many of us have been to darfur and seeing the mandate the u.n. had there and been frustrated in the past by that. does this have a right to mandate on the ground in south sudan right now? >> we think they do? but we have looked at the mandate. and given the current situation on the ground, we need to beef up their mandate, particularly on the peace keeping side. they are there as a protection force. and certainly in terms of their numbers and capacity, they're not a place to handle the current situation. and it's our hope to fill that up rather quickly. >> mr. chairman, first, thanks for conducting this hearing. what you do to promote u.s. interest under extremely challenging circumstances. so i thank you very much. and strongly support the frame work that you have laid out. this needs to be critically evaluated to make sure there is adequate resources to implement, we hope, some form of cessation of violence. the humanitarian issues are incredibly difficult, the ngo community not able to operate as they did prior to this violence. whether the re

darfur with the mountains, blue nile, eastern sudan, all these places, particularly the first three, there are huge conflicts with thousands and thousands of deaths over the course of the last year alone, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people over the course of the last year alone. nothing is happening on that front. so we need a team, a cell i think of people to work with our special enjoy, to be able to help deepen these processes. particularly in the south, i want to associate myself very strongly with what ambassador lyman said. there are a number of layers. but then you have to bring in others. you have to get involved with the governance reforms that has to be part of this process. there are reasons why the war erupted so quickly, whether it was a coup or not, and spread to all the different regions of the country. well, there's a lot of problems, so they're not being addressed through the regular channels, so they need to be reformed. the intercommunal reconciliation efforts have sort of petered out and need to be revived. the constitutional process that princeton talk

many of us have been to darfur and seeing the mandate the u.n. had there and been frustrated in the past by that. does this have a right to mandate on the ground in south sudan right now? >> we think they do? but we have looked at the mandate. and given the current situation on the ground, we need to beef up their mandate, particularly on the peace keeping side. they are there as a protection force. and certainly in terms of their numbers and capacity, they're not a place to handle the current situation. and it's our hope to fill that up rather quickly. >> mr. chairman, first, thanks for conducting this hearing. what you do to promote u.s. interest under extremely challenging circumstances. so i thank you very much. and strongly support the frame work that you have laid out. this needs to be critically evaluated to make sure there is adequate resources to implement, we hope, some form of cessation of violence. the humanitarian issues are incredibly difficult, the ngo community not able to operate as they did prior to this violence. whether the re

darfur with the mountains, blue nile, eastern sudan, all these places, particularly the first three, there are huge conflicts with thousands and thousands of deaths over the course of the last year alone, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people over the course of the last year alone. nothing is happening on that front. so we need a team, a cell i think of people to work with our special enjoy, to be able to help deepen these processes. particularly in the south, i want to associate myself very strongly with what ambassador lyman said. there are a number of layers. but then you have to bring in others. you have to get involved with the governance reforms that has to be part of this process. there are reasons why the war erupted so quickly, whether it was a coup or not, and spread to all the different regions of the country. well, there's a lot of problems, so they're not being addressed through the regular channels, so they need to be reformed. the intercommunal reconciliation efforts have sort of petered out and need to be revived. the constitutional process that princeton talk

he arrived from darfur two years ago. all he wants is a secure home. >> we have the genocide. we ran from the war, and we are looking for the safe place to save me and my life. >> reporter: he fled darfur six years ago. he thought israel would provide him asylum. he said so far israel has refused. >> we do believe we share the same values of the jewish people and the people who suffer have the survival of the genocide and much of it as a human being. >> today thousands protested outside the u.s. embassy by the beach and u.n. because they say israel is trying to run them out. new laws allow israel to imprison migrants without trial for one year and keep them in this open facility indefinitely. at the same time israel has beefed up the border fence for futuremy grants. >> translator: i would like to emphasize these are not refugees but people breaking the law and whom we will deal with to the fullest extent of the law. >> reporter: objections to the migrants aren't also about legal status but because they're not jewish. >> we want to protect our jewish nation. >> reporter: in th

there's a fir from brazil, this is the picture of sudan, united nations mission in darfur are indicating that the farmers won't have enough water to make it through the dry season. thank you morgan. >> thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford. "the stream" is up next. a >> you are in the stream. your government is pieing on you and the reporting is exposing how. now the president readies the reforms nor thensa. >>> all we had to do is tell the community that glen was coming on the show and twitter is exploding. >> yes, exploding with a lot of a cynicism and skeptism about the reforms for the nsa. nation

. >>> in in darfur they don't have enough water to get through the year, and there are water problems in kosovo. they're dealing with exceptional levels of drought as well. it's not just an issue in california but an issue that folks all around the world are dealing with. >> we hadn't heard about the threat to wildlife. >> yes, it is. >> a milestone birthday for the first lady. michelle obama turned 50 and showed off her new aarp card. the president and the first lady will now host a party at the white house tonight. the celebration is dubbe dubbedk you for watching al jazeera. i'm morgan radford. for news updates all throughout the day head over to www.aljazeera.com or follow us on twitter. >> she's known as baby veronica, and she was the center of a high profile custody battle. her adoptive parents are white. her father is native american, and he has been fighting for her along side his tribe. the case went all the way to the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act or iqwa which tries to keep if children to their tribes. it was in respon

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dissolve the parliament called the elections do not repeat the darfur the voice of the opposition is supported by the e.u. which says the authorities have only themselves to belay. in other news this hour the yuan has six hours to his draw an invitation for iran to take part in peace talks on syria for the country's main opposition group says it will drop out of the negotiations. and syria's president says the upcoming conference must focus on talking terrorism about help but look at how mercenaries from europe contribute to the spread of your hardest violence that. international news and comment live from moscow you're watching military international with me. hello and welcome to the program. now beings and not images from the disaster zone these are actual scenes from the ukrainian capital taken overnight the pictures show protesters running along angry over plans for laws they say are aimed at punishing them for holding rallies the response has been fear is a mix of molotov cocktails clubs and fire bombs all thrown at police trying to stave off a revolution there. is in a cave for

for a party seeking peace to the whole world by signing the comprehensive peace agreement and the darfur peace accord. without violating any hoping to achieve the desired goals. yet this is an incentive for us to take peace to higher levels for which the whole nation can benefit. needless to say that peace cannot be well-established if the right of the people are not safeguarded. this is also part and parcel of the cornerstone which we call other parties to observe, embrace and adopt. it is also one of the cornerstones of reform. we emphasize that our first choice is the political -- the peaceful political solution. this what we have been embracing and observing, as a whole, our relations with our neighboring and provisional countries based on mutual respect and cooperation. there's a big difference between the call for peace to be a shared ideology, as a minimum, on the basis of which different political think tanks and talks kc stand and the negative call and work. peace as a desired goal that cannot be achieved without hashed wor -- hard work. if all the sudanese embrace peace collect

one sailor activists or darfur is channeling her activism through the medium of the miley cyrus parody video it's only been a month since the american israeli writers last irish heritage use can stop saw her under the spotlight with over a hundred and sixty thousand views on youtube. darpa is back with another remake of gaza a wrecking ball that tackles the twenty oh five disengagement from the strip it's all israeli forces pull out some eight thousand israelis from the disputed settlements. the latest video features are complaining or ensured its settlers and a soldier with a sledgehammer she eventually transforms into a palestinian who swims around on a wrecking ball in her underpants and epo flag i know. nine. the day the ports are truly brilliant youtube sensation is also known for her work as a writer first novel the settler touches on the aftermath of the twenty oh five disengagement to the view of the twenty one year old the day kiwi from the jewish occupied apartment maps of the previously worked in the us and israel as a journalist for ellie's the jewish journal the real miley

what they don't complete the sentence with is if that benefit was in fact, the darfur value what theing in the first place. it is not enough to say the insurance company offers you something but what good is that if they have a strong the policy and coverage you are happy with been offered something of lesser value? that does not make sense. gerri: that is the problem we see throughout this conversation there is not good information. information is bad. the government wouldn't tell us for weeks comedy were signing up and we paid for the program. it makes no sense. >> true. but they themselves that they have not add access for the reasons we mentioned in terms of the problems of insurance companies and they need to get this right in order to receive the subsidy , they now push the deadline back a little more to allow people to make payments this month. why? because the insurance companies don't want to lose out necessarily to get those extra consumers to make sure they get the subsidy payment for the right to individuals gerri: there are no rules. they just keep moving them around. >>

you look at the three biggest missions today on the african continent, south sudan, darfur, and eastern congo, american taxpayers on the hook for almost 30% of -- or well over $3 billion a year in supporting peacekeeping missions there. but in all three of those cases, you could argue the corresponding political investment was not equal to the investment in the deployment of military force. in south sudan, everyone has discussed that there has -- there was probably not enough international efforts undertaken to try to prevent the conflict between -- and i agree totally with my fellow panelists, this political dispute, which goes back, of course, decades between the two factions that are now battling. the lack of an international engagement, a deep engagement, a transparent engagement to try to prevent conflict i think is something we need to look at. in congress, we didn't have much of a political process for years until finally the u.n. appointed mary robinson and the u.s. appointed senator feingold, the former members of this committee. and now we're starting to see the construction o

people say they don't feel safe in the city as muslims, one man was going back to darfur and had no desire to return here ever again. he said they don't like us and we don't like them. we also saw a large convoy of vehicles as hing off towards chad, something like 50 trucks, maybe 1,000 people in all, and they were escorted by chadden soldiers. french soldiers were checking those vehicles, the truckion and vehicles, looking for weapons, and this presumably would be for those involved with the militia. >> thank you. live for us from the central african republic capitol. >> the vatican acknowledged there can be no accuse for child abuse at an intense public grilling over the handling of the child sexual abuse scandal. >> the roman catholic church has come in for blistering criticism quizzing its representatives for the first time. the vatican enable the the rape of thousands of children by protecting pedophile priest to say save its reputation and its envoys now admitted that the holy see was slow to face the crisis but now it is committed to taking action. >> in the end, there is no excuse

exceptional levels of drought in western portions of sudan, where the united nations mission for darfurndicated that farmers would be without water throughout the dry season. stay with us, more news and headlines coming up after the break. >> this is al jazeera america live from new york. i'm jonathan betz with today's headlines. syrian rebel leaders agreed to attend internationally brokered peace talks. after a long debate the syrian coalition voted yes in istanbul. >> violence in egypt after officials announce the approval of a military backed constitution in a first vote since the coup toppled the president. >> new information about a suicide attack on a restaurant in afghanistan. three of the 21 victims were american. national security advisor susan rice called the attack

they escaped war and hardship much this man arrived from the darfur region of sudan. >> we have war,enocide, many different problems. we come to protect this country. the israeli government called the 50,000 migrants that crossed the country into egypt infiltrators. the government refuses to grant them refugee status. >> most life in a legal limbo, subject to one year's detention or working under conditional release. few of them entitled to any social services. >> they are prisoners. the biggest thing is to check the asylum records in a fair and transapparent way and give basic human rights. >> many israelis think the government is treating the migrants fairly >> translation: i have nothing against them. we have so many problems of our own. poverty in israel is great. >> a knew generation of migrant children is growing up and educated in israel. the hope to be granted a secure place in a country built by refugees. >> pope pope francis is said to make an historic trip to the middle east. he told thousands he'll visit jordan, jerusalem and bethlehem. it will be his first tripe to the h

this man arrived three years ago from the darfur region of sudan. >> we have many different problem there. we come here to protect the country. >> the israeli government calls the 50,000 migrants that crossed the country through egypt, infiltrators. the government refuses to grant them refugee status. >> most of the migrants live in a legal limbo, subject to detention or working illegally under conditional release. have you few of them entitled to social services. >> they are prisoners. the biggest thing is to check our asylum records in a fair and transparent way. give the basic human rights. >> israelis think the government is treating migrants fairly. >> translation: i have nothing against them, but we have so many problems of our own. the poverty in israel is great. >> meanwhile a new generation of migrant children is growing up and being educated in israel. the hope to be granted a secure place in a country built by refugees. >> doctors treating former israeli prime minister ariel sharon says he's fighting for his life. he suffered a stroke in 2006 and has been in a coma ever since t

you look at the three biggest missions today on the african continent, south sudan, darfur, and eastern congo, american taxpayers on the hook for almost 30% of -- or well over $3 billion a year in supporting peacekeeping missions there. but in all three of those cases, you could argue the corresponding political investment was not equal to the investment in the deployment of military force. in south sudan, everyone has discussed that there has -- there was probably not enough international efforts undertaken to try to prevent the conflict between -- and i agree totally with my fellow panelists, this political dispute, which goes back, of course, decades between the two factions that are now battling. the lack of an international engagement, a deep engagement, a transparent engagement to try to prevent conflict i think is something we need to look at. in congress, we didn't have much of a political process for years until finally the u.n. appointed mary robinson and the u.s. appointed senator feingold, the former members of this committee. and now we're starting to see the construction o

and we have had darfur. killing fields in cambodia and now.people displaced. 130,000 killed. whole cities of continues. what could the u.s. have done? what what could the rest of the world have done to try to stop it? it's been going on for three years? >> it's not too late yet. people said it was too late after the chemical attacks. after the nonstrike that followed that where the u.s. u.s. ended up not sending air strikes do you think the u.s. should have i do think the u.s. should have. u.s. had a large role in creating and supporting that essentially we allowed it to fail. there are moderate command structures that have formed in the range of 25 to 30,000 fighters that have taken over. that are interesting in sitting down. we will start receiving u.s. supreme court in the future. >> because the u.s. didn't take action, just a short time ago, the -- that impowered the islamists? >> that is correct. i don't know if you saw the editorial that the saudi ambassador to the united kingdom wrote saying that the u.s. has basically let syria slide.

one humanitarian said it's like darfur plus anarchy.hese leaders stop the deaths, stop the displacements? >> well, that is the great unknown here. there was a great deal of celebration, cheering in the street that had public joy earlier on. despite those public displays of joy, there was also a great deal of uncertainty about what will happen now. it is possible that the potential vacuum makes things even worse if you can imagine such a thing. this is already the worst humanitarian crisis anywhere in the world according to some those operating here with 1 million people forced out of their homes as thousands of people killed in just a few weeks of violence. so no one knows what happens precisely now but there was a great deal of celebration certainty and optimism among the christian community and this was a muslim president who is linked to rebel militia in way it seized control around a year ago and the christian militia today were actually trying to blockade the airport preventing the interim president from returning to the country if

i've talked about bosnia, rwanda, darfur, syria, and now, mr. president, we see the same thing happening again in the south sudan. i just came from a hearing of the senate foreign relations committee that was convened on the crisis in the south sudan. two witnesses, linda thomas green felled, and the honorable nancy lindbergh, assistant administrator bureau of democracy conflict and humanitarian assistance, is giving an update to the senate foreign relations committee as to the circumstances in the south sudan and what we can do to try to bring about a resolution. i rise today to discuss the deteriorating circumstances in the south sudan. as some of my colleagues may know, ongoing political tensions between forces loyal to the president of the sudan and those to the former president coupled with ethnic tensions erupted on december 156789 i join the president and secretary kerry in calling for an immediate end to the violence in the south sudan. currently it is estimated that nearly 200,000 people have been internally displaced as a result of the

themselves, we do this, for example, in parts of chad where they are given help along refugees from darfur. and we need more in terms of providing services in addition to items like food vouchers and blankets. this will involve more than just humanitarian agencies. we need and are getting help from the world bank and development agencies and our colleagues at usaid to work on longer term development n talking about the situation, the refugees themselves, i think that was a very good video that we saw from unacr. i recently made by sixth visit to the region. my seventh is upcoming to jordan this weekend. right before christmas i traveled to northern iraq. there i had the pleasure of wading through oceans of mud in cold temperatures to visit with refugee families and consult with local government officials. the u.s. agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and local charities have managed to have a lot of people in tents and keep them warm using an extra layer of tenting fabric, and lots and lots of blankets. still this is no place for children to grow up. i saw kids there running around in

things he cared most about were poverty, climate change, and at the time number three was dark for -- darfur. data, ift the polling you post what i call secular activists, young people, the inber one would be poverty two would be climate change. the fact of the matter is your generation has less ideological bandwidth. you don't have a right or a left. would you have is a lot of people willing to focus on types of fact like that, like evangelical christians. they're going like this and we are there to work with you on stuff that you care about if you are a secular activists, the ofm made up for a better way describing what a lot of people in your generation are like. you can find common ground and you know it. we struggle because of the polarization going all the way back to the civil rights. why did i give you this course in the history of your generation? the reason there is not compromise in washington has nothing to do with the difficult issues. it is really easy to compromise about numbers. it would be so easy if people wanted to. morehink there should be tax cuts and a rewrite of the co

do this for example in remote parts of chad where chadians are given help along with refugees from darfurneed to do more in terms of helping provide services health care clean water extra schooling in addition to items like food vouchers household cars in blankets. this will involve just more than humanitarian agencies. we are getting help from the world bank and development agencies and our colleagues at usaid who work on longer-term development. in taking about the situation the refugees themselves i think i was a very good video that we saw from the ncr. i recently made my sixth visit to the region in my seventh is upcoming to jordan this weekend. right before christmas i traveled to northern iraq. there had the pleasure of waiting through oceans of mud and cold temperatures to visit with refugee families and consult with local government officials read the good news is the u.n. agencies and nongovernmental agencies and local charities have managed to house a lot of people in tents and keep them warm using an extra layer of tenting fabric, kerosene stoves and lots and lots of blankets.

right here behind me and what they are saying is that we're refugees, we have fled sudan, aritria, darfur, we flee genocide and dictator ship. with we want refugee status and asylum. israeli say these people are economic workers and call them migrants who are leeching off the israeli government. the israelis want these people to leave and they've made their lives much more difficult, throwing a lot of people in jail. there's a detention facile in the desert here where migrants can be held for a year. they can be thrown into that facility indefinitely in an open facility part of that, so right now, they simply want to be treated with more respect, want more dignity, want the israeli government to consider them asylum seekers. >> israeli certainly not the only country in that region taking african migrants. saudi arabia expel would more than 100,000 migrants last year. these ones protesting along with work rights, migrant opposing to new law that allows the government to imprison what it says are illegal immigrants. any sign these protests will make a difference there? >> no, absolutely no

. >> another humanitarian crises have mobilized the community,ed darfur crisis, so forth. >> -- thesewn, and 35 or 40 will be gunned down -- >> especially easter, christmas. >> yeah, and there's some exceptions. frank wolf, congressman from virginia, unfortunately retiring right now, but he's the guy who's standing there all the time saying, i'm not going to let you ignore this. we're going to have to pay attention to this. and we need more of that, and i think evangelicals will be calling on elected officials to do that. >> and are you traveling to washington and making this case -- >> yes. >> -- meeting with lawmakers -- >> what's the response so far? >> i think there's a growing interest in saying -- i think the question is, what do we do? i think there's practical things we can do. one of the things is internet freedom. working to come in and break down fire walls across the world where some of the persecuted communities can get in touch with people on the outside, to know what's going on, to connect with one another. i think that's going to be a major, major initiative in fightin

this man arrived three years ago from darfur region of sudan. >> we have many problems here. protect this country. >> the israeli government caused the 50,000 migrants who crossed into the country through egypt infiltrators. though not deported, the government refuses to grant them reef gee status i don't most live in a legal limbo, subject to one year administrative detention or working illegally under what the government calls conditional release and very few entitled to any social services. >> the prisoners, we ask to check our asylum requests in a fair way and give the human rights. >> i have nothing against them, but we have so many problems of our own. the poverty in israel is very great. >> a new generation of migrant children is growing up and being educated in israeli. their hope is to be granted a secure place in a country built by refugees. aljazeera, tel aviv. >> the united nations refugee agency is blasting israeli's treatment of african migrants. a desert facility is described as a detention center from which there is no release. >> just by way of numbers, there

as one relief worker put it, this is like darfur and anarchy, now both sides live in fear.he violence has forced nearly a million people from their homes. the vast majority of them children, including this 8-year-old walking alone in a camp full of displaced people. her mother, father, brother, sister and grandparents killed. >> are you the only survivor of your family? >> i am. >> she tells us, she watched as her mother was shot. "i raised my hand to god like this but they didn't listen to me," she said, "and finally they killed my mother." she said she couldn't stop crying when she woke up today. she drew a picture of the life she's lost, her momenhome, the in the river behind it, the flowers that were near the front door. today she lives in camp on the ground of the mondastery with only one of the relatives she has left, her great aunt. sheep said she has no words for the men who killed her family. instead she put her hands together to offer a prayer, "forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us." and she added, "bless me and keep me safe." >> one sad stor