over it's 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 tryst in the world the u.n. is asking this year for twenty five billion dollars or so 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 ask themselves probably why should we give more this year what has really changed i think that's one thing this summit today showed things have changed the situation has dramatically deteriorated and then thirdly it is of course the factor the fact that the government boycotted this conference didn't make the donors very eager to spend huge amounts of money without asking you mention the kabila factor president kabila in in this case of the democratic republic of congo his government boycotted the conference why. yeah it's actually really the very first time in human history that a country boycotts its own dono

i'm malcolm webb and it's very province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here since the beginning of the militia attacked their villages did things like this. cuba has any president to six decades of castro rule. on thursday since leaving eighty six year old raul castro last in america. reports from havana. a historic moment without the story shifts chapter but with a similar script. under-supply president raul castro passed on the baton to his chosen successor. clearly not be governing alone. or going to the generation off adel and raul remains intact comment army general role castro will remain the first secretary of the communist party and as such will lead the major decisions of our country now and in the future. he is canelo is a communist party cato cording to castro has passed all the tests of loyalty to the cuban revolution. but the real end of the castro era will take another three years from the safe it was probably when the eight party congress and the gradual and orderly transfer of our main responsibilities is made to the new generations it is

scarred for life surviving members of a family one of thousands to flee attacks in the democratic republic of congo. has a new president ending in a six decades of castro will make al diaz can l. was sworn in on thursday succeeding eighty six year old raul castro last in america to a new man reports from havana. a historic moment without historic shift. chapter but with a similar script. thunderous applause president raul castro passed on the baton to his chosen successor. is clearly not the governing alone. organ of the generation off adel and raul remains intact comment army general role castro will remain the first secretary of the communist party and as such will lead the major decisions of our country now and in the future. he is canelo is a communist party cater cording to castro has passed all the tests of loyalty to the cuban revolution. but the real end of the castro era will take another three years from. when the a party congress and the gradual and orderly transfer of our main responsibilities is made to the new generations there is then if my health allows that i will become just one m

says more than a hundred thousand people have fled to a province in the democratic republic of congo this year their villages have been at the center of an ethnic conflict malcolm webb traveled to the area and spoil to some of the displaced. she will never know her two older sisters militia killed him with machetes before cutting her he met her family in this camp for displaced people in bosnia in the democratic republic of congo they fled their village when the militia were attacked ran into more fighters down the road they also cut off her other sisters. and father rasha told us how his wife was killed to know about him and i waisted i was running behind my wife and children they grabbed me and started cutting with machetes then they caught my wife and started cutting her too she was pregnant and so they cut the baby from my stomach. many of the people in the camps tell similar stories of attacks by men from the lendu ethnic group we went to some of the villages they fled these are the remains of one family's home they fled when the attackers came some of their possessions were left

we traveled deep inside the democratic republic of congo to track the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence. pro-government media in syria are reporting missile strikes on two air bases in homs damascus state broadcast television. showed these pictures in the past few hours it says missiles were in descent today overshot auth advice and homes the area was targeted by u.s. forces last year but the pentagon is denying any involvement now shortly afterwards has been laws media unit for paul to the base and to my outside damascus was targeted with missiles into step to state t.v. made no mention of that attack and not that high shimmy is director of the center of middle east studies at the university of denver he suspects israel carried out the attacks is most likely israel you might recall that earlier this month a similar strike was launched against a nearby military base in syria that killed between four to six iranian. military personnel who were at the base at the time there is been an expansion of iran's influence in syria trying to build up infrastructure of supporter

and we traveled deep inside the democratic republic of congo to try and the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence. pro-government media in syria are reporting missile strikes on two government bases in homs and damascus state television broadcast these pictures in the past few hours it says missiles were intercepted over shyer our air base in homs this area was targeted by u.s. forces last year the pentagon is denying any involvement in the latest strike shortly afterwards has been laws media units reported that a base in the wire outside of damascus was targeted with missiles intercepted. state television made no mention of vast attack phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. she is warning about the danger of escalation in syria i think the real danger here if we take one step back is what is the danger of serious escalation at this point were these two incidents if they indeed happen and let's be clear they may not have happened at all the way we're hearing if they happen the way we're hearing. is it likely to be in genderin

on malcolm where the tory programs in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here since the beginning of the militia attacked their villages did things like this. lots of warm weather across western prosecutable laws the clear skies absolutely fabulous weather continuing for the next few days at least high pressure and charging that south to not size temperatures that winds coming from a southerly direction always a warm direction and we are looking at temperatures again getting up to around twenty six degrees celsius not quite says warmest thursday but still warm enough to raise an eyebrow or two where i'm going to see the warmth continuing as we go on today fine and dry clear skies looking fine until i once again touch color in london for sunday for the the london marathon runners will be pleased tonight but we are still looking at some fairly high temperatures into the low twenty's into the low twenty's to across northern parts of africa again jan reach or i might catch one of to share i was there into were bat out serious and he still sing a little bit of weath

laying out is the beginning of this the advent of the other the rebirth of the democratic republic of congo where they began to get their way through one thing will be retracing any. color the weather still remains unusually disturbed across parts of the middle east areas of plath spilling outs of syria iran 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 on the right has some very heavy rains to western areas of iran is nothing a little further north was up towards the caspian to see if you shall is just around maybe a georgia azerbaijan over the next to die also that cloud extends all the way over towards tech menaced on his back is a few showers there making their way into afghanistan as well prices guys do come back in behind still not just some showers southwest inside of iran so if you shall was recently into the arabian peninsula seems to be running just on this little bad of cloud it slides right do

the label of the democratic republic of congo. to get their way. will be retracing their journey. from the clear blue sky of the dove home. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the seat of the law. how i we've got plenty of rain in the forecast was central and southern parts of china at the moment this big area of wet weather is sliding its way further south was ahead of that not too bad in hong kong thirty degrees celsius it will increase and humid and then the rain will make its way further south with this we go through sunday say some very heavy downpours possibility of some localized flooding by this stage and that wet weather extends right down into the northern half of vietnam sunshine is showers meanwhile across southeast asia most sunshine than showers but if you do catch a shower it will be a lively one still some wet weather there just around much of a lazy sunday seeing some very heavy showers as any possibility further north generally fine in try for thailand bangkok at thirty five degrees weakening up to thirty three in jakarta wanted to showers here on saturday and sunda

now the democratic republic of congo has shunned its own donor conference in geneva accusing the u.n. of exaggerating the number of people who need aid attendees expressed disappointment that not enough funding was raised although violence has subsided in the kasai many people have not received food aid due to a lack of money now four million have been displaced by the violence and since december alone while seventy thousand to fled east to camps in neighboring uganda as malcolm webb reports. it's taken days for cooma corinne and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old. anti septic sprays just too much. life in the camp begins with vaccines and a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was killed by a militia with machetes. her husband patricia's father was left behind. when the fighting started we were very scared other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone left i was alone i decided to run. as among thousands who fled to uganda since the

now a refugee exodus from the democratic republic of congo that is mirroring migration crises in europe and asia since the start of this year sixty thousand people have fled to neighboring uganda risking their lives in rickety boats they're looking for safety from fighting across the democratic republic of congo's eastern borderlands that began late last year and the violence has left thirteen million people in need of aid about half of them don't know where their next meal will come from the political instability surrounding president joseph kabila is not helping he is refusing to step down despite passing his term limits and perspire winning elections repeatedly and visitors malcolm webb is retracing the refugees journey from the end to the beginning he has traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the king wali refugee camp where most 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

a surge an ethnic violence in eastern democratic republic of congo has forced more than one hundred thousand people to flee their homes just this year the government says it's now in control but many of the displaced say it's still not safe to return. the french president the man when mccall has urged the european union members not to sleep or could towards nationalism address in the european parliament on his vision for the future of the e.u. mccrone warned of what he calls a civil war within the european union between liberal democracies and the euro skeptic and nationalists that is it for me for now going to have more news for you in just under half an hour coming up next on al-jazeera it's techno thanks for watching us you sue if i. sometimes feel that we are really looking into the hearts and the souls of those directly involved in advance taking place very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who've been affected you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a generation past that can often feel that my

the start of a new day in the democratic republic of congo. behind the village is done swamp land satellite images have revealed the existence of a peach vault here in the forest biologists say it's one of the most important ever discovered that's why a team of british and congolese scientists have embarked 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 bug which began forming tens of thousands of years ago made up of decomposed plumper terril the peach held some surprises for the researcher is that this is peak bodies so this is the partially decomposed plant matter that. the store of carbon. needs is now sampled every fifty centimeters and this is to me to training tuesday one of the surprises and we thought that peter here would be maybe fifty centimeters maybe one metre maximum and actually we've got much deeper so that suggests that potentia

the democratic republic of congo to find out more about its unique. with. the reviews for the ways by acknowledging so by. we find out how a bunch of fans in south africa can help protect people from the city but. it's no longer news that nigeria generates a lot of waste and the country needs challenges with how to manage this waste whether you are recycling or using the challenge of managing the waste is there now across the country and across the world it had come to terms to well with also had waste can be turned to beautiful things but is it possible to sit in your house in one place. make the wealth or make the beautiful thing yes it is thanks to this wall student of the government goes college in duty who have come up with an app that can link those turning the waste to these beautiful beings all paying money for waste and those generating the waste let's go see how their work. wastes over three million tonnes are generated annually and nigeria it's an environmental disaster and a health hazard only twenty to thirty percent of the waste is collected fo

donor conference takes place in geneva, aiming to ease a humanitarian catastrophe in the democratic republic of congo. two indian athletes are kicked out of the commonwealth games, after breaking the rules over the use of syringes. in the driver's seat, herbert diess takes over as the boss of german car giant, volkswagen. will his appointment draw a line under the dieselgate scandal once and for all? in the business briefing, i'll ask a leading auto industry expert if this means they can now draw a line under the dieselgate scandal. hello. a warm welcome to the programme — briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. you can be part of the conversation. tell us what you think. just use the hashtag, #bbcthebriefing. today we are talking about alcohol and what it means for your health. inspectors are on their way to the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in douma, near damascus, and are expected to start work by saturday. there's also been a marked shift in tone from president trump over possible military action in syria in response to the attack. he's now saying he

it's a very province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here since the beginning of the militia. did things like this. russia is denying us accusations that it's trying to delay international inspectors get into the site of a suspected gas attack in syria the team still waiting for access to the area and maybe a week after arriving as whole day on has the latest. access denied. right inspectors with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons are on standby waiting to enter the area duma a visit to the site of the alleged chemical attack has been delayed for days the investigation stalled the white house says russia and syria are trying to buy time to tamper with evidence we believe it is an effort to conduct their own staged investigations russian officials have worked with the syrian regime we believe to sanitize the locations of those suspected attacks and remove incriminating evidence of chemical weapons use security concerns still be inspection a u.n. risk assessment team says it came under fire as a try to clear a way for the inspection days lat

the democratic republic of congo human rights watch says government supporters in burundi have beaten and killed perceived opponents of an upcoming referendum voters will decide next month whether to extend presidential terms from five to seven years yes vote could prolong the rule of president here when currencies are who's been in power since two thousand and five human rights watch says it's documented nineteen cases of violence relating to the vote since december at least one death. grip was environment department says the nerve agent used to poison the former russian spies. and his daughter was in liquid form it says it will take months to clean up all traces of the toxin nine sites in the city of salzburg will need special screening that includes the restaurant the script visited before they were found unconscious on a park bench. british prime minister treason may has met with caribbean leaders after the government was forced to apologize over its treatment of british residents who are being treated as illegal immigrants as many as fifty thousand people who came from the west i

distance to survive now you provide assistance to refugees arriving in uganda from the democratic republic of congo tell us exactly what they are coping with what do they tell you well since the beginning of the year uganda has received seventy thousand refugees from cargo this is actually ten thousand small because you have less to receive throughout the. whole two thousand and eighteen so we're really really stretched for months here and people are telling how horrendous stories. these are stories of horror of conflict of of violence and people here on the ground need shelter any tools they need food that they need access to health services and care and other humanitarian agencies working in uganda which working. around the r.c. and science. i'm trying to build a bat around the the aid that's operating off people however we are all struggling with the lack of funding you know the donor conference has raised five hundred thirty million dollars all that money be enough to make a difference. well definitely as i mentioned it's a step in the right direction however we need still we need to consider t

one laying out is the beginning of this year tens of thousands of people of the democratic republic of congo but. there is again the way it. will be retracing their journey. the u.s. defense secretary has played down expectations of an imminent missile strike on syria james mattis said any strike would have to be balanced with the threat of creating a wider conflict but early on for the state president trump said a missile strike could happen soon or not at all alan fischer reports now from washington d.c. . james mattis was already to meet lawmakers to talk about the budget but with the growing threat of military action against syria this gave the house armed services committee the chance to drill for more information but what is the policy of the department of defense regarding in strategy regarding the assad regime its future in the syrian civil war is there a strategy. with the president warning russia in a tweet that nice new and smart missiles were heading to syria is defense secretary insisted there was concern any strike could lead to a bigger battle we're trying to stop the murder o

now the democratic republic of congo is not attending its own donor conference in geneva on friday saying that the u.n. has exaggerated the number of people who need aids or the violence has subsided and cost side many people have not received food aid you should lack of funding the escalating violence has displaced more than four million people within the d.r. sea and since december alone seventy thousand have fled fighting in the east to camps and they bring uganda well malcolm where we trace of refugees journey has traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the chung wolli camp where most of the refugees are settled he then headed to cosign your landing site on the shores of lake albert in the d.r. see this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally he visits badia and a cab for people who fled the fighting and malcolm is joining us live from bernie announcer tell us about where you are malcolm. we're in a camp for displaced people which is a collection of thousands of shelters built on a muddy slope in the town of when you're really ten thousand people staying he

more than fifty seven thousand people have nice and democratic republic of congo congo have fled to uganda since december as according to the united nations many are leaving because of attacks on villages by militia in the north eastern province of it turi the exodus has led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis more than thirteen million people need help that's twice as many as last year and more than seven million faced severe food shortages half of them children the political situation is unclear president joseph kabila is still in office even though his term officially ended in december two thousand and sixteen and no dates been set for elections which have repeatedly been postponed. following the refugees journeys and joins us now from the sever gar landing site on the shore of lake albert in uganda's american explain the significance first of all of where you are. we're in uganda as you said on the other side of lake albert over there it's a democratic republic of congo you can just about see some hills on the far shore line and in those hills in the last few months the militia hav

struggle for the united nations says more than fifty seven thousand people from eastern democratic republic of congo have fled to uganda since december many are leaving because of attacks by militia in the north eastern province of eternity the exodus has led to a humanitarian crisis more than thirteen million people are in need of help twice as many as last year or seven million are facing severe food shortages half of them are children but the political situation is unclear president joseph kabila is still in office even though his term officially ended in december twenty sixth seen no date has been set for elections which have repeatedly been postponed amalgam web is following the journey of the refugees he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the chung wali refugee camp near lake albert where most of them have been resettled. i'm standing in uganda this is lake albert and on the far side you can just about see killed 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 ma

more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes in an eastern region of the democratic republic of congo since the start of the year attacks on civilians by ethnic militia driven many to leave it to reprove and the government says only about a tenth of that number are displaced and insists it's not in control of the crisis malcolm webb accompanied the provincial governor on a visit to those affected areas. homes made of plastic sheets much in the rain. he people have in this camp with displaced people in the town in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cuts and killed people with machetes burned houses. government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote barely broke. we found small towns full of people who fled the countryside and came to hear what the governor had to say. the government is saying there must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can provide security people here a skeptical about his message. each time we visit more displa

and the us democratic party campaign russia and wiki leaks over alleged collusion in the twenty sixteen presidential election. survivors of ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo of told their villages were subject to mass killings wait and arson the u.n. says more than one hundred thousand people fled northeast and to report this year travel to the area and spoke to some. rochelle good to see will never know her two older sisters militia killed them with machetes before cutting her. family in this camp for displaced people in the democratic republic of congo they fled their village when the militia were attacked who ran into more fighters down the road also cut off her sister's arm her father told us how his wife was killed about among the new ways to learn i was running behind my wife and children they grabbed me and started cussing me with machetes my wife started causing her to she was pregnant and so they cut the baby from her stomach many of the people in the camps tell similar stories of attacks by men from the lendu ethnic group we went to some of the villages day fled these are the remains of one family's home they fled when the attackers came some of

lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera through a province in the democratic republic of congo still ahead on al-jazeera china's president cast doubt on expectations of pm power for life and canada pulls family members of its embassy staff out of soup over fears of a mystery illness. how low we have the thunderstorms rumbling away across parts of southeast asia rest the usual big ones are just to the west of brunei was seen seventy eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hours that's all making its way further west was see a sickly when strong having those showers across malaysia easily over towards the mill a peninsula and on into a fair amount of cloud of rain just around the gulf of thailand as we go on through wednesday bangkok at thirty three degrees that will continue to push a little further east which as we go on through thursday want to showers coming back in behind us there continuing to across some archer and wanted to heat of the day showers there into into the sea then say java seeing a little bit of wet weather as well little bit about whether to into the southea

to come on this al-jazeera news hour including on malcolm webb the tory province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here fled there since the beginning of the militia attack their villages did things like this will be speaking to some of the people that run away some of those that stayed behind. a warning from the i.m.f. about trade disputes between the u.s. and china and what they could mean for the global economy. and the turkish cup semifinal is abandoned jail we'll tell you why in school. and the sudanese president omar al bashir has fired his foreign minister after he spoke out about the government's failure to pay its diplomats ibraheem gondolas said embassy staff hadn't been paid for months and that sudan had fallen behind in paying rent for many of its diplomatic missions sudan is short of foreign currency and is facing an economic crisis the central bank has been full city valley the sudanese pound twice since january we can talk to joke jock who's executive director of the research organization known as the suit is situation he joins us via skype from syracuse

debora patta, cbs news, democratic republic of congo. >>> that's the "overnight news" for monday. ernight news." i'm elaine quijano. president trump is threatening to punish syria. the president says there will be a big price to pay after poison gas reportedly killed dozens of people in is a rebel held town outside of damascus. last year, mr. trump responded to a deadly chemical attack by ordering air strikes against a syrian air base. today, the united nations security council is expected to hold an emergency meeting. some of the images you are about to see may be hard to watch. here is holly williams. >>> videos from the aftermath of the alleged chemical attack show apparently lifeless body, with no obvious injuries. >> videos from the aftermath of survivors struggling to breathe, especially children. and being hosed down as if to remove a substance from their skin. >> we cannot independently verify any of the videos, or confirm whether a chemical attack took place. survivors though reportedly smelled of chlorine, a chemical that can be deadly in enclosed spaces. it is thought to

says fighting in the democratic republic of congo is forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda. is retracing their journey traveling from uganda capital kampala to the refugee camp then heads towards the landing site for many of the refugees have arrived by boat he sent us this report near the town of bunia for his company the governor on a visit to areas affected by the violence. homes made of plastic sheets don't help much in the rain. it's all people have in this camp for displaced people in the town of poignant in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut and killed people with machetes and burned houses the government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote it was barely roads. they found small towns full of people who fled the countryside came to hear what the governor had to say. the governor saying there must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can to provide security for the people here a skeptica

. >> >> quijano: we endin end tonighn central africa, in the the democratic republic of congo, it is tically unstable country, extremely rich in natural resources. its largest export is raw minerals used to make cellphones and laptops. much of it is mined by children. debora patta has been following a boy name ziki who dreamed of ditching the mines and going to school. now his dream has come true. >> we first met ziki swaze here at a mine in the blis. >> blistering heat, there he is with a christmas sweater on, hard to miss at just 11 years old. he is one of an estimated 40,000 children getting paid a pittance to produce the cobalt that powers our electronics. every evening, ziki, an orphan, returns home with a dollar or two for his family. >> i feel very bad because i can see my friends going to school ziki told us, and i am struggling. >> when you go to sleep at night, before you go to sleep, what do you think about? >> school, h he told us, his ony dream. >> well, sometimes dreams do come true. now ziki is getting ready for school for the very first time. around 50 cbs viewers were

we travel deep inside the democratic republic of congo to track the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence and. one of the top seeds is given a real test of the monte carlo masters fight is going to have all the details in the sports. hello a lot of the vicious and long seasonal weather in the us encounters gone away but not all of it not by a long where this here was still effectively wintry in nature but we've seen big contrast in temperatures disappear so we haven't got a storm problem at the moment we've still got the remains of snow to blow through eastern canada and another liquor snow is running through the midwest if you want to be in chicago yes yourself do i want to stay here for the rest of the month because this is looking disappointing four degrees snow quite possible in northern illinois it's a woman for a time in the east coast so nice and warm day in new york after the dismal last twenty four hours and the pacific coast is increasingly cloudy with rain or even some snow inland tejano says all the way down south look at from san francisco up into the hills

it's taken days for cooma corinne and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old patrice. anti septic's praise just too much. life in the camp begins with frank scenes in a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was killed by a militia with machetes. husband his father was left behind i did. when the fighting started we were thierry skitt other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone leafed i was alone so then i decided to run. as among thousands who fled to uganda since the beginning of this year most of them arrived here by boat on the shores of lake albert borders the two countries un registers them before taking them to the camps. retraced their journey across the lake. is already. very often. others of. the u.n. 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 do

the democratic republic of congo is shelling its own donor conference in geneva on friday saying the united nations has exaggerated the number of people who need aid the u.n. says escalating violence has displaced more than four million people within the country and since december alone seventy thousand have fled fighting in the east of d.l.c. for counts in neighboring uganda welcome webb has retraced the refugees journeys he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali camp on the shore of lake albert where most of the refugees are resettled in cross the lake took a saying in a landing site on the d r c side of the water this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally he continued to bania to a camp for internally displaced people. taken days for cooma kareen and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to three feet of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old patrice here. to explain is just too much. life in the camp begins with vaccines and a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was kill

our other top stories now to a refugee exodus from the democratic republic of congo that's mirroring migration crises in europe and asia now since the start of this year sixty thousand people have fled to neighboring uganda risking their lives in rickety boats there seeking safety from the fighting across the democratic republic of congo's eastern border lines that began late last year now the violence has left thirteen million people in need of aid about half of them don't know where their next meal will actually come from adding to the situation is the political instability surrounding president joseph kabila and now he's refusing to step down despite passing his term limit her persona in elections repeatedly as there is malcolm webb his retracing the refugees journey from the end to the beginning he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to chiang wali refugee camp that's where most of them are sheltering right now he's crossing lake albert heading from there to send the landing site on the congolese side where refugees are fleeing the fighting before getting on water he sent us

they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al jazeera it's eerie province in the democratic republic of congo. says in zimbabwe have been protesting against the sacking of sixteen thousand of their colleagues who've gone on strike on hundreds of workers took part in the peaceful demonstration they kept in the capital harare earlier this week thousands of nurses walked out of a poor conditions and unpaid allowances many were late to find it so had to the shutdown of major public hospitals we can we can ignore ready struggling health sector right now those system that's been clipboards is how the system that services the poor the prop outs of the kind the kind that for private key this is the only kid they get to do to make kids right they deserve to gets in the school that i'm sending my children is that the school that they're supposed to to gorge to is a mess i speak to send a child to a school but if they just go to it to be a school board we can may say larry. but lisa nicaragua say three people have been killed in protests against cuts to pensions a policeman a protest and a pro-governmen

says more than one hundred thousand people have fled to the province in the democratic republic of congo this year the villages have been at the center of an ethnic conflict has left them vulnerable to mass killings rape and arson welcome work travel to the area and spoke to some of the displaced. rochelle gibbons. she will never know her two older sisters militia killed them with machetes before cutting her she met her family in this camp for displaced people in bosnia in the democratic republic of congo they fled their village when the militia attacked it ran into more fighters down the road also cut off her sister's arm her father told us how his wife was killed. i was running behind my wife and children they grabbed me and started cutting with machetes then they caught my wife and started cutting her too she was pregnant and so they cut the baby from her stomach. many of the people in the camps tell similar stories of attacks by men from the lendu ethnic group we went to some of the villages day fled these are the remains of one family's home they fled when the attackers came some of

it's taken days for cooma corinne and her children to get from have a village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old patrice yes. and he septic sprays just too much. life in the camp begins with frank scenes in a medical check who misled her village after her brother in law was killed by a militia with machetes. husband his father was left behind. when the fighting started we were very scared other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone left i was alone so then i decided to run . coom is among thousands who fled to uganda since the beginning of this year most of them arrive here by boat on the shores of lake albert that borders the two countries the un registers them before taking them to the camps. to retrace their journey across the lake. in a wooden boat. on the lake carrying injured already. very often. the only people in the boat think it was a. long way. round going to. the u.n. says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in urgent need of help displaced by multiple conflic

on malcolm webb to reprovision in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here fled their homes since the beginning of the year the militia attacked their villages to things like this. and then support disgraced cycling champion lance armstrong reaches a multi-million dollar settlement with the u.s. government. police in south africa's northwest province of fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who are staging protests for a third day now the violent unrest has forced president several other poser to cut short a trip from the u.k. the demonstrators seeking jobs better housing roads and hospitals are demanding the resignation of a regional leader with a ques of corruption catherine soy has more from johannesburg. the situation in the northwest is calm but very very tense indeed these protests started on wednesday people are frustrated they're angry about the state of this service delivery they are demanding for better housing the money for jobs and they're also angry about corruption allegations leveled against the leadership they won the premier of the province to st

western uganda since the beginning of january fleeing conflict over the border in the democratic republic of congo and when you talk to people there malcolm what sort of stories are you hearing about the conditions that prompted them to flee home. everyone talks about similar things happening in their villages they say militias belonging to the. lendu ethnic group and there's militias attack people killed people some people have been cut with machetes other people have been shot hart says but the civilian population soon as this starts happening flees a lot of their wares they don't really know the reason why this has been happening in the last few months and many people are skeptical that people in the government in kinshasa are behind it because they want to create a situation which is not possible to hold the already delayed election as he said but that's something the government's always denied that opposition and activists have been skeptical over the last couple of years regarding not just this conflict but a number of other conflicts in different parts of the democratic republic of congo an

and we travel deep inside the democratic republic of congo to track the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence. we begin this news hour in syria of her pro-government media reporting missile strikes on two government bases in homs and damascus state t.v. broadcast these pictures a few hours ago that says missiles were intercepted over share that airbase in homs this area was targeted by u.s. forces last year but the pentagon is denying any involvement after the latest strike shortly afterwards has balls media unit reported that a base in de mayo outside damascus was targeted state t.v. has made no mention of that attack while the reported strikes follow the mobilization of government forces in homs in a hot air has more on that. this could be the start of a new offensive against rebel territory hopes. the syrian government appears to be turning its attention to this strategic region following its victory in eastern huta much of the central province has been recaptured in recent years but the opposition has long held an enclave in the northern countryside that area is strateg

we travel deep inside the democratic republic of congo destruct the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence plus. i'm very sorry for any confusion or anxiety found on during the wrong as the british government announced the plan to address concerns of some car b. and immigrants and in support for reaching the finish line at this year's boston marathon was even tougher than usual stay with us. at the scene for us when they're on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible about in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the carter. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour syrian state t.v. says international inspectors of em to do much to investigate an apparent chemical attack russia has been blamed for delaying their entry fo

the past five years while most of the results is mined in dangerous conditions in the democratic republic of congo the d.l.c. is home to sixty percent of the world's cobalt and some mines were found to employ child labor is growing consumer awareness though of the high human cost of cobalt mining. now joining us from greenville in south carolina via skype is nicholas garrett nicholas is the executive director and co-founder of r.c.s. global a u.k. supply chain audit company which is in charge of implementing the first ever pilot scheme to produce ethical cobalt from congo sounds fascinating good to have you with us but how do you actually order the global cobalt supply chain. it's a good morning it's a pleasure to be here now are the actual audit in process of the supply chain is relatively complex because the the supply chain obviously spans the entire globe in the past you would have my inside assessments at the very beginning of the supply chain you would look at refiners and smelters and their feedstock equally there is an order process that happens in quite often in asia where much of the man

more than fifty seven thousand people from eastern democratic republic of congo have fled to uganda since december according to the un many are leaving because of attacks on villages by militia in the north eastern province of tory the axis has led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis more than thirteen million people need help that's twice as many as last year and more than seven million face severe food shortages half of them children the political situation is unclear president joseph could be there is still in office even though his term of fishley ended in december two thousand and sixteen and no dates been set for elections which have rain repeatedly postponed malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees from uganda's capital kampala the chiang wali refugee camp. all of these people ran for their lives. and now patients run again they're waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. rita liza's stories typical a few days ago a militia attacked her village in congo we killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five c