locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news writing letters in the last. african union playing to the good offices. democracy in the country by his lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera trio bonhomme hama mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste day five years ago and as there are explore editor in chief ibrahim helal was sentenced to death and absentia two years ago. reporters without borders ranks egypt one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty countries in this year's watch press freedom index it says at least thirty two journalists are being held in egyptian jails few have b

it's been six hundred days since i was there a journalist mahmoud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charges hussein is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he indulges there are strongly denied the allegations and the network has been demanding his release laura bird medley has more. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news women writing letters even asking. african thing to be in a lot of the good offices. democracy in the country by his lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al jazeera trio bonhomme homage mo

it's been six hundred days since the al-jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charges sainz accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions hussein is among at least thirty two journalists currently being detained in egypt according to reporters without borders twenty two are being held without charge their all egyptian nationals and half of them say they face abuse and health problems in prison the government also increased online censorship it's estimated eighty five hundred news web sites have been blocked over the past year well hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him and the network demands his release lower burden manoli has more. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security

to help justify a war against saddam hussein well you know what you can get that from torture we had this prisoner he wouldn't admit that there were close ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein so we sent them to the egyptians a friendly service and guess what they got into it at mit in quotes that yes he sent all manner of operatives up to baghdad to be turned to be trained in explosives and and chemical weapons and guess what that was used by colin powell it is speak for. before the u.n. on the fifth of february two thousand and three just six weeks before the war to justify what he called the sinister nexus between al qaeda and saddam hussein made out of whole cloth whether colin powell was deceived as he claims he was or whether re he was smart enough to realize what was going on that's an open question but it was right from torture and it was the case with the torture works you get people to say what you want them to say that's the only time it works and it only works with inaccurate information. you were of course at the cia under many presidents i wondered what you thought o

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adam hussein well you know what you can get that from torture we had this prisoner he wouldn't admit that there were close ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein so we sent them to the egyptians a friendly service and guess what they got into it at mit in quotes that yes he sent all manner of operatives up to baghdad to be turned to be trained in explosives and and chemical weapons and guess what that was used by colin powell it is speech before the u.n. on the fifth of february two thousand and three just six weeks before the war to justify what he called the sinister nexus between al qaeda and saddam hussein made out of whole cloth whether colin powell was deceived as he claims he was or whether re he was smart enough to realize what was going on that's an open question but it was right from torture and it was the case with the torture works you get people to say what you were to want them to say that's the only time it works and it only works with inaccurate information. you were of course at the cia under many presidents i wondered what you thought or made of the fact that brit

saddam hussein well you know what you can get that from torture we had this prisoner he wouldn't admit that there were close ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein so we sent them to the egyptians a friendly service and guess what they got into it at mit in quotes that yes he sent all manner of operatives up to baghdad to be turned to be trained in explosives and and chemical weapons and guess what that was used by colin powell it is speech before the u.n. on the fifth of february just six weeks before the war to justify what he just six weeks before the war to justify what he called the sinister nexus between al qaeda and saddam hussein made out of whole cloth whether colin powell was deceived as he claims he was or whether re he was smart enough to realize what was going on that's an open question but it was right from torture and it was the case with the torture works you get people to say what you want them to say that's the only time it works and it only works with inaccurate information. you were of course at the cia under many presidents i wondered what you thought or made of

and it's been six hundred days since al-jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge hussain is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions hussein is among at least thirty two journalists currently being detained in egypt according to reporters without borders twenty two are being held without charge now they're all egyptian nationals and half of them say they face abuse and health problems in prison the government also increased online censorship it's estimated nearly five hundred news websites have been blocked over the last year and a hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him the network demands his release laura manley has more. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security

well it's been six hundred days since al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge hussein is accused of broadcasting falsities and receiving foreign funds to to same state institutions he and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations and the network has been demanding his release laura burton manley reports. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news. in the last. african union playing to be in a lot of the good offices. democracy in the country by his lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera trio bonhomme hama mohamed fahmy i'm peter

say about al hussein has been the united nations high commissioner for human rights since twenty fourteen in those four years the attacks on people safety and dignity seem to have reached into all corners of the world need mars campaign to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic or hinge out of the country the abuse and denial of asylum heaped on migrants fleeing war and economic deprivation the carnage left behind in the civil wars in yemen and in syria as well as in those parts of syria and iraq once controlled by. one would think the calls on countries to do better would have been welcomed but the high commissioner has been criticized for pointing out where countries have failed to preserve human rights we discuss why human rights are under more pressure than ever and what should be done to protect them when say that hoddle hussein talked to al jazeera. thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you sir mark we're coming up on the end of your tenure and i wanted to ask you first just to get this out of the way he didn't ask for a second term you didn't think you would get the backing of t

kofi annan tried to prevent this — the invasion and toppling of saddam hussein by george bush and tony without the support of the un security council. kofi annan later called it illegal. i think, as secretary—general, i did everything i could, conscious of what the results would be, you know, and being powerless to stop it.

for human rights condemns far right demonstrations in the german city of camden as i eat right out hussein says that political leaders must speak out forcefully against zina phobia a kitten is bracing for another protest this coming weekend also how much of it was almost our consoling me because i wanted to perfect it will find the still means even more when hitting much of a person i should have realized that we needed to be less risky. takes the blame for germany's disastrous world cup performance will ask what does this mean for germany's national soccer team. it's good to have you with us the un's high commissioner for human rights has sharply condemned the violence in the german city of kevin it's over the last few days so you'd write hussein says a political leaders should speak out against zina phobia but kim is bracing itself for more unrest after the far right alternative for germany political party and the anti is lump together movement announced a joint rally scheduled for this coming weekend. thailand's. hate speach. and illegal of justice these scenes have touched off an inter

he said i hated saddam hussein and i would do it again or anything to remove saddam hussein from power pics everybody was being played along, and there was a failures in leadership, failures in intel and failures in imagination. >> a quick question. we have two, three minutes left. you need to please come up after your go ahead. >> what do you think the consequences have been in military activity since the vietnam war of victimization of the ordinary, nonmilitary people in the countries we have invaded? .. i need to whine this out. lest we forget we had a great ceremony last night. the university students killed in the iraq war. any program, first page inside is a poem word from one of the most famous poems that is often right at military funerals. and i'm going to read it. if you like it, you can join me. they shall not grow old as the left grows old. age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn them in the morning, we will remember them. so i want to thank our panelists, are wonderful panelists for coming here today and mr. alan king, ms guy. i want to thank you all for coming. i

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in saddam hussein, khomeini found an enemy who unid the country.e front line hundreds of thousands died in the desert. br (erdk speaking): ♪ >> erdbrink: the word "martyr" became an honorary title. familyembers of those who died were given a special status. and evenoday, life-size portraits of the martyrs adorn the city walls. ♪ here at behesht-e zahra cemetery in the south of tehran, the rtyrs are buried side by side in endless numbers.f mothem were killed during the war with saddam hussein. almost every iranian family has buried a loved one here. ♪ if you want to understand the concept of martyrdom, you can avel to a city like khomeini shahr-- named after ayatollah o khomeinithe day of ashura. every year, shia pilgrmournde the violenh of imam husayn, the grandson of the prophet muhammad. (erdbrink speaking): (girl speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (girl and erdbrink speaking): (girl speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (man speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (man speaking): (man chanting on loudspeaker) ♪ >> erdbrink: this is my friend nieje. her father di

were killed while on a school field trip the un's high commissioner for human rights say the crowd hussein told al-jazeera that he felt the news quite disturbing the specific and. richard the time and i'm sure my offices are in god and so i've seen what you've seen on the media. occurred in regard to recent blue. of course i mean absolutely horrific and it's precisely these sorts of attacks. that imposed on us to request time and for serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into old the major. and horrific poseurs for civilians including children. were killed appellate experts had been convened nearly a year ago to look at the human rights situation during the yemen civil war they are expected to release their report in the next several weeks they had a hussein told al jazeera that while he does know generally what might be in this report he said it's much more important for the international community to focus on the efforts to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens. but the reaction hasn't been as strong from the u.s. state department as phatic a

most of them were during the war with saddam hussein.artyrdom, you can l travel to a cie khomeini shahr-- named after ayatollah uromeini-- on the day of a every year, ia pilgrims mourn the violent death of imam husayn, the grandson of the prophet muhammad. (erdbrink speaking): (girl speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (girl and erdbrink speaking): (girl speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (man speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (man speaking): (man chanting on loudspeaker) ♪ rd >>ink: this is my friend nieje. her father died in 1981 during the war against iraq. shortly before, he and his family had returned to iran from the united states, filled with ideals. he wanted to help make the islamic revolution a success. but when war broke out, he volunteered and was killed. (erdbrink speaking): (nieje speaking): (nieje speaking): (erdbrink and nieje speaking): ♪ ♪ >> erdbrink: most westernersnd fail to comprehy you would desire a martyr's death.s do iranially regard suffering as an honor? or is it a way to make the pain of ling your loved ones more beara

to the region the money pays the salaries of government and public sector employees such as kahar hussein and his wife her teaching salary has been slashed in half they say they're owed twelve thousand dollars in unpaid wages and. there is a lot of pressure on us we can't afford any vacations we can only afford food and hope to survive every month and every year this year the federal government resumed payments but not at the preacher thousand and fourteen level or maybe country had any percent the hope of the people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they all connected to the economic problems hussein says year after year they keep hearing the economy is improving.

in shia islam the main leader of the shias that bush is the first mom i only have two sons and hussein has son chose the path of peace and negotiations and hussein shows the path of confrontation on martyrdom so these two schools of thought provide different justifications for different policies and some of republic and the supreme leader it was the idea of. a mom her sons peace and reconciliation in the frame that was honorable an honorable peace of one . he called it heroic flexibility which allowed the system to make the compromise that was pretty painful with the great satan. in the name of the roic flexibility the leader allowed himself to overcome the islamic republic's visceral anti americanism one of the regime's major ideological standpoints and enter negotiations with the united states. i. am it for publics anti americanism goes back to the early days of the revolution. in november one thousand nine hundred seventy nine iranian students took fifty two american diplomats hostage. their objective was to demonstrate that. new islamic order was set against the west and in particu

has complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news women writing letters even asking. african union playing to be in a lot of the good offices speaking of christians he promises democracy in the country but he's a lot of our long and happy lives which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera trio bonhomme hammered mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste five years ago al-jazeera arabic former editor in chief ibrahim helal was sentenced to death and absentia two years ago. reporters without borders ranks egypt one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty countries in this year's watch press freedom index it says at least thirty two journalists are being held in egyptian jails few have been put on trial most of been detained for months or years and over a being held on trumped up charges. those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud i was a it known as shall can he's been locked up for five years reporting on the robbers square protests in cairo where hundr

killed while on a school field trip the un's high commissioner for human rights say the crowd al hussein told al jazeera that he felt the news quite disturbing the specific instance incident i mean richard referred to time and i'm sure my office is gathering the evidence i've seen what you've seen on the media. if it has occurred and we better reason to believe it of course i mean absolutely horrific and it's precisely these sorts of attacks that impelled us to request time and for serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into all of the major. and horrific. for civilians including children. were killed appellate. it had been convened nearly a year ago to look at the human rights situation during the yemen civil war they are expected to release their report in the next several weeks zehava hussein told al-jazeera that while he does know generally what might be in this report he said it's much more important for the international community to focus on the efforts to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens. how mass the palestinian group which contr

were killed while on a school field trip the un's high commissioner for human rights say the crowd hussein told al jazeera that he felt the news quite disturbing the specific and. richard risks are tired and i'm sure my offices are in god and so i've seen what you've seen on the media. as occurred in regard to reason to believe that of course. it's precisely these sorts of a. tyrants. imposed on us to request time and for serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into old the major. and horrific poseurs for a civilians including children. were killed a pal of experts had been convened nearly a year ago to look at the human rights situation during the yemen civil war they are expected to release their report in the next several weeks see how the hussein told al jazeera that while he does know generally what might be in this report he said it's much more important for the international community to focus on the efforts to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens of the u.s. state department has also voiced concern. we call on the saudi led coalition to

hussein told al jazeera that while he does know generally what might be in this report he said it's much more important for the international community to focus on the efforts to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens let's move on to other news now and hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told al-jazeera that a truce has been agreed to with israel as really government as yet to comment a flare up an across the border violence has seen three palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes and how mosques rockets fired into southern israel andrew symonds reports from gaza an israeli airstrike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after school strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and i was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the strike on the cultural center hamas said its statement of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god

in the 1980s, when the united states was helping saddam hussein, giving him...y the way, giving him chemical weapons to use against the iranians, we survived. we were alone for eight years, one of the few countries that actually supported us was syria. we survived the chemical attacks, i survived two chemical attacks, our country survived the war. we've gone through much worse. the current administration is going to go through difficulty. they've made significant mistakes over the past two months, they have to rectify those mistakes. but without a doubt, after a few months, the economy will stabilise and, as i said, it won't be easy, nobody is claiming it will be easy but this is something that's been unjustly imposed on the iranian people. the americans want to crush the iranian people, they want to humiliate the iranian people and that's simply not going to work. you call it crushing, the americans would say a fundamental realignment of iran's foreign policy is in particular. it's interesting, is it not, mike pompeo, when he talked about the strongest sanction

that is zeid ra'ad al hussein, who was speaking with imogen faulks. stay with us on bbc news.on working on the way to work, see you in a moment. he's the first african—american to win the presidential nomination of a major party, and he accepts exactly 45 years ago to the day that martin luther king declared "i have a dream." as darkness falls tonight, an unfamiliar light will appear in the south—eastern sky. an orange glowing disk that is brighter than anything save the moon — our neighbouring planet mars. there is no doubt that this election is an important milestone in the birth of east timor as the world's newest nation. it'll take months and billions of dollars to repair what katrina achieved injust hours. three weeks is the longest the great clock has been off duty in 117 years, so it was with great satisfaction that clock maker, john vernon, swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. you're watching the briefing. our headlines: hopes are growing for a breakthrough in trade talks between the us and canada. officials say negotiations are at a "very intense moment".

so i don't think -- i disagree with people like leyla hussein, who say, "we just educate and educatend talk about it." >> leyla hussein, who is a somali woman in the u.k. who works with an organization to help fight female genital mutilation in the united kingdom. but she doesn't believe in criminalizing. >> she's wonderful, but she thinks it's possible to eradicate this practice simply by "educating." again, i want to point out that the doctor who's performing female genital mutilation in michigan is a graduate of johns hopkins and the university of maryland, so education doesn't just get you there. >> in the state of maine, there are some 12,000 somali immigrants. and you yourself were a somali immigrant. according to the u.n., some 95% of somali girls have undergone this procedure. and i wonder, how much of yourself do you see as you try to advocate and support and spare the somali immigrants in this country? >> well, initially when i came to europe and then later united states of america, my feeling was, "oh, my god, these girls are so lucky. they don't have to undergo female gen

and public sector employees such as kahar hussein and his wife her teaching salary has been slashed in half they say they're owed twelve thousand dollars in unpaid wages and. there is a lot of pressure on us we can't afford any vacations we can only afford food and hope to survive every month and every year this year the federal government resumed payments but not at the pre-teen and fourteen level. the hope of the people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they're all connected to the economic problems hussein says year after year they keep hearing the economy is improving when they finally believe it they hope to realize a dream put on hold by the economic crisis to give their daughter a sibling natasha going to name al-jazeera erbil. now lebanon as the bowl third largest producer of illicit marijuana it's preparing to legalize cultivation and export the drug for medical use it may take months before there's a vote in parliament but many hope that this will help revive the economy has more . it's illegal but cannabis is

or beal's economy boomed after saddam hussein was overthrown in two thousand and three high rises started popping up all over. but the conflict with islamic state has hit the economy hard unemployment is high and then ahmed got the idea to create his club. you know the bond. people were just sitting around at home there was nothing to do and they were in a bad movie so we decided to create something positive so that i would have something to do it in. the middle. i thought to not give. the club members always have their phone cameras ready as they walk through the streets of r b o later they post the pictures online. mr irving now has forty members a lot more people would like to join but membership is closed for the time being. but no women members are allowed the group believes that kurdish society has not yet reached the point where a mixed gender club would be acceptable but on social media club members do campaign for women's rights they have over one hundred thousand followers. every thursday we're trying to reach out to doris i could have ladies or their daughter trying to produce

to the region the money pays the salaries of government and public sector employees such as kahar hussein and his wife her teaching salary has been slashed in half they say they're owed twelve thousand dollars in unpaid wages and. there is a lot of pressure on us we can't afford any vacations we can only afford food and hope to survive every month and every year this year the federal government resumed payments but not at the pre-teen and fourteen lovel. the hope of the people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they're all connected to the economic problems hussein says year after year they keep hearing the economy is improving when they finally believe it they hope to realize a dream put on hold by the economic crisis to get their daughter a sibling natasha going to zero erbil. most of india's carolus state is on high alert after at least thirty four people died during one of the region's worst floods on record heavy rains are expected during the monsoon season but this year's downpours ravaged farmlands and forced more tha

well they may have slowed the development of some iraqi military programs but on the whole saddam hussein was very defiant and the only thing that caused a major change in this policy was as it was the u.s. invasion and occupation chain of force change of government and so on but that was really very mad general also point out richard just minter of i mean we have to just because we're talking about iraq ok we keep on talking about regime change said that hussein is gone but it was also a form of collective punishment of the whole country wasn't it right that's one of the problems of sanctions and that we try and make them targeted talk about smart sanctions and so on but it's very easy particularly for authoritarian leaders to displace the costs of these sanctions on their people who are perhaps seeing this and in some other countries today so in. the smart the sanctions have become better they're becoming more targeted they've developed over time the u.s. treasury comes better of doing this but the same time countries have become more clever at baiting them so it's a challenge we have t

to the region the money pays the salaries of government and public sector employees such as kahar hussein and his wife her teaching salary has been slashed in half they say they're owed twelve thousand dollars in unpaid wages and. there is a lot of pressure on us we can't afford any vacations we can only afford food and hope to survive every month and every year. this year the federal government resumed payments but not at the pre-teen and fourteen level or maybe country had any percent the hope of the people is that the economy goes back to where it was the political the social problems every other problem they all connected to the economic problems hussein says year after year they keep hearing the economy is improving when they finally believe it they hope to realize a dream put on hold by the economic crisis to give their daughter a sibling natasha going to name al-jazeera erbil. as a mother a supreme court has two weeks to rule on legal challenge against president emerson electoral victory the main opposition party uncertainty leader won last week's vote but not a god supporters say

and it is young men mostly who are the perpetrators. 15 years after the fall of saddam hussein, iraqous state. with all the attention on the fight against isis in the north, basra and the predominantly shia south feels forgotten. and it is the young who are paying the price. another iraqi generation at risk of being lost. the weather has been quite changeable. heavy rain the many places on friday but saturday was a different story to many places and this was the story in norfolk. more cloud was rolling into western parts of the country as the low approaches from the atlantic. you can see low— pressure from the atlantic. you can see low—pressure system pushing into western parts of the country and on sunday and that continues its progression further east and many will see rain and the warm front heading east and the cold front following behind so this is a cold front producing weighing in southern and south—eastern parts of england, but it will be slow—moving through much of the day. a return to sunshine from the west but also heavy showers for parts of wales and the south west of eng