Politicians are also weighing in on the issue we cast young is a member of parliament and a former minister. Explanation for the people of your government of the b. To convince b. Why do you need to abolish depth we all know the is a deterrent we dont get it all crime rate is going down. Most malaysians seem to agree. In a poll conducted last year by 3 major publications and 82 percent of 22000. 00 respondents opposed the governments proposal. It is a very contentious issue saw for a push back to to come to for a supposed not surprising. But we must focus on why the government nice doing it the government is doing it because it is putting a lot of emphasis on human rights this is what we. Really need here to do is record a salary cap to russia to smile is a lawyer and past president of the National Human rights society. Hes also a member of malaysias anti Death Penalty coalition every legal system since hes a minister im a human being it is prone to mistakes they release off executing someone who is in a sense is always at the forefront of the considerations when we have Death Penalty there can be possibly innocent people. In the audience at this anti Death Penalty for him. Me and her children. Shes here in a desperate bid to save her husbands life. When the guest of honor the deputy minister for women family and Community Development starts to leave its an emotional me makes a move. On forgetting for missing her son ethan and if they are discovered here theres above us with. So because i know and. Its. Somewhat its a bit like he said up addition in post after being the victim of one the long. Think you get. Life has been a struggle ever since her husband was taken away. The family still lived in the same makeshift house. Lakshmi works as a cleaner to support her children who. Is now 18 and still trying to understand what happened. I dont know there was a study i just saw me on the bed mom and i. The story is a complicated one. In august 2004 police made a gruesome discovery. Charred body parts scattered across several locations near my interns house. Witnesses planed they saw a body inside his workshop. Mind than was eventually convicted of murder in a case built largely on circumstantial evidence. He admits assaulting a man but insists even today that he never killed anyone. Then in 2017 this man came forward. His name is deborah das and he says it was him my than assaulted 13 years earlier. There the. Nepali. For a while going the actually believed her prayers had been on certain. But the court refused to reopen her husbands case. And might the remains on death row. The bones and best karen. Numbered year but i did look at the deadly. Bombing attack. In a choir concert on the stand while her son is in prison either. When we meet her in the city of hope shes on her way to see him. Its a grueling ride for a woman in poor health. The journey takes more than 3 hours each way. But tries to go as often as she can why theres a single lie that says it has any hope or does the young by pain make by and i genuinely nice i thought in. That and saw. Jan wife saying all are why i was just 19 when he was arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder. Evidence tying him to the crime is purely circumstantial. According to Court Documents a wise boss and kohak used had used his name to lease a house which was also their place of work 2. The hostage was then held and killed by. Police found strands of a wise hair in the house. But there was no d. N. A. Evidence linking him to the crime. During the trial testified that or why was that home when the crime was allegedly taking place. Outside and inside the muslim inside and i mean 10 that id say its out there anything. They use as a. One sound you dont know cant buy 10 years of 8. 12 under the its innocent and out hannah. Why has exhausted all avenues for appeal. Also for those who want to. Be any kind. Now his mother can only hope for clemency or for the government to amend the law. But completely abolishing the Death Penalty is not so priority for now. Instead the government intends to remove only men to treat death sentences we decided that we should take in stages of that really would do would be more of the minute or a defendants for us to give the judge to decide on Capital Punishment of francis. Its not a compromise christina tain is willing to accept. Well judge just given discretion they would not trust the most serious punishment which is the penalty. But. Before more court of appeals judge who has held the death sentences in the past disagrees there was one of the arguments that was taken when it was made compulsory amended 3 theyve all said now you dont have to worry you just convict and then you have to pass the sentence i think that is not quite correct and there may be easy way out but i think judges must still be the conscience of the people. Its also an abolitionist who police the real problem lies with Law Enforcement and you dont have to have a Death Penalty to have people respecting the law. I think there is really a lack of confidence in the enforcement authorities simply because of this ugly. Specter of corruption which was so pervasive is so embedded in in everything malaysian we will have to make sure that the systems are cleaned cleaned up and everybody has faith in the system. Out in the countryside in kuantan we meet a man who has devoted his life to helping inmates on death row. Also runs a half way house. The watching. Spends much of his time visiting death row inmates and their families. Today were going with him to beat relatives of a drug offender. Husband zuki flea. Was caught with 22 kilograms of cannabis he told the high court hed given some friends a ride in his van and that the drugs belong to them. Suki flee was initially acquitted but 7 years later the prosecution appealed his daughter was 12 at the time say it up but by then i thank you. I did. I knew i could say my name that. I did. Of the 1281 inmates on death row in malaysia more than 100 or drug offenders like zuki flee. Some influential voices are now saying harsh laws dont work as a deterrent in 2012 the then minister of Office Actually said in parliament that the Death Penalty is not stopping the Drug Trafficking trade because the numbers have been increasing so since then again you can if you look at the figures from pretty 12 to now 7 years later we still have the Death Penalty but the numbers are still increasing so obviously it is not really acting as a deterrent. Cities but our son has been on death row for 12 years. Now thing to say is only. This is the weird form but something made me. Think. I want the whole. Rosati arc bud was found guilty of trafficking 858 grams of cannabis in 2007 and given the banditry death sentence. An amendment in 2017 gave judges limited discretion in deciding such cases. But the change doesnt apply retroactively and rezai remains on death row. The governments announcement last october gave city hope. But much has happened since then and the fate of death row inmates remains uncertain. The process is quite painful for those who are the with the with the thought i had written the letter on the advice of the cabinet to ask a pardon but to concede to giving them commutations doesnt commit the idea for life or for peter of the yes depending on the circumstances. But the case. For families of victims these are equally trying times. To secede and also say hey you know what that i hate the shiites chances to see sense a city on. Book and says its all changing tell me not theres only nothing to me that at ballan to mrs now. The government plans to table a bill in parliament in july. How it proceeds will say much to the world about the values and priorities of malaysia and its people. You know strike a battle rages over the countrys bomb and with activists inviting fox stealing wads down and intimidating vomits one are when they asked have these tax gone too far on out of the euro. 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But stuck to the nuclear deal for nearly 4 years but irans commitment to a new rainy and enrichment will likely be broken within hours by monday morning it expects to pass the limits agreed in 2015 irans Deputy Foreign minister blames European Countries for failing to live up to their own commitments or until now irans kept the maximum level of uranium purity and 3. 7 percent thats enough for Electricity Generation and compliance with the deal will be reduced every 2 months unless other signatories work to stop us sanctions uranium becomes nuclear bomb grade material if its in reached the 90 percent the iranians deny wanting Nuclear Weapons france says the dispute resolution mechanism wont be triggered at least for now if that is true it cant be resolved un sanctions could follow so in basra he has more fun to have around it is the bolder step iran has taken so far in its choreographed campaign to reduce compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal on sunday morning it announced it would start enriching uranium to higher levels than allowed under the joint comprehensive plan of action was. In a few hours the technical process will come to an end and enrichment above 3. 67 percent will begin tomorrow when the i takes a sample the level will be higher. Iranian leaders warned for months if the International Community did not help their country reap the benefits guaranteed in the way it will no longer honor its commitments the level of enrichment is unclear but Senior Leaders have suggested it could be as high as 5 even 20 percent still far from the 90 percent needed for weapons grade uranium there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks with meetings of the United NationsSecurity Council and the commission in vienna there was hope that an injection of cash into instax or european bypassed u. S. Banking sanctions might convince iran not to rollback cooperation in stakes. In stakes is a good 1st step is taking too long it can only be successful if europe buy some more oil or locate some credit to it its not useful yet but is politically significant in a call with president Hassan Rouhani on saturday night french president emanuel acknowledged that nations had been unable to mitigate u. S. Sanctions but he also warned his iranian counterpart of the consequences of weakening the deal mccrone and rouhani have agreed to a deadline of july 15th for all parties to resume talks what comes next is unclear. So far the International AtomicEnergy Agency the uns Nuclear Watchdog has issued 15 separate reports confirming irans cooperation with the way when iran breached a Nuclear Stockpile limit last week the i. A. E. A. Refrained from reporting that as a violation with this latest move that could change. Everyone benefited from us adopting the the u. S. Made a strategic mistake by leaving it but we will not stay in it at any cost the decision taken today is in order to preserve the j. C. But it depends on other parties now to say the deal is fragile is to perhaps understate the complicated Power Dynamics at play the United States pulled out of the nuclear deal in may last year reimposing unilateral sanctions crippling an economy that was experiencing a long awaited period of growth since then remain. Signatories to the deal have been caught in the middle of escalating tensions between tehran and washington but despite recent military escalations in the gulf at its core this dispute is economic and putting pressure on the day seems to be irans way of dealing itself a stronger hand you can. Joke about the u. S. Can attend meetings if sanctions are lifted how would that process go 1st or lend banking sanctions and then other sanctions that latest 8 years before the u. S. Pulled out of the deal iran was exporting up to 2800000 barrels of oil a day as one of the largest producers in the world it wants back into the International Oil market for now the spokesman of irans Atomic Energy agency says it will not renew work at Nuclear Facilities that was halted as part of the j. C. B. Away but irans Deputy Foreign minister had a warning iran can do so whenever it wants and if in the coming 60 days their demands are not met thats exactly what iran might do next. Protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong in their fight to have a controversial extradition deal scraps this time a rally is being held in. Tens of thousands are marching towards the new train station which links the territory so the chinese mainland organizers say they want to educate businesses from china about their struggle lets cross over now live to rob mcbride he joins us from hong kong how does the standoff look now rob. You know sammy this marches that youve been mentioning there that a couple of hours ago they did march to the terminus of this high speed rail link between Mainland China and hong kong is viewed by many people here as a symbol of the growing encroachments if you like of Mainland China grip on on hong kong so. Thats why they marched towards there were now in the middle of cow looted after the end of that march that involved according to the organizers 230000 people about a couple of 1000 people did break away and they had marched all the way through this part of callaloo and through the main shopping district and they returned to the same streets that they marched through quite peacefully earlier basically Walking Around blocking some streets being moved on by police as the evening has progressed and were now just after midnight here in hong kong there have been some ill tempered scenes at the end of whats been a very long and tiring day the theres been some pushing and shoving from the police the use of battens a couple of people were detained. Protesters said they were very happy about being moved away were now in what place called nathan road this is the main artery it runs right the way through the cow loom peninsular it still blocks but has to be said theres blocked by riot police whove been here for the past hour or so and if i just walk over to this side of the highway the people who are doing largely the blocking at the moment the media most of the protesters now seem to have drifted away into the side streets we still have small squads of riot police in different different side streets close to here basically sending the message that its time to go home you case in the youll hear someone shout theyll start running around therell be a little skirmish or a scuffle those been some trouble with the local residents here who. Come out and weve seen a couple of brawls and fights between what we think with the local residents and maybe protesters. Something has happened in this side street that is a believe a Police Vehicle i dont know exactly whats happened but protesters have gone down that id also the media following i have to say at this time of night sami there probably are more media in the streets the protesters themselves and the Police Although they bring riot. Has in the last half hour also eased the tensions have eased. Eased partly the police seem to have taken off their helmets and so on but having said that there is something going on here. With some protesters around the Bruce Berkowitz going to. Want to get through. This a prospero or. Yes it is a postcard weve seen a few ambulances back and forth of the protesters to be very good about letting im going to see through the protesters are not so good as you can see about letting loose the recruits through. The process through whats. Most of the protesters. Think is going to be drifting away that basically be telling us theyre not going to wait around thats going to be for the good days it seems of occupying streets for weeks on end over that was the previous occupy movement of 5 years ago in fact the place where we are actually is quite close to where we had those scenes where the streets were occupied for all busy of those weeks were just waiting to see whats happening here. Is a couple of local lawmakers here whove been sort of negotiating between the protesters the at rest of the protesters and the police i think the lead to try to get them to go home without facing any more. Intimidate were facing. Responses the protesters would say one of the grievances of protesters at the this time in march is that as they leave often they will be photographed or their identities will be checked which they regard as being of intimidation theyre not happy about that police would probably regard that as normal policing sammy all right. Good update there thanks from what dr staying up late showing us whats going on. Between the latest nations to sign the african free trade deal the African Union summit in the air 54 out of 55 countries in africa are now part of the Single Market agreement eritrea is the only african country that hasnt signed up yet to the deal it did not participate in negotiations in the past because of its conflict with ethiopia and it remains hesitant the accord removes 90 percent of trade tariffs between signatory states trading is set to start next july to give Member States time to prepare. Reports the caps on the army. Stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east to west and in the herd of africa to government struggling to contain communal clashes in violent extremism. African leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting experts say an african Common Market will come with additional risks that as national organized criminals protect advantage of this Free Movement you know to floor from one country to another and that is can just is or to perpetrate their nefarious activities so definitely do looking for the for the chink in the armor you looking for the weak link in the countries do not have you know security act at some countries risk becoming safe heaven you know or terrorist or criminal or organized criminals the government say theyre working to stop that from happening. We have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so thats africa union will come in and take charge this way the cell region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be