will mean a permanent state of emergency a concern that's also reflected by many international human rights groups well talking about human rights groups dorrian some of them are saying that you know everyone needs to and i quote lift the suffocating climate of fear that some gulf countries that are an accurate description of the public mood in turkey at the moment. what it does the pain who you speak to turkey either deeply polarized the country i mean the last month's presidential election saw the president only narrowly winning with fifty two percent of the vote while the other half of the country are stormily opposed to him and one half believe that these emergency powers are being used to stifle dissent but the other side say yes this country is facing a still up right we had a failed coup attempt over two hundred fifty people died there is a danger still to be faced and we need these special powers that has to be said that emergency will be in two years in power even among supporters of the president opinion polls indicate people do want the lifting of those powers but they still remain to b

winner is all but a foregone conclusion cambodian trickled into voting stations in a poll that human rights groups have labeled a farce prime minister hun sen's expected to sales a victory extending his thirty three year grip on power of his opponents called for a boycott after the country's courts dissolved the male physician party leaving no real challenger the world's longest serving prime minister has become increasingly heavy hand as restricting human and civil rights income podia has more. the votes have not been counted but no one is holding their breath. there is little doubt that this man will stay in power can send the prime minister remains firmly at the head of the ruling cambodian people's party for c.p.p. he's been in power for thirty three years making him the world's longest serving national leader he has survived the khmer rouge pushed the country's royalty aside and outlawed the rival c.n.r. p. party his only viable competitor because of that and a crackdown on media critics call the election a sham. he's. prepared to do anything. to cling to power so he doesn't hesitate to suppr

hundred eighty prisoners have been held there as part of america's fight against terrorism human rights groups have decried the treatment of inmates after reports of abuse and torture surfaced despite efforts from the previous administration to shut it down now donald trump has signed that executive order to keep that camp open indefinitely a former guantanamo prisoners described the torment he suffered the torture of false imprisonment cruel inhuman degrading treatment something that myself and many others endured but i think the cruelest and most torturous treatment has being detained without charge or trial by a country that claims to be but that's you know three to look human rights and democracy we already look at looking tortured on mass the americans a little bit during the. torture but what's happening now is that one tunnel. is as american as american pie and i think most most people recognize this whether it's bush or. donald trump all have allowed one tunnel to exist and continue under the presidency. it's nine twenty four the morning here in moscow good morning for me kevin i mean

to shackle them all in the same room at the time according to authorities their lawyers the human rights groups have described imprisonment of guantanamo bay is unconstitutional and against international law over that so many times and we're pointing to cases like the one of. behind me he's a yemeni citizen he's been detained in guantanamo for fifteen years on suspicion of having been a member of al qaeda was the charge but he's never been charged in fact he was previously cleared by u.s. authorities and granted release papers on three occasions nonetheless he remains in prison just like another inmate who made this appeal i still have feet even after all this time they did judge will see through this stupidity the better solution would be deceived the american taxpayer the eleven million per year to keep me here and maybe nobody but i am a very expensive nobody. detention camp was opened in two thousand and two by then president george w. bush since then seven hundred eighty prisoners have been held there as part of america's fight against terrorism human rights groups have decried the treatme

in the crowd why international human rights groups are accusing pro-government parliament trigg forces of kidnapping and murdering people with impunity nearly four hundred and fifty people have been killed since anti-government protests began in april rights groups say the government is inciting fear places demanding new elections a latin america editor lucy newman has this report. i must say you have the nicaraguan city that put up the fiercest resistance during three months of anti-government protests looks almost empty. the only large group on this normally overcrowded street is part of the latest funeral procession it's been nine days since thirty one year old buy out of the had again was buried a baker with two small children and a third one on the way who was taken from his home during what the government called the clean up campaign in the west all three men with beauty shirts olive green pants and black masks kicked down the door they grabbed him and said you're coming with us his wife cried out he hasn't done anything he hasn't done anything. this is the only family member who

it was in retaliation for treating people who had been injured in anti-government protests human rights groups say that more than four hundred forty people have been killed since the unrest began in april. it is good to have you with us pablo adrian sitting in here in doha the top stories this hour on al jazeera palestinian teenager i had to meet me who became a symbol of resistance against israeli occupation has been released from prison she spent nearly eight months in jail for hitting an israeli soldier who'd entered her family's home in the occupied west bank to me later travel to roboto to visit the tomb of former palestinian leader yasser arafat she's also maps the current palestinian president mahmoud abbas. and of course i'm happy to present that my jewelry is incomplete because the prisoners are still inside prison and all joey won't be complete until they are all released and i chose martyr yasser arafat's great because we all have to continue the path he started so bob ways former president robert mugabe says that he will not vote for his successor everson in monday's elections but

said there wasn't a room big enough for them all to be shackled in together now lawyers and human rights groups have describe the conditions of their imprisonment to grant animo beyers unconstitutional and against international law now among the group appealing for release is tell feek behind me he's a yemeni citizen and he's been detained in guantanamo bay since two thousand and three on suspicion of having been a member of al qaeda he's never been charged in fact he was previously cleared by u.s. authorities and granted release papers on three occasions but each time it was canceled at the last minute here's how another detainee in a similar position commented on their situation and i still have faith even after all this time they did judge will see through this stupidity the better solution would be deceived the american taxpayer the eleven million poor year to keep me here and maybe nobody but i am a very expensive nobody the quantum obey detention camp of course was opened in two thousand and two by president george w. bush since then seven hundred eighty prisoners have been held various p

israel's military juvenile court was established in two thousand and nine and rights groups argue the system mosque's human rights abuses under a facade of legality as of the end of may two hundred ninety one palestinian minors were in israeli jails the security detainees and prisoners that includes three palestinian minors held under what's called administrative detention which means they are detained without charges or trial another six mine is held in israel's prison service facilities for being in israel illegally israel says their courts allow a great deal of parental involvement but rights groups say a vast majority of cases never even go to trial ending instead in a plea bargain or so hard francis is the director of human rights lawyer of america pretty prisoner support and human rights association she is saying there isn't enough parental involvement allowed during court proceedings it's very limited and restricted to specially on the time of the end total geisha and so most of these children would be ending up investigated and into the gated for long hours without being able to meet the lawyer act

ruling party claimed victory in sunday's election which has been widely described as a sham by human rights groups prime minister hun sen who's been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation but last year he dissolved the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason when he joins us live now from phnom penh when someone's been the reaction so far to the election result. we're done i think most independent observers critics of what has been going on in cambodia for quite some time say well the transformation is complete now cambodia can now be called a one party or thora tarion state i think no one was surprised by the fact that the cambodian people's party of prominence still in sand won the election of course but perhaps a little surprised by the margin of victory one hundred fourteen seats out of one hundred twenty five one by the c.p.p. in the national assembly there was some suspicion before the election that perhaps they would redistribute some of that support to some of the other smaller parties to create the image or at least try to create

and now the target of the new law is the best celeb human rights group. during the discussion of the new legislation one of the lawmakers surely your form of each chord the initiators of the law cowards for trying to keep students away from different opinions and particularly n.g.o.s they don't like breaking the silence is not against i.d.f. soldiers breaking the silence are i.d.f. soldiers i.d.f. soldiers who return from the territories and tell us the reality of military rule. proponents of the law say they did it for good cause and the only intention is to cherish its weighty values israel's very kishen system does not only aspire towards his students coalesced to get cheap mints and greet but rather is also responsible by virtue of the law for the values it instills that breaking the silence into a more alarming picture it's their greatest restriction on freedom of expression for political grounds or on political grounds or a political reason for existing israeli law this is the end of a great exercise i've been open society and it's all being done fo

seven hundred eighty prisoners have been held as part of america's fight against terrorism human rights groups decried the treatment of inmates after reports of abuse and torture surfaced despite efforts from the previous administration to shut it down donald trump signed an executive order to keep the camp open indefinitely forty people are still incarcerated there here's how a nother former guantanamo prisoners described the torture torment that he suffered take a listen. torture false imprisonment. human degrading treatment is something that myself and many others endured but i think the cruelest and most torturous treatment has been that you are detained without charge or trial by a country that claims to be the bastion of freedom and human rights and democracy we already know people are being tortured on mass the americans of mit it during the. torture but what's happening now is that one tunnel is as american high and i think most people recognize this whether it's bush or by. donald trump all have allowed one tunnel to exist and continue under the presidency of. the f.b.i. agent who use

ruling party claimed victory in sunday's vote which has been widely described as a sham by human rights groups prime minister hun sen who's been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation last year he dissolved the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason away and he joins us live now from phnom penh wayne so what's been the reaction so far to the election result. and i think the overriding sentiment from critics of this government from independent observers of cambodia is that the transformation is complete that cambodia now must be regarded as a one party or thora tarion state and when you look at the results of sunday's election it's difficult to argue against that sentiment given that the cambodian people's party of prime minister who in sindh won almost all the seats in the national assembly only a couple of small opposition parties won seats as well and neither of those parties can be considered a thrill a real threat to the rule of the c.p.p. we've had some fairly strongly worded statements from the vice president mustafa while all o

human rights groups say it exposes a culture of institutionalised violence. 0ur moscow correspondent,just a warning — there are distressing images from the start of this report. they use the prisoner as a punchbag. 0ne they use the prisoner as a punchbag. one by one, first with feasts, then their transients. 18 guards against one man. this was the swearing at a warden. 0ne one man. this was the swearing at a warden. one man beats him so hard he exhausts himself. now that guards and five others have been detained. 0ne and five others have been detained. one has admitted his part in the violence but only after the shocking video was leaked to the press. before then, the victims official complaint went nowhere. his mother told me she cried watching the footage. she is the nervous to show herface footage. she is the nervous to show her face but footage. she is the nervous to show herface but she footage. she is the nervous to show her face but she cannot get the site and sounds of her son suffering out of their head down. translation: i wa nt of their head down. translation: i want everyt

one thousand three hundred people living conditions with no chance of settling in australia human rights groups and immigration advocates have consistently criticized the policy. and the correct one church that was besieged by the army has reopened student protesters were taking refuge there last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at them rights groups of criticized president as violent crackdown on anti-government protests it was three hundred people have died in three months of demonstrations government are now roaming the streets of the city west of the network after suppressing protests that many people living in that city are living in fear as mayor sanchez reports. thirty year old man this had disappeared for three days but on friday his family found his dead body at the coroner's office in the capital money he's father member says cuts to his arms show signs of abuse. and he was tortured he was beaten here in the head in the back and was shot in the chest and leg he didn't have weapons or mortars. his family says he wasn't involved in the protests but he was taken awa

strongman prime minister hun sen is expected to return to parish human rights groups have criticized a crackdown on dissent and opposition say the election was shot. here today and you're watching dude other units stay with us and because. the truth. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in the meantime the tanks are shipped with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cantrips and they have all those are all of the same fourteen the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption look on the floor to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene why the poles who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson and i weren't a d.-w. . who. hello and welcome to q. know coming to you as always from the german capital in today we're at the city's landmark brandenburg gate for a special edition on the sell you lloyd city early in on film the roaring twenties the nazi era the cold war the fall of the berlin wall the cool

has suspended for licenses for the sale of weapons to saudi arabia it follows complaints by human rights groups about saudi's role in the war in yemen a saudi ever r.t. biliteral coalition's been bombing rebels there since twenty fifteen last year we brought the only one hundred eighty billion dollars worth of arms from producers in the belgian region of lonia the council of state ruled that the local government failed to examine the potential use of those weapons. when fighting in yemen has forced more than two million people from their homes most remain inside the country but hundreds of thousands of fled overseas according to the u.n. hate c.r. fifty one thousand have gone to neighboring oman another forty thousand are in somalia which already has a one point five million internally displaced population it's followed by saudi arabia which is leading the coalition war effort in yemen and djibouti and the much smaller number of to travel to asian countries like malaysia where they can stay visa free for three months most yemenis trying to get to europe via libya making them vulnerable to mistr

may do more to help small christian communities around the world than these other people's human rights groups say that's worrisome what was most troubling for me with the absence of any notion that people have the right not to practice the faith and the national that people have the right not to have someone else's faith and post upon them. but this new call flick with turkey may end up overshadowing the u.s. efforts to protect people's right to worship as well as the oversight to ensure the u.s. doesn't impose its beliefs on other countries rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. mali and voters will head to the polls on sunday if the side then next president abraham drove a car cater is seeking a second term but his popularity has been hurt by ongoing violence and instability across the country among his twenty three rivals one can see it as a potential challenger. points from bamako. he has presented himself as the candidate of hope and did city after city across mali so my list has been gathering momentum not to repeat it in. our country has a great choice to make either to contin

part in the poll the main opposition cambodian national rescue party was dissolved last year human rights groups have dismissed the election as a sham for the e.u. the us and japan well they refuse to send election observers when he has the latest from mom pen. this could have been a day of political change for cambodia instead voters lined up knowing there was little chance of that the choice was vote for a continuation of prime minister who sends thirty three year rule back one of nineteen small opposition parties most of which can't be called truly independent or stay away. but i came to vote because it's my right and my obligation average five years i want to see my country develop more. at this polling station in the capital phnom penh came so car was still on the voter list he's the leader of the banned cambodian national rescue party which called for people to boycott the vote this is where i would have cast his vote if he were not in jail awaiting trial on treason charges this could have been a day of big celebrations for him and his party given they almost won the last election five yea

still to come here on al-jazeera by human rights groups in the iraq you are accusing pro-government paramilitary groups of killing people. also ahead of what firefighters battling against massive wildfires that have killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the u.s. state of california. from long flowing island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. as i was getting hard to pinpoint the like the air is a rain in china now we've seen it concentrated in the southwest more or less the last week to be honest but ninety's little green dots representing big showers or extending nourse was so anywhere from the south coast of the yangtze and beyond with the potential of shanghai hints of really wet weather was a really a redeveloping tropical sakta but for the next couple of days just think for she any way you could get a shot that does include hong kong is true throughout southeast asia is increasingly true in the southern philippines and in borneo and sumatra seen a fair amount of time and therefore the rain extending into singapore singapore to . and for cross just reflects that it's still

human rights groups say it exposes a culture of institutionalised violence.ing to the prisoners mother. there are distressing images from the start of this report. they use the prisoner as a punchbag. one by one, first with fists, then their truncheons. 18 guards against one man in handcuffs. this is yevgeny makarov‘s punishment for swearing at a warden. one man beats him so hard he exhausts himself. now that guards and five others have been detained. maxim yablokov has admitted his part in the violence but only after the shocking video was leaked to the press. before then, the victim's official complaint went nowhere. yevgeny‘s mother tells me she cried watching the footage of him being beaten. she is too nervous to show her face but she cannot get the sight and sounds of her son suffering out of their head now. translation: i want everything to be exposed at last and for those men to be judged as they deserve, to be punished. that is what i want. yevgeny has been moved from prison no1 for his own safety. his lawyer, who got hold of the incriminating video,

in which it cleaned up the way in which the prisons have worked in saudi arabia and just a human rights groups across the world are against him and of written well know he was one of the i think human rights groups who were against his predecessors he was one of the most important people at reforming the prison system within saudi arabia so he'd made that particular development and then he had been very close in being trained by british police here say that he kind of learnt those practices and then he was the person who was in charge of running the campaign against the against al qaida and and very successful he was too and we see that unfolding within that albeit we saw al qaeda move across the whole of the middle east around the time these interviews are being. done and i suppose i mean we were in iraq with. funded groups in syria which were the group's. bodsworth it was a bloody battle you know and they they worked hard with the security services to track it down and it's not dissimilar to the kind of the counterinsurgency operation that happened all over the middle east and in places like

a new report by the human rights group forty five rights is calling for the rest of twenty two military and police officers fish holes in me and other accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against countries community the remainder armed group bombed more than thirty police stations in august twenty seventh teen that mean maher government says it was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against the regime get in rakhine state but the report documents how the army planned and committed mass killings rape and arson again stronger in twenty sixteen months before the police station attacks the military also disarmed by confiscating sharp objects from the homes at the same time providing weapons to non rich people food and humanitarian aid tearing go a block to the bid to weaken them ahead of the twenty seventeen crackdown the report concludes mere miles government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against the regime. but the smith is the chief executive officer for forty five writes the nonprofit human rights group that prepared the report and h

to south asia now where a new report by the human rights group of forty five rights is calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officers and now they're accused of committing crimes that can still constitute genocide against the rigging an. armed group bombed more than thirty police stations in august twenty seventh teen and it was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against the ringgit in rakhine state but the report documents how the army committed mass killings rape and arson against the running game twenty sixteen months before the police station bombings the military also disarmed by confiscating sharp objects from their homes at the same time provided weapons to non-routine get people food and humanitarian aid to the group were blocked but in a bid to weaken them ahead of the twenty seven thousand crackdown the report concludes that near mars government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against the writing matthew smith is the chief executive officer of fortify rights a nonprofit human rights group prepared the report here it is the

election with the ruling party already predicting a landslide victory for prime minister hun sen human rights groups of call the poll a sham the main opposition was dissolved and its leaders jailed or exiled more than eight million people registered to cast registered to vote in the election wayne hay reports now from phnom penh this could have been a day of political change for cambodia instead voters lined up knowing there was little chance of that the choice was vote for a continuation of prime minister hussein's thirty three year rule back one of nineteen small opposition parties most of which can't be called truly independent or stay away. but that i came to vote because it's my right and my obligation every five years i want to see my country develop more at this polling station in the capital phnom penh came so car was still on the voter list he's the leader of the band cambodian national rescue party which called for people to boycott the votes this is where i would have cast his vote if he were not in jail awaiting trial on treason charges this could have been a day of big celebrations for

human rights groups say it exposes a culture of institutionalised violence. at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we start with an article on the front page of the daily telegraph. it says theresa may's kamikaze no deal approach to leaving the european union. the may has been accused of scaremongering and deliberately highlighting the negative consequences for the uk living. also, you can see we have got the front page of the natural times which is looking at the news that deutsche bank has shifted half its euro clearing activities from london to frankfurt. this is what it saysis london to frankfurt. this is what it says is the latest sign of european cities winning business from the uk ahead of the exit. now, onto the honolulu advertiser. it is leading to the california wildfires that have forced thousands of people from their homes. they say it shows no sign of stopping at the moment. this is one we are looking out now bbc website, is twitter question today. the holiday giant thomas cook announcing it is stopping trips

prisons the country's military juvenile court was established in two thousand and nine and human rights groups say the system uses the legal process to hide rights abuses as of the end of may two hundred ninety one palestinian minors were in israeli jails as security detainees and prisoners that includes three palestinian minors held under what's called administrative detention which means there detained without charge or trial another six miners are held for being in is real illegally israel says the courts allow a great deal of parental involvement but rights groups say that's not the case they also say a vast majority of cases never even go to trial ending instead in a plea bargain. a boat load of aid for garza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is being escorted to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats trying to break the twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens the second boat is expected to arrive in the same area within days charles stratford is in ashdod. t

in which it cleaned up the way in which the prisons have worked in saudi arabia and it's a human rights groups across the world are against him and of written well know he was one of the i think human rights groups who were against his predecessors he was one of the most important people at reforming the prison system within saudi arabia so he'd made that particular development and then he had been very close in being trained by british police here say that he kind of learnt those practices and then he was the person who was in charge of running the campaign against the against al qaeda and and very successful he was too and we see that unfolding within that albeit we saw al qaeda move across the whole of the middle east around the time these interviews are being. done and i suppose i mean we were in iraq with. funded groups in syria which were the groups even on the bonds of iran it was a bloody battle you know and. they worked hard with the security services to track it down and it's not dissimilar to the kind of the counterinsurgency operations that happened all over the middle east and in

human rights groups are concerned they have already complained of the army's alleged interference in the electoral process. which is in mitigation get it out and all that but n.p. confront that and if it is it then there's one thing that you're booking as the end. of the intimidation of journalists is believed to have served the campaign of this man former cricket star in one count of the movement for justice party the sixty five year old has vowed to track down on corruption. what is budget for we will deliver justice to the masses regardless of them being a hindu or christian or a sikh regardless of the being poor all from different provinces all from coffee to start sooner or suspect one hero of his closest rival is shahbaz sharif brother of the ousted former prime minister no of us or reef currently in jail on corruption charges. but in the head to head race between khan and sharif this man could prove to be kingmaker below while both it's a diary of the left leaning pakistan people's party son of slain prime minister benazir bhutto he is looking to revive the fortune of his part