>> the conflict in drc is a regional conflict.re are vested interests right from individual presidents but also the countries. it cannot be handled as a regional conflict. you cannot deal with it as a bilateral matter between uganda and drc. until i see the international conflicts of the great lakes region making a progress in terms of the actions they have discussed and agreed including sharing and action on intelligence, i can only predict this is going to be just a disruption of this group. we will be back here in another couple of years talking about the same problem. >> finally, how do you see this playing out? are you optimistic at all we will see this cooperation or will we be discussing the same thing two years from now? >> let's see about that but i think these military operations can only be effective if they are narrow focused. if there is a clear timeframe agreed upon. there has been an mou the two countries signed that details the operations. i agree with the others that armed groups in eastern drc are a regional issu

the drc has reported 60,000 infections and more than 1000 coronavirus related deaths since the pandemican. we have more from nairobi on why the government is struggling to contain infections. reporter: firstly, it has affected most of africa, the lack of doses. rich countries bought up almost all of the available doses at first, at the beginning of the year. it was only when donations started to trickle into poorer countries that governments were even able to start those vaccination programs. that is something that affected all of the continent. if there aren't enough doses for governments to give out to many people, they are not in a position to start running public awareness campaigns to encourage people to come get vaccinated. health experts say that congo's situation is worse than the other countries in the continent. it's because of a reluctance and hesitancy expressed by the political leadership and health officials who themselves were very slow to publicly take a dose of a vaccine. one of the first donations that the conga received was a few million doses of the astrazeneca vacci

he's apparently heading to zambia, just passing the drc. you're watching bbc news. hello.would preferjust some crisp winter sunshine. there won't be much of that on offer this weekend, but it is northern scotland that has seen some today, and will again for christmas day. furthest away from weather fronts coming in from the southwest with mild atlantic air. it is the case throughout the christmas weekend that the further southwest you are, the milder the weather will be. the further northeast you are, even though you may well see some sunshine, it will feel coldest here. and as we get on into tonight, it's the clear skies which become more widespread across scotland which will deliver the lowest temperatures, quite a hard frost setting in and places, especially in the highlands. and as we look to england, wales, and northern ireland, it's cloud, mist, fog, outbreaks of rain — but this is where temperatures will be staying above freezing, maybe a few spots in the far north of england could see temperatures getting close to freezing with a touch of frost. so for christmas da

the many who are guilty, as is happening just now in the drc or in darfur, that people who are guiltyolations have to be brought to book, and it's got to be done in a way that satisfies those standards that we have. i mean, you don't hold people in detention without trial. that's what the world used to say against the south africa government. and if it was true that that was wrong, it has to be wrong consistently everywhere. amy: president obama supports an end to the war in iraq but a surge of soldiers in afghanistan. what are your words of wisdom to him? >> well, i say that obviously it's to end the war, yeah? to end the occupation, to -- but i've also said it would wonderful if, on behalf of the american people, he were to apologize to the iraqis and to the rest of the world for an invasion that was based on lies. amy: the late archbishop desmond tutu of south africa. i interviewed him at the south african vice consul's apartment in new york in november 2008, just after the election of barack obama. desmond tutu died sunday at the age of 90. we end today's show with his speaking to

in a twitter post, the president of the drc says he strongly condemns the attack. >>> negotiations onwill resume in austria in the coming hours. according to iran state media, the country's foreign minister doesn't find the position of some european countries constructive to the talks. negotiations have made little progress since they resumed earlier this month after a five-month pause. the head of iran's atomic energy organization told russian media that tehran doesn't intend to enrich uranium beyond the 60% level even if sanctions are not lifted. >>> well, three members of the k-pop group bts have tested positive for covid-19. the group recently returned to south korea from a u.s. tour. big hit music said rm tested negative on december 17th but positive on saturday before his scheduled release from quarantine. and jin felt flu-like symptoms and tested positive saturday. suga was the first to test positive on friday. all three had received two doses of the covid-19 vaccine. >>> another year, another hollywood scandal or several. after the break, we'll look at the good, the bad, and t

grant budget modification for the provision of aging and disability resource center referred to as the drc. the erc serves as a one-stop shop or information referral, assistance andtranslation services throughout san francisco . there are 13 community 80 our season 11 districts as well as those resources. the purpose of this modification is to increase language capacity specifically chinese and spanish with demand focus. the staffing additions will have a significant impact on supporting consumers to access linguist that we appropriate services close to the home and relieve some of the other 80 rc's to which consumers to access language specific services. where modifying the mission neighborhood center with its funds to increase spanish and chinese language capacity which will have a significant impact on language needs in district . unlawful use funds to increase chineselanguage capacity in district 8 . and self-help for the elderly increasing funds to increase chinese language capacity with the additional staff supporting needs and decreasing wait times in districts three, four and seven