the, the business dw news live from balance outrage as the u. n. pick saudi arabia to head and importance. women's rights 40. the kingdom has been appointed as the next chair with the commission on the status of women. despite what rights groups describe as an abysmal record on gender equality, you're crying for i'm going to so to be true. color is on a 2 day visits to india to boost by the actual ties and promote keeps peace formula to end the will. with rush plus divers have now recovered the bodies of 2 was missing off to the baltimore bridge collapse into us. another full man remained

missed. the gulf is welcome to the program. saudi arabia will now be responsible for promoting gender equality worldwide. the kingdom has been chosen as the next chapter of the un top for them, for women's rights. despite it's quest streubal record at home, the kingdoms and baset all to the when after as ease of was eel, will lead the commission on the state as a women, saudi arabia's unopposed bid has been having to criticize by human rights groups. so the government has repeatedly jail women's rights activists. a small desktop, if we can now speak to the we shop with all this. he's the united nations direct to us, human rights watch and joins is from new york. louis,

how much power will saudi arabia have as a chair of this commission? well, it's, it's not really a question of power this, this commission, which is the united nations top form for women's rights and gender equality stations after world war 2. and so it is the main body for promoting women's empowerment. it's a terrible look if you were to drop a list of the 1020 worst countries in the world, those least qualified to be the face of the united nations, fight for gender equality and empowering women. saudi arabia would definitely be among them and might even make the absolute, you know, small as top group. so the, the message that it sends is quite

a bleak one because the next year will be the 30th anniversary of the 1995 page in declaration on women's rights, which was really a watershed moment for women's rights. since that time, over the last 3 decades, we've seen many attempts to push back on women's rights. yeah, the country is promoting. yeah. traditional family values. we see this in russia, but not just russia. we've seen it from other governments, not just in the muslim world, but also in europe. we see it in the united states with the push back on abortion rights. so now for the 30th anniversary of that important moment, the face of the un work on women's rights is going to be saudi arabia, a country, the jails, women for pushing for their rights. a country that still has and try and in law,

male guardianship. that is not the country that should be holding the gavel and being that public face of the fight for women's rights. literally a saudi arabia's bid was unopposed. uh, was that any effort to find a different country to lead that commission or what kind of holes trading led to this outcome to yeah, that's a good question. it's really disappointing that so many countries, the 45 countries that are members of the commission on the status of women. i don't see any evidence that there was an attempt to get a candidate that would be better at promoting women's rights or would be a better face for this important body. and that, that is a huge disappointment. and it's not just a $45.00 countries that are on the commission. we could have seen important member

states like the united states and germany, others who, who are voting members there right now, but certainly carry a lot of influence. we haven't seen any evidence that they tried to do anything. there was a lot of complaining, privately diplomats were telling me, oh, this is terrible, but it's too late. and if they were to call a vote or to push against saudi arabia, then there would be some sort of retaliation that would undermine the work of the commission. so they figured that it was better to just suffer with this for another year. but i should add that in december of 2022. there was an important moment when for the 1st time a country was removed from the commission on the status of women. because of agree just the behavior of the authorities towards women and girls. and that was iran, and that created a precedent that there has to be

a minimum standard for upholding women's rights members of the commission. and in this case, we're not just talking about a member of the commission. we're talking about the chair, the one sitting there upfront. so they did that for a ron. why is saudi arabia different? why did all of those member states that, that you do a lot at home for their own populations for their own women? sit back and do nothing. it's a slap in the face to women's rights activists around the world. really struggling on the united nations direct as human rights watch. thank you very much. i thanks for having me. ukraine's foreign minister, dimitri clay about is visiting india in an attempt to strength and ties. a short time ago, he led to reese at the memorial for mahatma gandhi, he's due to meet with is india and concert pos o'briant of my i'm john. nice call

on friday. for labor is expected to promote keys, peaceful me, that's and the will with russia as well as the instrument and terry and assistance and investment aid from debbie boss in the us traditionally have strong economic and defense ties with russian and has not back sanctions against most go over its invasion of ukraine. india continues to not condemned as she has in the region. a few green stands rooted in a long history of friendship between dailey and moscow, dies nurtured by engine prime minister. net in the movie whose metro shelves without them is booked in nearly 20 times since 2014. the, in the as hostile neighborhoods forces it to play a balancing act between russia and the west. the biggest threats from china pushing up against india, borders and trying to influence its neighbors. russia, india, the largest best and supplier, and outright support for western positions or sanctions on russia. maybe india,

isolated in very tim daley has repeatedly quoted for the done to diplomacy. we are very my we are you know, i mean the india also benefits economically from its neutrality threshold squad and you clean finished or she has and vision. india has gone from producing hardly any direction, orient to becoming a major importer. it has been able to navigate to western sanctions on russia. american officers have awarded open the criticize in the us president joe biden

sees the indian prime minister as a strong ally in the, in the pacific region. i live in buckner to come to china. this situation for us to, to clean, which has been seeking, oh, great support from india. something that continues to test and yes, try to copy hold. i need to know is bringing that my colleague, dearest vanity abuse. what exactly can india offer? ukraine potential support for peace efforts, the very same nickel i'm and this being the indian stand all along because i'm in the apartments on that end, remotely elaborated in a conversation with presidency landscape of that. look, we have the to support and the efforts of these and dialogue. and i think we took away by, based on the southern reports, is potentially bringing to delhi the 10 point base plan that ukraine has formulated . but it intends to bring up in a subsequent base initiative that turns it into organizing, potentially in the summer or even before that in spring. and part of that is,

for example, for sharing of, of calling for the drawing of russian troops to the 1991 ukraine in boulder. so i think this is something that the ukraine would present to indent officials in delhi, it's a question of how much of it in the, when the accept and get on board. and i think those, the discussions that you will see in delhi ad we've heard no report that that's a bit. it's a bit of a tightrope walk for a near at what india is talking to ukraine is continuing to buy russian or the helping of 40 to finance is war. that is a tightrope war because it's all it's of course, it is a tightrope. walk into is what it is, is walking. if i drop when it comes to his interest and or partnership with moscow that continues to deliver a new, a stronger partnerships with countries in the west. but just from the point of oil get hot this, but a is of a russian on is something that actually benefits west emissions. it benefits in the as well. so in the, in which way. yeah. and the way that it is, it in days,

but chasing all of this rushing on. but in the is also a major export out of petroleum products. india refines a part of this russian on, and it is exporting it to countries here in the european union nearly, this is a legal, a both way to petroleum products entered in europe. for instance. indeed i'm to, has reported on this. uh, so something like that is happening and it is coming to those countries. remember, your life has bind to the border rushing on, but when it comes to petroleum products, the story changes markedly. what is also happening is that because india is, has increased its impulse from russia. it is taking less from its for just suppliers such as it on iraq, multi run, i'm sorry, iraq with nigeria. that means a lot of that or is not available to countries. the not taking russian oil and that has intern kept price is manageable in inflation controllable. so the ending point of view is that you might chide us, but the same countries that are charging us are benefiting because we up,

which is russian. i'm very interesting. thank you very much for expanding to that and i have some news in brief. israel is continuing its military operation in the gaza strip with more as strikes on the southern city of rough oven. not because of health ministry, which is run by homos says at least 60 to palestinians have died of the last day with more than $35000.00 killed at the 5 months of fighting since the almost terrorist attacks on october 7th, the southern ukrainian city of kind of sol now is again being hit by a russian shelley. local officials say one man was injured to the early morning attack. small scholars ramped up it's aerosol. it's on ukraine in recent weeks, targeting vital interest books and retaliation for the strikes on russia's border regions. in the us, divers, searching for the remains of 6 workers from the baltimore bridge collapse of the

carpet, the bodies of 2 men. they were a part of the road works crew working on the bridge when it was rammed by a cargo ship in the early hours of tuesday, safety investigate design, now inspecting the ship. investigators avoiding the cargo ship right where it sits in the water. earlier searchers found the bodies of 2 missing men who'd been working on the bridge. shortly before 10 am divers located the red pickup truck, submerged and approximately 25 feet of water. in the area of the middle span of the bridge. divers recovery to v o. 2 victims of this tragedy trap within the vehicle. now they're trying to see what other clues they can uncover. what we know so far is that the ship called dolly lost power and steering as it was leading to baltimore port and hit the francis scott key bridge. 56

containers were damaged during the collision. that's $764.00 tons of hazardous materials, mostly corrosive, flammable and some miscellaneous hazardous materials, class 9 hazardous materials, which would include lift, am i on batteries? some of the has mac containers were breached. searchers have found all these data reporter, the black box, which may tell seat specials even more. it contains 6 hours of audio that includes radio traffic between the pilot and authorities on the shore. the ship's crew may also be able to explain even more. 23 people in 2 pilots for on board donnelly, at the time of the bridge collapse, authorities are interviewing everyone involved and hope to know even more in the days to come. and that's it for me and the team. for now,

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