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sweeps to power valuing to stamp out corruption. with the latest from the wild card complete stunning come from behind a win in the last. time in the quarterfinals will be five time champions brazil. i'll have that story and more later. so we begin with a remarkable story of survival out of thailand twelve boys and their football coach have been found alive after spending nine days trapped inside a cave have a look at these latest pictures of the boys inside the cave the group had become trapped after heavy rains flooded the exit rescue teams from all over the world who spent days trying to reach them and some even spending their nights inside the cave

to speed up the search. i'll keep you happy happy that today is the best day i have been waiting for my son for so many days i thought he only had a fifty percent chance of survival. i am so excited the first thing i would do is hug him i would like to take thanks to all the journalists who are here. let's speak to our correspondents right away away in haiti joins us live from the scene in chiang rai wayne very very good news very welcome to see those pictures but it's not over yet the no that she rescued. no that's exactly right yeah i may sing jubilant scenes here just outside the main entrance to the cave just a few hours ago when the chiang rai provincial governor made that announcement that the thirteen had been found he's the man who has been giving regular updates over the past nine or ten days and really he said very little to say and he's been criticized often for that perhaps unfairly but this evening as i say

a few hours ago he was able to deliver that news that everyone wanted to hear but it is not over yet as you say now begins the long task of trying to work out exactly how they're going to get. those boys and their coach out of there and also trying to assess exactly what sort of condition the priority at the moment we are told is getting medical assistance to them there are medical stop that have been stationed with their equipment inside the cave not too far away from where they have found the scene so they are now on their way to that location to deliver whatever medical assistance will be needed by them but judging by the video footage very hard to say from that initial footage when the british divers made the first contact with them but they did look to be reasonably ok obviously very hungry very tired some of them said and very emotional emotional understandably. it appears

that they may well be reasonably ok but still getting them out of there is going to be a big challenge right that's a big challenge so what will they do in the meantime i guess even have to assess their medical condition you have to feed them up with me that i'm not ready to eat for nine days. well we assume that they did take in some food supplies some fresh drinking water but not a lot certainly not enough for the time that they spent in there so yes we believe that the first wave of navy seal divers from they tie navy did take in some emergency food rations for them simply drinking water after that initial discovery was made and now as i say the priority is getting those medical staff there to do the assessments to see what sort of medical attention they will need and while all this is going on it is the hard work of trying to work out how they are going to get them out of there priority number one we're told remains getting them out the

main entrance but that is going to be a very long journey the still a lot of water inside that cave system yes it's gone down a lot over the past few days because we haven't had as much rain as we saw at times last week but still it requires a dive to get to them so that means to get them out is going to require that the boy and the football coach would need to dive as well unless they can get that water level down significantly over the coming hours and days right you can only imagine the relief they must have felt when they saw those first glimmers of torch lies with the rescuers not only them of course also the parents and relatives on the surface. yes exactly that must have been an amazing feeling when those boys and they saw the divers coming through that gap shining the lights on them and we don't know exactly the conditions that they have lived through and they are exactly how much light they had in terms of torches how long they last and how long they've been living in there in complete darkness and what the oxy. levels

there like as well there were a lot of speculation about how difficult it might be for them to breathe in there but the family and close friends have been camped for the most part right outside the entrance to the cave system really since the alarm was first raised more than nine days ago so for them to hear that news spread out by the provincial governor of chiang rai province that they had been found was an incredible moment really but i think mixed with the realization that there is a long way to go and they weren't rest easy completely until they see those thirteen people come out of that cave or what is an extraordinary story wayne and plenty more to come will be back with you as the things develop thanks very much the way in haiti there in thailand now the german chancellor and her interior minister say a compromise has been reached in a migration dispute klyn horst. had been holding talks in berlin to resolve the

crisis merkel says her government will now establish centers inside germany to send asylum seekers back to the e.u. country they first registered in let's go straight to dominate cain who joins us live from berlin dominic tell us more about this this compromise is being reached. well naked some stages it seemed like that no compromise was possible the position seemed very entrenched indeed over the course of the last thirty six hours the we've had the interior minister offering to resign and taking it back then going into extra session as it were in impromptu meetings with angle americal to try to get some form of compromise they met again this evening with fourteen of their colleagues trying to get through what what they could achieve what was a red line what was negotiable and within the last forty five minutes or so they've come out and said that there is a compromise they found a solution they are going to toughen the the immigration system on the borders of

their country both of the leaders have been speaking let's listen to what they've had to say you know of months of intensive four hundred. two you know only after intensive negotiations between the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. we have come to an accord we have a clear agreement about how we are going to prevent illegal migration in the future between germany and the austrian border i am glad that we have been successful in coming to this agreement we have seen once more that it is worth fighting for what you believe in and we have a clear and very robust agreement for the future. for these things are there says he's there for years i am very pleased that the cd un c.s.u. have come to a compromise with a view to managing regulating and where possible preventing secondary migration at the european council a few days ago we decided that we have to take care of secondary migration otherwise there is a risk of jeopardizing the freedoms of the schengen area that is the right to free

movement in order to do that we want to take national internal measures why operating in partnership with the countries of origin and other countries the dollar total a bit more about what this will mean for migrants coming into germany how much has changed now. well the first thing to say is this is a compromise between two elements of the grand coalition not all three the third element is the social democrats and some of the leaders are meeting angela merkel right now in the chancellery so it's not as if this is absolutely set in stone just yet the question will be whether the social democrats will accept it because some of the language in this is not necessarily what they really want to hear what we know now is that migrants who come across the border well if they've registered somewhere else they will go to the centers and the point here is christine social unit from various stressing illegal immigration is something they have to really

deal with they're also trying to crack down on secondary migration remember nick that's the people who register somewhere else in the e.u. and then travel further on to try to claim asylum elsewhere in this instance in germany so now if this is accepted if this becomes coalition policy well they'll be a very serious change in the way immigration has been run effectively we're going to have camps being set up close to the german austrian border where people will be held in detention for some period of time before they are then processed back to the country where they first made landfall but as i say the it's not over yet because the social democrats have to agree to this to their position has been to the left the center left in this migration as it were all right daryn thanks very much judy that's a picture from burlington reporting. here with a new live from london much more to come on the program. israel passes

a law to the ducks around three hundred million dollars a year from the budget of the palestinian authority. a massive government offensive in syria's darragh province forces more than a quarter of a million people to flee. because of all coming up to roger federer gets his quest for a ninth wimbledon title. off the wedding stuff. the end secretary-general says he's heard unimaginable accounts of killing and rape from refugees who fled to bangladesh and ten you get terrorism has been visiting overcrowded camps in bangladesh is coaxes bizarre district where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering he says refugees are living in terrible conditions there because of massive human rights violations. and how much m.g.m. has more now from one of the camps in coke's is bizarre. united nations secretary

general antonio good terrorists has come and gone life here a coup to prolong the world's largest refugee camp goes on we're here in one of the older sections of the camp this is one of the main trading areas a lot of room for refugees have set up stalls and this is where they trade with each other now i want to give you some example of what it's like here the conditions on a day like today today there were two rental downpours for short amounts of time so it was an extended rain but there was rainfall throughout the day take a look at what we're walking through here again this is one of the main thoroughfares in the old part of the camp and this really just goes to show you how dire the circumstances are here for the nearly one million for him to refugees who live here and in the surrounding areas in the sprawling makeshift very very large

family now a lot of the refugees we spoke with today they were happy that the u.n. secretary general came here they were glad that he was bringing the world's attention to this continuing very dire crisis but there was a lot of concern we heard from him the refugees as well many of them said that they didn't believe that the u.n. was doing enough to ensure that if and when they do go back to me and more that they will be able to get citizenship so it's not just right of return it's also the issue of citizenship that really concerns them now many of them were also quite happy about the fact that the world bank has said that they are going to contribute almost half of a billion dollars to the government of bangladesh which will be earmarked specifically to help or hinder refugees but again they say that right now they are in crisis the aid workers we've been speaking with through the last few days of said that what's going on here is an emergency. within an emergency. it's

underfunded the agencies don't have enough money these people simply don't have enough help. now makes good as president elect is vowing to stamp out corruption fight drug cartels and reduce social inequality after his resoundingly win on sunday and has meant well lopez obrador will become mexico's first a leftwing president in decades the sixty four year old takes over a country struggling with a record high murder rate and a sluggish economy let's go to john holdren who's live for us in mexico city and john a lot of big promises that. there have been a lot of big promises and i think one of the main promises a main issues throughout this election has been corruption we've seen this sea change you just mentioned in the mets complete school same because mexicans are so dissatisfied with their political class the conflicts of interest the repeated scandals mr lopez obrador has said that he will eradicate corruption so i'm here

now with eduardo bork case and eduardo is the executive director of mexico for transparency international it was a coup to break down for us why it is corruption such an issue in mexico and how does it come about that there's so much of it in the country for years corruption was seen. in mexico into a very recent years we discover a society that there wasn't anything wrong with that word genetic code or our cultural and traditions this was a systemic problem and it is an it be they make problem there has to be found out and we discovered that there were because we were for the ration at least fifteen go over nurse that were taking advantage of forward situational arrangements to do you know. produce x. raying comes for them and vessel meant even conflict of interest as you were mentioning on a set of a variety of programs that are involved in corruption corruption mexico the school . very recently that this is

a problem that can be found and the these became one of the top problems for mexican society during this election one was in security the other one was corruption is increasingly being exposed insane then and at the president elect now mr lopez obrador he said that the main way that he's going to tackle corruption has been through his own example and that will show the political class around him how to do this what do you think of that is that a tactic he thinks going to work well political will and political leadership are always important in terms of reform in terms of corruption the control of corruption in a country but in a country of the complexity of this one this is this is an economy of the size of the no we have two on the stand that we have thirty two states more than two thousand four hundred fifty minutes these normal three branches of government controlling a systemic problem like these one will require more than political will and political leadership it requires a coordinated one. with other governors with other political entities so you can

actually provide results and there will be very important issues that you have corruption that comes from a growth it one of the most relevant cases are in that campaign was that all the bric case the case of the company that was all over latin america affecting there will not only the corruption levels of many countries are not in america but the police there for a lot of the countries in the region so when you see that corruption also comes from third parties that are not mexicans that are not part of your your own if history and through the show then you have to be more aware and leading by example again wouldn't be a will not be enough thank you very much for that so some of the problems to do with corruption in mexico and to do with perhaps the stance of the president elect who waiting to hear if he's got more policies to deal with corruption and it's so important to the country that he does get this right and that's because he said that he'll be able to get. twenty four billion extra dollars from fighting

corruption and it read a case in corruption within the government and he'll then use that money to spend on his social programs and the public spending that he wants to do without raising mets construct is so obviously if he doesn't ring that that money out of authorities that he's got a big hole in his spending plan interesting potentially changing times mexico john heilemann mexico city thanks very much david. now we want to return to our top story and that remarkable story of survival in thailand twelve boys and their football coach found alive in a cave system but they have yet to be rescued safe still got to get out let's examine the challenges and dangers and difficulties in this rescue operation now drink or never sell it the president of the european cave rescue association joins us via skype from zagreb welcome to the program thanks for joining us it's excellent news that these boys and their coach have been found but as i say now

they have to get out they have to be rescued what challenges do the rescuers face in making this a successful recovery. the good thing is that the towns the kids are little so-called this is the good will see the kids are able to survive now the challenge is felt to get them out. the easiest way is the route to. pass through to good to get to this beach of course if they want to get out of this must be derived this is the one thing. out to the lot and the second choice or option is that. d'arista ham must go down in a stretcher and there read them through authority for this is a very scary very scary operation and i am afraid that. this must be the second choice those are the wrist so that would be the last resort

for them to have to take them out underwater because presumably the rescuers got there by swimming underwater to get to this point you know this is very very very very similar or it can be done and there are several groups in europe which are trained to do to put the person in stretcher and give them a model central place mask and several groups are trained to to perform this one worse of course but glad to say this is ng background and the best option is that where there are real mute friendly they want to really increase their maybe just do it a little bit or the people can improve water out of the cave which early so they already do that because even if they can pump enough water out do you think for them to be able to do that is that feasible i was not in carol but. this is one option in the door on power water out of the water

a little will decrease but. who've been a dr peter the obviously these messages are drawn right can you can you give us an idea of what what these boys have been through it just sounds like a nightmare living nightmare being in a cave presumably without any torchlight which i guess relevant to look for nine days without practically any food at all and just drinking what water they can from the cave roof or wherever. if they are completely disoriented then they're not to read how much time passed and you're a kid at least for twenty four hours then you're not sure where is it today or not or how much time did it cross so they are completely disorientated as r.e.i. is a soldier first reaction is how much time passed the seas they last time. see their light so they're completely disoriented then the second thing is which is not

the case a. lot to be probably the problem will be they drink or water in this. part of the world war does not clean europe if you drink water it's completely safe because water is clean by the this part of the world to world the water can be. ten people can. get some sun topical diseases. it's also very risky to drink water in the tropical case all right lots of challenges ahead drinker never said we do appreciate you giving us your perspective on this and we will be keeping a very close watch on developments as the rescue effort continues there in thailand . now israel's knesset has passed a law to allow the government to deduct some three hundred million dollars a year from the budget of the palestinian authority the money will be taken from taxes and tariffs that israel collects on the palestinian authority for half

israeli lawmakers claiming authority paid three hundred fifty million dollars last year to palestinian prisoners jailed for attacking israeli security forces and their families joining us now on the phone from ramallah is moustapha but duty he's the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and president of the palestinian medical relief society mr barghouti welcome to the program before we get into this explain for us what this money is used for and who precisely receives it. well first of all let me say that this israeli measure is nothing but an act of piracy. an act of theft. which is illegal because israel is taking away abolished money that is paid by palestinians in the form of tax revenue. deducting get. money that's from the palestinian side. this is as i said. it's against palestinian people. claiming

this money is deducted in response to the fact that palestinian authority has a. social security payment to the people who are in prison because of israeli illegal acts in that prison and them. because this money is part of the monies paid to the families of martin is that what can buy the israeli army what do you see the argument that it's the argument that this funding encourages violence is a co-sponsor of the bill that the dicta said we have to do is kill israelis get arrested or get killed to get access to these funds where would you say to arguments such as that. well there is that it is not a killing just flies if you take the kids of the ship or maybe it would burn the bye bye. and their families would support that sort of social security ceteris they want us to punish the families most who were killed by israeli settlers and by

the israeli army. being killed by the israeli army most of them are died not even died killing anybody they were killed. by the israeli army money almost all of them were civilians including the two thousand two hundred insisted. that in the last in the earlier times. including five hundred ninety children who did not. even commit to anything i mean these you have children because by that israeli army also including the one hundred fifty people who had just killed by reason and why they would be sworn to do most anything against the occupation how how how can it is that a lot of. chatter is there was no something anything over our money how can our funding country like is a big guy we our fact is all of the facts that have been wrong because they want to punish us want to revising social security into law what amounted to

a lot of kids mind there isn't any army who loses out even though he means to those you will not now be able to receive the money especially given the cost and millions of dollars by the us government. no there is a listing inside will not stop supporting the families of those present of the rods and the cost of what they learned during their second hour hundreds of millions of dollars of our tax revenue that we pay for them all on what accounts palestinians and thus depriving our health system and if you cash in on system and social security systems for a mere six hundred deaths we mean some of the sounds that our families. practically have things and health services and education and services that understands provide for themselves and then this is nothing less than our close piracy and that kind of one hundred to nothing out of order to think in any way about what is it is doing going on and that is it is only thing if any existing agreements with palestinians

if they are violating the celebrity meant that they're going through the palestinians and by doing so they are undermining that any possibility for peace and stability in this place ok mr bug you have to need to appreciate your time stuff a bug to speak to us so it was here on the news and still ahead we'll have the latest from new york just more than forty african leaders are gathering to discuss ways of fighting corruption and extremism. why the french government has been accused of freely selling egypt's president the tools he needs to brutally crackdown on dissent. and for time champion chris froome will cycle as she is today from off to.

hello there we're seeing quite a few thunderstorms across the path of europe at the moment now particularly over france this cluster here is giving us a very large hail very heavy downpours and some damaging gusts of wind as well this system is likely to stick around as we head through the day on tuesday so more thunderstorms expected here and those will now begin to link up with more of what's going on over the southeast corner of europe too so showers stretching all the way across here to elsewhere though in between the showers there will also be a good deal of sunshine so twenty seven degrees the top temperature they are lynn and force in madrid will be a thirty one for the northeast corner we've got this is larry of low pressure in charge here has gradually drifting its way towards the east got some pretty strong winds in with that and some fairly heavy rain and will just be taking the edge of the temperatures so moscow now high been around eighteen there by the time we get to wednesday but the other side of the mediterranean largely fine and dry as you'd expect at this time of year but over the northern parts of egypt the winds are coming in from the sea so it's not feeling too hot for the west though it's quite

different here and the temperatures are rising so fortune is already at thirty five and choose day but if you think that's hot wait till wednesday when we'll be all the way up forty degrees for the central belt of africa bunty of showers here with some particularly heavy ones around ghana. i'm. going to. how reliable is an eyewitness when you have an eyewitness to say i was there i saw him do it that is the best evidence about thirty percent of the time when this is a real case is to pick someone that's yes that's the person to determine the time are wrong he's being falsely accused in courts to read it was something he did not exploring the dark side of american justice system with job on al-jazeera. this is a story about a small village and the society that inhabits it and to of its most important

characters the village is a telephone condit's unless you keep up. discovering new filmmaking talent from around the globe if you find in latin america delves into this cuban my culture it's only in line for the outside world people calling on al-jazeera. the band. i am. ok let's have a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera and a young football team with a coach have been found alive nine days after going missing in a cave in thailand the group became stuck after heavy rains flooded the exit. the

german chancellor and her interior minister say a compromise has been reached in a migration dispute. a government will now establish centers in germany to send asylum seekers back to the e.u. country they first registered in. mexico's president elect is vowing to stamp out corruption fight drug cartels and reduce social inequality and as men well lopez obrador will become a first left wing president in. well as take the story on a little bit sabra door has a pretty substantial to do list when he takes office in december that on december the first his number one campaign issue was corruption and he's vowed to stamp it out on top of that he's promised to fight violence which is largely driven by the country's powerful drug cartels last year a record twenty nine thousand people were murdered in mexico the economy also needs work growth has been faltering and then there's enough to trade deal which is

crucial for mexico which sends eighty percent of its exports to the united states but donald trump wants to renegotiate it trump also wants to build a wall along the us mexico border to keep out illegal migrants abroad or will be under pressure to contain immigration all right let's get more on this live from washington d.c. it's not wise bro who's the co-director at the center for economic and policy research welcome to the show sir let's just take these issues in order if we may first of all this number one campaign issue of obrador was corruption and his promise to stamp it out what chance does he have do you think. well i think he'll be able to make some progress he has a very strong mandate he'll probably have a majority in the congress and so that's a lot of power and it can be used i think and he is serious about that and that also applies presumably to his promise to fight violence in this this battle

against the country's powerful drug cartels which seem to operate with impunity yes but he you know he's also emphasized that he wants to address the root causes of the violence in the poverty and the slow economic growth the navy economy is really a serious problem i mean it's been forty years now. failure you know the real wage today is less than it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty and poverty's gotten worse over the last twenty five years and these are really long term problems and there's things you can do right away for that for example you know the bottom ten percent of income distribution in mexico gets about one point eight percent of the national income so it wouldn't take very much at all to raise millions of people and that's kind of what lou the did in brazil you know and i think you're going to see. resembled probably lose first

term in some ways right and on the economy. to do its relationship with the u.s. president donald trump is going to be crucial especially with this trump who says he wants to renegotiate nafta what you think his stance will be on that. well i think he's you know he said he wants to remain in after and he's going to be cautious about that. so i think it's really depends a lot on what trump does i don't think almost looking for any trouble there or he's trying to avoid disruption and he wants to you know institute the reforms that he needs to make people's lives better now there are some things that are possibly in there after that i think both sides would want to possibly want to get rid of at least part of the trump administration people like navarro and like ties are his a. part of his team wants to get rid of the what's

called the investor to stay a. dispute settlement mechanism and that's just something that was put into mexico allows corporations to sue governments both in all three countries for anything that infringes on their part profits and that's been seen. by most experts as something that's just a threat to public interest laws environmental laws and everything else so it's possible you have agreement on that it's just you don't know what trump is going to do but i'm sure i would agree to get rid of that if he could get agreement on that and also you do see some interest on both sides in some labor protections in nafta again you don't know if trump is sincere because he he changes his mind on these things from day to day just great to get your perspective on this thanks very much indeed for that was very speaking to us from washington d.c.

the united nations says more than a quarter of a million syrians have now been displaced by the government's offensive to retake their a province of the country's southwest jorgen this set to hold talks with syria's ally russia this week in the hope of paving the way for a ceasefire said hota has this report. syrians plea as front lines continue to shift in that our province the united nations says two hundred seventy thousand people have already been uprooted during the syrian government's military offensive now in its third week there remain in towns under opposition control are being battered by air strikes and shelling and the fear is an escalated military campaign now that talks collapse was done and there is a military escalation to pressure the rebel factions to accept the russian military is going dishes to on the assault those conditions are he relating for the opposition they just want them to give up everything after years of psych revises they can't accept that. the opposition delegation involved in talks with the

russian military which were mediated by jordan formally pulled out of negotiations it's not clear if all rebel commanders support their decision but those who have made separate deals are being called traitors. to the representatives of a handful of towns have been signing so-called reconciliation deals with the government or what amounts to a surrender syrian state television is showing people celebrating the return of government rule more often than not there is little choice such deals stave off further military action and prevent more suffering but anyone wanted by the state such as rebel fighters and those involved in opposition activities or who worked in rebel run administrations leave. rebel areas are shrinking more than sixty percent of that is now under the control of president bashar al assad's forces rebels still hold parts of the provincial capital city and areas along the borders of the

occupied golan heights and jordan including then crossing the opposition is in a weak position it has been abandoned by its allies the united states told them not to expect to be back to militarily jordan close its borders to weapons shipments and refugees instead it says it wants to focus on mediating a ceasefire but a ceasefire is not what the procedure in government camp wants. it is pushing for a military victory a win in the southern corner of syria would follow significant gains close to the capital in recent months then like now it is the civilians who pay the heaviest price. valid move could she see let me we ask every person with a conscience to help stop the shot and why are they shelling areas where there are children helpless elderly and sick people the children are hungry and without food we only brought tea and sugar with us please force this criminal to end the shelling. that is unlikely to happen the decision by some of the opposition not to

sit at the negotiating table means a stepped up military campaign especially since the government stated goal is to recapture southern syria so what they're al-jazeera beirut more than forty african leaders have met in mauritania to discuss ways to fight corruption and extremism on the continent france's president made a guest appearance at the summit and merrill marko has discussed the five nation french backed anti terror unit the g five sahal force which is come under attack from on groups recently. as this report. these are delicate times for french troops operating in the sahara region of sub-saharan mali armed groups have attacked and killed french soldiers and their regional task force our allies. and. friends has sent thousands of soldiers to the remote area where groups are affiliated with i said. have grown in size and influence since two thousand

and eleven and you see i obviously want to take a moment here for mali and friends following the cowardly odious attacks of the terrorists. several french soldiers have been wounded and of being a back you waited to france and it is mali and civilians african civilians who are killed by terrorism who are the first victims of these barbarians we fight. despite u.n. sanctions targeting smugglers in libya their networks remain a busy main gateway for migrants crossing the mediterranean into europe than wash out summit issued a watered down report on the situation in western sahara calling for the a you took play a central role in breaking the embarrass. a united nations brokered cease fire has been in force since one nine hundred ninety one but morocco and the police are your

front remain deeply divided over how to end the conflict. and the african union says it will introduce zero tolerance policies for corruption but the leaders of countries often accused of graft inefficiency and crippling bureaucracy didn't elaborate on what kind of measures they plan to take. africa's problems have spread beyond the continent which explains why the e.u. has stepped in offering cash and military assistance to tackle the surge in attacks by armed groups invest there have been agent and to dismantle the migrant smuggling networks but it's unclear if that will work with the ongoing conflict and lawlessness in many african countries. washout. all right let's get more on this joining us live in the studio is alex vines who's the head of the africa program and chatham house here in london mr vines welcome to the program was just

describing there's no end of issues across the continent in the region in western africa as a whole itself is the african union equipped to deal with all these problems now it's not equipped to do deal with all of them it can help in mediation it certainly has an ambition in terms of getting better prosperity across the continent i think some of the progress that we will have coming out of the final communique from the summit about the continental free trade agreement and the african countries that signed up to that first in march this year but now we're almost fifty countries out of fifty five that's a positive but on the security in the sahil i think it's probably pretty grim from what we're saying it's one of the reasons why mr mccrum the president of france is going to new york a shot because that's an urgent priority but. africa's partners there is talk of not enough international help but france does have thousands of soldiers that oh

look the saw hell in particular is probably foreign policy priority number two for france globally at the moment and hence mr mccraw is concerned about the success of what's called the g. five sawhill which includes a number of states including mauritania is absolutely key i mean put it another way if you're looking at france seven percent of france's energy supply comes from uranium out of nis yes so this is truly strategic for france right and that fuels the french nuclear energy industry because the french economy is based on nuclear energy and unlike the united kingdom that is more fossil fuels for ok now you mentioned this issue of free trade and we always hear of africa's enormous potential which is remains in many ways unrealized but there is great potential there's a lot of effort to try and make it happen. how important is a free trade agreement. this is really important i mean think of it this way only about sixteen percent of trade happens internally in africa so it is about really

unlocking that africa is the youngest continent in the world if you can get really scaled up internal trade bringing down barriers and tariffs that will have a real multiplier for the continent so it's pretty impressive that since march fifty african countries of signed up were forty nine out of fifty five so i think that is promising or oh it's we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed for your perspective as much appreciate like you. know the french government and several companies are being accused of selling egypt's president the tools he needs to crackdown on dissent the international federation for human rights has investigated weapons deals as well as sales of surveillance technology. as more from paris. it's five years since egyptian security forces commanded by then general abdel fattah el-sisi brutally dispersed a protest in cairo at least eight hundred supporters of ousted president mohamed

morsy were killed and four thousand injured of what's called the rather massacre the international federation for human rights says french made armored vehicles we used in the crackdown in a new report the organization says that french companies are increasingly selling weapons surveillance technology and drones to egypt arms they say help president sisi crush dissent after the coup in twenty thirteen by sisi the european union council decided to suspend the sale of all military and surveillance equipment to egypt to condemn the dictatorships abuses but france has profited in the name of counter-terrorism to increase its arms exports to egypt the report says between twenty ten and twenty sixteen french arms sales to egypt increased from forty six million to one point five billion dollars exports included conventional weapons such as warships and fighter jets but also surveillance systems that help egypt's security services to monitor citizens. egypt's army has been fighting armed

groups in the sinai region last year france's president said that egypt was an important partner in the fight against terrorism. conflicts that i am aware of the security situations and conditions in which prison system must operate is not in paris like us the challenge is to stability of this country in the fight against terrorism and religious fundamentalism it's the context in which you must govern the authors of this report say that france is violating international rules on weapons export such as the arms trade treaty which says that if there is a doubt that arms are being used to suppress people their message be suspended a different parties are saying that they combating terrorism. the french say we have a great partner in fighting terrorism however in practice and we saw that those terrorists are humanized the founders are journalists independent journalists are intellectuals and have nothing to do with political violence activists say that in

the past five years egypt has detained at least sixty thousand political prisoners and if france holds up or held its reputation as a defender a few minutes rights the government must carry out proper checks on egyptian arms exports who face being complicit in some of the regime's abuses natasha butler al jazeera paris. well you know. there are some other like.

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one of the biggest problems facing our oceans and the loss of seagrass that is what's a cure for roughly fifty percent of the oceans. total carbon storage perhaps or they hoped wifeless much carbon dioxide as rain forest and they're also russian marine habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks to some unexpected allies. oh yeah i mean there.

this nine hundred hector asked you where it is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well i mean we're coastal environments close to urban centers called forwards close cultural centers you get problems like this. it grows with the rocks it eventually starts the composing over half of the world sea grass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh.

at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. c r e z crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass eating builds up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because sea otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they

capture them and tag them with radio devices. but only hear work really well. as she climbs probably fairly close. what's the purpose of tropical otters we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. the other part of it is a stuff so we can understand the distribution of otters in this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there's one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an arm that peeping is from the radio transmitter that's surgically implanted in her so that helps a smoker. why don't you take a look right in there. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life

and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of it turns the tables against. groupings of facts of sea otters eating crabs essentially the same grass an advantage again so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have a knock on that potentially in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that we wiped out we have the great potential for restoring the health of that system.

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