when turns to activism with a new mission i said ok i'm going to put my dollar. bills on purpose or. this is within the technological. gets a third of the patients in their field from the capital. to the record. at this time on al-jazeera. hello again i'm dennis in doha and these are the top stories here at al-jazeera a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit east in taiwan killing at least four people and injuring more than two hundred firefighters in and say at least five people remain trapped inside this hotel on the brink of collapse one hundred forty

five people remain unaccounted for the silver ripple is. working against the clock to search for survivors. rescuers are using cranes to get to those trapped in what's left of qualities marshall hotel. when the earthquake struck just before midnight local time the ground floor katie dean leaving the entire building slanting on its site. to go. on with this is. there are two people left inside one is my older brother and another is a colleague who is in the rescue was a trying to dig further down to look for my brother that's the situation for now. taiwan's president sign one arriving fly in on wednesday morning say when they hear that kind of assume that they're building steel frames that will prop up the collapsed building this will ensure rescue received when they get it we are racing against time and now is the crucial time. taiwan's fire agency reports that five

more buildings including a hospital were also damaged as were several roads leading to the city this earthquake followed another one over the weekend off the coast of quali and this earthquake today in the sequence for the last few days has been right in one of the hot spots on the northeast coast of taiwan so it's not a surprise oh it's in an area where half the sharks are inevitable you know the question is how many big aftershocks will there be in our usual odds are one in ten or one in twenty chance of a bigger earthquake so they need to be prepared at least for a few days for more action the city lies along the pacific rim of fire known for regular seismic activity from alaska to southeast asia to on the silver al-jazeera syria's rebel held region of. deadliest day more than a month russian and syrian government every killed at least seventy nine people

there on tuesday an estimated one hundred thirteen people have now been killed in eastern guta and in italy province within the past forty eight. in an unprecedented move south africa's problem it has postponed president zuma is state of the nation address which was due. the president is under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations the ruling a.n.c. has also postponed an emergency meeting of its top committee that was due to be held later on wednesday the cancellation of that meeting came after the new party leaders who were ramit poza held talks with president zuma which were described as fruitful and constructive. in kenya a leading member of the opposition. has been deported to canada after being charged with treason he was arrested after taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony for the opposition leader right. a palestinian man has

been shot and killed by a private security guard in the. settlement in the occupied west bank the palestinian stabbed and injured an israeli settler on wednesday morning you are sexists a great citizens held talks with the colombian president juan manuel santos in bogota mr to the sense that the u.s. shares responsibility to help combat colombia's drug trade. and we did discuss our concerns about the the surgeon coca cultivation and cocaine production colombia but the president also gave me a very good report of the steps that are being taken the progress is being made and he just spoke to much of that and we are quite encouraged by what we hear and we will continue to work with plan b a to support these efforts were we can be of assistance as well this is a shared challenge for both of our nations as well. rallied on tuesday following the shop losses of the day before which cools to force the markets around the world

right up to date struggle of the nihilists next. oh of. the novel. the world's longest river. a seven thousand kilometers a lifeline for almost four hundred million people. flowing north the nile runs through ten countries from the highlands in the heart

of africa to the shores of the mediterranean sea. a source of sustenance but also one of tension even potential conflict. the nile is the key to a geopolitical rivalry in the region. at its heart is egypt. with suspicions about former enemies. and tensions with an age old civilization and reveal deep seated fears about water scarcity and losing control of the river nile . alexandria egypt's main city on the mediterranean.

here. in march one thousand nine hundred three the founder of political zionism disembarked on a special mission. theodore hurt souls goal was to secure a homeland for the jews. one year earlier he had petitioned for such a homeland to be allowed in palestine then part of the ottoman empire. the request was rejected by sultan abdul hamid the second. so hurtful took a contingency plan to egypt. a country then under british occupation. some british officials floated the idea and tercel even initially toyed with the idea of accepting a small temporary jewish. entity zionist entity in northern sinai around.

the zionist said well it's a step from there to palestine so it brings us closer to the homeland. the plan involved the first phase settlement in the sinai of some twenty thousand jewish immigrants to be followed by successive numbers to total one hundred thousand. there was plenty of space in the sinai desert but the area lacked one basic element of life water. however proposed a remarkable solution to divert some of the nile waters to the desert region. yeah this settlement was going to need water. plan was for the water to be carried from a branch of the nile via pipelines under the su is can now and. the water would then travel over one hundred fifty kilometers to the settle. the british high

commissioner in egypt. rejected a proposal. egypt at that time was the main source of cotton for the british textile industry. irrigation engineers warned that diverting the nile waters would damage egypt's cotton production and therefore affect british economic interests. the idea of a jewish homeland in the sinai was never implemented. but over seventy years later plans to divert the nile waters reemerged. in november one thousand nine hundred seventy seven egyptian president anwar sadat arrived at tel of the ben-gurion airport. to visit mark the start of peace negotiations between so that and the israeli prime

minister menachem begun. israel was in a strong bargaining position occupying the sinai jerusalem the west bank gaza and the golan heights. so that one to the arab land back but had fewer bargaining chips. he definitely wanted the prince of peace but i think two things. i think to. begin a very devious policy. people questioning him. and that was the pressure. in the ongoing negotiations said that aware of israel's water needs knew he held at least one strong card the river nile. in december one thousand nine hundred seventy

nine the egyptian magazine october known to be a mouthpiece for sadat published a sensational report the headline on the front page read the nile to reach jerusalem. they article reported that sadat had ordered blueprints prepared for the construction of a canal to carry the nile waters to israel in exchange for a comprehensive peace agreement in the middle east. where there were these dreams about you know egyptian israeli cooperation and peace that will be prevailed in this region and you know people's thought that. there are no limits or. some people start thinking in these terms you know the denial should be use for sinai peninsula and also to israel. and the people of. the two countries made peace but any plan to divert the

nile to israel never materialized. to this day many gyptian believe the reported offer was more a negotiating ploy than a meaningful proposition. that. this was a good trick played by said that while. he gave the israelis false hope in order to secure the signing of the peace accord what did he did but he never planned to implement the nile offered by left in us. but the nile waters were eventually diverted. in january one thousand nine hundred ninety seven so that successor. officially opened the tunnel carrying nile waters under the suez canal. the waters flowed into the so-called peace can now extending into the sinai some egyptians suspected israel might be the ultimate destination of the canal. at the

inauguration ceremony mubarak seemed to address such suspicions. possibly. at dinner this had the might there had doubted then i am under much and i was up. today the peace canal runs eighty kilometers eastwards into sinai. that allows for the irrigation and development of farmland reclaimed from the desert. the idea of diverting the nile to the sinai first proposed by theodore heard so is now a reality. just one hundred fifteen kilometers from the end of the canal and across egypt's international border is the negev desert.

forming over half of israel's total land area. the negev as a land thirsty for water. these railways of salt to manage their limited water sources and deny the need for the extension of the peace going out saying it would be surplus to requirement if you're talking about the relation between the. relations and we don't see that we are going to use this water in the future we solve our own poems in the negative in the cells and has no connection with them. faced with a water shortage and looking to reclaim the desert israel has needed to find innovative solutions. israel is the world leader in official water use in

agriculture more crop per drop using. say drip irrigation other technologies that techniques and the technologies that are here are being utilized elsewhere in the china south america africa wherever you go you will find israeli technology basically use in agriculture. raw that are not yet am. i israel's ambassador to kenya. arrives to a warm welcome from local farmers in the village of garroting on the outskirts of nairobi he's clear on his assignment. their idea the basic idea is to assist communities of farmers to achieve much more you much more crops with less labor with less water and even with less fertilizers and pesticides as.

these women farmers are beneficiaries of this assistance. by passing on its know how and donating equipment israel is empowering local communities in africa and winning friends. we're so impressed me them because they identify the ends who go right down to see the needs of the people and so for us in this village we are very happy with them. but others in africa believe that israel's presence there particularly in upstream nile countries like kenya has more to do with politics than an aid. society hear it. israel is not a charity. the end it seeks to harm egypt there was nothing new in that the midst. it's the nature of israeli politics and if it didn't operate in that way. then it would not be easier for. them since its

establishment in one nine hundred forty eight surrounded by hostile arab neighbors israel has sought friends where it can. in africa israel build relations with newly independent known arab states. egypt grew increasingly concerned about israel's activities on the continent. they suspected the israelis of trying to politically outflank egypt by befriending countries that could influence the flow with egypt's lifeline the river nile. am i laugh at how historically the most important relationships israel built on the african continent were at uganda and kenya india. and it's no coincidence that all of them are upstream countries where the nile originates they did build

relationships with other countries but the river nile was the major factor behind the formation of israeli policy and strategy. the. president asked her of the united arab republic arrives in style i got all these how much meeting in market neutral an african leader. but israel faced tough competition for friends in africa . egyptian president jamal abdel nasser was also building allies of his own in the region. his struggle for independence and non-alignment resonated with many africans. in one thousand nine hundred sixty. three egypt became one of the founding member states of the organization of african unity. following the nine hundred sixty seven war the organization condemned israel's

occupation of parts of egypt and other arab countries and demanded the withdrawal of israeli troops from all occupied arab territories. the african view of israel as a small struggling country that posed no threat began to change. israel was very weak at that for and clearly it couldn't do anything about it gyptian role in africa. shortly after the arab israeli war in october one thousand nine hundred seventy three the majority of african countries seven relations with israel. nasser successor anwar sadat failed to capitalize on africa's strategic shift away from israel. so they didn't want to just follow in nasser's footsteps he wanted to

blaze his own trail. he chose to focus on building relations with the west and securing peace with israel he turned his back on the pan african policies nasser had pursued. almost going to. the egypt once played a commanding role in africa but in the one nine hundred seventy s. egypt neglected this role and who wouldn't this resulted in the bush drawl of egypt's presence in africa countries there started to think egypt had abandoned them. whose name a barak followed a similar strategy to his predecessor. in one thousand nine hundred five an event took place that would set the seal on the bar of turning away from africa. in june of that year arriving in the ethiopian capital addis ababa to attend an

african summit. mubarak's motorcade was ambushed by islamist militants here on the airport road. mubarak's bullet proof car saved his life his body guard shot dead the gunman. following this attack and for the rest of his term in office mubarak chose to send ministers or delegates to african summits rather than attending himself with egypt's friends in the region believe this presidential absence was a strategic error allowing israel to once again gain a political foothold in africa. as a poet once said document our enemies do not break through our borders instead they crawled like ants through our weaknesses. by the nine hundred ninety s. many of the upstream nile basin countries had reestablished diplomatic relations

with israel. and reopened their embassies in tel aviv. today israel is building on these relations here on the outskirts of tel aviv these trainees from africa are learning innovative agricultural techniques to take back to their countries. the. training is sponsored by the center for international cooperation known as masha part of israel's foreign ministry. but we are focusing. most of our work is really in africa probably about forty percent of our resources and mostly towards food security guard showed water related issues.

beyond training programs in israel. also takes its aid overseas. back in the kenyan village of karate women farmers grow fresh produce in a greenhouse donated by musharraf. the green house which enables the woman to earn a living was officially donated to them by israeli foreign minister at the door lieberman. lieberman arrived in africa in september two thousand and nine at the head of a large entourage even started five african states including three of the upstream nile basin countries kenya uganda and ethiopia. the minister came with a big economic delegation representatives of more than twenty of the biggest israeli

companies we had business seminars with business meetings and we see very very big follow up in terms of business the. opportunities for investments. lieberman was the first israeli foreign minister to go on an african tour since the one nine hundred sixty s. . i mean the sight of lieberman making friends and doing deals in the nile upstream countries around concern in egypt. egyptians were once again worried these rallies were meddling in their backyard in . region holding the source of the nile. the african countries lieberman visited dismissed egyptian suspicions stating the visit was strictly business. not the dictating.

government foreign minister has a paid. visit it came here not to talk about whether to reduce. it to they give to simple it is the government the government the business and i think. but egyptian fears were not so easily appeased. lieberman's visit coincided with a particularly tense point in egypt's talks with the other nial based in countries to reach a new agreement over managing the nile waters. egyptian suspected israel was behind the renewed pressure egypt faced to make concessions. so. that there's not a year israel has had a clear strategy since it was established so it focuses on having a presence in the upstream countries to create problems for egypt on the issue of water to encircle egypt and create internal difficulties what you are going to

definitely because if egypt has a water crisis then it will have a development problem and a national security issue it will not be able to guarantee a better life for egyptians and therefore it will be preoccupied with internal problems that is israel's goal. for their part israelis reject such notions that they are plotting with african states to outmaneuver egypt. i think this is another one of those arab conspiracy theories which unfortunately there are so many of them going around sometimes in what i can stop myself from what i read in an area in. sides but all kind of conspiracy is which are described as these releases don't people who. come up scenarios that the craziest screenwriters in hollywood could even think

about. in early two thousand and eleven egyptians took to the streets in open revolt against the government of hosni mubarak. rather useful how much. on february eleventh egypt's vice president announced mubarak's resignation from power ending thirty years of rule. of law was. egyptians were exultant their complaints had been many. among them was criticism of mubarak's failure to engage in constructive diplomacy with the other african states along the nile. must look at it egypt has been absent from the city in and of themselves.

these ten states are supposed to be members of the same family the offspring of one mother which is that of a nine we started to mount the i'd like brothers sharing the same lifeline in the uk but we should have engaged with them rather than with the u.s. europe or asia of the states should be the closest to us because they shared the same life and the same fate struck masi which was. significantly. the first foreign trip of egypt's new prime minister after the two thousand and eleven revolution was to sudan. some sheriff led a high profile delegation of egyptian ministers. the visit signaled a new diplomatic drive to egypt in the nile basin.

but the struggle over the nile will not easily be resolved. it goes back thousands of years. egypt and another of africa's oldest civilizations. seem to be locked. into an increasingly bitter rivalry. for the nomadic jackass tribe survival is about reaching their destination if we don't carry on never be able to get the tempo of the story we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration find the trace dangerous the ice is at them as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life into the difficult sometimes luser cattle that was called for because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. discover

a wealth of oil would winning programming from around the world. to nation challenge your perceptions if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better plan than facebook. documenters debates and discussions this country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point alger's real. hello again i'm on team tennis in doha and these are the top stories here it out to sara a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit east in taiwan killing at least four people and injuring more than two hundred others firefighters in the port city of quali n say several people remain trapped in buildings that are on the brink of

collapse and one hundred forty five people remain unaccounted for everything to me is a senior editor at taiwan news. i think that it started might have been down. many believe that the biggest quake was on sunday which is a lie. and so there was even then the officials were saying that that was the major shark there's going to be some minor aftershocks that will gradually get way and so this was a surprise and late it was about even bigger quake much more damage. than the previous. syria's rebel held region of eastern ghouta has endured its deadliest day in more than a month russian then syrian government air raids killed at least seventy one people there on tuesday an estimated one hundred thirteen people have now been killed in the same cusa and in italy province over the past forty eight. and i'm president of

move south africa's parliament has postponed president zuma as state of the nation address which was due on thursday the president is under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations the ruling a.n.c. has also postponed an emergency meeting of its top committee that was due to be held later on when say the cancellation of that meeting came after the new party leaders cyril ramaphosa held talks with president zuma which were described as fruitful and constructive. in kenya a leading member of the opposition has been deported to canada after being charged with treason he was arrested after taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony for opposition leader riley were doing. a palestinian man has been shot and killed by a private security guard in the. settlement in the occupied west bank the palestinian stabbed and injured an israeli settler on wednesday morning tensions

have been rising in the occupied west bank since president trump decided to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. ethiopia. the blue nile flows on its long journey toward sudan and egypt. the ethiopians call the blue nile they are by. a word carrying a sense of reverence and admiration. the name of a by its beak father is a father and that is source that provides that is very heavy but a speck that prevent. b.b. lives in the village of some close to the by old blue nile. with

a family of nine to support the bench collects firewood the sole source of energy. that's it and we don't have electricity my head has stemmed from black to gray giving in this land we just burns this wood and some could have seen from like through an exam on. the edge of bench like more than eighty percent of ethiopians the very thought of a light bulb is a dream. but it's good to do i will celebrate i don't know when i'm meant to die in that did not have before so long burning wood and if i get light was just a click i will die a happy person. the nile could

help realise the dreams of ethiopians like actually bench. on a. seeing the fast flowing river descending from the ethiopian highlands would generate electricity reducing the country's chronic power shortage. but to date the full potential of the river remains untapped. decades of civil unrest and war have hindered ethiopia's ability to develop. instead it remains one of the world's poorest countries. melyssa no we assumed power in one nine hundred ninety one. he champions him self as the builder of a new ethiopia. billboards

around the capital addis ababa herald a brighter future. with the construction of dams and hydroelectric power stations. the projects will quite literally bring power to the people. one of the big resource we have been if you hide saw the government patient. south and it go one reason the coming by gives. beneath these hills is the time of the less hydro power station. this tunnel will divert the nile waters over turbine to generate power. the station will eventually produce over four hundred megawatts of electricity

annually. reducing ethiopia's power deficit by thirty percent. the water exits from tunnels to continue on its way downstream. no water is taken out of the river a point the ethiopians particularly keen to stress. what we are doing is we are today but. we are not changing anything. any operational. that we've read . but station does not affect the nile's discharge. this is the crucial factor. egyptians say they would regard any attempt to reduce the nile flow to their country as a hostile act. so ethiopia treads a fine line between exploiting the nile for its own development while not incurring

the wrath of its downstream nial neighbors. we are here. not to reduce or not to damage it we are going to utilize what our economic development as well because a. poor country trying to come out of that poverty. by utilising it is resources now is one of our thoughts. despite ethiopian assurances egypt is concerned about any reduction in its sole source of water. nine hundred twenty nine agreement between egypt and britain the colonial power at the time gave egypt a veto power on any project upstream that would affect or decrease the amount of

water reaching egypt and. egyptians are keen to ensure this agreement is up held. by the egypt needs to manage the reverse discharge of the agreement states there must be prior notification this must be adhered to according to international laws governing the use of rivers running through many countries upstream states can use the waters on the condition they don't harm the downstream country. you are obliged to notify me to notify egypt so my interests are not harmed you can satisfy your interests but just don't harm might have missed the. interests what challenge. your utterances here with me. is that. meant on the. bases in britain from in may two thousand and ten at

a meeting of nile basin countries in the ugandan city of entebbe six upstream states including ethiopia signed a new nile agreement. the agreement enables upstream countries to implement irrigation and hydro power projects without egypt being able to exercise the veto power it was given by the nine hundred twenty nine agreement. egypt you know. be able to stop if you appear from building down on the nile that is history and that is not going to be part of the solution if you are in willing to use its own resources to build dams on the night the way forward is not for egypt to try and stop the unstoppable. the prospect of upstream countries building dams alarms egyptians especially if that country happens to be ethiopia.

only fifteen percent of the nile waters reaching egypt originate in the great lakes region yet eighty five percent come from the ethiopian highlands from three main tributaries the sabbat blue nile and the atbara. any dam built in ethiopia would pose a serious threat to egypt's water supply. the likelihood of such a scenario is creating tension between the two countries. the transparency and consultation was not happening between the two countries. because of because of suspicion because of. fear i think but fear. only be probably addictions because the water is coming from here from ethiopia.

such antagonism is exacerbated by a long history of rivalry. egypt the land of the pyramids and the ancient civilization of the pharaohs. ethiopia a land described as the birthplace of mankind. and the demand of great temperatures who ruled the country for centuries made. a criminal between these two civilizations has always been centered on the nile. the rivalry dates back some three thousand years to the times of ethiopian emperor the first man lete had a with him pull up or a harsh emperor man aleck the first of ethiopia used to threaten egypt and we had

made a need the us fulfilled the whole saying that he would divert the course of the nile to the red sea away from the mediterranean and that only it was real time for most of these threats were made and all the rulers of egypt from the time of the pharaohs used to send gifts and gold to the emperor to stop him from diverting than i'll. religious differences have added to the historical tensions. in the fourth century ethiopia became a christian nation making it one of the oldest christian states in the world. from the seventh century egypt emerges the heart of the arab and islamic world.

as the two countries adopt to different faiths power politics over the nile continued down through history. mohammed ali by the time hamad ali began to rule egypt in eighteen zero five many threats had been made by the if you open emperors to stop the water reaching egypt . the cut in the air. most were just empty threats but somewhat violent. every time there was a new ruler in egypt they would threaten him and blackmail him so that he paid gold to the if you'll be an emperor lena guess you'd have one hundred alley considered how to eliminate this threat which was damaging to egypt's prestige and letty to his us. muhammad ali's response was to expand egypt's borders southwards to come on the headwaters of the nile. in

eight hundred twenty he conquered the territories today known as sudan for the first time egyptians and ethiopians when now face to face across a common border. in the eight hundred seventy s. muhammad ali's grandson ismail continued his grandfather's expansionist policy. seeking to increase the size of his realm over the course of the nile. how it's named the man who. could give ismail tried to conquer a few opium. so he dispatched a large army he thought it would be an easy mission but he failed that has he met in one of the egyptian army was crushed in eight hundred seventy six and had to retreat. the rivalry between egypt and ethiopia continued into the next century. by the one nine hundred fifty is it had taken on a more personal dimension. despite the smiles and handshakes the two countries were

led by two larger than life leaders with two differing political visions. egypt's president jamal abdel nasser was a revolutionary idealogue of anti imperialism. ethiopian emperor haile selassie was a monarch and bodying imperial governments. both men saw themselves as africa's primary leader. there's been a lot written on ethiopia because it's a country with a great civilization like egypt. delhi almost and so there was always a feeling that it was equal to egypt but egypt was always more important ethiopians never had the same role. in nine hundred fifty nine egypt and

sudan agreed on dividing the rivers waters. ethiopia was neither invited to the negotiations nor included in the agreement. i think it was nothing could was able to stick by the ethiopian made it through or that having one's own on site or did was going on. if you was very much opposed to that this collusion is the policy. in the one nine hundred seventy is political changes in each country raised tensions further. egypt's new president anwar sadat abandoned both the leftist ideas of his predecessor and relations with the soviet union instead turned to the west. egypt's new political leaning was indorsed by an official visit from the us president richard nixon who received a rapturous welcome in cairo in june one thousand nine hundred seventy four.

ironically a few months later ethiopia would go through a political turnaround of its own. in september one thousand nine hundred seventy four emperor haile selassie was overthrown in a military coup which turned ethiopia into a communist country. and. the two countries were right back where they started in a political standoff on different sides of the cold war. once again the river nile was at the center of this tension. said there are a lot of mileage. egypt's relations with the soviet union deteriorate the soviets in coordination with responded by planning to build dams in the ethiopian highlands to stop or decrease the water flowing to egypt president sadat answered back saying

egypt would launch a war and destroy any downs built on the ethiopian plateau that affected the amount of water reaching egypt. today the a.t.o. peons continue for the time being to tread the fine line between developing their country and deferring to egyptian concerns but this could change. but the one. in april two thousand and eleven ethiopian prime minister. announced plans for a new project on the blue nile. called the grand bologna and dam it is forecast to produce over five thousand megawatts of electricity per year . it will be the largest hydro power station in africa. and will solve ethiopia's chronic power shortage. ethiopia is aware of egyptian

concerns. that people when they go to mentors are not the enemy off to this people so what we have demanding to see on. their government and the politicians. caring a part of the people and their lives. as we are to caring for them oneself. as populations increase and economies develop. demand for the nile waters is intensifying. the nile may be the world's longest river. but it carries a relatively small amount of water compared to other rivers around the world. who

are bottom and in the uk the nile is on your discharge toto's eighty four billion cubic meters this is insufficient for any of the now facing countries as for egypt it's simply not enough egypt's need for water is growing greater day by day. the scarcity of water in the nile basin is creating fear suspicion and tension. such sentiments are exacerbated by the uncertainties of mother nature. the nihilists formed from rainfall but it's points of a region in the ethiopian highlands and the great lakes region. the gift of nature is proving increasingly erratic. right now with a claim. that with the forecast is unpredictable even this so-called rains which we used to have in plenty it is no not on the regular not on up would be terrible. but i'd say that with higher temperatures you obviously have the potential warmer air

holds more moisture you have the potential for bigger downpours so if that does prove to be the case then the flooding will be an issue but the result a limited amount of water out there in the atmosphere so flooding in one area will inevitably lead to drought and another. averting. such catastrophe will require cool heads calm words and regional collaboration. following the revolution in egypt in early two thousand and eleven egyptian diplomacy was refocused on the region. nothing to be had at the out of them behind we need to cooperate and they need to cooperate we want to continue in a mood of consensus not conflict then no one does because all the nile basin countries are here to stay no one is going anywhere so if you are that. there is no

basis for fear against each other there is no reason to fight. and there is no reason that one country one of the water sources where that and upstream or downstream. from the great lakes of east africa. and the highlands of ethiopia. through the swamps of the sued. the arid desert of the sahara. the fertile valley in sudan and egypt. flowing out into the mediterranean sea. millions living along the river nile dream of a better future. and you're going to come as the city looking to turn new it is

a natural resource for india and your video to do it is a gift from god. and we must all use it well he's a just like our forefathers particularly when he lives in his interests. and without any thought has he knew no one living beside denial can ever stray from it if he does he will feel lost in the shoes of the. good or now when i've lived long enough i dream of a better future for my kids. a lot of what i've got is only god is sustaining us god provides everything is good god's blessing is all around us. all as longer there is no war and we are living in peace with sleep easy we no matter. what color tune with my job. i don't like it very much not this big but this big age.

the river nile unites worlds of mountains jungle marsh and desert. but in the manmade world of nation states. asserting patriotism in politics. the river has become a source of discord. the nile basin countries face a stark choice. set aside fears and tensions and cooperate. or run the risk of confrontation and conflict.

the nile will endure. a continuing struggle over its waters can only spell ruin. for all those who live on the banks of this great river. hello there the weather is quite quiet for many of us across the middle east at the

moment we do have a fair amount of cloud showing up on the satellite picture but generally speaking it's not too thick and it's not giving us too much in the way of heavy rain instead we'll stay with the settled weather as we head through the next few days no woman are today are maximum temperature minus ten middle little bit milder forth in cobol towards the west it is also milder force in beirut or temperature or bring it around twenty or twenty one degrees at the moment now but for the south it's feeling quite fresh in doha during the evening and overnight but during the day the temperatures are fairly decent getting to around twenty five maybe even twenty six degrees as we head into thursday further south also fun enjoy for many of us here with the temperature up to around twenty seven degrees now for the southern parts of africa there's far more wet weather here and recently it's been very very heavy particular over parts of zimbabwe now this area of rain is still with us as we head through wednesday and into thursday and you can tell from the very dark colors that we're expecting some more very heavy downpours from it as well particularly around parts of madagascar in the south though of madagascar does look like it should be

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