is designed to promote stability and security within the region now cameroon host hundreds of u.s. troops and a u.s. drone base and at this point the usa continues to supply cameroon with military planes and other assistance even though it's been pointed out by the ambassador to the country that the military has been involved in targeted killings there's going to start recovering there is to do some research you should be your team to take the. next two years to the families even to this is for. now the u.s. state department has expressed concerns over the video that seems to show one of its key allies committing a savage act of brutality we call on the government of cameroon to investigate thoroughly and transparently the events depicted in the video make its findings public and if cameroonian military personnel were involved in this atrocity hold them accountable this is hardly the first time that cameroon has raised the concerns of human rights groups and amnesty international report documented over one hundred cases of murder torture and abuse we used witness testimony and phot

of cameroon in october twenty sixth and at that time noise and teachers went on an indefinite strike saying they were being mistreated marginalized socially economically and politically by the government of the francophone majority nation the other for minority makes up about twenty percent of the population and what they say is their force assimilation has long been a source of discontent those protests led to calls for succession and reignited a separatist movement that was calling for the creation of the independent republic of brasilia the conflict between the government and separatist rebels in the anglo phone region of the country is escalating and neither side is showing signs of backing down on the military calls the separatists terrorists the separatists have accused the military of genocide human rights group amnesty international has criticised both sides for excessive use of force so joining us on set we have written gang he's an advisor for the republic of and a community organizer for the amazonia people's restoration recent. allowed to go see is a child region research

anger phone regions have led to extreme violence and calls for secession but take a look at how cameroon got here and how its citizens are currently coping imo it could be louder live on you tube and we want to hear from all of you especially those in our cameroonian community well the examiner what it will take to bring both sides to the table and how a long lasting peace could be possible. we want to strike to start for our president to talk with our english speaking colleagues to try to restore peace in cameroon since we are indivisible we must form is what i can see. from is a mission to make america be isn't going to. have no problem is bringing an urgent problem so we need peace. here at least. cameroonians there speaking on cameron day violence first broke out in the northwest and southwest regions of cameroon in october twenty sixth and at that time noise and teachers went on an indefinite strike saying they were being mistreated marginalized socially economically and politically by the government of the francophone majority nation the ngo for minority makes up about twenty perce

to eventually leave the country's embassy in london and the human rights organization he started cameroon for a video emerges showing the execution of two women to win from this reportedly by the country's military. it is indeed one of the most shocking and despicable ever watched in my entire year career. in all the cases international that's documented. well can you watching r.t. international works just gone six pm here in moscow. putin says he is ready to travel to washington to meet don't worry trump he was speaking at the brics economic forum. reports now from the event in south africa. putin's media conference became something of a final note of this three day break summit here in johannesburg now the russian leader talking to the press focused a lot on what was achieved in such a short period of time here in south africa he talked about the deals or the agreements that were signed here but when it came to questions from journalists well somewhat inevitably the subject of his relationship with donald trump the u.s. leader came up there is of course in the context of their meeting i

is designed to promote stability and security within the region now cameroon host hundreds of u.s. troops and the us drone base and at this point the usa continues to supply cameroon with military planes and other assistance even though it's been pointed out by the ambassador to the country that the military has been involved in targeted killings there's going to start recovering there's a good summary executions the security detaining people. chose to go years to their families even to this is. now the u.s. state department has expressed concerns over the video that seems to show one of its key allies committing a savage act of brutality we call on the government of cameroon to investigate thoroughly and transparently the events depicted in the video make its findings public and if cameroonian military personnel were involved in this atrocity hold them accountable this is hardly the first time that cameroon has raised the concerns of human rights groups and amnesty international report documented over one hundred cases of murder torture and abuse we used witness testimony and phot

of cameroon in october twenty sixth and at that time noise and teachers went on an indefinite strike saying they were being mistreated marginalized socially economically and politically by the government of the francophone majority nation the other for minority makes up about twenty percent of the population and what they say is their force assimilation has long been a source of discontent those protests led to calls for secession and reignited a separatist movement that was calling for the creation of the independent republic of brazil near the conflict between the government and separatist rebels in the anglo phone region of the country is escalating and neither side is showing signs of backing down on the military calls the separatists terrorists the separatists have accused the military of genocide human rights group amnesty international has criticized both sides for excessive use of force so joining us on set we have new gang he's an advisor for the republic of a community organizer for the amazonia people's restoration we went. a lot of ago xeni is a child region researcher at

they save the army crackdown in the english speaking south of cameroon continues. right across the water is the republic of cameroon this is one of the several routes refuges state try void getting into contact with cameroon and forces separatists are due to mark the anniversary of the self declared independence of the republic of korea in two month's time now clashes are expected now a lot of people i expected to come through this route because of the fighting between the government forces and the rebels for months fred or some has been living in exile in nigeria he remembers clearly the day he was forced to leave. they just came to their cost and everybody was running. they lasted for over forty five minutes there was constant shooting everywhere he and other young men are still wanted by the army i cruised of membership of the supporters some but only a movement where says independence is a legitimate demand even the pigs that you have to cure all of us then you need to sort of what that this struggle is going to. we wind up while he and thirty thousand other re

relief workers in southern nigeria are struggling to cope with a new wave of refugees fleeing cameroon in october fighting broke out after separatists declared an independent state called amazonia in the south since then thousands of refugees have been crossing the border to escape the violence up at address reports from the cameroon nigeria border where new registration exercise has started. only in korean and her baby among hundreds of new arrivals crossing over from cameroon so five kilometers from this refugee registration center after wandering from village to village she eventually crossed the border into nigeria three days ago. so is lousy out of call me i wanted to come since last year but now i've bought at the dead including my as hiding inside cameroon because there's a war there we were dodging the troops she's already lost three of our relatives and fears for the lives of several others. an estimated thirty thousand people fleeing the violence and are currently living in nigeria survivors speak of abuses by korean forces including. and summary executions the united nations

i believe you at the time of the us ambassador to cameroon the reason i mention that is because that ambassador had this to say about the current violence rest in cameroon have a listen to what you have a listen minister i will say that you know there there is violence on both stacks the governor has committed summary executions the guilty to taining people. access to lawyers to their families even to visit trying to get. the. guilty earning wages or beating. a general or asking a question on the side. against the section mr separatist we've seen in our meetings connecting government officials and schools and so. we want to stress the united states condemns violence won't stop. minister this is what i'm hearing summary executions burning of villages looting this is by government forces and then on the separatists point site butting of schools beheadings and kidnappings of government officials this is what the us ambassador cameron is seeing he feels this is actually happening how are you going to deal with that thank you madam for giving me this opportunity to voice a government posi

ambassador to cameroon. i don't want more of them leading me would you think. i believe you at the time of the u.s. ambassador to cameroon the reason i mention that is because that ambassador had this to say about the current violence rest in cameroon have a listen to what you have a listen minister i will say that you know there there is violence starts the government has committed summary executions the guilty detaining people. access to lawyers to their families even to visit from. the. guilty and we just need a. general reaction. on the side. against the sexiest separatist we've seen in our meetings connecting government officials and schools so. we want to stress the. states condemns violence. so minister this is what i'm hearing some way executions burning of villages looting this is by government backed forces and their own the separatists point site butting of schools beheadings and kidnappings of government officials this is what the us ambassador cameron is seeing he feels it's actually happening how are you going to deal with that thank you madam for

well i think first of all it's important for the government government of cameroon to acknowledge the difficulties it's facing and acknowledge the fact that its security forces have committed abuses if they don't do that what we're going to see is more people joining the armed opposition we're going to see this crisis entering a more protracted phase in which it becomes much more difficult to actually allow for a solution but it's important to remind everyone that you know this is a country that has been ruled by the same man for you know over thirty eight years now is running up for reelection very soon it's a country that receives military assistance from the u.s. as well as from france so you know there is a lot of leverage that the international community can in the use to force the government of cameroon to do these steps you know the government is able to hold its soldiers accountable they've shown that they had the willingness to do that in the in the handful of cases but in our opinion that's far from enough much more needs to be done that soldiers don't commit the atrocities

of cameroon in october twenty sixth and at that time noise and teachers went on an indefinite strike saying they were being mistreated marginalized socially economically and politically by the government of the francophone majority nation the other for minority makes up about twenty percent of the population and what they say is their force assimilation has long been a source of discontent those protests led to calls for secession and reignited a separatist movement that was calling for the creation of the independent republic of brasilia with conflicts between the government and separatist rebels in the anglo phone region of the country is escalating and neither side is showing signs of backing down on the military calls the separatists terrorists the separatists have accused the military of genocide human rights group amnesty international has criticised both sides for excessive use of force so joining us on set we have written gang he's an advisor for the republic of add a community organizer for the amazonia people's restoration recent. allowed to go see is a child region researc

relief workers insulin nigeria are struggling to cope with a new wave of refugees fleeing cameroon in october fighting broke out after separatists there declared an independent state that they call. in the south since then thousands of refugees have been crossing the border to escape the violence let's go live now to a column which is on the nigeria cameroon border correspondent ahmed address is there what's the situation where you are that. well. at least situation developing now only in nigeria come on board are east. more and more refugees are coming in from. this side of nigeria and. actually enormous right now the building behind me is a government building within a government office and it had to be evacuated to accommodate the number of people who. before this one because this building was actually sleeping on the streets in this particular building there are two hundred between two hundred and fifty to three hundred refugees from cameroon who are staying here so the need right now is that of shelter doctor medical care and that of food and surprisingly incidentally there are o

military to leave southern cameroon and other parts of the country be here he wrote me and said that cameroon should withdraw its troops and that he just wants to go back to normal life others here say that they want a referendum for now though the protests continue every monday since january of two thousand and seventeen towns across southern cameroon have observed what they call ghost towns it's where students teachers shopkeepers and families are asked to stay at home in protest against the inequality of the french majority government in response the government has deployed military like you see here to try to keep monday's functioning as normal business days when mayor though issued a letter threatening to permanently close any shops that observed ghost towns on the other side though you have armed separatists who threaten anyone who does not take part in the protests the conversation does continue online i put several call outs out today especially to those of you who are watching in cameroon do you continue to read as we hear from you often and we do want to hear what you have

they say be army crackdown in the english speaking south of cameroon continues. right across the water is the republic of cameroon this is one of the several routes refuges state from getting into contact with cameroon and forces separatist are due to mark the anniversary of the sub declared independence of the republic of korea in two month's time now clashes are expected now a lot of people i expected to come through this route because of the fighting between the government forces and the rebels. for months fred assumptions been living in exile in nigeria he remembers clearly the day he was forced to leave. they just came with vehicles that everybody was running. the last fall over forty five minutes it was. everywhere he and other young men are still wanted by the army accused of membership of the separatism was only a movement where says independence is a legitimate demand even if it is that you have to cure all of us. you you only do so but that this struggle is going to end we wind up while he and thirty thousand other refugees are digging in for a long sta

relief workers in southern nigeria are struggling to cope with a new wave of refugees fleeing cameroon fighting began in october when separatists declared an independent state that they call amazonia in the south since then thousands of refugees have been crossing the border as other address reports from the cameroon nigeria border. only in korean and have baby among hundreds of new arrivals crossing over from cameroon so five kilometers from this refugee registration center after wandering from village to village she eventually crossed the border into nigeria three days ago. so. i wanted to come since last year but now i've bought at the dead including my on i was hiding inside cameroon because there's a war there we were dodging the troops she's already lost three of our relatives and fears for the lives of several others an estimated thirty thousand people fleeing the violence and are currently living in nigeria survivors speak of abuses by chameleon forces including. and summary executions. the united nations high commission for refugees is developing two new settlements to move th

human rights watch has accused cameroon secure. forces and armed separatists of committing abuses against residents of its english speaking regions the group's warning that the situation is a crisis many in cameron's western anglo phone areas feel marginalized by the french speaking government protests turned to violence in late twenty sixteen after a heavy handed response from the authorities human rights watch says i'm glad phone separatists have extorted kidnapped and killed civilians as well as preventing children from going to school government forces are accused of killing civilians torturing suspected separatists and setting fire to hundreds of homes more than one hundred eighty thousand people have been displaced by the conflict since december twenty sixth jonathon peled not as an emergency is researcher at human rights watch and he says the violence is pushing more people into armed groups right now we are at a tipping point when it comes to decide to asian india and of the regions of cameroon this is a situation that has

now one of africa's longest serving leaders plans to run for another term in october with about cameroon's president paul b. whose government is also under pressure over alleged human rights abuses this latest incident involves a video showing government forces killing two women and two children reportedly shot dead because they were accused of being members of the armed group boko haram barbara and group or has more now just a warning there are some disturbing images in her report. two women and a girl marched along a path by men in uniform said to be similar to those worn by some serving in cameron's military one of the women is carrying a baby on her back then in a clearing the group is blindfolded and forced to sit down a man can be heard saying you are book around you are going to die before the men point their weapons at the group and then gunshots. cameron's government's dismissive video as being what it described as fake news it said the release of the video was a desperate attempt by its enemies to discredit the government's efforts to combat book or her ram this is another instan

a very strong sense of what they want independence for camp for the english speaking regions of cameroon and on the other hand we have a government that is responding to this security situation in the extremely problematic manner using scorched earth tactics that have been pushing in fact the population towards the armed separatists towards the more extreme factions so this is really problematic moment in the history of cameroon the elections are coming up in a few months and this is quite honestly a very worrying situation for us. media reports from eritrea suggest troops are being withdrawn from the heavily militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors the leaders of both countries signed a peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war they had a train embassy in addis ababa reopened on monday and ethiopia has appointed a new ambassador to the trail hammad out of reports from addis ababa. a statement from that same press agency saying the move to withdraw the forces from the border was an act of

well staying on the continent human rights watch is accusing separatism government forces in cameroon of committing abuses against people in the english speaking regions the group says both sides in the west african country have been extorted kidnapping and torturing civilians violence began in late twenty sixteen when english speakers demanded the mainly french speaking government to recognize their rights the unrest has displaced one hundred eighty thousand people jonathan. and emergencies research at human rights watch he says the violence is pushing more people into armed groups right now we are at a tipping point when it comes to this iteration indiana phone regions of cameroon this is a situation that has been brewing for two years now we have groups of armed separatists that are becoming stronger by the day receiving support from the diaspora from abroad who have a very strong sense of what they want independence for camp for the english speaking regions of cameroon and on the other hand we have a government that is responding to this security situation in the extremely problem

disturbing video goes viral and launches the murder investigation of two women and two children in cameroon and then sports when a lance faces or a wild entitled tells coming up later. arriving in the present tense nato summit in brussels the first threatened to pull out of nato then declared victory and his goal of forcing other member nations to increase their financial contributions are diplomatic. at the summit. president alone and isolated well that's at least how he wanted to be seen at the start of the day's proceedings even chewing away in assistant nato will not forget this day the day a still looking u.s. president came here with a clear narrative in his mind he created a crisis even hinting he might pull out of the alliance for declaring a victory tremendous progress has been made everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment they're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before prior to last year where i attended my first meeting it was going down the amount of money being spent by countries was going down and down very substantially . earlier trump was

who are around the country a sovereign country like cameroon and not very good in which terrorist i mean this is actually where i'm in and the we are not the problem because knight ok marie and i have to talk yeah if we are talking here are about. coming summer and country. girl we know about you to read one refutes in school you have been burning rippin woman then i miss you international how. do you do excuse me i actually have one minute left in this entire show viewers if you watch in a second here the difficulty that we're having to even trying to splice this in any way that gives us any clarity. all right i want to go back to milly could because i'm feeling that i'm getting clarity from the community and it's difficult with me debating encounter but in here it's each other but what are you seeing i'll introduce retreats from. excuse me to comments from you thomas says he finds it interesting that a peaceful protest by lawyers and teachers has led to what we're seeing here today and another person at times says the core reason why the french republic of cameroon fights to keep south

in russia in the twenty sixteen elections and the shocking video that appears to show soldiers in cameroon shooting dead women and children president promises to investigate. hello there we're seeing quite a bit of rain over georgia recently the satellite picture is showing that area of cloud also affecting us in azerbaijan and in the far eastern parts of turkey and it's all drifting its way towards the east but it hasn't released us and just yet as we head through the next few days this area of cloud is still going to be with us and turning heavier as we head through sunday just pushing a little bit further towards the west we could see a few outbreaks of rain in ankara as well to the south of all of that is dry and hot for us in beirut thirty degrees and even hotter for us in baghdad and here in doha the temperatures will be rising as we head through the next few days at this time of year it all depends on the humidity that's what dictates the temperature so forty four degrees and still with a fair amount of humidity in the air as we head through saturday but on sunday it's a very dry ai

right now we are at a tipping point when it comes to the situation in the end of the regions of cameroon this is a situation that has been brewing for two years now we have groups of armed separatists that are becoming stronger by the day receiving support from the diaspora from abroad who have a very strong sense of what they want independence for camps for the english speaking regions of cameroon and on the other hand we have a government that is responding to this security situation in the extremely problematic manner using scorched earth tactics that have been pushing in fact the population toward armed separatists towards the more extreme factions so this is really a problematic moment in the history of cameroon the elections are coming up in a few months and this is quite honestly a very worrying situation for us. hundreds of iraqis have stormed an employment center in the southern city of basra attempting to register for work officials say they've received more than sixty thousand applications since opening the job center three days ago hundreds of people have been arrested since

i really intend to extend to many towns in cameroon to collect as many plastic bottles set up plastic items for recycling reuse i mean whatever is not going to force a serious threat so then vow. she started small collecting plastic from friends and colleagues. now she has eight volunteers to cover some three hundred households in offices and do our followers on zanzibar tanzania is a famous vice island have been producing our marty clubs without pesticides or chemical fertilizers for generations long before europe and north america fell in love with organic produce some saw great opportunity in that love and got satisfied as organic growers let's see what kind of impact that is having on the industry in dan's a bar you find almost all the spices in the world other times when one will get rich from entirely spices are long gone a man and one who are going to give me a for all the farmers in the area depended on terse pts if no one visited the farm it was difficult to survive and a lot of them had to give up and look for other work spice farmer patrick my gran got together with his nei

the last time they got this far was in italy in 1990, when they defeated cameroon 3—2.ma i know you are getting the hang of the tune. good evening, welcome to naples on a hot and sultry night for england against cameroon. how much do you know about cameroon? i was very impressed with them against argentina and romania. and roger milla has been brought back into the side. the whole team expect us to go outside and beat them five on six, if we do, fine. the mood is great, the lads are very happy, it's a beautiful place. i understand back home in england that, you know, the streets are singing and the avenues are dancing. four years on from the quarterfinal of maradona's deception, england enter maradona's den. there's a name to be made here, that's for sure. in comes lineker and scores! england lead by 3—2. last chance for cameroon. the referee looks at his watch. england are in the semifinal! we have all aged ten years! let's go back to des. well, i suppose is enjoyment, this. i hope you have enjoyed it. but england are there, their first semifinal since they won it back

now we are at the tipping point when it comes to decide to asian india and the phone regions of cameroon this is a situation that has been brewing for two years now we have groups of separatists that are becoming stronger by the day receiving support from the diaspora from abroad who have a very strong sense of what they want independence for camps for the english speaking regions of cameroon and on the other hand we have a government that is responding to the security situation in the extremely problematic manner using scorched earth tactics that have been pushing in fact the population towards armed separatists towards the more extreme factions so this is really problematic moment in the history of cameroon the elections are coming up in a few months and this is quite honestly a very worrying situation for us france is the latest country to send help to sweden where local crews are struggling to get on top of about forty wild fires flames are being fueled by severe hot dry weather affecting the entire nordic region sleekness called on european countries to help control the fires as it

to stop for our president to talk with our english speaking colleagues to try to restore peace in cameroon.

movement to rescue workers the stranded mine greece and the mediterranean you do your old woman from cameroon you still love life but for another woman in a time it's too late. but if the difficulties we've experienced to save just one single life have been unbelievable eight group rock the vote open arms found the migrants and say the deaths were no accident it's accusing libya's coast guard of manslaughter the rescue team says libya's coast guard intercepted about one hundred sixty europe abandoned migrants the two women and a toddler apparently refused to board the vessel as a result of the rescuers allege the libyan coast guard abandoned the migrants and slashed their inflatable boat with a knife emotion that. we have denounced at the court of power madame yorka the captain of the three ideas for negligence and for reckless homicide and we're going to do the same with the captain of the libyan patrol which is a member of the libyan coast guard for negligence and for homicide on saturday the rescue boat arrived in the spanish island of new york with the now hospitalized my one woman and th

the moment to rescue one percy stranded migrates in the mediterranean a forty year old woman from cameroon is still alive but for another woman and a toddler it's too late but it's the difficulties we've experienced to save just one single life have been unbelievable aid group rock the vote open arms found the migrants and say the deaths were no accident it's accusing libya's coast guard of manslaughter the rescue team says libya's coast guard intercepted about one hundred sixty europe abandoned migrants the two women and a toddler apparently refused to board the vessel as a result the rescuers allege the libyan coast guard abandoned the migrants and slashed their inflatable boat with a knife emotion did. we have the knowledge that the court of palmer damie orca the captain of the three ideas for negligence and for reckless homicide and we're going to do the same with the captain of the libyan patrol which is a member of the libyan coast guard for negligence and for homicide on saturday the rescue boat arrived in the spanish island of new york with the now hospitalized my woman and the two

and human rights organizations hit out in cameroon after a video emerges showing the execution of two women and reportedly by the country's military it is indeed one of the most shocking and despicable ever watched entire year career. in all the cases international that's documented.

image of french society, representing either first, second, or third generation. ,ountries like camerooncongo senegal, all of these countries represented in the current french team. the cup may never have before belong to so much of the world. they have not forgotten some of the other players. antoine griezmann is of german heritage. the captain as of spanish background. it is not just the players you see in this twee. the final did coincide with an event in paris, beyonce's concert. fans will be jealous to see them sporting the football jersey with the stars on it. ahead of the time. what a thrill to go to cb on say or to watch the final or to beyonceaired -- go see or to watch the final or to do both. >> world champions, he says, with a picture of the team. mbappe on his twitter account is cradling the trophy saying, my love. if you could not love this generation anymore, paul pogba handed the win to his parents, thanks mom and dad. to lose and that was the croatian side. what kind of reaction is coming out? >> a lot of admiration, love for the team. player, proud of his team, of every

he's from a nigerian mother and cameroon father. he managed to do something because of the education of he is parents and the values. that's not only that. because of what the city of bondi tried to do, the policy of bondi to do something good for the young people, for them to play football, to train and so on. now the policy has to be more strong with the people. i think that's what happened with mbappe on the french team, can put the spotlight in france. we hope it is not a shooting stars. but to put the spotlight on bonde, to show that we can do something. people that see mbappe say we can be somebody now. >> do you think mbappe, and the success of athe team, do you believe that they can show these anti-immigration policies, like the national front, like le pen and others, that they need to change their policies? do you think it will have about impact on the politics today? >> definitely yes, i think so. because now under contrary of 1988, when we won the first world cup, now with the social networks and so on, people can talk ab