mohammed: justice denied in sri lanka. the u.n. says@@ the country is failing to pursue crimes from the civil war, but sri lanka's leaders reject this. will they ever find out the truth about what happened? this is "inside story." welcome to the program. it has been 12 years since the civil war in sri lanka ended. more than 20,000 people disappeared. government troops and the tamil separatist they were fighting were both accused of murder and torture, particularly toward the end of the conflict. since then, the un's is little has been done to find out what happened. the humans rights achieve says victims have been denied justice and aused the government of further eroding human rights. the leaders rejected the accusations. we will bring our guests in the moment. at first, this report. reporter: nearly 12 years after the end of the civil war, the pain is still raw for those who sons, daughters and husband's disappeared. this is a protest earlier this month. they want answers, accountability, and justice. they are not getting any bec

unchecked military power can leave real problematic breakdowns in the rule of law polythene last year sri lanka pulled out of a 2015 you in resolution calling for accountability for alleged excesses carried out by sri lankan troops and reparations for victims what was the justification for doing so to 2 important just one is that some of the commitments made under that resolution well not consistent with the constitutional st roch or in fact there had been suggestions made that don't commit to sri lanka. under that receives by co-sponsoring it should be hauled up before the coats trawl acting contrary to the constitution secondly. there was a massive sentiment in the country against sectors and in a democracy any government have to respond to public pressure the current government was elected but that 2 thirds majority and none of the she can some which it meant to the public to the electorate was that the resolution of 201530 session one and that the electorate expressed itself in no uncertain terms about what it felt and their way up the 2 very good reasons for the drawing from that from that

but in sri lanka not everyone is in the mood for partying. before the pandemic business was booming in the sri lankan tourist sector and 2019 it was the chosen destination of 2000000 holiday makers it's one of the country's biggest income earners but it's a development that has seen the emergence of some controversial practices. is 26 years old is a surfing instructor but for the last 2 years he's been unable to mingle freely with tourists after work because for certain guest house owners locals are not welcome. it's safe not allowed to get inside. they were going to come here and their guns they have still here and open convoys stead of inside. that's right you know. they just get this and what's perhaps also strange is that the guest house makes no effort to hide what it's doing it. openly at the toss it's discriminatory policy. i'm loco and i'm for here and there for more so here there's a rest day because i do in her eyes they are the voice long long time but they don't they just started now you'll be able you know. down the road another g

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but in sri lanka not everyone is in the mood for partying. before the pandemic business was booming in the sri lankan tourist sector and 2019 it was the chosen destination of 2000000 holiday makers it's one of the country's biggest income earners but it's a development that has seen the emergence of some controversial practices. is 26 years old is a surfing instructor but for the last 2 years he's been unable to mingle freely with tourists after work because for certain guest house owners locals are not welcome. if they are not allowed to get inside. their work and don't hear and again they have to still be an open ongoing state of inside. that's right you know. maybe it's good so what's perhaps also strange is that the guest house makes no effort to hide what it's doing it openly at the toss it's discriminatory policy. i'm a. and i over here and there for more so here there's a rez bag because i do a good as they were the doors long long time but they don't there it is that it now you'll be well you know. down the road another guest house als

this kind of segregation is a less well known face of sri lanka. for some establishment of found other methods that have barely less conspicuous to stop sri lankans joining the party. by targeting their wallets. a few kilometers away at a popular club entry appears to be free for 2 wrists and legs to do so until she bounces on the door a tasked with keeping srilanka guests to a minimum. and those locals who do pay for the privilege of getting in also have to wear a red wristband and much the tourists. fallouts have to bring over any doubt that doesn't work there very. very i know and all could smile because 2000 rupees is the equivalent of 12 euros a sizeable some given that. the average monthly salary in sri lanka is 250 years as a result precious few sri lankans make it through the door inside the club just don't seem to have bothered even the sri lankan who had to pay to get in and that's not hard and then if i don't you know that it's not the right thing and i did. not the. only hotel and club owners have introduced the measures in order to reas

in sri lanka taking the train is an experience in itself but. the trade has a right to know why india in a region that's about 2000 metres above sea level its main attractions of the tea plantations a legacy of british colonialism today sri lanka is the world's 3rd biggest t.v. producer after india and china its specialty is the variety named after the british name for the island of salaam. to speak ill of what you learn about the entire process is that what this is what we used to make the young leaves just that. there's no charge to visit the plantations the french tourists are happy to go on a walkabout but they guide worried about the picture postcard image the authorities want to convey then stops the group of french tourists. caught up in packing on stop filming that's not good for t.v. . let's get the wicker baskets for. you just as. all of a sudden the picture appears to be a family's sente one. of the pictures on the plantation are all tamil women they work 6 days a week and here the work is done by hand. and also from harming his women

taking on the tuk—tuks in sri lanka.t thing about driving a tuk—tuk is that you can take in all the gorgeous scenery. climbing for coconuts in kerala. this is tough. and a journey of a lifetime in pakistan. it feels quite serious now. i don't know what condition my friend is in. hello from greenwich park in london. now while we all keep dreaming of the travel we will be doing when things return to normal, today we are taking a look back at some of our best trips to south asia. over the years we have had plenty of adventures and for me, personally, one of the highlights was a trip to the beautiful country of sri lanka in 2020. on the streets of its bustling capital city, colombo, the tuk—tuk is king of the road. numbers havejumped eightfold in 15 years and i went there to see what impact it is having on the city and how tourists are nowjumping in the driving seat. so there is actually over1 million tuk—tuks here in sri lanka and it definitely shows because these things are everywhere. that's a pretty high number for a cou

as you can see, sri lanka is a beautiful country. yes, it is.pollution levels are going and so the level of diseases are going high there so i thought, you know, as an engineer, i would do my best to sort of contribute to bringing emissions down in sri lanka. what do you think it would take to get your conversion kit up and running, you know, produced on a mass scale? because it is quite high and tuk—tuk is a low—cost product, so the conversion price has to be as low as possible for the drivers to afford it. so i have been doing so many research so i can downsize the battery, so that will reduce the cost. yeah. the issue of affordability will decide whether electric tuk—tuks are ever developed on a mass scale. the spirit of innovation and a smattering of political will might be just enough to clear the air in colombo. definitely fun but one thing that i will be happy to leave to the professionals in the future. and that might also be what henry was thinking back in 2016 in india's coastal state of kerala, when he got to find out the hard wayjust

and to look at what nukes can be done but i think it's a very important point is eats to support sri lanka. a great scene that accountability reconciliation and you know isn't it great to see that in but to work with the sri lankan government and to support tree longer so i really don't understand why the government itself. when they see them invincible and that's being offered. any one second of their senior research at the center for policy alternatives in colombo thanks for being with us great to get your thoughts here on out of there bonnie thank you on that last correspondent alpha and as she joins us also from colombo but i'm sure that this this meeting of the human rights council is going to be watched very very closely over there and given the level of division and polarization do you get the sense that people abroad a supporter of a movement towards more accountability here. how basically it depends on which people you're talking to there is basically this sort of poor rise asian along political lines the majority sort of single as community has very much thrown its weight behind

female drivers remain a rare sight in sri lanka but times are changing. so the horn is my friend?s. i think i am ready for the road. thank you. you really feel the lack of suspension. and there are so many potholes here. once you reach that level of comfort with driving, the best thing about driving a tuk—tuk is that you can take in all the gorgeous scenery and on my left is the beautiful ocean. but the gentle ocean breeze is not enough to disperse the emissions produced by the millions of vehicles on sri lanka's roads. air pollution in its capital city regularly exceeds levels recommended by the world health organization. ten years ago, the government banned the import of the most polluting rickshaws, the 2—stroke engines. but several hundreds of thousands remain on the roads. pollution definitely is not as bad as i thought it would be but it is definitely palpable. in fact i think ijust ate some. as part of the global fight against climate change, sri lanka has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. sasiranga de silva won a un reward for creating a simple

on rights abuses in sri lanka. but you had reporters calling for an investigation into. human rights and democracy. this fall i asked for human rights acts in colombo. nearly hunted to extinction lines in india are now back from the brink but they remain vulnerable to another kind of killer that could wipe out the population. i'm going to welcome to news asia that you could join us for u.n. report seeking an international criminal court investigation into sri lanka is being discussed today at a meeting in geneva the report by the un stop human rights official michel also called for sanctions against option i'm going to fish and accused of war crimes the report accuses the government of sri lankan president rajapaksa of clamping down on democracy in the country and not bringing to book people responsible for rights violations. decades long civil war for 26 yes tamil separatists battle the sri lankan government for a separate state the war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the rebels but it also left significant casualties among the civilian population for many of the tamil

democracy in the country and not bringing to book people responsible for rights violations during sri lanka's decades long civil war for 26 yes tamil separatists battle the sri lankan government for a separate state the war ended in 2009 but the defeat of the rebels but it also left significant casualties among the civilian population for many of the tamils who lost loved ones the search for accountability has made little progress. this is the number of days these mothers have been protesting for 4 years they've stood on the side of the road in the town of junia in the north of sri lanka the women want to know where their children and husbands are they've been missing since the end of the civil war in 2009. jail when the tickers the poli has also been here every day for 4 years she's looking for her daughter. that the learn all about it would that we need each other my suffering is also felt by these other mothers because of that i keep on function not only for my child but for only children and husbands who went missing we have to find out what happened to our children that all these mothers

last days of the civil war they were forced to leave their home and were taken to a camp run by sri lanka's secret service and interrogators on the way to win the tickets and polite says her daughter was kidnapped by whom is unclear. shortly before the end of the civil war in 2009 the sri lankan army combed tamil territory the soldiers were looking for fighters from the tamil tiger liberation organization or ltd who were fighting for independence according to the un both warring parties committed serious war crimes up to 15000 tamils are officially messick that the united nations believes the number to be much higher. it has been impossible for this family to find peace since their eldest child disappeared they have been to the police time and again and even called on the un refugee agency and the un human rights commission to get involved but in vain the neighborhood. it's very difficult now that my wife stays in london for me at the protest site but i'm with her and thought all the time about them and i keep telling my wife to bring our daughter home. for the. order i'm convinced that my

last month the un human rights chief said she was alarmed by the deteriorating conditions in sri lanka and called for sanctions earlier we spoke to the sri lankan foreign minister is in a word dana he defended his government's record on human rights. as for a long time government has pledged to the un as well as the human rights commission the programs that we are committed to when we have begun some of the programs our company don't deem binding the lands back to the people and train when so many hard going to the carnets train on credit 1000 and they all are back in their own areas after vocational training very pointed and supreme court judge to head the commission of inquiry we just played just the last human rights sessions by me is only new implementation the obvious for the missing person is in operation and we have pledged i located the funds less than anyone for these here so one cannot understand how these commission officers comes to these conclusions without knowing the ground see to waveland just to make allegations it is true we defeated the entity one of the deadliest te

so had an al-jazeera why sri lanka's muslim community hope a visit by pakistan's prime minister could help them. and iran wants it could further increase your brain and enrichment as it reduces access to its nuclear facilities. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways. however we've got to return to wintry weather for japan over the next couple of days you see temperatures recently getting into the low twenty's we're going to struggle to get into double figures over the next 6 days celsius for tokyo when she's day well too bad because some wintry weather piling back into that western side of honshu across a good part of and that sets in further as we go on through wednesday so 11 celsius the top temperature by this stage temperatures getting up to around 789 degrees there for beijing over towards seoul and some what's a weather snow in the northern flank there for central parts of china sees a very wet weather recently into central areas of the philippines as a tropical depression as now is makes its way through he has been downgraded to fine warning has been

sri lanka's devastating civil war lasted for nearly three decades.encies estimate that more than 40,000 people, mostly tamil civilians, thousands went missing, and the families of those disappeared have held protests demanding answers. following years of international pressure, the government in 2015 agreed to investigate rights abuses and disappearances. but it withdrew from the commitment months after gotabaya rajapaksa, who led the war effort, was elected as president in may 2019. now, britain and other countries want to hold sri lanka accountable. the position of our government, gotabaya rajapaksa's mandate, on which i went to geneva last year and announced that we would withdraw from the core group, the then government of the day. we did not have a mandate to get into such engagement under the constitution. in a scathing report last month, the un human rights commissioner michelle bachelet accused the government of backtracking from its promises: but the government is defiant. the ground situation is totally different to what the commissioner's

the pakistani prime minister is being seen as as an effort to increase economic ties pakistan is sri lanka's 2nd largest trading partner in south asia with more than $480000000.00 worth of goods traded in 20 teen both countries are also allies of china with sheer lanka recently showing interest in joining the pakistan china manufactured f 17 fighter jet program and sri lankan airlines wants to expand its flight routes to multiple cities in pakistan while also inviting pakistan international airlines to operate more fries to sri lanka best discuss this further now with tamil event on and on tun vinaya gan who is a teaching associate in international relations international human rights i should say at the university of nottingham he joins us via skype from leicester thank you very much for being with us so. a highly significant visit by the pakistani prime minister especially in the context of india also trying to strengthen its ties with the sri lankan government 1st of all just how difficult do you think a balancing act is is seoul for sure lanka's government given that india is its largest

year before on the easter sunday massacre that took place other than that terrorism is already in sri lanka ok democracy is in full operation and develop one is in operation going to work then you would have to leave it there i do appreciate your time that's the sri lankan foreign minister talking to here on al-jazeera thank you. the former leaders of security at the u.s. capitol of told senators their offices didn't have the training or equipment needed to prevent the january the 6 riots 2 senate panels are investigating the failures that led to the attack by donald trump supporters and the deaths of 5 people the former head of security for the house of representatives rejected claims they didn't use national guard troops because they were worried it would look bad one of the officers working in the capitol building described her experience. the wife of jailed mexican drug lord working m.l. chapo guzman has been arrested in the united states on suspicion of drug trafficking. is accused of helping her husband run his multi-billion dollar cartel she's also accused of plotting to help her hus

well still ahead here on al-jazeera wise sri lanka's muslim community hope a visit by pakistan's prime minister could help her. and health experts line diggity on the search for a silent killer we'll have more on the efforts to halt the a bowl of outbreak straight after the break in. places a normal service has been resumed across the united states with warm weather coming through a same norma's actually very much on the mall side for the deep south dallas touching 19 celsius shippy about 60 at this time of the year but after a race and it's really cold record breaking cold weather pleased to say some of this milder rest are to push its way through it continues to nudge further north which as we go on through tuesday dallas touching $23.00 degrees by choose day so what's going on is largely quiet actually we've got some wintry flowers around the pacific northwest around the cascades and snow there snow there too into the rockies but for many it is fine and dry and a bit of wintry weather over towards the northeast 3 pennsylvania upstate new york pushing into new england as we go on thr

nearly 12 years after the end of sri lanka's civil war the pain is still whole for those who sons and daughters of husbands disappeared. this was a protest earlier this month they want answers accountability and justice but aren't getting any because the united nations human rights council says the highest levels of sri lanka's government is in denial about past crimes the space personal side and the pan the media which have grown significantly is now rapidly shrinking the independence on the free the human rights commission of. the national police commission and other key warnings as mean diddly eroded by the recent the apprentice constitutional amendment the. president got a buyer rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including murder and torture. and now the u.n. says minority groups are facing more discrimination this protest in february was a rare combined march of muslims and tumbles with a long lis

last days of the civil war they were forced to leave their home and were taken to a camp run by sri lanka secret service and interrogators on the way to anita causing polite says her daughter was kidnapped by whom is unclear. shortly before the end of the civil war in 2009 the sri lankan army combed tamil territory the soldiers were looking for fighters from the tamil tiger liberation organization or ltd who were fighting for independence according to the un both warring parties committed serious war crimes up to 15000 tamils are officially missing that the united nations believes the number to be much higher. it has been impossible for this family to find peace since their eldest child disappeared they have been to the police time and again and even called on the un refugee agency and the un human rights commission to get involved but in vain that a good lot of might then be about it it's very difficult now that my wife stays on the line for me at the protest site but i am with her and thought all the time but there and i keep telling my wife to bring our daughter home. already earlier a

plus, a victory for sri lanka's muslim community after the government reverses its policy on cremations for covid-19 victims. >> hello once again. we've got some very heavy rain pushing into the deep south with u.s. over the next couple of days. that could cause some localized flooding. also this weather system moving through. easing out to louisiana rolling up toward tennessee, toward mid-atlantic states, virginia seeing some heavy rain. we are looking at snow, but to the south of that, some rain, and it will be heavy at times, particularly as we go through sunday, so you have what weather running right across tennessee, kentucky, pushing all the way up towards new york and into d.c.. we got some snow towards alberta. rain spilling into the pacific northwest. we had largely dry weather across the western side of the u.s. and largely dry weather across parts of the caribbean. some lovely sunshine for the most part. some showers just gathering around the eastern islands as we go through saturday. showers pushing through puerto rico, getting into the dominican republic. might catch a show

the 2 countries go back a long way pakistan has stood by sri lanka particularly the rajapaksa know that because they stood by them during the last stages of the war in this country giving them sort of needed munitions and things like that so the muslims are hoping that he would bring that kind of goodwill to use now british prime minister barak's johnson has told this the sector can be more profitable and productive now that it's a free of the shackles of the e.u.'s common agricultural policy he was addressing the annual meeting of the country's national farmers union its 1st since the end of the brics a transition period agricultural organizations have warned some sectors and crisis due to the twin challenges of both threats and the coronavirus. now i want to saudi arabia's most influential oil ministers has died at the age of 90 amid sucking your money helped direct an oil embargo against the us back in the 1970 s. sarkar a takes a look back at his global legacy. and the nearly 25 years he was one of the most powerful and recognizable people in the world they all minister in the world

pakistan's prime minister has arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit that since taking office imran khan was welcomed by prime minister mahinda rajapaksa and the leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and elsewhere and as has more now from sri lanka's capital colombo. for the muslims of this country the minority numbering a little over 10 percent their hopes are riding on imran khan to sort out a burning issue they've been dealing with that is the government's policy of force cremations of corbett 19 victims the muslim sort of minority has engaged with the government at multiple levels a centrally what they have said is their religion sort of bans be cremation of those who die and that this is not something in keeping with their beliefs they have urged the government to stop this and allow them to go ahead with the burial of those in their community but the government has sued for. choosing to ignore the guidelines and essentially scientific evidence which basically says that cremations and burials are both acceptable they have gone on a process of appointing different committee

in sri lanka press freedoms are under threat. and some stories can only be told by those who will not compromise on the truth. news from jaffna part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. but again you're watching our visitor from out of our top stories and facebook says it has banned me and military from using its platform and social media giant says it's a necessary response to this month's could have the police presence in yangon or some protesters have been arrested. china's president xi jinping says the country has created a miracle by eradicating poverty nationwide he said almost 100000000 people in rural areas have been helped by the campaign. the trials of johnson and johnson's one shot covert $1000.00 vaccine have shown it's highly effective against severe cases the product is also proving effective against new a variant it's yet to be approved for use. well chile is leading latin america with its vaccination campaign it was the 1st country in the region to start immunizing the population now has the 5th highest va

the report says tamil and muslim minorities a being increasingly marginalized sri lanka's government accuses the council of meddling in its domestic affairs when a smith reports. only 12 years after the end of sri lanka's civil war the pain is still warm but those who sons daughters and husbands disappear. this was a protest earlier this month they want answers accountability and justice. but not getting any because the united nations human rights council says the highest levels of sri lanka's government is in denial about past crimes the spaces were seen as and that and the media which have grown significantly is now rapidly shrinking the independence already the story the human rights commission of. the national police commission another key warning has been the plea eroded by the recently adopted prentiss constitutional amend the. president got a bye rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including mur

the un human rights council says sri lanka is unwilling to be held to account over its international crimes and rights violations highly critical report says tamil of the muslim minorities a big increasingly marginalized sri lanka's government accuses the council of meddling with its domestic issues bennett smith reports. only 12 years after the end of sri lanka's civil war the pain is still roll for those who sons and daughters of husbands disappeared. this was a protest earlier this month they want answers accountability and justice. but aren't getting any because the united nations human rights council says the highest levels of sri lanka's government is in denial about past crimes the space force inside and the panda media which have grown significantly is now rapidly shrinking the independence on the story the human rights commission of. the national police commission another key warning as the neatly eroded by the recently about the apprentice constitutional amendment the. president got a bye rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was pre

officials have called on candidates to respect the final results pakistan's prime minister is in sri lanka for a 2 day visit kannan prime minister rajapaksa have discussed a joint efforts to fight religious extremism and how to help poor countries whether the pandemic later on wednesday sri lanka is expected to face strong criticism at the un un human rights council meeting in part for its failure to bring accountability to those involved in its 25 year long civil war all right let's speak to men often and if he joins us live from colombo mandela says binet busy agenda with the pakistani prime minister now trade comes into focus i think. that's right make up any visually this visit lots of people thought there'd be a fair amount of content dedicated essentially to this whole issue the challenge has been facing where the muslims have been angered by the government's forced cremation policy of course with 1000 victims but so far in terms of the officialdom we haven't seen almost any reference to the government's forced policy any sort of letting up on that policy or changing it even though t

anchor: sri lanka's government has passed laws for people who died of covid to be buried. some protested to demand an end to the forced cremations. reporter: the notification comes almost from out of the blue, the most obvious place to announce it when all eyes are on sri lanka was on wednesday. but this notification coming late tonight has been quite a surprise and it shows the government has conceded allowing burial or cremation. what this effectively means is all covid-19 victims, especially the muslim and christian populations for whom cremation has been an issue, they can now choose which form they would go ahead with in terms of final rights. as much as we heard the prime minister that they hoped to allow burials, the huge reaction from the government which basically backtracked from the announcement gave everyone the impression that the government was not going ahead with permission to allow the burial of covid-19 victims. they said it was up to experts and there was no longer backtracking but this announcement on thursday night obviously comes a time when sri lanka

sri lanka's government defends its human rights record as it's accused of failing to hold abuses to account. however once again we have more heavy downpours affecting the philippines over the next day or so little rashes shall i say but more in the way of sunshine than showers the wettest weather across southeast asia will remain across indonesia we have got flooding concerns into java in particular eastern parts of java will see the heaviest rain through friday and going on into sas they just not going a little further east which as we go on through the next couple of days as you can see the showers do continue for the philippines but some sunshine in between and a scattering of showers there now into borneo scattering showers the 2 across northern parts of australia have still got the the tropical downpours the monsoon rains seasonal downpours just coming in across the northern most parts and little a system just making its way through the tasman will introduce some wet weather into the tasman sea just pulling away from tasmania nudging towards new zealand but not quite getting in there w

let's talk 1st of all about the measures that you are seeking in sri lanka what sort of sanctions are you calling for and what are they supposed to achieve. well 1st of all i mean i think the big worry is that these and by nations with unity without any sign of dress poorer the victims so we are calling for 1st of all an enhanced one a training and strong preventive action by the international community i think this is essential for us to make sure that we don't slip further into war and more violations we just heard from this story the right to truth and justice for the victims i think this failure to deal with the past has had a devastating impact on all the communities and so we want the international community to listen and need the early warning signs. time for international action to ensure this justice investigations and prosecution in their national courts i think is a is one option certainly under the accepted principles of extraterritorial universal jurisdiction and targeted sanctions what we've seen before acid freezes travel against credibly and perpetrators are going to b

last days of the civil war they were forced to leave their home and were taken to a camp run by sri lanka's secret service and interrogators on the way to anita causing polite says her daughter was kidnapped by whom is unclear. shortly before the end of the civil war in 2009 the sri lankan army combed tamil territory the soldiers were looking for fighters from the tamil tiger liberation organisation or l.t.d. who were fighting for independence according to the un both warring parties committed serious war crimes up to 15000 tamils are officially messick the united nations believes the number to be much higher. it has been impossible for this family to find peace since the eldest child disappeared they have been to the police time and again and even called on the u.n. refugee agency and the un human rights commission to get involved but in vain. it's very difficult now that my wife stays on the run for me at the protest site but i'm with her and thought all the time about them and i keep telling my wife to bring our daughter home. or that they were already there i'm convinced that my daughte

is violating the sri lanka violating sol one cannot agree to a one sided a very biased. properly substantive board on the high commission news report. let's go straight to charles who is an associate fellow in the asia pacific program at chatham house joining us from london thanks very much for your time with us you heard the lankan foreign minister on our air he's calling all of this basically a political move in rejecting that upcoming reports at the u.n. human rights council what's your response to what he had to say. i think it's quite interesting that the foreign minister as normal see this it current situation in sri lanka which is a thing that normally the fact that there is you know cows and people were killed and disappeared in the war civilians were killed in the city as in the war calls to accountability thus far not a single member of the military has been brought to justice all a single member of the government who vandy to these actions have been brought to justice this is a real slap in the face with those who lost you know dead near and dear ones in the c

remains at the heart of the decade's long middle east conflict i guess prime minister is on his way to sri lanka for a 2 day visit the 2 countries are expected to sign several economic agreements which are lanka's muslim minority has high hopes for a different reason and often and as reports now from colombo. sri lanka imports more than half of its onions and the dangers from pakistan they are part of the range of food items including vasant vihar rice and mandarins that are brought in from pakistani ports up a market to go to pakistan pakistan is a big help to our market we can get what we need quickly and easily and at a good price driven commissary media focus of prime minister imran khan's visit to colombo but that's not all he's been urged to discuss sri lanka is my knowledge and resume community has complained of being marginalized in recent years it seems cool that 19 has made things much worse with the government forcibly committee on victims disregarding it's a practice for big meanie. prime minister khan who is for treat is a champion of islamic rights has been asked to help in the pra

looks back at sri lanka's past civil war the country's president discusses the future pakistan's in one column. only 75 inmates he killed in ecuador is gang rivalries lead to prison riot. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways how the weather is going to go downhill for a good part of central and southern china over the next day or it's say we're seeing some cloud of rice lately snow and see which a pattern that seizing out of the way making way for this next weather system which is running towards shanghai some heavy downpours coming through here that could be some localized flooding that wessel weather will move across south korea into q.c. just clipping the fos out of honshu possibility of some snow coming in over the higher ground temperatures in tokyo around 10 celsius 12 celsius there for beijing dakota that has been recently but that is still well above the seasonal average just show a stretch they way down towards southern parts of china might see want to see showers too into southern parts of india but nothing too much to speak of finding try share

a big day we're going to see the high commissioner for human rights table formally the report on sri lanka now that report has been in the public domain for a few weeks now and people have been sort of looking at the sort of final sort of detail of that report the high commission of being very critical in terms of sri lanka's inability and the failure to ensure justice and accountability going as far as to call for targeted sanctions on certain people who have been identified as being behind sort of war crimes and human rights abuses so that debate will take place later today and it will be interesting to see the exchange in geneva. or milf and under the reporting there from colombo. hundreds of indigenous protesters have marched in ecuador's couple of quito demanding a recount of the presidential election they counted it says that vote rigging prevented him from advancing to the runoff latin america it's a human as this. thing for days indigenous ecuadorians march to the capital some from as far away as the amazon rain forest to demand a recount of this month's presidential election but t