were the two major goals for drink the city for himself as he became south africa's president in one nine hundred eighty nine. after negotiations with nelson mandela apartheid was indeed dismantled other people here still dealing with its aftermath. half of the population live in poverty the fear of violence is in demick and the political leadership is constantly facing corruption allegations. today on talk to all dizzy about former president de klerk and what happened to the lofty goals of the one nine hundred eighty. but we begin with nuclear weapons today as the world is dealing with north korea and looking for a way out it may be worth remembering that south africa was the first concrete to voluntarily dismantle its nuclear bomb. we start by asking him what prompted his country to develop the weapons in the first place why did you need the bomb and did you really believe that one day you might have used that bomb against who. i don't think we needed the ball but some of my pretty says just that i don't think it was everything to incent to use the bow they wanted to use it as a de

bow they wanted to use it as a deterrent and to strengthen south africa's international position when i became at a fairly young age minister mineral and energy affairs i was informed about this cabinet never knew about our atom bombs being made at that un dabo so at the time it was a secret thing it would be only mean to me need to know basis people knew about even ministers even minister us but as minister of mooing energy affairs i had to know because helen dollar fell under me and then. the year when i knew him in the richmond plant fell under me so that to inform me at that point i decided quietly in my heart if ever i'm in a position to rid south africa of those bombs i would do so well who was your reaction first reaction when you learned when you were informed about this i mean were you shocked i was i was quite shocked although rumors were flying around in your mind internationally and in south africa but i was quite shocked to know that that we've started on that project when i became president six and a half of those bombs have been made. and one of the first things i

>>> on the wildlife preserves of south africa, nothing is what it seems. where saving the rhino might look like this. and profiteer poachers might look like this. >> one single horn on the black market can buy as many as 1,000 ak-47 rifles. can keep 75 isis fighters in kit and armaments for 12 months. >> bob woodruff takes us to the south african savannah where a team is going airborne to fend off brutal criminals. but now are the hunters set thanksgiving sights on them? >> once they come into your country to kill, if you stand in their way they will come for you as well. >> with millions to gain, can some of the caring conservationists also have something else in mind? >> you've been storing them for ultimate sale? this is the gold and the diamonds of the modern world. >> tonight, the senseless war for a coveted commodity and the innocent lives hanging in the balance. >> the demand is so unbelievably high. if we don't do anything about it, we're losing these animals in our lifetime. >> this special edition of "nightline," "blood horns," will be right back. steve sweeney's negat

, south africa's ruling party the anc chooses a successor for leader president jacob zuma. corruption allegations denied by the president continue to swirl, but he has survived them all. albie sachs is another survivor, but one of a different kind. he survived imprisonment, exile, and being blown up by the country's security forces, and he helped write the post—apartheid constitution. he thinks it is one of the world's best, so why do others, especially the young, say that the constitution is against us, especially if you're poor? albie sachs, welcome to hardtalk. you defended black south africans under apartheid laws. you were imprisoned under those laws yourself. you then helped write the most fundamental law of all, the constitution for post—apartheid south africa, and then sat on the constitutional court to enforce that constitution. is there enough respect, do you think, for the law in south africa today? it is so fascinating to watch because the law is playing a central role in our country. the more disrespect there is for it, the more respect there is for the way it's respo

what? i'm kind of amazed. take that down. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in july 2013, when i went to south africa, 95-year-old nelson mandela was critically ill. in the country he freed from white minority rule was already in mourning. and already fearful of what the future might be without him. >> i pray that somebody takes the leadership from him. >> to come back to his people. >> a friend of mine, a really good travel writer, said the more i travel, the less i know. i feel that strongly here in south africa. a place i came in a state of near total ignorance, loaded with preconceptions. for the first part of my life, the south africa i knew was not a happy place, or a good place. it was a pariah state. surrealistically, outrageously divided into black and white. a throwback to attitudes we thought we've long learned to reject. the nationalist government in south africa enacted apartheid laws in 1948. who you could marry, where you lived, where you could walk, be educated, everything decided by racist laws backed by police, army and secret services. the institutionalized racial discrimination was designe

of all, the constitution for postapartheid south africa, and then sat on the constitutional court to enforce that constitution. is there enough respect, do you think, for the law in south africa today? it is so fascinating to watch, which is the law is playing a central role in our country. —— because the law. the more disrespects there is for it, the more respect there is for the way it is responding. i have been off the constitutional court now for six or seven off the constitutional court now for six oi’ seven years, so off the constitutional court now for six or seven years, so i am not bragging about myself, it is my colleagues, another generation. i think they are doing extraordinary work. one weapon is the constitution, but that is notjust a document, a set of words. it grew out of our history. it grew out of oui’ out of our history. it grew out of our pain. it grew out of our eagerness to find a way, how can we live together in one country, when we are trying to kill each other? it grew out of our draw in on the best the world had to offer in terms of governance, the

ever babylon berlin. and a focus on new art and music from south africa. but first we need so what can it the reporter writes about islamist terrorism and the most dangerous men in the world now she's published her memoirs. mckenna to expose the roots of the jihad the german journalist is interested in the other side of the conflict but has the world in its grip in her memoir she writes of watching found. a hobbit is a beginning and was moved by this is to look for these encounters because i think the only way we can try to understand these people is if we talk to them and put forward our arguments if you read the book you will see that i spoke with the i asked commander in the car. and i discussed a few of the discussion continued to the point when he put his hand in his right trouser pocket and i knew he was carrying a gun. and i knew i had to tone down my critical questions. but i did try to argue with these people and try to understand how they became who they are sufficient. the daughter of his moroccan immigrants grow up between two cultures when the western world was attacke

south africa. but first we meet so what next candidate the reporter writes about islamist terrorism and the most dangerous men in the world now she's published her memoirs. mckenna takes pause the roots of the jihad the german journalist is interested in the other side of the conflict that has the world in its grip in her memoir she writes of watching found. a hobbit is a beginning and was moved by this is to look for these encounters because i think the only way we can try to understand these people is if we talk to them and put forward our arguments if you read the book you will see that i spoke with the i asked commander of the car. on a disco if your top of the visit discussion continued to the point when he put his hand in his right. trouser pocket and i knew he was carrying a gun. and i knew i had to tone down my critical questions. but i did try to argue with these people and try to understand how they became who they are. an immigrant's grow up between two cultures when the western world was attacked on september the eleventh two thousand and one supposedly in the name of religi

next year. >>> in south africa, the fight is on to save an entire species. >> rhinos are best known for their horns and making them beloved across the world for ce centuries and putting them at risk for extinction. here's abc's bob >> reporter: this jarring scene is becoming more and more common throughout south africa. it may look like this animal is in distress. but farmers here claim this extreme measure may be the only way to save the rhino. what is clear is that national parks in south africa are under siege. all for this. worth over $300,000 on the plaqblack marquette. it's a brutal trade. kruger national park is ground zero. here's a spot. i see some bones. this is nothing new to this forensics team. it's their third crime scene of the day, and there is not much left to work with. what are you guys looking for with the bullets. government data shows poaching incidents are up in south africa, to nearly 1100 last year. on average, three white rye nhi killed every single day, and experts believe they could be wiped out in the next few years. but there might be some hope. this is a b

zuma south africa's top court upholds a ruling to reinstate corruption charges against a president. mother's harrowing story of how she watched myanmar soldiers throw her baby into a fire plus. a month ago a colonel wonder where mobile thirty thousand puerto ricans arrive to escape hurricane maria will be looking at how recovery efforts are going a reaction to president trump's latest tweets. a turkish military convoy has entered northern syria a new operation these are the latest pictures from the turkey syria border where more vehicles are waiting to cross the border turkey sending troops to providence to enforce a so-called deescalation zone it's part of an agreement with turkey and iran and russia. is at the. border crossing on the turkey syria border. so this operation has been in preparation for a number of days now what's the latest how many turkish troops have actually crossed into syria and what is the objective. according to a statement from the turkish military about one hundred soldiers and dozens of vehicles have crossed into syria they have now established some survei

york thank you. cape town in south africa has for months been in the grip of what some call the worst drought in over a century authorities are trying to make people more aware about water saving no carwashes pools remain empty showers need to be shorter less frequent and the water is to be reused. in cape town tourists are having to save water as well at this hotel shower water is collected in buckets. as is the dirty water from washing machines faced with drought hotels in cape town are trying to be practical soapy water for the plants is better than no water at all but with two and a half million tourists visiting cape town every year hotels are also the largest water consumers in the city and the current water scarcity is hitting the poorest the most. is the local every time they cut the water off i'm shocked they don't even tell me before they do it what can i do i need water for the children to cook and wash. the region is experiencing the worst drought in more than a century. the rainy season came but with little relief the water was not enough to replenish the dams and i

also south africa's cape town is suffering from a dire water shortage amid the worst drought in over a century and a saudi women are eagerly anticipating the drive car dealers are just as impatiently awaiting a brand new group of customers. this is a business i'm christopher welcome the harder catalonia pushes for independence the more jittery the region's business community is getting now ratings agency fitch has warned it may downgrade catalonia sovereign debt rating that just one day after s. and p. issued a similar warning now the government in madrid has passed a degree helping companies shift their legal headquarters out of catalonia. catalonia spain's most well off region ten of the country's forty six saving banks headquartered here but for how long some businesses have already voted with their feet bank is the country's third largest lender it announced on friday it will move its headquarters from barcelona to valencia and it's not the only one saturday spain's fifth largest bank has already got the movies in its new headquarters will be in an accounting on the east coa

edition of the show. saving great white sharks in south africa. a look at insect murder a trend in the making. and comes of a sinister working to revive the more lines in northern germany we begin today's program with a report of truly amazing creases white sox scientists thought. thousands of the large predators in the waters off the cape of south africa but new research suggests the number is actually only between three hundred fifty and five hundred and that's punish and all the fishing have contributed to the decline and motivation called save us seas is doing what it's come to save the remaining shocks . the lines at the southernmost point of africa. abundant with an arena and bird life it's home to thousands of cape first seals. these marine mammals are a favorite with the great white sharks. the predators trollings waters in large numbers on the lookout for that next meal. shock alley is also famous as one of the world's top commercial cage diving destinations the tourism brings in revenue and also help support scientific research of the sharks. in. a white shark cage diving

independence vote means they no longer fall under spanish jurisdiction. south africa's huge corruption scandal has cost the country billions and damaged its international reputation. at the centre of allegations is south africa's enormously wealthy gupta family. it's claimed they used their close ties to president zuma to win contracts and siphon off huge payments, claims they deny. from south africa, andrew harding reports. south africa is in trouble, a young democracy now engulfed by a spectacular corruption scandal. at its heart, allegedly, president jacob zuma and a wealthy family, the guptas, originally from india. leaked e—mails have fuelled claims of a conspiracy to create a parallel shadow state, in order to loot on a grand scale. our concern is the fact that they come into a country like ours, which is a young democracy, and essentially rob us of billions, even hundreds of billions of rands. and that's damaging our democratic project and our credibility as a country. the guptas and president zuma deny any wrongdoing, but the net is widening, fuelling public anger. global com

of the presidential of vote on the twenty sixth of october. south africa's supreme court of appeal is upheld a high court ruling to reinstate seven hundred eighty three old corruption and fraud charges against president jacob zuma a date back to before he said office in two thousand and nine simmons says he is disappointed by the course decision and denies any wrongdoing on your page reports it took less than fifteen minutes for the supreme court of appeal to reject the president's latest attempt to avoid corruption charges. are dismissed because. the charges relate to allegations during a multi-million dollar deal from the one nine hundred ninety s. they were controversially dropped in two thousand and nine clearing the way for jacob zuma to become president the reason given by the prosecutor at the time was that secretly recorded phone conversations showed political interference last year the high court ruled the decision to drop the charges was irrational and they should be reinstated some legal experts say with the supreme court now dismissing his latest appeal the ruling must

unlimited fetch, currents that are also merging, coming down from south africa, merging with certain polar currents, that go all around the world, really undisturbed. in these difficult conditions was really something that putut a lot of stressss on everybody, on all the teaeams. you know that you're nt affoforded, you're not allowowed many mistakes. patrick grenard: of course it's not only a harsh environment above the sea surface, it's also a harsh environment underwater. but we knew that we had a mission to accomplish. it was to install that station despite the difficululties, despitththe harsh environment, the complexity of the project, we had to d do it. man: once we get going, we can adjust it, ok? narrator: after more than 4 years of meticulous planning, two triplets of underwater microphones called hydrophones are finally loaded onto a specialized cable ship. staanley: we have to be very careful loading our system on. we have a lot of cables connecting the system together, and there's also some delicate electronics, the laser systems, et t cetera. we have specialist crane operators

nations we explore with us. the five month long diplomatic crisis. and white farmers in south africa are being targeted and killed many are protesting against their deaths for this make the country more divided i me a hearty looking for your questions and comments connect with us for the hash tag eight games for. you with the news grid live on and streaming online through you tube facebook live and dot com after months of investigation into alleged russian meddling in last year's presidential election the first charges have been made public president donald trump's former campaign manager paul manifold is among those charged with conspiracy against the u.s. and money laundering if he has confirmed that he turned himself in manifolds former business associate rick gates is also facing the same charges can be held at joins us live from washington d.c. quite a dramatic day there committee talk us through how it played out. well this is a significant escalation you're right these charges are certainly very serious there federal charges twelve counts facing both paula man a for at the former

previously criticize iran nuclear deal for not going far enough. south africa's president jacob zuma says he's disappointed after the supreme court of appeal upheld a ruling reinstating hundreds of corruption charges against said the accusations relate to an arms deal dating back to the early one nine hundred ninety s. the president and main opposition democratic alliance had been involved in an eight year legal battle tanya page as the latest from south africa's judicial capital one take. it was a unanimous decision delivered by a full bench of supreme court of appeal judges they have decided to dismiss the appeal by president jacob zuma and the national prosecuting authority that means the decision of the high court last year should stand according to legal experts how ever although it seems clear cut it has been left open to some interpretation some legal experts i've spoken to say it's quite clear at what the high court ordered that the decision to drop hundreds of corruption charges against jacob zuma who was deputy president at the time almost ten years ago that that decision to dro

brewing up south of south africa and being launched by the winter waters like frisbees. freezing cold hurricanes, with snow, hail, anthe wind startso be about more than 100 miles an hour, you have to go down and walk on all fours and work your way up, because dinner is up at the base. [laughs] narrator: brief baks between passing storms allow just enough time to deploy t hydrophon to the sea for. when a syems are go, the ship releases the orange floats from thr anchors,ifting the underwater microphones to their intended depths. zampolli: and then... bang--you see these things arrive and then you start finally seeing data. you start hearing whales, you start... you suddenly have eyes underwater. narrator: from the indian ocean down to the arctic sea, from the atlantic to the pacific, hydro-acoustic station number 4 at the crozet islands is now online, relaying data in real time to ctbto headquarters in vienna. the data is analyzed and shared with its test ban treaty member states almost as fast as it comes in. with 90% of its entire international monitoring system in place and its capa

south africa's nuclear program i don't think we need to. do you as a. south africa's former president declared al-jazeera as. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has laid out an aggressive new strategy on iran he didn't pull the us out of the nuclear deal struck in july twenty fifteen but he's decided not to certify iran's compliance with the accord iran says the move goes against the spirit of the deal. but he's in kenya have shot and killed at least two people during protests against the electoral commission opposition supporters defied a ban on demonstrations calling for reforms meant fraud in the rerun of the presidential polls two weeks time. and former u.n. secretary general kofi annan has called on me and mountain range of refugees safely return to their homes more than half a million are neighboring bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in northern rakhine state. the new head of unesco is france's former culture minister. she's been elected as the un's cultural agency faces uncertain times with the u.s. and israel pu

speaking of the finance minister of south africa. what'd you miss? john kelly made a surprise appearance. quell rumors of his dissatisfaction with his role in the administration. it all the i read time, very consistently, i am not quitting today. [laughter] not believe -- and i just talked to the president -- i do not think i am being fired today. i am not so frustrated in this job that i am thinking of leaving. julia: here with the latest on what has been a busy day in the --te house is scheduled for kapour. dudley the first thing i will talk you about is the press briefing and what happens with john kelly. this was great entertainment. quite a surprise to have a chief of staff come into the briefing room and conduct everything himself. very unusual. there has been a flurry of reports lately. ly was them anonymous thinking of quitting. vanity fair had a report saying he is miserable and only there to prevent the president from doing something disastrous. he seemed to come out to reassure us and markets and the world, i guess, that he is not going to leave. alex: what did we -- learn --n

you know take it lying down there will be resistance when the people can. south africa supreme court of appeal is up held the high court will aim to reinstate seven hundred eighty three all corruption fraud charges against president jacob zuma they date back to before he took office in two thousand and nine sam says he's disappointed by the court's decision and denies any wrongdoing tanya page has more it took less than fifteen minutes for the supreme court of appeal to reject the president's latest attempt to avoid corruption charges. dismissed because. the charges relate to allegations during a multi-million dollar deal from the one nine hundred ninety s. they were controversially dropped in two thousand and nine clearing the way for jacob zuma to become president the reason given by the prosecutor at the time was that secretly recorded phone conversations showed political interference last year the high court ruled that the decision to drop the charges was irrational and they should be reinstated some legal experts say with the supreme court's now dismissing his latest appeal the

check out some tiny plastic particles losing water all over the world and the south africa will find out how growing white can help to preserve biodiversity in the cave. with us had to kenya to meet a species future generations will probably never see boaters have driven the northern white rhino to the brink of extinction on the black market its horn is more expensive than gold by the year twenty ten no no then why dry knows where known to exist in the wild in kenya just one male and two females are left on the grasslands of the opens at a conservancy near mount kenya and it looks like they can't have babies. in the shadow of kenya second highest peak mild kenya the all the chatter conservancy is a very special nature reserve. not only because of its abundant wide life and stunning landscapes. but also because of the sleek laws of white rhinos. the loss of their calling they they're the burden of ensuring the survival of the breed to create the optimal reproductive conditions of the just the left nothing to chance yet has his own home. number of mating recorded on her think the nun has t

meanwhile a fair amount of bright weather across southern africa but for south africa coming out of wana so some other wet weather the eastern side of south africa around the eastern cape still seeing some rather lively showers that's the case as we go on into monday further north it stays generally fine and dry but the showers they do continue across central africa so we theo p.-a southern parts of sudan south sudan seeing some heavy showers might just see want to creep in the way into western kenya showers continue to fall color and go bond with many more areas of heavy rain further west. the weather sponsored by cats are always. in the house era when news coverage consists of a punchy headline a five second sound bite and an easy solution. dellums says challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the contradictions join me. for a new season of the show the frank. and up front. about this time well just hearing . you're watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now and spain's catalonia region volunteers are starting to gather at some polling ce

deny. from south africa, andrew harding reports. south africa is in trouble, a young democracy now engulfed by a spectacular corruption scandal. at its heart, allegedly, president jacob zuma and a wealthy family, the guptas, originally from india. leaked e—mails have fuelled claims of a conspiracy to create a parallel shadow state, in order to loot on a grand scale. our concern is the fact that they come into a country like ours, which is a young democracy, and essentially rob us of billions, even hundreds of billions of rands. and that‘s damaging our democratic project and our credibility as a country. the guptas and president zuma deny any wrongdoing, but the net is widening, fuelling public anger. global companies have become embroiled in the scandal. the british pr firm bell pottinger is already in ruins after admitting to an inappropriate campaign on behalf of the guptas. the guptas‘ auditors, kpmg, have sacked their top management here. now comes the news that germany‘s software giant sap is being investigated over claims it pays multi—million dollar bribes to a gup

south africa it's still been reading fairly heavily in causal or not tao so as the land of mozambique but forecast finally on sunday shows more sunshine than showers. the weather sponsored by cats i place. in the hash tag era when news coverage consists of a punk jihad line a five second sound bite and an easy solution. to delve deep of them says challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the contradictions join me mad the hot sun for a new season of the show the frank loves us up front. at this time i'll just erupt . welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al jazeera turkey says it's backing syrian rebels in a large operation against former al qaeda linked fighters and in the province the turkish president says he won't allow the rebel alliance to thrive along its border . ghana's government says a gas tanker explosion in the capital of crass cause casualties firefighters have now brought the blaze under control but they're battling to extinguish flames on the second explosion. and hurricane make has made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast in the light

. celebrations in south africa after the white men over an attack that racial divisions it's obvious time in the occupy west bank. town. how in place to say we got some dry weather for eastern parts of australia over the next hour some of the showers never really too far away the wet weather well it's going to continue driving through the bike along with the system just coming in for him we'll see some pretty brisk winds feeding into a good part of south all stright a little bit about whether they're coming into victoria twenty celsius for melbourne ahead of that some warm dry skies there bristling at around twenty eight degrees we see some rather wet weather in perth recently but i think what the stock type is for quite some time past chippie well as you drive through saturday sunday i suspect a little drive as well we see a little more cloud just pushing in but temperatures getting up to around seventeen celsius well so weather the cloudy skies push across the fossella but i think for many it will be fine and dry now she says temperatures picking up in brisbane to around thirty one degrees we

™". >>> next this evening, to south africa, where on average three white rhinoceroses are killed every day, by poachers who want to get to those valuable horns. tonight, the american-based group trying to help save them, with a very unusual and controversial approach. abc's bob woodruff from south africa. >> reporter: national parks in south africa are under siege. all for this. worth over $300,000 on the black market, it's a brutal trade. but with rhino horn demand at an all-time high, and criminal and terror groups profiting off the sale, rhinos not under lock and key are rapidly being poached into extinction. >> the way we look at it is, one single horn on the black market can buy as many as 1,000 ak-47 rifles. one single horn can keep 75 isis fighters in kit and armaments for 12 months. >> reporter: but there might be some hope. this is rhino 911, a nonprofit co-founded by fred hees, based in nevada. they're working around the clock to protect rhinos and other wildlife. veterinarian gerardhus sheepers, darting the rhinos from the air. the horns are cut and sanded, leaving behind only a

like cuts to virginia school funding, and taking away healthcare from thousands of virginians. enron ed gillespie. he's not lobbying for you. . >>> tonight, president trump responds, after being called reckless and, quote, utterly untruthful by members of his own party. also tonight, the president now revealing whether he himself authorized that mission that turned deadly in niger. >>> also tonight, breaking news in the las vegas massacre. what we have just learned about the gunman. >>> major changes when it comes to security and boarding airplanes landing in the u.s. >>> we are also following the takedown today in an american airport. >>> the young mother and wife who claimed she was kidnapped while jogging, said she was held solely by two women. tonight, what police are saying, and the alleged text messages to a man other than her husband. >>> the officers who heard the call, and the 85-year-old man who needed help after hurricane irma, and then, what the video shows one of the officers doing. >>> and tonight, we celebrate a great. ♪ i found my thrill ♪ on blueberry hill >> the pioneer inspiring elvis, the beatles and jeb rations that followed. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us on a wednesday night. and we begin with president trump, tonight responding, after soming under attack from two senators in his own party. the president was asked if he accepts any blame of the civility oshgs lack thereof in politics right now. and the president tweeting about a stand og vags he received from republican senators as proof they are not fractured. here's abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega, leading us off. >> reporter: at the white house today, with his character president trump brushed aside questions about whether it's time for him to be more civil. >> well, i think the press makes me more uncivil than i am. people don't understand. i went to an ivy league college, i was a nice student, i did very well, i'm a very intelligence person. >> reporter: it comes in the wake of blistering attack from two prominent republican senators who are not running for election. tennessee's bob corker accuses president trump of debasing the country. and arizona's jeff flake delivered this scathing rebuke on the senate floor. >> reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused as telling it like it is. >> reporter: do you agree with that, do you bear any responsibility for that? >> well, i think it's sad, but i think to a large extent in all due respect, i think the media causes a lot of it, but is a rough business, there's no question about it. >> reporter: the president's message, everything is just fine. his party loves him. his proof? the standing ovation he received from republican senators on capitol hill. he's now tweeted about it three times. with corker and flake out, are there any other republicans you want to see out of the senate? >> not at all. >> reporter: everybody is where they should be? >> we have a very good relationship. honestly, the republicans are very, very well united. >> reporter: now, he especially needs them to be united on tax reform. but his mentioned messages on how to pay for those tax cuts frustrate even his own allies. the president has said definitively, there will be no changes to your 401(k), but today, the top republican writing the tax plan said actually there could be changes, including limits on how much people can contribute to that retirement fund. when asked about that, the president said this. >> 401(k)s to me are very benefits to the middle class. >> reporter: but then, just seconds later, a muddied message. >> well, maybe it is and maybe we'll use it as negotiating, but trust me. >> so, let's get to cecilia vega live from the white house. and cecilia, the president also spoke today about that ambush that killed four american special ops soldiers in niger, saying for the first time that he did not specifically authorize the mission himself. up asked the president about his phone call with the widow of one of those soldiers, sergeant la david johnson. that widow saying the president didn't seem to know her husband's name. here's how he answered it. >> i respect her. i respect her family. i certainly respect la david. he who, by the way, i called la david right from the beginning, just so you understand. they put a chart in front, la david, says la david johnson. so, i -- right from the beginning, there's no hesitation. one of the great memories of all time. there was no hesitation. >> great memories, talking about the chart in the president seeming to question the widow's account. >> reporter: he is, and sergeant johnson's wife said the phone call made her cry even more. he is continuing to refute her account of the story. today he said, quote, all of these calls are about warmth and nobody has more respect for the families than he did. david? >> cecilia, thank you. >>> we turn next here to that controversial dossier prepared as opposition research on then candidate donald trump. it's believed that firm was first hired by a republican opponent, and then the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee funded it from there. so, tonight we now know who funded it, but some lawmakers say the bigger question remains, how much of it is true? here's abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: until now, hillary clinton and her campaign team would not admit any connection to the trump dossier. the 35-page document, prepared the trump campaign colluded with the russians, and includes uncorroborated, salacious allegations about trump himself. it didn't come out until well after the campaign ended. >> it's all fake news. it's phony stuff. it didn't happen. >> reporter: the dossier on trump was produced for a washington-based firm called fusion gps, which had actually started digging up dirt on trump for an unknown republican during the primaries. after several republican candidates dropped out, the clinton campaign and the democrats secretly paid fusion gps to continue their research efforts. the president today said he was a victim. >> i think it's a disgrace. >> reporter: former clinton campaign spokesperson brian fallon said the democrats did nothing wrong. >> i think it's important to remember that opposition research happens all the time in campaigns. >> reporter: in fact, it's standard practice in xaes for both parties. >> i think it's important to know who paid for this dossier. what is more important than anything is whether the allegations in the dossier are true. >> reporter: and now one question is, which republican first started fusion gps down the road of digging up dirt on trump? >> reporter: do you know who those republicans are? do you have any idea? >> i think i would have, if i were to guess, i have one name in mind. >> reporter: give it to us. >> it will probably be revealed. >> wasn't willing to reveal it himself. brian ross with us tonight. and we know that hillary clinton, the campaign, and the dnc helped fund this, but the question that remains tonight is, which republican opponent in that primary helped fund it, too. >> reporter: right, david. the democrats say the firm first approached them in early march last year, which was just after several republican candidates had dropped out of the race. and their supporters are now the prime systems. david? >> brian ross with us again tonight. thank you, brian. >>> we turn next here to new developments in tin vest game of the massacre in hlas vegas. tonight, abc news has learned what the gunman did to hide his tracks on his computer, and what if anything do authorities know about his motive, now a month later? here's abc's senior tonight. >> reporter: tonight, abc news has learned exclusively that the hard drive is missing from the laptop computer found in stephen paddock's sniper's lair at the mandalay bay hotel. some authorities suspect that paddock destroyed or intentionally hid the hard drive to keep law enforcement from information that may have told them why he killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. >> he would want to erase his digital history so nobody could ever figure out how and why he did what he did. >> reporter: and abc news has also learned that paddock bought software to erase his hard drive. more evidence of his meticulous planning. the fbi and las vegas police continue to interview witnesses and run down leads from across the country, but have been frustrated by the lack of evidence pointing to a motive. >> we have found no signs of ideology of afill ration to any groups. >> reporter: and today, another disturbing twist. stephen paddock's brother bruce arrested and charged with possessing child pornography in a separate investigation that masscre. >> and pierre thomas with us live tonight from washington. and pierre, almost a month now after this massacre, and authorities still have little idea what motivated him. >> reporter: david, authorities have interviewed hundreds of associates, friends and family, but they don't seem any closer to finding a clear motive. david? >> pierre thomas with us again tonight. thank you, pierre. >>> and we turn next here to gripping testimony in the military trial of army argent bowe bergdahl. you'll remember seeing him squinting in the sun after being freed by the taliban, after being kept in a cage. tonight, perhaps the story you haven't heard from a former navy s.e.a.l., who went looking for bergdahl and what happened to him. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: the military judge about to decide how bowe bergdahl should be punished is hearing tonight from service members, who say they risked their lives trying to rescue bergdahl from the taliban, after he deserted his platoon in 2009. retired navy s.e.a.l. james hatch,ee court, suffered career-ending injuries during one of those efforts and cried on the witness stand, telling the judge in north carolina today that "everyone on that mission was aware that he walked off." hatch explained how he was shot in the leg and how a service dog was killed, a story he shared with cnn. >> i was laying there, initially i thought, man, i'm dead, because i'm so close and i can't move. >> reporter: in the end, bergdahl's face finally saw the sunshine of freedom after a prisoner swap in 2014. in his first television interview with british filmaker sean langan, bergdahl explains how he was being tortured, and was held in a small cage for years. >> it's a cage that was welded together, about seven-foot long by about six-foot wide. my name is bowe bergdahl. >> reporter: bergdahl says he walked offbase to report on an issue with a superior. donald trump on the campaign trail attacked him repeatedly. >> he's a traitor. a no-good traitor. who should have >> and steve is with us now. steve, the defense is now using those words you just heard from president trump to try to argue that bergdahl can't get a fair trial now in a military court? >> reporter: they are, but the judge in this case, david, says that not to worry, he can certainly render a fair decision in this case. if he decides to throw the book at that young man, bergdahl could spend the rest of his life in a military prison. david? >> steve osunsami with us tonight. thank you, steve. >>> next, passengers on all flights to the rust about to face tougher security before they board. in fact, some airlines will begin interviewing passengers as early as tomorrow. here's abc's senior transportation correspondent david kerley tonight. >> reporter: tomorrow's deadline means americans flying home from international airports could face new security interviews. every day, 325,000 passengers board 2,100 direct flights to the u.s. from 280 airports. this is part of the enhanced security ordered b homeland security secretary john kelly. >> unless we all raise our security standards, terrorists who seek commercial aviation as the greatest takedown will find and attack the weakest link. >> reporter: every airline must meet these new security mandates, but the u.s. is not telling those airlines how to do it. many carriers have decided to conduct these short security interviews, which could be as simple as, where are you traveling, who packed your bag? >> and i think it's a very good thing at some of these locations. i think it's going to be very seamless. the airlines are accustomed to this type of thing. >> david kerley live with us tonight. the bottom line for people watching, for americans flying back to the u.s., how many can expect to be interviewed? >> reporter: it's a good chance that they all could, depending what the airlines decide to do. if you have flown recently, you've been engaged in these simple security questions. has the bag left your possession. it's the israeli model. airline workers looking for anybody nervous or david? >> david, thank you. >>> from louisiana this evening, the search for a suspect in a double homicide at grambling state university. an argument spilled outside. one of the victims was a senior. the other, his friend from home. the suspect is someone they knew. tonight, the university is stepping up security, but holding classes and other events this homecoming week. >>> next, this evening, a mysterious abduction, right back in the headlines tonight. sherry pa peony, the california wife and mother who says she disappeared while jogging, found three weeks later, tied up alongside a highway. well, tonight here, for the first time, her husband's first call for help, the wife's text messages, who was she texting? and fbi sketches of two women wanted for questioning. here's abc's senior national correspondent matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, we're hearing the 911 call keith pa peony made to report his wife missing. >> i just got home from work and my wife wasn't there. >> reporter: the question of who abducted the young mother is one law enforcement is still grap >> i found her phone, it's got, like, hair ripped out of it in the headphones, so, i'm like totally freaking out, thinking somebody, like, grabbed her. >> reporter: today, the sheriff's office releasing new sketches of the two hispanic women sherry pa peony says abducted her. keith pa peony telling me about the moment he first saw her again. >> one of the officers kind of, like, braced me and kind of put his arm around me, and he said, you know, prepare yourself. they branded her. >> reporter: the sheriff's office also revealing today that papini was texting with a male acquaintance from michigan days prior to her disappearance in an attempt to meet. that man was later cleared. david, law enforcement is concerned about possible inconsistencies in sherry's story. she has claimed that she was abducted and held solely by the women that you saw in those sketches, but police say that they found dna of a female and a man on her clothes and her matt gutman, thank you. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this wednesday. the sheriff's deputy facing charges tonight. you will see the home surveillance right here. the officers had heard a call after an 85-year-old man needed help after hurricane irma. and then, what the video shows one of the officers doing. >>> also tonight, the airport takedown. the suspect accused of making threats inside the terminal. >>> and right here tonight, the effort to save rye knows from extincti extinction. who is profiting? 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has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it every day but the message is simplistic you have the brain a good logical rational person crazy monsters and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not hold well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint trying to bring mainstream media narratives of this time on al-jazeera. more than two hundred russian opposition supporters arrested as they mark sixty fifth birthday with protests around the country. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program let's talk the message from catalogues who fear the region's fight for independence will end badly and their call was echoed across spain where thousands more turned out appealing for you to turkey and the free syrian army launched an offensive to drive a former al qaeda group from one of syria's four deescalation zones and hurrican native races towards the u.s. gulf coast after killing at least twenty five people across central america. hello thank you for joining us russian police have detained more than two hundred people at anti-government protests around the country. uh. in st petersburg sixty people were taken into custody when police moved in to break up a demonstration it was one of at least a twenty seven held to coincide with president vladimir putin's sixty fifth birthday the demonstrators are supporters of opposition leader alexina valmy who is currently serving a twenty day jail term or a challenge reports from moscow where thousands more protesters rallied against the government. saturday was a test for alexei navalny and a test for russia's security forces on the day president putin turned sixty five the opposition leader wanted supporters to demand his release from twenty days administrative detention and for him to be allowed to run in next year's presidential elections he's going in the band of independent candidate they want the person who are the. top to bottom line talk about the real russian problems i love my country very much this is why i am here the method of ruling. i wrote they are soviet and. new generation is growing. the botswana unsanctioned rallies earlier in the year drew many thousands of people not nearly so many came this time perhaps the awful weather kept people away with moscow at least but perhaps to get the message this time with less focus on the corruption the blight so many russians lives and more focus on the bounty himself and maybe a student did it on previous demonstrations mostly young russian tourists very very vocal the shocking of the time i didn't fables i didn't say any of the poems. themselves person must resign. since novelli was sentenced on october the second for organizing unauthorized rallies there have been numerous raids and searches at his campaign offices around the country but also for one moment and whereas in moscow or thorazine he's appeared to be trying new softer tactics letting protesters shout their slogans with a minimum of the rest in other cities like some petersburg it was the same old treatments with riot police wrestling people to the ground and throwing them into waiting vans will have to wait for future demos to see if this deep in attendance marks a long term waning of support for the number only and also to see if authorities favor the moscow police approach or simply it is books for each islands how to zero moscow. when they live give or d.n. is a russia analyst that a i h s a global information strategy company she says the kremlin is more interested in managing the protests than stumping them out completely. i think from the government perspective we really have to accept one fact that these protests are happening also because the government to decree what the authorities are along this to happen this is a very good tool to sort of measure the level of discontent social discontent amongst the public how many people are ready to come out on the street risking their jobs most of the time to jobs our government our public sector jobs which means there will be recreations of some buttons as well so did they do the authorities also have to be cautious because they cannot afford to have a large number of people on the streets because this will encourage others to come out so it's quite interesting it's basically the government allowing some protests to happen but so the reasonable number of people manageable levels not something that we've seen in two thousand and twelve. tens of thousands of people have rallied in madrid and barcelona to call for unity as spain suffers its worst political crisis in decades the demonstrators want talks to be held between officials from the northeastern region of catalonia which is pushing for a succession and spanish leaders who say last weekend's referendum on a split from spain was illegal john a hole is in barcelona. it's all in the hands apparently at a demonstration in barcelona the fluttering gestures of openness and peace. let's talk they say in spanish and in catalonia the language of this region pushing to secede. but not all catalans want to break away many prefer spain united the protest here mirrored by large crowds in the capital madrid what this shows is that whatever was happening has been actually for the on the way some but by no means the people with the. phone and and alberto have just married at the town hall of course the square from the regional government headquarters they're happy they say to share their union with calls for national unity in spain i personally think that it must mean you know. i also think that everybody has a right to choose what they want to feel where they want to go on. leaving us as the crowd gathered outside inside we spoke to catalonia as foreign minister so do will of the people needs to be respected for a single reason there is no alternative to this we tried for years to enter into negotiations with the state no one shirt into positive manner repression was the only answer and despite this the people went to vote freely the market and peacefully and that is what the problem of catalonia needs to acknowledge we have two projects here one is democracy the other one is repression or violence which one the people. will put a solution that a solution. that. we don't store on the people not just some of the people you know didn't just i don't know i think we need a space to express ourselves in the middle of such a polarized situation where both. governments are taking us to the brink of disaster when the stars. are searching for a way out of this political crisis before it gets worse social media posts suggest a large pro unity demonstration planned for sunday may be disrupted by process session groups raising the warrior the prospect of more violence join a whole al-jazeera barcelona well there's also growing concern over the effect that the political standoff is having on the spanish economy which is the fourth largest in the eurozone several companies including some of the country's biggest banks have already decided to relocate their operations out of catalonia called panel reports now from barcelona. in the winding streets of barcelona bike tours a big business but s. their boss says she's worried the hostile political climate could scare off tourists especially those from the rest of spain all the spanish people. got there and people are spanish people so it's more a problem of the government not enough. tourism earns billions of dollars and sustains thousands of jobs but it's just one part of catalonia is buoyant economy if the region breaks away it will take twenty percent of spain's g.d.p. with it places like this are historical sign post this is a former textile mill now a university in state of the art media center it's a sign that catalonia has where the tough economic times but is innovative to survive. a rise in is one of those innovators this by a pharmaceutical company is running clinical trials on a new drug for alzheimer's. but it is one of a growing list now moving some operations out of catalonia you cannot risk being in a breakaway republic with no automatic access to the european union we need to have the certainty that there is not going to be a regulatory change in regulatory m.b. with the understudies of the company as i'm a sponsor of the droid so we have decided to move our war. to madrid yes the economic fallout has caused the benchmark ibex thirty five stock index to see saw barcelona traders activity trade say the market outlook is volatile best they warn the entire spanish economy could crash if wealthy catalonia succeeds in declaring independence if you take that part from the spanish economy it will construct a lot of the g.d.p. it will mean for spain going through of one hundred twenty or even one of thirty percent for now the economic wheels are still turning but madrid and barcelona must either reconcile or agree to an amicable divorce if not this political crisis could herald an economic disaster karl penhall al-jazeera barcelona spain turkey has announced the launch of a major operation in syria as the province and car isn't sending its own forces into it but it is backing syrian rebel groups from the turkish side of the border turkish president richard type out of the hand says turkish soldiers haven't yet entered the area much of a glib is controlled by her hero xan an alliance of factions spearheaded by a former al-qaeda affiliate has more now from. turkey's border with syria. this is what we know so far the turkish military standing reinforcement of their highly border crossing with hundreds of free syrian fighters also present in the area phase one of this offensive will be the free syrian army leading the fight to take on. in phase two will be the turkish military crossing into it live to secure the city this is part of a deal that was signed with iran and iran and russia in a. last month but with turkey's involvement in syria this could pose many challenges for the first of all because to have this is one of the most powerful rebel factions. inside syria they have issued a statement warning that any attack against them with be met with stiff resistance warning all those who try to dislodge them from it live to pay a heavy price the second major challenge for the turkish military is basically the town of all the border with. turkey which is where there is a significant presence of the s.d.f. which is a coalition of turkish fighters i think minister the turkish military. trying to strike a delicate balance between the need to take on. the same time but also to prevent any attacks. as the operations. still to come in this half hour a car hits pedestrians near london z.m. injuring several people and sparking fears of an attack and south africa's unemployed young people are encouraged to create jobs for. hello the incoming season's plunge dancer eastern europe now there it is it's a cult front and the white top has brought rain to the balkans down through northern greece and you can follow the lives you might imagine in here different season that's autumn and you'd be right to think that in fact just clear that away in potential profile on these early next when temperatures forecast for sunday twelve to fourteen book rest of the vienna luckily here in spain and portugal still warm in fact it's higher than twenty seven don and ilithyia and southern portugal most afonso has taken this coup wind in its stride but i think we're fine despite the fact you got rain in this cool area they will be cut off by monday in temperatures start to rise again as the sun gets to work slow process book rescue to seventeen vienna hasn't moved much at all but italy still looking quite good never less is no doubt about it the season has certainly changed for a good part of northern and eastern europe and that extends out of the eastern med so the winds are going to pick up now really from the central mediterranean across the levant temperatures at best are going to be in the middle twenty's all the way from algeria to egypt for the carriages twenty nine other difference really is despite the possibility of onshore clouds and showers for the most part the sun is still out despite the breeze. egypt is now china's but biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo i wanted to see the permits in september one thousand nine hundred five i came with my friends to egypt many started a small traders but are now successful in business shifting and i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at the time it was small but then it began to expand in al-jazeera well meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china at this time. the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the russian police have detained more than two hundred opposition activists at anti-government protests across the country tens of thousands of people have gathered in madrid and barcelona are calling for talks to try to solve the political crisis triggered by last weekend's secession vote in catalonia and turkey says it's backing syrian rebels in a major operation against al-qaeda linked fighters in labor province. well staying in syria i saw this facing the feat in the city of raka there's been intense fighting over the past few months but syrian kurdish forces say they are getting closer to victory the armed group overran iraq in two thousand and thirteen turning it into the defacto capital of itself the clear caliph it kathy lopez had a young reports. the fight is on. i still is losing its last bit of what it once called its capital. kurdish forces overran most of rock a weeks ago and now they're closing in on the few remaining eisel fighters and. we are now in iraq and we are proud that are kooks from two directions of united their confrontations and there are a lot of civilians in the area. abandoned neighborhoods debris and dust are what's left in some parts of the syrian city i still took over iraq on two thousand and thirteen the syrian democratic forces began the offensive to push them out nearly a year ago but the syrian kurdish fighters have been at the forefront but some foreign volunteers have joined them motivated by their own reasons to take up arms against eisel years of the movie. russia says its airstrikes have killed scores of isis fighters in nearby duros or where the group is still trying to cling to power . but civilians have been caught in the crossfire the syrian observatory for human rights as more than two hundred have been killed including women and children heartbreaking stories every day it is hard to need one single family who have fled recently iraq and there is or who did not have a family member killed on the way to safety the defeat of eisel fighters is expected in vaca among the destroyed buildings and rubble kurdish fighters say it's just a matter of time before they declare victory. now to zero . bangladesh's prime minister says her government will continue to support rohingya muslims who have fled the violence in neighboring shake has seen us says the government plans to build a temporary shelters for refugees who now number almost a million with the help of international aid agencies the united nations has warned that it's bracing for a further exodus of refugees from e.m.r. to bangladesh well access to humanitarian aid is a problem for all those sheltering in bangladesh where conditions are actually getting worse muhammad john june has more now from a refugee camp in. the render a few days that you see in this very long line beside me they have been waiting here for hours today they are hungry they are desperate they are waiting for food distribution much needed food distribution and many of the ones we've spoken with they're concerned that by the time they actually get to the tent where the food is being distributed that there won't be enough left over for them this really speaks to the magnitude of this crisis a crisis that the u.n. is calling the most urgent refugee crisis in the world right now conditions in camps like this is the could to prolong camp and cox's are there absolutely appalling nobody expects they're going to get better any time soon now bangladesh's prime minister has said that this country will can. when you to support these refugees the fact of the matter is aid groups military organizations they're very worried about the flow of aid into this country they're worried about the international community not donating enough for this cause and everybody we're talking to just is not seeing that this is going to get better anytime soon. hurrican mate is heading for the u.s. after wreaking havoc in central america the storm has already killed more than a dozen people in nicaragua and costa rica forcing the costa rican government to the clear a national emergency it calls heavy rain and flooding doris and they'll salvador killing at least four people there as it headed north it's now picking up strength and it's expected to hit the u.s. gulf coast as a category two storm on saturday night well a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states of alabama louisiana mississippi and parts of florida evacuation orders have been issued and some of them are mandatory for areas of new orleans which was devastated by hurricane katrina in two thousand and five david moore so reports now on the damage that mate has already left behind in central america. nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere tropical storm nate has just made it that much poorer three thousand homes destroyed communications cut the force of the storm ripped boats from the sea and left part holes large enough to consume cars. that centers on this bus were so panicked escape was the only thing on their minds made pummeled central america with heavy rains during the week . the flood has taken away almost everything that all these people had in their home they had breakfast in the morning but not had lunch nor a dinner because everything was taken away from them were waiting for any help that would be well received so many children are crying with hunger. in neighboring coast the storm left at least seven people dead and some five thousand people were forced to leave their homes the western province of quanah cost they was the hardest hit schools across the country were closed for two days deaths were also reported farther north in honduras and el salvador. now neda's swing in north and picking up strength as it heads towards the u.s. gulf coast in preparation new orleans mayor declared a state of emergency the current forecast indicate three to six inches of rain over the duration of the system which is going to be thirty six to forty eight hours and potential double that. although overall rainfall may not be as high as other tropical events short durations of rain as we can see can produce flooding we are particularly mindful in this regard for this particular storm of coastal flooding because of the potential storm surge for those areas of the city that are outside of the levee system. yet another deadly storm in the americas leaving a path of destruction in its wake david mercer al-jazeera. well the u.s. vice president mike pence has been in puerto rico trying to reassure people on the hurricane hit island that they haven't been forgotten many of its three point four million residents are still struggling to get basic necessities. before you. could say we are with. you tomorrow we need we need you. thank you. thank. you. british police say an incidental side a museum in west london was not terrorism related eleven people were injured when a car mounted the pavement outside the natural history museum in south kensington the site is a popular attraction both with locals and tourists barker has more now from the scene but it's pretty described by british police as an unfortunate traffic incident but it did cause a tremendous amount of alarm when reports of a vehicle mounting the pavement at twenty past two local time first surfaced we now know that around eleven people were treated according to the london ambulance teams that were here on site nine of being taken to hospitals but it is the location that perhaps rang alarm bells very early on we're at a key junction a key thoroughfare here in london next to the victoria and albert museum not far from the science museum and the natural history museum there are also several embassies around here and the police were very quick to arrive on scene some of them armed some of them specialist officers in the last few hours we've seen forensic teams on the ground as well of course the u.k. is no stranger to terrorist related incidents there's been several in london one in manchester a lot of people have lost their lives the most certainly the or thirty's on this occasion we're not taking any chances. danish police say that they've recovered the head and legs of a swedish journalist who died after going on an inventor's homemade submarine kim was reported missing after going on a trip with peter madsen in august her torso washed ashore in copenhagen eleven days later madsen says she died after hitting her head on the hatch and that he buried her at sea but police say didn't find any fractures on her skull which they found on friday batson has been charged with killing the journalist. one of hollywood's leading studios has launched an inquiry into one of its founders following allegations of sexual harassment academy award winning producer harvey weinstein has taken an indefinite leave of absence after a report by the new york times said he settled eight sexual harassment cases over three decades he has apologized since the report came out and says that he will seek therapy the weinstein company says its lawyers are investigating the allegations. last minute campaigning has taken place in the liberia ahead of a presidential election to find the successor to africa's first female head of state twenty candidates are competing to replace ellen johnson sirleaf who is standing down after two terms to use those votes will be the third since the country's fourteen year civil war off minute recess more now from liberia's capital monrovia. the leading candidates and of course the sitting vice president for most of the world with one of the leading businessman seventeen other candidates who are trying to. get themselves voted into that office apart from the presidential election that is also seventy three there are also seventy three seats of parliament up for grabs under this election now the focus of the politicians now is to get themselves into power but very few people in liberia actually are asking questions as to how are they going to deal with the numerous issues this country is facing at the moment the president of liberia ellen johnson sirleaf admitted that corruption has not been properly tyco there are issues of under-development properties widespread educational system needs some lifting up and. these comes into power after the next vote would be coming to time one the international community the united nations non-governmental organizations who have supported liberia all the way for reconstruction after the civil war moving out all. of them are moving out so the question is being asked is how can the next president of liberia without this much support from the international community and international organizations to rule a country that doesn't have much to go on in terms of reconstruction in terms of development in terms of poverty reduction. unemployment in south africa is at a fourteen year high with almost forty percent of young people unable to find work but an entrepreneurial spirit is keeping food on the table for some and their hopes of a better future a lot tanya page has more now from johannesburg. well it is on dirt is a natural salesman he gets by selling goods from the back of his principia coal becomes a problem in our survival to say now if i don't do this what am i going to do you know and then that's when the crime mindset starts coming in that's when the negative things and starts coming in so we need to always try and keep your mind in a positive state you know their main product is homemade archer a type of pickle i told him i'm bringing in the best at your in town and i want him to come and have a look was early it is like many young people have no choice but to create their own opportunities south africa's unemployment rate is the worst it's been for fourteen years thirty eight percent of fifteen to thirty four year olds can't get a job africa's most industrialized economy expanded by only zero point three percent last year due to a drought locum audigy prices and weak demand for its main exports as a pint lots of promises neither government nor the private sector is creating enough jobs so many do lose hope but there are some initiatives aimed at teaching young people how to be employable and how to foster their own entrepreneurial spirit this is the time in print your festival where teenage is a pitching never this plan the idea is that they can't rely on anyone else to fulfill their ambitions the festival was created by a young entrepreneur to cause a joy for me it's not about a degree it's not about waiting for financing from some government governmental institution is about looking at what you have in making that work for you right now with context and mentoring some of last year's winners at the festival and now exporting their products and employing other people on the premiership may not solve south africa's youth unemployment problem but it is creating jobs. and perhaps more importantly hope tiny a page out of zero johannesburg. and you can get much more on that story and everything else that we have been covering on our website the page on your screens right now the address of course al jazeera dot com our latest news and several opinion pieces from around the world. now the top stories on al-jazeera russian police have detained more than two hundred opposition activists at anti-government protests around the country in st petersburg sixty people were detained when police moved in to break up the demonstration it was one of at least twenty seven held to coincide with president vladimir putin's sixty fifth birthday tens of thousands of people have gathered in the cities of madrid and barcelona as tensions rise over catalonia secession vote there calling for talks to diffuse the political crisis which could see the wealthy northeastern region split from the rest of spain catalan officials say their regional parliament will abide by the results of sunday's referendum in which an overwhelming majority of people voted for independence. vitt people of the will of the people needs to be respected for a single reason there is no alternative to this we tried for years to enter into negotiations with the state no once you're in a positive manner repression was the only answer and despite this the people went to vote freely the markedly in peacefully and that is what the parliament of catalonia needs to acknowledge we have two projects here one is democracy the other one is repression of violence which one the people. turkey's president richard type at the hand says a major operation against al-qaeda linked fighters has been launched in a deliberate province and car isn't sending its own forces into it labor but it is backing syrian rebel groups from the turkish side of the border much of a glib is controlled by al shabab an alliance of factions led by a former al-qaeda affiliate turkey russia and the ra and want him out because it's blocking efforts on the ground to make it leave escalations. bangladesh's prime minister says her government will continue to support her hinge of muslims who fled the violence in neighboring nehemiah shake a senior says the government plans to build temporary shelters for the refugees who now number almost a million with the help of international aid agencies those are the headlines i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour stay with us coming up next it's the listening post thanks for watching by. the the the the. question for the.