The context behind this strategy and weve got a comment from someone who says maybe this strategy now maybe its hit its breaking point with the American People so this is a tweet from emily galvin she says salt morning was on trial for offering food and water to migrants dying in the desert many of you are calling for jury nullification indeed this is why we have juries so that here mens can say no when the law is wrong they said no so she sent us a video comment explaining some of what this means for the legal aspect of this case and what it means for the American People and what their views might look like habilis and whats inside. Juries in the american legal system have the right to refuse to convict people if they feel that the charges unjust but the law is wrong that prosecutors shouldnt be going after in this case lifesaving humanitarian aid work now jury nullification isnt talked about very much but it is a unique right jurors have to shape the system in which they work its a unique role that juries play as a check on laws that may be unjust or unfair so the question here is were those jurors using the principles of jury nullification to refuse to convict mr warren and does that mean that u. S. Citizens on a broader level are rejecting the tire idea that people should be prosecuted for humanitarian aid work i think so whats your take do you think that this is an indication of at least some americans rejecting this strategy. Absolutely. Not look that far back in history tomorrow that their king who told us that we have a duty we have a moral obligation to disobeying unjust laws 1st as a former federal defender i am puzzled by how the u. S. Attorneys office could use finite federal resources to prosecute this as a harboring earth mumbling giving humanitarian aid but assuming that that comports with as the laws to be intended to be applied i think the fact that we had a jurors refused to convict is a strong indication that the American People are not going to have these acts have our system be weaponized in our mean using our tax dollars against people who are merely trying to save the lives that our government is trying to extinguish and i feel im im just thinking the the pressure as both sides of the border pressure in the u. S. And also the mexico side and also humanitarian aid because on the mexico side also being arrested whats the legal ramifications that mexico. Well i think farther south of the border its a more precarious situation for aid workers there because in addition to you know the threats from the government as we saw with 2 activists over the weekend you know youre also felt they seem to react threats and violence from the Cartel Members of organized criminal groups so thats another element that they are constantly being exposed to and that has been the case for many years now but certainly this is a new element now when we had these 2 individuals and opposite sides of the country keep in mind that the the the 2 organizers one of them was in the southern Mexican Border and then there was in the northern Mexican Border within that it states and so they were both arrested on the same day but you know that kind of speaks to some of additional challenges that aid workers have to face now its not just from the criminal and organized groups but also you know coming from threats from the government itself which as we have seen over many years also has reacted with relative impunity to many cases of the human rights abuses and certainly you know thats the journalists and a lot of other human rights abuses that are going on to migrants in the country this is such an interesting debate among our community and i know its a its a broader debate as well so i want to take you into just a little a little taste of that this is marcus on twitter says and virtue ethics approach would say that courage compassion and solidarity require that we act in such a way that we can do what we can to help no more and no less but over on you tube we got a comment from george and he takes a view that a few other members in our community are also taking he says in this comment live crossing the border by other than legal means is against the law so its against the law to assist nicole walk us through this gray area. Illegal entry is a federal offense however its a misdemeanor for which you can receive no more than 6 months in prison but if you have asylum law which is federal law as well as International Law recognizes that Asylum Seekers i. E. Refugees are going to sometimes be forced to enter a country through irregular means and because they are fleeing persecution i would also just note that while presenting oneself to a customs and Border Protection officer at a port of entry is the legal way to apply for asylum c. B. P. Officers have been turning Asylum Seekers away from the ports of entry by the thousands for several years now and so an absence the federal government creates the illegality of which it complains about and then seeks to create inhumane policies to control that illegality if we could have a federal Law Enforcement that would take their oath seriously and up hold all federal law including the laws that they dont agree with such as processing Asylum Seekers then we might face less border crossings at irregular points i want to bring into the conversation the Vice President mike pence he was speaking a week ago about illegal crossings on the u. S. Border have a listen to him. As president trouble is made clear we have a crisis on our southern border. And last week the president said decisive action. To. All of mexico to do more. Or to be born yesterday on 144000 people were apprehended never to cross our southern border. Promised. For mexico to do for the. Illegal immigrants that are making their way north from Central America through mexico and coming into our drug. I am on show where Vice President pants got his fitness function but hes saying 144000 people crossed into the United States in the month of may. Cat. Of course everyone should care because the vast majority of those people cross the border in order to turn themselves into Border Patrol and to apply for political asylum that at that means they ask to make the case in court that they had every right to be protected under United States refugee law and say here theyre to have their cases adjudicated and in the meantime to be protected. In their quest for political asylum thats the law and for the Vice President of the United States to call those people illegals is simply. Well its its a misstatement at best its a law i. To tell you the truth what would you suggest to the current u. S. Administration rather than. Penalizing humanitarian aid workers who are helping people across the border what would you suggest that they do to tackle. Well the 1st thing they cant take back and that is the United States has for a century exploited. The people and the nation. Of mexico and Central America. Not only. Through economic exploitation of those economies but also through actual invasion and overthrowing the cia overthrowing the democratically elected governments so we could dominate the economy and the end political life of those countries and the fact is that theyre devastated as a result of that and most recently the United States has a direct role. In the market for the drug cartels that are now dominating mexico and and the northern triangle of Central America. And and yeah i have to take that into account when you ask the question why are all those people fleeing from violence and drought and poverty and and a century of exploitation of their nation in their economies and so if you have to start there that i could see you trying to jump in there i want to play a video comment before you do because its right in line with what john was saying this is alexander r. C. The north american campaigner for Amnesty International and heres her take. The trumpet ministration has created a crisis at the Us Mexico Border border residents have stepped up to save the lives of migrants and Asylum Seekers travelling through the dangerous desert those who choose to provide humanitarian aid like food and water should not do so at the risk of prosecution harassment or intimidation but instead should be able to do their lifesaving and necessary work unhampered. What is you want to well i wanted to add that one of the common criticisms that weve heard is that despite this crackdown in immigration forcemeat and all these changes that the Trump Administration keeps making to or attempting to make the asylum immigration rules ready is that they have done very little to discourage people from leaving because they dont address the causes of a problem so in other words you know its acknowledging some of the reasons why people are leaving Central America or southern mexico some of these other locations and its important to know that you know the Top Administration has actually aid to some of these countries because hes an api with the situation but obviously that that also results in you know the situation may also be aggravating and more people leaving you know the common criticism we hear not just from democrats but also from other advocates that until a solution or until the issue itself is addressed in the countries where people are fleeing from then that migration is going to continue you know and its going to continue not just throughout mexico but also their attempts oxy to reach the United States rough rafael is one of a number of journalists whove been covering this story having a camera laptop and hes seen Ryan Devereaux into september hes been covering this story for some time just going to skin job pay so you can see the rest of the headline im showing you this because i want to show you ryans tweet he tweeted this out when the news of Scott Weiland him came out and sat talked about his hung jury he said i think the 88 sets of Human Remains Found in the desert since hes. Rest of spoke with the migrants he was arrested with and how they sadly have not received the same attention and support that he has nicole lets handle that humanitarian angle this whole show is about humanitarian aid work as the humanitarian angle with the my quits who do not get the press and the coverage what do we need to know about that while we see thousands of Asylum Seekers at our clinic every year their stories are largely untold there is a focus now on the criminalization of aid workers but we have to look at the criminalization of migrants that has been happening for long before this period of criminalization of our work has begun we 1st you know saw it and as we saw increased prosecutions very illegal entry in a legal entry the family separation surveillance of undocumented immigrant rights activists who as an Advocacy Community that they would be coming for us next and we didnt listen and so its important for us to Pay Attention now thank you for reminding us thank you for being part of this Program Going to end with a view from the Community One says marcus who says how can it be that we have policies and laws that put someone like scott warren on trial we should all be more like scott warne keep sending us your comments to. 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Alarm has im sick of this is al jazeera live from also coming up. Japans Prime Minister is iran to play a constructive role in Regional Security as he tries to mediate tensions. Shut down in hong kong protesters say they wont give up the fight against plans for a new extradition law. Troops patrol the scene of an attack in mali after reports of more violence. Hello to all tankers have been damaged and their crews have abandon ship after what is being reported as an attack in the gulf of oman the norwegian operator of one of the ships the from terre says there was a fire on board after an incident all 23. 00 crew were rescued the u. S. Navys 5th fleet says its ships are in the area and assisting oil prices jumped by more than 4 percent on the news of the front had the front ill tear had picked up oil from our darby and was heading for taiwan and official a taiwan state oil refinery told reuters it was suspected of being hit by a torpedo the 2nd ship is the panama flag courageous carrying a load of methanol its management says its hole has been damaged 21 crew have been rescued that have left saudi arabia bound for singapore joining us now are said his model he is the head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies so were hearing a little bit more. About this incident what does this tell us do you think oh i think all eyes will be focused on washington haldar administration is going on in this recent attacks on the on the tankers we know that the right now is somehow divided. On one hand we have the hawks the hardliners led by. John bolton who is actually accused of the accused iran of being responsible for the previous attack last month on the tanker was offshore. And you like the arab emirates and of course we have from whos having actually different calculations whos trying in fact to have a political victory rather than a military confrontation with with iran and political victory means for the administration bringing iran back into the table of negotiation and have his own deal rather than the obama deal or the 2015 so right now he will be. Actually focusing on what that promise and the solution is going to make out of this incident how will be actually it will be it how theyre going to deliver it what happened but of course everything with depends on the information they are going to get actually. About the identity of those who attacked or those who are responsible for attacking the tankers what about this the sense that the trumpet ministration is not speaking entirely with one voice on this i mean because we have seen this a lot of Foreign Policy issues is the president says one thing his secretary of state says Something ElseNational Security adviser and so on whats going on and this can be interpreted in 2 ways. President. As good because it confuses the iranians. He believes that having different voices about this issue actually will make the iranians as panic all the time and dont know what the americans really. They are really going to do with their with iran but on the other hand it leads to a miscalculation and misjudgment and that is very dangerous because most conflicts actually start by miscalculation it depends very much on what the iranians actually make from these differences within within the administration. So i just said there are 2 readings here one is as from actually believes is good because it confused that youre on the other or on the other hand is very dangerous because it might actually send the wrong message that wrong signal to the iranians so you have to read in between 2 of these 3 things and how is all of this being viewed by iran well of course i mean the iranians yesterday it was a clear from the meeting between president rouhani. Prime minister whos trying actually to mediate between iran and and from administration. Actually to seek some sort of assistance from the japanese in order to convince the americans to ease the sanctions through the sanctions on iran in a way that allows iran actually a feast saving exit to accept some sort of talks with the common ministration but then comes to d. I mean the end to this was actually takes us back to square one because its really. I mean difficult its going to be very difficult right now for the japanese Prime Minister to achieve the outcome the desired outcome that he came to do to get which is easing the tension between iran and the United States right now i think the tension has instead risen instead rather than actually decreased by this sort of mediation between jump on between iran and the United States led by john all right good to get your analysis more on thank you thank you its been more fighting on the outskirts of libyas capital as forces loyal to war. Battle soldiers from the un recognized Government Military sources say Government Forces are advancing in the areas of and. On wednesday night warplanes targeted several locations across tripoli including civilian areas in southern parts of the city. A Turkeys Defense Ministry says a mortar shell attacked by syrian Government Forces in the rebel held province of it live as injured 3 turkish soldiers commanders say one of their observation posts was deliberately targeted it has been bombarded for weeks by syrian Government Forces and russian airstrikes killing at least 300 people in another development Russian Media says the kremlin and turkey have brokered a cease fire in italy a sit in. Now from. Sin and what what more are you hearing on this and how are the turkish authorities viewing this incident. Well housing lets let me 1st say that we havent heard from the turkish authorities neither there was a ceasefire nor there wasnt a ceasefire so let me begin with this and after the russian authorities the such a statement when it was on the news agencies. What my sources in the field and from ankara tell me that the battle between the Syrian Regime forces and the a position was already ongoing again the Turkish Military post number 10 was targeted after this statement the ceasefire other that ceasefire statement by the russians and what we know was that the turkish authorities and russian authorities are trying to initiate a cease fire and the turks say that they insist that there should be a ceasefire however the turks are complaining that the Syrian Regime. Couldnt repeat that the violates this these cease fires that were agreed before and that are being planned for the future so this is the situation on the ground for turkey and. When i spoke to the turkish authorities they told me that the Syrian Regime doesnt take the responsibility of these of these violations they tell that these are for instance the Turkish Military post was deliberately targeted from the Syrian Regime side according to the Turkish Military however the Syrian Regime claims that these are by the local factions inside their forces so theyre not taking the full responsibility at that point turkish authorities are not happy with that just remember when the when in a stunna when a stunt to go into agreed on demilitarisation zones and turkey worked hard through that and the russians have always underlined that turkey was doing its best but after i saw was finished when United States announced that arsenal was finished in syria the Syrian Regime or this forces close close of those demilitarization zones which are. 15 kilometers inside and since then turkish authorities then sources and in the field tell us that the Syrian Regime forces systematically harass the turkish side and opposition side thats why there is no ceasefire mainly up until now and. Now turkey believes that this is a systematic approach by the Syrian Regime if they can violate. The temporary cease fire in live and their 2nd target will be our says which is another liberated area more stability area in northwestern syria and also ankara believes that the reason for these attacks by the Syrian Regime forces also targets the turkish Public Opinion because turkey is also going through some political turmoil process right now syrian thank you irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khomeini has told japans visiting Prime Minister iran will not negotiate with the u. S. In tehran urging leaders to play what he calls a constructive role in Regional Security on his 2 day visit shins are being warned of the risk of accidental conflict in the gulf and his call for iran to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal which the u. S. Withdrew from last year also job already has more from the capital tehran. Japanese Prime Minister has wrapped up his final meeting that has been with the reigning Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei early on thursday morning the 2 have met to discuss various issues the communique from that meeting is yet to be released but on the last day of his 2 day trip the japanese Prime Minister is still trying to maintain that hes here to try and ease the tension in the region on wednesday he was received as a matter of airports have by bringing in foreign minister zarif and then he traveled to meet the iranian president Hassan Rouhani at about palace and where he received an official welcome they then went in behind closed doors for over 2 and a half hour meeting following which they both issued statements and the president said he was very happy to have the japanese Prime Minister on a historic visit to the Islamic Republic and that he was hopeful that the japanese Prime Minister could play a role in trying to mediate between iran and the United States the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abyei said that he would do his best and that nobody would like to see the tensions in this region escalate even further that any kind of military action would be not in the best interest of anyone and that japan was adamant that it wants to help trying. The tension in the region. Government offices a shot in hong kong as protesters decide their next move the day after thousands forced the postponement of a vote for a new extradition process to say they will hold another mass rally on sunday riot police are standing by in the Central District on wednesday Police Used Tear Gas pepper spray and rubber bullets to Disperse Protesters surrounding hong kong legislative