nobody else is talking and bringing that story to the forefront. has never been more available it's a constant barrage with every day but the message is simplistic plain good logical rational. and misinformation is rife dismissal and denial of well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. new evidence of abuse by man mas' military as a top u.s. diplomat quits a key advisory panel on the range of crisis. hello

i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up on the run a spike in violence forces thousands of people to flee the democratic republic of congo. egypt marks seven years since the fall of president hosni mubarak. protecting the skies over cost us tension mounts for the gulf neighbors the air force increases the number of its pilots. myanmar's government has received a big blow to the credibility of its handling of the hinge or refugee crisis a top u.s. diplomat has quit an international advisory board aimed at resolving the turmoil in rakhine state bill richardson who was once considered a close friend of suchi accuse the leader of lacking moral leadership on the issue

he branded the panel set up by a whitewash calling it a cheerleading operation for the government. i was very unhappy and distressed by down sunset she reaction to my plea that this issue of the reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly and that brought almost an explosion on her part. saying there were issues relating to the official secrecies act that this was not my charter as a member of the advisory board and the very heated exchange that we had i don't want to be part of a whitewash and i felt it's best that that i resign immediately when it comes as bangladesh's prime minister has seen a is to appeal to the united nations general assembly for more help in dealing with the crisis. military though has been accused of using gang rape as part of an

ethnic cleansing campaign against the range of rights groups say that the attacks occurred during a recent crackdown in rakhine state in which as many as seven thousand people of thoughts have been killed al-jazeera strafford reports now from the refugee camp in bangladesh. the system is fifteen and seventeen years old samia the soldiers tied them to trees and gang rapes them the eldest says assisted clint useless as the second man began to brutalize. beyond me surrounded all house she says my sister and i were in the bathrooms the soldiers buzzed in and drank this outside seven men raped me. she says passers by found them unconscious and still tied to the trees. it was difficult to walk she says but they helped us it took us fifteen days to walk to the bangladesh border. rights groups say that the myanmar

army used gang rape as part of its ethnic cleansing campaign that killed thousands of people and destroyed their homes in rakhine state they also say that myanmar's case highlights massive floors in the international criminal justice system and there are questions being asked as to whether the interests of powerful countries like china could jeopardize myanmar ever fully being called to account gathering evidence in myanmar is almost impossible at the moment the myanmar government has banned the un's top human rights investigator from entering the country me and my has made a very big mistake in banning myself and also a fact finding mission and other investigative teams to going in because this is exactly what the world needs to to see and hear from is the first hand reports from persons like myself and others rights groups say the un security council should

refer me on march to the international criminal court in the hague but the i.c.c. only has jurisdiction over crimes committed by states that have signed its founding treaty the rome statute and we is not a signatory getting myanmar an i.c.c. referral in the un security council would likely fail because of china's power of veto china's interests in myanmar a growing these include oil pipelines across rakhine and the construction of a deep water port. the girls now live with the woman that found them in the camp four months ago. they say they heard gunshots inside the house as they were drunk the way they say their mother father and three siblings were inside is the soldiers look at the front door behind them and set their home on fire. i'll just zero

the refugee camp down with the people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo reporting a surge in rapes killings and abductions by armed groups the u.n. says the violence has pushed more than ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of december malcolm web joins us now live from the new york abandon refugee transit camp in uganda you can tell us more malcolm. that's right there are three thousand people here at the moment everyone that we can see here is arrived within the last three days having sled their village of villages in the eastern democratic republic of congo because of the spike in violence you just mentioned we went up to the border and spoke to some of the new arrivals and accompany them on their journey here let's take a look at our story now. rebecca salami says many of her neighbors have been killed or raped in recent weeks armed groups keep attacking have village in the democratic

republic of congo that's why she's walked here to neighboring uganda with her family they met by ugandan soldiers near the border. when you go to pick your crops or go to the forest for firewood if you're a man they kill you and if you're a woman they'll rape you that's why we came here. along with other new arrivals rebecca continues her journey in a u.n. truck the u.n. says more than ten thousand people have arrived here in the last month seeing a spike in violence and. everyone we spoke to says they don't know which armed groups are attacking them why. they say the fighters carry guns wear uniforms and speak languages from all over congo and neighboring rwanda since it's not safe at home this refugee transit camps the better option tired and covered with the new arrivals first have to line up here and get their feet prayed in fact and and

everyone is made to come over here and wash their hands as well after the journey must be tiresome to made to go through this but the camp managers say it's necessary then everyone has to queue up here for a medical check in that tent at the end. rebecca's baby twins kelvin and carol they are identified as severely malnourished. she says she hasn't been able to harvest her crops for weeks and so hasn't produced enough breast milk u.n. officials say these kinds of problems a typical among those arriving at the transit camp before they can be assisted and taken to long term refugee settlements most of believe me that i wind up with because when you talk to them to walk for a long distance we also have cases where women are they and can name the bin thanks to all the others or they have this cold here especially at night blankets will help keep the back as family warm until they can build a new home her husband in

a small can still never go back up and we've heard that here is peaceful we're still on the way though we're optimistic that everything will be better and not like congo. a new life starts with spending the night on the floor of this shelter . is safer here but it will be weeks before things get any easier. all of this comes amid a political crisis in the democratic republic of congo who were meant to be presidential elections just over a year ago but they haven't happened they seem postponed repeatedly the electoral commission says it's because it doesn't have the resources to put everything in place to hold a presidential election this means that president joseph kabila has stayed in power beyond the end of his second and final constitutional mandate instead very little about it opposition saying he's trying to overstay in power illegally so that's seen protests in the capital kinshasa just in the last week several people were killed there and it's also seen an escalation in conflict across democratic congo

particularly in the near the border with uganda here a lot of western diplomats of expressed concern that the lack of an election and the lack of a democratic process will worsen congo's conflicts that many congolese have a more skeptical interpretation a lot of the people you speak to here think the powerful people in kinshasa or in the capital are trying to stoke the complex to make an election very difficult or even impossible to hold marcum do we know any more about which group or who it is that's behind the violence that's forcing these people to flee their homes. one thing it's worth bearing in mind that i released in congo in spite of being extreme poverty in all of those villages one thing that you never see with the armed groups is a shortage of ammunition they always very well armed and well equipped with no bullets actually that means in spite of an arms embargo bullets are being

manufactured in other countries and brought in that means you never intended for us dollars that we the hard tyrant says and that point pretty clearly towards the involvement of powerful people who have access to these things and able to do these things if you ask any of the people here from those villages they'll have no question that they're a powerful political figures behind these that these armed groups the long groups aren't in that sense operating in isolation regards to the recent attacks people have talked about trying to speaking several different congolese languages as well as languages from neighboring countries but we don't know yet who which figures might be behind this recent spate of attacks malcolm many thanks indeed al-jazeera smoke and web reporting live from a refugee transit camp in uganda. a court in brazil has upheld a conviction against former president louis ignacio. for corruption money laundry

it's a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists that he will contest october's election. reports now from the southern city of course. these people are standing by. they're convinced he will be brazil's next president despite a court's ruling that makes it almost impossible for him to run. the risk distance will never die we lost the battle but not the war president twenty eighteen. on wednesday an appeals court upheld his conviction for corruption and money laundering even increase the sentence to twelve years and one month one of the

judges said there is no doubt that the former president was involved in a corruption scheme. i looked at these questions one by one reaffirming specifically that the issue of culpability is the largest vector for the sentence and i consider culpability to be extremely high in this case. it happened in the city of port city where extreme security measures were taken to prevent clashes between us supporters and those who backed the court's decision. in sao paolo brazil's economic capital many celebrated look at something new but if you left things he shouldn't be investigated because he's god all his companions are behind bars and are incriminating him we want justice should be arrested he must be convicted. he's now seventy two he was prisons first working class

president and is credited with lifting millions out of poverty. the court's judgment complicate his chances of making it to this year's presidential race but lula remains defiant. it will for me this court ruling is an opportunity to travel through brazil and have a dialogue with the brazilian people now i can see that everything that they're doing is to close the door to my candidacy as provocation is so shameful but now i want to be counted for the presidency of the republic brazilian law bans candidates who have been convicted from running for office there are two legal moves and make to avoid prison and to fight to be allowed to run in october's election. but for many that will now be tougher than his supporters would like to what makes. the case i will. look at

a weather update. then beijing's controversial plan to clean up the city that's leaving thousands homeless plus. i'm rory chalons in moscow and later in the program i'll be explaining why a british the terrible film about this man is not going down well in russia. how the real cold winter air in europe is in the east in fact is going over into western russia as this gray stuff was slow moving cloud that's way feels like it should do but further west this is a reasonable thing like winter is when the smile to contains lots of rain in the forecast not could be a problem so waltz we have goals for thursday's forecast maximum temperature is subzero for book rest in kiev the sun might be up for the be fog around as well and

in turkey it's snowing as it is indeed in finland if you look through germany and france and even spain and portugal were up to double figures we've got right now this rain is falling on top of snow a vast amount of snow in the alps so we've already had something in the way of too much water flooding on the rise in the run for example on the smaller rivers in switzerland and now are about to top it up with more melt is there and then add some snow on top come friday so it's going to be a bit of a dangerous mess not just avalanches but flood and mudslide risk now what's happening on the european mainland which means most of the train is fun to most of north africa is looking fine twenty one degrees now jena's but the some on shore breeze for egypt and you can see quite obvious circulation to cyprus and turkey.

well again the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. diplomat bill richardson has resigned from an international advisory panel tackling the hinge of crisis calling it a whitewash at least seven hundred thousand range of flat near mass rakhine region

for bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown in august people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo reporting of surgeon rapes killings and abductions by armed groups the u.n. says the violence has pushed more than ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of december at a court in brazil has up held a conviction against former president louis ignacio lula da silva for corruption and money laundering it's a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists he will contest october's election. as u.s. president donald trump has urged turkey to curtail its military offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria on saturday turkey launched an air and ground operation an effort to push out why p.g. fighters whom it considers to be terrorists the u.s. sees the fighters as allies helping it in its fight against i saw in a phone call trump told turkey's president earlier want to exercise caution or risk

conflicts with u.s. forces. january twenty fifth marks the seventh anniversary of the egyptian revolution that brought down president hosni mubarak downtown cairo is in lockdown with security forces sealing off all entrances to tahrir square the focal point of the uprising al-jazeera is but smith has been speaking to some of the people who were there seven years ago i i chance of down with mubarak wants have been enough to earn a beating from egypt's feared security services that on january twenty fifth twenty eleven the police made only a half hearted attempts to stop hundreds of thousands of egyptians packing tahrir square in cairo to demand the resignation of president hosni mubarak idle raman farris and ali have joined those protests seven years ago for what and then. we used to say that the revolution is coming that it was out drinking to change the

regime through revolution we've been protesting for years but it was only ever a few dozen one hundred people so the regime considered us a bunch of children. for three weeks mubarak clung to power he fired cabinet ministers and promised reforms but he refused to meet the main demand that the now millions of protesters nationwide were not moving they have to more. democracy needs a chance of these police to go. amnesty international says more than eight hundred forty people were killed during the revolution as once friendly governments from the u.s. and europe abandon the barrack the eighty two year old autocrat was isolated. one finally on february eleventh twenty eleven mubarak resigned and handed over power to the military i'm up. with that and. you know what then after the office

would have feeling i lost my voice i kept saying the people have overthrown the regime that it was a dream that came true i felt we had. something like a mini democracy i felt competition between parties then ceasing came egypt's post revolution euphoria didn't last long its first democratically elected leader lasted just twelve months. the muslim brotherhoods mohammed morsi was overthrown in a military coup led by abdel fattah el-sisi. cc's now president and standing for reelection for a second term in march just like mubarak he's crackdown on dissent and silenced rivals and on the anniversary of that revolution tahrir square has been sealed off just in case bernard smith al-jazeera the u.n. says that it's alarmed by reports of summary executions in libya it's demanding the arrest of a senior military commander allied to the renegade general khalifa haftar who is also wanted by the international criminal court it's in response to

a recent picture on social media showing mahmoud folly ixia executing nine men outside a mosque in benghazi the u.n. says it's documented at least five cases were fairly carrying out whole ordering executions in twenty seventeen. nearly qualified cattery air force pilots say they're ready to take to the skies without the support of neighboring nations three of those nations the united arab emirates saudi arabia and bahrain imposed a blockade on doha in june recent days or tense moments between cut on the u.a.e. over alleged airspace violations. reports. these planes are on the frontline of a dispute between qatar and its neighbors. only days ago could that complained to the united nations that iraqi military jets had violated its airspace the u.s. plane without providing any proof that one of its passenger planes was intercepted

but by three jets which door denies. these are the first pilots to graduate as officers since cut his neighbors blockaded their country the u.s. military has been ordered to tone down tensions in many of these graduates one ties between the gulf countries to be restored but they know their country has learned an important lesson in self-reliance. and after. they considered that the blockade will hurt us but on the contrary we benefited and now our pilots will be ready for the future but that readiness for the future has a cost since the blockade but there has spent tens of billions of dollars in military contracts and allies such as turkey have ratified agreements to send thousands of soldiers to be based in qatar. the air force is getting twenty four typhoons from the u.k. it's getting twelve disorder file fighters from france the us company buoying it will be supplying thirty six f. fifteen. e.

meter of other rules over the richest country in the world per capita and that massive wealth has brought influence there for us have the latest single greatest fighter airplanes in the old and that's why as you can see. if you look inside you would see this is a new generation aircraft is the latest it has a glass cockpit and it has everything you need to train the pilots to become future fighter pilots. but there is building in its partnerships across the world to protect it against the accusations by its neighbors it's always denied sponsoring terror the excuse behind the seven month blockade. intended to bring other to its knees is actually helping it stand on its own feet. some of the job under their. us president donald trump says he's willing to be interviewed by investigators looking into alleged collusion between his presidential campaign and

russia. president trump told reporters he'd speak under oath the special counsel robert mueller who's leading the investigation a former doctor for the u.s. gymnastics team has been given a prison term of up to one hundred seventy five years larry massa pleaded guilty after being accused by more than one hundred fifty women including several u.s. olympic gold medalists the president of michigan state university where nasa worked resigned after the sentence was handed down. beijing will demolish thousands of what it calls illegal structures this here in an effort to spruce up the city the place was ordered after a fire in november but thousands of low paid migrant workers a sad to lose their homes in the process as adrian brown reports well the owners of this business a pet shop packing up and moving out they have to close their business by friday

there are fifty other businesses in this condemned neighborhood they also all have to close by friday the owner of one other business we spoke to said that they've been offered no compensation they simply be told to leave this area by friday now of course last december we saw really the beginnings of this demolition campaign and this followed a fire in a warehouse which had been converted into a legal apartments and that gave the government the excuse it deeded to really intensify this campaign of demolitions now on wednesday the mayor of beijing announced an ambitious plan to demolish some forty million square meters of illegal structures here in beijing that's almost thirty eight square kilometers now the government has a number of reasons for wanting to do this right now it wants to beautify beijing but it also wants to reduce the population of this city but the people who are

being affected hundreds of thousands of them are migrant workers these are people from poor regions of china who come to the city to do the jobs that all beijing is don't want to do they work in shops they clean homes they act as deliveryman so there is going to be an economic price to pay for all of this but it appears to be an economic price that the government is prepared to pay in terms of higher wages and of course the disruption that is going to cause in the weeks months and years ahead. british film the death of stalin was supposed to open in russian cinemas on thursday but the controversial black comedy about former soviet leader joseph stalin has effectively been banned from release across the country rory chalons explains why it was the death of stalin is unsurprisingly considering its source material the blackest of black comedies the profane british satire mocks the panic of top soviet of bushels following the murderous tyrant stroke in one nine hundred

fifty three. should he shot the before you get a spike killed it's been acclaimed by western critics but in russia the film is no laughing matter though he denies censorship this week the culture ministry revoked the film's distribution license citing extremist content. got an early viewing as a member of the ministry's public council he wasn't impressed. with marshals of the great but to logic war covered the nettles when the inside least of the states leaders get portrayed in pathetic and vulgar images at this point art turns in sick each lesson cern's into insult and the line is crossed. for the state and individual russians for sometimes similar sometimes different reasons the stalin years are a highly sensitive subject at a moscow exhibition on the great terror of nine hundred thirty seven you can view execution quotas for thousands of people at

a time many living russians lost parents or grandparents the wounds are still raw or for some to rauf a cinematic comedy others would like a chance to see it. as the just everyone should decide for themselves to watch it or not it should be a personal choice you know it's another you can't laugh at it you should think about it and correct your mistakes but it's not even slightly funny your mind you'll go. i don't think you can laugh at it it's hard story to laugh at it means to laugh at yourself late last year a somber monument to soviet repressions was unveiled in the capital by vladimir putin but the careful language he used reveals how little he feels there is to be gained from investigating historical abuses of state power too closely. nationally. we are descendants should remember the tragedy of repression about the

causes which lead to it but it doesn't mean demanding that accounts be settled we must never again push society to the dangerous precipice of division now it is important for all of us to rely on the values of trust and stability. stalin may be the bloodiest of a long line of despotic rulers but his brutal legacy also comes tightly bundled with the defeat of fascism the modern russian state's totem of unity against hostile outside is for russia's authorities the death of stalin is a foreign trespass on hallowed ground in a particularly vulgar one that's in mocking the terrifying absurdities of stalin ism the film also threatens the country's cafferty sanctified narrative of world war two glory and that has proven unacceptable rory talents al-jazeera moscow.

it is good to have you with us adrian sitting in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. diplomat bill richardson has resigned from an international advisory panel tackling the range of crisis calling it a whitewash at least seven hundred thousand have fled me and muzzle kind region for bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown in august i was very unhappy and distressed by downtown for she reaction to my plea that this issue of the reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly and that brought almost an explosion on her part. saying there were issues relating to the official secrecies act that this was not my charter as a member of the advisory board and the very heated exchange that we had i don't want to be part of or a whitewash. and i felt it was best that i resign

immediately people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo are reporting a surge in the number of rapes killings and abductions by armed groups the u.n. says the violence has pushed more than ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of december a court in brazil is up held a conviction against former president luis ignacio lula da silva the corruption of money laundering it's a major setback in his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists he will contest. election u.s. president donald trump has urged turkey to curtail its military offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria on saturday turkey launched an air and ground operation an african to push out why p.g. fighters which it considers to be terrorists the u.s. sees the fighters as allies helping is in its fight against isis the former doctor for the u.s. gymnastics team has been given

a prison term of up to one hundred seventy five years for sexual assault very nasser pleaded guilty to being accused by more than one hundred fifty women including several u.s. olympic gold medalists of those the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that. al-jazeera. is the president of egypt scared of the competition. forced out of the race for the presidential election in law. is under arrest and the former prime minister has also been forced to drop out this is inside story.