have done so in increase the risk and right to represent anything but when i travel now for human rights watch we are kept far from the prisoners the only time we see the prisoners and when they appear in court and then it behind the glass wall there is actually a time delay with the prisoners and other trial going to speak you can see them speak but you can't actually hear it until forty seconds later and that's resigned to allow the government could cut off the audio feed in case someone says something that the government believes to be. andrea andrea prosor lot of run out of time you know the scene at counterterrorism consul at human rights watch thank you. economists in the u.k. have warned that driessen heavy snowfall has heightened the risk of britain heading into a triple dip recession and with the country's independent retailers under constant pressure from supermarket chains i just want to wenches see how small business has managed to turn the tight and even trying. it's older than buckingham palace and tower bridge and it's been a local store in the heart of rural east england for th

the group human rights watch says it's exposing d.c. police for what it calls failures. fox 5's matt ackland has the story. >> they made me feel like i was making something up. >> definitely felt just traumatized all over again. >> i think the way that i was treated was so traumatizing. >> reporter: this video was produced by the human rights watch. three victims shared their experiences with d.c. police following their sexual assaults. >> and, in fact, when i sought some mental health services after the crime occurred i focused more on my treatment by the police than i did on what actually happened with the assault. >> reporter: human rights watch briefed the media at the national press club thursday on its findings. it claims some detectives were callous and openly questioned the credibility of the victims and would minimize the severity of their experiences. >> in washington d.c. we found that many victims did not get the effective response that they deserve and have a right to expect from the metropolitan police department. >> reporter: chief of police cathy lanier i

. >>> the group human rights watch investigators human rights violations around the world but most recently the investigation is involving the metropolitan police department. >> the group claims d.c. police mishandled dozens of sexual assault cases. chin chin has more on -- surae chinn has more on the report. >> man came up behind me and he put a box culter to my throat and he stabbed me in the palm of my hand and he told me if i screamed he would kill me. >> reporter: eleanor was able to get away before she was raped but not before getting stabbed three times with a box cutter in northwest d.c.. >> and he start today push me into the -- started to push me into the brick wall. >> reporter: as horrific as the experience was she felt victimized again when she went to police. >> they were completely unresponsive to me and they inaccurately reported what happened to me. and i really -- i mean it was horrible that night was horrible. i was traumatized. but i really didn't feel like so much of a victim until i started dealing with the police because i saved myself. >> reporter: eleanor is would b

>> according to information obtained, the human rights watch is about to issue a report, accusing d.cpolice of mishandling scores of sectionium asaul cases. the watch grown claims that over a three-year period d.c. police failed to document 170 caseses where an alleged sexual assault took place. they said there were 35 others where records were filed, but no evidence of a follow-up investigation. >> we found in our report, which will be published next week, and that a number of victims were report i reporting than the assault itself. >> reporter: according to a letter from the police chief, the human rights watch report is a publicity stunt. she says the information is unsupported an erroneous. more to come. that human rights watch report is expected to go public next week. more victims are expected to come forward. in washington, pat collins, news4. >>> a braising robbery call on video. montgomery county police are searches for the suspect who assaulted an elderly work. the suspect apropped her, stole her cash, and then ran off. the victim suffered some minor injuries. >>> a parking

human rights watch is exposing dc police for what it calls failures. matt is here following this one. >> it is a thick report. take a look here . almost two years to put it together. the human rights watch claims it conducted 150 interviews, went through 250 case files and found very disturbing issues. it says some sexual assault cases have not been processed and victims haven't been treated properly. and to back up the report, they had three victims who volunteered to speak about their experiences. >> made me feel like i was making something up. >> definitely felt just traumatized all over again. >> i think the way i was treated was so traumatizing. >> this video was produced by the human rights watch. three victims sharing their experiences with dc police following their sexual assault. >> and in fact, when i sought mental health services after the crime occurred, i focused more on my treatment than i did with what happened with the assault. >> briefed the media at the national press club thursday on its findings. some detectives were calis and questi

i'm surae chinn with >>> well the group human rights watch investigated the atrocities and human right violations all over the world. new tonight the most recent investigation claiming that metropolitan police mishandled dozens of sex assault cases. we've got more on what's in the report. >> the man came up behind me and put a box cutter to my throat and stabbed me in the palm of the hand and i sat down immediately on the sidewalk and told me if i screamed he would kill me. >> reporter: an attempted rape victim two years ago was able to get away before being raped, but not before getting stabbed three times with a box cutter in northwest d.c. >> he started to push me into the brick wall. >> reporter: as horrific as her experience was, she says she felt victimized again when she went to police. >> i mean they were completely unresponsive to me. and they inaccurately reported what happened to me. and i mean it was horrible. that night was horrible. i was traumatized. but i really didn't feel so much of a victim until i started dealing with police because i saved myself >> reporter: she's

the new york based group human rights watch issued its annual review of the human rights situation in more than 90 countries. it gives special attention to war crimes surrounding the arabs bring -- arab spring, accusing both the syrian government and rebels of war crimes. the organization criticizes burma, saying the government has not done enough to protect minorities. on the topic of syria, we spoke to the director of human rights watch in germany asking what could be done with hundreds of thousands fleeing syria and daily news of crimes. >> first of all, we have to help those people. the need aid, food, good tents, good housing, and also the western countries have to take on some of the refugees, not to leave the burden of to turkey and jordan alone. we shall revise our policy there, but also very important is the international criminal court. the rebel gang leader or the officer of assad's army -- they have to know that the price to kill somebody, to abuse somebody, to torture somebody is very high. maybe then they think again and will not do that. >> people across the arab world

human rights watch will release a report accusing the d.c.olice of failing to document sexual abuse cases. >>> the former mayor of new orleans is facing 21 corruption charges tonight. indicted by a federal grand jury on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges. nagan accused of accepting payoffs while the city struggled in the whaeak of hurricane katrina. and accuses him of accepting $160,000 from local business men in exchange for millions in city contracts. the can tractors have pleaded guilty and will testify if his case goes to trial. >>> tonight, authorities have exhumed the body of a chicago man who was poisoned with cyanide after winning the lottery. the medical examiner's office wants to find out exactly how the lottery winner died. autopsy results could take a few weeks. the man died in july as he was about to collect the winnings from $1 million lotteryinitiall died of natural causes. a roll tielative asked for furt tests. >> a maryland man will go to prison for stealing thousand from undocumented immigrants. sentenced today

>> reporter: according to information, the human rights watch is about to issue a report, accusing d.c. police of mishandling scores of sexual assault cases. the watch group claims that over a three-year period, d.c. police failed to document 170 cases where an alleged sexual assault took place. they say there were 35 other sex assault cases where reports were filed, but no evidence of a follow-up investigation. sara darehshori is with the watch group. >> we found in our report, which would be public next week, that a number of victims feld their experience reporting to police was more traumatizing than the assault itself. she says the information is unsupported and erroneous. more to come. it's expected to be made public next week. more victims are expected to come forward. in washington, pat collins, news4. >>> as pat said, the report by the human rights watch is expected to be released next thursday. >>> associated presses reporting that at least one american has been killed in the hostage crisis. the administration that some americans are still held hostage and efforts to is under

georgia, un estudiante está bajo custodia, no se han revelado identidades >>y la asociacion human rights watcho y jurídico que en 2011 proceso a miles de indocumentados por ingreso y reingreso de ilegales y deportaciones por más de 400 mil. >>hemos visto muchas violaciones a los derechos humanos, no se toma en cuentta los derechos de las familias acá. >>en méxico ,el reporte condena que en el gobierno de calderon, las fuerzas armadas realizaron desapariciones. >>en colombia, criticaron a juan manuel santos. >>reformo la constitucion para expandir el fuero militar y esto es probable que se proteja a quienes cometieron graves faltas al derecho humano >>en venezuela se ha registrado un intenso control del poder. >>la suprema corte es un apendice del poder ejecutivo. >>critica a líderes regiónales por haber entregado a cuba la celac. >>nada más que a raúl castro, que representa al único régimen totalitario de la región. >>y afirmo que en la región, con excepciones se han ido socavando las instituciones democraticas, el poder judicial y derechos fundamentales, en otros caso ha habido serios retroce

prisons where the men were allegedly held and press all senior counterterrorism console edge human rights watch says despite the size having been closed those accountable for them yet to be punished one of the issues is because i'm sorry if there's if they want to be a black they really were they consider them to be being the crime which i agree with while the men were tortured there and they think that that's relevant to the case and i think they have a very strong argument that they were secret unicode detention they were people were tortured in violation of u.s. and international law so there was never any reason because i'm president obama is close to them but the reality is the real concern of the u.s. is that no senior official has ever been held accountable the only people who have been prosecuted for digging if you have been first of all very limited number of people hands or people and always loathed level people never the senior officials who created the regime of torture and ordered it and authorized it and implemented it so human rights watch of the own reappeared but just that ther

. >> the advocacy group human rights watch claimed that the d.c. police mishandled scores of sex assault cases. the group said it couldn't find indent reports on 170 cases over three years the. >> dozens of people who work with victims, for different community organizations, that they were concerned that cases weren't being taken seriously and victims were being treated insensitively, and bealsoed and discouraged from reporting and not believed when they went to the police for help. >> occasionally you have people who don't do their jobs properly. those cases we have to remove the people and address the conduct, but that is not the culture in this agency. >> reporter: the police chief disputes the study, and that human rights watch lacks understanding in how investigations are documented. further, reporting of cases is actually up. >> my fear is because this report is based largely on older data, incident involves one or two detectives no longer in the unit it's it's not painting the picture of the current. i don't want it to have a chilling effect

with us now is a member of the group human rights watch iranian expert. they don't care what cash carney says, do they? >> i think international pressure does wind up helping in several cases. we have a case of a christian pastor niewmed yousef who was actually sentenced to i had i had. he was sentenced to death initially for the crime. this is about two years ago. because of international pressure, partly from human rights watch and other organizations, including christian organizations, in the united states, and in europe and elsewhere: his conviction actually was changed, he spent a little bit of time in prison and he has since been released. he -- so you think you can bring some pressure to bear. >> yes. >> abe -- abedini. is he american citizen. is he persian by descent. lives in the u.s.a. goes back to persia, iran, and they grab him, for what? >> you know, they grabbed him essentially in the summer of last year as he was trying to enter into iran from turkey. and the reason why they grabbed him because he was involved in the home church movement in

human rights watch is warning that malian forces have committed abuses in the central town of niono,particularly targeting tuaregs and arabs, the ethnic groups cling to the rebels in the north. egyptian president morsi has declared a month-long state of emergency following deadly protests around the second anniversary of the egyptian revolution. thousands have taken to the streets to mark the ouster of hosni mubarak and to press their new demands on morsi's government. at least 49 people have been killed in five days of unrest. the state of emergency applies to three cities in the suez canal. a large crowd of demonstrators remained camped out in tahrir square in protest of morsi's government. seven people have died in the latest fire at a garment factory in bangladesh. witnesses say workers were forced to jump from windows to save themselves after managers locked an exit. the seven dead victims were all women, and were reportedly crushed to death as they tried to escape. it was the latest deadly fire at a bangladeshi garment factory since a blaze that killed at least 111 workers at a

human rights watch says that between 2008 and 2011, victim's cases were never investigated. one victim named eleanor tells us that it happened to her after a man tried to rape her at night. >> i said it that night and every day since then. you are not listening to me. i have a feeling there are a lot of women who have felt that way. >> d.c. police said that comparing washington hospital visits to the number of police reports is flawed methodology not backed by facts. the dramatic increase -- decrease in sexual assault reports means that her department is doing right. the board of commissions in carroll county voted unanimously to adopt an english-language order. the require official action statements to be in english but would not prohibit county employees or officials from communicating in other languages. carroll county joins frederick county and queen anne's county in adopting such a policy. a renewed push by lawmakers to make the district the nation's 51st day. senator tom carper of delaware and delegate eleanor holmes norton have been trying to make that happen. the sen

a senior researcher from human rights watch joins us live from new york. what do you make of this case? >> well, it is outrageous that saudi arabia continues to execute people who committed a crime when they were still children themselves. she was only 17 years old at the time that this baby died under her care, and there are many indications that she did not have a fair trial. she did not have a lawyer present and she did not have access to a competent translator. >> doesn't fall into a wider pattern of human-rights abuses and justice in saudi arabia? -- does it fall into a wider pattern creston mark critz absolutely. the saudi arabian justice system as pool of problems and is very difficult for anybody to be assured of basic guarantees for their human rights, if they come into conflict with the law. we know of many cases of domestic workers who are accused of theft, of which crap, adultery, and in many cases they may be evicted -- of witchcraft. as in her case, it is difficult to get access to lawyers, to competent translators, to get information about t

news 4 first to report that the human rights watch report that claims that d.c. police routinely mishandled sex assault allegations. the group could not find documents on 170 cases between 2008 and 201. the report is unsubstantiated as claimed by lanier. the justice department set to look at the report. >>> it is 6:06. 23 degrees. the announcement the president will make today that will be a dream come true for a lot of young people. >>> plus overnight, we got this dramatic video of a rescue in raging waters. why rescue workers have had a busy two days. >>> we're bracing for more snow today. could make the ride home tough. your weather and traffic on the 1s. >>> the rare capture sna >>> take a look at this rare photo. a retired national park service person took this picture in colorado. it shows two lynx. they died out in the '70s. the lynx almost completely vanished from colorado at that time. this picture has gone viral since posted on facebook. we checked. more than 10,000 people have liked this photo of what some have called the ghost cat. lynx. >> i love the

the pakistan director poor human-rights watch assays the palette -- pakistan's state is failing its people. going through the empty and struggling to democracy. pakistan and stand up the cost of the first constitutional transition of power from one elected civilian government to another. there are a series of courses that are determined to sabotage that transition to maintain further civilian rule. certainly, these militant groups are ratcheting up the pressure by creating a crisis- like situation that is not to say that they have not been targeting this all of last year, but the scale and scope of the attack is brightening in the failure of the pakistan ministate -- pakistani state as large for all to see. >> tension growing between india and pakistan. they have been stranded after they refused to allow crossing. and some of the high machinery -- commissioner to protest. u.s.-led forces in afghanistan and reaching the goal of allowing afghanistan to defend it so. that is the opinion of the defense secretary leon panetta who has been meeting with the afghan president's in washington. hamid

-based group human rights watch has called on the united nations to look into abuses at north korea. parents of a japanese abducted by the north joined the appeal. the group's tokyo office chief has said the world has focused on the north's nuclear programs, not its human rights record and called on japan's government to lead efforts to launch a u.n. investigation. she was backed by the parents of a man who was abducted by the north in 1977 at the age of 13. >> translator: it is unacceptable. that people continue to suffer in labor camps or in worse situations in north korea. i hope more will be done to improve the situation. >> u.n. high commissioner for human rights last week stressed the need for an investigative commission on north korea. it would require the adoption of a draft resolution and meeting of the human rights council opening in late february. >>> suicide attacks have rocked the afghan capital kabul for the second time in less than a week. we go to bangkok for more details. gunmen and armed -- gunmen armed with suicide vests stormed a government building in kabul on mo

human rights watch says colonel kumar lama's arrest in britain sends out a warning to those accused of serious crimes that they cannot escape justice. >> a man's been arrested in northern ireland after shots were apparently fired at police. nine police officers were injured during overnight clashes inble fast and violence follows weeks of protest over a decision not fly the union flag all year round. >> for all the successes of northern ireland's peace process, sectarian anger simmers. in the latest upsurge over a month of violence, protestors and police clashed on the streets of belfast. the decision by the city's council to lower the union flag for much of the year has infuriated many loyalists who see it as an attack on their cultural link to the united kingdom. officers concerned they've been shot after the demonstration and one man has been arrested on charges of attempted murder. bricks and other things rain down on the streets. loyalist areas where economic deprivation and sectarian resentment mix with sometimes explosive results. >> in the protestant ghettos of belfast, the wor

was created largely as a result of pressure being brought by n.g.o.s such as human rights watch and amnesty international and so forth. the governments were not pressing the governments were brought into it but the problem is that many of the important countries of the world the great powers of the world if you will including the united states china japan india and so forth have refused to join and as long as those countries are repudiating the i.c.c. it loses its credibility ok lawrence i mean what do you think about this i mean you've got it who looks out to the united states to make sure it doesn't commit war crimes there is no institution impunity will rule. yes i want to see impunity i mean i do think that you know the united states is a nation of the rule of law and we take that responsibility seriously domestically i agree completely that i look forward to the day that the united states participates in as a member of the i.c.c. i do want to make clear though that there has been a very fundamental shift under the obama administration i mean we should recall that in the windies of the

. >> human rights watch claims over a three year period d.c. police failed to document 170 cases. where an alleged assault took place. they say there were another 35 sex assault cases where reports were filed, but no evidence of a follow-up investigation. today, police chief kathy lanier disputed numbers but adds some cases are getting a new look and that because of reforms and outreach, rape reports over the past year are actually up more than 50%. >> my fear is that this report because it, it is based largely on older data, incidents involving one or two detectives no longer in the uniit, painting a picture that is the current state of affairs. it is not. i don't want it to send a chilling effect to undo all the things we have done to get young women, largely to report to us. >> now, tomorrow, on news 4 at 6:00. the chief tells us about progress being made in handling the most difficult cases to investigate. we will also talk with a former nursing supervisor who claims she witnessed mistreatment of cases but has notice aid big improvement over the past year. >> secretary of stat

refutes that saying that the money doesn't even go through the government but according to human rights watch they say it does and this investigation showed that in fact supporters of the opposition weren't allowed to receive food or seeds or fertilizer which is what the aid was destined for a second example is in india a three hundred eighty eight million pound project aimed at improving indian schools the government here hailed as a huge success they said more children are going to school as a result of it but the indian government says that around seventy million pounds of it was either stolen or lost much of it was allocated to schools that didn't even exist and that some of it went to by cause for dignitaries officials in india again the u.k. government refutes that and nigeria thirdly one hundred million pound project improve again the quality of education in nigeria an independent report showed that actually the results of it had been not to improve the quality of education at all they awarded the project to nigeria their second lowest rating again the government here refutes that same

a senior researcher at human- rights watch says both the sri lankan and saudi governments are to blame >> it is outrageous saudi arabia continues to execute people who committed a crime when they were still children themselves. she was only 17 years old at the time this baby died under her care. and there are many indications that she did not have a fair trial. she did not have a lawyer present and she did not have access to a competent translators. and in the case of migrant domestic workers there is responsibility on all sides. there is also a responsibility on the part of the sri lankan government to make sure that recruitment agencies are not falsifying the documents of migrants and allowing children to migrate instead of adults. they should be cracking down on leaves recruitment agencies. the shirlington embassy should have extended aid to nationals much earlier -- sri lanka and bessette. they did not do it until it was too late. although she had been apprehended in 2005, they did not give her any held until after she had already been sentenced to the death penalty. >> negotiators

and israel sets a precedent on the un human rights watch dog while fencing off even more from its closest neighbors. it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshing the u.s. senate has overwhelmingly approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state the sixty nine year old democrat will succeed hillary clinton taking over washington's diplomacy and the deepening turmoil in the middle east raging conflicts in africa and complicated relations with russia are his gun and she can look to kerry's past foreign policy decisions and what it might signal about the future. the evolution of john kerry's views has been quite remarkable so remarkable that it's hard to pin where exactly his standing on a number of issues he built his career on the reputation of a name to war advocate a vietnam veteran himself he was very vocal as a spokesman of the vietnam veterans against the war back in the seventies then in the eighty's he challenge to the reagan administration's policies on central america in one thousand nine hundred one he voted against

. >> on the humets watch human rights allegedlies that the police department did not take victims seriously and even discouraged them at time she was 23 years old when a man put a knife to her neck and tried to rape her. >> i said it that night and i say it every day that you're not lonning to me. i have a feeling that a lot of women feel that way. >> she recounted her case as a robberyry. she made no mention of the rape. >> they changed it enough so it would not be considered a sexual assault. >> the human rights watch listed this reporter where they found 170 cases between 2008 and 2011 where sexual assault victims under went exams and reported to police but they say the cases were not investigated. >> to not have your cases taken seriously is -- it is very upsetting. >> d.c. police who declined an oncamera interview said in a statement compare the number of hospital visits to the number of cases that is a flawed methodology. >> they have no records of these cases that we could find in their records or their databases. >> she also fears that the reporter will have a chilling affect of vic

sites claiming the buildings should be searched as barracks for regime forces but according to human rights watch which is also warning the country it's sliding deeper into sectarian violence there's just no end in sight for the twenty two month old conflict which already claimed thousands of lives of both pro and anti assad people. at least twenty one have been killed and thirty injured in a bus crash in southeastern bolivia a vehicle reportedly flipped over and rolled down a cliff while traveling along a mountain highway a police are not ruling out the driver may have been drinking this comes just a few days after a similar bus crash left twelve dead in the same region. and mexico the supreme court has released a french woman who was arrested in two thousand and five and sentenced to sixteen years in jail for helping her mexican boyfriend run a gang florence was freed after a judge ruled ruled that they had actually been some violations in the. case she was transported on the police protection out of court and later boarded a plane to france and the case for a considerable diplomatic tension be

just trying to play in the building served as barracks for regime forces that's according to human rights watch which was also warning the country is going to go deeper into sectarian violence there's no end in sight with a twenty two month old conflict which has already claimed thousands of lives of well and to present our side supporters. at least twenty one people have been killed or injured in a gas crash in southeastern believe the vehicle reportedly rolled down a cliff while traveling along a mountain highway police are not ruling out that the driver may have been trying to discounts just a few days after a similar bus crash last twelve. dad in the same region. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta has lived as the ban on the women serving in combat the move will allow them into frontline positions and elite commando units remembers currently it's been a number of call but positions including pilots all on major ships panetta is preparing to leave office after president obama named chuck hagel the new secretary of defense the parliamentary racinet his role as of about the political wranglin

israel must move on of its half a million settlers out of palestine says a fresh un read human rights watch dubbed bias and counterproductive by television investigation states the growing settlement rush could be seen as a climb details just ahead. a decorated cia veteran turned torture whistleblowing agency outcasts is now awaiting a summons to start a prison sentence john kiriakou was one of the first to confirm the existence of washington's waterboarding program and has been sent to jail for two and a half years for revealing the name of an undercover agent speaking to our t. he himself said his sheer crime of speaking against the government first of all my case was not about leaking like case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the