malaysian join us don't forget this you have that what about the withdrawal of the philippines and burundi where there are clear cases to answer why not clear cases of human rights violations what what what what do you expect me to say to think that it is more than they make the decision to draw for reasons that reasons we q. and i. can discuss it in other circumstances but that's not for the i.c.c. . it's not ice he says it's a major. deal work isn't it. because not only are you having countries withdrawing you having others that are flouting their commitments to the coup or the philippines and burundi the dimensions with drew because they say that i.c.c. was investigating cases in relation to that now why is that a problem for the i.c.c. in the moral sense that you're trying to apply because i.c.c. is doing its work and people choose to withdraw and then that's a problem for the i.c.c. i can see it but you're doing your work i would be because i.c.c. was precisely doing its why some people didn't like it that they made this unfortunate decision we regret in twenty sixteen the group of fo

infrastructure if she's going to benefit from the rest of the east african countries that is uganda rwanda burundi as well as the democratic republic of congo because there's a lot of goods that come through kenya going to these african countries and so cannot to develop our infrastructure even without the fans then look at china as the you know the way to develop this infrastructure and if they're going to get into the date of that that they're going to do that but still have this infrastructure dance at the end of the day and pay out the over twenty years forty years who knows how long while so over the past weeks and months we've heard a lot of criticism some countries in asia and europe as well renegotiating deals trying to get a better. a better agreement basically from both sides will african leaders be pushing for better conditions at next week's summit. well the hope is that they do push for better conditions because what we are seeing at the moment is that we have so many chinese companies coming into africa as well to do this infrastructure work so it's not really a fifty fifty kind of t

country's treatment of thousands of mixed—race children born during the country's colonial rule of burundilgium, with many raised in roman catholic orders. that's on bbc afrique. let's bring you up—to—date with the in india. in just a week's time the world's largest democratic exercise will get under way in india where around 900 million people are eligible to vote in a general election. india is home to more than 1.3 billion people, that's a sixth of the world's population. a million polling stations are being set up across the country with voting lasting until mid—may. india's economy is currently ranked sixth in the world and is expected to overtake the uk economy by next year. in the run up to the vote countless issues from rural poverty to national security have been vying for prominence in pre—election debate. today thousands of women took part in a march in various parts of the country to highlight gender inequality. our correspondent divya arya caught up with some of the protesters in delhi. the air is thick with slogans as more than 1,000 women have gathered on the streets of delh