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a strong supporter of multilateral approaches or human rights efforts for that matter i'm looking at him you know quitting the u.n. human rights council united states also a history of the band doing multilateral commitments you mentioned pledges to defund the w.h.o. also the paris climate cord that i'm thinking about you know how damaging has it been on the international stage the lack of u.s. leadership right now. i mean look at trump is a disaster on every front when it comes to enforcing international standards or her commitment to international cooperation so he's a lost cause and you know at least through next november that's what we have. it really shows the importance of leadership from european governments and other governments i mean at the un human rights council for example where you know trump abandon it because you criticize just really too much in his view we've seen a whole range of governments step forward not only the you know the traditional western supporters of human rights but also a whole range of latin american governments when it comes to say on venezuela even in muslim majority states that have often kind of
a strong supporter of multilateral approaches or human rights efforts for that matter i'm looking at him you know quitting the u.n. human rights council united states also a history of the band doing multilateral commitments you mentioned pledges to defund the w.h.o. also the paris climate cord that i'm thinking about you know how damaging has it been on the international stage the lack of u.s. leadership right now. i mean look at trump is a disaster on every front when it comes to enforcing...
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human rights council and the w.h.o. we have china being protected by the w.h.o. nt to go have a seat on the u.n. human rights council. maybe it's time to review the funding we send to them. main it's time to send that message, what china did -- china is not our friend. they are our enemy. they have been ripping us off, taking our jobs. they have been sending us this virus this year. they have been stealing our intellectual property. and we need to realize they are not our friend. they are part of the new axis of evil. north korea and china and iran and russia, and judge niece are not people who wish us well. and when you see what china has done not only to us, but to the entire globe with this pandemic. china's actions made this pandemic worse because they hid the information, they were not transparent. and it's time for us to hold them to account. whether it's through returning our manufacturing, removing the confucius institutes. making certain we have china -- we look at the debt of ours and say a trillion dollars worth. maybe they should waive that debt. there
human rights council and the w.h.o. we have china being protected by the w.h.o. nt to go have a seat on the u.n. human rights council. maybe it's time to review the funding we send to them. main it's time to send that message, what china did -- china is not our friend. they are our enemy. they have been ripping us off, taking our jobs. they have been sending us this virus this year. they have been stealing our intellectual property. and we need to realize they are not our friend. they are part...
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its cover-up, and lack of cooperation, it is now joining controversial united nations human rights council panel, they will be able to choose 17 human right investigators who focus on arbitrary detention, freedom of speech, the regime violated all of those human rights and does so to this day. united states left council in disgust, in 2018. >> perhaps there is reason for more disgust now. lou: more than 400,000 people have reportedly entered u.s. from china. this year. including 40,000 since january 31, date when president banned all foreigners who had traveled to china. many of these arriving after. there you travel ban entered because of the exemptions allowing people with relatives of american citizen to enter from china with minimal screenings if any. some americans when flew back said they got minimal questioning or follow-ups and customs and immigration at airports, joining us, congressman lance gooden. a member of house committee financial services. we're delighted to have you with us. give us a sense of where you think we are right now with the issue of oversight, with the presiden
its cover-up, and lack of cooperation, it is now joining controversial united nations human rights council panel, they will be able to choose 17 human right investigators who focus on arbitrary detention, freedom of speech, the regime violated all of those human rights and does so to this day. united states left council in disgust, in 2018. >> perhaps there is reason for more disgust now. lou: more than 400,000 people have reportedly entered u.s. from china. this year. including 40,000...
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in a report to the human human rights council, it said optimism that the human rights coordinator hadted the six -- started the job six years ago has been lost, as she watched tragedy. lauren: former u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton officially endorsed fellow democrat joe biden for president. the former secretary of state says biden has been preparing for this moment his entire life. biden will go up against president donald trump in the november election. >> i want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president. just think of what a difference it would make right now if we had a president who not only listened to the science, put fax over fiction, but brought us ofether, showed the kind compassion and caring that we need from our president. brazilian president jair bolsonaro has appointed to close allies as justice minister and close allies as justice minister and head of the police. there are concerns about a family friend being in charge of the police. bolsonaro was accused of trying to interfere illegally with police. the brazilian supreme court a
in a report to the human human rights council, it said optimism that the human rights coordinator hadted the six -- started the job six years ago has been lost, as she watched tragedy. lauren: former u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton officially endorsed fellow democrat joe biden for president. the former secretary of state says biden has been preparing for this moment his entire life. biden will go up against president donald trump in the november election. >> i want to add my...
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who spent 15 months and us to tension on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the un human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the coronavirus outbreaks and foreign jails. i know if a male experience were present it's as close personal contact consciousness creating virus concerted efforts to the main player in the forty's to resort to work toward the tickets to the nation to. know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying prisons and jails in europe it's things i wouldn't speak with them their relatives say everything sounds more and more i think it's an early christian mission suppression birds that's a joke. when most of it is so cute what the answer is a little boredom you need to explain each gives a body or any. other solutions are actually a girl of yours and to diminish that when you were in your chance of which you have been pretty sure this was only 2 years old my thoughts being you could fix. that only in my will since i seen the daughter of the many kids my wealth in the way of
who spent 15 months and us to tension on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the un human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the coronavirus outbreaks and foreign jails. i know if a male experience were present it's as close personal contact consciousness creating virus concerted efforts to the main player in the forty's to resort to work toward the tickets to the nation to. know several of my...
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detention on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the un human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the coronavirus outbreaks in foreign jails. i know from my own experience were crazy. as close personal contact consciousness for the virus concerted efforts to play around the forty's to be sold to work toward the teams to do a show to. know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying presents and to. speak with their relatives. more and more severely receiving missions or question birds. are just a little boredom in the you could overturn huge gives a body or any. solutions that actually a girl of yours that when you or your chances which. he had 3 children this was his only 2 years old he might be in the projects. that only i'm a wolf in the scene the daughter of the new kids the late michael flynn the oil money kid didn't see the scene of the in the but notion my wife in the issue of going it that there were some some though she's i ask you do you use the least of a ticket to some burger
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to tension on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the un human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the corona virus outbreak and foreign jails. i know if a male experience were present it's as close personal contact consciousness for the virus concerted efforts to the main player in the forty's to resort to work toward the teams to do a show to. know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying prisons and jails in europe it's things i would not speak with them their relatives say everything sounds more and more easily receiving missions or question birds that's in jordan. where most of it is so that you border on just a little border and you need to explain each gives a body or any. other solutions are actually a girl of yours and to diminish that when you or your chances which you have been pretty sure this was only 2 years old might being a quick fix. that only i'm a wolf in nice enough but there are many kids lovely my wealth in the way of money kids didn't see this enough to kn
to tension on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the un human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the corona virus outbreak and foreign jails. i know if a male experience were present it's as close personal contact consciousness for the virus concerted efforts to the main player in the forty's to resort to work toward the teams to do a show to. know several of my compatriots russian citizens...
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human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the coronavirus outbreaks in foreign jails. i know the female experience whatever reason it's as close personal contact and conscious the spread of the virus concerted tamper extruded may play in the relevant authorities to resort to work toward the thieves to different nations the brits you. know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying prisons and jails in europe in the states i will not speak with them their relatives will say everything themselves more gives them are you receiving missions across the birds that could jordan sure. where most of it is so could you put them on just a little board and in the airplane each gives a body or in the. ear solutions that are showing your girl who was with me. when you or your chancellor who are sick have 3 children want to use only 2 years old he might being a critic some but i. am. not only in my wealth in nice enough but the order of naming it gets my wealth in the way a monkey could do you see this
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swan john i want to start with you at an international level let's look at the united nations human rights council when 2016 issued a resolution they were declaring the internet a human right access to the internet was a human right john which countries are actually allowing for free life i service. you know this is this is a fascinating segment because 1st as you mentioned the un added a section to article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights in 2016 reading in part that quote everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to see receive and impact information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers and that includes the promotion the protection of enjoyment of human rights on the internet so as we know that look there are countries that control the internet that have total control of the and then are basically able to shut it down restrict access to it and also output notably what comes to mind of course north korea saudi arabia china syria iran among others but there are many more count
swan john i want to start with you at an international level let's look at the united nations human rights council when 2016 issued a resolution they were declaring the internet a human right access to the internet was a human right john which countries are actually allowing for free life i service. you know this is this is a fascinating segment because 1st as you mentioned the un added a section to article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights in 2016 reading in part that quote...
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of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights councilast month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. her little boy. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says he's concerned about the situation in the yemeni port city of aden after a separatist group declared self all of the areas it controls in the south on sunday the southern transitional council announced its imposing emergency rule the internationally recognized government warned of catastrophic consequences from the move and its allies in the saudi led military coalition urged the s.t.c. to cancel the declaration of peo says the development will threaten peace efforts. former u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton has officially endorsed her fellow democrat joe biden for president the former secretary of state said biden had been preparing for this moment his entire life marks the latest in a series of high profile democrats publicly endorsing the presumptive nominee will go up agains
of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights councilast month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. her little boy. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says he's concerned about the situation in the yemeni port city of aden after a separatist group declared self all of the areas it controls in the south on sunday the southern transitional...
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of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since florence italy al-jazeera on the board a former us presidential candidate hillary clinton has officially endorsed a fellow democrat joe biden for president the former secretary of state said biden had been preparing for this moment his entire life biden will go up against president all trump in november's election so i want to add my voice to the many who have insurance you to be our president just think what a difference it would make right now if we had a president who not only listened to the science facts over fiction but brought us together show the kind compassionate and caring that we need from our president. brazil's president joy ableson our own is appointed to close allies as justice minister and head of the federal police the president sons are currently on the police investigation raising concerns over a family friend becoming the ne
of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since florence italy al-jazeera on the board a former us presidential candidate hillary clinton has officially endorsed a fellow democrat joe biden for president the former secretary of state said biden had been preparing for this moment his entire...
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there's another really experts to come from the human rights council the 1st really the 1st report was so by it just took exactly from the propaganda of the who thing and we looked the no we said you can't just have and factual checks you have to check them before you reported and then you can just say you know everyone you limit let me give you some facts 20100 strikes in yemen by the coalition forces since the war began an average of 12 attacks a day these attacks have blown up hospitals school buses markets mosques farms bridges factories where no detention centers coalition air strikes the u.n. human rights commissioner said in 2017 coalition airstrikes continue to be the leading cause of child casualties as well as overall civilian casualties so he didn't know what he was talking about it's not rock we leave you i said mission of human rights they have no idea what they saw things that happen and i told you before but you have to be a better leader than most you have to be clear on the report now it's a policy of you can't using civilian infrastructure are the privates that incomp
there's another really experts to come from the human rights council the 1st really the 1st report was so by it just took exactly from the propaganda of the who thing and we looked the no we said you can't just have and factual checks you have to check them before you reported and then you can just say you know everyone you limit let me give you some facts 20100 strikes in yemen by the coalition forces since the war began an average of 12 attacks a day these attacks have blown up hospitals...
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of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. al-jazeera a little boy. it's good to have you with us hello adrian from going to. the headlines on al-jazeera soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon's 2nd biggest city tripoli where there's been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis security forces used rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who set banks on fire. is that. so people here are losing patience with the authorities not just the banking sector now they're also blaming the political class for years of mismanagement years of corruption and now the state is close to bankruptcy if so the situation is quite tense you speak to people here they say ok the army may have cleared the streets for now but we're just going to come back and it's. this is not going to end until our economic hardships as prime minister in france and want to leap says the loc
of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. al-jazeera a little boy. it's good to have you with us hello adrian from going to. the headlines on al-jazeera soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon's 2nd biggest city tripoli where there's been another day of violent protests against...
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human rights council this week. move drawing widespread criticism in light of beijing's record on human rights, as well as the increasing scrutiny of its response to coronavirus. here to talk about rebecca grant, national security and military analyst and president of iris independent research. dr. grant, the official chinese story is that there have been about 2500 coronavirus deaths just in wuhan, 2500. many of the residents there are skeptical of that number. they say it is upwards likely of 40,000. could it be that big a spread? >> yes, jon, the spread absolutely could be that big because we know china fakes data on everything from air pollution to military spending to their economic growth rates. there are researchers in britain who suggest that that wuhan number may actually be 15 to 40 times higher. so there's no doubt that we are seeing some fake data from china, and it's really tragic. jon: yeah. there was one report that just one funeral home, one funeral home in china received a shipment of 5,000 cremator
human rights council this week. move drawing widespread criticism in light of beijing's record on human rights, as well as the increasing scrutiny of its response to coronavirus. here to talk about rebecca grant, national security and military analyst and president of iris independent research. dr. grant, the official chinese story is that there have been about 2500 coronavirus deaths just in wuhan, 2500. many of the residents there are skeptical of that number. they say it is upwards likely...
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. >> for too long the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias. if for any reason north korea attacks the united states or our allies, the u.s. will respond, period. >> she's so tough and she's so consistent. and you just know you're not going to move her. >> the americans just said we want our embassy in the capital and that capital the jerusalem. >> america will put our embassy in jerusalem. that is what the american people want us to do. and it is the right thing to do. no vote in the united nations will make any difference on this. >> what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult. it won't be forgotten. >> standing her ground, u.n. ambassador nikki haley making it clear -- >> i will not shut up. rather, i will respectfully speak some hard truths. >> haley shows us what american foreign policy looks like with a spine. >> some people say there's a little too much swagger. you know that. >> i don't think it is swagger. i think it is passion. i'm very position senate about defending the united states. >> as n
. >> for too long the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias. if for any reason north korea attacks the united states or our allies, the u.s. will respond, period. >> she's so tough and she's so consistent. and you just know you're not going to move her. >> the americans just said we want our embassy in the capital and that capital the jerusalem. >> america will put our embassy in jerusalem. that is what the...
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. >> the human rights council as a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political violence. >> if for any reason north korea attacks the united states or our allies, the us will respond . >> he so tough and so consistent and you know you're not going to move here her. the americans said we want our embassy in the capital and capital is jerusalem. >> america will put our embassy in jerusalem, that is what the american people want t us to do and it is the right thing to do.o. no vote in the united nations. will make any difference on n this. what we witnessed here today is at the security council is an odinsult. it won't be forgotten. >> underground, nikki haley clear. >> i will not shut up. rather i will respectfully speak on my terms. >> haley shows us what american foreign-policy looks like. >> some people say there's too much swagger, you know that. i don't think it's swagger, i think it's passion. i am very passionate about defending the united states. >> as haley said the world is respecting the unitedstates again . >> i didn't know i would be elected into the little le
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they are on the human rights council and now we are seeing their influence in the world health organization. this is what china does. they try to leverage and get influence and what we are seeing is the world health organization once again has fallen for it. i can't believe they are going to go so far as lecture the president. if anything, we deserve to hold them accountable. we have the rights to answers and they need to be investigated, why was it when the taiwanese told the world health organization on december 31st of that they had evidence that this was human to human transition, why did it take a whole month for the world health organization to respond? you want to know why that is? because china has kept taiwan from being a member of the world health organization. we are so used to this. good money after bad and getting nothing from this organization, either organization. >> the president is right, and, what about the victimization of americans? we are not the only country that is upset about this. but we will ask all of them. >> sean: china always pays about 12%. this is about accou
they are on the human rights council and now we are seeing their influence in the world health organization. this is what china does. they try to leverage and get influence and what we are seeing is the world health organization once again has fallen for it. i can't believe they are going to go so far as lecture the president. if anything, we deserve to hold them accountable. we have the rights to answers and they need to be investigated, why was it when the taiwanese told the world health...
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they are on the human rights council. now we are seeing their influence in the world health organization. this is what china does. they try to leverage and get influence and what we are seeing is the world health organization once again has fallen for it. i can't believe they are going to go so far as lecture the president. i mean, if anything, we deserve to hold them accountable. we have the right to answer, why was it when the time when he is told he will help organization on december 31st that they had evidence that there was human to human transmission, why did it take a whole month for the whole world health organization to respond. because china has kept taiwan from being a member of the world health organization. they are so many things -- we are so used to this, sean, at the united nations. >> sean: why are we funding this. why? why do we keep paying -- the good after the bad and getting nothing from this organization, either organization, to be fra frank? speak of the president's right to say i'm going to withhol
they are on the human rights council. now we are seeing their influence in the world health organization. this is what china does. they try to leverage and get influence and what we are seeing is the world health organization once again has fallen for it. i can't believe they are going to go so far as lecture the president. i mean, if anything, we deserve to hold them accountable. we have the right to answer, why was it when the time when he is told he will help organization on december 31st...
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of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights councillast month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. al-jazeera her little boy wrongly as a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london its national state crime initiative for interest now live from london good to have you with us rona what's the significance of this report given but much of its content is already known. well it's important because it's the final report from professor yang the lady who's been the special repertory for human rights in may and man she's been an incredibly strong advocate for the interests of ordinary people in myanmar regardless of ethnicity and regardless of religion at this report will give at the u.n. and the international community plenty to consider and it's a real call for racket call to action by yang healy i mean she says in the report that her all to me isn't that she had when she 1st started in her role especially the tour is gone but she's still h
of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights councillast month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. al-jazeera her little boy wrongly as a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london its national state crime initiative for interest now live from london good to have you with us rona what's the significance of this report given but much...
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of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since florence al-jazeera a little boy or a young joins us now by skype from seoul in south korea absolutely delighted to have you thanks for joining us now in your latest statement you for that you said that you believe them in monetary may be inflicting renewed suffering on communities in some of the conflict ridden states can you tell us what exactly is the military doing. well what i have stated is that the military is really nearly crimes against humanity and war crimes in the state of time and now this my trance cities are being spread throughout the kind and state as we are speaking now really getting daily reports of more shelling more at your rank and serial year in shares the brunt of this and the ranger caught in the middle too but i have to say that this time the right kind of community is the community that is most in danger and has suffe
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now we see them on the human rights council, which is a joke, because we know they have over 1 millioneople in concentration camps, so we are seeing china do this from different levels. they have now taken over the aviation sector of the u.n., they've taken over the agricultural sector of the u.n., they almost got the intellectual property sector, believe it or not, and lost that to singapore, so they are continuing trying to manipulate any way they can. they didn't want to be embarrassed by this virus is starting in china, and they put pressure on the director, and the director needs to answer for it. >> dana: all right. nikki haley, former investor to the united nations, you've got to stick around because we have something special to talk about with you and your family right after this break (music) if you're the spouse of a military veteran, here's money saving news from newday usa. your spouse's va streamline refi benefit lets you easily refinance when mortgage rates drop. and they just dropped to the lowest in newday's history. refinance now. there's no income verification, no app
now we see them on the human rights council, which is a joke, because we know they have over 1 millioneople in concentration camps, so we are seeing china do this from different levels. they have now taken over the aviation sector of the u.n., they've taken over the agricultural sector of the u.n., they almost got the intellectual property sector, believe it or not, and lost that to singapore, so they are continuing trying to manipulate any way they can. they didn't want to be embarrassed by...