Aljazeera. Where every. Year in the stream today china is facing growing International Pressure to stop pressing its weaker population but some surprising voices are speaking up to defend the governments policies and their muslim ones to search out or leave them in our lives. There are some 11000000 weekers in china they are an ethnic mostly Muslim Minority who have lived in the northwestern gine province person cerys and recent years china has stepped up its repression of the Group Survivors recount torture and forced indoctrination internment camps we girls also experience constant government surveillance and restrictions on religious practice Rights Groups say in july 22 countries sent a letter to the United Nations condemning the camps 37 other nations quickly responded with a counter letter defending chinas human rights record including more than a dozen the muslim majority countries so whats going on here have muslim countries abandoned the weaker joining us to discuss from toron
Responders continue to suffer from being exposed to talks and early 18 years ago Christian Salome has more. In the park where the twin towers once stood the unveiling of the new memorial highlights the lingering impact of the september 11th attacks particularly on 1st responders nearly 400 of them have died from 911 related illness so far thousands more are sick at the ceremony they are mixed with dignitaries amid the slanted stones meant to honor them Bridget Gormley father william was a firefighter whose company was one of the 1st on the scene that day everybody initially had an island off the World Trade Center it wasnt until 2016 though that he was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer that killed him 6 months later this memorial is shifting the narrative to where it needs to be shifted not what what happened but what is happening. The gormley family is still waiting for payment from the Victims Compensation fund which was set up to help survivors you wont see any names written on this mem
Listening carefully to whats going on in saudi arabia that us. 24. 00 or 48 hours because this definitely gives a munition to the United States in its confrontation with iran the more iran is isolated in the middle east the more iran is isolated in the the stomach world the more washington can push and so this is a tricky game and i think a good number of the islamic countries there are probably the will wear of that and im not sure any one of them would want to see a war take place in the persian gulf or the persian gulf as it were right but that is the risk because wars can be started just as much from from and in unintended consequences that can be miscalculations an unintended escalation. Will i mean would there be any one than raising the suggestion will there be any sort of conversation about the one thing that could really bring about a change in the scenario youve just described which is ultimately the saudis being prepared to have direct talks with iran it its something that j
Take a step like that judging them by their behavior they probably would have done things to their allies and canada mexico europe or other places. Raising a tariffs and doing all those things so they probably would if they think it was going to achieve their objectives in washington the problem is the United States is going crucially isolated around the world and being seen as a bully whos pushing its own policies and prepared to hurt other economies really seriously with germany for instance theyre trying to get the germans not to buy gas from russia which the germans want to do and theyre telling people they cant buy oil from iran and other things like that which i know a lot of weight and things of that nature so its becoming a global issue and the germans the russians the chinese the indians others are going to some point at the other and push mark. The u. S. Perhaps isolated in some parts of the world but certainly still President Trump certainly appears to have allies in the gul
Feelings every time i come back to washington dc. How many great memories but also bad memories. Its tough being attorney general. Our current attorney general is appreciating it more and more each day. Will tackle theelephant in the room since you mentioned first. So i know that you have a relationship with both the attorney general and special counsel mueller talk a little bit about the dynamic between the lighthouse, the attorney general and a special prosecutor, special counsel in a situation like this whos working together, networking and just educate everything in the room. I dont have much relationship with bill. Obviously because of the circles we traveled , have traveled in the past, we know each other. Bob miller, was the fbi director when i was attorney general of the United States and we met every morning. First thing i would do as attorney general would be to go overto the fbi building , sit down with bob and we would receive an intelligence briefing from cia analysts. So