has stepped into how is a00 people. ivory coast in cameroon have been repatriating some citizens who made the journey to libya. the sahara desert may seem lifeless, but thousands but is the source of a new life. many are heading to libya to go to europe. but the reality is many are in to go to europe. but the reality is many are in worse to go to europe. but the reality is many are in worse conditions than those left behind. human traffickers sell people for work. and as sex slaves. the chances of reaching europe are increasingly slim. the continent is losing its patients with migrants arriving at its shores. libya is now being helped to block leaving the country. some are choosing to go back home instead. around 50 ivorian ‘s and cameroon national ‘s have been repatriated. there are tales of slavery, rape and beatings in libya. as soon as you arrive in libya, the first thing happening, you are taken away unsold. our black brothers from west africa, wherever you are from. mali, senegal, any other nationality from the west. you are sold for what, for about 1000 dinars. translation

, the former president of ivory coast, who is one of the cases before you, and you are being urged by lots of influential people on the continent, former african presidents and so on, to say, look, drop the case against laurent gbagbo because, if found guilty, the country could reignite and civil war could return to ivory coast. basically, there's an argument there which is saying, please, don't necessarily putjustice above everything else. peace and stability is important. i believe we are very sensitive to that, and we have demonstrated it time and time again, to show that it's this debate of peace and justice. let's sequence justice. let's do peace and then we dojustice. i think we should bring back ourselves to a position where we know that peace and justice are not mutually exclusive. they can actually work together. this has been tested. i tell you what thabo mbeki, former president of south africa, says about the gbagbo case and 0mar al—bashir and so on, "the challenge that arises is when someone says "that the issue of justice trumps the issue of peace. "while not dismissing

emergency talks on the trading of slaves in libya. they‘re taking place at a summit in ivory coast — and african and european countries are present. it was actually meant to focus on growth and stability. but libya has dominated because of one cnn report which allegedly showed a slave auction of sub—saharan africans in libya. donald tusk is one of the most seniorfigures in the eu — and he‘s attending. we cannot accept this. we also cannot accept that narrative that it‘s africa and europe against each other. the worst we can do is to start the blame game. what we need now are common solutions and stronger cooperation to save lives, protect people, and allow them to live in dignity. the white lines on this graphic show popular migrant routes towards libya, and sometimes onward to europe. some manage to go north into italy. but some get stuck in libya. the nigerian president has said he is going to repatriate all nigerians in that situation. he said today "some nigerians were being sold like goats forfew dollars in libya." but he didn‘t give details on how he would actually get th

and he is from the ivory coast and his father died when he was ten and his mother disappeared. he was living with his grandma, and his father had a business associate from libya the kidnapped him from ivory coast and took to live with them in libya and essentially forced him to work in his house, abused him physically, he beat him, he burned him, he has got signs of physical abuse. he managed to escape, he ran down to the beach, he said it took four or five hours to make it down to the beach, he found a group of people waiting to get onto a rubber boat and he begged them if he could come with them and they said yes, come with us and he got onto the rubber boat and we rescued him 25 miles from the coast. i said, it's not your fault, all this stuff that happened, it's not your fault. his eyes were tearing, he couldn't look me in the face, he was shaking. i don't know what will happen to him next. he can't read or write, he hasn't been to school for the last five years, he's 14, he speaks a bit of french, he doesn't speak italian, he doesn't speak english. i'm worried for him. i don'

fascinating footage which shows chimpanzees in the ivory coast effectively entering the stone age — by making unique tools to help them drink water. now the weather. here is carol, it is getting colder. it is getting colder, victoria is right. some of us will see some snow. even at lower levels, but the snow. even at lower levels, but the snow is not going to be everywhere. so let's take a look first of all at today's weather forecast. what we haveis today's weather forecast. what we have is a bright start in the east with sunshine. variable amounts of cloud. some showers, but a weather front coming in from the west will introduce rain. the rain is not particularly heavy and as the whole system drifts towards the east, if anything, the rain will become patchier and more drizzly. by the afternoon it will well and truly have cleared northern ireland. bright skies and variable amounts of cloud and still a few showers across western scotland, but a lot of dry weather across scotland, although in the northern isles, under the influence of the weather front, there will be patchy rain. we're