hello you're watching al-jazeera i'm still robin these are all top stories the un special rapporteur to me and says violence against the regime go but as the whole months of genocide the associated press news agency says the discovery of five nights graves confirms the killing of hundreds last year the me among government has declined to comment scott hyla has the latest from young goal. we contacted a government spokesman about this is so see at a press video that shows these atrocities in rakhine state and he said that he had not seen nor heard of it yet and that he would get back to us that has not happened now at the track record services any indication we probably won't hear back or the government won't directly comment on this video footage that associate press has released there have been multiple reports from humanitarian organizations who have accused of the government of cues the military of systematic rape of violence against the hands of populations in rakhine state they have denied all of that and really haven't directly responded to specific examples like the one we're

reported last graves have been uncovered in miramar by the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites the u.s. state department says it's deeply troubled by the news the man who drove his van into a crowd outside a london mosque killing one person has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder right up to date those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera stories next. imprisoned without charge in saudi arabia dozens of political and free speech activists are held provoking calls for the united nations to suspend the kingdom from the human rights council has only happened once before with libya will the u.n. acts again this is inside story. the at the at. the in. oh they're welcome to the program i'm oracle two british lawyers have published a thirty one page report outlining how saudi arabia has breached international law the report accuses police of arresting dozens of political and free speech activists and holding them without charge now the united nations is being urged to suspend saudi arabia

unreported math graves have been uncovered in miramar by the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur turkey has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the site and the u.s. is fake and out the state department says it's deeply troubled by the news scott highly reports now from young gun. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies are buried may. its investigation suggest at least five previously reported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. wherever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by the military which they burnt down using launchers. it's not the massacre took place in dar pin rakhine state and a few weeks ago for the first time the

welcome back you're watching algis arrives a whole rob a reminder of our top stories the un special rapporteur to be in march says violence against the rohingya go bears the hallmarks of genocide the associated press news agency says the discovery of five mass graves confabs the killing of hundreds last year for me about government has declined to comment. can be as high court has ordered the government to reopen several television stations the country's top three t.v. networks were taken off the after they tried to broadcast a block inauguration ceremony held by the opposition leader rollo digger. and palestinian group hamas says u.s. sanctions against its top political leader will not stop it from resisting israeli occupation washington has designated. a global terrorist. the us ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has vowed to continue efforts to reform the u.n. human rights council following its report linking businesses to illegal israeli settlements the report identifies more than two hundred companies operating goods settlements in the occupied west bank it urges them to avoid i

have been uncovered in me and well that's according to the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites and when contacted by al-jazeera the meanwhile government declined to comment on the latest reports of mass graves more than six hundred ninety thousand are injured and fled me and now since a military crackdown was launched in august last year scott hartnell now reports from yang gone. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures are here to show the bodies are buried. its investigation suggest at least five previously unreported mass creation of been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. who ever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by

of the mass graves have been uncovered in myanmar that's according to the associated press un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites where the six hundred ninety thousand fled me and ma since a military crackdown was launched in august last year the f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo which accuses it of abusing its surveillance powers to target the campaign during the twenty sixth year in presidential elections the memo was written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee devoted to partially release it on monday democrats fear the document may be an attempt to undermine the poor into alleged russian election meddling. more than a thousand miners in south africa stuck underground after a storm not thai power the beatrix gold mine is near the city of welcome in central freestate the mining company says the workers are being supplied with food and water and are not in immediate danger polish lawmakers have caused wage in israel by approving a bill that would impose jail terms for suggesting p

as the mass graves have been uncovered in myanmar that's according to the associated press un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites where the six hundred ninety thousand fled me and ma since a military crackdown was launched in august last year the f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo which accuses it of abusing its surveillance powers to target the charm campaign during the twenty sixth year in presidential elections the memo was written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee voted to partially release it on monday democrats fear the document may be an attempt on the mind to pull into alleged russian election meddling more than a thousand miners in south africa are stuck underground after a storm not type power the beatrix gold mine is near the city of welcome in central freestate the mining company says the workers are being supplied with food and water and are not in immediate danger polish lawmakers have caused wage in israel by approving a bill that would impose jail terms for suggest

organization they were sentenced to up to fourteen years for their human rights activities and the un special rapporteur on on countering terrorism has shared this concern with amnesty around hold a court like this that normally is set up to to try cases of counter terrorism has been trying and targeting human rights defenders so for us the concern goes beyond just the arbitrary arrests and detentions it's also concerned around this expansion of counter-terrorism laws that have been used to target peaceful activists and human rights defenders ok kelley i want to bring you in here at this point and i should point out that you're not here in any way to defend saudi's human rights records unless you point out to view is that we did try all day to get that voice on but no avail. perhaps though you are able to give us some insight into why we're seeing this wave of arbitrary detentions and disappearances now. the saudi government has been or was. human rights violator since its inception. dating back to even before this there was in the kingdom so you dollars committed to massive human rights. abuses and cri

hello you're watching al-jazeera i'm still robin these are all top stories the un special rapporteur to me in marseilles violence against the regime go bears the hallmarks of genocide the associated press news agency says the discovery of five nights graves confirms the killing of hundreds last year the memo government has declined to comment scott hyla has the latest from young goal. we contacted a government spokesman about this is so see at a press video that shows these atrocities in rakhine state and he said that he had not seen nor heard of it yet and that he would get back to us that has not happened now at the track record services any indication we probably won't hear back or the government won't directly comment on this video footage that associate press has released there have been multiple reports from humanitarian organizations who have accused of the government of cues the military of systematic rape of violence against the hinge of populations in rakhine state they have denied all of that and really haven't directly responded to specific examples like the one we're see

so special rapporteur on the promotion of truth justice and resurrection is it really as you see he's a un special rapporteur or so he reported at you universal periodic review session here last year at the un human rights council saying that the we continued saying that many alleged perpetrators are still employed and active in your security services so you don't even suspend them when they are no suspicion and well i think most of them they been have. suspended i don't say that one had percent now there is no people suspected to be be involved in these kind of practices but the most of them are found one of the penalties for torture in your country it's a balance it's not such torture is forbidden by law an example of that is not is in two cases in july twenty fifteen where officials were found guilty they received a suspended sentence but that's not bad not a deterrent yes but that's not the government meeting torture yes but that's not a government of presiding over a country that doesn't deal with basic justice here but this is the mother of justice is not the mother who you are talki

criticize the pakistani military intelligence and right wing religious parties the former un special rapporteur was also chair of pakistan's human rights commission and had also served as president of the supreme court's bar association as well while moving to try and come out where the opposition says the coalition government must resign following a heavy defeat in local government elections both the party of the president and prime minister perform badly and often and as reports from columbus. the giant opposition is back in the limelight the sri lanka people's front which contested the local government elections won the largest share of the vote known locally as the p.p. the party says the ruling government has lost its mandate the result is unequivocal this is a very emphatic very clear egyptian army becoming of them therefore sir. in the clearest possible terms that this government does mark have a mandate to continue governing the stampede the p.p. is a breakaway faction of the party of president by through policy and the man he defeated by in the rajapaksa the former president who is his

previously said the construction is intended to him prefer peace on the maritime security the un special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants has called on the pole to punish agents since this abuse the rights of workers traveling abroad to work more than a thousand men leave the pole every day in search of the money they sent home is vital to the economy but many are being exploited in face abuse violence and corruption sabina shuster reports from katmandu. that cuts what is international airport this is what happens every day sixteen hundred people mostly young men leave the policy work and gulf countries in malaysia with an unemployment rate hovering around forty percent many of the parties say they have no choice but to leave the country and many fall into the traps of unscrupulous middlemen but at the time i went to qatar to work in the food and beverage industry he failed a medical test in nepal but the local agents told him that they would fix it the cost of his trip including flights and bribes added up to twenty five hundred dollars but when he reached qatar he had to do the tests ag

this kind of battle on all part not just a few hours' time in the un special rapporteur on human rights will reveal his first conclusions about the conditions faced by nepal's migrant workers about a third of the country's economy comes from money and abroad but many workers are exploited a subpoena stressed in our reports. that cuts what is it national airport this is what happens every day sixteen hundred people mostly young men leave the policy work and gulf countries in malaysia with an unemployment rate hovering around forty percent many of the police say they have no choice but to leave the country and many fall into the traps of unscrupulous middlemen but in the time i went to qatar to work in the food and beverage industry he failed a medical test in nepal but the local agents told him that they would fix it the cost of his trip including flights and bribes added up to twenty five hundred dollars but when he reached qatar he had to do the test again it should read after they did the tests they sent me back i ended up with no job and debts but other lurches the middle been paid o

under house arrest twice she co-founded pakistan's human rights commission and served as a un special rapporteur our forests across the world are under growing threat of destruction that's according to the world wildlife fund which says an area acquittal and to twenty seven football fields is lost every minute to logging agriculture and farming but in costa rica environmental activists are fighting back and gallagher has their story. few places in the world can boast the kind of biodiversity found in costa rica's forests you'll find unique species and unique climates but deforestation is taking its toll over the last seventy years about eighty percent of costa rica's forest has been lost. the clough bridge nature reserve researches and volunteers of fighting back we've got to remember that in just a few short years they've replanted and we grown large parts of this rain forest and the result a promising when we finally captured a jaguar on the camera trap he was hired by big cat that was a huge step for us when we walk through the areas that we planted in and you see the tree is large enough to

government here want to keep what happened in rakhine state during those two months under wraps the un special rapporteur on man maher has been banned from entering the country says the government is not allowing her to do her job because the military is actions are part of a deliberate pattern of violence. talks of repatriation at this time i clearly premature while the government of bangladesh made it clear to me that no refugees would be forced back to myanmar i remain concerned about whether any safeguards exist to ensure that any returns are truly voluntary safe dignified and sustainable i saw great anxiety and fear and i spoke to refugees about the prospect of returning to me emma one mother said to me our beautiful children were slaughtered how can we go back where fiji's have been entirely excluded from con conversations are about their fate and going forward they must be involved in a meaningful way. phil robertson is the deputy director of human rights watch is asia deficient he joins us now from bangkok still with the reporting that's been happening you know for for months and actually longer

here want to keep what happened in the kind states during those two months under wraps the un special rapporteur on man maher has been banned from entering the country he says the government is not allowing her to do her job she says reports of mass graves warrant an investigation. i do not have the details of this particular site or the village that's graves but it is. it is. you can see it's a pattern that we that i said earlier. you know we had to like to leave massacre but india is where the mass graves were discovered. but when i was talking to some of the refugees a man said to me he had he had buried four hundred thirty plus body before he escaped from his town. and i received grohl the names of people who. are allegedly killed or missing so this is something that needs to be investigated and this is why we've called for a fact finding mission and an access to the fact finding mission the robertson is the deputy director of human rights watch this asia division he says increasing reports of atrocities will prompt more action from the international community. i think we're going to see mor

criticize the pakistani military intelligence and right wing religious parties the former un special rapporteur was also chair pakistan's human rights commission and had served as president of the supreme court's bar association us my younger was sixty six years old. new york state's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the weinstein company saying it failed to protect its employees from disgraced former chief executive harvey weinstein prosecutors say the firm and its co-founders repeatedly broke no laws by facilitating weinstein's alleged abuses was one of hollywood's most influential produces before more than seventy woman accused him of sexual misconduct including rape which he denies and also to stall the planned sale of the company for five hundred million dollars mike has been following the story from washington d.c. . well the new york attorney general eric schneiderman has filed suit in the new york county supreme court not only against harvey weinstein personally but also against his brother and the company as a whole now the reason for this is the attorney general is because

reported mass graves have been uncovered in miramar by the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur ter has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the site the u.s. state department says it deeply troubled by the knees. the man who drove his van into a crowd outside a london mosque last year has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder one person was killed nine others were injured when darin also rammed his van into worshippers in finn's ri park prosecutors say all school was motivated by a hatred of muslims for refugees have been shot in the french port city of cali after a fight broke out over a meal distribution the fight between eritrean and afghan refugees police moved in to break it up and it's not immediately clear how before was shot while the nine hundred fifty nine is in south africa remains stuck underground after a storm knocked out power sixty five miners have been rescued witness is next. given the number. of end there are plenty more to stop the montgomery how they come . about but it's up to my thumb or lack of a casus on that i'm glad. i'm

muslim ask graves have been uncovered in me in ma that's according to the associated press the un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the sites where than six hundred ninety thousand were him to have fled me in moscow as a military crackdown was launched in august last year around one hundred fifty miners in south africa stuck underground after a storm not type power the beatrix gold mine is near the city of welcome in central freestate the company says the mine is a not in danger and that sixty four people have already rescued the f.b.i. is questioning the accuracy of a secret congressional memo which accuses that of the fusing its surveillance powers to target the truck campaign during the twenty sixteen presidential elections the memo was written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee who voted to partially release it on monday democrats fear the document may be an attempt to undermine a probe into alleged russian election meddling polish lawmakers have caused outrage in israel baier by approving a bill that would impose jail

graves have been uncovered in me in la that's according to the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to those sites when contacted by al-jazeera the me and mark government declined to comment on the latest reports of mass graves where than six hundred ninety thousand were injured have fled me and larson's a military crackdown was launched in august last year scott hyla reports now from the angle. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies are buried may. its investigation suggest at least five previously unreported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. who ever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by

back you're watching the officer and use our own cell robin reminder of our top stories the un special rapporteur to me a boss says violence against the ring go back as a whole months of genocide the associated press news agency says the discovery of five mass graves confirms the killing of hundreds last year to be among government has declined to comment. also hamas says it was resisting the israeli occupation despite the leader of the palestinian group being designated a global terrorist by the us government. it's frozen ismael he has financial assets and imposed a travel ban. put in a russian athletes have had their lifetime a limb pick bans overturned they've been previously banned for dating it's not clear if the athletes will be invited to the winter games in pyongyang chang next month. the german politicians have voted to lift a suspension on family reunifications for refugees in the country the issue has been a major hurdle in the goetia between chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats and her coalition and other coalition parties in march twenty sixth in the government introduced a

year he will not be eligible to point to the presidential elections in just a few hours the un special rapporteur on human rights will reveal his first conclusions about the conditions faced by nepal's migrant workers about a third of the country's economy comes from income and abroad but many workers are exploited sabinus i thought reports. at katz what is international airport this is what happens every day sixteen hundred people mostly young men leave the politics work and gulf countries in malaysia with an unemployment rate hovering around forty percent many of the police say they have no choice but to leave the country and many fall into the traps of unscrupulous middlemen but in the time i went to qatar to work in the food and beverage industry he failed a medical test in nepal but the local agents told him that they would fix it the cost of his trip including flights and bribes added up to twenty five hundred dollars but when he reached qatar he had to do the tests again that you did right after they did the tests they sent me back i ended up with no job and debts but other lurches the mid

reported mass graves have been uncovered in me i'm five your face here the press news agency the un special rapporteur ter has quarter a fact finding mission to be given access to the site and the u.s. is fake and out the state department saying it's deeply troubled by the news scott heard a report from young gun. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures are here to show the bodies of half buried. its investigation suggest at least five previously unreported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. wherever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown inside homes by the military which they burnt down using launchers. it's not the massacre took place in dar pin rakhine state and a few weeks ago for the first time the mili

journalists in court yet we wonder what the international community can do and we've seen the un special rapporteur banned from going into me and my our we've seen the security council perhaps not be as. demanding of a response of the me and my our government perhaps because they have such a strong supporter in china of the security council and china refuses to get involved in the internal affairs of being mar with evidence like this with testimony like this could it change the mind of beijing for example and could that be a pivotal target if it happens. i think aging has been a bit of what's been happening here since the beginning. i don't think it's lately to change their mind are told they want access to myanmar they have much deeper jus political considerations and calculations going on they want access to me on mars so they can get access to the beer and the end in the ocean and thus they are able to serve only the regional nuclear rival and n.p.r. so this is much more deep in a calculations from changes perspective and once you if you insert this unknown group called the ranger nobody's reall

says not enough is being done to guarantee the safety of those who return now here's what the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar said after the netas reports of mass killings i would think that these are these are part of the hallmarks of a genocide and we have too many first me among his people and the democratic transition to the future i think me and my needs to get rid of this baggage of digital you or did you not and if. if proven they did and there has to be responsibility and accountability. well i want to bring in john june to the news grade has been covering the range of crisis and has traveled to myanmar bangladesh at the border there extensively over the last few months first of all you know in the past few months we've heard a lot about the ethnic cleansing from human rights organizations from the u.n. envoy as well as the. human rights council of the united nations now we're hearing the genocide being used what are the implications what's the significance of this to not being used in addition to ethnic cleansing and what are the implications of a fully as quite significan