the europe and central asia division of human rights watch thank you. well turkey as we heard also faces intense criticism for violating human rights and a deteriorating rule of law we mentioned earlier in the program the case of german turkish journalist denis you tell who has been in prison in turkey for almost a year you tell is one of more than one hundred and forty journalists being held in turkey after a failed attempt to overthrow the government in twenty sixteen w. spoke to a turkish court reporter who has covered many of the journalist trials there have a less. at breakfast shanahan shushed cohen isn't ready checking to see if they have been any more arrests for years the thirty year old has worked as a court reporter covering the trials of her connie. i check if other journalists were imprisoned since the police weren't at my place at five am they could have struck somewhere else. she has lost her sense of humor without it she says she wouldn't be able to last in her job. she reports from the heavily guarded palace of justice in istanbul the p

williamson director off europe and central asia division of human rights watch a pleasure to have the un d.w. thank you so much. turning now to the u.s. and this coming saturday marks daryn transfer asked fully an office as u.s. president we've spent this week looking back at the last twelve eventful months in the white house or hire was one of the battleground states that handed trampas election victory in two thousand and sixteen but has delivered on the promises to voters and washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon visited ohio to find out. my hunting belly in ohio a long time democratic stronghold that was once a hobby of the american steel industry but these times are long gone president donald trump one ohio in twenty sixteen by promising to bring jobs back to the region. tracy winbush believes in trump she hosts a talk show on local radio and after she gets off the air she relaxes and the cigar down. he is earned respect because of what he wants to do and how he wants to get it done so he's not republican he's not democrat he's just an american who use the system for his t

recta off to europe and central asia division of human rights watch. where you executive director had to say that europe has come in for a lot of criticism in the report by your organization give us give us more about what are your reasons for concern i mean had to do with the e.u. our headline this year is that the e.u. has been treating human rights as an optional extra and that certainly is the case to do with refugee migration policy the focus has been very much on securing borders keeping refugees away rather than giving them a humanitarian treatment when they arrive and applying a fair. refugee policy across the continent the efforts to push refugees away to places like libya and turkey are of serious concern. and the rise of populous as we said in countries like austria has been fueling anti immigrant anti asylum seeker messages across europe now describing human rights as an optional extra is a very damning criticism and one of the central concerns is that europe seems to have outsourced its refugee asylum politics beyond the borders of europe

central asia division of human rights watch you it's good to have you back on the show so you know we we heard your boss there basically saying trump is part of the blame here for this increase in oppression but these these despots these dictators these authoritarian leaders weren't they oppressing their people before trump became president they would indeed us true but the message that he sent out on the very first day in office america first read for them human rights lost in a sense because they understood that's what he meant really that he didn't he wasn't going to focus on human rights and for countries like egypt and turkey and kazakhstan whose leader was in the white house this week the u.s. is an important a key partner one of the most important partners and if on the u.s. agenda with those countries human rights is at the bottom of the list or not even on the list it means those countries know they get a free pass you know we talk every time this report comes out and the report does have impact at least in the beginning because it makes news but i'm wondering in a world wher