deliver a verdict on the genocide charges against the two leaders of khmer rouge, nuon chea and khieu samphan. they are accused of carrying out a policy of targeting and eliminating two ethnic minorities in the country. the bbc‘s jonathan head is in bangkok. what is the latest on this? were expecting a verdict later today. these charges are part of a trial that were split into, because this process has taken so long. we've had a number of senior khmer rouge leaders die of old age before the trials were concluded or they can be brought to trial. these are the only two senior leaders to be ever brought to trial. they were found guilty of crimes against humanity back in 201a. so they are already serving life sentences. these are charges of genocide. a lot of people refer to the mass killings

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deliver a verdict on genocide charges against two leaders of the khmer rouge, nuon chea and khieu samphanccused of carrying out a policy of targeting and eliminating two ethnic minorities. our south—east asia correspondent jonathan head is in bangkok. jonathan, this is a terrible piece of history under way here. it is a terrible piece of history in some ways to a limited extent being settled because this is the part to the trial against these two very senior leaders of the khmer rouge. it was split in two in order to get the verdicts against the earlier on crimes against humanity charges while they were still alive. the eldest of them, nuon chea, is 92 yea rs eldest of them, nuon chea, is 92 years old. this is the second part and probably the last of the verdicts in this long—running process. it involves other allegations of crimes against humanity in relation to forced labour projects and incarceration, prisons, and of course charges of genocide where the khmer rouge targeted two minorities, and the judges have ruled that they found those crimes took place. we are just waiting to hear th

deliver a verdict on genocide charges against two leaders of the khmer rouge, nuon chea and khieu samphanf carrying out a policy of targeting and eliminating two ethnic minorities. 0ur south east asia correspondentjonathan head is in bangkok. i think the hearing is now under way, isn't it? they should be reading the verdict very soon. we believe these will be the last verdict is in this drawnout process started more than 20 years ago, this extraordinary hybrid court that for many people has been a compromise. this has involved cambodian jurisdiction and united nations your section as well. it is only bought a small handful of people, senior leaders, to trial, and votes in only three of them. so to many people who wa nted three of them. so to many people who wanted to see more people brought to justice for the horrors of the khmer rouge, this has been an u nsatisfa ctory rouge, this has been an unsatisfactory process, but this has been detailed. these men have it had been detailed. these men have it had been convicted of crimes against humanity. there have been other crimes against humanit

this is a long awaited moment to form a committee rouge leaders no one chair and kiff samphan are sentenced to life in prison for genocide by a un backed court. home. but the chamber has considered the gravity of the crimes including the scale of brutality the number and the vulnerability of the victims for which the accused have been convicted. these two old men the last surviving leaders of the committee rouge already serving life sentences for crimes against humanity but this new verdict is a landmark ruling for the first time it says that the crimes against cambodians vietnamese and chan minorities amounted to genocide delivery of the judgment today in phase two zero zero two is any story in the work of the extraordinary chambers in the courts of. this court is once again demonstrated that he has the capacity to prosecute and try the most complex cases in accordance with international standards. the c'mere rouge under its leader pol pot sought to create a communist utopia by forcibly moving people from the cities to the countryside nearly two million cambodians died from overwork starva

deliver a verdict on the genocide charges against the two leaders of khmer rouge, nuon chea and khieu samphaned of carrying out a policy of targeting and eliminating two ethnic minorities in the country. earlier i spoke tojonathan head in bangkok about whether these are likely to be the last ever verdicts against them. yes, they are, the end of a very long process that has lasted well over a decade of hearings, and much longer than that, if you think about the first negotiations to hold this international tribunal. these two leaders have already been convicted and sentenced to prison for life for crimes against humanity. that's related to the mass deaths and killings of cambodians under the extreme rule of the khmer rouge. this is a far more specific charge of genocide, and it doesn't relate to the killings of cambodians because of the definition of genocide, it relates to specific minorities, including the vietnamese community. the khmer rouge was notably anti—vietnamese. in many ways, it will be a slightly anticlimactic verdict, whichever way it goes. these two men are the only senior khmer

this is a long awaited moments to form a committee rouge leaders no one chair and kiff samphan are sentenced to life in prison for genocide by a un backed court. home. but the chamber has considered the gravity of the crimes including nest scale and brutality the number and the vulnerability of the victims for which the accused have been convicted. these two old men the last surviving leaders of the committee rouge already serving life sentences for crimes against humanity but this new verdict is a landmark ruling for the first time it says that the crimes against cambodians vietnamese and chan minorities amounted to genocide delivery of the judgment today in face to zero zero is in historic achievement in the work of the extraordinary chambers in the courts of cambodia. this court is once again demonstrated that he has the capacity to prosecute and try the most complex cases in accordance with international standards. the c'mere rouge under its leader pol pot sought to create a communist utopia by forcibly moving people from the cities to the countryside nearly two million cambodians died f

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nuon chea and khieu samphan are accused of carrying out a policy of targeting and eliminating memberstwo ethnic minorities. they have already been convicted of other crimes. now on bbc news, thursday in parliament. hello and welcome to the programme. cabinet ministers have quit theresa may's government over the draft brexit agreement, but the prime minister faces brexit agreement, but the prime ministerfaces mps brexit agreement, but the prime minister faces mps were three questions over her plans. —— three hours of questions. voting against the deal would take us back to square the deal would take us back to square one the deal would take us back to square one and the more uncertainty and division and theirfailure square one and the more uncertainty and division and their failure to deliver on the decision of the bridge builder we should the eu. but the labour leader rejects of proposals, and things are the leaders will do the same. the government must now withdraw this half baked deal which is clear does not have the cabinet. this parliament. or the country as a whole. meanwhile, in

on genocide charges against two leaders of the khmer rouge, we are talking about nuon chea khieu samphan ethnic minorities, sentenced to life in prison. let's pick now withjonathan head, joining us now from bangkok. what do you make of this, this verdict here, genocide charges? i mean, obviously it is something that we we re mean, obviously it is something that we were perhaps all expecting. well, people need to understand that the international definition of genocide is quite narrow, it means targeting a specific different ethnic group, of course, used most recently in accusations against the burmese in relation to rohingyas. in the case of cambodia the vast majority of victims of the khmer rouge, 2 million people live, were other cambodians and they don't fit that narrow category of genocide, so what people often call the cambodian genocide in international law terms is quite narrow. the khmer rouge in their frenzied violence also specifically targeted minorities, who they saw as the enemy of the revolution, which is what the case relates to, the muslim chams and the vietnamese minorit

known as brother number two, nuon chea, second only to the notorious pol pot, and the other, khieu samphanilty... both men had already convicted of crimes against humanity for years ago but this is charges and this is the trial had been in two stages. without people, there was no need for transport and communications. when the khmer rouge seized power in 1975, —— when the khmer rouge seized power in 1975, it emptied the cities and tried to build a revolutionary agrarian society based on communes and limitless brutality. they called it year zero. enemies of the revolution were slaughtered in huge numbers. the presiding judge found the defendants guilty on multiple charges of crimes against humanity and genocide against two ethnic minorities. the verdict pleased those who had come to watch the trial. translation: we are happy, they forced us to live without food and medicine. translation: i am the only child who survived that regime, they killed everyone else. they will end their lives in captivity but this complex judicial process has been slow and expensive and has only convicted three peo

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nuon chea and khieu samphan will end their lives in captivity., new york and expectations were high... the painting hockney‘s portrait of an artist, a pool with two figures and the bidding began at $18 million. 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38, 40... within seconds it was at 40 million. to understand why we need to go back to the 70s. the painting was the subject of a famous film about hockney, a bigger splash, a landmark moment in his career and his personal life. the figure in the painting was hockney‘s partner the artist peter slazenger, a painting of water and the end of a relationship. this one is actually their personal story because it‘s about his love and his loss of love and the love he is about to lose. it‘s also the culmination of this most famous series of paintings image after growing up in the gothic gloom of bradford, he embraced the sun glamour of los angeles. but quite why they became so sought—after is even to hockney something of a mystery. it‘s always an interesting thing, how do you paint water, how do you paint something transpare