Stepping aside after nearly twelve years in office. Right well those are the top stories im going to have more news for you in half an hour stay with us coming up next its the stream thank you for watching see very soon by. It judging people were shocked youre surprised why would you put on a travel ban list and thats why we started the travel ban to ask why chad has been banned doesnt make sense there is no logic behind it and there are no data supporting it and i said has been supported by so many people globally and has called that mission of so Many International organizations and we feel the objectives of the hashtag were met because now people are aware reus judging people again is this back and were asking why the bank has happened and we also surely that we are fighting against terrorism and we have excellent relationship with all countries. Not many people know why chad was put on the white house travel guide that was updated in late september the country has been an ally of the United States in the african continent u. S. President Donald Trumps executive orders said chad does not adequately sharp Public Safety in terrorism related information that several terrorist groups are acting within chad or in the surrounding region including elements of. Isis west africa and alqaeda in islamic magreb tatts government has issued a statement asking the white house to reconsider i want to have a baca mobilize online to put pressure on the u. S. Government to explain itself but joining us now is bring him to hope is age how to get a University Student at the George Washington university and reed brody is a lawyer with Human Rights Watch who spent eighteen years helping victims of the former dictator of child his saying welcome to the stream gentlemen i want to start with a tweet on my laptop to treat actually this is your brain and im going to pass this over to you about him. I dont think this decision was made. Logical reasons and reliable information the impact will be painful on chalion students businessmen and emigrants so that describes the at least one of them which audience student what is the impact been like on you have you felt anything yet of course we know it goes into the effect on the eighteenth of october but just in even the lead up to it whats the impact been well you know its definitely brought a lot of attention to my country and you know you have many students being very interactive with us asking us questions regarding how they can help. Personally you know many family members plan to come visit me but unfortunately tourist visas have been stopped so they wont be able to come but as a student no theres theres not really a big impact on. Your first reaction when you heard the story on astounded reaction what did you say definitely thought fake news really yeah because there was that was the last thing that would cross my mind because you know as a strategic ally within the region. We were really the last people you know that would be added on the bench let me share something with you from i read brendans twitter here im no fan of interest but child that makes no sense read this for us what does it actually mean why well i mean first of all no country should be in the travel ban but you know even in trump ian terms this just makes no sense i mean the irony here is that as as as abu bakar said before a major reason that the us supports the autocratic corrupt regime in chad is precisely because it is a lynchpin on counterterrorism efforts and in a very volatile region the chaldean military works. You know fighting boko haram in nigeria and cameroon to help defeat an al qaeda offshoot. That split molly in two it plays host to major u. S. Military exercises i mean if you wanted to pressure the chatting government on human rights or on democracy lets remember that you just debbie has been the president for twenty seven years now that would be welcome but counterterrorism is the one thing that the Chinese Government actually seems to do very well so it really it just makes no sense im glad actually that you mentioned that you actually use one of the words that one of our tweeters also use linchpin this is a cost though and he got into a little bit of an exchange with someone else on twitter he said chat in nigeria is where boko haram are active he got knocked down pretty readily by someone else is a backer who says get your facts right chad fought against boko haram in nigeria and defeated them similar to what you just said read but i want to posit over to Something Else now this is just a theory but i want to show you something that we got from several members of our community this this is a tweet from c. Who says i think this has to do with Rex Tillerson the secretary of state arm twisting the chad government after they slammed seventy four billion dollar fine on overdue royalties on exxon mobil heres what that actually looked like this is news report that came out in june exxon suttles disputed chad over tax payments and avoid that avoided a seventy four billion dollar fine breed what do you make of that idea definitely a theory but what do you make of it well i mean obviously i mean i have to say it was one of the first things that i thought of but when you when you think that realized that the matter was. That exxon had licenses chad as his major oil deposits you know again here i mean human. Writes Good Government anticorruption people the chatting people have been pressing the government to use that oil money in a transparent way thats good for all the people of chad and and the world bank and others have basically been trying to hold chads feet to the fire exxon came in and said basically we dont care what you do with the money we want to we want to exploit oil and make money. And so i dont know and so i dont know that exxons role here from the very beginning has been has been that positive but i dont think that they have a particular interest right now in upping the ante chad could very well retaliate and then where would exxon mobil be so we did a little child by the numbers so you can fact check this for us were trying to back out why with sound form the taliban have a look at what we come up with and then look to see what is the relationship between china and the u. S. One hundred forty one champions and to the u. S. This is in the past year one of them could have been one of your relatives perhaps that seventy nine job ends with a u. S. Cabinet resonance in the last year and the number of titans refugees allowed into the u. S. Some. Abraham its not like theres a big. So a champions in the u. S. Whats the point you not get these numbers are definitely not surprising a large majority of the chaldeans whenever they do travel would travel to European Countries france germany many students actually go to school in north africa tunis morocco algeria so theres not really a large presence of chaldeans within the United States the majority of them come here either as businessmen or diplomats here you know the embassies in new york city and washington d. C. So theres definitely not a large number of visitors that come here from like chad we actually just got that comment you too because of course were streaming live on you tube this is casa who says the ban was meant to punish countries that dont obey u. S. Orders it has nothing to do with human rights read. Well there are a lot of again i mean no country should be on the travel ban i mean lets be lets be lets be you know. You know lets look at the big picture here i mean the travel ban was created to to implement Donald Trumps promise to keep muslims out of the u. S. And this travel ban three point zero basically through in venezuela and north korea to two you know two enemies of the u. S. And one just has to speculate that. They were looking for another country to throw into it to dilute the list a little bit i mean there are a lot of countries in the world that dont support the u. S. Foreign policy that are not on this list and chad generally is supportive of u. S. Foreign policy i mean that that again is is is the big irony here so many parts of this are ironic i think our community would say read and ibrahim thank you so much for joining us we have to leave it here but thank you for your perspective well continue to follow this story now to protests in cameroon perhaps one of our most requested stories to follow up on by our community this is the plays a journalist who pitched this story to us. System this time we spoke you on the street from all the protesting have been the situation has actually come to them was there seen on increasing the total number of forces that are dying died as a result of these crises i loudly you also seem to people have shifted to a team runs from what data and usually started demanded last year which were reforms are they asking for reforms in causing schools in the way french and english has been used for more and more people here recently in the last two or three months now demanding for independence asking for separate country from the present these come through and. Ill go from separatist movement in the south of. Rome to protest stopping runs on for a while cutting down schools and courts are we so fine. Between Security Forces opposition activists killed more than seven thousand people and thats according to Amnesty International a moonie and president pool has condemned the deaths of his government has refuted reports of a massacre in the region both sides according to the dialogue im resolution here to discuss the ongoing issue with us eugene from what is a camera in journalist for the stand the trip being thanks for joining us thanks for coming back its almost a year since you were last here and list of life and death do you says the violence by cameroon has advocated a situation radicalized a made more extremist need to demilitarize the southern cameroons what are you seeing what are you hearing what are you reporting on the atmosphere if you could take us into these English Speaking regions what we see and right now the situation in the english parts of cameroon can best be described as either comes a nice balance or not to one rebuttal to the one year. On which the english parts of cameroon became independent and then joined the french to be part of the country to form coralie can room and they activists came out to symbolically clear the independence of the state because as one of your listeners just pointed out its become an increasing demand. For the creation of a new state of. Cameroon. So right now the region is tense its not certain who so we resumed actually the course has to go yet to see lawyers show up and the number of troops in the region has gone up more than three forms this idea of seceding breaking away it sounds strange with what nestle talking about this in here with the looting what did it come from. You know its always been there the separatist movement. From cameroon has been there for decades except that for a long time it had been government and when the demands. Late last year for reforms in the way that language is used the interests of our cultural state well i guess we got an educational difference is that. Kind of. They said pretty spirited and one of the government was dealing in responding to these issues and preferring to use force to crack now the separatists found a space and sprung up and have now taken over the struggle you know eugene weve gotten of course a lot of tweets about this and many of them are from people pushing for the Independence Movement but we also know that the internet was blocked for some time and so how people are getting around that is interesting this is john he says the movement has evolved with social media blockage a group of angle phones based in south africa launched as c. B. C. T. V. Which is satellite based and the news is mostly directed to anglo phone people because they have no other way of talking about their issues eugene how are communications right now and is this is an effective way of making sure the people in the diaspora can talk back to people in the country. I think one of the major consequences of the blockage of the internet was the creation of the souther camerons Forecasting Corporation which has been doing a lot of. Imports propaganda and writing them a search of a separate is. Its our casting past satellite and so many people in the most remote parts of and reform cameroon with simple satellite dishes your rules can receive signals and they have been communicating a lot so they happily able to mobilize and educate people on conduct and to come out and mass to crowd to protest as we saw on october one so china has been very instrumental the government are still have to shut down the internet right as we speak the internet is only partially our own parts of the not west and southwest so theres an engine second shut down and say i dont want to give away the secrets but with having you come to us via skype how do you do that now im in the u. K. Right now ok all right let me just ask you this about camerons anglophone crisis and we were asking our Community Economic deprivation is about language is it a cultural issue this is what office says all military at all the trainings in cameroon a most official documents are done in france no one cares about the angle of its still the issue or has it changed in the past or. And that hasnt really changed i mean the government has created something theyre calling a Multicultural Commission liberalism and Multicultural Commission which she is intended to address issues like this ill bet at this point we still see a lot of communication coming out of government offices in french its interesting to note that the language of command in the country military is french which means that forms of years must take office and present and so its things like this that have caused many and reforms to feel that there is a systematic attempt to raise the identity especially at the level of the man which other government teat do something that is interesting launching for the first time in the sixty year history of a country a department of. English instruction at the school of magistracy and the station which is a school that trains the countrys top level straights and administrators just happen this year and the first students are currently being enrolled thank you so much for joining us for apple keeping an eye on the progress of whats happening on camera and the protests as well as a whole touch with whats happening down on the ground wow. Why does the dangerous and painful practice a female genital interaction. In so many countries thats a question of a new aljazeera film called the cut exploring. Heres a clip of a village that has taken a star and. All of my classmates was. One of them. And they were not able to. Cut. It when you talk to men they dont even know what. You know what actually happens when a guy is. Now enough anyhow. And i would imagine anyone i. Care about and i am. Not going to have a daughter. How would you feel if someone thought she needed to be caught. Well joining us now from stockholm sweden my friend and journalist foxman i welcome to the stream fatuma that had to have a powerful moment for you to sit there and watch them watch after him in and practice these said we have not seen it and we dont know how its done so i want to start here with this tweet this is from tony of men after g. M. He says what specific role does fox and i think men can play in the fight against g. M. Taking to enter into mind your experiences there in kenya. It was record a rather powerful to witness that moment i personally couldnt watch the video but to me for through their next of them hearing the cry of the baby until today it still haunts me that scream and then just watching that reaction or not i didnt need to watch the video i just watched it and then after just after like you thought in the clip movie that they can back they had never seen it before it becomes always done behind closed doors so they didnt really know what that actually entailed and i could see that it shook them. I do believe that men in from cultures. They are the called the witness. Grabbing points behind but they can also be a bigger world because a company would be grown and didnt and again it depends on the specific culture and the good to the country so we cannot have that everywhere but i do believe that men played a big in ending. That cold all status so interested to know why she did not go to a child or you see in fear and you saw a story has changed in a generation all the seen you as an as an activist. Yeah im really from italy are there too dont know why we didnt go to editorial and we chose to go faster so i might and im. Sure just a clue that we couldnt go and to syria and the second reason is we wanted to go to a country where if g. M. Is still legal so my we have the highest rate of g. M. Prevalence its ninety eight percent so journalistically that was the obvious choice for us. At the no two and i was already in the driving for and i knew that were going to in my journey it was going to end in sweden where in the film i end up sitting with or through in woman or my mother through innovation and i do talk to my mother in the film as well so we did not need to go to editorial. And other goodies and want to we went to have a go to you know intern and your mother there of course was the most touching poignant moment for me as well watching you because i know youre a journalist and then having to bring in your family into this this is this documentary a fraud twitter it took her to she says please as facts not all about her mom being featured in the dock featuring the mom was the most touching bit for me how did your relationship change after that and what were the consequences of having your mom talk about a sensitive topic. It was very difficult and to be honest with you the moments leading up to starting filming and throughout the whole journey in the back had and back of my had i was constant thinking about my mom and i then learned about the severity and what actually happens when youre cut despite me doing or might be such a knowing about all the facts and the figures nothing to pad me for meeting women who told me about. The difficulty that they faced so it would have it was difficult. And the moment when i sat down with my mother to africa i was the relief to know that she did not have to she was caught but she had type one. In comparison to what the other ladies i met in in some on and on and on been in kenya have. A cup with not the real one for the dreaded any but since then i feel that our relationship had the kind that opened not just with my mother its with my father as well because for the first time ive i can hear him talk about this its what are you doing to hear him talk to my mom and ask. He didnt know about because its not something that you talk about and not just because its a taboo is just not something you talk about dead like a regular topic so now everyone is talking about it men are finding messages to my father telling him about how they feel about the film and been really positive feedback and im also getting a lot of messages from men sharing that are still experiencing this that most experiences and im saying that yes we want to talk about this so the openness about this topic im talking about it with my mother with my lips she struggled she washed actually we washed them together when it first. Ad. Talking about it and i do believe open it being open about the topic and. The talk about it i do believe that this could be one of the key deeds and its too hard we can. See the why we can actually end there actually im globally so we got this question here we have just about thirty seconds left but now i must say what percentage of people you interviewed use religion as a reason to continue the practice so apparently. Cultured with actually much much stronger than religion because like you could see from the phone there is more than isnt that said that this was this is acceptable and its just its just a culture with many mention and i also want to emphasize that this is not an african problem its a global problem even if with. Its a global its a global issue and its important to remember that was not just an african problem that my naive is a generous shes also an aljazeera cos one unserious you should watch this film its remarkable the cut exploding f. D. M. You can watch it online right now at aljazeera dot com thank you so much for watching is at the side of the stream and you can i will see you on life as always. We have a Newsgathering Team here that is second to their all over the world and they do a fantastic job. Information is coming in very quickly once youve got to be able to react to all of the changes and as we adapt to them. My job is is to break it all down and we held the view on the stand and make sense of it. In the harsh era when News Coverage consists of a punch she had like a five second sound bite and an easy solution. Dellums people says challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the contradictions join me. For a new season of the show the frank. Up front. About this time ill just. Hello im Barbara Starr in london these are the top stories on police in kenya have fired tear gas at protesters unhappy at