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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

organizations including the organization for security and cooperation in europe and the council of europe voiced their concerns saying that this has an implication on media in ukraine human rights watch called this unacceptable and he called it out of line and other organizations while some demanded immediate release of. others called this the criminal criminalization of alternative views russia of course also condemned calling this basically saying that such that imposing such pressure on journalists is unacceptable when it comes to voices that are coming out of ukraine and out of the media community there some journalists agreed to talk to artsy on the condition of anonymity and basically they have said that this is something that happened to you that this could happen to any journalist in the country that against the ukrainian government that voice something against the ukrainian government this was the main reason why they wanted their identities concealed or also they said that. they can't really that many of them are afraid of siding with. openly in public because they are they are

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

for security and cooperation in europe joined calls for his release i call on the ukrainian authorities to expedite the investigation on the serious charge just brought against issue ski and to conduct such a meaningless occasion in full compliance beats to principles of rule of law necessity and professionality. it is obvious that shinseki was a risk that solely because he was carrying out his professional duties describing it analyzing the current events in ukraine he was doing this in order to present the truth to those wanting to know more about it in a climate where the russian media is being silenced in the country. today friday marks the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists many gathered in front of the ukrainian embassy here in moscow to demand the release of care over shinseki and his within a culture of ours there as well. now here in moscow we are gathered and front of the ukrainian ample see which is located right and the city center and today mainly have come here in support of the journalist and clued in artie's editor in chief he's also here am

for security and cooperation in europe should look into the actions of the british newspaper peacemaker prints the personal data of people it calls the country's enemies its so-called black list has been strongly criticized the broad after some of those named were murdered last month berlin called to shut down the website when it published details on former german chancellor gerhard schroder un says peacemaker violates the right to privacy and the presumption of innocence is the right and part believes the times article shows that anything goes when trying to shut down dissenting media. the sunday times and its sister paper the times have waged a war against russian media which is operating lawfully in this country in the u.k. for a number of years now and the intention or the end is quite clear they want to get sputnik closed down and they want to get r.t. taken off there in the u.k. that's very very clear and they will do anything to try to further that that you know what's been happening is it's i would good for us call it harassment i think putting the pictures the photographs of pe

the organization for security and cooperation in europe he's previously condemned last year's constitutional referendum as unfair the turkish government accuses him of sympathizing with the outlawed p k k party. from correspondent do you. so what tell us more about what president has against. well mr has been an observer of previous elections here in turkey that's what you mentioned including last year's controversial constitutional referendum and back then he harshly criticized the conditions under which the vote was held saying it was not democratic not fair and more than two million votes might have been compromised so he's known as someone who at least once questioned the legitimacy the credibility of turkish election results later on and that might be the more important issue here he was accused by turkish government officials of sympathizing with the band p k k a rebel group which in their eyes makes him not in an objective observer there were photographs of him on social media showing him holding a p.k. k. flag mr who call themselves denied these accusations saying he was just attendi

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

organization for security and cooperation in europe has condemned the belorussian authorities actions as excessive action needs to be on the pre bellerose has been under the authoritarian leadership of alexander lukashenko for twenty four years the opposition is severely restricted on a list of one hundred eighty countries reporters without borders puts belarus 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. we have some sports now and tour de france winner thomas received a hero's welcome when he returned to cardiff wales thursday a sea of supporters lining the streets near the city's castle was thomas in the winner's yellow jersey did a victory lap for thousands of fans a ceremony to recognize as a chinese achievement follows he's the first welshman to win the tour de france a thirty two year old. himself still has state of disbelief. mind blowing expect this. to know what to expect the reception r

of the worst some positive responses we heard via social media from the organization for security and cooperation in europe the o.s.c. they said that russia remained in a key role there more dialogue was needed we also understand from the russian delegation who tweeted during the meeting it was a closed meeting no press allowed but the delegates were able to tweet out every now and again they said that fourteen nations had backed russia's proposal we also heard from a senior figure in until a merkel's political party in germany saying that the onus was now on the u.k. to provide more evidence now that it had come out from porton down that they haven't been able to determine a link between the chemical agent use to try and poison the script murder the script russia however what we did hear from the german government itself though saying that they stood with the united kingdom also a representative from the european commission saying that that laboratory important down wasn't charged with the terminating where the chemical have come from only to tell me what chemicals are being. our und

the organization for security and cooperation in europe has condemned the belorussian authorities actions as excessive action is me and the previous bellerose has been under the authoritarian leadership of alexander lukashenko for twenty four years the opposition is severely restricted on a list of one hundred eighty countries reporters without borders puts belarus 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. while here in berlin a new bike lane has made cycling more fun more more hazardous depending on how you look at it literally rather than a straight or gently curved line this one is all about curious and tight angles. berlin is on a quest to make the german capital more bike friendly that this new bike lane seems to have missed the many more. i have never seen a bike lane like this. it's really difficult to stay in the leg but it's also part of. the new lane has left local residents in a bit of a

the organization for security and cooperation in europe says that voters had no real choice meanwhile putin struck a softer tone then he has recently towards the west on monday saying he. would put diplomacy first. when you seem to need it we have no intention of engaging in some kind of arms race it was just the opposite we will seek to develop constructive relations with other countries. we call on our partners to have a constructive dialogue but. all right i'm joined here at the big table now by gustaf from the think tank the european council of foreign relations which is based here in berlin good stuff it's good to have you on the show and we just see we just saw mr putin they are saying he doesn't want to do arms race but a couple of weeks ago he presented to the country an invincible new nuclear weapon so which putin is telling the truth while put he hardly ever tells the truth so let's stick to facts. on arms race yes russia is sitting freezing his military budget russia is arming up russia is preparing in maneuvers full france or for against the west. hears that if the russian

for security and cooperation in europe should look into the actions by the times peacemaker prints the personal data of people it calls the country's enemies its so-called blacklist has been strongly criticized abroad after some of those named when it last month berlin called to shut down the website when it published details on former german chancellor gerhard schroeder the un says that peace maker violates the right to privacy and presumption of innocence. live now to better in israel and international journalist and we're all ran and they are thanks for coming on to the program now. are you concerned in any way that publishing data on u.k. based put nick staff appears to follow the example set by ukraine's peacemaker website. well regardless of what is happening in the international sphere between the ukraine and russia and the american domestic political brouhaha about the sixteen elections let's put that aside there's a slippery slope here if one focuses on media outlets because of their alleged connections with certain governments then one can go from spot new canard to voice of

for security and cooperation in europe they both earlier condemned the journalist attention. i hope. the street tried to attention may not be further extended and it is there for and on the force of often often where two thousand and eighteen. i call this is. i call on the ukrainian authorities to expedite the investigation on the serious charges brought against to shoot skeet and to conduct such a meaningless occasion in full compliance beat the principles of the rule of law necessity and proportionality. it is obvious that it was shinseki was a risk that soley because he was carrying out his professional duties describing it analyzing the current events in ukraine as he was doing this in order to present the truth to those wanting to know more about it in a climate where the russian media is being silenced in the country overseas well today friday marks the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists many gathered in front of the ukrainian embassy in moscow to them on the release of karylle artie's medina was their. the whole case has drawn criticism fr

for security and cooperation in europe who had previously condemned last year's constitutional referendum in turkey as unfair the turkish government has accused him of sympathizing with the outlawed p k k party. many turks fear the outcome of the weekend's election could be fixed allegations of tampering emerged after last year's constitutional referendum president erda one sharply rejected those accusations which were also made by international observers this time around those suspecting potential fraud are on high alert our correspondent you'll johan has this report from istanbul. christ. this video shocked millions of tests it was recorded during the constitutional referendum last year the footage purports to show dozens of ballot papers being stamped as valid after the vote. and her colleagues are still angry at this apparent evidence of irregularities and the prospect of it happening again this year. shah you've been in all of this is one reason why many people think elections in turkey a rigged. i don't believe last year's referendum really went the government's way through arses th

for security and cooperation in europe which is currently chaired by rome condo's visit does come just a day after a visit to moscow by the u.s. national security advisor john bolton insists that washington will still pull out of a key nuclear weapons treaty with russia while playing down fear is it will spark an arms race but despite the tensions between the two countries at the moment the mood of the talks at times was lighthearted little group all new as far as i remember there is an eagle on the u.s. national emblem and there are thirteen arrows in one fruit and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peace through policy in the other my question is did your ego eat all the olives and leave just the arrows. and grateful for the opportunities because the i'm going to have frozen and hopefully i'll have smelters for you but i didn't bring any more all of. them that's what i thought. well during the talks john bolton said that the treaty was outdated and should be revised to include china and he accused the russian side of violating its terms something denied by moscow whi

for security and cooperation in europe should look into the actions by the times peace maker prince personal data of people it calls the country's enemies its so-called black list has been strongly criticized the broad after some of those named were murdered a spur of the limb called to shut down the website when it published details on former german chancellor gerhard schroeder the u.n. says peacemaker violates the right to privacy and the presumption of innocence. a spring in gideon levy is a columnist at the israeli newspaper ha'aretz good evening to you gideon what do you think of this publishing journalist photographs under such headlines of it this puts the journalists at any risk. i'm not sure it's about risk because finally if someone were really to get and usually she can do it with all the social media today nothing is really private and by the way i guess that most if not all the journalists in sputnik any n r t are not ashamed in working there and have no reason to be ashamed and i guess they all are ready to be exposed we have nothing i mean journalists in general have

for security and cooperation in europe should look into the actions by the times peacemaker prints the personal data of people it calls the country's enemies its so-called black list has been strongly criticized abroad after some of those names were murdered last month burning coal to shut down the website when it published details on former german chancellor gerhard schroeder the un says that peacemaker violates the right to privacy and presumption of innocence author and russia analyst martin says he's not surprised at the attacks on sputnik given that its views differ radically from the mainstream western agenda. put. a radio station which had to curage the russian point of view directly from perceived problem russian point of view. that really jars was a lot of people in britain because they found. followed very very difficult to counter. the usual accusations that it is biased and so on is if you like normal in the information war all weapons are being used russia is the main target in europe and therefore it's not surprising the support that has been picked out as our two years i

online again from the organization for security and cooperation in europe the o.s.c. they issued statements short statement they were online on social media saying that russia plays a key role and that there was a me for further dialogue but we also heard from a senior figure within uncle of merkel's party in germany the we heard from him in these one of the deputy chairman of the c.d.u. saying that now after this news that porton down was not able to link the chemical agents directly to russia now the onus lay on the united kingdom to provide further evidence that backs up their allegations that it was russia that was behind the poisoning of the skin of poles he said that whatever your opinions on russia international law has to be it. two of the stories here the study international law it would really require it's certainly amongst the nato allies that it followed the united kingdom that london should share with them the extra intelligence that they have that came from a senior figure of course with a. party there was a statement from the german government as well o

the organization for security and cooperation in europe has condemned the belorussian authorities actions as excessive action is when the premier bellerose has been under the authoritarian leadership of alexander lukashenko for twenty four years the opposition is severely restricted on a list of one hundred eighty countries reporters without borders puts belarus 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. now for some of the stores. around the world. moscow says it's considering retaliating against the new sizes from. washington and the u.s. state department announced the punitive measures in connection with the poisoning of former double agent sergers and his daughter yulia britain the u.s. and britain say russia was responsible the kremlin denies any responsible. u.s. authorities say a fifty one year old man has been arrested on suspicion of setting the massive holy fire in southern california is o

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

press freedom is also a key concern the organization for security and cooperation in europe oh i see reports to the arena qualities in coverage of political campaign since two thousand and fifteen out of the and his other forty came to power after the financial crisis of two thousand and one which swept away turkey is a stylish forty's now they are forty is working hard say avoid the recession which could see it going the same way critics say the line between the states and the government has become blurred and the gap between the support for error. and. has considerably seen on al-jazeera a stumble. so it's most news now in russians are reveling in football world cup success after becoming one of the first two teams to qualify for the knockout stages fans are basking in the host countries unexpectedly strong start the lowest ranked team is reached the last sixteen for the first time since nine hundred eighty six it was also a good day for spain and portugal after drawing against each other in the open a both picked up their first wins on the riches and reports from moscow. well it's

press freedom is also a key concern the organization for security and cooperation in europe or c. reports to the arena qualities and coverage of political campaigns since two thousand and fifteen out of the un and his office fartsy came to power after the financial crisis a few thousand one would swept away turkey is a stopper sparky's now there are forces working hard sell for the recession which could see it going the same way critics say the line between the states and the governments has become blurred and the gap between the support for arizona and the oppose the city has narrowed considerably sunan to solo al-jazeera the stumble a turkish court has extended the detention of an amnesty international leader is accused of belonging to a terror organization tomei kill it was has already spent more than a year in jail without trial the government says he's a supporter of exiled businessman for toulon golan the alleged mastermind of the twenty sixteen failed coup amnesty and other human rights groups accuse turkey of violating freedom of speech laws manias most powerful politician

for security and cooperation in europe says other candidates were unable to compete equally with or bonds ruling party voters had a wide range of political options but intimidating and zina phobic rhetoric media bias and opaque campaign financing constricted the space for genuine political debate. hindering voters' ability to make a fully informed choice the ability of contestants to compete on an equal basis was significantly compromised by the government's excessive spending on public information advertisements that amplified the ruling coalition's campaign message malaysia will go to the polls in a month's time in a vote seen as a big test for the prime minister najib razak he's been under severe political pressure because of corruption allegations which he rejects but now faces a challenge from his former mentor james ruling national front coalition has been in power for more than sixty years but support has a road in the past two elections the former prime minister mohammad was criticised for authoritarian rule and his twenty two years in power has returned to politics and star