bangladesh is rejoicing. justice has almost been done against those who committed crimes against humanity during the bangladesh war for secession from pakistan in 1971. the court recently bangladesh's biggest islamic party to be illegal, effectively banning it from taking part in elections. >> i am very happy from my heart and soul. i am happy. my words to our government, he has to be hanged. >> several leaders, including two from the bangladesh nationalist party, are still on trial at the international crimes tribunal, which was set up in 2010. as elections approach in the country, there is a rising demand for a speedy trial with war criminals. opinion polls show that the war crimes trials ranked among the top three positive steps that the ruling government has taken. one bangladesh journalist said that the verdict is a victory for the victims of the war. >> we have gathered here to celebrate the victory of our movement for the trial of the war criminals and for the capital punishment of the war criminals, a

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people in bangladesh must be fed up with this. you can vote for one side, the government who you may or may not like, but the opposition is not representing interests because it is not turning up. >> yes. that's one of the key problems. the parliament, awes you say in the report, it is supposed to hold the deposit to account. if the opposition is .cotting and taking advantage of the constitutional permission that allows up to 90 days of absence. what if it becomes an opportunity given by the constitution for personal absence is a deliberate policy on the part of the opposition party, or the coalition to take a deliberate absence from the parliament. >> i'll interrupt you again, sorry. the constitution - does there need to be an amendment a chance of a constitution amendment? i think two things. one is about the constitutional amendment, the provision that i mentioned. which is misused. it doesn't allow the parties and block coalition that is an issue. that has to be done by the parliament members themselves, to stay away from the

bangladesh is the second largest garment producer in the world. most of the products go to major western retailers, but the workers make very little money and earn $38 a month. bangladesh has said it will improve safety standards, and there's been pressure on western buyers to demand reform. it seems nothing has been done. >>> the u.s. president has accused of his republican opponents of holding the economy to ransom. barack obama is trying to end a deadlock, which has forced a partial shutdown of the government. he also called on republicans to vote on increasing government spending limits so that the u.s. can avoid defaulting on its debt. >> the american people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their jobs. you don't get a chance to call your bank and say, i'm not going to pay my mortgage this month until you throw in a new car and an xbox if you're in negotiations around buying somebody's house, you don't say, let's talk about the price i'm going to pay and if you don't give me the price, then i'm going to burn down your house. that's not

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bangladesh finds itself in a catch twenty two situation down to continue developing its booming leather industry and at the same time respond to the health and environmental concerns of its population. to deal with the situation the department of the environment has appointed mr choudary. his mission is to bring the factories up to standard and to sanction the polluting industrialists that's to say ninety nine percent of time. and how can i say that it's easy to do much complicated chimney challenger steam express conan and also follow the race and then trends because. each in their benefit and dry after having. we raise so much pressure from the destroyer owners from the high ups following complaint about pollution mr choudary and scientific team have come to take some samples. no longer yes are you listening to me not all along they do find out which factories are responsible i think a bunch of the group led with what do the. money. we've got to get samples. telling. you to buy did the pollution is increasing there were swimming once over here how it becomes so why is it that there. a

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you see you see the washed polluted area that i have ever seen in bangladesh and in many other countries. maybe yeah maybe he didn't get hurt yet and they're all factories. releasing. we did live we waste. seventy percent of the total position that is being caused to this river is coming from the tennessee industries dumping chromium into the ybor waka and it's very difficult to take chromium out of your system. if you're such a slacker is contaminated with chromium and if it is contaminated activity that you can't even cure rate that means you're actually exposing the entire population of the city into a very deadly n.s.e. just. to turn loose of poisoned the city's entire canal system. was the main artery of. drink water and fish to the population. today it's the third most polluted river in the world no living will can is and can survive in it and the stench it exudes makes even sailing there is a difficult. issue shiny of. yellow. you don't even need to. show but it would. cost on the nose the water is poison can't be any fish with the tanneries. and our forefathers were fishermen and

plus british and american retailers admit that their clothes were made at a bangladesh factory destroyed by fire. ♪ ♪ >> an emergency cabinet meeting has been called in libya after the apparent kidnapping of the libyan prime minister. members of the libyan revolutionary operations chamber took ali zeidan from a hotel in tripoli and are now holding him at an unknown location. the militia is under the command of the military. it says it was acting on the authority of the justice ministry. al jazerra has more from tripoli. >> reporter: we talked to people, commanders in the revolutionary chamber here and they confirm that they have detained ali zeidan on account of what they call a bribery crime and that dates back to last september when ali zeidan september checked to what we tall to bribe the people who are blocking oil refinery in east lib ya. we also talked to the minister of justice he said that he was not briefed on the detention in advance. and he also confirmed that ali zeidan has been detained. we also talked to the general prosecutor because the revolutionary chamber commander

our special war crimes tribal in bangladesh sentenced a leading figure from the main opposition party to death and he is a member of the bangladesh national list party and guilty of charges relating to the civil war in the 1970s. previous verdicts against leaders of another opposition group party sparked violent prozest and it was set up in 2010 to investigate war crimes between the 1971 war of independence with pakistan and al jazeera chad joins us live now from outside the court in beka, what has been the reaction there among the public in bangladesh, not only to this decision but to these trials overall? >> well, if you move around in the street you wouldn't see anything going on. there is a handful of people and freedom fighters association were in front of there and they are jubilant justice has been done. if you ask on average the bangladesh what they think of the war crime, they say they do want justice but people have question marks because it has been marked in controversy. just today i was speaking to some people and a document that is a draft of the verdict actually was lea

we went to bangladesh in june to look at what was happening with walmart supply chain in bangladesh. we were interested in a pair of shorts, part of one marks faded glory line, that had been found in the ruins of has a ring, which was a factory that burned down last november, killing at least one hundred 12 workers. we spoke to workers, activists and spoke to different people along the supply chain. one of the things we found very it is very convenient for large corporations and large retailers like walmart to not know very much about their supply chain. entry main in the bark of -- in the dark about that. they give some plausible deniability when there is an accident. this is something an auditor who used to work for walmart told us , something advocates in u.s. like scott nova from the workers rights consortium told us, and it was played out by what we saw in the supply chain in bangladesh. at the very bottom of the supply chain, what we found is there is very little oversight and you have factories that are basically in people's backyards, in their apartments. large corporations p

and in half an adult salary the children of bangladesh also toil for the leather industry to contribute to the nation's economy and to not trivial. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commerce the country's strengths is its works all. before we take that bomb of this we continue to stay in the competitive level because we have been a large young force coming into the market embarrassed about two million work force . in the coming to market the president infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private media and these people are waiting for you know benefit disguised employment maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage obama. elicit workers poti made up with child labor those figures enable us to tell how many children a working in the leather industry that they are everywhere despite the fact that bangladesh is a signatory to the international convention on the rights of the child its child labor is not clandestine and. eighty percent of bangladeshis live on less than two euros a day the whole family

and in half an adult salary the children of bangladesh also toil for the leather industry to contribute to the nation's economy and do not trickle. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commerce the country's strengths is its work souls. before we take that bomb of this we continue to stay in the competitive level because we have been a large young force coming into the market everywhere it's about two million workforce. coming to market the president infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private media and these people are waiting for you know benefit guys. from that maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage obama the. elicit workers party made up of child labor those figures enable us to tell how many children a working in the leather industry that they're everywhere despite the fact that bangladesh is a signatory to the international convention on the rights of the child its child labor is not clandestine and. eighty percent of bangladeshis live on less than two years a day the whole family has to

putting to transparency international bangladesh is one of the twenty most corrupt countries in the world in his area bag nine of the largest turner is are owned by government members. after being. up or having already. told try to take some help from the get free this day. good example from our legal action. to try to get some help from now i hope so but we didn't allow this. already. every day it's the government gives and the government gives invasively because they get heavy on their money because the gallery owners have a way but and then we put their money back again. with economic. ups and downs in the fight at the last day belong to the old sang i and the rest that life today meet taking little baby if briefly now take place. do we speak your language or not a day of school music programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angola's kid in the stories. you hear. detroit all teach spanish find out more visit eye to eye on t.v. dogs comb. play. play. clock i. in two thousand and three the supremes called raised the alone ordering the h

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over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center full of the production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year as a country that has very bad suburbs the capital dhaka around three hundred ten there is field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. that was more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses and tanner is sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i bet it was. it. was. the skins arrive like this every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has very bad tenor is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here that the cycle of leather tending begins. every day around one thousand tonnes of skins arrive directly from avatar's all over the country to be stored in this hangar. goat in cowskin derive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. was what you wanted to say i was in the morning we get the deliveries and we cover the skins and lie rinse them

was in the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for letter production that this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country was in has very bad suburbs the capital dhaka around three hundred tanneries occupy a field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. that was more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses in tanaris sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i was. this. was. all skins arrive like this every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has area back ten or is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here that the cycle of leather tending begins. every day around one thousand tonnes of skins arrive directly from albatross all over the country to be stored in this hangar. go to in callsigns arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. was what you want age hey i was in the morning we get the deliveries. we cover the skins and lie to them and drive th

boycotting power is normal in bangladesh now. in the past five years opposition m.p.'s have skimmed mormore -- skipped more than 80f working days between january 2009 and january 2012 politicians didn't show up or walwalked out 7 and a half thoud times we have the executive director of transparency international of bang l banglad. says one of the key problems is the government is not held to account. if the opposition is fighting and taking advantage of the constitutional provision that allows 90 days of absence from the parliament, what becomes an opportunity given by the constitution has now become a deliberate policy on the part of the opposition party or the coalition to take a deliberate step from the parliament. so that has to be banned. that has to be totally stopped by amending the constitution. there are two things. one is about the constitution amend the. and the provision i have mentioned it doesn't allow the parties and the bloc, that is a misuse. that has to be done by the parliament members themselves. they have to stay away from this culture. and secondl

bangladesh is the second largest garment district in the world. most products go to major western retailers, but the workers make very little money, around $38 a month. bangladesh has previously said it will improve safety standards. and there has been pressure western buyers to demands reform. but it seems nothing has been done. al jazerra. >> staying in bangladesh some news just in a special tribunal has found a former government minister and senior opposition member guilty of crimes against humanity. the charges are from the nation's 1971 independence war. and they have been sentence today life imprisonment. he's the second party member to be found guilt by the tribunal. >>> the u.n. is being sued for infecting haiti's water supplies with cholera. scientists say u.n. peacekeepers tour blame for spreading the disease that's killed about 8,300 people and infected hundreds of thousands more. as kristen explains, the victims will have an uphill battle to hold the u.n. responsible in court. >> reporter: they are farmers, like him. and lawn dresses,

seven people are killed in a fire in bangladesh. the latest incident underlines the unsafe conditions in the garment industry there, six months after a factory collapse left over 1000 dead. you are watching "france 24." two more french hostages have been identified. if nicolas henin and photographer pierre torres went missing over three months ago in syria. the information has been kept confidential but today their families decided to make a public announcement. our international affairs editor douglas herbert joins us now. what do we know more about the state of these two men and why the families decided to release the information? >> first, let's go viewers who they are. two more hostages have been added to the growing french toll of hostages throughout the world. most of them today in africa, specifically west africa dating back to 2010. at least 10 or 11 french hostages held. we found out these two new hostages, we found out about them through a statement released to their support committee, hostages in. one of them is nicolas h

. >> it is a been six months since a building collapsed in bangladesh. have conditions changed for workers there. >> it's the start of the tourist season in egypt. trouble elsewhere in the country means there is almost no one here. ♪ >> the syrian government has freed 62 female detainees as part of an ambition prisoner exchange. it involves three countries and illustrate how far syria's civil war has spilled across the middle east. most of the women were realized between lebanon and syria. many have returned to their homes in syria as part 69 deal t of a deal brokere broker the thn on saturday. two turkish airline pilots were freed. and finally on wednesday, 62 female prisoners were realized - released by the syrian government. our correspondent joins us live at the border crossing. good to see you again. i will ask you about the significance of this deal in a minute. do we think for a moment that this prisoner exchange is complete or there may be more female prisoners released by the syrian government? >> well the expectation is that there will be mor

insurgent the third deadly incidents at a factory in bangladesh since last november. six months ago a factory collapse there killed more than 1100 people. the driver i've monster truck that plowed in to a crowd of spectator a the a an air snow mexico is facing manslaughter charges, nine people killed and 80 others injured in saturday's crash. the driver, 51-year-old, told the court his helmet came off as his trunk bounced over old cars everything claimed he got knocked knocked out when his head hit a metal bar signed a truck. >>> the pilots of asian a flight 214 are raising the possibility that mechanical failure played a part in the crash. they say the auto throttle that controls engine power and the speed of the aircraft may have malfunctions on the both 7770 without enough speed a plane can quickly lose altitude. but on july 6th, flight 214's landing gear hit a seawall just short of the runway at san francisco international airport. >>> america's children have been falling behind other country when his it comes to subjects like reading and math and now a new study

member of the bangladesh nationalist party. more than 2 million people left syria according to the united nations but not just the neighbors feeling the pressure, thousands of refugees make the dangerous journey by boat to europe too and we report from a small fishing town where some have ended up. >>> exhausted and hungry and they traveled from the towns of dara across the desert to libya. they then paid $2000 each to get on a small boat to europe and rescued by the italian coast guard after three days at sea. >> translator: we were sitting up on the top deck and we looked underneath and shocked to find another 300 people below us and there was a storm and the boat took on water and that is when we called for help. >> reporter: this man said the italian authorities forced them to be fingerprinted and beating some of the refugees. >> we think this is a free country. this is itly as you know it. it's a democracy. why they did us like this i don't know. >> reporter: local authorities deny using force. the southern town is home to

the o p significance figure from the bangladesh party has been found guilty of the bangladesh war of independence in 1983. >>> south korea is celebrating 65 years since the foundation of it's armed forces. to mark the event it's staging one of the biggest ever military parades. h11,000 soldiers are cities participating in air and ground demonstrations. it's a show of force for north korea as the neighbour continues their expected nuclear weapons program. >>> the president is cutting short his france visit after fighting between insurgents. al qaeda says it was behind a suicide bombing on saturday. two bombers blew themselves up in timbuktu killing 16 soldiers. only civilians were killed along with four fighters. >>> in peru illegal gold mining is worth more than the drug trade. the government is trying to crack down on the wild cat mines. as we report from the district the miners say it's too restrictive and they are going on strike. illegal miners in the gold rich amazon region say they are defending their right to work. they launched a nation-wide strike with large protests. >> the

. >>> clashes during the general strike under way in bangladesh have caused at least five more deaths. rosalyn in bangkok is following the story. >>> the three-day strike led by the largest opposition bangladesh nationalist party. another five people were killed bringing the death toll since sunday to at least ten. opposition party members are taking part in the strike demanding a nonpartisan caretaker government be put in place before elections due to take place by january. the government opposition supporters took to the streets of the capital on monday. the opposition is demanding the administration of the prime minister be replaced. it says the current constitution does not allow for a neutral caretaker government. >> because of the fact that in this country, the political parties don't trust each other. we had the system, and unfortunately in this government, they've brought in the parties and government during election time. so this demand is mainly for a nonpartisanship election government. >> the ruling party shows no sign of backing down, and says the election will take place

>> no, not really. >> i don't want them to come from china. >> what about from bangladesh? a lot of their stuff comes from language la desh, and a lot of unsafe factories. >> that is more as well, but i know more about the issues in china. >> and low cost solutions are hard to come by. >> you buy clothes, and i think all fabrics are produced there. >> this is a brand that we're really happen to have. >> reporter: buki's owner says that that's not true, and the problems could be fixed if u.s. retailers were willing to cut into their profits. >> a lot of people say it's going to be passed onto the consumers, but the kind of improvements that have to take expensive. >> reporter: the more popular ethical fashion becomes, the more big retailers are likely to change to be fashionable. >> that's it for us here on america tonight. please remember, if you would like to comment on any of the stories you've seen tonight, we want to hear from you. log onto the website, aljazeera.com/america tonight. can you meet our team, and get sneak previews on the stories we're working o. and the o

by developing the right sort of attitudes and ultimately making defaulters accountable and finally bangladesh is going through a political turbulence with one of the m.p.'s so how could their chowdhury being sentenced hanging by death by hanging sorry what is just as going to be on that i take a hard line. see as far is this issue is concerned like any other country. right they have their own laws they have a legal system that is like a legal system in all our countries it's in the band the judiciary is independent of the executive this is a very very sensitive issue in bangladesh because. the entire national movement was and was based on certain principles and aspirations which need closure to the sense of betrayal that the freedom fighters felt and therefore after all these years and several rounds of tragedy in bangladesh an attempt to find clothes through the judiciary and through open public trials is something that they are attempting to do now. it's for their own people really to judge to accept or to moderate it or modify it and i think it would be it really would not be fair on our p

. >> reporter: war time law in bangladesh to seize land from enemies of the state is under scrutiny as our correspondent reports and experts say around one million minority families have lost their homes. >> and she is worried it could take decades more to win it back and many of the hindus are part of the act. >> translator: my grandfather was a landowner and yes he was a minister, yes, he was a key part of the language movement but said he fled to india during the war and he is an enemy. >> vested properties act and research say it eased 1.6 million acres of land from almost a million minority families over the last 50 years. >> translator: any grandfather and uncle died in the struggle to liberate bangladesh and i'm the daughter and my identity and existence is tied to this land. >> the house behind me belongs to an hindu man and he says a political activist took his property to build a factory building and the building collapsed in april killing over 1,000 factory workers and left his home in ruins. minorities who had land seized are locked in long court battles and the hindu popul

. >>> in bangladesh a raging fire kills nine people at a garment factory. it appears to be another case of unsafe working conditions in a country that has suffered a string of recent deadly mishaps. >>> in haiti a rare legal move as advocates sue the united nations accusing u.n. peacekeepers of introducing a deadly cholera epidemic. the disease has killed thousands of people there. >>> good morning, and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. president obama is expected to nominate janet yellen to replace ben bernanke as the head of the federal reserve. yellen is a respected economist who has a long history with the fed. patricia takes a closer look at the woman who could soon hold one of the most influential jobs in the world. >>> in the class photo of the g-7 financial leaders summit in may, she's the tiny one on the right, but don't let size fool you. janet yellen is poised to land the most powerful job of them all. the least contender to head the federal reserve built a career spanning academia and policy, including a long-standing relationship

boycotting parliament has become part of the political culture in bangladesh. so claims transparency national. the between 2009 and 2012 politicians didn't show up or walked out 7.5000 times. and we report the area. heated arguments used to be in parliament. lately those are rare. not because the parties don't get along. but said there is no one to argue it. transparency national says opposition m.p. ac's have skippf the parliament i. >> they are in parliament and if a member of parliament doesn't a attend is depriving his own constituents from being heard in parliament. so yes it does hurt. instead of critiquing parliament the on have avoided parliament and taken to the streets instead of. >> the speaker shutting down the microphones of the opposition. the opposition submitted 2500 adjournment motions in the span of the first four years of this parliament. would you believe that the government has not accepted a single not. >> the ruling party itself began the culture of boycotting parliament since it was in the opposition. today it's gotten worse. and there i