hundreds of thousands have fled the country since a violent military crackdown began in august unfortunately the security council has so far failed in its responsibility to act in response to the clear threat to international peace and security that has resulted from recent events in northern with kind of state we cannot look the other way in this situation what happened in burma and is still happening in burma is not ok this council must hold the military accountable for their actions and pressure on sun suu kyi to acknowledge these terrific acts are taking place in her country the lower house of cambodia as parliament has passed a gold making it a crime to insult the king anyone found guilty on the charge would face up to five years in prison rights groups fear the little could be misused by prime minister hun sen to further stifle dissent neighboring thailand has the world's toughest penalties for insulting the royal family with sentences of up to fifteen years

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come ina is a ghost station in the south of the democratic republic of congo. there's been no train service for five months but now it's running again. the train left lubumbashi

the second largest city five days ago. no one knows when it will arrive. and the train everyone is waiting for has a surprising name holme del or the swallow. by. news of the swallows arrival spreads like wildfire by the bush telegraph all word of mouth. it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and drools huge crowds. half of them a street vendors a day every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant

market. the. amateur. i don't know if that is the ideal home program yet i wrote that there are several. there are no. i'm going to the time good. bye. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed. passengers clamber for remaining seats. has been riding this train for twenty years. he knows what to expect. them to come see but he got there i think because the self emphasizes the decision

deducted the part of both. public will be. willing. to see. sit by young today. one of them of the fifty a day for these young people for the business they pull on this i see the loonies it's so this it's a sonic as i said of the. people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity. for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. images or you could open it about what it is and you say that it is only

a few simple words you will let your guard up that much of a tell you could do it but only do it when you said it was up some of them were. located in the heart of the continent the democratic republic of congo is the largest country in sub-saharan africa. the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a lebo and is the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years. the old engine was bought second hand in south africa. a relay of ten drivers is needed to cover the one thousand six hundred kilometer journey. but. the driver is sixty three years old.

missed him a long ago has one of the hardest parts of the trip. one hundred and twenty kilometers of trouble see above the river where we've never done that he said. so remember. that is on the same time that i thought about said yeah a physical that's why there was this every something that they have. missed him along go is the monster on board and supplements his income following ten passing just. travel in the driver's cabin. it's as close as he gets to first class on the train. back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try and

move around the carriage. it's something clear can't get used to. play out but that was said. c c said it could set the pervasive myth about the. if this sends us a segment called did you know think this thing could see a lot of big this would lose just one does your money on the phone be the song they put up a video of the preview to. let you know the. passengers take as much luggage as they can. so protocol the media. on a cd expose it equally possible i love. you. too we're. supposed to let alone as old to see the film of

people do. extraordinary things sometimes happen. cinema is a must and i know you. don't want to see what you want to do and i did it for those again recently in my own son. films son son. but. he does. argue we are forming current events because you say that you will see. the train can also be a death trap to load the foot to be taught it's a sore foot. because i sit at supper fussing about they did such gus nossal which our gun laws deal to keep us in a month to help us in my life and. last year the snake is named several passengers.

if. and those in third class risked their lives up here on the route. they can easily get knocked off the moving train . and now when i come out before going out with. her dad is out not going to school no more boy we're talking about. his fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. but they believe. that.

the danger comes not just from above but also from the sun. even if the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can come like a machete. live there would be yet another of a. similar there's a lot of other. border secure better border. yes. these are some of the remotest areas of the d.r. congo. as dawn breaks free men are preparing for

a long journey. they're traveling salesman training in kosov or flowers and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. was going on a mobile version yes you know beyond your what it was you were doing what you do does your mama. off before you know one was to go tomorrow night do you go one on one o one you're beautiful good. man and his companions a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country south. it will probably take them around for all five day. you know the little you want to use.

most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on the tracks so the congolese improvise. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of merchandise. if. you know your. son of. work if you know. you know. what if what if what if what in the future

what you need. to know my name was difficult to speak. to me. but. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. of faith. better than that.

we are no more but was there full of it down the local dipping was in john or was there the whole thing. you know we know. by nightfall they reach a village. the ones they won't sleep by the side of the road but in the church. this will be their only meal of the day. here in this you post your mobile to do what. you guys you can a woman whose son would do that a fickle forcing you know it's going to. hear the noise you know funny you know the . komodo you know the whore muck going door but you do love to wind up muscle was just if the only major fun was just come and go in

the most the movie you play she does i do it well because it was a joke window window muslim thing what did you come and go say look at the measures to even if you don't know what they don't see. the village of kid statue is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor. photos of yeah the photo of. a man and his family and on the train. by waving

a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush and go up up. up so i just made that woman i don't know that would need to go through got in your way but we're glad i mean i'm sure. it's often like this. holiday work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. on average and i survived but i had it out of the up and up i have a lot of first of all what they did for the most open. it was going to separate what it. see ever go get your pick up a bottle. anything that up on the.

road. but right now his main concern is the state of the truck. he has to reduce speed to less than ten kilometers an hour. at this point the rails are not really a line. that are just. that are locked therefore loaded up with this stop in front of this outfit a simple society simple touch. i think fisher. said you got to sit it out probably because it was going to bump risky up i said about that's. turn dodger you know with regard to regardless of

what those effects are threw it out yet is going to get iraq. back in the bush man and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day's off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. somebody get out the welcome. it's the fifth time in one day. without a repair kit to a new in a cheap postman patches the puncher with a piece of rubber from an old cheap one hopes for the best.

most men and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. and you'll come up on your show if you're going to come with on what a game when i need help or you open up with help with who we give. you don't put a few bottom up on. the end your hunger. and fatigue. they barely had the strength to push their bikes any further.

i. want to end it all. we don't want to go. home i. don't want the horn or. my game today. and perhaps their prayers have been answered the rain has stopped and they finally arrived. when. the groom's long queue one young.

girl i'm. sure. the bit of a. minute who knows. of our. son. will be dizzy up on.

your wall phone while. the three companions journey will soon be over when they get home in a week's time they live and enough money to feed their families. back home build the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. some friend. but just when everything seems more or less normal mr malone go is confronted with a new problem. the train is losing speed. eventually it comes to a complete still. the thing that he does so in the middle of a village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage if he suspects the

vendor is the one known as traffickers in the congo. this is the fault of people who saw. it go over through the one i got through that does that it's very different i just got lucky. with. the fast. methods but then again i would limit get to. those who do know. about it but nobody. has been riding the swallow for ten years on this trip he's selling soldiering while the

next time he'll sell something else about it on the way the train provides him with a living what to do so my question. to my children and to government do to then it will have to be my lot more to it than that not be so is that open up but they said if i have a booklet and i knew so much that was about duffy go most in august about the no we were going to succumb was an absolute does only one about the time that the other no muslim got to be so. who's. bento moto motor was kind of slowed. down. down the. road cut your. list i'm a long goes still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching their labor to

trains final destination. if all goes well the sixteen hundred kilometer journey will have taken eight days. to swallow continues on its way. despite the obstacles it's a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of connally. in the heart of the amazon have been living in families the family lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts the food. getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to believe me out. at this time on al-jazeera. business updates rolled to you by qatar airways going places to get.

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