and those that do, are sent to a tiny island nation called nauru, off australia's northeast coast. recent reports by human rights advocates, and, today, from the "guardian" newspaper, show nightmarish conditions for more than 1,000 people who were sent for processing by australia's government to nauru. allegations in the reports include physical and sexual abuse, often aimed at children; and substandard and inhumane living conditions. for more on this, i'm joined from paris by anna neistat, of amnesty international. thanks for being with us. this is a hard place to get to. you gained access where many journalists have not been able to. tell us what you saw when you got to this island. >> what i saw there can only be described as deliberate, systematic abuse. we're not talking about individual incidents and the files released today make it crystal clear. we are talking about patterns. patterns of really serious physical conditions, heart diseases, complications from diabetes, kidney diseases that are not being treated properly and for which people are not being transferred elsewhere

the country of nauru has just these two guys.y from home. >> i'll be competing in judo. >> i'm a weightlifter. >> from nauru. >> the republic of nauru. >> small island in the pacific. you can hardly find us on the map. >> reporter: it's situated almost on top of the equator, right in the middle of the pacific ocean. >> nauru is the smallest republic in the world. and yeah, it's just really small. >>> it's been an olympic nation since 1994, and nauru proudly competes against the heavyweights of world sports, marching alongside them in the opening ceremony. >> before coming here, i tried to picture what it would be like. it's nowhere close to what i had in mind. it's amazing. being around the athletes, all the champions around the world, is really overwhelming. >> the famous athletes i bump into was -- the two williams siste sisters, because i never thought i would meet them in real person. >> reporter: the opening ceremony -- >> the opening ceremony is amazing. overwhelming. the feeling when i walked in, i was speechless. >> repor

more than 2,000 incidents allegedly happened on the island nation of nauru. but australia's immigration minister rejected the accounts today.n >> i just add a word of caution to some of the hype that's outwo there at the moment. if people have done the wrong thing, whether it's security guards, whether it's people in our employ directly orir elsewhere, then there's a price to pay for that. but bear in mind that some people do have a motivation to make a false complaint, and we have had instances where people have self-harmed in an effort to get to australia, and i'm not going to tolerate that behavior either.t >> ifill: australia refuses to accept asylum seekers trying to reach its shores by boat. it pays nauru and papua new guinea to hold them instead. >> woodruff: in the philippines, startling numbers today from aom crackdown on drugs. it began under new president rodrigo duterte, as of july 1. since then, police report killing 525 suspected dealers who, they say, put up a fight. in addition, they've arrested more than 7,600 suspects on charges of drug deal