people that live in the countryside of aleppo how much of it we get not enough we really suffer from a lack of medicines and medical equipment to treat chronic diseases a ceasefire appears to be largely holding but it hasn't eased the humanitarian crisis the violence has caused critical damage to syria's health sector affecting the ability of millions to receive proper health care center for their beirut. the headlines on al jazeera charges are mounting up against me in mars as the leaders a month after the military seize power the lawyer for deposed president when men says he's facing new accusations they include breaching the constitution which is punishable by up to 3 years in prison he was arrested along with the democratically elected state councilor. who's also been hit with several charges since the coup. protesters are still defying an escalating crackdown to demand an end to the

military takeover it's lunch time in myanmar but already has been fired in confrontations between security forces and demonstrators least $21.00 people have been killed in weeks of protests most of them on sunday scott haidar has more from bangkok. the posture of the protesters that we've been talking about the last couple of days has changed dramatically they have their own shields now makeshift shields they are a little bit more organized and as you mention at the top of the show daddy and they're using tactics to prevent them. from being impacted by tear gas but then also because of the live rounds being used for several days now we know that there are some injuries today not necessarily from live rounds but what they're doing also are using smoke grenades and even fire extinguishers to callao themselves as they retreat from the advancing security forces in iraq a military facility that is also used by u.s. forces has come under attack multiple rockets have landed on the assad air base in

anbar province it comes just days after the u.s. president joe biden ordered an air strike on facilities used by iran backed groups in syria the pentagon says it was retaliation for attacks on american and coalition forces in iraq there are calls for a national lockdown after brazil recorded its highest number of deaths from coronavirus in a single day war than a 1600 were president j. or both so narrow poses further restrictions rio tinto chairman says he will resign following an outcry over the firm's destruction of ancient caves in australia simon thompson will step down nearly a year after the mining giant blew up by 46000 year old indigenous site to expand its iron ore operations australia's mining companies have come under increased scrutiny since last may those are the headlines inside story is up next. with a match day arrives the green army comes to light. but football is not all they

shout about. a club where society's disenfranchised have the loudest voice. and political dissent take center stage. they come along. those resistance the ultras of russia casablanca the fans who make football on. 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 of received at least $11000000.00 between $216.00 and march 2020 and what it has more from in some fatah 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 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 junk in circumstances similar to the kidnapping of more than $270.00 goes in she broke into into 14. this man a former bandage says he left several others to help bring the ghost back to put them 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 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 eat 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 that 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 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 is that the region which has the highest rates 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 is a state in december more than 300 people were taken in

a raid on a school in cut scene a state local haraam 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 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 no yeah unfortunately you know i think children is becoming. a very dominant. 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 them and so it comes up again that. i'm fine. terrorists and criminals house in the. auction is not the best time. to get the money. at least not must. happen and nobody. thought that i credit

cards would be made by government that these terrorists get. 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 you know we. live by actually. terrorists because the terrorize the business and they can see a lot of how evil they are acting just like boko haram kids some years ago india built to girls from cheap look. i've seen this here we are. a function of boko haram these some years it will be 2 can we kill from she.

that lead with what it did when the school children because they wanted to the war my. if he's very trusted you decision like my colleague with him up because he said. he's a very nice touch to you we all draw your attention mickey governments get down on your needs to kind of a thing to get the mines gently because one the ones that the one money to do you want to be seen to have the upper hand so in a way yes i do with him. carries watch on i think on the front hand let us look at the problem 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 complain of injustice some years ago they are from a particular tribe more not full i mean i'm not making excuses for them but the point i mean understanding governments 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 the only was would you be. this catches many of the laws that get those laws the family members love the germans and these such as produce kind 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

dentists of both the it's a sad think you know the who's who 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 one upholds and down the road i believe in justice begets just 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. terrorist groups because when the somebody especially about cars. which is

a low nice crime. free in that robbery this well i don't know do that modem out of the big government its. own life. my government the top of the show i do that was committed to something. that was about so this is why deceit from my. routine. gotta go i'm wrong by. all of their crap talking about. me despite my mission and additional. on gristle people. not to attack. how obvious it. is this. mission look i did. from

a man. did not list always. needs when. i want to be. one of the good also so you saw that i won't be. so we. also question i need. to test out bleach once won because even with which he. did it in life nobody despondent precedence or calm down i've become conscious. decision does begin to months you get to commence. 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. even though i'm not sure. but definitely a morning of restraint on these monitors right group into buying arms to prosecute the war or c. one of the ship because he will probably get some of these there possibly 6. months. if general. russell. looked at the money to find out how does because if you look side groups on. america. he looks very foods there's a dispute. i think people wrong on august 5th going to begin to

leadership you're asking would 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 i was and i will stop now 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 when those get out 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 gills as human shields. some of those people though i recently received a release form they kept me busy of these some of the 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 full well where they were kids the premiums made of them i teach you all of them now that then if there was any i tend to excuse them we knew also in the rescue i can't let that never end well so the funerals will use them with human shields in the hands of government has ritually done to negotiate will be screaming so i hear nodding your head just a are you speaking their go have yes yes i don't want to respond to you normally. i don't have a problem i don't intend to mark your article or block on my 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. august we're going to. be doing that are that americans are still on that list rather than 3. not. this is because you can buy. so many. decisions about. your i bet. that's a question i haven't. but i know because there was a so-called safe schools initiative which was introduced in nigeria with thoughts 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 it's now 14 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 weighed and it's in the northwest people he will be economic but this is not on that case number one night 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 oh why don't. you put simba up to 300 on people

you mention. and also delete and exclusive video of the boys. telling you created that boko haram has something to do with some elements and it's number 3 in 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. your 10. the injustice is seen the injustice is made to. the exclusion from government that . the reason why they are. no longer. going to. let me let me move on if i'm single let's move on and the differential as i say i see all that when circumstances and let's move on from the dull 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're

hoping 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. and why the initiative hasn't been effective is because it hasn't been 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. 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 is not what we are talking about hundreds of men in bed and they met only one security got we used all the military and not us and 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. if the transmitter start. for

a. song or you've made it is. what. you said we should do fred observed. you know you did it for many jews. right on the. premise of arc for me protection. are trying. so people have horrendous that. government is a special. i don't expect. you to tell us are 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 governor has 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 need to the constitution say every state governor is the chief security officer of the states well of this theory it's going to have a dot power to deploy the military or even all that he can use you know the nice we have had situations in the past where it will be she now needs. is to be governor so you can imagine the situation so it's going to have found himself. the fact is the president still has got the force abilities 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 terror 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 you know i mean it's clear that you know i'm terribly. clear. i'm not judy and judy and i'm now being forced to choose between their lives and a new child should have to make such a decision. have been 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 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. well i would say thanks to all our guests my kid you for. and balaam a 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.

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