dozens of cases if for a day sometimes children arrive here in a very serious condition they go straight to the emergency ward and some die it's really painful. the u.n. says children a suffering the most in the fighting that began in twenty thirteen between mostly muslim seleka rebels and the mainly christian anti baloch of militias. both sides have a tech schools hospitals and religious buildings and one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world a militia leader and former politician tom is now facing charges in the international criminal court accused of murder torture and recruiting child soldiers like level she don't. i was fifteen when i joined the armed group it was to protect myself and money so i could support myself because i was poor if you don't help the children the boys will join armed groups and the girls will sell their bodies. according to the united nations the violence has forced

a quarter of all children from their homes many into the bush or overcrowded camps nearly every child needs protection from the armed groups which now control eighty percent of the country it is one point five million children require humanitarian aid and forty three thousand could die from extreme hunger in the coming year children in the central african republic are constantly that facing violence or they are recruited into armed groups they are living under imaginable poverty and facing life threatening malnutrition their situation is really desperate we have a whole generation of children growing up in in desperate desperate situations. unicef says children and central african republic have been abandoned by the international community for too long. and without urgent help they could

become a lost generation alexy o'brian al jazeera. ruby has issued arrest warrants for its former president here but you are and other officials are you is now the african union's representative in mali he's accused of being involved in the nine hundred three assassination of the diag india's first elected hutu leader the murder led to years of civil war between the hutu and tutsi ethnic groups. now countries in southern africa have made progress in fighting a hiv and aids but still have the highest rates of the disease and it's estimated that despite better treatments and education almost ten million young people in africa will be infected by twenty fifty to minimal or reports from cape town. on the fiftieth anniversary of world aids day this march hopes to raise awareness of the disease while people here are celebrating a decline in new infections they say it's not enough government statistics show that about seven point five million south africans are living with hiv that's one

of the highest rates in the world everyone should be able to know there's the us it's their health including their rights. in the last year more than one million people in cape town have tested for hiv that's the highest level of testing ever for the city in that period. seven is what i mean that by twenty points ninety percent of south africans living with a side note that states and overseas things save lives but it also wants to see it haven't done so in the way that it would like that among young women who want it but. while the number of young women with hiv has declined by twenty six percent compared to men women are three times more likely to be infected the government is rolling out a treatment called pre-exposure prophylaxis cripps to help curb the spread of hiv it's

a way for people who don't have the disease but who are at substantial risk of getting it to prevent infection by taking a cold every day the small ball unit makes trips twice a week to the denuded suburb of cape town to give up the medication stuff see about twenty people a week while she has been negative this patient does not want to be identified because she's afraid of being stigmatized. i have to pour friends i have sex with i used condoms but with one not with the other so i want to keep myself safe. the united nations says young women between the ages of fifteen and twenty four account for nearly two thirds of new infections young women are particularly vulnerable for each have infection for several reasons one is just physiologic. the cervix is not fully mature and it's more prone to each and every infection at a younger age but also because of age disparate relationship so young women having

sex with older men and not being empowered to make a safe decision caped on plans to roll out hiv self screening soon which the city says will expand easy access to testing this is part of a new initiative to maintain the awareness of a disease that continues to ravage countries like south africa for me al jazeera cape town a british students facing trial in egypt after taking a photograph of a military helicopter nineteen year old mohammad. was detained on arrival in alexandria airport last week he was travelling from libya with a friend when he took the image in the window of the jet he was on defending champions cameroon have been stripped of the hosting rights for next year's africa cup of nations after a meeting of the continent's football confederation in ghana problems including construction delays and violence in regions where venues were planned a new bidding process has been opened with morocco's in his favorites to host next

summer's tournament well african football writer gary al smith says cameroonians are understandably crushed. also want to come in and state television on the lifestream on you tube you know in the hour announcement was given and it hits the streets and it was absolutely must seem disappointed on the streets of commerce let's not forget that this is a country that hosted the twenty sixteen woman's african cup nation is saying man it's the biggest and the best anybody has seen in africa i mean have people. come in from western europe and they were saying that they wished western europe would get such a reception for a woman's african cup of nations ok might do what they could do or do would do for that african cup for men i don't think that they thought they could lose it anyway i think that they genuinely thought they could be given time to finish it because don't forget we have to be honest and see that things have been

a bit unfair to come aaron because when the one debate it was a sixteen team time and only for a minute to win the cup presidency and then the decision to expand it to into four teams went away or regionally prepared for sixteen teams as well so i mean they've always thought that because of these factors they'll be given enough time to to finish the way that they started as well and finally from the political point of view morrocco have always always been breathing down their necks of everything that . has been available to go through the african cup of nations point of view so most people i saw in that meeting today feels that you know what this is definitely going to morrow who and i'd be surprised if it doesn't the marriott international hotel chain says it's been the victim of a major data breach involving at starwood reservation database the haka may have affected five hundred million guests mariette says the breach has been going on

since twenty fourteen the hot could be one of the biggest on record exposing credit cards passport numbers and best dates. now the holy land is experiencing its highest number of tourists in years israel says october figures were record breaking it's exactly what bethlehem in the occupied west bank need as palestinian struggle to make ends meet stephanie becker reports now from bethlehem. the holy land pilgrimage is a multi billion dollar industry right now because it is just a right. it's been struggling over the past few years not. true well you know us as far as i know i think this year has been the best and years and they were so happy to see people coming from all over the world oh actually in the market out of india all of them were into this pilgrim from brazil tells us everything is wonderful for you ladies from ten years from kenya is this

your first time in bethlehem numbers and i'm born oh how are you finding it the place that a nice little holy virgin what do you call bethlehem is in the occupied west bank and the ongoing political tensions between israel and the palestinians have a direct effect on the tourism industry and the stores are going to the fourth and the reason for the polygamy and that was to come to the not just the bethlehem or to the hold on to go to region and. this year was somehow. if we want to compare it with other years outside the main attraction pilgrims wait their turn to go inside but most of the visitors who come to bethlehem are religious tourists retracing jesus' steps including to where they believe his life began beneath what is now the church of the nativity but a different type of tourist is also starting to come attracted by big name art and

it's raising awareness about the political complexities here the anonymous british artist banksy has been drawing attention here with his hotel next to the controversial separation barrier and boasting the worst view in the world is multi-million dollar art appeared on the separation wall last year for my point on have your it's or not of a good idea to have this well over over there between the two peoples who saw necessary evil. well then the problem is this french family tells us they came here because of the artists' work that they were shocked at seeing the wall while. they'll there's you i'm christian and i can't accept that on a land that so symbolic that you build a wall it's not possible they has to be another way the new wall and to terrorize a population whether the visitors are here for religion politics or art palestinians tell us they haven't seen this many foreign faces in bethlehem for a very long time and hope they will continue to come stephanie decker al-jazeera

bethlehem. part time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the world's economic powers are in argentina for the g. twenty summit which meant to focus on trade and climate change the u.s. mexico and canada have signed a new trade deal as president trump on china's leadership in paying the path of the trade talks on saturday. but the summit's been overshadowed by the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma on who's appeared largely isolated has been confronted by some leaders over the murder of a saudi journalist. but was greeted warmly by russia's president vladimir putin who standoff with ukraine is also a contentious issue allan fisher has more from what is ira's. this may be an indication of how attitudes to mohammed bin salmon are changing president machree before the g twenty was talking about having a bilateral meeting when the two of them would sit down together then as we get

closer with international pressure growing in saudi arabia he said he didn't think you'd be able to fit him into his shed you know to local newspapers are reporting that that meeting will actually take place at some point on saturday what are we expecting to see from the g. twenty what all twenty countries are hoping that they can agree on a communique something that has marked solid achievements here at this gathering you'll remember the u.n. secretary general was saying they needed to put aside the regional differences the arguments they were having with each other and come up with global solutions to global problems ukraine's president has banned russian men between the ages of sixteen and sixty from entering the country for a month the government in kiev has also imposed martial law in a number of provinces for thirty days after russia sees three ukrainian ships and twenty four sailors in a naval confrontation on sunday the u.s. says it's cutting the number of troops at the mexico border from five thousand six hundred to around four thousand however the trumpet ministration says it now plans

to extend the troop deployment until january many asylum seekers are still living in tents while others are in shelters made from rubbish bags a british student is facing trial in egypt after taking a photograph of a military helicopter nineteen year old mohammad saffi al hossam was detained at arrival at alexandria airport last week he was travelling from libya with a friend when he took the image from the window of the plane he was on. well as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stage and so much about an hour.

palestinian children in israeli jails it's claimed nine hundred were arrested this year rights groups say some are interrogated beaten and made to confess to minor offenses is israel complying with international law and what are the rights of the children this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage enjoy him last year the arrest of palestinian teen activist i had to me sparked international outrage and condemnation it also drew attention to the plight of hundreds of other young palestinians locked up each year in israeli prisons this week two of the youngest were released will join our guests in a moment but first a touch of the name with this report on the homecoming for one of those youths.

with three birthdays spent in prison fifteen year old shot before savored the media attention after crossing the calendar checkpoint in the occupied west bank and returning home to palestinians. it's the best feeling in the world the feeling of freedom nothing like it. was twelve when he and his friend. were arrested in their village in two thousand and fifteen israeli authorities charged him with possession of a knife and plotting an attack despite taking a plea deal he denies. this thanks to his mother's tireless efforts emerged as the face of palestinian children in israeli prisons human rights groups say they're often coerced into confessing to crimes they didn't commit the palestinian prime minister's office says there are two hundred seventy children in israeli

jails this year more than nine hundred have been arrested children report being subjected to physical violence and put in solitary confinement during interrogation according to the rights group defense for children. during the interrogation and whenever we say something they don't like they turn the cameras off they beat us they put us through psychological torture but it was worse for our family as a spokesman with the israeli police didn't respond directly to the allegations but explained their procedures there's a clip protocol that we go according to notify the parents that they've been involved in an attack notify a lawyer if necessary as well and of course according to the standard procedure they will appear before the court that is what takes place in israel and of course in many cases as well everything of course is documented and even filmed human rights groups say israel needs to be held accountable

a lot of. things that are you know unisons and to try to ask international community as to what. is right but it says in the coming days weeks and months human rights groups say once the euphoria dissipates forum may very well have difficulties coming to terms with the trauma of three teenage years spent in prison natasha going to aim ramallah. all right let's bring in our guests in the ramallah yeah how are you palestinian activist and policy fellow at the palestinian policy network in tel aviv yariv oppenheimer political commentator and former director of peace now and also in ramallah most of all but all of the palestinian politician and secretary general at the palestinian national initiative welcome to you all here at the program now you had a how do you let me start with you this case the photo he's one of the youths that

was just released in the past few days this is really one of those cases that highlights the concerns about the mistreatment of palestinian children arrested by israeli forces doesn't it yeah it certainly does i mean we really have to turn to target and situation when it comes to the detention of palestinian children about seven hundred palestinian children and prosecuted for the military is ready military court system every year and since two thousand of it there have been over twelve thousand children have been prosecuted for this system. it's a very dangerous system and it's a very abusive system the children are subjected to all different kinds of torture including such a confinement such a harassment and abuse that often made to sign legal papers without the presence of a lawyer or a guardian and so it's quite unique actually in the way that chief palestinian

children although the chump administration is certainly trying to catch up to them so i think this case you know really is demonstrative of a much wider structure of israeli abuse towards palestinian children yariv oppenheimer let me ask you israel of course is a signatory to the united nations conventions the rights of the child rights groups say that it ignores the agreements restrictions when dealing with palestinian children do you think that is the case. i think that the situation is very bad i don't think that it's like the norm for the sexual abuse of children is being made in israeli jails this is not true and when you get such an incident it will be it will be treated by the israeli army so it's not it's not so bad like hit it was mentioned before but still it's bad why it's bad because eventually when you got in you need to have it set if you we have a democracy so if a teenager has been arrested is

a special law to protect him in force the government and the police actually to call the lawyer before investigation and this all is not being applied on palestinian teenagers in the west bank because the law in israel is different to palestinian then the israelis and this is something that we as israel has to fix and to make it balance so they can easily teenager has will be exactly the same why it's like a palestinian has however. we do see that many times teenager palestinian that when they are being arrested they are being investigated without optional for getting in . on the next to them sometimes without sleeping before that in the middle of the night being taken from their houses i think it's very bad the israeli government will say to you listen we are not in forcing these where you know because it's not israel however because israel is not accepting the fact that this is an occupied territories so all the conventions are not applying as well on the west bank so

there is some limbo here that the palestinian teenager has nobody and no institute they can protect their rights i do think that these really n.g.o.s in israel and the israeli military court system is trying to make the situation better but if their world will pay more attention to this issue for sure as well we have to behave differently because the democratic state cannot allow itself to. and not to give them the same rights like israeli children has within the state of most of a bottle of the palestinian prime minister's office says there are two hundred seventy children imprisoned in israeli jails and that this year more than nine hundred have been arrested what's your reaction to this. absolutely this is very correct information and israel cannot be called a democracy or a democratic country when it is practicing apartheid when it is practicing racial

discriminatory system against palestinians just because they are not jewish and israel cannot be called a democracy when it is practicing the longest occupation in modern history and when it comes to children the racial discrimination is very clear. the person is an israeli he would be considered a child if he is below the age of eighteen if it's a palestinian he will be considered a child only if he's below the age of sixteen there is a special israeli military or the military or the one hundred thirty two which allows the rest of children who is twelve years old more than that there are hundreds. of video documents that are available on you tube in other places that show how israeli soldiers even at rest children who are five and six and seven years old and hebrew and in other areas have asked them. because very terrible psychological distress to them even if there are just lasts for hours or

days and this is a totally unacceptable system more than that israeli children would be subjected to civil court while palestinians are subject to military courts without israel as was said. that we are a country under occupation and without any respect for conventions so we are talking here about an average of nine hundred palestinian children or arrested every year who are subjected to all forms of torture including physical psychological and definity sexual harassment. if it's not abuse it is at least sexual harassment that many of them are subjected to and there were several cases that were proven in this case. case will show defy the law and that is the case of two young children who were twelve years old when they were arrested they were kept in jail for three years and they've just been released after they have lost

a big portion of the childhood they have been subjected to horrible harassment let me also tell you that there are three palestinian children today that have been. that have know a fifteen year old fifteen year sentence for have nine year sentence by israeli courts and that is one child who has been sentenced to life imprisonment i don't think this is acceptable and i don't think this shows that israel is a democracy israel is occupying power country that is practicing apartheid and racial discrimination against palestinians and this does not make it a democracy yet of oppenheimer i saw you there shaking your head so i wanted to see if you had a reaction to what most of it was. yeah i think we need to remember two friends first of all as i said before it's bad but it's not like the evil is really it's not the evil here and it's not that every child that is being arrested is now is

going to going to. suffer from sexual harassment this is this is not this is not the reality they're ality is bad but it's not so bad one and more than that we need also remember that everyone we need any it's not the norm if if near but but if they are complains about the kind of wrestling that i'm sure they know me and the police and the legal system in these well we will check it will check to check it closely again i think the people are being investigated we doubt to get in the pool of. it meeting a lawyer and sometimes the investigations are taking a lot of time it's bad for children i admit that there are many bad things but it's not so bad and we need also to remember the teenagers also in the palestinian side are you taking the israelis and there are some teenagers palestinian teenagers that even killed in murders israelis we're talking here about the conflict so i think that eventually we need to end but before ending the occupation and having peace

with the palestinians is what has to protect itself and some of the people that are taking knife and trying to kill israelis teenager so what is one should do it just to ignore we can to release everyone this is also not an option it's a very complex situation i don't think that is what has to be to be a much better to say that it's so bad and it's just evil people that are looking for children this is not the reality of what it looks like you want to jump in as well but before i before i ask you to do so i also want to add to that could you tell me from your vantage point why is israel doing this and also from your vantage point do you believe that the palestinian authority has been effective in the way that they are dealing with this is well. look i think it's absolutely abhorrent to say that it's not that bad that children are detained seven hundred children a year are detained and tortured and held in solitary confinement and to deny that there is such a hassle and threats of sexual harassment. is absolutely absurd there are plenty of

organizations including palestinian n.g.o.s such as other mayors which have documented these threats of sexual harassment under such a harassment we saw a leaked video of the interrogation of me where two male interrogators were talking about her body in an absolutely horrific way so i mean i think it's absolutely abhorrent that you could say it's not that bad i think it's terrible that you should arrest any child and what we have to remember here really is that this is a context of seventy over seventy decade seven decades seventy years of israeli oppression of the palestinian people so we have a context in which palestinian children do not have the privilege of not being political they are born into a world of politics and it's a context of apartheid and colonialism so when you have israeli soldiers in the west bank in the middle of the night going to children's homes and arresting them dragging them from their beds you cannot expect that this is not going to influence

that peers and their friends around them and so i absolutely agree that israel is certainly not a democracy and is practicing a policy of apartheid in colonial ism against the palestinian people now when it comes to the p.a. unfortunately the palestinian authority has not been able to protect its own population in areas in area a and that's because it was designed to maintain the palestinian population in the area it was developed and set up by the also accords not to deliver palestinian liberation but rather to keep you know the status quo maintain the palestinian people and even an area a because of the security coordination. with israel oh israel is still able to go into these areas and arrest and detain whoever they want some for jimmy the pay the p.a. remains rather important in terms of protecting palestinian protecting palestinian children there's a little bit let me get your reaction to what you are what he was saying they're

especially when it comes to the p.a. and how as she says they are impotent when it comes to this issue. yeah of course they are important because they are under occupation the palestinian authority is. patient without the real authority and that's why we think that talking about security coordination with israel is nonsense because one side is ok applied by the other but i want to go back to what mr said i think he's trying to say that israelis have criminal not full criminal and criminal is a criminal you cannot be have criminal and the crimes that are committed against children are crimes and this has to be admitted i understand why he feels uncomfortable because he is an israeli in a country that is accused of being an apartheid and that occupying power and he cannot call the israeli palestinian issue a. conflict only it's not a conflict it's an occupation one side will keep buying the other one side has

displaced seventy percent of the population of the other one side this practice in colonialism and apartheid against that and you cannot prevent people who are occupied and oppressed from one thing to desist against occupation. even children who are participating in participating in the most peaceful nonviolent resistance exhibited and killed and imprisoned we have hundreds of cases of children who were killed by israeli army. without committing to anything like the four hundred five hundred fourteen children who were killed in gaza in two thousand and fourteen like more than thirty children who were killed in gaza during the peace marches there like a designer judge who was not a child yes she was twenty years old who was just health provider provider who was drifting injured people and she was shot by an israeli soldier and killed and the

investigation has been conducted to identify those who committed this crime the system of patients and the system. of apartheid it's creating a situation of injustice and is providing the israeli soldiers what they are all regionally bad or good with the opportunity of being uncontrolled with the opportunity of being above the international law with the opportunity of committing crime without being asked the way they are committing these crimes this is the problem the situation the context of apartheid and the context of the patient and the context of racial discrimination and we've stood over time and cares about the people his people and our people he should he should immediately put all his efforts on indigo keep ation ending the system with racism on our part and not defending the oppressive system you are of oppenheimer i'm going to allow you to respond as well to mr brewer he was saying but but also let me ask you what do the majority of israel must go to think of the of the policy toward palestinian

children please go ahead. first of all mr barghouti all the things that i did in my mature life i did to in order to end the occupation and i'm saying it out loud israel has to end the occupation i'm saying to the english and in hebrew and this is what i do all my life to fight the occupation however even when we are fighting the occupation we need to look at the reality and then we need to look at the reality in a very clear we're at the here is that yes there are teenagers palestinian teenagers that are being arrested and they're not been tweeting where and they're not being treated like the moco see the need to treat teenagers however it's not that he it's like the situation is so extreme like it was mentioned here and morgan that we need to take into him into the equation also the need of israel to have security teenagers palestinian teenagers teenagers sometimes out killing israelis

although we are in a conflict although its occupation you cannot as a state allowed to the other people to kill your people and so it has to do something in order to protect itself i think that what is what we need and has that does a young girl palestinian we need fist of all two ways. is going to listen in of course this is why we are in the conflict there bloody conflict that has to balance that i was saying that what we need to do in that in the issue of. yeah i agree with you and i think that israel is not investigating enough but it is investigating some of the things and the policy is not to kill as many palestinian as you can let's talk about the situation as it is not to make it extreme because then you are losing credibility it's bad i'm saying it's better than not the skinny on behalf of the israeli government i talking about it on behalf of all of these really people that would like to see human rights that would

like to have peace and we are admitting that this is not the government to resupport but we need to look at the reality and the reality is that israel also has to protect itself i think it should behave much better to palestinian teenagers i think that we need to wear around this international and we didn't israeli society i was when asked what is the view of these were the people about this issue i would tell you the truth most of these are lives i'm not aware of this issue they don't know about it and i think that we need to raise awareness for that and more than that many israelis will say when is well resting teenagers actually it's helping us to protect our teenagers because our teenagers are getting missives are getting stabbed in the back and getting been to shoot it so yeah also israeli parents feel that they are very worried for their teenagers and this is why this conflict and this occupation that this is the reason for the conflict has to end

and let's do it by israel because when we are fighting the hatred just raise up in both sides yada howard let me take this let me sorry mr booty let me just ask out another question here yeah let's talk for a moment about specifically what kind of effect this is having on palestinian children not just the children who've been imprisoned but also the children who who might want to come out and demonstrate.