so they were left with only two choices to hide in the bush or to become fighters and saw today surfacing in army helicopters and assault rifles and get support from the united states and other countries whereas most of these fighters only of old guns and so they're left to use a millets to protect themselves from bullets going to expend an article. since october last year when the conflict started me has been burning entire villages and killing civilians according to one cameroonian human rights organisation seventy villages were destroyed by the army and in an investigation that it was a b.b.c. we confirm the satellite images at least six villages had been burned down since october. so that when he shows what he says is evidence of villages being burned down he also talks about the fact that these are farmers who have now taken up arms because of this conflict does that resonate with what that is the truest statement that i've heard from from it genesee and they reflect the truth that is going on in

our country today when we stated that we have been subjugated by camera. and that caused us all kinds of horrific things that can be done when on the people i've been oppressed by the franco come on our alliance right now it has been did we detect it for messing there is in in one of the regions in the northern parts of a contrie white forces white people with white skeins we don't know where they're coming from they could be french legionnaires or they could be french armies actually now fighting alongside come on armies the pillaging village they got a lot of tweets about people saying that we think that french mercenaries are their international mercenaries how how are you confirming that how do you know we can only say that because franco come on our land that was signed in one thousand six hundred nine which was to ensure that the french interesting came out on predominates once it was discovered in numbers only or they switched their position from not caring about the federation to fast forwarding their simulation agenda to

that we said happened in one nine hundred seventy two when i had you dissolved if the configuration fortunately for us that same assembly in one thousand nine hundred four dissolve the union so by operation of the law the successful state of now disarming chemical is a popular from those are now things then we had laid claim that cameron is subjugating and occupying a country but we have another we have never had the international community for instance united nations to call me in and complete the process of fulfilling determination of justice issue which was incomplete and on to that is dawn we will never have peace in the region because the only reason why cameron is interested in numbers and is because of the wealth that did they exploit from our territory is not that big care bottles. we have the records to prove that. i wasn't a minister how i welcome welcome to our conversation this is minister he said to roma backley he is the minister of information on anything listening to our

conversation minister go ahead well thank you. mr chairman and the communication and spokesperson of the government i would like to express gratitude for giving me the opportunity to voice the government position . this political unrest in no country in particular in the region of nation is concerned. to hurt my brother. who made the libelous slanderous. description of what the police right now. by saying that the government has recruited foreigners to come and delivered. b.c. disrespect for all people. i would like you to know.

in washington new york few kilometers away from washington i advise you to go and visit the archives of the united nations to understand exactly what has taken place cameroon. prison configuration is the legacy. to the nation by the united did neutral by. i want to get some clarity of what's happening right now i know that there is always a temptation with cameron to to go back because it's got a deep colonial history i'd like to keep it up to date for a moment right now i'm i correct in thinking the whole of the u.s. ambassador to cameroon. i don't want more of them leading me would you think. i believe you at the time of the u.s. ambassador to cameroon the reason i mention that is because that ambassador had

this to say about the current violence rest in cameroon have a listen to what you have a listen minister i will say that you know there there is violence starts the government has committed summary executions the guilty detaining people. access to lawyers to their families even to visit from. the. guilty and we just need a. general reaction. on the side. against the sexiest separatist we've seen in our meetings connecting government officials and schools so. we want to stress the. states condemns violence. so minister this is what i'm hearing some way

executions burning of villages looting this is by government backed forces and their own the separatists point site butting of schools beheadings and kidnappings of government officials this is what the us ambassador cameron is seeing he feels it's actually happening how are you going to deal with that thank you madam for giving me this opportunity to work a government position we are going to be in that if people. who care. are here below and usually a framework within which we can negotiate and look at what it's like three solutions for the nation beauty is going to be possible. but i would of constitution i would of the laws of the nation. what the government would like to.

help us find the right people. we can discuss. what i put on this minister on the right people. here at beheading them burning a village is a summary execution this is not a situation that is good for the people camrose i'm not hearing right now how are you going to deal with this you want to pick the right place. did. they. believe they are terrorists will is the ratios that we've come a ruined. a pretty good. crime against people what are you willing to. kill so to a group. of groups when certain information is brought to.

a. complete. investigation ok i hear you minister is released please stay with us because we're rapidly running out of time and we said it's not a terrorist he says he's a restorationist. i've heard the minister contain a truth. as we restore remember that these two countries came in to cornfields agreement to form a union which was not completed this is where the problem is we cannot be talking about the symptom of the problems when the problem hasn't been address want to we go back to the beginning called the mistakes of one thousand sixty whereby united nations failed to fulfill its obligations. because sensex b. when we attained sovereign state and got them and got to be a sovereign independent country and engaged into a confederation with kemah wrong which was then destroyed by the rule we are

not going to solve this problem i hate out here and here so this is our community and they also want to be part of the conversation or look at that what's interesting is you're you're hearing this back and forth you heard what the minister said and of course you're hearing what i've been said this is a tuple who says extrajudicial killings burning down entire villages shooting unarmed civilians and forced disappearances and the southwest and the northwest regions must be investigated we urge for a commission of inquiry to fully investigate these crimes of course amnesty is not that kind of commission what won't the conduct that kind of commission but you did do an investigation talk to us about your access. yes first of all let me well come statement after minister regarding they need for. holding accountable those who have. traded crimes in the north and south west this is you know it's a welcome in news but at the same time let me be

a little bit skeptical because unfortunately what we have seen income ruin is a long track record of abusive conduct by the security forces and as well as a entrenched culture of impunity so far since we have started our research work and come and gone very little investigations have been opened on the cases that we have to commend it and talk about hundreds of cases and forced disappearances systematic torture in the pension facilities arbitrary arrests and in the case of the context of young of the crisis we have also documented burning of entire villages and also to the use of satellite imagery which showed for example like the complete destruction of a couple of village in that west regions and we have spoken with at victims and i witness and their feminist who told us about their dramatic stories when they fled

those villages when army came to carry out its operations so i think it's important to. address at the burning issues and indeed to. address impunity which has been one of the root causes of this crisis and it's all the if you winning more items and contributing to more crimes in our you made recommendations at the end of this investigation the indenting the violence and power in violence on both sides we have the minister on the line right now one of the recommendation because he wasn't very impressed with this report at all. yes. madam please you have a mini statement made by many people against the government if you do not give me enough time to and i really. have to make it clear my nation is. the one. against the

institution. of the one who raped. the most crime by preventing. outright lies from going to school. when you were speaking i didn't tell you anything be polite and listen to what. i am speaking of because many have we just have a clear we just had a little money go out to be similar let me just push you so that we can actually hear how are you going to work on the rest or is currently afflicting cameron what is the plan. was before a matter. of. fact . i mean i would like apply and go if i wanted it to. doesn't matter doesn't matter let's go. a little yes yes to go ahead

what i was saying. i would. solution or. i mean this minister who as you can hear we lost so many so he's he's actually i can hear you i mean there's no more because this is this is a struggle and it's quite painful what we have you heard the minister earlier call some secessionist terrorist that's something we've seen online as well you don't see a lot of francophone tweets on the line but you do see peaceful posts like this big domes of embers only terrorists and this next one note and notice a specialist terrorism jang i want to give this to you because i know that you're a member of this group that has about six hundred members on facebook what is your view. i think here. after question really is

really do rule of international or the story because the international really look it's pretty brilliant you where you started so. don't look country a sovereign country like cameroon not very good in which to root i mean this is actually where i'm in and. we are not the problem because knight ok marie and i have to talk yeah if we are talking here are about. coming summer and country. girl we know about you to read one refutes in school you have been burning ripping woman then i miss you international how. do you do excuse me i actually have one minute left in this entire show viewers if you're watching this you can hear the difficulty that we're having to even trying to say gus this in any way that gives us any clarity. all right i want to go back

to merely because i'm feeling that i'm getting clarity from the community and it's difficult with me debating encounter but against each other but what are you seeing all indra to treats from you tube this is excuse me two comments from you tube thomas says he finds it interesting that a peaceful protest by lawyers and teachers has led to what we're seeing here today and another person adham says the core reason why the french republic of cameroon fights to keep southern cameroon is because of the resources the union has never been legal or in good faith thus they know and have always known this to get me to say something here and we need to say thank you so much for playing with us and i know you need to write a reply and we will do that online because we've left some threads hanging. out a.j. streams at twitter handle our conversations always continue edwin a lot jang and also minister of communications for cameroon thank you for joining.

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the worst droughts on record. water saving measures. three months everyone here is hoping the winter will see bring enough rain to make sure. this is zero in studio four a. welcome to the news grid it is one of the most important stretches the water in the world and iran pushed by top it off president rouhani and the revolutionary guard are now talking about a possible block to the straits of hormuz in response to american threats of sanctions but that would affect all oil exports from the gulf from the repercussions of. the border goes on in syria.

jordan close to people trying to get out and tries to find its way in the cease fire is needed as soon as possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in thailand some promising signs from the. still trapped but while the video shows the boys to be in good spirits there is a mammoth task ahead of the rescue teams to get them out before thailand's monsoon season really takes. action in schools. since the story online and much more. spent. with the news streaming online for you to live in a down to zero. dot com and there is a risk this wednesday of the world's oil markets being drawn into the tensions

between the u.s. and iran both president hassan rouhani and the powerful iranian revolutionary guard have said or oil exports could be prevented from leaving the gulf via the straits of hormuz in a move which would royall the global markets now rouhani is comments are in response to the threat of u.s. sanctions in short the united states wants to reduce iranian oil revenues to zero as a form of pressure on iran over its nuclear program and even though u.s. allies like saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have both said they can increase their oil production to keep the markets calm the threat of the straits of hormuz being closed would negate all that extra oil just quickly here it is on the map if you are not familiar with the straits of hormuz a tiny stretch of water between iran in the north and oman to the south at its narrowest point which we're looking at there just fifty four kilometers between the two pieces of land this is where twenty percent of the world's oil passes through

thirty five percent if we're just talking about oil which goes by ship nasm as the americans have claimed they want to completely stop iran's oil exports they don't understand the meaning of this statement because it has no meaning for a rainy an oil law to be exported while the region's oil is exported to assuming that iran could become the only oil producer on able to export its oil is a wrong assumption that the united states will never be able to quote iran's oil revenues. so you cut off the straits of hormuz in the price of oil will spike is almost a given and despite his tough talk on iran that should worry u.s. president donald trump only five days ago he tweeted this just spoke to king solomon of saudi arabia explain to him that because of the turmoil and dysfunction in iran he's very specific there and venezuela i'm asking saudi arabia increase oil production maybe up to two million barrels to make up the difference prices too high he has agreed but with this latest development it could be two million extra barrels with no way out of the region more on the u.s.

side of the story now from kimberly halkett in washington d.c. . in recent days we have seen the trump administration backing off its hard deadline of november fourth for its allies to cut their connections in terms of iranian oil imports that is because it may not be a realistic deadline particularly when it comes to turkey south korea and also india so there seems to be some flexibility the trumpet ministration says it is working with its allies on a case by case basis but you have to remember the concern here is the overall production and there is a recognition by the trumpet ministration that there may be not only turmoil in the international markets but hitting the market here in the united states as a result of this decision and while we've not seen a shift in the stands by the trumpet ministration or even a change in policy there seems to be some working behind the scenes in order to try

and put this forward in a more realistic way still the maximum pressure campaign announced by the trump administration is in a fact it is certainly one that the u.s. secretary of state said on monday will remain in place as the u.s. works towards its end state and that is trying to come up with a new agreement with iran that not only addresses its nuclear activity but also what the united states says is its malign activity in the broader middle east in london for his no mo and bashar al jazeera senior political analyst tom owen is this looking like a game of chicken here almost who's going to blink first and iran using that sort of ultimate threat to the region of the straits of hormuz. well it's clearly a part of a i would say global chess game that's being played and while we've just reported about the arabian american part of it certainly other players will come to will

come in the field such as those who are importing iranian oil notably japan and europe that import more than a million barrel a day and certainly a russia that has a lot at stake in terms of its own interests in syria in iran and the greater middle east in general but all in all look i mean certainly for president trump to make his threats against iran without even consulting or getting the agreement certainly there is no agreement between him and the europeans and the japanese on this but for him to be making that kind of threat this is not only a third tool to iran but it's also a threat to america's allies that they cannot do business with iran now thirty years ago we came to an end of what was called then that tankers wars in the persian gulf when iran started attacking all sorts of ships that get out of iraq or

kuwait and other places forcing the kuwaitis to ask the americans to fly their own tankers of oil entering a whole new phase a dangerous phase in the persian or the gulf so all in all this is a serious escalation and we've been there before i mentioned this earlier mowen but it was almost in passing now that i think about it i mentioned the iranian revolutionary guard can you explain for of us the significance of when the revolutionary guard actually speaks up on a topic. well look i mean we have to differentiate between two things what the thrum administration is doing at this point in time is more of an economic war on iran some really imposing sanctions and then secondary sanctions which means that all sorts of regional and international economies will have to sanction iran otherwise the united states their nonsense will sanction them they will also of course sanction the revolutionary guards on the other hand iran is responding on

all sorts of ways notably in an implicit jus political way saying if you launch a global economic war on us if you blockade us economically we would have no other option but to burst out and usually that will mean using the revolutionary guards among others at that time thirty years ago iran used small boats and it flooded the persian gulf with also so of. mines water mines sea mines that really started affecting the shipping lanes now if trump wanted to bring down the oil of the price of oil and wanted to push saudi arabia to produce more and so on so forth morgan stanley already tells us that the price of oil is going to jump from seventy seven to eighty five now i'm not or an expert but i can tell you once the uranium start making threats about destructing oil shipments the price of oil

is going to skyrocket hence from strategy will backfire one to watch closely isn't it mon bashar a senior political analyst in london thank you mullen. and the counting the cost thing was talking iran and the oil market only a couple of months ago actually good primer on how the politics and the tweets actually affect the markets and inevitably the price of oil has an say co-hosting that edition you will find counting the cost as ever in the show's section at al-jazeera dot com let's move on now to what we can all look at syria and jordan's foreign minister. has said dozens of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid is waiting for the go ahead to pass in troops that once before on it and we go to pass into syria even safaris also called for a ceasefire as soon as possible to avoid what he calls a humanitarian catastrophe it's all happening down here in the south west of syria

where hundreds of thousands millions have been forced from their homes in and around their ah by a russian syrian offensive now it has led to we go in a bit closer border closures from both the jordanian and. just not having a great day today our way anyway it's led to the jordanian and israeli sides closing the borders there is a massive build up of people trying to find a safe way out they know how to with more from beirut in laboring evelyn. these people move to the border areas to escape the fighting in progress but they also fear the syrian government who considers them terrorists for being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation and even executions this is why they are asking that

any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or another other country or international guarantees from that. the opposition has little cards to play they have lost ground and abandoned by their allies but they hope to improve their bargaining position by continuing to resist the government attempts to recapture the remaining rebel areas in. rebel factions have returned to the table with the russian military which has been negotiating on behalf of the syrian government. jordan has been mediating its foreign minister ivanov stuff and he went to moscow for talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about how to implement a settlement in south syria after rebel surrender their areas at least publicly there was no indication a deal was agreed. and i. look at the situation in the south of syria with strong concern to believe that the fundamental goal is to resolve this crisis through

a political process that would like to begin with a cease fire and then proceed to solving the question that would help to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in this area and it's clear that it is absolutely unrealistic to iran to withdraw from syria and that it won't be possible to solve the problems of the region without the participation of key countries including iran saudi arabia jordan egypt and many others there is no trust between the opposition and the government. we have seen this happen in the past regime and to design area either through talks or first they take revenge against the opposition particularly this is a video this happened in east and there were bitterly arrests many men arrested we heard of mass executions rebel say they are ready to lay down their heavy weapons but president bashar assad's forces and their allies should not be allowed to enter they have all held towns the opposition is also demanding government

forces withdraw from recently captured towns it also wants state institutions and rebel held areas to be managed by the local population which will create their own military force to secure the area these conditions are unlikely to be accepted by the syrian government which wants to regain sovereignty in the southern corner of the country there are also demands for jordanian or a wider arab military presence in the area that too is unlikely to be welcomed by to mask with so many players involved it's proving difficult to reach a deal to end the fighting there beirut and we have just heard in the last few minutes those efforts to broker an agreement to end the fighting have failed at this point so syrians fleeing the violence have also been massing at the border with israel and child strength that is there with the support from the occupied golan heights. well you can see there on the horizon is one of a number of makeshift camps that have appeared in this area in the last couple of

weeks since the syrian government offensive started in dera and kuwait sure now deborah is around ten kilometers in that direction certainly this morning we heard what certainly sounded like as strikes coming from that area the israeli government here have said that they will not open these borders to refugees but it is also said that it will continue she manage tarion assistance where necessary prime minister netanyahu saying that israel will react to any threats to its sovereignty the israeli military has reinforced troops in this area in the last few days reinforcements for the two hundred tents division we understand of course this area is very sensitive it having been occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the big concern for israel here is one of security of special concern is the presence of iranian forces so close to its bulldoze we understood we know

that in may israel struck using as strikes a number of iranian military installations inside syria so there are huge concerns with respect to security here for israel as this crisis continues and as the fighting goes on in this area i think it's fairly safe to say that we can expect to see even more people coming to these camps along this border. you know there are has an important place in the history of syria's war it was where a fourteen year old boy sprayed anti-government slogans on his school back in two thousand and eleven he was the boy who started the syrian war and his story is told in this extraordinary documentary from al-jazeera i would urge you to watch it it's quite incredible to think of everything that's happened since that one seemingly isolated event it's a special series on al-jazeera dot com the boy who started the syrian war maybe you want to get in touch with us contact details on screen for you know i'm actually hearing from a lot of you on the iran oil story a lot of concern mohammed asking could this result in

a military confrontation between iran and the u.s. allies will mount a shower was telling us a little bit earlier that the revolutionary guard stepping in iran certainly is a geo political step if you like and takes it out of the realms of just economic developments and maybe misael i think it is on facebook live and said this looks like another recession right around the corner and this time it may be worse hashtag i j news good if you want to get in touch with us twitter facebook whatsapp telegram and anything else you can think of now we have got some new video out of thailand to show you of the junior high football team the ones stuck on the ground now for eleven days looks like they're in good health food and medical supplies have now reached the twelve boys and their coach as well but as scott had reports from chiang rai just how and when they get out that is far from clear new video of the stranded thirteen shows a tiny baby seal emblem drawn on the cave ledge where the teenagers a sock safety eleven days ago the word say moved past thirteen lives referring to

the name of their youth football club meaning wild boar personnel from the navy seals are staying with the boys at all times reported to be in good health after treatment for minor injuries rescuers are under intense pressure to get the twelve boys and their coach out quickly there has been a pause in the monsoon season rain but it's expected to start falling again in the next few days.