the european center for constitutional and human rights welcome to the program mary and now we understand that bangladeshi inspectors a set to take over why has that caused such concern. well the bangladesh accord and fire safety is the one outstanding project in the world that really is effective in ensuring fire safety and building safety in garment factories all the other voluntary audit systems have really proven to be not sufficient and ineffective because they have not been able to. make disasters like the run up as a disaster and possible all those factors have been audited before by social auditors those are through me unreliable and the court is by now the only mechanism that has proven to be effective in fashion efficient and workable so unreliable audit should we then can kluge that this will lead to worsening conditions for garment workers there in bangladesh. yes i'm absolutely afraid that this will be so and it's absolutely shocking that one mechanism that works that is transparent that is has integrity is now about to be thrown out. eventually though i do imagined it would

such as litigation for example many in the saga mass the vice legal director at the european center for constitutional and human rights proud to have your insights thank you thank you. general motors decision to close up to five plants in north america shocked employees and their families and in lordstown ohio where the company wants to close down an entire manufacturing site well because they're clinging to the hope that g.m. is management will change course tell me what he called his proud of working for general makes his his father work here too at the g.m. plant in loads town ohio as does his brother tommy's always hoped his kids might one day find a job at the factory to send the news has devastated him you know i feel that. there's a good chance. literally shut its doors and if that happens i feel like you know our town is just going to be you know done for this. g.m. is the biggest employer in rural lordstown but the plan's only produces the chevy cruze off to rule small and compact cars are not that popular in the u.s. anymore. g.m. stock increased by about ten percent the day after they made

a confidential meeting at the european center for constitutional and human rights to prepare the criminal charges against the torturers the german attorneys here specialize in international law they worked together with syrian lawyer and journalist must end darwish and human rights lawyer and while bernie. instead of accusing individual torturers the team of targeting the top of the chain of command high ranking officials from syrian intelligence services. educations. international law expert patrick crocker explains to colleagues attending the meetings how german law also covers officials who failed to prevent crime. but for something they didn't do and what it did was he did stop the people that committed the crimes he didn't stop the fires with. the potion. the lawyers know that officials did know what was going on and not just because of reports of torture leaking to the outside world is. that you. know. this. well having themselves been imprisoned by the regime for five years and darwish for three and a half. in two thousand and two germany adopted the code of crimes against internat

ensure that factories are actually safe turn on terror and soon are legal adviser at the european center for constitutional and human rights thank you for your insight thank you as back to phil and a controversial court case in the philippines. a court in the philippines are sentenced three police officers to jail for the murder of a teenage boy the first officers to be convicted for their actions during president rodriguez deterred his war on drugs received sentences of up to forty years without parole human rights groups say the crackdown has led to thousands of extra judicial killings but the case of seventeen year old kid lloyd tells unprecedented public anger. two of the convicted police officers leaving court. minutes earlier they along with one other had been found guilty of murdering schoolboy last sun toss they claimed the seventeen year old was a drug korea who'd fired at them while resisting arrest in twenty seventeen but this is c.t.v. footage showed the teenager being dragged by two offices just moments before he was shot in an alleyway in the philippines capital of manila. vicki ends family t