coming up australia accused of paying people smuggers to turn back asylum seeker vessels. the prime minister dodges the allegations former imf chief is acquitted of procuring prostitutes for sex parties and no place for young men.

the brazilian town where murder and gun fights are taking a devastating toll save the children is condemning pack stand for ordering them to leave. police have sealed its offices. the charity is accused of working against the interests of pack stand. the government previously linked it to a fake vaccination scheme used by the cia to track down osama bin ladin. >>reporter: the program was

linked to the charity. after the operation against obligatesama bin laden. the organization has been accused by the government although they say their coordination with the local government ministryies and that you will. so they're staying away from this started after the attack on osama bin laden and the organization -- since 2012 when pack stand put them on the watch list. a 2012 intelligence also -- australia's prime minister has dodged accusations that the australian navy paid people smugglers to take migrants back

to indonesian waters. migrants are reporting the australians offered the crews of their boats $5,000 to turn back. >>reporter: asylum seekers intercepted off the coast of australia. the government has introduced tough measures to stop those attempting the journey. the australian ministry is towing boats of people back to where they came from. but a new strategy is being used paying smugglers to turn back their boats. he didn't deny it. instead, he said this. >> we stop the boats being captained by crooks. that's what we've got to do. i just don't want to go into the details of how it's done because, like a lot of things

the more important agencies have to do it's necessary, difficult, and a time that i suppose it's dangerous work. >>reporter: indonesian police say migrants are reporting the migrants offered crews money to turn back last month. people who work with refugees say the government needs to come clean with the issue. >> this by hook or crook approach is an unacceptable position for a country that is signed up for the refugees convention because our government at the highest levels is showing there's no moral compass and that's not only astonishing but completely unacceptable. >>reporter: opposition is demanding an investigation to see if any laws have been broken. they also say if true this poll

say may backfire encourageing more to risk the journey to australia a french court has cleared former imf chief of aggravated pimping charges. he was accused of procuring prostitutes for sex parties. earlier, the main prosecutor in the case had called for him to be acquitted citing a lack of evidence. barny phillips has more. >>reporter: the prosecution struggled to prove that he actively organized these sex parties, and they also struggled to prove that he specifically knew that the women who took part were prostitutes and were not there on their own choice. what he said during the trial was, look it's not my morality that we should be bringing before a court. i should be charged strictly of course under french penal law.

having said that there's no doubt his reputation has taken a battering over the past four years. it's difficult to believe he could ever revive his ambitions to become the president of france again. perhaps he'll have to settle for a role in conference speaking because of his expertise is still widely respected a judge in the u.s. state of ohio has ruled there's enough evidence to charge two police officers one with murder over the killing of a 12-year-old african-american boy last year. he was waving a gun when he was shot by police in cleveland. >>reporter: thursday's decision by a cleveland judge comes just days after a group of clergy and activists used a little known law ago the court to order the arrest of the police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice last november. >> the people have decided to

take the opportunity to make the government work for them. this is not a contradiction. this is not simply applying the law that is available so that our government is responsible and available to us. >>reporter: the boy was playing with a pellet gun in a public park when two officers pulled up. the shooting caught on surveillance video. the judge released his opinion thursday stating that he found proximate cause that the officer be charged with neglect homicide and dereliction of duty. the judge also said officer lowman who fired the fatal shots should face the same charges including murder involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. >> this is more than about the law. this is about a moral obligation to speak truth to folks in power when they refuse to. it's about a moral obligation for my little nieces and nephews

who are on the streets of cleveland every day and i fear for their life. >>reporter: cleveland authorities have said that the officers mistook the weapon for a real gun. it took the sheriff's department more than six months to wrap up the investigation. the case was turned over to prosecutors last week. community leaders took advantage of an ohio law that allowed them to bypass prosecutors and go directly to the court. >> it's absolutely legal. there's a provision in ohio law that allows an average citizen to file an affidavit with any reviewing magistrate that could force them to file warrant in this case. >>reporter: the judge noted in his order, however, that his role was advisory in nature. and he did not order the arrest of the officers. the judge's opinion is now in the hands of cleveland prosecutors the attorney for the family of rice told me they're

encouraged by the results and the case is now in the hands of the district attorney. >> it's awfully -- precedent if a judge has said there's proximate cause. we all know about grand juries from the ferguson matter where michael brown and eric garner in new york that you don't know what they're going to tell a grand jury how they're going to present it so much. so this is really important that you have this precedent that a judge has found probable cause. so if it comes out different in the grand jury you got to scratch your head. the family is very encouraged by the ruling and most people around their community there in cleveland are very encouraged >> what will your team do if the prosecutor says and as you're saying that the case will now be going to the grand jury elects not to charge the police

officers? what are your -- asking for the department of justice to review this matter because it has been over six months now. it's on video. everybody sees what happened there, the question for the family and many in the community is what is taking so loss and that's why the cleveland 8, the local pastors, worked with us to present this to the court because they were very concerned about whether or not there was an attempt to sweep the death of this child under the rug. >> we're just getting breaking news out of tunisia according to reuters. an armed group has stormed the consulate in libya -- and they

have kidnapped ten staff. an armed group has stormed the consulate in libya and taken captive ten people brazil is the economic super power of south america but as its infrastructure has expanded murder rates have risen. moves and self-defense were conceived in the 1600s. they were meant to trick their owners into thinking that they were dancing but it was really about defense and resisting colonial oppression. nowadays it's about trying to

keep brazil's children alive. >> it tries to give an alternative to these children. we know our black teenagers have more chances of getting killed. but we won't give up. >>reporter: despite perception of being an integrated, fun-loving economy, murder rates are staggering and violence here as in many other parts of the world discriminate. young black men in brazil are two and a halftimes more likely to be killed in brazil than white men. for israel an activist in the north, growing up black was not only hard. it was almost virtually impossible. of his high school class of 40 half are either dead or in jail.

>> walking down the street which should be done freely in this part of brazil if you're poor and black, has an implicit curfew. you avoid certain things so as not to give anyone any motives. >>reporter: police violence is not the only reason black men die here. drug trafficking, a general lack of opportunity, and even death squads are also to blame. >> access to education is hard so it's easy for teenagers to get a position in the drug market. no professional qualification is needed. >>reporter: schools are making a positive difference. but there's a need for more effective policing and disarmerment campaigns. until then experts predict more black men will be killed robbing a nation of one of its most precious assets. virginia lopez, al jazeera, brazil after the break, how the constant threat of car bombs in

baghdad in iraq is dividing its community. s community.

the top stories on al jazeera. save the children is condemning pack stand for ordering them to leave in 15 days. australia's prime minister is -- he did say australia would

stop the boats by whatever means necessary. the former head of the international monetary fund and french presidential hopeful always denied he knew the women were sex workers it's world day against child labor and the international labor organization says there's 168 million child workers, 120 million of them between 5 and 14 years of age. 85 million of them do so in hazardous conditions. the highest percentage is in sub ahah ran ahaar saharan ahaar aafrica.

a ahaarsahara -- i want for him to go to school. >>reporter: existing laws curbing child labor in liberia are weak and not effectively enforced. activists say the practice is widespread in almost every part of the economy and they're calling on the government to do more to stop it. >> as a child you have a right to education so being out of school we think is violating our children. >>reporter: liberia is one of the poorest countries on earth and the ebola epidemic has eroded some of the gains made by the economy since the end of the

civil war in 2003. the government says those factors make err addadicate ing child labor almost impossible. >> they have to put our children in the streets to be breadwinners. >>reporter: his father left the family three years ago. since then he and his mother have struggled to earn enough to live. breaking rocks is the only thing stopping him making the choice between learning and eating. and he knows that getting a good education is the only way he'll escape a life of poverty. activists in india are accusing the government of undermining efforts to ban child labor there. last month changes to the law

which would allow children under the age of 14 to work after school or during holidays. opponents say it would still allow children to work in dangerous industries. she says going back to school is not enough to eradicate child labor. >> we're talking 168 million children around the world in child labor. here in the pacific we're talking about 78 million children in child labor. largely it's rural areas working on agriculture. but we're seeing a trend especially in this region towards commerce and services. and we find that more girls tend to engage in services and commerce while boys remain in agriculture and in very difficult and hazardous forms of work. it's not a matter of just putting a child in school and

that the problem will be solved. it has to be multifaceted. you have to deal with the supply and demand side of this issue. starting with school is an extremely important step because it equips children especially if they're receiving a quality education with skills to move on in life. but if the child when they leave school which is what they're finding at the age of 14 or 15 they're not continuing their studies but entering very hazardous work into a labor market where they're even more vulnerable perpetuating a life cycle of recycling this problem shia and sunni muslims have long lived together in iraq. but baghdad is increasingly more dangerous. >>reporter: this is home to a

large shia community. now people are scared to leave their own neighborhood. >> it's a living nightmare. everywhere you go there are car bombs and suicide attacks. we only leave the neighborhood if it's life or death. better to keep our movement to one place only these days because security sun predictable. >>reporter: isil car bombs have such an impact on these people they're suspicious of even traveling across the capital. >> we don't leave our neighborhood at all. >>reporter: across town the situation is much the same for sunni muslims who were forced out of their traditional homes in the capital in 2003 and now live in a few neighborhoods.

>> after 2003 baghdad split into sections with almost no existence of mixed sections of sunni and shia at all. >>reporter: those words are echoed by those studying demographic changes. they've noticed the sunnis are increasingly marginalize. >> especially when the kids when they live and when they wake up and open their eyes in the violence and the killing. i think the subconscious from this -- in that period many kids they get that feeling. i think the future we will face a real problem from the kids. >>reporter: there are still mixed neighborhoods across baghdad like this one. but they're normally more

economically well off. now, this neighborhood in particular has been hit by several isil car bombs, and the reason they do that is to try to keep up the sectarian tension. but it's not just isil. also the shia groups mount revenge attacks. many worry iraq will return to the violence it saw beginning in 2006. a sit in has brought the multi multibillion dollar phosphate industry to a stand still in liberia. >>reporter: they've waited for change for many years. that protest is peaceful but effective. blocking the tracks so trains can't transport phosphate out of the region. >> we've reached a situation

where everything is closed. i'm unemployed five years. some are disabled. some sleep in tents because there's nowhere to go. >>reporter: unemployed people like this are all around tunisia. many have never had a day's paid work in their life. this is a region which has a profitable mining which is the difference. but the wealth is not being invested here. people here call phosphate gold. the dust from the mines causes pollution and health problems. this is the only part that's open. production across the region is down from 6.5 million tons to 650,000 this year. the state run phosphate company which employs thousands of people is not responsible for

development. >> exports. revenues go back to the government which manages the money. there is a history of rebellion. in 2008 three years before the arab spring people challenged the authorities. many of the protesters were arrested and tortured. people are free now to reflect on those events but not much has changed. >> the wealth we produce here is priceless, yet, there is no development model or development projects. they're bleeding our phosphate along with our water resources. >>reporter: protesters are allowing a few trains to last but the industry is on the brink of collapse.

tunisia's major clients may look elsewhere leaving people here with no hope of jobs or development. so many past promises have been broken. they say they won't give up until they're convinced this time things will be different. a lack of funding in low levels of computer education are undermining the potential for nigeria's tech industry to creates. but an organization called inspire has plans to improve that sector. this is part five in our series cracking the code. >>reporter: they run a small food delivery service called food i lime. customers go online and order from local restaurants that have signed up their company and she delivers it. she is working with about 30

restaurants. she calls it a food logistics service and sees huge business opportunities in the technology sector that could create employment for hundreds of thousands of people. >> penetration has made it so it doesn't need for convenience, there's a need for delivery convenience, that provision of logistics in terms of meals for consumers. >>reporter: she got started with the help of inspire, an organization that helps launch tech startups. it's funded by the government. here entrepreneurs are taught the basics of computer programming for online business ventures. inspire has helped over 50 businesses get started but there are still major challenges. >> you need to have patience in tech businesses. and people are beginning to see that in the next five to ten years, tech businesses are likely going to be the realistic businesses like we have now.

so most investors are stuck on brick and mortar businesses. >>reporter: the government has tried to support tech based businesses too but has faced problems. the government was supposed to built a so-called technology village on this land to house over 1,000 tech businesses. a contract for millions of dollars was awarded back in 2007 but so far very little has been built. some analysts say that the government should allow the private sector to take the lead while it focuses on policies to improve things. >> the government needs to overhaul the entire school curriculum for it and technology so that the next generation of students workers will be better equipped. >>reporter: the challenge for tech companies is how to market their product. especially in a city with low internet penetration and where most restaurants offer their own delivery service. but she's confident there's a huge market for her service.

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