day completely isolated from everything is an everyday reality it's a form of punishment at the u.n. refers to as torture now it's hard to know exactly how many prisoners are sent to solitary but here in the west it's estimated that as many as eighty. thousand inmates are currently being held in solitary often for years at a time. paul senior staff attorney at the center for constitutional rights came on my show to talk about what exactly these conditions are like. prisoners in california spend decades some of them up to twenty years in a small cramped concrete cell they sleep on a thin mattress on a concrete slab on the floor and they never have a normal face to face conversation with other human beings the only people they have access to to talk to are the guards who slide their food tray through a slot in their cell door they don't have a window they can't see the outside world california alone out of any correctional system that i've ever heard of even denies prisoners in solitary confinement telephone calls they can't make any social phone calls to loved ones friends on the outside unl

to discuss the humanitarian a solution on ukraine if you if russia would agree to making a reference to the u.n. g.a. resolution that did not recognize crimea as part of russian fighter or russia as that they are by guaranteeing. calling and sharing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine are not willing to do that are you going to argue with this was a part of a understanding which we have with some some of the members of the council discussed it with the other will go to for themselves sort of did it go to integrity but no reference to the general symbolism in. why not because that was a was an underwear you know because it has a clear implication on the crimea and we're not going to have anything which would be putting in question the fact that the crimea has been reunited with the russian federation and one last thing on iraq looking at what happened in the unrest russia's position on how to proceed forward or revive the geneva process is that the opposition needs to start with. the assad government and discuss ways to address terrorism is that and is that you know this layer i

u.n. agencies mplt and it requires that each and every uchlt n. agency adhere to whistle blower best practices. there may be some debate as to what those are. i've referred to only a few here. please feel free to look it up. one is the u.n. staff must have access to independent adjudication. >>> secondly, that whistle blowers who are vicktisms of proven retaliation should have the consequences completely mitigated for direct or indirect or fuel kwhur consequences. of whistle blowing. you shouldn't suffer any consequences of whistle blowing. . in my case, there was no consequences for anybody but me. all of us went onto have great lives except me. so those are three of the areas that are high lighted in this section. my view of what's wrong is the accountability institutions of the u.n., there are three of them. there's the ethics office, which is the guardian of the faith, there's the office of internal oversight services, oios, to which it has referred. and the third is the justice system. each one of these is broken in some way for the ethics office. i get these from the government accountability project. >>> since the establishment of the ethics offic

andsure on the u.n., earlier this year, in january, the support of congress, 2014 consolidated appropriations bill was signed by the president, and in that, there is -a1b, which7048 refers transparency and accountability in u.n. agencies, and it requires that each and every u.n. agency adhere to whistleblower best practices. debate as may be some to what those are. i do not think there is any debate, but maybe one could argue it. we specifically put in five ,rovisions, five very pointed union rated best practices, and i refer to only a few here. please feel free to look it up, should you be interested. one is that the u.n. must have -- u.n. staff who are whistleblowers must have access -- external, some sort of body that is not controlled by the secretary-general. secondly, that whistleblowers -- victims -- whistleblowers who are victims of prudent retaliation should as a consequence of that retaliation completely mitigate it for direct or indirect or future consequences of their whistleblowing. in other words, we should not suffer any consequences for whistleblowing and being victims of prudent retaliation, either directorial direct or those that may arise in the futur

refer to only a few here. please feel free to look it up should you be interested. one is that the u.n. must have -- the u.n. staff who are whistle blowers must have access to independent adjudication. external -- some sort of body that isn't controlled by the secretary-general. secondly, that whistle blowers should -- victims -- whistle blowers who are victims of proven retaliation should have the consequences that retaliation completely mitigated for direct or indirect or future consequences of their whistle blowing. in other words, we shouldn't suffer any consequences for whistle blowing and being victims of proven retaliation, direct or indirect or for those in the future. and the third, i think this is very important, is that those who engage in retaliation should suffer some consequences. because in my case, there were no consequences for anybody but me. all of those who engaged in retaliation and who were named in various reports went on to have great lives with no impact on them, so i was the only one who suffered any consequences. so those are three of the areas that are highlighted in this section

u.n. agencies. there is some debate. i don't know what the debate would be, but maybe one could argue it. we put in five provisions. five very aappointed enumerated best practices. i referto only a few here. please feel free to look it up, should you be interested. -- is that u.n. must have u.n. staff, whistle blowers, ust have access to independent adjudication, external, some sort of body that isn't controlled by the secretary general. secondly, that whistle blowers should -- whistle blowers who are victims of prudent retaliation should have consequences completely mitigated for direct or indirect or future consequences of their whistle blowing. in other words, you shouldn't suffer consequences for whistle blowing and being victims of pursuedent retaliation, either direct, indirect or those that may arise in the future. of thon retaliation and who were named in the various reports went on to have great lives with no impact on them, and i was the only one who suffered any consequences. three of the areas that are highlighted in this section of u.s. law. view, what is wrong with the u.n. system, having been one of them for 28 years

one of the treaties your honor just referred to, the u.n. convention on civil and political rights, of course, when the senate ratified it, it did use its power to make reservations to preserve our federal system. so that operated in exactly the manner that the framers intended there to protect, to safeguard the interests of federalism. and there are, you know, there are about 1,000 ratified treaties on the books right now and we don't have the congress using the treaty power to usurp the role of the states >> oh, no. that isn't the problem. >> it's -- it's kind of question begging. i mean, the whole point is that some people think we do have exactly that in this case. now, usually when we have a case that implicates significant and serious bilateral concerns, we get a lot of briefs and all that from our -- our treaty partners. is there any concern that's been expressed in any concrete way by them about whether mrs. bond is prosecuted? >> i doubt that, your honor, because -- >> no, no. yes. so nothing in -- >> nobody -- no -- nobody would --

refer to only a few here. please feel free to look it up should you be interested. one is that the u.n. must have -- the u.n. staff who are whistle blowers must have access to independent adjudication. external -- some sort of body that isn't controlled by the secretary-general. secondly, that whistle blowers should -- victims -- whistle blowers who are victims of proven retaliation should have the consequences that retaliation completely mitigated for direct or indirect or future consequences of their whistle blowing. in other words, we shouldn't suffer any consequences for whistle blowing and being victims of proven retaliation, direct or indirect or for those in the future. and the third, i think this is very important, is that those who engage in retaliation should suffer some consequences. because in my case, there were no consequences for anybody but me. all of those who engaged in retaliation and who were named in various reports went on to have great lives with no impact on them, so i was the only one who suffered any consequences. so those are three of the areas that are highlighted in this section

u.n. in new york. >> reporter: ban ki-moon has put up with a six-point [inaudible] and says there should be accountability for what's gone on in syria i think that referenceia that blocked recent [inaudible] of the file to the international court. he says any country that blocked that needs to come up with another plan for accountability. he's again calling for humanitarian access in the country. as the security council debates a new resolution on that issue. the main key is all parties inside and outside syria, he is telling them he believes the war in syria cannot be won militarily and there has to be a political solution. >>> in lebanon the country's security chief has survived assassination attempt. the attack happened on the main road between beirut and damascus. let's talk about that in lebanon's eastern valley. remind us what happened. >> reporter: when he arrived at the checkpoint the explores took place. it happened about eight hours ago and you can see already they are cleaning the scene. detectives have been here for eight hours looking for the faintest of clues. it happened just off the head of general security had passed through this checkpoi

u.n., there are three of them. there is the ethics office, where comes to whistleblower protection. there is an office of internal wersight services, to which referred, the inspector general, and the third is the justice system. each one of these is broken in some way. office, if we just look at the evidence, of the numbers, and i get these from the government accountability project, which is representing me in terms of advocacy here in washington and elsewhere, and we have the president here in the audience , there have been -- since the establishment of the ethics office in 2006, as i ever been told, 2013, there have been more who 300 whistleblowers and have come forward to the ethics office. of those, the ethics office reviewed 99, and they found retaliation in only two cases, two. mine is not one of those two. they turn down my case for but that is an astonishingly low percentage. .2% or depending on what your denominator is, but it is a very, very low percentage. it is just a shame, profoundly. second, there are cases that have been referred to that indicate witness tampering, evidence tampering, lack of commitment to getting their job of inter