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ALJAZ Newsgrid February 12, 2018

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You know if the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com and what price on rebuilding iraq well apparently its one hundred billion dollars at least that is what the Iraqi Government is asking for in assistance after defeating a three day donors conference has begun in kuwait and on the first say they got pledges worth more than three hundred Million Dollars from aid agencies iraq has of course suffered major devastation from the three year war against eisel homes schools hospitals infrastructure all damaged or destroyed but in december it was that baghdad declared victory over eisel after Government Forces backed by a u. S. Led coalition took control of large parts of the country so were going to start with that put it all on the map and see how iraq is operating now show youre familiar with these the who controls what that what you need to concentrate here is the green that is government the black is i so first of all these towns here which you see little triangles these are all towns which were under ice the control are now been taken back by Government Forces and to put some numbers on here as well were going since january twenty sixth a now the United Nations says that nine thousand one hundred fifty three people have been killed in eisel related violence there are also let me check my numbers seven hundred thousand people sorry terrible writing the displaced and then just in this area here which is western Anbar Province since. Well this year were looking at sixty five thousand people who have fled that area as well were talking about massive massive displacement issues well sam is a dam is that the conference in kuwait city that we talked about but hes also been looking at some of those parts of iraq i was just showing you the one still in ruins more than six months after they were retaken by the government this will give you an idea of how big the task ahead is. This is what socalled liberation from i sort of looks like to has nally and his family its been six months since iraqs Prime Minister declared nineveh province freed alys house is still in ruins so is much of robby a town. He used to work as a farmer tilling the soil now he plows the rubble of his home and wreaks what others have sold in his life as a. Given up hope in returning home weve been displaced over three years look at how our house has been destroyed. Alan fled when i saw fighters seized the nearby city of mosul four years ago hes not alone more than two and a half million iraqis remain displaced by the rule they have no money to rebuild their lives so they live in tent camps such as south of mosul and then on the act if the government should look after us money i need bread when im supporting six children my parents and a sick Family Member these are the people the conference in quite this week must help if its to succeed ejecting eisel from the third of iraq the fighters once controlled has left a wasteland human Rights Groups such as Amnesty International blame both i saw and the u. S. Led coalition for unnecessary destruction and civilian deaths. The Nineveh Reconstruction Committee says the conflict destroyed three quarters of mosuls roads almost all its bridges and two thirds of the Electrical Network unicef says three quarters of a million children in mosul region lack access to Health Services if you know. The government does not get. A great. Ally. In the. War children will be forced to leave while girls will be forced to marry early we might seem more young. Iraqi officials come to quite looking for investments in over one hundred projects everything from the angle cultural sector to the Energy Industry is on the table and iraqs Prime Minister well he says he needs one hundred billion dollars to get the job done. Its a huge amount of money we know our budget cant cover nor can the nation its almost impossible thats why we are resorting to investment in iraq is counting on outside help to salvage itself into a united and functioning state but when asked what commitments theyre ready to make in the quite conference our policy pastor has changed since previous administrations remember we used to be in the whole nation building in the United States government is not doing that any longer that outside interest may determine whether iraqis thirst for a normal life will never be quenched sam is a damn aljazeera kuwait i have got a good friend of the great here mama judge him of course al jazeera correspondent has reported i mean you know this story youve done it youve reported it youve seen it and in fact rather than ask you a question first of all i want us to have a look at some pictures this is some of mohammeds reporting lets have a look these days the smiles dont come often and when they do they barely mask the pain. Even in this child friendly space fourteen year old john fields far from safe. Rather than speak she draws. For a girl who lost both parents and three of her siblings in the fight against isis its a way to express her sorrow for the mohamed we could have we could talk about the donors conference and money but this is actually what the story is and this is it and you took us through what you saw there in the units and it will come alive i firmly believe that the best way to try to really understand the magnitude of the multiple crises going on has to really try to look at it through the eyes of children i mean theyve experienced the worst of it they are seeing things that have seen things that even adults would have a hard time processing now when we did that story we were at or camp for the internally displaced where was that exactly what this was outside of ajdabiya and this girl as john was fourteen years old she had lived under eisel rule and in the airstrikes that were carried out to try to liberate that town her extended family was killed her parents many of her siblings were killed she was so traumatized that she could no longer speak so the trauma counselors that were working with her were trying to gain her trust were trying to make her feel more at ease but this is something we saw with so many of the children that experienced the horrors of the war of the conflicts in iraq they simply cannot process what they have seen the kind of horrors that they have lived with them because of that its so important to have centers like the one that as john her brother and her cousins were going to in this camp but the fact of the matter is that there just isnt enough money to sustain these kinds of support programs at such a crucial time and as thinking actually in the back of my head its so much of what we see there is actually money cant rebuild that the you know they have that scott for life in some rooms over ive got some more pictures lets roll is more of muhammads reporting in. Just to really talk a little bit more about the whole issue of displacement as i rather roughly showed him how it had before you know seven hundred thousand displaced just since january of last year what happens to all these people i mean that the the the prospect of them going home its got to be minuscule yeah i mean a lot of the it often is that we would see that went to these camps even the new arrivals they were having this realisation that this was essentially going to be their home from here on out they were too afraid to go back home many of them even if theyre told they can return to their towns they are too afraid to do so for various reasons so they have this horrible realisation that suddenly they are without a home that they are living in these encampments where they cant get the kinds of basic goods and services that should be the should be available to any human around the world and that is a very sad day for them you have parents who dont know how to explain that this new reality to their children you have children that are now out of school the fears of a lost generation continue to to multiply these past several years with all these crises going on in iraq and it just becomes this displacement crisis that goes on without in the one thing we kept hearing from so many at all these various camps throughout the country is that they dont believe that the displacement crisis in iraq gets the kind of coverage that other displacement or refugee crises get in the region and other parts of that is exactly why were talking about its very moment thank you for coming in from leisure to talk to you as always now to newark is joining us of the war of isis on the road to the caliphate joining us from bill in iraq thank you for your time hopefully you could hear what mohammed was telling us some of those very personal stories of all these people have been displaced and so now the Iraqi Government goes looking for money one hundred billion dollars is a huge amount of money though isnt it. It is it is an enormous amount of money and if you look in the cities that were talking about its because its about reconstruction of cities like moves so. Far. Even to create many of those towns still in ruins especially of course mosul which is the worst but even i was recently in. Which was not so badly damaged but still people cannot go back there for one reason because so many houses have been damaged because the services are no longer there because there is still explosives around but also because there is still isis fighters around and because of that the Security Forces will not that people back to their houses right im glad you brought up that point i wanted to ask you about i saw in the first place you know the Iraqi Government tops the fact that i saw has been defeated i mean you get this feeling that one i saw is an ideology that probably cant be defeated it can be pushed back but ideologically cant be defeated and is there any really guarantee that theyve just melted away and arent going to come back. Yes the problem is of course that. Iraq doesnt really have the money to rebuild the country and thats also why this conference is being held if you look at the budget for two thousand and eighteen theres hardly money on it and the budget is not getting passed the parliament so wheres the money going to come from already people in in the cities in the sunni cities that were destroyed are complaining also because they still dont get summaries many of the people who state when isis was there are being checked and rechecked and still do not get their salaries amongst them very important teachers and and policeman that is making people feel like second great citizens this just makes them disenchanted and that might. Make it more possible for even if its not a group of groups like isis but anyone who would who would help the sunnis. To to get them to stand behind those you feel i still have been defeated here. No i definitely dont feel isis is defeated here at all. We hear very regularly about sleeping cells that are being picked up recently in. Which was one of the important towns for isis there was a nine day operation in which they still found a hospital tunnels an Operational Center even a bomb factory so and we know that that these groups together with other groups are getting together in the how marine mountains which is near to the core just on region in the area border area between iraq and syria and they still post a threat they are still able to attack so that means theyre not gone not at all good at neutering thank you so much for joining us from bill on the news good much appreciated our Interactive Team has put together a lot of stuff on isolate the years i believe this to be the definitive one it is called simply defeating eisel and it brings together everything the timeline which slow the appears and explains how its all gone since twenty fourteen the number is the animating maps it is a snapshot of the past three or four years in iraq and syria to lets not forget that as well search for defacing i so it is in the interactive section at al jazeera dot com and more links at the bottom there. Thank you for getting in touch already with the hash tag a. J. News grid pessimism is what im saying a lot of here allie saying first they destroy the whole country now they talk about rebuilding in the name of human rights great and home and says this next generation in iraq is in a dire situation can iraq provide accommodation to all these displaced pay displaced people it looks like there is no hope certainly that tag of one hundred billion dollars on rebuilding iraq knows there is a huge task ahead thats the whats that number plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine the hashtag a. J. Newsgroup on facebook and twitter. We move on a developing story actually underway right now senior members of south africas ruling party are meeting to decide the future of president jacob zuma trying to hammer out a deal for mr zuma to quit before his term ends next year zuma under pressure to step down over corruption allegations that he denies any wrongdoing African National Congress Leader Cyril Ramaphosa says the Party Leaders will decide on a swift transfer of power from it amid a following this one for us from johannesburg im seeing lots of lines dropping from me to the word fake news is being bandied about i do is that he might have said he will step down and wants it done can you clarify for us please. Well this is a situation thats been going on for at least a couple of weeks of course growing in it intensity as we see meetings perspire own now the same port and National Executive meeting of the a. N. C. Taking place this afternoon for at least the last three hours and theres no official word at all that jacob zuma has agreed to resign in fact its been the complete opposite up till now that the a. N. C. Seems to be having difficulty to get jacob zuma to step down and thats why this meeting is taking place. The president of the a. N. C. Had been trying to negotiate with zuma trying to negotiate the strands cision the exit a smooth transition on sunday reports addressed a large crowd in cape town around these. Celebrations of Nelson Mandelas birth and him having left prison twenty eight years ago he used the opportunity to address of africans to talk about this transition saying that the country Needs Closure and there is an acknowledgement that South Africans are becoming increasingly frustrated and impatient with a lack of Decisive Action by the African National congress now that this meeting is taking place it seems the closest theyve been at any point to recalling what they say is recalling jacob zuma after that they would expect a resignation from the president this hasnt happened yet in fact even if they do recall him constitutionally jacob zuma doesnt have to resign its then that the a. N. C. Would have to put in put forward a motion of no confidence in parliament and get the president out that way but what has happened this afternoon kemal what is important is that opposition leaders have come together saying that they want jacob zuma out as soon as possible they had a motion of no confidence that would happen on the twenty second of february they say thats too far along it has to happen this week and if they dont get an answer from the. Officials of parliament by tomorrow morning they are going to take quick action and most importantly what they want is parliament to be dissolved and full snap elections to be held in ninety days this quickly from a ticket can you put your finger on just for of us why jacob zuma seems to be so desperately clinging to power he is no longer the leader of the a. N. C. There is all this controversy there are all i mean the swirling for years now and the people are fed up as well it looks like the time to make an exit. Jacob zuma has been employed in scandal after scandal throughout his two terms in the in the in the in office this goes back to before he was Deputy President this goes back to allegations of corruption linked to his Financial Advisor should be a shake once those charges were dropped just before he became president of the African National congress and then later president of south africa he continues to be embroiled in scandal is to do with what according state capture basically influence in government that has benefited him his family as well his Family Friends so really issues around his politics and business and its been very difficult to remove the president because of the support hes had within the party and who else might be involved in these allegations from a military coup for those updates we will come back to you if anything develops of course when jacob zuma stood for election in two thousand and nine he was facing this is just a bit more detail on what fun it was saying both rape and corruption charges but that did not stop him from securing the countrys top job the scandals that did not go away he was criticized for his links with the indian born businessman from the wealthy gupta family former deputy finance minister accused them of offering him a bribe to accept a promotion in return for advancing their business interests there is also the allegations in the use state funds to

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