a bbc team has seen evidence of mass graves in the democratic republic of congo. rising tension between north korea and the america shows no sign of abating. the bbc'sjohn sudworth is in pyongyang — and he's spoken to north korea's vice foreign minister. the message is not conciliatory, as you'll see. north korea is all about shows of strength. the first today came in this tae kwon do demonstration. the next, in kim il—sung square, close to the centre of power, by way of a rare interview. translation: if the us is reckless enough to use military means, it would mean, from that very day, an all—out war. our nuclear weapons protect us from that threat. we will be conducting more missile threats on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. today, the us vice president, mike pence, was in south korea, visiting the demilitarised zone that separates the two halves of this divided peninsula. he, too, was talking tough. it was a period of strategic patience but the era of strategic patience is over. president trump has made it clear that the patience of the united states and our

clinton: i have seen women in the democratic republic of congo survive the most horrific, almost unimaginable abuse and cruelty. thethen some men -- summon resilience of hope to rebuild and help others go on. in colombia, which you will hear much more about in a few minutes , a country whose trajectory i have followed intently for years , we've seen women organize, educate and negotiate to help bring to a close more than 50 years of bloodshed. while conflict raged and efforts to stop the violence failed, women not only took their places at the table, they opened up the peace process to women across colombia and urged over and over again that all parties not walk away until they reached an agreement. so if we are to build more just, free and peaceful countries and indeed a world, it's not enough to just pay lip service to empowering women, we have to take seriously their concerns and give them the tools to be equal partners in helping to shape the world they inhabit. the leaders we are honoring today have seen that firsthand. from humberto de la calle, the rock of the peace negotiations in hav

bosnia was a place where you needed to be, and now it feels like you need to be in the democratic republic of congo. you have spent so much time there; you've testified in front of congress. why has the congo now become such an important part of your life? >> well, you know, it's funny. this morning i got an email early this morning about a little girl who's three-- her name is chantel-- who was on her way to the hospital. she had been raped by a gang. >> hinojosa: she was three years old... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...and raped... >> ...by a gang, and she died on the way to the hospital. now, just imagine what kind of rape that has to be to murder you. when i first heard the stories from the congo from an extraordinary man named dr. mukwege, i literally couldn't believe it. like, i have been in bosnia, i've been in afghanistan, i've been in haiti; i've been in some pretty rough places where there's enormous violence, but maria, what's going on in the congo... and it's an economic war. it is fueled by the west's need for coltan and other minerals which actually fuel our cell phones, fuel our computers

shannon: our next honoree is rebecca kabugho of the democratic republic of congo. subjected to oppression, arrests, and months in jail for her political activism and peaking her mind, rebecca was, at age 22, dubbed one of the youngest prisoners of conscience in the world. rebecca played a key role in a series of peaceful and non-violent demonstrations demanding the congolese government hold credible elections in 2016 as required by the congolese constitution. upon her release in 2016, she emerged as a voice demanding democratic reform and social change. rebecca is being honored for her visionary leadership, commitment to ushering in positive change through nonviolence, and for standing up to improve the lives of the disadvantaged in her country. rebecca? [applause] ur next honoree, sandra from sri lanka. when her husband a well-known political cartoonist, disappeared in 2010, she resolved to seek the truth about his faith. she appeared in court more than 80 times in the face of obstructionist judges and authorities. she has become a symbol for the many thousands of

security council unanimously agreed to reduce the number peacekeeping troops deployed in the democratic republic of congo 500 over out of 17000. >> what i'm proud of in the first peacekeeping mission we took on, this critic also came together and said yes, were going to reform and will keep doing this with every mission. that will be massive cost savings. >> eric: what would you say to critics that would be concerned that this could cripple the peacekeeping missions? >> we want the same thing. for people to be safe, we want the a to get in, we want to lift people up. too much focus and peacekeeping has gone to the host government, the management. no one is talking about the people on the ground. the united states has always been the moral compass of the world. i think we are generous by nature. we want to see people safe, we don't want to see people starve or mistreated by the governments. but you do have to say, what can we do. we cannot be all things to everyone. what we can do is work on keeping the peace. >> what you say to those concerned about humanitarian efforts? will refugees starve? will childr

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from africa a park range netter democratic republic of congo was honored. 41-year-old rodrig mutumbo put his life on the line to save endangered gorillas and natural resources at a national park. wendy bowman popped a mining company polluting water resources of local farmers. in india, a 65-year-old son of farmers became the first citizen to win a battle in india between courts against a major mining company. he helped an indigenous prescribe. >> this award gives me hope their hearts will not go hurt. >> reporter: six prizewinners who were an inspiration for those who came to the event. >> it helps them to be able to continue to be advocates for the movement. it supports term supports -- it supports them and gives them credibility. >> reporter: from here they will go to washington, d.c. many of them says this prize means the world to them in their effort to continue their fight for environmental and social justice. julie? >> a nice shining light on some of their work. jana, thank you. >>> a restaurant in chinatown could maybe way for affordable housing in san francisco. the city has a

vividly — i mean there are others, there is jean—pierre bemba, who was vice president of the democratic party republic of congoand he now, you know, went to the international criminal court, and was duly found, you know, guilty of terrible human rights abuses. so i think that, for me, is the best kind of hardtalk, where you've got somebody who can really say... and he speaks french, because he was educated in belgium, and he didn't like the questions i asked him so — "i don't understand what you were saying". "sorry, could you say it again?" so it gave him time to think, you know. to me, what — one of the best signals that what we do still matters is the feedback that we get from our audience, particularly as you — you talked about the human rights agenda. and we do those interviews with powerful people who are not, frankly, held to account in their own countries, we just get such a wave of positive feedback from our audience, thinking of meles zenawi, the prime minister of ethiopia, when i talked to him — and he was a very strong leader. and he ruled his country was something of an iron fist, but when i chall

that negotiation with with the democratic republic of congo happened within the past month. so that's something that's happened while i've been there and what we're doing going forward. no one is talking to me about the president's tweets. no one is talking about any of those issues. >> dickerson: so should foreign leaders, the president tweets something, they should ignore it? >> i think the foreign leaders are picking up the phone and calling him if they have an issue. that's what they're doing with me. hey they are calling me, not texting me saying, what was this tweet about. >> dickerson: in diplomacy, words often get tangled and mixed and people obsess about the importance of words. so say going into the president's meeting with the president of china, he has in the past said, "we can't continue to allow china to rape our country." those are pretty strong words. how is a foreign leader coming to a visit supposed to weigh those words in advance of their meeting? >> you have face-to-face meetings. this is all about relationships and trying to find some level of trust. whe

president, and as ambassador last week as the council of foreign relations you call the democratic republic of congo government corrupt. and said that its citizens can also said the u.n. to its peacekeeping mission was aiding the government that is inflicting predatory behavior against its own people. the monusco mandate was extended by a given what is it the united states voted in favor of that mandate, having sort of implied that the u.n. peacekeeping mission was essentially aiding a corrupt government which was perhaps they are corrupt as well?di could you clarify? >> i think you look at, the success of what would try to go to with peacekeeping, which isis look at the original mandate and see if it is working. the goal with peacekeeping reforms, and you saw this with monusco, is number one, make sure that we ship will resolve, wasn't about more resources, about being smarter with thehero resources. it was about what a going to doo in terms of reporting. there's according to what we can look at the contributing countries and see if we are holding them accountable. w the strategic review was her im

actually i am much less let down by the fact that barack obama took in more refugees from the democratic republic of congo last year than he did from syria then i am about the fact that this conflict started in 2011, and we have been sitting on our actually, the first government is thinking about what to do, and we have to watch this space. i will tell you that flat out, but god speed. if this is something the are going to bring strategy to, right thing is not to focus on the muslim ban. the focus should be on the middle east. >> there are the original driving thehat are global refugee crisis and how we address them, which i think is the more important issue. just to kind of wraps up the discussion on vetting and everything, going back to the notion that this is obviously a muslim ban. i think what is very telling is the fact that when they were iraq washe list, dropped from the list, and the reason is very telling. they came back after the first list and said, dude, how do we get off of the list? and the administration made some demands, data sharing, and also about repatriating people we throw out of th

some of them migrated to their actual homeland which was around the condo river of the democratic republic of the congo so i'm interested in black americans and other migrations possibly from liberia to what is the early and belgian congo and especially african americans and how they deal with coming out of the regime of jim crow and possibly having been born into the regime with slavery and then to colonialism that was beginning to. please in the time remaining. i was recently on the internet and came across a story of georgetown university acknowledging and making the retribution and amendments to ideally families and descendents of the slaves that they sold to pay off their debt and i was wondering if you could shed some light on that and were there other institutions. if any of them had the courage to do with georgetown did a. they have that issue and there have been many universities that we can think of of harvard, brown, emory university who feature set up their own commissions to look into their own institutions. it may be part of it drives in next big reparations push as we saw in the '90s. >>

where i am much less let down by the fact that barack obama took in more refugees than the democratic republic of congo last year than he did from syria and much more depressed about the fact that this conflict started in 2011 and we've been sitting on our hands. actually, the first government thinking about what to do. the trump administration. i will tell you flat out. the godspeed. this is something to bring strategy to, the right answer is not to focus on the muslim band. it's to focus on the middle east. >> i do think danny on the more important issue, which is the regional challenges that are driving the global refugee crisis and how we address them. i do think it more important real issue. just a kind of wrap up the discussion on betting on everything and going back to the notion that this is obviously a muslim band, what really i think it's very telling is the fact that when they reissue the list that iraq was dropped from the list. the reason iraq was dropped is very telling. they say how do we get off this list? the administration made some demands certainly on data sharing, but also in terms

actually i am much let down by the fact that barack obama took in more refugees from the democratic republic of congo last year than he did from syria. and much more depressed about the fact that this conflict started in 2011, and we have been sitting on our hands, and, actually, the first government that is thinking about what to do, and we have to watch this space is the trump administration. i wouldn't have said it was eltello be them, i will you flat-out. if it is.ed if this is something that they are going to bring strategy to, right thing is not to focus on the muslim ban. the focus should be on the middle east. jim: there are the original challenges that are driving the global refugee crisis and how we address them, which i think is the more important issue. but just to kind of wrap up the discussion on vetting and everything, going back to the notion that this is obviously a muslim ban. i think what really is very telling is the fact that when they reissued the list, iraq was dropped from the list, and the reasons why iraq was dropped was very telling. the iraqis came back after the first lis

i only have one that i really remember very vividly, with the vice president of the democratic party two republic of the congo human rights abuses. i think that for me is the best kind of hardtalk, we have somebody who can really say... he speaks french, and he did not like the questions that i asked. he kept telling me that he did not understand what i was saying. he gaveit understand what i was saying. he gave it to do thanks. i think one of the signals as the feedback that we get from our audience, particular as you talk with human rights agenda. when we do those interviews with powerful people who are not held to account in our powerful people who are not held to account in our own powerful people who are not held to account in our own countries, we just get such a wave of positive feedback from our audience, thinking of the promised of ethiopia. wannasrichan, he was a strong leader. and he ruled his country was something of an iron fist, but when i challenged him on the specific human rights records, and abuses that we can put that his government's tour, he found it difficult. and it was a very contentio

the united nations says it's found 17 mass graves in the democratic republic of the congo. the u.n. human rights chief zeid ra'ad al hussein saidid there ae reports the graves were dug by government soldiers, who have been accused of raping and killing civilians. this is a u.n. spokesperson elizabeth throssell. >> they confirm the existence of 15 mass graraves that have been dug in the cemeterery and twtwot have been dug elsewhere. they heard reports of lolocal graves had these been dug by soldiers from the armed forces -- the drc a armed forces. amy: in paris, france, a gununmn opened fire with an n automatic rifle on the champs elysees thursday, killing a police officer and seriously wounding two others before he was shot dead. police identified the attacker as karim cheurfi. a french citizen who served 15 years in prison after he was convicted in 2001 of shooting police officers. isis claimed responsibility, saying one of his soldiers carried out the attack will stop the assault came days after french voters had to the polls sunday for election that will see the top two presidenti

small part to past allegations of sexual abuse by troops deployed in countries like the democratic republic of the congothe central african republic. a new investigation by the associated press finds the problem of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers is wider and even more disturbing than previously known. hari sreenivasan has the story from our new york studios. >> sreenivasan: the associated press found nearly 2,000 allegations of abuse and exploitation in the past 12 years. more than 300 of those cases involved children. and since the u.n. cannot punish peacekeepers from other countries, only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time. the a.p. also spoke with officials in 23 countries who had troops serving as peacekeepers and were accused of these violations. trish wilson is the international investigators editor who oversaw the a.p. story. ms. wilson, thanks for joining us. how did you come upon the investigations that were underway by the u.n.? >> well, earlier last year, there was a lot of reporting out of the congo and the central african republic about allegations agains

last week at the council on foreign relations you call the democratic republic of the congo government corrupt and said it preys on his citizens. through that the u.n. its peacekeeping mission was aiding a government that is inflicting predatory hader against people. the mandate was extended by a year. why isn't the united states voted in favor of that mandate having fully implied that the u.n. peacekeeping mission was aiding a corrupt government which implies they are corrupt as well? >> that is exactly what we're trying to go to with peacekeeping which is look at the original mandate and see if it is working. peacekeeping reforms is the number one make sure we shift but we thought -- where it wasn't about more resources but being smarter with the resources. it was what are we going to do in terms of reporting. we can look at the contributing countries and see if we are holding them accountable. the idea was to go back and see if we are on the right path. so much of these peacekeeping missions have been people just assume they are always going to be there but really our goal is to mak

. >> now the democratic republic of the congo. >> and they said it was a mystic out epidemic, it was very he lethal, high mort at. there were nuns who had died. a small group would go to the mission where the epidemic had started, apparently. they asked for volunteers and i think i was about the first one to raise my hand. although i had absolutely zero experience in doing this. [ speaking foreign language ] >> our mission was to -- one, to put in place some basic measures to contain it and using quarantine. that's what we thought, and, two, to find out how is this transmitted. because that's the key to stop epidemics, to know exactly what the risk is, how is it transmitted. it's really detective work. so we tested whole villages, talked to the population, and then have a very primitive questionnai questionnaire, how old, where have they been and what we found is that there were very few survivors and that the case fatality rate was over 90%. nearly all new viruses come from animals. we are you a primates. during the outbreak we started collecting samples from all kinds of animals. i