oppression are stronger. my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he s been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn t working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all. infact, i mean, maybe i should start with your introduction, because, you know, your introduction was the common wisdom. you know, that democracy is in decline, that autocracy is ascendant. in fact, i think it s a bit more complicated than that. i mean, we are seeing the rise of autocratic voices, you know, the trumps of the world, in western democracies. but if you look at the leading autocratic
declared in five regions, including auckland. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. across the world, freedom and democracy are in retreat. almost a third of the world s people live under authoritarian rule. that number is rising and that has grave implications for basic human rights. it s not that liberal democracies can t be abusive of rights, but generally their safeguards against oppression are stronger. my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he s been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn t working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat
hello, and welcome to bbc news. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze took hold in cox s bazar in the south east of the country. the fire has been brought under control and volunteers are estimating the damage. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in cramped camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier, rusikesh harichandan from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies had this assessment of the damage. the fire broke out today at around 3pm in the camp and it took almost two hours to be handled by the fire service agencies. the fire has brought massive damage, around 12,000 people affected. most of the services also have been damaged. camp ten, 11, and n
began posting that intelligence to a small group of gamers. you heard me right, gamers on a platform called discord. they were all sworn to secrecy. they couldn t keep it though. what happens now? jennifer griffin is at the pentagon and what she s hearing. chris swecker on the investigation that is just starting. former secretary of state mike pompeo on the damage all of the world this is still creating. and glenn youngkin on part of that damage that he s determined to stop. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to piece together and piece together we shall. beginning with jennifer griffin with how this all went down at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, journalists for the new york times and washington have honed in on the leaker faster than the fbi that arrived at his house in massachusetts this afternoon. the alleged leaker was identified by attorney general merrick garland as 21-year-old jacks teixeira of the 102nd intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a midair mystery. the united states shoots down more unidentified objects flying over north america. right now, washington knows about as much as you do. not much. what s gone on the last two weeks or so, ten days, has been nothing short of craziness. and the military needs to have a plan to not only determine what s out there but determine the dangers that go with it. plus, the republican house speaker convenes what he calls the heads of the five families of the republican caucus. he wants to forge a consensus and to prove wrong democrats who predict that house republicans in the end will blink and vote to raise the debt limit. and alive under the debris. sniffer dogs, thermal cameras find signs of life in both turkey and syria, but for every miracle, there is mourning. tens of thousands pinned beneath twisted metal destined for mass graves. up first for us, tr