Womens rights very vocally and she claims also to have been tortured in detention and obviously no investigations have been undertaken by saudi arabia so we are calling on saudi arabia to conduct these investigations which are International Obligations under the convention against torture which saudi arabia has actually ratified obviously this idea in government would deny theres been any torture and that indeed she is there for National Security reasons we write these idea ive been ambassador on the program lets get now to another case what have you made of 60 doctors claiming julie innocence of wiki leaks may die in a british prison as he awaits extradition to the usa for revealing the war crimes of nato nations well thats a pill her roof reflects well reaffirms my own assessment as you may know that im 1st of november i did my own press statement calling on the british authorities to release to the sonship because i was seriously concerned for his life well we covered at the time sp
On aljazeera. Leaders of ukraine and russia meet for the 1st time theyll be in paris for a summit that aims to put an end to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine so will the 2 leaders find a solution and charge of a way forward and whats at stake this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im home here in ukraine elected a president in april whose top priority was to end the conflicts in the east more than 13000 people have been killed during the fighting there between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed separatists and now for the 1st time since he came into office lot of his own ski is meeting bush president Vladimir Putin well french and german leaders are mediating the talks taking place in paris on monday the socalled Normandy Group last met to discuss ways to end the fighting more than 3 years ago but president selenski is optimistic he can bring peace to Eastern Ukraine but his critics see him as a political novice and fear he might give away too much in his quest for pe
Than 13000 people have been killed during the fighting there between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed separatists and now for the 1st time since he came into office thought in his own skiis meeting russian president Vladimir Putin where french and german leaders are mediating the talks taking place in paris on monday the socalled Normandy Group last met to discuss ways to end the fighting more than 3 years ago but president selenski is optimistic he can bring peace to Eastern Ukraine but his critics see him as a political novice and fear he might give away too much in his quest for peace as opponents up in protesting heads off the paris meeting. Well speaking during an appearance on Ukrainian Television this is whats lewinsky have to say on his expectations from the summits but do you know whats above all this i want to return with concrete things and concrete results but we understand not everything will be achieved the meeting itself is already a victory because as you see it we
Now imagine or time they were going underground as e. U. Chief donald tusk and your good younger pack up and leave as their terms expire after a conference of the European Parliament in brussels condemns the trumpet ministration over its pursuit of wiki leaks is julian a songe and demands his freedom from a british prism coming up on the show will there be blood on the hands of the United Kingdom with a march of nato nation media continuing to downplay the warnings of 60 doctors and wiki leaks Julian Assange could die in a u. K. Prison we speak to the United Nations kneels meltzer who alleges british contempt of International Norms of justice and we speak to go along the ecuadorian foreign minister who helped grant asylum just by them it is embassy in london well joining me now is the un special rapporteur on torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment niels melts special rapporteur thanks so much for going on going underground this time in the studio just befo
Hello and welcome to world news today. The white house has restricted access to transcripts of some of president Donald Trumps calls with foreign leaders. Thats according to us media reports. Officials say notes about calls to leaders including Russias Vladimir Putin and the Saudi Crown Prince have not been handled in the usual way. It comes as an impeachment investigation into President Trump over his administrations dealing with ukraine is gathering pace. Live now to our north america correspondent, peter bowes. The white house acknowledged that it had restricted access to the transcript of the call between President Trump and ukraines leader. We now understand they did the same for other calls as well. What for other calls as well. Is the significance of that development . What is the significance of that development . It exposes two sides of the story. According to these reports, the white house has been restricting the transcripts of conversations that the president has had with W