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he gave us all the nationalization of the arabian american oil company that's known to days around then and now his main source of revenue but even at the heights of his power he knew that oil riches and someday the stone age didn't end for lack of stone he said and the oil age will end long before the wall runs out of oil i'm exactly how many died in london at the age of 90. hello there this is al jazeera and these are the headlines human rights groups have condemned malaysia's government for deporting more than a 1000 people to me on law and move defied an earlier court order granting the group a temporary stay tony chang has more now from the thai capital bangkok. the court case involved 6 people who the u.n.h.c.r. said or more than 6 people who said that they had recognized as refugees and
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minors who one of whom is parents we understand is still in malaysia so at this stage it's unclear whether they have removed some of those people and kept them back for the 2nd court hearing tomorrow but i think something of a shock also they've defied the court particularly sending back so many people to a country which has undergone a military coup and where some of those come from ethnic minorities who could very much be under threat when they return into the hands of the military go. inside me and while the military is coming under increasing international pressure the g 7 a group of the world's wealthiest nations has condemned the genitor for its violence towards protesters saying the use of live ammunition is unacceptable. and protesters have also demonstrated in georgia's capital tbilisi over the arrest of a prominent opposition politician earlier police stormed the offices of the opposition detaining nick a 1000000 he's demanding new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary
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polls. as electoral commission says mohamed presume has won the presidential runoff there with 55.7 percent of the vote he stopped ahead of his challenger former president mohamed. but the vote has been marred by the killing of 7 election workers on sunday. u.s. senate has a beginning an investigation into security failures during the capitol hill insurrection on january 6th they'll question the former chief of the capitol police and former heads of security for the house and senate all 3 resigned immediately after the riot. the wife of jail the mexican drug bust joaquin el chapo guzman has been arrested in the u.s. on drug trafficking charges and the car now as poor as detained at washington d.c. as international airport she's accused of helping a husband run his multi-billion dollar drug cartel and pushing his escape from a mexican prison and 2015 next up it's inside story.
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italy has condemned monday's attack in eastern democratic republic of congo 3 people including the italian ambassador were killed several rebel groups are in the area but while your government and u.n. troops struggling to contain the violence this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's being called a heinous and cowardly attack italy's ambassador to the democratic republic of congo his police guard and driver were killed in an ambush on their convoy near
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goma in the east the congolese government is blaming a rwandan hutu rebel group rights groups have warned of worsening violence in the area the un's refugee agency says more than 2000 civilians were killed there last year a record that's despite the presence of government troops and united nations peacekeepers will bring in our guests in a moment 1st this update from catherine sawyer. you are on a mission to true in loft cuba province to visit a school feeding program one of the many world food programme projects supports in the democratic republic of congo the journey ended here in the virunga national park several kilometers from the provincial capital goma they tell you an ambassador his bodyguard and their driver were killed in a crossfire between park ranges and gunmen during the numbers on that convoy several other people were injured. we are activating all the relevant institutions
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to get to the truth soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants of the state of have suffered from and lost their lives. but beyond the shock of what has happened questions will be asked as to why the convoy did not have a un national police escort in such a dangerous area the authorities in north keep saying they're not aware embassador was in town he says it had been cleared to use that road without escorts the location of this attack is almost exactly the same place where 2 british tourists were kidnapped in may 2018 so it's kind of real evidence of this longstanding security lapse in the region it was also very close to where 6 were in the guards were killed in last month this is a fast major attack on a big u.n. organization like the. other party is steaming with rebels who target game ranges civilians and other n.g.o.s convoys to steal kidnap and demand ransom the security
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problem however goes beyond this part of the war than 70 rebel groups control much of eastern democratic republic of congo extorting villages and attacking their homes at will in beni north of many thousands of people including u.n. and government soldiers have been killed and more displaced by the allied democratic forces rebel group thousands. soldiers are on the ground battling different groups but with limited success we're looking in a kind of long standing funding issue for the for the congolese army in the area a lack of kind of security planning as well as strategy when it comes to trying to combat the armed groups who operate in that area. obviously the u.n. peacekeeping force that has been operational a good number of years has a lot to answer for with regards to insecurity in that area many congolese in this area to live in constant fear hoping but not confident the forces that have
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struggled to defeat the rebels for yez will one day succeed catherine saw. u.n. peacekeepers have been in the democratic republic of congo for many years the most recent deployment has nearly $18000.00 troops their mission is to protect civilians and support efforts to bring stability since the year 2000 more than 200 peacekeepers have been killed fighting armed groups this includes a 2017 attack on their base in north kivu province that killed 15 soldiers it was described as the worst attack on u.n. forces in recent history. all right let's bring in our guests and benny and democratic republic of congo maureen philippon country director of the norwegian refugee council and pretoria david zone senior research consultant at the institute for security studies and then. was heavily with the center for research on the congo 'd kinshasa welcome to
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the program david let me start with you today what's the status of the peacekeeping force now in d.r. see why have they not been able to get these armed groups under control especially in north. whether you know the disc it's been in the city is one of the biggest in. new shali was around 17 towers and in the. cincinnati mentioned 9 will have a phone will 'd find the piece also. when of off the actions of the partition of the activities of ready. the reality of. the sea is of the. place to look and for an answer. most of the look of minutes pieces of the forest. from some military officers
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and for him you have all this current also foreseen you really dismissed the myth. of the mission and if you put all that in a political way political courses that is not the order of the day well then the government has been having a lesson that must be pretty and most of the time and where we have. been elected. without that capacity of possibility to deliver. the citizen then with less than few of the talent in this nation is a complaint that with and i was talking about the un withdrawing from our from the yes the findings as you suspected there is a need to see the question about the plastic the yes the. 3
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questions correctly. maureen earlier this month the un refugee agency sounded the alarm about what's been going on in eastern d r c they said that last year more than 2000 civilian. ins were killed in 3 eastern provinces in a statement they also said atrocities committed by armed groups in the eastern democratic republic of the congo have become part of a systematic pattern to disrupt lives instill fear and create havoc let me ask you just how dire is the situation there right now. honestly there are in benny now and i've been speaking this morning to see displaced people some of them just living atrocities like less than a week ago it's difficult to imagine it's difficult to imagine the level of violence trauma to see someone from your family being killed and then escaping as some people are right and then he went back to the field and the thought of that to be tried and tried to find something to eat and the father never came back and
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these are the kind of stories i've heard several planned this morning people are trying to make do to sue her and but it's extremely challenging n.b.c. it's true indian politics is that it's not on the even run anything it's people most. days but it's also true in knots who incites it was a way out so it's extremely challenging action of civilians using passive issues. to be sorry and. i have a totally destructive you have to create and who's not working anymore are you losing somebody from your house or. and you just have to continue to find the energy to continue living this you port you get from humanitarian act is. limited let's face it so we all would like to do more and probably is definitely
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have to rely on their o 2 to continue living as much as they can thanks to either major issue come bali there's a lot of questions that have been raised about why exactly the italian abass or his convoy would be allowed to travel on that road where it was ambushed without a security escort the w.s.p. said the attack happened on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts from your point of view was this a lapse in security planning. it's so hard to tell a minimum is 24 hours from there so that their investigation is still ongoing but what's clear is that the a mess so there and his team followed the proper protocol from the un they contacted the un the s.s. went through the proper clearance to be able to travel the course sort of situation is to have seen i mean the pictures and videos are circulating where you know you
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did not have any protective gear there is no bullet proof they call and so on to move from the place a v.m. . questions have to be asked you know what are the armed groups operating in the area how is that impacting the region whether they. saw us iran the area i mean just today we know even the precise location away that happened $37.00 separate dollars are that's close to where the committee is on is so are more so waiting for that is the bishop to find out what happened but from my perspective. believe panetta mission we have the convoy follow the public protocol to get the players the needed to be able to travel to europe david eastern congo is home to many armed groups i just want to take a step back for a moment to look at the bigger picture here when we talk about these armed groups in that region who are they what are they fighting for. well you know
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when i said initially we have more than 150 group. active in not ended yet see some of them are local i think it might seem from the tool may your war that the congo face in 1907 when you're on the scene it could be law and he's. came storming of a d.l.c. which is away and then long study in military are due to mobile to sissoko and since then we have witnessed a pretty funny shut off for group now among them i think it just it's something the pentagon has this isn't all been for at the understand the end of the us except been you for example you have allied democratic force and i'm group that had been there for a while to who was in. most of the security in that's we got to go to group
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have a tendency to use the temple to simply impose was all cool tool to send a message that they want to send that seed in all the jihads are not on the on the under the sea initially it yes and wars to get done but uganda fights most of them 70 but a sense that they have established in that yes they have been thought of human rights violations here indian assassination all kinds of security insecurity in that area and the difficulty is what we have yet to see. a force. minutes out of forces to defeat to defeated them every time there was on the part of some orders important in the 16 that would be a no parson and sister talk about 2019 that the national aspect of it and the openness and i guess to prove what you see is if they leave the camps that ahead in the area they move to east or down bluey to report which would have. progress well
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the music with the populations and now becoming and created and i ducked under the area of security in the touring you have apartments that's been created by record political groups. wish to present a particular. group and a vote of the facts in all these that bill want the government to be a tension with the grievances in terms of access to land in terms of access to park in terms of the restaurant into the basic needs of all of the people we come to build not asking what we have the biggest problem i'm not i'm group and this much difference to go vote and. it's body and if you go with beautiful and. better you it don't for example has been creating the problem that's we can for years and it illiterates newell's we received we know that's what been if you'd
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seen from of this of course from the itself but also from our neighborhood in countries to have a sense about it has become one of the major in the region literally that has been split it. took to create a kind of proxy knights in between but also fighting against the populations. look in enough people or we have. the there is more fight action from the over for when that you know sides who struggles to live in and the part of themselves into d.l.c. i guess the who won but the sense is then there was no problem david i'm starting right now i actually want to get back to asking about the f.t.l. are in a moment as we're starting to run out of time let me ask a question of maureen right now when we talk about abuses in atrocities being committed against civilian populations there what specific examples are there and
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what sticks but you can read in before it and what people say and in some part of the east there is a lot of. not send back to t.v. news people. people attacking and sometimes like ammunition so and also when you use ammunition you get noticed so it seems that the bad says the fighting is more with knives and then they are shooting so that people get. distracted and then they can't they can see. there's also a lot of right they are child being children being recruited in on groups. that you would also hear of the risk of nothing people being forced like the the last un. john doty for human rights reports and reporting on human rights violations from
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july to december and unsee. issues i think for that period of time about 500 people have been disappearing so they are not permitted not but we have no traces of them and that's about the same number of kidnappings and a bit more of people being civilians the heels. so it's just your house is up and down your your be that sense that your harvest of thought and so if the whole wrench of yet to brutal violence in the stats on it is combined how much is political instability in the country playing into the violence that we're seeing. my support for viewers to really understand the situation could come when not in the simplistic narrative ragtag rebels in the region and lawlessness any political interest i'm very clear about why we have a conflict in the can for the past to get paid naked now run the uganda congress
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members in the east have you better the convert twice in 1960 or 98 and continue to support the press the rebel militias it's been documented in numerous reports progress across a spoke just before me and we can read the latest un group of experts report that was publishing december december 23rd in the republic clearly stated that in the region where. if an ambassador was killed we have run soldiers rather soldiers out pretty in the part of the congo in the rich your area and i'm a sissy and then you're an area clandestinely and we do not know what they do and the congolese government hasn't disclosed that so we have the death of a diplomat of complete is also the driver from the food program and others when we leave the discussion of it and we these rebels just running around we've got any police and interest will never address the fundamental issue on till the culture of
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impunity. is addressed in the d r c we continue to see these killings and that can be stopped simply by following what the u.n. human rights office did 10 years ago that published a report the marking exercise reports in this report it documented 617 s. events of mass human rights violation in the r.c. he says there was up in the congo as a war crimes crimes against humanity a possible genocide if proven in the competent court and called for the creation of an international tribunal for the r.c. we had 2 u.n. experts killed in 2017 say that at the un and michael sharpe webb the foreign policy magazine sais doors called the from the united nations to address the cover up of the british government we're going to do the same now that we have more deaths and the deaths of continue over 6 nicholas people of that quality as i say
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we need an international tribunal for carla so that the crimes committed in the people can be held accountable david where do things stand right now when it comes to the congolese security forces their capacities and also do you believe that the government there is going to start rethinking its strategy. i think. the challenges are very clear and begad and he has the temple for many years what was missing is the we and it is that with 40 careers. in them the problem in the capacities of the simplest forces is the sea we've been talking about the reform of the security sector in the sea for over 30 years there have been some will actually. press corps as a fight as before. and time will its citizens against the activist against or to call for and creating the capacity to the possibility of development
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where we've been in 56 west years and can feel safe where people can move for different one part of the company will. be part of that so that is a need to rethink the 2nd to september for. the export of the city which is a must not and or just forces will eat it because it is that i think you have to speak english speaking the talking about internet of certain phone but yes the call has been our fault or. not is international community. into the. government authorities and that you have to practice that. that's missing the biggest i'm stating that those who continue to you will progress to close what if i can send to him or to let you know what is the condition that they have in fact or to put a conference has become the means through which were to put after this plan is absolutely yes the can have
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a system all established over the next harvest in that sense that there is talk of this in 3 steps remain very important in terms of performance in the quantity of this state to ensure security for the citizen and for. us to get some rented home to kinshasa maureen with the scituate the situation is dangerous as it is there how are humanitarian organizations and actors able to carry out their work how difficult is it. it difficult. same 6 amber last year at 20 n.g.o.s worker areas have been kidnapped in the east and they've been abducted and released it's a big figure it's a big figure n.r.c. we've been trying to have pushes at the last year with no casualties and it's a mix of armed groups and criminal activities either so to the youth or somewhat
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related to 2. so it's extremely difficult some areas are out of reach because security and if we can't guarantee the security of our team obviously that's my number one priority and my number 2 priority is to assist as many police people as i can but i don't want to joke that i have michael and so it is extremely difficult we are building networks acceptance we are working in our on our route you know our security with reality acceptance and but this is always there is no it's misty and. there are observers who say that peacekeeping peacekeeping operations there are simply failing what is your response to that. the peacekeeping forces they have a strong mandate now to address some of the issues i think i want to read just because they say that there is a lack of political will on the local regional and international level speaking
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specifically about the united nations are looking to the permanent members of the security council if they're lucky one accord 'd iran being a persist ability into the r.c. in mixi hard for the 22000 contention of the united nations peacekeeping force the largest in the world to address the situation where we have a serious problem serious press and what can be addressed yesterday from britain a 2nd stuff i mean lumber look at that as a. lot of actually that could be prevented should have been where we are today discussing their of people while working in the military and situation well where they had their i mean look i was in they got to look at say and the keepers around the world for program projects water food program say last year that $22000000.00 kohli's in the in on the brink of starvation that's one of the 4
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kohli's going to look at this project he lost these lives so on one hand you see a humanitarian solution provided to the sea way did not address the political problem and look a lost his life through the process stuff and the 30 or so their lives so i strongly believe that that's not a charity or many terry and aids will come with needs it's just this question of justice can be addressed with the creation of a tribunal that will send a strong signal for in the end to impunity. rampant in the u.s. are right we have run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests maureen philippon david zuma knew and come bali was heavily. and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j.
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