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east. i'm africa should be charged the u. s. equity of states marco rubio is in israel. on his 1st trip to the middle east since taking office. he's met his very prime minister benjamin netanyahu in west jerusalem and the guys of cx 5 is high on the agenda along with regional security issues to the president's also been very bold about his view of what the future, regardless should be. not the same tired ideas of the past, but something that's new, bold and something that frankly took courage and vision. in order to outline, we have a common strategy and we can always share the details of this a strategy with the public, including when the gates of hell will be open as a surely will, if all our hostages are not released. well, those comments. com is the 1st phase of the guys. i say 5 is due to end on march. the 1st that's despite the israel still not meeting some of its obligations. tens of thousands of mobile homes are stuck at the roof of crossing with egypt, waiting is ready. permission to enter guys of israel's operation in the occupied westbank as it entered its 4th

it was such as with the east africa peace and security governance program at the institute for security studies in k tenants. south africa, crystal oldest son, is a journalist for the african report, a quarterly magazine that focuses on african politics and economics. she spent a decade reporting from conflict zions on the continent and in new york you can get at a go k is editor of summit for africa, part of the summer for global news website. thank you. all 3 of you for joining us . maybe stop. i think about time with you crystal, because it's being a greeting situation in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo for years and years and years. but ready? is it been as bad as this? absolutely. james, we see thousands of people being displaced. we see hospitals overrun, and i think it's a humanitarian tragedy that these unfolding last year, this time we were talking about this. it's been an issue literally for almost 50 years. and these being very little effort to actually deal with the issues. we know that in 2012 go my also file, but through mediation and tools to resort w

to and from that side, east africa. okay. now this carbon east drop is looking on this the mid stage of february. i'll be back at the top of your office. do hope you can keep the company, [000:00:00;00] the fellow and then think uh yes, it doesn't sound well. what i tied down into what had said, well, 9 phone go ahead and 9 phone console and then go to to lobby. just depends on the savings on some of the way. well months have been a change since you've been to all the content. yes. and so turned on shipping the federal can. she will miss. i almost say that's all my thoughts as you on it. team $1.90, you'll find me well, mentors on chew, sewage, sewage. i'll talk to you at typing sounds. heisen, seeing the face on class. seeing if it's on quite well meant here to talk to you to see about why being such a long term punch elementary. okay. how about a 10 year or $215.00? i tell you that you all in the style and navigation. yeah. for the land for dice. you're finding you way by being to yes, so the don't off way to some. yeah, hol

the play trips to stop the fighting from spreading into its territory. leaders from south and east and africa trying to mediate between the 2 sides. will the efforts succeed or could the crisis expand into a wider conflict? we'll discuss all of this with a public spot shortly. but 1st the support from joe levins. in the last week, a decade long conflict has intensified as the rwandan back forever was captured, the city of go and in the east of the democratic republic of congo, 100 the civilians have been entering the north key view capital searching for safety since last year. when rebel forces led by m 23 began occupying territory in the province. now some of returning home fluid able to get going back home because m 23 asked us to come back. and they said our security was guaranteed here, and i believe it is now the hospital was in go struggling to cope with an influx of wounded people, days of to fight, to seize control. we screw ve the people who we have been facing several cases of mass casualties. we are receiving engine people from o rosa. and we have treated more than 1000 wounded at

the agent has expanded trade ties with countries in the middle east, africa, and south east asia. it's also prioritize the technology sector, decreasing dependents on american hardware and making strides and artificial intelligence. trump wants to reduce washington's trade deficit with china, which hit a record 295000000000 dollars last year, and he also wants it to do more to stem the tide of sentinel to the us. but what chinese presidency didn't p once is not an extended truthful, but to do a deal. and he's been working hard to reinforce his position when the time for negotiation comes, katrina you out to 0, accounting, the cost aging. john gong is a professor at the university of international business and economics. he joins us now from badging. john, what do you make of age things while the modest response could it's terrible, actually, do any economic damage to the us? well, our to we was your phrase that this is actually a very moderate response. i will say a mass of response only affecting less than 10 percent of the chinese export of united states. and it really doesn't h

i can tell you that there is an outbreak of ebola in uganda and marburgvirus in east africa, and all of those programs are either completely shut down or hobbled to the point where people can't deliver aid and it's not just about providing life saving care. it's about maintaining stability overseas so that that instability doesn't visit us in the united states. >> thank you all very much.

and we have to correspondence following the story from east africa, haven't metasource in addis ababa where african lead is amazing for an annual summit. but 1st, let's go to catherine story in nairobi who's following the developments on the ground at east d. c said catherine, what is the very latest happening in accomplish? yes, um the rebels have not just entered uh because they are ted. they have taken control of it. we have seen that the fight says in the see to center. they have been talking to residents in the independence class and they have been telling residents to stay calm and have told them to go back home until the school situation is sorted out. so we have had a from the rebel commanded just telling the residents to go back home for now. so we also know the military, the soldiers of who was supposed to protect was causing left of that area because of that security vacuum. we seen lots of things, looting in people's homes, people's whole uh, businesses and also um, you know, agency offices as well and government offices as well. we also know that about 2000 inmates who ar

this person in east africa working on pet and hiv aids education programs for young people, and how basically their ngo has been rendered inoperable right now because they received a huge majority of their funding from usaid. and the conversations that americans who work for nonprofits are having on the ground with people explaining they want to continue to do this kind of work, especially with something like pepfar and some of the humanitarian and medicinal programs that the united states has provided. this person saying that he's saying, yes, i want to continue providing this service. but right now, this is all on hold. their communications with usaid, this ngo, those are still paused right now. so that agency being in limbo, and we're still waiting for the federal judge to make a decision, we're expecting that on friday of this week. but with usaid in limbo, many of the programs that rely on the funding, they're also in limbo. >> you're talking about people on the ground who are literally making life or death decisions, with their programs completely frozen in the water for right now. so,

it will depend on what the east africa community will do and exactly also what decided, southern africa development community will do. we know that side because troops in d, r. c does any and have troops them allow we as well as south africa. we know some south african troops we killed about 2 weeks ago. so they are tensions between different countries here as much as the tension between the r c and, and the run the tension between samsung and rhonda the tensions between south africa and wanda. that's why i mean that this is not just enough, it can probably of interest the communities and run them. problem, is it much bigger problem than that? and the solutions need to be adequate. okay, thank you so much for speaking to us from washington dc. my pleasure, very of all the un secretary general antonia the terrace, has called for an end to what he described as the dramatic suffering episodes in these people as the, as long they call the month of ramadan approaches. the terrace also calls for an end to the flow of weapons. this comes as the susan, these army is making progress, and its fig

i can tell you that there is an outbreak of ebola in uganda and marburgvirus in east africa, and all of those programs are either completely shut down or hobbled to the point where people can't deliver aid and it's not just about providing life saving care. it's about maintaining stability overseas so that that instability doesn't visit us in the united states. >> thank you all very much. >> live tuesy on c-span, at 10:00 a.m. ete, the senate finance committee will vote on the nomination ofobt -- f kennedy junior. then the senate will work on bills. including the maintenance of the 9/ memorial and se. and an evaluatn of fifighting technology. on c-sn o at 9:00 a.m., potico hosts a discussion of u.s. trade policy area at 11:00, confmaon votes for doug collins and pam bondi. on c-span3, the janet -- senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on classifying fentanyl as a schedule

i can tell you that there is an outbreak of ebola in uganda and marburgvirus in east africa, and all of those programs are either completely shut down or hobbled to the point where people can't deliver aid and it's not just about providing life saving care. it's about maintaining stability overseas so that that instability doesn't visit us in the united states. >> thank you all very much. >> on wednesday, ways to reduce unnecessary government spending with iowa governor kim reynolds and citizens against government waste president salma schatz testifying for the house oversight and government reform committee live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3, c-span now, and online at c-span.org. >> in his latest book titled "wasteland," robert kaplan focuses on the importance of technology on determining the world future. author of 24 books, he holds the chaii geopolitics ofn. three in his 177 page book, he claims, "civilization is now in flux. the ongoing decay of the west is manifested not only in racial tensions coupled with new barriers to free speech, but in the deterioration of dress codes

security, which organized protests against the implementation of a pottery policies in south and east africa. and he did quote for the country to be gone to independence through all those years to was forced into exile in the ninety's sixty's after he was arrested. and caused with organizing popular resistance in the country. but he was also elected president of swap, pointing up students. yeah. at the swap who members we are told ended up in south africa's notorious robin island prison. but he spent because it's all establishing slow for offices in neighboring states and gone, or an international and diplomatic, even military support for the independence of them to be ad swap will struggle, neil my and his compact. he is petition to the united nations to in. so that because colonial administration often and maybe i and even though the, you in a cri that so that because of that would be, was illegal. so that's because the fused at the time to give up his occupation to the country. the time went by. that is visually suffered when a majority in the number be an eviction add to zack's, if wasn'

east africa. the british invaders infringed on the most basic rights of the local population. great britain pursued the policy of squeezing out the local population from their indigenous lands. the best airable areas were given to white farmers, dooming canyon stepfather, d, and hunger. this caused a sharp protest of the peasants and led to the emerging of the mile mile movement, which started the fight against the invaders. the rebels called themselves canyon land and freedom army disappeared. so, leader of the movement with the anti colonial, active as jo, mo kenyata, the freedom fighters used guerrilla tactics and attacked the individual units of the british troops. the latter responded with massive air raids and artillery effects. when suppressing the uprise of london relied on the maximum cruelty over $50000.00 kenyans were killed. about 300000 people were thrown into prisons and concentration camps, where tortures in no way inferior and cruelty to the nazis was widely practiced. the veracity of the colonial list only led the temporary success. in 1963, the british empire

we will be closely following at from that side, east africa. okay. now this carbon eel drop is looking on this the mid stage of february. i'll be back at the top of your office. do hope you can keep the company, [000:00:00;00] the fellow, and then take a yes, it doesn't sound well. how would i type that down and see what pad said? well, 9 phone, go ahead and 9 phone comes on and go to it. so bobby, just being sunday saving though some of the way well months have been a change since you've been to all that don't care. yes, i'm sorry to interrupt you being the total attention. well miss, i almost say that's all my 2 thoughts which on team $1.90, you'll find me well mentors down to see.

you see those from southern africa had they need to lead us from east applicant, they need to have the and it was a join to meeting what will happen is that the separations will be put together, compiled and handed over to the heads of states this weekend. we are hearing reports of friction between the east applicants and the southern africans. so i mean, these advocate feel that southern advocate shouldn't take the lead and as per se they all given basically is that the leading edge of full out in the d. c. conflict countries, any in east africa will be more effective than those in southern africa is always going to be talks about measuring the different piece posted as together for this i'll be able to lawanda piece process. you have to narrow the piece process. the piece process is trying to get that to need us to sit and that talks together that is a d. i see president just the katie and that are ones that play the die me. then that will be a piece for us is just trying to get all the pay us around the table, including the rebels. the problem is that the d. c, president, the city w

controls the lake area bordering when the is always up to correspondence. telling the story from east africa inventories and not just all of our advocate lead is a meeting for the annual summit. but 1st, let's go to catherine story in nairobi who's following the developments on the ground in eastern d. c. as a cap, and what do we know is actually happening right now, and because we has the city full into them to anything well a m 23 and it's all lies. how not specifically said that they have taken cover, but all the signs that we have seen that i'm 23 flights of e and around the city they have been talking to the residents. in fact, i have just a hard eclipse from one of the command is paddling a residence in book how to go back to that homes of for a little while so that the fighters can clean up. uh and you know, secure will, uh the area and they will uh come back and continue doing business. so they was telling that uh to the residents that we also know uh, in the last 2 days, uh at, um, the government soldiers have been leaving that area so they do withdrew uh from because uh the governm

odyssey, i suppose, to be skipping that will make the 8 even more necessary for the members of east africa where i get involved their lead because they accused of supporting rebels. and finally the saying that defending themselves to also get into that wall, they need to know that is uh, tracy bit for a disaster. basically, issues in the odyssey, being funded by a candle vested interest, and they deal politics around this region. okay, we'll leave it there in martin all this. thank you so much. you're speaking to us from i robi, thank you for joining us for me. aside for the weather, she was opportune. the color of the weather may still a little of the cold side across the middle east, cold enough for some snow, some rice, certainly about big fan of cloud. cal central pasa sally. right? that's in a few spots of rain here in caught off we by right, pushing across into iran and that will continue to drive its way further east, which as we go through, choose a grassy tends to snow the fall of kind of starting to the channel. so it was a bit a bit whether it would cost us to go through. i choo

and left him out of this discussion what the talks mean for other regions, such as the middle east, africa, or a or even the asia pacific. the reason this is significant for, for folks that agent or in africa or in latin america, is because if russia, in a matter of weeks after trump becomes president, can normalize relations with the united states is referrals the doors opened, disabled. what else is possible? i think that there's a huge concern for europe that if the united states and russian normalize relations and they kind of move on without them as to what seems to be happening in this conversation. it leaves europe and a very tough position. why is that? because what the 0 of actually bringing to the table, they don't bring a whole lot to the, to the world table, other than siding with the united states. western europe does whatever the united states wants them to do. that's kind of been their role since world war 2. the problem is this, when, when the united states has lots of worked with russia and let's normalize relations and let's expand the drilling and oil exploration and dom

but we have to correspondence following the story from east africa home attached to it was an audi. some of our african leaders are meeting for an african new summit. the 1st let's go to katherine sway in nairobi is holding a little developments on the ground in a d. c. so catherine, 1st the any indication of whether or not so because who has actually been taken or whether it is still teetering, when it comes to m, trying to take control of that important location? i. yes, we have seen the empty 3 a rebels and the lines of moving to woods um because towns, so we've seen the marching uh to uh, because uh the city center. and this has happened um the last 2 days. uh, we have seen also the uh government soldiers also leaving because and because of that uh, security guards. uh, we have seen a lot of told me 6 and government offices of people's homes have been looted as well. and also aid agencies. uh who are there um, you know, the properties that have been looted as well. now we've been hearing from um, you know, the entities, we are asking people to state a cons. so the um, you know,

we will be going to the summit, the joint summit of east africa communicate with southern african development, the, the group we're looking for to this. we think it's an opportunity to, to get back on track and to fund we have a solution for the people of this region. what kind of negotiations if at all, are rolanda holding on the current situation. we want the sd lar, which is this london genesee there, that is in the d r c. to be neutralized. well, the help of the book that is happening right now with the government of deer c, financing and fighting alongside them, them stronger. now this group that they have ever been and they're more of a data to us than they have ever been. we want them neutralized, this is what the law under the toxic and i'm going to well about neutralizing this group. we want the refugees for here from scattered around the region to release the to see refugees. to go back to the homes and be safe. they're safe from persecution. safe from attacks, from the hate speech to the government of the receipt has been propagate to forego the form. and we would also like to see

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close attention to the meeting, but what do the talks mean for other regions such as the middle east, africa, or a or even the asia pacific? a? well, i think it means it means a lot for everyone, right, because what they see is polarized position, but the u. s. position on russia was so polarizing for the last 3 years. and really, if we go all the way back to 2014, it's been this way for over 10 years now, a very polarized position that was in direct opposition. the desire to see nato continued to in circle around russia and to isolate russia. that's, that's what we've been hearing now from our leaders in the united states for at least 3 years now, over and over we keep hearing how a rush it must be isolated financially and must be isolated from other global markets that needs to be removed from power we've had lawmakers who have made these wild statements. the reality is, is that if there is any country in the world that is more polarized, in terms of the way the us use and the russian, i wish someone would point to it on a masters part of the reason this was significant for, for folks at a

horizons middle east & africa anchor to monitor veggie -- joumanna bercetche joints me now.his is a president who is not backing down from possibly one of the most controversial geopolitical policies that he has in his armory. >> yeah. that's right. the past couple days, even his aides tried to dial back some of the language that came through from trump at that press conference a couple days ago. but last night, he put out a post on true social where he did double down on those comments vis-a-vis taking ownership of gaza. he said in the true social post, the gaza strip will be turned over to the united states by israel at the conclusion of fighting once palestinians had already been resettled. he said the u.s. would then work with development teams from all around the world to slowly begin the reconstruction of what would become, in his language, one of the greatest of elements of its kind. he also added, no soldiers by the u.s. would be needed. of course, this is echoing some of the comments i came through from the secretary of state marco rubio who said that any transfer o

implementation of the ceasefire agreement tests. ingram is a communications manager for the middle east and north africa. unicef. she's in gauze, the ccs and toes as well. the media needs on the ground. one of the biggest challenges we're having is with items that were on the stool. use list that's a long standing restriction on certain items that can come into gaza. we need those for repairs of water systems. for example, pipes for, for was a and generate is to run pumps. we also need fuel to operate those generators. so there's a lot of things that are not necessarily caustic humanitarian aid, like nutrition, supplies, or medicines that we need to bring in to support the people in this moment of intense devastation and, and hopefully rebuilding us. and they will get fired westbank for more than 2 weeks . thousands of palestinians have been under his ready siege trapped to the homes, as well as she focused on jeanine refugee camp of the north. hold of 26000 public signals that have been forced to flee that homes. the u. an agency for palestinian refugees, owner says major sections of the camp, but bein

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i mean, that's the kind of value for dollars to deliver a shot of vaccine in east africa.these are the figures of a highly efficient, highly effective good investment. and that's the rallying call we're making to the u.s. government. let's reform together. let's deliver more value for money together. but we're also saying to those outside the u.s. government, come and support these vital programs. >> when i've seen the examples, you know, there are all these examples being published on on x on twitter. um, nothing. i haven't come across a single case that seemed like it was fraud or corruption. there are a lot of them which are, you know, ones that clearly the people tweeting them out disagree with. but have you seen any of anything here? you know, that's publicly been released that suggests, you know, fraud or corruption or anything like that? >> i think the first thing to say, it's important to be very rigorous and very zealous about the way in which aid money is delivered and to make sure it reaches the right people. second point, all of the international evidence shows

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the had a lie, they will have a look at the weather across africa in a moment, the 1st to the middle east and live bandwidth. things have turned very unsettled thanks to a weather system. we're going out of the eastern med, moving down from the black sea as well. so we're seeing wintery and wet weather continuing from 4 to a kia it is looking a lot cold and could only 2 degrees celsius on thursday. usually the weather in winter, weather, pushing across iraq into western areas of iran. we have got some am but a lot south for that snow. we're expecting some stronger winds as well, and temperatures offsets to continue to edge down that we'll see change in the wind across the gulf on friday we could see some scattered showers in places like could talk temperature in doe hot 25 degrees celsius. cooler across, live and cooler as well for the north east of africa for the likes of egypt, only 16 degrees celsius. and kyra, with those blustery winds blowing down, we've seen some heavy rain continuing to affect to nicea and pots of algeria as well as not as well as what we're seeing across madagasca

i talked to one pediatrician out in east africa who is involved in pepfar. their staff is going to be reduced by half because of this usaid cut. so when we're talking about programs that even have made it through the waiver, those will be impacted by this usaid cut. and that's just one sliver of our global humanitarian relief efforts. >> and by the way, it's not just those folks who work abroad. and it's not just civil service workers in washington who are impacted. also, we're learning first responders are going to take a hit. nbc's jacob soboroff, tell us about that. >> yeah, that's right. >> the trump administration's hiring. freeze has effectively stopped the hiring of federal firefighters. all throughout the federal firefighter system. >> and you might say. >> didn't know there was a federal firefighter system. >> well, there's. >> about 15,000. >> to. >> 20,000 federal firefighters. >> depending on the season. >> many of them are. >> seasonal, either. career or temporary seasonal. >> workers. >> which means that every year that there is a significant o

we know that there's just in east africa, across south sudan that's working on a massive refugee crisisions of lives are already at risk, and u.s. food and humanitarian support is significant. so for us, it's a small comfort when much vital sanitation and protection and other aid is all in limbo. when we provide clean water, it needs to be complemented with the right kind of food to help and support kids who are facing hunger and worse. and so it's just the ripple effect. the domino effect is massive. >> foreign aid workers are also on edge, as these cuts could force more than 10,000 people who are part of this agency out of work. one employee outlined to the new york times that she had to file for unemployment, had to get food stamps. but she called herself lucky, continuing, i have coworkers that are going through ivf and they've lost all their benefits. people going through cancer treatments with parents on hospice and they were the breadwinners. i know there are so many others having to deal with that, and it is literally going to break them. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i

if you want to prevent ebola from breaking out of east africa and hopping on a plane, an eight hour planeback to washington, d.c. if you want to prevent that, usaid does that by working with the centers for disease control and prevention, another agency very much under threat right now to prevent that ebola outbreak or other infectious diseases that emanate from developing countries, from getting on that plane and sickening and killing millions of americans. so on the conflict side of things, usaid stabilization efforts work to prevent small conflicts from getting much bigger. you know, our secretary of defense yesterday morning at the pentagon, at the town hall meeting, said his job is to. deter conflict. and when you don't have water and you're an iraqi farmer or a syrian farmer, you can't feed your family because you can't farm. you become desperate and desperate. people do desperate things, including turning to violent extremist organizations. so if secretary hegseth actually wants to deter conflict, he needs to encourage congress to fully appropriate funds for state department and us