you are making very pointed remarks where there online the main us response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us on sad to know you will first just wakes up over the morning and says i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue that could be what's leading to some of the confusion the line about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the u.n. security council meets to tackle the grim business of people trafficking as evidence mounts the trade is booming.

all of them surely went on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up today as you know that isn't. there for months. and i repeat. down and let me approach it with her a kenyan so promises to unite kenya as he's sworn in for a second term as president. but the opposition remains defiant while adding that says he'll hold his opponents wavering in the small remaining. carefully chosen words pope francis avoids mentioning the race hinge of crisis or claims of ethnic cleansing during a key address in me and moderates. and bali's airport shuts down for a second day running as my md i'm gonna keep song rumbling.

very warm welcome to the program the u.n. security council is holding a briefing on the libyan slavery crisis evidence has a march the hundreds of people have been all questioned in modern day slave markets in libya for as little as four hundred dollars libya is the main transit hub for refugees and migrants attempting to reach southern europe by sea well cross live to the u.n. in just a moment but first this report from bernard smith. this is not where these migrants want to be heading back to the african continent thanks to a from the italian government to reinforce libya's coast guard it's helped cut the number of migrants arriving in italy two hundred twenty two thousand in the last three months it's the lowest total for four years but people trafficking networks in libya continue to flourish because of government chaos as rival groups battle for power. these are repatriated to the ivory coast from libya so they risk being

sold into slavery oh it's not really about this so africans over there in libya they sell men even fifteen year old libyans are there in a car they're armed the coming kidnap you and the cell you for seventy two one hundred fifty dollars and then others will resell you think they're going to leave soon as you arrive in libya the first thing that happens is that you are taken away and sold our black brothers from west africa wherever you are from a million a cynical ease or any other nationality from the west even ibori and you are sold and for what seven hundred dollars. but these margins will tell you that life is so hard in their home country that it's worth almost any risk to make a new start in europe now with the advent of the smartphone and with facebook and others pushing into africa a youngster can meet a smuggler in two seconds on the phone now that nothing is being done to challenge that they think they're following a dream to europe they end up in the mall in the grip of these repay shoes smuggler despite increased patrols the u.n.

says more than one hundred sixty thousand people have made it across the mediterranean to york this year about three thousand have drowned on bernard smith al jazeera mike hanna is that the u.n. headquarters for us in new york hi there mike so in a country like libya essentially a failed state mike what can the u.n. do. well this is one of the root causes of the problem of slave selling within libya itself the security council meeting now underway discussing that not only are they looking at the immediate problem and that is the selling of slaves but also about the circumstances the context in which this happens as you mentioned libya very much a failed state and has been so good on fees overthrow back in two thousand and eleven rival groups competing for power and in that vacuum you do have a scenario where the vulnerable are at immense risk and those fundable are those

who coming through libya from other parts of africa some ninety percent of refugees and forced migrants go to europe or attempt to get to europe through libya so it is an absolute crucible of movement in the african continent which itself is a consequence of poverty of ongoing conflict so all of these issues need to be addressed in order to deal with the ultimate problem the problem that is central to security council deliberations in the course of this morning and that is the question of slave trafficking and like what about sanctions could they provide part and some answer. well france which is called the some urgency session says that sanctions is one of the options that must be considered sanctions against individuals who are responsible for the slave track of him and entities that allow it to happen but the french ambassador briefing before the security council meeting

began also said that all elements of international law should be used to compete to deal with this problem for example he said using the international criminal court to go against those perpetrators to use every single element of vailable to the un security council the question of sanctions is a tricky one it is known and russia for example has made very clear that it is opposed to the ad hoc use of sanctions the one thing the security council wants to do on this issue is maintain absolute unity throwing sanctions into the equation at this particular stage may strike a blow at that sense of unity that the security council truly needs we will be hearing in coming days on going discussion about what measures will be taken there will be a statement likely today after the security council meeting but no concrete measures yet will be announced this will take days possibly weeks of discussion to come to

an agreement to then have a unified security council meeting in terms of addressing firstly the immediate problem of slave trafficking but also the wider issues that create the vacuum in when in which it exists and can either live from the united nations mike thank you . kenya's president who or kenya has urged his divided nation to move on from months of political upheaval after being sworn in for a second term his inauguration ceremony follows a violent enjoyment election process which included two disputed post says calling on all leaders to serve the nation regardless of political affiliation and says he will dedicate all of his energy to building unity and nationhood. today is the one hundred twenty third day since we began on august eighth

two days you know that isn't. there four months. and i repeat the end of our electoral process the elections. are now firmly behind us it's been a trying time. but once again kenyans of showing their resilience. in coming their pensions and the passions that accompany political competition will cast catherine sawyer was at the swearing in ceremony in nairobi. president who are looking at the must be very relieved it's been a long and difficult election period and his message today really was about unity was very big on unity he knows too well that millions of supporters of the opposition do not support his presidency so he is reaching out to these people saying that he wants to be a president who will say that he's going to devote this five years in office to you

know unite all king and he also talked about achievements of his government in the last five years and this is something that he wants to continue he's talking about introducing free secondary education expanding maternal health care a continuing with a road construction that he had started at the railway that he had started that his government had started constructing he's also talking about connecting more people to the national electricity grid but a lot of people are really saying that he needs to deal with the apollo ricotta the streets and many kenyans will tell you this struggling to make ends meet the cost of living is very high more than sixty five thousand people came to cheer. on many of them are leaving not knowing where they're going to get their next meal so this is something that he wants they want him to address as a matter of an audience and many other people also saying that he needs to decisively deal with corruption in the public sector that is something that he

didn't really do in the last in his last stand so people are saying is to deal with that this is his last time he needs to leave a good and lasting legacy he needs to make this things work catherine so i reporting there to people including a seven year old child were killed the supporters of rival leader rioting clashed with police and then the rejects of kenya his inauguration vowing to hold his own swearing in ceremony as pres as president in two weeks time police fired rifles and tear gas to break up a large crowd of hitting his supporters he says can you ask us presidency is illegitimate and in five to push for fresh elections. russia used chapter one of the constitution the people me in and we have said that before but well we should hold the people's assembly back will swear me into office for me to miller has more now from nairobi. this is when the opposition the national super alliance had wanted to hold a rally today as president were kenyatta is sworn in for his second term across

town in nairobi but police security forces have had a heavy presence here from early in the day police responding with tear gas for at least the last hour we can hear tear gas continue to be fired by police there ensuring that nobody comes into this area and then the opposition wouldn't have the presence here today that it would have wanted some barclays the president has opened a three month amnesty window for the return of stolen public funds and listen when i was says those individuals and companies that have illegally stashed money abroad have until the end of february to give it back the government says all those who fail to comply will be arrested and prosecuted pope francis has avoided any direct mention of main masri hinge in this the minority as he appeared alongside the country's leader aung sang suu kyi the pope touched on the range of crisis but never directly named the ethnic group as why be expected he insisted we in march

should respect the rights of all ethnic groups scott heiler explains. pope francis traveled to the capital a poor tuesday on a day trip for me i'm going to meet unsung suchi she introduced the pope after their closed door meeting of the many challenges that our government has been facing the situation in the rakhine has most strongly captured the attention of the world. touching on the issue that many are waiting to be brought up the plight of the ranger. while not calling them by name though he has before he alluded to their plight one a growing number of nations and international bodies are calling ethnic cleansing. the future of me and my must be peace a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society respect for each ethnic group and its identity respect for the rule of law and

respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group not excluded to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good. earlier in the day here the pope started his first full day by conducting an interfaith meeting with buddhist christian hindu jewish and muslim representatives. when represented muslims he was on the rakhine commission led by the former head of the united nations kofi anon to provide recommendations on the real hinge a crisis like i didn't use the word i didn't mention about the crisis but i did say that. it's multi-racial multi-religious literalistic society where diversity and unity prevails but recently religion has been hijacked and it has been politicized the roman catholic leader is due to hold mass in a stadium and gone on wednesday it will be the first time to speak to the tens of

thousands of christians who've traveled from all over myanmar the c.e.o. scott al-jazeera. still to come on the program after a major hurricane last year half of all haitians and not risk the famine the country's new president and appeal for help. and show me the monetary policy don't pick the chairman of the federal reserve prepares to face his confirmation hearing all that more when we get back. and out of the rain has returned again to china. cost anywhere from shanghai back to sugar down to as you know across to hong kong could be witness seems likely the coastal area will be humid but not particular what they were it's the rain is

gathering inland it may well affect shanghai eleven miserable degrees. twenty seven in the brightest skies of hong kong the coast of vietnam is still present for the lights they work. now to the west of this you know what's happened over the monsoon trough is gone south of the city with the northeast monsoon in hard rain seems likely fertile now to force for lack of care as well as far south of india and sri lanka the areas you expect to get wet so what of things further north while the state of the air has been the thing new delhi has gone down to rather poor once again to be honest it's getting worse slowly nesta breeze picks up he's not going to get a great deal better and the breeze isn't really picking up in the immediate future but there's always hope because running through the rainy and matches is a bit of a breeze winter's obviously set in in the arabian peninsula and i was tempted steadily just a bit below thirty to kuwait to qatar and the u.a.e. father west. thirty four still in mecca.

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are mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera the un security council is holding a meeting on people smuggling in libya amid evidence the trade school of kenya's president over a kenya has been sworn in for a second term he's urged the country to move on after months of political violence but francis has avoided any direct mention of being moderate in jerusalem a minority or claims of ethnic cleansing in an address in the people. at the un syrian envoy stuff and the mistress says the syrian government has agreed to a cease fire in eastern guta reports by russia the rebel held area in the outskirts of damascus is coming the heavy bombardment in the past forty eight hours ahead of the a round of geneva talks to try to end the conflict talks were meant to begin on choose day but the government delegation had says it won't arrive until wednesday but diplomatic editor james base is in geneva. the syrian talks a back on in geneva but only one of the two sides present the syrian opposition of

the meeting with the u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura at their hotel in the last few hours here at u.n. headquarters but the syrian government perspire on their trip angry they say some comments by the opposition there are those that believe the real reason for the delay was to allow the syrian military to continue their operations in eastern the u.n. special envoy though says he's now received word there will be a cease fire i was just informed by do russian standard today or to people a meeting that the russians have proposed to end the government has accepted a sci fi only temple because we were and are very concerned about till now we need to see where did it take place but it is not coincidental that it's actually been proposed to end a greed upon just the day of the beginning of this station the syrian government delegation will arrive here on wednesday it's not clear whether they'll have talks

straight away the opposition say they want to meet with them face to face around the same table he sing greece of detaining people after finding bomb making equipment and detonators in raids in athens eight men and a woman are being questioned after police searched three separate locations the suspects are thought to have links to a turkish aand. haiti's new president is pleading for international assistance as millions on the caribbean island they're facing the risk of famine the country's agriculture sector is still struggling after last year's hurricane matthew destroyed nearly six hundred million dollars worth of crops livestock and fisheries two risible has more now from battle. a uni self treatment center in russia in southern haiti dozens of menorahs children come here every day to receive medical help. me glen plessy morning brings her daughter just

sitting every few days she say t. months old. i lost my house in the hurricane right now i'm trying to rebuild it i'm struggling to feed my kids she's not eating well she gets sick all the time doctors here have intensified efforts in this area to fight my nutrition in haiti that has been hit by natural disasters in the last two years over and over again half of the population is officially minority the children brought here have been diagnosed with a minor expression due to not wholly shortages of food but also to the quality of want there in this place they're given this special for that it's made of peanut vitamins and other components and they're also treated for related illnesses like parasites. most of the people in the southern part of the country depend on agriculture to survive but hurricane matthew last year killed cattle and crops.

in the strong wind destroyed my house and my legs do injured before the hurricane we used to have a place to work and gardens but we don't have anything right now. even in the coastal areas hardship is everywhere these days these fisherman spent hours trying to get something to eat when. i'm home usenet is useless even though we put it here for hours it came out with nothing during the hurricane we lost so much nobody comes here to give us anything. haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world that heavily relies on international assistance but aid has been slowing down in the last two years. analysts say haiti's government has not prioritized the country's most vulnerable moment the most and the government moans with a three hundred percent tax increase but the first thing the majority of the population of the country and worse in living conditions that already poor.

haiti is extremely vulnerable to changing weather patterns which have a direct impact on people's lives here only prevention and continuing international support is what could impede these people's lives from getting worse. haiti. ollie's airport has been shot for a second day as an erupting volcano disrupts travel plans and threatens thousands on the indonesian island land again is being huge piles of ash into the air and small explosions can also be heard natasha can i guess more. 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 kilometers away.

for the second day the airport near the island capitol dome pasar is closed up ending the travel plans of thousands of tourists anyway so we don't know we don't know what you have and. if i think. the government sent one hundred buses to the airport and to the island's ferry terminals to assist travelers ten airports elsewhere in indonesia are ready to handle diverted flights but the response hasn't been quick enough for some medics have said the government is doing enough to help the foreign tourists there are thousands of people stranded here at the airport they have to go to another airport and they are trying to do that but the government and the authorities. islanders are nearby lombok say the amount of gong eruption is hurting their businesses but a lot of the number of foreign tourists has dropped considerably while local tourists have increased in one of the with photographers are enjoying the

spectacular event but it's of attention all life or death situation for the estimated one hundred thousand people in the danger zone the last major eruption of mount agung in one thousand nine hundred sixty three killed around eleven hundred people natasha going to al-jazeera ireland's deputy prime minister has resigned over a peace whistleblower scandal francis has gerald had been at the center of a political crisis that could have led to snap elections in ireland during crucial breaks of negotiations the father has more from to then. the departure of the deputy prime minister francis fitzgerald means that leader of around the prime minister and his government of narrowly averted the prospect of a general election having to take place a year before the end of the year there's been a tremendous amount of pressure put upon francis fitzgerald by the opposition feen a full party to clarify exactly how much she knew about a scandal that took place in the very upper echelons of the police service when a full said thirty if she didn't resign then they would table

a vote of no confidence later on choose to force her out of office that could have potentially lead to a collapse of the government and a round of elections something that nobody here really wanted across the political spectrum largely because the irish government right now wields a tremendous amount of political power when it comes to brics it talks island has said in the last couple of weeks or so that it could potentially use its power a veto at the e.u. to blog breaks it talks some going to the next stage talks about trade something the u.k. is eager to move on to i don't want to know before that what britain's plans are when it comes to the border between the republic of ireland and northern on of the part of the u.k. that border is currently open but if post breaks its northern ireland leaves along with the rest of the u.k. the european union and many people here feel a return of a hard border border of course is seen decades of bloodshed nobody wants to see the clock turn back but now that the general election has been averted ireland could

continue putting on mounting pressure upon the u.k. when it comes to the future projects of talks the chair of the u.s. federal reserve is arguably the most powerful banking well in the world doubletons no mary general powell will attend his confirmation hearing later on tuesday many want to confront how he plans to shape u.s. monetary policy so mark a man has more on the man set to become a global economic figure. jerome jay powell would be the first federal reserve chairman in nearly four decades with a corporate. background a big asset in the eyes of donald trump jay will bring extensive private sector experience and real world perspective to our government as the richest fed chairman in recent memory the former investment banker is expected to favor looser regulation of some banks which complain of too many lending restrictions but paul is been

a strong defender of the fed's policy to lower interest rates by increasing the supply of dollars the problems that some commentators protect predicted have not come to pass accommodative policy did not generate high inflation or excessive credit growth rather it helped restore full employment and return inflation closer to the two percent goal. in fact he's joined many experts to catholics plain why inflation is actually remained so low despite one of the longest growth streaks in u.s. history with still no recession yet in sight trump hasn't explained his decision to deny a second term to outgoing chairwoman janet yellen he called her excellent in the job despite being part of barack obama's legacy so market analysts expect her successor to maintain a steady course i think powell would be the closest thing to monetary policy status quo as you can get short of our next two renominating yellen but i think powell is

the base case not yellen because trump has to be seen as a disruptor and an agent of change thank you again for this extraordinary opportunity to serve the american people thank god if the economy does show signs of overheating next year powell and the fed may see no choice but to step up the pace of raising the cost of borrowing money tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. yes president donald trump has been accused of using a racial slur during a white house event honoring native american war veterans day why did a democratic party senator as pocahontas and nickname native americans have previously described as offensive and distasteful kristen salumi reports. the event was to honor native american veterans but president donald trump couldn't resist the opportunity to criticize a political rival use the name of a native american hero in front of a portrait of president andrew jackson who is known for forcefully removing natives

from their ancestral lands no less in a way that was not meant as a complement thank you because you have very very special people you were here long before any of us we're a low we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago they call or pocahontas it's a name he first used on the campaign trail and polka dot this is not happy she got to refer to the democratic senator and staunch trump critic elizabeth warren the senator who's claimed native american ancestry was quick to respond it is deeply unfortunate that the president of the united states cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a wave or the president spokesperson said there was nothing offensive about it you know most people find offensive is senator warren a line about her heritage to advance her career but native groups such as the

national congress of american indians have expressed outrage at the president's use of the name pocahontas before and again called it a slur that denigrates her legacy and i think her native women who are reading the right guy taking one of the name one of the stories of our women and erasing a story but using her name but you are to turn. only helps to continue the extremely high level of violence we have against nato bombing today you know where the controversy overshadowed recognition of the veterans who use the navajo language to transmit secret messages during world war two sending what some insist is a message of disrespect kristen salumi al jazeera well you can find that much more about the stories we're following at our website head to al-jazeera dot com. the minds of our top stories here on al-jazeera the un security council is holding

a briefing on the living people smuggling crisis amid evidence that the trade is growing maybe as the main transit hub for refugees and migrants attempting to reach southern europe by sea there are claims some of being sold there as slaves mike hanna is at the u.n. headquarters in new york. the security council meeting now underway discussing that not only are they looking at the immediate problem and that is the selling of slaves but also about the circumstances the context in which this happens libya very much a failed state and has been so since good offers overthrow back in two thousand and eleven kenya's president who are kenyatta has urged his country to move on for months of political upheaval after being sworn in for a second term is an organization ceremony follows a violent and drawn out election process which included two disputed polls can answer is calling on all leaders to serve the nation regardless of their political affiliation. elsewhere in nairobi at least two people were killed when trees

clashed with supporters of the opposition leader riley. says he is the rightful president and says he'll hold his own swearing in ceremony in two weeks time. the u.n. syria envoy stuff funded mistura says the syrian government has accepted a cease fire in east and go to proposed by russia the rebel held area on the outskirts of damascus has come under heavy bombardment in the past forty eight hours ahead of the eighth round of geneva talks to try to in the conflict also meant to begin on tuesday but the government delegation has said it won't arrive until wednesday. but francis has avoided any direct mention of mean masry to jim is the minority as he appeared alongside the country's leader aung san suu kyi is widely expected the head of the roman catholic church insisted that me in march should respect the rights of all ethnic groups facing greece say they've arrested one turkish nationals after finding bomb making equipment in apartments in athens

greece eight men and one woman are members of a left wing group this treated as a terror organization by turkey the e.u. you are up to date those are your headlines this hour stay with us up next it's a.j. cell x. will be back in about half an hour's time see that. the the if. you weren't with.