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e.u. off complicity in the abuse of refugees and migrants in libya what do you mean. well the e.u. house for some time now rob the most number of governments with backing specifically its entered into a string of corporation agreements to fund to train to equip the libyan coast guard in various parts of the ministry of in tyria and in libya who are themselves perpetrating horrific abuses on refugees and migrants and all and the european governments know this concluding on a on a daily basis with with with smugness stance re what the e.u. is trying to tackle the e.u. governments knowing the extent of collusion of libyan authorities with smugglers and abuses in libya should not be equipping and funding them in the way they are with no conditions a toll on the how they operate in the absence of those conditions in the absence of that kind of influence those governments have become complicit sadly and horrifically in those abuses but often john the reasons beyond this is abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants and much beyond what the e.u. can influence what do you expect the e

that's because european council president donald tusk wants to get rid of mandatory refugee court says his suggestion that e.u. countries be allowed to voluntarily set their own refugee card says faces strong criticism. i don't believe in selective solidarity among european member states and the countries certainly on the e.u. border have a great responsibility and that's why we also need e.u. wide solutions. yes to solidarity no to quotas that's the message from some eastern european countries they were draw the pay to protect their border as thirty five million euros that solidarity according to hungary and prime minister. we we should go out for countries are ready to contribute. considerable sum of money to help to defend the border of the outside world of european union and to contribute to the actions of european union initiated into territory of libya countries like austria say buying their way out of the some e.u. resolutions shouldn't be tolerated in these days and it's unacceptable of that someone bows out when they disagree with the union european cooperation and want one. british prime minister to

rather than a unifier that's because donald too is going to get rid of mandatory refugee quota it's his suggestion that e.u. countries be allowed to set their own refugee quotas voluntarily faces strong criticism. i don't believe in selective solidarity among european member states and the countries are fly on the e.u. border have a great responsibility and that's why we also need e.u. wide solutions. yes to solidarity no to quotas that's the message from some eastern european countries they would rather pay to protect their borders to the tune of thirty five million euros that's solidarity according to hungary and prime minister viktor orban we got four countries are ready to contribute with a considerable sum of money to help to defend the border of outside border of european union and to contribute to the actions of european union initiated in the territory of libya austria's leader says countries buying their way out of bothersome e.u. resolutions should not be tolerated it's consistent is human it's unacceptable that someone bows out when they disagree with the union european cooperation doesn't work

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e.u. to return refugees that arrive from the greek coast has helped ease tensions but a long list of grievances remain. correspondent and the carousel is covering the story for us in athens the first visit by a turkish head of state in greece in sixty five years what are greeks expecting. well for starters on the face of it the government wants to build more bridges so there will be talks about intensifying bilateral. trade and communication and travel even between. both sides but as you've said there are a lot of stormy issues that remain and in fact even before the price of the turkish president set foot here in athens he has stunned greeks who some pretty controversial remarks demanding that. an agreement that outlines existing borders between greece and turkey would be revised and also outing the greek prime minister for allegedly not handing over eight turkish servicemen who fled to agree in the wake of last year's coup in. the ease. not that these remarks definitely do not bode well and they eventually bruising meeting and the government has already come under strong political fire by pol

e.u. to return refugees that arrive from the greek coast has helped ease tensions but a long list of grievances remain. and for more let's bring in correspondent and the car star who is standing by with the latest from there we just heard about that while the list of grievances given that went to greats make of this visit. well on the face of it the greek government wants to build bridges as it says with its. traditional adversaries so we are going to be hearing a lot of talk about bringing these two countries together with more commercial truck ties potential travel between the two countries but there are as you say longstanding differences the government doesn't expect these differences to be settled in the next twenty four hours during the talks here with reject i don but in fact they are now shocked with some controversial statements which the turkish president made just before coming here namely he has contested yet again this agreement between greece and turkey outlining their borders he's also come down very hard on the greek prime minister for not handing over eight turkish servicemen w

e.u. turkey agreement refugees arriving on greece's eastern region islands have to stay there until their asylum case is a hood but the government may move people with disabilities families children and single women. that leaves a lot of single men behind for them boredom and overcrowding create a toxic mix some us volunteers a self organizing group raised money to create a day center for them here refugees can feel human relax socialize learn languages and burnish their resumes in english and soon they'll be able to wash their clothes this face in the can be so very natural and there's no space where someone can do any anything physically any activity so having a place like this really takes their mind away from from all the tension and having as there the government has offered to build a second camp here but officials inside most like on the other islands have refused so the existing camp built for seven hundred currently hosts fifteen hundred half of them are women and children there's a scarcity of medicine clothes water and hygiene but things were even worse before the evacuation un

e.u. governments of the libyan coast guard to intercept migrants see these refugees and then sent to detention centers where they suffer abuse and exploitation there are nearly twenty thousand people in overcrowded buildings the report also says the e.u. are aware of corruption within libya's coast guard accusing it of working with human smugglers or tendency to cruise deliveries are young is a visiting scholar a senior scholar at the national university of singapore and she says it's hard to point fingers is no one can predict the scale of the libyan migration crisis. i don't think they do national community or even the world has not faced as the scale of a crisis like this i mean look us what the what's not in this part of the world and in myanmar for example i mean who would have guessed who would have known that you would have you know half a million rohingya has crossed into bomb addition a matter of weeks and the media i think is doing a darn good job given on restrictions in keeping this issues of the forefront off of the public the general public so in that sense you know let's let's b

exploitation and the coast guard seem to be complicit in the smuggling of these refugees these migrants what can the e.u. do about. well one way is to. craft better and i will aid governance we do know based on the report that there has been technical and financial assistance that's being given to the libyan coast guard so that they can patrol the i mean it's better but money is not enough and neither is twenty one has to have stronger oversight and we do know from aid mechanisms that sometimes this is sorely lacking between the aid giver and the aid receiver so it's not a matter of fact and better and since. the owner of country is the european union gives money in assistance to a cut like libya that they're also there every step of the way to make sure that the money's being put to good use and better of that they are not only giving out technical assistance but they're also pulled in oral speech that you. know. we're in this or that does not seem to be happening. i think the orders getting a bit dodgy that we will try to proceed on this. isn't this just a wholesale failure of the international commun

e.u. turkey agreement refugees arriving on greece's eastern region islands have to stay there until their asylum case is a hood but the government may move people with disabilities families children and single women. that leaves a lot of single men behind for them boredom and overcrowding create a toxic mix some us volunteers a self organizing group raised money to create a day center for them here refugees can feel human relax socialize learn languages and burnish their resumes in english and soon they'll be able to wash their clothes just face in the can be so very narrow and there's no space where someone can do any anything basically any activity so having a place like this really takes their mind away from from all the tension and having it there the government has offered to build a second camp here but officials in some us like on the other islands have refused so the existing camp built for seven hundred currently hosts fifteen hundred half of them are women and children there's a scarcity of medicine clothes water and hygiene but things were even worse before the evacuation until

governments of knowingly exposing fountains of refugees to torture and abuse in the efforts to curb migration in their report the right group says the e.u.'s policy of containment shows little careful migrants and refugees chopped in libya. has more from tripoli. these images sparked outrage around the world african migrants at risk of being sold at auction in libya the accusation of modern day slavery triggered international concern and pledges to address the issue but in a report by the human rights group amnesty international european governments are accused of not only being aware of these abuses but also actively supporting libyan authorities in a stopping sea crossings and preventing refugees and migrants from leaving what we have in libya is really a hellhole. for it's a lawless country to start with and refugees and migrants are treated like a commodity we heard about the. slave auction just a week or two ago and here we are so essentially any migrant a refugee is pretty much criminalized italy has been singled out for criticism it's accused of leading e.u. efforts to fund libyan detention camps train libyan coast guard to inter

e.u. governments of funding a corrupt libyan coast guard it says to insert migrants see up to twenty thousand refugees remain in overcrowded to tension centers where they suffered abuse and exploitation the report also says the e.u. is aware of libya's coast guard working with human smugglers the ukrainian opposition politician saakashvili has been released from jail the former georgian president was arrested on friday accused of conspiring to topple the ukrainian leader petro poroshenko those are your headlines the news continues after al-jazeera will more news top past. on monday the fourth of december twenty seventh teen the former president of yemen . was assassinated at a checkpoint outside sanaa. the killing of. his funds yemen into even more uncertainty president great being a dominant political force for over three decades was killed in an attack led by who the fighters on monday had been in an alliance with the iranian backed rebels for more than two years and his death sparked intense fighting on the streets of the capital sanaa. to get two days before sallah had announced that his alliance

international is accusing the european union of being complicit in the abuse of refugees in libya in a report the rights group says that the e.u. tuns a blind eye to alleged brutal tactics of libya's coast guard and detention facilities . tens of thousands of african migrants and refugees are facing deportation from israel off the parliament approved a bill allowing the government to force them out of the country they say refused to go will be imprisoned. world leaders meet seeing in paris right now for a special climate summit convened by the french president and. it's hoped the gathering will encourage much needed funding to accelerate efforts to combat global warming as follows the u.s. decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen climate accord president trump will not be attending neither will the leaders of china and india event marks two years since two hundred nations signed the paris agrees. the said about changing their financial structure they way they have financial structure works making sure that every decision that relates to financing made towards supporting. projects and supporting actions that are ori

international is accusing the european union of being complicit to the abuse of refugees in libya interpol the rights group says the e.u. turns a blind eye to alleged brutal tactics of libya's coast guard and tench from cities also claims the e.u. is aware of corruption within the coast guard to working with human smugglers. tens of thousands of african asylum seekers are facing deportation from israel off the policy to prove the bill allowing the government to force them out of the country the detention center which houses some of them will also be closed. while the leaders are meeting in paris for a special climate summit convened by the french president manuel micro and said the gathering will encourage much needed funding to accelerate efforts to combat global warming follows u.s. decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen climate cold. turkey is expected to finalize a two billion dollars deal with russia to buy the s. four hundred surface to air missile system you know what it was made at a joint news conference between. president vladimir putin the russian word was turkey's ties with russia become stron

e.u. remains badly divided. on migration europe is a continent divided poland the czech republic slovakia and hungry will not accept the bodice refugee quotas that the e.u. agreed back in twenty fifteen the talks went on into the early hours to no avail do you think you should hold off either politically it was a type of political close calm but good news is that we agreed on the so-called external issues of migration protecting our borders and stopping the migrants outside them the bad news is that we still disagree on resettlement and immigration there are still many large forces who don't want to stop migration but want to bring migrants into europe and afterwards distribute them on a compulsory basis. other leaders are furious not least the one who risked her political future by admitting close to a million refugees to her country in twenty fifty. two it is a democracy i made very clear that i'm not satisfied with the fact that the rules we have are not working solidarity cannot just apply externally but also must be internal on this we have lots of work to do the positions have not changed but we plan to continue to work on this

complicit in the abuse of thousands of refugees in their efforts to stem migration in a report titled libya's dark web of collusion the human rights group says the e.u.'s policy of containment shows little care for the consequences for those trapped in libya one example given is the funding by european governments of the libyan coast guard to intercept migrants at sea these refugees are then sent to detention centers where they suffer abuse and exploitation up to twenty thousand people currently remain contained in overcrowded buildings the report also says the e.u. is aware of corruption within libya's coast guard accusing them of working with people smugglers the opposition politician really has been released from detention in ukraine the former georgian president was arrested on friday he used of conspiring to topple ukraine's leader petro poroshenko allegations he denies his journal. following large demonstrations on sunday supporters of opposition figure in ukraine mikhail saakashvili confronted police outside a courthouse in the capital kiev inside from a plastic defendant's box the former president of georgia saakashvili responded to allegati

e.u. counsel, as we have at the moment for the relocation of refugees within the european union, it gets more complicated. that shows you why this is the most contentious issue in the european union. we have decisions not enacted by countries like poland. maybe in the future by austria. that gives the e.u. a huge problem on its hands. that is something they want to solve within the next six or seven months. they said that they want new solutions until june 2018. it might not get any easier. laila: max hoffman reporting from brussels. thank you. i'm sure all of you at home -- certainly, we have an item of ikea, and it has made a lot of money off of billing us for the furniture been. >> it is cheap, but you have to do the wonky stuff. the question is whether or not ikea has been paying taxes. the european union has launched an investigation into tax arrangements in the netherlands. they could have given the swedish furniture giant and unfair market advantage. they may have to put a bill that is pricier than it's cheap bookshelves. reporter: ikea is known across the globe for inexpensive home fu

e.u.'s efforts have a stronger human rights component and it conducted in cooperation with the un refugee agency r.t. r several institutions to comment on the allegations against e.u. governments including the italian foreign ministry one reply we got was from the un secretary general's deputy spokesman he expressed concern over the situation in libya and stressed the need for the proper resettlement of migrants we also heard two back from oxfam they said they can't comment on amnesty's findings but their own information does indicate the report holds water. as that stop of regular migration at all costs the e.u. has sacrificed people's safety and well being violating the obligations of respect and protection of human rights that's a view shared by international relations professor. if you're getting a number of reports from credible sources including u.n. agencies that there are systematic abuses that that is and and i think it's clear that there are italy has to then and the european union has to say well we're not going to send these people back to libya and we're going to find some way

e.u. to return refugees that arrive from the greek coast has helped ease tensions but a long list of grievances remain. so the first visit by a turkish head of state in greece in sixty five years what can we expect let's bring in correspondent. then that we have dorian jones in istanbul welcome to you both and the let's start with you how will anyone be received there in greece. well there's a great deal of fear and trepidation over this trip. for starters it's a huge security operation here the entire capital is being locked down for the sake of shielding the crime of the turkish president and this after there were arrests of turkish six tree mystere just a couple of weeks ago and there are fears that they may have been planning some kind of hit spectacular hit against a turkish president at the same time though the greeks want this visit but they're but there they fear that the president is not bringing any kind of major compromise to the table that would help ease unsettle and build closer bridges between the two countries in fact just coming in he hasn't set foot here yet and there's a grea

european governments of knowingly exposing thousands of refugees to torture and abuse in their efforts to curb migration in a report the rise of says the e.u.'s policy of containment shows little care for migrants and refugees trapped in libya mahmoud absolute has more from tripoli. these images park at outreach around the world african migrants at risk of being sold at auction in libya the accusation of modern day slavery triggered international concern and pledges to address the issue but in a report by the human rights group amnesty international european governments are accused of not only being aware of these abuses but also actively supporting libyan authorities in a stopping sea crossings and preventing the refugees and migrants from leaving what we have in libya is really a hellhole. for it's a lawless country to start with and refugees and migrants are treated like a commodity we heard about the. slave auction just a week or two ago and here we are so essentially any migrant or refugee is pretty much criminalized italy has been singled out for criticism it's accused of leading e.u. efforts to fund libyan detention camps train liby

libya has agreed to the emergency evacuation of refugees and migrants facing abuse in its detention camps the plan's been drawn up at a joint e.u. african union summit in ivory coast it's not clear yet how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back to their home countries the reports from. the theme of this summit was huge but there is no doubt the from the outset it was dominated by the issue of the refugee slave trade in libya and by migration we heard from the host of the summit the president of the ivory coast in the beginning who said that everyone had a collective responsibility to do something well at the end of the summit what leaders decided is that they would try and repatch reate those migrants and refugees that are trapped in libya and want a task force to try and crack down on people smuggling and we spoke to many people here who said that that is just a case of firefighting and what is really needed is a long term strategy to deal with migration. african and european union leaders condemned the refugee slave trade in libya in their final statement they promised a task force to tackle traff

e.u. complicity in refugee to be. in libya it's written by john doe he's a news director of amnesty international's europe and central asia program very much worth a read from up there the situation. for our facebook audience so all the love of food is pretty up a recipe for peace here for one time at a base in colombia also ahead on the grid we'll look at the new regulations on twitter cracking down on hate and abusive tweets social media companies wiki branding white nationalists who usually use their platform to post racist. hello there we're seeing fair amount of clout on the satellite picture across the middle east at the moment it's all working its way in from the west and gradually tracking its way eastwards and this is a developing feature so there's not a great deal of rain to it all and choose day but on wednesday as it works itself towards the east will see some more heavy downpours begin to develop and a fair amount of snow as well so particularly for some of us in turkey it does look rather wet and to exp

e.u. remains badly divided. on migration europe is a continent divided poland the czech republic slovakia and hungry will not accept the bodice refugee quotas that the e.u. agreed back in twenty fifteen the talks went on into the early hours to no avail do you think you should hold off either politically it was a type of political close calm but good news is that we agreed on the so-called external issues of migration protecting our borders and stopping the migrants outside them the bad news is that we still disagree on resettlement and immigration there are still many large forces who don't want to stop migration but want to bring migrants into europe and afterwards distribute them on a compulsory basis. other leaders are furious not least the one who risked her political future by admitting close to a million refugees to her country in twenty fifty and here are the usual said to him after i made very clear that i'm not satisfied with the fact that the rules we have are not working solidarity cannot just apply externally but also must be internal on this we have lots of work to do the positions have not changed but we plan to contin

e.u. of complicity in the abuse of refugees it supported its claims with this video where a libyan coast guard is towing a refugee in the sea and another one is being whipped. well as europe struggles to find new solutions to the migrant crisis we discussed with our experts the latest italian decision to send troops to libya. i think this is some kind of emergency measure to finally stop the human trafficking to europe unfortunately our western imperialism actually lets through the situation currently in so i think we're proud of our conflict in libya which was also crossed by the our western intervention. already in two thousand and eleven i think there won't be. crisis the sad thing is and this is where the whole thing falls apart is this should not be an italian initiative this should be a european initiative this should be a coordinate in the live and when you get a country like france for example negotiating with a different leader from mistress or raj in libya then you can see the degree of discontinuity that's going on this is something that should be tackled in a coordinated way within

the countries have taken in almost no refugees in the last few years despite an e.u.greement to relocate 160,000 people from italy and greece. their brussels of limiting national sovereignty. with only two weeks to go until catalonia holds fresh elections, more than 3000 pro catalan protesters have gathered in brussels to urge the e.u. to support their drive for independence from spain. they are also voicing support for their deposed leader. he was, or he says he will stay in belgium because he fears he will be arrested if he returns to spain. well germany could be one step , closer to forming a new government tonight. the country's centerleft social democrats have voted in favor of talks on continuing the governing coalition with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives. now the social democrats -- the spd originally ruled out , entering a coalition with the conservatives after a disastrous election result in september. reporter: in the end, the social democrats followed the decision of their chief martin schulz. reluctant but with clear majority, they gave the ok fo

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