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generally t t w. this is d w news live from berlin millions of people on the move across the african continent refugees are topping the agenda as african union leaders meet and i just update on our correspondent visits an ethiopian refugee camp and asks what the future holds for people here. thousands of venezuelans flee into neighboring colombia as a humanitarian crisis in their country intensifies meanwhile the u.s.
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calls for fresh elections in venezuela but russia says don't meddle in domestic affairs. i'm sumi so much kinder glad to have you with us leaders from across the african continent are in the ethiopian capital addis ababa for the annual african union summit where one then president paul kagame who is the head of the a u has been pushing for the body to expand its powers later he will pass the baton on to egypt and to a president abdel fattah el-sisi who will lead the block for the next year involuntary migration is the main focus of this or summit africa is home to a quarter of the world's refugees and ethiopia has become the continent's second largest host for displaced people now some four hundred thousand of them are in the real. davey's funny for charge visited a refugee camp there
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a warning that some viewers might find this report disturbing. we are traveling through a beautiful but dangerous region needed so sudanese border in the impoverished lowland of ethiopia. a bed of conflicts among different ethnic groups. behind me that's all sudan a young and independent nation but the fighting over there continues more than two million people fled to neighboring countries like you but this country produces hundreds of thousands of this place people obviously own acne clashes violent droughts and flooding so what's the perspective for refugees here. if you become africa's second largest refugee hosting country in the region refugees number almost as many as ethiopians about four hundred thousand this camp is home to sixty
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thousand traumatised iraqis who fled fighting in south sudan. when the war erupted in south sudan children were set on fire and many others were abducted. the soldiers even killed blind people. people were forced to eat dead bodies and have sexual intercourse with family members. boys were forced to have sex with their mothers. this trauma will not be forgotten. in the. brewery and her family feel safe in this camp it's supposed to be a temporary home but they've been here for four years already without permission to work outside the camp she fears the future looks dim. when my husband was in south sudan he had a job but now he doesn't this is a problem because we depend on a lack of education is also a problem and i want education for my children and for myself and only then will we have a chance here and you know here. that's just one of the problems in the camp run by
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the un and if you open government. when we compare the number of the refugees with the sort of visit we are providing to the refugee it is very. tender. states by united nations high commission for refugees people and the list resource and we are keeping almost. providing basic service which is a live saving sort of we're almost focusing on the lifesaving side of. food food food hills. and under so on outside the camp there are mixed feelings among the local population if you make new our are more water coming off refugees because many arriving from south sudan are from the same group but its u.p.s. apnic and work say they feel threatened. many of these refugees
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come from south sudan they're straining our resources we are getting poorer so the government should help us to if not there could be clashes with the refugees. here in the city the new prime minister has promised opportunities for everyone refugees and locals but unemployment is very high in the region especially among young people. we don't see any improvement regarding the youth. there are no jobs we're trying to get ahead on our own. but we don't get very far. playing pool costs five or twenty us cents is the only form of entertainment they can afford the lack of prospects ethiopians to the streets to demand jobs less here it's employment prospects armed
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force coming soon existing tensions over land and the city could boil over. well as we heard the african union summit is getting underway in the ethiopian capital at a survey by and forced migration is dominating the agenda there let's bring in correspondent maria gets take a lesko she's covering that meeting maria good to see you sub-saharan africa hosts more than a quarter of the world's refugees that's according to the u.n. what's being discussed there to address their needs. so first of all it's important to understand that a very big number of refugees are actually displaced in their own country africa is host to eighteen million internally displaced people who are considered to be the most vulnerable population but no so for the solution the african union commission chairman actually just earlier stressed the importance of addressing the root causes of the displacement the majority being linked to conflicts as well as increasing population at the continental level which this is supposed to address
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through the creation of. african communitarian agencies but the countries also have to make sure that they have internal laws to protect the rich and integrate them into their society so there have been some models in africa for example utopia was home to almost one million refugees have to last month giving away giving record just the right to work in the country all right so it was looking at the roots of migration as the focus there what about the challenges facing some of those a host countries you mentioned ethiopia but also uganda and sudan so you gamut of the country has the most refugees in africa is the country with the most internally displaced people in the world so the challenge will be to implement the refugees laws to protect them which the u.n. secretary general has praised as very progressive now while at the same time addressing the concerns of the local population and the issue as well as off as an option at the time and saying of the integration programs and job creation so the
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world refugee council has proposed several so the oceans for example switching to system as a whole including creating refugee vons to share the burden and dirty between all countries. all right a journalist maria get the glasgow covering the african union summit in the ethiopian capital and us of a bus for us thank you so much maria. now to some other stories making news around the world thousands of protesters are rallying in spain's capital madrid demanding that socialist prime minister pedro sanchez steps down of the protest was called by right wing parties they say sanchez has to step down because he held talks with separatists in the region of catalonia are demanding a referendum on independence. the thai political party that nominated princess for prime minister could be banned from the general election in march thailand's election commission is meeting on monday to discuss how to punish the party it
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pulled the princess's candidacy on saturday after just one day after her brother the king ordered them to do so queen elizabeth's husband prince philip has given up his driver's license that comes after an accident he was involved in last month cost and outcry of the ninety seven year old's land rover landed on its side after colliding with a car carrying two women and a baby two days later he was photographed driving without a seat belt. the u.s. has presented a draft resolution to the u.n. security council calling for a presidential vote in venezuela that immediately triggered a counter proposal from russia which supports venezuela's president nicolas maduro washington is also calling for a deliveries to be allowed into the country these supplies have been held up at the venezuelan border. these images have shocked the world venezuelan soldiers preventing much needed aid from coming into the country from
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neighboring colombia but while the aid is kept out a steady stream of venezuelans pour into the colombian city of kuta over the nearby seem unbelieve are bridge. leaving behind hyperinflation and empty supermarket shelves these people exit by an official border crossing many others have not been able to obtain a passport and are forced to leave the country via smuggling routes cutting through the dry riverbed known as stretches they are controlled by criminal gangs who extract a heavy transit fee from the migrants it's a price they are willing to pay in the hope of finding work and a better life in colombia. i'm going to marrying. because i have family there and we will work because there is nothing in venezuela the more you wait the worse the situation in venezuela will get. since neighboring countries demand that venezuelans show a passport more and more people are using the truck just to leave with no money for
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any transport they often have to walk for hundreds of miles it's a business opportunity for shoemaker domingo montezuma who also fled across the border. when. sometimes the shoes of a people come by are really damaged for falling apart with the sole missing i saw to give a for anyone that needs it i charge five thousand pesos for every she the time i pass. even regular commuters have taken to the truck shows which snaked through the riverbeds only meters from the bridge. karla's career to row carries goods across the border to sell in venezuela and the black market customs officers have clamped down on the cross border trade forcing carlos off the road to continue his work. just sorties don't let us work
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we have no other choice but to use the troops as. carlos only earns four year olds a day shuttling goods across the border while for many of the trucks as are an escape route for him they are a lifeline. i funded like a soccer now and after the league leaders darkman lost on saturday fire and had a huge chance to get their season back on track and they did just that even shaka to reignite the title face. sixteen games that's how long but i have gone undefeated against shellac i can't deny them and was backing gold for the guests but was caught out in that swell few minutes. of the goal scorer it was only confirmed in the replay though an own goal for new signing geoffrey fruma. by him were in control but still managed to concede up to twenty five minutes they could teach you mitzi surprise equaliser was hilarious
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when both sides with no shots. but the hosts were undeterred and robert leaven dusty put them straight back in front of my great assist from his rodrigue as setting up the poles thirty of this season. it was a deserved leap for nico coach's side and after the break it was more whoa bush alka. just the whisk away from another equaliser. minutes later it was game over eleven dusty t.v. sets cannot agree to make it three of the forwards and see a school that's his goal in two games in all competitions. buying could have scored another but they proved wasteful i rub it live and dusky in particular.
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in the end it didn't matter no one was taking these three points from behind as they take full advantage of jordan slip up to reignite the title race. and then premier league of cardiff city is paying tribute to their player in millionaire who died in a plane crash his death was confirmed on thursday. a minute's silence was held before cardiff match against southampton on saturday and players across the country wore black armbands as a mark of respect. salah was travelling from not to his new club cardiff last month when the light aircraft disappeared from radar over the english channel. our minder now of our top stories here on africa's refugee crisis is topping the agenda for the continent's leaders meeting for the annual african union summit
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where one president paul kagame many who is the head of the a you will pass the baton on to egypt and president abdel fattah el-sisi who will lead the block for the next year. coming up our documentary berlin metropolis of crime it tells the story of how the head of the city's criminal police after the first world war i in new york forensic investigation and profiling is coming right up here and these are you. telling me. what's coming up for the booklet is when you nineteen to talk about it here or do you believe you know it's time to take a look a little bit means for the table of course.

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