seen so much love around me try to spread this around the world what goes on in my life. i mentioned your son this is a tweet we got bridging those two things this is someone who says as much as i think this comparison to your father cutie is not necessary his children i mean your children for me are doing a great job to me son is said to carry on the legacy he might just bring and add a new flavor with it so people are recognizing that familial link there but i want to move on just a little to this because someone seeing the video we saw the very beginning of the show with the energy that you had there this person asks a question which i think it's on a lot of our minds how do you find the motivation to give us two almost free world class shows every week whenever you're in lagos at the new africa shrine you and your band have been doing this for over a decade and the quality of the craft on display each time is inspiring i think this has to do with and. for my people understanding that there's

a lot of poverty around me and the only thing i could contribute in the area where the shrine was build was give people the privilege to just come in for you on what shows and then to set the tone professional and the musicians around we have to understand that we shouldn't look down on the audience you never know who is watching you and so you have to respect it will be disciplined by dr house will we have to give the same kind of energy and this will make us more professionally professional and so this was my case i'm sure the band i'm happy those that have stood beside me or with alongside me on the stand what i'm doing if you feel this with the audience so we have about probably a thousand people come in we can we call just watch the band for free so i'm looking here this is boulder colorado femi kuti in the positive force boulder colorado what is the difference in the show that you did that and the show that you would do to shine are you doing femi light when you're on tour and you do hardcore at the shining but the difference the difference is we have our costumes and we're more professional on top. tragic light hearted yeah but when where we have. we put

is like. like an athlete you have to put one hundred percent of the competition starts you are flexible so we put like a thousand percent at the rehearsal when we are on top if we need to make a mistake on stage you hardly hear and we can play around the mistake we can joke about it because we have repeated it so many times so we are going to hear from you give one hundred percent in just a moment the first song on our show today no work no job no money but first let's hear from one of his fans i opened coalescent us this comment about the impact of families at work. because it could. be. very strong my generation. beauty has worked very hard to maintain the. brand you know since then he's music to me

represents. shows music tradition and constantly reminds us that we should never. be long in africa thank you. the coverage in a. little chaotic nothing. little. concrete way contacting barak to run with the news.

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the three. common faith down by me tell me which the branding. with a band member so we can thank them this is everybody gets to see this in everybody and that's our band leader where you and me and. you have a lot by sharing one keyboards. dances. but she's different on stage and we're here as you know with i still say so to see the four packed of dancing oh i want to talk about you actually you could hear that in that song every single song you sing i'm going to show an image and this is you doing some humanitarian work with the international rescue committee surrounding by kids who love you and i'm trying to think what is the draw to i'm going to show one

thing first this is kind of musician there are a bunch of kids. click play let's have a look. it's a lovely little drawn to you what is it that you bring when you go out and you go out into the community and you say i'm going to use my my fame is what are you doing. i'm taking humility i'm taking my honesty and most importantly the music along with me i took my i took my musical instrument and i think they also meant a wall wondering what was in my bag and they could see what's me about what's in your bag so i opened it and. of course i think the realize it was a musical instrument as a player play and i was like all this was in my degree it was. somewhat

there and i mean you have to see the the suffering there is beautiful it's really heartbreaking and i wish i had. the magic wand to just like changed their lives and all i had was my musical instrument i didn't have enough money because they were very they were starving there and i thought all i could do was probably give them some pool play my musical instrument so i did play for them and then they said to follow me around like you obviously in the studio is it by the pipeline hands under what those they said follow me everywhere i was going i say well it was really it was nice very joyful so here are a couple more people that would likely follow you anywhere this is to perkins who is watching you perform on the show and says it was electric that means energy is a rare i mean rocking the extreme studio someone else writes and drag an energy that's his hand or he says simply genetic pushing on the topic you were just talking about why people are following you this is

a world publicist who says his music touches on the true story of nigeria and the need for nigeria means both young and old to read about and remember their history he also addresses societal issues like poverty unemployment and political issues like corruption on his songs those can always be popular topics. exposing corruption or jimmy at the song these are serious issues that the lyrics that i wrote down different resources from africa in the last last fall we heard what's the pushback what do you face in terms of obstacles when you get up very difficult for you to get rid of people now these days i get ready for you which is fantastic . when we built a shrine it was we had lots of police raids and for a good eight years this was so hard to move into the shrine and i had to move in with my children and to build somewhere very safe for them on top of the building like in secret compartment where we were just having police risk after police raids and this went on for a good eight years but this reminded me of my father so i stood strong many people

don't realize all this happened in my life because i had like a complete blackout from the media the the government paid a lot of meat. people not to write about the grades or what was going on so it was a complete blackout in my life so but at this time i had i still had the opportunity to talk so unfortunately for the government i was still making my name was creating a big impact in san francisco all miami wherever i was store in paris i mean i have very strong support outside the country and people back home don't realize this because nobody really talks about it thank god for social media now i compose this shows and people like you talk to people on social media all the time they don't even believe is a. way to write rather than because i'm very tired or my english can be very bad and forgive me for that people people come to the shrine

now because it is famous because you are playing them because the law was there i am so glad you see. first of all let's see him dancing everybody so you have to believe that even the president france will be dancing at the shrine the reality of that this is a very limited i think. that. he was trying. if moves i cannot know if there was more like. this i was doing all the moves by you've got here he's here is he sitting at this right have a look at my laptop here and it's a little secret so he's here you say very nice things about president mccall he's

having a fantastic time units haven't you chad. is you obviously boned it is and you don't like politicians because he was very honest i have to see he reached out to me and said he wanted to come to the shrine and many people like pretended they were bringing him and when i saw interest officials i wanted to calm here and watch june two thousand and two and what he what i got from him we spoke about the my great crisis he was willing to address africa's problem and princie and france's role and so the next time i have the opportunity i'll be speaking frankly with him on many of these issues that i'm very concerned about but he was very open he didn't have this kind of burial like or like a snob kind of thing and he he he insisted he wanted to come to destroying all the feedback like don't go and he was like he even said it several times i was fine we could see in two thousand and two people pretend it was my father but to pretend it was because of my father and no matter how many times a mentioned my name they give credit to my father so i took it to another level

well whether it's for me is still the simple little game where play in africa has to be for you making a statement by saying because he is the slowest so. it's fine for me the call my father my name the bottom line this rhyme is there for there must be one of africa and we want total freedom for africa to excel and i strongly believe given the opportunity africa will excel and will be their way of the world imagine we had real allies like in europe i mean can you imagine travelling from lagos to dramas but by train those kind of trees we see three hundred same to kilometers per hour while the beauty africa will spread in the wall and this is what i see this is my dream with my music that way to this last question from someone also named for me if you are not in nigeria. no no you. only here on twitter says please ask him what he thinks about near the duration aeration of musical activism. in africa. i would want to be critical

of the artist because we were all young and we bought their song that are very. outspoken these days i think i heard one of i can remember the names i think in fall i know his outspoken very few that are speaking out but what my the only thing i fear about is i wish more of them picked up musical instruments because what happens in music is a serious law or medicine what happens when they get to my age and is that going green onboard another generation will come and the only reason you'll be relevant is eve you have something to offer for the next generation my father is important because he was a composer historied music you talk of people like miles davis disagree let's be your stevie wonder they are only relevant because the music is should be seen as medicine or law or engineering on a little grave and this picture here with you and your fella but you are still growing so there are so we're going to end this show with another performance from

the ferry thank you so much for the new land the positive force. a one people one world that's the live thing over on his latest album and while he gets set up let's hear from angelica another african music legend who's touring with sammy and had this to say are you working with them for somebody recently also as you said goodwill ambassador before us we've been working on many issues in his image he's honesty has always come across very strongly and most importantly being the son of a legend is easy but he kept the torch very high by keeping a mic in africa really even more than forty. want to be the. one with the. well in the. lead in

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the slave trade had language geography and the very fabric of human civilization upon it to have built that great western palace and was constructed and hierarchy of races but how did it come about and what became of it. the slavery it's coming soon on al-jazeera. denying citizenship. health care and education. forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical cruelty. al-jazeera world investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the wild. silent abuse. amidst a climate of violence and paranoia. there's still willing to dream.

in honduras dennis seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using art to reclaim the city. and transform the very symbol of past oppression. you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. shells right down on gaza a mother and child among the dead as israel strikes back over rocket attacks. so robert you're watching al-jazeera live in doha also coming up the end of a marathon abortion debate in argentina politicians votes against a rewrite of laws. russia feels the pressure of the poisoning of

a forward double agent as the u.s. and sanctions. the border crossing between yemen and oman is closed as a tax plan brings frustration and fear of famine. welcome to the program israel has targeted more than one hundred forty sites and intense strikes on the besieged gaza strip three palestinians have been killed a pregnant mother and her child amongst them israel says its targets were military compound tunnels under training camp it says the military action is in response to rockets fired from gaza starting on wednesday night the united nations says it's deeply alarmed by the violence warning it could lead to war and to simmons has more from gaza. deep into the night intense bombardments the flash of outgoing rockets from gaza. israel's iron dome air defense system knocked

out several of the missiles but the majority got through and in response came the blasts and flames from israeli air strikes. this is how it started here a rocket unlike most of them finding its targets the israeli town of iraq with people fleeing in all directions in the panic towns right across southern israel under attack. the response was fast. as strikes right across the gaza strip up to twenty mostly bases of the al qassam brigade the military wing of hamas it released a statement saying in retaliation against the israeli aggression the resistance is continuing to fire rockets at israeli towns the casualties may not have been high in number but they include a mother and baby in a house hit and daryl barracks. as emergency services on

both sides of gaza's walls responded to the incoming and outgoing fire egyptian mediators were engaged in trying to pursue both sides to call a truce. much rest now on the real intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both really intend to break down the cease fire talks and nicholai madden of the un special envoy has been here before not so serious but he mediated and succeeded in stopping the fighting a month ago his words our collective efforts have prevented an explosion until now we will work hard to ensure garza steps back from the brink. i am not in of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again dance and people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera

gaza city. or for the very latest we can join our correspondent stephanie decker he's live for us in west jerusalem of course the situation is very volatile the dust has not settled. absolutely however in the last couple of hours or so it's been relatively quiet all eyes now on what happens next particularly here in israel right now from what we understand in tel aviv the prime minister is meeting with his defense minister avigdor lieberman in about four hours time from now we will have an israeli security cabinet meeting convene also at army headquarters in tel aviv it will be interesting and crucial to see what comes out of that so hail everyone we've been speaking to and this escalation as has come and gone over the last couple of weeks both sides don't want a war if you look at the amount of targets overnight one hundred eighty now the rockets fired from gaza into israel according to the army around one hundred fifty

targets hit by the israeli army inside gaza but if you look at the casualty count if you look at whether israel has targeted members of hamas it hasn't done this yet also the damage done inside israel remains limited of these rockets these are key issues when it comes to potential escalation so i think we'll have to wait and see what is decided out of this meeting but certainly that the sense is that nobody wants this to escalate into a full scale but of course when it comes to this conflict it's very difficult to predict anything is possible and indeed whatever does come out all of this meeting from move from the cabinet may in part directly or in directly with the various a diplomatic moves that are happening in the region right now in amman in jordan in cairo egypt even in doha or in concert. well you can be certain that those phones are being worked as we speak by egypt by the u.n.

special coordinator for the middle east peace process nick has been very much involved in particular when it comes deescalating these kinds of tensions in the past yes there is a bigger deal on the table but particularly working to try and get all sides to calm down so that this deal can be given a chance it is complicated but the longer term prospects would be of a long term cease fire of an easing of the siege and this is this is where we are we have two options and this is clear there are no others it is either there is a long lasting deal or there is a full out war and a war that will be far more brutal than ones we have seen before so this is where we are at these are crucial times yes those phones are being worked let's wait and see what they can achieve and i think we'll get a sense of this throughout the day ok for them i will leave it there thanks to. the months of national debate in argentina has ended with politicians voting against a rewrite of abortion rules the final vote followed more than seventeen hours of discussion in parliament it was close and thirty eight to thirty one against the bill in america to lucy newman reports now from one of the army's.

early morning thousands of supporters and opponents had filled downtown with no side is as the senate debated whether or not to approve a landmark bill to legalize abortion. the influence of the catholic church and its argentine born pope could not be underestimated. unlike last month when the less conservative lower house now really passed the bill this time zone and had good reason to be optimistic. this is the final stretch to decide whether or not there will be legal abortion and we're here to support the senators who we believe will vote against the killing of an a born child. on the other side of the senate building pro-abortion activists wearing their emblematic brinker just tried to keep their spirits up. i sooner or later it will be legal because we have launched a coup on a social revolution yes there are different points of view but we have achieved so

far is incredible. the debate went long into the night while the vigil continued under the pouring rain when the bill was finally defeated many could not be consoled after what they describe as an epic battle i feel really sad about it because this is it's raining it's really cold and we're still fighting for it because. we're also are dying girls of every age are dying. although there are no hard statistics it's estimated that between three hundred and five hundred thousand clandestine abortions are practiced in argentina every year for the color green many here are carrying one of these this is a metal coathanger which too many women insert in their uterus to provoke a miscarriage the procedure explains why on safe and illegal abortions here in argentina the number one cause of maternal deaths in the midst of abortions say

there are other ways to deal with unwanted pregnancy such as adoption by law a new bill cannot be submitted to congress until next year at the earliest washing campaigners insist they're already preparing for the next battle. c in human al-jazeera when a site is now russia is under new pressure over the poisoning of a former double agent on does daughter in the u.k. the u.s. is imposing sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of triple the state department accuses russia of using the nerve agent to poison them in the british city of souls free russia has called the allegations far fetched chalons is following events for a second moscow we are expecting some sort of reaction from russia it will just be interesting to see what they say or do. well there is a response already from the russian embassy in the united states which has said

this new draft of sanctions is draconian and says that there is also no facts or evidence to support the allegations and we're also hearing from russian parliamentarians in moscow that they are considering some sort of counter sanctions measure it's a response to all this so that the official response so far has been i suppose fairly usual it's interesting i think to wait and see what effect this might have on russian public opinion because actually recent polls suggest to you interesting trends of me going on recently one is that the unpopularity of the west a month's russians has actually been lifting also the popularity of rather may putin has been falling now you could maybe ascribe this to two things going on there's the benefits still being felt at the world cup and all the mingling with foreigners that russians did during that football festival and then there's also

a painful round of pensions reform which is going on which is hitting government popularity now what's affects mights new u.s. sanctions have on these trends well we'll have to wait and see but it is very possible that it might reinforce a russian view that this is a country on the seas for the west and therefore those trends that i just mentioned might change direction. reflects the public perhaps is one way of thinking of it as you suggest rory but the sort of sharp end of this debate is how it really affects the government because trump is saying one thing and there's another message coming from the u.s. government and one wonders how moscow is sort of getting to grips with how to deal with the various statements that keep coming from across the atlantic. well there are more sanctions in the pipeline that is clear this descriptor sanctions come into batches the first hits on august the twenty seconds and then

if the united states does not get some assurance from moscow within ninety days that they will not use chemical weapons then the second batch of sanctions hits and that will be more severe they're talking about perhaps stopping landing rights for the national carrier aeroflot though even diplomatic contacts may be severed so that's serious stuff then there is also a package of sanctions. seems to be progressing through congress at the moment which would have further consequences on the banking industry in russia on the energy sector so this is all hitting the ruble severely it's fall and to its lowest level for two years russian government bonds are being hit shares in russian companies some russian companies at least are tumbling as well so i think

it is clear in moscow now that whatever donald trump says there is a backlash to war of this which is being pursued by the united states congress and these sanctions are being codified in legislation which means that they are likely to be around for years if not decades to come for that we'll leave it there thank you. note south sudan's president salva kiir has granted amnesty to former vice president right with shar and others involved in the five year civil war a power sharing agreement was signed this week aimed at ending the conflict it gets kid and his former deputy eight months to form a transitional government tens of thousands were killed in the war that began after south sudan gained its independence in twenty thirteen have morgan our correspondent who's been following events in south side. extensively joins me now in the studio how surprised are you this latest decision can pair to the fact that it actually wasn't part of the original agreement that was signed just for few days

ago well let's remember first of all that since the conflict started in twenty thirty every year the president has been issuing amnesty to rebel leaders so that they can come back into the government and form some kind of transitional coalition government or to try to end the conflict so the fact that he issued an amnesty is not new but what he should have been doing and what was part of the agreement that was signed in july in the capital in sudanese capital khartoum was to leave.