foreign traders were drown to juba by the promise of a large profit. since december many residents fled and a combination of fewer customers and higher prices are making life hard for the traders. >> before christmas things were moving well. i was making good money, enough to support me and my family. since the conflict started, things are bad. goods are expensive. life is becoming very hard these days. >> this used to be a thriving marketplace. traders came from all over the region. many have closed up their jobs and gone home. right now the government is receiving oil revenue to function and pay salaries. rebel forces made it clear that their goal is to disrupt oil, and if that succeeds the president will have no income and little reserves. >> if the oil is shut down, there'll be a serious problem. it will not be like the first shut down. that the time the government had reserve and so forth, and it was focussing on one particular challenge. but here we have so many challenges. >> for susan, the challenge is finding enough money to feed her family. >

this report from juba. >> this piece of land used to be used for storage. it floods when it rains. the peacekeepers have been sent to get people to move. david lamb is one of a few people who agreed to move. >> we have been here for something like three days. >> this area was never intended for people to live on. it's part of the administrative base for the u.n. mission and was home to thousands of u.n. staff and peacekeepers. now it has to accommodate 21,000 people in the part of the base propose to flooding. the u.n. mission had no way of knowing in december when the fighting started, that the people seeking their protection would decide to stay indefinitely. at the time we opened the gates, we thought it would be a republica of similar situations that we have seen in south sudan previously. we have usually had them for - under our application for a few days, and then when things calmed down and people felt safer, they would return to their homes. >> now that the u.n. is living here, the u.n. can't force them to move. the police is very unsuitable. most of the people living here

anna kavel reports from juba >> reporter: this piece of land used to be used for storage.floods when it rains. these peace keepers have been sent to help people move. >> this is my house the. >> the u.n. is trying to get them to relocate to a based on higher ground. david lam has agreed to move. >> we have been sleeping with water and almost having something like three days in thewall water. >> this area was never intended for people to live on. it's part of the administrative base for the u.n. mission and was already home to thousands of u.n. staff and peace keepers. now, it has to accommodate an extra 21,000 people in the part of the base that's prone to flooding. but a u.n. mission had no way of knowing back if december when the fighting started that the people seeking their protection would decide to stay indefinitely. >> at the time when we opened the gates, we thought it would be a replica of similar situations that we have seen in south sudan previously. we have usually had them for -- under our protection for a few days. and then when things calmed down and people

sunday prayers in juba south sudan's capital has returned to a semblance of normality. fierce fighting elsewhere in the country continues to dampen spirits some find it difficult to accept that an ethnic rift has emerged. this is it one bit. the team to putting to shame says not to run the team to a community is as steep one. i'm not talking about it. and we have it is said that to many. news that they said many indeed hughes and kennedy since i've been talking that he sees me know when to get the tree and the try which will only say it is not true. but just a few kilometers from here the united nations camp for displaced persons has become somewhat of an ethnic ghetto the vast majority of people seeking refuge here are new and the same tribe as read my shop. the leader of the armed opposition. this family fled here in mid december. he complained of feeling trapped among them and give them an upcoming twenty ten needs to be in line to this camp. why would you want to approach the uganda noble canyon with the children go to school of law. a lot of them open as it is real

set up its embassy in the capital of juba that very same day. just last year off the coast of argentina the people of the boat planned islands voted overwhelmingly to remain british here's david cameron consoling the argentinian president i want to raise it specifically with the argentine president and say it's important that everyone pays attention to this referendum so that was the right thing to do. again in britain over three hundred years of union could all end this september scotland's being allowed to vote on whether to leave the union the prime minister says it's up to scots to decide their future. yet for all the talk of self-determination crimea's referendum has been denounced as illegal by the g seven group of the world's biggest economies the us has sent fighter jets close to russia deploying them in poland and lithuania it's also preparing sanctions along with the e.u. so when it comes to self-determination or territorial integrity your guess is as good as anybody's in predicting which way international powers will side the biggest

we have reports from bor and juba although not on the same scale. what we have to watch for is exactly what human rights said, displace people, it is difficult to believe there are fewer than 1 million people internally displaced or refugees. how will we provide humanitarian assistance to them, before the rainy season begins in may? >> even though this country has oil 90% of people are reported to survive on less than $1 a day. and ambassador a cease fire was called in january. why has it not held? >> it was a very fragile cessation of hostilities from the very beginning. it is not even clear that the forces are under unified command and there has been no political process laid out that would have the leaders in possession of strategic locations. so much more has to be done just to get a peace process started. and the egad, the regional group of african states dealing with this has to step up much more backed by the u.n, backed by the african union. >> eric is that not a point? what the ambassador just said? just formed in 2011 and there's been all

anna cavelle, juba, south sudan. >> you are watching the newshour. more to come. on the campaign trail, we will meet the candidates hoping to go win colombia's congressional elections. and we meet the doctors work to go change lives in bangladesh. >> i am daniel lack and caltec. h western alaska as the ididarod enters the final stages of the 1600 kilometer odyssey. i will be reporting on who is leading and who eventually lowi win. >>> welcome back. time to remind you of the world's top stories if you are just joining the newshour now. 35 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in hillah after maliki accused qatar and saudi arabia of supporting rebel groups in the country. >>> demonstrations are taking place across ukraine. tensions are high ahead of next sunday's planned referendum. the prime minister is due in washington later this week to talk about the crisis. relatives and the passengers on board of a missing malasia airlines flight have been told to prepare for the worst. investigators say the plane may have turned back. because of that, they hav

. >>> gunfire has erupted in juba. a resident told the bbc black smoke is coming from barracks.re fleeing the area. it's unclear who is responsible for the shooting and why it's happening. sudan has been in a state of political unrest since last year. thousands have been killed in the resulting violence. >>> india's election commission has confirmed the country's general election will start on april 7. the nine phases will take over a month to complete. more than 800 million people will have the chance to vote in the biggest election the world has ever seen. there should be the votes counted on may 16th. our india correspondent sanjoy majumder has the details. >> reporter: the dates have been announced for voting in the world's biggest democracy. that's the indian parliament. the lower house has 545 members. all those seats will be up for grabs in next month's general election. the voting is spread over a five-week period to account for the massive lo jift cal exercise that an indian election is. since the last vote in 2009, 100 million new voters have been added, nearly a milli

she and her family were afraid for their lives and took ref final in a low-lying part of juba.t night, much of what she was able to bring with her was flooded away. >> we've lost everything. everything has been ruined. we don't have food or clothes. all we have is this chair to sit on until we go to bed. >> scores of people were killed when fighting broke out in december. this u.n. base provided sanctuary for thousands but the land never intended for people to build homes on. for six months of the year, it's a swamp. they're using sand at this health clinic to try to raise the ground level to prevent flooding. usually this place would be teeming with people. it had to close while repairs were made. if the conditions aren't improved, human tarns warn disease will spread. >> it will be catastrophic. i can compare it to something, but it would be catastrophic. after three days of small rain, it's already flooded, muddy. i think if the rains are continuing it will be catastrophic. >> latrines have collapsed. there's a danger that the 25,000 residents of this camp could be left with