it's called the magnitsky legislation. now, the senate has also a similar legislation but it's broader. it would deal with human rights violations worldwide. that is sponsored by senator ben carden. so there's talk now that when the bill goes to the senate, the senate might decide that it's going to add a -- add language that makes the bill apply to global human rights violations. but in just talking to senator carden recently, he said he's still really not sure how that's all going to pan out. but he definitely wants this bill done by the end of this session, which obviously would be sometime before christmas. >> given that the agreement on the human rights piece of this bill, what does the administration say? what bill will they sign? when the president finally sees it? >> well, it sounds like that most of the time the administration has been against any human rights legislation being attached. there's been some concern that there would be some backlash from russia on it. but generally, even as business groups have said,

this is beyond just sergei magnitsky. these measures provide a degree of accountability and reinforce the administration's tool kit to respond to crimes by individual government officials. passage of magnitsky act sends a clear message to the russian people that we support their fundamental human rights. importantly, it also sends a strong message to those russian officials who support the rule of law and who reject corruption and human rights abuses. it lets them know that their efforts and their achievements are valued by the united states and the international community. only individuals within the russian government who abuse their office and engage in corruption and human rights crimes will find their assets and visas under scrutiny and subject to u.s. sanction. so let me be clear, mr. speaker, i would not be supporting pmtr for the russian federation if it did not include title 4, the sergei magnitsky rule of law accountability act. let me close by thanking not only the gentleman from california, the distinguished c

human rights leaders in russia, who long before we did the magnitsky -- magnitsky language talked about how important this is. let me just read a bit of this letter that is signed by one, two, three, four, five, six, seven human rights activists. alexander lebedev, it goes down the line of these russians who have been opposition leaders in the forefront. so before we did this, understanding how important pntr and china's access to the w.t.o. would be, they said the persistence on the books of the jackson-vanik amendment does not help to solve the problems with democracy and human rights in modern russia at all. moreover it brings direct harm. this helps mr. putin and his cronies. basically saying that repeal of jackson-vanik is something that is going to help undermine putin and his cronies. they go on to say, those who defend the argument that jackson-vanik's provisions should still apply to russia in order to punish putin's anti-democratic regime only darken russia's political future, hamper its economic development and frustrate its democratic aspirations. we leading figures of the r

bill after russian law sergei magnitsky who died in a police. after three years about after being held for tax evasion russia has called the move a provocation and promised to retaliate meanwhile lawmakers in washington have voted to lift soffit and the trade restrictions but moscow but author and historian dr gerald horn believes u.s. actions well mean souring of relations. the message listening to moscow is that the research is. how russia quickly at that when one door closes another one opens what i mean is that the human rights situation united states itself it's quite terrible and i would hope that the russian duma and the russian authorities would begin to scrutinize carefully the human rights situation right here in the united states where for example dislike one example most many the black population is about twelve or thirteen percent of the population of about fifty percent of the prison population and they are disproportionately represented on death row those slated for execution by the state authorities for example why not a miniscul

bill after russian lawyer so to give magnitsky who died in police custody three years ago after being held for alleged tax evasion russia has called the move a provocation and has promised to retaliate meanwhile lawmakers in washington have voted to lift soviet era trade restrictions with moscow. when the financial crisis struck europe even one of its biggest economies that of france came under huge pressure but the country still suffering hard times we look at how pensioners are among the worst affected with many struggling to even put food on the table. reports. when you look at the elderly people in france you'd never think they could be in trouble there has been a common belief that france is one of the best countries in the world for pensioners and that they are very well cared for by the state but with the financial crisis raging across the european union and france being no exception to that more and more of the retired are finding it harder to make ends meet pierre worked as an engineer for over four decades having retired he says he sometimes cannot afford to buy food with yo

congressmen have passed the so-called magnitsky bill which puts visa restrictions on a russian officials that washington claims have been involved in schuman rights violations and the legislation was named after a russian lawyer sort of gave magnitsky who died in police custody three years ago while serving time for alleged tax evasion moscow slammed the bill as fast and promised to do response washington also voted to lift soviet era trade limitations with russia but author and historian and dr gerald hong believes the u.s. is making a step towards a soldering of relations. the message to send to moscow is that the research is very how russia quickly at that when one door closes another one opens what i mean is that the human rights situation united states itself it's quite terrible and i would hope that the russian duma and the russian authorities would begin to scrutinize carefully the human rights situation right here in the united states where for example dislike one example months many the black population is about twelve or thirteen percent of the population of about fifty percent

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bilateral cooperation along with the suspension the congressmen have also adopted the so-called magnitsky bill that imposes sanctions and some russian political figures the blushing claims of being involved in human rights violations moscow has firmly criticised the bill was the first of a public vote in england and wales for local police and crime commission as comes with morale among the nation's law enforcers that rock bottom a recent poll of offices suggested almost every single one of them felt abandoned by the government laura smith looks at why the thin blue line has the blues. another day and not their dad and the police with old hands to keep control but while the boys and girls do their jobs sometimes it impossible conditions the government to switch you seeing. their budget by a massive twenty percent the net result morrall in the forced hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support rachel baines is surprised but not in a good way. to say those fifteen offices are certainly in the forc