if the serving on the human rights council and and so we in the human rights community look at their records in the same way we look at anyone else's records and assumption it's not just an assumption they don't like that. so i knew it was going to be possible you raised eyebrows when you spoke at the refugees conference here a couple of years ago and there said we're here because we as a global community have failed us people are so desperate that they're getting into a kitty ships and paying thousands of songs you know to people who don't have their welfare at heart yes and we're here because we haven't found the will to stop that from happening this is not is that your biggest regret now it's an acknowledgment of failure and that's why we have these contacts and if we were doing everything correctly there's no need for everyone to gather and meet and discuss i mean it has to be placed into perspective this the number of peoples on the move globally. sort of is in the range of about four maybe four point five percent so ninety five an hour and i ninety five percent and abo

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the us ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating i witness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they be women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will as the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united manner part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report ea

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the u.s. ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they be women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated. the perpetrator was the burmese military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will but one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report earlier

that there's not likely to be any debate on the matter within the council until after the human rights council has actually had a formal debate on the report that it itself commissioned other members over appear more strongly intent on getting this matter to the security council some form of decision from the council soon as possible but the problem there is china china indicating that it may not go for any immediate action we heard from the chinese foreign ministry earlier in the day that myanmar is not likely to give way to pressure and that pressure indeed would be counterproductive so we will be hearing from the various parties in the security council in the course of this particular afternoon whether or not there is a decision made on what action to take in the light of that u.n. report that's something that will become clear as the day wears on my kana monitoring that u.n. meeting that's happening right now on me and mar thank you ok to nepal now where an indefinite curfew has been put in place in the southwest in the hope that it will prevent further protests following the rape and kill

if the serving on the human rights council and and so we in the human rights community look at their records in the same way we look at anyone else's records and assumption it's not just an assumption they don't like that so i knew it was going to be possible you raised eyebrows when you spoke at the refugees conference here a couple of years ago and there said we're here big. does we as a global community have failed us people are so desperate that they're getting into a kitty ships and paying thousands of psalms you know to people who don't have their welfare at heart yes and we're here because we haven't found the will to stop that from happening that's the reason that is that your biggest regret now it's an acknowledgment of failure and that's why we have these contacts if we were doing everything correctly there's no need for everyone to gather and meet and discuss i mean it has to be placed into perspective this the number of peoples on the move globally. sort of is in the range of about four maybe four point five percent so ninety five an hour and i ninety five percen

if the serving on the human rights council and and so we in the human rights community look at their records in the same way we look at anyone else's records and assumption it's not just an assumption they don't like that so i knew it was going to be possible you raised eyebrows when you spoke at the refugees conference here a couple of years ago when you said we're here to. because we as a global community have failed us people are so desperate that they're getting into a kiddie ships and paying thousands of psalms you know to people who don't have their welfare at heart yes and we're here because we haven't found the will to stop that from happening that's the reason that is that your biggest regret now it's an acknowledgment of failure and that's why we have these compact so if we were doing everything correctly there's no need for everyone to gather and meet and discuss i mean it has to be placed into perspective this the number of peoples on the move globally. sort of is in the range of about four maybe four point five percent so ninety five and a and i ninety five perc

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights councilwhich commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the u.s. ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they be women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated. the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will but one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against a muted action based on the un report earlier the

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights councilwhich commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the us ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they bees women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burma's military and security forces. the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will at the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united magna part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report

that is the responsibility of the human rights council and the office of the high commissioner for humanthe high commissionerfor human rights. there are steps that can be taken very quickly by a number of un agencies and we're recommending those steps be taken urgently. the military have long ruled myanmar, there is now a civilian government but it has many senior military figures in the parliament and still powerful in the government. aung san suu kyi is regarded as the titular leader of the country. you would accept that she does not have control over the military but what responsibility do you think she and other civilian leaders bear? there's not really a civilian government in myanmar. it's a hybrid government with both military and civilian components. and certainly, we can see that the civilian authorities have found their responsibility and have found their responsibility and have contributed to the atrocities. but they were not involved in the planning for the operations, responsibility for that lies wholly and solely with the leadership of the military. they planned, the fermen

human rights council if they're serving on the human rights council and and so we in the human rights community look at their records and saying we will look at anyone else's records and assumption it's not just an assumption they don't like that so i knew it was going to be possible you raised eyebrows when you spoke at the refugees conference here couple of years ago when there said we're here because we as a global community have failed us people are so desperate that they're getting into a kitty ships and paying thousands of songs you know to people who don't have their welfare at heart yes and we're here because we haven't found the will to stop that from happening that's the reason that is that your biggest regret now it's an acknowledgement of failure and that's why we have these compact so if we were doing everything correctly there is no need for everyone to gather and meet and discuss i mean it has to be placed into perspective this the number of peoples on the move globally. sort of is in the range of about four maybe four point five percent so ninety five an hour and i nin

find it sort of quite strange that he talks of human rights when i assume that he knows very little about it. i am not the president of the human rights council so for one it's a sort of conflate the two words it's nonsense but he said some of the things about me i mean i don't take him seriously because again he's not a human rights person i've known many israeli ambassadors worked with them and they seem to be in a serious about these issues. he's never come to geneva we've never discussed these issues. i don't take much or touch much importance to assess the well being of women activists in saudi arabia. have they been forgotten but i don't know if they've been forgotten are certainly our offices talked about we're still a lot of them yes and we are concerned i mean any time when you have a number of activists arrested and we worry about whether it be an arbitrary arrest on direction or policy at the direction of policy and so i'm sure my office opened up the channels and we want to understand what led to this exactly why has it slowed up and we would all naturally want to see earliest possible release and certainly if their charges they s

security council decides how to act on the report it needs to go to formal debate with the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place some other members wanted more immediate action from the security council we heard a very strongly worded speech from the u.s. ambassador who had this to say we are now all armed with the devastating i witness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they these women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will. so is there any indication of what kind of action they were going to do next to what was going to happen to their end just who are nearly a million of them in bangladesh. well it is a matter that does have to be decided by the security council that is the body that will decide whether to refer the matter to the international criminal court or whether to set up its own tribunals to investigate the whole crisis on the basis of t

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights councilwhich commission the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in san .

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for a formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the u.s. ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they be women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces. the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will at the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united magna part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un repo

the un human rights council says all sides of the human conflict may have contributed to war crimes report by experts says the children have been most vulnerable in this conflict saudi arabia's according the yemeni government against who the rebels who are backed by iran. france's popular environment minister nicholas hullo has resigned live on radio without telling president mccrone beforehand the resignation is a blow to mccall who hand-picked to go the icon of the green movement repeatedly clashed with his cabinet colleagues who felt they were too weak on environmental issues. government experts from around the world are meeting in geneva to discuss the future of so-called autonomous weapons systems also dubbed killer robots these systems can operate and kill without any human guidance critics are calling for this new generation of weaponry to be banned globally before it goes into mass production. germany's armed forces already make use of semi autonomous weapons this air defense system can seek out targets on its own. for now soldiers still have to give the order to fire but fully aut

check now some other stories that have been making news around the world the united nations human rights council says that all sides in the yemen conflict may have committed war crimes a report by three experts say that children have been the most vulnerable people in the conflict saudi arabia is supporting the yemeni governor. against rebels who are backed by iran. washington says that the international court of justice has no authority to force the u.s. to lift its sanctions against iran iranian lawmakers have demanded the u.n. court lift economic sanctions re-imposed by washington over its nuclear program the u.s. state department says the u.s. has a right to protect its national security. and thousands of fans are expected to line up in detroit over the next two days to pay their last respects to the soul legend a wreath of franklin the singer's body is lying in state head of a private funeral on friday the seventy six year old died earlier this month from can create a cancer. now in death u.s. senator john mccain has united democrats and republicans who have been eulogizing him as a statesm

check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world the united nations human rights council says that all sides in the yemen conflict have committed war crimes a report by three experts say is that children have been the most vulnerable people in the conflict saudi arabia is supporting the yemeni government against rebels who are backed by iran. prosecutors of the international criminal court are calling for the conviction of the former congo warlord basco and not to gun down on charges including murder rape conscription of child soldiers and sexual slavery. faces eighteen counts for his role in the deadly conflict in the democratic republic of congo fifteen years ago he denies the charges. and washington says that the international court of justice has no authority to force the u.s. to lifted sanctions against iran or rania lawmakers have demanded the u.n. court lift economic sanctions re-imposed by washington over its nuclear program the u.s. state department says that the u.s. has a right to protect its national security. thousands of fans are expected to line up in detro

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than.

israeli prime minister and defense minister and others or officials we have a guest now in the human rights council calling for an restitution committee we won the support of the international community to send and compel israel to accept this investigation committee to begin its work that's that's what we need but then you know if you if israel feels that they can continue building settlements massacring palestinians and then it's business as usual and their occupation and their demolition of homes and collective punishment and then and then business as usual if i say there are people who tell me this is not realistic how can we be part of making peace while we treat as well i guess israel has a government that is one partner we don't have a partner in israel for peace anymore this israeli government is there to destroy the two state solution and to destroy hope for peace mr arafat you made it clear in a number of occasions that you don't do not see the united states as an honest or independent peace broker and i think many people at least in moscow would totally agree to that but with the united

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in some suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the u.s. ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions. children they b.s. women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burma's military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will as the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report ear

now for rather the past eleven months the human rights council has empowered a group of three experts to take a look at the human rights situation in yemen these experts are expected to deliver their final report to the council by the end of september meantime even though there are members of the security council who are very much aware of this latest airstrike so far there are no plans for any sort of emergency meeting by the council to discuss the incident thank you very much for the latest from the united nations roslyn jordan. seanie is an opposition figure ten by bt has been granted bail after appearing in court charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results beattie of the movement for democratic change was arrested on thursday after he was denied asylum by zambia his bail conditions include paying five thousand dollars to the court and surrendering his passport is also not allowed to address rallies or news conferences until the case is over it's been in order to. spin an ordeal but we survived. it's a future that. most of our free car will turn

is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a.

human rights council saudi arabia will try to convince member states to. vote . on a compromised resolution while i think the u.n. and the u.n. agencies will try to push for international mccann ism so i and this has been going by the way for the last for the last for the last three years usually members member states try to resist the attempts of you and to form such a kind of them all right so now we have this report which is pretty uncompromising in terms of the blame that it does blame all parties to the conflict it also has was of condemnation for those international players who are actually providing the weapons that are being put to such nefarious use in yemen. the reports although it does blame all sides of the all sides of the conflict but the saudis have repeatedly and including their many governments have repeatedly accused the un that they are not investigating the violations as much so they think that they were the reports published by the un are more biased towards benefiting the truth is because the report does say that most of the civilian casualt

mean the top military command of the tatmadaw we're happy to note that within the council human rights council there seems to be political will to set up a mechanism to preserve the evidence to collate it to get new evidence and basically function till a court is set up or a prosecutorial body is set up so we are happy to know that we will at least go that step we went to the camps in a cock's bazaar just weeks after what happened in august and i must say what we found was quite horrific and the women actually showed me the scars on their bodies and a whole host of other indicators that showed that sexual violence of the worst kind had taken place and it was very very shocking facebook has taken down pages linked to military officials in me and all the companies that it removed girls for twenty individuals and groups it includes pages associated with the armed forces commander in chief this is the first time facebook has taken such action against the country's leadership the social media judge was criticized in the past for allowing hate speech against a range of muslims although it it saw. un

human rights council be made permanent they are in their recommendations that it is also that they ask the allies of the coalition to cease. armed sales and to support the peace efforts of the new un relatively new u.n. appointed special envoy for yemen and martin griffiths so i think those are the kind of mechanisms that they are calling for. immediately visibly outside and i agree with dr kendall that this is a turning point but i would emphasize that this is a turning point because this is a record of britain by international lawyers with a large reason a sizeable team that was able to do research. for this report so it's far more documented than anything previously furthermore it puts the responsibility on the internationally recognized government of yemen that is to say i had a government to be providing for the people in yemen and not participating in it does not use the word starvation that i've seen but it is in. depriving the population of health and of a reasonable standard of living and i think that that wider emphasis is something really new and should be brought to the pub

the united nations human rights council has said all sides in the yemen conflict may have come.

given that report that was released within the last forty eight hours commissioned by the human rights council which held the myanmar military primarily responsible for what it called or amounted to acts of genocide very strong words in this particular report now the security council is the body that would have to decide whether this matter does go to the international criminal court or some other tribunals be set up to investigate all the allegations made in that particular report now within the security council itself there has to be discussion about what form the investigative mechanism would take certainly be heard some very strong words from some members of the security council as such as britain such as the united states such as holland however indications are that china may hold out in terms of any immediate action we've heard from the chinese foreign ministry a spokesman saying that myanma doesn't give in to any form of pressure so we will have this meeting starting in just under half an hour to be briefed by antonio good terrorists and it will give us some indication of which way the

human rights council saudi arabia will try to convince member states to. vote . on a compromised resolution while i think the u.n. and the u.n. agencies will try to push for international mccann ism so i and this has been going by the way for the last for the last for the last three years usually member straight member states tried to resist the attempts of u.n. to form such macan isms and at the end of the day we need to remember that all of this at the cost of the yemeni people who continue to suffer and i think will enter now the is entering another the fifth year of the fifth year of conflict with no end in sight. the u.s. has told the un's top court that it has no jurisdiction to rule on terror on's legal challenge against its renewed sanctions iran wants the international court of justice the i.c.j. to suspend the sanctions after washington pulled out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal terror on has accused the u.s. of plotting what it calls economic strangulation morrissey has this from the hague well they serve this hearing it's been the united state

human rights council because it's the first you know from from the u.n. however despite blaming all sides it seems and correct me if i'm wrong that they're being a bit cautious even though they say the saudi led coalition has been responsible for the death of civilians the most they blame is put on everyone in the conflict what does that suggest to you the fact that they're not putting the blame entirely on the saudi led coalition despite the fact that they're responsible for the most civilian casualties well look i mean i think the report has made clear that all in all parties are responsible for crimes because that is the reality and. so it you know it would be it would be worth some of the reports place the blame on you know on only one side or not the other now of course it has explicitly said that most the most direct civilian deaths have been caused by the yemen yemeni government and its allies and the saudi and emirates he led coalition this is significant it's also issued a confidential list of individuals who may be responsible for these crimes a

in september that human rights council to whether it would send a mandated international investors into violations by the parties again and from our perspective perspective this is absolutely. the first time the coalition airstrikes have a large number of civilian deaths earlier this month arrows on the port city of a data left fifty five people dead in november last year a strike on a busy market killed twenty nine people also inside a province and in two thousand and fifteen a missile hit a wedding party near the port of al maka one hundred thirty people died in ice nations as a coalition air campaign for bombing indiscriminately and them to do more to prevent civilian deaths. how mass officials in gaza say restoring calm is up to israel and that they won't escalate the conflict any further have been held for three palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes overnight including a pregnant mother and her child israel hits more than one hundred forty sites across the perceived gaza strip. there are says the targets were military compounds tunnels and the training camp says it's a response

it now goes to the international community, the un general assembly and human rights council to workmyanmar has not call operated with this team but it is more belligerent and isolated. for ang san su chi, for so long as beacon of hope for democracy and understanding in myanmar, where does this leave her now? i think she's in an appalling position, to some degree self—inflicted. the writers of the report acknowledged that her civilian government has little authority over the media and did not plan this potential genocide but they say she has never spoken out against what the military has done, even to this day, last week in a public speech she refused to acknowledge the atrocities carried out by her armed forces. it's unlikely that they would lead to any prosecution of her but she has sided so prosecution of her but she has sided so firmly with her own military, that locked up for many years, but if this does go to a genocide prosecution and international form, aung sang suu kyi will find herself on the wrong side, put in the same camp as pariahs like north korea and the syrian gover

since two thousand and seventeen washington has withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal the un human rights council unesco and of the paris climate accord. alright let's go live to david lindorff who is an investigative journalist and founding editor of the online news site this can't be happening david thanks for being with us here on our team international. so thanks for having. pulling out of the w t o would be very serious move. is trouble bluffing or could he follow through. with this kind of unconventional idea. well it's seems to me that his rhetoric at least is. example of a bit of megalomania because these are treaties these are not the you know the iran deal for example it's not a treaty it was approved by the senate the w t o is approved by the senate the un is the us a membership is approved by the by the senate and nafta is a treaty that was also approved by the senate the president does not have the power to pull out of any treaty like that it would have to be the senate would have to revoke the tree baby. big step and i doubt that there are the votes there from democrats who are goin

since two thousand and seventeen washington has withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal the un human rights council you know asco and of the paris climate accord he spoke to investigative journalist david lindorff and former british politician george galloway for their thoughts. donald trump is a bull in a china shop and he's knocking over all kinds of institutions this is just the latest china shop that he's lumbered around and he did the same with nato he did the same with the european union he's done the same with the potus climate arrangements done the same with the iran nuclear deal and so on so is the great disruptor. to have an enormously negative impact. the u.s. economy i mean the us is a huge trading country i think you would find in countries becoming skeptical. about any further dealings with the us including you know some of the us is the largest partner secure many. european countries in general and in asia i think it would be a hugely damaging to the u.s. relations with its trading partners. the president of the international olympic committee has admitted the war on doping in sports

the un report urges next month's meeting of the un human rights council to set up an international inquiryill descend into further turmoil. david campanale, bbc news. the campaigner and business woman, gina miller, has told the bbc she has ruled out a career in front line politics. during an interview earlier for newsroom live, she said rumours that she's being lined up to be the next liberal democrat leader are false. her legal challenge following the eu referendum forced the government to seek parliament's approval before starting the brexit process — inspiring both admiration and hate. she has now written a book about her experiences — and a little earlier she spoke tojoanna gosling about the current state of brexit negotiations as well as that rumour about her political ambitions. i think it is an impossible task to get a deal from where we are now in that ten weeks‘ time. and i think the politicians have to start, on either side... i think the divisions of particular parties or leave or remain, i think all of that has to be put aside, and politicians across the spectrum have to now be

israeli prime minister and defense minister and others or officials we have a case now in the human rights council calling for an investigation committee we won the support of the international community to send and compel israel to accept this investigation committee to begin its work that's that's what we need but then a view of. that they can continue building settlements massacring palestinians and then it's business as usual and their occupation and their the militia of arms and collective punishment and then and and then business as usual if i say there are people who tell me that's not realistic how can we be part of making peace while we treat as well i guess israel has a government that is one partner we don't have a partner for peace anymore this israeli government is there to destroy the two state solution and to destroy hope for peace mr arafat you made it clear on a number of occasions that you don't do not see the united states as an honest or independent peace broker and i think many people at least in moscow would totally agree to that but with the united states absent who can poss

some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united nations human rights council says that all sides in the yemen conflict may have committed war crimes a report by three experts says that children have been the most vulnerable people in the conflict saudi arabia is supporting the yemeni government against the rebels who are backed by iran prosecutors at the international criminal court are calling for the conviction of former congo warlord bosco into gonda on charges including murder rape conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery into god and faces eighteen counts for his role in the deadly conflict in the democratic republic of congo fifteen years ago he denies the charges. washington says the international court of justice has no authority to force the u.s. to lift its sanctions against iran iranian lawyers have demanded that the un court stop economic sanctions re imposed by washington over tehran's nuclear program the u.s. state department says that the sanctions are a matter of national security. well experts from around the world are meeting in geneva

killed fifty people in total and then of course just today there is that un report from the human rights council. which attributes blame to all of the warring parties and suggests that prosecutions for crimes against humanity could really be put under way as a consequence of their actions in this particular war so this is the issue that kept coming up time and time again james mattis suggested that it was constantly under review the policy of supporting of training and advising the saudis was something that they kept under review but at this this particular moment in time it seems very much as say they are committed to continuing with that policy he did say that an investigation is urgently underway it is it seems something that is concerning the united states and an investigation is particularly underway into the number of civilians that have lost their lives particularly with relation to this this bar so that's basically what's been going on we'll be talking to our pentagon correspondent in just a little while but in the meantime we're going to look at some other news including . looking for a