makes it illegal, or at least on muscle or prohibited, is the circumstances in which they are use. military can use wide p

academic arena, diplomatic arena, so on the state of israel as we is no, has been charged by amnesty international to be, to be the accused of the crime of apartheid for 75 years. and as we know, the kind of apartheid is a crime against humanity. the, the, the amnesty report has some important recommendations that includes sanctions and include, you know, diplomatic and political of actions against the state of israel. that will bring it to the point where they have no choice, i don't believe is rather going to do this willingly. they don't need to do this willingly, that they need to be forced to, to allow for a real political solution. so real freedom and liberty, and again, understanding of that at the end of the day at the end of the day, a just solution to the palestinian uh for the past. and then people will benefit as realities as well. because again, it's not about israel is versus the palestinians. it's israel against these israel again. suggest to lucian, israel again. screen of your one of the questions i have is about the rage felt after a terror attack. and i, and i know that you see

and we know that amnesty international have also registered the fact that there are very long delays pakistan legally. and so many of these people are hoping that any form of document that they're able to get their hands on — even if it's temporary, even if it's not recognised by the pakistan authorities — might give them some leeway. we know that, from the pakistan side, they have said that they are making sure that they know where all of the people that they consider to be illegal in the country are, that they have been identifying them in cities, in villages, and that they will then start this operation to take people and start deporting them out of the country. from pakistan's stance, they have talked about the fact that they will treat people who are being deported with respect, and they've also said that because they have spent the last a0 years or so and continue to host many millions of refugees in this country, that they say that that record speaks for itself. but there has also been criticism and concern from human rights groups and from the unhcr, who've talked about the f

cleansing, specifically the kind of a part i, as has been, like i said, documented by the amnesty international reports. which for some reason people are, you know, very comfortably ignoring and i will add it one step further and say as well as actually in being engaged in the crime of genocide or at least genocide policies at least. so this is far worse than terrorism, and i think that again dropping a one time bomb not to mention tens of hundreds of tons of bonds. this is what has been doing on this civilian population and a particular population that has never had a military force. boston is, there never had an army. there never had a tang. so to claim that that is somehow self defense is absurd. that is an act of terrorism. when people who are oppressed, come rise and stand up, even if they do so, holding arms that i reject completely the notion of that is about terrorism. let me ask you about the cast of characters that have long been involved in, in israel palestine affairs. what about turkey, china, other players in the world becoming part of that day after equation? that's a good questi

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according to amnesty international, they are increasingly house and administrative detention. that's a form of incarceration without charge or trial. the past in the in prime minister has also accused israel of mass arrests and preparation for the hostage deal more than 2000, but as seen as have been noticed, that this is very some, but it's slide is a big bidding for an exchange of prisoners and they are at us think as many people as we can simply because the bidding for such a deal. well journalist time is sokal is in jerusalem and has more on what will happen to the hostages when they finally return to israel. so yeah, so the plan is that the tomorrow, the round, the 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the hostages will come to the border with egypt and the crossing there they will be identified and the flow name to the huts of the military base where they will be further questioned and the treated if they need any more medical treatment and for the from there they're going to be sent to various hosp. but those it is right. and the idea is that they will remain it together if their

palestinians and south africa's treatment of black people and pottage. human rights watch an amnesty international accused israel of being in a parted state. these really government states, those accusations are biased, inaccurate, and anti semitic. but here in south africa, the birthplace of the tomb, a part it became has been a t feature of protein. the africa was our own. to show the positive and colonialism, we should have better than anyone else. but we need to start with the most modular lives in order to ensure that palestine is free and we need to do all parts of the international community to, to stand with them. among those at the protest or jewish south africans who feel solidarity with the palestinians affected by the ongoing conflict, i want to send the south african government for their commitments to the pilots in their struggle. now they've got to actually commit to what it is that they're saying. and so they need to do the thing. and to show that this support is not just the routing agency as piece to support for palestinians in gaza and the west bank. the party has long had stron

that someone from tehran is saying, viewers can read, it's about 280 pages of a report by amnesty internationale title israel apart state, they have documented the apart policies. report was published last year before the recent massacre, and i think the israeli government has moved beyond being an apartide state, they are engaging in genocide, so the the paper title would be a genocidal state that is basically engaging in activities that we haven't seen. in the world for many many decades, and you you've noticed western, this is also live images for viewers from ardebil um in northern uh iran, we've seen uh rallies marking national day against global arrogance, a day that iranians pour into the streets have been doing so annually for over 43 years holding rallies to condemn us policies, we've seen rallies huge, thousands of people in mashad, um and so on, hundreds of thousands of people poured out today, and as our correspondent said, there are more, many more people out than in previous years, as a result of the atrocities we've seen by arigan powers taking place against the besieg people of

according to amnesty international, they are increasingly held in administrative detention. that's a form of incarceration without trial or charge the policy. the and prime minister has also accused israel of mass arrests and preparation for the hostage deal more than 2000, but as seen as have been out of it. this is very some, but is the right is preparing for an exchange of prisoners at the other thing as many people as the gun simply because the bidding for such a deep crossover to journalists army socco in jerusalem now. so i'm it, can you tell us more about the preparations being made on the as rarely side to receive the hostages once their release actually happens. yeah, so the plan is that the tomorrow, the round, the 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the hostages will come to the border with egypt and the crossing there, they will be identified and the flow name to the hudson, the military base where they will be further questioned and. ready treated if they need any more medical treatment and for the, from there they're going to be sent to various hosp, but those it is re

the u.n., amnesty international, human rights watch, the siege of gaza at this point in this manner is consistent with showing evidence of war crimes. a recent report from amnesty international says, quote, there is damning evidence of war crimes and in their stated intent to use all means to destroy hamas, israeli forces have shown a shocking disregard for civilian life. what is your response? >> the best proof in the humanitarian conduct of israel's war is through the way that hamas is actually handling their activities. they are hiding -- why are they hiding behind the hospitals? why are they hiding under mosques, at schools -- >> those are all legitimate questions. i am asking about israel's actions. >> i am talking about israel's actions. israel does not go after innocent citizens, mosque, schools. they target when we know there is a terrorist about to -- is a ticking bomb about to go off to israeli citizens -- >> even if they are surrounded with refugees? >> to a set equilibrium. if we know the terrorist going to be shooting at our innocent citizens, killing hundreds of israelis.

working with amnesty international, also led by forensic architecture.ere able to combine different kinds of satellite images to monitor very specific teachers. so we were able to see individual trees destroyed by tanks or trucks. but it was very localized and it was also -- it was such a short conflict. very, very brief. there we just looked at before and after. that approach does not work with the conflict with a war that has gone on 47 days. we are not interested in the after. we want to know the process. we want to know that change as it manifests on the ground. we did not really have the means to do it. amy: 10 seconds. >> every five days, we can update this and we have a much better sense of grasping the dynamics of this war than any other conflict we have looked at. amy: jamon van den hoek and corey scher, part of the decentralized mapping group, a network of satellite image scientists using remote sensing to analyze and map the damage and destruction in the gaza strip.

humans rights groups like amnesty international have criticized the policy.d trump, jr., the eldest son of donald trump, is testifying at trial accusing the family business of committing fraud. the lawsuit alleges that the trump organization inflated the value of its assets by billions of dollars to secure better loan terms. he is the first of trumps adult children to take the witness stand. his other children are also expected to testify. former president trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is expected to testify monday of next week. we go to new york where the trial is taking place. what can you tell us about what happened today? >> court has just concluded for the day. we had late in the afternoon the beginning of that testimony from donald junior. he is certainly one of the most outspoken politically of donald trump's children. but the tone today in court was light, at least for now. at one point the judge asked him to slow down while asking questions. he said he may have moved to florida but he kept the new york case. prosecutors say that when donald trump

members of doctors without borders, amnesty international and oxfam participated in this protest. a similar demonstration was held in support of the palestinian people and the establishment of a ceasefire in gaza. the people of nigeria also declared their support for the people of gaza by organizing a large demonstration and condemned the regime's crimes in this region. in libya, a demonstration was held to condemn the crimes of the occupying regime in gaza. in the mauritanian capital, people gather in front of the american embassy to immediately stop the war against gaza and enter they asked for humanitarian aid to this area . in the west bank, the people in ramallah held a demonstration to stop the crimes of the zionist regime in gaza, and the lebanese also declared their support for the palestinian people by holding a demonstration. ahaki or gaza ahaki ahaki or gaza that the american president rejected the establishment of a ceasefire in gaza. joe biden, despite the numerous crimes committed by the zionist regime and the martyrdom and wounding of thousands of palestinian women

the effect of these phosphorus bombs, they sent the pictures, they put so much pressure on amnesty international that it was forced to issue a statement saying that the zionist military in southern lebanon and also in the gaza strip used the banned phosphorus bombs and in south lebanon injured a number of citizens have asked whether the northern front will be active or not. maybe all eyes are on the lebanese hezbollah secretary general's speech tomorrow afternoon. targeting 19 bases at the same time, perhaps the extent of this operation was not even imagined by the zionist military because their artillery was really shocked . it was clear that it was rushing to target southern lebanon with complete chaos . their drones may have taken a long time. it was for the first time after hezbollah's operations, we did not hear the sound of drones quickly in southern lebanon and it took a long time for these drones to rise and fly in southern lebanon. of course, another main reason was that hezbollah's surface-to-air missiles proved they can very well target the drones. shooting down two armed drones of th

countries that are not aligned with western policies. did another human rights institution was amnesty internationalstitute founded by peter vernssonen. nanson, who was born into a jewish family, later announced that he had converted to catholicism and changed his name from solomon to peter. despite his criticisms of some of israel's behaviors, he was a defender of israel's survival and survival. his family was one of the oldest wealthy families of the day, who strongly supported the idea of ​​zionism and the return of jews to the holy land decades before the establishment of israel. another one of the largest human rights institutions is the committee lawyers were for human rights. a committee founded by two jews. the first founder was levis hengin, the son of rabbi yosef elinkin. a rabbi who specialized in jewish law. louis hengin himself, who came from a completely zionist background and defender of israel, joined the us army and even received a medal for his services. then he entered the us state department. after serving in the state department for some time, he decided to establish a human rig

southern lebanon , southern lebanese cities and various regions of southern lebanon were sent to amnesty internationaldmitted that the zionist military in the bombardment of the southern areas of lebanon uses banned white phosphorous bombs , which injured civilians in this area . also, the zionist regime's artillery targeted various areas in lebanon last night and early this morning, including marun al-ras yaron, odysseh and kafrkalai in lebanon. gave thank you very much, mr. hassan azimzadeh, a radio reporter stationed on the border between lebanon and occupied palestine. we bid you farewell . good day. a member of the supreme political council of yemen called the firing of rockets into the occupied territories as the reaction of the yemeni armed forces to the american threats. mohammad al-bakhiti in a conversation with al-mayadeen said: after the zionist regime's encroachment on gaza, seyyed abdulmal al-housi, the general secretary of ansar allah, personally ordered the firing of rockets. al-alab stated that america had threatened sana'a through oman. in response to these direct threats, seyyed abdu

un experts and number of human rights organizations, including amnesty international and human rightsrgued for years that upper tide is being practiced by israel in the occupied palestinian territories. one of the speakers and some students from the audience pointed out that the reconstruction of the events occurred in palestine made by the president of the jewish community was totally biased. of religions is also to promote dialogue in order to find solutions. the issue here is that mutual recognition must be the starting point. the previous speaker called a disputed territory is former palestine. how can you call them that way? there is no form of palestine. there is palestine and there are palestinians. we won't go anywhere, if we continue this way. at no time during the conference, it was mentioned that over 10,000 palestinian civilians and more than 4,000 children have been slawter so far after four weeks of israeli bombardment on the besieged gaza strip. one of the issues that have been raised during the conference. is how western countries are showcasing very selective morality

by placing symbolic corpses in front of the white house in the united states, amnesty international called for an end to the war in gaza. in this symbolic action, joe biden was asked to cut off american support to the zionist regime and allow ten children in gaza to live. in the center of seoul, the capital of south korea, hundreds of people called for a cease-fire demonstration in this gathering of shoes as a symbol of all the victims. the war in gaza was exhibited and the end of genocide and occupation was emphasized. obey command the swiss protestors also expressed their opposition to the visit of french president emmanuel macron to their country and his condemnation of the occupation regime's aggression in gaza with demonstrations at the university of lausanne. hundreds of dutch people gathered in amsterdam , the capital of this country , and emphasized the urgent need to help the injured and meet the needs of the people . the zionist regime, following the military and security blow it suffered in operation storm and laqsa, is now tasting defeat in public opinion. according to al-mayad

chairperson of the kenya palestine solidarity movement, she's also the former campaign director at amnesty international nairobi, thanks lot for your time, madam today. uh, thank you so much. i am honored to be invited to your station to talk about the palestinian question. thank you so much. we also have with us today suhail omar, he is a political analyst and member of kenyans for palestine. thanks a lot for your time. thank you, thank you for having. on the show, now since the start of the israeli regimes, genocide against palestinians in gaza, demonstrations in support of palestine are taking place across africa. let's start with you naomi barasa there, what is the message of these solidarity demonstrations in africa? we have short-term and long-term messages. in the short-term we are calling. for of course is fire on the on the bombardment, we are calling for israeli government to open up gaza for humanitarian support and total arms embargo in israel and then investigations on uh war crimes by israel, but in the long term we would like to say that the african people stand in solidarity with palesti