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minutes a suicide bomb blast in afghanistan's capital at least twenty six people are killed celebrating the persian new year. suspect in a spate of bombings in the u.s. state of texas kills himself as police moved in to arrest him. days before egypt's presidential election and the fact that his says egyptians should not be afraid to speak out freely. and a long walk for water the kenyan community that's increasingly dire straits. we begin this news hour with the latest suicide bomb explosion in afghanistan at least twenty six people have been killed in a bombing in the capital jury new year's celebrations the attack a blew him self up close to a shrine in the west of kabul nearly university reports.

chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a burgeoning sea crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghans celebrating no ruse the persian new year and was playing footy with them to include vivir nearby when a suicide bomb went off just said behind us the so nothing of a terror and bloodshed on the do it because you know if i was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this sue said bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was this who said able to get access to this area that the suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations a blast is the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks going up up up the level in fear unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the

blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations from their ruse but he's attacked them here far away from their chosen targets which is an important trying. on saturday a car bomb explosion claimed by the taliban killed at least two civilians several others were wounded in the morning rush hour suicide blast in an industrial area the city government said a private british security company was the target it was the four suicide attack in the afghan capital in the past three weeks a u.s. general in afghanistan has said protecting the capital is the americans main effort but the attacks continue increasing pressure on president assad he offered peace talks to the taliban last month as part of efforts to end the sixteen year war but any sort of negotiated settlement appears a long way off but all of on has continued to grow in strength since the withdrawal of the u.s. led nato combat troops four years ago and most security analysts predict its annual

so-called spring offensive will be more intense this year as taliban fighters respond to repeated u.s. and afghan airstrikes as well as ground assault of wednesday's attack is any indication of what's to come many more lives will likely be lost. police in the u.s. state of texas say the suspect in a series of possible bombings has killed himself and identified him as a twenty four year old white male but says the motive behind the blasts is unclear john hendren has more for most of. this series of mysterious package bombings in the texas city of austin appeared to have ended as dramatically as they began there have been six explosives five of them went off police found one that did not and at the end of a very long chews day police officers tracked a man they believed was a person of interest in this case to a hotel behind me over there they tried to keep him where he was but when he moved

that car an officer fired police say and it was at that time that the man in the car detonated a device killing himself i say this may be over because we don't know how many packages may have already been sent in or working their way through the mail system that we also don't know whether this man had any confederates he is a twenty four year old caucasian man police were able to catch him on surveillance video they also had evidence given to them by witnesses so they had been hot on his trail and he had been ramping up his attacks five attacks before this and one unexploded package resulted in two people killed four critically injured and now everybody here is hoping it is over but the one question that has not been answered is why did he do it. amounts in written is a twenty one year veteran of the f.b.i. and joins me now in studio to talk more about the so thanks for being with us obviously

a lot of relief in texas right now that assuming this is the man behind these attacks that this is now. we hope over but questions remain about whether as as as john said there there were other bombs that he that he left behind and whether he was working with all this. absolutely i mean certainly if he was making explosives of self and there are hundreds of recipes on the internet that you can get the materials in most any hardware store in america or grocery stores all the recipes making the exposer not difficult putting the device together takes a little bit more but again there's plenty of. designs on the internet you can look at experiment with but did he do this alone and why did he do it and was there anybody else involved and a lot of this as far as how they got to this. to this man a lot of it just comes to just good old fashioned detective work sifting through all of the all of the clues everything that that was out there about where they

could how they could lead to him absolutely this or that this was a major investigation not only the austin police department but a number of police agencies in the state of texas as well as the f.b.i. and the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms everybody brought in expertise and when you can bring in hundreds of investigators and agents to help work a major case like this you track down every possible lead in this particular case it appears that there was a cell phone tracking that was used it was a very important video that came out and also receipts that were picked up that helped identify a person of interest who eventually became the suspect are you surprised by how relatively quickly they were able to find this person compared with previous serial pomus i mean for those of us who are old enough to remember this there's the this brings to mind the unabomber twenty or thirty years ago and it took a muslim that isn't eventually get him to go quickly and again the efforts of the law enforcement agencies involved perhaps some good breaks but it comes down to

just there's a lot of work and and stars were aligned that is inskeep case the unabomber case if you imagine that spanned three decades and kept investigators stumped until the very end in this case things went very quickly and what does this do perhaps just kind of more broadly speaking for the reputation of the f.b.i. and law enforcement in general because you know they've taken a lot of criticism in the news lately was what's happening with the investigation and so on but it's important to remember the a lot of these are just kind of career guys who are who are just doing their jobs exactly in a again you know this awesome police department provided the leadership on this. the initial response much of the investigation the f.b.i. and the a.t.f. supported the investigation at the street level why i think this will be a big boost for the f.b.i. they are having some. some issues out there at the headquarters level some allegations have been made and investigation will determine whether those will pan out and how how important it was you know all of the new technology that

investigators have to work with now in terms of the speed in getting getting all these clues together and technology probably was when it was a major factor again. the video tape that was recovered from the fed ex facility that help to identify this individual as a person of interest there could have been forensic evidence that was recovered quickly from the one device at the fed ex facility that did not detonate and then of course the cell phone tracking that was used was the identify the individual they find out what his phone number is you can track him virtually anywhere through the cell phone technology good to speak with you marty meehan joining us there is here in the uk like so much peter now russia's foreign ministry says britain may have orchestrated the nerve agent attack on a former double agent is accusing the kremlin of poisoning surrogate's cripple and his daughter two weeks ago twenty three russian diplomats were expelled from the

u.k. on tuesday russia is also expelling british diplomats from moscow let's get the latest now on this from rory chalons in moscow rory. yeah well i mean this is an interesting event that's been going on at the foreign ministry for the last hour or so it's essentially a room full of ambassadors or representatives of embassies here in moscow that have been summoned by the ministry of foreign affairs and basically they're being told the russian version of the script all case and that russian version as outlined by vladimir yama covers the head of the russian foreign ministry departments of arms nonproliferation and control essentially russia had nothing to do with it see says that london. has basically sort of been putting out various hysterical accusations none of which would stand criticism that there are two

options mirroring the two options that the reason may outlines the russian version of these two options is either u.k. authorities are unable to protect against terrorist acts on their own territory or they've directives this attack against a russian citizen themselves there's no third option they say they see that the u.k. authorities are becoming more and more nervous. and that the reason why this is the case is that the clock is ticking and they've driven selves into a corner that this is a blatantly frayn's illegal adventure this is the kind of stuff that we're getting at the moment from the russian foreign ministry and what are the implications of all of this going forward then because up to now we've seen a lot of kind of tit for tat between russia and the u.k. in mali. yeah i mean i think that tit for tat is is carrying on. i think moscow is

a bit rattled by. what seems to be some degree of success the london is having in in rallying international support for its position on this critical case you know nato and european powers and the u.s. of basically swung in behind london on this that's obviously worrying to moscow and i think what we're seeing at the moment is russia's response to that when you look at actually what they're doing here in this particular event that there's been going on it strikes me as very similar efforts that russia engaged in after say the mh seventeen disaster when a plane was shot out of the sky over eastern ukraine and then of course that can shake chemical gas attack in syria last year these were both episodes in which russia was directly accused of participation and

in both of those events russia was very quick to gather these sorts of experts to put their view across in a similar kind of panel briefing format the difference between then and now is there then it was journalists who were sitting there in the audience listening to the russian position and this time it seems to be ambassadors that i would sit through rory thanks for that really challenge live in moscow. now it has been a week the people of facebook would prefer to forget revelations of a major data breach of its users have eroded people's trust left politicians on both sides of the atlantic fuming and ham of the company's stock price and it's only wednesday now the social networking giants boss mark zuckerberg is finally going to speak within the next twenty four hours we're told that's four days after the company at the center of it all cambridge analytical is accused of gaining and also rice access to fifty million facebook users a cambridge analytic is

a political consultancy based in london it worked on political campaigns in the u.s. u.k. and kenya chief executive alexander nix has been suspended he's been secretly recorded boasting about the company's ability to sway elections investigations are underway into facebook and cambridge analytical in the u.s. and the u.k. and politicians from both countries are demanding answers and we're covering this story on both sides of the atlantic nadine barber is in london but first let's go to mike hanna in washington so mike what are they saying there well we haven't heard directly at all from mark zuckerberg as you point out that report that he'll be speaking in the next twenty four hours not properly sourced at this particular point and importantly as well he and the chief operating officer sheryl sandberg did not speak or did not appear at an internal facebook meeting tuesday so once again people are asking where is mark zuckerberg in the light and in the face of

the scandal questions being asked to on the hill here in washington where the senate intelligence committee is holding hearings today snow permitting the election security now it's known that they want to take it chief executives to appear before them among them mark zuckerberg so we haven't questions on the hill we have been questions it appears within facebook and the question is where is mark zuckerberg at present. and what is this all doing for the public's trust in social social media networks in general and and basically the public discourse in the us right now well it's having a massive impact on the not only a situation where you've got the senate intelligence hearings on election security part of which is the whole issue of social media you also have in new york state for example there the attorney general's investigating charges into facebook as in

new jersey these are charges that facebook illegally use the data on its servers you also have the financial trade commission the f.t.c. which is now a reportedly reinvestigating facebook after receiving assurances a few years ago that facebook was keeping the data on its servers secure so it is now a massive point of discussion among the public among the politicians in washington and of course among financial markets where facebook shares have lost some fifty billion dollars since this scandal erupted so very much top of the discourse within the united states yeah we'll wait to see what comes out of that for them our mike hanna live for us in washington scott in a deme barber now in london so nadeem we talked earlier there about cambridge analytic or this political can some consultancy at the center of all of this what is the latest on the attempts to try to gain access to their offices.

well hasn't surprisingly there's still no no breakthrough it was monday night when the information commissioner said on national television in britain that she was going to be seeking a warrant to enter the premises behind me of cambridge analytical to try to get into their servers and find out what exactly what information they had to do with that infamous facebook. in the hours that followed reports emerged that actually people working for facebook had got into the building the information commissioner told them stop you're treading on our territory and they did so but still no commission for the information commissioner's people to get in here all the while people were asking why the delay on wednesday morning the person who created that specifically for the facebook platform has said that he has been scapegoated both

by cambridge analytical to whom he says he just handed over the data he collected without payment and without knowing what they were going to do with it and by facebook he says that it was clear all along that cambridge analytical came to him and said we want you to design this product which will allow us to mine data on a massive scale he says that led to. thirty million people in the us thirty million people's information being accessed although he didn't he couldn't comment on whether or not it might have been used in the us election he also says that facebook facebook knew all along that this was a commercial venture and it's dishonest of them now to turn around and say that they would jeep so that's where we are in terms of the argument between some of the players house them and what our politicians in the u.k. saying i've been. well just in the last hour or so

prime minister to resign may has said that she wants a thorough investigation into the matter now there's a committee of the house of commons the lower house of parliament which is already heard from some representatives of facebook the chair of that committee has now said he wants mark zuckerberg to commit by next monday to come and face the committee in person he says that facebook has been misleading in its answers so far over how it made sure that people's information was protected this committee has been looking into the whole issue of fake news just to remind people so a deadline of next monday from what it's about to reply and he says that it has to be that high he's not going to take any other representatives but some political opponents of prime minister to resign may or asking questions of her party the leader of the scottish national party in westminster says virt term

a director of cambridge analytic or allegedly paid gave around one million us dollars. to two cambridge and a literature there are also questions from some people about the role but cambridge analytic owes the actions might have played in the a referendum on leaving the e.u. breck's it one of the main funders of the leave the e.u. campaign aaron banks has been clear stated openly that he did use cambridge and electric and so in the next few days that might be a channel of inquiry as well. the dean barber live for us in london thanks to d.m. plenty more ahead on the news hour a tale of two cities and what's called an ancient medina and the capital of tunisia. later is for later on last c.n.n. argentina get ready to take on italy as preparations for this year's world cup heat up.

those stories to cumber first in syria at least ninety three civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern huta in attacks by the syrian military and its allies the syrian government says another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed in a market in damascus which is controlled by government forces so in a hot day is monitoring developments from beirut. reports of an agreement between one of the rebel factions in eastern wood and the russian military. controls the town of because right now the the enclave. divided into three pockets i heard a sham controls one of those pockets and there are reports that it has reached a deal with the russian military those fighters agreeing to lay down their arms in exchange they're going to get safe passage to leave to other rebel controlled areas in the north of the country you know there are three rebel factions in eastern talks with the other two have not really made much progress so the deal with this

reported deal will undoubtedly put pressure on those two rebel factions which have vowed to continue to fight until the end but their bargaining power really they do not have much bargaining power because their pockets the pockets that they control are surrounded by pro-government forces and according to the united nations hundreds of thousands of people are trapped inside and many of them have been appealing for a way out a lot of the civil defense volunteers as well as media activists who are wanted by the state they have been appealing to the united nations to open poor doors safe passages for them to leave that are monitored by the united nations because they fear that if they cross into government controlled territories they could come arrested or even be executed so there's this fear among civilians who are trapped inside so reports of a possible deal the first such deal of its kind we know what the pro-government alliance wants and they want a surrender and this is since they they launched this bombing campaign over a month ago. and it's raining military commanders have confirmed for the first time

warplanes bombed suspected nuclear reactor in syria eleven years ago previously classified cockpit video has been released of the ass strike mediators order in two thousand and seven israel's intelligence minister says it should be a warning to iran that it won't be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. egypt's president. has said in a t.v. interview that egyptians should not fear speaking freely and that he's not responsible for not facing strong competition in the presidential elections he was responding to a video where gyptian said they were in constant fear of imprisonment and tough economic conditions soaring living costs and who or who had sold her would. see what i'm telling you now is not politics at all everyone must speak up their mind people are free to say what they want and i have no problems with that and no one should have a problem with that the reality is we need to think carefully about every word we

say sometimes people believe what they have said if someone keeps saying there is no hope ultimately they will live hope free life if someone keeps saying that people are being arrested ultimately they will be convinced that in egypt you can't talk freely which is not true and the least that i can say is that no orders have been issued at all to do that. i have noticed on t.v. that there are phrases like oh stop talking or no you can't say that this is not good and i am not saying this for the sake of saying it i mean it and people are comprehensively free to talk and act only one thing is not allowed for example to violently hurt the country some people ask about the democratic process and practice when they say that sisi may win the elections but still we wish to see some other competitors yes they are right why not more candidates but you talk to me about something i have nothing to do with i swear to god my wish is to see more presidential candidates for the people to freely select one the general atmosphere

is not yet ready for that we have more than one hundred parties and the question is have they nominated any. and egypt has extended the detention of al jazeera journalist mahmoud his saying by another forty five days the egyptian was arrested while on vacation in december twenty sixth seen any yet to be charged the same was accused of broadcasting false news with the aim of spreading chaos i just feel strongly denies the allegations. sure joins me on set now he's a professor of security studies at the institute for graduate studies to talk more about events in egypt right now thanks very much for being with us so we have the election coming up next week and you heard the president cc's comments there should egyptians be reassured by what he said i don't think so the practice is on the ground completely different from what he says. most of the serious contenders for the presidential elections are either marginalized or life in prison including the

former chief of staff of the egyptian army general sami on and you have all those who have been harassed you have human rights watch is talking about fifteen solid than civilians who were court martialed in his reign between october twenty fourth dean and september twenty seventh this is unprecedented number even on the mubarak's time we have hundreds of cases of forced disappearances killings are well documented in that made the human rights commission or is it been rather speaks frankly about the. era of intimidation and terror in ruling the country which is also unprecedented for a human rights commissioner to say that never been said before under any of the regimes so when this is said that nobody no one should fear and these are the realities documented realities on the ground and there is a big gap between and what do you expect to come to come out of these elections next week it's pretty obvious there is no other contender it's looks to me much

more like we call it election but it looks to me like the more saddam hussein driven on the motive we know that no matter how many people say no it's always going to be ninety percent plus yes so my prediction this is will be over ninety percent then slide victory for c.c. but we cannot call it free or fair elections his main contenders someone who supported him dearly and was leading a campaign this is the supporters of the that was the title of the campaign so. it's very clear who is the contend against himself and what does this tell us about the current political climate in egypt right now you know it's so far away from the hopes of twenty eleven and the struggles of the twenty eleven over the ocean freedom justice and dignity. it is very far away from that and even very much worse than the climate on the mubarak we have to remember that between to solve them five and living things were changing it to a certain to be under mubarak this is quite brutal this is the standard i think of

. saddam hussein style of rule and we'll see how this may first itself in the future but for now i think we know who will be in the coming of his introductions could speak really are much the surest thanks for being with us. now to this year is in danger of losing much of its rich cultural heritage ancient buildings fall into disrepair while traditions and crafts are disappearing fast but one one woman has taken it upon herself to save what she can hum a gem june went to meet her in tunis for layla there is no place more in chanted when she discovered this house several years ago it was a transformative event the first time i walked there. and i know it sounds funny. to me. who is passionate about preservation worried that not enough was being done to protect tunisia's cultural heritage so she bought the property which was built in the seventeenth century and

decided to turn it into a hotel the data been gusen is located in the medina of tunis a unesco world heritage site every corner has a story often art. gypsum carving carving. everything is how. the entrepreneur says the restoration process was extremely difficult but she was determined. now she puts money back into her community so that other spaces can also be restored and more jobs can be created. there are thousands. of products. especially were. purchased. decreasing. in the. decreasing lots. a growing number of tunisians say the medina which is considered the historic heart of the country's capital is falling into disrepair

while its narrow streets still contain a rich sampling of tunisian artistry and craftsmanship vendors are growing concerned down one of the alleys plies a trade he inherited from his father and grandfather making traditional tunisian cheese she adds his family has owned and operated this business for close to one hundred years to keep that ashes shia when you see it somewhere in the ward it's like you are seeing the tunisian flooding because of how it exists only in tunisia like many other merchants here struggles to get by. he also worries an important piece of tunisia's cultural past may be slipping away from. there used to be lots of other shops around here now as you see they are all closed not that many people are active anymore in this field. but not

all hope is lost and not all traditions are being forgotten in another part of the medina tunisians come together in a colorful celebration of the past this is an example about how our heritage is important to tunisians today is the national day of traditional dresses when it's a day when men and women young and old gather in the medina they march through the old city's alleyways and wearing their country's traditional attire. here generations of tunisians are attempting to build a better future on the foundations of their shared heritage mohammed gentleman dizzee into tunis. time now for the weather here's richard reid news of yet another snowstorm hitting the northeastern u.s. that's right us is being assaulted on both coasts at the moment has some if you take a look at the pictures we've got coming in here in southern california they're preparing for iraq for of

a period of very wet weather due to the pineapple expresses band of moisture coming in off the pacific so they're preparing for their arrival about meanwhile over on the east coast the really having to deal with the start of the snow which is falling across the region and beginning to fall quite heavily is the four start such nor'easter during the month of march and yes we're into spring but it's still looking decidedly wintry at the moment you see the spot of the low pressure there and we're pulling in some strong north easterly winds so it's moving to have a look at it in more detail new york for instance j.f.k. temperatures around about zero when you add on the effect of the wind it feels like minus thirteen degrees or really cold where that moment and the snow is already beginning to accumulate such that we think over the next twenty four hours so my boston may see as much as ten to fifteen centimeters of snow but for new york you could be looking at some light thirty to forty five centimeters so a lot of snow causing a lot of structure many flights already being canceled as

a result of this thing of the next twenty four hours a lot more flights will begin to council before eventually start to see some dry weather returning from the west. still ahead on al-jazeera what a new trade agreement could mean for the fifty five african nations that sign on the dotted line. lightning strikes four times in the n.h.l. for tampa bay tatiana will be here to explain in sports. the benefit of saddam people so bad to see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. al jazeera. and for us. what makes

this moment this era we're living through so unique all this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provocative or do you know is people do step in this stage to serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching absolute monitor of our top stories this hour the

latest suicide bomb blasts in afghanistan has killed at least twenty six people they included teenagers from kabul university celebrating the start of the persian new year. u.s. media reports say facebook boss mark zuckerberg zuckerberg will speak within the next twenty four hours four days after a major data breach was revealed the company of the center of it all cambridge our lead to is accused of gaining an authorized access to fifty million facebook users . a suspected serial serial bombing in texas has blown himself up as police closed in on him but they don't know the motive for the five parcel bomb blasts this month including one of the fed ex office twenty four hours ago two people were killed and several others injured in the bombing spree. in northern nigeria boko haram fighters have freed dozens of girls abducted from their school last month but some remain missing some of in germany. these are parents and relatives of some of the

hundred and ten girls who were kidnapped they've been anxiously waiting for weeks to find out what happened to their children who are on fighters took them last month from their school and up the town in northeastern nigeria ninety one goals seem a lot more like this now i can say even. my many of the. goals of the future that led to the least one being one was adopting one things along the line up to on the road. and. they went back was not directed at prince houses have not been asked to. come and visit the girls were checked for physical and psychological trauma before security forces and our parents to meet them last month of zero spoke to some who managed to escape and many others including the elder sister of these girls were kidnapped it's hard for them to skip the pain of not knowing where their sister is and also the fear they could have been taken as well there's an isa islands at the girl's school and men

dressed in military fatigues entered the school and took the girls away in their truck. and since then there have been media reports that some of the girls may have died this isn't the first time school girls have been abducted or that. there was an international outcry in two thousand and fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from two broke many have still not been found nigerian forces have not declared the details of the deal under which these latest girls were released the government made it clear that it would negotiate but the kidnappers rather than use military force. nigeria and its allies have been fighting boko haram in the lake chad region for years but brazen kidnapping and drop off of victims indicates that the group is far from being defeated saddam and job paid out of their. african leaders are meeting in rwanda to sign a new free trade deal it will be the largest since the formation of the world trade

organization the continent wide trade agreement is a flagship goal of agenda twenty sixty three that's the african union's long term vision for a wealthy and conflict free african shallop bellus explains. the a.u. is calling it the african continent to free trade area and africa wide trade block mean to allow unrestricted movement of people goods and capital across fifty five countries it's unprecedented and has been fuji is in the making trade on the continent is just sixteen percent the reason africa has dozens of currencies and transport costs twice the world average the continent is also split between seventeen often competing trade blocs the biggest being the common market for eastern and southern africa command and twenty fifteen a landmark deal was done between komisar and two other blocs the southern african development community and the east african community it covers an area nearly twice

the size of china stretching from cairo to cape town that was the building block for a continent wide agreement one that covers africa's one point two billion people at the combined g.d.p. more than three point five trillion dollars it's predicted that a trade grouping this large should give africa a g.d.p. equal to that of the u.s. and europe combined by twenty fifty that is what the african union wants but it requires the agreement of its fifty five members heads of state from angola to kenya to south africa cheerleading the launch one leader that is missing the president of nigeria mohammad harry was scheduled to speak but pulled out at the last minute arguing more consultations on made it seem as a setback because nigeria has the biggest economy in africa and without it the free trade agreement may not amount to much let's get straight to who is live for us in

kigali where those leaders gathered so mohammed how significant is this deal for africa's future development. hossam this is huge for africa and the leaders gathered here really speech after speech talked about why the need to bring this agreement into being as soon as possible the idea is to bring africa's one point two billion people with a joint g.d.p. or two point five trillion dollars according to the u.n. economic commission of africa under one market but it's a poor also not is rife with challenges and could take years before it comes into being now joining me to discuss these father is david look he's an economist with the u.n. economic commission for africa david thank you very much for joining us there were concerns whether they will be able to get that first group of countries that

would make this agreement come into being now they have gotten four to four countries signing the agreement what does this mean and tell us the process from here on in you know well have it as you can see is a beautiful day in kigali and it's a wonderful outcome from the summit as you've just said for the focus on trees of say in the legal instruments. the african continent will free trade area a number of other countries saying what is known as the kigali declaration that is probably serino to that as soon as the internal that if equation process is concluded there would also be saving so this is a fantastic outcome from the summit but what it means is is that africa is embarking on a course of trade trade reforms forty six percent of in traffic and exports industrial products are value added products but when africa trades with

the rest of the world eighty percent is just basic commodities and within that of course as you know many goals and petroleum dominate so africa needs to move towards. you know. if you like this once more a sophisticated kind of a great many people are wondering if nigeria africa's biggest economy and countries like south africa are not convinced about this agreement what does it before it. not quite show what your sources say the danger is not convinced or south africa south africa by the way is one of the countries that probably three note today president rebel forces in. the year chaired at least the last four rounds of the negotiations look one hundred trade negotiations and trade liberalization is always a very difficult process there are always legitimate concerns legitimate issues to take into account some countries would have difficulties need to consult the need

to see how base they could be part of this process i think that's a legitimate because what african countries of saying is that just a piece of paper they have signed a document to say that they want to hold each other accountable for opening up trade dealing with customs locators and all those sorts of things thank you very much david look of the united nations economy commission for africa back to you hossam thanks very much hamad now more than half of kenya's population only have access to unsafe drinking water from ponds shallow wells and rivers as katherine or so i reports now from what g.r. lack of clean water their courses conflicts between farming communities. there has been some rain in what jack county for the fast time in months. and her neighbors in the village of. their train water that collects in paddles on the main

road. they have no clean water source and often rely on the leverage trucked to them by the local government from a bore hole more than forty kilometers away it's been a week since they last saw the truck. and we don't have anything else to drink right now we cook food we feed to when our children come from school they drink sometimes they get sick but we have few options. but the rains iraq take and drought frequent forcing hiding communities to walk longer distances in such for food and water and fights often break out as resources become even more scarce this come all the being taken to another far away area where it has rained but most conflicts over water and pasture happen during drought seasons where there's not much to go around elders we talked to told us that the traditional ways of solving problems over resources somewhat ineffective now because of political interference

. here the elders discuss reason territorial clashes between two communities claiming rights to an area where trains more at least eighty people have died in a dispute over land since more than a decade ago four of them including its pregnant wife were killed in the most recent conflict she's left behind six children. from the other community need water or food they should come and ask but by force that's what leads to conflict. the government and other development partners have been sinking bore holes building dams and constructing water pans to bring water closer to harden and their animals but even then finding it is getting more difficult what used to be very popular. with egypt is used to. collect water. in perth fits.

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well again now the killing of seventeen students and teaches at a high school in florida last month but students across the u.s. today mon change on march twenty fourth they will rally in washington d.c. for stricter gun laws rob runnels looks at the long history of use let political struggles. the gun protests spearheaded by survivors of the stolen douglas high school mass shooting are the latest in a long tradition of youth led protest movements student have been at the bank art of social movements in america for a long time people become risk of birth they get older but you know you live with they're here in the lion's mouth the list of student led protests is long including the one nine hundred sixty lunch counter sit ins against u.s. racial segregation that galvanized the civil rights movement the anti vietnam war

demonstrations beginning in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the may one thousand nine hundred sixty eight anticapitalist and anti-imperialist protests that paralyzed france and spread across europe china's chinaman square student pro-democracy protests in one nine hundred eighty nine the youth revolt that toppled middle east governments during the arab spring of two thousand and eleven and the black lives matter movement in the united states from twenty fourteen onward i think part of it has to do with youthful exuberance and and fear of the determination in the face very daunting a riff a refusal to settle for the compromises that a lot of adults hey out in the world around them some youth protest movements were crushed for a time but their impact lingered often changing political systems and national cultures. with the memory of idealism standing up to power echoing across

generations after decades of repeated mass shootings followed by barren debate and inaction over guns the parklane survivor's protest has already led to stricter gun laws in florida and with students across the country joining in created a sense of urgency about gun control school safety and the political strength ahold of the gun lobby these students have moved the needle because they've been in a position to say we're going to bring the go through of our classmates with every debate a movement led by youth who refuse to be silent robin liss al jazeera los angeles that's good that's good roles for now. thank you very much has and there's just over a year to go until the twenty nineteen cricket world cup takes place in england and wales with nkunda and the wilds of the top seven teams already secured at the places there are a six teams currently fighting out for the last two remaining thought the

qualifying tournament in zimbabwe as you can see hit the hardest on the west indies a currently lead the way with each team still to play one more game the united arab emirates have been eliminated but each of the other five still have a chance the west indies and scotland a carly on the field in harare and whoever comes out on top in this one will be assured of qualification early on the west indies well out to one hundred ninety eight in reply gotland have lost five wickets i thought i need ninety four runs to win. nepal's cricket team has been a reason for celebration for many in the country after it finally won the o.d.i. status that's one day international status they can now sit on the top table of the one day game alongside india australia england and other top cricketing nation as to be initial estimate spain's has been a rocky path for the country. hundreds of fans wait outside government to airport

to get a glimpse of their favorite stars and powers national cricket team arrived home on monday evening from zimbabwe after winning one day international status and i'm looking forward to playing the giants of the one day game such as india england and australia. this comes with a lot of responsibility we have to improve our game and if infrastructure is built on the next six months to a year we can plan and move ahead it's time the government gives priority to cricket. the path to one day international status has been a rocky one for than a potties the players are talented but the sports administrators are plagued by allegations of mismanagement political interference and corruption involving embezzled funds all that cause the world governing body international cricket council to suspend cricket association of the people two years ago. association suspension from the i.c.c.

has excluded the team from competitions but it has meant a reduction of more than ninety percent in funding all we do log on i mean snow mustard on i mean are it going to hamper because there were no more drowning in the domestic economy and so we had a problem with beersheba action and an all in problem for people who are involved in the in the system so the direct impact and motion in boardroom impact that we had in the domestic structure. far from developing new facilities existing cricket grounds have not been meant tape. it's to control this is around the sports administration that's hard to dampen the spirit of aspiring players cricket has become and you know mostly popular in their part earlier this year one of the national players was selected for the indian premier league the richest cricket league in the world and a few people across the country have started to see the sport as a viable career option now with o.d.i.

status assured for the next four years nepal hopes to cement its place as a competitive international team fans here hope that the sports administrators in the park as well as the newly appointed sports minister will make changes and start investing in the development of the sport to beat us russia al-jazeera. the reality is that nepal might actually be even further away from the cricket world cup than they'd realize the i.c.c. took a decision after the twenty fifteen world cup to reduce the number of teams at the tournament from fourteen to ten the world cup began in one thousand nine hundred seventy five with eight games taking part gradually expanded to fourteen teams in two thousand and three which included four non-testable playing nations in south africa further expansion led to a sixteen team tournament in the west indies that was in two thousand and seven but the quality of the additional teams like the middle with heavily criticized the

i.c.c. went back to the fourteen team format for two thousand and eleven and the most recent tournament in twenty fifteen is widely considered to be one of the best ever but now in two thousand and nineteen only ten teams will take part it also means that at least two test playing nations will be absent from wildcard. now the countdown to this year's football world cup in russia is well underway and top teams are stepping up their preparations with international friendlies this week messi arrived in manchester to join up with argentina as they get ready to face italy on friday argentina failed to impress in the qualify as needing a hot trick from messi in their final game to make it to russia south american rivals brazil are getting a glimpse of what to expect those finals there in moscow for friday's friendly with hosts russia will be the five time world champions of first game of the year and of

course that's still without star player neymar who remains a doubt for the world cup because all their broken fit as well as giving teams a chance to higher in the world cup preparations this week friendlies will also mark an important return to football for iraq fifty feet for lifting a twenty eight year ban on the country hosting internationals on friday. this was the welcome the syrian team got when they arrived for a training session iraq will play syria next week in bulk up at first play a current customer later on wednesday. in the n.b.a. the houston rockets the portland trail blazers thirteen a game winning streak on tuesday james harden scored forty two points in the one hundred fifteen to one hundred eleven when portland's winning streak had been tied

for the second longest in front tries history elsewhere anthony davis scored thirty seven points for the new orleans pelican to leave them so when over the dallas mavericks hundred fifteen to one hundred five with the score in that game new orleans are in a tight race in the western conference a playoff spot. in the n.h.l. the tampa bay lightning and a hard fought win on tuesday they were up against the toronto maple leafs and found themselves trailing three nothing in the second period but just when it looked like it would going to be a night to forget for the home fans in tampa the lightning came storming back final score four three featuring compensated for their fiftieth to win all the. elsewhere the winnipeg jets secured an overtime when i over the los angeles kings and i the team scored until the second period dustin brown giving los angeles the lead khana even the game for the jets the game went into overtime. getting his second goal to give winnipeg a two one win. out of all the polls and i'm late to have

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