Perfect cocktail for street protests speak to the Vice President of ecuador plus kenyas cash crunch the competition lining up take netflixs crowd counting the cost on aljazeera. Hes the Nobel Peace Prize winner whos also accused of covering up war crimes ill challenge former colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and well also discuss his fellow nobel peace laureate aung sang suu kyi whos been defending her government against accusations of genocide this week at the hague. One Manuel Santos former president of colombia thank you for joining me on up front your country is the latest in latin america to be the scene of antigovernment protests were now 3 weeks into these demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets the president even duquesne has declared the 1st curfew in bogota in nearly 4 decades hes put the military on the streets at least one protester has been killed Dozens Injured given you recently suggested that the chilean government has overrea
Peace prize but shares the credit with his eritrean counterpart. Donald trump labeled impeachment charges against him as weak and the u. S. President s been accused of betraying his country the charges leveled by Democratic Party leaders for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Castro reports from washington d. C. Standing before a portrait of one of the nations Founding Fathers George Washington House Democratic leaders made a historic announcement today in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country. The House Committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States donald j. Drum with committing high crimes and misdemeanors the 1st article is abuse of power for withholding security aid and a white house visit with ukraines leader in exchange for political investigations that would benefit trumps reelection the 2nd obstruction of congress for refusing to cooperate with impeachment investigators the evidence i
As the world filed the row he can get people 700000 but a military crackdown in 27 but made by his leader Aung San Suu Kyi denies claims of genocide why is this one time champion of human rights defending the army which kept her locked up for years this is inside story. Now and welcome to the program on stag route 2 years ago military launched its crackdown on the rohingya after attacks on its soldiers by members of the mining was the minority now the un describes what happened next as a text book example of ethnic cleansing the army was accused of right torture and murder villages were burned to the ground and almost 3 quarters of a 1000000 rohingya were forced to flee to ny bring bangladesh where they now live in the worlds biggest refugee camp a stateless people the gambia wanted me in the military tried for genocide so it went to the International Court of justice in the hague but me in my head of government and nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi she has dismissed the case as qu
A new trade pact to replace nafta. While myanmars leader Aung San Suu Kyi has literally arrived at the International Court of justice where she is beginning her remarks defending her country against allegations of genocide lets listen in the 948 Genocide Convention one of the most fundamental multilateral treaties of all the time invoking that 940 age Genocide Convention its a matter of a most gravity. This is a treaty that we made following this is to match it killing of malls and 6000000 year jews and thats my country wholeheartedly signed as ferdie assertiveness december 949 and ratified on food since march 956. 00 genocide is a crime that the International Criminal tribunal for rwanda applied in response to the mass killing of perhaps 70 percent of the 2 chief in rwanda. It is a crime that is not applied by the tribunal to the former yugoslavia for the displacement of approximately 1000000 residents of course civil in 1909 neither was it applied by that tribe you know no by this co
To qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Party leaders are preparing to make a final attempt to win the backing of undecided voters on the last day of campaigning ahead of the general election. With 2a hours to go until polls open, in what both borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have described as the most important election for a generation, politicians will appear at rallies in target seats across the uk, to make last ditch bids for support. Our correspondent alex forsyth is on the campaign trail with the Prime Minister. He is the first of those political leaders off the blocks this morning. I think hes already been taking pa rt i think hes already been taking part in one event. Tell us what hes been saying. Yes, theres always a Frenetic Energy to the final day of an Election Campaign and i think this one more than most and mixed in with that as a healthy dose of tension because this still feels very much like an election w