rates a little bit to curb inflation. as benchmark rate is now up to 5 percent that the highest since 2007. yoshi and government has appointed a senior official and the to gripe people's liberation front as head of a new interim to dr. regional government get to to read as appointment comes just a day after the t p l. f was removed from a list of terrorist organizations establishing a temporary government was a crucial part of the peace deal signed last year. that ended fighting between 2 great rebels and government troops. the conflict was killed. tens of thousands of people enforced millions more out of their home. another 8 cases of mob virus have been confirmed by the world health organization and equitorial guinea. the cases were confirmed and new regions of the country, including indicating a wider outbreak. at least 5 people have also died of the disease and tens of mia. there are no vaccines or anti virus treatments approved to treat the severe viral fever. that's fueling see is it could spread further and the region with alarm sounding in cameroon, and kenya protest underway in israel, out of the parliament past the 1st of several laws that make up the government, controversial, judicial overhaul. the plan would limit the power of the supreme court. they threatened democracy, hundreds of demonstrations of blocking roads and protest. washington is denying china statements that a u. s. destroy has been forced from the south china sea. on thursday, the chinese military said it drove away the vessel from waters near the palace hall islands. katrina, you has more from beijing. well, so the 1st time that the u. s. and china have disagreed of a. what has happened in the south china sea, but what makes this particularly dangerous? is the timing right now. the distrust and the tensions between washington and baiting are at an all time high, making any potential confrontation, particularly risky. european union leaders amazing and brussels for 2 days of talks . the united nations secretary general is also attending the meetings will focus on the e you support for ukraine. the block, single market economy and migration $27.00 leaders from across the union are expected to join. australia's prime minister has reveal details of a proposed referendum that will give constitutional recognition to the nation's indigenous people. australians will vote on it later this year if it passes. a panel will be set up to advise parliament on issues that impact the lives of aboriginal people. anthony albanese spoke at an emotional news conference on thursday, outlining the plans t. she's a morris request. i said, do i said it was straw, you don't miss it? don't miss it. so i want this done for indigenous australians, but i want it done for all a straight lines. we will feel better about ourselves. if we get this done, we'll just feel better. and you know what i've said this and this has been contested. but the truth is that a strategy will be seen as a better notion as well by the rest of the world. that's just a fact. interest rates and the u. k. could to go up on thursday, february inflation rate rose unexpectedly to 10.4 percent driven by high food and energy bills. the rise put pressure on the bank of england to do the same. it's inflation target is 2 percent. whole protest that underway in france against the goblins plans to raise the retirement age. these and live pictures from paris. president manuel macro defended his pension policy in a televised interview on wednesday. he said the changes will be implemented by the end of the year. 8 american celebrities have been charged with involvement in an illegal crypto currency. investments came actress lindsay lohan and you true? but jake, puerto, among them they were accused of encouraging millions of social media followers to buy crypto assets without as close. and they had been paid to do the promotions. the scheme was run by chinese entrepreneur just in san. well, those are the headlines on al jazeera to stay with us. witness is coming up next. thank you for watching. ah. a good idea to come over in the room for me when i when did it to get ended and then but i get develop well and it is all going to my grande or a c in fact that i mean yeah, i says again is kim paul 0, call it here, i'm the last either from will let me that up with with with with this one i think with the i'm a a a a b as you continue will be either more security for security reasons, more book or newcastle. i'm calling myself colonel, cuz it'll be questionable. the name, cassandra is not my name because unless cassandra is an alias, we're always through government. good. i can tell you is that am a high ranking officer in the congress army. looks local, did loose ball culture would have tripled force as long as you angle as leaders what the results of what we do not have a patriarch sense of to call with local approval to moodle, prevail observe. combo will stagnate in misery forever and country as almost no system of douglas. our national army is disorganized and poorly paid because of this, soldiers will sometimes leave the army to join a rebel close. the government eventually negotiates with these rebels and then hit them back into the arms, often with higher ranking position than they had before. the rebels was started. this current war called themselves to the m 23. they haven't came to mind it politically. georgia kia, therefore, glenn g village, sanji, mom. my kanga is the acting leader, but he used to be a colonel, you know, national worker that if you're citing that curriculum is, is, do you feel that the lady meant appreciate because when am i for to be on there are basically for kia politically did miss your hand, if you could have john rebel gross 3 in though hope was always that it would bring stabilization to congo on all levels on a social level and economic level. but no, the fading continues a little better. will it be done with this was a deeper level of awe . mergers in a little know going in more than most of annella usually come on down to come and isn't by. don't come under the 1st and it actually, you know, some de la decision politic dinner to pete in some derriere duncan, his order. he's on doing a political monitor graham, but okay, so next in ask me please. i just have you and the lady, the playground is i'm, is it a 2nd? if you pull it up, or coronel mom a kid devonte what this one, n g, a participant until the front. it be necessary to sit in the dish bags. i'm 30 down fastly easy i can trust in e c. eagerly masters under the last name, but it does have been a party into just a little bit about your entry. see, thank you so to boise, if they do thursday, well, more than welcome miss you moving on to sample not to either the lombardi p, the law more than not, the 5th is still a difference, not integrity due to the congo and the heart of a coil africa is 3 times larger than texas. the congo is a joint country. it has several mountains, waterways, and a lot of mean hours, especially here in the east. well call them as the bell. let me know. and i will go with yeah, wow, no leg with formula except when it comes to our minimum. well, conway is a bit of a geological scandal understand that the population does not benefit at all from the product so far away. ah. source go my is the center of the north friends, south cavan permit. it is a strategic town in the regional if the economic hot land there are more than a 1000000 people here. this is well the national resort in frederick book it from my seats on lake kiva, and he's on the border for rwanda. it's so so close to the border if you've gotten the rebels have now steadily been waking their way from their base near the border with uganda toward go my, the main city. here. they are more than 450 tribes in congo, and all of them are represented here. this is a huge heat mineral rich part of the country. it's also very, very far from kinshasa. the capital government doesn't really reach it properly. the main power is the power of the gun, and whoever controls that controls also potentially very lucrative deal. this instability as broad fathers as well. just outside go my eyes at this 1st. this forest makes a good hide out for anyone who wants to start in or been here who can conquer plato from and collect the villagers and from the area under your control and had them exploit minerals and sell them for you. then you can buy guns, weapons, and you can buy food or other than the m 22 a rebels. they are more than 50 amd grove south day. and if to day eddie said, to go into the forest and start a rebellion, i will have people to follow me upon a call. if an album when you meet the don't get a single fancy or data, neither mitigation i your product illegal for as a the d will package in now your day you think they hung up by the little window. young boy let it go. what did i pinnacle tita went to a mono while she went to ammonia buckeye that made mckinney do not like a habit without the less about come up to me and a plum one nail which of course yeah. not easy to put a man in am. i doing is to the 9 am by sam. she was on tampa from day to vicki. look on what i need to stop. why am label, he got his arms back, white foot that wiped when own little beast. why she got it? 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it's asking for all of them to the for why is it not clear that warranty for chunky? chuck filed the we clearly problem for the fail to have a 2 bedroom or if it, even, i guess polish it doesn't really, really, really mother said not live as well. was out of everything that is happening in the swarm has been done before the m 23 are threatening to take coma unless the government gives them key positions in this region. oh boy, i got it with it's no coincidence met these are rebellions occur near our voters. of human rights watch reports do the link between one and mtv $32.00 neighboring countries. rwanda, uganda. i've been accused of back in 23. rwanda family denies any involvement. there's no evidence that fucks because is not happening. i get a, a a with about 5 minutes ago and 23 battles. walk through the street without any one stopping them outside. compliments, troops retreated, and you and it's keep us stood by watching like our glazed national army in siena. catastrophic collapsing morale over the last few days. in particular. the head of the lamp forces was fired for allegedly covertly backing the rebels and 23 battles, like the city they had conquered 12 days ago. in return, the government must agree to listen to and address the rebels grievances. everything will be okay. a president could be level anybody else provokes us. we even have those trust in that government and the united nation with texas in regard to the international community. the stranger will never find you a solution in your own country. but since our independence, we've never been given a chance to govern ourselves without interference from the outside. own body of 1916 independence comes to the belgian congo. king bog. why himself lies to the capital city of leopold build? to break the bonds that have blinked his country and an african colony about 75 years. no visit the skin pushy for sin any better so he can go get it going on. yeah, he said he must be passionate about you. b. m. remember, the 1st prime minister of congo was a nationalist, but the american start the communist tendencies. so russia back, bloomberg, given military and other aid i least buy it with west again influence in the congo 20 americans during the cold war. they had to find a man to get to read for them, and that is how i would been thought of. but in the army, he was known as the most brilliant colonel, to force the russians to close their embassy leave the congo, mahmud to him to use by dca. he served the capitalists to the detriment of communism. the chapter begins on the talk and project history of the congo with the return of leopold, the deposed premier la mama, following is captured my crack. come, i know is a strong man cut on here. you see him on his 3rd, a red one from what you went to him. it's jerry of death. who disappeared or the americans mabood to impose a dictatorship for 32 years. i grew up during that time when he came into power. in the beginning, i must say he was good ah, the economy of the country was strong, very strong. the congo produce to many university graduates and the world respected many of these congress . at least in those years, congo was still moving forward a bit. then all of a sudden he rebaptized the congo with the name of the e. oh got it. oh oh mama, i'm with almost everything changed. well here remained a vital ally to the west. he expelled all the foreign investors that way. he when the last all the factories, all the big brand asians aware acquired by them good to his colleagues. but they did not know how to run them. they were new executives, business name were replaced by united tweet people. money was embezzle. and where does corruption, development can pick says o, do a logo to looted his country's diamond and coppermine, he pocketed international aid. even offices were housed in the sun just a few kilometers away from president hutus opulent lakeside fill up a v. i a that same system of corruption as become a google is tradition. and it is even worse to join the debate. we know that the sector, she was an advisor in the government and stained by the government today they are the government, african. how security is also global. help security on an online, at your voice. there is no right to defense. there is no right to protest. we can't just keep relying on aid, there has to be some work towards a sustainable economy. at the end of the day, it is ordinary objects that are paying the price. listerine anal did there with ah, and when a hands on journalist working in asia, africa, there'd be days where i'd be choosing and editing my own stories in a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now, where confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problem is together. that's why does it so important? we make those connections blue. i'm elizabeth bronman, doha with the top stories on al jazeera interest rates in the u. k. have gone up by a quarter of a percentage point after inflation rows unexpectedly for the 1st time in months. february's inflation rate rose to 10.4 percent driven by high food and energy bills . the bank of england is targeting to keep inflation at 2 percent. this comes a day after the u. s. federal reserve raised interest rates in a bit to curb inflation. it's benchmark rate is now up to 5 percent. that's the highest since 2007 u. p. o p as prime minister has appointed a senior official and the to grey people's liberation front us head of a new interim administration for the region. get a char run does appointment comes just a day after the t p. a left was removed from a list of terrorist organizations establishing a temporary government was a crucial part of a peace deal that was signed last year and more than 2 years of conflict. another 8th cases of marble virus had been confirmed by the world health organization and equitorial guinea. the cases were confirmed, a new reed for the country indicating a wider outbreak. at least 5 people have died of the disease and 10th. mia, there are no vaccines or anti virus treatments approved to treat the severe vile fever and that's fueling fears. it could further spread. and the region washington is denying china statements that a u. s. destroyer has been forced from the south china sea on thursday. the chinese military, you said it drove away the vessel from waters near the power cell items. katrina, you has more from aging. well, it's not the 1st time that the u. s. in china have disagreed. of what has happened in the south china sea, but what makes this particularly dangerous is the timing right now. the distrust and the tension between washington and aging are at an old time why making any potential confrontation, particularly risky protest her underway in israel, just allas off the parliament passed the 1st of 7 laws that make up the government . controversial judicial over whole plan would limit the power of the supreme court . critic say it threatened democracy and more protests have broken out in france against the government's plans to raise the time and age is live. pictures from the french capital president matthew mac han, defended his pension policy in a televised address on wednesday. well, those are the headlines on al jazeera. do stay with us. witness continues next. thank you for watching. ah, what with all that you can with i know with them but i mean is if you think you know that the ability to, you know, let them know, you know or they may want to pass on a day analytical and actually put them on you live down more on fat lip back if you pay, i mean you can, you please get to. so he says you pay on my valet for randy, come on banker and is in, but i love them. it only shift a little over there to look them on, on land. if they said in the command, it cut them for the me to get your com on this. eric younger, a j a said kill a city near to spend a minute and we'll take care of give me a wow a. 2 more on the goals to be think democratic republic of congo, government police are hearing complaints of pillage will work by am 2323 was formed . it caught him on to was to be reintegrated as the congolese army with better pay and ranks. now it's talking about setting up its own government, but it's a collection of taxes. mm hm. a ah, a human mission could do little to stuff in 23 rebels when they sweat to, to the cities. go man. a new batch of troops with a wider offensive mandate. it could take months rent, then she was supposed to be in place. during that time and 23 could make another attempt to take go my a doe go go play by monito