are learning of. obviously we know that she has a very wide ranging investigation. she s looking into a bunch of different facets of the effort to overturn the election. shaffer was important because he was one of the people who served as a pro trump fake elector in georgia. he organized the slate of alternate electors there, and he had been cooperated with prosecutors as part of this probe. he was initially told, we were told by sources that he was initially viewed as a witness in this investigation. obviously now this is changing. look, we know she is in the investigative phase of this pr probe. she has a special grand jury seated. this is an indication that she is serious about potentially bringing in indictments in this case, whether it will stem, you know, whether david shaffer could actually face an indictment. we don t know whether it will go further than him. it s clear she s chugging ahead down in georgia. sathank you for that breakin news. there are new developm
Concerned about the situation of human rights in europe today we have a lot to do across so many issues so many groups migrants older people at the disabled theres a huge program of work to be done but much the challenges with the achievements but you have said that quote twenty seventeen was not a great year in terms of respect of protection and the promotion of human and fundamental right not a great year thats an. Minute now i agree it was a it was a very very challenging time it remains a challenging time to take the Migration Crisis its still a crisis we still have not a crisis because of the migration it is the crisis of democracy in the Member States of europe its a crisis of Migration Policy in other words i largely agree with you its about a failure to show solidarity to risk to share the responsibility across Member States its about failure to get the basics in place in so many places weve been following the story very closely for the last two years and yesterday in some
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We have really serious and growing problems and its the job of my agency to get the data about those problems out there in the Public Domain the Actual Experience of Muslims In Europe the Actual Experience of jews in europe put that in front of the policymakers the Decision Makers and then challenge them but deliver only human rights from it is the problem not the solution in some countries its not that simple and theres an enormous diversity of of willingness to make for better societies but its not just the Policy Makers the politicians who make our societies its also about Civil Society its also about the faith groups its the citizens themselves and a large part of our work is to engage with them and to convince them that this is something worth fighting for i will repeat my question in some countries are the governments the problem or the solution like poland for example. I just wouldnt put it that simply in some countries weve got far more serious
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you are a washington post columnist, alisyn just read the statement from the publisher and ceo, and i read on twitter that you were saying the questions over would it be a handshake or fist bump were inflated and a little silly but the imagery and the value for the saudis, what do you make of that moment? i agree with my boss that this was an embarrassing moment for the united states government, president biden and a concession to the propaganda victory of mohammed bin salmon, but yes, i also would add another point that actually the fist bump is not the most important thing going on here. we just read a list of things that the saudis got, and my question is sort of what did the u.s. get, what did we get in return? we didn t get the oil, and we didn t get security guarantees, we didn t get human rights guarantees, well, then what was all of this for? what is all of this about. if we re returning to a status
are in libya in a failed state. we agree that these people are living in the failed state only with the argument we don t want to have them in europe our human rights guarantees extend to what we do outside europe and that has to be held in mind regardless of whether it s turkey or libya or any other country it s the same degree of attention for the basic human rights and dignity of those people but then as i say i really want to insist once they get here we have to do a better job of protecting their human rights that is no less important which country is on your mind when you said something like what i have in mind actually is the intolerable burden we ve placed on greece and italy we ve left them to deal with this in a manner of which is is is impossible. and where s all of europe was needed to resolve the problem including towards respectfully receiving a fair number of people from greece and italy which is still not taken place now