as senior africa correspondent anne soy.islands in the pacific were facing an enormous environmental injustice. mr guterres is in tonga to attend the pacific islands forum leaders' meeting. his warning came as the world meteorological organisation said the pacific islands were facing a triple threat of warming waters, a rise in sea levels and growing acidity because of carbon dioxide. at a pacific islands summit, antonio guterres delivered this warning on the growing climate concern. the changes in the pacific region are visible since my last visit. and around the world, rising seas have unparalleled power to cause havoc to coastal cities and ravage coastal economies. the reason is clear. greenhouse gases, overwhelmingly generated by burning fossil fuels, are cooking our planet. and the sea is taking the heat, literally. the un secretary—general, antonio guterres. let's speak to dr wesley morgan. he is a research associate at the institute for climate risk and response at the university of new south wales and a fellow at the

let's get the latest on the ceasefire from bbc�*s deputy africa editor, anne soy.overnments from the drc and rwanda. remind us of the background to the fighting. the east of the drc is a vast mineral rich region which has more than 100 armed groups that are active there. m23 over the last two and a half years has been active there in gaining territory and as you mentioned, advanced yesterday taking one more town near the border with uganda. this is a group that is predominantly tutsi ethnic group which is from rwanda and now this conflict is essentially an overspill of the 1994 rwanda genocide when you had more than 2 million people from rwanda crossing the border to the drc and among them said to be alleged perpetrators of genocide and some of them allegedly formed a rebel group which rwanda has been particularly critical of and then this m23 was formed around 2012 which comes from the rival ethnic group and you know, basically has been advancing and taking over towns and villages in the region. rwanda has been accused of backing it but it has denied those allegat

the bbc�*s deputy africa editor anne soy has been following the developments.efore this comes as a major setback at a time when many people were hoping there would be a ceasefire that would hold for an indefinite period of time. and now rwanda has been a place to attempt to explain why it attempted attempt to explain why it attempted a ceasefire with drc despite insisting it is not part of the conflict and is not supporting m 23 as has been alleged. the foreign minister did say however that because there have been tensions between the countries and they are neighbours, for this conflict is happening is close to the border, it was necessary to have a deal with the government, but there is a separate peace process that is going on which basically is between the democratic republic of the congo government and the armed groups that are active in the east of the country that is being mediated. the m 23 say they were not involved in this new deal?— this new deal? yes, they say it is not binding _ this new deal? yes, they say it is not binding to — this new deal? yes,

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