the agreement is dead in the water and there's been a crackdown on the opposition so an international commission is calling on the peace accord to be reviewed looking as the abbot is a senior legal advisor on the international commission of jurists he says the government is shifting away from human rights and the international community needs to step in what we're seeing at the moment after the government won the last elections by a narrow margin is a centralized policy of eroding human rights and the rule of law and also undermining representative democracy. we are calling upon the international community particularly the signatories of the paris peace agreements using a mechanism contained within them to reconvene to consider what steps can be taken and to bring external pressure on cambodia to respect its international human rights obligations i think that the the people within cambodia are becoming more and more aware of the situation of corruption within the country the allegations of human rights violations repression of civil liberties and i think that's in large part why the c.p.p. only

who is the spokesperson of the international commission of the european citizens thank you so much for sharing your time with us here are international now tommy why do you think the spanish authorities remain so well they're not compromising and they really want to be using old sorts of means to prevent this referendum from going i had. the main reason is because recognizing fred the admin to recognize the nation and we are a people we know that we know our rights and we are. determinists we are proving today to exercise them across. the spanish state not to want to recolonize cuts alone you know as a as a nation because basically that blue crush with de idea of united the spanish nation that of course has a very more than origin not like catalonia that this is a historic got a nation that basically is inside the spanish state because who will buy the current more nike and. so all these effects alone has a right to self-determination means that the tunnel has a nation and something that they they just cannot come to terms for them that's one audience a territory of a property they own

now to discuss the situation i'm joined by bernard damon's a board member of the international commission of european citizens a brussel based pro independent n.g.o.s and he joins us live that's a very long title that they have there but i thank you very much indeed for joining us i mean we can we can see that the process there and what we've heard that the this speech this that today from from my new era i mean you're an independent observer when you saw the referendum in catalonia i mean do you expect what we actually you expecting from madrid you expect it to act as violently as it did on the voting day that's if the council has refused to abide by article one five five . well i can only see that even before the river of them took place the spanish authorities have been acting only in repressive ways they're arrested civil servants of the catalonian government weeks before the referendum took place. and they've been threatening with with prison and with fines all the mayors that over wanting to organize this referendum what we didn't really expect but it happens was on the day of the r

bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in iraq and state kofi annan is chairman of an international commission on iraq and state that was established by me in ma government. international community is prepared to engage me m. and where can a common road map. use in the reporter there are kind state commissioners to bases and to go for move forward together and gave them on all the range of issues we have recommended and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are going to have a long term history and problem not be in the region which can be very serious down the line now the u.k.'s ambassador to the un spoke out against what he calls ethnic cleansing i think we have all been appalled by the scale of this manmade tragedy that began with the despicable attacks by the ira countering a salvation army on the twenty fifth of august and we've all been second by the massive and disproportionate response from the burmese security authorizes which is left countless dead and over half a million homeless. it's hard to deny that this targeted violence is anything other than ethnic cleansing

the international commission on missing persons has come a long way since its creation at the end of the bosnian war it was nine hundred ninety six and the world was trying to account for forty thousand missing people the organization identifies nearly all of the eight thousand remains from the street and it's a massacre evidence used against former bosnian serb general reco. now more than twenty years on it is unveiled a mass scale human d.n.a. lab retore system to solve cold cases from disasters and conflict it's not just a humanitarian exercise or one in which the families of the missing just simply want closure. we need to open the door to ensuring the rights also to justice and to truth and to reparations and that is a very new and very modern approach. when a tsunami hit thailand in december two thousand and four linda good months and then her one year old daughter was swept away to their deaths or you don't know how many thoughts i had perhaps they are lost or. she couldn't talk. some more spittle far away or a yes yes yes it was so many thoughts i.c.m.p. eventually match thei

kingsley abbott is from the international commission of jurists thank you very much for your time. and still ahead an al-jazeera in sports says you've got to see a complete title hat trick for the andes with that story. going number of children in syria are being forced to find work to support their families as the conflict rages on as a result tens of thousands of missing out on an education. reports from heartache and southern turkey. hamshaw is from a town in northern homes the area has been besieged for almost four years by government forces but collects plastic waste not to resell for recycling but to burn during cold days so that his family can survive harsh winter conditions . i want to go to school and become a teacher or maybe a doctor i just want to be with my friends. mohammed is a street vendor has the family's breadwinner mohamed and many thousands of children across syria dropped out of school so they can help their families you know a country ravaged by war. war planes destroyed buildings i can't go to school i sell clothes so that i can help my parents and my brothe

and is chairman of an international commission on iraq and state established by the mean man government the international community is prepared to engage me him and work on a common road map. used in the reported there are kind state commissioners to bases and to go for move forward together engage them on all the range of issues we have recommended and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are going to have a long term history in problem. in the region which can be very serious down the line more turkish troops are vented syria's northern italy province after a cross border deployment began two days ago about twenty armored vehicles across the border to join troops already inside syria they were inspected by turkey's top general before moving in to take part in forcing a deescalation zone inside story next so stay with us here now to syria on counting the cost a scandal made in japan kobe steel admits that it fakes data on components used by the world's biggest makers of planes trains and automobiles plus bubble trouble why the i.m.f. is signaling danger ahead for the

meant to bring democracy to cambodia but there's a crackdown on government opponents an international commission is calling for the treaty to be reviewed. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post things are watching. where every u.s. . ally and producer harvey weinstein the heat off of actual arrest. is coming home i was told i shall not be a wise man but when i think you're a york times reporter honestly like a woman on. well. one of the sexual misconduct against harvey weinstein. a lower richard burton you're at the listening post here's what we're looking at this week exposure what the harvey weinstein's story the one that u.s. media failed to report until now says about the relationship between the film industry and the news business some people do stand up to hollywood they work at the cia and the pentagon iranians say goodbye to one of their oldest online institutions clude is shutting down and a car bomb kills a journalist in malta her son calls the country a mafia state. in hollywood it was one of those open secrets something widely kno

of the rumours is that there is talk ofan of the rumours is that there is talk of an international mediating commissionhich carles puigdemont is prepared to engage with and one other rumour is that has upset the ha rd left other rumour is that has upset the hard left communist group which she relies on to keep his coalition in power. two of whom left the meeting about an hour ago when they were discussing what was going to happen here in the catalan parliament with the catalan president. as you can see, people are beginning to come back in. one other piece of news reported on a local website, and thatis reported on a local website, and that is national police, the state police, have reinforced airports, train stations, borders and nuclear power stations as well. really, it is unclear about what could happen in the next few minutes. with the hardline group and the coalition, it means that carles puigdemont does have a majority here, and according to catalan law, as decided by this parliament, but of course not agreed with by madrid, the referendum, with its 90% agreement for secession for independence,

agger a who is senior lecturer at greenwich university and a former legal adviser at the international commission of jurists. and thanks very much for coming in first of all i think i would like to get your reaction on this whole idea in a minute she is saying that the rice feels that the range where have a saying where only less well this speaks of a larger human rights violation and across me amar and that is the system of land tenure is broken the majority of people don't have legal rights to the land in which they live and work and it lends itself to land confiscation and a government that is has policies that result in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing land expropriation is not really a big step the military and the command has talked about bengalis returning to their original land as a kind of reason for this ethnic cleansing as it's being called but is this part of it as well do you think that this whole wanting to take over the slums not just because of the rice but possibly rich and other things there are a lot of natural resources that are under exploited in wreck and state but i

continues much longer, if they are still on board for a few weeks and then it continues with an international commissionin that commission. eventually, they are going to say they have had enough of this will stop they will withdraw their support and new elections have to ta ke support and new elections have to take place in catalonia. that is one definite possibility. thank you, good to see you. parts of california are being ravaged by fast—spreading fires that have killed at least 11 people. a state of emergency has been declared in northern counties after mass evacuations, with an estimated 1,500 properties destroyed. about 20,000 people have fled in response to one of the state's worst—ever wildfires. dave lee reports from santa rosa in northern california. it's the vast scale of these wildfires that is most alarming. more than 15 major blazes raging across 73,000 acres, creating an apocalyptic landscape. the conditions were perfect. dry tinder ignited with the help of 50 mph winds. when the flames came up we came here and you could not see a hand in front of your face. 100 foot flames, the responden

international trade commission either says yes or nay to these two hundred and twenty percent tariffs that we're talking about or duties against bombards when we're talking about dealings between canada and the states when you heard about obviously theresa may believe as last week backpedaling a little bit on the brac that trying to come out a bit softer because she's talking about these bombard day contracts trying to keep you know business over northern ireland and trying to keep the jobs talk that because she cannot afford any negative talk about that i'm sure you heard about that what not only the eyes i mean that's a massive part of it but it's going to come to the point where she's saying well you know what boeing we won't be able to do business with you in the future this is what you're doing to bombard who employs people in our country so i mean yes she's backed into a corner this is a lot bigger than just a two aerospace companies fighting each other this really does come down to international trade at the highest levels that's right thank you very much. coming out us from to

and chamas plan to decertify the iranian nuclear deal is being greeted with international criticism the european commission says the dail is working that all sides should stick to their commitments russia's foreign minister is also backing that they are tom outcome and has more from washington d.c. . in typical style the u.s. president heightened suspense over the fate of the landmark nuclear deal with iran when he posed with senior military officials cryptically he said maybe it's the calm before the storm donald trump wouldn't explain whether he was referring to iran but again he made clear his distaste for what he's condemned as an embarrassing deal made by his predecessor barack obama we must put an end to iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement as to the letter of the deal his administration has twice certified to the u.s. congress that iran is fundamentally complying with the terms earlier this week defense secretary james mattis said holding iran to it was in america's security interest i believe at this point in time absent indicatio

international trade commission readily voigted unanimously a surge of residential washer import haveured american manufacturers and worker that vote was part of a petition filed by whirlpool earlier this year they're sees raw material, so they're getting squeezed >> they were getting squeezed. who shares that cost, but do they have a specific margin? do they have. >> i think we'll see more commodity pressure to comes. >> maybe not, maybe a sam suns appliance. >> i think people, for whatever reason, it's flat on the year. >> but if you look at it strictly on a technical basis, 167 is your support and it blew through every other support leaving, so you still have air july 13th. >> they gave great guidance. >> what do you think this is tremendous guidance, stock was trading an 52.5, 53, it was doing well until we saw the whole foods/amazon deal. i said, stay with it, you buy this rally, and with the exception of a day or two, it's been off to the races. what's my point? targets is maybe a year behind, but if you like walmart at their current valuation, my thesis continues to be you've g

trump's plan to the thirty five year a new nuclear deal is being greeted with international criticism the european commission says the dail is working russia's foreign minister says it's important to preserve the agreement. the geneva based and to nuclear weapons organization i can has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize the u.n. secretary general welcomed the unexpected decision tweeting that now more than ever we need a world without nuclear weapons the government's official representative in catalonia has apologized for the violent response by police during the session referendum on sunday may. court in madrid facing accusations of sedition council on health authorities hundred people were injured as a result of the spanish action the united states has lifted its economic sanctions against sudan after twenty years a us official cited improved human rights progress on counterterrorism in the african nation as reasons behind the move for now up next pricing the planets. that are. at the problem of global warming are getting scarce on our. earth today will cease to exist for making that reveals just h

has requested a delay may be for longer than just another ten minutes to talk to an international mediating commissionnewspaper you read that civil guards and also national police are being reinforced at airports, train stations and borders and nuclear power stations in the territory as well. it is not clear whether carles puigdemont is going to make this announcement in the next ten minutes, if indeed he is going to make an announcement tonight. so i think things are very much in limbo. just a thought before we come back to the studio on the dynamics of the situation now because clearly there is a huge amount of concern if the president does go ahead with some kind of unilateral declaration, and it is a big if, really it is the position about how many people will come onto the streets and what the outcome of that could be. precisely and also the response from mariano rajoy and his deputy has already been in the senate in madrid today saying that the rule of law will be maintained. soi the rule of law will be maintained. so i think that is another reason as well, you mentioned the eu and we had a lett

donald trump's plan to decertify the iranian nuclear deal is being greeted with international criticism the european commission says the deal is working while russia's foreign minister says it's important to preserve the agreement the american civil liberties union is suing the u.s. trump administration after rollback measures on birth control gardens says she by the attorney general will allow employers to exempt themselves from providing health insurance to their employees that covers contraceptives if you know will full military honors has been held in northern iraq for the veteran kurdish leader . we don't three days ago taliban he served as president of iraq for nine years so for now coming next counting the cost go away. with documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. has i'm sick of this is counting the cost of their disease or your weekly look at the world of business and finance this week. to economics u.s. president donald trump puts forward his plan to cut taxes for america's wealthy and big business. taxes one of the reasons getting catalonia against spain northeast region wants

certify the iranian nuclear deal is being greeted with international criticism the european commission says the deal is working while russia's foreign minister says it's important to preserve the agreement the united states has lifted its economic sanctions against sudan after twenty years u.s. officials cited improved human rights and progress on counterterrorism in the african nation as reasons behind the. united nations says it's gracing for a further exodus of range of muslim refugees from already over half a million have arrived in bangladesh in the. next week features on the drugs for in the philippines donald trump. how does the philippine government justify its controversial drug war which has left thousands dead almost a country's foreign minister and later i'll speak with two mental health experts who say donald trump is psychologically unfit for office and the danger to the world. alan peter katonah thanks for joining me up front is your country's foreign policy on north korea to isolate the hermit kingdom economically and to abides by u.n. resolutions over its nuclear progr

certify the iranian nuclear deal is being greeted with international criticism the european commission says the deal is working while russia's foreign minister says it's important to preserve the agreement united states has lifted its economic sanctions against sudan after twenty years u.s. officials cited improved human rights and progress on counterterrorism in the african nation as reasons behind the. united nations says it's gracing for a further exodus of range of muslim refugees from already over half a million range or have arrived in bangladesh since the end of august that's all for now our friends next with features on the drugs for in the philippines donald trump mental health. how does the philippine government justify its controversial drug war which is left thousands dead all of the country's foreign minister and later all speak with two mental health experts who say donald trump is psychologically unfit for office and the danger to the world.

international backing. the president of the european commission said spain had made its choice and the eu will not interfereernment's plan is one thing, implementing it in this climate is fraught with risk. there will be more attention and confrontation in the coming days and weeks. it's not a question of will. at a certain point there will be an incident and that could trigger a serious confrontation and nobody knows what will happen. despite this apparent calm, how the government handles its next move will be critical. an alleged member of the banned far—right group, national action, has appeared in court accused of planning to murder the labour mp rosie cooper with a machete. the 22—year—old man is charged with terrorism offences and threatening to kill a policewoman. he appeared at westminster magistrates court along with five other men. they were all remanded in custody. downing street has said any allegations of sexual harassment and abuse at westminster are deeply concerning. it was responding to a report by the sun newspaper of claims made by researchers and assistants on social media. our political

the european commission says the international deal to curb iran's nuclear programme is working and that sides should keep to their commitments. it was responding to indications from president trump that he will decertify, or reject, the deal which was agreed by barack 0bama in 2015. it limits tehran's ability to enrich uranium in exchange for sanctions relief. the us is lifting most of the economic sanctions it imposed on sudan 20 years ago. officials said the country had made progress in human rights issues and cooperation in the fight against islamist extremism. sudan had been subject to a trade embargo and other penalties. human rights groups have criticised the decision, saying sudan has never been serious about introducing real change. theresa may has said she has the full support of her cabinet after a former party chairman said there should be a leadership contest. the prime minister said the country needed calm leadership and declared that's what i'm providing. but grant shapps claims that around 30 tory mps back his call for a leadership election, adding there are cabinet minis

one keynote here, none of the tariffs are final until approved by the international trade commission, to make a final decision until next year back to you. >> does that mean the tariff doesn't happen yet until that decision is made or they happen until that decision is made, do we know >> well, the final tariff is 300% tariff, michelle, it would seem that the treasury ruling needs to be upheld by the itc. but we'll get you more details as we have that. >> terrific, thank you >>> all right, we were talking about the unemployment report out this morning boy, did you see what yields did when it came out at first? now they have come back down we'll go to rick santelli tracking the action. rickster >> one phrase that you nailed it, you look at the intraday of tens the roller-coaster ride is fun, meaning you get big intraday highs or lows, but ultimately it only matters where you get on and off, meaning the close, in particular and if we were to close much higher than the high yield today, it could have changed things let's open the chart up. if you start out in july, you see the last high,

the european commission says the international deal to curb iran's nuclear programme is working and thatll sides should keep to their commitments. it was responding to indications from president trump that he will decertify, or reject, the deal which was agreed by barack 0bama in 2015. it limits tehran‘s ability to enrich uranium in exchange for sanctions really. stay with us here on bbc news, still to come: the stars of coronation street pay tribute to our vera at the funeral of the actress liz dawn. theresa may has said she has the full support of her cabinet after a former party chairman said there should be a leadership contest. the prime minister said the country needed calm leadership and declared that's what i'm providing. but grant shapps claims that around 30 tory mps back his call for a leadership election, adding there are cabinet ministers who feel the same way. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar reports. if only theresa may's bodyguard could see off the political plots, but that's up to her friends and to her, away from westminster today, and doing her best to look coo

the european commission says the international deal to curb iran's nuclear programme is working, anddes should keep to their commitments. it was responding to indications from president trump that he will ”decertify” —— or reject —— the deal which was agreed by barack 0bama in 2015. it limits tehran's ability to enrich uranium, in exchange for sanctions relief. the us is lifting most of the economic sanctions it imposed on sudan twenty years ago. officials said sudan had made progress in human rights issues and cooperation in the fight against islamist extremism. sudan had been subject to a trade embargo and other penalties. human rights groups have criticised the decision, saying sudan has never been serious about introducing real change. the spanish government has suggested holding new regional elections in catalonia to try to resolve the dispute about independence. the education minister said autonomous elections would be a positive move towards political co—existence. but, the former leader of catalonia, artur mas, has warned that the region is not yet ready for real independence

international trade commission announcing a preliminary finding that u.s.shing machines are harmed by imports from south korea the case was brought by whirlpool which said it was pleased by that ruling >>> a worldwide increase in liver cancer the last 25 years a new report saying over 850,000 new cases of the disease in 2015 resulting in 810,000 deaths. that is up 75% from 1990 the hepatitis b virus was the leading cause of new liver cancers. >>> you're up-to-date. that's the news update i send it back to you guys michelle >> thanks, sue. >>> a new deal bringing college sports from the pacific 12 to the pacific rim. deidre has the details >> alibaba with all pac-12 sports, for last two years china hosted the opening ncaa basketball games and both years the broadcasting of it attracted more than 10 million chinese viewers. just to put that in perspective, thursday night football last week bringing in 15 million viewers domestically including amazon prime members that streamed the game. ncaa sports are just getting started in china by joining forces with pac-

to intervene but it considers it to be an internal matter for spain european commission spokesman has called for all the players to move from confrontation to dialogue let's take you live now to our visitors john hendren who's in barcelona for us and john all of this leads to great uncertainty for the people of catalonia. it does indeed felicity that there was celebration here today in this square where i am right now and all across parcel lonna and catalonia but it was measured they were really hoping the leaders of this is session movement were really hoping for a spectacular outcome a spectacular turnout in that election and what happened was they got about forty percent far less than the spectacular threshold they were looking for but the extraordinary circumstances that led up to this election and during it or this referendum rather than made it significant that level there were arrests of electoral officials leading up to the election there were threats of arrest for those leading it including sedition which carries a fifteen year criminal penalty and then of course you had the

it's a way of providing for large deals offered to international is to attract the commission feels unfaire in ireland. this is the apple case in ireland. this is the big one the commission feels unfair. what about the apple case in ireland. this is the big one. commission rules against amazon, which it hasn't yet, that could mean their bill of several million the case of apple it was 13 billion euros, a huge number which has now been appealed. other cases are in the case of apple it was 13 billion euros, a huge number which has now been appealed. other cases place against companies like starbucks and fiat, french energy group, or mcdonald's. i am sure you will tell us mcdonald's. i am sure you will tell us about those cases, thank you, let's take a look at some of the other thank you, stories making the news. yahoo has said all of its 3 billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. the company, which was taken over by verizon earlier this year, said an investigation had shown the breach went much further than originally thought. the stolen data did not inclu

the dutch to the human rights council was a commission of inquiry which would have looked more deeply into international humanitarian rule which is another layer of. kind of legal description of what is happening in yemen right now this group of experts however will still be able to have full access to recall to call them and monitor the situation certainly amongst human rights and humanitarian organizations we feel very strongly that this is a watershed sami hamdi what do you make of this decision. i think that to be honest the problem is when we're talking about the human rights abuses or the war crimes or humanitarian crisis and not to demean its its severity it is a very serious crisis i think it's like a doctor looking at the symptoms as opposed to the disease now i heard the previous guest talk about it would help the international community decide how to deal with the parties let's remember what exactly is going on in yemen this is a militia that marched from southern in the north took over two cities in the north stormed the capital put the government under house arrest is now occupying the capi

neighboring bangladesh since august kofi annan who heads a commission on the crisis has presented his report to the un security council the international community's prepared. to engage me a man and work on a common road map used in the reporter there are kind state commission i said bases and to go for move forward together and gaze them on all the range of issues we have recommended and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are going to have a long term festering problem not in the region which can be very serious down the line then you have to get asco is france's former culture minister. she's been elected as the un's cultural agency faces uncertain times with the u.s. pulling out on thursday reports. she didn't start out as the favorite but at the end of a tense week of voting audrey as les emerged as the winner. executive board picked the french former culture minister as his new director general replacing bulgarian irina bokova as later takes over at a turbulent time for the organization the u.s. and israel say they're pulling out accusing it of anti israel bias. at this time of crisis i think it's more importan

we've had experienced domestically, we could use a system of so-called interim commissions, or in sonora authorization -- internalhorization. where we essentially continue the system of operations as before and then we will bring , properly and firmly into the regime over a hero of time. time.r a peroid of that is worth looking at in my view. for two reasons. the time available, practical matter. the second, we have to have half an eye on what the future regime looks like in terms of the relationship between the eu and the u.k. and also of course, what any of the meditations -- what any implementation timeframe would . nejra: as a regulator, how can you get this framework in place when you have pointed to the fact that you need to know the nature of the future relationship between the eu and the u.k. and that is still unclear at this stage? andrew: that is one reason why they could make sense to look at an interim regime. because then we would , in airplane terms, we would be in a holding pattern to react we need to know more about where it is going to land eventually and not know what you. but i think it is best

when the international trade commission looks at this in the states, they will look at whether thered here. boeing does not have an aircraft that would meet the specifications for the delta airlines contract. harm herehat there is is absolutely wrong. look at it as a duopoly or triathlete, i'm going to go back to the study you had at harvard a few years ago on the fairness of justice, if up every day with toulouse france on mine, how does it fit into the great duopoly of this world? barry: you have raised a really important question, which is what do we want from our aerospace industry and what we need out of aerospace is to recognize that no aircraft comes to the market these days without support from government. it doesn't matter whether it is in the u.s., canada, china, it is all through support from government. we need over -- we need a way of recognizing this. the support that comes from government has to be within wto rules, but for countries to be doing with the states are doing now, by slapping the carterville in duties for the subsidy on to bombard ea, but also putting on 78

to intervene but it considers it an internal matter for spain the european commission spokesman has called for all players to move from confrontation to dialogue let's take you live now to our reserves john hendren in barcelona for us with the latest and john has to be said that people across europe were shocked by the level of violence they saw in catalonia on sunday. that's true we've seen international reaction from several different countries where leaders have been condemning the violence or even those that like the e.u. who have been who have said that this was an illegal referendum and things have been moving fast here on the ground there have been protests for hours there are still about two hundred protesters last time i checked who were in front of the spanish national police headquarters protesting that violence it was the national police and the guardian civill this paramilitary group that. that has come in along with the police about fifteen thousand of them and they are accused of most of that violence and it's really against the spanish national police that a lot of that ang

to neighboring bangladesh august coffee and i head to commission on the crisis has presented his report to the un security council the international community is prepared to engage me him and welcome the roadmap. used in their report to their kind state commissioners to bases and to go for move forward together and gave them on all the range of issues we have a command and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are going to have a long term history and problem not be in the region which can be very serious down the line. meanwhile his military has launched an internal investigation after its soldiers were accused of killing and abusing it rangar the army says it was responding to fight as attacking its outposts. in camp a bizarre way he met one woman who lost most of her family for. there is nothing but pain. my baby was in my lap and when the soldiers hit me and he fell out of my arms then they pulled me closer to the wall and i could hear that he was crying in after a few minutes i could hear that they were hitting him too she tells us soldiers for me and mars' army had set a fire outside the house they were in a

international backing. the president of the european commission said spain had made its choice and the eu won't interfere.r, the government's plan is one thing, implementing it in this climate is fraught with risk. there will be more tension and confrontation in the coming days and weeks. it's not a question of will. at a certain point there will be an incident and that could trigger a serious confrontation and nobody knows what will happen. so despite this apparent calm, how the government handles its next move will be critical. south africa's huge corruption scandal has cost the country billions, and damaged its international reputation. at the centre of allegations is south africa's enormously wealthy gupta family. it's claimed they used their close ties to president zuma to win contracts and siphon off huge payments — claims they deny. from south africa, andrew harding reports. south africa is in trouble, a young democracy now engulfed by a spectacular corruption scandal. at its heart, allegedly, president jacob zuma and a wealthy family, the guptas, originally from india. leaked e—mails have fuelled

international backing. the president of the european commission said spain had made its choice and the eu won't interfere.per, the government's plan is one thing, implementing it in this climate is fraught with risk. there will be more tension and confrontation in the coming days and weeks. it's not a question of will. at a certain point there will be an incident and that could trigger a serious confrontation and nobody knows what will happen. so despite this apparent calm, how the government handles its next move will be critical. the american defence ministry says america will never accept a nuclear north korea. james mattis spoke after speaking to south korean officials and said any use of nuclear weapons against the us or allies would be met with a massive and overwhelming military response. the united states does not accept a nuclear north korea. we have repeatedly emphasised diplomats are most effective when backed by credible military force in this sort of situation. make no mistake on any attack on the united states or our allies will be defeated. any use of nuclear weapons by the north will be me

state in his capacity as chairman of the advisory commission in rakhine state he presented a report to the un security council on the crisis the international community is prepared to engage me. and where can a common road map. used in the reported there are kind state commission as a basis and to go for move forward together engage them on all the range of issues we have recommended and try and stabilize the situation because if we don't we are going to have a long term history and problem not be in the region which can be very serious down the line the u.k.'s ambassador to the u.n. spoke out against what he calls ethnic cleansing i think we have all been appalled by the scale of this manmade tragedy that began with the despicable attacks by the ira camera being a salvation army on the twenty fifth of august and we've all been sickened by the massive and disproportionate response from the burmese security authorizes which is left countless dead and over half a million homeless it's hard to deny that this targeted violence is anything other than ethnic cleansing of the rohingya muslims from rakhine state manaus military has launched an inte

international reaction. well i think the first thing to say about this is the reaction of the e.u. commission itself which is absolutely appalling it doesn't do anything to the puti the behavior of the spanish state in fact it seems to give a blank check to not take the behavior is worth reminding ourselves at this point as you have said in an introduction that nine hundred people approximately one hundred people actually injured in the course of the last twenty four forty overs purely for taking part in a democratic group i mean this is quite exceptional this is extraordinary and for there not to be an extraordinary level of solidarity taking place right across europe then i think that the question of the e.u. commission the question of the e.u. then has to be then has to be asked do you stand on the side of the more p.c. or do you know and that's why our demonstration that took place yesterday in edinburgh made the decision to march in the spanish consulate symbolically to the e.u. commission to demand. the action is taken and to demand institutions right across europe and people across eur

international backing. the president of the european commission said spain had made its choice and the eu won't interfere.per, the government's plan is one thing, implementing it in this climate is fraught with risk. there will be more tension and confrontation in the coming days and weeks. it's not a question of will. at a certain point there will be an incident and that could trigger a serious confrontation and nobody knows what will happen. so despite this apparent calm, how the government handles its next move will be critical. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. iraq's prime minister, haider al—abadi, has ordered a 2k hour suspension of military operations against kurdish fighters in the north of the country. baghdad ordered the offensive in response to the recent vote by kurds for their autonomous region to become an independent country. clashes between the two sides have left dozens of people dead. voting in the re—run presidential election in kenya has been postponed indefinitely. it had been due to take place in four volatile western counties on saturday, but authoriti

international backing. the president of the european commission said spain had made its choice and the eu won't interfere.per, the government's plan is one thing, implementing it in this climate is fraught with risk. there will be more tension and confrontation in the coming days and weeks. it's not a question of will. at a certain point there will be an incident and that could trigger a serious confrontation and nobody knows what will happen. despite this apparent calm, how the government handles its next move will be critical. sarah rainsford, bbc news, madrid. i discussed the day's developments with edgar illas, director of catalan studies at indiana university, and asked him how he thought spain would go about imposing direct rule. i think it's impossible to impose direct rule unless you have either force, use of force, or the complicity of the people, in other words in order to have power you need to have a obedience and i don't see anyway that these more than 2 million catalans who are secessionists, who are recognising the new republic, will face spanish rule. of course, madrid was criticised after