amy: pramila patten, thank you for being with us u.n.cial representative on sexual violen in conflict. and oksana pokalchuk is executive director of amnesty international in ukraine. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the word peace report. we turn to survivors of gondolas that testified wednesday here in the u.s. on capitol hill before the house approved aackage of limited gun reforms that is virtually certain to fail in the senate where republicans have promised a filibuster. the house approved the reforms after lawmakers heard hours of harrowing testimony about the mass shootings in buffalo, new york, and you, texas. kimberly rubio broke down in -- really rubio testified with her husband felix describing the morning of the massacre at robb elementary school before her 10 year old daughter was killed, lexie was on of 19 children and two teachers who died that day. >> on the morning of may 24, 2022, i dropped lexie and julian off at school. a little after 7:00 a.m. my husband and i returned to the campus at 8:00 a.m. for julian's

the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were... the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehensively broken their word, which is contained in an international treaty lodged at the united nations called thejoint declaration. you said at the time, you wrote at the time in the hong kong diaries, which you've just published, that, "ultimately, after the handover, "much will depend on whether the chinese communist party "can actually be trusted "to honour one country, two systems," which was the deal agreed. hong kong's former chief executive, cy leung, who's now vice—chairman of china's top political advisory body, said just days ago that hong kong'

patten: it is a real challenge. an essay at the end about what had happened since 1987 taking account of the fact that for the last 12 years, things -- what had happened since 1987 taking into account that for the first 12 years, things went well. but xi jinping regards to things hong kong always stood for as an existential threat to communist control. asked again and again by young hong kongers whether they should come back to hong kong, i have asked my families whether they should come back, and it is not an easy answer to give. you cannot expect people to be braver than i would be. stephen: in your five years leading up to 1997, he introduced very controversial electoral reforms to put the selection of lawmakers in the hands of hong kong nurse. in reflection, do you take any blame for igniting something in hong kong that was not there before, that led to a politicization of this city? mr. patten: i think it is a terrible bit of patronizing to think people in hong kong did not know anything about democracy, anythi

the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten,

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well, let me remind you that lyudmila denysova, who actually received patten, constantly cooperated andwith her in close cooperation . mrs. e-e special representative about e-e the actual situation in ukraine about the facts that are received on the ombudsman's hotline and this was extremely important was the work front and actually i in fact, now who will lead this co-communication is absolutely unclear, today is a meeting of the un security council and we do not have an ombudsman from the verkhovna rada of ukraine on human rights at it, this is actually very strange and alarming yesterday , literally boris zakharov is a human rights defender well, he said that it is simply impossible to evaluate it differently as a step towards the usurpation of power, because this completely independent institution that takes care of human rights is not even a watcher of money flows . some state supplies, people, this is about freedom of speech, this is a serious matter and this is something to which the western world is actually very sensitive, this is what we will definitely talk about on the day o

they told her they have never experienced where the patten's, as extreme as they have right now. most stretches of land in whatever a region in the western state of my russia looked like this during the summer months. several districts here are categorized as climate change, hotspots, soaring temperatures, and the shortage of water makes life difficult for the millions of farmers who live here bound to rank away says this, the uh, heat wave is terrible and its almost impossible to work in these conditions. he says it's not just farmers productivity, but also how much they produce that is impacted or delivery actually. okay. tiny organisms which live in the soil make it for toil. hoover, if it gets to hoppy organisms are affected, run over if they are wiped out entirely because of such heat. loved will eventually become barren. what is wonder them in? we'll have fruit farmer. good. john and perry also says he has never experienced such blistering heat, which have destroyed the orange plantations for which this area is best known. he adds that the region has been recently prone to

generic versions of well— known drugs, but the pharmaceutical companies says that threatens their pattensngers new research. almost as soon as government introduced this new law, 39 very powerful pharmaceutical companies went to court to stop this law from being passed. instead of simply copying our drugs, why don't they innovate the next range of hiv medicines, and why don't they do it quicker than us, faster than us, better than us and cheaper than us? clearly, it's not that easy. and for three years, the law was stuck because of this legal action. so when we formed the treatment action campaign, we decided to go and get our own lawyers to join the south african government in its effort to bring this law into force, and we were successful. the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have bowed to heavy pressure and dropped their court action against south africa importing cheap copies of their aids drugs. we thought we'd won! unfortunately, our government had a different idea because our president, president mbeki, had begun questioning whether hiv caused aids. it's the misunderstandin

generic versions of well— known drugs, but the pharmaceutical companies says that threatens their pattensresearch. almost as soon as government introduced this new law, 39 very powerful pharmaceutical companies went to court to stop this law from being passed. instead of simply copying our drugs, why don't they innovate the next range of hiv medicines, and why don't they do it quicker than us, faster than us, better than us and cheaper than us? clearly, it's not that easy. and for three years, the law was stuck because of this legal action. so when we formed the treatment action campaign, we decided to go and get our own lawyers to join the south african government in its effort to bring this law into force, and we were successful. the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have bowed to heavy pressure and dropped their court action against south africa importing cheap copies of their aids drugs. we thought we'd won! unfortunately, our government had a different idea because our president, president mbeki, had begun questioning whether hiv caused aids. it's the misunderstanding about th

security council was the representative of the secretary—general on sexual violence in conflict, pramila pattenports, obviously, from the ukrainian side on 124 cases of alleged sexual violence committed by the russian troops, which were not verified and cannot be verified at the moment. that's point one. secondly, do you know the story of the ukrainian ombudsman lyudmila denisova, who was fired by the ukrainian parliament because the lies that she was spreading...? ambassador, i think you've made your point that you don't accept the veracity of the allegations about sexual violence. we're going to have to move the interview on or else we're going to run out of time to get through some very important matters. you asked me about the case. i want to finish what i'm saying. she was fired because she was spreading lies, which was recognised by the ukrainian parliament. it was more than enough even for them. and as recently as yesterday, she gave an interview where she said when she spoke with the italians on that issue, she said she did over... ..she overdid herjob because she wanted to attract atte

relationship with saudi arabia. former us president donald trump is criticized his vice president mike patten's saying he liked courage during the final days of that administration. is collins come up to the us house committee investigating last year's attack on capitol hill? howard the trumpet pens his life at risk. mike pinch had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be frankly historic but just like bill bar and the rest of these week people mike and i say it sadly because i like them. but mike did not have the courage to act rwanda's foreign ministers calling for the d escalation. intention along the border was democratic republic of congo. after conquering soldier was killed in an exchange of fire at the frontier. tension has been rising between the neighbors who have had a strained relationship for decades. alexia bryan reports ah, angry crowds in democratic republic of congo pushed towards the border with rom wonder they chanting slogans against their london president polk. army. oh, it's too much. now, this provocation, for the people of rwanda, it's not the 1st time that we've seen

pramila patten, the u.n.'s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, told the u.n. security council monday about multiple shocking reports ranging from gang rape, to coercion, where loved ones are forced to watch an act of sexual violence committed against a partner or a child. european council president charles michel condemned the findings. >> we hear reports, sexual violence as -- is a war crime. shameful acts in shameful war. amy: the european council president also said russia was solely responsible for triggering a global food crisis by invading ukraine. the accusations prompted russia's ambassador to the u.n. to storm out of the security council meeting in protest. mexican president andrÉs manuel lÓpez obrador has confirmed he he will not attend the summit of the americas after the biden administration excluded the governments of cuba, venezuela, and nicaragua. >> i'm not going to the summit because not all the countries of america are invited. i believe in the need to change the policy imposed for centuries of exclusion, of wanting to dominate without any re

lord chris patten was britain's last governor of hong kong.has been broken. it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about that the chinese were... chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word and they have pretty constant attempts rigidly broken their word which is contained in an international treaty lodged at the 90 nation called a joint declaration. not everyone shares that opinion. cy leung is hong kong's former chief executive. 102 systems have been working very well. one country two systems is no longerjust words of well. one country two systems is no longer just words of the chinese language was up if anyone thinks that one country, two system hong kong people with a high degree of autonomy doesn't work in hong kong in the last 25 years i think they should point out exactly which article and basic law, there is a of them. article and basic law, there is a of them. this is the message that the authorities in hong kong and china have been keen to promote. a visi

june 6, the un meeting room, the special representative on sexual violence in conflict, spilled a pattenolence allegedly committed by russian military in ukrainian cities cities, kiev lugansk nikolaev vinnytsia zaporozhye transcarpathia and tokens who believed the lady. patton , if there are any, will have to agree with the fact that the russian military at the beginning of june controlled zaporozhye zhytomyr nikolaev vinnitsa kiev captured even the most western regions of ukraine for carpathia otherwise. without entering these cities. well , how could acts of violence be committed in them ? the presidents of the european council, shall michel, did not even think to ask this question to find out, for example, after listening to the report, then in transcarpathia is now officially only ukrainian troops. well, we can assume that also their nato handlers, well, it's just the function of charles that prevented us from blaming russia now, we hear a report that russian troops use sexual violence. as a weapon of war, sexual violence is a war crime, a crime against humanity, the tactic of tortur