promotes respect and humanity we have suffered in other provinces from persecution in targeting of our people nearly 2 decades of violence neglect and indifference have destroyed iraq's rich heritage and one of its ancient religious groups fears extinction unless its traditions and people are protected some of the job it out of their own back that. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera a day after some sharp words from pyongyang the u.s. secretaries of state and defense are in south korea on the 2nd stop of their asia tour and today blinken and lloyd austin upholstering alliances in the region on their 1st foreign trip since taking office in japan on tuesday they criticized what they called china's coercion and aggression in asia north korea's nuclear ambitions are expected to be the top issue in seoul rob mcbride reports from there this is

all seen as part of the u.s. returning to traditional values to say look we're back in the region again and so they will sign this new agreement it does actually mean that the south koreans will be contributing quite a lot more to u.s. forces being based here some nearly 14 percent increase which is seen almost as a quid pro quo or a sort of a goodwill gesture by south korea in the hope at least of that they will get some concession from the u.s. when it comes to dealing with north korea there is growing alarm over the increasing number of coronavirus cases in chile despite having one of the world's leading vaccine rollouts 5000000 people have had their 1st but cases arising by an average of 5000 a day the government of nigeria is could do the state says that it won't give in to ransom demands after 3 teachers were kidnapped from a primary school on monday it's the latest in a string of abductions from schools in the north. human rights watch is blaming

yemen's hooty rebels for a fire at a detention center last week that killed at least 60 people most of them ethiopian incident highlights the dangers that some are willing to face in search of a better life polls are open in the netherlands national election it's europe's 1st major vote since the start of the pandemic and will be a test of the government's policies opinion polls suggest that the center right party of prime minister mark ruta is on track to win by a large margin that's despite his entire cabinet resigning after a child care benefits scandal 2 months ago president joe biden is promoting his near 2 trillion dollar covert relief package a visit in pennsylvania highlighting the economic support that it will give most americans including how it benefits the health care others the headlines more news fear al-jazeera after inside story thanks. what should americans be thinking and

doing right now you should be a bad idea they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money fine it's not going to be laughed out of the college for the bloated defense budget to be crying possum line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world . another group of students has been abducted in northern nigeria while under rose i've got the government but what's behind this recent rise in kidnappings and how challenging are they took president mohammad laurie this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. nigeria's school kidnappings have become a major security challenge for his government and security forces at least $700.00

students have been abducted in northern states since december and that figure is changing every day with reports of more attacks and abductions dozens of students managed to escape a raid on monday while their 3 teachers were taken it happened in the northwestern could do in a state and is the 1st such attack on a primary school armed gangs locally known as bandits are suspected they usually have ransom to release the victims but the government denies bang and in money president is facing mounting criticism for the rise in violent crime. let's take a look at some of the attacks that's happened in the past few months many of the victims have since been released more than 300 boys were abducted from a school in katsina state in december in february there were mass abductions within

10 days that killed at least one student and earlier this month 39 citizens were reported missing arson attack on a college in the northwest in kaduna state the number of kidnappings in nigeria has been since boko haram is 2014 of the action of hundreds of schoolgirls in chibok many of them are still missing as. has been following this story for months has this update from kaduna banditry and kidnapping for ransom in northern nigeria has now become big business the biggest of course the fastest growing criminal enterprise in nigeria right here is a school where 5 days ago 39 students were kidnapped although 180 have been rescued on day one after they were taken we've gone through the school run the school and show how these infiltrators attackers launched into the school now the government of cacouna state says it's not negotiating with the criminals and it insisted that

the military option is the best option to deal with criminality in northern nigeria meanwhile parents here incredulously parents of students taken are still missing from this institution are still asking for the government to do whatever is necessary to bring their children back home now the problem of insecurity in northwestern niger and other parts of nigeria as well is because of a lack of proper funding of the security forces they're understaffed and they could and of course and they're motivated according to some security analysts and also another factor being outlined by sutton in the biggest sutton security analyst in nigeria is issue of negotiating with criminals to release hostages a lot of people feel that this is encouraging. more and more people to go into the criminal activity knowing full well that in the end it either a free passage is negotiated for them or they are paid round sum in huge amounts so that they can go back and we launch more sophisticated attacks on our nigeria's dealing with so many problems and this problem is really really spreading fast

across northwest now you're across the rest of the north across central europe and it's moving and taking roots in the south of the country as well. for inside story . let's bring in our guess all of whom are joining us from nigeria in a bugger. for his former director of nigeria's state securities service legace any daily. research fellow at the university of edinburgh center for african studies also in abuja and here to. research team advice watch war welcome to you all mike what is happening in could do now has it become the breeding ground for armed groups and bandits. well it seems. the spread of fortune. ringback such is students to keep loose.

your continuous series of. especially lawsuits. won't won't. work this response will be. in the article suits. your record of. the city governments in the northwest or for your example that seem to. be about states only. the patient to live in should be banned it's a very good riddance we're also because of the rising we're on insulin so your leadership in the military security which was restricted by grossly under federal law with. no more really 2 degrees. by months which is in the march and so i think. groups the

bidens 'd 15 or so that really are on our biggest thank you notes is before we go into the town with the particular issue of subtleness with the band it's in the northwest some parts of the country in a we have seen a patent been established in northwest to nigeria with all those banned this moving forward attacking elementary and primary schools and the question is normally should expect the police and the army to be deployed to launch a preemptive attacks gathering intelligence and prevent such incident from happening which doesn't seem to be the case here so if you have i'm dying i think old school crews to new york were. security the entire security architecture of the country i think salute far too early appreciable touches to the current administration's take him to the stand the son current tide of arm

attacks and adoption. individuals that learns to sion the move of nigeria has been so slow can change security chiefs which itself is an arm is a sign that the government's just run out of ideas on how to deal with because so far we have seen the slogan or who are changing security g.'s a stone little if nothing. at all to stop the son of the state of abductions and so i think the security. architecture of the country has to be looked at quite. studiously. and here to put this into perspective we're talking about the northwestern part of the country millions of people now are affected in some far could do not get seen as a cutter and as well. this is huge and this requires

a state initiative which doesn't seem to be the case also here. absolutely i think who we are and talk about the dynamics of their conflicts or restiveness cindy's areas but we hardly you know really put a lens at the human impact beyond the abductions of the student which in essence i tried can and should be stopped but i think it's the wider impact on society you know parents who fear to send their children to school i'm state governments who have no choice but to shut down schools and there needs to be a lot of attention paid on what this will do for our education for access to education in the northern part of the country where the literacy rate is already very low as you may know 90 area has the highest number of out of school children anywhere and whirl and about 70 percent of the 10500000 students who are. out

of school in this country are in the north so when we look at the immediate impact on famines we look at parents who are afraid for the safety and security of their children and parents who are afraid that they will never have their kids come back after they've been abducted we also look at this wider impact that is more telling for the source economic consequences for families and individuals living in that. 90 states mike are we talking here just about bandits controlling those areas in northwestern part of the country or are we talking about different key players now stepping in particular groups are figurative with the islamic state in the greatest the heart of the. us and al qaeda affiliate and some spin to groups of itself. well for now the

music does not remain in the established. between a. good book or around or the i cease would despondence books or just schools would kind of lead them because google around if you recall says i was an addition to somebody so it's just up was the case will be delete that i wanted to get i don't also forget that there was a. lot of liberal sponsibility eventually independence the matter. was not sold out. but i think the allegation is just to create a shia on by despondence to discredit gromit it's a media commitment or law because i think if the outcome of killing to say yes this is what we want our i do want somebody to go there who were saying that there yes

this needs to be talked to the need to be vigorous should sit well before you talk of. the most long distances there are 6 exactly what will they have not been able to or want to bring to say yes we have a problem and our quote meant need. for that scene on the romans you need to be a lawyer what gets into a ploy don't come up results to aachen you know since this is especially children ok john leader and student really went from school which is the intention we need to get into the root cause of this particular problem not in the northwestern part of the country in a this hostile to it years ago with the traditional fight between the dozen the farmers and on demand took advantage of the. chaotic situation there and the sense of it purity which was prevailing and gather themselves and form the band is that

we see it operating on the ground now what do you think should be done to tackle this particular problem it looks on the surface as if this is something about ben this doesn't seem to be the case but yes i think i think you 5 have done so uncertain and so through this current time of crisis that i'd probably run for president because it just metastasized into something far greater than anyone could have anticipated a few i'm a couple of a couple of york years ago i think it was an interception. i think. about say about 5 or so years ago when it was just a single or c. was just single it is you have the conflict between the herders and the farmers then it was a bit easier address then. a couple of other hypothesis have been put

out there at the moment of a couple of other narratives in the trunk at the moment about also the inclusion of people related all connected to accessible my identity in the north western region of nigeria and in other parts of nigeria that i've become hopes for for for abductions and clashes as well between between herders and and and who are too crude indigenous and and and others and residents indigenous are these and these parts of nigeria and so i think it's become a bit more complicated not than just see between herders and france but of course some so it's you the topic of a land land of land city and of course under encroachments of off the sahara on our own land in in my geria and dumb as this and and niger is an mit

middle belt region is also definitely still remains the central the central central . topic interest in the sun. and then comes and this is going to be my question to any it event comes illegal mining in that particular area and the rush to take control of gold mines has resulted in people establishing themselves in some sort of a not the operating on the ground so powerful so influential of the government is basically doing nothing to stop them say it but this together with the farmers heard the issue with the band this coming together no it would be able to tackle this problem. i mean you're absolutely right it is an enormous problem like you need pointed out there are no immediate solutions that you come to mind at but i think 2 things for me are very important and we've seen one are going to feel and these 2 things the 1st of which is you know really ensuring accountability for

attacks against citizens whether it's by militias or it's by these powerful banded groups or it is by you know people who are these are is no mining infrastructure whatever the case you know if there is a sense that when such attacks happen whether it's just not being or it's cattle rustling or or it's just pitted that there are arrests that people are prosecuted that communities see that justice is being done and more people are not forced to endure tick up arms to protect themselves and in essence form their own militias and and carry out other crimes i think we would see some sort of headway in in terms of deterrence people will know that there are consequences for their actions and they will not continue with the sort of impunity i mean we've had over 5 mass

abductions in december that it is scary that is these are numbers that the shouldn't just brush away and it definitely is one that you are dorothy's have a duty to tuck in and of course we also have a situation where debbie's underlined point is that many of the other speakers are spoken there is a lot of our poverty in many of these communities and there's a total lack of government as in terms of provision of basic necessities and infrastructure and this often puts citizens at odds with the government there is a sense of hatred and bitterness that pushes many individuals to the brink of committing these kinds and and finding these. i'm going to come also for that a chance in peace and security all right mike as a former director of nigeria's state security service which is just like you to get us closer to the 9 set of the security apparatus in your country is normally when

a nation faces such a challenge the leader of the nation talks to the top generals and police officers and says this is an ultimate act of humiliation for our nation and this must stop therefore 0 tolerance what is happening in your country is totally the opposite local politicians army police officers offering bribes incentives vehicles trucks and amnesties for the bandits under one condition stop those attacks what happens the next day is more attacks on one of the russians. yeah i have. sure. that special so to speak on negotiation would be abundance but would you like to see if you can actually get what you believe you want to get into wealth for no use if. you live it for about the group to be issued. people should deal with departments now that the federal government says no more and it was just shown by these sort of like i'm not for it you sort of kind to

a point. that we should deal with bonds i did answer especially also that so last we need to do you gentle secrete t.v. money. secret. drivable show that was the big fish got to be released on a drug on the tracks it gives the spartans because if you go to a relief good bargain there really is that the well reading up you can. have. the nobody wants. us all right. to push it's reach our very moment was about the drug war might drop or more. it's but and if for the time being there's absolutely 0 trust in the security forces in nigeria we've seen that throughout the past few months with the outcry against the cop option against the clamp down on him or vice activists across the nation. if if the police

establishment is widely seen as corrupt and inefficient understaffed doesn't have the resources to tackle this nominee why should we receive the whole oppression why should we start from the local communities i think i think it's good in the short term that might be. that might be the way the state and i think. especially considering the. current mood across the nation with a 3rd of the general feeling being that the president mohammed who hurries are giving nigerians the silent treatment communities are taking on themselves to. the fences to protect themselves to the protector to protect. life life and property across or across the board and done i think this is something that's been

going on for years and in all fairness to the current illustration in terms of. the existence of liverpool. police and units or whatever you wish to call them in the north of nigeria you have the local vigilantes known as his bar. and he has years ago just before he had been in the south western region we had for a p.c. the people peoples our congress and we have a cousin who is as well in the east of the of the country and we are seeing lunacy not a movement now is our resurgence of these of the know who vigilantes a century in the east now you have. distanced security network e.s.n. and done i think what we can see moving forward is around him much as. we can see

and an increase in the emergence of various atlanta and atlanta groups it's a look at the governments failed. so that the common stilts of the villains and of the protection of our allies and properties of niger ok i'm here to this is a president well i'm a double harry who have a unique opportunity. to move forward take the issue of reform or security apparatus put an end to use to billet to and groups a step further that didn't happen what we've seen so far series of cosmetic solutions placebo's no going deeper into the heart of the matter should we blame him personally for this massive failure which is happening now in nigeria. i mean it is happening under his leadership so there's not a lot of places to pass the ball it merely lands on his his temple and i think 1st and foremost there needs to be an honest honest discussion about the capacity of

the nigerian military and nigerian and all of the other security agencies to be able to ensure peace and security across the country and even beyond that we need to understand what side of the what have been the cause of some of your feelings it is only by you know addressing a problem that you never find a solution but i think that the constant. the constant narrative that the president and those under him have tried to push that the military the police are at their best and they are winning the war whether it's a good surgeons in the market or their allies and the top of your game in the northwest is is false and citizens can see through that and it uses a lot of trucks in him and in his in his government like if you look at your country. i wish you could talk to me from your own past experience director of

nigeria state security service borders with which are poor us no control whatsoever but as being smuggled or the way active groups operating on the ground are fitted with a kind with boko haram with the islamic state banned this taking advantage of the situation. in launching daring attacks of the heart of some of the states in the northwest and in the some part of the country this is nigeria one of the richest nations on earth what's happening there well. it's actually me just telling someone to just tell him to sort through seemed to come to you because. 'd you can see people is really. what's this little we can do about it because we don't party to the more. so cause don't want to loose beside you remembered it because protocol which our last

remaining. member states that's it better be chilling on there without looking at you strike to check these folks. it's good to be a bigger problem well besides it's you know it international relations. or security europe's this is the we the serious car coming to nigeria i don't create the right solution would be look it's we need to. look at. our security our efforts will yes look at how it's going to get folks you know. who actually most of the country didn't use thank you about this or yes indeed by the you know mike of the end of the day on a rich nation one of the biggest producers of oil in the african continent and all over the world with that those are the news from oil you can buy some of the most sophisticated weaponry is and also technological devices to monitor the border and

to prevent such he imitating must cannot things from happening mike and you for in italy i did and and it it one thank you very much indeed for your insight every day if you shift your time. thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site as you know dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our 100 is a.j. inside sort of for me how should i what i'm the entire team here by foot. it's one of the world's most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises central to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people and behind the deaths of many more exceptional access to some of its key players reveals. an organization

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