stays as it was 30 years ago confined to the history books andrew symonds out 0.2 even cumbria. and people in indonesia's northern carroll region of being a should keep a safe distance from an erupting volcano monsoon a bong sent columns of ash up to 5 kilometers into the air in its biggest eruption since august of ok no became active 10 years ago after being dormant for centuries since then more than 30000 people have had to leave their homes. i'm fully back these are the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden has taken action targeting moscow for the 1st time he's imposed sanctions on russian officials and businesses related to the poisoning and jailing of vani they were done in coordination with the e.u. who recently applied to their own sanctions against russia our white house

correspondent kimberly hockett has more but what we're hearing is that it's for the destabilizing actions of russia in the broader region and around the world but we also know that this is being done in close coordination with allies as the biden ministration promised that this would be done in consultation with the european union who also put in a small number of sanctions very recently and this is being done not just for the jailing of the poisoning of the russian opposition leader alexina volley but also you'll recall that case where there were a number of u.s. agencies that were hacked this is also something that we expect further actions by this administration in response to that. nigeria's president is deploying troops to the country's northwest and has also impose a no fly zone over the state of some fire and this is an effort to end the wave of mass kidnappings that have taken place in recent weeks 279 schoolgirls kidnapped

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free at last gunman in northern nigeria release hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls but abductions like these are on the rise so can anything be done to break this cycle this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm rob matheson and nigeria's government is hailing the safe return of the latest group of kidnapped school children gunmen have released 279 girls who were taken from their school northwestern ism fata states on

friday that the government insists no ransom was paid saying so called repentant bandits help to secure the release but abductions in northern nigeria are becoming more common and look have a security firm based in lagos says kidnappers of received at least $11000000.00 between $216.00 and march 2020 has more from ins unfought est. they arrived at dawn limped their way into the office of the governor exhausted and some too sick to walk. their serve meals in an office where normally cabinet meetings held. with their 1st decent meals in days they gathered the strength to tell us what happened saying it doesn't that i was. they drove us like animals some of us were falling and getting injured they made us trek for 2 to 3 hours and

spent the 1st 2 days in the camp they pushed us forward threatening to kill anyone who refused to move despite the blisters on our feet they forced us to walk further into we reach the 2nd and then the 3rd camp the $279.00 students like kidnapped while they were sleeping in their boarding school dormitories in the town of jungle in circumstances similar to the kidnapping of more than 270 goes in she broke into into 14 this man a former bandage says he left several others to help bring the goes back to that of another we met and told them we came in peace to leave with the girls who for no fault of theirs found themselves in such a situation they also spoke about their grievances and why they took the girls it was a long difficult process full of tension but we also came ready and prepared for the unforeseen the goes have now been taken to a secure location for medical examinations before they have reunited with their families but that hasn't stopped excited parents like the one who's managed to get

close to where they are. my joy is indescribable i called my wife to tell her the girls are back i haven't seen my daughter but i'm relieved she's back the past 4 days now we can afford to sleep and smile. the governor of them for a state has offered amnesty to gunmen who sat and insists dialogue with the bandits will continue despite the pitfalls. we are now fighting. for the government. so we're going to continue with that truth because not all of them that. they want to. leave will be 50. 8 because nobody can be able to get the kidnapping of these girls on friday came i was before the release of another set of students kidnapped in central nigeria

there's an for attack is a 6 school kidnapping in northern nigeria in recent years for the girls back attention is now shifting to the future of education with schools continuously being targeted especially in northern part of nigeria there are fears that the region who tells the highest rates of poverty may fall even farther behind it's not clear if these girls will have the courage to return to school or even if their parents allow them to return but for now they're happy to enjoy their freedom hoping the government will do more to protect them. comedy for inside story well kidnapping is an increasingly common tactic used by armed groups in criminal gangs across nigeria 2 weeks ago gunmen abducted 42 people including 27 students from a secondary school in the state in december more than 300 people were taken in a raid on a school in kut scene a state boko haram claimed responsibility 110 girls were snatched in your base

state in 2018 and in a case which grabbed worldwide attention in 2014 the chibok girls 276 of them were kidnapped in borno state. ok let's bring in our guests in the booth i'm like if you're for is a former director of nigeria's state security service in chemistry as an independent researcher in conflict studies and from london what i'm a book artie is an analyst at the tony blair institute for global change welcome to you all blown up because i want to start with you kidnapping children seems to becoming a growth industry in nigeria why is that happening and why is it happening no yeah unfortunately you know i think children is becoming. very dominant in nigeria and perhaps the most thriving industry in the country and there are several reasons why charities and criminals take it to its number one children some test type you can

find any way. to defend themselves and nigerian schools are unfortunately so exposed because there is no security presence around schools expatiating is so totally terrorists know that children who kidnapping children is an excellent propaganda tool and they can extort money from government so it comes propaganda and. i'm fine have. terrorists and criminals have seen that i'm no consequences action is not the 1st time i've been did not get in the last 3 months. at least it must. happen and nobody. incidents in fact that i created or cards would be made by governments that these terrorists get. released that you. i want to come to you now

because the blog was describing these kind of gangs as terrorists is that the correct phrase to use are these gangs a kin to book a heart or other white or groups involved in this what in a way. by actually. terrorists because the. business of a casino a lot of havoc they are acting just like boko haram kids some years ago a book to girls from cheap book the. way. a faction of boko haram these some is it who wanted to can we gals from. that live with what it did when the school children because they wanted to the war much it is

a very strategic decision. like my colleague but emma because you say. it is a very strategic we of drawing attention make a government get down to kind of a sin to be a demand. because one they want it they want money to do you want to be soon to have the upper hand so in a way yes i do with. terrorism but. i think on the 2nd hand let us look at the problem that got us where we are today. many of them are people that we know ahead of us they are people we knew who had. who had patches they were heading back out to us but then many of them complain of

injustice some years ago they are from a particular tribe known as full and i'm not making excuses for them but at a point sign an understanding governments in the past especially. because they're not states. they are a group of vigilantes who where going up and victimizing them to the point of this process and then of the order in the world which is the. this council many of them love the ghettos love the family members love the germans that is subject to discount of crime what i am expecting is as more just we use the physical force as more as we use similar action of violence to kind of force them to stop this if this time i think you know the. economic solution and that is why you know just more so as we look at them carries we should also look of

the injustice the has been done that brought both to despotic situation and that is why what upholds and i believe in justice begets justice like edgier for a given what has said there the logistics of rounding up 300 terrified schoolgirls and transporting them from a school are significant i mean that takes some organization is there any danger do you think that these groups are being infiltrated by more organized groups such as boko haram for example. terrorist groups because what this company especially about for us. which is a land ice crime. spree and that robbery this well i don't know do you that modem out of the big government its. own life. that.

meant the toll of the sure that was committed to something. that was about so this is why the city from the. routine. got to go i'm wrong by that class of crap talking about. me despite my mission and additional. on gristle people. not to attack. how obvious it. is. what mission look i did. from man. which did not list always. needs when it will be sworn in by

one of the. one of the also so you saw that i won't be. so we need to. also question i need. to test out bleach once won because even with which he. did it in life known about this public press response. i've become conscious. decision. making demands you get to. let me ask you about it let me ask you going to interrupt you because i want to ask about the financial aspect of this is mentioned before there's an estimate that the kidnappers have received at least 11000000 dollars between 2016 and march 2020 that money is going somewhere and $1.00 would imagine that therefore the threat from these groups is getting bigger because they are no one would assume better equipped

better organized and have more ready cash at their disposal. already been running the show. but definitely morning have received on these monitors right group into buying of arms to prosecute the war or c. one of the ship he will probably get some of these 6. months . if not. ross. look to the money to find out how does because if you look side groups on. america . you look very ports there's a dispute. i think people wrong on top of this. to begin to leave and ship your ass on with this mission. actually just like the last

you just. we're not doing too good solution to this program to fight to use it if you have well actually i think and i'll stop now because i think ali i want to make a point earlier go ahead. yes. my colleague mike is saying that if you just long for governments to negotiate if i asked my colleague now is each right to allow those who go to die if the government does not negotiate with those premium dollars i am sure my colleagues might we're going to let those girls die because the question is whether or not those get. all some tissue done to get them out of this there is no way with the kind of on those guys have on the kind of i mean the possible thing is for those people to use the gills as human shields. some of the people though i recently read saw

a release they kept me busy of these some of bundy's in one state some the bundy's and i just said at a point when these soldiers believe they did over in the where they were kids the creaminess made of them my 2 q. all of them nodded then yes if there was any i tend to excuse them we knew also when rescue cans like that never end well so the funerals will use them as human shields in the hands of government has ritually done to negotiate will be screaming of so i hear nodding your head just a are you speaking they're go have yes i don't want to respond to you normally and. i don't have introduced a name to him but you're awesome by the fire experience i'm quite glad that you've been around school security is remarkable all that they're going to shoot i'm.

going to school we're going to go to the well august we're going to. find that americans are flown i just wasn't free. to be. used to be called going to iraq. so mention. about. your i bet. that's a question. but on the book there was a so-called safe schools initiative which was introduced in nigeria without pomp and circumstance but i understand that not many of the schools in the northwest part of the scheme why has that scheme not being rolled out more across nigeria yeah thank you very much excellent question before i go to that i would want to just respond to what mike said i don't the distinction between terrorists and criminals i have

studied enough west and they know is now for 10 years and the distinction right is making is no longer tenable it's not dish you know the difference was that ideological you do given and has political objectives way but it's in the northwest people economic but this is not on that case number one night the time you have said these people are using terroristic methods they rig believe this to dozens of people and up took hundreds of. people including children secondly we know that there has been mounting evidence in the last 18 months. i don't have infiltrated elements. and that's why. you put. up the. people you mentioned. and also released and exclusive video of the boys.

telling you created that boko haram has something to do with some elements of. number 3 of the bandits numbskulls in the northwest have started making you can have it well if you got your hands in the last few months we have seen videos of. protesting injustice and seen the injustice is made out on the exclusion from government that inability to. the reason why they. are no longer. going to you can be let's move that scene from if i mean let's move on and then the differential is i'll say i see all that you want seconds and let's move on from that don't talk to me about the safe schools initiative because given everything that all 3 of you gentlemen have said it would seem that the safe schools initiative was at least a good start in terms of protecting children within schools from gangs that you have been talking about why has that not been used better on more widely in nigeria . yes i saw the exact school initiated he was introduced in 2014 after the

abduction of the choke goes the 276 goes over us to invoke our arms. and why the initiative hasn't been effective is because it doesn't meant that it was just dick dick yet by the government and it takes me it takes more than we had narration. and so what do we see i mean it's not that the the initiative it's. not you know it is that it was this. would you buy government and not implementation was a bad way even in the most vulnerable stand about your bit we saw. these 2 years ago when 110 goes to cheat and i can tell you everywhere that not during our schools need to be exposed in this particular incident what we are

talking about hundreds of men in bed and they met only one security got we used the military and not us and not ok i want to ask my people in their particular sniper i want to ask mike as your 4 particular security question nigeria's defense minister said last month that villagers should stand up to the attackers a is that feasible b. what is the risk that if you get groups of for want of a better phrase vigilantes banding together that you just exacerbate the problem well i think it's mostly. that is strictly. if the transfer minister. or possibly the shortest song or you've made it is. what we brought you said we're 2 different observers.

you know david many jews british i'm. proud of. that premise was of arc for me protection. are trying. so people have horrendous that. government is essential. i don't expect that to begin to tell us a better not only. or deceived but also promote i'm not. only the most one of the problem seems to be that. as i understand it the police services in the military are controlled by the federal government and this is essentially a state level problem at the moment and state governors a saying that this is something that the federal government should be helping them with but if i understand it correctly the president is saying this is essentially a state problem who is responsible ultimately for this well it

sees a federal problem if you do the constitution say every state governor is the chief security officer of the states well this theory it's going to have a good doc power to deploy the military or even already police you know who are nice we have had situations in the past where it can be she now needs to uni is to the governor so you can imagine the situation so it's going to have found himself. the fact is the president still has got the foreseeability is on the president to take charge of the situation so i can't see why is passing the ball on to the states i want to ask about the long term effects of this because according to unicef there's a net attendance rate of just 53 percent in primary schools in northern nigeria the

other for girls is even lower as i'm sure you know what impact are attacks like this having on a family on families for 10 no where e of sending a whole generation of children in nigeria to school. but i'm about just briefly if you could because we are beginning to get to the end of the show you know i mean it's glad that you know i'm terrible that you have declared quote. i'm not you didn't children i'm now being forced to choose between their lives. and no child should have to make such a decision. to see the decision to send their children to school a difficult one and this is. where the number of nigerians nigerian children out of school as we speak that are at least 10500000 children out of school and as long as these attacks continue it is not about continuing even for those who continue on who we know that there are mental health issues. and we know about.

the engine has been created around. them that today are effective teaching. doesn't. mean shit and so i think it is what the government and the international community it worked out yet are we ensure that every single night duty and child and enjoys the right to education. why would i say thanks to all our guests my kids your for your melissa and the bull llama book r.t. thank you for watching you can watch this and our previous episodes anytime by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a.j. inside story from iraq matheson and the whole team here in doha but for now.

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