peacekeepers last month troops are targeting members of the allied democratic forces in the town of beni in north kivu province those are the headlines on al-jazeera so thirty is up next. news has never been more available but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera.

this is the base that protects beni town so they came and you know the military has managed to push them back we are also being told that they were dressed in new. new weapons and this really comes just after the military launched this operation against a rebel group. started on saturday you are being told also that. have taken bases all of. the rebel inside the forest and they are continuing to advance people in benny are wishing and hoping that this offensive is going to be successful a.d.f. is one of the most dangerous rebel groups in the country and people are saying that they hope this operation is going to be successful because past operations against a.d.f. are carried out by the government have failed construction of ethiopia's controversial grand race on stem is powering ahead at a cost of five billion dollars if you're a purist hoping the town will change its fortunes in helping to create a electricity but tension with egypt isn't going away cairo believes that it's a threat to its own water security on the oil if europeans prime minister is setting out for four days of ta

and areas around penny so a lot of people in beni hoping that this operation is going to be a success it's considered one of the most dangerous rebel groups in the r.c.n. people in beni thing that is they hope that this is going to be a success because they've seen previous offensives against the group field so he'll be one of the stories that we worry develop for the authorities where you are is a scholar at the demi consulting which now seems to really increase to the death toll where this is what the news that we're getting. serious problem serious health implications from those rains as well so here you're very right here in kinshasa for example during his reign and. last week by people killed in the beginning of last thousand more than a thousand people really have been killed by color this is an outbreak that now has now affected most of the country and a lot of doctors that we've been speaking to are very worried that the situation could only get worse in this rainy season here the story we did. it's hard to imagine just a week ago holmes a student here this is a neighborhood o

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peacekeepers last month troops are targeting members of the allied democratic forces near the town of beni in north kivu province and. we are all conscious of the situation and bernie and we started the operation against the a.d.f. this morning this is the last operation against the rebels and we will defeat them . at least eighty three countries have been affected by a salmon there are outbreak at one of the world's largest dairy firms the french dairy giant like tallis says twelve million boxes of powdered baby milk a being recalled more than thirty children have been poisoned in france alone the french government is close the factory until further notice the girls of the taliban is next. government already on their own beach i'm betting my house and there. are plenty to meet in my nest on number one can immediately and i just want to find him out with one that can eat my heart defect need only our hands and hi yes thank you as a behave job you have to be eyes that you were asked by some push on then yeah. become out some kind of vision on matters of business get a good job of acting wha

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peacekeepers in december troops are targeting members of the allied democratic forces near the town of beni in north kivu province. has the details. the beginning of an offensive by congolese troops on rebels hiding on the border the ugandan group known as the a.d.f. killed fifteen peacekeepers in an ambush on a un base in north kivu province in december it was the biggest single loss of peacekeepers in nearly a quarter of a century those killings triggered this response. vehicles transported three hundred troops to the area with tanks and armored vehicles to port said. we decided to launch an operation against the i.d.f. and all other groups in the area this is the last operation and we are prepared to fight to the end so we can restore security and peace in the region. the congolese hope it's the last but it certainly isn't the first here is a joint u.n. and congolese task force starting an offensive against idea fighters back in twenty fifteen. originally ugandan rebel group have been rooted in the d.l.c. has run the national park for twenty years they retreated here after a failed bid t

conflict for decades over the use of land to graze cattle i met interest reports from the kurds in beni state. a solemn sort of many victims of recent violence between herdsman and farmers as a dead brought in coffins and open trucks emotions run high. survivors say the attacks were carried out by herdsman stephens i am a member of a local militia formed to confront the moment says it was left for dead when the camp was rated. in a town near run us we were in a camp around five am without running without information we started to hear gunshots they were shooting we didn't have any rifle ammunition mary is a mother of two she's alive but suffered a deep machete cut to the phrase attacks and counterattacks between farmers and cattle herders have grown worse in nigeria over the past five years last year alone at least one thousand five hundred have died and more than one hundred thousand displaced as the seventy three victims of the recent violence are buried here the nigerian government is sending soldiers to stop the killings and the problem is access to land a changing climate is forcin

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beny sarlin calls this a romantic family appealing to the president if you can make a grand gesture. in this case sorted starbursts, you might win over the president through ego stroking what you couldn't win over through other negotiation. >> i don't think that brown nosing the president is the proper way for a member of congress to engage the president. you know, the congress is a quo equal branch of government. we're not lesser than the president. together the congress is a coequal branch of government. and we should not have to suck up to the president to get him to do his job, which is to analyze policy and to either sign or not sign legislation that we pass. that's the way it's supposed to be done. now, look, in washington people often try to find ways to curry favor with each other. but it certainly is a sign of, you know, the corruption of the place, not how it should run. i mean, the way it should run is he have a job, we have a job. we're supposed to pass legislation to help the american people. he is supposed to silent that's the way we're supposed to operate together. tha

peacekeepers last month troops are targeting members of the allied democratic forces near the town of beni india sees north kivu province december's attack on the un base also killed five congolese soldiers and injured another fifty three peacekeepers the rebels are also accused of committing atrocities against the local population. south african police have fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who run sacked several h. and m. clothing stores the protesters were angry over what they described as racist advertising used by the swedish washing group earlier this week h m m issued an apology after it use an image of a black child wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan cruelest monkey in the jungle the company was widely criticised for the ads and has since removed the image. a ten year blockade of the gaza strip by israel and egypt has left its municipal authorities with no means to properly dispose of rubbish piles of garbage and are putting public health at risk malcolm wipe reports. one of the many problems in a city under siege is how to dispose of its rubbish it's a job to help clicked it

peacekeepers last month troops are targeting members of the allied democratic forces near the town of beni in north kivu province. we are all conscious of the situation and danny and we started the operation against the a.t.f. this morning this is the last operation against the rebels and we will defeat them . police are investigating the stabbing death of a mexican journalist the body of seventy seven year old carlos. was found in the state of. rights groups say there was a crisis of press freedom in mexico at least six mexican journalists were killed for their work last year act of. one point five million dollars to the town's up campaign a defense fund for victims of sexual abuse he earned that figure reshooting scenes for the movie all the money in the world while his costar michelle williams made less than a thousand dollars for the reshoots revelation has highlighted gender pay disparities in hollywood. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the all of god is up next thank you very much for watching. i. the president on the run the city of corruption was amazing. billions stolen al-ja

peacekeepers in december troops are targeting members of the allied democratic forces near the town of beni in the deal sees north kivu province shelob ellis reports. the beginning of an offensive by congolese troops on rebels hiding on their border the ugandan group known as the a.d.f. killed fifteen peacekeepers in an ambush on a un base in north kivu province in december it was the biggest single loss of peacekeepers in nearly a quarter of a century those killings triggered this response. army vehicles transported three hundred troops to the area with tanks and armored vehicles to poison the sick. so we decided to launch an operation against the i.d.f. and all other armed groups in the area this is the last operation and we are prepared to fight to the end so we can restore security and peace in the region. the congolese hope it's the last but it certainly isn't the first here is a joint u.n. and congolese task force starting an offensive against idea fighters back in twenty fifteen. originally ugandan rebel group have been rooted in the d.l.c. has run the national park for twenty years

congolese forces and the ugandan forces two weeks ago we so ugandans carry out aerial combat missions in beni where thousands of the fighters are believed to be hiding and now this ground offensive that has been started by the forces and we spoke to the commander. in charge of the operation he said that this really easy final push and people in benny are hoping that it's going to be successful because we've seen previous offensives started by the government really failing in two thousand and fifteen that was mentioned end up package there we covered extensively that offensive against a.t.f. and when it was done the government came out and said it's done the rebels are completely eliminated by just months later we saw them coming back and carrying out this series of very brutal attack killing civilians using machetes government forces are so he'll have also been accused in the past of carrying out some of these atrocities but the government has always denied to people that we've talked to benny thing that they hope that this is going to be a success because they have lived in fear for so long