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has more from rio de janeiro. we are now extremely worried many of them because they're seeing the situation get out of control we are in the summer years so the 2nd wave should have come in what would be the winter in which is would be like in june or july and it has started much earlier with the new variant so they have asked for an nationwide curfew but the president himself has always been against any any sort of measure that he feels will will shut down commerce in any way. u.s. president joe biden says hill is confident that he'll reach his goal of delivering 100000000 coated vaccine doses in his 1st 100 days in office he's praised the drug company merck for helping rival johnson and johnson produce its coronavirus champ. and president biden has made his 1st major move against russia for the poisoning of

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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 is on fatah state

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 have received at least $11000000.00 between $216.00 and march 2020 amid interest has more from al in a state. 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 when normally cabinet meetings held. with their 1st decent meals in days they gathered the strength to tell us what happened saying it does it 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 band it says he left several others to help bring the goals back. 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 are reunited with their families but that hasn't stopped excited parents like no one has 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 in 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 said 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 because not all of them that. they want to. get because nobody can be able to get the kidnapping of these goes 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 mosque or 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. that the region highest rate of poverty may fall even farther behind it's not clear if these goals 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 cut scene as state local haraam claimed responsibility 110 girls were

snatched in your bay 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 make it easier for as a former director of nigeria's state security service in chemistry is an independent researcher in conflict studies and from london what i'm a book r.t. 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 be becoming a growth industry in nigeria why is that happening and why is it happening now yeah unfortunately you know i think children is becoming. very dominant in nigeria and perhaps the most driving industry in the country and there are several reasons why charities and criminals take it to its number one children. can find any way.

to defend themselves and nigerian schools are unfortunately so exposed because there is no security presence around schools experience would be as. charities know that children who could not be. an excellent program that. they can extort money from so it comes up again that. i'm fine. terrorists and criminals have seen that yet imo action is not the best time to get not not be getting the money. at least not must. happen and nobody. thought that i credit cards would be made by a government that is terrorists yet. released. i

want to come to you now because bloodless describing these kind of gangs as terrorists is that the correct phrase to use are these gangs a kin to block a heart or other white or groups involved in this what in a way. the. action of terrorists because the terrorize the business and they can see a lot of how work they are acting just like. kids in years it will be a book to girls from cheap book. i've seen this here we. should of boko haram these some years ago we needed to create girls from she. that lead with what people did when the keep school children because they wanted to just the war my. if he's started the decision

like my colleague with him up because he said. it he's very sad to see we all drawing attention mickey governments get down on the need to kind of a thing to get the minds gently because one the ones that they want money to do you want to be seen to have the upper hand so in a way yes i do within the charities why it's on us it's on the front hand let us look at the program that got us where we ought to be many of them on people that we knew had us the i people we knew who had. who have tattoos that are heading their couches but a vent many of them completely of injustice some years ago their former political

ox live more the fall i mean i'm not making excuses for them but the point i mean understanding government in the past especially in there's a vampire and because they're not states. there was a group of vigilantes who where young enough and victimizing them to the point of this forcing them of their ordinary was would you be. this catches many of the laws because those laws the family members love the germans and that is such a 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 see if this time i think you know the we school and the economic solution and that is why in the us more so as we look at the inquest carries we should also look

at the injustice to have been done that brooke looked to disposable situation and that is why what upholds and down the road i believe in justice begets injustices 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 yeah very far from the government of stooge. terrorist groups because when the somebody especially. which is called an ice crime. spree in that robbery this well i don't know do you. go government's. own life.

meant. to show you that it was committed to something. that was about so this is quite a distance from the. routine you got to go. that process of cracked talking about. despite my mission and additional. on gristle people. not to attack. how obvious it. is this. mission looking i did. from a man. did not list all we do the police got it meets with.

one of the. one of the guests also so you saw that. so we. also question i need. to test out bleach once won because even with which he. did it in life knowing about this public presence audience. i've become consistent with decent does begin to months 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 isn't to mention before there's an estimate that the kidnappers have received at least 11 $1000000.00 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 i have received on this monitor still you are right group into buying arms to prosecute the war or c. one of the ship he will probably get some of these there possibly 6. months. if not. look to the money to find out how does because if you look side groups on. america . he looks very puts there's a dispute. i think people wrong on top of this. to begin to begin to shift your arsenal this mission. actually brush it off like the rest

because if you don't. we're bankrupt a good solution to this problem through cycling use of the military. and i will stop there because i think ali i want to make a point audio 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 delegates. all something should be 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 skills 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 of the bundy's and i just said at a point when these soldiers believe they did over in ohio where they were kids the creaminess made of the mine to cuba all of them now that then if there was any i tend to excuse them we knew also in the rescue i can't like that never and well so the feeling that i will use them as human shields in the hands of government has ritually done to negotiate will be screaming no so i hear nodding your head just a are you speaking they're go have yes i don't want to be on buses who normally. are having problems on and 10 back. home by the fire experience i'm quite glad that. there are still security. american. government never should. have gotten used.

to i do. so by that because i saw that this was. not. peace i thought this is because you can buy. so many. decision about it because you know i very. well that's a question i have that whatever. but i know because there was a so-called safe schools initiative which was introduced in nigeria with a much 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. and they know is now for 10 years and the distinction right is making is no longer tenable it's not a decision of difference was that ideological you do given and has political objectives why don't the pundits in the north west people he will be economic but this is not on that case number one night the time you have said these people are using terroristic methods they read 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 so look at boko haram has infiltrated elements. and that's why. you put simba up to 300 and. you mentioned it. and just missed it did you all of the boys. teddy knew that something to do with some elements and nobody

in the bandits numbskulls in the house started making you can only do good humans in the last few months we have seen did you. test the injustice and seen the injustice is made out on the exclusion from government that. the reasons why they are. no longer. do you can use less money let me move on if i'm single let's move on from the differential as i say i see all that one circumstance and let's move on from that tell 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 same school initiated he was introduced in 2014 after the abduction

of the goals the 276 goes over 100 of us in boko haram has crossed it and why the initiative hasn't been effective is because it hasn't be implemented 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 initiative it's. not you know it is that it was this deep yet. 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 where she 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 bedded and they met only one security got. used to military and not it's not ok i want to my asking people in their particular sniper i want to ask mike as you're for a 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 for. the transmitter start. song or the greatest. regret it. should you fred observe.

you know day for many jews british i'm. proud to call. it prevalent was an arc from the protection of our tribe. so people have horrendous that the. government is a special court. i don't expect that to begin to tell us they're better not only jumped on by. or deceived but also promote i'm not. i know most of 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 year it's going to have a good not power to deploy the military or even although we can use you know the nice we have had situations in the past where it can be she now needs. 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 the. ability is on the president to keep track of the situation so i can see why he 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

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

and we know that. in general has been created around. effective teaching and learning doesn't. change and so i think it is what the government and the international community it worked out yet are we ensure that every single night you. and enjoys the right to education. but to say thanks to all our guests my kids your 4. and a book r.t. thank you for watching you can watch this and our previous episodes any time 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 a whole team here in doha but for now. to

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