people in darfur were there to help run the market. it's quite atrocious what i've been exposed to many parts of the city. there are still piles of body near street corners near the markets and of course we have to go public on this and call for a full investigation and full accountability for those who are responsible. >> yes, i'm looking at some of the pictures at some of the things that you've undoubtedly seen. some of our pictures are too graphic. what is more appalling about this, apparently the local radio station was used to broadcast hate comments where people from one community were urged to attack or rape people from another community. >> this is one of the most troubling developments in what we've seen as a quick situation in south sudan. hard to believe that four months ago the country was at peace, and we were all talking about developments. now it's 7 million people who are at the risk of hunger, who are already towards that edge where they simply can't fend for themselves. this month, april, may, absolutely crucial for t

in bentiu people from darfur are believed to have been targeted for a specific reason. rebels are agreed to have been fighting alongside the south sudanese army. >> what is growing on is disgraceful. what we have seen is utterly horrible and beyond description. >> a lot of people left the town, heading to a u.n. base. the conflict forced a million from their homes, most are dependent on food aid. the food and agriculture organization warned next year south sudan will experience a wide-end famine. the only thing that will prevent it is the end to the fighting. the rebels have been accused of killing based on ethnicity. he told us his forces killed government soldiers, but denied all knowledge of the killings in the mosque. riek machar told al jazeera his fighters are not behind the attack. >> translation: i contacted the field military commander in bentiu who told me such accusation is false. first of all, we respect our people, and the majority of the forces are from the region, and we can't kill our citizens. >> it's his responsibility. these are his rebels. he admitte

in bentiu people from darfur have believed to have been targeted for a specific reason, because they believed to be fighting along to side of the former vice president. >>> what we have seen in these towns are utterly horrible and i don't thinked -- beyond description. >> reporter: the un has accused the people of being killed because of their ethnicity. >> no, we don't kill those that were in the mosque. i think maybe -- who are those people, we do not know. we do not enter mosque. >> reporter: as the conflict continues the levels of violence seem to be escalating. so the rebel leadership is very clearly denied responsibility for what happened. all that we know for certain at this stage is that the town was under the control of anti-government forces so in rebel command when the massacre took place. there is a human rights investigation underway at the moment. when that concludes hopefully we can get a better sense of what really happened that day. >> during the past few days bentiu has seen severe violence, targeted deliberate violence that struck individuals of certain identities,

. >> translation: now the rebellion in the province of darfur is confined to two arse. in the extreme north, at the border, and in the east of the moundin. the rest is faith, and has no rebellion. >> in the united states former ku klux klan leader has been charged with a hate crime. he is known to the police for anti-sem ittic views. tributes have been paid for the victims. >> it's been one year since the boston marathon was bombed. the city is preparing to hold commemoration, which will be attended by joe biden. three people, including an 8-year-old boy were killed. >> tamilon died in a shoot out with police, his younger brother is due to go on trial this year. >> firefighters in chile battle a huge blaze after it begone in valparaiso. thousands have been forced from their homes. >> dousing the flames. a massive rescue operation to control a fire raging over more than 24 hours, destroying hundreds of homes. many loft everything. william and his family have lived here for 19 years. >> nothing - we couldn't do anything. it all happened so quickly. less than three minutes

here people from darfur are believed to have been targeted for a specific reason, because rebels fromudan are commonly believed to have been fighting alongside the president. >> what we have seen in these towns is utterly horrible and beyond description. >> reporter: the un has accused the rebel forces of killing civilians based on their ethnicity a charge any rebel commander in the area denies. >> no, i do not -- i deny that report. we don't kill the -- those who are in the mosque. i think who are those people, we don't know. we do not know. >> reporter: as the conflict continues the levels of violence seem to be escalating with even the traditional places of sanctuary coming under attack. >>> one week after they were abducted there's no word on the missing nigerian schoolgirls. the discrepancies continues. >> reporter: there's conflicting information and ongoing confusion about the number of girls that were kidnapped through the government's secondary school. initially the official figure given was 129 girls missing. however, the school principle now says that number has risen to 23

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in darfur. more than that we urge countries to dig deep, and individuals, we found that there has been a reluctance to fund the crisis. even amongst, you know, common citizens, your average person. they may be more generous, it seems that a political crisis of this magnitude seems out of reach and almost hopeless. and we are here to say that it's not, and if people need assistance, as noted by the world food program statistic, a lot of aid helping a lot of people. countries like united states still needs to give more assistance, more aid, and we encourage it to continue. countries like france, which has given less than its fair share based on g.d.p., countries like south korea and russia. they have the means, but not the assistance they need to provide caught up in the crisis. >> there's another aspect that is troubling. the humanitarian impediments, the obstacles to humanitarian access. 4 million people are trapped in areas inside syria that are hard to reach, where aid cann reach them. >> the

we're not told what kind of frustrating the families leaving them in the darfur more than three weekswith very little information and none of that satisfies the families better so desperate to learn more about what happened to their loved ones. authorities say they may have as little as six days to find a box before the it. lou: meanwhile in this status quo the russians have pulled fact -- pulled back troops at of an estimated 80,000 troops. aren't you surprised we don't have a better count on the russian troops of the eastern border on the ukraine? the number varies from one account to the next'' fully that is us with our sophisticated intelligence rather than not knowing. >> some say 30,000 some say 80,000. lou: hopefully it is news media over intelligence. >> we're not acting very intelligent about it. so right at the zero long supporter because i think the putin goal is to take all whole band along a the russian border in each chassis ethnic russian speaking population at the border. >> he has to cross the borders. the troops are signed up the ukraine fell into the lap but at the

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people from darfur are believed to have been targeted for a specific reason, because rebels from sudan are commonly believed to be fighting along the south sudanese army. >> what is going on here is disgraceful. what we have seen is utterly horrible and beyond description. >> a lot of people left the town and headed to a u.n. base for their safety. this conflict has forced a million people from their homes, most democrat on food aid. the food and agriculture organization warned that next year, south sudan will experience a widespread famine, saying the only thing that can prevehement it is an end to the fighting. the u.n. has accused the rebel forces of killing civilians based on their ethnicity, a charge the rebel commander denies. he told us his forces had killed government soldiers, but denied all knowledge of the killings in the mosque. aljazeera, south sudan. >> thousands of people in south sudan have been killed, more than 1 million have been forced to leave their homes since fighting broke out last december. >> president obama headed to asia this week for an important trip, but

in bentwo, people from darfur are believed to have been targeted for a specific reason.ause they are believed to have been fighting for the former vice president. >> what we have seen here is disgraceful. it's utterly horrible and beyond d description. >> i did not do this. i don't have that -- that of what -- we don't kill those who are in the mosque. maybe i think the -- who are those people? we don't know. we don't know. we did not [ inaudible ] the mosque. >> reporter: as the conflict continues the levels of violence seems to be escalating. the rebel leadership has clearly denied responsibility for what happened. all that we know for certain was the town was under the control of anti-government forces. there's a human rights investigation underway at the moment. >> the city was ceased by rebels last week. it's an important town in unity state. one of two oil-producing states in south sudan. bentwo is crucial for rebels who want to seize oil fields. oil of course is the backbone of south sudan's economy, and makes up 90% of its revenue. joining us from jewbah is sue,

had to flee darfur. they finally get to sioux falls. here she is. this beautiful young woman. 16 years old, in high school. she was acclimated by this point in wanting to join rotc, which she did. challenge.nted to she was still wearing her muslim one of the hardest things for her was on dress-up day at the school, when you wear your formal uniform they would let her wear her muslim headscarf with the formal uniform. she was allowed to do it. , ithance, when i was there started a ball rolling. the people who were her commander at the school was helped trying to solve the problem. he went up the ranks. this year that word that she was allowed to wear it. it is touching. >> this is something you found in burlington. schools wrestling with an immigrant population. >> definitely. one of the elementary schools had its own kind of drama. it was a regular public school in a rough part of town. and a lot of the kids were living in this school as well. it was a failing school. they were either going to close the school down or bus the kids out. activists, an

said many more people were butchered inside this mosque where muslims mainly from darfur in the sudane massacred. shortly after filming these pictures we were told by the u.n. that the real number of people killed in the mosque were actually 200 out of 800 trying to hide there. changed hands several times, since fighting with rebel groups began in december. rebels from sudan are commonly believed to be fighting along the south sudanese arm of salva kiir. this conflict has forced a million people from their homes now. most of them are dependent on food aid. the food and agriculture organization has warned that next year south sudan will experience a widespread famine. they also say that the only thing that can prevent it is an end to the fighting. the u.n. has accused the rebel forces of killing civilians based on their ethnicity, a charge the rebel commander denies. he tells us, his forces had killed civilians but none in the mosque. anna bentu al jazeera south sudan. institute for policy studies. emerald, welcome. >> good to be with you. >> those pictures we just saw are devastating.

in bentiu people from darfur are believed to have been targeted for a specific reason - because rebelsrom sudan are believed to be fighting alongside the south sudanese army of the president. >> what we have seen is disgraceful. it's horrible and beyond description. snow the u.n. accused the >> the u.n. accused rebel forces of killing forces based on ethnicity. a charge denied. >> no, i don't have this. i don't have that report. we don't kill those in the mosque. i think who are those people - i don't know. we don't know. we do not enter the mosque. >> as the conflict continues, the level of violence escalates, with traditional places of sanctuary coming under attack. >>> in north korea there are fears that pyongyang is going run a fourth atomic test, re-ignoiting tensions with the reclusive country. south korea says it detected tests. some say it is a hoax, meant to stir up trouble. >>> in nigeria there's confusion about the number of teenage school girls abducted last week. parents say more students are taken than committed. the mij military -- nigeria military says 126 girls were ta

after roou wanteda -- rwanda everyone pledged as they do, never again, and then came darfur a few yearsater and the members of the security council, especially the permanent five, your country, the united states, britain, france, soviet union - russia and china, all found reasons why they shouldn't intervene, and now, again in the central african republic, you know, just last week, or earlier this week, there was an entire international conference on genocide prevention. at the same time as things are getting terribly worse in the central african republic, and the general of the united nations, ban ki-moon cannot get the nations of the world to give him the peacekeeping forces there. are we learning everything, i'm not sure. >> is that a true comparison, to comapart the 800 people killed in roou wand a. >> it -- rwanda. >> it didn't start with 800,000. it started with nobody. the day before there was no one, except randam massacres of the tutsi. and the first day we think there was 10,000, and it took all the 100 day to get 800,000. in the meantime thousands and thousands are killed dai

in bentiu people in darfur were believed to be targeted for a reason. what is going on here is disgraceful. what we have seen in bentiu is utterly horrible and beyond description. >> reporter: the u.n. has accused the rebel forces of killing civilians based on their ethnicities, a charge the commander in the area denies. denies. >> no, we did not kill those in the mosque. we don't know. >> reporter: as this conflict continues the level of violence seems to be escalating with the trillion places of sanctuary coming under attack. the rebel leadership has denied responsibility for what happened. all we know for certain at this stage is that the town was under the control of anti-government forces. so in rebel command when the massacre took place. there is a human rights investigation under way at the moment. one that concludes hopefully we'll have a better understanding of what happened that day. >> describing what he saw. >> over the past few days bentiu has seen severe violence, targeted, deliberate violence that struck individuals of certain identities.

. >> officials say they have been unable to visit one of the largest refugee camps in sudan's darfuregion, the government claiming the situation is unstable. 8,000 people have fled to the camp after violence since february. it already has more than 100,000 people living there. authorities have denied aid workers access to the area, citing security reasons. >> south sudan leaders face possible sanctions from the u.s. if the fighting doesn't stop soon employee washington has spent millions supporting people displaced by the recent violence. we have a report from washington, d.c. >> not even three ears after south so dan celebrated independence, the country is facing a humanitarian crisis. more than a million men, women and children fled their homes for the safety of u.n. com pounds or neighboring countries. washington just released $83 million to pay for emergency food, medicine and shelter. aid experts worry it's not enough. >> if assistance can't reach these people, you are looking at 3 million plus people teetering on the brink of famine by next year. >> political in-fighting betwee

officials say that in bentiu, the targets included not only dinka, but traders from darfur and nuer people who refused to cheer the rebels' arrival. president obama condemned the killing. in a statement, he said: meanwhile, thousands of people headed for protection at the u.n.'s base in bentiu. it now holds 22,000 civilians, but they're limited to just one liter of water per person, per day. >> woodruff: we take a closer look at this continuing crisis with nancy lindborg the assistant administrator for humanitarian assistance at the u.s. agency for international development. she was recently in south sudan. and khalid medani, an associate professor of political science with a focus on africa at mcgill university. he is originally from sudan. we welcome you both. nancy lindborg what is the latest on the situation there? >> well, as you've just seen, this is an absolutely horrifying attack. and it is part of what we are seeing as an escalating series of killings that began last november. and it's becoming a cycle of reprisals. it is targeting what we just saw, women and children which is-- t

the united nations security council was voting on that very crucial issue of darfur china as well as the united states abstained and that later. resulted in they had the indictment of your president at the international criminal court i wonder given china's presence on the ground and as far as i understand they hold a almost a forty percent stake in your oil industry i didn't hear expect a bit more from bam given how valuable of a partner they are no the americans were not athol supposed to stand because they will confront this is it. may mean a change of of their position. by others fortunately the british and the french made a deal with the us to stay in the chinese. to me. it had been forced from our side to at least a request from the chinese to do something that could stop the vote. it may be that people were a bit naive and we could have stopped the vote against sudan and. the world was not was not about the indictment was about you know if in the darfur case to the i.c.c. that time there was not the maybe we we lost tons of requesting from the chinese. but but but the american

it the vote was not was not about the indictment was about you know if in the darfur case to the i.c.c that. was not the maybe we we lost tons of requesting from the chinese to stop that. but the americans. changed their views last moments and they would have given what they wanted well i know that the u.a.e. here view i.c.c. as biased party as politically and motivated court but since your a lawyer by training yourself and by profession i don't actually believe in the supremacy of floor and they need to comply with that regard myself whether you agree of it on our go to that but you know it is so different between you know using. the law of the sword against country. using the. law as a means of justice. is not the force for it is not a. law that is used. in minorities or against you know said welcome to the african countries or whenever we hear about the i.c.c. we also hear about violations of human rights and this issue is often raised in relation to sudan it is often raised in relation to russia and many other countries who tend to disagree with the united states but at the same ti

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and a group who have committed crimes in darfur.the city, they killed civilians in hospitals and the mosque and the market. >> that term can be translated as meaning thugs or bullies something that the rebels have accused each other of being in recent days. aljazeera. >> south sudan gaining its independence from so dan in 2011. >> looking to build on an economic recovery in the motor city, why getting rid of 80,000 properties is critical to the success of detroit going forward. >> it's considered a hybrid of twitter and facebook and is one of the most widely used websites in china. the reason it's choosing the u.s. over china to make its stock market debut. >> there's no planning around for these performers as their business of entertaining people around the world faces an uncertain future and for once, they're not laughing. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. up next, china's verse of twitter set to make its debut in the u.s. this morning. >> first, temperatures across the nation today. nicole mitchell is back. >> i already gave

i have seen a combination of kosovo, rwanda, darfur holocaust.e read in history i see it practiced industry as we speak the every four minutes a decision person is eating. every 10 minutes a syrian a person is missing. every 13 minutes a series in person is wounded, and every 15 minutes, a syrian human being is getting killed. >> two people will die in syria why we're having this conversation? >> yes, ma'am. >> one of the other things about the barrel bomb that day anyway was that many people's lips turned blue. you don't know what was in the barrel bomb. >> we did know what was in the barrel bomb. when you get up from the white smoke and you can actually start seeing ahead, you look at people's faces come and everybody's mouth was blue, including mine. for many, many months after that, everybody was coughing, and i'm still coughing. i'm still coughing a very strange cough. we don't know what they put in these barrel bombs. >> let's talk a little bit about daily life in syria right now, to the best that you can both paint a picture for me. 80% of

this is one in the sudan -- there's one in the sudan section called darfur, it's a region of sudan that has faced conflict for more than ten years now, and that costs over a billion dollars every year. it has had a lot of trouble. it has not been using its money wisely. the united states has expressed its concern about how that particular operation which is actually run jointly with the african union is being run. and they've said they want it -- >> great pleasure to welcome all of you to this very special and important event on rising political islam in pakistan, causes and consequences. we are delighted that we are hosting ambassador husain haqqani and dr. haroon ullah from the department of state at this event, and i also want to welcome the audience at home courtesy of c-span. we're sorry that you can't join the conversation after the initial presentations, but we have a strong audience here that will stand in your stead, i'm sure. i also want to mention that this particular event is part of our new u.s./pakistan program at the atlantic council, and that has been very generously fun

there is one in the sudan it is acalled darfur, region of sudan that has faced conflict for more than 10 years. billion everyr $1 year. it has had a lot of trouble. it has not been using its money wisely. the u.s. has expressed concern about how that particular operation, which is run jointly with the african union, is being run. they want it to be better. to reorganize its priorities. we will see whether that happens. host: when you started to talk about the budget for peacekeeping efforts by the united nations, we showed our viewers that the white house, in their 2015 budget request, wants 2.5ress to give the u.n. billion dollars for peacekeeping efforts. how does that compare to the overall total peacekeeping budget? guest: as i say, it is roughly a quarter of what the overall peacekeeping budget is. the united states is the number one funder, then comes japan, germany. other countries that have veto power like russia and china, for example, pay a miniscule amount of the u.n. budget. they are viewed as almost developing countries. france and britain are also big contributors. they

means she still has a lot in common with clooney who has been long -- a long advocate for refugees in darfur. clooney's rep says he doesn't comment on his client's personal life. but she is beauty and brains and she landed george clooney. marty. >> thank you very much. >>> also coming up on kron4 news weekend, a big snowstorm hitting the tahoe area. we will take you up to squaw valley to see how much snow they got there over the past recent days. >>> tensions in ukraine continue to rise. we will have an update on what's happening between ukraine and russia this morning. >>> also if you're looking for some cheap eats around the bay area, abbie from yelp will join us to explain where you can find meals for under $10. >>> we are live at oracle arena. >>> i suspect the nba is going to be deeply concerned in resolving this. >> president obama speaking out this morning about those highly controversial comments that have the clippers doing damage control. what the owner allegedly says that had top nba players demanding action. >>> this is the bay area's news station, kron4 news weekend starts now.

united states the baby of africa on the run the military you know they have a military operations in darfur in somalia even right now in mali you have run down troops actually the commander of the un forces in mali easy's soldier rather than sold your was wanted by the spanish court to some courts. pinochet's for his crimes so the interests of their economic military when the story to know as you know we commemorate the run the genocide there is a genocide that's the complex in the cold war that the world does not know you know over six mia died mainly due to u.s. ally iran doesn't vision it's a look at least address and it's unfortunate as we speak you know you just mentioned this week that the u.s. is to show an elite universities in the united states. such as a polka dot me or run to speak of these universities ignoring all the crimes the esko media inside or rhonda and also in the congo and the pretty much washing lafayette sands and the blood that he has on his hands so you're saying that directly if you kind of link back to funding here in the u.s. inordinate amount of money into that