should be heard and britain or nigeria shell once the case heard in nigeria and that's a stance strongly opposed by the communities which suffered from the pollution and the barber reports most of the gully in the niger delta is now a wasteland nothing much grows on the farms and what does is to toxic to eat the series of oil spills and leaks have killed off the fish population which used to provide a living for many people and the king of a gully says his community is paying a high price for welcoming multinational oil companies here decades ago well given . to them we've got in the u.k. in my people. my mind you destroy the eco and the poor system over people for life and then you go to courts. a year ago the all garley in the smaller community took royal dutch shell to court in london where it has its headquarters there seeking compensation and action to clean up the damage arguing nigerian courts are too slow and often corrupt but judges ruled the case should be heard in the nigerian justice system the company also insists recent problems were caused by pipelines being sabotaged on t

it may take more than bullets and bombs and nigeria to eliminate. the training iraqi capital it's about as close observer force it on a ship of. lettuce cocoa butter cup of tea you. can fuck over. our western half of it. frankly i believe that becoming. because initially all the pop are aimed. the army is held accountable as an institution i'm going to show us all individually x.p. to be making music videos and want you to give us i hope you are caught. on to justice is gold. but from the easy to inside we can use easiest to have to be held to account and dental because me it's a bitch of the police to have to be able to account. i don't see. knowledge is the key we've got to understand where the connections are and why that narrative resonates so much with young people because a lot of people that do join these groups start out when they young. we've got a provide alternative platform for youth it's not enough to say as a state well i'm going to provide you with an education a state has to be responsible for a lot more you've got to provide a child

nigeria's president mahmoud barry called the attack a very cruel and pledged to secure the state. capital. the attack came as washing clothes were gathering for early morning prayers movie itself has been relatively calm since its occupation by boko haram and later they were chased after one month stay in the city so the city it's obvious not far away from the boundary with bloodlust at the epicenter of book insurgency we've seen in the last few weeks or so how what are the fighters from the forest the seventy supporters have invaded communities like medically like. the headquarters of medical itself and have killed a lot of people they attempted in the last one week particularly to retake the town but was repealed by the military so a lot of people still believe that fighters belonging to boko haram although the group has not claimed responsibility have infiltrated communities that are not far away from the boundary with both in the state so we probably will see the rise in the number of people who died or who will die because of the severity of injuries to sustain in the early m

that's because you know the people affected by shells operations in nigeria including the spills and and these human rights violations in the ninety's feel that they can't find justice in nigeria so they're forced to come here i mean actually you know lawyers for those communities are appealing that decision you know. you know we feel that you know not only do those victims deserve justice and if they can't find it in nigeria then they have an absolute right to come in and seek to find it here in the u.k. or or the netherlands but also the documents that we have gone through demonstrate that executives at shell's headquarters here in london and in the hague were aware of what was happening in nigeria and this isn't just something that concerns shell's nigerian subsidiary which is what the company always wants to say right this is something that concerned group headquarters ok thank you very much for speaking to us mark dummett from amnesty international joining us there from london thank you for your time ok valleys international airport is closed for a second day as mount are going

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breaking news coming from nigeria from the northeast of the country a suicide bombers killed at least fifteen people in the adam hour state police are saying that it said it was a teenage bomber who targeted a mosque as people were arriving for their morning prayers and there's been no claim of responsibility for this attack as yet that this is an area in which boko haram often carries out attacks this is of course the northeast of nigeria so a suicide bomber having killed at least fifteen people in adam our state where is saying it will go to nigeria a little bit later on in the program for some other news but also coming up the oil producing region on a court case. one of the heaviest rain that you may have heard about in vietnam is easing there are still some pretty big tropical showers around. this for example in borneo. it is as a lot more than the market of an average tropical shower and that's where the heaviest ones are this line slowly drift westwards takes it toward singapore and sumatra has been some heavy rain recently that the skies of vietnam are relatively clear now you

suffering too much from the effects of climate change like so many people around the world like here in nigeria we are so the feeling a bit of the impact now but let's look at what we have lined up on the show today. we show you how women in senegal are fighting against costly russian caused by climate change. when we were young environmental activists at the climate change conference in june. and we are there when hundreds of water banks are resettled in south africa with the help from helicopters i don't know how. but for the world we had to set a goal to meet women who have to fight hard to make a change that for all is still salty and it's hard to draw any crops that's why they took that this to me in their own hands let's take a look at how the tried to tackle a bad situation. he runs a women's cooperative they are planting a special kind of grass and eucalyptus saplings in order to desalinate the soil local foresters are also involved in that it hasn't been possible to grow crops here for two decades the ground is just too salty. when i was a child we grew our own rice here and. we never

nigeria's drowned daughters as a tell investigators worked to identify twenty six women dumped in the mediterranean we traveled to nigeria to me anxious families who believe their children were victims of people to the us. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show a night of unrest in zimbabwe with military vehicles out on the streets and explosions reported in the capital harare but the army says it's not a coup they're calling it a targeted assault on criminals around president robert mugabe promising hill is safe now the army has taken over the state broadcaster and reports indicate soldiers and tanks are blocking access to parliament this after ism bob boys military chief had warned the army could step in to calm tensions over mugabe's possible successor. while in a statement on national t.v. the army denied speculation that the ongoing military operation was a coup you situation in our country has moved to another level. we wish to assure the nation that he is excellent to the president of the republic of zimbabwe and commander in chief of these him up with different force

from nigeria hello india and how is it going on the other side of the continent everything's fine on this side of the continent so i want to hello everyone and welcome to the show i mean no show well in southwestern nigeria and we do have some exciting new stories on the environment from africa and europe for you here is how we have the more lined up. we get close to lions in uganda and find out the best ways to protect them. in tunisia we visit companies are want to reduce the overall energy consumption in the country. and in kenya we meet people who are making charcoal from human waste. will begin this week's program in north africa industry into musea is an image. up more than a flood of the country's entire energy supply the energy is not cleave coming mostly from fossil fuels such as oil and liquefied petroleum gas now companies in the country implementing measures to become more energy efficient in order to reduce greenhouse gases at the same time this process is supposed to create new jobs report i had a look to see what is possible. this industrial zone in tunis is home to a

the homeland of the only people who saw the nigeria is calm now but the old reach delta has a history of murder rape. and oil pollution and rest against foreign energy companies in the early one nine hundred ninety s. give rise to activism. the resistance campaign led by the playwright can solder we were provoked a crackdown by nigeria's former military government i'm just international says evidence points to complicity by the giant energy company royal dutch shell. horrific crimes including. rape and the destruction of villages these were carried out by members of the nigerian military but the internal shell documents show that throughout this period the company was encouraging. the nigerian military government and the military units involved to take action against these protesters even after the company. what was likely to happen so i know we were along with nine others were hanged in one thousand nine hundred. from then on fighters rebeled against the government lawyer. who worked with santa we were there of course one of the moments and government forces attacked his community my

europe who are fighting for better climates my name is sharon mo money and with me as my colleague in nigeria hello there my name is now a way and i hope you aren't suffering too much from the effects of climate change like so many people around the world like here in nigeria we actually feeling a bit of the impact now but let's look at what we have lined up on the show today. we show you how women in senegal are fighting against coastal devotion caused by climate change. when we were young environmental activists at the climate change conference in june. we are there when hundreds of water backs resettled in south africa with the help of trucks helicopters and i don't know how. but fuck the world we had to set a goal to meet women who have to fight hard to make a change that for oil is still salty and it's hard to draw any crops that's why they took that destiny in their own hands let's take a look at how the tried to tackle a bad situation. he runs a women's cooperative they're planting a special kind of grass and eucalyptus saplings in order to desalinate the soil local foresters are also

i grew up on the campus of the university of nigeria. in a small town in southeastern nigeria. it spread across undulating grounds, houses on tree lined streets. well tended hedges, it was a slow, small and lovely place. it's decline would come, starting with military dictatorship that stopped funding education. but my childhood in the early 1980s, was the last gasp of the universities sparkling age. at the main entrance of campus was a large gate.with security guards in uniform complete with berets. many of them, elderly men with gentle demeanor. and before each car drove through, the driver stopped. got out of the car and opened the trunk. the word trunk is an american concession. [laughter] >> when brought the age of about 11 or 12, my mother and father let me itcome out and open the trunk. it felt like a rite of passage to adulthood to responsibility. but checking cars as they drove in and out of campus, was really a simple of specialness. it said the campus was not part of the rlarger town. and it was not. it was a world of its own. it had a catholic church and a pakistan

remains firm in its backing of the central government in spain also coming up a separatist leader in nigeria disappears without a trace supporters of nom de koninck say he has not been seen since the military raided his home in september members of his family now fear the worst. and this may look like just another record time but it isn't well explained why this is different and why it is under threat. i'm sorry so much got to thank you for joining us dismissed leader carlos push to ma says he will fight to extradition from belgium if a judge in spain issues a warrant for his arrest as is expected later today the judge jailed nine members of the dismissed cattle on government yesterday one has since been released now puts them all wants to internationalize the issue but the e.u. says this is a domestic matter the crisis is also dividing opinion on the streets of barcelona. in catalonia one story continues to dominate and on the ground the jailing of its former leaders and an arrest warrant for it to abscond the president is splitting opinion. it's a joke from someone who has fled the conflic

in the uk or the us floor plan finances is a $13 billion market in the us and in nigeria, for example, dealers are scrappy and entrepreneurial and sleazy because sometimes they don't have the accesses to financing opportunities. if you build a market place they can we can bring financial inclusion and then you bring trust to the market and make the dealers trustworthy. you call some of them sleazy. that could be an under statement because we are talking about organised crime. you are treading in fairly dangerous water, aren't you? well, the first check we do on any single vehicle is a stolen vehicle, we check every level of fraud. do they have the databases in nigh gatheria? they do. it takes a lot of time to plug into them. we get, we are getting obsessed over here about issues about diesel though and the difficulty of shifting diesel cars. iam presuming difficulty of shifting diesel cars. i am presuming in difficulty of shifting diesel cars. iam presuming in most difficulty of shifting diesel cars. i am presuming in most emerging markets, that's not an equation for you at all, is it

in nigeria and we do have some exciting news stories on the environment from africa and europe for you here's how we have them all lined up. we get close to lions in uganda and find out the best ways to protect them. into michaud we visit companies i want to reduce the overall energy consumption in the country. and in kenya we meet people making charcoal from human waste. we begin this week's program in north africa industry into me. one of them a flood of the country's entire energy supply. is logically coming from fossil fuels such as oil and liquefied petroleum gas now companies in the country implementing measures to become what energy efficient in order to reduce greenhouse gases at the same time this process is supposed to create new jobs report i had a look to see what is possible. this industrial zone in tunis is home to a number of innovative companies. since twenty fifteen the tunisian government has been expanding its commitment to environmental technology. is just a year and a half old and already has a workforce of thirty the company makes every day dumps which are cleaner

by the way but the fact of the matter is that nigeria has long been. the route for people who are looking for greener pastures so-called green apos just in europe we've known people from different parts of this country and even from neighboring countries like west african countries like togo being the public who come into this country and then they move up north then use a very porous border on the nigerian border nigeria chad border and all of these and that's why they move in tunisia from the you know they move to the northern part of me i get is and on to libya and these people are actually most of them we can say the government official told me that most of them actually economic migrants not people impacted by wall by political crisis oh what have you but duckies the situation right now in nigeria what we have in the northeast of the of the country is that most of these people displaced bible koran fighting largely in the internally displaced persons camp or in other internally displaced persons camp across the border in come rule. and child so th

the resurgence of the bee after a movement on its aspiration for independence in nigeria the minute she views the movement as a threat that supporters feet as a bid for freedom. gaffer non-busy says joins us on ten years after it launched the game changing i phone apple has released the most recent model of its series how do you have that story that's right in the computer giant is moving from strength to strength profits hits ten point seven billion u.s. dollars in the last quarter and many are predicting that the i phone ten will break sales record as well even though at nearly a thousand dollars for the cheapest version it's not exactly well cheap. the images are practically identical all over the world there's a countdown customers burst in when the doors finally open like here in tokyo they put down a pile of money and leave like this student euphoric. i think i want to go home and get some rest and then enjoy the phone. the latest i phone has an edge to edge display and uses facial recognition technology. but otherwise it doesn't seem to be the huge technological leap forward that

correspondent young philip schultz in lagos nigeria thank you. now love them or hate them truffle are one of the most expensive foods in the world but why is that we went truffle hunting ourselves and visited the annual truffle fair in alba in italy where you can find out all you need to know about the famously ugly fungus. the white truffle the king of all foods. at the truffle market in the initial east piedmont region the center of this rare chuba delights people from all over the world. yes. i do ok yeah it's a very distinct a.s.d. i did love to hate it when there were. often. smell from cities and british people that don't want to be shameless but i want more of it if only it weren't so expensive and this is a toy of a. model kind of born a from alda is a regular visitor to the market during the white truffle harvest season. he's a fantastic from alien and emotional and every now for they say they'd be frank and it's very funny very amazing to go around and it up when i get there and it is man made the point that point that oh don't even mac

and an increasing number of children a dying of pollution related illnesses in nigeria so ports being done about it. first to spain where the fallout of a cash declaration of independence has led to eight for my catalan cabinet members being sent to jail another is being held pending a fifty eight thousand dollars bail payment the region's deposed leader card is bridged among remains in brussels but prosecutors are seeking a european arrest warrant for him to abdul hamid reports now from madrid. protests in the capital capital barcelona in support of the regional leadership summoned to face justice in madrid i feel very very very sad and sudden there's always ends with anger but first of all i. know we don't deserve neither spaniards nine of the fourteen members of the ousted regional government arrived at the court not knowing if they would walk out free. the catherine deposed president remained in belgium in defiance of the court order his lawyer says he is still willing to cooperate with justice but from overseas if they are they will do that. justice with the. spinning. belgium or

a teenage suicide bomber targets a mosque in northeastern nigeria killing at least fifty people. accused of subjecting it's written to what's described as a vicious system of apartheid. syrian president bashar assad makes flying visit to russia thanking the christian for his words saving his country. with the sports news exactly five years until the football world cup. confident it will be a success. began with extraordinary scenes in zimbabwe where the president robert mugabe has resigned after thirty seven years in power. go into the streets of harare to celebrate after the speaker of parliament went out resignation. announcement came out a days of pressure on the following a military intervention impeachment proceedings against mugabe have now been dropped. let's bring in our correspondent. on the streets of harare average. to return to the events of the day what do you think is going to happen next and who do you think will succeed. mugabe. most of all we know is going to be an innocent man and what we will see as the heir apparent in. the hierarchy of the readings on a party

that's what we hear only it's true we hear headlines but i don't think that the islamist forces in nigeria are gathering forces this is not going to be settled by military action it has to be settled by making. all of the country engages in growth but that growth is a spread across the country and that you offer the people that the poor people particularly in the northeast you offer them something that the islamists cannot offer them and that is a share in the potential growth of the future of the country that you are for believing david cameron and the british bombardment of a northern africa libya do you think african union countries are going to look good kindly to british investment and trade opportunities what i can tell you that is that britain and british opportunities are absolutely loved in in guy jerry it's a great place to to to go into and to do business the flights are always crowded you probably want to get a seat on one if you want to go there this week and it shows the enormous amount of mutual activity that there is between britain and nigeria how confident are you that th

increasing number of children a dying of pollution related illnesses in nigeria so what's being done about it. begin in spain where eight ministers from catalonia has dissolved government be held in custody pending an investigation and possible trial over last week's declaration of independence prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for the region's deposed leader karla's preacherman remains in brussels with four of his ex cabinet ministers his lawyer has said he'll cooperate with the courts the national court in madrid question members of the now dissolved catalan government including which demands deputy possible rebellion charges at the same time a parallel supreme court session involving six catalan politicians has been suspended for a week. high court in madrid or what happens next with. still waiting to hear from george carman. from what we understand most probably there's going to be a european warrant issued against. and of for. ministers who are with him currently in belgium. we haven't. it hasn't been issued. earlier she did say however that she was she was compelled to.

he visited nigeria three times, carrying out work for a charity he started. called mission for vision. i find it shocks to believe that for someone who has gone out to do good in a community, overseas, that that action has cost him dearly, cost him his life. this time he and an optometrist came to work ina time he and an optometrist came to work in a clinic set up by missionary, it is the only medical facile any the area and for now it is closed. if you can look round we are sleepless. the doctor and, we are sleepless. the doctor and, we are very happy that because if you look, there is no government hospital in this community. this is the only source of medical treatment, you understand. the donovans were planning hundreds of cataract operations injanuary, but a criminal gang had other ideas. many in the middle of the night armed men broke into this house, they broke through this door, and they broke through this door, and they took their hostages away by boat. they took them deep into the creek. in the main suspect are a group called the cara way, they are

although nigeria has more of the strongest economies in africa over sixty percent of its population live in poverty. according to the united nations more than two thousand six hundred people have died on the mediterranean sea this year one of the main countries of origin is nigeria the government has promised to fight human trafficking gangs and to give people a perspective but so far it hasn't lived up to the people's expectations. the government of course has a different take on all this. the mass exodus of nigerian youth has less to do with the quality of life it says and more to do with the lies being told by human traffickers. most of this that have. made it through travel food is that most of that even graduates if not. more more green are. over though not embark on such a dangerous journey it's so poverty the way that i can outsource. john only coo isn't really interested in a political debate after his daughter disappeared he started working evenings as a taxi driver to make some extra money he may need it if he has to he will travel to libya himself to look for his daughter. now

there are only a few thousand real monkeys left in the wild the habitats in nigeria's forests have been largely destroyed leaving the monkeys with nowhere to go and adding to their plight of. being poached however a nature preserve in the mountains is providing them sanctuary and in the last few years a breeding program is helping the species to recover. he's not just any primate he's a clan chief and by now good friends with innocence attacking his war just as rescued over six hundred drill monkeys and brought them to this center in southern nigeria many of them were previously held captive inspects others as all fronts whose parents were hunted for bush meat it tackle is the terminal to stop them from dying out what i love. that they are you and they are found only here and if we don't walk passionate me with animals then the extent and the possibility of this extent i think i would prefer to die than seeing these unmasked going. to happen to other drills is shrinking there they'll eat anything including fruits like papaya for example. keeping them in food is hard work and conversely

we thank you for giving us an update from a booth in nigeria and let me just tell you what we're getting here on our social media feeds because a lot of people sending in the question where is the african union and mamadou are saying to us on facebook what action can the international community take another viewer saying where is the arab league they're all keeping quiet about the situation going on in libya but what we know is happening right now as we speak in fact is that's a special session that's being held at the u.n. security council in new york so we're monitoring that and will let you know what's comments or perhaps action they may or may not come up with for now the reveal has also been monitoring this conversation online and you know i'm getting a lot of reaction here soon you're getting the same thing as well huge it's worldwide right now daryn but also hashtags like end slavery for our brothers and black lives matter is getting a lot of traction right now with same says imagine migrating to a country for a better life only to be kidnapped and sold into slavery and then added

i grew up on the campus of the university of nigeria, a small town in southeastern nigeria. the campus was spread across undulating grounds, houses on tree-lined streets, red dust, well-tended hedges. it was a slow, small, and lovely place. its decline would come starting with military dictatorship that stopped funding education, but my childhood in the early 1980s was the last gasp of the university's sparkling age. at the main entrance of camp put was large gate with security guards in uniforms, complete with berets. many of them elderly men with gentle demeanors and before each car drove through, the driver stopped, got out of the car and open the trunk, or boot, as we called it. the word "trunk" is an american concession. when as perhaps the age of about 11 or 12 my mother or father let me come out and open the trunk, it felt like a rite of passage to adulthood, to responsibility, but checking cars as they drove in and out of campus, was really a specialness, set the campus was not part of the larger town, it and was not. it was a world of its own. had a catholic church

the group was providing free health care — in nigeria's delta state. the families of those released have expressed their relief. we'll have the latest from cambridgeshire — the home county of two of the former hostages. the other main stories on bbc news at 5. priti patel — the international development secretary — has apologised after admitting meeting the israeli prime minister and others — while on an unofficial visit to israel. leaked papers reveal three actors from the bbc show — mrs brown's boys — transferred over two million pounds into an offshore tax avoidance scheme — but it wasn't illegal. flags at half mast across the united states — after yesterday's mass shooting in texas, in which 26 people died. all party leaders meet to discuss the westminster sexual harassment allegations. we'll have the latest. it's five o'clock. our main story is that the foreign office has confirmed that a british missionary — who was kidnapped in nigeria — has been killed. ian squire was seized by gunmen last month. three other british hostages

what is the general security situation that the mother in northeastern nigeria. well basically attacks encounter on the rise in the northeast the military has stepped up its operations. and in the air in the past two weeks they have claimed several successes against book autumn fighters but also responding in its own way they have. in the northeast of nigeria killing civilians and soldiers alike and they also claimed in one particular video released recently but they have taken some. military convoy but the military is also saying that it has a lot of quite. attacked and destroyed several of the camps they have noticed so the fight is still ongoing it's difficult to say at the moment. what is exactly on the ground but the military said its operation is continuing i'm not quite i mean when it started when i had many thanks indeed al jazeera is out address there live in lagos. a weather update next here on al-jazeera then president trump has found an ally in saudi arabia's crown prince but some u.s. foreign policy experts wonder if the prince has taken on too much

teenage suicide bomber kills at least fifty people in a mosque in northeast nigeria. in march accused of subjecting its ranger to what is described as a vicious system of apartheid. welcome to the program after thirty seven years in power well but mugabe has resigned as president of zimbabwe and you sparked scenes of jubilation around the country with thousands of zimbabweans pouring into the streets with and minutes of the announcement we got he sent a letter to his and bob ways parliament as it launched proceedings to impeach him which have now been suspended. well it is here is her metasearch is in the capital harare and joins us live now hi there hiero it's been an extraordinary day it has and people are still celebrating this day they're going to try and savor this moment for as long as you can we are seeing zanu p.f. supporters opposition supporters all on the streets celebrating together they said today is not a bad which party you belong to is about getting rid of one enemy and that enemy was robert mugabe was no longer president of zimbabwe anymore. jubilatio

amnesty international on tuesdaday called for shell o be prosecuted for allegedly helplping nigeria's military to commit human rights abuses in the nineteen nineties. amnesty's report accuses shell of cooperating with and even encouraging the nigerian military to crackdown on citizens protesting shell's presence in the country's oil rich south. and are going to reports. europe's largest oil and gas company accused of complicity in murder. rape and torture. amnesty international is calling for a probe into oil giant shells involvement in crimes committed in nigeria in the nineteen nineties. the rights group who statement is based on extensive research including some of shell's internal documents and witness statements. now says they have recovered enough information to justify a criminal investigation. show has categorically denied the allegations. the ogoni land region in southeastern nigeria experience mass protests against poverty and oil pollution in the eaearly ninineteen nineties. does and military government responded w with a deadlyly crackdown. in total some one thousand peopl

i witnesses say security forces stormed his house and salt is done nigeria in september he has not been seen since the army says he fled but this man believes he was killed which in it will be the case a member of the separatist i p o v the indigenous people off be upfront he has been on guard at his leader cells since it was raided and kano himself disappeared. this is from doug joyce hsiang did do that just sort of idea that we had it so this shouldn't take you so most of us well sort of i would like someone like me out of the way some of the separatists from what they believe was a military operation because that's twenty people were killed after the brother of the missing separatist leader. after many unsuccessful attempts to protect and he agreed to meet us he says the actions of the nigerian military has made to the i.p.o. be even more determined to carry on. asking for a friend of his not asking for. one to three people on don't open achieve that is to reference them. and that's what made us say and that's what everybody believes in today the government has rejected the separatis

news still to kill the indigenous people of the front and their move for independence from nigeria they say they're fighting for freedom but the military treats them as terrorists. well the most important central bank in the world has a new chairman get hot as i say it's been the worst kept secret in washington for months but now it's out jerome powell will be the next chairman of the us federal reserve from february pending senate confirmation so who is the man as a fed board member since twenty twelve has in the past mostly supported the policies of his predecessor janet yellen and is expected to remain cautious about raising interest rates but he will oversee efforts by the central bank to unwind its measures to stimulate the economy since the two thousand and eight financial crisis. u.s. president donald trump considered five names including current fed chair janet yellen before settling on powell who has served as a fed governor since two thousand and twelve a soft spoken centrist pals name has been circulated as the top contender for over a week i'm both honored and humbled by thi

europe who are fighting for a better climate my name is sharon mo money and with me as my colleague in nigeria hello there my name is now it's a way and i hope you aren't suffering too much from the effects of climate change like so many people around the world like here in nigeria we actually feeling a bit of the impact now but let's look at what we have lined up on the show today. we show you how women in senegal are fighting against coastal erosion caused by climate change. when we were young environmental activists at the climate change conference in june. and we are there when hundreds of water banks are resettled in south africa with the help of trucks helicopters and a lot of know how. but first the world we had to set a goal to meet women who have to fight hard to make a change that is to. salty and it's hard to draw any crops that's why they took that this to me in their own hands let's take a look at how the tried to tackle a bad situation. he runs a women's cooperative they are planting a special kind of grass and eucalyptus saplings in order to desalinate the soil local foresters a

italian investigators a work to identify twenty six women dumped in the mediterranean we traveled to nigeria to meet anxious families who believed their children were victims of people traffickers. hello and welcome i'm with that she. zimbabwe is in the grip of political turmoil after the army took to the capital streets seize control of parliament and state television president robert mugabe has told a neighboring south africa that he is under house arrest but unharmed the army says this is not a takeover but a corrective measure the military intervention comes amid a power struggle to succeed ninety three year old mugabe the soldiers took over a national television station to say it wasn't a coup to both our people and the world beyond our borders we wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military or of. what this man would fence forces is doing is to pacify a degenerate in political social and economic situation in our country which if not addressed made use it in your own it com. but with tanks and military vehicles blocking off parliament and government buildings in the cap

also coming up a separatist leader in nigeria disappears without a trace supporters of nom de khan who says he has not been seen since the military raided his home in september members of his family now fear the worst. plus working out the nuts and bolts of climate change more than twenty thousand delegates are gathering in bomb to figure out how to make the paris climate accord work. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us dismiss catalan leader the law says he will fight extradition from belgium is a judge in spain issues a warrant for his arrest as is expected later today the judge jailed nine members of the dismissed catalan government yesterday one has since been released first of all is keen to internationalize the issue but so far the e.u. says it's a domestic matter the crisis is also dividing opinion on the streets of barcelona. in catalonia one story continues to dominate and on the ground the jailing of its former leaders and an arrest warrant for it to abscond the president is splitting opinion. when i start another it's a joke from someone who has fled the confl

girls in chibok in northeastern nigeria the kidnapping received global condemnation. michelle obama joined the solidarity campaign to demand the release. of promised to sell them into slavery but i do not addicted to how to how. elaborate do you go on and on since the start of the insurgency the violence has resulted in more than twenty three thousand dead and over two million people displaced. to understand how the armed group has become so dangerous it is necessary to return to northeastern nigeria to the capital of the state of borno my to go to the birthplace of boko haram. here islamic law has been practiced by the muslim community since the eleventh century but the degree of its implementation has fluctuated throughout the course of history with the return of democracy in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine that people hoped for an end to widespread corruption within the elite and for fairer distribution of wealth. to bring an end to corruption in politics the muslim majority in the north of the country wanted to see islamic sharia law applied more strictly. b

in the mediterranean we traveled to nigeria to meet anxious families who believe their children were victims of people traffickers. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show a night of unrest in zimbabwe with military vehicles out on the streets and explosions reported in the capital harare but the army says it is not a coup they're calling it a tie. argot assault on criminals around president robert mugabe promising he'll be safe now the army has taken over the state broadcaster and reports indicate soldiers and tanks are blocking access to parliament now this after boys military chief had warned the army could step in to calm tensions over mugabe's possible successor. on a statement on national t.v. the army denied speculation that the ongoing military operation is a coup what these men would fins foresees is doing is too passive five. did united team political social and economic situation in our country which if not addressed made. in you by only. two members of these in what would then forces overly is console and your old pretend to have buttons with the emitted that let

discuss the protection of their interests at the time protests by the ogoni people of southeastern nigeria were taking place in response to years of oil spills which devastated their environment documents show that on october twenty ninth one thousand. ninety shell requested security protection to subdue peaceful demonstrations over the next two days police attacked an ogoni village with guns and grenades killing at least eighty people and burning almost six hundred houses well a spokesperson for shell in nigeria has provided a statement to al-jazeera saying that they've always denied in the strongest possible terms the allegations made in this tragic case it goes on to say amnesty international's allegations are false and without merit shall did not collude with the authorities to suppress community unrest and in no way encourage or advocated any act of violence in nigeria. france's president has arrived in brooklyn on the first stop of a four day africa visit he says he wants to transform france's strained relations with the continent and will give a major speech on tuesday to kick start

a spokesperson for shell in nigeria has provided a statement to al-jazeera saying we have always denied in the strongest possible terms the allegations made in this tragic case he goes on to say amnesty international's allegations are false and without merit shell did not collide with the authorities to suppress community unrest and in no way encouraged or advocated any act of violence in nigeria. now a leftist television host is on course for a surprise victory in honduras his presidential election salvador has almost a five point lead over incumbent when orlando hernandez endorses one of the poorest nations in south america and it has the highest murder rates in the world. an erupting volcano is keeping indonesians on eggshells stranding thousands of tourists the airport in bali remains shots as huge clouds of ash effect travel to and from the popular tourist destinations has natascha many. towers of volcanic ash continue to shoot into the sky over bali after more than half a century of calm experts are warning of a catastrophe on mount. explosions can be heard and felt twelve kilomet