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Monocle 24: The Briefing
"eln" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"After the initial announcement, this is clearly a setback, but what kind of setback is this for president Petro? Yeah, it is clearly a setback and it was a mistake by the government to announce on New Year's Eve that they had in fact reached multilateral ceasefire with the ELN, the rebel group. You just mentioned. And then the ELN said, well, actually, that's not correct. We deny reaching any agreement. We haven't agreed to a ceasefire. So in that sense, it's a public relations disaster. It's early mistake. It's a minor setback. If you look at it over the long term because people were very surprised that the initial announcement was made, people aren't expecting that just after a few months of peace talks that the ELN and the government is going to reach such an important agreement. The agreement was to have a ceasefire that would last for at least 6 months and then could be prolonged. People were surprised by this. So it is a setback, but it's the damage is limiting because both sides have said that the second round of peace talks will in fact still go ahead. They're set for the 20th of January and Mexico. Then later said, yes, we will be willing to discuss any proposed ceasefire agreement in the second round of peace talks. So the peace talks are still on, I would say it's a minor setback and it's certainly doesn't look good as far as the government is concerned about their image and the announcements that they're making. So the petrol will have to obviously be more cautious about the types of announcements he's going to make during these peace talks, which will take months if not years. Well, yes, and we'll look to the future and talk a bit more about those peace talks in Mexico, the next round in a moment. But just on Petro, it is interesting. I think when we spoke just before Christmas and I said, it was interesting. We talked about Petro's perhaps uniquely well qualified role in getting this done given his own rebel past. There's an opportunity if perhaps not an unprecedented opportunity. He certainly has a an important combination of qualities. Do you think that that holds true despite this gap, maybe a misjudgment here, as you say, it's only a sort of a hiccup. It doesn't sort of hold him beneath the water line. Yeah, I think ultimately the fact that the star war Petro is Columbia's first leftist president, as you said, he was himself in his youth, a member of another rebel group called M 19, the chief negotiator for the government is also a former M 19 rebel member. So he is well placed his negotiating team certainly understands the rebels. They understand the struggle. They outstand their aims. They can talk to the same language. There is an affinity and a certain amount of empathy between the two sides. So if anyone is going to make this deal, it's certainly going to be during this government. He still is in a good position to sit in the negotiating table with the ELN considering his past and who's doing the negotiating. But it's still going to be really, really challenging. But of all the people that have tried and the government, I mean, this is probably the 7th time that the government has tried to get a peace deal with the ELN over the years probably because of a Petro is more likely than most to get this done. Well, let's look forward then and talk a little bit about those talks in Mexico. I guess maybe on the agenda will be a little bit of PR management and media messaging. But what else is on the agenda and I wonder annexation, we touched on this before as well. Is there any role for further stakeholders? We've talked about some different institutions and international influences, which are helping this process forwards. Do you think there'll be any discussions about other stakeholders that may be also need to get involved to give this the best chance of working in the long term? Yes, definitely. So on the second round, one of the points that they're going to discuss is what is the role of civil society? What is the role of other important human rights leaders community leaders in Colombia, they are hoping to be part of these negotiations, particularly people that have been affected by the conflict and the fighting. So the role that civil society can play in these negotiations is going to be discussed also what the government is doing to combat poverty, combat corruption, the ELN is asked that those two issues are also put on the table. And I think the biggest one will be, again, looking at this possibility of a temporary multilateral ceasefire, that's got to be on the table. And in fact, the UN said yes, it will be willing to talk about that when the talks begin again in Mexico. And I did want to ask you one other thing. Just on how this sort of filters down to the man and woman on the street. Obviously looking from without we're sort of obsessed over the details and I frequently ask you these questions about the direction of travel in terms of the process, but is this still does this dominate the general public discourse? Is it on people's minds? Is it a topic of discussion around some breakfast table as people read their newspapers every day? Or is this one of the things where there's maybe a little bit of a separation between the day to day the critique and detail of what people are preoccupied with and what we, you know, thousands of miles away, make from without. Yeah, I would say that this certainly isn't not a topic around the breakfast table. It's not a priority for most Colombians. They are not interested in the details of the ELN peace deal. And for most Colombians, particularly those living in the cities and not living in rural areas, this really isn't a priority. It's not an issue, most Colombians are worried about the economy. They're worried about high inflation. They're worried about where they're going to have a job. And basically the price of food. Most Colombians will not be thinking about the ELN. However, those columbians that live in areas where the ELN is active, particularly on the Pacific Coast in western Colombia in border areas. For them, it's very, very real. The conflict is real. They often caught in the crossfire, they're displacing their communities. So for a minority group of Colombians in rural areas, yes, it is a constant issue, but for most Colombians, the ELM peace talks are still abstract and is certainly not priority. Anastasia always great to talk with you. Thanks for joining us today to bring us up to speed and happy new year to you. In the meantime, you're listening to the briefing here on monocle 24. The foreign disc is monocle 24s weekly
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Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"What should we be looking out for? I mean, it's somewhat anticlimactic at this point because who controls the Senate and who controls the house is already determined. So for a while there it looked like maybe this could dictate who ended up holding the Senate. But still, it's a really interesting race. And I think to my mind, the most interesting element about it is that Herschel Walker, who is kind of a scandal plague candidate, very gaff prone, really has no qualifications to my mind, not much policy expertise, no clear message. The fact that he is within striking distance of a U.S. Senate seat, that's kind of remarkable in and of itself. And I think in large part, this just reflects that in Georgia country writ large, it's really just Democrat Republican. It's not who the candidates actually are. So right now it looks like Raphael Warnock, the Democrat, has a slim lead according to the polls, but it's hard to say exactly what's going to happen. We'll keep a close eye upon it. Let's check in a little later Thomas and get more of a view from you on it. But thanks for now. For making sense of always compelling narrative. On the outside of the pond, that was Thomas gift from university college, London. Now let's cross in here from Monaco's Marcus hippie, he's standing by with the day's other news headlines. Thanks, Tom. A $60 price cap on Russian seaborne oil has coming into force as the world's richest nations attempt to limit Moscow's ability to define earnest its war in Ukraine. Russia said it will not abide by the measure while Ukraine has said the cap will have little impact. New Zealand's government has said it will introduce a law that will require big tech companies like Google and meta to pay for the local news content that appears on their feeds. The new bill is expected to be modeled on loss in Australia and Canada. And three Chinese astronauts have returned to earth after completing a 6 month mission on China's space station, the crew have been working on the final construction stage off the station. They safely touched down in a Chinese region of Mongolia yesterday. Those other day set lines, now back to Tom. Thank you very much indeed, Marcus, we head to Colombia now, where the country's government says it's making steady progress in peace talks with the feared ELN rebel group. Monaco's correspondent anastasio maloney has been keeping a close eye on this for us, and she joins us now on the line from Bogotá. What can you tell us about progress in these talks Anastasia? So the Columbian president announced over the weekend that the first point of agreement between the ELN rebels and the government had been made and the talks have been going on for about two weeks now in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. And the first point of agreement is that the two sides have agreed to allow an indigenous group known as the embedded to return safely back to their territory, their rainforest reserves in western Colombia. The embarrass our indigenous community that have been caught up a lot in the fighting between the ELN rebel soldiers and the government forces. And about three years ago, they were forced away from their reserves and many of them hundreds of them ended up in the capital Bogotá, where they'd been sleeping wrath, sleeping in camps, makeshift tents in the city's parks. And so this agreement is a sign that the two sides are able to agree on something. And that they said that both of them are going to ensure that the indigenous communities living in Bogotá can return back safely to their reserves in western Colombia. So it's a sign that the talks are going the right direction. Well, yeah, and can you give us a sense of how this has been achieved because it seemed at various points over the last few years that this has been somewhat unlikely because of various entrenched positions. Is it particularly significant to look at the role of president Gustavo Petro in this in terms of really being able to move the dial on these discussions? Yes, I mean, I think the fact that he was elected as Columbia's first left wing president, he is a former rebel member himself. I think that's been absolutely crucial to get the two sides talking again. This is not the first time the ELN and the Columbian government have tried to negotiate some sort of peace deal at the last time as in 2019. And the fact that he was elected as president, I think, is the real reason and the only reason why they have restarted these negotiations. And what we've been hearing from the ELN commanders is that they decided to restart the negotiation precisely because there is some sort of established trust between the two sides. As I've just said, better was a rebel a member of a rebel group during his youth. He understands guerrilla groups being a member of being a former member himself, their research implicit trust between the two sides. And I think that's why we're seeing these talks restart now and the first point of agreement already reached within two weeks. Yeah, definitely encouragement. And I wonder, we also have sort of various co sponsors of the process, Venezuela as you've mentioned, Cuba, Norway, have agreed also to be involved. Does that help to mitigate against some of the more troubling aspects? I guess there are still observers without saying, look, you know, the ELN has a big membership. It continues to derive support and financing through various ill gotten activities, whether that's moving drugs or illegal mining in this sort of thing. One could imagine those would be stumbling blocks, but it does seem there's this wider buying. Is that partly because there are these other stakeholders also supporting in the background? I think we'll see the role of the other stakeholders like Norway and Cuba. I think that what they can contribute, we haven't seen that yet because the talks are still the early stages. I think that the real stumbling block and the big issue here is the question of the ceasefire. And it's important to note that this first point of agreement that's been reached does not include a ceasefire. And of any kind. So I think when the ceasefire, if there is one, and they agree to one, I think the countries like Norway like Cuba will be important in the sense that they will play some sort of role in monitoring that ceasefire and reporting back to say whether actually it's been implemented or not. I think then we'll see to what extent those other countries will play important role. But at the moment, it's too early to say whether they will be pivotal in breaching some sort of peace deal because it's still too early on in the peace talks. Well, yeah, and with that very obvious and reasonable caveat and let me just ask you a bit about a potential final settlement. Obviously we now have details from if we go back to what was it 2016, the big agreement with the farc, of course. These kinds of small developments that we're seeing, do we have any sense of what a meaningful truth, a proper final settlement could one day look like as we inch along and with this caveat you've provided, do we start to see a potential pathway to that kind of settlement? I don't think so at the moment, the pathway has been set as you just mentioned in 2000 and 16 when the farc, which is the big gorilla group. They had reached an agreement of peace deal. We know that that peace deal took years to negotiate and to be agreed upon. And the big issues, apart from the ceasefire in the future, will be how much the ELN will admit and recognize its part in drug trafficking.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"He reiterated that from where he stands, there is, I quote, no case for the UK to return to the EU. Exactly. I mean, just to give a little plug to an FT film that we made recently called the Brexit effect. We call this a conspiracy of silence. Amongst British Britain's political elite, the fact is the conservatives don't really want to reopen the base of our Brexit, but neither does the opposition Labor Party. I think something around 30% of labor supporters backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum and Keir Starmer's very conscious of the fact that you start talking about it. Again, you alienate the very voters you need to win back who subsequently voted for Boris Johnson in the 2019 general election. So Kia Saba is very keen to avoid talking about Brexit, gave a speech to the CBI employers conference today where he rejected any sort of idea that we might return to free movement of labor or more liberal migration regime. So both the past, both the main parties are refusing really to have an honest debate about the problems that Brexit has caused. And so you start having an after debate about that, it's very hard to have a proper debate about how you start fixing them. George Parker, at the Financial Times, thank you, as always, for joining us. You're listening to the briefing. Here is monocle 24s Emma searle with the day's other headlines. Thanks, Andrew. Russia has said that it no longer intends to topple the Ukrainian government. This marks a departure from the beginning of the Russian invasion in February, when Moscow attempted to overthrow the Ukrainian government and install a puppet regime in Kyiv. Officials in Beijing have closed parks shopping centers and museums and resumed mass testing for COVID-19. It comes as China battles a spike in cases. Many people have pushed back against the measures amid concerns that fresh lockdowns will be implemented. A jury is to begin deliberating in the trial of 5 people accused of the attack on the U.S. capitol in January 2021, the group which is known as the oath keepers is accused of seditious conspiracy, constructing offices and destroying government property. And European ministers are meeting in Paris to negotiate a huge funding boost for the continent's space programs. The European space agency wants 22 nations to back a budget of €18.7 billion over the next few years. Those that is headlines, back to Andrew. Thank you, Emma, you are listening to the briefing with me Andrew Muller. Now the 2016 deal between the government of Colombia and pestilential militia group farc was a considerable diplomatic accomplishment, winding down half a century of war and garnering the Nobel Peace Prize for Colombia's then president and repeat monocle 24 guest, Juan Manuel Santos. It did not completely end the conflict, however, and Colombia's new president Gustavo Petro seems intent on doing exactly that. His government has reactivated dormant talks with the last rebel group still active, the Marxist militants of the national Liberation Army, or ELN. I'm joined with more on this by Anastasia maloney, Monica's correspondent in Bogotá. Anastasia, first of all, the ELN themselves at this point, how serious an outfit are they? Well, they're very serious in outfit in the sense that they can cause serious damage to communities living in rural Colombia. They have combatants between 4005 thousand depending on who on who you ask, they are still considered an active force as you just mentioned, they have started negotiation talks with the Colombian government yesterday in Caracas and Venezuela. They're still very much of the initial stage, but the yield seem to be at least in public committed to exploring these peace talks which many say will take months if not years. But if they weren't at the negotiating table, they would still be an important significant guerrilla force that causes problems in Colombia and does control parts of some Colombia and border areas. How much militia activity is there still despite the peace agreement? There's quite a lot. In fact, on Sunday, the government reported that 18 people had died in clashes between what are called farc dissident groups. These are factions that rejected the 2016 peace deal with the government there about 2500 combatants that make up various factions of the farc dissidents. And the clashes between these two groups on Sunday were 18 people died just shows that they are very much still active, particularly in the southern provinces of Colombia. They are trying to expand their territory to take over more control of particularly areas that are drug trafficking routes that are rich with gold, gold mining, and they are still very much active as well as other armed groups and organized crime groups. So for the star war bedroom, he's obviously inherited these problems that have been structural problems that no governor has been able to solve for 60 60 years now. But his policies being look, we know that this violence exists. I'm offering an olive branch. I'm offering to negotiate and start some sort of dialog with any armed group. That's willing to talk with the government. That's been his strategy so far. I mean, president Petro could reasonably make the case that he knows the militia groups better than most political interlocutors given that he was as much younger man, a member of one. Does he hope that that will give him some leverage some credibility with the remaining militias? Absolutely. I mean, it's very clear that the ELN have started restarted peace talks with the government Gustavo Puerto precisely because there is empathy and understanding between the president and the ELN because, as you just said, Petro was himself a former guerrilla member. So they feel that they can trust him. There is this implicit trust and understanding between them, which is precisely why they are negotiating. And Petro said to all the armed groups and the factions and the farc dissidents in Columbia said, look, during my presidency, I am offering you negotiating. I want to strike peace deals with you. Obviously, in exchange for information about drug trafficking, handing back, seized land, and even reduced prison sentences. So it is likely perhaps that other groups will come forward. I think they are looking at how the ELM peace negotiations are going to progress. But that's his strategy so far. He's pledged total peace in Colombia. And that means basically negotiating peace with any type of armed group. Is there a political risk here for Petro, though?
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Ahead, but first a look at what else is happening in today's news, rescue workers in Indonesia are racing to reach people still trapped following yesterday's earthquake. The European Union has warned that violence could erupt over the car plates dispute between Kosovo and Serbia and Colombian government and rebel group ELN have become fresh peace talks in Venezuela. Stay tuned to monocle 24 throughout the day for more on these stories, but first a week after 6 people were killed in a bomb attack in central Istanbul, Turkish forces have launched a series of air strikes on suspected militant targets in Syria and Iraq. Well, I'm joined now by monocle 24 regular Ruth michaelson. She's a journalist based in Istanbul, a very good morning to you, Ruth. Good morning, Emma. So what is the latest on these air strikes? We have the defense minister yesterday saying that only terrorists and structures belonging to terrorists were targeted. That's right. I mean, the Turkish government coming out with some extremely strong language about what they said was a large number of strikes targeting what they designated terrorists across northwest Syria and into the northeastern region of Iraq. In response, there were statements from the spokesman for the Syrian democratic forces. That's a kind of coalition of different groups based in northern Syria. He said that two villages that were heavily populated with displaced people were had come under Turkish bombardment and that this had resulted in 11 civilian deaths and the destruction of a hospital a power plant and grain silos. This morning we're starting to see statements from both the State Department in the U.S. and from Russia saying that they are hoping for what Russia called restraint in northern Syria. Because we've seen some statements from Turkish president Erdoğan threatening a ground offensive once again in northern Syria. There's a lot to get through there, but whose narrative is coming across as the most accurate at the moment. An extremely good question. I think it's fair to say that we are seeing competing narratives about what's going on, certainly in terms of the civilian death toll. Turkey has regularly undertaken air strikes in northern Iraq and some parts of northern Syria. There has been the accuracy of civilian counts and things like that is quite hard to ascertain when this happens. And we also know that turkey and Erdoğan in particular have been making statements throughout the past year really about wanting to launch a ground invasion into northern Syria. And that's why we're now starting to see this pushback particularly from Russia, which has some troops present on the ground in northern Syria and has been trying to discourage Erdoğan from launching this ground invasion for some time. This has been the situation that has been rumbling for several years, hasn't it, and you mentioned that the number of air strikes, the Turkish military carry out in northern Iraq. But this was prompted by this bomb last week in the middle of Istanbul. That's right. I mean, this awful bombing that was that hit a major shopping street in the center of Istanbul. On a Sunday afternoon, so timed to cause maximum destruction. What we saw afterwards, Erdoğan flew to he expressed condolences and then flew to the G 20 and the majority of the statements that we saw right after the attack happened came from the interior minister who made extremely strong statements blaming Kurdish militants to PKK and the PYD for the attack. Both of whom came out and said that they were not responsible and that they had no intention of attacking civilians. But the statements from the Turkish government on this area kept coming and there was a narrative that the woman that was responsible for the attack despite coming from a part of northern Syria that is occupied by turkey, they said that she had entered turkey illegally through areas occupied by Kurdish militants and launched this attack, and so I knew then took undertook some effort to say that there was that they would not accept condolences from the United States, which is a statement we then saw sort of walked back by Erdoğan later on where he essentially announced that turkey had accepted condolences from the United States. Which backed some of the mudstones in northern Syria. Indeed, and just explain a little bit more about this rowing back on the acceptance of condolences, because the United States is a key player in this, isn't it? Absolutely. So the United States has provided support to the PYD and some of the other Kurdish militants in northern Syria in the fight against the Islamic State. And that's where we saw a statement from the State Department last night, essentially saying we condolences for the loss of civilian life and we urge the escalation in Syria to protect civilian life and support the common goal of defeating ISIS. So from a U.S. perspective, this is all a distraction from the bigger sense of threat and Erdoğan after Soyuz statement saying initially we would not accept condolences from the United States, was then pictured sitting with Joe Biden in Indonesia at the G 20 the next morning. Tell us a little bit more about where you think this may go. It sounds as if people Erdoğan sounds of his straining at the leaf to take further action. Well, that's been the case. Certainly from Erdoğan's perspective for the past few months, we saw that in repeated meetings with Russian and also Iranian officials earlier this year. That he has made statements saying, you know, this is something that turkey needs for its security. We need to create what he has described as a buffer zone in northern Syria. And that at every turn, the Iranians and Russia in particular have turned around essentially and said, this is not an option. Please scale this back Moscow is not interested in having to reposition its forces or mediate this conflict at the moment given post its invasion of Ukraine. And Erdoğan has repeated these statements over a number of months that this is something that he would consider. It certainly seemed recently as though that intention had been scaled back and now yesterday he repeated it again saying this is not just limited to an air campaign. And so that is the threat that there would be the potential for ground troops in northern Syria, which is why we're now seeing pushback once again from Moscow. And his motivation for this often the question is asked, is this to please domestic audience? Well, I mean, it's hard to argue that there's an international audience for this action. That certainly would not seem to be the case. The Erdoğan and his justice and development party are positioning themselves as the party of security, the party that is protecting turkey and understand the only ones that understand this level of threat because we are slowly coming into an election season here in turkey. There's an election expected. Next June, if not before, and we've seen over the past few months that parties have been lining up to attack Erdoğan and his party from the right. And that the AKP and Edwin have responded by talking about deporting more Syrian nationals from turkey and talking about these things much more within a kind of security framing and protection and this falls into that narrative. Bruce Michaels and thank you. Thank you so much for joining us on monocle 24. You're listening to the globalist.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Petra is really key in getting these negotiations going because he himself is a former rebel member, Gustavo Petro was a member of the now extinct M 19 guerrilla group. So the fact that he is a former guerrilla member himself, he obviously understands what it means to be part of a guerrilla movement. This has been really important in kickstarting or restarting these new negotiations and something that the previous government obviously just couldn't bring to the table. Now, there are a number of other countries involved in the negotiations. Who are they? So the two sides the government and the UN have said that they are happy to have Cuba Venezuela and Norway as so called guarantor countries. And that means that they would support the peace process and negotiations and perhaps even host the host countries. So there is talk of negotiations perhaps starting in Havana and Cuba and then moving to Caracas Venezuela. Obviously, Cuba and Venezuela having left wing leaders. This also gives the ELN a piece of mind Norway is seen as a neutral country, Norway has also been involved in previous peace negotiations with other rebel groups in Colombia. And so it's seen as a good start that these three countries are seen by both sides as neutral and supportive nations that can push this peace deal through. Now, Antonio Garcia of the ELN says that the root causes of the conflict are inequality and the lack of democracy. And that really nothing will change until those are tackled. Can they be is that likely? So the ELN and any other gorilla group in Colombia have been talking about this for for decades, the yolen has been fighting precisely for those causes since the 1960s when it was founded. And I think that the piece deal and whatever, if it happens, it's certainly not going to be able to tackle those issues. Those are complicated structural issues that Colombia has had to deal with is an extremely unequal country, huge gaps between rich and poor, particularly rural poor and people that live in the cities. I mean, obviously, this is their ambitious aims and this is the reason why they saying that they've been fighting this war against the government for so many decades. I don't think anyone's expecting that those huge issues are going to be solved. But there is a glimmer of hope that these negotiations will be pushed forward precisely because the political situation has changed and we do have Colombia's first new left wing leader himself was a rebel in his youth. How active have the ELN been in their fight since 2016? Yeah, they've been really much more active since 2016 when the farc demobilized under a peace deal they made during another government that the government of Santos. They have been able to increase their control, particularly in rural areas. And they have stepped up their attacks. Including against civilians in early 2019, the ELN attacked a police academy in Bogotá, killing at least 20 young police cadets. They are active in areas where there's all production. They've always said that all production should be controlled by Colombians and they are against any foreign intervention and foreign ownership of all production and foreign oil companies so they're constantly attacking oil infrastructure, oil pipelines and also placing the tax against civilians in the areas that they control. And how much support do they have from civilians? They have very little support from civilians for Colombians living in the rural areas in the areas that they control. They are displaced by the fighting, they're caught in the middle of the fighting. They are subject to attacks to extortion, they are, they suffer greatly. For people living in the cities, the ELN isn't really a top concern or an issue. They weren't come across the land during their normal day. But for people living in rural Colombia in the remote countryside, the ELM is a real problem and they suffer because of because of their operations. Now, if there were to be an agreement, obviously, that's huge. It's historic for Columbia. How might it affect the rest of the region? I think it's going to particularly affect Venezuela because Venezuela has been accused of harboring ELN fighters and commanders across the border. Venezuela and Columbia share a very long porous border. And Colombia is always in the past accused Venezuela of allowing the EL and a sort of regroup and supply in Venezuela. So it will help Colombia and Venezuela establish even better relationship relations than they are at the moment. And I think Venezuelan Colombia will be the ones that will benefit. But ELN stretch and its reach across the region is basically focus more on Colombia and its border areas. Anastasia, thank you very much indeed. 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"Russia's military commander Ukraine has said that the situation in the southern region has become very difficult for civilians and Russian soldiers. This comes as Ukrainian forces push ahead with an offensive to retake southern and eastern areas of Ukraine. While I'm joined now by general sir Richard sheriff, who served as NATO's deputy supreme allied commander in Europe between 2011 and 2014, Richard is also the author of 2017 war with Russia, an urgent warning from senior military command. Thank you so much for joining us. Can you give us more detail on the remarks by general Sergey seraphim? Well, I can't give you more detail, but I can read into it. I think that he's clearly concerned. I think the Russians are rattled. I think they're very much on the back foot. I think they can see the way this is going, which is ultimately that the Ukrainians will prevail and achieve their military objectives. And so they're beginning in a sense the avalanche is beginning to move. I think one other thing is what I think we've got to be really concerned about is potential enforced deportation of large numbers of Ukrainians, which of course would constitute a war crime. So that's as much as I think I can read into the situation at the moment. And that enforced removal of citizens is happening at the moment. I mean, what they've been saying is that they have to evacuate people because it's, of course, dangerous for them. But as you say, they may just disappear into Russia. I think that could easily do that. And I think they're using the deteriorating military situation for the Russians as an expedient to effectively mass deport large numbers of Ukrainians. I think the other thing is, I would, I think it's highly unlikely that the Ukrainians are going to get involved in a traditional battle city fighting in castle because they know that they would only be ultimately hurting their own people. And I don't think they need to do it because my reading of the situation is that the Ukrainians have been very clever at applying indirect pressure all around that southern region, closing off the bridges, making it difficult for Russia to get logistics and stuff in. And I think increasingly what you see there is a sort of besieging of Russian forces down there while they keep they keep up the pressure on multiple fronts. Which is which makes an awful lot of military sense. Isn't unusual for a Russian commander to openly admit that his forces are not doing well. Yes, it is. And I think it's a sign of weakness. It's a sign of loss of face, and I suspect you'll probably be having an interview with that coffee with Putin pretty much soon. I mean, he generals sir Robin is nicknamed general Armageddon. He has a pretty fearsome reputation. Well, he's yet another in the line of Russian generals nicknamed butcher Armageddon and the like. Of course, he replaced his predecessor, was known as the butcher, and he was sacked because he failed. I think sir Robin likewise, he has been in command in the south he's an air force officer. Allegedly, he's been in command in the south anyway. Up to now and they haven't done very well. And the other point I'd make is that there's mass onslaught of so called killer drones, missiles before that. It's all about terrorizing Ukrainian population. It's not changing the battlefield dynamics, which are going the Ukrainian way. You've studied Russia's military exploits in a professional capacity for many years. Are you surprised at how badly this war is going for them? Yes, I am. I have to say that at the start, I estimated that the Russians would be much, much better at combined arms, combining the various arms together into an orchestra to fight the war. I thought their logistics would be much better. And I think we've all been shattered and horrified by the utter wanton brutality that the Russians have shown. But the scene was set in the early days with that the Russian defeat and Kyiv on actually ever since then we've seen more of the same, only worse than the situation I think is getting much worse for the Russians, the mass mobilization of some 200, 300,000, the young men scooped off off the streets pretty much pretty much indiscriminately pushed into the firing line with minimum military training is only going to make the situation worse for the Russians. And how is it playing at home? How are ordinary Russians feeling about this war? Well, I think we've got to be careful about getting ahead of ourselves here. I think the signs are, but up until now, the majority of metropolitan Russians have been pretty much indifferent or apathetic. Because of the control of the information space that Putin has managed to exert and continues to exert. Not quite the same story in some of the republics of the federation places like Dagestan, the asiatic republics and the far east. Where many of the casualties, many of the units from those regions have been bearing the brunt of a casualties in the fight. So they felt the effect quite significantly. But I think as things go on, I think we're beginning to see that Putin is not controlling the information space quite as draconian as he has been able to up to now. And that, of course, as the casualties increase as Russia gets increasingly on the back foot, as news of defeats come through, all that's going to increasingly make Putin's grasp of the information space more difficult. It doesn't mean he's going to be out soon, but it's not going to make his position any more comfortable. Finally, Richard, do you think that there's any way that NATO can stay out of this conflict? I think that NATO has to remain strong. It has to it must not blink in any way. As long as it remains strong, as long as it strengthens itself and needs to be, no, let's be clear, NATO needs to be much, much stronger, as long as NATO continues to provide the unrelenting levels of support of weapons and ammunition, as long as NATO continues to remember and broadcast the fact that it will only attack Russia if attacked. Then I think NATO can stay out in a sort of fighting capacity. But of course, NATO is there providing support. So in a sense, it is already involved, but it does not need to turn into a knife fight between Russia and NATO. Richard, thank you very much indeed. That was general sir Richard sheriff, who served as NATO's deputy supreme allied commander in Europe between 2011 and 2014. Now here's monocle 24s carlotta rabello with the days other news headlines. Thanks Jerome. Ottawa's mayor has said officials waited too long to quell protests at paralyze the city earlier this year. Jim Watson was testifying at a public inquiry looking into weather emergency powers should have been used to end the protests in the Canadian capital. Hong Kong's new chief executive John Lee has delivered his maiden policy address and mapped out his priorities for the Chinese ruled city. Lee said that he wants to attract more overseas talent to Hong Kong, and also pledged to bolster national security. And EU lawmakers have urged the council of the European Union to include Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen free movement area by the end of the year. Both nations have been members of the EU for 15 years, but still remain outside the passport free zone. Those are the days headlines, back to you, Georgina. Thanks, Carlos. Now, Colombia's government and the left wing rebel group, the national Liberation Army, the ELN, have announced that they will kick start peace talks next month. Almost all of Colombia's guerrilla groups laid down their arms in 2016, but a truce with the ELN has eluded the country's political leadership. Well, let's get the latest now with Anastasia maloney Monaco's correspondent in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, Anastasia, thanks very much for joining us. Why has it been so difficult to reach a deal with the ELN? It's been difficult to reach a deal with the year and for various reasons. I think the most important one is that during the previous government, which was headed by Ivan Duque, this was a right wing conservative government. And there wasn't political will on the side of the government to engage in peace talks and also the ELN dealing with a conservative government didn't have the basis of forming any kind of trust between the two sides. However, that political situation has changed. We now have a new Colombian president Gustavo Petro, took office in August. And as the year land commander said, the political circumstances of the country have changed.
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"Country forward. And in essence, it means that even though the prime minister was reappointed by himself to tell, there wasn't sort of support for him host this 14 point agreement. And so this has made the legitimacy of his own actions very difficult. But also moving things forward has been very difficult because in last sense, most of the protesters didn't see him as a little person to make the country forward. As you mentioned, the prime minister's resignation did come amid these violent anti coup protests. Now the military is in full control, of course, bringing an end to Sudan's democratic transition. So what happens now? And what's the country's likely political future? Well, I think that it's important that the military has always been to not have a necessary network. What we did was penetrate to what it saw as a set of leadership that's working conducting with its stuff, but also its own goals. And so what we do have now is that political. Cellmate. So you don't know who's going to take control, but whoever is nominated by the would be to have religious within the force. In this case, the military, but also leadership because if not, this concludes prevents about the moving forward. So who would those protesters on the street like to see leading the country? Well, I think that's key because they're also provided. What they want is a forced Vivian leadership. They do not want any military involvement. And rightly so because of the crew and also because of the military, that side would need to be done. And that really requires it to support from the UN mission that is based in country the African Union and the regional party. But it also needs all parties to come together. Particularly with the protesters and the head to the participant and the robust and resilient approach to support some sort of bomb agreement. But also put into place sorry stabilization strategy that is supported by the African Union, egad, the troika countries in this case, U.S. UK and Norway to move the country forward. And I think if we just look at the elections as the final Pinnacle point, then we're going to be in problem here. So it's really about how do we legitimate legislative council, but also the right that give you forward. And that will take time. That's something that we will find overnight. All right, Andrew, E, your chief. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Well, strong winds are being blamed for restarting the fire at South Africa's parliament complex. Firefighters return Monday to battle the flames just a day after the initial fire caused extensive damage. The roof of one building collapsed and the chamber of the National Assembly was gutted. A 40 9 year old man is under arrest and charged with arson and theft is expected to make his first court appearance today. Or coming up next, Brazil's president is in the hospital, but his condition is said to be improving. We'll have the details for you, on the other side of the Brexit. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. Our costs for shipping in like we're cut in half, just like that. Go to ship station dot com slash TV and get two months free. CNN exclusive inside the U.S. capitol. On the anniversary of January 6th. The police, the lawmakers, and the leaders fighting for accountability, an unprecedented gathering, untold stories, and what must happen next to defend democracy. Jake tapper and Anderson Cooper host live from the capitol, January 6th, one year later, Thursday on CNN. Across Africa, businesses are working together like never before. All new on CNN connecting Africa. Join me and Lenny Jocko as we Chris cross the continent to show you how new connections between people places and projects are revolutionizing commerce in Africa. All new connecting Africa Saturday on CNN in association with a fraction bank. You realize that you have to take people with you that you're only as good as the people you surround yourself with. But there has to also be a confidence that the leader has in the team and themselves to be able to succeed. Because if you don't have that confidence, you're not going to be able to attract follow sure. And we have great follow in this company. People love working for this company and the culture of the companies, what sets us apart. And it attracts customers. Welcome to the lead we begin with breaking news. The United States has plunged into a recession. We're seeing infections of an all time high. What's your reaction to that? Here are the facts. The lead with Jake tapper. 23 people have been killed in fighting between rival guerrilla groups in northern Colombia. Colombia's president says the leftist group ELN and dissident factions are the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia or farc were fighting over control of drug trafficking. To strengthen the capacity of public forces, I have ordered the deployment of two battalions for the next 72 hours to support the job of territorial control. Also, I want to announce that we are strengthening intelligence and counterintelligence. Human Rights Watch says more than 850 people were killed and 58,000 displaced in the fighting between the two groups between 2006 and 2010. Brazilian presidential il Bolsonaro is in hospital for an intestinal obstruction, it is the latest medical issue linked to a 2018 stabbing on the campaign trail CNN's Matt rivers has more now from Mexico City. Well, despite the fact that he is hospitalized, Brazilian president jair Bolsonaro does appear to be doing okay. Bolsonaro himself tweeting out a couple of different tweets during the day on Monday, one of which had a picture of him in his hospital bed. You can see a tube there running into his nose. He said that he first started to feel bad during the day on Sunday after lunchtime and it was sometime after that that he and his team made the decision that he should be hospitalized. He was eventually admitted to a hospital in São Paulo around 3 a.m. local time on Monday morning. It was sometime after that that he sent that tweet and he gave an update on his condition. Basically saying that Tess needed to be run to see if there was some sort of internal blockage intestinal blockage that would require surgery. We did get an update from the hospital later in the day on Monday that said, as of Monday evening, it had not yet been determined if the president needed surgery but that he was able to get up and take a short walk around the hospital. Our affiliate CNN Brazil also spoke to the doctor that has been attending jair Bolsonaro since 2018 after he was actually stabbed on the campaign trail when he was running for president. The doctor said that he would be returning from vacation to São Paulo at some point on Tuesday. He said he did not expect that Bolsonaro would need surgery, but he did say he would need to complete and evaluation before he could say for sure. And you know, this is not a president who is not used to being in the hospital, even since he became president with Bolsonaro himself tweeting out that he has had four major surgeries since he was stabbed in the abdomen back in during his presidential campaign. And he has been hospitalized twice for similar symptoms. It was actually last year that he was hospitalized for what was called at the time severe hiccups. He is also had COVID-19 during this pandemic, so a Brazilian public, very used to its president ending up in the hospital from time to time, but at least as of now, the president does appear to be doing okay. Matt rivers, CNN, Mexico City.
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"Gotten their booster. And so in countries like the United States, where vaccines are readily available they're free. And those who are unvaccinated are doing so by choice for the most part. Is this essentially a result of their choice? If 95% of the population was in fact vaccinated and had boosters, would hospitals be facing the same number of sick. It would be a very different scenario if we had 95% vaccination rates here in the United States. We know that the vaccines work marvelously well to keep people out of the hospital, particularly if they're boosted. But where we're in in the United States is not a space where most of us have shown up to get vaccinated, only about 60% of Americans are fully vaccinated and only around ten to 20% have gotten their boosters, which are so essential if protecting against omicron. Can I blame the people who aren't vaccinated? I blame the people that are purveyors of mis and disinformation, the politicians, the hucksters who are spreading Frank lies on social media. I can't blame the individuals who are gullible or who got taken in so we're at right now. It is hard to believe this pandemic is almost two years old. And yet again, we're talking about hospitals facing an overwhelming number of patients while vaccines are readily available. This just seems incredible. It is exhausting as much as incredible. You know, as a healthcare worker, we've been through the first wave where we had virtually no personal protective equipment. We went through that second wave in fall and winter of 2020 into early 2021. When we felt like we were just holding out for the vaccines, then this summer and early fall, we thought it was finally we were going to get through delta and be done and back to a normal holiday season and here we are. We are just as exhausted and worn out by this pandemic as everyone else, except we don't have the choice of staying home. We have to go back and face the disease day after day. And frankly, we don't see an end in sight. And you touched on this just a little bit earlier about the patients who need care for other issues throughout the concerns. Other diseases were seen being treated. An attorney of the ER because they're so far down the path of the treatment they have another option. But what about those who continue to put off much needed care? How are they being impacted by this continually having their treatment delayed? John, that's one of my biggest concerns as a physician and it's something I hear from my nurses and respiratory therapists and social workers. It's our inability to care for all of the other folks because of the crush of COVID cases. My own hospital system has recently put off any non emergent surgeries. So things like cancer surgery or heart surgeries or aortic repairs, gallbladder surgeries. Those are all being put off and those end up showing up in the ER. And then those folks have to wait 6, ten, 12 hours out in the waiting room, with potentially life threatening illnesses, not because we don't want to care for them. But because they're simply isn't space. This points to so many larger dysfunctions across the healthcare system that we've papered over for so long just by working hard and showing up and carrying a lot about our patients, but right now we can't work any harder. And they're just aren't enough of us. I fear that bad things are going to happen if they haven't already to some patients across the world because of the crowding level in our hospitals and emergency departments. Surging numbers of patients falling numbers of healthcare workers. It's not a good combination to begin with. Doctor Rainey, thank you so much for being with us. Thank you. Still to come here on CNN newsroom. The political upheaval in Sudan fears of growing of a return to military rule, now the prime minister has resigned. What's the matter of time? This will blow you mine. We're here now at the home of one of the FSB team. And my name is clarissa ward. I work for CNN. Was it your team that poisoned Navalny? What do you want to say to the world? We had no secret anymore. The military is using weapons against its own people. It really only belong on the battlefield. We were just in the hospital. It was shocking. Why do you think India has been hit so badly? Scores of Taliban fighters and just behind us, the U.S. embassy. Why does a small group of women asking for their right to be educated threaten you so much? Raise your hand if you love school. I'm the one who has to look them in the eye. Can I have your word? These people are depending on you. You can hear gunshots, every couple minutes. Now they're pressing in. They want desperately to tell their stories. The journey to the top for a successful business in Africa starts with an idea, but how does a concept become a moneymaker? African and global industry leaders share their stories this weekend on profit points in CNN marketplace Africa in association with dangote on the next eco solutions. Go inside expo 2020 Dubai to see how the elements are being harnessed for good. From the sun and essential resource. All throughout the day, our energy trees rotate just like sunflowers to face the sun. To the earth, and the sky. We were inspired by kite borders, how they can convert the wind energy into mechanical editor. Eco solutions Sunday on CNN. Brazil's president a Bolsonaro remains in a sub palo hospital while his condition appears to be improving according to a statement issued late Monday. He was able to walk briefly and does not have a fever. Earlier, he was rushed to hospital for tests after suffering abdominal pain. All of this linked to a stabbing attack on Bolsonaro in 2018, well, on the campaign trail. See you then, Matt rivers has more. Well, despite the fact that he is hospitalized, Brazilian president jair Bolsonaro does appear to be doing okay. Bolsonaro himself tweeting out a couple of different tweets during the day on Monday, one of which had a picture of him in his hospital bed. You can see a tube there running into his nose. He said that he first started to feel bad during the day on Sunday after lunchtime and it was some time after that that he and his team made the decision that he should be hospitalized. He was eventually admitted to a hospital in São Paulo around 3 a.m., local time on Monday morning. It was sometime after that that he sent that tweet and he gave an update on his condition. Basically saying that Tess needed to be run to see if there were some sort of internal blockage intestinal blockage that would require surgery. We did get an update from the hospital later in the day on Monday that said, as of Monday evening, it had not yet been determined if the president needed surgery but that he was able to get up and take a short walk around the hospital. Our affiliate CNN Brazil also spoke to the doctor that has been attending jair Bolsonaro since 2018 after he was actually stabbed on the campaign trail when he was running for president. The doctor said that he would be returning from vacation to São Paulo at some point on Tuesday. He said he did not expect that Bolsonaro would need surgery, but he did say he would need to complete and evaluation before he could say for sure. And you know, this is not a president who is not used to being in the hospital, even since he became president with Bolsonaro himself tweeting out that he has had four major surgeries since he was stabbed in the abdomen back in during his presidential campaign. And he has been hospitalized twice for similar symptoms. It was actually last year that he was hospitalized for what was called at the time severe hiccups. He has also had COVID-19 during this pandemic, so a Brazilian public, very used to its president ending up in the hospital from time to time, but at least as of now, the president does appear to be doing okay. Matt rivers, CNN, Mexico City. Fighting between rival guerrilla groups in northern Colombia has left at least 23 people dead. The violence erupted Sunday between the leftist group ELN and disinfection of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia, farc. The fighting apparently over who controls the drug trafficking.
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"To come together. Particularly with the protesters and the head to the participant and the robust and resilient approach to support some sort of bomb agreement. But also put into place sorry stabilization strategy that is supported by the Africa union, egad, the triangle countries, in this case, U.S. UK and Norway to move the country forward. And I think if we just look at the elections as the final point, then we're going to be in problem here. So it's really about how do we legitimate legitimate council, but also the rightly that give you forward. And that will take time. That's what we said about we'll find out overnight. All right, Andrew, E, your chief. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Well, 23 people. Thank you. 23 people have been killed in fighting between rival guerrilla groups in northern Colombia. Colombia's president says the leftist group ELN and dissident factions of the revolutionary armed forces of Columbia or fox were fighting over control of drug trafficking, at least 12 families have been displaced as a result of the violence. And now the army is trying to restore calm. Or Brazilian president jabal sonaro is in hospital for an intestinal obstruction. It's the latest medical issue linked to a 2018 stabbing on the campaign trail. The hospital says he is showing improvement and took a short walk Monday. But Bolsonaro's doctor tells CNN Brazil, he will examine the president today, but doesn't expect he'll need another surgery. Coming up next from the
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"We tackled the world's biggest news stories, as well as those left untold. You speak to the ordinary people. Their aspirations is a foreign unified country, whether you talk to business people to school teachers to market traders and so on and so forth across the board. If they want to see their country recreate it as it was, only this time as a democratic accountable system. Our expert guests offer in depth analysis and firsthand experience. In one of the Ebola treatment centers I went to had been burned down by a community that were very resentful and frightened of Ebola and they still have a bunker in the middle. They've dug a big deep bunker where they can hide if people come and shoot at them. The foreign desk with me, Andrew Muller is available every Saturday from midday London time, right here on monocle 24. It is 2017 in the soul 1417 in Helsinki 1217 here in London and 7 17 a.m. if you're listening in Boston, you are listening to the briefing. I am Marcus hippie. We're off to Latin America now for roundup of stories, making news in the region, I'm joined by our Latin America affairs correspondent lusitania at listening to good morning to you. Good morning, Marcus. No, the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony blinken visited Gillian Columbia earlier this week and is on his way to Peru, who did he meet and what were the big themes coming out of those meetings? As a blinken began his Andean tour in Colombia where he met the new president Petro, their talks really centered around the 20 16 peace deal with rebel groups and drug policy, Petro insists that Colombia and the U.S. really need to stop demonizing coca farmers as the root cause of the drug trade. And sort of start with a different attitude to cocaine production. And this is at a time when delegates of Colombia's government and the largest remaining guerrilla group, the ELN, met on Tuesday and announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018. But this was broadly a very cordial meeting, blinken showed off the poncho he was given, and then he was with the Chilean president Boris yesterday, the focus there really was renewable energy, the environment, but also migration, migration, particularly from Venezuela, and how to tackle the issues of many more migrants also going north to United States. Now, migration is a big regional topic in the Americas and you have been looking into an unusual emigration away from Argentina as the economic situation is first more Argentine to leave abroad. What have you found? Yeah, so this is interesting. Argentina, traditionally, has been a net receiver of migrants. I mean, actually, at one point, during the early 20th century, there were more foreigners in the capital Buenos Aires than those actually born in Argentina. A lot of people came from post war Italy and Spain and later from the rest of Latin America. But stats show that many more argentines are moving abroad. And these figures are very hard to determine because of course so many hold dual European nationality by descent. And Argentina doesn't actually publish official migration stats, but Spain, for example, said that it had received a record number last year of Argentine born citizens. In fact, the biggest number since 2008 and almost double 5 years ago, Uruguayan Chile that a neighbors have also got very high numbers applying for residency and really what's driving this is, as you say, the dire economic situation with inflation basically swallowing up salaries, very poor job prospects for people and a general sense that things will get an awful lot worse before they get better. So why not test out a stint abroad? Staying with Argentina, what is the latest with the country's $1 billion deal with the IMF as the government's managed to keep it on track? Yes, Argentina passed its second review of the current arrangement that was signed with the IMF in March. The recently appointed finance minister Sergio Massa he seems to have gone down well in Washington. He's put in a few measures, critics say it's only sticking plaster type measures, though, and nothing that will fundamentally bring down inflation that's running at close to a 100% this year. What many are pointing to now is the 2023 election and how it will be very difficult for Massa to really make cuts or big policy changes given there's a race to win next year, election year are usually more costly for governments, you know, rushing to finish projects. But yes, the deal with Washington stands, Argentina does of course have the biggest outstanding loan of any country. So there is the argument that this deal really is too big to fail. Let's continue with one more headline from Argentina. The luxury cruise ship in honor of footballer Messi that docks in Qatar for World Cup fans. Yeah, this is a fun story. A local travel agency in Argentina has arranged for a cruise ship to dock in Doha during the games with a messy museum tributes to Maradona. And I was a bit disappointed, I thought the ship was going to be leaving from Buenos Aires and make its way to do it. But in fact, the guests actually fly to door and it just sort of got there. And this is because there are accommodation shortages in Qatar. So this will host thousands of guests. But at around $12,000 a ticket, I've struggled to find anyone who's actually going on board in Buenos Aires, obviously given the economic situation. But they say, you know, as it's Messi's last World Cup, it might be worth going to visit the boat if any of our listeners do plan to go to the event next month. So I was good. Listen, thank you very much for that update. That was our Latin America fierce correspondent lucina Elliott and you are with the briefing. And finally on today's program Fernando Auguste university has returned from Brazil
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"Because he said, you guys may not be sealed. We're all like over 30 and some of us overweight, you know, and he said, you guys know how to shoot, but you can't swim with a dam and we're going to call you the manatees. So I thought that was going to be we were thinking about making a patch for the snow cap riverine group being a manatee, you know? I never heard that. So anyway, it was snow cap was an amazing experience for, you know, people don't understand why I don't think we could have done snow cap in Colombia, where Steve was. My God, we'd had body bags coming back because you had the farc and the bolivians weren't really that aggressive. I mean, once in a blue moon, usually, how it would work, we'd have some peasant come out of the jungle and say, we'll give you $500, tell us for a cocaine lab is, well, $500 to a guy in the jungle is oblivious to be like 50,000 to the uri. And we put a mask on. I'm going to hood and they'd get in the helicopter and we'd fly out there with the team. And we grade these cocaine labs 9 times out of ten, they would just run in the jungle and hide once in a while they might come out and pop a few rounds as we're flying away. But it wasn't like Columbia where it was open warfare. In Columbia, Steve correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard there were years in Colombia where he had 600 police officers killed in a single year. My God, the United States, we have 5 times their population. And we might have a hundred and some guild. And there's a whole different story in Colombia. It was in between the farc and M 19 and ELN, the different revolutionary groups that were operating down there. And then you throw in the narcos on top of it. It really was a wild west, but now did you go to Bolivia Peru or did you go to both? No, I was just in Bolivia. My church duty were in Bolivia. No, there were time when I got into training. I was also training the police in Columbia. You know, international training, that was the best job I ever had in my life. My God, you fly around the world and you spend two weeks training police and they treat you like a king. You know, I mean, you know, I did a school in Lagos, Nigeria, and my God, you see two dead people on the side of the road just between the airport and the embassy. And I'm thinking, boy, drugs are about the last year from, you know? And there's so much poverty. And then the next schools in Qatar where they have so much money that the head of narcotics unit comes out in a Range Rover and he's in a chic out with a falcon on his shoulder taking me to the camel races, and you see the real differences in the world. I mean, regular regular police officer and Qatar have a brand new Mercedes Benz with blue lights on it. Americans don't realize the difference in countries around the world as far as wealth and law enforcement.
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"Know, the Bank of England is predicting that we're going to have 13% inflation in October that they wanted something that matches the cost of living that their fears in. Tell us what kind of disruption this will cause. And which areas of the economy will be affected. Felix saw is the country's busiest port. It's kind of unclear as to just how much disruption this is going to cause. It's not a just in time port. There's a great deal of stock still left at the port. I think logistics UK, they're the transport body has said it's not expecting massive disruption. So there's not panic yet, but if the strikes continue after this, it did a period and that might change. It's just one of many strikes we've just had and strikes that are possibly coming up. And the country is facing energy price hikes plus a new prime minister in September. It does feel like the country is in for a difficult time, right? You often hear about a winter of discontent, but we're sort of in the middle of a summer of discontent as it stands. So you've got rail workers on strike, but you've got royal mail workers head to walk out, teachers potentially going on strikes straight, perhaps even nurses. For the new prime minister, this is a party leadership contest that has been played out with a very specific group of people at the moment. I don't know whether both of their tones may become more conciliatory when they take office. They both talked about the need for some peer strength because they're concerned that inflation busting pay rises might lead to the kind of wage price spiral that we saw in the 1970s, which is also a risk when you consider that the country is likely to enter a recession a recession which is three quarters long. It's a very difficult picture for whoever takes office. That's Rachel, we are mouth, deputy political editor of the new statesman. On the latest strike to hit the UK this summer. You're listening to NewsHour from the BBC. I'm Audrey Brown. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has told the military to prepare to become an army of peace after removing a major obstacle to negotiations with the last act of guerrilla group, the ELN. Speaking at a cadet academy in front of newly appointed military leaders, mister Pedro said troops had to switch their focus to threats to national sovereignty from abroad, including from drug trafficking gangs. He said the Colombian people wanted to see a change in the role of the military. If we want peace, it will not come through unlawfulness or guns. What makes it possible to reach peace is unity between the military and its people. That's what we have to reach because it has been broken in many parts of the country. Joining us now is Megan Janet ski who's a freelance journalist based in Colombia. Welcome to NewsHour, Megan. Just tell us more about this announcement. How significant is it? Yeah, absolutely. So Gustavo Petro is Columbia's first leftist leader and also an ex insurgent who went through his own peace process a long time ago and basically this announcement could, you know, if Columbia and its biggest Korea group, the national Liberation Army, were to sign peace accords. It could be this new president's legacy. And in a country that's struggled with armed conflict for decades and is facing deepening conflict right now. It could shift a lot of the regional dynamics and lower violence in a lot of parts of the country that are being torn by currently. There have been numerous attempts at the peace deal with the ELN, so how confident are the people of Colombia that this time it will be successful. You know, will people are skeptical also because you have to remember that this is, again, a country torn by decades of conflict and a lot of people have been victimized by, if not this guy than other armed groups. So there's always a deep distrust of our groups. And then this piece talk looks to have a bit more potential than past conservative governments. Simply because a lot of these past governments have been a lot of about force against these gurias and fighting this war. And this is a president that is promising to usher in an era of quote unquote total peace. So it's generating more trust likely with these gurias that are going to be negotiating. So it could significantly shift shift things. Yeah, it's a big deal, I think. You've been on the border of Colombia and Venezuela where the alien have been active. So what are people there been telling you? Yeah, I mean, this is the place that essentially the hub for the ELN, the very, very important area in which they use to escape the grasp of Colombian authorities. And a lot of people have been terrorized by this group and they're just hoping that there's a ceasefire soon and that a peace pack is really signed because it could literally mean life or death for them and their families. Now that have been peace deals with other groups, how successful have they been, is there a blueprint that's being followed? Yes, I mean, there have been various negotiations. The most recent piece packed we've seen is with the Colombian guria group the farc in 2016. In largely due to failures in government implementation, it has been a very troubled process. And that's another reason why perhaps the ELN would walk with a bit more skepticism is Columbia has an entirely followed through with their promises, but because we again have this different kind of leader, there might be more of a generated trust that you wouldn't see otherwise. But previous previous accords have been a mix of success. But the most recent one is even struggling to move forward. It's actually a large campaign promise of petros is to implement the previous piece accords. So he's kind of juggling these two different deals with these groups. Thank you very much. That's Megan Janet ski, a freelance journalist based in Colombia. Now Singapore's prime minister said the country will end its ban on sex between men, but he also said it will take steps to defend the institution of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Lee San lung said Singapore society was becoming more accepting of gay people and the British colonial era law was now out of date. The legal ban on sex between men, while not enforced, has long been criticized by LGBT activists, although many more conservative citizens still support it. Joining us now from New York is Jane Barry Moran director of research and program strategy at out leadership. She's a leading voice in advocating for pathways to success for LGBT individuals in the workplace. Welcome
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"Used and I would say abused for the purposes of exercising social power to silence debate. So we ask is cancel culture toxic. All this and more coming up unintelligent squared U.S.. First, the news. Hello, I'm Eileen McHugh with the BBC News. The security forces in Somalia say they have ended a 30 hour siege of the hayat hotel in the capital Mogadishu, there has been no independent verification, but the building had been targeted by heavy weapons and has been largely destroyed. The authorities say all those who remained inside have been killed. The militant group Al shabab says some of its fighters managed to escape is not yet known how many people died during the siege, witnesses say at least 20. Among the reported victims is the hotel zone, is the first major assault by Al shabaab in Mogadishu since the new president took office in May. The BBC's Beverly O Chiang says the militant group is strong. Maintains a lot of presence in the southern and the central regions. They have a stronghold in jail recently there were showing off a hospital that they launched. They have public campaigns. So it's not just about the military strength because they do continuously recruit. It's also about their ideological entrenchment, but also because of lack of government presence in vast parts of central and southern Somalia. Colombia's new left wing president Gustavo Petro has suspended orders to capture and extradite the leaders of a country's last active guerrilla group the ELN. The move is likely to pave the way for official peace talks to resume in the Cuban capital Havana, will Leonardo reports. Gustavo Petro came to power this month promising to bring total peace to Colombia, which has been racked by internal conflict with leftist guerrilla groups for decades. The national Liberation Army or ELN is the last major force standing in the way with hundreds of fighters still believed to be active. Peace talks with a former Colombian government ended in 2019 when a car bomb went off outside a police academy in the capital of Bogotá. Subsequent orders to capture an extradite heel and leaders negotiating in Cuba were rejected by the Havana authorities. Mister Pedro has now dropped these in a gesture that will allow talks to assume. He's also signaled an overhaul of how Colombia deals with illegal drugs, a main income source for the rebels describing the war on drugs as a failure. The body of the former Angolan leader Jose Eduardo santosh has arrived back in Angola after his death in Spain last month. His coffin was greeted by a small crowd of supporters and family members, is concerned that a state funeral in Angola may influence him an intellection, his daughter, cheesy duchess, has accused the current president of using her father's body as a campaigning tool. The World Health Organization says a case of suspected Ebola is being investigated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, samples have been taken from the body of a 46 year old woman who died in hospital in the town of beni on Monday. If confirmed it will be the second outbreak of the virus in the country this year. The Congolese government said stocks of vaccines were ready in North Kivu province. You're listening to the latest world news from the BBC. This is WNYC in New York. I'm Lance lucky. New York health department officials have confirmed the state's first known case of monkeypox in a person under 18, a new report on the outbreak shows the virus was detected in the child or teen living outside of New York City, no other information about the case was released. Children in other states, including Texas, California, Florida and Maine have also contracted monkeypox, which primarily spreads through skin to skin contact. New York leads the nation in monkeypox cases with just over 2700 confirmed infections to date, the vast majority of those have been reported in New York City. An additional 130 migrants arrived in New York City on buses from Texas, Wednesday, but immigration experts say if there's a silver lining in the chaotic situation for the newcomers, it is their improved chances of receiving asylum and staying in the country. Austin coker is an assistant professor at Syracuse university's transactional records access clearinghouse. He says 82% of asylum applications in New York are approved compared to just 17% in Houston and 33% in Dallas. Texas governor Abbott is actually sending asylum seekers to a court where they'll actually much more likely to be successful and much more likely to stay in the country. Other immigration experts say asylum seekers are much more likely to obtain legal representation in New York as well as access to shelter and healthcare. The NYPD has adopted an emergency rule on concealed carry handgun permits to fill the gap until new state regulations go into effect September 1st, the NYPD will allow certain applicants who were rejected or given more restrictive licenses in the past three years, the chance to reapply for concealed carry permit at no additional cost for 60 days. The provision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York State's restrictive law on issuing concealed carry licenses in June, the state's previous proper cause standard was deemed unconstitutional. 83 right now, 71 overnight, partly sunny, and 83 for our high tomorrow. It's 6 O 6. Hello, you're listening to the newsroom from the BBC World Service with me, Charlotte Gallagher. In the past few minutes, reports from the Somali capital Mogadishu say the security forces have ended a siege at the city's high at hotel. It's the first
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"And your back with the briefing with me, Emma Nelson, welcome. Now to Colombia where a new president is preparing to take office, Gustavo Pedro will be inaugurated this Sunday and his Columbia's first leftist president, but how will a man who spent more than a decade as part of an urban rebel movement navigate a country still mired in conflict and maintain a healthy working relationship with the military? Or joining me to discuss this from Bogotá as Monica's correspondent there Anastasia belloni. Good afternoon. Good morning from Bogotá. I should say good morning, shouldn't I just explain to us who is Gustavo Petro? Yeah, Gustavo Petro said was a member of the M 19 guerrilla group during his youth. He was an armed rebel member, and he spent a decade or so in the rebel movement. And then demobilized handed in his weapons with the whole group in the 80s and started a political career. And he has been a very successful and high profile senator. And he won the president, presidential election in June on his third attempt and on Sunday he will be sworn into office alongside another vice president who will make history. She will be the first black vice president at Columbia's ever had. So both of them will really Mark represent historic moment in Colombia. We can not underestimate just how much of a huge change this is. I mean, what are we expecting to see from such a dynamically different presidency? It already feels and looks different. I mean, the tone of his speeches and his focus and his priorities are very different. He said that his four year term in office is going to focus on three main issues. One is peace, the second one is social justice, and by that he means he's really going to try and tackle huge levels on inequality, gaps between rich and poor that have grown during the pandemic. And make Columbia a leader on the environment and climate change. So those are his three areas that he wants to make a priority. And we're going to see that he's going to try and make peace with another rebel group. That's still active. The ELN. He's reached out to them and they've said that they are willing to sit down two piece negotiations. He's also said that he's going to actually implement another peace deal that was made with another rebel group, the farc in 2016. He says he's actually going to put money in political will implementing that peace deal. So that's going to be different. And this sense of inclusive government, the idea that marginalized groups in society, indigenous groups, black communities, he says that these people now are going to be given priority and that he's going to try and lift those groups out of poverty. So those are the kinds of things that we're expecting from Gustavo Pedro. Let's have a look though at his relationship with a military. I mean, Columbia spends more of its gross domestic product on the military than any other country in Latin America. And this is now being led by a man who, as a young revolutionary in what in the 80s, he says he was twice arrested by soldiers, he was tortured, and he still maintains a part of the military a corrupt. Yeah, that's right. So that's going to be a very tense relationship that is not surprising. As you said, Colombia's military budget is huge. The governments in the past have spent a lot of money on anti guerrilla and surgency operations. They've also spent a lot of money on going after the drug cartels as part of military operations. So there is a huge budget there that he said that he's going to cut and that he will focus more of that money on social spending. He will have to obviously make bridges and coalitions and allies in the military. But we'll have to see what the reaction is from the top military brass. But at the moment, they are talking. It's cordial. But it depends on how much I think that budget is going to cut. But they know that their budget cuts are coming. And also the wealthy business elite, they know that they are more likely going to have to pay higher taxes during his government and the first big reform that he's going to put through is a tax reform that will mean higher income tax on wealthy owners. Thank you so much for joining us on the line from Bogotá that was Anastasia maloney. Finally, it's time for what we learned. His Andrew Muller. We learned this week that it always pays to read things through carefully. We are indebted for this lesson to south end United football club, who, after successive relegations within the last few seasons, saw them dumped out of the football league, probably assumed that at least 2022 could burden them with no greater humiliation. The shrimpers, as they are known, were, we learned wrong. We learned that southend united despite their recent and prolific on pitch mishaps had nevertheless somehow persuaded a local business to part with much needed sponsorship cash in return for naming rights to the west stand at south end's generally under occupied home ground routes hall are you with me so far. Yeah. Excellent. The awkwardness arose because we learned the enterprise concerned was Leon C estate agent Gilbert and rose, which meant that the side of south end's pitch nearest the sunset as advertised on the club's website and season tickets would now be graced by the Gilbert and Rose West stand, repeat with different emphasis, Gilbert and Rose West stand. Thereby summoning one of the United Kingdom's most infamous serial killers. Oh no. Well, quite a statement from south end subsequently clarified that the club was now considering a different arrangement of words, as well they might. We can not confirm as we go to where this might leave any pending plans that may have existed to rename roots hall as Myra hindley Yorkshire ripper Kray twins lord lucan stadium. We learned when we checked that south end begin the new season's campaign this very weekend at home to boreham wood, and we now plan to absolutely revel in this opportunity to wheel out the ancient joke about calling to find out what time kick-off was and receiving the reply it depends. What time can you get here? Anyway.
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"Off. Arab done bit. My sister Nell with Whitey on the moon for face and arms began to swell and white his own the moon, I crave, no doctor bills but white is on the moon ten years from now, I'll be paying still while white is on the moon you know the man jumps off my red last name cuz while he's on the moon song. No, hot water. No toilets, no lights. But why these on the moon? I wonder why he's helping me cuz why he's on the moon. Wow, was already giving him fifty a week? And now white is on the moon song. Texas, taking my whole damn checking. The junkies make me a nervous. Wreck the price of food is going up. And as if all that crap wasn't enough Arab done been my sister nail with a guy on the moon her face and arms began to swell and white is on the moon with all that money I made last year for Whitey, on the moon. How come I ain't got no money here. What is on the moon Whitey on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron? This is democracy, Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report. I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez as we turn now to Columbia where anti-government protesters filled the streets of a number of cities Tuesday. On Colombia's Independence Day the same day right-wing president Devon Duque presented a new tax reform. Bill pass Congress. The last tax proposal failed in April. After it prompted, a general strike in massive demonstrations that also focused on deepening economic disparity and human rights abroad. Says Tuesday's demonstrations came even after some of the organizers were arrested and harassed over the weekend. The country's defense minister had claimed violence was expecting protests and put Bogota and 10 of Colombia's thirty-two provincial capitals on heightened alert. The protests were called in part by Colombia's National strike committee that includes indigenous, peoples students and trade unions. This is Francisco Marquez. President of the Colombian Central union workers. Speaking during Bogota demonstration in Columbia, today we presented a ten-point platform. That highlights the most urgent needs, the Colombian Congress historically begins, its fourth session, every July 20th, at 2 in the afternoon, anyone who wants to be president of this session is generally allowed to today. When there was a massive, social demonstration, the government rushed, the start of the session to age the morning and denied entry to the press and others. This reflects the anti-democratic character of President Dukakis, government or more. We go to Colombia in Cali activists. Maria Del Rosario arango is Whitney. She was a Tuesday's protest and in Bogota, we're joined by award-winning journalist Mario, Mario, who is at the protests in Bogota, he's closely followed Columbia for decades, his books. Include Columbia and the United States war. Unrest and destabilization we welcome you both to democracy. Now Mario let's begin with you. In Bogota talk about the demands of the protest. He's have been going on for some fifty four days. Now, Thank you, Amy, for having us. Yeah, the protest yesterday was a essentially, a continuation of the national strike which as you pointed out began on April 28th. These these mobilizations that were very long very well covered. And and, and you reported on recently also were were continuing in a different dimension. But they yesterday, they were re spark considering that it was worth. Of course. Independence Day here in Columbia and took place in various cities. I was here in both down at least ten thousand people were in the March that started early in the afternoon late morning, early afternoon, and Downtown Mobile. And generally peaceful. But they're also protests all around the country and Barranquilla in Cali where Maria is joining us as well and it was amazing. That it took place. Notwithstanding the fear tactics that were being used by the the government leading up to the July 20th mobilizations because they were talking about Infiltration of the eln, in some of the Cities, they highly militarized, all of the country with 65,000 public Security Forces, not only police, but also armed armed forces in the smart, the Special Forces Unit that has been criticized viscerally for their violence carried out in a recent mobilizations earlier in the protest. So it went on and off last night, really in the evening, we started hearing reports all around the country of those confrontations which I think Maria could talk more directly to specifically and golly where for the past 3 months. Now off the, the confrontations have been strongest against civilians in in these protests and Maria Del Rosario Tango. I wanted to ask you talk to us about the protests in Kali and why have the people risen up so strongly now against the president, even Dukan, Thank you. Yes. I'm saying hello from Cali, which is the largest city the third largest city in Colombia. The Second City of Latin America with more African descendent population and has a large history of social movements like unions indigenous, peoples student movement, and now like this movement that have been called like Frontline off from lenders, which are jobs that are facing the political, the police abuse. So this has been like, the capital of the resistance, Mom calling, you just call now that way, but it's also has been, like, the center of the more abusive repression of the police. But not only the policy, like, the security forces that have been repressing. The protesters here in Columbia and it has been shown yesterday, too. And money. Can you talk more about what's happening in Kali? Y, it is such a center of protest and also talked about the issue of violence against women in the lgbtq + community. Yeah, thank you. So I told you like, Kylie had this long history of resistance and that have been shown now but also the repression has been especially brutal. Here's not only by Security Forces, but also, but by paramilitary groups. So when the strike started on the 28th of April, the resistance have been a strong here off and on the repression to, and this has been like several patterns of violence against protesters, I guess. Wage most writers, which has been like used police. Have been using fire guns against protesters. Like, if you go to protest, you're risking to die. They could also use other strategic to repress, like spreading Terror and this includes like sexual assaults. For example, before yesterday during the protest, And in April, May and June, we have been recording, 28 cases of sexual assault. By the police. So this is no only like this political political repression, just killing people, but also Gathering. And, and Targeting women's LGBT population but also follow like profiling threatening. And and persecuting all the people that are living the protest. But also all those who are being.
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"Off. Arab done bit. My sister Nell with Whitey on the moon for face and arms began to swell and white his own the moon, I crave, no doctor bills but white is on the moon ten years from now, I'll be paying still while white is on the moon you know the man jumps off my red last name cuz while he's on the moon song. No, hot water. No toilets, no lights. But why these on the moon? I wonder why he's helping me cuz why he's on the moon. Wow, was already giving him fifty a week? And now white is on the moon song. Texas, taking my whole damn checking. The junkies make me a nervous. Wreck the price of food is going up. And as if all that crap wasn't enough Arab done been my sister nail with a guy on the moon her face and arms began to swell and white is on the moon with all that money I made last year for Whitey, on the moon. How come I ain't got no money here. What is on the moon Whitey on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron? This is democracy, Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report. I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez as we turn now to Columbia where anti-government protesters filled the streets of a number of cities Tuesday. On Colombia's Independence Day the same day right-wing president Devon Duque presented a new tax reform. Bill pass Congress. The last tax proposal failed in April. After it prompted, a general strike in massive demonstrations that also focused on deepening economic disparity and human rights abroad. Says Tuesday's demonstrations came even after some of the organizers were arrested and harassed over the weekend. The country's defense minister had claimed violence was expecting protests and put Bogota and 10 of Colombia's thirty-two provincial capitals on heightened alert. The protests were called in part by Colombia's National strike committee that includes indigenous people students and trade unions. This is Francisco Marquez, president of the Colombian Central union workers. Speaking during Bogota demonstration in Columbia, today we presented a ten-point platform. That highlights the most urgent needs, the Colombian Congress historically begins, its fourth session, every July 20th, at 2 in the afternoon, anyone who wants to be president of this session is generally allowed to today. When there was a massive, social demonstration, the government rushed, the start of the session, to age the morning and denied entry to the press and others. This reflects the anti-democratic character of President do case government or more. We go to Colombia in Cali activist. Maria Del Rosario arango is Whitney. She was a Tuesday's protest and in Bogota, we're joined by award-winning journalist Mario, Mario, who is at the protests in Bogota, he's closely followed Columbia for decades, his books. Include Columbia and the United States war. Unrest and destabilization we welcome you both to democracy. Now Mario let's begin with you. In Bogota talk about the demands of the protest. He's have been going on for some fifty four days. Now, Thank you, Amy, for having us. Yeah, the protest yesterday was a essentially, a continuation of the national strike which as you pointed out began on April 28th. These these mobilizations that were very long very well covered. And and, and you reported on recently also were were continuing in a different dimension. But they yesterday, they were re spark considering that it was worth. Of course. Independence Day here in Columbia and took place in various cities. I was here in both down at least ten thousand people were in the March that started early in the afternoon late morning, early afternoon, and Downtown Mobile. And generally peaceful. But they're also protests all around the country and Barranquilla in Cali where Maria is joining us as well and it was amazing. That it took place. Notwithstanding the fear tactics that were being used by the the government leading up to the July 20th mobilizations because they were talking about Infiltration of the eln, in some of the Cities, they highly militarized, all of the country with 65,000 public Security Forces, not only police, but also armed armed forces in the smart, the Special Forces Unit that has been criticized viscerally for their violence carried out in a recent mobilizations earlier in the protest. So it went on and off last night, really in the evening, we started hearing reports all around the country of those confrontations which I think Maria could talk more directly to specifically and golly where for the past 3 months. Now off the, the confrontations have been strongest against civilians in in these protests and Maria Del Rosario Tango. I wanted to ask you talk to us about the protests in Kali and why have the people risen up so strongly now against the president, even Dukan, Thank you. Yes. I'm saying hello from Cali, which is the largest city the third largest city in Colombia. The Second City of Latin America with more African descendent population and has a large history of social movements like unions indigenous, peoples student movement, and now like this movement that have been called like Frontline off from lenders, which are jobs that are facing the political, the police abuse. So this has been like, the capital of the resistance, Mom calling, you just call now that way, but it's also has been, like, the center of the more abusive repression of the police. But not only the policy, like, the security forces that have been repressing. The protesters here in Columbia and it has been shown yesterday, too. And money, can you talk more about what's happening in Kali? Wyatt is such a center of protest and also talked about the issue of violence against women in the lgbtq + community. Yeah, thank you. So I told you like, Kylie had this long history of resistance and that have been shown now but also the repression has been especially brutal. Here, not only by Security Forces but also, but by paramilitary groups. So when the strike started on the 28th of April, the resistance have been a strong here off and on the repression too. And this has been like several patterns of violence against protesters, I guess. Wage most writers, which has been like used police. Have been using fire guns against protesters. Like, if you go to protest, you're risking to die. They could also use other strategic to repress, like spreading Terror and this includes like sexual assaults. For example, before yesterday during the protest, And in April, May and June, we have been recording, 28 cases of sexual assault. By the police. So this is no only like this political political repression, just killing people, but also Gathering. And, and Targeting women's LGBT population but also follow like profiling threatening. And and persecuting all the people that are living the protest. But also all those who are being.