you well you didn't read these accounts from human rights watch did you know why didn't you have so you were simply sent out to tell the world that everything is fine. i am telling the world what i believe happened because i saw the pictures we discovered that your police were specifically warned by the courts to respect the coexistence between citizens that's not entirely the case no no no no and then i was reported by human rights watch well i think that wasn't that was if i'm correct that was a phrase in one of the. preamble of. the different documents that were drafted but that was not in the final of the of the of the courts no the fact is that they have a well known reputation for using excessive force the one that has already been censured by the u.n. the committee against torture and numerous human rights groups have and now once again they show that was justified i don't think that is the case i think one spain is one of the countries with the fewer condemnations of judgments in the european court of human rights less than for example belgian or many of them so i don't think th

the muslim countries where is the organization for human rights here are the remains of babies that have been torn apart. a recent human rights watch report documented six saudi coalition attacks that led to the death of thirty three children at the end of twenty seventeen in riyadh had promised to reduce civilian casualties human rights watch told us the who the opposition militias are also to blame for some of the civilian deaths. coalition airstrikes continue to be the leading cause of civilian casualties in the governing structure by the coalition led by scenario however to have also a responsibility of the world nations particularly in this room that shelling in tires and elsewhere the use of banned landmines and the use of child soldiers know about the humanitarian situation itself there is an unprecedented color epidemic in yemen nearly one million suspected cases of cholera dysentery as all has printing pretty fast and also. is witnessing one of the world's worst crisis more than seventeen million people are food insecure and about eight million are on the brink of famine and on top of this there's very little access to thr

the muslim countries where is the organization for human rights here are the remains of babies that have been torn apart. every cent of human rights watch report documented six saudi led attacks that led to the deaths of thirty three children now at the end of twenty seventeen in riyadh had promised to reduce civilian casualties human rights watch told us the who the opposition militias are also to blame for some of the civilian deaths. coalition airstrikes continue to be the leading cause of civilian casualties. asterix by the pollution the boston area however difficulties have also a responsibility of the violations. in this crime that shelling in tires and elsewhere the use of banned landmines and the use of chance orders know about the humanitarian situation itself there is an unprecedented cholera epidemic in yemen nearly one million suspected cases of cholera dysentery as a host breeding pretty fast and also. is witnessing one of the walls worst crisis more than seventeen million people who are food insecure and about eight million are on the brink of famine and add on top of this there's very little access to you can return eight

so human rights watch has done a lot of work on my coworker abuses across the gulf and i would say in general that the issues that appear are the same this report in specific is talking about their experiences within the criminal justice system and i think the aspect that actually does make saudi arabia worse and worse especially for pakistanis is the fact that saudi arabia carries out a large number of executions every year especially concerning are the executions that saudi arabia carries out for drug smuggling and i should say that saudi arabia . carries out more executions of pakistanis than any other nationality nearly all for drug smuggling so while there may be flaws in other justice systems and there are certainly flaws in the saudi criminal justice system the stakes in saudi arabia are so much higher because the charges there can be to execution ok understood but if you get done if you are found guilty of drug smuggling of any country on the planet saudi arabia if you're being intelligent it is not the place to try and smuggle drugs there are other countries as well that have

for stifling any form of opposition to the monarchy and government policies and the this year human rights watchsaid the country. tolerance for dissent was approaching vanishing point it frequently detains figures it says has things to shia iran in january at least arrested forty seven people on terrorism related charges according to human rights watch bahraini court sentenced a total of fourteen people to death last year for alleged terrorist activities it's also dissolved the secular left national democratic action society after the group condemned the executions and in june the government ordered the suspension of. bahrain's own independent newspaper one hundred fifty six bahrain these were also reports at least to the nationality in twenty seventeen rendering them stateless hundreds of others have also been killed jailed and stripped of citizenship since arab spring inspired protests broke out in twenty eleven which call for an elected prime minister well to talk about this more i am joined by roxanne famine from iran . in politics and international relations at cambridge university and spec

syria researcher for human rights watch thank you thank you . traces of the nerve agent used to poison the former russian spy and his daughter have reportedly been found in a restaurant in the british city of salzburg the per of anything that two hours prior to being found unconscious on a park bench that pizzeria is now one of five sites has been cordoned off by police as part of their ongoing investigation with more details is jacqueline. a week ago two people were found collapsed on an unremarkable bench near a quiet shopping center in salisbury the area was sealed off and a major incident was declared at the hospital where the pair were being treated for exposure to an unknown substance but no one really took much notice of the man and the woman until about twenty four hours later when breaking news reports began to flood the airways that the sixty six year old man was in fact sergei scruple a former russian spy. group did in the soviet forces he quickly moved to russia's foreign military intelligence agency are you on a mission to the medit

now you know why you continue to deny excessive force human rights watch for example said from its own research into three cases it had no doubt at all that national force national police and civil guard officers used excessive force using they made that up you know you're talking about three cases and four people taken to heaven is that is that is that at least is very three areas that they covered i mean final laws for instance an old woman seventy years old said she was picked up and thrown to the ground by two civil guards after refusing to move from her chair which was blocking the path to the station someone else was then throwed on top of her and her wrist broke is that not excessive force. i don't know i mean if they were prevented from. if they prevented the police from doing what they should be doing because they need so round on top of each other seventy year old come on i'm coming these kinds of accidents occur so or it isn't like an accident as well i don't think this was by any means. really you know. sunday a bloody sunday or anything like that may not have been bloody s

to those are responsible in a front of just four or five cases in its latest annual report human rights watch said both the palestinian authority and hamas arrested activists who criticize their leaders security forces or policies mistreated and tortured in their cars. today the independent commission for human rights in palestine received you know many complaints of torture and ill treatment by palestinian authority security forces two hundred and five in the last year for last year yes and you telling me this is just a few cases that is nice and there's a high doses one thousand one hundred liter gave us all the water going missing old for me the first the side is the high commissioner office and palestine and that commission report you don't trust europe people who know some of them maybe they don't trust you isn't that weird as a third party like the un is a stress the weather for us there are some cases under cognizant that i'm not saying that we are perfect two hundred as the others but we are following and it's not our policy we are trying to follow all those issues and sometimes i am

human rights watch is urging saudi arabia to immediately investigate reports of coersion and abuse duringits campaign against corruption the new york times says seventeen detainees including members of the royal family needed hospital treatment after interrogation in the body of a national guard general who died in detention showed signs of torture the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon is due to visit the u.s. next week to gaza now where hamas is denying accusations of trying to assassinate the palestinian prime minister remi was unhurt but the bomb blast injured others forces more from the gaza strip. the palestinian prime minister had come to gaza to demonstrate progress by attending the opening of a new water treatment plant. instead just a few hundred meters into gaza territory. visit became a demonstration of the level of insecurity here a powerful bomb buried by the road blasted the end of his convoy vehicles were damaged seven people were lightly injured. and his delegation pressed on to the water project where he said the attack would only make him more determined to return.

we human rights watch have been calling for the deployment of u.n. monitors to ensure that the civilians that remain an innocent will and those that are being evacuated can do so under protection and safely we do know that there are negotiations that are ongoing but at the same time as we have received verified reports of people that are going into government territory being detained no one has to be reminded of the types of violations we have seen in places of detention in syria it is imperative that they are independent monitors overseeing these operations to try and protect those that are desperately fleeing we want some likelihood of independent monitors being allowed into syria or even into these conflict zones where really you've had very little chance an opportunity to see this type of model tring be put in place over the eight years of a conflict. the russian government has consistently tried to stand in the way. monitoring initiatives and other steps to try to deter violations in syria we have seen time and time again that they have their us

all come back you're watching out zero time to recap the headlines the u.n. human rights chief says the syrian government's offensive in rebel held east and also cannot be justified as a been saying says civilians are facing a catastrophe on its reporting the government sent in reinforcements. south korea's president says it's too early to be optimistic about progress for the north when jane says he has no plans to ease sanctions against pyongyang ahead of a storage summit with the leader kim jong un next month. ahead of the un human rights commission is accusing me and maher of trying to cover up evidence of crimes against humanity against writing that muslims say that rather for saying it says he's concerned mass graves of being bulldozed. voters in sierra leone are choosing a new president. by koroma stepping down after ten years and the leaders of sixteen political parties a vying to succeed him three million voters are registered for the third election since the end of the civil war the dress is at one of those polling stations in the capital freetown. well there is

human rights watch is urging saudi arabia to immediately investigate reports of coersion and abuse during its anti corruption campaign on monday the new york times reported seventeen detainees including members of the royal family were hospitalized of to be interrogated in the ritz carlton hotel witnesses say the body of a general in the national guard who died after being detained showed signs of torture the man behind the anti corruption effort crown prince mohammed bin salmond is due to visit the u.s. in six days. it is forty people have been killed and into ethnic fighting between two communities and democratic republic of congo the violence in the north isn't it true province happened a week after the seventy nine people died in fighting between the humor and lendu groups the united nations is appealing for international donors to help. has more. this camp in tangney could province is home to thousands some of the four and a half million people displaced by entering violence and fighting with rebel groups . integration louisa came here three years ago she's desperate with few prospec

human rights watch says over fifty families live here now all of them forced from their home villages the organization thinks that thousands of people have been evicted nationwide the people here tell us how their children can no longer go to school because it's too far away the most popular family farm used to lie here somewhere today it's industrial farmland run by a foreign fama. jason sawyer is from neighboring zimbabwe he tells us he was a victim from his land that just like many other white farmers. don't know this is now he himself is said to have pushed zambians from their farms something he denies . we are here to stay. i'm going to raise my kids here my father wants to be buried here with regards to to the locals and the research yourself to me. trying to come to a compromise so that everyone is happy. one thing's clear sawyer bought the land from the zambian government and it was proven to be government land before he bought it he tells us he's created some eighty jobs and that it was the government which forced him to relocate the resident pharmacist. zambian government's

apparatus to break himself as a reformist but unfortunately you know human rights watch has been looking at saudi arabia for a long time and we've documented. the locations of torture and mistreatment in the saudi criminal justice system unfortunately it appears that you know rather than reforming these these practices in the criminal justice system as a whole muhammad and then some man is just following the script of his predecessors all right adam kugel live from the children in capital amman all of human rights watch thank you very much indeed now the new united nations coordinator for yemen's arrived in country lisa de takes up her role as the country struggles with children is a food and medical supplies as well as a major cholera outbreak almost seven years of war has left an estimated seventy five percent of the population that's around twenty two million people in dire need of humanitarian aid now the rebels are fighting pro-government forces who a backed by a saudi led coalition the control of the country. on the third of april in geneva the secretary general of the united natio

taking office however rights groups have already called on congress to reject both nominations human rights watch says that given the track record of pompei and hospital both likely to endorse abusive practices. he was one of the first officers to expose the agency's use of torture and was later serving a jail term for his well following the revelations he told me appointing gina hospital as head of the cia isn't one of trump's finest decisions this is one of the worst moves i ever heard at the cia when i sort of equity believe it because you know has or should be in the docket not in the directors of cia dina has all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national science authorization act that specifically banned it if it exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has was overseen my proposal take over from the curre

. >> ninan: a human rights watch group said today more than 1,000 people have been killed in the syrian government's brutal siege on eastern ghouta near damascus. at least 250 children are among the dead. assad's forces have been pounding the city for nearly three weeks trying to take it back from the opposition. team u.s.a. won five medals in the first day of competition at the paralympics in pyeongchang, south korea. that includes three gold medals. kendall gretsch won the women's biathlon, and andrew kurka won the alpine downhill gold. some out-of-the-world items are being sold in maryland this weekend at the estate say the of the legendary astronaut of u.s. senator john glenn. items include a patch from the "discovery" mission in which glenn became the oldest person ever in space. also available, his senate cuff links and chair. glenn's leather bomber jacket is off the market. it sold to the u.s. marine museum for $27,000. a quick reminder to spring ahead tonight across the country, except in hawaii and most of the of arizona and some u.s. territories. we set our clocks ahead one ho

reporter: human rights watch estimates that the saudi led coalition is responsible in 2017 for the death of 1000 civilians and took part in 85 unlawful airstrikes. did the president bring up concerns in his meeting with the crown prince today? sarah: i would have to check on the last half of the meeting. i'm not sure. reporter: between the call of trump and vladimir putin, the readout that was released by the trump administration did not mention any issue about -- did not mention a mention about syria. did he discuss the high casualty rate? sarah: it briefly came up. as you know we have had a number of public statements on our position there. that has not changed. reporter: yesterday, the canadian prime minister noticed talkace of that accelerating. is the president that and there's yesterday that getting a deal? sarah: the president as always interested to get a good deal and dizzy after to get a good deal. at the convent 20 conversation would be to make sure that was a good deal for americans and american workers. entire political process, is anything possible for it to be that quick,

should say no deals with you until you elect somebody else not a great democrat according to human rights watch has plunged the philippines into the worst human rights crisis for forty years it's not just not being a good democrat it's a little more than that you have the power in the european parliament to plug. these we do because all those use them because all use all of these things come to us inform the mandates for the negotiations the peace which we signed with them they come true each time you but everytime. you say liked one aspect and you make the entire thing go around that they expect and you say because of that aspect everything else is not good but you create we do have to take into account much more than that what if what if we don't have such a treaty with philippines tomorrow when they elect somebody else then do their thing just ask you what you don't have lives you and anybody can get away with any human rights abuse and you'll just tick the box and say it's good for trying we do have friends like france and we do know where where where you don't have a for instance you know

the standard of go when you because if you go around apparently this you mentioned human rights watch that. if there is an international standards reached. with our own i think you'd be welcome any any one of us that support human rights yes they should be stunned at what we see is of course of all of decision about as well count me as another kind of well known who said when the we. the united kingdom on its way. of. execution if you as the united states i think if you be fair to you i think the most important thing in you who should be civil consult and. what when and i think just to interrupt you for a second you're seeing there on that idea of what they could and should do here is it potentially or could for the british prime minister for the foreign office for boris johnson because there are the message from riyadh seems to be look we are a country of reform we are a country of opportunity but not yet so the headline economics come comes down to what it's always been an arm surely. well i think this one comes to all this discussion between bones jones or. some other i think has t

a new documentary film, the force, currently featured in the the human rights watch film festival in bring in the director, peter nicks. one police officer can affect the credibility of a department, of a city. one police officer. it can have an impact on this whole country. this police department has a history that we have to own up to. it's our legacy. i don't want bad cops, period. this is the fourth shooting in two months from the oakland police department of black men. don't nobody know the story. oakland, california's police force is really... officers allegedly engaging in sexual misconduct... talk about a bombshell. as the mayor of oakland, i am here to run the police department, not a frat house. how can we stay in our houses? how can we stay safe? they covered up corruption. who you going to be? are you going to be the cop that people talk about, the dirty cop that does things that he shouldn't do? what's your legacy going to be? we're joined now by the force's director, peter nicks. great to have you. thanks for having me. it looks like a good watch. the oakland police dep

before taking office however rights groups have called on congress to reject both nominations human rights watch says that given a track record pompei are both likely to endorse abusive practices john kerry aku who was the fastest cia officer to expose the agency's use of torture and to late assess jail time following the revelations for the pointing dana has bill as head of the cia is that one of chance finest decisions this is one of the worst moves i've ever heard of at the cia when i sort of couldn't believe it because you know has bush should be in the dock at night in the director's office of cia do you know has all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national that's out there is a fact that specifically banned exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has was overseen. my pump ai will take over from the cur

before taking office however rights groups have called on congress to reject both nominations a human rights watch says that given the track records pump ale and hospital both likely to endorse abusive practices but we also spoke with a cia veteran ray mcguffin he says hospital is hardly the best choice to head up the agency gina has felt was in charge of the black sites in thailand where she not only water boarded and otherwise tortured people who were brought there and two thousand and two and around then but she destroyed the evidence she just royd the videotapes that showed how these torture sessions including waterboarding were carried out in other words if you destroy evidence if you obstruct inquiries then you can move right ahead and i remember my friend john kiriakou who is persecuted and prosecuted and served two years jail time for what for revealing torture or not for doing it he commented when cina hash bill was named deputy director he commented that this is really really bad what will list say to the troops in the ranks it will say you couldn't violate laws it will take care of you

human rights office as of november last year at least at least over five thousand civilians in the war torn country of yemen have been killed over eight thousand of them wounded recorded human rights watch those numbers are likely to be much much higher. one of the major players in the catastrophic loss of life and diabolical living conditions currently savaging yemen is the kingdom of saudi arabia who along with their coalition forces have aggressively and violently bombed yemen into what many are calling the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe. yes even worse than what you've read about and seen in syria but who wants to dwell on you know little things like human catastrophe would royalty is coming to town yes the crown prince of saudi arabia been solemn hit washington d.c. this week mohawk watchers and judging from the farting corporate press and overjoyed expressions on defense contractor faces you would think that the son of helio sim self-hate the un had just landed at dulles international and promised one concubines and chariot rides for the kids c.b.s. his own sixty minutes the grand old long running emmy vacuum cleaner news show hyped their one on one interview with the cr

to do it i think that's less than likely this is a very very expensive proposition meantime human rights watch has mocked saudi arabia's p.r. blitz pointing to riyadh's record of rights abuses. your news continues and and huff. it's. this is a sure. to say the prophet muhammad's grandson. when security is stepped up in pakistan because of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks. themselves with. even with. hundreds of us. fathers teach the princes to sons and so the tradition is passed from generation to generation. on the other side of. these in punchbags just a. garage is roughest neighborhood a very unusual club as a. boxing club the girl's. father kept up a. bit of. pot . he's. got. a kid. with six hundred thousand inhabitants. the population neighborhood it's only arabian seas coast which is why smugglers a constantly plying their trade here. in the early two thousand a gang broke out and battles were fought in the streets and even the police avoided the area. again what about this ash. i don't. want to give you. that again that cinema. would. i don't. want that. get you out of pocket it

stay with mike mike from we have a very similar process i think it's going to go over well human rights watch is urging saudi arabia to immediately investigate reports of couldn't and abuse during its anticorruption campaign on monday the new york times reported seventeen detainees including members of the royal family were hospitalized after being interrogated in the ritz carlton hotel witnesses say the body of a general in the national guard who died after being detained showed signs of torture the man behind the and to corruption if it crown prince mohammed bin salmond is due to visit the us in six days the presidential election in syria and is going to a runoff in two weeks time opposition leader judas bio won the first round but fall short of a majority he's up against. the ruling old people's congress party candidates one of them will replace the president in a spy koroma who served his maximum two years inside story is up next. great candidates put on the bond like the wind but he may preach ins tight grip on the kremlin this mandate seen years now and when russian people voice on marc

hours at least five civilians were killed and another five are missing from the same attack human rights watch is urging saudi arabia to immediately investigate reports of coersion and abuse during its campaign against corruption the new york times says seventeen detainees including members of the world family needed hospital treatment after interrogation as of the top stories the stream is up next. the differences. and the similarities of cultures of. al-jazeera. hi emily could be and you're in the stream you're joining us for our second show this week covering the south by southwest festival in the u.s. city of austin texas so they will look at how musicians are expressing political activism through their work at a time when politics is becoming ever more polarized but me is at the festival and i'll be talking to three very different artists i thought me and i them and hello from the family hotel in downtown austin so three independent musicians are about to meet today one is a regional nine hundred seventy s. a woman punk rock of one is a reverend activist with a voice like silk and one is

investigated no i don't think there is any cover up now now where you continue to deny excessive force human rights watch for example said from its own research into three cases it had no doubt at all that national force national police and civil guard officers used excessive force well you think they made that up you're talking about three cases and four people taken to hell is that is that is though at least is very three areas that they cover i mean from the loss of for instance an old woman seventy years old said she was picked up and thrown to the ground by two civil guards after refusing to move from her chair which was blocking the path to the station someone else was then. throat on top of her and her wrist broke is that not excessive. i don't know i mean if they were prevented from. if they prevented the police from doing what they should be doing because the let's go around on top of each other a seventy year old come on i'm coming these kinds of accidents occur so i sound like an accident as well i don't think this was by any means. really you know. a sunday a bloody sunday or anything like th