Cranes at the port of who died at the data to begin operation the cranes were bought with us funds and will be used to offload basic necessities such as food and medicine all right up to date with all the headlines here on odds are coming up next we have history of life enough. Today. Catching up with al jazeera correspondents. If you have questions put them in the comments section. And. Justice has been trending on social media for several days and there have been protests on the streets well heres the latest on the investigation in pakistan will also get reaction from ramallah to the more than one thousand settlement homes recently approved by the Israeli Government. That we havent covered much on the street in costa rica where the homicide rate has risen. In the capital city. Level and. So. You know its the. Big. Guns out. Of the. Costa rica ended twenty seven Team Recording its highest murder rate according to preliminary data the Central American nation of five million so approximately six hundred three homicides last year thats up from five hundred Seventy Eight in twenty sixteen authorities blame schools settling between gangs and Drug Trafficking for the increase. Gallagher joins us now live from San Jose Costa Rica welcome to the stream and d. I want to start here with this facebook comment from rubin who says im concerned this is partially a result of gang related violence from neighboring countries spilling over its people from those countries have often used as a haven from their own authority so some pontificating there from rubin but i want to know your thoughts why are we seeing this rising number now. Well very basically its because those traditional routes where cocaine came from have changed traditionally they went over the florida straits they used various different routes now its coming through Central America and i have to say this story first picked my interest back in two thousand and thirteen at began to hear these reports of drugs entering into costa rica or of gang members joining with cartels so i went up to the border with nicaragua and saw firsthand what locals told me were votes of drug runners going down the coast i heard stories of people finding big packets of cocaine on the beach or you know pour youth suddenly having gold watches the next day so its been happening since around two thousand and twelve steadily taking up over those years but obviously twenty seventeen was historically the largest number of murders theyve ever seen in what two weeks into twenty eighteen now weve already had twenty five murders so its average averaging out to about one point six murders every day but to put things into perspective and i think this is important costa rica is a very safe country remember people here talk about port of deeded the pure life its known for waterfalls that lining volcanoes and overawed it is very safe if you look at the northern triangle mcgrath well salvador and honduras in two thousand and fifteen those three countries combined had seventeen thousand murders and their murder rate per one hundred thousand is it is around one hundred three compared to the twelve point one or whatever it is here in costa ricas i think thats important to put things in perspective but things are on the rise and it is worrying people as you saw from the people we talked to here on the streets in san jose and i was just looking back at that with. The five years ago almost five years ago and im just wondering if i saw it as a place at that time i had an idea that this may well be the problem coming up. I think they did i mean what you have to remember about costa rica is you know its so peaceful and stable here that they disbanded their army in nineteen forty eight i think the big challenge for the Police Forces are to really get a grip around something that not used to tackling theyre not used to dealing with Gang Violence theyre not used to dealing with losing their youth to the cartels because theres money there for them so what theyre talking about here are a couple different approaches and remember the general election the president ial elections are coming up next month so some of the candidates are taking very different approaches that this is talk of involving the youth more in a cultural projects and getting them away from these gangs in any way possible what they really need to get a handle around this because it is worrying people on the streets and it is something theyre used to doing i did speak to the police when i was up near the border with nicaragua and and they showed me some of their training video so they have been aware of it for the last few years its just since the time i was here before and ive been a few times in between those numbers just keep going up and it is really becoming something of deep concern to ordinary costa ricans you mentioned the Upcoming Election Campaign we got a comment on that from an on facebook she says a lot of people dont seem to be paying attention or in the middle of an Election Campaign and its focused on keeping gay people she says from having the right our political environment is centered around whether or not aspiring politician supported gay marriage or not so in her view she gets the feeling that politicians would rather keep the general public and the media focused on that issue rather than providing solutions to the issue of crime Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering how do you talk to people who feel similarly if you think enough people realize what the rates are looking like. I mean i think you saw from from just a random collection of people we talked to on the streets here in san jose that its at the forefront of a lot of peoples minds i mean if youre a parent and youve got a young child its a big concern because the people in twenty seventeen that were murdered are between the ages of seventeen and mid twentys so essentially this countrys is potentially losing some of its brightest and youngest people to the drug cartels and to these exchanges and fights over territory and fights over money ultimately so the gay marriage thing has played out here is a fairly big thing people are talking about it because it was a ruling that came from outside the country and that they have to abide by but i think the closer we get to these elections next month the more this topic and how to approach it and how to tackle it will come to the forefront and were going to leave it there thank you for joining us down the street and to our community if you have more stories youd like us to cover from the region please let us know what hash tag eight a string and now from san jose to ramallah and the occupied west bank reason approval of more settlement homes by the Israeli Government has angered palestinians. Planning commission give. The lie for this man to the hour but. We need your help. That this. Everything. Its not just. These processes and sort of this is a big if its palestinian life was think its very. Big. And its hard to transport. Bank i think when you see it and you dont see thats hes believe in two states he means that one state for israel and another state for something that was in the west bank. So far this israel has approved the construction of more than one thousand settlement units in the occupied west bank thats according to peace now an engine that tracks and analyzes developments in the settlements Palestinian Foreign minister riyadh many key criticize the plan blaming the United States full giving the green light to israel to do what ever it wants with Palestinian Land now remember that in december u. S. President donald trump announced that the u. S. Would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel a move that calls International Outcry and condemnation from the United Nations is there as imran khan joins us now from ramallah welcome back to the stream and ron i want to start here on you tube so we ask the question that you heard from earlier that the minister asked has the u. S. Given israel a green light for settlement homes he says yes we asked our community lynard phillips here on youtube if youre joking right the u. S. Has been green lighting israel for decades so that said i want to move over to twitter this is what we got from karim on that topic he says without the dismantlement of settlements and eviction of the settlers there is no possibility for peace in occupied palestine what do those two things have to do with each other for our audience who may not know. That is where the settlements actually are lets ticals the peace or whether they are a destruction all of the two state solution that both are very related issues now the more settlements that get built the more facts change on the ground the israelis that move into the occupied west bank makes it much more difficult for the palestinians to declare a state for themselves and thats really what im really interested in the piece that were working on right now is about settlements and what they mean now what does it mean for a palestinian to live near a settlement and what does it mean for an israeli settler to move to a settlement from some very comfortable place in the United States and to actually come to the occupied west bank and i have to say this piece was actually inspired by i had to mimi the sixteen year old who slaps an israeli soldier the video went viral and shes currently in Israeli Military custody when she was about four years ago she said quote they really kind of stuck with me when i heard it very recently she said as a child growing up i used to look across at the settlements and see kids swimming kids going to school i saw these kids just having fun in that playgrounds and i if i took a wrong turn would get harassed by israeli Army Soldiers i might get arrested my family might get arrested we might be attacked is ready soldiers and so i really wanted to do a piece that looked at what it meant to be a palestinian living next to a settlement and what it meant to be an israeli settler living in a settlement and i have to say one of the things that really struck me and. Weve reported this before is there are two sets of laws in the occupied west bank first one is for the Israeli Settlers they come under israeli criminal and civil law so they get to go through the civil civilian courts with in jerusalem but the palestinians they come under military Law International human Rights Groups have said that military law is actually unnecessarily harsh and a lot of palestinians who are faced with a very severe sentence a very minor are split. On this something i own your Instagram Account which links that you took i had to me me at any links totally to that story you took this picture you posted it tell us a little bit about what were saying here. Well that was a peaceful protests. That we saw earlier which is i had to be nice village we were all up i was watching that the speeches go on speeches by the father it was actually but to me who the father was speaking at the time when suddenly the israelis rained down say gas canisters of israeli army came in and i looked around and i have to say there was no provocation from the palestinians in fact earlier in the day the palestinians been saying to us that they were looking for a peaceful Nonviolent Movement and this was what the theme of the speech is was and then suddenly you know where these canisters came in that really engage the palestinians up to Palestinian Young people with anything they have to fight with is rocks they started throwing rocks and thats when things escalated that white smoke you saw in that picture is the thick cloud of take us and this is just something that happens every week within the occupied west bank whenever theres a protest whether its peaceful or not the israelis use quite so they crowd control methods right dispersed the crowds eman thank you so much looking forward to seeing a report and we appreciate you being here on the stream and with us from ramallah to the streets of a nation angered by the pootle killing of a little girl. So the mother after seven year old center has joined it on a fucking stone and rightly so the picture of her nineteen in congress he became frightened on my face and unfortunately this is not a minor incident riots in student cars will soon after she was on her bike it was found because the city has been susceptible to china sex abuse scandal that people came to north in two thousand to fifteen and the fact that this issue persists in the region even today shows that the government really hasnt done much to it or not get them out of. Its own of western seven years old when. She was kidnapped raped murdered in her hometown in north east and pakistan her death sent hundreds into the streets calling for justice her parents reported her missing a few days earlier and they say that police failed to act adequately the city has faced a spate of abduction sexual assaults and murders the hash tag justice for campaign has been trending in pakistan for more than a week now but people online have complained about the governments lack of reaction. Chief minister took notice when social media Media Civil Society and the general public raise their voice and the campaign has also been commented on by several notable people use of aside tweets heartbroken to hear about dana this has to stop the government and concerned authorities must take action our community has also been following the story closely watched and writes this is the twelfth incident thats happened in a short span of time here child abuse and rape a very serious issue particularly in india and pakistan joining us from islamabad is an aljazeera online correspondent and in the hall mohammed. Is a political activist and lawyer gentleman its good to have you here thank you for joining us did you find out what was it like being with them after this tragedy. Mine was it wasnt the first one where there are hundreds of people from all across pakistan have come and visit again and i think that has somewhat and should have helped somewhat them because again the good emotions the one can restart them what the family is going through after that but are there what i would like to say because you mentioned out there sparks on its going through right now that certain victims and certain images do come to symbolize injustice and it happens all over the world we saw the body of their child island which was discovered scotto on the shores of turkey or nebula the woman who was subjected to a brutal gang rape in india or to have an option which picked up the clothes made a movement when his killer was acquitted and similarly is on them as we see here but these symbols not mean that this is the first time such an attack or such a tragedy is taking place right as it does the most brutal of the most gruesome one it only means that this is something we have to confront now and we can share from a journey more because this is not just capturing our collective imagination but also questioning our collective humanity so i say i want to share this tweet with you we got from my last he says i think the investigation enters an ups case and others before it resulted in a complete failure of the state and its ability to dispense justice to those most vulnerable and she says shes not very hopeful in this case why do you think that is because i know there are others out there who feel exactly as she does. And i dont blame all those other this is for acid but we can hear your thoughts right after bronchitis that. Sorry sorry to dr brown you know i think this is really that is one of the main issues that weve seen here coming up unfold with social media and also with the protests while being was so widespread is that child abuse is nothing new in fact times of the headlines in the data is all out there but the numbers are out there in fact in this very town and post or two years ago there was a huge child pornography ring that was that was unearthed that had abused hundreds of children this was going from children were as young as five or six to preteens and to teenagers as well now in that case which was about two and a half years ago we have not seen any progress at all there have been a few arrests but there have been no convictions and most importantly the families of the victims feel like they were there just as really hasnt been done and one of the mean stories that came out of that and weve been hearing about it progressively over the last two and of years is that the families of the victims say that listen once the Media Attention dies down the police kind of lose interest in following up on the case and in fact before the media interest started they refused to register cases so this question of the media interest and this and this focus being on us all right now is very good but the question really is to me what happens next does this pressure remain sustained do we see any kind of action from the police in the investigation authorities right now theyre very much under pressure there was a hearing the Supreme Court today where the police where Senior Police official was kind of held to task for the fact that very little progress has been made for the investigation but you know what happens a month from now when the next big story comes in pakistan whether its a political scandal or anything else you want to have what were going to see. Well see i dont blame the person i was commenting ducking or saying enough fred because it was a toting incident the past twelve months and up till now by the even after as an upscale do more incidents ive been accorded richer milcher and worse not in my eyes as a this was a seven dead body was discovered and i would distance from the sex scandal of the on child pornography racket which has been mentioned earlier because dad was being an addict is an organised crime and its in an area twenty kilometers away from the city these incident going to the bastard most im talking about the fifteen incidents as you know if it were turned off it is the look you know on a group which is not reducing it for any monetary or any organized crime for that matter but just picking up children raping them being a bit of bodies and that beings into the question not just our laws and not just our lack of policing but also been to the question on how much our community is since the days of this issue and how much youre fond of the need were heading many cause of execution and public executions and thats been before the guy who did this was an a but i think thats an easy going to raise on guitar from i was selling he say that im just picking up something if for some reporting from the independent this is a sane obs uncle and he says here at the moment is that the merger should be arrested alive because there are some circumstances as correct where if people decide that they know who it is they then take justice into their home hands. Yes absolutely i mean weve seen that in pakistan in a number of cases particularly recently and most worryingly in the largest city of karachi weve seen the Police Authorities actually encouraging that kind of mob justice or lynching usually thats in the case of robberies or mobile snatching on the road but it is something that weve seen a lot of i think what that gentleman may also be referring to was something that i heard out of the sewer from both Police Officials and from members of the community saying that in those previous twelve cases that we heard about there would sometimes be cases where if the complainants were able to point out a suspect that they believed to be involved in the crime the police and again this is all allegedly but the report is that they would then carry out whats known in south asia as an encounter killing they would go out and actually killed the suspect rather than arrest them and then try them because the feeling was from the from the point of view of the family and perhaps the police as well that once it enters the court system its not necessarily going to go anywhere which could be why you have some people calling for the Death Penalty once a suspect is found this is benign she says people think that the Death Penalty for murder work will deter everyone else from this crime but it would only make them more determined not to be caught and to kill their victims so there are no witnesses pretty morbid there but she says whats needed instead is long term policy and planning that will make things better for children and prevent other children from becoming victims what that looks like is this comment on youtube amy says education education education education drug is it that easy and really what does educating children have to do with catching murderers. I was because you could lose one to one things here one part of the argument is that killing people may be good reason because people dont have to get in the judicial system and they think a person is going to walk or freak but another thing has happened just within the last twelve months for encounters if you can piss and after every encounter person has been good and the police has announced that you have contacts you look at levels abducting and dip in children and every time a new incident a stick in case the now people want the person ought to live and block to cross that they can a second whether this is actually the killer or not rather than just shooting someone killing someone just to come out and send out a message that this are the case now when we talk about education were talking about not just reforming education curriculum review or teaching our kids how to protect themselves from good sexual advances but also sensitising the parents because this dialogue hasnt dick and its evident pakistan with the bed insults need to know on how can respond to the children that children are comfortable and confident to come to parents and when an incident does happen but a child has come after having gone through some kind of such an experience the parents are certain that the society will support them because unfortunately being to be a trap of society like many other countries suffer from a mysterious and a misplaced as a foreigner gave the saying that its about its going to bring up a bad name to us to our family if its found out that some member of her family was molested and if i just the deck should i use it on how difficult would it be in the bins there were different trappers society to talk about a good talk about abuse a charge of middle section of us one can just look at the need to endangered up report absent most celebrated when the one hollywood celebrities are putting out off the decades because they didnt have the confidence in society to come out and talk about such abuse so compare that invest expenditure days at the pakistan instead of just focusing on the punish to focus on that but we need to talk about the farms and thats the part which we as activists you do thats what i was and just look at it in fact about the case so we can go to courts and awesome damn that what are we doing with the tax money why isnt our education curriculum why isnt up tax money going into Public Service messaging discussing this opening up it is a good one. And you are you can hear i can hear your passion i can hear that you are determined to do this in a sentence do you still feel that this is a moment where pakistan will change in a sentence. Because don has had many mormons and ive lost many moments like this and this is one we need were going all right this isnt just about one little god i want to show you one other story that has its own hashtag which is just this football tool a little six Year Old Girl also found in a rubbish heap after being right and she needs immediate medical care and therapy you also see that story and many of this so this really is a time where pakistanis are looking at itself and how it looks at Child Protection thank you aside thank you mohammed i hope that youll keep us updated on how the story develops and to our community let us know what you would like to see on the stream with hash tag stream and the next time well see on mine. This business get. Its business im in the river traders brazil. 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