soldiers fighting alongside charlotte siside. you can serving both in the russian murals we have a meeting with a military chief. and it is an organization that sends russian volunteers to fight in the donbass in eastern ukraine. the person to contact in this region to join about a compmpany an economist every in syria. i guess five or six news each week. nicole. and the reason to go to syria. more. eight. i was. is about money. following the american bombing raid on february the seveventh i in sereries thes litttt provincee russians foreign affairs ministry announced five russian

civilians have died. but also very different figures of those killed were not ordinary civilians. one hundred and fififty peoe in our refrigerator is on this issue the lack of a. the state will. is how they describe to me. this all took place will in two weeks ago of the family still don't know anything about their relatives moves around the world leisure for for. from. nothing w will happen beforore the presidential election on the eighteenth of march years we'll know why. for for your local there's no problem keeping it a secret. and road in a private militia company of soldiers of the money to a private energy company. here. yeah and you can use you have loans or performance all happened to you after your death. that you being sentiments made so what they put you in a back room killers the coffin in the

best case scenario send you home. us barry that or. if you raise money by killing people and defend the. interests of others. then that's fine. working. christian. so what's the main goal of wagner in syria the fight that he a vision for oil. listening called any private militia company. also. an interest of a government con use the regular army. go is financial revenue and the possibility taking control of a large market will resources for a countr. so our country control and. formal fighting us good thing for. me in start this war. but it is up to us to. richard. shelling and artillery fire continue to go residents in eastern who's outside damascus in syria at least

another thirty two civilians died this friday in the sixth day of carnage that has seen more than four hundred fifty. civilian deaths overall more than one hundred of those who were killed were children. the enclave of the dniester include that has been under siege since twenty thirteen and is one of the last areas still held by rebel fighter. it's four hundred thousand residents are barely surviving with little access to food water and medicine. as we see kermit and temporary members of the u. n. security council in new york are meeting to vote on a resolution demanding a thirty day ceasefire in eastern who down. and they'll to avoid a veto of from russia and out if the resolution passes it would allow attacks continue against islamic state group and all i'll qaeda affiliates. who including the nassar front resolution comes just days after secretary general antonio guterres called for immediate secession of the war in eastern hotel? over

residents he said are living in quotes hell on earth we spoke to friendly forces new york. correspondent earlier daniel hoffman. the. this resolution a has been and modified substantially since its inception that was already more than two weeks ago and what's crucial to understan. in order to a really and get to the the ball to counter this resolution is to figure out why. the russians had being so a reluctance. on this specific facts they have made it's very clear from the beginning that they did not saying that such a resolution was necessary yesterday again the russian ambassador to the united nations. denounce at what he called a mass psychosis on in the united here in question in. syria which is why he's a delegation entry used a series of amendments as trying to substantially. again change the content of the texas some of those in an is where accepted by

other and and the state. as a concession and hoping that russia would not use its veto power when the vote comes later too dead to you and the. other with that stain allowing add the the tax to gather enough of those to be adopted. daniel what are these logistical hurdles to enforcing this resolution if it passes. well basically what russia has said consistently since the beginning is that. it's really hard to at foods worries into action. lower the russian representative said its assets the tax that was. presented yesterday was not feasible which why which is why he believes that substantial changes as should happen i'll just give you one example in the the the previous version of the tax. and his security and council said anything decides that a cessation of hostilities at takes place the latest version out its say that it's only demands

is so it is once again a concession. to russia davis issues are still and the way those shoe take place. in now as just a an hour from from the house and the the that the ambassador from from kuwait she was there co sponsor off this bill as always he's a swedish counterparts. say that their members were almost there so it seems that. there has been some progress and potentially. those could have a favorable issue. as the islamic state group weekend's in syria and iraq european jihadists are returning home this friday frances prime minister a lot feet unveiled a new plan to fight against islam is radicalization. the third effort of its kind in less than four years the programs is sixty measures for the accent on prevention. and call on participation from prisons schools s social workers and the sports world on both local and national levels here's an excerpt from a loft seats

announcements. so we will create fifteen hundred places in our prisons places that will be designated for radicalized in mates starting with four hundred and fifty by the end of this year. what it does for seventy eight institutions will taking radicalized business with specially trained staf? in a high security environments it. those who would team's particularly dangerous will be held in areas with violent criminals. which will guarantee that they will be sealed off from the others. gathered at reports on the numbers of jihadists returning home from syria and iraq and how different countries are addressing the issue. three hundred and twenty three that's the number of people france says have returned from syria and iraq so far fifty six presenter man at twenty two percent are women. twenty one percent are minors but the return of islamic state group supporters is not a

problem limited to france. nearly forty thousand people dozens of countries travel to the battlefields in syria and iraq. now that the jihadis have lost most of the territory they once held those supporters have nowhere else to go. turkey has the most return fighters out of fifteen hundred to laugh nine hundred have come back. europe to has seen about twelve hundred fighters return four hundred and twenty five to the uk two hundred and seventy one difference and four hundred to russia. in the middle east saudi arabia is dealing with seven hundred and sixty return fighters on north africa is another hot spot with eight hundred coming home to tunisia. the problem for all of these countries is how to deal with their formemer foreign fighters. is it to be jail oror rehabilitation or some combination of both gathered is so. justice minister is working within the prison plans to deal with radicalized.

especially those who come back from syria and iraq. idiotic. the samee countntries arereo grappling with how to prevent radicalizatation in the first place. here in france the government is experimenting with different ways to reach people considered most at risk. officials say they've learned lessons from past failures cautioning there is no magic formula for d. radicalize asian. the fallout from the isle sam sex scandal continues haiti has decided to spend the operations of the british charity for two months there. handing ththe outcome of its own investigation out sam formally apologize asian government earlier this wee. after a lesions that staff had paid prostitutes in haiti following the twenty ten earthquake despite the fact that seven people were fired or resign katie says. it's launching an investigation into the events in addition to the probe that's being organized by on sand itself. for more

on this story i guess it is the end of the run out associate research professor at the tufts university. in the united states thank you so much for joining us. on france twenty four and i am sorry if i mispronounce your name my first question to you is how far reaching our is these kinds of practices this friday at the icrc says what in twenty staff of left over prostitution. is since twenty fifteen does this mean that everybody does it. well i think one of the things in our research focused on was looking at the abuse aid workers. themselves who is abusing aid workers and one of the main perpetrators sounds other aid workers. and what we found iss that sexuall asassault and harassment wee pretty wide spread throughout the agencies. what what do you attribute that to is just human nature or is there something i? to

do with the position of strength of these ngos in poor countries. and it's it's exactly what you're saying is a combination of ththings ones these missioions tend to be very male dominated. that had to have men of the heads ofissions and men in most. many of the positions of authority. also that andnd what we foud is the mainn perpetrators were men in positions of authority and men and hired to provide security. to the aid agencies themselves or even the people supposedly providing security words sometimes and sexually assaulting and harassing humanitaririan actorors. sot is a kind o of male dominatd environment another is it's kind of macho environment responding to crisis. responding to disasters agencies are pusushing moree and morore into a d deeper o issues around areas of conflict and in winter before. so the agency hasasa bibit of a cowboy kind of persona in terms of risk

taking and. . the macho man that really contributetes to an environmnment whihich is not conducive for women or sexual minorities where minorities and other kinds and another thing is that they're operating very often in places where. rule of law and law enforcement is very weak or maybe just you know not existence. asians have been displaced so they lost their lives. really weekend's peoplple nd to find ways to get reresources. and w wealthy d agency workers can be a source of resources. so we also find in countries where women. already have to exchange sex withth their own countrymen there in a deal valued position there and they don't have strong legislation around their rights and have been for some of their rights don't have strong economic. and the. cities in terms of what they're being paid for their work. and so they often have

to trade sacks were be harassed even keep their jobs. these kind of environments and. criminal behavior and really unethical and immoral behavior can can flourish. now from aug sam's perspective or any other ngo or for that matter what is the way forward how can they rebuild trust with the public and donors. at this point. question i think that. you've brought up a good issue the role of donors. we have some examples in terms of what the ngos themselves should do and actually as i've argued also has a pretty good structure after the two thousand eleven. incidents in haiti they did a lot of things wrong like not policice following throh with the termination and so on is been argued. things right they have one of the most robust safeguarding units. key things about it reporos outside emissions so

investigations occur outside the mission. there is a special team is. well trains to receive complaints there's more and faith in the system so they have higheher repoporting r. the one thing we have to o e aware of f is the moree rats hihigher t the rates are reported it's probably needs a better reporting system is reason why france. and sweden have higher rates of rate then in sououth sudan d yemen bececause it's outstandnding yemen there'sa reporting systems we don't know what their rights are. so we have to keep that in mind i think with donors can do very g good question your party with donorss c can do. think about making mandatory that a want to s see safeged in unisoson place they want. how thohose well resource e want to o see the kind of plans a lot of f agencies ad even have these kindd of ununits? ? and anotherer is. really start thinking abobot and. and i'm an also ranan or ananother sisterr s system t is externall a and indepenee

of the ngos. ththat people can make like t they're an issues are not being addressed internalally. that wouldld e some doing but if thee donos are serious about getting the i. ngos of thee ngos to. not be breaking laws and not be harassingng an abusing te local population andnd their own staff. i think it's something we need to start thinking. about thank you so much for joining us that day and mother ana a from toss university thank you so much for being our guests. is the file installation of this week series of reports on poland's there the question of refugee quotas continues to rile lawmakers and citizens along with hungary poland has refused to take it any migrants. despite repeated calls from the european union presently for a serial by allah and although crow you pre travel to warsaw to understand the roots of the issue here's their reports. dina is gearing up for the

opening of her new restaurant called conflict kitchen. this is what i will be cooking. and. what? did you kiss on. chechnya and rodney it got cold. twenty six routine a studies economics she was so angry with the government strikes migrant policy. that she decided to employ six refugees using food as a way to the post people's hearts. schools allows the up in asia some say that the country's gene pools welcome refugees. yesterday added doesn't encourage others to help them. many believe that farm has come to power lands will to europe to benefit from social services. and the level of taxpayers money. as up in a little about that. since the start of the migrant crisis three years ago i opponent has refused to take it any migrants from the middle east all from north africa. the

nationalist government rejects the mike record is game imposed by the european union. in a country where the fall right is on the rise but where the catholic church has a huge influence. political and religious leaders are at odds over r e issue. the question about the church doesn't look to rice or to o the left it looks o. our borders aren't open to migrants and refugees colin's bishops are not waiting for a situation for improve. their taking the initiative to help because it listens to. the judge imposed and has bounced to always p ptects those in need. helped neighbor that's what chlorine added by taking in zero at the complication. she said chechnya thirteen years ago now sleep spanish fluently and yet she still doesn't feel accepted. with stronghold it is as hard as sometimes when i take the train people say get out go home. i'm used to o it now t doesn't happen often but it

does happen. i tried to ignore it yeyet it out some way. that is not so hard and so on t. i immigration policy s spots divisions between east and west in europe. last year five thousand people requested asylum imposed an. it was granted to five hundred twenty of them. server business now and charles pellerin is back on set welcome back charles. are you starting with china responding to a menu in michael's a promise to protect french farmers from a farm lands from foreign investors that's right. the friendship president's son made his promise to french farmers. on thursday and there's concern in the agricultural sector that the chinese businesses are taking advantage of low land prices and distressed rural communities. president added that french sovereignty depends in part on this farm land last year chinese fun by nine hundred hectares of land in the adhere region. after seventeen hundred

hectares were bought in the early area in twenty sixteen was los risen from chinese ministry of foreign affairs finds these claims on friday on friday saying that chinese companies always respect the laws of the country they're operating i. an a one of these charities businessman is a shoe kitchen. he but we feels in the and the region last year and open a luxury french laundry in beijing allows and sergeant tells more about how he managed to buy this land and what he's planning to do it. it's your typical french farm with one exception. its owner lived twelve thousand cologne there's a way in china. where he transforms his wheat into french style bread? his slogan bringing frances fields to china's stables. last in french and it has the same impact as when the germans of the english do it boosts economic development. in the future the chinese market right is going to grow feels with both going

to be enough. off with and she come home ships for french farmers. but french farmers aren't exactly thrilled in four years mr who has legally purchased a three thousand hectares of french lands. like many others he used a loophole in the system. by only buying up to ninety nine percent of anyone owners land. frances regulation agency can only prevents purchases of one hundred percent. the french president has promised to increase regulations but farmers say foreign land purchases are threat to the country's agricultural model. here is a the hostel ownership allows farmers to make them unprofitable. a great if you can do we risk falling back into the old system in which farmers was thomas. without you can kill it they were shackled as completely dependence. hasn't serving adult. it is. mister who says he promises to take good care of his farms and only higher french

workers. meanwhile the chinese billionaire has a challenge of his own convincing his fellow citizens to eat bread. let's take a look at how the markets are faring this hour over on wall street stocks are rising. the down jones up one percent and nasdaq up one half percent and yet to be five hundred up one point almost three percent. addresses keeping a close eye there on the fed's monetary policy report which said the u. s. economy was passed food loaded. but had moderate wage gains. and we're seeing a mixed picture on the main in diss european in it european and this is after close. investors that reacting to you earnings reports a retail being the biggest loser as proved with that. xara. closing that seven percent lower you can see the london the elephants in london down it was zero point one percent. account closing zero point fifteen percent with action frankfort of closing almost zero point two percent. let's take a

look at some of the other business stories making headlines this friday high french court has ruled against apple's request to stop. vision for injuries stores has asked the tax on to pay the group's legal fees. back in december militants from the group known as i attack had entered apple stores all around france to criticize the u. s. companies alleged tax tax evasion practices. the ruling pointed to the fact instantly entering the premises of the store without violence or degradation is not constitute damage. on chinese billionaire li shu food sherman have ginni automobiles has by a close to ten percent stake in german automaker daimler. the german groups largest single shareholder shoe but his stake in the maker of mercedes for over seven billion euros this is thee latest in a string of german acququisitions by. . wealthy chinese firms j judy automobiles isis also the owner city spread volvo since twenty ten. and german automaker volkswagen has seen its not profit increased by more

than half last year with whether yououlimbing m more than s six percent. issues related to the d diesel scandal that broken twenty fifteen is still refususing earnings a t total cost of three point two billion eueuros for twentnty seventn that crosses over three billion euros from twenty six. pyeongchang winter olympic games will be ending on sunday and what country that's been following the events very closely is china as beijing will be hosting next winter games in twenty twenty two. china is not a super power in which our sports so beijing authorities are trying to convince people to to try them out. but to create a new consumer market answer produce tomorrow's champions well our correspondents in the chinese capital have this report. it's your typical french farm with one exception. its owner lived twelve thousand co owners away in china. where he transforms his wheat into french style bread? his slogan that isn't in the stake there. sent out the

wrong package will just keep moving and i we have this news story also fun we're used to hearing about robots replacing humans in the workplace. there's one robot makerr in the uk that struggling find humans to make more robots. company is cacalled route rututh askin either droids pererform lifelike gestures and even saying.. they're sold mainly as visitor attractions in museums h however they cannt be used as employees of the company is having trouble finding workers with expertise in robotics. and the words of the ceo this is aa case of r rots making jos not robots taking jobs. social a if you know anyone who there you know expertise in that field. the higher. earners and therefore i mean they make gestures in the saying but. if they're going to replace people worry a little bit more skilled rather than they're not meant to replace people in a city like virtual guides museums or attraction. female astronaut like kind of.

related gimmicks kind of. your words not mine. i mean i'm just saying. yeah they're cute i in fact did you know that the the robot that has been saying i'm not a robot you know that song nudging i will not say on air because they do not afraid see ways. but i do encourage you look it up on the scene. if you don't know what i mean thank you so much charles over there with the business news i will be back in just after the break disabled as there's more news coming up on friends on

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