human rights council. the united states is not on the human rights council on principle. is there any hope the u.n. human rights council will at least begin to not allow members that are human rights abusers to serve under it or that this will happen because of the nature of regional voting? kelly: there's a reason we are no longer on their. could you imagine a council that allowed the democratic republic of congo to be a member? we don't need to be a member of the human rights council. --d secretary ontario secretary pompeo every day with the way they treat the uighurs, the way they treat africans, look at hong kong, the way they are treating the tibetans. we will continue without being a member of the human rights council to shine a light on those countries stop if you look at the members of that counsel, why would you want them to be part of a group that is abusing their own people? we have far more effectiveness if we are calling them out outside that counsel so we can shine a light on what is going on with them. we: i think now is the time are going to open up the las

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 banding 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 or 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 on a whole range of a lot american governments when it comes to say on venezuela even you know muslim majority states that have often kin

to to monitor the situation and i will report to of course the human rights council and the general assembly to these events i look forward to the human rights council taking a strong decision on the straight shooting ballot was examining the. examining ballots at its next session maybe an extraordinary intersession meeting and of course i trust that's the europeans maurer ready would adopt a strong message to signify to us to a question group that this is not acceptable. police in ethiopia have arrested more than 9000 people during the recent unrest that followed the killing of a popular musician a teller who. there was also an activist for the ethnic overall more people struggle for equal rights here because human rights commission says the latest surge of violence has killed more than $178.00 people critics worry the recent arrests could signal a return to the more repressive policies of the past. government is. going back to their cysts mate that's. still detaining people these are proper investigation they're out of a protracted pleated adaptation is up to me. catherine

to of course the human rights council and the general assembly these events i look forward to the human rights council taking a strong decision on the station in belarus examining the. examining ballot assert its next session maybe an extraordinary intersession meeting and of course i trust that the europeans are ready. dr a strong message to signify to us to look at it that this is not acceptable we really appreciate your time thank you so much for that thank you. let's head back to that breaking news now they have started deal brokered by the u.s. to normalize relations between the u.a.e. and israel her force that is live for us now in western bruce then harry how major a development is that. it's a huge development this is something that benjamin netanyahu has been talking about and working towards for much of his political career the idea of normalizing relations between israel and its important. muslim neighbors in the region and this is the 1st such agreement in full he has been working on various levels trying to get better ties and has celebrated various minor victories in terms

there has been a report by a special rapporeur of the human rights council recently which pointed toponentially since the 1980s. one is regressive tax avoidance. the second is the deregulation of labour markets and the third is the privatisation of public services and all of these three have been combined to put us in the situation we are in now where we are not only dealing with and extort new health crisis but we are also doing with a crisis of employment, social protection, and a crisis of inequality that is coming up to the fore across countries. and i think that really calls again for us to be examining very clearly how our economic and political systems are unfit for purpose of the moment and need to be redesigned with a much stronger gravel of accountability and oversight from citizens. you are living in brazil and of course president bolsonaro has attracted a great deal of attention because after you the united states brazil is the country most affected by covid—19. are you seeing a more selfish politics as you put it there? yes. here in brazil, we are living in, as everybody

human rights council with a merry serious international investigation these are instruments of the rule of law and the saudis are totally lost in the world of the rule of law so they only operate according to personal relationships and things like that and most of what the saudi leadership under come of been so man most of what they've done. has gone against internationally accepted standards of decent human behavior and trying to the rule of law whether it's behavior in yemen or qatar or assassinating people putting people in jail like the many people who were put in the rich. alter the now you have many a woman particularly so this is the real problem every one of these incidents ratchets up the trend of taking the american show of the relationship into the chambers of congress and into the chambers of courts and the saudis are going to lose their i just briefly want to pick up on something that he was saying no less of the what i say basically that the shift towards the law is really a problem for the saudis and they don't know how to deal with it ok last year we talked about about h

condemned the sanctions so i could tell you a good 10 of us me tell about the left of the human rights council and others in the united nations and the u.n. agencies are working with us and trying to help the venezuelan people and they are doing it were. the only government that there is in venezuela the government or press in the collapse of the as you say there is some dissent there within the un you mention sits go though what can you do about judge leonard stocks decision to basically put a vital citgo state refinery company in the hands of a company called 10 capita a new york hedge fund all the judicial process that has being going on about citgo is illegal that company belongs to pay their vessel to petroleum if they're going to swell up here in venezuela so that is that belongs to deter the millions of venezuelans it does not belong to $1.00 way though it does not belong to the 2 the stake holders it belongs to venezuela so what they did was they didn't recognize the ownership of bear the vesa and they are trying to sell its it's really strange because it's like they confiscated you kn

you know, the human rights council has given us the mandate to provide the report and present a written report on what it is doing on racism to stop racism, what it is doing to stop police brutality, but i think on one hand you still see people who are starting saying, why their lives mat and y s matter seen white supremacy groups but on the other hand, i'm hopeful there are so many people on the streets you know, demonstrating this is not acceptable. that i hope that the u.s., not only the u.s. government, the u.s. people will respond in a way that we can really end this racism, this discrimination forever. >> michelle bachelet, thank you so much. >> thank you, fareed. >> and we'll be back in a moment with my thoughts. find your keys. find your get-up-and-go. find pants that aren't sweats. find your friends. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again. at chevy we'd like to take you there. now during the chevy open road sales event, get up to 15% of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. that's over fifty-seven hundred dollars cash back on this equinox. it's time to find new

it shouldn't be lost on the human rights council. our great allies, the saudis voted with the chinese. and yo the result was 53 votes. all 53 have very limited. this is about, and this is what was so powerful in his interview with fox last week it is about the chinese people not just understanding that they've notid understanding that the tainalienable rights. but they continue -- >> we are all looking forward to the ♪ ♪ the kickoff session for the panel this afternoon we cannot wait for you please go out to the center for the agenda tuesday with coming. it's my pleasure to introduce you to one of my personal and heroes in the senate. he served the country and military for years and has an intellect at harvard law but most importantly the figures that emerge in history have a strong moral backbone and center for our colleague speaking procession. >> thank you all for being patient. >> steve bannon did the war room pandemic show and one of the centerpieces of this is trying to get the leaders action conference. how doo you phrase how

higgins, i've questions about the human rights abuses in investigation at the un human rights council proved and what has been done in that regard and your view on sanctions and in this regard i would like to hear from subsequent responses and ms. maloney ivonne to talk to you about the ban on political parties as it has been lifted and what impact does the ban have on regards to people exercising political rights, as well as women's rights so i will submit those for the record. if you give me a substantive response i would appreciate th that. >> thank you, senator menendez. ms. higgins, ms. higgins is still with us. >> i am with you. >> i just have one line of questioning that will be fairly brief and then we will be adjourning this hearing. i too will be cementing some questions for the record. ms. higgins, following the regional elections in burundi that resulted in a new president and the death of former president -- you at the state department made a case for taking a hard look at rebooting the u.s. burundi relationship. doesn't the countries going on the trafficking in persons r

we left the human rights council, the same argument was made better to fight from within than try to reform from outside. i think there are reasonable arguments that could be made on either side. the decision the president made, and i conquer with this decision -- went through multiple rounds of reforms at the world health organization and our team in geneva fought for years. and there was no capacity to make that a science based organization and not a political one. and there comes a point where you're spending half a billion dollars on u.s. taxpayer money year on year that goes to benefit the political actors in the health organization and we made the decision we were more likely to achieve the global health security issues that the united states cares about deeply if we did not participate any further in the world health organization. i'm not at all convinced it will be china that benefits from that. i'm convinced the world will benefit. we've seen it other places. whether the united states leads, and we will absolutely lead good things can happen in the international health realm

and peacekeeping -- programs has racked up a nearly $1 billion in dues, withdraw from the human rights councilfunding for the human rights office, aggregated participation in other human institutions and initiatives including the paris agreement, most recently submitted paperwork to withdraw the united states from the world health organization in the midst of a global pandemic. as someone who is being nominated to participate in the -- probably the premier agreeateral forum, do you with these decisions to withdraw from key multilateral bodies at a time in which the world faces enormous global issues? >> let me start by saying i , largely u.n. system due to u.s. leadership and u.s. funding over the decades has developed a number of institutions to benefit not just u.s. interests, but support the u.n. charter. mainly speaking of peacekeeping world food program, unicef, counterterrorism bodies. lead and are the number one funder of. you talked about withdrawal from certain organizations, youth think that when there is an organization that does not abide by the u.n. charter, does not wherep to its

yelling at people for 4 years that got america to start seeing health care as a human right from just february to march morning council measures that net support of medicare for all jumped up by a 9 points it's amazing what mass death and disease will do to the public's opinion of an industry that makes billions profiting off of death and disease the vast majority of democratic voters support replacing that industry with a single public run health insurance plan and some polls show that even a slim majority of republicans support such a plan as well given that we're in the epicenter of a global pandemic you think joe biden could see at least through his non-body that he should run on a not for profit system like they have in every other industrialized country the choice is obvious so obvious maybe too obvious the democratic party always tries to avoid being too on. knows so on july 27th when a proposal to add a straightforward blunt medicare for all position to the platform was put before d.n.c. delegates for a vote it was defeated 36 to 125 instead it seems like a lot for a more subtle choice one quote improving upon

yelling at people for 4 years that got america to start seeing health care as a human right from just february to march morning council measures that net support of medicare for all jumped up by a 9 points it's amazing what mass death and disease will do to the public's opinion of an industry that makes billions profiting off of death and disease the vast majority of democratic voters support replacing that industry with a single public run health insurance plan and some polls show that even a slim majority of republicans support such a plan as well given that we're in the epicenter of a global pandemic you think joe biden could see at least through his non-body that he should run on a not for profit system like they have an every other industrialized country the choice is obvious so obvious maybe too obvious. the democratic party always tries to avoid being too on the nose so on july 27th when a proposal to add a straightforward blunt medicare for all position to the platform was put before d.n.c. delegates for a vote it was defeated $36.00 to $125.00 instead it seems like a lot for a more subtle choice one quote imp

percent of the vote right now there have been some messages of congratulations from other leaders although the european council president has appealed for the authorities to respect human rights and refrain from violence but it does follow a night of unrest after exit polls did give shanker a commanding lead. it'll eat. i have to go i won't work that. you should throw us a little yeah he said. it licked. i. i. please so whatever means you fully support the catholic parishes in its largest protests in the last 10 years if you at 10 pm people began to gather near the hero city ordinance for the powerful local security. offices then began to mark house and city censorship pushing back exactly the 1st time in history valerie special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used some eyewitnesses claim it's all rubber bullets being fired. around 3000 people were detained nationwide on election day according to official data opposition supporters have been swift to claim the election has been rigged alexander lukashenko has been in power since 984 but this election is thought to be his tough a shed with unprecedented scrutiny and also protests down hawkins reports

gentlemen i'm honored to once again to address you and present in my report to this council on the situation of human rights and me i'm up. i re the international community going to tell bangladesh they must continue their generosity indefinitely for a crisis but there was cost in myanmar are we going to tell the rohingya refugees that they are going to have to endure the situation indefinitely the answer to the above questions must be unequivocally no i encourage you to stop the talking and start doing i thank you for attention thank you. for instance which is it time for she's not calling for people yes of course it's been delayed a long and as you know justice delayed is justice denied the high level of generals who really did the ordering of. atrocity crimes they must be tried as long as well as others to me to me. please you know exceptionally who are these others to whom the diplomat refers. given her knowledge of the workings of the myanmar political machinery at the start of the mantic yankee league regularly met with nobel peace prize winner. but in 2015 the lady from young gone refused to express

. >> vanita gupta, head of the civil rights division at department of justice under president obama. now president of the leadership council on civil and human rights. vanita, i really appreciate you being here on such a big night. thanks for being willing to put your heart on your sleeve a little bit more than i know you're sometimes comfortable doing. it makes a big difference. thanks a lot. >> thank you, rachel. >> all right. on this night of firsts, i am pleased to bring back into the conversation the first black woman to serve as mayor of chicago. joining us now is mayor lori lightfoot of the great city of chicago, who considers herself a friend and colleague of senator harris. mayor lightfoot, it's really nice of you to make time tonight. thanks for being here. >> i am unbelievably thrilled. it's great to be with you. >> talk to me about what you believe the kamala harris nomination means both for the election and for the country. talk to me about how you felt when you heard the news. >> i burst out in a huge grin, and my 12-year-old daughter -- sorry for my voice tonight. my 12-year-old daughter was extremely enthusiastic. kamala harr

. >> what we are doing and every opportunity we have in the security council is bringing up human rightss in china and whether that be with africa, tibetans, the taiwanese, any area where we can bring forward that human rights abuses that china is bringing on, we have in hong kong, what a disappointment that their chief executive harry lam who also enjoys the freedom that were allowed for decades, she enjoyed this and then she allowed china to come in and suppress, to take the liberty and the freedom away from the hong kong. we owe it to the 1.4 billion chinese citizens who also deserve democracy and freedom. >> martha: clearly the tone is changing and the united states is more aggressive now than ever in terms of being clear about what we think about taiwan and what we think about hong kong. alex azar was in taiwan and obviously that made beijing angry. "the u.s. and taiwan celebrate a bond. china responds with screaming jets." we will talk about this tomorrow. what kind of feedback do you get from the chinese at the united nations on this issue? >> taiwan is a beacon of democracy and i

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enterprises companies the private sector is aware council is hoping these reforms will also address concerns in the run up to the football world cup in 2022 human rightsgroups have highlighted various issues about workers in the country that include deaths on construction sites and inadequate living conditions in the last 6 years 34 workers have died during the construction of world cup stadiums that's brought a lot of attention from the international community on cats are now these labor law reforms are partly the way of dealing with international pressure however the closer we get to the world cup in 2022 the more bright the international spotlight will shine in my own car on al-jazeera. schonberg general secretary of the international trade union confederation she says this is a right step in the right direction in making the world cup a secure environment for way. this is a new dawn for workers migrant workers in qatar to have a free system to in the kfar system and normalize contracts with appropriate provisions to have a backup system of the labor pool to reagan's procedures representation at the workplace but then to have a nondiscriminatory mi

enterprises companies the private sector is aware council is hoping these reforms will also address concerns in the run up to the football world cup in 2022 human rights groups have highlighted various issues about workers in the country that include deaths on construction sites and inadequate living conditions in the last 6 years this youthful workers have died during the construction of world cup stadiums that's brought a lot of attention from the international community on cats are now these labor law reforms are partly their way of dealing with international pressure however the closer we get to the world cup in 2022 the more bright the international spotlight will shine imran khan al-jazeera. lebanon's ambassador to germany and looks likely to be the new prime minister after days of deadlock that's after he won support from several parties including the governing future movement talks are expected on monday to confirm the post the former government resigned earlier this month after a blast in the capital beirut killed nearly $200.00 people under lebanon sectarian power sharing system the prime minister must be a sunni muslim floodwaters have reac

enterprises companies the private sector is aware council is hoping these reforms will also address concerns in the run up to the football world cup in 2022 human rights groups have highlighted various issues about workers in the country that include deaths on construction sites and inadequate living conditions in the last 6 years 34 workers have died during the construction of world cup stadiums that's brought a lot of attention from the international community on cats are now these labor law reforms are partly the way of dealing with international pressure however the closer we get to the world cup in 2022 the more bright the international spotlight will shine in my own car on al-jazeera. a 3 year old girl has survived a dramatic incident as a kite festival in taiwan. the kite was supposed to scatter sweets for children something to call sin a strong gust of wind wrapping its tail around the young girl she was carried it through the air for around 30 seconds before coming back down she suffered only minor cuts thankfully. your child is there with me celeron a reminder of our top stories the mayor of portland has accused president trump of creating a

enterprises companies the private sector is aware council is hoping these reforms will also address concerns in the run up to the football world cup in 2022 human rights groups have highlighted various issues about workers in the country that include deaths on construction sites and inadequate living conditions in the last 6 years 34 workers have died during the construction of world cup stadiums that's brought a lot of attention from the international community on cats are now these labor law reforms are partly their way of dealing with international pressure however the closer we get to the world cup in 2022 the more bright the international spotlight will shine imran khan al-jazeera. at least 3 migrants have died after their boat caught fire near italy southern coast talian health officials say another 5 migrants have been injured and taken to hospital police say 2 of their officers sustained burns as they try to help people from the bios on dozens of migrants who were rescued from other boats and the mediterranean sea last week have now been brought to the italian island of lampedusa they were among more than 200 picked up by a charity vessel fund

counterproductive european council president charles michel also spoke with live near putin on tuesday saying the e.u. begin its working on personal sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations against peaceful demonstration. now to discuss this further we're bringing in eastern europe specialist ben eris here very welcome to the program as we just mentioned present mccrone and chancellor merkel have both been in contact with president putin about the situation in belarus why do you think they've reached out to him rather than engaging in talks with. well it's ironic isn't it i mean it's and here now you've got putin warning western leaders not to interfere in the domestic politics of another country and better russia is struggling its people are trying to free themselves from 26 years of rule by a shank of the reasons economic stagnation is appalling handling of the covert crisis but this is within the european context and of course ukraine is standing in the background and geo political forces are aligning themselves. to see which way it goes i think better some people are simply interested in getting rid of look pushing go on having more say and how to run the

earlier european council president says charlene michel said that he cold blooded near putin and he said that the use currently working on sanctions against all those responsible for human rights violations in belarus machelp added though that in this situation there should not be any outside interference now in 2 separate phone calls earlier in the shaded by virgin and paris led a mere putin told the angular merkel and emanuel mccraw mccraw on his counterparts that's any attempt by outside forces to intervene in the internal situation in bella ruse is counterproductive and say he added that any type of external pressure on minsk is unacceptable now angela merkel also made a statement following her conversation with lattimer putin and that which is a. true and help for today as spoke with russian president putin and made it clear once again that freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate must be guaranteed that's prisoners must be released and that there must be a national dialogue to settle things peacefully in belarus we will continue to discuss this to more. but now all the stakes are all these talks are taking place ahead of the e.u. summits on the biller roosts in

european council president charles michel said that he spoke to lead me putin on tuesday and said that the e.u. began working on personal sanctions against all those responsible for human rights violations against peaceful protesters michelle added that. should be no outside interference in this matter now in 2 separate cell phone calls and hughes day and they shaded by byrd and paris let him is good and scold to his counterparts angela merkel and emanuel mccraw on and he said that any example by outside forces to intervene in the internal political crisis in bella ruse is counterproductive and he stressed that placing external pressure on the officials in the bill of rights is unacceptable now a german chancellor angela merkel also outlined germany's position after the phone call with a lot of my position let's have a listen to issue and help today as spoke with russian president putin and made it clear once again that freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate must be guaranteed that's prisoners must be released and that there must be a national dialogue to settle things peacefully in belarus we will continue to discuss this to more all these talks with the russian