rights amnesty international. thanks so much for coming in. are you positive about this do you think it's a good idea that the rangers should be offered the chance to go home would you believe the something more sinister with this i think absolutely have the right to return it's their absolute human rights but we think this entire agreement is extremely premature you have to bear in mind that a hundreds of people are still arriving in an almost daily basis to buy a new dish fleeing persecution we would welcome a reproach ration agreement but the timing has to be right and it has to be international standards so it couldn't just be me i'm our military to help you know . returning have access to where they lived before if you need an outside agency is that what you say absolutely i mean his history is showing us that the international community and particularly united see are the u.n. refugee agency should be involved in what should be a tripartite agreement they're here themselves need to be involved in deciding what they want to do that would be an ideal scenario the basic principles

much thank you. amnesty international says three people were killed in kenya when police clash with supporters of the opposition leader police used tear gas and water cannon to break up large crowds who were cheering a digger's convoy from the airport to central nairobi he returned from a ten day trip to the united states but he's also say five people were killed when they were stoned by crowds after being course looting from a to miller has moved from nairobi. this is not the first time police have responded to large crowds of protesters with what rights groups are calling excessive force now amnesty international says police should stop using lethal force against opposition supporters today thousands of those supporters had gathered to listen to an address from a leader raila odinga on his return to the country after a visit abroad ending in these running battles with police the supporters of tried to make their way to the city center anticipating that address from the opposition leader was able to briefly address his supporters on the road after they were blocked from moving to t

nigeria in the ninety nine amnesty international says show played a role in horrific crimes against protesters reports. the old line of the only people leasehold in nigeria is calm now but the old rich delta has a history of murder rape. and coal pollution and rest against foreign energy companies in the early one nine hundred ninety s. gave rise to activism. but assistance campaign led by the playwright can start a we were provoked a crackdown by. government i'm just international says evidence points to complicity by the giant energy company royal dutch shell. these were horrific crimes including murder torture rape and the destruction of villages these were carried out by members of the nigerian military but the internal shell documents show that throughout this period the company was encouraging. the nigerian military government and the military unit involved to take action against these protesters even after the company knew what was likely to happen so i do we were along with nine others were hanged in one thousand one thousand five despite international appeal for clemency fr

capital are demanding they be allowed to return to their homes and. community amnesty international says thousand people have been displaced in violent force in the actions from the lucrative land over the past year. they waited months for help but it never came. so the headless protesters march of government house value not to leave until they get an answer some came with the tools of the trade they say seven thousand people live desperate conditions. your way the loss of his home was particularly tragic. and his friends were trying to spin in the bullets from the police ruffle the boys and hit my son in the neck he died i'm not leaving until i get an explanation. the government denies police killed and. the grieving father is one of thousands forced from their work in the last. government called the protesters illegal and the line in contention is public property government. community. judgment the victims to be paid compensation. fishermen in the community say they were attacked by armed men who said holmes and fishing. activists say they are the victims of a land grab as real estate

crime against humanity amnesty international details the syrian government's. campaign to target civilians and time football bowl champions in danger of missing out on the next world cup tatyana will be here with the details and. lebanon's prime minister says he is free in riyadh and says he'll return home within days i.d.d. has spoken publicly for the first time since unexpectedly announcing his announcing his resignation in saudi arabia more than a week ago saying a hold of a ports from beirut. this is the first time saud how did he makes public remarks since his resignation announcement more than a week ago from the saudi capital riyadh he sought to dispel reports that he had been detained the well being of lebanon's prime minister and his freedom of movement have been open to question in a live interview he denied he was forced to resign and said he is a free man and. i submitted my resignation i know it's not a normal process for a prime minister but i had to take some security measures to return back safe and sound the circumstances behind his decision to step down united a

provoked a crackdown by nigeria's former military government amnesty international says evidence points to complicity by the giant energy company royal dutch shell. horrific crimes including murder torture rape and the destruction of villages these were carried out by members of the nigerian military but the internal show documents show that throughout this period the company was encouraging. the nigerian military government and the military units involved to take action against these protesters even after the company knew what was likely to happen so i know we were along with nine others were hanged in one thousand nine hundred five despite international appeal for clemency from their own fighters rebeled against the government. lawyer. who worked with santa we were there of course one of the moments and government forces attacked his community my community was destroyed i mean gray's done already done to me in the ground not. sure helicopter came home very morning train in the aftermath of that destruction it does not. it does not the government. that came and i just like him b

accommodations in the local community amnesty international says the ruling puts the refugees lives in danger pollution in india's capital new delhi is sitting dangerous levels with some reading so bad they go off the air quality scale young children won't be going to school on wednesday and older children won't be allowed to play outdoors the president of the indian medical association is calling it a pollution epidemic. the nice war is all over the city and it is very very home food. for all of us here and advise that he has been issued by the government for all of us to stay home. if it is no necessity book outside and as you can see it's going to be. nineteen sometime and. the situation is like this and whole city is suffering from this deadly small. for those twitter files or even this news for you twitter is doubling the one hundred forty character limit that means longer tweets for all those claiming to fit in their message the company announced the changes will be enforced in the coming days the boost to two hundred eighty characters will be available in most languages twitt

. amnesty international says the syrian government's surrender or starve tactics over the last five years constitute crimes against humanity the human rights group is calling for an end to what it calls a dark stain on the world's conscience a report by amnesty says government forces surrounded and bombed densely populated opposition controlled areas and thousands of civilians were given the ultimatum to abandon their homes or die he says farms and food supplies were burned hospitals destroyed and people deprived of medical care the report also condemns some armed opposition groups saying they restricted block humanitarian help as well as the government sees asking for an independent body to investigate and prosecute those responsible. well donna some on is the syria research not amnesty international she says data in this new report was collected from more than one hundred fifty four displaced civilians and cafe and four which is part of the fourth agreement we found that had a sham islamic movement and at the head a sham formerly formerly known as robot and responsible of besiegin

more ahead on the news hour including. a crime against humanity amnesty international details the syrian government's arendal stop campaign against civilians. hundreds of a story and politicians have been given three weeks to prove they're not jewel citizens we'll tell you why later in the news hour and croatia and switzerland back their places of the world cup but will this really be able to follow joe we'll have the details and sport. thank you. plus president obama trump has been provoking anger in the philippines ways of meeting asian leaders at the summit. but just as at the gathering and the a say the u.s. president's rhetoric is stoking regional tensions trump spoke at length to his host philippine president for the legal affairs there the white house says human rights issues. and with her his war on drugs were discussed but the for the pain government says they weren't general allen though ball has moved from manila. when he was sworn into office philippines president will be good to talk to says that could she will be cutting ties with the united states but now more than

. treatment of its. humanizing apartheid according to a report by amnesty international. two year long investigation says authorities have been segregating re-injure in open air prisons by confining them to their villages the report calls northern rakhine state a crime scene a recent military crackdown there has forced nearly two thirds of population to flee to bangladesh where injured denied citizenship and many are deleted from official records making it almost impossible for those who fled the country to return home where european and asian foreign ministers have discussed the range of crisis on the sidelines of a summit in myanmar scott heiler is following developments from in mars largest city young on. it was a meeting planned before the recent crisis that sent more than six hundred thousand refugees from rakhine state here fleeing for their lives in the bangladesh crisis became the focus of horn ministers and representatives from more than fifty european and asian nations gathered in me in march capital in april. as the leaders were wrapping up their final day of the two da

thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians amnesty international sent a team to land a province in the southern philippines to interview around fifty survivors and witnesses what they heard were stories of widespread abuse on both sides some of which amount to war crimes the amnesty report says members of a local group called the mouth they targeted christians the attacks were often brutal some people were shot at point blank range while others had their throats slit the philippine military also stands accused in the report it details accounts of civilians who say they were tortured by members of the marines after their escape from out of fighters some say they were held tied beaten and accused of fighting against the government the ago is one of the civilians from what are we who survived his story told to al-jazeera backs up the amnesty report but only in the me the mouth they beat us with their weapons and they made us wear black and told us to go outside and forced us to steal food some of the women were raped when we managed to escape the military detained us for

move to new accommodation in the local community amnesty international says the ruling puts the refugees lives in danger. as a lawyer representing the refugees he says the men have been stabbed by locals a man a silent. well normally it takes a long time for the appeals to be ahead but we will be able to file for us they have placation so that we will put in as of us by already. we will advise the court and we want to move that it is in the soonest possible that had been instances some through of assaulting the asylum seekers tom has been. hospitalized. in ponds and saw that kind of a monster for us to live to be tried as they moved around within the community in the tom erie and so. there is no guarantee that if they go on to. instances like this can happen to them or there is a sea of them not being able to be looked up. from the current dems in the senate to on the look. now water is being released from overflowing reservoirs in viet-nam to prevent more floods after typhoon damrey brought heavy rain rescuers say sixty nine people have been killed thirty others are still missi

southern philippines town i'm a watery amnesty international says all sides may have violated international law. and then a sign of how things are changing in the middle east a senior israeli general talks about sharing intelligence with saudi arabia. and an afternoon of high drama at the united nations russia and the united states have vetoed competing resolutions on syria the chira solution was the us one it sought to extend an international inquiry into the use of chemical weapons in syria so this means that the united nations team and best gaining the use said deadly sarin gas in syria it will be disbanded russia's veto was sharply criticized by france the united kingdom and the u.s. now last month u.n. investigators concluded the syrian government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack and conscious in april at least eighty people died that day many of them children now russia course is a key ally of syrian president bashar assad and they rejected the investigations findings at the security council meeting moscow presented its own draft resolution but it was not

stops off for talks with the egyptian and cypriot presidents on his way home. amnesty international accuses me of marva parted over its treatment of wreckage of muslims plus. i'm under richardson in resale cats the exact point where in five years time the world cup will be kicking off. a teenage suicide bomber has killed at least fifty people in northeastern nigeria the attack targeted a mosque in the town of a dam was state police say it happened this people were arriving for morning prayers no one has claimed responsibility for that attack are more now from the capital of the. the attack came as washington is where gathering for an early morning prayers movie itself has been relatively calm since its occupation by boko haram and later they were chased after one month stay in the city so the city itself is not far away from the bulk of the problem say the epicenter of boko haram insurgency we've seen in the last few weeks or so how the book what our fight is from the forest service a forest have invaded communities like medically like. the headquarters of medical exams and have killed a lo

apartheid in a report by amnesty international the organization spent two years investigating the cause of the current during a crisis which has forced hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee over the border to bundle of the report says that has been segregating really good people on the open air prison by confining them to villages. bars or thora t's are guilty of being openly racist towards the rangar and says rakhine state where a military crackdown has been going on is a crime scene when you're living in me a bar also denied citizenship on the basis of their ethnicity many are deleted from official records making it almost impossible for those who fled violence in the country to return home. is amnesty international senior director for research she told us what now needs to be done. in relation to the ongoing system of a party that we describe in our report i think the world is way too willing to buy into their rhetoric presented by the indian mara thirty's about the need to combat terrorism about the need to establish security and that's why we felt it was a very important moment

report by amnesty international the organization spent two years investigating the cause of the current drug a crisis which has forced hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee over the border to bangladesh the report says that. people in an open air prison if i can find them to villages towns that we're both ortiz are guilty of being openly racist towards says rakhine state where a military crackdown has been ongoing is a crime scene regular forgive me and also tonight citizenship on the basis of their ethnicity many are deleted from official records making it almost impossible for those who fled violence in the country to return home. well european or asian foreign ministers have discussed the record crisis on the sidelines of the summit in moscow highly is following developments from the about largest city. it was a meeting planned before the recent crisis that sent more than six hundred thousand refugees from rakhine state here fleeing for their lives. to the bangladesh the crisis became the focus horn ministers and representatives from more than fifty european and asian nat

that has been provided in the local town but amnesty international who have a representative there on minus side inside that accommodation isn't finished yet there are three buildings only one of them is built and there's no way that the one that is built can possibly take all the refugees and i also share the refugees concerns about safety as well that's where australian government stands and australia's government says responsibility for closing the prison and what happens to the physical space that it occupies next is up to papua new guinea happen you guinea say no these refugees are australia's responsibility it sent them to madison it needs to deal with them there are reports in the past when you guinea and media that we haven't you know it's verify independently as yet the pap and you get these government is working on a contingency plan to send in some civil services into that prison knowing that the situation cannot carry on as it is at the moment those people would be independent of australia who has run the present up to now be papua new guinea and so we haven't been able