anchor: there was a report released by the international crisis group earlier this month that said thattrategies led by france is foundering, the report called for eight course correction. are international backers disappointed by the results of the president's strategy? >> the whole situation is disappointing. for the past eight years, there has been considerable amounts of money, energy, and time invested into trying to strategize the region. the results are not good so far. i don't think that disappointment or questioning is only about the french strategy, but of course the french strategy is a core component of this. what needs to be reconsidered is the whole approach. in terms of whether or not it is possible to address the situation with a mainly military focused strategy, or what level of other strategies need to be levied in. there has been a recognition for a broader governance approach, but this is not translating into results. another element perhaps that we really should consider more is the way in which different types of violence interacts. adapting a strategy with extremi

for more on this we're joined by the international crisis group's ethiopia researcher william davis and he joins us on skype from nairobi thanks for your time so this report documented ethnic cleansing this was already suspected wasn't it. yes exactly during or something approaching ethnic cleansing anyway i mean during the early stages of the war. the federal forces intervened into west integrate they were accompanied by forces from the neighboring horror region including some irregular militia that was part of the military campaign to oust to graze regional government but many of those i'm horrified actions also have the intention of reclaiming what they see as a land in west integrate and these reports indicate that there has been significant the population of to grey and from those areas in western degree but much of this has been under covered under reported so far because of the lack of access to those to gradients who have fled in we believe huge numbers into central to court can you explain that ethnic element a little bit more for us why some might feel this way toward some to

just great to get your analysis to appreciate that hans to marie hunt group from the international crisis group joining us from nairobi thank you. now as military has denied carrying out a coup and pledges once again to hold elections next year a spokesman of the armed forces says that they had no choice but to seize power moments later the lawyer of the deposed leader and sense e.g. said the military has filed additional charges against his protests across into the 11th day scott hytner is monitoring the situation from the thai capital of bangkok 1st up scott did we really hear anything new from the military and what about these charges. no really nothing new from the military nic those are things that have kind of been said already through statements and through kind of the initial announcements from the head of the military of the coup and why they staged the coup so not really too much more detail but some things that they were a little bit interesting in and one thing that is new is that part about how they'll be the 2nd charge against on song suchi we were supposed to hear tomorrow wednes

and now william davison with us as well in nairobi a senior ethiopia analyst at the international crisis group i think it's malcolm's point is really important the fact that information is hard to actually get out of there that said do you think this huge inflation in numbers we see is actually possibly quite accurate. $52000.00 figure is seems likely to be. a significant overestimate but it is very hard to tell. just i think one thing to note is this number in need of food aid almost must be inflated because that number is larger than degrees estimated pre conflict population therefore we might assume that the livestock figures that is based figures and the fatality figures are also significant over estimates that said there have been widespread reports of atrocities against civilians initially against that to great forces and then against the other hard for sins against the ethiopian government forces including due to shelling of residential areas and particularly against the eritrean forces that have been party to this come so all these people who are going hungry some risk of starvation wh

good evening i mean thank you my name is william davis a and i'm a senior analyst for international crisis group also have a history of working as a foreign correspondent based in. you are so used to following stories that come out of ethiopia reporting on stories from ethiopia how would you characterize the relationship between the current administration and journalists right now. and certainly one that is strained i think. i think you know with this new administration came to power in 2018. after sort of 3 years of protests in ethiopia and that was sort of seen as a spring time in ethiopia lots of promises of democratic reform and one of the things that people were hoping for is that the some previous destructions on the press that we saw would be eased so in the past we've seen so jailing of journalists and all sorts of harassment of the press and there was this hope that this would be a new era and the certainly has been some positive achievements as with many parts of this transition some journalists who were previously exiled returned some new media sprung up but really if this is the unit

cotton stick upwards to the whole of the shoes or now there was a report released by the international crisis group earlier this month that said that the sec had a stabilization strategy led by france is foundering the report called for a course correction in france's approach i want to ask you are international backers of france's approach disappointed by the results of president mccrone strategy thus far well i mean. the horse trading. is the pricing by. far salberg nations but our international partners they say well it sure is there has to be a considerable amount of money energy and jobs invested in trying to do stuff like that for the region and. that can mean survive so i don't think the disappointments are questioning more than the past 70 but the best strategy for going to. what needs to be read in syria as my. betters mentioned is the folks in terms of. whether or not it was with reference to beijing when so many already marrying are. so many time and. military budget strategy or a level of credit you need to be planted in that has been a recognition of our broader going back to the. seve

from the hague was nasty to hans de marie who is the central africa senior analyst of the international crisis group is joining us from nairobi kenya thanks for your time as this trial begins today is that we're just saying it's likely to go on for a month what will you be looking out for. well the 1st let's see if the prosecutor and i says you know we have enough evidence. to convict those people on. that point because from your point of people in bunky those 2 people are already condemned already culprit of all of those opposition that is the common feelings of the late. in the capitana or even into not a western battle of. so if we have those 2 people are released for example or not that end of the process or the prosecutions doesn't. send in bigoted sic not to some of those people on the ground the justice quarter at. the communities and. public society what we're also looking for is how 'd to really does the militia react to these prosecutions with debby's care of i.c.c. therefore improve the behaviors limited trustees that are committing against the population of conventionally deciding that t

cut out on stick upwards to the whole missions or no there was a report released by the international crisis group earlier this month that said that the sec had a stabilization strategy led by france is foundering the report called for a course correction in france's approach i want to ask you are international backers of france's approach disappointed by the results of president mccrone strategy thus far well i mean. the hawtreys. disappointing by. far salberg nation but what about arms national safety well it sure is there has to be a considerable amount of money energy and. even in trying to do stuff like that there we can. survive so i don't think the disappointments are questioning more than the past 70 but the best strategy for going to. what needs to be read as bitter and as my. betters mention. the folks in terms of. whether or not it was with reference to be when so many already marrying are. so remaining time and military budgets strategy or a low level. strategy needs to be planted in that have been a recognition of our broader going back to the. seventy's. this is going to be leading i

group who's a central africa senior analyst of the international crisis group is joining us from nairobi kenya thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so as are saying there are the highest ranking ante bellum leaders to face trial talk us through how significant you think it is and how significant it is that the i.c.c. is taking this on. well i think the 1st importance of those trying to do is to send a message to different villages around the country and also a piece of real short cut population. to see the international community in general and this government committed to justice for which a crime been committed in 20132014 during the 1st decision war in that country already but until a month is deducted caught or so dems off the dock watching to try to explain to the look at the polish on the wall time to time the kind of misperception of what i.c.c. wrote east of exactly what the international justice is on what is the process i was told that the process to try was going to be. lively forward by certain population disposition camino codes in burundi but on to the mount. is that.

solid fighters in the both sites have been accused of atrocities william davidson this international crisis group's ethiopia researcher he says the conflict is field tensions about land rights. during the early stages of the war. the federal forces intervened in the west integrate they were accompanied by forces from the neighboring region including some irregular militia that was part of the military campaign to oust the greys regional government but many of those am horrified actions also have the intention of reclaiming what they see as an horror land in west integrate and these reports indicate that there has been significant the population of to grey and from those areas in in western degree but much of this is being under covered under reported so far because of the lack of access to those degree and who have fled and we believe huge numbers into central to quit as the federation which has an ethnic or multi national character was created in the 1990 s. regional states was created and it's at that point that the un horace say they were depopulated from these areas in western ukraine so was th

more on this from andrew watkins, who is senior analyst specialising in afghanistan for international crisis group agree? thank ou for of failure, do you agree? thank you for having _ of failure, do you agree? thank you for having me. _ you for having me. unfortunately, the nature of peace processes anywhere around the world is that they will often face a high probability often face a high probability of failure. the things that start conflict and continue them, as they have in afghanistan for a0 years, are often very difficult obstacles to overcome, no matter how a his —— peace process is structured. but the steps the trump administration took to get here, there is no doubt this process is particularly fragile at the moment. what others obstacles? _ fragile at the moment. what others obstacles? the - fragile at the moment. what - others obstacles? the obstacles are that both _ others obstacles? the obstacles are that both sides _ others obstacles? the obstacles are that both sides of _ others obstacles? the obstacles are that both sides of the - are that both sides of the conflict, the taliban an

sudanese and chaldeans are still inside libya claudia's ini is a senior libya analyst at the international crisis group she says the path ahead for libya's peace process will not be smooth. this list was chosen more not so much as an endorsement for the less but i think they won more as a reaction to the other list meaning they won because the vote was for no for the other list but let me be clear the path towards election is not going to be smooth in fact for this government this lineup these 4 men to to take seat and take power they still need to overcome other hurdles remember the process and the u.n. acting representative underscored this in today's remarks the process in the region is that these 4 men still have to get parliamentary approval so they have 20 with the prime minister has 21 days to form a cabinet and present it to this show are and remember the h.-o. are is a divided institution since 2015 so the challenges for the next 20 minute next 21 days to get actually the house of representatives to meet as a whole to have them endorse that cabinet that is proposed and then the question is wha

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some analysis on this from william davison earlier he's a senior ethiopia and last of the international crisis group and said aid agencies still don't have access to large parts of the great. we have a situation where there is ongoing conflict and insecurity again we can't be sure about how widespread or how intense that is the federal government of course after the conflict is over therefore says the reason the areas of a to gray really that are held by the to grant forces and it says it's handling a distribution itself but this means that there is a continued lack of access to international aid agencies and we have to be very alarming pick a player or 2 thirds of the great entire population may need a possibly a 3rd is displayed and these are figures coming from officials appointed by the federal government to run to great in the interim but we do not have the access to the international agencies they seem to be necessary to respond to a national parent crisis of this scale i think when the pedal government comes out and claim to have won the conflict and that the enemy has been defeated when it t

there inside the country let's bring in claudia xeni she's a senior libya analyst at the international crisis group she joins us on skype from claudia welcome back to the news or listening to malik our correspondent there reporting live from tripoli it sounded like a little bit of a geography lesson we've got one guy from the east one guy from the south and one guy from the west was that part of that the whole dynamic behind choosing these 3 individual people if you get them from different geographical locations everyone can feel that they're a stakeholder in this process going forward. yes from the outset the process was designed and the delegates of this u.n. backed forum had agreed that the new presidency council would have representatives from libya's 3 historical regions and then there was also an assumption if that well which was prime minister if he was from western libya then the head of the council would be from eastern libya so in this sense we have good job graphical representation but i think the problem here which which we need to emphasize is that this is a list that one headed by mr

separatists in the vendor both sides have been accused of atrocities william davidson this international crisis group's ethiopia researcher he says the conflict to fuel tensions a bit of land rights in. during the early stages of the war. the federal forces intervened into west integrate they were accompanied by forces from the neighboring region including some irregular militia that was part of the military campaign to oust the greys regional government but many of those and horror of factions also had the intention of reclaiming what they see as an horror land in west integrate and these reports indicate that there has been significant the population of to gray and from those areas in in western degree but much of this is being under covered under reported so far because of the lack of access to those degree and who have fled and we believe huge numbers into central to quit as the federation which has an ethnic or multinational character was created in the 1990 s. a regional state was created and it's at that point that the un horace say they were depopulated from these areas in western ukraine so wa

headlines this friday morning from our 2 international armenia's parliament is under siege by opposition group says the country spirals further into crisis the opposition stands with military chiefs calling on prime minister. to step down after he saw the head of the armed forces say he was part of an attempted coup. move triggered a standoff then between thousands of his supporters and opponents leading to clashes on the streets of the capital here of our going to live report coming up from there next but some other news as well the headline into today's shot in the arm for travel through europe just may be the german chancellor says cove.

the headlines this friday morning from our 2 international armenia's parliament is under siege by opposition groups is the country spirals further into crisis the country's opposition stance with military chiefs calling on prime minister nicole personally and to step down beside the head of the armed forces say he was part of an attempted coup. move to get a standoff then between thousands of his supporters and opponents leading to clashes on the streets of the capital here of our we got a live report coming up from there next but some other news as well we're headlining 2 today shot in the arm for travel through europe just may be the german chancellor says covert vaccine passports could be in use for the months but the european commission wants it's not a done deal. good morning for russia around the world live from moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin no it allows you heard there folks in 1st this friday and events in armenia over the last 24 hours or so country in term of this morning it has to be said as the opposition their military chiefs of called on the prime minister to step 3 in and reject this offer so far of snap ele

the headlines this friday morning from our to international armenia's parliament is under siege by opposition groups as the country spirals further into crisis the country's opposition stand with military chiefs calling on prime minister nick called to step down after he yesterday sacked the head of the armed forces saying that he thought he was part of an attempted coup. and move triggered a standoff between thousands of his supporters and opponents leading to clashes on the streets of the capital here of. in other news to brief you on the e.u. chief and his open conflict with the head of the biggest member states germany as. long as i live merkel the plans for covert passports aren't set in stone. not in the morning here good morning to russia around the world live from moscow this is art international with me kevin i know it and the folks in 1st this friday and events in armenia over the last 24 hours or so it's a country in turmoil this morning as the opposition there and military chiefs of called on the prime minister to step down and rejected his offer of snap elections hundreds of the prime ministers opponents come to overnight side t

in the headlines this friday morning from international armenia's parliament is on the siege by opposition group says the country spirals further into crisis the country's opposition stands with military chiefs calling on prime minister nicola to step down after he yesterday sacked the head of the armed forces said that he thought he was part of an attempted coup. and move triggered a standoff between thousands of his supporters and opponents leading to clashes on the streets of the capital. to brief you on the e.u. chief prentiss open conflict with the head of the biggest member states germany as .

refugees that's because memories in the middle of a crisis following this month's coup the military is coming under increasing international pressure the g 7 a group of the world's wealthiest nations has condemned the jointer for its violence towards. testers saying the use of life i mean it is unacceptable 3 protesters have been killed since february 1st they are refusing to back down until deposed leader i fancy she is released let's go straightaway to tony chang our correspondent joins us live from the thai capital of bangkok i'm tony will come to the deportation in just a 2nd but 1st up what is the latest with the protests are we seeing them at the same scale as monday not of the same scale but they are still going on large numbers out on the streets in yangon others down in the south and away and i think the protesters are very keen to maintain the pressure they worked out yesterday on the military to get that message across that they are not going to back down despite the intimidation and the crackdown we saw particularly in mandalay on saturday went to protesters were killed when when the security services opened fire we also saw in mandala

every every now and then every single crisis that emerged we are going to be you know continuously ostracized as and i'm wanted group of people because the international community cannot really come to a conclusion or come to realise ation that it is the collective responsibility to prevent genocide from happening in the 1st place and ass as as a result we become be the victim that have been neglected for a very long time and in this time it is even more apparent that. that you know reindeer are not given enough support enough 8 out we're not acknowledged for our agency we're not at the discussion table we are not being listened to and so the issue can be resolved very easily if the international covenant on human rights are taken a little bit more seriously by all parties and let's end on that on a slightly more hopeful note that the parties will take this more seriously and find a solution as thank our guests now commodore they are just mean a lot and side. and thank you for watching you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion head over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward sla

crisis more and bring more international help to the u.n. says a convoy of humanitarian aid has reached central african republic the 1st since rebel groups blocked the border with cameroon last month 13 of 108 trucks that have been blocked managed to transport food and medicine into the capsule bongi a surge in violence linked to the disputed elections in december as this place more than 200000 civilians rescuers in morocco have recovered the bodies of 24 people who died when an underground textile factory flooded the private residence in the northern city of tangier was being run as an illegal workshop 10 people were found alive and taken to hospital the country has experienced heavy rainfall in recent weeks after a lengthy droughts and the world health organization is about to address the media in the chinese city of blue hand as it nears the end of its investigation into the origins of the current virus pan demick now the virus was 1st detected in blue hand in late 2019 is expected to leave the city on thursday we'll be taking you live to that press conference as and when it happens. with al-jazeera these are our top stories police of fired g

group. and in doha, afyare elmi, professor of international relations at qatar university. a warm welcome to you all. hodan, let me start with you today. what sparked this election impasse and political crisis are the issues at play here? hodan: thank you for having me on the show. that is really an important question. for ite some time now, we have been back-and-forth around finding political solutions around the elections, the pending elections. unfortunately, today, we don't have a consensus on a political election model that all stakeholders are happy with. as you know, we have had multiple meetings between the federal member state presidents and president farmajo that have ended without any political agreement. on september 17, however, there was an agreement that was signed by fms and the president and parliament that charted a way forward on an election model. everyone agreed on that, but the implementation of that has been quite contentious. there are a few key items that have been outstanding that the leadership has not found a way forward on. one is the election itself and the personnel that constituted. two, issues around the ghetto region and what the electoral process should lo

role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james pays 0 at the united nations. opposition politicians in haiti have named the president in an effort to drive out jeff you know moyes joseph messina as you louis who has been selected it's a new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says the president moyes this 5 year term expired on sunday the president says he still has another year it's rule well the 20 people were arrested on sunday for an alleged plot well the jews of messina john louis has released a video message accepting the appointments by haiti's opposition. following the resolution of the judiciary officially noting the end of the constitutional mandate of the president of the republic has excellent seems to recover no moyse on the 7th of february 2021 i declare that i accept the choice of the opposition and civil society to serve my country as in term president of the transition of rupt

role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james pays al-jazeera at the united nations. now rescue is a moral curve have recovered the bodies of 24 people who died when an underground textile factory flooders the private residence in the northern city of tangier was being run as an illegal workshop 10 people were found alive and they were taken to hospital the country has experienced heavy rainfall in recent weeks after a lengthy drought facebook and instagram say they're expanding their efforts to remove misinformation about covert 19 on their platforms groups repeatedly spreading false information will be banned that includes theory is that $1000.00 is manmade and that vaccines cause autism facebook is already removing posts debunked by the world health organization well tesla has bet big on bitcoin the cryptocurrency has hit a record price of $44000.00 a unit after the automaker invested $1500000000.00 tesla says it will soon

role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james by al-jazeera at the united nations. china has formally arrested an australian journalist on suspicion of sorry state secrets has been detained by beijing since august she had been working as a television presenter for the state owned channel c g t n is training government has repeatedly raised concerns about her detention they says her legal rights will be guaranteed. or you can find much more on our website the address for that is w w dot al-jazeera dot com. the top stories on al-jazeera meanwhile as military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities yangon and mandalay and banned gatherings of more than 5 people is intended to stop growing protests against last week's military coup military rule of being online accuse the country's democratic leaders of using the pandemic to rig november's election but also promised a new election next year but it would be for a multi

role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the factor un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james al-jazeera of the united nations. and still ahead on the news iran begins rolling out covert 1000 vaccines frontline health workers get the 1st jobs. micro finance gone wrong we take a look at why nigeria's government desponding to take legal action against thousands of rice spotless and in sports rafael nadal stocks his 21st grand slam title i said the australian open details with santa later in the show just take this room back after the show. when the snow on the ground you tend to get cold nights the snow that's falling is moving through the northeast of europe but this area here this tucked in here is the real cold stuff everything else has been staying down through spade and measuring up to the eastern side of europe so temperatures overnight at minus 14 in the scottish highlands minus $25.00 in parts of estonia that's how cold it's going to get it wasn't picking mountains thes

international attention to nigeria's kidnapping crisis. of more on this we're joined by human rights watch is in nigeria researcher. thank you for your time so previously we have seen the government negotiating with armed groups for the return of those who've been kidnapped i'm wondering if negotiating just encouraging more attacks like these and what is the alternative. thank you very much for having me and i think that these negotiations have a person not to be a holistic solution to the consistent problems of kidnapping and your authority is really need to react reevaluate your approach what we find is that it's just so soon after one attack another happens in the space of 3 months it's really worries me and it shows that. there is a trend and that is new encouraged by many of these. programs and the ringback response from europe which is. of huge sums of money the us runs even though you're dorothy's consistently denied the amount of grass and many other sources have come out really providing information that's proves otherwise and in the face of the very thing that's ongoing i think that the authorities believe revaluate there and reassess their risk and really now start to dig into some of the losses af

role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james by al-jazeera at the united nations. activists say the scramble for the nigeria is pushing millions of people into poverty and 2800 nigerian over turkey is the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because of corruption and confiscations and how resources distributed. reports from. in 7 years. has fought at least 16 court cases of land been taken and justly but lost most of them the lawyer an activist says the poor are up against the powerful who have the resources to manipulate the judiciary i handle a case where local traditionally. used area courts. succeeded in land from peace sent. who are not apart from that form and then dead in abject poverty and many equally among the politicians he says many landowners and witnesses are being intimidated into silence. across nigeria there is a huge demand for land for housing projects