mom. brazil's dance with the devil. the show may be over but the conversation continues on our website aljazeera.com/considerthis. you can find us on twitter @ajconsiderthis. we'll see you next time. illustrusillustrus hi everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. massacre in nigeria - a new wave of violence from boko haram. the same group that kidnapped hundreds of school girls. tonight, what you don't know about boko haram. google spy - the story that al jazeera america broke about the search engine, the n.s.a. and emails that revealed a close relationship. beverly hills standoff, a famous luxury hotel and a big-star baltle over strict --

battle over strict islamic law. actress frances fisher who is leading the protest joins us live virtual revolution. the cosmos, for the first time, mapped by a computer. science and technology correspondent jacob ward shows us the inter-galactic tour. an act of terrorism, that's is what hillary clinton called the abduct of the 276 school girls in nigeria. they were taken from their rooms nearly a month ago, seized by boko haram, a group that has waged a brutal war against the government, killing christians and muslims. this week boko haram surfaced again. their fighters are blamed for a massacre that left hundreds dead. the attack unfolded under 12 hours at a village in the state of borno. ynonne ndedge is in a village

with the story. >> reporter: this is the carnage caused by the nige ear jan group boko haram from attacks in the north-east. reports that they killed hundreds in gamboru, and borno on monday will worry many. residents say that masked men raided the village and started firing. >> anyone sighted in that area were shot and killed. later they moved to the city, and they went down the shops. 500 vehicles were burnt. according to the residents, they told me not less than 300 people died. >> the reports may fuel public anger among concerned nigerians, about the federal government's failure to kerb attacks by the group. the nigerians marched to the officers of the head of the army on tuesday, the capital abuja, to protest the failure. the united states implied that

nigea was offered help but rejected it. >> nigeria's minister says it's not true. >> specifically i wouldn't say that i know of specific offers made and rejected. i can say this. in the beginning, the urgency, and sometimes in other states were seen as local uprisings, that we are within our security outlook to be able to contend. >> state officials say boko haram is attacking the area on almost a daily basis. the federal government says the group will be contained with international help. >> it's unfair for the government to say that we have somehow resisted assistance from the international community.

all the way, the government of nigeria had assistance and cooperation and support of the international community. >> the nigerian military responsible for security has not commented on the attack. news of the violence is likely to increase pressure on the government to get international assistance to deal with boko haram faster. and we'll have more on the missing girls and the violence in nigeria later. our special report "what you don't know about boko haram," 11:30, 8:30 pacific time. there's conflicting claims along the president's reaction to troops on the border. he says that he has pulled back troops. the white house and n.a.t.o. say there's no evidence to for that. pro-russian rebels have been asked to postpone votes on

autonomy. it's unclear whether they'll agree. now to a story getting a lot of attention, one that al jazeera america broke this week. the new revelations on how closely tech giant google is working with the n.s.a. richelle carey is following the story. >> ever since edward snowden's leaks about domestic surveillance, google says it only cop rates with the government. but there's an email between the director-general and google's executive, dated years before edward snowden's leaks. in one alexander invited schmitt to a classified briefing. part of a project to coordinate government/industry actions on important generally classified security issues that couldn't be solved by individual actors alone. the n.s.a. said cooperation

stopped cyber attacks in the past. the leeks showed that the n.s.a. was looking for weaknesses and the company's products to help spy on americans. google representative told us:. >> and one email general alexander thanked google for its help and work critical to the nation's progress against cyber threats. >> revealing emails. >> interesting stuff. >> thank you. nate cardozo is an attorney from the electronic frontier foundation and joins us from san francisco. what do you make of the emails? >> this email shows a couple of things. they are not surprising in one sense. we have known that one of the goals of the n.s.a. was to help american companies secure their networks from foreign threats, and that's what the n.s.a. was

nominally doing when they met in 2012. at the same time the n.s.a. was hacking into google's - the very same network of google that it was trying to secure from the chinese. the n.s.a. was doing its own hacking into the networks. it's disturbing. google had a relationship with n.s.a. to prevent any sort of attack on the united states and sort of try to figure out what was going on there. at the same time by having the relationship and allowing something to go on between the n.s.a. and google, did they open a backdoor inadvertently to the n.s.a.? >> seems like they might have. one of the things that n.s.a. is supposed to do is keep american networks secure. it turns out that they were also sometimes maybe holding some of the level vulnerabilities in the same network close to their chest so only n.s.a. could exploit them. that is not a good way of

fostering trust between silicon valley and the n.s.a. we hope, as americans, that n.s.a. and silicon valley had a good trusting relationship so when the n.s.a. went to silicon valley to secure american networks, that that's all they were doing of the the emails showed maybe they were doing a little more than securing the google networks. >> would you assume based on the emails that there's a trust in the beginning. does it exist any more? >> that trust is shattered, absolutely shattered. >> what we here from the companies is google, facebook, microsoft, yahoo. all the companies are re-examining the relationship. it's not good for the company, the n.s.a. or national security. really, why was one agency hacking into the same networks they were trying to secure. it's a contradiction.

>> they call it cobra. >> we don't know, we have heard evil olive, muscular - anything in all caps is as good as mine. >> we talk about a relationship that you suggest needs to happen with these organizations, companies, and the n.s.a. what would that look like in a perfect world? >> in a perfect world, google could - in the aftermath of chinese or iranian attack, google could innovate the n.s.a. in, secure, with the trust that the n.s.a. was working on behalf of google and google users. google should not have to worry about n.s.a. at the same time that they are secure the network, looking for a back door. it should be a relationship of

trust. security experts can be called in to exercise the skills they have, and help google out when necessary. >> good to have you on the programme. thanks for explaining this. >> thanks for having me federal drug agents staged a raid on the synthetic drug business, arrest warrants were served in 28 states. natasha ghoneim tells us why the pressure is on to take them off the streets. >> synthetic drugs have been a staple of the clubbing scene. the most popular are k2, spice and bath salts. the amphetamine drugs are made in asia, sold in stores, in packetslike that, as herbal incense or pop peri. >> patients come in psychotic, difficult to control, have to be intubated and put on life support to control them. >> according to a federal

government report, between 2010 and 2011 visits to emergency rooms due to synthetic drug combinations doubled to 28,500. one of the so-called designer drugs, synthetic marijuana is popular among young people. according to a university of michigan study one in nine high school seniors used it in 2012, putting it below marijuana. dr randy katz is the e.r. director at regional memorial hospital in hollywood florida, and he says the danger is no one knows how the combination of compound cooked in a lap will affect the body. on top of that. each time a product is banned, the makers modify the recipe, change the fame and back on the market it goes. >> the drugs are unknown and the deo can't keep up with the number of compounds outside there. some are not listed as

uncontrolled substances. >> police use a law to allow the drugs to be categorised as controlled substances. drug enforcement agents have been raiding businesses, warehouses and homes, seizing drugs and arresting people. on wednesday agents conducted raids no 28 states. the deo says progresses are rising as agencies across the country adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of the designer drug industry. a new controversy involving u.s. border patrol agents. out of hundreds of complaints highlighted in a new reports, only a few agents were punished, according to information released by the american immigration council. the claims fall within the 3-year period between 2009 and 2012. paul beban reports. >> well, this report comes out from the american immigration

council. they are a washington d.c. based advocacy group. what they found paints a picture of a culture of impunity. the title of the report, you can see here, is no action taken. what they found is startling. 40% of the cases are under investigation. that is three years. some three years old. the other 60%, the ones that the border patrol processed, no action taken 97% of the time. 58.3%. they have a substantial rate of 0.1%. that is one single agent suspended during that period of time for excessive use of force, bringing us to the kinds of allegations. most of them were for excessive use of force or physical abuse. these ranged from beating people with flashlights, stomping on people, hitting a pregnant woman in the stomach, the allegation being that she miscarried. another, forcing children to

sign documents they didn't understand. the border patrol issued a statement in response: again, you see, rarely does disciplinary action result from any of these cases. critics say the border control needs to reform, and better trained agents. again, a long way to go before critics and the border patrol are in line on proper procedure in dealing with allegations of abuse. >> paul beban in denver. al jazeera's original series "borderland" follows six americans retracing the footsteps of three immigrants who died, attempting to cross the border from mexico. >> i had no idea that mothers and children were risking their lives. this takes guts. >> i'm really pissed off at the mexican government. they are funnelling thousands of people a week up to our borders.

>> in tonight's final episode they attempt the same journey that was fatal to thousands of migran migrants. stick around for "borderland." coming up at the top of the hour. >> now to an issue we have been following. train safety, the transportation department issued an emergency order demanding all rail roads to identify routes for trains carrying more than a million gallons of oil. there has been nine oil train derailments in the u.s. and canada since last year. next - into the cosmos. an evolution simulation. the stunning computer images. jacob ward tells us what they reveal. plus, a beverly hills boycott. why some of the biggest celebrities want you to check out of two tabled hotels. actress frances fisher joins us - coming up next.

a small country halfway around the world is implementing islamic law, causing a reaction in the united states. it's where the sultan of brunei owns a chain of hotels. and hollywood is calling a boycott. >> the beverly hills, called the pink palace has been an iconic playground for the rich and famous.

until news broke that brunei was adopting new codes, no one gave thought to what who owned it or the hotel bel-air. now both hotels owned by brunei are the backdrop for a hollywood backlash against brunei's new laws. among them death by stoning for people convicted of adultery and homosexuality. >> we are here to take a stand against the sultan of brunei and their barbaric policies. >> berlin, 1933 - hello, does it seem far off to what happened during the holocaust. >> organizers cancelled a number of high-profile industry events at the beverly hills, and protesters are calling for a boycott of the dorchester collection of luxury hotels tone owned by the subtle -- hotels owned by the subtle jp of

brunei. >> there's a great sense of power, money, influence. i think that once you get the major protesters out there, there's no retreat. >> forbes estimates the sultan of brunei is worth $20 billion, so it's unlikely a hotel boycott would hurt him, but the public outcry speaks to a larger phenomenon. what happens globally point to a phenomenon. >> as long as we have people finding the policies offensive or reprehensible against local culture, you'll have an impact. >> no one will set foot in that damned hotel. >> the c.e.o. of the dorchester collection did not comment on the implementation of brunei's laws, but said it will hurt the

workers. >> your shirt probably comes from a country with human rights issues. again, to single out the beverly hills, the dorchester collection, our employees, i feel is unjust. >> the beverly hills city council stopped short of calling for a boycott but in a resolution passed tuesday, council members condemned the laws and called on the sultan to . >> one of those stars, frances fisher, has been advocating for the boycott and joins us from los angeles. welcome. >> hi there. >> what was your reaction to the c.e.o. for dorchester? >> well, you know, there'll be some pushback, and i understand that, you know, the employees are like the clippers, caught in the middle. this can be resolved if everyone takes a stand and boycotts the

hotel. the mpps pulled the night before the oscars party. the beverly hills bar association pulled their event. there has been numerous organizations pulling out. i don't think not just an economic thing, it's an embarrassing thing. it's something that will not look well for the sultan. >> i can see from your t-shirt that you are interested in politics. can i ask you first how you got involved in the protest. >> in this particular protest? >> yes. >> i've been involved with a feminist majority for a long time. when mavis reached out to go to the protests on sunday, i said yes. because, you know, their event was sunday night. they are a women's and humanitarian movement. and it is - it would be a contribution to go and have their event at that hotel when

brunei has just been put under shahhia law. >> what do you want to happen here? >> what would i like to happen. well, i would like to see shahhia law be done away with. it made me think why in the world would the sultan do this to his country. the only thing i could come up with, after conversing with friends, is brunei is about to run out of oil in the late 2020s, and he wants to get next to the kingdom, so they are instating shahhia law, like saudi arabia is, so maybe he'll have a backup. there's onwards 400,000 who live in that country, and they have no economic power, except oil. if they run out of oil, what else will they do? >> there are other places around the world in which women suffer

under oppressive governments, do you see this as spreading. >> i hope so. there are a lot of fires to put out, definitely. >> this is the one up for us right now and the one getting media attention. i would like to see something be done about the nigerian girls who have been abducted and nobody has been able to find them, you know. >> is there a way to resolve this without them selling the hotel? >> i wouldn't know that, i mean why not sell the hotel. let an american own it. we're an institution in hollywood. we all go there. i won't be going there, i know a lot of my friends will not go to the polo lounge until this is resolved. >> it's interesting. you said let an american own it. there are american, special at

los angeles, the incident involving the clippers, sort of raising a question about whether americans believe in certain rights. >> well, you know, an enlightened american - someone who is not racist or wanting to institute shahhia law. >> let me go back to what the c.e.o. said. he talks about the folks working in the hotel, the hos keepers, the bell -- how's keepers, the bellman and the blue collar workers suggesting that you are hurting those people, not the sultan of brunei. we are talking about removing event, not about them getting fired. they still have their jobs. it's not like they are going lose their jobs. >> if the hotel can't make money they don't have enough people to run the event. >> they not only make money on the event, but make money on the people that go to the hotel, go to dinner, and frequent the hotel - not just the events.

>> i was going to say, we'll see whether or not that conditions to happen on your boycott. we are out of time. great to have you on the programme. thank you for sharing your story. we appreciate it. >> a new way to look at the universe, showing history from the big bang to present day. science and technology correspondent jacob ward explains. >> if you play video games you may have heard of eve online, set in a massive place. they've built a galaxy made up of 7, 500 star systems for gamers to explore, flying from one end of the game to another takes the better part of a day, and each world has a unique climate and experience. that game is nothing, it's a tiny speck compared to what

researchers have undertaken. they call is illustrus. it doesn't model the whole universe. all known space and matter is 10 billion light years across. they model 13 years of evolution. the cube is big enough to be representative of the rest of the universe. they can look at visible phenomena. invisible features like the disposition of dark matter. it's unknown energy binding the universe together. there's no other way to watch these things at scale. we can't step back and check it out. this simulation gives researchers god-like powers. others may have been small and details and enormous. this gets to do both.

that is what makes it hard to build. to generate the whole simulation, they required several months running inside a computer. 8,000 processors working on it. compare it to a high-end gaming computer. a big rig in which a fanatical gamer would spend online. to run the same desktop. it would have taken 2,000 years. take that, cameras. >> smart guy. jacob ward out in san francisco. next. our special special report. "what you don't know about boko haram" - the crew claiming responsibility for abducting hundreds of school girls and launching an attack on a busy marketplace.

>> we are boko haram. >> boko haram, the ruthless

radical group accused of kidnapping hundreds of school girls in nigeria, and the world outrage. >> one of the worst local or regional terror organizations. a group so frightening many refused to speak the name out loud. this violence threatens to disrupt the global economy. what do they want. how can they be stopped. not enough has been done to rescue our daughters. >> our special report. what you don't know about boko haram? >> i'm john seigenthaler in new york. boko haram - loosely translated it means american education is sinful. it's a heavily armed group of men that target western-style schools. members say they want an islamic state ruled by islamic law. the methods are cruel and vicious. the group killed 1500 this year. in the latest attack on monday,

boko haram is claimed for killing as many as 300 nigerians during a 12-hour massacre. the world paid more attention to boko haram after 276 girls were kidnapped on april 14th. experts have been sent into nigeria to find them. nigerians police offered $300,000 for any credible information leading to their rescue. boko haram is also considered to be the most serious threat to nigeria, africa's biggest economy. its strong hold is in the north-eastern borno state. the two most recent assaults took place there. the school girls were kidnapped and on monday 160 miles away a deadly market attack. according to a senator from borno, nigeria, boko haram shot everyone in sight during the market massacre. police say there could be more victims they have not found.

they kidnapped -- the kidnapped nijan school girls have been missing for three weeks. their parents say they feel abandoned by the nigerian government. al jazeera is the first news organization to visit the area whether the girls were taken. we are joined from the phone. you spoke to one of the girls who escaped. what did she say? >> well, she described their experience, how they were abducted and taken to the forest, and how some jumped from the trucks when one of the trucks broke down and made a dash for the forest. they spent days in the forest before reaching home. they spoke of how they took them and threatened to kill some of them. they managed to escape. sort of lying to the abductors.

they ran, they were chased after, and finally they made it home. >> maybe you can explain what people say about how we know so little about the girls kidnapped and how they were taken. >> well, it was - according to the girl i spoke to, the attackers came shortly after midnight. and they were walking up -- woken up from their sleep by the sound of gunfire and an explosion in the town. they came to the school and told them we are the military, we are coming to take you to safety. they put them into three trucks and started to drive away with them. bit the time they realised these were not military, it was too late for some of them, that's when some decided to jump from the cars or the trucks.

they started to put the people who came after them on truck, to chose those people into the bushes. but after three weeks, nobody was able to save the girls, except those who managed to escape from the abductors. >> all right, thank you. comfort ero is a director for the international crisis group and has been tracking boko haram closely. >> every time the group evolved, particularly when their political demands or promises made by political leaders, particularly in the north-east failed to emerge. the group and its relationship broke down in fine. you saw an uptick in violence, and various confrontations between the groups, and state security, armed forces, and you saw the group expand in terms of tactics, the style of violence that it would pursue and the

targets it would focus on. it went from police, state and security services to going after politicians and citizens. you see teachers, clerics, children, you have seen health workers. everybody now under the focus of boko haram. the group claimed to be focus or wanting shahhia law implemented throughout northern nigeria, and wanted an islamic state. we saw the group emerge into a monster, that is no longer controllable and walked away from some ideology. it's criminal enterprise that we are seeing unfolding from the north-east. it's coming further down as we saw into the federal capital of nigeria. >> those who study boko haram

say young men joined for three reasons - unemployment and poverty. man ipualation by extremist leaders and lack of awareness. and the members of boko haram have a record of violence. for more on that, here is randall pinkston. [ speaking foreign language ] . >> reporter: for more than five years boko haram's fighters used violent attacks to gain publicity - with mass killings, bombings and wanton destruction of property. it's self-proclaimed leader declared war on christians, saying his group wants to establish islamic law in nigeria. the u.s. government says abubakar shekau is a terrorist and put a $7 million reward on his head. abubakar shekau took over after the capture and ex-execution in 2009 of the founder. nigeria's government launched several military strikes against

boko haram. boko haram does not have widespread appeal. >> boko haram is a fringe movement, a terrorist group which has assassinated muslim learned men. it has terrorized communities it is a small group relatively speaking casting a large shadow. >> this months kidnapping of the school girls are recent events in a series of bold attacks on civilian and government forces. nigeria is the largest economy in africa, surpassing south africa, where christians are the majority. boko haram is based in the poverty stricken north. in 2010 boko haram engineered a prison break freeing 700 inmates. the next year it launched a suicide bombing of a united nations building in abuja, the capital. last year boko haram was accused

of murdering 65 school boys. in april, fighters targeted abuja, blowing up a bus grader killing 100 people. boko haram has a credibility problem, and so does the nigerian government. >> the biggest issue is credibility. in the mid '90s, they started out as a group that prayed on the grievance of northern nigerians. it tried to fill a gap for those not seen as credible or worthy. the nigerian government did not step up and fill the void. >> most of the boko haram's members are poverty stricken young men who crew up in society where men are in control. a reason girl's schools are targeted is because boko haram's members believe educated women are threats to male authority. >> emma woods joins us now,

tonight from washington d.c. she is the - she's with the institute for policy studies and focuses on diplomacy issues in africa. welcome. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> it's good to be with you. let me start by talking about boko haram. how sophisticated is the group when it comes to weapons, strategy and training? >> the issue is this is a fringe group that started off, elevating a decade or so ago the demands of people in northern nigia. it is a country incredibly wealthy, been exporting oil since 1956, yet the northern part of the country is underdeveloped, is impoverished. this group was extremist. they started out, you know, back in the '90s, essentially elevating real concerns. what you have between now and then is a real platform being given to and expanded by the

international community, given to boko haram, linking them with al qaeda, linking them with the designation, particularly in the u.s., designating them as a terrorist organization, expanding their megaphone, expanding the platform in which they operated. at the same time you have a steady flow of weapons into the region. while they have an arms control treaty, which the u.s. has not ratified, weapons flow to the extremist groups. you are right to ask where the weapons are coming from. i think many are asking that question, how they are able to be able to get them into the country across borders and so readily available throughout the region.

>> why can't the government of nigia stop them? >> you have a government that has africa's most powerful military force, the nigerian military partnering with the u.s. for decades, in terms of military training and advancement. it is quite skilled and equipped, yet what you have seen is that the military has also had its own issues of human rights violations, its own issues of atrocities against civilians, and there's an issue of credibility, and also an issue of really accountability when it comes to the nigerian military. so i think there are calls now for the nigerian government to do all that it can to protect human rights, to protect human dignity. of the courageous school girls that the families are anxiously awaiting news on, but also all

nigeians. that all people throughout the country should have the measure of human rights protected. of also the rule of law respected through the country. >> maybe you can help us with the question asked all along, which is how is it that 276 school girls can be kidnapped from a community, and almost vanish into thin air, and no one has any idea where they are. >> i think what you have, because of the vol till - remember the political situation in nigeria is col tile. we are going up to an election year in nigeria, and you have a number of people who are expressing discontent with the government. what you have is a situation where communities may not be as frank or - and forthcoming as they could be. where you have police, military officials that may be complicit. it's so you have a very complex

situation of collusion and of basically people not doing all that they can to protect human rights, to protect human dignity. so sad. good to have you in the programme. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> the mass kidnapping of nigeria's girls is a painful reminder. lisa stark has more on that. >> the protests are growing. the pressure is growing. to find the young nigerian school girls, teenagers whose only crime was trying to get an education. at amnesty international offices in washington d.c. they fear the girls are facing daily violence, including sexual violence. >> i'm concerned about their safety. i'm concerned about 300 girls that have been missing with no action to release them. another group, women for women international is on the ground in nigia and seven other

countries working to empower women. those they hep are rattled even they they are not in the area where they were undertain. >> devastation and frustration. it's incredibly frustrating to see this is happening and not moving quiningly and do something -- quickly and do something themselves. >> the kidnapping of many young women at the same time has caught the world's attention. >> i hope that this unfortunate incident and what is happening now can continue to open people's eyes to what women are facing around the world every day, to the violence against women and girls. >> a study released by the world health organisation found that 35% of women worldwide experienced abuse by their partner, or sexual violence by someone other than their partner. >> who calls violence against women a global health problem of

epidemic proportions. sexual violence has long gone hand in hand with conflicts and wars. in the early 1990s, after the systematic rape of tens of thousands of women in bosnia such violence became an official war crime, a crime against humanity. we have seen people taken to the international court because of their perpetration of sexual violence. 40 years ago that would not have been imaginable. >> that's a start. these groups say to end sexual violence against women requires cultural changes, education, economic opportunity and raising the status of women, no easy task in many countries. for now though, the international out cry is focussed firmly on the school girls and the efforts to find them. coming up next - wealth and corruption - the role money is

playing in the escalating violence in nigeria. and the oil paradox - nigia is a big oil producer yet its people are poorer than ever.

>> announcer: "what you don't know about boko haram," and the attacks in nigeria. >> the brutality of boko haram is overshadowing another story. investors are gathering for a world mick forum on-africa. it's an economy plagued by poverty and corruption. richelle carey is here with more heads of state from all over africa, and from the business world are arriving in abuja. as you can imagine the violence that is getting quite a lot of attention. >> after this car bombing in

abuj alast week the nigerian government pout out an appeal heading to the capital for the world economic forum - don't let terror win. those that make the trip notice that the recent attacks cast a shadow over the event. abuja is on lockdown. the nigerian government would prefer the focus to be on the economy. it's goal is to become a top 20 economy by 2020. nigeria overtook south africa as the largest economy, a change in how the gross domestic product is part of that. nigeria is the ffth largest exporter of oil. there are doubts whether the money reaches the nigerian people. corruption is a concern. watchdog group transparency international ranks as one of the corrupt countries on earth.

$20 billion in oil money is missing. poverty is widespread, especially in the north-east, a home based of the armed radical group boko haram. there 70% of the people live on less than $1 a day, compared to 50% of the south, where most is located. boko haram tries to capitalize on the sense that northerners are not getting their fair share. corruption contradicts the insurgency in the country in the sense that corruption has led to a clear dislocation of the economy. it has impoverished the people. it has destroyed industry and lives, and it has also created an atmosphere for extremism to

thrive. >> that's what the leaders have to face. >> general authorities need to realise that they need to focus on the north. nigeria is ranked among the unequalist countries. malnutrition is high in the north. inequality and violence can scare investors away, and it shows that nigeria's vulnerabilities - that that is a problem. >> david rice is a professor at new york university's global affairs department and is attending the world economic forum in abuja. he joins us early in the morning. good to have you on the programme. >> thank you. >> can you just give us a sense - this was supposed to be nigeria's shining moment, this conference. has the violence overshadowed

it? >> the world economic forum choosing nigeria to host an annual africa summit is important for the country. it coincides with the fact that the country has been determined to be the largest economy in africa, and was meant to be a celebration of the fact that nigeria has a rapidly growing economy that is quickly diversifying and has a lot of opportunity for international investors, but the conversation during the summit has been muted. the economic conversation has been muted by the national tragedy. the message that came out from the government as well as from a lot of attendees from around the world is that terrorism will not be tolerated. and the people will not shy away from nigeria and the opportunities here, and the need here simply because of an isolated incident that occurs in the northern part of the country. people are very upset. it is emotional.

it's a tragedy. but the level way to combat this situation is to create more economic opportunity for people around the country and draught sub-saharan africa. >> there are many in that country that believe the government did not move fast enough, and there's a massacre today, which apparently happened on monday, that some are saying that boko haram are responsible for. talk about security there right now. what is security like? >> well, security in the capital is tight. the city has essentially been shut down during the conference, because of those concerns. but the rest of the country is moving on. the rest of the country is functioning. as far as the government's response, i think that they are trying to balance the need to pursue the terrorist, to try to t the girls home to their families. while also not trying to tip their hand to the terrorists.

obviously they have satellite phones, they have access to television and global information. the government is trying to walk this balance between keeping the public informed about what is being done, but not revealing too much information so as to compromise their efforts to get the girls home safely. david rice, good to have you on the programme. thank you for staying up so late for us, we appreciate it. oil is a resource that can make any area wealthy. in the niger delta most people live on $1 a day. in tonight's first person report we hear from a photo journalist who spent years documenting the struggle of the communities. >> in 1958 they started to pump oil. over the last 50 plus years, nigeria is one of the top 10 oil producers. at the beginning of oil and gas in nigeria, it was a poor

country at that point. somewhat undeveloped. so oil was a - you know, a new comodd city that brought in temedz wealth. with it brought, you though, problems for the people. >> what happened in the niger delta is a classic case of something i have seen throughout most of the world where oil and gas is produced. except maybe in e gulf states. it creates tremendous wealth for the companies and the politicians, and business people who are involved in the trade, but for the local people on the ground, and quite often for the environment, it ravages them. there are many ways in which oil had a negative impact on the people of niger delta. they were fishermen. subsistence farmers and fishermen. many of the waters are degraded or, you know, the fish stocks are low. with farming a lot of land has

been taken up by the oil works, industry, or the land has been polluted. it left the people with fewer opportunities in the traditional sense of how they sfid and made a living. the oil industry has not created a lot of jobs for the local people. they are living on basically $1 a day. the average niger delton. so while they might be sitting on land that is producing billions of dollars of wealth on a yearly basis, they are receiving no benefits from that. on average there's an oil spill every day and not of the size of the bp spill in the golf of mexico, but this is a constant problem. you have infrastructure that is not only 50 years old, but it's in a place that is inhospitable. the dangers and impact of being near the oil industry hit on a number of levels. first of all, the degradation of

the land. another impact on the people is that there has been little infrastructure development. so, for instance, schools, the electricity grid. they are terribly lacking in that region. to look at a situation like the nujer delta and say "that's their problem", because the reality is that the united states takes half of all of nigeria's oil and gas. we have to realise that we are connected to the issues. that we cannot turn a blind eye and say "that's someone else's problem", that we are complicit in these stories. >> edpublished a book called "curse of the black gold", we end with this image out of nigia, a freeze frame. a moth are of a missing schoolgirl, one of the parents demanding the government do more to find her daughter. the final episode of "borderland" is next. appear

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