Im adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up on the run a spike in Violence Forces thousands of people to flee the democratic republic of congo. Egypt marks seven years since the fall of president Hosni Mubarak. Protecting the skies over cost us tension mounts for the gulf neighbors the air force increases the number of its pilots. Myanmars government has received a big blow to the credibility of its handling of the hinge or refugee crisis a top u. S. Diplomat has quit an International Advisory board aimed at resolving the turmoil in Rakhine StateBill Richardson who was once considered a close friend of suchi accuse the leader of lacking moral leadership on the issue he branded the panel set up by a whitewash calling it a cheerleading operation for the government. I was very unhappy and distressed by down sunset she reaction to my plea that this issue of the reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly and that brought almost an explosion on her part. Saying there were issues relating to the official secrecies act that this was not my charter as a member of the Advisory Board and the very Heated Exchange that we had i dont want to be part of a whitewash and i felt its best that that i resign immediately when it comes as bangladeshs Prime Minister has seen a is to appeal to the United NationsGeneral Assembly for more help in dealing with the crisis. Military though has been accused of using gang rape as part of an Ethnic Cleansing Campaign against the range of Rights Groups say that the attacks occurred during a recent crackdown in Rakhine State in which as many as seven thousand people of thoughts have been killed aljazeera strafford reports now from the refugee camp in bangladesh. The system is fifteen and seventeen years old samia the soldiers tied them to trees and gang rapes them the eldest says assisted clint useless as the second man began to brutalize. Beyond me surrounded all house she says my sister and i were in the bathrooms the soldiers buzzed in and drank this outside seven men raped me. She says passers by found them unconscious and still tied to the trees. It was difficult to walk she says but they helped us it took us fifteen days to walk to the bangladesh border. Rights groups say that the myanmar army used gang rape as part of its Ethnic Cleansing Campaign that killed thousands of people and destroyed their homes in Rakhine State they also say that myanmars Case Highlights massive floors in the International CriminalJustice System and there are questions being asked as to whether the interests of powerful countries like china could jeopardize myanmar ever fully being called to account gathering evidence in myanmar is almost impossible at the moment the myanmar government has banned the uns top human rights investigator from entering the country me and my has made a very big mistake in banning myself and also a Fact Finding Mission and other investigative teams to going in because this is exactly what the world needs to to see and hear from is the first hand reports from persons like myself and others Rights Groups say the Un Security Council should refer me on march to the International Criminal court in the hague but the i. C. C. Only has jurisdiction over crimes committed by states that have signed its founding treaty the rome statute and we is not a signatory getting myanmar an i. C. C. Referral in the Un Security Council would likely fail because of chinas power of veto chinas interests in myanmar a growing these include Oil Pipelines across rakhine and the construction of a deep water port. The girls now live with the woman that found them in the camp four months ago. They say they heard gunshots inside the house as they were drunk the way they say their mother father and three siblings were inside is the soldiers look at the front door behind them and set their home on fire. Ill just zero the refugee camp down with the people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo reporting a surge in rapes killings and abductions by armed groups the u. N. Says the violence has pushed more than ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of December Malcolm web joins us now live from the new york abandon refugee transit camp in uganda you can tell us more malcolm. Thats right there are three thousand people here at the moment everyone that we can see here is arrived within the last three days having sled their village of villages in the eastern democratic republic of congo because of the spike in violence you just mentioned we went up to the border and spoke to some of the new arrivals and accompany them on their journey here lets take a look at our story now. Rebecca salami says many of her neighbors have been killed or raped in recent weeks armed groups keep attacking have village in the democratic republic of congo thats why shes walked here to neighboring uganda with her family they met by ugandan soldiers near the border. When you go to pick your crops or go to the forest for firewood if youre a man they kill you and if youre a woman theyll rape you thats why we came here. Along with other new arrivals rebecca continues her journey in a u. N. Truck the u. N. Says more than ten thousand people have arrived here in the last month seeing a spike in violence and. Everyone we spoke to says they dont know which armed groups are attacking them why. They say the fighters carry guns wear uniforms and speak languages from all over congo and neighboring rwanda since its not safe at home this refugee transit camps the better option tired and covered with the new arrivals first have to line up here and get their feet prayed in fact and and everyone is made to come over here and wash their hands as well after the journey must be tiresome to made to go through this but the camp managers say its necessary then everyone has to queue up here for a medical check in that tent at the end. Rebeccas baby twins kelvin and carol they are identified as severely malnourished. She says she hasnt been able to harvest her crops for weeks and so hasnt produced enough breast milk u. N. Officials say these kinds of problems a typical among those arriving at the transit camp before they can be assisted and taken to long term refugee settlements most of believe me that i wind up with because when you talk to them to walk for a Long Distance we also have cases where women are they and can name the bin thanks to all the others or they have this cold here especially at night blankets will help keep the back as family warm until they can build a new home her husband in a small can still never go back up and weve heard that here is peaceful were still on the way though were optimistic that everything will be better and not like congo. A new life starts with spending the night on the floor of this shelter. Is safer here but it will be weeks before things get any easier. All of this comes amid a political crisis in the democratic republic of congo who were meant to be president ial elections just over a year ago but they havent happened they seem postponed repeatedly the Electoral Commission says its because it doesnt have the resources to put everything in place to hold a president ial election this means that president Joseph Kabila has stayed in power beyond the end of his second and final constitutional mandate instead very little about it opposition saying hes trying to overstay in power illegally so thats seen protests in the capital kinshasa just in the last week several people were killed there and its also seen an escalation in conflict across democratic congo particularly in the near the border with uganda here a lot of western diplomats of expressed concern that the lack of an election and the lack of a democratic process will worsen congos conflicts that many congolese have a more skeptical interpretation a lot of the people you speak to here think the powerful people in kinshasa or in the capital are trying to stoke the complex to make an election very difficult or even impossible to hold marcum do we know any more about which group or who it is thats behind the violence thats forcing these people to flee their homes. One thing its worth bearing in mind that i released in congo in spite of being extreme poverty in all of those villages one thing that you never see with the armed groups is a shortage of ammunition they always very well armed and well equipped with no bullets actually that means in spite of an arms embargo bullets are being manufactured in other countries and brought in that means you never intended for us dollars that we the hard tyrant says and that point pretty clearly towards the involvement of powerful people who have access to these things and able to do these things if you ask any of the people here from those villages theyll have no question that theyre a powerful political figures behind these that these armed groups the long groups arent in that sense operating in isolation regards to the recent attacks people have talked about trying to speaking several different congolese languages as well as languages from neighboring countries but we dont know yet who which figures might be behind this recent spate of attacks malcolm many thanks indeed aljazeera smoke and web reporting live from a refugee transit camp in uganda. A court in brazil has upheld a conviction against former president Louis Ignacio. For corruption money laundry its a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists that he will contest octobers election. Reports now from the Southern City of course. These people are standing by. Theyre convinced he will be brazils next president despite a courts ruling that makes it almost impossible for him to run. The risk distance will never die we lost the battle but not the war president twenty eighteen. On wednesday an Appeals Court upheld his conviction for corruption and Money Laundering even increase the sentence to twelve years and one month one of the judges said there is no doubt that the former president was involved in a corruption scheme. I looked at these questions one by one reaffirming specifically that the issue of culpability is the largest vector for the sentence and i consider culpability to be extremely high in this case. It happened in the city of port city where extreme security measures were taken to prevent clashes between us supporters and those who backed the courts decision. In sao paolo brazils economic capital many celebrated look at something new but if you left things he shouldnt be investigated because hes god all his companions are behind bars and are incriminating him we want justice should be arrested he must be convicted. Hes now seventy two he was prisons first working class president and is credited with lifting millions out of poverty. The courts judgment complicate his chances of making it to this years president ial race but lula remains defiant. It will for me this court ruling is an opportunity to travel through brazil and have a dialogue with the brazilian people now i can see that everything that theyre doing is to close the door to my candidacy as provocation is so shameful but now i want to be counted for the presidency of the republic brazilian law bans candidates who have been convicted from running for office there are two legal moves and make to avoid prison and to fight to be allowed to run in octobers election. But for many that will now be tougher than his supporters would like to what makes. The case i will. Look at a weather update. Then beijings controversial plan to clean up the city thats leaving thousands homeless plus. Im rory chalons in moscow and later in the program ill be explaining why a british the terrible film about this man is not going down well in russia. How the real cold winter air in europe is in the east in fact is going over into western russia as this gray stuff was slow moving cloud thats way feels like it should do but further west this is a reasonable thing like winter is when the smile to contains lots of rain in the forecast not could be a problem so waltz we have goals for thursdays forecast maximum temperature is subzero for book rest in kiev the sun might be up for the be fog around as well and in turkey its snowing as it is indeed in finland if you look through germany and france and even spain and portugal were up to double figures weve got right now this rain is falling on top of snow a vast amount of snow in the alps so weve already had something in the way of too much water flooding on the rise in the run for example on the smaller rivers in switzerland and now are about to top it up with more melt is there and then add some snow on top come friday so its going to be a bit of a dangerous mess not just avalanches but flood and mudslide risk now whats happening on the european mainland which means most of the train is fun to most of north africa is looking fine twenty one degrees now jenas but the some on shore breeze for egypt and you can see quite obvious circulation to cyprus and turkey. Well again the top stories here on aljazeera u. S. Diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an International Advisory panel tackling the hinge of crisis calling it a whitewash at least seven hundred thousand range of flat near mass rakhine region for bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown in august people fleeing the eastern democratic republic of congo reporting of surgeon rapes killings and abductions by armed groups the u. N. Says the violence has pushed more than ten thousand people into neighboring uganda since the beginning of december at a court in brazil has up held a conviction against former president Louis IgnacioLula Da Silva for corruption and Money Laundering its a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists he will contest octobers election. As u. S. President donald trump has urged turkey to curtail its military offensive against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria on saturday turkey launched an air and ground operation an effort to push out why p. G. Fighters whom it considers to be terrorists the u. S. Sees the fighters as allies helping it in its fight against i saw in a phone call trump told turkeys president earlier want to exercise caution or risk conflicts with u. S. Forces. January twenty fifth marks the seventh anniversary of the egyptian revolution that brought down president Hosni Mubarak downtown cairo is in lockdown with Security Forces sealing off all entrances to Tahrir Square the focal point of the uprising aljazeera is but smith has been speaking to some of the people who were there seven years ago i i chance of down with mubarak wants have been enough to earn a beating from egypts feared Security Services that on january twenty fifth twenty eleven the police made only a half hearted attempts to stop hundreds of thousands of egyptians packing Tahrir Square in cairo to demand the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak idle raman farris and ali have joined those protests seven years ago for what and then. We used to say that the revolution is coming that it was out drinking to change the regime through revolution weve been protesting for years but it was only ever a few dozen one hundred people so the regime considered us a bunch of children. For three weeks mubarak clung to power he fired cabinet ministers and promised reforms but he refused to meet the main demand that the now millions of protesters nationwide were not moving they have to more. Democracy needs a chance of these police to go. Amnesty International Says more than eight hundred forty people were killed during the revolution as once friendly governments from the u. S. And europe abandon the barrack the eighty two year old autocrat was isolated. One finally on february eleventh twenty eleven mubarak resigned and handed over power to the military im up. With that and. You know what then after the office would have feeling i lost my voice i kept saying the people have overthrown the regime that it was a dream that came true i felt we had. Something like a mini democracy i felt competition between parties then ceasing came egypts post revolution euphoria didnt last long its first democratically elected leader lasted just twelve months. The muslim brotherhoods Mohammed Morsi was overthrown in a military coup led by abdel fattah elsisi. Ccs now president and standing for reelection for a second term in march just like mubarak hes crackdown on dissent and silenced rivals and on the anniversary of that revolution Tahrir Square has been sealed off just in case Bernard Smith aljazeera the u. N. Says that its alarmed by reports of summary executions in libya its demanding the arrest of a senior military Commander Allied to the renegade general Khalifa Haftar who is also wanted by the International Criminal court its in response