you know what's going to be the number for the population that we need to evacuate like here you know as long as the roads are open and there's a voluntary evacuation you know what the county to see really what the numbers are going to be what they don't know is we believe some of the population. because they're so self-sufficient. killer whale has been active for over two weeks now lover has destroyed at least twenty six homes so far wind is now threatening to carry us from killer whales to nearby tourist areas the worst could be yet to come . this is news straight ahead on this program venezuela's president nicolas maduro is seeking a new six year mandate and despite. a crippling economic crisis is widely expected to when we ask why. japan has the

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the place and i. welcome back here to give you news live from our land our top story this hour the u.s. president donald trump has again singled out germany for profiting from nato while the same time paying russia billions for energy supplies his comments come as chancellor makeover meets with russian president putin for talks on the iran nuclear deal and on russia's expansion of a natural gas pipeline to germany. now is to the democratic republic of congo which the world health organization says is facing a quote very high public health risk from the bowl at the same time across the country to the east decades of conflict over a trove of natural resources has left a legacy of poverty poverty and trauma of people living their labor and mines to extract copper gold diamonds and they often become targets of noah turns fighting

over those riches we have this report. this muddy track is the main road they connects important towns across the east of the democratic republic of congo. just john quincy is a catholic priest. a lawyer they travel this way almost every week the region has been ravaged by decades of civil war and government mismanagement fueling the conflict the country's vast mineral resources in the province of south kivu alone there are more than six hundred mines many of them simple operations like this one. this is what the women are looking for. the black pits are cult. the your is a source of tantalum used in cell phones and other electronic devices some have used this metal to acquire vast wealth but little of that trickles down to the

people who actually mine it. i was born here they have been working the mines using the same methods for fifty years now there's no hospital here no school and no roads that cannot be right. many of these workers are victims of the d.r. sees ongoing conflicts the men have forged with any one of the dozens of armed groups that are active in the region but now they're tired of war and have come home the women have been raped by fighters. so ron's ferrar is trying to improve people's lives one step at a time thanks to her many people here now have official papers and they have new tools which means that women can work more efficiently and earn more money the government provides nothing and does not in a position to try to end the conflict. now. as though our politicians are completely numb to human feeling they don't pay

attention to ordinary people. but that's why we can't afford to sit by idly we will fight until we see this region develop in accordance with its wealth. and until the rest of the world realizes that here too human rights must be respected. that's something even the congolese government seems reluctant to address together with laurence farrar we meet the minister responsible for mines in the province to ask why so many people see nothing of the country's mineral wealth that. we have to differentiate between real and potential wealth when you say this is one of the world's richest countries you mean a country that has the potential to be one of the richest but we haven't had the opportunity to chief that yet but i think the government has already done

a lot. he didn't elaborate on exactly what they have done here in the village of county although there is no infrastructure a catholic organization in cooperation with father stern and his colleagues has been championing the interests of the people who live here at the behest of the community they've created a memorial to the victims of the war it's a place of reflection for father to stand and for trauma therapist to raise minimum of pins a. fifth of what the aim is to prevent. that these can may well have been again but also the second is to show the world that. has lost so many people with the wards is silent about this. there are countless towns like kenny ola in the d.r. c. in many regions the catholic church has taken on the functions of the state many priests have become engaged in the country's politics.

if you speak for the people you automatically belong to the opposition if you're a silent call it means the government has bought you out what should the church do i want a miss actually to be neutral to me neither on the government side nor that of the a position where here for the people. the. have the. the the the. as a trauma therapist or raise member of a pansy helps women who are victims of the mass rapes that happened during the war many have never spoken about the experience. you. as a victim you feel bad in your heart it is no longer the heart of

a human being. in addition to the emotional pain there is the physical damage including illnesses like aids to raise listens to the women stories and explains the disease. tells how she spent six months imprisoned by rebels. also the entire time they hardly gave us anything to eat they beat us and raped us morning and evening when one was finished the next one would come and take his place over and over again because i want as many people as possible to know that this happened right was used as a weapon of war just how many women were and continue to be victims of this kind of brutality is unknown. our lives. like not important in the world nobody cares about us the international awards the

dogs see the storm the stories they will see them for them is just a story that's passed their way and it's there is a fourth book on this it's all the can forget and life can continue but for us it's the pope. was. in the car through the capital of south kivu father to start holds holy mass every morning the church is always full at night it is guarded by soldiers some congolese don't appreciate the church's involvement they see it as a danger to business as usual. father just died and other catholic priests often face threats as a result of their activities. unfortunately we have gotten used to this but i can tell you where or traumatized there are

nights when i cannot sleep but we do our work for the sake of the gospel it is a difficult task but that is what we have chosen to do. so. what all of the people in our story have told us they wishful is that the world take notice of what is happening in the east of the democratic republic of congo. let's go to a country now on another continent but with similar problems venezuela as the world's largest oil reserves but its people are starving three quarters of all citizens yet seventy five percent do not have enough to eat despite that president nicolas maduro is all but sure to win sunday's elections he stamped out opposition protests wrong critics and prison elections have been condemned as democratic by

the united states about a dozen latin american countries and by the european union. now all that has not discouraged one of president maduro most high profile supporters of the argentinian football legend diego maradona made a surprise appearance on stage waving a venezuelan flag at the doors closing campaign event in tok us mar don it is known for supporting leftist alterations in the front of the duros predecessor it's. all marathoners backed by millions of venezuelans why i'm joined now by did have used carolina jim oid to shed some light on that good morning carol ina you know when we look at venezuela crippling hyperinflation why i'd spent spread hunger riots in prisons you know how could it be possible for a man that's led this country into this situation to be reelected well this elections are not really transparent they're now released fair. the

a position and therefore other popular candidates have been completely blocked from these elections fray and so even if one of the current opponents would be allowed to win he would be completely hamstrung by my mother us allies so these are not really for. fair elections that has to be set at this time this is what probably why probably my worry is going to work ok but still there's going to be a huge turnout in support of him even if they are rigged to a certain degree he enjoys massive support in spite of the fact that he led this this country into the situation it's in right now how could. be so economically desperate was so much oil wells well the problem is that they depend on our prices and they used to be good for example during the time of terrorists and that was a healthy country but the fire price is quite bad right now so around ninety

five percent off their exports are based on our oil and if a country depends only on. one thing that much it is of course difficult to have to have diverse kind of incomes also the government knows how to money palladius elections this crisis they know how to give like food parcels against votes so it is a mixture of a mismanagement of my window of the corruption in the government and if that depends. ok to talk about the need for diversity that has become much more difficult now that the doro has forced many of his tricks and a large part of the middle class into exile they fled the country into neighboring re-ask colombia and brazil we see refugee camps with with the venezuelan refugees now how is that flight of the best and the brightest of apple going to

affect any attempt venezuela might launch to build this kind of economic diversification it is a very good question and quite difficult to answer because indeed there is a very big brain drain out of n.s.a. i just came two days ago from colombia from the border between venezuela and colombia and you can. see so many people sleeping they're just fleeing from the crisis this is also going to affect the elections because we don't really know how many people are going to vote we don't really know how many people are leaving but as well as some talk about four million or suck about five million so these are huge numbers for this country and it is going to be very difficult for him and his attitudes to app again not only in a political way but also in an economical way this election is are going to be a very important but also that while the economy and the old prices drop might have to have done a favor to add to my the window because of the iran deal the price is now a bit higher and that is a good thing for venezuela could have

a positive knock on effect for the business will require a car you're just back from the border every actually just coming back from the border area today to find them via where all these venezuelans are living now in desperate hundred thousand six hundred thousand this one off the biggest refugee crisis in latin american south america it's month one of the most under-reported i think it's great i have to say that we're picking up on this story what are the people there saying to you about what's happening back home in venezuela i want to go back they don't have food say don't have to you know having water you have to imagine for a dollar you get several leaders of gasoline and venezuela you pay out like around ten days earlier of gasoline and on the other hand you pay more than one million believe itis for a fraction of cookies so it's completely insane people are not able to to live there anymore the own.