later on she come further north across parts of botswana through into may be a weather's looking fine highs of twenty seven in winter. welcome back a quick update of the top stories this hour the french president emmanuel macron as the united states to move away from nationalism and work with france to tackle global challenges on made the plea in an address to the u.s. congress thousands of people have been back out protesting it all media answering a call from the opposition leader. who accuses the government of refusing to negotiate the transfer of power. and large scale strikes have been held across south africa federation of trade unions are staging a shutdown in protest of changes to the minimum wage. at least nineteen people have been killed off the gunman opened fire at a catholic church in nigeria the early morning attack happened in a remote village in benue state on cheese day seventeen wash up as in two priests were killed the attackers also burned down fifty houses since two thousand and thirteen the region has seen violent clashes between felony herdsman who are mostly mu

. roberts: butut what happened afafter that was that southehern african governments, n namely botswana, namibia, and zimbabwe put incredible pressure e on cites parties s to reopen a quote/unquote limited ivory trade, allowing stockpile sales from stockpiles in those three african governments to one approved trading partner, japan. thorntnton: that t trade from me sosouthern afrfrican countntrieo japan stararted to leaead to an crease in achinggain. narrator: in a controversial move in 2008, cites authorized a second sale of stockpiled ivory to japan and china. once china became involved, poaching skyrocketed. thornton: the allowing sale by cites of legal ivory to japan and chinina, all the evidence shows that w was a catastrophic blunder. narrator: ivory in african government stockpiles is confiscated, or r comes from culled or naturally deceased elephants. its sale is s legal, but legal ivory creates a stream of commerce in which illicit ivory, or ivory from poached elephants coconceals itself. the loophole in cites was that it only banned international ivory trade, not domestic trad

looted and cars were set on fire aber in botswana on the wild has closed its border with the province and with the growing chaos. alright i'm now joined by correspondent to two so akumal in johannesburg for the very latest a very good evening what are these protests about given to you and the listeners this is one protest that people in north west are saying the government has lifted them out of development remember this is a program where you've got a lot of mines in the mine is that it is a money grab to the conditions there in terms of the housing was to live in shacks and the roads in most parts of them who are poor and in fact this it was delivered last pick up by two people died in the local cleaning and the residents accused in the beginning not kidding for them because the service is bad just not bad when so these are people that are saying we want homes one electricity we went to one of the one behind i think it moves toward us some to put in for the cleanup people just to go saying yes let us down and so they want the government to listen in here and did it they want to be b

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botswana speaking about his new job. now to a story from the cold war era, a secret radio station that operated in the old soviet union with the sole purpose of jamming the broadcast of western radio stations. starting from the 1950s, the ussr operated a network of such stations to stop what was considered anti—soviet propaganda. the bbc‘s rayhan demytrie in georgia went to meet some of those behind the secret broadcasts. listening to the radio is nina's favourite pastime. but for 50 years, she was part of an elite team of technicians tasked with keeping radio off the airwaves. for the fulfillment of socialist publications, she received this award. it makes her laugh today. former technicians like nina continue to live in the settlement that still goes by its old name, radio station #5. built in the 1950s, this secret base operated a field of radio masts which suppressed foreign broadcasts with white noise. aza operated the transmitters. translation: it was like the noise of a radio river and it was impossible to listen to anything. it was called frequency noise. only stronger. the

countries sudan in botswana also executed so there is still a small pocket of countries in africa that are resisting this this broader trend towards our politian we of course will continue to push. to stop those of course countries of botswana i'm slightly different but the other countries are our countries are finding something complex or find themselves in in difficult repressive states and you know often in these countries and others. it's called for and often a response to a conflict of terrorism or organized crime and i think our message is always been in these contexts exactly when you can get the biggest miscarriage of justice is when the justice is most weak it's most lately when innocent people are killed and it's actually not an effective way to to to reduce crime to tackle terrorism and there are many other things that are not and use as a diversion in your experience how big of all though does public opinion play in a state's decision to abolish capital punishment i mean what can people on the grassroots level tail. huge to think political opinion come to an important role and

apparently occurred to south africa botswana looks like having a dry couple of days at least along with symbolic. a story fourteen hundred years in the make. the story of succession. the jersey that tells the story of foundation and the emergence of an empire. the kind of episode one. jersey the. other again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour the white house says all options are on the table for u.s. response to those suspected chemical attack in the syrian town of duma as far as an earlier tweet by donald trump warning the syrian government's main ally russia to get ready for missiles to be fired. algeria has announced three days of mourning after a minute sea plane crash killed two hundred fifty seven people aircraft went down shortly after taking off from both our military airport near the capsule is most of the dead was soldiers and their families. and doesn't buy john's presents a secured a fourth consecutive term in a snap election that was boycotted by the main opposition parties with most ballots counted and has eighty six percent of the vote an

know for that boy that he has lived. botswana's i think of my quality of gold in the four hundred meters mark wallace shot to fame at last year's world championships in london when he ran a solo two hundred meter heat after initially being barred from taking part due to a suspected that. the hosts have been enjoying their time in the pool astrally have won a record twenty four medals in the spaniard and they won a title on the final night of competition. kelly out his ball because mark zuckerberg the c.e.o. of facebook is now addressing the congressional hearing sentiments of listening for making their voices heard and for building communities and businesses just recently we've seen the me too movement in the march for our lives organized at least in part on facebook after hurricane harvey people came together to raise more than twenty million dollars for relief and more than seventy million biz small businesses use facebook to create jobs and grow but it's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news for fo

gold a little later ron for botswana. some of you might remember him, he didn't do very well in moscow. —— glasgow. he was too cold. is much prefers the conditions here and he will go in as one of the favourites. he is looking for gold for botswana. south africa had a wonderful day on the track and in the pool last night, and they will be looking for another gold on the track, because caster semenya is here. she goes as the favourite in the 1500 metres a little later on, her preferred distance is 800 metres, but she has such qualities, she is expected to win that quite easily. you will remember her winning the gold in rio, and of course, the gold in london. she is an olympic champion and she is the quality athlete on the track this evening here in the gold coast. a lot going on, a lot of gold medals being one, and a lot of lives being changed. quite a story. many, many stories. many people hitting records and changing their lives, really. stay with us here on bbc news. i will see you soon. hello there. it is a very slowly changing weather pattern this week. broadly, the week

spend a romantic vacation under the stars in botswana. gina says it was that trip that sealed the deal and recalls megme meghan saying we're going to change the name. a private nickname for the prince. >> it's funny because meghan it turns out calls harry hans so interesting there's two similarities there. >> gina tells "the mail" she and meghan's relationship came to ang abrupt end a week before the engagement was announced as she had to cancel everything. we'll all be watching for when they make it official on may 19th. >> that's awesome. >> we had guesses about his nickname. >> haz was not. >> chaz like charles. that's what i was thinking or he has it all. i don't know. >> haz. >> so literal. >> british accent so i'm not sure if we're losing it in the translation. maybe it's haz. that doesn't help at all. >> i think it's time for us to go to another story about the nanny to the stars. something they may need pretty soong. she's known for saving the sleep cycles of everyone from george and amal clooney, justin timberlake and jessica alba and her husband cash. this he call her na

rain in the last day or so and in the forecast certainly maybe you're down to botswana and into south africa looks like a good line there and that's the one to watch for developing showers and i think they'll become quite big in the next day or so not in the western cape but in central and eastern parts of south africa. and again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera medical staff say dozens of people were killed by a suspected chemical attack in the besieged rippling craigs in syria many more including children have been receiving treatment. polls have closed in the hungriest parliamentary elections prime minister viktor orban is expected to win a third consecutive in an election dominated by the issue of immigration. the nigerian army says it has rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram in borno state in the northeast of the country. police in germany say they may have foiled a potential attack on the marathon on sunday but when it came has more now from one stone. berlin the police confirming that they have arrested six individuals varying in age from eigh

day or so the showers continue further north some more big downpours for botswana all the way into tanzania. the weather sponsored by cattle race. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is bad but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories so far today the former brazilian president believes the nuffield is expected to hand itself into the police assume a saturday after missing an earlier deadline he's in a trade union building in south palo where supporters have been rallying outside has been ordered to start a jail sentence for corruption. the israeli army has killed at least eight palestinian protesters and injured more than thirteen hundred in demonstrations along the border

elephants playing in botswana. but behind this heartwarming scene is a much sadder problem. the elephants are orphans. their parents are among the thousands killed in africa each year for their tusks. african nations have been calling on the rest of the world to halt the trade in antique ivory, to help curb poaching. and today the environment secretary michael gove announced the uk plans to do just that. after a public consultation on a sales ban received an overwhelming response in of it. conservation groups say they hope the move will put a stop to the shocking decline in the world's elephant population. around 20,000 are slaughtered every year to feed global demand for ivory. that has the number of elephants drop by almost a third over the past decade. it has been possible to sell items made with ivory before 19117 in britain without a certificate, but the new ban would all but stop that. china, the us and france have tightened their approach to ivory sales, but campaigners hope the uk's stance will help other eu countries to follow suit. joining me now is alexander rhodes, t

on al-jazeera botswana's new president pledges to wean the country off its dependence on diamonds as he takes office and scientists discover two of the world's oldest cancer cases in egyptian mummies details coming up. from dusk the sunset so it's proving something. to summarize the talk in a nation metropolis and we've still got a lot of cloud over the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is picking up that cloud over saudi arabia and that stretches all the way up into catholics down it's not really giving us a great deal of wet weather but ahead of it we think that pretty strong winds that wind is picking up a lot of dust so we're seeing quite a bit of dusty conditions across many parts of the middle east at the moment where we're seeing that cloud though that's going to thicken up i think as we head through monday and to choose day so particularly for some of us in afghanistan and up through into the stand we are going to see a fair amount of cloud a few outbreaks of rain and even some snow over the mountains as well another system is in the northwest of our map that's

region's biggest economies syria plock al jazeera you high china botswana has inaugurated more see bussy seen as his new president the former vice president takes over from ian comma who stepped down after his term limit was reached elections will be held next year catherine sawyer now reports from hebron the president will. inspect the troops of to being sworn in as bullets won his fifth head of state he takes over from former president comma in another peaceful transfer of power in one of africa's strongest democracies his inauguration a proud moment for many who braved the heavy morning rains to witness the ceremony and in his facet dress to the nation she said tackling joblessness would be the fast priority at the moment youth unemployment stands at around twenty eight percent well jennifer is a mere dogged of challenges such as unemployment poverty crime hiv and aids alcohol and drug abuse amongst others. therefore one of my top priorities as a president of this country will be george just the problem of unemployment especially among the young people who constitute the majorit

manassas threaten to remove the country from the courts jurisdiction. botswana's new president has vowed to tackle youth unemployment and reduce his country's dependence on the diamond industry by what see my sissy was sworn in on sunday and will rule the country until elections next year former president income a step down on saturday after completing the maximum term of ten years in office catherine thought reports from. the president were quite seem a sissy inspect the troops of to being sworn in as boots won his fifth head of state he takes to go from former president comma in another peaceful transfer of power in one of africa's strongest democracies he's inauguration a proud moment for many who braved heavy morning rains to witness the ceremony and in his facet dress to the nation. tackling joblessness will be the fast priority at the moment youth unemployment stands at around twenty eight percent. well jennifer is a mere od of challenges such as unemployment poverty crime hiv and aids alcohol and drug abuse amongst others. therefore one of my top priorities as a president of this

. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour botswana's new president is sworn in with a pledge to win the country of its dependence on diamonds class. i'm gonna hold this is russia's radioactive river touch up one of the world's most polluted water words. on top to make history against chelsea and salah has all the details in sport. and i there the rain is still pouring across many parts of europe at the moment the satellite picture is showing this huge expanse of cloud that falls bringing us all very wet weather we're also seeing some hail out of this and lots of thunder and lightning to the whole system is working its way up towards the northeast and it's still developing as it does so so we're seeing strong the winds on monday and more intense outbreaks of rain and snow a lot of that will be snow particularly when it's all the nature behind it the something of a break so berlin looks nice at seven degrees vienna about fourteen but in the west there's another weather system that's piling its way in and that will bring us some very heavy downpours over parts of britain and ireland as we

. botswana's new president is sworn in with a pledge to wean the country off its dependence on diamonds and then in sport the fairytale run for this college basketball team and their ninety eight year old chap that has and. at least four civilians have died in massive anti india protests which broke out in the southern villages of indian administered kashmir the demonstrations kicked off after indian forces launched a counterinsurgency operation overnight killing at least thirteen rebels three soldiers also died in the gun battle. several protesters tried to launch to the gun battle sites to help attract fighters to escape residents then began throwing rocks at indian forces who responded with live ammunition shotgun pellets and tear gas many kashmiris say they openly support and anti india rebels i am not going to get i care tonight they cordoned off the villages there is no count of the injured people they martyred all civilians the majority and the thinking of the kashmir struggle for freedom or end by such means but god willing the freedom movement will rise like the sun this strugg

countries that they have to leave. still to come for you on the program botswana's new president pledges to ream a country off its dependence on diamonds as he's sworn in. and cloudy with a chance of space debris. china's defunct space station is forecast to crash back to earth in the next twenty four hours but no one knows where. the. hello there is still rather warm for many of us across china at the moment it will turn cooler over the next few days bazza for monday we're looking at twenty eight degrees in shanghai there are a few showers just to our west over there on hwy province but those gradually dissipates as we head through into tuesday say more of us will get away with a dry day shanghai temperatures twenty four degrees this time but over the next couple of days is when we're going to see the temperatures drop away over towards the west and there's a fair amount of cloud in the eastern parts of india and up through bangladesh but that melts away on the satellite picture and then if we see the old shower over the next day or so will be unlucky really most of us seeing fi

credit where credit's due like many african countries botswana had resources in that case it was diamonds but really one one has to admit that they've handled that resource dividend the most effectively of any african country i can think of bad examples equitorial guinea angola but botswana has stood out as an outlier think what the incoming president was speaking about was one the need to diversify they haven't been successful it's a diamond it's a tourism it's a light stock economy they need to look at other options i'm not sure what those options are really going to be and i think aids of course the numbers have been coming down the percentage was in the high thirty's if i recall not too long ago that brought it down below twenty percent so it's an improving story but overall i think in the in the in a battle of fifty five states but swine that has had a very clear voice a clear moral compass at times they've dressed down the rest of the african countries but what we're seeing here is a really positive african story and i'm sure president missy she will carry on this strong th

corruption scandal that involves the national petroleum find something that is rare in botswana those who did attend say they need to keep the president and his government on asked we feel that we are going to continue playing our overside will continue to seek more clarity from the president in terms of the way forward in terms of the how part of it how he intends to create employment because this country has been experiencing what has been termed a jobless growth has eighteen months to assad his authority within the ruling democratic party before national elections in october next year may be one that the new president you. are waking up from home and that he had promised. he was very. common eradication of the. areas the people next baghdad president might. very much give in line with that but they are. my d.s. is going to resign as well in the last ten years his predecessor has overseen policies that have helped reduce poverty he says he wants to go father his best asked will be this week when he names his vice president and cabinet catherine soy al jazeera. that's one. internatio

interesting to see what happens. next wednesday when he gets. his my private or botswana's friend described as an african success story it's enjoyed strong economic growth at a stable multi-party political system since gaining independence from the u.k. just over fifty years ago it's one of the world's largest producers of diamonds but the new president the c.c.p. believes that the country is too reliant upon the cham of wants to diversify trades the economy tipped into recession in twenty fifteen the unemployment rate is currently around twenty percent michael is a visiting fellow at the fair. the center for africa studies at the london school of economics joins us now from the u.k. from kent via skype michael good to have you with us to what extent. under pressure now president sisi will it be business as usual given that he was the country's vice president. my c.c. he's a seasoned manager joe and he's looked nice right from day one they have to be economic diversity so although it was too hot to rely on diamonds good training. and look for other ways and means of. growing the economy wha

one of the poorest countries in the middle east. botswana and a new president after its leader steps down. and the u.s. and south korea could call for largest annual military exercise following a month long postponement. israel's defense minister adored lieberman has rejected calls for an inquiry into the killing of palestinian protesters on friday this comes as video emerged of a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israel's border with gaza it was filmed as thousands of people began their protests against decades of land grabs by israel the israeli military says the man was a member of the armed weak of hamas as family though they have denied that claim and they say he was not armed and shot in the back but adela made reports from the gaza israel border. more and more videos are emerging about what exactly unfolded at the border fence area on friday and from the evidence on many of the videos it seems that israel was shooting quite randomly at protesters now israel had warned in the days leading up to the friday protests that it will have this zero tolerance policy that it a

korea kick off their largest annual military exercise following a month long delay. botswana swears in a new president after the leader steps down. plus living in the shadow of radiation we look at the dark secrets of one of russia's most polluted reverse. video has emerged which palestinians say shows a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israeli israel's border with gaza it was filmed on friday as thousands of people began their protest against decades of land grabs on israel israel military says the man was a member of the armed wing of hamas his family though they have denied that claim and say he was unarmed and shot in the back israel warned it would use lethal fire on protesters and it did seventeen people. had been killed more than fifteen hundred others were injured and the u.n. says half of those are wounded by life fire united nations has called for an investigation into the violence but the us blocked a security council trafford solution condemning israel's use of force to sarasota delaminate has more from the gaza israel border. more and more videos are emerging ab

whether over the southern parts of africa recently particularly over parts of namibia botswana but the shower is a moving their way northwards and so for many of us here it should be a little bit drier there will still be some showers in the eastern parts of south africa though so jo'burg is likely to hear the audible bit of funded during the day for the west is following force in cape town at twenty two. shot running away from israeli snipers one of the on armed palestinians targeted by troops and killed seventeen people and injured more than fifteen hundred. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. fifty tons of much needed relief supplies are destroyed in a fire in yemen one of the poorest countries in the middle east. the u.s. and south korea kick off their largest annual military exercise following a month long delay. last living in the shadow of radiation we look at the dark secrets of one of russia's most polluted rivers. videos emerged which palestinians say shows a demonstrator being shot as he was running away from israel's border with gaza it

africa recently particularly over parts of namibia botswana but the showers moving their way northward and so for many of us here it should be a little bit drier there will still be some showers in the eastern parts of south africa though so jo'burg is likely to hear the audible bit of thunder during the day for the west is fine forcing cape town at twenty two. systemic corruption from politics through business to who is controlling what states of resources people in power investigates the misuse of south africa's state assets nobody who'll he's implicated or named in the lives of ford was able to put their point of view on the financial rewards available to unaccommodating business community south africa corruption inc on i'll just. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera let's remind you of our headlines this hour now video has emerged of what appears to be a young palestinian being shot by the israeli military one running away from the border with dancer he's one of seventeen protesters who died on friday more than fifteen hundred palestinians have been injured two days pr

wet weather over the southern parts of africa recently particularly over parts of namibia botswana but the showers a moving their way northwards and so for many of us hit should be a little bit drier there will still be some showers in the eastern parts of south africa though so jo'burg is likely to head the old rule but the funded during the day the further west is fine forcing cape town at twenty. the weather sponsored by cats on race. what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique all this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a good cheap to be offensive or provoke the thought of it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines video has emerged of what appears to be a young palestinian being shot by the israeli military while running away from the border with garza he's one of seventeen protesters who died on frida