parliamentary assembly of the council of europe the human rights commission of the council of europe there are so many parliamentarians worldwide why are very concerned about this case and i really don't understand to be frank what's going on in the british parliament with my colleagues that they don't have there was not one british politician with you know and i mean if they are so secure and so secure about the case that the rule of law is accepted and the conditions are ok with the rule of law why they don't just come and see what's going on in the court room ok i mean i just don't like them i invite the candidate who has got running for the leadership of the labor party come with me as a calm rate and see what's going on in the court room well it again can rains in may of course depending on the health of julian assange the magistrate vanessa borate. she's an impartial woman deciding over the court proceedings as well. it was very weird what happened last week. when we came together to the court and she just asked in the afternoon julian if he can concentrate on the trial and the

will you know it all's true those were the measures that i told you about 3 years later the council of europe reported that major scandals were rising going unreported and uninvestigated for the 1st time we have we have introduced this is the contradiction of this government and of the government as well for the 1st time we introduced measures to hold government to account that had never been introduced before now where they were they were they weren't working or nuff but why give them away give them a free pass say a culture better political responsibility and transparency has been introduced then we had the panama papers the electric gas the further hilman the further vittles global health care for the golden passport all all time and again featuring the same key figures close to the prime minister and the police and several instances mysteriously failing to act and none of that was serious enough for you to say you've crossed my red lines you've crossed the many many times i did see it entirely. and they repeated the weakest link was and still remains even know and we have to act about the

but this investigation was tainted from the start for them to do this is no law some of the council of europe warn that a series of magistrates should have been taken off the case because of conflicts of interest likewise the investigating police officer force claims that sayed said were made by the minister of the interior but progress in the investigation if that's not an investigation tainted with on its own because it did give results and 11 important point in all this is that there are other services involved including the report so even if there are elements who want to cover up that information is available to the force beyond so that there is a good guarantee that the whole truth will come out the ethnic her own ability or didn't have much that was nice to say but you did see. the symbol 2016 she wrote but tolo were decent and honest with the of stuck with the labor party since the 1970 s. of course not decent and honest people left in droves when they saw what was going on she's right isn't she and i don't think so and i don't agree with her comment i respect what she had done but i

were appointed by the prime minister was that were the case in the system described by the council of europe's parliamentary assembly as incompatible with judicial independence and the rule of law but i think this is not fair in this case for a very simple reason it does is government the appointment of magistrate turned the judges have been more independent of the executive arm of government than ever before before the prime minister had talked to jurisdiction no it's not like that anymore there is a judicial appointment committee and we are intent definitely on taking the steps that the venice commission has indicated you once used to do so for not going on but we have started that i don't you see even in the last 30 that differ in the last week even sorry even in the last month apart from the last week sets have been taken for side implementing those recommendations under dinu prime minister in may 2016 when you said things were fine. they clearly weren't were they you said the government had already started in 2016 to introduce a culture of better political responsibility and transparency

and the council of europe weighed in against what they saw as disproportionate force against demonstrators on the streets of france there was this proportion of the violence in my country and there were casualties caused by. blockades by yellow vests can't should we forget about it should we forget about the number of trades of a city which closed because of this unrest i will never because i was elected by my fellow citizens united knowledge was addressing the points the many people have raised the paris think tank for instance general has your leap so last year the clampdown on civil liberties was part of a consistent pattern since mr merkel took office and i deny it because there are freedoms they are respected they are propped acted for instance freedom to go on strike that's fine that's even constitutional in my county but frank freedom not to go on strike should be protected as well and freedom of movement should be protected as well you want to see powers of police increased as they were october 27th in the new deterrent or substantially increase police in february 28th in the immig

seriously we will rebuild this case to the council of europe platform for the protection of journalism. and the safety of journalists it's a serious case of our resident intimidation and we will ask the council of europe will ask explanations to the issue authorities about these events what does this mean for journalists though we understand that this situation was quickly resolved after the russian foreign minister called his turkish counterpart do you think that more caution will be shown in future or is this going to force foreign media to be more cautious when they're operating in turkey. we should be cautious as a journalist operating in for sure it's not the it's not the 1st time as i told you maybe you remember in the 17. dukie correspondent for developed german newspaper. was arrested for so-called terrorist propaganda. in fact it was just a way. to put pressure on dreman authorities and. in particular. i think spent one year in prison you know he was released after. negotiations between both governments so. turkey's used to do it's a kind of habit you know to put pressure on j

of criticism you touched on that in your intro for example the the secretary general of the council of europeand the office of the high commissioner for human rights at the united nations have criticized this saying it's too much power it's unlimited power for an undetermined amount of time and they said that is too much it's got to be more checks and balances that's what opposition parties say here too and some concern journalists mainly who are. also concerned about other things in the country but the government seems to have a pretty good feel for things because for example the country's biggest opposition use paper in a 7 commissioned. a study last week that was carried out by the public research institute and surprisingly for a lot of opposition people here 76 percent of the hungaroring population supports it for what the government has been doing and interestingly enough that about that up support for opposition parties has actually nosedive 10 percent last 2 weeks while support for finesse the ruling party here in hungary led by that door bond has increased. our he's got about 30 secon

typically the council of europe. typically, a number of projects on the european continent that were not existing at the time. and in between i think a number of progress have been made in our capacity to engage a dialogue on a number of issues with russia. our view is that at the moment russia tried to be an asian country. an asian power. it didn't work. well, i think -- you know, it's the organization that we all can have. that's not probably the future for russia. they tried to go in places like middle east, like africa, and we see also the limitation it provides to all of us. our sentiment is russia is by definition a power which has to have -- which is a european power in a way. not the same with the eu, but it's in the grand europe, and in italy or it's in europe. our view that we cannot in the long term have this power next to us without having in some way a dialogue. a lively dialogue. you know, we are putting and we have trying to find find ways to engage in concrete issues like cyber, where we feel we can ma

criticism out there i mean you've received criticism from the from the united nations from the council of europe the general message seems to be that there is no clear cut off date here they're concerned about democracy in your country why would you insist on this measure. you know i would recommend that we want to read below the text of the low and that to read on in the press release is this this is this same pattern what's always been going on there on time dearie it is you know the same weiss's are always reflected indifferent to media outlets i would be very happy to have as much space in the international media with $100.00 in government's position as much as the opposition has in the international media so there's no floor in the room for any kind of for their concerns on the contrary this deal of the sect already provides much more constitutional guarantees than in general in a situation of danger any kind of constitution could on that. very strong provision as routing the law which actually provide more flexibility for the constitutional court seats during the crisis and that's why ever

the interim minister of turkey says but small but totally organized by the go and this is a council of europe government against another up this is a nato country against it and so that is a big obstacle for the talks but still the meeting yesterday open the way forward there is not a follow up between the foreign minister of turkey and the high representative boren would you say that turkish president the one that does he have more leverage here than europe eat probably has a lot of leverage of course because we know how much since 2015 the refugee crisis has become the transformative factor in european politics and it's not here in berlin that i have to explain in my own town say 34 days ago marion le pen was using turkey and the e.u. money to turkey as the proof that this was a bad deal so you know extreme right is using this what about weaponize ing refugees how can europe let president get away with that i mean he's you know as you said he's orchestrating this sending these refugees to the greek border yeah i mean it's been said in so many words by michelle but for the. post by the chanc

opposition leaders human rights activists as well as the council of europe have all spoken out against it we are not talking about an abstract fear we are to be are speaking from experience that we have observed in the last 10 years how the hungary and government and the leadership of the harmonic undermining human rights and limiting the rule of law in hundreds of years bringing about experience when we raise our concerns that unfortunately because the coby the emergency order covered president under even being you if there is a constitutional moment for the government to maintain prolong the necks of the powers. in countries around the world governments have been imposing unprecedented restrictions deploying the army in some instances to enforce lock downs but it's also raise concerns about powers left unchecked for too long if the pandemic continues priyanka gupta. zimbabwe has begun implementing a 3 week lockdown but there are concerns about the government's ability to fight the pandemic harm with us are reports. police in harare blocked major roads as the baba begins a 21 day nati

director of initiative years atlantic council and it's really my pleasure to host today the minister of state for european affairs of the french republic for a conversation about france, europe and the transatlantic relations. as you know here at the atlantic council we value european allies and valued u.s. engagement in the transatlantic relationship and the initiative is precisely to make the case that the european union is a key, critical strategic partner of the united states. part of our role is to explain the developments within the european union and to engage policymakers and great bridge between policymakers united states and europe especially in times of great power competition for as you know president macron of france is laid out an ambitious agenda for reform of the european union for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, reforming and stepping up european defense integration as well as changing enlargement policy. these are issues that are think will discuss today with the minister. let me first turn to start with initial remarks and then we will open to a conversation with all of you and we want this to be as interactive as possible. than

opposition leaders human rights activists as well as the council of europe have all spoken out against it we are not talking about an abstract fear we are to be are speaking from experience that we have observed in the last 10 years how the hungary and government and the leadership of victor are my undermining human rights and limiting the rule of law in hundreds of years bringing about experience when we raise our concerns that unfortunately because the coby the emergency order covered president under even being you if there's a constitutional moment for the government to maintain. the nexus the powers. in countries around the world governments have been imposing unprecedented restrictions deploying the army in some instances to enforce lock downs but it's also risk concerns about powers left unchecked for too long if the pandemic continues priyanka gupta. let's speak to when they melba's corfield who is now going to france she is a member of the european parliament who serves as repertory on the situation in hungary thank you for coming on the program what kind of power does this giv

it was an important link for people and businesses in the south—west to other parts of the uk and europe. councilhe news today a hammer blow for the area's economy. most of the flights set to depart from exeter where flybe flights. when you look at the departure board, you see the impact of all of those planes being grounded. a sea of red, as they were all cancelled. very few flights out of exeter, today, at all. there have not been many staff hanging around the airport, but we have managed to speak to some, cabin crew, i spoke to were upset, they said all of the staff were very sad and feeling uncertain at this time. we have also been speaking to exeter airport's managing director. he said that there had been discussions with other airlines about potentially taking over some of the many routes that flybe leaves vacant, but it remains to be seen whether all of those can continue in future without flybe. at george best belfast city airport, the flybe desk behind me is empty but it is usually busy because the airline has operated 14 routes out of this airport, flying 1.6 million passengers every ye

of his national security council of refugees and migrants gather at its land border with turkey this comes after president said he would not stop people from crossing into europe. u.s. secretary of state michael says he's hopeful talks between the afghan government and the taliban will begin in the coming days he says president will be actively involved in ensuring the conditions of a deal signed by the u.s. and the taliban on saturday augment the agreement set out the conditions that set out the space but no this deal doesn't depend upon trusting anyone it has a deep complex well thought out multi month negotiated verification complex a mechanism by which we can observe and hold every member of the agreement accountable we'll do that it's not about trust it's about what happens on the ground not only yesterday which was an important day but in the days that followed earlier the agreement appeared to hit a stumbling block got his sons president ghani saying the government did not commit to releasing $5000.00 taliban prisoners and that it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the us taliban accord avon has reported 11 mor

he also tries to bring france into the security council of the united nations. he needs allies in europe. he did you want think that europe would be able on it's own to keep germany down. stalin doesn't believe the soviet union on it's own could do that as well. it is very interesting, we are all, when we think about the future, our vision is based on what happened on e in the past. we base it on experience. and these are people who just 20 years earlier thinking about the year 2,000, right? from their perspective world wawar 1 ended and it was very recent in their mind. they think the united states will not stay in europe but they also know that germany, no matter how much it has destroyed to date will be back in 20 years. that is their thinking and we know it will be a very powerful force. so stallen agrees to the zone of occupation, but says you can give them gones of occupation from your own zones of occupation. from britain and from america, and that is what happens. and now the big issue is dealing with germany is reparations. stallen wants $20 billion. the british and fdr are very

of the national security council a sounds of refugees and migrants gather at its land border with turkey this comes after turkish president erdogan said he would not stop people from going into europe and the u.s. secretary of state my compare has said he is hopeful that talks between the afghan government and the taliban will begin in the coming days he also says president donald trump will be actively involved in ensuring the conditions of a deal signed by the u.s. and the taliban on saturday are met. iran has reported 11 more deaths from corona virus raising the total to $54.00 the highest number outside of mainland china the number of new infections has increased close to $1000.00 cases iran's health ministry is dismissing claims the totals are much higher our correspondent zain bazarov easy in tehran he says the outbreak is having a major impact on daily life and the economy. stores shops cafes restaurants all around the city wherever you go you can see signs posted on windows of closed closed businesses saying that they are closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus and those few restaurants that do remain open some businesses have to remain open and the on the tables at all

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