power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u.s. is of course worried its trade with subsaharan africa was $39000000000.00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has nuclear deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to egypt algeria sudan and angola moscow is increasing support across the continent that's not a comprehensive list by any means but let's get more on russia's interest in africa now joining me from london is charles robinson chief global economist and head of macro strachey at russian investment bank when they saw capital thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you 1st of all then how is russia's relationship with africa changing under putin and what's the most important aspect of it is a political economic or military influence. well i think there's a little bit of all 3 but you take the 1st 510 years and of putin's rule in russia very little focus on afr

on counting the cost $3.00 decades off the collapse of the soviet union russia is gauging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind so he's decision to buy the s. 400 and f. $35.00 stealth bomber counting the cost on a just. it's 50 years since the world watched as u.s. astronauts lost set off on a mission many adults impossible. then modeled as they made the 1st uncertain steps. to join us as we look at the ingenuity and those who made the journey of a 111 possible. 50 years on and the al-jazeera news special. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories today the latest diplomatic efforts to bring iran and the u.s. back to the negotiating table appears to have ended without any major breakthrough at a meeting in brussels e.u. foreign ministers downplayed iran's decision to enrich uranium above the limits of the 2050 nuclear deal but they failed to reach a solution to the growing us iran tensions. american president has once again lashed out at a group of 4 high profile congress women donald trump is demanding an apology for w

when the we could west africa we see live if it. but delia a real challenge and a health care worker the 1st line people so when you feel you have a suspect the key is it will go into the health care workers and those people a gut point especially in a remote part. they want to have all the protection you want have loved you one have all what is needed to actually protect them so that's one incident do you know if it is time to maybe like my libya and many orders so it's very difficult for them to figure out that these patient which is coming my half so it gets. even today i can't get that the beginning because you're not even sure what it is at the beginning but. they about a crisis in the d.l.c. that has had many about a crisis how was it possible that even in rue areas that the health workers are not ready. because you know when you see that you make the assumption that it. is connected to internet t.v. to reach you and so on that's not right you have 4 places where you have no power no electricity. connected so when they arrive

johnson is publisher of africa briefing magazine i'm pleased to say so with me in the studio now. this deal holds great holds a lot of potential doesn't it you're talking about $1300000000.00 leave you alone and in a trading area where $3.00 trillion dollars is not only that the figures are impressive what are your hopes for this for this agreement well i don't very hopeful know who will cook yet it will be of course political good as sheep who will have to. someone that will that they had the 1st place to set up this trip body and implemented just over one and about 2 days to try and eradicate those pretty suspicions amount of cells because no one country who'd be an ally that we need to treat together ok if say ghana is the biggest gun on equity were i the biggest produces. globally right so you you you leverage your comparative advantage in the production of a certain good rate and then the other party too will do to save so it to be like you know a nation's hutaree free exchange here and there so you to boost it to bush straight from a one africa street. countries 70 percent i

because this week south africa is late companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy we'll take a look at taylor swift with big business over who owns her music plus we find out why radio kurds are looking for work at both of. the cost 00. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories saddam's opposition has called for more protests over the killing of activists in north kordofan state doctors and 8 people including 4 students were shot dead by security forces during a demonstration they were protesting against the findings of an investigation into last month's crackdown by the military judge. china's government has reiterated its support for hong kong leader carry land following weeks of mass protests the hong kong policy office in beijing says the demonstrations are a challenge to the rule of law and britain's prime minister isn't backing down from his that ultimatum to that during his visit to scotland that is despite fierce opposition and talk of another independence referendum in scotland boss johnston's told is that you know only discuss breaks

it's you taking me back to west africa which was the worst outbreak on record all right and that's the only one that gave these facts. so each week that we would have done it so why not write a 2nd one as well why not indeed was the debate that's a question i think the. concerns raised. would provide evidence that this is. really to provide. right so maybe we've touched upon something here now in my community have touched on something here that there is a real to a fight going on behind the scenes to watch what you know about this. yeah behind the scenes is. there some kind of distrust now and difficulty because people aren't used to it fools that is trained to say hey we really are you know about see each. of the c.d.'s on tuesday and from that the local communities here the folks want davis in integrity because these ideas have been in the 4 decades. seen so many people from the waist economy and you know the not is the wildest. sort of you know the kind interested in the resources of lady gold so that a lot of all the folk also think that maybe that is and. to to to take the and. ri

the island of lampedusa is closer to north africa than italy but migrants aren't welcome. last month italy's interior minister and deputy prime minister met there said vinie is used to create imposing heavy fines a migrant boats which trespass into italian waters. and you know yeah i am not reopening a tally imports especially if you ask me to there is a german ship and then you take care of it or we put them all on a bus in front of the german embassy vats enough and this applies to the french the dutch and to anyone who thinks anything can be done in italy. but just over a week ago after rescuing dozens of migrants the captain of a german rescue ship was arrested when she defied italian orders and docked in lampedusa and italian judges since ordered. roller rocketed to be freed from house arrest saying she'd been acting to save. the human rights group says 681 people have died while attempting to cross the mediterranean just this year but many continue to attempt the dangerous a crossing in search of a better life and rescue crews say they'll continue to put the lives of

on counting the cost this week south africa's debt laden companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy take a look at taylor swift with big business. using the find out why arabian. cost. welcome back our minds at the top stories on al-jazeera an increasing number of children are being killed as syrian and russian warplanes bombed it led to $33.00 children have died in the rebel held province this month alone that is more than 2080. libya's coast guard says it's recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u.n. has described as the worst mediterranean tragedy this year around $120.00 others including women and children are missing feared at. the u.s. and guatemala have signed an agreement to restrict asylum applications from central america it comes just days after president donald trump threatened to impose tariffs on the central american country if it didn't agree to the deal of. the hot air that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting greenland's i

power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u.s. is of course worried its trade with subsaharan africa was $39000000000.00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has nuclear deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to egypt algeria sudan and angola moscow is increasing support across the continent that's not a comprehensive list by any means but let's get more on russia's interest in africa now joining me from london is charles robinson chief global economist and head of macro strachey at russian investment bank renee songs capitol thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you 1st of all then how is russia's relationship with africa changing under putin and what's the most important aspect of it is a political economic or military influence. well i think there's a little bit of all 3 but you take the 1st 510 years and of putin's rule in russia very little focus on afric

south africa has a problem some of its biggest state owned companies pose a threat to the economy due to the huge debts chief executives have resigned frustrated by red tape or have been fired due to corruption and president still run oppose the recently won another term with the help of powerful unions has shelved plans to fix problem companies now if the state was to step in to bail out 2 of the biggest firms power company eskom imports operator transnet government debt would shoot up from 57 percent to 68 percent of g.d.p. escolar said it doesn't need a 3rd of its $48000.00 employees and for unions and ram opposed the that's a problem south africa's unemployment rate is at 27 percent with or without a bailout power blackouts in march were behind south africa's economy contract in the 1st 3 month. of the year eskom has been given an extra $4900000000.00 to keep operating and to pay down some of its debts trance that which runs the company's ports and rail freight is also at the center of numerous corruption allegations from overpaying for locomotives to paying advisory fees for non-

you with us peter so south african airways trans net many of south africa's state owned firms facing huge financial and management troubles just how much of a threat to they and others pose to south africa's economy and massive build up of financial stress of the state owned. enterprises and you can always tell when their back is about to stop when people stop paying wages and that's when finally things start happening all in terms of bailouts in terms of hopefully some semblance of reform but each month now we have a number of an s.o.s. who are basically trying and then sometimes failing to pay wages in full and hence now we have money coming forward from the budget which is going to be bailing out a number of the us always most notably has come they've given an extra $26000000000.00 rand this year and they've been around next year about $4900000000.00 in order to keep the show on the road and insure their house going concern there in the old it is the sign of the accounts which will come out next week so a lot of these are so he's really right on the edge of requiring significant a

south africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africa's worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fossil fuel to produce electricity environment groups say the towering coal fired power stations release dangerous carbon emissions every day into the atmosphere the government introduced a carbon tax law earlier this month requiring big polluting companies to pay tax each time they emit greenhouse gases those in favor of the tax hope it will be enough of a deterrent and they must remember that the more they pollute there's a concoction of pollutants in the atmosphere you can do business in a did climate a message that we're getting there they should do things possibly. to that because emissions are marked $8.00 times per person every year the world bank says that's among the highest in the developing world it's ranked among the dirtiest energy producers in the world number 16 on the global emissions list. the paris agreement on climate change and committed to an emission reduction of 34 percent by 2020 and 42 percent by 2025 but industry experts warn in

africa's political leadership who will have to. someone that will that they had the 1st place to set up this trick body and implements it that's number one and about 2. that you're trying to eradicate those pretty suspicions among themselves because no one country could be an island we need to trade together so you you you leverage your comparative advantage in the production of a certain good right and then the other party too will do to save so it would be like you know an essence otara free exchange here and there so you to boost it to boost straight from a one africa straight. countries 70 percent in. 27000 . troops and i percents and you open your plane on 6 i present so if we're able to push straight at all which is forecast to increase by about 15 to 25 percent in the media of tear it will be good for a country it will spread expertise. as a continent. let's look at hong kong with there's been more violence as protesters confronted riot police about controversial extradition bail the standoff followed a mass rally outside a

the camp has become a temporary home to more than 300 asylum seekers most of them are from west africa haiti and cuba. but not of those from angola he's been at the camp for more than a month he plays music most days to pass the time. we are expecting to wait here 23 or 4 months because there are many people ahead of us on the asylum list. many of the people we spoke to at the camp like that america say they plan to wait as long as it takes to cross into the u.s. legally. but illegal crossings at the rio grande a. increase in recent months and so have drownings we're at a municipal cemetery that us need us mexico where the bodies of migrants who died trying to cross into the united states are often brought in have these wooden crosses placed over their graves and this one here simply reads mail not identified pulled out of the rio approximately 300 meters from the black bridge in the neighborhood. there are several other graves of unknown migrants here behind the groundskeeper told us he buried 8 drowning victims just last week. back at the river looking just across the water in the u.

the leftovers of south africa's most profitable industries. and within the life some disturbing secrets. now it seems that heart wrenching journalists must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly what's in these mind tapes and just how deadly they may be. sunrise america river basin. one of south africa's largest freshwater reserves. bridget corrigan is a botanist. and a specialist in the region's biodiversity. this is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if it's not a unique but a very city from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special it's got about 14 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. there about 200 trees species in america. that's 17 of them. and about $400.00 in a bird species. it is a national treasure and the north west doesn't have a lot of these river systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. the crown jewel of this is not true trea

nigeria is the driving force of west africa. a single currency would allow us to overcome all of her children just today. it's a sizzling debate with each its own opinion while there may be uncertainty over the single currency regional leaders believe that in the end. africans will come out as winners nicolas hawke al-jazeera. police in somalia are reporting a large explosion from a car gunfire at a hotel it sets have happened that hotel in the port city of kiss my 0 local lawmakers were meeting at the time casualties are still unknown and the group al-shabaab said it carried out the suicide attack. demonstrations are taking place in northern algeria for the 21st successive friday opposition figures are calling for elections a civilian led government and an end to what they call the ruling elites pro-democracy protests began in february which led to the resignation of longtime president to flee 2 months later. police and have arrested 2 more officers from an iranian oil tanker seize last week bringing the total number to 4 and t

power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u.s. is of course worried its trade with subsaharan africa was $39000000000.00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has nuclear deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to egypt algeria sudan and angola moscow is increasing support across the continent that's not a comprehensive list by any means but let's get more on russia's interest in africa now joining me from london is charles robinson chief global economist and head of macro strategy at russian investment bank rene sands capital thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you 1st of all then how is russia's relationship with africa changing under putin and what's the most important aspect of it is a political economic or military influence. well i think there's a little bit of all 3 but you take the 1st 510 years and of putin's rule in russia very little focus on africa

single market in africa. thank you. well supporters of the deal hope it will create employment opportunities for millions of africans al-jazeera as malcolm web reports now from kenya and what it may mean for farmers there. betty tibet grows here on how farming kenya ends up in more than a dozen african countries beings from these soya plants will make cooking oil our idea is some also be added we know or more they so we we decided to call soya because this is the. draft and then it is the main class crop for us. the oil from bessie's beans is bottled at this food factory in the town of. as well as using locally produced oil its own is sometimes called toil from neighboring countries as well but that's subject to trade tariffs and so it costs more the products made in this factory were also subject to trade tariffs in some of the african countries that they're exporting to the proponents of a new prison continental free trade agreement so that it's seen. nearly all of the member states of the african union have signed th

appears to be elusive leader mullah al jazeera pretoria south africa. joining us now from gauteng province is caleb olga point he has a political science professor at the university of south africa thank you very much for speaking to us on the news out there were hearing anthony does report that corruption is appears to be the biggest challenge facing the a.n.c. right now how serious are these allegations against president. these allegations are very serious in my view miriam because as you heard in that leigh obviously corruption has been one of the major issues in there recently you know how the elections in may to indian indian and it was one of those issues that at present sitaram of course was competing was based on in other words he was running allies here on an anti corruption ticket given what's all of your experience in the past 9 yes so this years these allegations are very serious and they're quite. 6 of in nature that can upset a cut in terms of both the party that is leading the african national congress and of course in terms of his popula

on counting the cost this week south africa's debt laden companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy we'll take a look at taylor swift's spat with big business over music plus we find out why a radiant could some booking for a walk in boulder. county would cost on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera could remind all of the top stories for you know the un human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held province in the past 10 days 104 people have been killed 27 of them children bahrain has gone ahead with the execution of 2 men convicted over terrorism charges despite its international concern about the fairness of the child un special rapporteur on edge judicial killings ideas kalama has called on by trained not to carry out the death sentences. and thousands of people in hong kong are defying a police baton by marching in the same area where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week large numbers of police and for riot gear have been deployed for fears of more violence breaking out it's

and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. welcome back a look at the top stories now in libya as navy is saying at least $115.00 people are missing and feared dead after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of libya but the u.n. refugee agency says as many as 150 people might have been killed. the head of tunisia's parliament muhammad and occur has been sworn in as interim president after the death of 92 year old the subsea an acoa will leave the country until presidential elections are held on september 15th. said abrasions a continuing in puerto rico's capital of the governor a cut or a c.e.o. announced he will step down next month and on the growing pressure often need 2 weeks of mass protests. oh here the new prime minister boris johnson has been speaking to parliament saying that his leadership is the beginning of a new golden age johnson says his government will throw itself into bricks and o'shea sions and leave the e.u. by the end of october but the european union's warn that the prime minister that this is pretty mu

host egypt the africa cup of nations details in the sports news in about 20 minutes. hello we've got some big summer storms bursting over central parts of europe at the moment you see the thunderheads stropping there are around the alpine regions a little further north and the reason is because a bit of everything going on actually we hang on to that hot sunshine down towards the south further north it has been freshening up and behind this cold front here if seeing some cooler digging in fresher conditions temperatures actually struggling to get to around 90 or 20 celsius more than that other guy we were getting easily into the mid thirty's so the storms range from around southern parts of france around the swiss alps pushing a little further a switch towards ukraine they will tend to just drift a little further south which as we go through the next couple of days northern italy coming into the mix here other side of the adriatic into the balkans pushing over towards the black sea so the be some wet weather also sliding across rumania staying fresh further north stay

sub-saharan africa is simply not ready and that speaks to the challenge that we have these demographic dividend in hosting this conference and you know news is optimal in the sense that me out here it's meant to mice it's going to act but it's the population growth in asia is going not the jobs i think it's fever too late for jobs not school people i'm not sure and that made. for the continent could potentially a big plus if this happens and happens properly over a long period of time be that you're ending up with africa in a situation of pockets of job creation which on the face of it is good but if you drill down into it might be bad because the you then end up with people migrating across the continent to find a job which is perfectly understandable but there are so many african countries the consul stane migration levels where they are at the moment let alone if an added momentum to migration was job creation i.e. seeking a job. so your point is a very valid one and we've already seen the search for insta about up a lot of people e internal migration is a very big issue look at som

and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks it is long campaigned against what it calls attempts to undermine the state of israel from within. with detailed coverage power being replaced by new cool friendly plants all over the world environmentalist's here the pulse of what's going to. from around the world this is just as visible above ground and on the surface are underneath. boris johnson is set to take charge as the case next prime minister with a promise to deliver back said will be live at westminster. hall and it's good to have your company you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the rods president says his country is ready for negotiations to defuse tensions and calls the seizure of the u.k. flag tanker powerful precise and professional. south korea's most russia has expressed regret for entering its airspace during a joint exercise with china but moscow denies its apologize for the incident. and former u.s. special counsel robert muller will testify before a king. national

borders often isn't easy it's here at the port of mombasa that goods manufactured outside of africa are imported to the region. most african countries trade more with countries in europe and asia and with each other economists say that free trade agreement alone won't solve that and that they'll be resistance from a powerful few who make fast profits from the status quo the politicians have become beholden to these types of folks and i think you're breaking up much more than might appear at 1st glance you're breaking a system that's been there since independence the products from the food factory a truck to around the region that this kind of manufacturing and export happens less in africa than any other continent economist say free trade within the continent would change that and create more jobs and income for people like betty but many feel it's still a long way off malcolm webb al-jazeera the kenya former u.s. vice president joe biden has apologized for his remarks about working with segregationist senators during his early days in congress rival democratic party white house hop

border and there was heartbreak from a host egypt the africa cup of nations details in sport. protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong in their fight to have a controversial extradition bill scrapped this time a rally is being held in loon we're looking at live pictures coming in from hong kong tens of thousands marching towards the new train station it links the territory to the chinese mainland organizers say they want to educate because it's from china about their struggle. as you can see in these live pictures police are taking their positions perhaps to try and prevent a repeat of what happened last week with protesters storming the legislature building angry at government plans all what had been government plans to introduce legislation allowing extradition to the mainland times which was shelved. but not completely cancelled from a grind as the latest from hong kong. literally thousands of people swamping the streets of calhoun district at home calling on this demonstration it several hours after the start of this march and the march is still going on the en

and the narrative in south africa south africans concerned to the extent of corruption not only is a film of president being questioned around his possible role but now a sitting president has also been implicated with regard to money that was donated to his presidential campaign for the african national congress let's speak to richard callan he's an associate professor at the university of cape town's public law department who's joining us from cape town thanks very much for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour or so as we've been reporting the president is rejecting charges that he deliberately misled parliament how do you think this is all going to play out. well it's been a day of high drama here in south africa former president zuma walking out of the commission of inquiry into state capture reform minded successor so are i'm opposed to put on the for the pressure by a rogue public protector i say road protect advisedly very because context of course is everything and this latest report from the public tectum must see as must be seen as part of a pattern of conduct on wher

south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. in leave a bill. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1000.00. fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much higher and that there would be negative health effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies that the study said and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. you know what would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this b. b. b. b. b. don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do unit tests and monitor their. the south afri

al-jazeera in my little amy south africa now staying in south africa and thousands of miners there who've suffered from potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlement where $350000000.00 in a class action lawyers for the mine workers sued 10 major companies for compensation now 6 of the companies had already accepted a deal which has now been approved by a court in johannesburg up 210-0000 miners or their dependents could benefit many miners were affected by lung disease or other illnesses as a result of their work richard s'pore is a human rights lawyer who's been working on the case for many years and he says the court's decision is a landmark in the history of miners rights in south africa. before then there was no such rot in south africa and there was no civil accountability on the part of employers towards workmen who suffered from occupational diseases so that was the big bright $32011.00 but the last 78 years of the in spain litigating against the mining companies and the last several years in parallel with at the suggestion proces. set of negotiations that c

al-jazeera in south africa. in northeast nigeria at least 2 people have been killed in an attack by boko haram fighters it was on one of the region's biggest camps for internally displaced people the army says the raid near my degree was repelled our correspondent went interest has more from the beach. there taekwondo laurie cam. continuing efforts by regional militaries from charge in nigeria and cameroon as they stepped up their operations against boko haram especially the book on approach an affiliated with ice one or the islamic state in west africa province where seen such daring attacks becoming so rare over the past 6 months or so across the northeast of nigeria however boko haram has never completely disappeared they have continued their operations of sins but abductions also have been the tool of trade of book around for a very long time long before the triple goals were taken from the school in 2014 goals were taken from several schools in borno state and in towns and cities across the state as well as

you look at the cost related to $200.00 our traditions are staggering asia and africa are the 2 regions that have the highest levels of hunger and malnutrition and if you look at under nutritional the projections are this could cause now level percent of their g.d.p. in the next few years also overweight in obesity which is a growing problem in asia and africa is estimated to cost $2.00 trillion dollars annually so the approach we're taking is not enough we need this multifaceted motocycle to approach it in all the governments private sectors. we need a transformation of our food systems we need a transformation of agriculture will provide healthy nutritious food just affordable cindy holman good to speak with you thank you now burbery dolce and gabbana and dk and why have all attempted to crack one of the fastest growing markets islamic fashion what started off with brands targeting wealthy muslims with one or fashion lines for religious occasions has now grown to a global trend for women who prefer to dress conservatively according to the pew research center muslims are the world's fa

from the africa cup of nations we go to the golf course and it was a bad day at the office of some of the sport's biggest names at the open championship in northern ireland on friday tiger woods and rory mcilroy both missed the cut back or hit a 65 to give himself a chance at royal portrush but in the end both he and woods could not produce the goods to head into the weekend shane lowry of the republic of ireland and j.b. home of the co-leaders at 8 under. dutch cyclist marianna force has spring to victory to win her 2nd title a 3 time world champion powered past australia's amanda spread in the final 450 metres of the 121 kilometer course the one day event now in its 6th year was started by tour de france organizers of the lobbying from elite female cyclists including force the head of cycling's governing body has called for attain stage event but france organizers say that it is not feasible. for a woman has refereed a top level men's rugby league game in australia for the 1st time in its 111 year history belinda shop officiated the match between the brisbane broncos and the canterb

south africa. a u.s. congressional hearing on the rising cost of prescription drugs has begun there discussing among other things the increased expenses that a sending diabetics and others across the border and to canada to buy medication the so-called insulin caravans are designed to draw attention to their financial burden correspondent on a lack followed one of those groups into canada. the n.c.a.a.'s. activist quinn nystrom shares the good news with fellow u.s. diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local wal-mart store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the united states their caravan crossed 3 u.s. states to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows what my everyday life that diabetes looks sight on this is kind of basically one or 2 months of like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith told who doesn't have the disease but she's here for a very special and personal reason i am part of the scare and memory of my son alex smit

franc it was created by france in 1945 and is used by 14 african nations in 2 zones one in west africa including senegal ivory coast and the jets and 6 others in central africa including up on and chat the currency is pegged to the euro and has the financial backing of the french treasury and return france holds 50 percent of the foreign exchange reserves of member countries supporters say it provides economic stability but critics see it as a relic of french colonialism that restricts growth. i did press reports after the . capital. it's definite now leaders somewhat difficult nations using the c.f.a. front the 8 countries in the region under the west african monitoring union have decided to go ahead with the rollout of the proposed west africa single courtesy the aecl they said they are there for decided to go ahead with the process and any other country but wants to join or who are not decided to join can join later so in the next few months we will see the roll out of this currency in west africa that is going to be. legal tender in this region a question was for to president ouatt

are a free exchange here and there so you took it from a one africa. countries so it's in this sense. percent. 6 percent or so straight which is forecast to increase by about 15 to 25 percent. of the country it will spread to experts. hello again welcome back well here across the united states we are seeing a lot of scattered showers across much of the central and eastern seaboard now it's going to be happening over the next few days is still the heat is going to be on across much of the area and with that the afternoons the thunderstorms are really going to be popping up across much of washington down towards atlanta as well and here across the central plains of adela's we could be seeing the showers and the temperature there $35.00 degrees here on monday maybe going up to about $36.00 degrees by the time we get towards tuesday but notice up here towards the north it is going to be quite rainy a lot of active showers we could even see some accumulations anywhere across the dakotas as well as into southern canada well across much of the caribbean it ha

to the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has declared the latest outbreak in africa a public health emergency of international concern that is the highest possible emergency response turkey's deputy consul general has been shot dead in the northern iraqi city of erbil at least one of the person was reportedly killed in the attack which happened in a restaurant with a diplomat was dining. political deal has been signed in sudan between the military council. to months to vision demonstrations. where hundreds of people are gathering for the u.s. president's campaign rally in greenville north carolina donald trump has been tweeting ahead of the event saying he has lots of things to talk about he's also continued his twitter for democratic congresswoman let's take you live to our white house correspondent kelly how could he was also in greenville i want to people there saying about. the control. yeah well the lines were pretty long for many hours in advance to get into this 8000 seat stadium we know there were about 50000 tickets handed out so that there were many people

south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. in the vba. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1000.00. fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much and that. there will be negative health effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies east coast of the 2nd why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. you know would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this we don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got higher levels. of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor there. the south african government will soon be

many many and and in middle income countries in africa are affected by all countries agreed to achieve 0 hunger by 23rd. under the sustainable development goals that means ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 do you think that's that's achievable or is are they taking the right approach well the simple answer is no or we wouldn't be seeing the trends that we're seeing in hunger and malnutrition and i think what needs to happen is that we need to look more closely at the drivers behind these trends and we need to start to take balder actions hunger and different forms of magician are interleaved therefore it's not one sector that will be able to resolve this problem or address it it takes tackling it from many different angles for example agriculture health also economic policies and trade we need to make sure that households and poor expression have access to affordable nutritious food and we need to protect that in terms of economic downturns so so when there does need to be a different approach or kind of a paradigm shift we need to start thinking of hunger amount trad

have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so that's africa union will come in and take charge . this way the cell region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be contained and a solved by africans themselves. leaders from at least $53.00 of the continent $65.00 countries i do here to ratify the deal that could be implemented as early as next year. the african continent of free trade agreement is expected to create the walls the largest single market in the continent is home to one and a quarter 1000000000 africans leaders hope that the free trade agreement will help create jobs as breaking a growth but it's not clear whether investors will hold one of the internal strife in many african countries and bring in the much needed capital to boost production of goods and services. african entrepreneurs say they agreement could be the answer to the continent's many problems the truth is we do have china africa but they're nowhere else to get the kind of returns on investment to get conflict so you're confident the investors will come and come to

and historic or trolling for gold miners in south africa worth more than $350000000.00. and install some controversial mines a back in australia's test cricket score for the ashes 3 plays including some accounts and steve smith will make their test returns after serving bronze football tampering. now more children are becoming victims of a government and russian assault on syria's rebel held at that province the un human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll michelle says there is targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes a warning viewers may find some of the pictures and then a heart is report to stabbing their images that have shocked many tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the government's assault is it's 3 o'clock so. desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in the syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to her 3 year old sister drove one for as long as she could. but then they fell to t

south africa's president says he will ask for a judicial review of a report by the country's corruption watchdog on friday serum apostle was accused of deliberately misleading parliament about a campaign contribution the public protector said the president failed to tell the truth to parliament when he denied knowledge of a $35000.00 donation from him to miller has the latest from pretoria. president has responded to the report by the public protector's saying that it's fundamentally flawed and not based on fact and this is after he responded to some of our questions earlier this year and according to his statements he's released he says that it's unfortunate that she's decided to to issue the strip or to given that he had concerns around it he has said that he is now seeking an urgent judicial review and it will be up to the courts to decide if this report stands it's also worth remembering that the public protector has had a record of having some of the reports overturned by the courts given that there were issues around the legality and perhaps some of the foundations that these repo

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frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa getting to me. linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which parent those fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water mining. trucks trying to. elevate. ok. i. thought it would seem recently gone by. so. many don't but in point of missouri. if it comes up in the us you're going to get arsenic which is a metal. cream you can. see. if you put it like that. so i think. just so you know it was. says although. the maximum they were going to continue to pose for them. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. after some convincing one of the country's top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. with. gold fields 8750 kilo

west africa country is rich in resources i recall general and mineral but the production is very very slow there will continue to import most of the products that are needed outside what the export actually is raw materials to the rest of the world for processing. zimbabwe is going to raise public sector pay for the 2nd time in 3 months after labor groups threatened mass protests inflation there is running highest 100 percent and the country is struggling with shortages of bread fuel and baths and our image has a has more from the capital harare. it's. traditional charles blunder and his wife glenda both take home $280.00 zimbabwean dollars a month after deductions that's roughly 30 u.s. dollars each combining both they salaries they agree to spend no more than $40.00 on groceries but when they get to the till they realize they've gone over budget things are just too expensive to make things worse some products they really need aren't available because of shortages things that takes. just taking issue as it comes. to this beautiful. truths the government is offering civil servants inc

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and investigation south africa toxic city on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and you're watching the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes if the situation is not resolved quickly there will be serious calls for those britain's foreign secretary issues a stern warning to iran over its seizure as a u.k. slide tanker. and this is only goes to show what i'm saying about a rare. trouble nothing but trouble us. president donald trump says he'll speak to the u.k. about the seizure. a dutch supreme court upholds a ruling that the state is partially responsible for the massacre of muslim men and srebrenica. taiwan says it will consider giving asylum to protesters free hong kong. but don't be disappointed with your school to end there are scenes of jubilation in algeria. a 1000000 goal of the cynical enough to hand the old the sick the africa cup of nations tried to. iran has seized the british flag the oil tanker in the straits of hormuz as tensions continue to escalate in the gulf now u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt condemned the move as on acc