the organization for security and cooperation in the europe. slamming journalists including dw's correspondent. says the move is excessive. ♪ >> i'm brent goff, it is good to have you with the spirit tonight, 50 people most of them under the 15, have been killed in an airstrike in northern yemen. the children were traveling through a crowded area in the southern province. they were on their way to summer school. they coalition at launch the attack said that they were targeting rebel positions. they said it was a legitimate military action. they are facing condemnation for these latest civilian deaths. for more on this airstrike, i am joined by a middle eastern personnel of security affairs. these are dramatic pictures and the story is genetic. survivors are saying that the rockets intended target was the bus filled with schoolchildren. based children paying the price of a proxy war? >> yes, it is not the first time that the saudi's have hit civilian targets. they've hit funerals, markets, and now, a school bus. it is nothing new. i believe th

the organization for security and cooperation in europe has condemned the belorussian authorities actions as excessive. sneezing in the valorous has been under the authority or indeed or shape of alexander lukashenko for twenty four years the opposition is severely restricted on a list of one hundred eighty countries reporters without borders puts a ballot near the bottom in terms of press freedom at least one hundred journalists were arrested in the past year alone dozens were convicted if the six recently arrested reporters are found guilty they could face up to two years imprisonment. well the case of a jailed ukrainian film director all legs in solve will be part of the talks on friday between french president and russian leader vladimir putin and that's from a source in mr office the crimea born since all has been on a hunger strike in a russian prison since may and he is said to be gravely ill since op was sentenced in twenty fifteen by a russian court to twenty years in a penal colony for planning terrorist attacks on the crimean peninsula russia annexed crimea in two thousand and

but as turks digested the news election monitors from the organization for security and cooperation in europe expressed doubts about how fair the presidential and parliamentary elections had been. this is not and we didn't regard it as being an equal playing field in relation to media and he wasn't and neither in relation to campaigning either the defeated presidential candidate condemned the elections as unfair from start to finish but here they want to concentrate on uniting a deeply divided country so mr. as of today please do not act like the president after a k. party be the president for eighty five million people embrace everyone. that's a message will resonate with a lot of turkish voters many of whom were devastated by the result. will only twenty five this is a very beautiful country. i want to live in this country. but as a young woman everything is in danger it's becoming harder to live here women are not respected and the education system is upside down. but others were happy that the one hundred one many destroyed the result was a win for democracy and for the country nin

and the organization for security and cooperation in europe. of several journalists including. it says the move is excessive. it's good to have you with us tonight the red cross says that fifty people most of them children under the age of fifteen have been killed in an airstrike that hit a bus in northern yemen the children were traveling through a crowded market in rebel held. and it's thought that they were on their way to summer school the saudi led coalition that launched the attack said that they were targeting rebel positions and they said that it was quote a legitimate military action but the coalition is for. in condemnation from for these latest civilian deaths and for more on this airstrike i'm joined now by steinberg he's a middle east analyst from the german institute for international affairs and security affairs good was good to see you again these are dramatic pictures the story is dramatic survivor saying that the rockets intended target was the bus that was filled with school children i mean are these children paying the price of a proxy war yes they are and i

by the organization for security and cooperation in europe and the conference is devoted to chris' freedom and media pew ality in ukraine june in times of conflict now it's quite ironic that i cannot even attend the conference and it's not only me there's another russian journalist who's also being detained and is being deported so while the deliberations will happen throughout the course of the day and as i'm speaking to you there deliberating media freedom in ukraine we stuck here they pulled unable to attend because we represent the russian networks i had checked in advance if i was on any blacklist because i have reported in ukraine in the past and the information i had was that i was not so it wasn't clear that i would have possible its problems when i arrived a check not possible it was obviously something that flagged an entire travel on a british passport and they told me aside and for about an hour and a hoss they kept me off to one when they were checking things they honestly feel my personality that me while i was by out was attending and i gave them the conference at james. and

and all the other members of the organization for security cooperation in europe have except it. in terms of process results are not the focus of our assessment what we look at is whether the wheels and standards for democratic elections are followed and in this case as i said there are a number of concerns at the same time as there was broad political choice and technical newsgroups you know was what russia. now given some of the problems that you know today with this election i mean going forward all perhaps in the process have you been communicating back to hunger in authorities and what sort of response did you receive. well our it is a she has been coming to hungary for many years we've had. an observation missions including this one and each time we meet recommendations based on our findings as our elections are handled better in the future to be quite frank most of our urban issues from the two thousand and fourteen elections remain relevant now and we will put forward fire or suggest ways in which hungary can do better next time. always the participating states like cumbr

for security and cooperation in europe who go it previously condemned last year's constitutional referendum in turkey as unfair the turkish government has accused them of sympathizing with the outlawed p k k party. all it took was his signature u.s. president donald trump insisted he was powerless to stop the separation of immigrant families at the country's southern border but he has now issued an executive order to reverse course trump's move means families entering the u.s. illegally will now be detained together it is a rare policy retreat for the u.s. president following days of public outrage. you could have a lot of happy people it was that easy president effectively reversing a policy that has separated children from their parents but the executive order does nothing to reunite more than two thousand children who have already been taken away families who illegally cross the border will now be detained together while their cases are considered but trumps order click for changing a court ruling that limits the detention of immigrant children to twenty eight days critics now say trump

for security and cooperation in europe to monitor these elections as i mentioned before. as you did before and the ransom of your own planet ultimately rejected their criticism out of hand when they said to you that the vote last year had not lived up to the standards of the sea and the council of europe your president said i do not see hear or acknowledge the reports by the o. s. c.e. observer mission so why bother to invite them once again when you're going to reject any criticism no i don't object to criticism and we have been whiting or c. or c. order and parliamentary sam of the council of europe to monitor the elections in turkey every single elections when there is a local elections actually the council of europe it again or observes the elections last year some of the members of this at the committees unfortunately participated to campaign or. prop ekk party h.t.t.p. including under who go who is a german policy you don't like what they say you accuse so of being pro peace or play saw the observers should be or bijective and balance they can not take a site they c

conference the organization for security and cooperation in europe and now we do the title of the conference that is to strengthen media freedom and code as i'm in ukraine during times of conflict in and around the country now when i lived at the customs control it was obviously something the system because they pulled me aside off to looking at my cost board and they took me into a side room i waited in about one and a half hours a off to which they came in off me for my press accreditation and while thea and i presented them with the program although if the conference which again is it's a programme about one of the stations this morning we're supposed to be ensuring media diversity imperialism and dating back and gave me no explanation other than to say that they had orders from above not to allow me into the country they offered me to sign papers that are in ukrainian but i think the deportation papers and told me i'm not going to be not back into the country for ideas not participated in a number of such o.e.c.d. conferences the whole and they always very heated discussions largely betw

welcome back to worlds apart thomas secretary general of the organization for security and cooperation in europe mr graham and let's broaden our discussion a little bit i heard one official in moscow say that the next few years or to be precise your term will determine whether the becomes a more relevant international body or whether it seizes to exist altogether do you agree with such a stark formulation it would of course. the. huge expectations on my terms. not so sure that i. would like. but of course i'm ambitious and i know it's extremely important to position this organization relevant platform for inclusive style lock and for common action on all relevant security issues in the. area and if not the organization will gradually become obsolete in that sense i agree the stakes are high i just want to seize on what you just said and i heard you say before that you are one build the always see into the relevant forum for security dialogue in the euro atlantic and eurasian space and that's an interesting formulation in and of itself because to many decision makers in the euro atlanti

a member of the german left party intending to travel to turkey to represent the organization for security and cooperation in europe had previously condemned the west years constitutional referendum in turkey as unfair the turkish government has accused him of sympathizing with the p k k part. phin the world cup in russia france took on peru in the second of thursday's group c. clashes a first have strike from killing in embalm pay was enough to settle the tie in france as they the nineteen year old became the nation's young as ever world cup goals or as france returned to the top of group c. or even while have been eliminated from the competition after failing to pick up a point from their opening two game. the rivals denmark in australia had to kick off the day with an exciting match in some are the danes took the lead after just seven minutes nikolai you're going soon found christiane eriksson whose stunning volleys flew past the australian goalkeeper ten minutes before the break australia claimed the handball the referee consulted the d. or the a.o.r. and the australians got a penalty.

for security and cooperation always c e said the opposition did not really have a chance to complete. yes well it's their job to test it they don't have a chance the have a chance so they actually got forgotten exactly how many because best part of two million votes for this got two point seven me that there is competition and besides you know they have to say things like the job why the criticism is not their job the only c.e.o. is is a neutral organization and a very well respected the report said quote intimidating exit a phobic rhetoric media bias and apart can pay the financing end of the quote hidden the voter's ability to make an informed choice this was not a fair election was it i think it was a very fair election i was for the whole of the campaign i didn't see intimidation and i wasn't just sitting in budapest a regular subject but i mean out of it. there is no such thing as objectivity i don't believe in fairy tales either. do you think that the r.c. is objective no do you think that anybody is objective do you think that even it is not subjective the issue is c.e. said t

a third consecutive term the organization for security and cooperation in europe says other candidates were not able to compete equally against viktor orban at least fifteen people including children have been killed in an airstrike indictments south western city of tire as officials say shelling by the saudi led coalition hit a house in the did not district. right up state with headlines here not to make stop its inside story. just hours after news of another suspected chemical attack in.

for security and cooperation in europe warned over the reported instances of the. proportionate use of force by armenian which we also have also to. keep in mind that trial had also the storming of the stage buildings state institutional buildings of the state of public radio. or so you should probably be very frank to concede there was a situation in a very open minded mr show to prove the twenty second. was clinging to power the demonstrations had risen the last thing on his mind on that day the twenty second was actually standing down he had discussions with the opposition leader passion which he broke off after just a few minutes accusing him of issuing ultimatums and blackmailing the legitimate or thirty miles away as a blackmailing tolerance policy is still going calling armenia after the war try who by you or by the way asked have you found any every just that it's going by these kind of intolerance and blackmailing is not promoting democracy in armenia because despite the movement has the followers of supporters the rights of the freedom of expression for t

for security and cooperation in europe wrote on twitter relieved that our county is alive i deplore the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public and the committee to protect journalists said this exterior action by the ukrainian authorities has the potential to undermine public trust in journalists and to mute outrage when they are killed in russia where ukraine says the attempt on his life originated the government has described the affair as an anti russian provocation the story is strange to say the least i don't know how much the end justifies the means in this story thank god that person is alive it does not change your attitude towards ukraine a country where being a journalist is dangerous it does not change the core of the situation the only thing this is changed is that thank god this person is still alive the kremlin and state controlled media are drawing parallels between fake death and the normally truck poisoning of the script powells in the u.k. both see russia accused both

for security and cooperation in europe and former state secretary to the german defense minister welcome to the program now and the new german grand coalition has called on president putin to focus on improving ties with the west and what is there to do for russia what more can russia do to improve this. it is so strange to hears these comments because of the complicated situations. they are in our illusions. had been established and organized by the worst. to be a good partner of forms of conflicts which had been created by as a worst. do you. so this is something for a lunatic asylum so western policy. well what's interesting about this really that we've seen an awful lot of negative press heavenly negative negativity coming from european countries to brush it so it's a little bit confusing isn't it that that statement being made. it is confusing and that is there is a big difference between the attitude of the german population not only when it comes to the eastern part of germany and see a policy of the government the german people they want to have good pollution trip was russians a

security and cooperation in europe and a former public prosecutor he was also italy's parliamentary committee president for intelligence and security services and state secrets full of our minister welcome to going on the ground in person for a change let's just begin with libya i mean at the time you told anyone that would listen the bombing libya was a bad idea so what's your take on libya seven years after britain boehm did well we confer our position at a time we didn't want to war in libya we try to do everything possible to purchase you weigh. partners lie because our calls he'll come around it was a very bad idea to destabilize the northern africa we doubt thinking about what next the is was the question was not an answer seventy years later we see the real risk of partition only in two or three this is because many people in europe don't know as he told he does what is the tribal situation in libya what equilibria inside the contrie how important is to get involved the tribes instead of get them as clued and this is the result a jihadist extremist division tripoli under atta

we contacted several international organizations asking for money and the organization for security and cooperation in europe got back to west but simply said it's a bilateral relations between the two countries. so over a hundred forty thousand observers were ensuring that ballots were cast without any problems and that the voting procedures were properly conducted over fifteen hundred of the observers of foreigners which is a record for the presidential election in russia we had two of them in here tonight give us their views the vast majority of poles set up with cameras to stream everything online easy to do these days comparatively activists were using them to monitor any possible violations and but there was least one either it says this video shows members of the electoral commission stuffing ballot boxes party this took place in a city near moscow the central electoral commission is the employees involved and said obviously those ballots cast no particular books will not be counted we discussed the election was a say observe. that came in the studio here as well european one

the new secretary general of the organization for security and cooperation in europe mr graham and your think you are very much for your time it's been roughly since month since month since you accepted the position pledging to reinvigorate the organization to specifically focus on dialogue and reviving trust. i wonder if the practical reality of the past six months has perhaps. i think. assumed this office i knew very valuable. expecting me. five familiar bits you know you see. one of my previous job so i was this permanent representative. to the u.n. here you know for five years i chaired the permanent council in two thousand and fourteen. i chaired it then we started the crisis in around ukraine so i'm very familiar of it this institution familiar with its processes you're familiar with the challenges. you often talk about the restoration of trust as the key to the effectiveness but what makes you believe that the organization stakeholders have reached a point when they valued that trust over their immediate policy objectives. look i think one of if not the key challenge in your atla

but as turks digested the news, election monitors from the organization for security and cooperation in europe expressed doubts about how fair the presidential and parliamentary elections had been. >> this is not and we did not regarded as being an equal playing fieldld at a a. in relation to beatat it, it certainly wasn't, and neither in relation to campaigning either. >> the defeated presidential candidate conmned the elections as unfair from start to finish him of and he urged everyone to concenentrate on uniting a deeply divided country. >> mr. erdogan, as of today, please do not ask like e presidt of the ak party. be thehe president for 85 millin people. embrace everyone. >> that message will resonate with a lot of turkish voters, many of whom were devastated by the results. >> i am only 25. this is a very beautiful country. i want to live in this country, but as a young woman, everything isis in danger. it's becoming harder to livive here. women arenen't respectct, and te ededucation sysystem is upside . >> but others are happy that erdogan had one. many describibe the result a

but as turks digested the news election monitors from the organization for security and cooperation in europe expressed doubts about how fair the presidential and parliamentary elections had been. this is not and we didn't regard it as being an equal playing field in relation to media it certainly wasn't and neither in relation to campaigning either the defeated presidential candidate condemned the elections as unfair from start to finish but here today they want to concentrate on uniting a deeply divided country so mr. as of today please do not act like the president after a k. party be the president for eighty five million people embrace everyone. that's a message will resonate with a lot of turkish voters many of whom were devastated by the result. only twenty five this is a very beautiful country. i want to live in this country. but as a young woman everything is in danger it's becoming harder to live here women aren't respected and the education system is upside down. but all those were happy that the one hundred one many destroyed the result was a win for democracy and for the co

and the organization for security and cooperation in europe says that voters had no real choice. meanwhile vladimir putin struck a softer tone than he has recently towards the west on monday, saying he would put diplomacy first. >> translation: we have no intention of engaging in some kind of arms race. just the opposite. we will seek to develop constructive relations with other countries. we call on our partners to have a constructive dialogue. brent: i'm joined at the big table by gustav from the european council of forward relations based in berlin. good to have you on the show. >> thank you. brent: we saw mr putin saying he didn't want to do arms race, but he presented to the country a couple of weeks ago an invincible now nuclear weapon, which vladimir putin is telling the truth? >> well, vladimir putin hardly ever tells the truth. let's stick to facts. on arms rails, yes, russia is increasing its military budget and arming up. russia is preparing in manoeuvres against the west. here the russian behaviour doesn't match with vladimir putin's rhetoric. it's an information oper

by the organization for security and cooperation in europe and the conference is devoted to chris freedom and media pirana t. in ukraine during times of conflict now it's quite ironic that i cannot even attend the conference and it's not only me there's another russian journalist who's also being detained and is being deported so while the deliberations will happen drop course of the day and as i'm speaking to you they deliberating media freedom in ukraine we stuck here they pulled unable to attend because we represent russian networks i had checked in advance if i was on any blacklist because i have reported in ukraine in the past and the information i had was that i was not so it wasn't clear that i would have possible its problems when i arrived they checked my possible there was obviously something that flagged an entire travel on a british passport and they pulled me aside and for about an hour and a hoss they kept me off to one when they were checking things they are asked me for my personality they asked me while i was by i was attending and i gave them the conference at james. and

tomorrow, a discussion on conflict prevention with the organization for security and cooperation in europe. coverage begins at 4:30 eastern on c-span3, online and on our free radio app. on constitution day, c-span visited the constitution central in philadelphia, where we asked people what it means to be american. >> when you feel like you are at home and you feel comfortable to live here. >> for me, it meant i was blessed to have been born in a countries,e of the with the most freedom for people. for all people to pursue happiness and life and joy with their families and a living. >> to pursue your dreams and opportunities and friendships. giving along -- getting along with everybody, with family. your is doing responsibility, as a daughter of service members and a servicemember myself, a former servicemember, i felt it was my responsibility under the constitution to go ahead and do my duty and serve my country. >> i feel lucky to have the freedom to pursue your happiness and really, this is the land of opportunity for me. to be able to be whatever i want to be. in the country i come from

the organization for security and cooperation in europe called back to west but simply said it's a matter of bilateral relations between the two countries. so under forty thousand observers were ensuring that ballots were cast without any problems and that the voting procedures were properly conducted over fifteen hundred of the observers of foreigners which is a record for the presidential election in russia we had two of them in here tonight to give their views the vast majority of poles set up with cameras to stream everything online easy to do these days comparatively previous were using them to monitor any possible violations in but there was least one says this video shows members of the electoral commission stuffing ballot boxes probably this took place in a city near moscow the central electoral commission is the employees involved and said obviously those ballots cast no particular bow. it will not be counted we discussed the election with us a observers that came in the studio here as well european ones and whether they witnessed themselves any violations i can say that they did

organization for security and cooperation in europe the only see and it's a conference that was devoted to media pirelli t.v. and media freedom in ukraine and that's the irony of the whole situation is that i was meant to participate in the conference to talk about all the the problems we as journalists face particularly in conflict zones and the very authoritative we're holding that conference for. fuz me entry so it says a lot about the way the ukrainian authorities view press freedom not allowing journalists to attend a conference on press freedom the last time i was in kiev was back in two thousand and fifteen at that time i was reporting on fires that have broken our channel and i started receiving death threats on my twitter feed and an online witch hunt was instigated against me in the decision was taken for me to to leave kiev as soon as possible all of this is particularly concerning because of course it sheds light on the very real situation in terms of press freedom media karate that is happening right now in here there was a response from the o.e.c.d. they said that they wer