three men are preparing for a long journey. their traveling salesman trading in kosov a flower and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. and it would be anonymous there should be a should know the only year what it was you were doing what you do does your mom work and often for you one of them was to kill them all night do you go one on one ok one you'll be a big. man and his companions a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country south. it'll probably take them around four or five days. if. you look at the little.

camp. most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on dirt tracks so the congolese improvise. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of merchandise. down the. market if you know. you know. what it would have put a foot in if you don't learn the one. you know. the most difficult decision.

to shoot. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. sixty six. leap. to. make it go no one no we are no more but was there. was.

john jones or was there something good going to know piano. by nightfall they reach a village. to once they won't sleep by the side of the road but in the church. this will be their only meal for the day. here in this you post your mobile that they don't want to know you guys you know what you guys you can a woman whose son was good enough to go for single notes one thing going it was sort of us here. you know funny you know looking go you know they'll. come out we know zocor look. good new york with you good luck with the muscle was just we made up on it was just too much fun in the muslim world to live play should go

by duke. it was a joke with a muslim did it before it did look come and go say do you look at them like you still didn't get the dog in. the village of his statue is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor. that are photos of yes the forwards coach. a man and his family are on the tracks. by waving

a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush go up up. up so i'm just done with my not going to that would you just proved i don't know yet what what when where i mean i'm sure that. it's often like this. called work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. or never ever survive never mind it out of the gutter never have. thought of first of all what they did for the old show because. it was going to separate what it. we have a go get your pick up a bottle. of 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 aligned and he will be sure but that's where the get along to for loaded up with this stop in. this outfit from a simple societies of mine touch. up to fish oil. that i said you got. to get out probably says just rust like the dumb pristine yup i said about lasts just that turn dodger go with reversion to the said bucket bucks argue it out yet is good i really wish.

back in the bush man and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day is off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. somebody get out the welcome. folks it's the fifth time in one day. without a repair kits all new in a cheap. patch is the punch up 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 your phone on your show even if i was on what i. read a good deal for you open up what. we came in you know what a few up on. the n.g.o.s hunger. and fatigue. they barely had the strength to push their bikes any further.

you know who the fun was in the old when we only got. a bud and you could pull me down on the corner kick. my make a movie. and perhaps their prayers have been on since the rain has stopped and they finally arrives. when no. room for a long queue one yeah. well here you go you will go out more and more well while

the world was on your mind you know. you're going to. need a friend. the bit about the. minute . oh you. mean ice. bucket on your. scalp was the sun not. going in the. sun. will be just the up on.

your wall vocal. the three companions jenny will soon be over. when they get home in a week's time they'll of earn enough money to feed their families. back on board the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. some from there. but just when everything seems more or less normal missed him along go is confronted with a new problem. the train is losing speed. eventually comes to a complete stop. to find that it does so in the middle of a village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage he suspects the

vendor is the one known as traffickers in the congo. this is for the. people who saw. it go through the world got through that does that it's. just to get lucky. but we go back to the stuff. that gets a bit of time i would love to get to the time i. got about a. good. picture 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 i want to do what i think i saw to do my children and to government to do to then it will have to be my lot more new isn't it just so it's a look we're not bucking. if able but what then are you. nervous about that if you go most in august about that you know you're going to succumb with an absolute does only one of the other no muslim. center moto motor would find out what. mr molong goes still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching a 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 congolese. just in the heart of the amazon of the libyan family is that stan law is imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. for getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it all believe me out. on al-jazeera.

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when entering. they will not be moved protesters and don stands their ground despite concessions from the country's interim leader. hello i missed and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.n. backed forces and libya say they've shot down

a jet along toward. the digital should know we are watching and our support will not waver the u.s. secretary of state warns venezuela's president as he visits the colombian border city at the center of an eight dispute plus. about a loss for true. tiger woods winds back the clock and does what many thought would never happen again. we begin in sudan where it's been another day of fast moving developments out would have been off the defense minister who led to this week's toppling of president i'm al bashir was forced to retire a new intelligence chief has also been appointed the military council running the country now says it will allow political parties to pick a new civilian prime minister ousted president on. he will not be allowed to join that transitional government mohammed val has more. but this is the fourth

night since the cold of finishing up i'm not especially and this event is about a company once again and thousands caught up on the headquarters of the army they say they are here to show their pride and satisfaction about what they have achieved what they call a complete revolution against one of the most despotic regimes some of these play for the left we do not call for the removal of demonstrators by force in fact the reason we intervened in the first place was because force was used by the ousted regime but now a call to everyone who is organizing the protests to bring life back to normalcy still stands have been since thursday when the military toppled him out of the chute and being thirty years of his rule there has been a major shakeup in the military and political establishments with demonstrators calling for an immediate transition to a civilian government to be in charge for the next four days i will do that i also

resigned as the head of the council also stepped down from his post as defense minister and he's now retired the military council has conceded to a key demand by protesters and promised to restructure the national intelligence and security services. the new intelligence chief has been appointed on the political level the former ruling national congress party of model bashir want to be allowed to join the new transitional government several of its hierarchy leaders have been removed from public office the military council has promised to continue the dismantling of the party institutions in response to the demands of protesters . it has also agreed to another demand to allow for a transition of civilian government totaled the country until elections can be organized despite the major changes and continuous concessions by the army the leaders of the protest are still concerned and the latest announcements are generally positive but it is still i would say concerning that. that there is

general ham out to who is known to have been very violent and brutal in darfur and is in charge of the rapid support forces still considered part of that military council in response the protest leaders say they only got on top of the achievements they made is to continue to take to the streets until they force the military to comply with all the demands of the people of sudan. khartoum. thousands of civilians have been forced out of their homes on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli and as the fighting continues between for says no oil to libyan war article if i have to and others allied with the internationally recognized government the humanitarian situation is worsening not want other why head reports from tripoli. displaced in their own country this is one of the many offices in the libyan capital where people affected by the latest

fighting have come to register their names they were promised food and shelter for hamad left his home in the area south of tripoli after random gunfire hit their house he says he. he and his family narrowly escaped death. of our house was in the crossfire from three directions so i gathered my family and took shelter in one room five minutes later a rocket landed and exploded in the house it destroyed three rooms. fighting has intensified civilians in areas since the forces loyal to warlord thirty four have to launch an offensive to take control of the capital tripoli on the fourth of april. and back to police the government has launched a counter all fancy of to defend the capital the fighting soon currently extends to around one hundred sixty kilometers south of tripoli it includes the areas of gaza

have been a shared the disused international airport one e so. where there will be an ns are several occasions in and around tripoli have been also hit player strikes the united nations says more than one thousand people have left their homes to escape the fighting on the southern outskirts of tripoli government officials here say that number continues to rise and there and back the government is accusing half the forces of targeting civilian areas with heavy weapons mohammed says he saw dead bodies near his house and one of his neighbors was killed by a random bullet here and his family hardly had any chance to collect their blooming so. we don't know where we should go wife has been destroyed in our area it's caves there and we're left everything behind including our livestock. they're being provided with food and blankets by aid organizations but municipal council members

say they don't have enough shelters to accommodate the groomed number of displaced people. that five hundred families have registered only in the center we're getting more people but the problem we face now is that we don't have enough shelters we have even used state hotels and hospitals to lodge them some of these people have been provided to the houses by do notice others hosted by their relatives. own neighborhoods have turned it into better soon they're worried the houses they've lived to be behind could be destroyed in the fighting. tripoli. libya's u.n. backed government is warning egypt against meddling in its affairs. we hope that all countries including the republic of egypt are aligned with the will of the libyan people the stability of libya will be beneficial to egypt as for terrorism

and those who play to the tune of terrorism and if you don't agree with me you are a terrorist or a member of the muslim brotherhood this kind of talk is feeble and baseless egypt is totally free to conduct its own policy but the libyan people are absolutely free to choose what they want and what is in their best interest no country or group can impose their opinion on the choice of the libyan people which is the libyan people's voice will be strong in choosing what they see as in their interest. algerians living in the u.k. and france have held rallies to demand the immediate resignation of the interim government in london they demonstrated in trafalgar square all allies of former president abdul aziz to be removed from power that same call was made inside algeria the interior minister was forced to cut short an official visit to the southern state of the shah was the first such trip by representative of algeria

interim government. is a research fellow at the paris based school for advanced studies in the social sciences she explains why the boycott is significant. so i moved out it's part of a larger moment actively that want to disconnect from their regions plans and imports to control the transition you know for a few cars are doing good as the past three men and dates algerians have been shifted from indifference do are they go you want we don't take we don't care about your politics we let's just leave our lives to you both cut it was actually already the situation of my country already experienced it for the past two months to a refusal to let the regime on the on its own and along control points so this is part of a movement that is trying to get back. to the sense of political life the real political life and to have and to come and to make the fault of the regime to

control the transition and actually you know for it and this will are it's an important move because this will force the regime to for something tangible well the fighting in libya and the protests in sudan and algeria are among the topics being discussed at a human rights conference here in doha a summer binge of eight spoke to mona from the u.n. about the challenge human rights workers face. delegates and representatives of two hundred fifty organizations non-government than government and organizations and groups who are trying to uphold the rule of law and talk about civil rights and civil liberties have gathered here in doha and the theme is the challenge here that human rights workers and rights workers in general have been facing is the impunity with which human rights are being planted and to talk about this further we have with us from the office of the human rights commission. we thank you very much for

being with us so we've heard a lot about these laws which are in place and the challenges that impunity with which they are being flouted what can the human rights community do to change that a lot lot we we need to stand up together for the values and i think this meeting here and this gallery to remind us what are the values that we are standing up for together for and to really work with the various organs and to work with governments on the others to achieve these values we are at a very critical time and this meeting there was a sense of urgency that was from different parts. of from different countries so we heard from syria we heard from yemen we heard from palestine and everybody is talking about how how desperate their city ration is so i think we need to find a way to work together to find in to impunity and this massive human rights

violations that people are going through. the u.s. secretary of state has met with venezuelan refugees on the border with colombia as he reiterated his call for president nicolas maduro to go mike pompei or says the u.s. will use all the economic and political tools that can to hold the venezuelan leader accountable pompei it was in the colombian city of kuta to wrap up of four nation tour of latin america aimed at pressuring the more than three million venezuelans have fled hyperinflation food and medicine shortages amid the political crisis and asunder m.p.'s he is in kuta and has the latest. this was the opportunity for the secretary of state mike farrell to address the humanitarian crisis inside when this will directly he had the opportunity here to meet with. migrants and others who cross into colombia almost on a daily basis in search of basic.