the authorities in chechnya did not respond to our request to comment on t.t.of scase i think the best way to understand the circumstances of his arrest is to read a fencing novel about unicorns fairy dust and pixies because that's that's the degree of reality that you'll see in the evidence that's been concocted against the d.f. was investigating cases of torture and extrajudicial killings at the time of his arrest he had continued to work after his predecessor natalee. was murdered ten years ago. this is not about the verdict but about the u.s. criminal prosecution about the fact that the drugs were planted and that it was impossible to prove his innocence after the drugs were planted in his car drugs were also planted in our office this means that they're ready to use any possible measures against independent human rights defender. while prosecutors had asked for four year prison sentence the judge decided that ditty if conserve his time in a so-called colony settlement which will give him some freedom i have to fear first of all this trial and you. see and

as it moves inland it's will get an update on the weather coming up in just a moment and then how chechnya is helping former iso fighters reintegrate into society and demanding. that referendum hundreds of thousands join the people's vote march.

a quarter in chechnya has sentenced a human rights defender to four years in prison after he was found guilty of drugs possession but his supporters say the charges against him a fabricated step. for more than nine hours i you kitty it was forced to stand in a cage in a heavily guarded courtroom to listen to the verdict relatives human rights activists and diplomats had come to shali a town near the chechen capital grozny to support him against criminal charges they've dismissed as absurd duty of was arrested early two thousand and eighteen after police say they found marianna in his car ahead of the chechen branch of russia's main human rights organisation memorial the night the drugs were his words humiliation. in this case was fabricated as you know twenty seven of our legal arguments were rejected what can i say the verdict was guilty how can it be fair the authorities in chechnya did not respond to our request to comment on t.t. of scase i think the best way to understand the circumstances of his arrest is to read a fantasy novel about unicorns fairy dust and pixies because that's

second breck's at referendum hundreds of thousands joined the people's vote march in london how chechnya is helping former i saw members reintegrate back into society christ church a super rugby team returns to action after the mosque shootings and considers changing its name peter will have the details in sports. but first details of u.s. special counsel robert muller is reported to possible collusion between russia and donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign could be revealed to congress by sunday attorney general william barr says he'll write two reports based on the documents he received one for congress and another for the public democrats are demanding the full report be released without delay along with all the evidence muller uncovered since they have a majority in the house they have subpoena power to obtain the report but the president could order the justice department to defy its donald trump's lawyers say they want to look at miller's findings before they're made public it's unclear whether that will happen those just outside donald trump's weekend home the resort of mar a la

and what to do with former isel fighters and their families well chechnya seems to have found a way. to tell you about the gymnast who's going viral with the perfect ten and her choice of music will have those details in sports. there's been fierce fighting in the yemeni city of taiz between elements of the yemeni army supported by saudi arabia and fighters backed by the united arab emirates video has been shared online of several buildings on fire in taiz after days of intense street battles sources on the scene say a number of civilians were killed in the clashes a cease fire has since come into effect between the factions much of which is yemen's third biggest cities under the control of the yemeni army this week is the fourth anniversary of the start of the military offensive in yemen led by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition thousands of people have been killed in iran twenty two million people depend on aid yemen's falling failing a quantum e has shrunk by fifty percent since twenty fifteen more than two thirds of small and medium businesses have laid off half their employees and f

chechnya is helping former iceland members reintegrate into society and weeks off being released from prison a refugee footballer from the hurricane makes his return to the pitch as an australian citizen peter we'll have that story in sport. hello again it's good to have you back well here across china we're seeing plenty of rain across much of the country right now things are going to be improving patil we up here towards the north over the next few days take a look the forecast map here on sunday you can see widespread rain all the way from the coast up here across much of the central and north central areas we're on a very rainy day for you out here towards the east not looking too bad only into the teens in terms of the temperature but for show we do expect to see more rain coming as that system makes its way a little bit more towards east temptress maybe coming up to about seventeen but the rain is coming into play there hong kong a nice day if you with a temperature of about twenty three degrees or here across much of the philippines we are looking at better conditions there whe

chechnya is helping formalize the members reintegrate back into society. hello again it's good to have you back well here across the levant we are watching a storm system coming out of egypt actually and this one is going to promise to bring quite a bit of rain over the next few days across much of the area so here's a storm system right now making its way towards the northeast and on sunday here it is we are going to see in the area of low pressure over syria heavy rain across much of this area all the way back across northern iraq iran and up to the north in turkey it is going to be snow as we go towards monday well we're going to be seeing not a lot of movement with the storm system but the rain continues across much of this area the snow actually goes away but the rain continues and we could be seeing some localized flooding across much of the region we will be watching that very carefully well here across the gulf as well as into the arabian peninsula it is going to be clouds for many locations there up to the north we are going to sing clouds with pr

one hundred women and children once part of feisal have been brought home to the russian region of chechnya russians were one of the largest groups of foreign fighters to join the armed group government policy now only repatriates children but still some are trying to reunite their families suffer and reports on the regional capital grozny. that was pregnant with her third child when she and her family crossed the border from turkey to join eisel she says they were lured by videos betraying a land of pure islam but found torture war and oppression instead fearing reprisals from eisel she doesn't want to show her face. there was a lot of injustice there a lot of evil they not only tortured others those who were not from my school they were torturing that we do schooling there that's why the place fell apart it cannot be called islamic state things that took place there do not exist in islam after saddam's husband was killed she managed to contact chechen operatives and was put on a flight home where she became part of a deal radicalization program and it's carefully watched she was one of th

rape case, and other newspapers talk about that, and saying that he has fought for iis and been to chechnyaities haven't said anything.|j understand the prime minister has been speaking in the last hour. can you give us a been speaking in the last hour. can you give us a sense been speaking in the last hour. can you give us a sense of what he has been saying? no, because i was on the streets in utrecht. but i think eve ryo ne the streets in utrecht. but i think everyone is just relieved that this quy everyone is just relieved that this guy is arrested, and that the threat in utrecht is over. the terror level had been raised to five, and we now know it has been reduced. can you just put that into context for us, though? we had almost the highest level in holland for some years, that means that they expect a real terrorist attack. we don't know whether this has some terrorist means, this guy, but we have to go back to the level that means that an attack is suspected, but there are not real signs that it will happen. ok, not real signs that it will happen. 0k, robert bas, we will leave it ther

repatriate children much to the despair of hundreds of parents who come from all over russia to chechnya urging the authorities to bring back their daughters richest in the challenge to the it gets harder to stay hopeful for the third year there's no news about the case the last phone call fatima received from her daughter was in february two thousand and seventeen. i was in mosul with her five children. we have the government will give a chance with these girls to be reunited with their mothers if the author found if they are alive they should be able to live in a normal human atmosphere with the help of the state without any worries the organization who lobbied for their return has filed of more than seven hundred russian women and fifteen hundred children still missing. of course we are worried they were women who really wanted to get to the caliphate but those women are among the first to run away now they can get here illegally that is why if we bring them back through the program and under the close eye of the special services they will be less dangerous. while men who have returne

repatriate children much to the despair of hundreds of parents who come from all over russia to chechnya urging the authorities to bring back their daughters richest in the challenge to the it's harder to stay hopeful for the third year there's no news about the case the last phone call fatima received from her daughter was in february two thousand and seventeen visit i was in mosul with her five children. we have the government will give a chance with these girls to be reunited with their mothers if the op found if they are alive they should be able to live in a normal human atmosphere with the help of the state without any worries the organization who lobbied for their return has filed of more than seven hundred russian women and fifteen hundred children still missing twenty of them is a citizen of course we are all worried they were women who really wanted to get to the caliphate but those women are among the first to run away now they can get here illegally that is why if we bring them back through the program and under the close eye of the special services they will be less dangerou

repatriate children much to the despair of hundreds of parents who come from all over russia to chechnya urging the authorities to bring back their daughters richest in the challenge to the it's harder to stay hopeful for the third year there's no news about the case the last phone call fatima received from her daughter was in february two thousand and seventeen visit i was in mosul with her five children. we have the government will give a chance with these girls to be reunited with their mothers if the op found if they are alive they should be able to live in a normal human atmosphere with the help of the state without any worries. the organization who lobbies for their return has filed of more than seven hundred russian women and fifteen hundred children still missing twenty of them as i think it is and of course we are all worried they were women who really wanted to get to the caliphate but those women are among the first to run away now they can get it legally that is why if we bring them back through the program and under the close eye of the special services they will be less dan

a court in chechnya sentenced a human rights defender to four years in prison ali was found guilty of possessing drugs the charges against him want to criticize have been fabricated in step past. for more than nine hours are you kitty of was forced to stand in the gate in a heavily guarded courtroom to listen to the verdict relatives human rights activists and diplomats had come to shali a town near the chechen capital grozny to support him against criminal charges they've dismissed as absurd duty of was arrested early two thousand and eighteen after police say they found marianna in his car the head of the chechen branch of russia's main human rights organisation memorial the night the drugs were his words humiliation. in this case was fabricated as you know twenty seven of our legal arguments were rejected what can i say the verdict was guilty how can it be fair. your thought is injection i did not respond to our request to comment on t.t. if case i think the best way to understand the circumstances of his arrest is to read a fantasy novel about unicorns fairy dust and pixies becaus

and take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world of course in chechnya has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to four years in a penal colony for possessing marijuana all year but some lawyers say the charges were fabricated to punish him for his work documenting abuses which is also received numerous prestigious awards. mozambique's president says he fears as many as a thousand people have been killed in cycling die and recent flooding the number of confirmed deaths stands at eighty four according to the red cross the tropical storm damaged or destroyed ninety percent of the mozambican city of bahrain electricity and road access to the area have been cut off how rescue efforts. france's prime minister says he will ban the yellow vest protests on paris's shoals and these are the demonstrations spiraled out of control again at the weekend as rioters torched ransacked stores and restaurants on the famous afternoon here are vast and began their weekly marches across france four months ago. firefighters in the united states are continuing to battle a hu

that means diffusing now are many countries are turning away foreign fighters and their families chechnya has a different approach that the us and reports from its regional capital grozny. that was pregnant with her third child when she and her family crossed the border from turkey to join eisel she says they were lured by videos betraying a land of pure islam but found torture war and oppression instead fearing reprisals from eisel she doesn't want to show her face. there was a lot of injustice there a lot of evil they not only tortured others those who were not from my school they were torturing that we do schooling there that's why the place fell apart it cannot be called islamic state things that took place there do not exist in islam after saddam's husband was killed she managed to contact chechen operatives and was put on a flight home where she became part of a deal radicalization program and is carefully watched she was one of the last women allowed to return the russian government now only repatriate children much good it is spear of hundreds of parents who come from all over rus

what to do with former eisel fighters and their families chechnya seems to have found a way. and a terrifying ride for passengers on a cruise ship as its engines fail and rough seas pushed it towards the ground he shore. thailand as far as being in its first election since a military crew in twenty fourteen the leader of that crew. wants to remain as prime minister through the ballot box his biggest challenge may come from portside the most prominent antigens a party whose leader you can see very seeing here it's linked to exiled former prime minister taksin chenault what he was ousted by the army in two thousand and six as well as his sister is later a third group is led by the anti-tax and democrat party which argues that it can form a government that's neutral and is also the future forward party its charismatic billionaire front man is popular among younger people well al jazeera scott hyla is joining us live now from bangkok scott as voting draws to a close in the next hour how's it all been going. so far so good. very smooth from what we're hearing there have been no re

in a court in chechnya has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to four years in a penal colony for marijuana possession or you have a lawyer say the charges were fabricated to punish him for his work documenting abuses activism has brought them international recognition. france's prime minister says he will ban the yellow vest protests on paris the seans illicit anti-government protesters in the streets there again over the weekend with a number of protesters ransacking stores and restaurants in central paris yella best demonstrations began as an anti-tax protest in cities across the country four months ago. heavy flooding across the u.s. midwest has left at least three people dead officials say two hundred ninety others have been rescued after the missouri river flooded much of the state and roscoe region has suffered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage and rust as governor described as the most widespread disaster in the state's history. well the devastation caused by a psych loan in southeastern africa is finally becoming clear more than five days after a tour th

but i understand from my sources that the individual actually is believed to have pursued jihad in chechnya. and that would tell us a bit the fact that we also understand that has a criminal background leads me to believe that there's a very similar profile to the roughly ninety men who've carried out sort of suicide. terrorism in europe over the last twenty years although the there's few details to go on you know it's starting to fit a similar kind of profile a similar kind of trend where we're seeing. men that have go to that of have a history of engaging in salafi jihad as them who have carried out what is presumed to be sort of lone actor mass shootings shootings knifings vehicle borne assaults and so it's certainly it's the modus operandi of what we've seen in europe over the last so the eight years yes initially what i was alluding to there lou is that if if this photo fit of a person a suspect but that is who they believe to be looking for in that apartment block then it's not exactly known by the police if he is there or not as you say if there's a lot of open ended questions here p

know but also i think with the individual looking out from the reports that he had been fighting in chechnya so you can see why. these these suspicions of trying to get his motive as he said if he's known someone on there if it was and if this report is true it's a been a family feud well you know it's had some tragic consequences with three people dying as i said the netherlands hasn't seen any terror related deaths in fifteen years there were some successful arrests over the past year also twenty stand you think this is down to the effectiveness of the policing in athens. well i think it's not just policing in the netherlands i think we've all and certainly in europe that we have to cooperate and work together and you know from the tragic events that happened if we go right back to paris and twenty fifteen what we saw a nice and so on and vice versa stocco we we have been learning lessons from it and how how to deal with an instant quickly so what one advantage is because they do talk to each other it isn't just isolated isn't just the french police deal with an instance of the police or u

a court in russia's chechnya region has found a human rights activist guilty of drugs possession. has been sentenced to four years in prison he was stopped by police back in january who say they discovered marijuana in his car is the head of a moscow based human rights group that has been critical of the chechens and it's still ahead for you on al-jazeera we're looking at the cleanup efforts in zimbabwe after a cyclon swept through southern africa. and what health workers say could derail the progress made in containing the ebola virus in democratic republic of congo. hello the weather has not settled down yet in this part of the world the circulation here in the southern part of the caspian the backwash cloud will bring a certain amount of rain or snow to northern iran the forward edge of it is still bringing rain it is now out through afghanistan that's the picture for the rest of tuesday and we end up like this terence probably in the sunshine one storm finally breaks into the west i think things are clearing up syria looks fine by this time in beirut about twenty degrees i'm n

this one says he came from china and he says he is from chechnya russia. the evacuation came after negotiations between the kurdish s.d.f. which guaranteed that women and children wouldn't be harassed and treatment for doing good fighters. this man says there was nothing left no fuel no food no water we were completely beseeched he added but whose is the last sliver of land remaining of the so-called caliphate the advance of the kurds is also slowed down by land mines and booby traps but i still fighters are cornered stuck between cliffs to the south do you freighters river to divest and kurdish positions to do north and east. soon i still would have lost its last bastion of territorial rule. but many among those evacuated remain defiant vowing that this is only a setback and one day the caliphate would flourish once again put up the al-jazeera in gaziantep iran has sentenced a leading human rights lawyer to at least seven years in jail but her family says it's much longer nasrin sotoudeh this has been said she's actually been given a prison sentence of th

west i mean just in terms of the numbers you know people who traveled to syria from dagestan from chechnya from other caucasus republics as well as from central asian countries they're much like cumulatively the number is much bigger than the number all for people who traveled from britain or i suppose even from all the continental europe combined so there is said that there are security risks for russia and not policy i may not i think it is definitely our security or that also i think that the threat at times can be periodically politicized exaggerated particularly in light of the memory of the second chechen war the moscow part the beslan murder all the save the things the russians got like this kind of institutional memory of terrorism that is willing to provoke fear. from people coming from the middle east and of people coming from the north caucasus terrorism within its own borders that other countries perhaps do not have regularly within europe and also i think that yes i think that there is a there while russia has taken a more moral high ground on the trading of children which i t

according russia's chechnya region has sentenced a human rights activist to four years in prison for illegal drugs possession or you were stopped by police in january they say they discovered marijuana in his car to the head of a moscow based human rights group that's been critical of chechen police his supporters describe the case as politically motivated. prime minister treason may well be holding that crisis talks with the cabinet on tuesday after her breaks of plans suffered another setback the speaker of the lower house of parliament has ruled that she can only hold a third vote on the deal to leave the e.u. it's fundamentally different from before may's deal has been rejected by m.p.'s twice and speaker john berkow says he want to allow another voice unless substantial changes are made. join the whole has more from london. but it may be a little while yet before we have a precise idea of how this is all going to turn out no doubt it's a major blow to the government's hopes of holding a third vote on trees amaze briggs it deal this week perhaps at all much will depend on what ha

more european news now back to felicity in london thanks so much paul guess a course in russia's chechnya region has sentenced a human rights activist to four years in prison for illegal drugs possession of was stopped by police in january they say they discovered marijuana in his car to t.f. is the head of a moscow based human rights group that has been critical of chechen place his supporters describe the case as the sickly and activated. france's chief of police for paris has been sacked according to the country's prime minister at what felipe also said the government would shut down yellow vests protests if demonstrators were found to be part of violent organizations on saturday parasol violent protests and riots with shops and businesses torched to neuter it in the center of the city a new paris police chief is due to be pointed on wednesday. opponents of the saudi led war in yemen have been protesting against u.k. government arms sales the highlighting the proposed sale of more eurofighter typhoon jets to the saudis which they say is illegal under international law of syria's lawren

according to russia's chechnya region has sentenced a human rights activist to four years in prison forpossessing illegal drugs. was stopped by police in january who say they discovered marijuana in his car his here was the head of a moscow based human rights group that's been critical of chechen police his supporters say the case is politically motivated. now venezuela's president nicolas maduro has asked his entire cabinet to step down as he struggles to keep control of the country has been facing pressure from opposition leaders on the more than two months declared himself venezuela's interim president in january tory's a boy has more. the government of unequal i don't know announcing who chuckling the whole having the vice president does you know the it's also said that the president has got the recognition of members of the cabinet and that he was card naming and giving information about who's going to be part of that cabinet when this is not given to quell any but that's not a has had at least for vice president since taking office and to see really an attempt to lean on cheap adm

and what to do with former eisel fighters and their families chechnya seems to have found a way. thailand as voting in its first election since a military coup in twenty fourteen the leader of that coup. wants to remain as prime minister through the ballot box his biggest challenge may come from poor thai the most prominent and to join to a party whose leader you can see version here it's linked to exiled former prime minister taksin should know what he was ousted by the army in two thousand and six as was his sister eight years later a third group is led by the anti tax and democrat party which argues that it can form a government that's neutral there's also the future forward party it's charismatic billionaire front man is popular among the younger people while florence louis is following the story for us and joins us from china my so you're in a pulse of thailand that's a stronghold for tax and show us and parties linked to him have won every election since two thousand and one was there prospects in this election talk us through how this whole system works. all the military g

individual was a known member of an extremist league, and he was a former fighter who had fought in chechnyaried to go to the islamic state. you can't arrest everybody, and you can't keep everyone under surveillance. he acted, apparently as far as we know, on his own, and with a handgun, it is almost preventable unless you actually catch him with the firearm en route to an operation. >> meantime, in new zealand, the death toll has gone up to 50. since we're talking about gunmen, the family of the suspect said over the weekend they were stunned by this. apparently, at least by the report of one family member, his dad died, he went to europe at a time of rising islamic extremism. they say he changed a little bitment bi bit. there's another report that a former police officer who went to the gun club where the suspect belonged said he had reported that he had serious concerns about members and their mental stability. so talk about the tools of radicalization, particularly that could infiltrate a country like new zealand, that had fewer murders in an entire year than it did in this one incident.

vote on her brags that to you unless there are substantial changes made to it a court in russia's chechnya region has found a human rights activist guilty of drugs possession. has been sentenced to four years in prison he was stopped by police in january he said they discovered marijuana in his car to the head of a moscow based human rights group has been critical of the chechen police. he's in its prime minister says gun laws will be changed in the wake of friday's shooting at two mosques that killed fifty people the government will consider both buying back outlawed guns and banning private ownership of semi automatic rifles mozambique's president says more than a thousand people are feared dead in the aftermath of a cyclon that swept southern africa international red cross as a tropical storm destroyed ninety percent of a major port in mozambique side clone a day which tore through the air on thursday and the french government is cracking down on the yellow vest protesters the police chief in paris has been fired and the government will shut down further demonstrations if they turn viol

and as well this one says he came from china and he says he is from chechnya russia. the evacuation came after negotiations between the kurdish s.d.f. which guaranteed that women and children wouldn't be harassed and treatment for doing good fighters. this man says there was nothing left no fuel no food no water we were completely beseeched he added but whose is the last sliver of land remaining of the so-called caliphate the advance of the kurds is also slowed down by land mines and booby traps but i still fighters are cornered stuck between cliffs to the south do you features river to divest and kurdish positions to do north and east. soon i still would have lost its last bastion of territorial rule. but many among those evacuated remain defiant vowing that this is only a setback and one day they caliphate would flourish once again. in gaziantep. hundreds of syrians protest against a new statue of the former president hafez al assad crowds march through the southern city of calling for the overthrow of his son current president bashar al assad the statue was erected

ruler les out the brutal of chechnya as a key player in the crime and urges the administration to ensure that he can no longer do business anywhere outside russia. we ssing this resolution, will make clear that you can kill a man but not the ideas he fought for, the good person that lived and died for a good cause will be honored for all time while the people who killed him will go down in history if they are remembered at all as utterly worthless. and we will be saying something else very important, that the united states is not in conflict with russia or with the russian people. on the contrary, we are in solidarity with the thousands of russians, who, like boris nemtsov, wants a country that's free of corruption, a country where nobody is above the law. our argument is only with the leaders who deny them that. but those leaders won't be around forever. boris nemtsov's legacy will outlast them, and so will our desire to partner with the russia that shares his values and vision. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois. mr. kinzinger: madam speaker, i'm prepare

willing to go before falling foul of the government so rahman is there a new delhi a court in russia's chechnya region has sentenced a human rights activist to four years in prison for illegal drugs possession. was stopped by police in january they say he discovered marijuana in his car that you have as the head of a moscow based human rights group that's been critical of chechen police as supporters describe the case as politically motivated the world health organization says progress is being made in the fight against the a ball outbreak in democratic republic of congo health workers predict the virus may be fully contained by september but recent gains are being undermined by attacks on health facilities or the reports. feable al break is just one of several problems facing the democratic republic of congo treatment facilities have been targeted in recent weeks adding fear to a community that's already on high alert violence from armed groups is posing another risk for patients and health care workers so there is a need for to strike a balance between what we do in terms of security protecti

and as well this one says he came from china and he says he is from chechnya russia.the evacuation came after negotiations between the kurdish s.d.f. which guaranteed that women and children wouldn't be harassed and treatment for doing dead fighters. this man says there was nothing left no fuel no food no water we were completely beseeched he added but whose is the last sliver of land remaining of the so-called caliphate the advance of the kurds is also slowed down by land mines and booby traps but i still fighters are cornered stuck between cliffs to the south do you features river to divest and kurdish positions to do north and east. soon would have lost its last bastion of territorial rule. but many among those evacuated remain defiant vowing that this is only a setback and one day they caliphate would flourish once again. reports. hundreds of. new. crucial. details coming up. and i know that there's more severe weather on the cards for parts of north america over the next few days the latest system is still pulling away it's still snaking its feet towards the west

a court in russia's chechnya region a sentence to human rights activists to four years in prison for illegal drugs possession. was stopped by police in january they say they discovered marijuana in his car is the head of a moscow based human rights group has been critical of chechen police supporters describe the case as politically motivated. russia's president is in crimea celebrating the fifth anniversary of its crane and twenty fourteen russian troops invaded the key strategic peninsula on the black sea since then putin's invested billions in infrastructure despite condemnation and sanctions on the west reports. switching the power for crimea cutting off another link to ukraine russia's president putin inaugurating two new power stations in the cities are so vast a pole in simferopol and announcing that the peninsula is now energy independent she would today another important step has been taken to strengthen the energy security of the crimean peninsula and the whole south of the russian federation to develop its economy and infrastructure. this ceremony is part of a three day fe

to ensure that americans who are flying on aircraft traveling around the world are not harmed by chechnya'sout of russia and the surrounding region, those are good things, things the demonstration has not only -- a good thing we are dealing with the russians on, but necessary and proper. >> i think it is still in existence, the global engagement center. >> yes ma'am it is. >> did they do anything? >> yes they do. let me talk broadly, you mentioned both of the bbd and voice of america. >> really part of the other. >> yes. each of which has a mission of overt communications, talking about sharing, spreading american values, countering propaganda that comes from all across the world. the global engagement center, we now have leah gabriel on board leading the charge, a couple of primary missions, russian is one of those primary missions, and we have give your briefing on what she is doing, what our team at the engagement center is doing we think this will be important, you will have funded this quite well. we appreciate that. i want to come back to the bbd. it is a challenge. it still has a lea

u.n.tation to human rights council calling for investigation into the lgbti crimes perpetrated in chechnya. sec. pompeo: i will defend staunchly the work we've done. seen ouru've commitment. >> it makes the refusal to sign important document concerning so i'd like an answer back on that. thank you. mr. secretary, you made reference to nato a moment ago. are you familiar with the report, nato at 70, prepared by ambassadorburns and lute? the singlefy greatest challenge to nato today is the president of the united states. and they detail conversations who explainficials for the first time in the history of nato there's an who does notident seem to support or understand who has saidnce, he's considered withdrawing from nato, that nato is obsolete. so it's an alarming report and i wonder what steps you as secretary of state of taking to our allies that the u.s. remains committed to nato understand its critical role in our shared values of advancing democracy, human rights and very important alliance that has provided peace stability around the world. sec. pompeo: i've not are the the report. kn

while a few perpetrators leaked to the kremlin-appointed leader of chechnya were convicted and sent to prison, mr. nemsov's family, friends, and legal team believe the organizers of his murder remain unidentified and at large. i understand that russia's top investigative official has prevented his subordinates from indicting a lows catarov associate, major ruslin garamaev as an organizer in the assassination, and the information linking mr. gamamaev to mr. nemsov's murder was a credible ally to place garamaev on their surveillance list. russian security cameras continue to release the footage from cameras at the site of the assassination. they refuse to classify the assassination of a prominent opposition leader and a former deputy prime minister as a political crime, and despite all this, they have declared the case solved. given this pattern of deliberate inaction on the part of russian authorities, the need for some accountability outside of russia has grown more urgent. russia and the united states are participating states in the organization for security and cooperation in europe,