creative thinkers shaping continents future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks the us cuts of funding has cemented the feeling hey that the us is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side with detailed coverage the nigerian government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others. from around the world three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. new evidence of abuse by man mas military as a former u.s. diplomat quits a key advisory panel on the range of prices. hello

i'm adrian finnegan 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. brazil's former president says he will run in this year's election despite a course of holding a corruption conviction against him plus. i'm andrew symonds in the occupied west bank and i'll be explaining why palestinians are getting excited about the introduction of three g. all their smartphones it's a ten year old technology. government has been dealt a big blow to the credibility of its handling of the hinge a refugee crisis a former u.s. diplomat has quits an international advisory board aimed at resolving the turmoil in rakhine state bill richardson who was once considered

a close friend of sense suchi accuse the me and leader of lacking moral leadership on the issue he branded the panel set up by suit a whitewash calling it a cheerleading operation for the government it was very unhappy and distressed right down through 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 as best that i resign immediately places bangladesh's prime minister shake a scene is to appeal to the united nations general assembly for more help in

dealing with the crisis meanwhile man mas military 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 is many a seven thousand people are thought to have been killed strafford reports now from apollo refugee camp in bangladesh. the system has fifteen and seventeen years old say myanmar army soldiers tied them to trees and gang raped them the eldest says assistant lost consciousness was the second man began to prove to lie so. the army surrounded our house she says my sister and i were in the bathroom the soldiers burst in and drank this outside seven men raped me she says passes 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. first hand reports from

persons like myself and others rights groups say the un security council should refer me 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 myanmar 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 their house as they were dragged the way they say their mother father and three siblings were inside as the soldiers look at the front door behind them and set their home on fire chance

transferred al-jazeera to follow refugee camp and with their fish. people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo are reporting a surge in killings rapes 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 welcome web reports now from the refugee transit camp in uganda. all of the people here have arrived in the last few days fleeing their villages in the east of the democratic republic of congo they say because of a spike in violence kidnappings killings and rapes by armed groups and now they're queuing up here to register so they can be relocated from this transit camp to long term refugee settlements further inside uganda we went up to the border met some of the new arrivals unaccompanied on their journey here let's take

a look at that story now rebecca says many of her neighbors have been killed or raped in recent weeks the groups keep attacking her 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 or fire you 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 it arrived here in the last month fleeing a spike in the 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 the congo and neighboring rwanda since it's not safe at home

this refugee transit camp the better option. tired and covered with the new arrivals first have to line up here and get their feet grade if 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 they can't manage just say it's necessary then everyone has to queue up here for a medical check in that sense at the end. rebecca's baby twins kelvin and carole 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 the reason he's always wind of it because when a doctor them to walk for a long distance we also had cases where women are they and the names of bin thanks

to all the others or they have this cold here especially at night blankets will help keep the backers 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. al-jazeera. transit camp uganda. of course in brazil was upheld a conviction against former president. for corruption of 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. reports now from the southern port city of.

these people are standing by. they're convinced he will be presumed 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 one thousand nine. hundred. ninety eight. again 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 considered 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 supporters and those who backed the court's decision. in sao paolo brazil's economic capital many celebrated. thinks 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. is 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

isn't. for me the school 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 you like 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 made. the. lady. this is the scene right now just outside milan in northern italy where two people are reported to have died and around one hundred ten people injured ten of the are reported to be

in a critical condition after a train a commuter train in the morning rush hour left the tracks just outside the land so what this a developing story as we speak live pictures from the scene just outside the land where two people have died in a train derailment a commuter train derailment just outside of the northern italian city more details on this as and where we have it obviously. we'll get a weather update next here and then. in africa. the plan to open up african skies and make air travel much easier on the continent plus. where president trump is expected in the coming hours will set the globe to gather here.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. how i am afraid to have yet more right in the forecast for paris has seen some very very heavy rainfall heavier costs some areas the northern front seeing their wettest january in over one hundred years and you can see how the same is overflowing impalas very heavy rain will cause problems as we go on through the next few days the water levels remain high we have this next weather system just sinking its way further south was across much of northern france and in or ties in with this weather front here which is a slow moving feature we are going to see if our amounts of rain through the remainder of the you can see how it runs right through paris right into the by a biscay it was slowly make its way away through the remainder of thursday going on enter friday pulling away but still a chance of some showers coming back in behind hopefully as we go into the weekend things will start to dry out gradually so wetter weather and some snow making its

way towards the alps as we go on into friday some heavy rain there across southern parts of france which will southeastern corner of europe into the eastern side of the med still some very heavy rain in place here and that is still affecting the levant for the time being so special about its out weather just around that eastern side of the med but for much of north africa is dry. the weather sponsored by qatar raise. the scene for us whether online what is a very nice time in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist who's close to the story joined the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

but i get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera former u.s. diplomat bill richardson has resigned from an international advisory panel tackling the hinge of prices calling it a whitewash at least seven hundred thousand ranger have fled we have a region for bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown in the us. people fleeing eastern democratic republic of congo are reporting a surge in killings rapes the production is by armed groups the u.n. says the violence has pushed all the ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of december. the global charity save the children has suspended

its operations in afghanistan after an attack on its jalalabad office a soldier and three staff members were killed several others were wounded i saw has claimed responsibility jennifer glass reports from kabul. the attack began with a car bomb at the door of the state of the children office in jalalabad in eastern afghanistan the gunman stormed the building for more than eight hours they battled afghan security forces while dozens of save the children staff were trapped inside the building was set on fire eventually afghan police and soldiers killed the attackers and rescued the staff afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for children to be born following decades of war insecurity and poverty for twelve years save the children has worked with afghan communities to help kids arrive but the attack on the agency's office in jalalabad suggest it's becoming increasingly difficult for staff to help afghans without becoming victims of the conflict themselves it's quite possible to save the children that would leave afghanistan

and the onus is on the afghan government to provide security for the latest it is takes on aid workers security show that over the last fifteen years their jobs have become much more dangerous in two thousand and sixteen there were one hundred fifty eight attacks on aid organization. around the world in which one hundred one aid workers were killed ninety eight wounded and eighty nine kidnapped that's almost triple the number of attacks in two thousand and three south sudan is the most dangerous country for aid workers followed by afghanistan and syria the u.n. humanitarian coordinator calls afghanistan one of the most challenging and dangerous environments for humanitarian in two thousand and seventeen seventeen aid workers were killed and thirty two injured doctors without borders withdrew from the northern afghan city of could use in two thousand and fifteen after the medical charities hospital was mistakenly destroyed by a u.s. airstrike and last year the international red cross which is operated in afghanistan for more than thirty years close to clinics and limited his operations nationwide after seven staff members were killed and others abducted now we're in

a very explosive situation i think where we know the community says communities can no longer guarantee all safety on our axis and that's now where it's becoming extremely difficult to know. who we can rely on and that's that's the challenge today more so than in the last thirty years afghanistan is dependent on aid organizations if gunmen were to drive them out the afghan government can't support the social services programs on which millions of afghans depend save the children says it helps one point four million children in afghanistan and it's committed to its work here the organization would like to restart its programs but it can only do so when it's short staffed can work safely jennifer glass al jazeera kabul. turkish officials are disputing the white house's version of a phone call about its offensive against kurdish y p g of fighters in northern syria the white house says that president donald trump urged his turkish counterpart to curtail ankara's campaign of afrin which is now its sixth day but

turkey says the trump did not face concerns of escalating violence turkish officials also said the trouble should turkey that the u.s. would no longer supply. syrian kurdish fighters with us meanwhile president trump is taking his nationalist agenda to the global stage at davos trump arrives there later on thursday diplomatic editor james bays has more now on what we can expect from him this is high in the swiss alps this is the ultimate annual gathering of the global elite captains of industry business commas and finance have their talk fest every year here in davos see you might think the u.s. is first a businessman president in decades would fit right in that these are powerful people but they mostly do business in a sober and polite manner unlike trump they are the richest people and represent

the most wealthy companies on earth but they tend to take a global view unlike trump the motto of the world economic forum is working together in a fractured world in and so he is he's not really a representative of that philosophy the idea of america first is is the antithesis of that it's the idea of you know raising one nation one community above those of all others and i think that's really what's. challenging to this community about about donald trump i think if you read between the lines of what it takes to bring everybody together diversity of thought and all of the turn that it creates is part of the process and i hope that that he takes into account here this week trump will be the first president to address stabb office since bill clinton eighteen years ago those who wish to roll back the forces of globalization because they ferrets disruptive consequences i believe are plainly wrong fifty

years of experience shows that greater economic integration and political cooperation. are positive forces. that message was counted at the time by repeated protests around the world by antiglobalization congress now nearly two decades on the main voice questioning suspension of global trade is the president himself from this day forward it's going to be only america first president made his name and his money signing people up to his golf clubs and condos he is the all nude guest here at davos but he remains a guest and not a member of this club james weighs out his era davus switzerland. january twenty fifth marks the seventh anniversary of the egyptian revolution lucian that brought

down president hosni mubarak i was there has been a smith spoken to some of the people who were there seven years ago i i chants 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 idol rahman faris and ali health eg join 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 move. democracy needs a change of these police force 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. that. you know with an f. is what the what a 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. 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. she'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 palestinians in the occupied west bank and finally gained access to three g. cell phone services after israel lifted a ban on the technology but the infrastructure upgrade wasn't allowed in gaza where users are stuck with slow and that works andrew symonds has more now from ramallah in the occupied west bank it speedo long haul for everyone in the cell phone business here but now the big switch on has happened intense competition between two palestinian companies and what to give their customers or three g.

service old technology maybe but it's a first here it's a good for the in the economy finally our customers have a choice to get data services to get connectivity. they've rolled out the promotions the marketing campaigns and t.v. adverts until now the internet in palestine has only been available from wife i hope spots or at home to everyone's frustration their ten years behind the rest of the world. whatever the commercial rights but there's a whole reality about most things that go on in the occupied west bank that's because israel has a handle of whatever comes in and whatever goes out even the technology inside the palestinians smartphone the green spots mark thousands of cell phone mosques but the bad patches show areas see as sprawl of land in the occupied west bank where israel imposes tougher restrictions the companies do their best to improve the cell

phone range but they're also up against israeli signals available in some places and these services are thirty percent cheaper nevertheless some people believe there will be loyalty to the palestinian companies until this moment they choose sometimes to choose some products over the israeli products even that the israeli products and maybe better quality because they still try to make that conscious decision of not supporting the israeli occupation but what the cell phone users think. that the world stopped using three g. and we have just started i just hope we can catch up to the technology. available i think it was only through international pressure that give us. it was outside political pressure some of it from the united states that got cell phone companies this fall and they just want to be on a level playing field sooner rather than later and so slow progress maybe but

palestinians aren't giving up with their demands for human rights and it's time rights and drew simmons al-jazeera ramallah in the occupied west bank. air travel in africa is notoriously difficult it can be expensive unsafe and often you're forced to fly the long way round how to improve that is on the agenda at an african union meeting in ethiopia page reports. ethiopian airlines is spreading its wings across africa buying parts of other country's national carriers the opium expansion is expected to be boosted by the african union's launch of a single is space during its summit in edison this week mark butler who runs the african diaspora forum in south africa he's originally from ivory coast and constantly feel travel complaints flying in africa. are women. who. but to get guns on your have to create

a different flight and i could not believe. when i when i fly to france after ten hours. i live in france i mean another continent africans often have to fly to european cities as transit stops first before flying on to african countries journeys that should last hours sometimes take days not only does time consuming and expensive air travel keep families apart but it hinders economic development easier travel will help africans do business with each other another important priority for the african union. prosper is the chairman of the pan african business forum the entrepreneur runs a charter flight company to help business people get around the lack of direct routes as well as liberalizing airspace for african airlines he says the

a you should be charging international carriers more to fly in africa africa as this is all is this where everybody come and do whatever he wanted you can't do that in the u.s. you can't do that in europe but you can come to africa you can fly in and get up anywhere. into that there's billions the airlines association of southern africa says a single airspace could provide a major boost to the continental airlines if you look at the whole question of international aviation into africa eighty to eighty two percent of the passengers are carried by international airlines and the eighteen percent is owned by african airlines so there's a huge disparity between. the united nations says up to the year twenty fifty more than half of the world's population growth will be in africa or the launch of a single is space is a step closer to meeting their travel needs and aspirations tinier page al-jazeera johannesburg.

good to have you with us avery and sitting in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera a train derailment in italy has left at least two people dead and dozens injured it happened near milan the train was full of commuters came off the tracks in the morning rush hour these are live pictures from the scene of the accident the cause is not yet. fully u.s. diplomats bill richardson has resigned from its national advisory panel tackling the hinge of crisis calling it a whitewash at least seven hundred thousand fled been mas rakhine region from bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown in august i was very unhappy and distressed by downtown through 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 be 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. that i resign immediately people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo reporting a surge in killings rapes 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 upheld 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 officials in turkey are disputing the white house's version of a phone call about its offensive against kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria

the white house says that president donald trump urged his turkish counterpart to curtail ankara's campaign in africa which is now at its sixth day but he says trump did not force concerns of escalating violence when you see here on i was here right after the stream next. zero. where every you. ok and you're in the stream today as part of aspect from the sundance film festival you'll meet some brilliant young mind set to change the world their stories are part of a new documentary science fact. and i'm only.