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World Service news. Hello and welcome to News from the b.b.c. World Service coming to you live from London I'm Julian Marshall today in the calm of rural Sweden a brutal war is being discussed but will the 2 sides of the conflict in Yemen make significant progress towards peace also how much of a security threat is the Chinese telecoms company while way to western countries a u.s. American Senator Ted tells us it's a big threat there is a concern that because while way is ultimately an instrument of the government of China that they will be used for espionage purposes and how to walk on water what we can learn from the humble Gekko. But we go 1st to be Swedish capital Stockholm scene of the latest attempt to try to end the devastating conflict in Yemen which is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran 4 years of war along with a blockade disease and massive poverty have created says the United Nations the worst humanitarian crisis in the world the Sweden talks are the 1st time that the warring parties a met in 2 years they've managed so far to agree a prisoner swap but as yet no agreement on securing a truce in the country's main port of her dead or the talks were going under way the Swedish foreign minister Margaret valid strum urged the warring parties to find compromises the people of Yemen want least children have already waited far too long for peace far too long for the humanitarian disaster to be a mediator and for steps to be taken to words a renewed political process but I speak now to our chief international correspondent leads to set who's some at the peace talks and leaves who exactly is at these talks and what's their structure. Judy you know listening to you describe the litany of crises now confronting Yemen the many circles of hell I think our listeners would think My goodness isn't that enough to push the warring sides towards peace but it's not in here it is in the Swedish countryside you have a Yemeni government a delegation and a delegation of who the rebels sitting down earlier today around the same table for the 1st time in more than 2 years but it's not clear how much time they'll spend sitting around the same table for the next week that's how long they're hoping that these talks will go on what we're told this is quite it's going to be quite an open sort of a structure that on some of the issues for example both sides have agreed that they will release hundreds of prisoners then it seems that the 2 sides will sit down for those talks because they've already agreed to take that step but on other more sensitive issues where there are further apart they will meet the u.n. Team including the envoy Martin Griffiths in separate rooms but it's hoped that since there are so far away from any distractions as this as the one u.n. Official said there is no room service in the castle they will have to be in the same room for breakfast for dinner after lunch and it's the you when you see Yemenis they do talk to each other except that when they talk they don't really move a very far in the right direction towards peace obviously the ultimate goal is to end the conflict but is it also to create any political structures in the future Lee's. Yes they're talking about nothing less than to use Martin Griffiths phrase he talks about a comprehensive framework repeat for peace in other words a roadmap for that elusive peace that is going to be very hard to achieve again to use the envoy's word he says I'm being over ambitious and yet every small step is a start and there's talk here about how the mood in the room how positive it was to see the Yemenis around the table after so long a time so when I sat down to one of the Yemeni journalists who actually covers both sides of this conflict Tariq biter I asked him what was his reaction when he saw the opening ceremony and believable I can't imagine when I saw them it was amazing you know we knew just we are very keen to see this moment since 2 years until now we did not do any decisions me as a normal Yemeni before I become a journalist as a normal Yemeni we have just keen for peace so when we saw them just sitting in one table again without oh this is the time I think this is the time for peace and we will not go out of this country without peace as one of the few Yemeni journalist I think I can say who covers both sides of this conflict you know both sides of this conflict very well you know they don't trust each other do you really think these talks are going to make progress aside from sitting together for the opening Well to be honest with you and very optimistic. 1st of all Actually it's the it's the end of the war so what would what would be we have to focus we have to know all of us that human is our 1st priority of our leaders believe in this then they will make a solution people are suffering people are dying in Guinea and you can't imagine how is the situation in Yemen for 2 years. I mean our son out of port was closed and people they don't have celebrities I work on both sides of the conflict from the north to the sorrow than from the worst of this people in any break of famine So this is unfortunately this is not something that comes by nature it's a human made you say that the the war is over it's coming to an end but some fear that it's going to get worse that the biggest battle for the lifeline of Yemen the battle for who the Ada is going to get worse if these talks don't succeed No I think it's the end of the world as I do I believe in that either no it's sounds very optimistic but. You know in her day there the people in her that are very poor I mean poor since long long time in the most cost now we let's discuss about the worst cause so these people they used to relay and fishing and like a normal guy wake up in the morning go fishing and have of the fish he will sell it in the market and really get some money and half of the quantity will eat it with this family now these people in these religious and the was of course they can't go fish in the sea because of the bloke a them because of the war so that's why this could get a big famine so when we say famine in Yemen we can say there is no food we say that people can't afford food and it's very expensive. And that was the Yemeni journalist stabbed I'm a target biter and it's quite extraordinary Surfaxin on the end of this 1st day and that almost every Yemeni I spoke to if they Kate whether it's the journalists or members of civil society members of a Women's Advisory Group you know women are not sitting at the table all of them expressed some kind of hope and optimism that something would come out of this and perhaps it is that when you've lost so much as a people the last thing you hold onto is hope Leigh's Many thanks absorb chief international correspondent Elise Doucette speaking from the Yemen peace talks in Sweden we're joined now from Brussels by the United Nations Children's Fund regional director for the Middle East he had a top a ladder who's just returned from Yemen including a visit to the flashpoint port city of data and tell us what you found in Yemen what you saw. Well thanks Julian I can only but they call what Alex at least . You know we are describing up times the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in terms of statistics from a children's perspective every single of the 15000000 children in Yemen has today scars of the current crisis but you only understand the depth of that goal of that crisis d.m. Backed it has upon children when you are in Yemen when you talk to the children when you talk to the families when you're sitting with beneath him as he ate that poor girl lying on the sick bed asking the mother why it took so long for them to seek help the simple answer we don't have the money anymore a brutal choices families have to make whether or not they keep their child dying at home or render risk crossing the front lines and seek. Help from a health center a few kilometers away the across the front line you know I heard stories. This week in the south of people who have to sell everything people from all day than I sold everything just to pay their rate to safety and not necessarily just to pay for transport but for paying the numerous bribes they have to do they have to cover on their way speaking to to these girls boys who have lost limbs who are battle eyes a boy 10 years old herding his goats trapped the law on the on a land mine lost both legs. Girl bottle eyes. Are entire bottom bottle eyes because of suffering from diphtheria beetroot could easily prevent if at least children could be vaccinated is awfully this unprecedented and . Children they an incredible price the UN's welfare program has said that ending the conflict in Yemen is not going to necessarily end the humanitarian crisis so what's needed for that to end. Well that in a peaceful settlement is absolutely needed and urgently so the efforts of Martin and his team in Sweden are we critical but indeed it is needed but not sufficient What will Yemen needs what the Yemeni children need is a investment of governance that puts the interest of Yemeni people and the poorest of Yemeni people at the center of the discussions at the center of the efforts for making children the center and what not the sort children the center of the investments not any other economic politically or political or military interests that has been dominating Yemen's agenda for decades now. For the time being though what success are you having in getting food supplies medical supplies through to those that need them. Well in the saddle strange to talk in terms of successes but you know being in Yemen. Seeing in fact that the investments of organizations like Unicef are paying off not that for example we are able to day to the crease the high levels of extreme malnutrition but that least or efforts are contribution to stabilize the levels of malnutrition we are fighting call around acute watery diarrhea we haven't really eradicated the yet but it is rewarding to see that today we have only 10 percent of the hundreds of thousands of cases we have lost here so it is paying off some thanks to the international community thanks to organizations like Unicef Julian. The health system the education system is still operating partially if we wouldn't be there there would be no health system anymore it would be. Schools anymore because it is it is organizations like Unicef that base for the operational expenses we pay for the incentives so health workers 'd speeches or haven't received at. Least it is as paying for the supplies it is so little success a little bit of hope a similar of hope for 40 millions of Yemeni children mishap a levy Many thanks haven't here papillary the United Nations Children's Fund regional director for the Middle East who's just returned from Yemen. Coming up we'll hear from Pakistan were 18 international aid agencies have been told to leave but the government direct impact is that the most vulnerable people in Pakistan will have less access to services and also will lose their ability to benefit when our approach which is a rights based approach to organize people to come together we power themselves and to claim their rights to a better life and the latest headlines from the b.b.c. News from global stock markets a fall in with investors worried that the arrest of a Chinese tech executive may fuel a further escalation in tension between the world's 2 largest economies the Rwandan opposition activist e n rigourous been acquitted on charges of an Suresh and and forgery we'll hear from her in a moment and the Eiffel Tower is to close in line with French government plans to repair Paris for further possible violence by antigovernment protesters on Saturday . You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is news on. The un regarding an outspoken critic of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame use been acquitted of charges of forgery and inciting insurrection both charges arose out of a bid to challenge Mr Gummi for the presidency in elections in July 27th team for allegedly forging signatures in support of her bed and for remarks she made about the president during her campaign after more than a year in prison choose her trial in November and was told then the chief faced more than 20 years in prison but today a panel of 3 judges dropped all the charges against Ms regarding her mother and 4 other Kohak used saying that the prosecution had failed to prove forgery and the Rwandan Constitution guaranteed freedom of speech I got her reaction the court system in the Rwanda is very predictable so I didn't know what to expect so yes I was surprised because the judges said that you and your mother didn't have a case to once or over the forgery under the Rwandan Constitution guaranteed free speech and yet you've always said that the charges against you were politically motivated Yes there were or is it what you really the only reason I was sent to prison is because I tried to run for presidency and I found it movement and they criticize the government and challenge it's always sees I'm happy that I was found innocent because I'm innocent I was innocent Anyway what I was trying to get from you was this idea that politically motivated charges in your view have been dismissed by a court in Rwanda does that mean Rwanda has an independent judiciary or was the court in your view directed. To deliver that verdict I do not think that the random court system is independent I do not that's all I'm going to say you're not going to say the other bit which is the likelihood is that the court was told to acquit chew from higher up and if that is the case the question is why I think you you should ask that question the person who gave that order I don't know why you give that order but I'm happy he did and by he you're referring to the president himself or you yes I'm referring to President Khatami has he been under a lot of pressure as far as you know to acquit you and your mother there has been people speaking out about our case and yes I do believe that that kind of advocacy influenced today's court decision how do you see all this is just a beginning of a new political Dorna in Rwanda or of free speech or of freedom to criticize the president we see we'll see what happens because there are still many political prisoners who have not been released the problems I was talking about before went to prison are still there I'm happy that we got released this to a lot that needs to be done but you yourself are you intending to continue with your criticisms of the president and the political system in Rwanda the Fall Into these are founded on movements that the people salvation movement. And I'm counting on continuing with it I wanted to be the platform where we can all come together and hold the government accountable the channel through which we can finally have a voice is heard so yes to answer your question I am continuing with my political journey that was Dionne regard an outspoken critic of the Rwandan. And poor Gami who was acquitted today on charges of forgery and inciting resurrection inciting insurrection should I say. On Friday in Germany will see the beginning of the end of Angela Merkel's preeminent position in Germany Germany indeed European politics should stand down as leader of her c.d.u. Party although she continues her dime being as chancellor of Germany in the past weeks the 3 main contenders to replace her have been trying to gain the support of party members up and down the country and now it's up to the 1001 delegates gathered in Hamburg to choose a successor Jenny Hill reports. There's a thing this German saying everything has an end only the sausage has to the expression comes to mind now is the smell of frying meat drifts across this Christmas market and mingles with the have mulled wine there is an air of finality in Germany now a sense that as the year begins to do it with closed so too does the medical error Garza's this this has been is because whether it's right she's been too long of a j