we are in trouble to come to the african union has agreed on a vision twenty thirty and about the need to put an end to these the bitty conflicts wars and the issue of the people displaced in places like sub-saharan africa south sudan different parts of africa and your critics say basically you've failed to address the issues and then you're coming to the richest nations to provide you help or to police a world order that you fail to protect yourselves. if i respond to that our debts or so it's too bad. the member states that i give you can under. but you know you can't avoids. to discuss the demographic impact of migration on their own there was doing states. you know very well that it's done to print plans for its people you know. very missed on the demographic. figures are very bored and. needs a plan and here all the services education and all other social. services that acquired to need to be provided to the people by government and so they. unprimed for. arrivals influx of people for some strange ordinary and exactly you imagine especially for there was more economies. you've don

president's comments were racist in the african union has demanded an apology had a hand asked more on the international reaction to what trump said he once said when he was in the oval office america would be respected around the globe that isn't happening just the opposite actually according to polls and that would be even worse now that he has called africa el salvador and haiti shitholes reaction from the united nations was quick these shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states. i'm sorry but there's no other work on can use but racist. you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. formal welcome the president's muddled denials not believed by most considering he so often gets caught saying blatant lies this remark is being taken personally in kenya unfortunately the american people elected an individual who's been accused of multiple counts of sexual assault is a proven liar and clearly a racist i don't want to leave my country i love my country it's a beautiful country with beautiful people sou

security in somalia is an international if this the african union has some twenty two thousand troops in the country last year the u.s. boosted soldiers on the ground and drone strikes well the government's six security bosses its police commissioner and minister of defense the agency's taking responsibility for attacks they can't seem to stop shallop dallas al-jazeera more than half a billion dollars has been pledged by international donors to support the training of an african military alliance aimed at combat armed groups across the region so called g five held joint military force works alongside french and u.n. troops as made up from made up of soldiers from mauritania mali. and chad. has more from brussels. well the g five force had been struggling to raise the funds that it needed to be fully operational its target was about five hundred million dollars now this fund raising meeting here in brussels brought together international leaders and at the end the e.u. foreign policy chief said that she was pleased to say the more than five hundred million dollars had indeed been raise

union and the size hundred. all laws of the communal summit was held in abyss of about that in the period of conflict now he's an. excitement on the whole partly it's by explains the jubilant and mood with which he was welcomed by. help of thousands lining up the streets between the airport the prime minister's policies where he had a meeting with the prime minister. the highlight of the pork is when it is on sunday when he is going to you open the embassy which they're very trained in but you know this of a goal which we closed for twenty years and he's really serious about achieving lasting peace i think it is something to benefit. well as they say the very serious and so far they have covered so much ground they have managed to agree on the opening of embassies the complement of the diplomatic relationship not what's the fuss. why you have a really big ally and why african standards. in twenty years with money not only one study also telephone lines between you have to have been connected for the first time i

in three years not such a short time because if you're curious also the state of the african union and the five hundred. all laws of again unions summit about one held in a bit of about. the period of conflict now he's an. excitement on the whole partly it's by explains the people and. with which he was welcome back. and help of thousands lining up the streets between the airport the prime minister's palace where he had a meeting with the prime minister the highlight of the pork is with on family when you're going to get off an embassy which is very trainable you know this of a goal which we call for continuing. we're going about our top story now a new said the israeli jets have been taking astronauts on the gaza strip and our correspondent ben smith is live for us in gaza but they were talking an hour ago about attempts to mediate some sources trying this what's going on on the ground. well so we've learned since the hamas officials told al-jazeera that they agreed to a ceasefire at six thirty local time about an hour and a half ago but israel didn't and since then we've heard some r

union we've seen statements from the european union and the u.s. condemning both right loading does swearing in and this media shutdown. of former president of the maldives will run in elections later this year after a supreme court ruling quashed his conviction for terrorism offenses or how to shoot called in the government to respect the ruling which acquits and and his colleagues branded smith as more. opposition supporters in the capital mali say the supreme court ruling paves the way for the multi-verse first democratically elected leader. to return from exile and run for president in elections jus this year speaking from colombo mohamed nasheed said he would contest the elections and he said president abdullah you mean should free all political prisoners and democracy activists the motives military and the security forces must give safety and security to the judges and i strongly believe that that would happen there is still a small element of. small element within the military and the police that wants to prop up the dictatorship we should i

nations members of the african union are cut people off point in their activities of the african union if you like brass some of the things that militate against the ability to fire on the african union one of them being corruption and it is good that africa you know has recognized that corruption in african nations is a key problem that is why the president mahmoud abbas article real them is. in promoting that he's been given the opportunity to speak to the african people about the question of fighting corruption now in terms of also the management of resources in terms of capacity building in terms of development of human infrastructure i mean the human capacity of of africans to be able to deal with the issues how much of our budget go into this these are the critical issues that when african nations gather around the table they should be able to tell themselves that prompt truth that we need to do more we are to be able to deal with this issue because the kind of peer review or mechanism for their citizens understand that because this idea of a getting zero point two percent laisse

union calls the blue economy the new frontier of african renaissance has been a lot of talk and forums focusing on it over the past year all of the branding around the blue economy states africa is suffering from sea blindness or not sufficiently developing its extensive marine resources lying on the ocean bed a potential sources of metals and oil and gas seabed mining however would destroy critical delicate and little understood sea life and it's those concerns about the lack of data which still persist as the efforts get underway to exploit the ocean ecosystem. thirty eight of africa's fifty four states are coastal look at the island nation of nourishes for example is one of the smallest countries in the world but it has territorial waters the size of south africa the blue economy is not confined to fishing and tourism it also includes things like transportation deep sea coastal mining and energy but there are environmental concerns a new offshore deep sea mining industry is already taking shape in the mid be a for example vacuuming diamonds from the ocean floor proponents see a spar

african union leaders are gathering in ethiopia ahead of a major summit that are set to discuss ways to tackle the flow of refugees and migrants here as part of a series leading up to the a youth summit nicholas harcourt falls from dakar to find out why people are determined to leave. use in the us doesn't want to be here he's tried twice to go to france and stale both times. now he wants to go again he. he says he deserves a better life. i'm a father my family depend on me i decided to leave senegal because my degrees and diplomas seem useless here. as a child he thought he would play professional football in europe instead he went to university and became an i.t. engineer hoping to find work at home but here in senegal he never found a full time job. my parents sold whatever they want to pay for my education they've never asked me to pay them back but i know i owed them because they have suffered for me and i'm ready to suffer for them and so is preparing to travel again by road and see to the shores of europe. despite joint efforts by police forces and coast guards from both europ

for the thirtieth assembly of the african union where the goals set out in twenty seventeen minutes rewind returns with brand new episodes updating some of the best al-jazeera documentaries from over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be talk of the agenda. engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headline. and in a week our special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january. in the philippines millions live in overcrowded slow but some of another place to call home public cemeteries. meets those living among the dead at this time on al-jazeera. president. for his comments on this campaign's russia links and a much anticipated book. also coming out the chinese president.

issued an arrest warrant by the court and then started the african union questioning whether the i.c.c. has the power to institute a case against a sitting head of state but the african union has never taken a position against any of the cases that are not involved so the heads of state also been dipped the heads of state and therefore it seems that the african leadership has been speaking with a forked tongue. when it concerns the rebel leaders and people got level they have no problem with the international criminal court there is no problem referring cases to the international. leaders then that's one of the resisting. i have a comment here from one of our viewers only now on facebook who says who asks in fact does the international criminal court really have the powers it is supposed to have and use is surely not using them a poker game a wonder as president has said that the i.c.c. was never about justice but politics disguised as international justice and you know critics of the i.c.c. have always pointed out that both don and libya where referred to the court by the security cou

the african union summit ended with up top warning to those fighting in the conflict in south sudan african union chairman will suffocate mohamad say so it's time to slap sanctions on anyone broken piece in the can. un secretary general antonio terrace walked into the summit promised support for the african union can put the warring parties on religious belief in history this is a tradition that each of you in here do with those beliefs to give you success those little legalising form the illusion to be seen but also to be sure this is the most effective and proceeded to be subjugated communist e.g. take it wasn't the only conflict discussed at the summit though the war in libya the fight against boko haram in was tough rico and conflict in the east and democratic republic of congo all debated by the you peace and security council on somalia the pan african bodies hoping the u.n. security council listens to its calls for an extension of the monday of its flagship peacekeeping mission amid some beyond the see. a hasty withdrawal the a u fees could open the door to a takeover of the somali ca

union and more than a billion africans on the continent but in a blow to the agreement expected to be signed on wednesday nigeria the continent's most populous country has pulled out let's go live there and let's speak to our correspondent there mohamed today how on earth can this get under way then without not only the the continent's most populous country but the largest economy in nigeria how can they get it under way without a bridge or on board. well martin yes this is a huge search box full of the signing of the pole to pole which is going to open to all wednesday but this has been anticipated it was still going to nigeria that's obvious doubts many other african countries of the dolls and say we need to consult and move we need to see whether the pole to pole will be able to be the mystic came to you know all countries before we can append all signatures to it's. looking for is not a unanimous agreement all the the political world are looking for at least two to two countries out of the fifty five member states of the african union to sign that agreement and then it will come i

large scale corporate interests capital interests and i think that even though in many respects trade unions and globally it's probably happened to shift tactics and it's strategies the nature of the work force is changing to some extent but that means that africa and across many countries in the african continent one will find that even though they might be a level at which the methods might be diminishing there is big they still hold a lot of clout and the whole idea that you know there's unity in strength still holds a lot of currency and of course i think that it also forces us to think about a much closer much closer look at how to change policy quickly so one of the things that's very challenging is that africa like many african countries that the nature of unemployment is incredibly precarious people that you informally watches they parallelly employed partially employed or huge amounts of unemployment so the minimum wage is only one play of trying to you solve a much deeper social systemic economic issue and of course understanding that south africa inherited centuries of structural

area there is a long list of issues that the african union is debating today and they're hoping to come up with a final stance so the idea basically is this there is a political reform package with that which has been meant implemented has been presented by the one president which aims to streamline decision making process within the a you for the a you to be able to clamp down on a bureaucracy and narrow down the main subject they will they will have to debate every year people are telling them we cannot afford to come over every year and see the african union talking about the need to put an end to instability tackle corruption agree on a single skys market freedom of movement we have to now we down to one issue per year so they saying that this year they helping to pave the ground for political consensus to and instability in africa by twenty twenty then they would like to launch a new economic platform that could be the way for the g.d.p. of most of the african nations. to increase their biggest concern is you talking about a continent with one billion two hundred million people mor

do business with each other another important priority for the african union. prosper is the chairman of the pan african business forum the entrepreneur runs a charter flight company to help business people get around the lack of direct routes as well as liberalizing airspace for african airlines he says the a you should be charging international carriers more to fly in africa africa as this is all is this where everybody come and do whatever he wanted you can't do that in the u.s. you can't do that in europe but you can come to africa you can fly in and get up anywhere. into that there's billions the airlines association of southern africa says a single airspace could provide a major boost to the continental airlines if you look at the whole question of international aviation into africa eighty to eighty two percent of the passengers are carried by international airlines and the eighteen percent is owned by african airlines so there's a huge disparity between. the united nations says up to the year twenty fifty more than half of the world's population growth w

with nigeria chad cameroon spearheaded by the african union. this is the reason we should be supporting the a view initiative. for better definition of responsibility between the united nations and the african union. i'd like to see by the end of the year a resolution adopted along these lines. we are strong in the face of terrorism when together we undertake responsibility to push back against all of the financing they're out of mana to do this together in the alliance for there's a hell we act in the name of development agriculture education. attacking the very root causes of terrorism and the very ways terrorists acquire weapons said point the seven point five billion dollars have already been pledged on. court together with all states and partners of the alliance these are just the first results and ones which must be built upon as you can see in each one of these crises these solution was not simply leaving states to their own devices nor acting in their stead nor imposing solutions but rather. to uphold the principle of sovereignty to eng

one challenge is that sometimes places explosives and paper bags and dust moans african union patrols like this one a mint to coordinate security activities between foreign and local police the patrol takes us through some of the busiest parts of the city crowded with people and traffic aside from being used to assist and train local police these patrols by the african union's under some force there's a very much about making people here feel safe the more police is seen the war people feel secure the government is preparing its own security forces to take over . when african union police and soldiers leave the country in two years the united nations says al shabaab has been weakened in the past year but the somali government says its security forces also face challenges our security force used to have the training outside. the problem became when they come back. they don't have . in. their nationalistic. view. and why they're fighting. there were not fully prepared in terms of the current situation in somalia. the government says it's twenty six thousand troops are stretched thin som

of the african union where the goals set out say in twenty seventeen met rewind returns with brand new episodes updating some of the best al-jazeera documentaries from over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be talk of the agenda matter the assad engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headlines on top front and in a week of special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january on al-jazeera june nineteenth sixty seventy six days that redrew the map of the middle east just record of victory of the israeli army in that war or the greatest tragedy in the history of islam fifty years later al-jazeera expose the events leading to the war and its consequences which are still felt today we tried everything we went to the united nation. tried to make a shirt has contacts with different countries and it was clear that all this was just north of the mall in june at this time. you're watching algis their arms the whole robin these

somalis government with help from the african union. fighters from the capital in twenty eleven but the group still has control over territories in the southern parts of the country and continues to target both government sites and civilians in the capital the u.s. has also been involved in targeting senior figures of the armed groups. but after more than twelve years people in mogadishu still face the new daily threat of attacks people morgan al-jazeera the fragile calm in the southern iraqi city of basra may be under threat. by iran have vowed to track down protesters who set fire to their offices over the past week iraqi prime minister hyderabadi has visited the city where people say corruption and neglect are destroying their lies rob matheson has more from baghdad. under pressure to resign the prime minister hide the body or arrives in the southern iraqi city of basra where protesters say his government is to blame for much of the corruption and neglect which have destroyed their water and power supplies and left thousands without

union and absolutely we've got to draw a line in the sand somewhere and this is the right line to be drawn now some tropical storm alberto has made landfall in florida it's expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding in four u.s. states and thousands of people are currently in shelters and a day earlier another weather system swept through the coastal area of the state of maryland in the northeast and the gallagher has more. eloquent city in maryland for a time it's main street turned into a raging river after torrential rains fell on sunday. cars all washed away in property damaged his authorities continue to look for a missing man who was reportedly helping rescue people flood waters are now receding an issue to clean up operation is underway some here are still recovering from similar floods almost two years ago i don't think without exaggeration saying that this is worse than july thirtieth of two thousand and sixteen i can tell you my heart is broken. thinking about what the people are going through here and to people's lives who were devastated years ago and when they rebui

to come over the leadership of the african union general assembly the highest position making them and their high hopes seize them on who brought that day you will reform plan a must act now to save africa from permanent provision scare is essential we must created a single continental market into a grid our infrastructure. and infuse our economies with chicken origin. the theme of this year's summit is how to tackle corruption in africa it's a huge problem according to the african union fifty billion dollars of lost by the african continent every year through corrupt deals now president obama. among many praise for his and to corruption crusade in nigeria one of the most corrupt african countries has been appointed the champion of the african union and to corruption complain for the year two thousand and thirteen the continent has made significant strides hootin in police legal. frameworks new to really. unfair eventin and converting corruption however there are different of the legal and framework have not had the desired six is in this. the leaders are expected to tump their attenti

union. foreign minister later today and also with the outgoing prime minister you know top of his agenda will be the issue of the state of emergency that of course one closer surely all to the prime minister resigned the americans done something quite strong it really did cause a very close ally of the i'll just read you some of the experts. at the statement issued by the u.s. and this didn't go down well with the authorities they said that they strongly disagree with the government decision to impose a state of emergency they believe in these concerns but also should be greater freedom not less referring again to some of the measures being echoed and said to step back from some of the recent progress the government made as an example the release of thousand political prisoners and that it undermines and they strongly urge the government do you think this will be high on the agenda stymie how to move forward at this crucial time their close allies the u.s. will myself very strongly women whe

it centers on a legit assault against the south african model of the hotel in august two thousand and seventeen this is mugabe claims she was acting in self defense. with one hundred days to go before britain is due to leave the european union countdown to bragg's it is getting increasingly chaotic prime minister to resign mayence tried and failed to persuade e.u. leaders to sweeten the agreement to leave on march the twenty ninth especially on the irish borders so-called backstop for the e.u. says renegotiation is not an option may says deal is the best available many m.p.'s from all parties say it's a disaster a furred of conservative party m.p.'s voted against her in a confidence vote last week but she survived she's delayed the final parliamentary vote by m.p.'s to accept or reject the deal until the middle of next month where the government now says it's ramping up emergency preparations for no deal at all. now the barber joins us now live from london so expecting some questions and answer time in parliament what can we expect from that interview. well it's certainly expected to

and african union leaders have plenty to discuss as they meet in mauritania's capital particularly worried about south sudan where fighting has strained the latest cease fire into jeopardy just hours after it was signed but their main theme is corruption which according to estimates robs twenty five percent of africa's gross domestic products you are now up to date with all the headlines daryn as the news grades on the thirty minutes that's after listening post every year in pakistan hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killing one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between old beliefs and modern life on al-jazeera. president carter watches on june twenty fourth of march when you will be watching me. until the president. has. a. question i want to ask yourself what the president did executive. hello i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week turkey president party wins the election with more than a little help from their friends in the news business the challenges and

backed african union initiative has stalled russia together with sudan is trying to broker a peace deal between the fourteen active the militia group. or. the i'm here is to avoid a blood she'd so i've traveled the country and meet with various rebel leaders to get them around the table in july three russian journalists were killed in car they claimed these russian instructors are in fact mercenaries working for a private security company called wagner's which has close ties to the kremlin. so how tough denies these claims but i was wondering what wagner this is just an urban legend these are russian reservists nothing more than. whatever they are twenty seven years after the fall of the soviet union the russians are stepping back in the heart of africa at a time when the west and notably france the former colonial powers retreating. with more weapons and instructors on the way this may be just the beginning. nicholas hawk baringo central african republic. thirty police officers have been killed in an attack by the taliban in eastern afghanistan the district police commander was among t

we are in trouble to come pilger the african union has agreed on a vision twenty three and about the need to put an end to instability conflicts wars and the issue of the people displaced in places like sub-saharan africa south sudan different parts of africa and your critics say basically you've failed to address those issues and then you come into the richest nations to provide you how to police a world order that you've failed to protect yourselves. there first before i respond to that i just also wants to. see those members does that i skipped you can understand you know you can't avoid. to discuss the demographic impacts of migration on their own that was doing states. you know very well that it's done to pretty plans for its people you know. very missed on the demographic. figures about a bore. it needs a plan and here all the services education and all other social. services that acquired two need to be provided to the people by government and so the. unplanned for. arrivals influx of people for some strange ordinary and exactly you imagine especially for there was more econom

union and french forces that were already there and since then cease fires have been signed violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes ordered wanted by both the u.n. and sales government is neighbor he was once a celica rebel but is now in charge of a neighborhood following in the capital buggy and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera he tells the killers her kill stay and defend his people in hiding but still in charge surrounded by young heavily armed teenage boys is. otherwise known as the general force. accused of war crimes including a murder torture rape and extortion the government wants his arrest. but he's not ready to give himself up and if we. mean he's he said we had nine thousand in this neighborhood ready to defend our people even to pick a fight a neighborhood because of us they are under threat from the christian militias the government forces and u.n. soldiers. in april soldiers belonging to the un stabilizing force in car backed by the central african army stormed forces hideout in an attempt to arrest him but despite being better equipped they w

do business with each other another important priority for the african union. prosper is the chairman of the pan african business forum the entrepreneur runs a charter flight company to help business people get around the lack of direct routes as well as liberalizing air space for african airlines he says the a you should be charging international carriers more to fly in africa africa is that all is this where everybody come and do whatever he wanted you can't do that in the u.s. you can't do that in europe but you can come to africa you can fly in the drop anywhere. to get into that there's billions the airlines association of southern africa says a single is space could provide a major boost to the continental airlines if you look at the whole question of international aviation into africa eighty to eighty two percent of the passengers are carried by international airlines and the eighteen percent is owned by african lines so there's a huge disparity between. the united nations says up to the year twenty fifty more than half of the world's population growth w

nations and the african union at the state department here just late last year where we explored both economic issues but we explored national explored shared security issues as you know and african nations one of their greatest concerns is counterterrorism and they are exposed to the to the effects of terrorist activities as well so we have a very positive relationship with african nations we share a number security issues we share a number of economic development issues and i think those leaders know that the united states wants their relationship to continue to be strong we know they want that relationship to be strong as well so at this stage nothing has changed with respect our relationship with african nations and we continued to see them wanting to strengthen our our relationship in that regard as well. so as i said in my opening remarks and i think it's important for us to all be very clear on this this source of the threat to the international community the source of the illegal actions the source of the nuclearize ation is north korea it is north korea's actions which are ma

for african-americans the war is a war for abolition from the start be they enslaved people who watch who wait who take their opportunities at every chance during the war to further the union's interest or free african-americans a half million of them in the north many of whom will raise troops volunteer themselves for the union forces raise money and care for black soldiers when the union army fails to do so. ha. that's. neat hundred sixty five after four years of destructive warfare united states declared the abolition of slavery. at last they could claim their place among the most unlikely nations of the world. so workers gain their freedom but this freedom is very very limited and it's especially limited economically and of course then that reconstituted state governments of the american south they are deeply repressive and they are deeply interested in fixing workers to places not allowing them to work in other sectors of the economy. freedom but nothing else. in the united states as well as in france or jamaica laws forbidding the equal treatment of freed slaves were promulgated

african union playing to the good offices. democracy in the country by his lot of people which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera trio bonhomme hama mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste day five years ago and as there are explore editor in chief ibrahim helal was sentenced to death and absentia two years ago. reporters without borders ranks egypt one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty countries in this year's watch press freedom index it says at least thirty two journalists are being held in egyptian jails few have been put on trial most of been detained for months or years and over a being held on trumped up charges. those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud abbas say it known as shock and he's been locked up for five years reporting on the robbers square protests in cairo where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall can be nominated for unesco is press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist well about us had i

possibly in a country of transit a country on the african continent somewhere they said where people would be taken migrants refugees would be taken either after being rescued in the mediterranean sea or before they even reach the coast the north african coast i should say they'll be taken there be processed now if they were eligible for asylum then they'd be redistributed among e.u. member states now the problem with that of course is that you have many member states who simply don't want to take in more asylum seekers or refugees they say that the doors are closed i'm thinking of countries like hungry and poland who are in fact boycotting this mini migration summit on sunday and that is why we heard the french president say the maybe the european union's going to have to think of sanctions or penalties against those countries that don't want to take in any more refugees. like france in paris. and u.s. president donald trump has a new sanctions on north korea for a year over the extraordinary threat posed by its nuclear weapons this despite his tweet ten days ago that pyongyang no l

for the state assembly of the african union where the goals. seventeen met. with brand new episodes updating some of the best al-jazeera documentaries from over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be talk of the agenda. engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headlines on the front and in a week of special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january. you. are on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on sex. in the morning and says i want to cover the world and this is a dialogue. about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the conversation at this time on al-jazeera. donald trump threatens to cut off u.s. aid to the palestinians and says jerusalem is no longer off a negotiation. allowing sami's a dime this is al jazeera live from dull.

heads of state and government will gather in mauritania with thirty post assembly of the african union ongoing conflicts in the fight against corruption will take center stage al-jazeera will bring you extensive coverage of the summit and its outcomes the african union summit on al jazeera. it was a war that united egypt and syria had against israel but in the heat of the battle that different agendas soon became apparent as of told me that his dream was to avenge to see tonight a sixty seven when president said that came to a poet he told us just give me ten centimeters of land in the east the second of a three part series israeli population but told that their troops were on the west bank of the so is going to explore the second week of the war in october on al-jazeera. every. president is reelected with sweeping new powers as the opposition concedes defeat while urging him to be a president for all. out of there good to have you with us on jonah this is al jazeera coming to you live from london italy and libya look for common ground to resolve europe and north africa as migration cr

the central man experience had just revealed its limits but that did not matter the union between african slaves and sugarcane had been consecrated. from then on the portuguese knew that they could export their invention everywhere one by one they disassemble the males the ovens and the sugar factories and rebuild them in brazil . the key which changes the direction of the slave trade is the transfer of sugar as you mentioned earlier from one side of the atlantic to the other. and that then makes the hop to the part of the americas closest to europe which is a car be it. a year after the riots a majority leader of the rebellion was executed in public. the result of a large scale experiment between portugal and africa south home a despite the violence in which it was born has shaped its own history a history founded on the heroic struggle of the first slaves. i know that god might do if. he discuses. is not it got him i see it as a stash and my favorite was. on sunday with a my do a micro my bill looked at my feet a not bare look back to. yes i still want. to ensure the survival of their e

on the one hand the north african states the bilateral so we are not only in the middle of that but also there are discussions going on between individual states in the e.u. the european continent with these countries and i think what the europeans are trying to do is to share the burden of the hundreds of thousands or millions that have crossed during the last few years and try to diversify their locations where processing centers can be put up other shirking their responsibilities. who the the european nations they saw that during the last few years they received millions. and they believe that many countries in africa where transit countries where we know some countries like egypt became a destination and transit and the transit in other words some people come and remain in egypt and some try to go further so many countries in north africa became distillation but all across it so not only europe i think there is a there is a way for the europeans and also africans and others in the continent to really fine. find a way out of this the way out of this is really a policy robust poli

well still to come allowed to zero corruption and conflict high on the agenda as african union leaders hold back annual summit in ethiopia. from fighters to politicians colombia's former far cry bulls begin a new chapter the public is skeptical. welcome back now everyone loves pictures of pandas in the snow and that's what i'm going to deliver for you but we've had some quite cold air across southern eastern parts of china the shots come from shanghainese to where temperatures usually not but loads of give snow that's why the panda seems so excited about it for the coldest penetrated even further south hong kong temperatures should be what about seventeen or eighteen degrees at this time of the year here are looking at highs of just eleven degrees in shanghai there might some of to the cold air is pushed all the way into indochina with high noise there just twelve degrees prove that some drizzle as well quite miserable conditions it's going to stay pretty cool here to hong kong still stropping shanghai though venture the scene some slightly warmer creeping in so we head across into sou

well i think we have right now are a fairly fragile african union european union coalition that includes the international organization for migration and the un high commission for refugees we are working together there is a viable i think it's important to keep that going you really need partnerships in this because it can be resolved along need to be as much a unity as possible across the board i think. we've made a lot of progress so far of numbers i gave you of people that have voluntarily returned all but the drivers are such that large scale migration is going to be and remain a megatrend of our century you have the median age you know south africa is fifteen in europe is fifty. and we need to have programs of government and government programs of public education public information to help people to understand better why what this is all about and how they can manage it gentlemen nearly at the end of our program mr gandhi i am going to give you the last say here we have that european union summit on migration coming up at the end of this month what is the best that you think can c

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africa linking ten countries many of them landlocked it's called the trams african railway project just said there are seven thousand eight hundred kilometers of unfinished railway tracks alone will cost thirteen billion dollars to build. it's an enormous amount each country is tasked with finding its own financing for their part of the railway. chinese companies have signed deals to rebuild the former colonial rail lines that were bounded by the french both in the car and in djibouti it's the start of an epic engineering project that will take years to build and promises thousands of jobs across the continent. there are no roads or highways connecting the west of africa to the east nor is there a direct flight between the car and djibouti in fact no one has ever tried to connect both coasts of africa neither the french nor the british the former colonial powers. construction hasn't started yet but the prospect of reopening the century old tracks has got many excited and hopeful abound in train station may get a new lease on life and for the many passengers like so who use this every da

union those behind it hopefully it will increase trade on the continent where i will run through ten countries from senegal in the west to djibouti in the east it currently takes at least five days to travel by road from the senegalese capital dhaka to the capital of djibouti flights between east and west africa are opening up but airfares certainly aren't cheap and the last of our report on global trade routes nicholas hawk reports from senegal. on board the five fifteen train from the car to chess most passengers are on their way home after a long day of work in the city. the fifteen minute journey home always seems a bit longer than the morning commute. after years writing this train was fun so has learned to enjoy this moment free from just tractions. remember the walking talking a good time for myself here if i drive to work it would take me at least four hours and i'd be stuck in traffic trains are still the quickest safest and cheapest way to travel. they call it the little blue train the locomotive was bought from pakistan the wagons from india. the parts were brought to sene

it's the partnership with the african union and the european union and for that matter with iran which is led to thirty thousand detained africans primarily from living in detention centers going home in the last seven months voluntarily that's the sort of cooperation we need with the african union having a stake the table being engaged as a proper partner i'm not having that feeling that this thing is going to be imposed . for a round that it should or whatever it would take place should be done with with humanitarian concerns of the heart of the journey in brussels in about twenty seconds if they don't come up with something solid at this summit is there a plan b. i think it's a plan b. from certain governments and i think they'll move ahead regardless of what the other ones and hopefully that plan b. will in visits at some point in the next year other issues like the comprehensive management of migration and not just asylum and the small number of incidents you could come to europe because it began to fit in the group continues to be the economic micah's that europe actually needs a

intended target the somali government is backed by twenty two thousand african union troops and u.s. drone strikes following criticism after october's attack the minister of defense was sacked along with the police commissioner and security bosses despite that mogadishu's in mourning again victoria gave him be al-jazeera. you're watching the al-jazeera news hour still to come on the program opposition activists in sudan celebrate their release but say dozens of their colleagues remain in prison hundreds of crimes a week and more than a dozen murders just last week just this year in london grapples with a knife crime the damage and to fly the flag or not russia last leads await their fate after two failed drug tests at the winter olympics details coming up in sport . hello there we've got a lot of unsettled weather across parts of the middle east at the moment with two main systems with this at the moment the first one is here marching its way eastwards working its way steadily away from if but then we've got the next one that's already with us it's working its way over parts of saudi

libya's difficulties of further complicated by the competing interests of european union rivals italy and france both have energy investments in the country and back opposite sides while france wants to stabilize the lawless south with its proximity to former french colonies in the hell italy wants an end to the flow of migrants across the mediterranean if all concerned can rally behind the new un plan that would be a minimal measure of success here but it would amount to little more than a contribution to the peace process still a long way from peace itself jonah how al-jazeera sicily persons prime minister tourism a says her government is close to a proposed deal with the european union on brecht says a process has been stalled over how to keep the irish border open after the u.k. quits the e.u. and by deep political divisions within the british government and parliament speaking at the lord mayor's banquet in london she said talks was an intense stage there casey ations for our departure now is the endgame and we are working extremely hard through the night to make you progress on

union in ethiopia he said the visit is proof of close ties between the united states and africa syrian activists have posted videos showing or looks like a chlorine gas attack in eastern go to comes after another video emerged appearing to show phosphorus bombs being dropped on the enclave syrian government forces almost three weeks into a major offensive on the rebel stronghold. rallies are being held around the world to mark international women's day this was the scene in spain's capital madrid as thousands of women joined a twenty four hour strike it's estimated more than five september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily a study his biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand that i love and we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. provoking one of the largest corruption investigations in south american history the cold war scandal has left its mark on countries from brazil to. business leaders multinati

do business with each other another important priority for the african union. prosper is the chairman of the pan african business forum the entrepreneur runs a charter flight company to help business people get around the lack of direct routes as well as liberalizing air space for african airlines he says the a you should be charging international carriers more to fly in africa. is that all is this where everybody come and do whatever he wanted you can't do that in the us you can't do that in europe but you can come to africa you can fly in as anywhere. to get into that there's billions the airlines association of southern africa says a single airspace could provide a major boost to the continental airlines if you look at the whole question of international aviation into africa eighty to eighty two percent of the passengers are carried by international airlines and the eighteen percent is owned by african airlines so there's a huge disparity between. the united nations says up to the year twenty fifty more than half of the world's population growth will be in a

union wanted to send in five thousand troops to protect civilians two years ago the bahraini government refused to accept outside interference. the european union suspended direct financial aid to the burundian government in protest against the violence in defiance became the first country to officially withdraw from the international criminal court. shortly after the pullout last october i.c.c. judges announced they were investigating whether they'd been crimes against humanity in burundi and why at least one thousand two hundred people were killed in the last three years. the streets of vision border are now quiet there'd be no major protests in a while opposition leaders say that's because many of its supporters have fled or are scared local groups such as the people attached to the ruling party the corner a curry which is really in part is youth wing are taking land of people taking property of people and doing so in a climate of total impunity because the government won't act against them because these are the people in two thousand and fifteen who went on the streets beat proteste