administrative committee that runs the strip and to hold elections human rights groups say thousands of south sudanese women have been raped and sexually assaulted during the country's four year civil war they blamed the abuses on the government troops of president salva kiir and on opposition forces loyal to former vice president. u.n. secretary general antonio terra's has warned that the planned kurdish independence referendum would detract from the need to defeat eisel iraq iran and turkey all oppose the poll show for the twenty fifth of september but they could just on the general government says there's no chance the vote will be delayed protests saw the race relations in the u.s. city of st louis have turned violent for a third night they followed the acquittal of a white former police officer of the shooting of a black man in two thousand and eleven. now in her first public appearance since being released from prison chelsea manning has told a caller from saying that tucker that she isn't an american traitor the former u.s. army intelligence analyst says she made an ethical decision when she le

has long term sanctions imposed on south sudanese warlords a century that are trying to they're fighting amongst each other and their sanctions have no effect essentially because most of them don't actually even have assets outside of the country and essentially sanctions are almost a badge of honor if you are on the u.s. sanctions list you are freely made it so in that case it's even if it has even the adverse effect so this is just to illustrate you always have to really get well analyze the political context that you are moving and that you want to imply a ploy these sanctions and there richard that's a good point is i mean going to know what the the case for the sanctions are is who you're trying to target is the leadership the people and in many cases i mean what happens if kim jong un is forced to leave look what happened to redeem now zimbabwe or exactly is this new sort of more targeted stance or chinese sanctions do do make a little more sense but but again in zimbabwe. just simply hasn't worked although that is on it yet maybe ship has been targeted and although there's been a

earthquake here's an easy though who says social media hoax are rife in nigeria pictures of armed south sudanese men are circulated as fulani herdsman so the consequences of potential consequences there. claire are a lot more than simply sleeping on the street because you think that earthquake might happen and i know there are other examples of that can you talk about some of the impacts of this. yeah and i think it's so important to think about the global context of this issue because i think a lot of this conversation is being focused on the us and the political aspects of what's happened since trump's election but anybody who lives anywhere else in the world is almost saying you know welcome to the party america we've been dealing with these issues for a long time and certainly if you look across the globe you've got attempts to really you know divide countries along nationalism lines or ethnic divisions or racial divisions and you know you contributors are absolutely right when we look at these examples you know we have seen things and we think it right now in me and ma in terms of folks ima

cost of conflict south sudanese women and men alleged widespread raped by government troops and opposition forces. and the island nation of samoa battles a bastard culture that's making many of the children obese. with. an mars' top general has blamed the head for the violence that sparked the refugee crisis manhandling has accused the minority of trying to build a stronghold in the state he says the military is only targeting armed groups and action by me in mars later on she has been criticized around the world she was supposed to be addressing the un general assembly on tuesday instead she will give a televised speech in her own country bangladeshi prime minister sheikh a sina in her turn will take the opportunity at the un to demand more help to deal with a crisis hundreds of thousands of her henschel muslims have fled to her country to escape but the un is calling ethnic cleansing. is following developments from cox's bazar near the bangladesh me and more border myanmar's top military man many young on his personal facebook posting on sunday with this committee do united. together on

eleven fighting between government and opposition rebels in the past few months has forced many south sudanese from their homes several have ended up here in a couple one of the last few areas controlled by opposition rebels led by the former vice president riek machar but there are problems here too including shortages of food and medicine many rely on fishing but the conflict has made it hard for them to access parts of the river. if there are areas where the government soldiers and i get close to them i stay hidden and drew away so they don't see me if they see me then it's a problem for me a problem made worse by the large number of people who have fled to this region at least twenty five thousand people have lost their homes since april because of fighting between government and opposition forces some of those displaced have crossed the border into if you add into the refugee crisis described as the fastest growing in the world a quarter of the country's twelve million population is now displaced and the u.n. says seven point six million are in need of aid but delivering that aid has chal

the cost of conflict south sudanese women alleged widespread rape by government troops and opposition forces. why didn't you give him an emmy. i tell you this if you had won an emmy i bet he wouldn't run for president in u.s. politics takes center stage at the emmy awards. top general has blamed the bar henge a for the violence that sparked the refugee crisis. has accused the minority of trying to build a stronghold in the state he says the military is only targeting armed groups and action by me and mars later on so on so she has been criticized around the world she was supposed to be addressing the u.n. general assembly on tuesday and stead she will give a televised speech on her own country. and the bangladeshi prime minister shake will take the opportunity at the u.n. to demand more help with this crisis hundreds of thousands of her henchmen muslims have fled to her country to escape what the u.n. is calling ethnic cleansing. he is following developments from caucasus are near the bangladesh mean more border man must top military man many young on his personal facebook posting on

the cost of conflict south sudanese women allege widespread rape by government troops and opposition forces plus. protests of the race relations in the u.s. city of st louis turned violent for a third night. myanmar's top general is blaming the revenge for the violence that sparked the country's refugee crisis hundreds of thousands of people have fled to neighboring to escape ethnic cleansing targeting the one hundred muslims in a post on has verified facebook gentlemen. urge people and the media and myanmar to not to unite over the issue has comments come as the country's military is a. used of deliberately targeting civilians but let's get more on this now with our correspondent children he is joining us live from cox's bazar near bangladesh's border with really strong words from the top general than really what's he been saying. what he's been saying the bottom line is this community to unite against. the range of issues and that the bengali extremists are actually trying to make a foothold in the me and my state you know and he record to ninety three collection then countered wit

eleven fighting between government and opposition rebels in the past few months has forced many south sudanese from their homes several have ended up here in a couple one of the last few areas controlled by opposition rebels led by the former vice president riek machar but there are problems here too including shortages of food and medicine many rely on fishing but the conflict has made it hard for them to access parts of the river. if there are areas where the government soldiers and i get close to them i stay hidden and grow away so they don't see me if they see me then it's a problem for me a problem made worse by the large number of people who have fled to this region at least ninety five thousand people have lost their homes since april because of fighting between government and opposition forces some of those displaced have crossed the border into if you're adding to the refugee crisis described as the fastest growing in the world a quarter of the country's twelve million population is now displaced and the u.n. says seven point six million are in need of aid but delivering that aid has

what separates abucha from other combatants in this war is, he's a dual south sudanese and american citizenh family in the united states. >> i would like to enjoy eating hamburgers. i'd like to enjoy going to burger king and mcdonalds with my daughters, and things like that. >> reporter: abucha's life now is a far cry from his comfortable life in the united states. despite the hardship, abucha is determined to fight to overthrow a government that stands accused of widespread human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing. >> you know, to us, we are not rebels. we're people fighting for their rights. >> woodruff: that's tomorrow on pbs newshour weekend. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. thank you and have a great weekend. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the n

is realty of the weak iraq is falling apart in the south we have also nowadays there are controlled in the baghdad government and also we have sudanese so each group is trying to get what it's what they desires and in this case by fighting against isis the kurds they prove themselves that they can function as a state and i guess that's why they are they are doing their best in order to achieve this with this referendum. a chilling story from southern russia now because police have detained what is alleged to be a cannibal couple suspected of killing and eating up to thirty people with one course revis in the city of his report does include graphic descriptions of what's alleged to have happened. we're standing outside a detention facility in crossness are a city in south in russia that was there recently shipped by absolutely horrifying events a local couple has been are taken into custody for murdering and dismembering a woman moreover now they're suspected of cannibalism as well artie's a source so within the local police said that the pair confessed to killing. police uncovered the details thanks to a road workers who discovered a