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faeries to stall we're saying that we would just like them to take account of this point habitat area for example by just changing the course likely we're travelling more slowly it's estimated around 2000 of these dolphins are left in the wild around the world there have been more sightings of endangered animals due to the limited movement of the human population and the downs imposed by the pandemic it's a stark reminder of the impact we have on nature and also shows that there still is a lot more we can do to protect the planet and help the environment recover pollen allergies 0 hong kong. following on the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president all trump are suggesting he will not sign a massive coronavirus relief bill unless it's amended by congress he says he wants congress to raise stimulus payments to individual americans from 6 $100.00 to
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$2000.00 joe castro has the latest from washington d.c. . u.s. labor department just released the latest unemployment numbers last week 803000 people when the u.s. filed for unemployment benefits for the 1st time that just shows a pervasive weakness in the economic recovery not to mention that the day after christmas there will be 12000000 americans who lose their unemployment benefits if this does not become law. trump has announced presidential pardons for 15 people they include 4 military contractors convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 20072 men tied to russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections were also pardoned. several truck drivers stuck near the english border dover have been detained during scuffles with police the french government has border restrictions with the u.k.
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over a mutated strain of corona virus thousands of drivers are still stuck at the border that's are has begun to mask over 1000 vaccination campaign elderly people and health care workers are the 1st to receive the fires or buy and take jobs a shipment of doses arrived on monday people with chronic illnesses will also be prioritized for inoculation al jazeera journalists are saying has now spent 4 years in egyptian detention without charge or trial for same was arrested while visiting family in december 26th seen a number of human rights organizations have joined al jazeera in demanding his immediate release his attention is in violation of both egyptian and international law those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next thanks for watching. and the disease accounts for 50 years in the dance children.
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no i hear me ok today on the street no good to look at how means of people are coping in countries where conflict and insecurity really make the international headlines he says stand by few and you choose to ask your questions about the democratic republic of congo about yemen and about syria i would do my best to get the guests in the show to answer your questions and to address your comments we are going to start in democratic republic of congo where a long ongoing conflict has impacted millions of people in the south and south central part of the country. some of the challenges that congolese people of congo have to face currently is an ongoing crisis the conflicts the violence and the killing of congolese people and it seems to be an impunity for those responsible for that this impunity creates insecurities and fuels more
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violence and more violation of the congolese people's human rights in addition to that there is a current of virus locked down and what this means for a lot of congolese communities fall into 5 of poverty and famine as we speak today there are 21000000 congolese people facing starvation. joining me to talk about a democratic republic of congo and the humanitarian crisis there hello it's good to see you tell our stream audience who you are what you do. good evening for me my name is. generally from all the debris of big country director newly arrived to chart before those in the congo and afghanistan. who are. number of other countries. so you are used to being a challenging situations where conflict is
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a part of everyday life can you spell it out what that means when you live in an area where there is conflict how does that impact everyday life how does that still everyday life. i think it's. wherever there are conflicts we see people who'd secure. delineating the example of. congo is really a very vivid example for me in the situation of insecurity in this country is nearly. let me give you some numbers in 2016 when i didn't see for the 3rd time because of work 3 times for the last 20 years in the country. the number of people who are insecure with 5 or 9 media 62017 it's one to 7. then jumped to 13.8 then 16 point one and it's
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21800000 and this is the live of it sort of in essence what i want in 2016 i want to visit some of the i.d.p.'s internally displaced people. before 17 years ago in north kivu and i saw young people also all the women and i knew that some of these kids were born after we had on our distributions in 2017 others have probably already doubled its food and 17 years after these people were still there and even the seductress years humanitarians we have people can see that we have saved many lives but what we have failed particularly in the war is that we have not managed to change the lives of these and this is our leaders into the conflict
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that i want to bring into voices here because it's the civilians that accord in the crosshairs of this ongoing conflict so gabrielle and mary and living in displaced people's camps say in their own country they are displaced this is how they explain and describe the situation. we know about well but they're not like you could be traumatized us a lot with massacres but since we arrived here a few months ago conditions have been very difficult a lack everything i sleep on the ground in the cold my parts are always empty and there is no one to help us. the living conditions are difficult especially for us women hygiene it conditions are not good here the most difficult thing is food for the family here makes the corn and beans with water but i need some oil everything else is missing 2 months so you always see the women in the girls are the ones who
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are the most vulnerable in a complex situation how would you school i know how they specifically need right. i think we really need to bring some suspicion of the situation. post it all over but in the us in particular and i i believe a lot of tinley other woman. who works up to 4 o'clock in the morning and worth. of men i have seen in the country from there to the to the rules. of the water spins the worse things i mean you know about all the ribs in the corner i mean the situation of these people is just horrendous of course we all try the doubly is the the other an agency is the you. all who initiated the energy also to try to bring them back
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but you can only give what you have in your hands and i believe that yes he wanted to the response is what is needed immediately in this because you have to see that but also. about how are we going to change the lives of those people because my fear is that from 549000000 people to thank you 1000000 people we may not be easily evolved to civilize it's very slow so we need a presence of it crossed. we have some questions for you cause at and people watching on you tube right now the gala says how is the covert situation then and i have one more question which is about the current presidency is it able to handle the crisis that we have been in right now as you can describing it the answer is obviously going to be no they cannot handle it but let's talk about covert 1st of
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all. the cold it is affecting people maybe not to the extent of us in the number of other countries but you see the problem with the course is that it does so easy jet effect. which is our with conclusive drives but i have since learned that maybe other people are much bit of business. sense about how is this going to affect the so sure it can all make the. situation. because i know some of the people who have lost their jobs because of course because that was the response. you don't believe in all these plants in all being set up supportable dilution sold the impact of that is not for the number of people who are there to. tell them but it
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is how it is going to affect people on the long run how is going to affect this $21800000.00 in the coming years in all that's what the cost is about it's about the long term how is it affecting the people who need a number of treatments you know all the d.l.c. the spirit with it it's all people need access to health so this is really something that comes on top of the. already gotten out of a long list of challenges that the you and the people of that are having to handle let me point out the audience in this direction have a look on my laptop their welfare program has a whole page on the d r c and you can see this headline here we can fix coverage 19 deep hunger in democratic republic of congo more help is needed to save millions of lives and go to that have a look in the well through program of course and other agencies working the d.n.c. so you can get up to date on an underreported story cord thanks for being part of
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this show we will catch up with you on instagram live and little bit later but for now thank you very much and thank you very much. i want to go to another area another part of the world where complete is a major issue and that is yemen the united nations has described the situation in yemen as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. yet many civilians are going through challenges says for started in yemen and especially this year with covering 1000 in the make a lot of people lost their main source of income a lot of people lost their jobs and a lot of people lost their lives we definitely need more development projects we need better access to education we need better access to high quality healthcare services we can actually go we're clearly going through a better prices which is a basic necessity yemen needs more development and after it is good to
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have you on the stream and unfortunate circumstances for africa please tell our audience who you are what you do welcome thank you my name is. from yemen and i work as i am and researcher where human rights watch. based and. for if you could sum up the issues that civilians in yemen are dealing with right now how would you. i would say it's not a star struggle with every basic service that any human being deserves and need and life so i salute for how was it i call her on twitter she mentioned so so many problems that one person could face in yemen but it's even more terrible. who are here living in villages
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that really like you know human history has to civil war isn't and conflicts but yemenis have no are seen as never stating human tatty and situation as it is today. it's a struggle it's a multiple multi fronds to struggle. just in the basic thing that you can imagine like water electricity infrastructure everything is devastated by years of war and it's very important to mention from the beginning this tragic humanitarian crisis in yemen it's manmade disaster it's not natural disaster it's not out of you know it happened out of imagination or anything like that it's a manmade disaster parties to the conflict really show disregard to
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all human. international humanitarian law was what even basic humanitarian norms and protecting millions of civilians fight ahead the video we're talking about many many people what we're talking about millions of people. human speculation is about 30000000 people and it's it's just heartbreaking to see that every household has been devastated and impacted by the conflict. after i want to give our audience an example i'm going to tell you if you got little kids or a few artists by pictures of children who amount i'm going to give you just a few seconds warning here because i want you to meet the grandparents of 2 little boys and ali and they talk about what it is like to struggle in yemen right now because of the lack of boys are basically stuffing the muck.
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up. we fled from the herat districts to here and after airplanes hit us with 15 mess idols 2 of our people were killed and we had no alternative but to flee to hear what should be debarred are not fire at the. plant there are 2 children more in a difficult condition from the time of birth we are working to treat one doctor says they have pneumonia and another says malnutrition only god knows. after i was talking to the secretary general of the new region refugee council just see days ago and he said yes it was one of the few places where conflict was happening that he couldn't get his team into yet but it getting information out of it getting people into it is very difficult there are people who want help aid that wants to come in and it's very difficult can you explain what is going on. so
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for. for about 5 years i think since the beginning of the conflict the saudi led coalition has imposed. a blockade at the airspace of yemen and key entries to the country are controlled fully or partially by the saudi led coalition so mobility from inside from outside to inside the country has been extremely difficult the logistics could take weeks months sometimes years for yemenis to to travel inside the country has been a grueling and exhausting. activity it's just it's it's so difficult to move inside the country or even have an access to go to the country and for human tatty an organization in particular i think this is
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completely unacceptable because we are in the healing with the largest humanitarian crisis in the war and yet parties to the conflict mainly the host the armed group that controls the largest part of the north where the largest part of the population excuse me the largest part of the population live in the north under the control of the and yet the whole group has created a grueling and exhausting network of obstacles again as he will tell you. after people want to ask you she questions and ask each of them very stiffly if you don't mind. how is the education living situation in yemen. when any indication in just a brief answer has been devastated by the conflict we are at risk of losing a generation if not we already lost that there are so many dropouts from
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schools because the schools were bombarded by airstrikes or were severely damaged by the armed groups on the ground so even schools have. not been saved or the violence. michel michu to. disaster aid directly is the constant through intervention in the conflict. conflict in yemen that's a very important question i think what needs to happen and yemen is a multi layered approach regionally internationally and locally everyone has to come together really and find a political solution that could end the suffering of millions of civilians in yemen the international law is so important a role is so important the local important is so important $31.00 that
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everyone has a stake at yemen and they are they have a responsibility ringback towards what's happening and we do have one more comment to your bleeds analysis after and this is from will really sums up why the authorities are struggling to help their people have a listen. the main challenge that you met has been chasing is the conoco situation which has been collapsing we're probably you start to notice a huge shortage within the. u.k. tional and the whole sector is and with the corner crisis when to call a crisis. both governments will expose they will not even able to of 2 or to afford people with symptoms. or symptoms of cruel autists. with a lack of over a list people didn't really trust them and the they were denied the whole cholera a crisis refused to get their medical treatment in public hospitals. after i know
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the stream audience well they do not like to hear a list of top and says well at least one solution in a sentence what would that be. that's a very difficult thing to do well try. i think the best way that yemen needs to pay from anyone who is trying to help is really to push for the respect open to national human and human push you are we and you had rights watch very often publish reports asking poor seats to put example suspend their arms to parties to the conflicts so i urge the audience really to take their government accountable for their role in what's happening in yemen the best a.d.n. one of the best men needs today is really the respect of international human rights and internationally who want to. thank you for being on the scene today to talk
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about yemen and under-reported story that really nice new news a lot more after thanking. thank you. finally we go to syria where the government and forces are now in the 10th year of a civil war war and meanwhile as syria heads into winter and that winter conditions make life very difficult for people who are displaced 9000000 people say seeing extreme hunger and this could take demi to deal with. this year has been an even more difficult year for syrians hard to imagine but true especially for the 4000000 syrians living in northwest syria people who still face military bombardment on top of that trying to cope with living through the global pandemic it has spread through syria from the i.d.p. camps to crowded cities and villages taking the lives of hundreds of people
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especially of syrian doctors and health care workers who've already become a rare commodity after 10 years of war have really shattered the health care system . thank you for joining us here on the string to talk about the situation in syria please introduce yourself to what he and and tell them what. thank you for having me and before i speak my heart goes for the people of the r.c. and yemen i've been in yemen multiple times in the last 2 years in the north and the cells and they are many people deserve our attention like people going through these us and my name is absolutely i'm a critical care specialist practicing in chicago i'm syrian american and also on the president of medical well it's an ngo that focuses on health care in disaster regions like syria yemen bangladesh colombia and other places and i've been in
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syria multiple times last time was a early this year when there was a huge displacement of the publisher in northwest of syria because of the bombing by the seat in the regime and i visited that dina has spoke about them and a situation as horrible this is probably there was humanity in a crisis in our lifetime not only this year. i want to bring in difference in our how can and who really puts together a crisis we have to pass nil unless the s.s.e. logical issue of what happens after 10 years of conflict and who is suffering and he still isn't enough into parts of the back. is there today temporary conditions are turning into long term reality of the about 13000000 displaced syrians only a minority have safe to return home around 2000000 of them remain in what's called greater italy where all of orchards have turned into pasted a group of cities hundreds of thousands remain forcibly disappeared mostly in
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regime prisons where now with girls that conditions are even worse and covered deaths and the strain it has put on hospitals is reminiscent of the days of the bombing refugees are now days learning of the deaths of their parents without having seen them in many years so what is it urgently mediate right now in syria. what soldier what as what's or gently needed in syria like many other places that are ignored is a tension i think that wars think when you have a humanitarian crisis and this scale is that betsy and not being at tension an end of the crisis because we can have bandaids for refugees and for the displays and sending for the and there but unless we have the political will and the major or especially the united states specially with the by then administration and the u.n. to end the crisis politically then we will continue to face and see horrible
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pictures and videos from syria what happened in syria has affected the whole war the refugee crisis that led to 6500000 refugees the civilized the region jordan and turkey and of course you are all because it created you know a huge and a refugee sentiment in europe hate groups terrorism and this will continue unless you don't try this will haunt us like that in many crisis if we do not pay attention and of course what's needed is a humanitarian assistance that at this point that to that to the millions of people in syria who are in need for medical assistance i visited one of the refugee. this year earlier this year and i asked one of the one who was displaced with their 6 children what do you need and she said everything people are in need for attention they need for food for shelter for all. this is a who it is interesting listening to the issues in the d r c in yemen in syria all fueled by conflict all play
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created almost manmade situation that the answer is right there right in front of our very noses thank you so much for talking about us to us about syria today and wish you every success with your work. here on my laptop i want to show you what we're doing next on instagram life we have is it on live conversations at the a.j. stream account you have to be there there was a part in these conversations they happen sunday through wednesday 2030 g.m.t. you may remember him from a little bit early in our conversation this is. he's the country director for the wealthy new program we'll be digging a little bit deeper into the situation in the d.l.c. you've got questions you've got comments and we'll see you an instagram life from monday at 2030 g.m.t. .
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