albert is divided between two countries those crossing here all fleeing violence and war on the congolese side hoping for a refuge in neighboring uganda democratic republic of congo is awash with militias with massacres and attacks on ethnic groups and about about a month people were killed with machetes people are suffering so much so many are hiding in the bush that about. the situation is dire around seven point seven million people are at risk of starvation the congo is rich in natural resources but civil war corruption and mismanagement have reduced it to one of the poorest nations in the world observes suspects the governments of fuelling conflicts to prevent elections from taking place president kabila has refused to relinquish power since twenty sixteen. at the zoo fish left it in everything has gotten so bad in the last one to two years there are so many more people affected by war having to flee right and hunger that the situation is really dramatic to have given time lachish is u.n. organizations in geneva while hoping to raise around one point seven billion dollars in aid mone

around one point four billion dollars in aid money to alleviate at least some of the misery the congolesegovernment boycotted the donor conference saying it was bad for the country's image but without a solution to the crisis most here have no choice but to flee. let's bring in mark englehart terry's a journalist and author and has been reporting from africa for years he's been following today's u.n. donor conference and joins us now from geneva mark the conference is over its raised pledges of about five hundred thirty million dollars i'm told for the democratic republic of congo that's far short of what is needed why are potential donors holding back. well plenty of reasons actually first of all congo is not the only trusses in the world the u.n. is asking this year for twenty five billion dollars also for crises like in syria or yemen then secondly the congo crises is very protracted has been going on for more than twenty years actually and governments asked themselves probably why should we give more this year what has really changed i think that's one thing this summit today showed t

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse so as we mentioned malcolm donors are meeting in geneva today on friday what kind of assistance of people getting where you are. we've just been speaking to some of the community leaders in this county maybe getting very little assistance the plastic sheets that you can see that make the shelters were given out when they first came here two months ago by one charity i mean they're just stretched over six and nothing's been done to improve the accommodations since then it said a little to no formal system to sue distribution here to make sure that people are getting enough to eat and other charities cooking food once a day in a kitchen there is not enough of it apparently but the best that means people here are getting one meal a day if they happen to have any money or any possessions they can sell within the town means they can raise a bit of extra cash so the conditions really aren't very good so they say they desperately need more food healthcare is also a major problem only many of the c

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm web al-jazeera you turi problems in the democratic republic of congo the nigerian president says a rift within the armed group boko haram is hampering talks to release girls who were abducted from chip about four years ago fighters kidnapped two hundred seventy six girls from their school in the northeastern region in twenty fourteen some of them managed to escape and others have been released but one hundred of them are still missing a report by unicef the un's children's agency says bahu around has abducted more than a thousand children in the area over the last five years almost two thousand three hundred teachers have been killed and fourteen hundred schools destroyed now president trump has issued a full pardon to the man who was chief of staff to former vice president dick cheney lewis scooter libby was convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice in two thousand and seven after the identity of a cia agent was leaked unofficial reports from washington. he was d

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes a crisis much worse. with me here is even limine was a manager for the norwegian refugee council which is a humanitarian organization that works with people in some of the camps like this one around to in your state and do you have enough resources to help these people oh we have to do limits that repulses because of a lot of you know i do you base your are coming around. in a way we are in from being in and not all the n.r.c. but also all the money to run our top story here today how limited resources because like yeah all not come in at the same time and those who were like came out threads where i sifted and you know we need to like find out at that time so we good those who are doing gods and as it stands in camp of education and when i saw we saw all the. they also said the same thing in silence of war it's income cellphone use ration it was an insult of health conditions here are clearly terrible and he had more of those what could he do to improve the situation for the people. if we have more resou

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera turi province in the democratic republic of congo. you're watching all just there i'm still robin these are all top news stories the cold war is back and that's the word from u.n. chief antonio good irish during yet another diplomatic showdown between the u.s. and russia at the security council member states have been holding another emergency meeting at russia's request moscow wants to focus on possible u.s. military action against the syrian government now the russian military is accusing britain of staging saturday's chemical attack in duma while syria says it's innocent. massive military forces in the mediterranean do not target those terrorists the handful of terrorist targets the state of syria and its allies this should be the topic being discussed today in this session thousands of palestinians for a third friday of protests along the gaza israel border fence now one person has been killed and seven hundred fifty others injured by israeli fire at the border dem

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolmwebb al-jazeera to re province in the democratic republic of congo. i report by the united nations children's agency says the armed group boko haram has abducted more than one thousand children in northeast nigeria since twenty thirteen many of the children were taken from school girls in twenty four team more than one hundred of those two hundred seventy six girls are still missing in s.f. says nearly two thousand three hundred teachers have been killed and fourteen hundred schools destroyed by back around me just has more from the future when the report detailed happenings in northeastern nigeria especially between two thousand and thirteen to two thousand and eighteen a period of five years of book quite an operations but we've known long before the chief of those who abducted in two thousand and fourteen of boko haram atrocities involving the kidnap and up duction of young girls and children from their own homes even in may degree we've seen and heard parents talking about fighters

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse. this camp one of the things that the community leaders told us they need most of all is food no formal food distribution here and there's one charity that's cooking people about one meal a day although apparently there's not always enough to go around the shelters obviously a key issue as well as well as health care and sanitation and a very serious problem and we just heard a short while ago of that one point five billion dollars the u.n. asking for at the conference in geneva the european union is one of the host was just announced that they will be donating seventy seven million euros towards the humanitarian crisis here so that's a tiny fraction of the amount of money that the u.n. and other humanitarian organizations are asking for whether it is the millions of people affected the u.n. claims or hundreds of thousands as the congolese government claims is definitely no question at all that the people here are in desperate need of help. for the moment malcolm of course will follow

biologists say it's one of the most important of the discovered that's why a team of british and congolese scientists have been talked on a joint research project getting to the peak both involves an arduous hours long hike through the swamp everything is soaking what english geography simon lewis has been surveying here for years trying to better understand the development of the ball which began forming tens of thousands of years ago made up of decomposed plant material the piece held some surprises for the researcher is that this is peak body so this is the partially decomposed plant matter that is a store of carbon so you need things now sampled every fifty centimeters and this is two metres to three meters deep water surprises and we thought the paint here would be maybe fifty centimeters maybe one meter maximum and actually we've got much deeper so that suggests that potentially we haven't done all the work yet but potentially there's even more carbon stored on this side of the congo river. the scientists now calculate that the bulk is far deeper than they originally estimated the pe

aid agencies were expecting about 20,000 congolese refugees, but received more than double that numbery cannot provide them with some basic items, they are worried they will not be able to cope for much longer. —— they can. the un hopes to raise nearly $2 billion to deal with the humanitarian crisis in the drc. is almost forgotten crisis and you really need the attention of the international community to urgently respond to the crisis. some families are setting up for a new beginning. this is the second time this man has been a refugee. he was ten years of the first time, now he is a husband and father. this is his message to leaders in the drc. translation: people are dying, our children are dying. there are a lot of things happening, if they had a good heart, they would stop doing all these bad things. even if we are poor and they have a lot, it does not mean they should kill as. back at the health centre, she is getting the treatment she needs. but there are many children in the dic who are not receiving the same help. —— drc. stay with us on the briefing. also on the programme: hea

says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in urgent need of help displaced by multiple conflict across the country he says the crisis is neglected and he wanted governments meeting at a conference in geneva to donate around one and a half billion dollars when we reached the congolese side of the lake we found more people who fled their homes many here couldn't afford the boat and unlike those in uganda they received almost no assistance that the government says the u.n. has greatly exaggerated the number of people affected by the crisis so it didn't attend the conference. we're not trying to deny that there is a humanitarian problem but we don't consider it's at that level we have to avoid making a business and of the humanitarian situation which discourages investors you can bring economic development. it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty thanks to crisis much worse malcolm web al jazeera it to re province in the democratic republic of congo china's they've the is to hold live fire drills in the taiwan strait next week the ex

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help. chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera you turi province in the democratic republic of congo a play about the toppling of zimbabwe's long serving president is taking center stage in harare the sas are openly ridicules robert mugabe and his wife something that would have been unthinkable during his thirty seven years in power how room a tussle reports one was. the production called operation reg a-c. begins with grace mccartney's the former first lady insisting she can do what ever she nice i. just wasn't. god was. in robert mugabe emerges accompanied by army generals who tell the ninety four year old and grace they are under house arrest. condition came to that i knew i was. the performer acting what happened on november fifteenth when soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts then president mugabe was confined to private residence. in the thousands demanding he step down eventually the man who had ruled zi

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes a crisis much worse. well welcome as donors meet in geneva i mean we've seen that those that arrive get medical assistance but what other sort of assistance do they really need. well to clarify that medical assistance is over in uganda and conditions in those camps are much better than they are in these camps here on the congo side right here they will receive very little assistance so when everyone arrived here which is about two months ago everyone got given one of these plastic sheets from a charity so they could build a shelter but have been no improvement to the accommodation since then and there's no formal food distribution system here so if one or another charities are providing one meal a day they're cooking in a small kitchen enough food for people to have one meal a day so that's all they're getting are people here complain that there are people cooking that food has been paid by the charity so they've been paying themselves out as a food source taking some of that food and selling it as a kind

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help. chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera you to reprove and in a democratic republic of congo we have much more to come on this news hour including james sophie unification we speak to koreans living close to the border added by highly anticipated meeting between the north and the south. lazies government considers giving special status to a syrian refugee has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month and formula one world champion lewis hamilton sets the pace ahead of the chinese concrete but only just these houses for picture. quality the weather still remains unusually disturbed across parts of the middle east areas of cloud spilling else of syria iraq pushing across iran and that's producing some rather live fish i was from time to time fifty to seventy millimeters of rain coming out of some of these actually thirty celsius there in baghdad eastern parts of iraq will see some cloud and right some very heavy rain into western areas of iran

he is to responsibility of the congolese government really to protect its own people and the civilians and also to release political prisoners and safeguard human rights in the congo marc thank you so much for talking with us so is mark englehart there talking to us from geneva he's a journalist and author specializing in africa. big plans but no revolution b.t.w. ben is going to be here with a round up of all those business news for you in just a moment. but. first more on the way to serve my parents and like just hide your i think. bangladesh what is the true face of the country who are applying. freedom independence a separation of state and church that used to be important but for decades political infighting here has hindered progress and islamist extremists are gaining more influence joe morrison of the rule of law are on shaky ground you describe you know we love this should be. bangladesh the dawn of islam is a an exclusive d.w. report starting april twenty first. at. a striking reversal u.s. president donald trump asks trade officials to weigh up rejoining the transpacific par

says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in urgent need of help displaced by multiple conflicts across the country he says the crisis is neglected and he wants government meeting at a conference in geneva to donate around one and a half million dollars when we reach the congolese side of the lake we found more people who fled their homes many here couldn't afford the boat unlike those in uganda they receive almost no assistance that the government says the u.n. has greatly exaggerated the number of people affected by the crisis and so it's not attending the conference. back. we are not trying to deny that there is a humanitarian problem but we don't consider it's at that level we have to avoid making a business and of the humanitarian situation which discourages investors you can bring economic development. it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes a crisis much worse malcolm web al-jazeera is tourie province in the democratic republic of congo. just to let you know what we're hearing out of lebanon that is the hezbollah chi

figures and numbers since april twelfth last week there's been seventy three and a half thousand congolese refugees fleeing from the d.s.e. into uganda since the beginning of the year what we have found is that over half of these the next sixty percent children and we have had teams on the ground in uganda who are receiving these children and hearing some really harrowing stories of accounts what sort of programs do you have in place on the ground when it comes to trying to help these people that are escaping that conflict zone. so we've got teams on the ground. who are in some of the refugee camps where these children and their families are arriving so we have set up it classrooms and temporary protection spaces and we're also delivering some psychological first aid and counseling to some of the. survivors that are arriving and we've heard some really harrowing stories our staff of told us that every day children are arriving in desperate need and they've all got stories to tell love. family members being killed or being raped with that assessment of children who arrived. in your own ten

it was during a visit to berlin by congolese prime minister and why his chandi in one nine hundred sixty four the dutch go organized his first large scale demonstration thousands took part accusing chambray of complicity in the murder of patrice lumumba the congolese politician an independence leader despite the clear that this event marked the beginning of a cultural revolution in west germany. the student movement opposed to the war in vietnam began to gain traction with the middle class as the west german government responded with force. west german society was divided on the one side was the state where universities cartons and public offices were still occupied by former nazis on the other side where the students who considered themselves part of a wider international protest movement. when not hopeless idiots down in history as not being able to take their fight into their own hands we can create a world never seen before a world without war and hunger all across the globe. at a demonstration in opposition to the state visit of the shah of iran mohammad reza pahlavi a west german p

you've got a armed forcs from sudan, from south sudan, and from uganda all competing with fardc, the congolese forces to poach the last wild elephants that remain in the park. narrator: these units come armed with satellite phones, night vision goggles, and ak-47s. elephants are also shot from helicopters, as was the case with 22 elephants killed in garamba in march 2012. hutson: we do know for certain that the elephants werere killed from a helicopter used as a shooting platform. they shot the e elephants throuh the top p of the head. they first hererded them, and elephants instinctivively group into a circlcle, with h the babs and juveniles in the center and ththe adults f facing outwad fofor protecection. and that's how their bodies were found. narrator: more than 90% of elephants in garamba park have already been killed as a result of massive and continuous assaults. ruggiero: it's well understood that eleleants have a sense of mortality. they understand that a carcass of, say, one of their family members has had its s trunk cut off and its tusks are no l longr there. they will go to an el

them are resettled he then crossed the lake albert by boat ending his journey at the semi on the congolese side from where refugees are fleeing the fighting. i'm now standing in the democratic republic of congo and it's up in these hills where since the beginning of this the militia are of minas kings villages setting hearts on fire and killing people with machetes that's why senza thousands of fled many of them in camps like this which are very basic conditions are good just plastic sheeting stretched over sticks but lucky people those that can afford the sea have been coming down here to lake albert getting in rickety wooden boats and crossing to neighboring uganda they're picked up by the un refugee agency in uganda government officials taken to a refugee camp with a couple of hours drive inside uganda we went there and we spoke to some of the new arrivals let's take a look at that story. all these people ran for their lives. and now patients runs to him they're waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. rita elisa stories typical a few d

and congolese in the democratic republic.e in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since world war ii. do you have the resources you need? >> not enough. not enough. not only that but we need of course humanitarian resources to address the basic needs, food, medicine, shelter, protection, especially for the most vulnerable women, children. but we increasingly need with this protracted crisis, the average -- these days is maybe 15-20 years. >> in a refugee camp? >> or in refugee situation. that is the nature of the crisis. >> brennan: in terms of political leadership the president has capped number of refugees with the united states will resettle here on the u.s. mainland of about 45,000 for 2018. does that concern you to see those caps? >> we are discussing this matter with the u.s., we hope that once this analysis of the vetting procedure is completed, once measures are taken to more robust already. then we can talk about larger figures again. >> brennan: i want to ask you about some specific cases. in burma, there are 700,

is the president of the congolese support group u.k. he says there is doubt about the election happening at the end of the year. to be on this mystical below we go history someone who does not learn how to respect develop a constitution saying that it would be election this december is still a question mark let me just mention on that because in relation to the upcoming election the regime has refused to accept some assistance four million congolese people as i know if you didn't come we got a growing number of people in the monitor action and more recently proposed to the government to have some assistance so we can organize a more peaceful election in the congo the coming to refuse in assistance so that bring a question on how the government will accept it have election but we give in a pressure we have to see the election in congo the deadlines approaching for migrant workers in thailand to register with the government now the prime minister is threatening to arrest anyone who fails to comply as wainaina reports from somewhat stuck o

specifically the independent commission on college basketball which includes former secretary of state congolese or rice has released their recommendations on fixing the one and done issue which is where student athletes play college basketball for only a year during their freshman year and then they declare for the n.b.a. draft the problem is a large part of the culture of prominent college basketball programs like duke university of kentucky and the university of north carolina and ca president mark emmert believes these changes would be better for the game. the primary thrust of their recommendations is all about trying to strengthen to preserve a college level college sports day coincidentally and importantly also said there he's to be a career path for people who simply want to be a professional basketball player the shortest needs to be available and changes to the n.c.a.a. amateur model also were on the docket sense paying student athlete is a constant topic of debate ultimately any changes will be up to the nasco national basketball association the n.b.a. and the n.b.a. players associati

in two thousand uganda and rwanda the congolese government control of eastern congo in a turi and lendu militias were their proxies tens of thousands of civilians were killed but now look kind of safari told us there is no conflict between the two groups he's a lendu who says he haiti's hammon neighbors here in his house when the militia are attacked like many he thinks politicians planned the violence to further postpone congo's overdue elections. that they were waiting for elections so we can have new leadership this is our will but the killing started without reason where this was already prepared for linda with him up to start killing each other i consider this a deliberately planned conflict and. the government denies this since the attack began soldiers to take control of the villages. it's difficult to identify the enemy right now army intelligence working to identify who killed and burned houses and who was behind the massacres we've arrested some alicia who are already facing justice. the army says the area is now secure and people should return some have. many more have not be

of them are sheltering right now he's crossing lake albert heading from the landing site on the congolese side where refugees are fleeing the fighting before getting on the water he has this update. i'm standing in uganda this is lake albert and on the far side you can just about see hills in the democratic republic of congo and it's after in those hills in recent months that militia have been attacking villages setting hearts on fire chopping people up with machetes killing some and that's what prompted thousands to get in boats across the lake and you can see some of the kinds of boats here that they've been using these wooden ones have an engine strapped on the back that's a better way to cross but for people who can't afford a ticket in one of those they have to get in a canoe and paddled in which case the crossing can take one or two days lakes prone to bad weather strong winds heavy rains and storms not uncommon for boats to capsize and some refugees have drowned on the way those that make it here are registered by ugandan government officials and by the united nations and then they

in one nine hundred sixty four the congolese prime minister morse a trauma bay visited berlin church goer organized a protest conjunction with a subversive happening planned by a group of artists in berlin. he led the protesters to shine about town hall while his demonstration had police approval this route was illegal it was greeted with tomatoes he was accused of having arranged the murder of patrice lumumba who had served as the first prime minister of the independent democratic republic of the congo it was the first time students clashed with police a scandal in berlin it was almost arrested strong athlete that he was he was able to get a wife. on the one hand there was a critic of the borzois capitalist order but on the other he was a devoted family man. met an american woman in a cafe in one thousand nine hundred sixty four and name was gay and she was a christian he could talk to her about religion and theology they became close but dutch his first love was for the revolution and he broke up with her the split didn't last long. he needed to live with bleach and clots in americ

it's unheard of for an affected country to snub a un donor conference, but congolese diplomats view levelumber of claims has risen in recent years despite illness in resorts declining. jon ironmonger reports. as scams go, it is simple. take an overseas package holiday, fake an illness, and claim thousands of pounds in damages from your tour operator. it has been dubbed the new whiplash, and since the vast majority of holiday sickness claims go unchallenged, british tourists have been cashing in. tour operators say it could drive up the price of holidays, leading some, like thomas cook, to fight back. in 2016, deborah briton and paul roberts were jailed after seeking damages for £20,000 from the operator, claiming a severe gastric illness in majorca. dozens of companies are thought to be driving the scam, touting the business in european resorts, and passing clients onto lawyers. to pretty much charge whatever they like for the legal costs to travel companies for pursuing these claims. so it means that if a claim is put in, they can ramp costs up of thousands of pounds to pursue a single c