harsh times and send their children to school otherwise he says the consequences are dire unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti rescue workers in the northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying it's unlikely they'll find any survivors after a massive landslide family members in the mining town of it are gone have been queuing to identify recovered bodies many locals have been sheltering from typhoon mango when the landslide happened and the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this year has killed at least eighty one people dozens of others are missing to islander going has more from. rescue and ritual operations are now on its fourth day and that is something that's very difficult for families here as they wait patiently to hear news about their loved ones they're the ones behind me they're registered they're missing they've put forward information about those

who have been buried but essentially this is really a waiting game and it's agonizing for so many of them here we've spoken to members of the scene of the crime office here and they said basically that over the last few hours and also since yesterday what they were able to recover really are essentially body parts and so the process of identification is now very critical they said that dental records are not reliable because majority of the people who work in this illegal small scale mining operations are tough for people who do not really have proper dental records we've spoken also to the local government who say this is an operation that expected to last for weeks and perhaps months and president is a good start it also remains to be inconsistent with the statement of the government whether to ban illegal small scale mining operation altogether and that is also not going to stop the problem that is because without an alternative employment more than three million people are going to build their jobless this is why despite this danger here in this region despite this devastation illegal small

scale mining operations are still ongoing they are in ignoring danger because they need to earn a living and this is something that the government needs to address the soonest possible. here and investigators have reiterated calls for top man law generals to be removed from power and prosecuted for genocide had been briefing them as ambassador to the un human rights council on the final version of a report into violence against the ranger u.n. fact finding mission found unsung sue cheney's government is silencing critics whilst allowing hate speech against the ranger or than seven hundred thousand we're going to have five million lawsuits the military launched a violent crackdown an organist last year i was a key to respond as chairman of the fact independent fact finding mission on that meanwhile he joins us now live from geneva good to have you with us this is an incredibly strong report of these allegations of genocide and at the very top of minerals military hierarchy how did the men mombasa take it.

from. the mission of the border. that he was given of was priority in interventions and came out with a rebuttal of the report. which of course reflects a complete disconnect with what the realities and world and i now are at the moment. it's so far removed from what took place and therefore it has had a sense of surrealism in terms of what. they . came up with in their intervention so. it's it's it is what it is it's the statement that. that was instructed from the capital

to be to be brought out but then of course it has to. contend with the overwhelming evidence that we have put in our report lead to. qualifications of the highest or the greatest crimes in international law ok i think the report to the new commission says that's sufficient evidence to turn back to gays and prosecute these generals but if the state of mineral is in a state of denial that it ever even happened how would you go about putting that process in place. well of course. this is just the initial step and that is to establish the truth and then of course we will have to find solutions. step forward on two issues one on one count ability which we will be proposing and we are posed a mechanism as

a follow up to the fact finding exercise the other one of course is to engage the government. to see improvements on the situation and conditions in itself we have proposed a series of steps to be taken in terms of security sector reform of heredity cation conventions or a reorganization of the armed forces that model who we found to be the most culpable in causing properties over the past decades and the events of august twentieth was just a high point. in a series of atrocities. that took place over twenty thirty years past and therefore it was a tragedy a just waiting to happen in fact i would just one last point wait wait we

heard an songster change the fact a leader of men will and a rare mention of the crisis in what you call the rockline station mentioned ranger by name she said it could have been better handled do you expect more of her how far do you think she might go and helping you to bring the perpetrators of these trustees to justice. well we we understood that she was always very much concerned about human rights issues but then. it turns out that on. very important instances where the world would have expected her to respond and react. with a clear principle stance did not materialize and therefore. we're wondering where she stands on this matter but but then again in our report we praised the highs blamed on the armed forces that are now but we do say that the

civilian government there in a party contributed in terms of its denial and contributed to a dereliction of responsibility to prevent. the atrocity from continuing to happen up until today as had nothing to do with i will leave it there but thanks very much for taking the time to join us that from geneva. thank you still ahead here on al-jazeera president vladimir putin says a tragic chain other than of course the downing of a russian warplanes killing. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. colorado we've got some pretty wild weather making its way across the

northwest europe at the moment still valley is now in the process of blasting its way across northern ireland scotland northern parts of england you can see the tightly packed ice just rolling in here some rather wet and windy weather for time it will move through as me the weather's going to improve too much as we go on through this week actually it is looking very very autumnal and blustery atlantica piling in the tropical storm this one of course this is the remnants of holly now passing through a twenty two celsius in london that's about as good as it gets i'm afraid so we have got some warmth around twenty five celsius there for paris quite breezy but at least it's looking lost got some showers there just around central parts of the med towards italy easing the race was tending to fizzle out somewhat alter could see want to two showers as well eastern parts of europe fine and dry warm and sunny twenty eight celsius there for vienna twenty six in kiev and we go thursday in london not looking too much better we've got some heavy rain potting through but at

least the winds not as strong the winds pick up towards the weekend meanwhile know the parts of africa fam ounce of cloud still in place here so we got basin places the cloud and rain is in northern parts of algeria algiers with a high of twenty seven there with sponsored by qatar and peace. and again what chance is there as reminder of our top stories this hour and it is a north and south korea promising a nuclear free korean. and. signed a raft of agreements. and organization save the children says more than five million children in yemen are at risk of starvation and their affairs aid supplies

to the hyundai the port could be affected by renewed fighting in the area. as rescue workers in the northern philippines are continuing their search efforts despite saying the chances of finding any survivors of a massive landslide oblique. the philippines on saturday killing at least eighty one people. russian president vladimir putin says a tragic chain of circumstances led to the downing of a russian military plane by government it was an effort to calm tensions after russia's defense ministry accused israel of causing the incident. reports from moscow. amidst the confusion of monday night's israeli air strikes inside syria there was an unforeseen consequence. syria's air defense units trying to hit israeli f. sixteen fighter jets instead hits a russian electronic surveillance plane the ill twenty might the one shown here fell into the mediterranean killing all fifteen russian servicemen on board the

holdouts that it was love russia's defense ministry is furious blaming israel for what it is calling hostile actions because there's just been so little the israeli pilots were using the russian aircraft as a shield and pushed it into the line of fire of the syrian defenses as a result of the aircraft which has a much more effective reflecting surface than the israeli jets was brought down by the missile defense system israeli aviation management on the pilots of the f. sixteen jets most have seen the russian aircraft as it was landing from the height of five kilometers however they have done a provocation deliberately. in moscow israeli diplomats were summoned to the foreign ministry and difference minister sure who protested to his israeli counterpart having to leave him and on the phone. asked about the incident at a news conference with the hungary and prime minister vladimir putin took a softer line and. in this case of course i would like to offer my deep condolences

to the relatives of those who died speaking of your comparison to the case when a turkish fighter jet downed our plane this was a different situation then the turkish jet deliberately downed our plane in this case on the other hand it looks like a chain of tragic random because an israeli jet did not down on. the difference in tone between the russian ministry of defense and vladimir putin suggest the russian president is satisfied that the point has been made and that this chain of tragic circumstances as he put it shouldn't risk what has hitherto been a pretty good working relationship between russia and israel the israeli prime minister's office said in a statement that prime minister netanyahu expressed his sorrow over the death of russian soldiers and said that syria was responsible for the downfall of the plane he also noted the significance of the continuation of security coordination between israel and russia that has prevented many losses of lives on both sides over the

last three years at the moment need a leader seems willing to allow this incident to upset the status quo or a challenge how does iran. astray as prime minister has announced the government is introducing emergency legislation to prosecute people caught contaminating food or pretending they have found objects inside food pantries for every industry is in crisis because of a scare about needles found inside the fruit and thomas reports from said. the lady who posted this video says it illustrates the worst thing to ever happen to her family the family business growing strawberries has been forced to dump its product at the busiest time of the year supermarkets won't buy the fruit in normal quantities because their customers fear what the strawberries may contain last week there was what seemed like an isolated case of a sewing needle inserted in

a strawberry probably by a disgruntled employee at a strawberry farm but since there have been reports of more than twenty copycat instance around australia in relation to the motivation in relation to those offenses we still haven't. have any confirmed motivation or reasons why a person want to do this there is speculation that some cases of children putting needles into stories while they're sitting on shop shelves are the cases are complete hoaxes people pretending to find needles in strawberries once they're home it's not a joke it's not funny you're putting the livelihoods of hardworking strains at risk and you're scaring children and you're a coward and you're a grown up. and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you and we will throw the book at you the government plans to bring in emergency legislation with prison sentences of up to ten years for hoaxes and up to fifteen

years for contamination in danger and others. those in australia strawberry industry are recommending that people cut up their brains before biting into it but some are choosing not to bully strawberries at all of the industry worth maybe one hundred million dollars a year that a crisis strawberries that are being sold are heavily discounted almost as low as the equivalent of one us dollar upon it and farmers of other fruits of fearful to someone has claimed to have found a needle in a banana and in sydney an apple there just freaked me out but i'm thinking my daughter normally just grabs and just biting the apples the strawberry scare threatens to spread and to thomas al-jazeera sydney. says the united states invaded afghanistan in two thousand and one one song has echoed across cobbles neighbors neighborhoods happy birthday blasts from the speakers of hundreds of ice cream carts across the capital despite plummeting profits ice cream sellers say they are the best indicator of security on the streets shelob ellis reports from kabul.

happy birthday floats over the blast. the music comes from an ice cream cone the man pushing. the thirty five year olds not from kabul but its streets and the stroll a give him an income but lately even in the heat of summer people don't want his ice cream the streets have become too dangerous if you are here. during the karzai government life was very good we just crossed the street and be sold out of ice creams now from morning to evening we can't sell them all. he starts his day and finishes at eight pm fishing in the habits of normal life along his route he started this job in two thousand and two when the americans invaded. made a lot of money now there are more attacks more checkpoints and fewer people on the streets to sell to. what i'm passing checkpoints they think i have

a bomb in my car so they stop me and start checking and it's ruining my icecream because they open the carton of your belts his friends can relate twenty two year old has sold burgers outside a mosque for four years his income is just twenty five percent of what it once was we ask him if he sees a link between security and sales. very much we used to have a very good business but it's deteriorating day by day this week we have sold very little. to afghans even twenty cents for an ice cream is twenty seems too much in the last quarter the international monetary fund found the continued violence and to listen to run the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections as pursing economic confidence and growth. there are dozens of ice cream sellers and sure elise patch of kabul he competes with fifty most mean does make about one hundred dollars a month from this year elise supports his wife and four children he says he's

looking for change in upcoming elections on their. i want security for my country and peace for my country and a prosperous future but i will not vote for president ashraf ghani. gani came into office as international combat forces pulled out taking with them billions in military spending since then security has worsened and so has the economy. surely keep talking happy birthday rings hopeful over the neighborhood used to draw people out of their homes now not even ice cream control afghans to the streets charlotte dallas al-jazeera kabul. without there are these are our top stories the leaders of north and south korea are promising a nuclear free korean peninsula again john then says he plans to visit seoul probably before the end of this year kim the south korean president will j.n.

signed a raft of agreements on the second day of their summit n.p.r. the north has committed to shutting down its missile engine test site and allow in international inspectors it will be. the north agreed to permanently close its engine test site and launch pad in china ri with the experts in relevant countries in attendance in addition it's also agreed to take further action such as giving up its nuclear facility in young beyond depending on corresponding measures to be taken by the us it is a matter that the entire korean nation would be happy and appreciate their complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula is not far away. we have adopted a military agreement to terminate the historic tragic confrontations and hostility that have lasted over the past decades we agreed to make our activists make the korean peninsula the land of peace free of nuclear weapons and threats.

rescue workers in the northern philippines as continuing search efforts despite saying it's unlikely that find any survivors after a massive landslide family members in the mining town of dawn have been queuing to identify recovered bodies many locals have been sheltering from typhoon when the landslide happened. the aid organization save the children says more than five million children in yemen are at risk of starvation and around eighty percent of yemen's population get supplies and aid through the port of data that supplies through this port could be affected by renewed fighting in the area a course in south africa has given the green light for adults to grow and use cannabis oh it. was. pro marijuana activists from the public gallery to the constitutional court held a lower court ruling found the criminalization of cannabis was unconstitutional the

ruling only allows for private consumption parliament is now expected to amend the rules that criminalize cannabis those are your headlines we're back with more news . after the street. where every. day and you're in the street and the killing of a young kenya woman has fueled a debate over the so-called sugar all sponsor relationships both at home and across the african continent imo it could be laughable look at the dynamics around these partnerships and consider why they're so popular send us your thoughts via twitter

and our you tube channel. justice for shall and that's the demand that thousands of people across kenya making online after the brutal murder of a twenty six year old woman in the south west of the country sharon scieno was a second year student in a so-called sponsored relationship with. a county governor he allegedly supported her financially in exchange for a partnership but when sharon then a journalist sought an explanation as to why obama would not support her unborn child they were abducted by unknown attackers the journalist escaped but sharon was driven away her body was found with multiple stab wounds on september fifth governor abbado denies involvement in the murder and investigation is ongoing news of all to death was met with widespread revulsion across kenya gladys' one member of parliament tweeted that those responsible should be held accountable however

almighty well i'm going to stick to see kenya said no person deserves the death of sharon suffrage but not all opinions were respectful of sharon's memory some tweeted that what happened to sharon should serve as a lesson to other women in sponsor relationships others asked why they should pity sharon for not focusing on education the case has highlighted the complexities and just outright race we've seen consensual partnerships where one party gets money or property to the other person in exchange for sex or companionship so today we're talk to three guests about why people maintain these relationships with the kenyan capital nairobi we have. and she is a journalist and filmmaker who has recently examined sponsor relationships in kenya for the b.b.c. in johannesburg south africa we have jackie promoed say she's a social activist and the author of bare the blusters game right here in our studio we have karen kasler lucas she's the host of the sprite that's

a success. sex relationships so before we go very much ladies i need to point out to everybody who's watching and following that this is a mature conversation for a mature audience welcome everybody to a mature conversation with your community it's ready to have this conversation they've been having it already on line so with that i want to share a video comment we got our freelance journalist in nairobi this is beatrice and here's what she had to say jane to the planning for the. respect for justice for sharon because. they believe that mudda should not be. has been over five mothers in the last three years young girls between the ages of nineteen and dying next to prominent politicians to the top of justice and introduce that introduce the. justice to the normalization of this mother's. old and what they believe condition of the embrace the sponsorship debate. so.

sharon o.t.m. knows murder and her killing was really the spark about starting a lot of these conversations that we are seeing online today here is the bitterest take away from it that we are focusing on the wrong thing and people online are poker thing on the wrong thing what's your takeaway. i disagree it would have been to sharon's terrible and he knows and. what he carried out and responsible should you know what but at the same time i don't think that she had a great under him that is the thing you know a lot of people across the continent. sugardaddy relationships all people know that you know they're you know it makes people uncomfortable but that's not a reason to to talk about it so i disagree in the sense that you know i think people should be embracing the conversation i think a lot of people how concerned about it what happens to the girls in these

relationships but if you don't embrace the conversation how do you actually then you stories how do you then reach girls like sherri cass first of all i'd like to pass my condolences to the family of channel ten are deeply saddened by this news but i think it's a very important conversation but i also feel like in nairobi these conversations are being had so it's almost like good morning would you like a cup of coffee what did your sponsor do for you yesterday it's a very common i at the hairdressers or at the nail salon a lot of these women are talking about getting sponsors a lot of these women talk about the things that they have received from their sponsors so it's just almost from a more positive like i have a sponsor angle as opposed to what are you doing to be safe in these instances and how can we have conversations about safety regarding you know these kind of relationships. jackie to bring you into the conversation where you surprised that

there was a morality conversation going on around what was basically the murder of a young woman who was expecting a child. what old you would say that in most of these cases when women go into relationships people tend to judge despite of the nature it does not matter if they see date old or young or in media but as soon as and that investigation is brought up on the table they will be not one to say look at the perpetrator as they would change the table and say well what was she doing while i see dating the older man forgetting that they once complained. and then there was a social responsibility as well and you look at how history has put paid itself and has paid itself out job they get is i mean polygamous marriages are known to african it's not a new thing the question is how it was now this relationship leading up to that is was it even

a possibility if you look at what i know from the governor's interview the press conference he had mine was that the men showed no remorse he could not even allows them to question him about the context of the relationship or that the public understands who's involvement with the girls so that it takes over the situation and what i looked at as well is that she was with child she was pregnant so the woman also aside you would like to judge people on the choices they make in terms of the relationship will get to that this was not just a give and take they were about to has a family do or create something and it was not a situation where she was not getting educated she was in university so when people say things like she should have focused on education who does not fall in love in high school or even university you know who does not have

a relationship in university so we we take is to go the moral high poles wind. go wrong. you've been being interrogated but not. what. they might be. jackie you mentioned so many things that i want to touch on but i will just hold in on to one you mention the governor's press conference and i want to share with our audience just in case they're not aware governor abbado held a press conference. from kenyon's dot seo dot on the murder he said he would do what he could to assist in the probe and he said he was distressed at this so that is what you were referencing there but you mentioned this being two adults and also in turning into victim blaming this is wicked that's their handle they say the mixed reactions to sharon's death say more about what our society think of women than it does of sponsor culture some even went so far as to blaming the murder

victim for her death what this says about the larger sentiment toward sponsor culture is that the only that only the women are castigated but these relationships have two consenting parties that benefit cause i want to give this to you two parties involved in this so this always happens and especially now with a lot of access to social media in any kind of relationship that involves a man and a woman if something goes wrong for example somebody leak something or if it's a relationship like a sponsor in a sponsor the situation and something goes wrong the woman always gets blamed so that's the sad part about it is that it's women who are shaming other women and i mean first of all i feel like as a culture we need to get away from like she had said earlier our moral high ground we need to get away from shaming other women and just allowing people to do what they want if they're adopting if they're consenting adults allowing them to do what

they want with their bodies and to make their own choices in the relationships that they have as it's so interesting that you said that because our nairobi bureau team went out. stay to ask people what do you feel about sponsor. relationships and this is what some of them told us have a look. i think. so it's everyone's choice. it's not done in and to. me it's just depends when you are doing it i would never do that because this is the more i looked you might have been brought up but it just it's not it's not where. i think we should judge to push or do we want to do if you're into good sports or different sports. it's very shameful. here because you are degrading yourself. you don't give in yourself.

exchanging money. all the got a. full. it doesn't really make sense. i get is ending i was shaman god all in the same sentence let me show you some of the work that nash's been doing. cooperation with the b.b.c. sex and the sugar daddy looks three women's stories and car a fight very clearly what this idea of a sponsor is what are they supposed to do a rich out a man who have a ship's guests on a young woman in return for sexual favors also known as a blessing or a sugar daddy matter how common did you find this to be. and most people i met with around kenya. coast all the way to us in kenya where one of the characters came was that everyone could tell me that they knew someone with that story well uncle who was involved in a once relationship or their name or a student that they went to school with or a coworker the story is

a common it's just that people don't really want to talk about it and when you look at the research that was conducted by the sari center that at specific me university student you know they found that twenty percent of the girls that at one point in time or current the they had had had a sponsor relationship so i think that those numbers and just my experience of talking to people not just in nairobi also rule community did reflect that it is more common than people would like to meet i want to share a tweet from someone else to another organization that has talked to people this is price of silence a tweet and we have worked with women in these relations most specifically stateless women in nairobi who use these relationships as a means of survival and legitimacy how can a relationship be equitable when it's constructed upon an imbalanced power dynamic so there is one thought there on the other hand though we got a comment this is just minutes ago live on you tube their actual handle is for real .