how husband and others are saying that husbands should simply contribute more to the housework and that they should maybe document that they should be divorced. so this is observed these are the top stories military appointed foreign ministers in thailand talks after this month as part of regional efforts to resolve the crisis which began when the army seize power on the 1st of february 3 people have been killed in protests scott hietala has more now from bangkok he definitely is here he traveled over to the thai capital here bangkok just earlier today and there will be talks these crisis talks crises talks with his counterpart thai counterpart and the prime minister of thailand. there we know but we don't know if the indonesian foreign minister will also be partaking in those talks as well she was supposed to go over to the

n mart today wednesday to have discussions there with her counterpart but pulled out at the last minute gun has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs scheme the astra zeneca jams arrived in the capital at crucial time again 600000 vials were flown in from india gone a plan to inoculate around 20 percent of its people in the 1st phase of its campaign the world bank is threatening to suspend the study $4000000.00 in financing for corona virus vaccines in lebanon the bank is investigating accusations that politicians were inoculated in parliament without prior approval a top lebanese officials supervising the vaccine rollout called the revelations outrageous and threatened to step down. security has been stepped up outside a military court in beirut where 32 anti-government activists are standing trial and supporters are holding a sit in the accused to face charges of terrorism and theft stemming from protests in tripoli in january terrorism offense carries the death penalty it's the 1st time

it's been levelled against demonstrators caught in germany has convicted a former syrian security agency officer in a case related to the torture of protesters it was found guilty of helping facilitate crimes against humanity the charges involve the arrest and torture of at least 30 people in damascus after a rally in 2011. arrives in germany in 2018 seeking asylum focused on the prime minister has been meeting sri lanka's president to go to fire they've discussed efforts to fights religious extremism and how to help poor countries whether the pandemic later on wednesday sri lanka is expected to face strong criticism at the un human rights council meeting that's partly of criticism it's failed to hold to account those involved in his 25 year long civil war he had to take the headlines here and i deserve more news coming up right after inside story.

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 why are government and un 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

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 cuple 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 tally an ambassador his bodyguard and their driver were killed in a crossfire between pock ranges and gunmen during the numbers on their convoy several other people were injured. we are activating all the relevant institutions

to get to the truth the scene is 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 were not aware embassador was in town he says it had been cleared to use that tool without escorts the location of this attack is almost exactly the same place where 2 british. may 2018 so it's kind of real evidence of this long standing 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 part is steaming with rebels who target game ranges civilians and other n.g.o.s convoys to steal kidnap and demand ransom the security

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 of lead in constant fear hoping but not confident the forces that have

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 8 100000 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 bennie and democratic republic of congo maureen philippon country director of the norwegian refugee council and protests david zuma new 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

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 fiscus been in the city is one of the biggest in the. new shelley was around 17 towers and in the. cincinnati mentioned 9 will have a phone will 'd find the piece but also have them will. win over the actions of the partition of the activities of. the reality of. the sea is of the. place to look and or answer. most of the look of minutes pieces of the forest. from some military officers

and for him you have all this current. scene you really dismisses the missing need. for. the mission and if you put all that in a political way when to call courses that is not the order of the day. doesn't it has been. a lesson to be free and most of the time and where we have. been elected. without that capacity a possibility of it to deliver. the citizen then with understand you are very talented this nation is a composite with and i was talking about the un withdrawing from mark from the yes the defining as you suspected there is a need to see the question about the plastic the yes the. 3

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 the 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 and some people are right and then he went back to the field and the fight of that to be tried and tried to find something to eat and the father never came back and

these are the kind of stories i've heard several planned this morning and so 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 anywhere it's people most of it and yeah it's 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 uses that to continue find the energy to continue living this you pork you get from humanitarian act is. limited let's face it so we all would like to do more and probably is definitely have to rely on their

o 2 to continue living as much as they can thanks to either major issues 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 of their 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 nice to have seen i mean the pictures and videos are circulating well. 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 where they. saw us iran the area i mean just today we know even the precise location away that happen precept from a 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. you leave 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

when i said initially we have more than 150 group active in up in the d.l.c. some of them are local and 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. teaches and then long study in the military are due to mobile to sissoko and since then we have witnessed a pretty functional call for growth now among them i think it just it's something the pentagon as efficient been for 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 begun iraq to go to group to

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 pauli jihads or 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 hindi and such innocent 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 those on the part of some or example in the 16 that would be a no parson and sister october 2019 dated enough to be has stopped it in the open 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 let me

look with the populations and know because me and i 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 what the facts in all these that bill want the government to be attention will 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 but not 'd asking what we have the biggest problem i'm not i'm group and this much difference to can vote and. it's body and it to be the beautiful and the. better you it don't for example work has been creating the problem that's we can for years and they've illiterates newell's we receive we know that's

a distinct you want been if it's in from of this of course from the itself but also from our new part in countries to have a sense about it has become one of the major group 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 a win that you know sides who struggles to live in and the part of themselves into d.l.c. i guess the who want 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 abseil 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

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 i can match it is being used people at people attacking. sometimes like ammunitions and so and also when you use ammunition you get noticed so it seems that the patterns of fighting is more adamant with knives and then they art shootings that people get. distracted and then they can't they can see. there's also a lot of rape they are child being children being recruited on groups. that you would also hear of not of kidnappings people being forced like because the last un. john doe he's for human rights report and reporting on human rights violations from

july to december and anti issues like i think for that period of time but 500 people have been disappearing so the not only could not but we have no traces of them and that's about the center of kidnappings and a bit more of people being killed civilians being killed and so it's close your house is up and down your your video to spend sat your harvest are stolen so it is the whole wrench of yet just brutal violence and attacks on computers combine the 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 in congo 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 confort path to get paid

a case now run the uganda congress 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 the progress across all spoke just before me and the kid at the latest u.n. group of experts report that was publishing december december 23rd in the republic clearly stated that in the region where. it's 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 our source the driver from the program and others when we leave the discussion of it and we these rebels just running around we've got in the police and interest will never address the fundamental issue on till the culture of

impunity. these are 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 d r c we have 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 60 of course people at that qualities are

saying we need an international tribunal for carlo so the crimes committed in kosovo 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 gaps and he has the temple to fall for many years what was missing is the will be and it is that would point to careers. in terms of the problem in the capacities of the sickness the forces of the sea we've been talking about the reform of the security sector in the for all that in the years they have been some will actually. be a quarter as it had to be 40 and time will it's citizens against the activist against or to put up with and creating the capacity to the possibility of

an environment where we've been in $56.00 west years and can feel safe where people can move for different one part of the continent to be part of that so that is a need and how to rethink the 2nd to september for. the export of the city which is a must not and or just forces will eat. i think you have to speak english speaking the talking about is an attitude and somebody yesterday called had been our fault or. not is international community. into the. government authorities and that you have to practice that action that's missing that biggest i'm stating that those who continue to you will progress to cross what device. or to let you know what is the condition but the influx or to cause a conference has become the means through which were to point access. yes he can

have a system all. over the metro in that sense of social service for others it remains very important in terms of performance in the quantity of this state to ensure security for the citizen and for. the uk to get some rain to. maureen with the scituate the situation is dangerous as it is there how are humanitarian organizations in actors able to carry out their work how difficult is it. it difficult. same september last year at 20 n.g.o.s worker areas have been kidnapped in the east and they've been abducted and released but it's a big figure it's a bigger n.r.c. we've been answering to her wishes of the last year with no casualties and it's a mix of armed groups and criminal activities either so to be used or somewhat related to 2. so it's extremely difficult some areas are out of reach because

of 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 group you know our high security with reality acceptance and but this is always there is no it's misty and it's come by lee there are observers who say that peacekeeping peacekeeping operations there are simply failing what is your response to that. the peacekeeping forces 'd they have a strong mandate now to address some of the issue is 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

specifically about the united nations are looking to the permanent members of the security council if they're lucky one accord iran being you persist ability into the sea in mixi hard for the 22000 contention of the united nation peacekeeping force the largest in the world to address the situation but we have a serious problem serious press and what can be addressed yesterday from britain a 2nd stuff from the lumber look at them as a. lot of actually that could be prevented should have been where we are today discussing their are people were 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 food 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

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 3 and 8 will come with needs it's just washington justice can you address the creation of the tribunal that will send a strong signal corps 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 by they 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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