and he says china is one of the world's leading human rights offenders kenneth roth wanted to see that and more publicly in hong kong today but he was denied entry at the airport tonight china and the enemy outside silencing the voices beijing says it has every right not to hear i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. chinese government is really trying to deliberately undermine. the right system the relevant and geo has supported people who are anti china and disrupt hong kong in different ways. that incites them to take violent and extremist actions the claim that somehow we're instigating unrest i think shows that they're desperate. this organization should be sanctioned and as such must rightly pay the price the chinese government is doing everything it can to undermine the course. also coming up with the family ties that bind and sometimes have to bend britain's royal family and a royal dilemma over prince harry and his wife make it very difficult for you to put the hat on take it all you can't be home for all all part of a time and you cannot switch it on and off. so you our vie

kenneth roth arrived there sunday, but says immigrantion officials gave him no reason to keep him out on this story let's turn to cnn's kristie lu stout joining us from hong kong. what's up with this one, kristie. >> kenneth roth, the global head of human rights watch attempted to fly here in a press conference on human rights in hong kong, he arrived, but says he was denied entry and turned back at the airport for immigration reasons. he's a u.s. citizen. he's visited hong kong a number of times in the past. after he was denied entry here, roth immediately took to twitter to share his account of what happened. take a listen. >> sadly, as i arrived here, the chinese government decided it didn't want to let me in. even though i've been able to enter hong kong freely before, this time for the first time they blocked me. this episode is just the latest evidence that the chinese government is doing everything it can to undermine the enforcement of international human rights standards. >> for an explanation we've been reaching out to the hong kong department and their immigration departmen

because it's good to see you again you know we had your boss the executive director last night kenneth roth on the show here talking about he wanted to release this report yesterday in hong kong but he was refused entry into the country or into the territory on sunday were you surprised to see china or the authorities in hong kong say no you can't come into the territory. we knew it was a risk because of china squashing off free speech and. any criticism about china and on china and but i mean it was also a proof of what we are saying that china is not tolerating any questions so with throwing us out or not letting us into hong kong actually punished the ones who was treated sizing the oppression of the chinese government its sins the message that china not only wants to silence the message it's also willing to keep the messenger silent or out of the picture absolutely and we see this increasingly and that's probably also why we published the report with a focus on time. this is yeah it's because china's human rights violations spreading now globally we have seen your rights violations with

what have you learned about them denying human rights executive director kenneth rothe?rter: he flew here for a press conference. he was denied entry and turned back to the airport for immigration reasons. he has visited hong kong a number of times in the past. after he was denied entry, he immediately took to twitter to share his account of what happened. take a listen. >> sadly, as i arrived here, the chinese government decided it didn't want to legality t me en. this time for the first time they blocked me. this episode is the latest evidence that the chinese government is doing everything it can to undermine the enforcement of international human rights standards. >> reporter: in a follow-up kenneth rothe called his denial of entry another disturbing crack of one country two systems. it is a model of governance many oppositions here in hong kong see as broken. as the government continues to refuse to answer the demands for greater democracy. for more than seven months, eight months now, these massive and often violent pro-democracy and anti-government protests have r

this comes as china has barred the head of human rights watch kenneth roth from entering hong kong to present the report. this is kenneth roth responding to officials' claims they had barred his entry for "immigration reasons," even though u.s. citizens are entitled to visit hong kong for up to three months without a visa. put forth asijing preposterous as punishment for barring me? i think the reason is that the chinese government is terrified of admitting this genuine desire for democracy on territory that they rule because if they admit desire a spontaneous rather than what they claim is a foreign position, human rights watch inciting people, than what is happening in hong kong might spread t to the mainland. that is really the big fear. amy: in honduras, and report by the violence observatory at the honduran national autonomous universisity says that at least5 women have been murdered in the first 14 days of this year. violence against women, lgbtq people, indigenous leaders and environmental l activists has skyrocketed in honduras under the u.s.-backed government of president jua

critics at home the government is now trying to extend that censorship to the rest of the world kenneth roth there will hong kong is of course one of the focal points of china's repression and activists there saying beijing is using the territories police to enforce a policy of ever greater brutality but support for the communist party line among the police in hong kong is not universal some are risking their jobs or worse by speaking out. mathias billing filed this report. when david chan joint to hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name. was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on the university campus. police had come on the massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats to the fact. they've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about criticising and often could sing at the police and the new offices which they've been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating u

global efforts to defend human rights which is frankly going to leave all of us much less secure kenneth roth thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you. a new video has been released by the new york times said to show 2 iranian missiles hitting a ukrainian passenger jet that was down last week the newspaper says both were fired 30 seconds apart and launched from an iranian military facility 12 kilometers away from the plane neither strike took the plane down immediately the footage shows the jet on fire circling back towards tehran's international airport before an explosion and crash or 176 people on board were killed rockets are being launched at an air base in iraq housing u.s. troops make a tissue rockets were fired at a base just north of baghdad there's been no reports of any casualties where iraqi and u.s. coalition troops have been targeted by rockets and missiles in at least 6 attacks since the assassination of custom soleimani the largest came from iran when multiple volleys of ballistic missiles hit bases being used by the coalition and as there has been give

kenneth roth was due to present a report on what he called ‘china's assault on the international humansays the authorities claimed he was stopped on immigration grounds. police in gibraltar have arrested dozens of people, accused of smuggling migrants into europe, by fraudulently obtaining uk tourist visas. officers say the gang trafficked more than 130 people from morocco into spain — and other eu countries and charged them around $8,000 each. iran's only female 0lympic medallist kimia alizadeh has announced she's defecting. on her social media account she said she's left her homeland saying ‘dear iranian people, i did not want to climb the stairs of corruption and lies.‘ the taekwondo champion won bronze at the 2016 rio 0lympics. she claims the iranian government exploited her medals politically but then humiliated her. she hasn't confrimed which country she's gone to. serena williams has won her first tennis title in three years at the auckland classic in new zealand. she's donating her prize money to help the relief efforts for the australian bushfires. williams won her final in st

human rights defenders and he says china is one of the world's leading human rights offenders kenneth roth wanted to see that and more publicly in hong kong today but he was denied entry at the airport tonight china and the enemy outside silencing the voices beijing says it has every right not to hear it i'm pretty.

kenneth roth was due to present a report on what he called china's assault on the international humanauthorities claimed he was stopped on immigration grounds. millions of canadians in the eastern province of ontario received mobile phone messages on sunday morning saying there'd been a serious incident at a nuclear power plant. but within an hour the operators of the pickering plant near toronto said the message was a mistake and that there was no danger to the public or the environment. a volcano near the philippines capital manila has blasted a column of ash and steam up to fifteen kilometres into the sky. eruption at the taal volcano within the coming hours or days. taal is one of the world's smallest volcanoes. it has recorded at least 3a eruptions in the past a50 years. ash from the volcano has been landing in the capital manila's international airport has put all flights on hold, and schools in the capital will be closed on monday. our correspondent howard johnson has more from manila. i've just been out on the streets and saw lots of people wearing masks to cover up with this

accusing china's government of an intensifying assault so banning him from visiting hong kong kenneth roth was jus the following months advantage of the protests condemning increasing control of the communist leadership in beijing. i'm standing here in hong kong international airport i had flown in from new york with the hope of holding a press conference on wednesday to release human rights watch is the annual world report and the focus of the report this year was going to be how the chinese government is really trying to deliberately undermine. not simply suppress the rights of people at home but also undermine the ability of anybody else to try to hold china to human rights standards sadly as they arrived here the chinese government decided it didn't want to so even though i've been able to enter. before this time for the 1st time they blocked me a german company siemens says it will on a deal to provide infrastructure for a coal mine in australia that's despite growing pressure from environmental groups which linked missions to the bushfires devastating large parts of the country there

human rights defenders and he says china is one of the world's leading human rights offenders kenneth roth wanted to see that and more publicly in hong kong today but he was denied entry at the airport tonight china and the enemy outside silencing the voices beijing says it has every right not to hear i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. chinese government is really trying to deliberately undermine. the rights we don't the relevant and geo has supported people who are anti china and disrupt hong kong in different ways. that incites them to take violent and extremist actions the claim that somehow we're instigating unrest i think shows that they're desperate. disorganization.