is human rights watch saying about this. well let's remember has been that this conflict is now in its fifth here so obviously over the called course of the conflict a lot of agreements have been signed to demobilize child soldiers who are in various who are in the ranks of various armed groups now human rights watch is saying instead of children being demobilized there is actually a rise in the in the number of child recruitment unicef are really released a report in late december stating that there are more than sixteen thousand children in armed forces or armed groups but in late twenty seventeen their release reporting now there are more than one nine hundred thousand that's more than three thousand children who have been recruited over the course of south sudan's conflict in the past two years alone are not throughout the whole five years so obviously it's a big concern not just for human rights watch watch but also for organizations that are dealing with the demobilization process which is unicef there they put out a s

you know the human rights watch report? yes, i'm not... you should be familiar with it, because it's critical. absolutely. i'm familiar with human rights watch, but i'm not familiar with those specific incidents. but once again i ought to tell you that this country is much more complex than the reports that you receive. we have all kinds of ngos, and some of these ngos are family ngos, or even ethnic and tribal ngos, so the information that they spew out there is not necessarily objective. human rights watch, though, when it gives numerous reports ofjournalists being attacked, for instance while covering opposition protests, it's not an ethnic—based organisation. but the reporters who give them the information tend to have these ethnic biases. but the worry is, raphael tuju, that if a journalist writes something that's not to the government's liking, they will be harassed. for instance, walter menya, a reporterfor the nation media group, was arrested injune last year after he wrote stories allegedly implicating senior officials in the us

human rights watch say two hundred twenty families arrived at one iraqi capital and in a period of less than three weeks all of them from the villages west of the city of kirkuk we spoke to the organization senior research for iraq in qatar who believes this is collective punishment. these roundups and force displacement is being done by iraqi forces forces that answer to iraq's government these around it's done by iraq's army and with the collaboration of certain groups that also answer directly to the prime minister therefore you know what one can only presume that this is happening with the consent of the government even if it's not a strict government policy and therefore it begs the question of how the iraqi government can talk about any process of reconciliation if its own forces are participating in this kind of a campaign when i talk to security forces and account management and all of them were the first to admit these families these individuals have not committed a crime they haven't done anything wrong in the eyes of the iraqi legal system the only reason they're being treate

human rights watch interviewed twenty four people from one thousand families they said that b.m.i. and army for. rounded up the family with no warning and brought them to the camp after scream at military bases. when they asked why they were being displaced soldiers told them they were innocent but had to move to the camp because their relatives had joined i was human rights watch says two hundred twenty families arrived at one iraqi camp lejeune in a period of less than three weeks all of them from villages west of the city of kirkuk we spoke to the organization senior research for iraq and qatar who believes this is collective punishment use roundups and force displacement is being done by iraqi forces forces that answer to iraq's government views around its done by iraq's army and with the collaboration of certain groups that also answer directly to the prime minister therefore you know what one can only presume that this is happening with the consent of the government even if it's not a strict government policy and therefore it begs the question of how the iraqi government can

thing in iran now human rights watch is reporting that hundreds of families are being forcibly displaced the great claim iraqi officials are running up people suspected of having family that joined i sell. human rights watch interviewed twenty four people from one thousand families they said that an army forces rounded up the families with no warning and brought them to the camp after scream at military bases they said when they asked why they were being displaced soldiers told them they were innocent but had to move to the camp because their relatives had joined isis human rights watch say two hundred twenty families arrived at one iraqi camp alone in a period of less than three weeks all of them from villages west of the city of kirkuk we spoke to the organization senior research for iraq and qatar and believes this is collective punishment. these roundups and force displacement is being done by iraqi forces forces that answer to iraq's government these around it was done by iraq's army and with the collaboration of certain groups that also answer directly to the prime minister therefo

what human rights watch but i should believe the government would be hiring out because we are in the ceded my idea ok so there you. ok so let me ask you this question a u.n. official u.n. human rights official on the ground was monitoring events were thrown to the ground by security forces kicked and punched even though he was wearing a blue vest identified as your terrorist way of that so perhaps you should get more information i'm not just where you were telling me to get lots of i mean you're not aware of an attack on a unit where you see the new york times with no no you see while the formation of bodies. you see them but these we don't have that information the reality is that the congolese people a lot of congolese people support could be a lot of congolese people don't support. indeed indeed in the knowledge that there were actually without elections there was a poll done last year that showed ten percent of congolese people support the president thirty eight percent say they have backed the exiled opposition or later they're going to be wanted by ten percent of people what ar

might realize that honesty and human rights watch a lot is we want a government are. the only ones that are the sort of sorts of what stood out to these are unhappy because we are giving them now but not cheap western countries are not happy so i'm not like ok what about the respected head of the catholic church in your country who has compared life in congo to living in an open prison we said devastating for the catholic church let me put i have a problem with you it looks like we have a problem with some prudent man who are acting as politician about the head of the catholic church no that's not bad is what he says how can you. how can you kill men women children youths and old people young thing we all saw him do you are we now living in a prison already i'm sorry we now living in an overload of the demonstration cardinal or a muslim that says all we now living in an open prison it's a very. simple question it is the clergyman who is acting as a politician who said so but not the catholic church so he wants the song out by many other bishops. because if you just di

human rights watch amnesty international and why you the u.n. the cobbles in the catholic that you've dismissed not all i know you very much hard cheese and not ok one cardinal you know on the catholic church a very yes ok but do you dismissed all these people which is your right but what i don't get is why not one pretend that you're a democracy where no one thinks you just say you know what we don't can we think about. we don't care we got it by broadband see why doesn't the other raised three people where you say you are the freest years we are a democracy but we are free to interact with you who do you what do we want and what do we decided to interact with china we got problems we could belgium because the before market or nizar they wanted us to remain in partnership with them so my question is yes when all of this criticism from the international community is coming out you want to just say we don't care why pretend that you are a democracy where no one thinks you are we are a democracy because we are it is matter of fact he's not your mo

from human rights watch are going thinks this amounts to collective punishment these roundups and force displacement is being done by iraqi forces forces the answer to iraq's government you know what one can only presume that this is happening with the consent of the government even if it's not as strict government policy and therefore it begs the question of how the iraqi government can talk about any process of reconciliation if its own forces are participating in this kind of a campaign when i talk to security forces and account management and all of them were the first to admit these families these individuals have not committed a crime they haven't done anything wrong in the eyes of the iraqi legal system and the only reason they're being treated this way is because they have had a relative who joined isis now that is collective punishment. explosion has hit the u.s. city of philadelphia worth street celebrations turned violent following american football's biggest game of the year underdogs the philadelphia eagles won their first ever super bowl title against the new england patri

rights watch hugh williams and with your take on the matter we appreciate it thank you so much. the first day of the annual munich security conference has seen germany's defense minister criticizing u.s. moves to cut spending on the united nations' arcilla funder line also argued that diplomacy and development aid are just as essential as military strength our political correspondent lyndal crane caught up with the german defense minister have a list and minister you said in your remarks that you were concerned that some countries have been decreasing support for the united nations for diplomacy for development aid and you said that the development worker needs the soldier and vice versa one might conclude that you were sending a message across the transom across the atlantic with your remarks well i think we need a pact of comprehensive security because we know one cannot be without the other there is no security without stepping ization reconsolidation. and economic development but you know yes i want to send a message over the atlantic but at the same time i want to send a me

based human rights watch they say that they have evidence from witnesses saying that turkish forces have been shooting at refugees trying to flee to safety inside turkey has categorically denied this they say that they still have an open door policy pointing the fact that there are three and a half million syrians inside turkey but this is not the first time human rights watch has made this allegation they've made a detailed report last year making similar claims again rip rejected by un cross but these cases will add to the growing international concerns over the plight of these refugees given the fact that its operation intensifies the prospect that several hundred thousand civilians could be displaced and many believe the head will be heading towards turkey turkey of this operation and will increase as will concern over the civilians in that region daryn jones in a sample thank. it's a minute since have claimed responsibility for killing a russian pilot off to shooting down his plane while the fighter jet came down over it in northwestern syria it's the last remaining rebel province i

this is not the first report that has been put out by human rights watch on child recruitment in south sudan it says that children as young as thirteen has been have have been recruited to fight in the conflict which is now in its fifth year unicef also put out a report in late ten fifteen saying that there are sixteen thousand children who are recruited by armed groups now that report has changed into late in twenty seven to reflect new figures which says that more than one nine hundred thousand children have been recruited by armed groups in the conflict this is and this is a problem that has been going on since house and started fighting in december twenty fifth teen and rights groups and children's organizations have called for a halt to this activity of recruiting child soldiers now a lot of things make it easier to recruit child soldiers in south sudan first thing is the displacement with sixty five percent of the people who are displaced in the conflict are mostly are mainly women and children now the figures of displacement right now stands at four million people disclose displ

counterterrorism program director at human rights watch spoke to us on the group's fighting. i think you just described to you what i saw in iraq residents are very desperate from their home homes and because of the high risk and because of the few working offered to these primitive young men you can go to a couple of ground that's in the city and who are about fifty dollars you can hire people to go to your house. you know but also well and. run and so war this is at a time when you know they're not trained to do this it's very dangerous but us and many other countries. they need to provide more support what sort of support. to be more you might be equipment more funding and an increase in number of the miners and greatly increase in to treating the. residents of the mining while there have been some mighty efforts to wreck. the mining we're going to say she's funded by the international coalition or through training this is not sufficient compared to the elite and local residents are desperate for more support for the. russian athletes have won their second medal at the win

human rights watch says armed groups linked to the self-styled libyan national army are preventing thousands of internally displaced families from and turning to benghazi and january general khalifa haftar who leads the l n a instructed his forces to the still take the return of displaced people they were part of an estimated thirteen thousand families who fled benghazi after heart launched a campaign against armed groups there in two thousand and fourteen but human rights watch says many libyans are reporting torture forced disappearances and property theft upon their return so ahead on al jazeera we take a look at the grassroots mobile network that's helping mexico's indigenous communities keep in touch with the rest of the world. hello there there's lots of fine calm weather across the northern parts of asia at the moment we do have this little area of cloud though that's been drifting its way across japan that's a developing feature and it's still with us as we head through the day on friday it's very very close to that southeastern corner of honshu so it does look like tokyo will catch

rights watch and think that you are to respond to it because this is part of human rights watch is world report twenty eighteen this is what they said about your party they said the security forces in p y d controlled areas conducted a series of raids to close opposing political parties offices and detained and harassed members of the political opposition activists most were detained without any charges brought against them why do you not allow other political party doesn't it doesn't sound like democratic countries or at least it's not true we have a low for parties to establish parties and very is now at this moment about twenty two parties we should all over that have permission and if in the area different parties but those. some part is located in turkey mainly specially their heads and trying to do without permission they are trying to. do i think of it to be acted without any permission because they don't want to recognize the system over there so this is different we don't have parties i mean we have a lot of partners is very it is very democratic it's needed only one hundred mem

rights watch melkus will. since september we've been looking for an eyewitness who can testify to the fact that the men were captured they were captured alive and later they were killed by kurdish security forces be a leash and and what we found two weeks ago is the actual great site so now we know where the bodies. were after they were still and where the bodies were then burry what was in the report that we've released today we include excessive material including photos videos satellite imagery of the straight sites as well as footage of my face that we are called to film the coalition to demand that we quickly regional government demonstrate that they are taking the seriously that they're holding those commanders in place is that all it's really contingent on the international community make a very strong on this matter and make sure that the tonic that. tensions are already threatening germany's new grand coalition also the social democratic leader insisted his no longer sake and minister ariel post for m

rights watch has called for international support in clearing the rubble and demining rocka it says almost five hundred civilians were injured in the three months after the liberation and many were killed in its report the organization also highlighted the growing risk of more civilians being killed as people return to the devastated city who are a counterterrorism program director at human rights watch spoke to us on the group's findings i think you just described to you what i saw in iraq residents are very desperate to go and check on their home homes and because of the high risk and because a few working offer to these very many young men you can go to a couple of us in the city and who are about fifty dollars you can hire people to go.

the influx of refugees is libya human rights watch says the u.s. tried to prevent asylum seekers and irregular milligan's coming by shifting responsibility for migration control onto. the borders no to build libya in ways that expose people to human rights abuse do you accept display i accept that a much better job could be done of honoring the human rights of people trying to get into europe that does not mean letting every one of them in at least voting and those in going to be closer to we know consciously that these peoples are in libya in a failed state we agree that these people are living in the failed state only with the argument we don't want to have them in europe our human rights guarantees extent of what we do outside europe and that has to be held in mind regardless of whether it's turkey or libya or any other country it's the same degree of attention for the basic human rights and dignity of those people but then as i say i really want to insist once they get here we have to do a better job of protecting their human rights that is no

rights watch accused your police of beating up some of the people detained and denying their right to a lawyer under two new zealand law that's a direct violation of your own laws. i'm not aware of this practice because i don't know from where you're reading this to new zealand legal human right yes visited twenty three suspects yes in the morning or gear prison on january the seventeenth they reported that most of them had marks consistent with beatings on their bodies persistent allegations of mistreatment mistreatment of police see a deliberate policy introducer today i can tell you know if there are so your memories are out of control i know but if there are answers didn't i can't i can't say what had presented the didn't happen but this is not what they can affirm to today but this is not a deliberate state police to get back the military is not it's pretty callous then if it isn't a state policy because it's going on there is no witnesses were interviewed and victims were interviewed as well according to human rights watch some people were arrested simply for distributing leafle

and human rights watch reveals how antipsychotic drugs are being misused by american nursing homes. and when you see who he was really driving to you could even talk to. thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate popped in. a british judge has ruled that an arrest warrant for julian assad remains in force meaning he's still on i able to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london and the president of ecuador has just given a statement saying he will continue to protect the way he leaks founder artie's anastasio truck and has the latest on the standoff. it was expected today that a judge would move here outside the court behind me to potentially lift the arrest warrant put in place by british officials in connection to the initial allegations made against julian a songe by swedish officials his legal team has been saying since since those were dropped it's time to drop the arrest warrant however the judge here has decided that at this stage this would not happen quite yet so this was technically the last legal hurdle for jul

because they would perceive it as an infringement on the human rights watch is urging bahrain to stop arbitrarily stripping nationals of their citizenship it says that eight people have been made stateless and deported to iraq over the past week videos appeared online showing some of them saying goodbye to their families two weeks ago appeals court upheld a decision to deport them for damaging state security but according to human rights watch since twenty twelve bahrain has stripped five hundred seventy eight nationals of their citizenship leaving many of them stateless just last week on january thirty first bahrain stripped forty seven people of their citizenship on terrorism related charges and three days ago on february first another twenty five people lost their citizenship. passenger trains collided with a freight train in the us state of south carolina killing at least two people the past just service was carrying around one hundred forty people when it hit the freight train near the town of k.c. at least seventy people injured in the crash of being treated in hospital. yet so

this is not the first report that is being put out by human rights watch on child recruitment in south sudan it says that children as young as thirteen has been have have been recruited to fight in the conflict which is now in its fifth year unicef also put out a report in late ten fifteen saying that there are sixteen thousand children who are recruited by armed groups now that report has a change in delayed in seventeen to reflect new figures which says that more than one hundred thousand children have been recruited by armed groups in the conflict this is a this is a problem that has been going on since house and started fighting in the temple twenty thirteen and rights groups and children's organizations have called for a halt to this activity of recruiting child soldiers now a lot of things make it easier to recruit child soldiers in south sudan first thing is the displacement with sixty five percent of the people who are displaced in the conflict are mostly are mainly women and children now the figures of displacement right now stands at four million people disclose displaced not

that was boris dittrich of human rights watch. lets tell you what is coming up. the top spy chiefs all lined up talking to the senate committee, and we will be talking about the threat that they see as opposed to the united states by north korea. stay with us. we will be back in a few minutes. hello. a relatively quiet weather story at the moment, but that said there are two storms to point out. one is moving away from the southern philippines, and this is starting to weaken as it moves across cool waters. further south and east, this was tropical cyclone gita, quitea and east, this was tropical cyclone gita, quite a significant storm particularly for the island of tonga, the biggest they had seen in 70 years. power lines down, it com pletely 70 years. power lines down, it completely demolish the parliament building with significant disruption across the capital of the island. we saw sustained winds of 160 mph gusts, well in excess of that, then it moved across the islands of fiji, but it continues to track in a westerly direction and continues to wea ken westerl

the international human rights watch and other human rights organizations are not allowed to swell to visit the country so it's clear the government of. fortunately targeting human rights. today and what about the beales condition i read earlier that when this sentence was read out he smiled he gave a peace sign but previously he's had health problems while in prison that led to a pardon a couple of years ago what are conditions like for him in there at the moment. what wild today is that fortunately placed. members in a cell together with four or five members of the rain ice this branch. the government the liberal place and the prisons. health concerns. in the bahamas center for human rights express their concerns on his health conditions and his. party to provide him with medical care so his situation. is quite serious at the personal level however his position. is basically. on his right to express his fears to defy the broad's of. regardless of their religious backgrounds regardless of their identities. it's why he was smiling to court and he had the sign of victories so movement

rights watch you were criticized by canadian various groups. oh so what if we put him into a hypocrite i won't. or no i don't accept this that's what many would say looking at the double standard. should select their words more carefully because world bank wrote the loan wrote the book when it said that the only case of successful transformational world work in the ga was world number one for former reformist country ok under the i'm not i've been questioned you told me a lot of people we locked up criminals georgia that was one of the most criminal in the world you say you long to work out you said you locked up criminals you say you locked up the criminals right and i see gee the international crisis group said they were worried about your increasingly authoritarian behavior human rights watch said your government forces use violent excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations in the capital the international committee to protect journalists pointed out you shut down two television channels these are not all criminals because i could r

welcome back a human rights watch report has exposed how drugs are misused in u.s. nursing homes victims' relatives say stronger anti psychotic medicines are used to control residents with dementia their rights group has released some of their testimonies why are you so sleepy did a. one nurse to whom he was. totally drugged to you couldn't even talk to my mother's name is laura has been cooler she's seventy five years old where we went to see her she wouldn't talk she wouldn't laugh she wouldn't cry with me do anything she would just sit and stare like she wasn't even there if you have dementia and somebody in a nursing facility doesn't understand what your needs are you could be given an anti-psychotic drug and you end your life not being yourself not being understood and there is no reason that this should happen according to the study almost one hundred eighty thousand people mostly with dementia are given anti psychotic drugs each week drugs are often administered without the consent of residents all their relatives we spoke to one of the research is behind the

rights watch spoke to us on the group's findings. just describe to you what i saw in iraq rather than a very desperate to come there home and because of the high risk and because of the few working offered to these for many young men you can go to a couple of rounds in this for about fifty dollars you can hire people to go clear your house for this reason but also. vengeful remnants of war this is at a time when they're not trained to do the very dangerous and many other countries. they need to provide more support what sort of support. to be more men more funding and an increased number of the miners and very early in the increase in the treating the. local residents the mining while there have been some mining i don't direct. by the mining organizations funded by the international coalition or through training this is not sufficient because the need and local resident. for more support for the. the foreign minister of the not the lens has admitted that he lied by tearing the lot and we are talking up and missions to reform the salt

rights watch spoke to us on the group's . just describe to you what i saw in iraq residents are very desperate to go and check on their home homes and because of the high risk and because a few working off are too nice for many young men you can go up to a couple of nights in the city and who are about fifty dollars you can hire people to go clear your house. you know but also. run and so war this is a time when you know they're not trained to do this it's very dangerous and many other countries. they need to provide more support what sort of support. to be more meant more funding and an increase in number of the miners and greatly increase in the treating the. local residents the mining while there have been some of the money i direct. to the mining going to say she's funded by the international coalition or through training this is not sufficient compared to the need and local residents are desperate for more support for the efforts. in iraq civilians are struggling to rebuild their homes with the country's second largest c