the daily global and we will be bringing you the top stories from around the world. with the war in ukraine at a special series of reports of my colleagues, they spent the day in the village on the outskirts of the capital, ukrainian militaries this key if you monitor missile attack as a delegation visits the country to promote dialogue to end the war with russia. starting the report from the capital. starting the report from the ca - ital. ~ starting the report from the caital. ~ , , starting the report from the caital.~ ,, starting the report from the caital. . ,, , ~ capital. we spent the past week lookin: at capital. we spent the past week looking at various capital. we spent the past week looking at various issues - capital. we spent the past week looking at various issues that i looking at various issues that ukraine is facing, including the very latest on the counter offensive in the east and southeast of the country is well as the humanitarian crisis developing acr
people drowned in the mediterranean over the last ten years in actual fact, the most shocking part of the scandal is the human rights scandal. sorry to cut you off their move needs to change as a change in attitudes but what is the council doing to try to change those attitudes. how s that being done establishing legal rights of passage. and we need to give people avenues to come to europe and secondly, we need rescue ships, there was a boat in the european union that was defeated eventually need european states to come together to organise rescue ships and help people in distress and above all, we need to stop the policy of trying to push back people, push back desperate human beings trying to make their way but
housed in. quite obviously this is not something that all autistic people and people with learning this police can do. there s 2000 people still stuck in these units, and they desperately need some action from the government with learning difficulties. the government with learning difficulties. difficulties. your story is remarkable, difficulties. your story is remarkable, you re i difficulties. your story is i remarkable, you re saying you difficulties. your story is - remarkable, you re saying you had difficulties. your story is remarkable, you re saying you had to flee the country? you went to africa in order to escape this unit? i literally, i filled a book called unbroken with my story. chapter after chapter, chapter, just describes the inappropriate treatment which thousand people are now subject to. let s be clear, i am autistic and people have a learnings ability, these are not illnesses. why are we being locked up? it is simply because we re different? and this is a
rights case and we are facing an international human rights scandal on tomorrow. joining me to talk about this is diane mattwits of the action center opposed to the execution of davis and investigative crime reporter michele segown. this is the first time in four years troy davis has been scheduled for execution for folks who haven t been following this case as closely, how do we get to this point? well, 22 years ago, davis was accused of killing officer macphail. he was working off-duty and actually saw a homeless man who had been pistol whipped. when he got there that s when troy davis was, in fact, convicted of killing officer macphail at the scene and there were some casings there that also linked to a shooting that had happened just a little while prior to that. but the problem is, is that a lot of this was based off eyewitness accounts and a lot of those eyewitnesses recanted what they had testified to many years later. and so without the actual
we ll see where it goes from here. gentlemen, thank you so much. thank you. to a breaking story now we ve been following out of georgia where convicted cop killer troy davis is going to be put to death after decades-long legal battles. just a short time ago, georgia s board of pardons rezwrejected a to save davis life. he is scheduled to be executed tomorrow for the 1989 murder of a georgia police officer. this decision follows high-0 profile support for his claim of being wrongly convicted. listen to his supporters. this is an affront to human rights. this is not just a case here in georgia where over 40,000 people have joined their voices in signing our petitions, this is an international human rights case and we are facing an international human rights scandal. msnbc contributor melissa harris perry joins us to talk more about this, a professor of