to enter the state of mississippi, in california, thousands of people have been forced to flee after the entire resort. city of south lake tahoe was ordered to evacuate because of a wildfire the cold, a fire which broke out on august. the 14th has already been through more than 700 square kilometers, destroyed hundreds of buildings. scientific climate change has made the regional warmer in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme on wildfires. more destructive ah. type of creature headlines here, and i'll just here at the last american troops i've left cobble mark in the end of 20 years of war in afghanistan. the last c, 17 transport plane took off just hours ago clearing afghan aspect. i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens or country nationals and vulnerable

afghans. the last c 17 lifted off from hammered cars international airport on august 30th this afternoon. at 3 29 pm east coast time. and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the air space above afghanistan. but just a few minutes ago, a taliban spokesman said the group once good relations with the rest of the world. earlier taliban member celebrated the us exit with gunfire and fireworks. it says i've got his don has now gained full independence. us secretary of state anthony blinkin says if working with a new african government will serve the country, washington will do it. we did with a ton of under, in the past few weeks to enable our evacuation operations going forward. and he engagement with the taliban, like government and ball will be driven by one thing only or vital national interest. if we can work with a new african government in a way that helps secure those interests, including the safe return, my fears,

the u. s. citizen has been held hostage in the region since early last year. and in a way that brings greater stability to the country in region and protects the gains for the past 2 decades. we will do it. but we will not do it on the basis of trust or fake hospitals in the us state of louisiana been forced to evacuate patients after a hurricane. either knocked out pilots in many areas. the storm made land fall on sunday. it's not been downgraded to a tropical storm. at least 2 people have died in california, the entire resort city of south lake tahoe was voted to evacuate because of a wildfire, a cold, a fire, which broke out on august. the 14th has already been through more than 700 square kilometers, destroying hundreds of buildings. so those with a headline news continues here on our just here off of the stream stadium. thanks so much bye for now. how many nukes has too many new america had in many ways driven the arms race parties are much more like the british parties. now there are

fewer regulation to own a tiger than their our own a dog. how can this be happening? your weekly take on us politics and and that's the bottom line. ah. hi, anthony ok today on the street, nigeria is kidnapping for ransom crises. his mom said, i feel on who gangs of targeting children actually get a very high target law and leave the kids behind this criminal gangs. you know that families to do everything that they need to spend your life tv and get heavy need that, you know, that's good to you and you find out about community. we saw small communities like we probably not less than or not the night very light be properly said. the

community representing the perfect 20 grounds for these criminal gangs to carry out the enterprise. i am going to greet your pedal today. we have yeah. me mousie lama . nice to have you here on the stream. yeah. me please tell our audience who you are and what you do. the demo executive director enough with enough nigeria, our work on rights and of citizens and public accountability to have you mouth the welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself. try international audience. yeah, thanks for having me. me me me. my name is melissa chicago. i am the africa director at human rights watch for many years before becoming the director. i was in research working on these types of issues and so would love to come into it from human rights and goals and some recommendations for accountability, looking forward to that belong, welcome to the stream. please tell our audience who you are. what. what are you going to bring today's child?

i nice to be here. without a book i t, i am a senior analyst at the 20 students will be local change, where i research conflicts and development in sub saharan africa with a particular attention to nigeria. and the uncle come into today's composition. thank you so much for doing that. all right, so view, as we did so much outreach for this program, we felt an official voice was really important to have with a government outreach. we spoke to nigeria and police regional authorities, a northwest, and part of my jury, as many as even the president's office. and nobody was keen to be in this conversation. can you believe that? but i know you are. so here you chief, if you're right here with us, he can be in the comment section. i was you want back to wrap your conversation, your thought into today's program. yami as the voice of the people of nigeria. you bring that perspective of enough is enough. if we talking about northwest the

nigeria, what is going on with kidnapping for rent? and how would you somebody out what story would you tell us? so we understood the problem. well, for any parents, if you have a child that does something bad, there are no consequences for that bad action. the child will continue. and really that what i would some up can up in the north west of niger other parts of my job, not just the north west, but particularly the north phoenix, heavy students. i can now and we actually have a negotiation and you have member the equivalent of the parliament saying, well, they're just banded who are really upset with the state of the nation that's have a conversation with them. i'm here them out. the read the when you started dealing with terrorists that small. so to throw in a time from because they're upset and they negotiate and have a conversation with them. you're basically telling them it's ok. you ok to kidnap it's ok to kill children. it's ok to use human beings on because your government

doesn't really value the life. so i think that that's what i would summarize it. bad behavior that's encouraged that it continues to massey. i'm just going to have a look here. my laptops are audience who are watching globally, have a really good sense of where we talking about northwest and nigeria. how can not things happen around nigeria, but particularly large numbers of school kids happening in the last. i would think the last last year and take a peek in december. let me just show everybody little map here. this is january 2020. this is january 2021. look what happened november to january. look how high those numbers are, how many people are being abducted and keep now, what are the circumstances, mousy? how does this even happen? there's so many, there's so many factors. you know, it's, the problem is multi dimensional. it is complex and it's been going on for years.

obviously not at this current level. it's happening on the circumstances are such that one, this type of nigeria is the least developed. it's the least invested in all of the development indices. you want to consider. i that you know, i remember going into it in 2014 and i spent the lowest time i've ever spent in that state there been for about 23, and so 3 weeks i was there, it's inconceivable that any part of nigeria and nigeria and continue to leave that we thought a but it was from you know, what you experience living in, in boucher for example or in legal so even nearby tunnel they're, they've very few services available. very few schools and where those calls exist on parents to allow the children to go to school. there's hardly any security. many

of the boys in school so called boarding schools, which your parents leave their children to leave during the top 2 in time time. have no pay me to be basically suton dogs. i'm surprised that this has not happened before now. and, you know, with, with the cheaper abduction and book of rum, adopting abduction of goals and school children as a weapon of war. it was inevitable that they would find copy, cut groups that hold, find other groups, me making book or run because guess what? like you said there's been no accountability. i don't know of one single person who has been arrested. i'm right for the to book up for the many up that happened before then. and i have been involved in bad behavior. and then, but you have a situation where people are extremely poor, extreme,

get on people edged and impoverished in the way that people from that region is. those are the pushback, those they will, both criminal guns will always find people to recruit to what for them. but now the, you know, the know, feel you know, from the northern part of nigeria, why are the numbers of these kidnappings growing up on the ne, inside in the area. we know what they've been doing over multiple years. and the northwestern side of nigeria, i do have gangs, scooping kids up all the way to school at school. why for numbers going up? yeah, i mean, you, i right. this particular situation most where when one for about 10 years now and created by local criminal code law, can you call funded abducted or about 10000 people in the last 10 years extorted over 18000000 dollars by some estimates,

which i think is when they go to good, i'm keeping this yeah, they have extorted to be an ira that he would amount of money in the 6 months of pci. why is it going up going up because of the reason co panellists mentioned, particularly because it is profitable. if you are making $2000000000.00 nana, you're making $2000000.00 in a, in a can see i mean, minimum wage is less than $75.00 a month in the country in which 70 percent below the poverty line. then you are making a lot of money and no business making such kind of money would go out of business. that would cool. and that's what we would not be in the thriving industry because it was no creative industry in that you'd have to be only that is in effectiveness

of this to reach, uterus, pun students and intelligence agencies continue to see if they are confronting creation may keep growing within inside many yeah. is that is oh, how, how old is that? this is extraordinary. the 1st one. yeah. it's not a policeman or been kidnapped as well. go ahead. exactly. so i think it is lucrative because it's not just, i mean it's uncomfortable calling and banded because bandits just make them in like low level criminal, but i guess they're not. there's a, there's an element. while quite a bit of ideology is what makes the difference. but i'm sure lemme you can speak to the different different groups that are on their different plea on ideology and what they are down now using that. yeah. so if you take not finish up things up

because i've got a how we know the people are new to jerry and i want to join in the conversation. if you finish the point quickly cuz i'm going to go to them guys. i know i just wanted to say that it's not just about the band because there's no way band is on their own. can do that without the conflict that need to have major, the curate, the agencies and the fact that the points you made about the n d. a also reinforced that because that's not the 1st time that they buy it. according to the new television, this will be the 4th time in the year that the n d a has been attacked. that is the 1st time. but then back on that a lot. back. lukea lu, cheese on a youtube right now. the kidnapping issue is out of control. in fact, it's pathetic that the government hasn't done much about the current situation. a lot of people on youtube right now, thing that the government of the military is complicit and, and troy ad on nigeria need strong government. so we want you to bring in the minister information in nigeria who is saying something very different from our

viewers, are watching on youtube right now. who is the government is winning one. and i know that's why we cannot, you know, use the, these kind of media to discuss strategy and security is security. but i want to assure you that the government is getting to the root of the problem. but the government is getting to the router. the problem you say watching response and he's clearly not if anything, the situation is getting out of control more and more with this when you would think it kind of get any was then it tells you know, i can. and that's what we have seen in the last 10 months. so when the new chapter of it not seems to, then it seems to them by 2029. your friend

must do nothing of students involving over 1000 students in the north with the north central part of judaea. and we as we speak, all the 100000000000 cop t v t. now with regard to the question on police, did you of the and i didn't security agencies, i'm not sure i have had a lot of people like this before. now, when i was going out of control and that the jonathan administration and teaching over now, besides jim, i saw how people would continue to pay the current speed that the government was involved in what is happening to them. i'm not sure any government. happy to be getting out of now judy and so i did leave office that i queued by the be and i'm not sure they are completely and i think it's bad to be of that and it's much getting control of the situation even though it continues to you know,

mean it's not a shake. have you ever articulate that? no. go ahead. no, not at all, but what do you mean by completed, or what do you mean by negligent if you're negligence? i'm sorry you're complete, but because the negligence just means you're not doing your job. but if you're not doing your job, you are allowing this to happen in my dictionary. that means you accomplish that number one number. got, i mean i'm not president already hold on. hold that finish . i didn't hear you hold on, let me finish my thought, then you can respond for president jonathan did say while it was the members of part in his government, he said that it's on record. i didn't say a president assisting president, send the members in his cabinets in administration, and then you said in our intro, i don't know of anybody who i think it might be that might have that. i don't know if anybody in the jonathan administration that was prosecuted for being complicit or any one of us are,

i'm not in the area administration. you had members of the police force, i members of the army, protect and save their lives. they are in danger. we find up to fight when i g and the army, but we cannot fight when i do when we don't have the key but we need and i just, i will keep it for the security chief to be removed because there was corruption. the people on that they were complaining, they were removed, we got a new set of security chief who came in. i said, wait, all the money that was released. we don't see it. we don't see the money in the bank. neither do we see what it was used for. i'm sorry if you add all these things up without a startup, but then i just met the complaint that i see that category can let me push for a little bit back and forth. and i want to get to what do you do because a northwest nigeria right now. there are parents who will be going to badge in an hour, same time. and they do not have their kids wisdom. so you can argue back and forth if you want to, but let's see what solutions that you might, you know,

my brain trusts my knowledge. trust can come up with it. first of all, start with unicef nigeria, who we spoke to just a few hours ago. mostly i would love you to come off the back of regina steph, nigeria. they want some solution, have anything government must do everything possible to bidding confidence back to the communities that schools are safe yesterday. and so i met google from somebody and they stories and experiences on imaginable. let's work together. do whatever possible that we can do to keep school safe. so the children learn without fear. yeah, you know it's, it's, it's about ensuring that schools are safe for children to return to school. and i use return advisedly because many children already out of school now. i mean, we know already about more than 13000000 children of school age out of school in,

in nigeria. and about 70 percent of that number is northern nigeria because of these attacks chose to keep knocking bought the be this type hold of balance on tension that has been developed this region over the last few decade. but at 10 years i from our research, it's been way longer than that. and so you've seen all of these tensions and complex resulting in massive displacement of people, including children. how's it back to school? do you give them better, curity? do you, do you put the police outside of every single school? what do you do mousey, so you have to be a convergence of all of. it has to be the community working together because sometimes it will put, insecurity force is our own schools. and in the, in the children become invite and you can invite the top some groups we're looking

for to sees from security forces. and so you have to be it decision that is made together with parents, local community lead us security agencies under the government to decide what, what a community and not just the kids who are a still less than the communities of those who are in disbursement communities. we don't really have come in the north west. well, and i have to the north central as well. it's an involved in included in all of this. now it would be one to ensure that all the time it's the learning species. it doesn't have to be a formal school structure. whatever learning spaces are created, they have to have suitable books, suitable equipment teachers who are equipped on keels to teach children. it is absolutely important that would, in, continues without and didn't to, in the lives of the children. i mean, when you want to wait human rights,

if you cannot weigh the rights alive, but the right way to teach education is absolutely key. as we most find a way as a country to ensure that children are not left behind already, like i said, we have over 15000000. 70 percent of them are from northern nigeria. these children's lives have been left in the lunch, you know, the opportunities for the future that would affect this country has been abundant by, by the authorities. until this steps must be taken to fight what a mobile school more, you know, e learning. what about can be made available? we know you know we know not julians know that the north is under resort. there is not money floating around for digital or e education. so the kids don't have to risk go into school. they can learn, play home in the safety, connectivity is poor. we know what you're saying is incredibly difficult. let me

just bring in one more voice drank conversation. this is ally you mr. who is very pragmatic about why there is a problem for kidnapping for ransom in northwest nigeria have a listen. adoption has now become so much for being business and other people. actually, people want to make money thing. all you need to do is to go and pickup people and plenty of money when the card will give me so much for the fund. it's in me as a new phase where you can nothing. school kids make money for draw attention. everyone below my, this is a business model. if you haven't been to school, if you've got limited skills, is, is, could be a business model. if you're criminal, what else could we do in northwest my georgia to help that business model

not be effective anymore, is to make it feasible when you make it and viable, by making sure and some are not paid with the impunity. we see, i mean he's not about government legislating pain done so i'm criminalizing parents for their loved ones. it is about empowering the students to read. you forces to make sure that these kinds of kidnappings gone public. and when they happen, restore confidence in communities that duty agencies can do whether you buy the country or to the loved ones. it is about all the people account that has been there is no consequences, the criminality going on current on the them. but we have seen 9 my school, nothing. none of them less some minds of those. you know, activities he near criminal activities web wrote. but we also knew about the i

didn't do the t i c tech that you completed, the 17 security and enforcement agencies are not coordinated. and we need to coordinate them respond to the situation if we want. but all these security or responses can only contend the violence. in order to get to the root of the problem, we have what we can cation in the economy, infrastructure, and level bring. i mean that part of kenzie also to be part of my g d in terms upload, using a job in terms of producing students who have a good relationship with the country. and so we can take the young people away from cream analogy extremism. i want to bring a voice over dad who experiences exactly what we've been talking about. his children were abducted in may. and in august he was asked about the experience and

he so defiant about what is important. have a listen to this, that even with this is not me for i'm taken by sort of because how do you move wherever you take them? if you deny them education, they become very new to this society who i think i have no option to send my children back to school. oh my goodness. yeah. me, can you imagine being not dad, that family, the kids like, how do you go to school when you've already been kid not once, but that to me, to spirit. right. in the north is like, we can still keep going. are you seeing that on my imagining that it goes, i mean if you think that you broke up docs and this is 7 years on the chip or goes where we're getting that, that what parents who refused to send their children back to school. there weren't those who closest than the children back to school, and i think since 2014,

you had to have a mix about some parents which is to send the children back some way. they know they would rather keep their children at home and be guaranteed within their control and see what your conversation about what it is that we can do. we need the government out of the or been negligent. i think my dance needs and also not think of the northern problem. it's an existential problem for us. because the, what, however you want to die that people think it's, it's lucrative, it's the business. and government continues to not met the necessary consequences. it's not just going to be, could do not what schools and then not where it's not central. and then it will sort of part of the country. and as the people we need to be beyond a particular part of the country, that's number one. and then secondly, we in not only i'm to find the voices and i to keep him and holding a public official accountable. we also need to look at what we can do within our community to for me, community policing, anyone in systems. what are the,

what are the mechanisms that when things happen, we can quickly let each other know and, and, and to need maybe. thank you. yeah. me. thank you. mousie. thank you for lama. let me show you where you can find them. on social media, nigerian twitter little bit difficult right now. you know why, but enough is enough. nigeria is on instagram. human rights what she can follow, what human rights, what she's doing in nigeria right here. and then also, lama mccarty is on twitter. thanks for watching everybody appreciate your questions . i see you next time take. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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