the the this is dw news, life cumberland, israel slashes it's troop numbers in southern gaza. the army says just one brigade remains on the ground in the area. what does this mean for israel's bow to eliminate him? aust, also coming up lawanda marks the 30 year anniversary of the 1994 genocide. more than 800000 people died and one of the most horrific episodes of the 20th century. how could i have happened and what responsibility does the international community fair? the

i melissa chan, welcome to the program is really military has announced it has withdrawn all but one brigade of its troops from southern gaza. the military has not provided any further details, but is rarely media is reporting that the remaining troops will act to safe guard. the north south corridor in gaza that was constructed by the israel defense forces . media reports also say that withdrawal is likely to see the focus of ground operations in the gaza strip. change to intelligence based targeted rates only. now joined by d. w. middle east daniel of shawnee. rezani. uh shawnee. uh. what does this mean? what does this withdrawal mean? is it significant? well, it is really is try to play it down saying it's just a, you know, a change of paxix. the military is working its way into the 3rd part of the, of, of, of the plan which will be targeted. targeted uh, be you know, targeted operations and not a wide uh, what up patients. however,

there's no doubt this has some sort of admission india and d in the need for a shift in how the military is operating in cause it hasn't been effective enough. you know, we've seen it already winding down as well patients the last couple of weeks. um, but the key issue for the military was, for example, the operation and she for hospital we've seen coming to an end last week. they claimed this was a pilot that showed that they can do the next phase of their planning now to launch as only targeted intelligence based operation. proof of them is can work that can use a lot of intelligence and to be very successful. and they hope to keep on doing that for now. it also means um, if we look at the map of garza, now we will have is really soldiers. we have been going around the border off the strip. this is where israel and garza share a border. this is about where are we seeing now coming up. so that would be where we'll see most of the forces. and there's also some of the gauge that will be that some of the soldiers in the, the 3 but gays to be remaining. that will be in the necessary him court or that's

the one crossing garza from, from west to east, basically splitting the strip into 2 parts to northern and the southern parts. now there's 3 possibilities in my mind. a one that this is a unilateral decision by the these really government that this is the best military strategy. the 2nd of course, is us pressure. it's been reported that to you as president a job. i was not too happy and had strong words written that and yahoo! and the other, of course, is that what's happened over the past week with the, a lot of fears of after the be is really killing of the rodney revolutionary guards and a lot of talk about the escalation. where do you think this withdrawal decision is falling among those 3 options, especially these roadside is, has nothing to do with american pressure though, as you said correctly, the americans of is pushing for this kind of operations and gaza for a long time. but when we talk about the escalation or the shift towards ron, i would say this is the hint of what is really don't the challenges as real sees

ahead of it. no, garza is almost done the ways really see that there's still the pocket of golf off but they they, they find to be still important. they have officially did not take that back any chance that they will. i mean, especially if it's still a path, israel will try to pursue, but definitely the thing is really, army is shifting, its focus to the north, to the his ball that you're on axis. and how to solve that problem because the over 60000 is really is who were forced to evict their houses. and there's a lot of going pressure to do something when it comes to that part. that's a very domestic disruption. but israel has said that they seek to eliminate whole come off. is this a change of plans? i mean, if the sounds from their rhetoric that they're, they're not by backing off that state rec binding. but the fact though, how do you see it? well, it's going to, i mean, you know, so far as available, only only always said it's only pressure in military pressures. it's going to bring any, you know, any change when it comes to how much the stands regarding hostage to what we need to coupon. keep on pushing, and of course we're drawing all of the forces. i'm not pushing. so i mean there's

a difference between the rhetorics that we're seeing and the political backlash, which we will see for probably for this announcement by the military. we will definitely con, um, so that's happening on the one hand, but there is no doubt there's an understanding among the military definitely. and also among the public that that something needs to change. things are not working, remarking today exactly 66 months for the war, and israel is nowhere close to the goal, such as the w, middle east analyst johnny rhodes, on us. thank you so much for joining us on this. miss rolanda is marching is a 30 year anniversary of the start of the 1994 genocide that is estimated to have claimed more than 800000 lives. political leaders gathered this morning to mark the moment that started 100 days of ethnic violence that continued to haunt the country . in particular, survivors had up the ceremony. french president emanuel, my concept, france and its allies could have stopped the bloodshed,

but lacked the will to do so. we'll have more from an expert on the genocide in a moment. but 1st, to look back at exactly what and folded 30 years ago. april 1994 and a plane carrying lawanda is presidents. just bermonte and counts of politics shut down of okay, calling. juvenile. happy you. ramona. and slippery and a how to mirror a kilt along with everyone on boards, basement of ethnic hutus. the next day, the genocide begins over 100 days, gangs of many who 2 extremes, slow to hundreds of thousands, mostly ethic touch sees, orchestrated by the rewan denobia militia, neighbors turning on neighbors. the clubs submission these thousands heads of churches, many up to being offered assurances that they would be safe. but nowhere is safe to choose. the lights are recognized as the science of numerous mass killings.

the extreme threat to life pushes masses of people through wanda's borders. sexual violence is also used as a weapon with as many as 250000 women raped during the genocide behind the buns. the violence, is it possible for power? between one, this ruling, hutus and the tootsie dominated lawanda patch. you take front rebel great. the mass mode, you eventually coming to an end. we now p a flight is reach the cap to pick out a little while in july 19. 94 may have to do that by pull to gummy, the wind is coming presidents in today's the fall i p f takes control of the country, arresting those accused of being involved in the genocide. over the years since tens of thousands of, of london's have been convicted but 100 small suspects are still

at large. ringback i'm joined now by phil clark. he is professor of international politics. that's so asked the school of oriental and african studies in london. thanks so much for coming on the program a sale. i know we just have a few minutes. uh, but if we can put it simply, how could a genocide, 800000 people murdered in a 100 days just happen while the world watched? but i think it shows just how little one to match it to the international community at the time. it was this tiny, landlocked country in the center of africa with no natural resources out the world simply didn't care. but of course, it had been a very important international component to how the genocide was possible. decades of german and belgium colonialism had fostered these ethnic divisions in the

country. internationally imposed structural adjustment policies accredited economic crisis. that was a big part of the conflict in the early ninety's ninety's and still this anti tootsie propaganda. and all of that was absolutely crucial to the way that the genocide thing began after the 6th of april 1994. now we're one of them president paul co down. they said today during a remembered ceremony that the international community quote, failed all of us. i touched on that in that 1st question about how responsible is the international community for what happened? look fundamentally the, the genocide is a good one to an event, to the majority of domestic as were carried out by every guy who to perpetrators who knew that victims incredibly well. so this is fundamentally a real london story. but there are these international style is not least the fact that there was the united nations peacekeeping mission in, on the ground in rwanda, at the time of the genocide was beginning. and within the 1st 2 weeks of the

genocide, that peacekeeping mission packed up and left the u. n. was simply not willing to risk its own peace keepers in order to protect up to the civilians and searching for one to to die. that's a source of much resentment that the, that the you and really did file to stop the genocide and to protect the tootsie from those mastic is what do you make of the comments by french president and manual laquanda about the genocide he had said, you know, he had made comments about francis roll, for example, and what france could have done the microns apology is, is a very peculiar one, because in many ways he apologizes for the least defrances. finally, he apologizes for fronds and the international community not doing more to intervene to stop the genocide, but what he's not apologizing for is the fact that france was directly complicit in the carrying out of the violets for at least i, 2 months before the genocide, the french army, which was stationed to give her wonder,

had been training. and i'm going to enter a hom way, who to militias, which were responsible for some of the biggest mastic is during the genocide. it's very peculiar that my crohn makes this big deal about an apology. on the peace keeping side, but it says nothing at all out of about francis direct involvement in the violence . and that's what most of the wondering think of when i think of a francis involvement at that time. and then you've, you've talked about, uh, the domestic angle, 30 years on what kind of country is lawanda today. and what role does the history of that genocide play there? the history, the genocides still very fresh and we're wondering i've been working there for more than 20 years now. and the genocide is very real for people to memories up very fresh. but the country has recovered, being wise, but i don't think anybody would expect it in 1994, it's a peaceful country. it's a stable country. remarkably hundreds of thousands of genocide perpetrators. back leaping off on the hill side by side with genocide survivors getting on with

a large, cooperating together on the farms. if you would set that to any body in 1994, they would have discussed it to you. and i guess that's is the kind of advance that we're one that has made over the last 30 years. and i understand, of course, also that the women seem to politicians play a very prominent, inordinate role unusual role in the legislature. so a lot of developments in that country that would surprise many people, professor phil clark and london, thank you so much for joining us. thank you, i. so let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. russian authorities have evacuated more than 4000 people after a dykes burst on to your all river near the border with cause its don flood waters broke through the barrier after torrential rain on friday. the city of wars has been particularly hard hit, with more than 2000 houses, flooded governments across the lot in america,

our condemning ecuador is police raid on the mexican embassy. mexico has severed diplomatic ties with ecuador after the raid on friday night, in which special forces detained former vice president, jorge class. he has been arrested on corruption charges and had been in the mexican embassy since december. 8th photo was rate of mixed. the coast embassy has caused outrage, a growing list of countries had issued scaling. refute policies in mexico took the theory to the street with a mixture of helplessness, anger, frustration, and above whole. seeing that the spot there, if it's the keep people inside safe, i don't want to. i did not succeed. eakwood or false is broke into the mix. the can, the embassy on friday night or wasting a quarter was form of vice president jorge glass who had been granted assign them the glass spaces, corruption charges, and has been taken to

a maximum security prison. the embassy has been closed off to the right, which makes the courtesies violates international norm. 40 so soon as the president can, that is my as per instructions of president. under this monday, lopez open the door. we are coordinating the return of one of our diplomatic stuff and actually do along with that families of to the violent attack carry down. but ecuadorian police in the embassy unrestrained by sullivan make equal equal door is defending the risk which it sees was due to the risk of immune and escape by the fact we don't know, criminal can be considered a political refugee because the you in is cooling for com or the escalating spat aging, both. it's what, what end mexico to show motivation and solve the differences through peaceful means

and that's it for the program up next and sports life with a class of sports and politics in the boxing ring. melissa chance, thanks for watching dw, the we are all set and we're watching closely in the we can use the story behind the news. we rolled about unbiased information for 3 months. this shadows these costs and video shed lights on the dog is devastating colonial harper is infected by germany across up and he employed schools, farms and destroyed like what is the biggest.