by pistol. shot of falls and also most of. the bottom ordered to piss off sort of applause security says it busts our good fellowship that our blog article caught up and updated to double up scooter falls it is all down to fit the default they don't see it almost as if as you will. but france's absolute dominance did not last in the sixty's the discovery of huge oil reserves in the gulf of guinea attracted a new play at. the united states. over the budget that i was also. sort of caught it off it got. dark or political give exact the order to every throw that there are already this order for starters you don't have been dipping caught up all. of. the united states made military as well as economic investments on the african continent africa became

a battleground in the cold war. to counter sylvia interests the american secretly supported andro belly and if anything and i'm going. after the collapse of the soviet union the united states was the only superpower in the wilds. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two under the auspices of the united nations it launched a so-called humanitarian intervention in the city to corn of africa. the us sent twenty eight thousand soldiers to somalia to help put an end to a civil war. that. the operation ended in disaster two years later after american soldiers were captured and killed images of their meeting aided bodies brought. asked around

a while. for the u.s. it was a humiliating loss and they decided to withdraw. after somalia a new threats imation africa. in one thousand nine hundred attacks against two u.s. embassies raised the alarm in washington. massive car bombs in kenya and tanzania caused the death of over two hundred people and left thousands injured it's. a group called al kind it claimed responsibility. its leader the little known osama bin laden became public enemy number one in the united states and the hunt to track him down it. was one was the attack on the world trade center reconfigured the geopolitics

of the world the united states launched a war in afghanistan a war that would soon spread far beyond it was a post nine eleven the threat of terrorism is very real to the american public and from a policy standpoint we are looking for specifically at the threat were over at me and may show up. a few months after september eleventh the u.s. military returned to the horn of africa with plans to stay. there stablished their first military base in djibouti a complement of former french foreign legion forts. directed counterterrorism efforts in africa for the u.s. department of defense. the sal played a key role and as. looking at. the movement of weapons the movement of potential

foreign fighters organized crime during that time period you also had an influx of cocaine flowing in through the saddle so all of this was was of primary interest and it in a continued to grow. piece to series of maps in two thousand and two bulking both this whole part of africa as a terrorist chordal corridor of terrorism and of course the official narrative from the pentagon and the white guy is that these terrorists had come from afghanistan and they've been driven out by american forces united they went that time was they've crossed through bin laden country i.e. sudan they're linking up with terrorists in north africa they've come through this sort of belts this but on a shaky area. jeremy keenan a british professor and author has spent fourteen years studying the. step the

military engagement of the united states in the region with about more than just security. there had been in america probably something much more important at the time the nine eleven that was the publication of the thing that's known generally as the cheney report and the cheney report i think was the first executive order that president bush gave when he came into power which was to look at the crisis of the energy sector the states in one thousand nine hundred seven imports of energy oil that's part of the fifty percent level that was psychologically sort of crisis level. in that report it focused on future american supplies of oil and of course it focused on africa has becoming the most important supplier of good quality oil that would fit the american internal infrastructure system. you know even more important in the gulf so. certainly africa comes of

critical importance to the political classes in washington. of strategic interests is a side to the north algeria and libya the largest oil reserves in africa and to the south those of the gulf of guinea. the vast untapped petroleum deposits in the sari itself where another temptation. in two thousand and three a dramatic kidnapping pave the way for the rival of the us military. in canton to. the men. found that. this was the first acts against foreigners in the sahara. a huge manhunt was launched for five months to kidnappers evaded capture in the end after

a ransom was paid by the german government the tourists were released. four days later a report is based announced area received a fax a veteran of the algerian army patta the paratrooper claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. the so-called terrorists background was leaked by algerian intelligence officials such unsubstantiated evidence was all the bush administration needed to label a power osama bin laden's man in the sahara. suddenly we have. you the extension if you like of al qaeda right into this part of africa. and that is what legitimized for america launching a new front in the war on terror in africa there was a big manhunt for the leader or the the head. for of the result in order to to nab

him because he was running around with approximately five million euro's and may be a potential threat in the future so there was some thinking. on the department of defense side we came up with a program called p.s.i.i. the paths to hell initiative and in the pan so how initiative basically was to work with countries in the saddle like mali like air like chad mauretania in order to give them some of the basic stuff communication equipment where they can talk to each other cross border. just simple stuff to where they could help us find. help. and power i was eventually captured with the help of the united states the u.s. armed forces now had a foothold in the south and. why don't we take this little thing called p.s.i.i. and make it

a little bit more robust where we start taking countries from within the region sally and region and became a trance a hell counterterrorism program and trying to get them all to work on something that we all care about which is counterterrorism so will do training and equipping and all in this training and equipping then we come together bring those countries to do a live exercise. as we bring all these countries together we do this live exercise we flex our muscles in the region they cut to send a message to the bad guys saying don't mess around everybody's working together in concert true make sure that you guys are around so everybody in the pentagon said this was a success story. you know how can we make this even better. to touring and defeating. transnational threats preventing future conflicts supporting

humanitarian disaster relief efforts and protecting u.s. security interests. that's the mission of u.s. africa command. they decided that maybe they needed a separate command headquarters that would focus exclusively on africa and so the bush administration under donald rumsfeld was running the pentagon at the time decided to do that set up a separate command just for africa. the united states is the only country to have divided the world into separate military sectors to monitor and patrol these are north caught. south can you calm centcom and now africa are. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance afrikan implanted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with

a growing number of african countries. but was this the only reason for africa for possibly a. little bit of the oil is there is not there are america sort of course you know or is it appropriate is up from utah is a notorious list there for so. it ought to are a serious security don't those also go to make sure i don't they are me arrested because all the screw up by going on just of all. beijing had firmly established itself as a counterweight to french and american interests on the continent in the first decade of the twenty first century china had overtaken the rest of the world to become africa's largest trading partner.

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made public by wiki leaks the u.s. assistant secretary of state const china as their e aggressive and play nation economic competitor with no more. ultimately the aim of the united states amounts for is to develop mechanisms where access to resources that are strategic that are absolutely essential to several key industries in the united states as well as access to petroleum are secured that it also provides a counterweight to china china is also in somewhat of a race to acquire as many minerals and petroleum and other natural resources that it means for its industries the united states though it may no longer be a major manufacturing power its military industries are heavily dependent on minerals that can be only sourced in africa. the establishment of africa calm

was key for the consolidation of u.s. interests in africa but when the pentagon wanted to set up its headquarters on the continent things did not go as planned is america shipshape i don't believe this year. us you can see as you see after week well money the problem sic the. imposition communicative more the refusal of that. this opposition forces us to set up a command of afrikaans thousands of miles away in stuttgart germany. african resistance to africa calm was spearheaded by a figure who had emerged as a major economic and political force on the continent and had been a thorn in the side of the west for decades from the beginning of his political

career as a leader moammar gadhafi was opposed to a foreign military presence in africa one of the first things is that after coming to power in one thousand sixteen i was to expel the british and u.s. military bases and libya itself. and the gadhafi had you know considerable political support across the continent for his position nelson mandela's if you will was almost identical to go about things that there would be no african forces commanded by foreign military officials and there would be no foreign militaries occupying any part of africa are operating with that offer. gadhafi had been playing a complex game with the west for a long time president ronald reagan had labeled him the mad dog of the middle east and had tried to assassinate him in one thousand nine hundred eighty six by bombing his palace. the libyan leader is independence and

influence flowed from the vast petroleum reserves the launch is seen africa which he had nationalized when he took power. well starting in the ninety ninety s. moammar gadhafi became a kind of luminary a leading voice certainly one of the loudest voices for a maximum version of african integration he was seen across as being the successor of kwame in terms of his vision of african unity and it wasn't just a matter of my sounding more it's good offie was eager to not only accelerate the process of african integration but of bankrolling the process. it's jealousy they spoke she just exquisitely she's very glamorous it's part of our

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news hour that's in less than half hour now we're coming up next the shadow war continues. the money from libyan oil allowed gadhafi to underwrite ambitious projects. three hundred million dollars for the first pan-african satellite calm. thirty billion dollars in the largest irrigation system in the world that draws on the vast

reserves of fresh water under the sun to turn tens of thousands of hectares of libyan desert into farmland. khadafi wanted to demonstrate that africa could develop without depending on the western banking system or the international monetary fund libya to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in each case was capitalizing a number of new african economic institutions of the african development bank of the african monetary fund africa would then develop its own solutions and develop its own lending programs to address its own problems so africa was in good daffy's view. with gadhafi as a leadership increasingly becoming something of a bloc rather than a series of disparate individual nations that could be dealt with one on the one

and set against each other. when gadhafi was elected chairman of the african union in two thousand and nine u.s. officials concerned in an embassy cables revealed by wiki leaks they noted that libya will seek to use our chairmanship. and promote his united states of africa proposal. u.s. multinationals were also unhappy with the libyan leader especially his decision to cancel it one billion dollars deal with the bechtel corporation the largest engineering company in the u.s. with powerful connections in washington. the fact that an operator with bechtel's connections and deep pockets was ultimately unable to secure its contract serves as a caution airy tale for the many u.s. and western companies seeking to enter libya's booming market and for other u.s. companies considering major investment projects here. gadhafi also

antagonize france after being courted by president nicolas sarkozy the libyan leader canceled major arms deals. and reacted. to the film the short. cut of. the even shopping list of some more are quite a few don't go to the. best you know you to cope with shows by boss the kwame. in march two thousand and eleven as the arab spring spread through north africa france and the united states decided to see. the united nations security council gave its approval protecting human rights provided the

justifications. for syrian. defeat. we had gadhafi as troops in neighboring niger beate allowing the opposition to drive them out. we hit it off these air defenses this was afrikaans for its war and its commander in chief was the first african-american president in the words of the obama administration the u.s. position in the war against libya was that of leading from behind what is really interesting is of course the fact that the war was opened and directed first by africa. and then the mission was taken over by nato. another all of these people running the show me told are themselves being run by the maybe states which is formally in command of major will not only that in one of

his speeches obama after the bombing campaign had ceased and was praising the efforts of allies in libya revealed that even a number of french bombing missions were inside piloted by american it's. the intervention of libya is also a way of sending a message. other african nation states that should they pursue a course of such radical defiance radical independence such a nationalist imagined him period us course that there could be the ultimate consequences that are no longer hypothetical and. gadhafi is gone so a major obstacle in the way of american military penetration of us as in fact we.

came we saw he died in. the fall of gadhafi produce a shockwave that would be found far beyond libya. unfortunately there was not a very good handle on the forty thousand plus weapons that could off he had and so quickly we find out that. over thirty five thousand of those weapons just atomized they just disappeared and so we discovered that some of those weapons made a made it into northern mali the southern algeria other in southern libya there are new shares are everywhere. some of those weapons fell into the hands of the libyan rebels others including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles family into the hands

of tariq fighters who fought alongside gadhafi because he supported their demands for autonomy in the samarra. yet to show you and your daughter is. that there's a widow a mother difficult to have a clue to and to cause you to tell sudden community who just want to know about this also quite. by the. charter is a very. noble or citizens of the zone given the normal law would agree on the bald eagle i'm also told it is all put off as the. who hope to tell the pride our is yours to degrade to their feet for grit at the feet of water or by the i enjoyed this volume that i saw tish's there were more that i saw that i couldn't because as well as jail with all the men who consider all to be dissin the press it ought or is here with. the heavily armed

formed a new fighting force and mentally and launched an offensive against the government in bamako in january two thousand and twelve that long held dream of creating a want an independent tarik homeland that would stretch across the sahara finally seemed within reach. but the two our eggs were not the only fighters in the desert small on groups which had emerge a decade earlier we're now well on forces to be reckoned. acme. and and sardine say they were fighting a holy war and went recruiting among the local population. islamists toward the book always full of the police security or law is off result although not remotely rather think it is a lot of them illegal to screw. around with you have approved of the last year of

the rule of. doctors or law or. what. but the islam preached by these armed groups was nothing like the islam practice in this region for centuries the. good. ones you know will be. deleted in the back of. it but. if you're going to spend it if you're going to. thank. you so it's all said one of the. two leadership of the sharia buku it is

also militant of syria kit want to start really calm but it certainly isn't as if you're to be the somebody. if you didn't do the. result. was the one putting aside their ideological differences the two are exam the armed groups for an alliance of convenience. criminon arche them point of view you know he could put out a mobile or. jihadist that. says it will ruin the us on a new cause of our size that i don't go to them but it will take these guys a little bit like that i know. it has a different morning and i don't know the circumstances of it in female all that some or all. united the rebel forces launched an offensive against mali and soldiers in several garrison towns in

the north. these mannion troops had completed years of training by africa home but the training didn't pay off. for a bit but is it as you need to sort of build it richard is on your book a bit to the left or must feel for some but they're called to maybe not so none of the local is unity. for me so sore disagree it's a song means so but of the quoted a bit. worse was yet to come when one thousand million soldiers were captured in summarily executed in a rebel attack on the offices in bamako mutinied against the government they say it was incapable of controlling the situation. the coup was led by one of afrikaans top pupils captain amadou sana book who was

trained as an infantry and intelligence officer at the u.s. bases in virginia georgia texas and arizona. this was a guy the americans had trained and invested time and money and then he made things ten times worse and mali. and then more setbacks for africa calm. again other rebel forces invaded the major cities of northern mining they met little resistance in just two weeks the country was split in two. despite years of training and millions spent the west's greatest fear became a reality as so-called islamic state was established in northern mali.

lives organised a pseudo g.i. distal. up was you know with only living do normally i go to. the trees on the day of the. market is going up to last year all. the novels you'll see get rid of it. you have asked for going after you most if you fairly credit. the qur'an on to bigger up the second but dungy i dissed i've also there you sure don't going to beat the s. eric and i ponder. this one quite. novel say the song then if not for the new issue physical croissant then they're gone but

they'll just idealists call the envy of the community through all. as the rebels move south france came to the rescue into. forty eight hours and government deployed four thousand troops to mali the americans remained in the background providing military intelligence and logistical support. vote mr growcott objective it's also been our friends at a dinner somewhere in the gulf because souls. potential of all the fish sauce economy can was of your of or will some of. the leicester billeted on the board. the rebel advance was tops and in just two weeks the french regain the north the french army claimed to have killed hundreds of so-called terrorists the rest seemed to evaporate into the desert the former colonial power was now the savior of the

country. but was operation survival all that it seemed to be. dull sick with with us your normal person knew so exact the most he said by simply skirl him and drawing. the leg. don't demolish going to leave a problem if the. corner or what remains of it today the town is key to understanding what really happened during operation sarah vaughan it was a site of a decisive battle with the fighters of armed sardine who were surrounded here by friendships. a memorial in honor of the first french soldier killed during the clash was erected overlooking

the only road in and out of town. but what has not been memorialized is the fact that on this same road a convoy of vehicles carrying hundreds of rebel fighters and their leader iyad gali managed to escape from right under the nose of the french. on the ground many witnesses of the conflict have questions. that's. not cos he did it. and nothing else it will happen next it's just. as he said one story to see it was a comment on the stock level said i was your kid if the outlaw. don't disturb you very bad idea of the opioids like this jaunty soto's use say please go up on the avenue or lawn the man you didn't i will show. you

a crucial load going to develop nor a difference see likely my i know disposal really isn't that cept the dog is. in the most wrong pretty quick for the incident i will say don't get a present of dogs kurt let him or show me. in this shadow war what interests might the french have been going easy on the forces they were supposed to be fighting little said the father hardly recover yet i'm certain autonomy is a serial you normally get caught up or. by market. forces . accept the produced seal or dick that there are false. fiamma are a vast. exploit limine the hell it. left million of us do know only my leader works eighty on vocally commune the coup is

going to double shuffle says justice international so simple. he'll menthol should dilute your dinar machismo you exploded your honor it went through the life force you live alone did you got a deal on mass you really was was do it on your arm. next brought bible no more. don't deliver towel expert us you may pull won't be she daughter there were accessible since. far from the desert sands of the sahara the future of the region is being determined and france is not the only one with interests here. representatives of oil companies venture capitalists and african officials in charge of energy gathered in london the financial capital of europe and the over who she is the one. who. despite the chaos wars and revolutions the interests of europeans and

americans remains high in what may be the largest un topped oil reserves on the continent the eldorado of the science the tao dany basin which extends to mauritania to algeria across north mali. is a distance source resource but in the vast vast area probably bigger than the whole of texas or. pocket to europe for instance so you can imagine very few wells in this vast area not enough to test the realities it would take a long time to put the space into for testing. despite a recent decline in the importers gas and african oil to the united states the interests of major u.s. energy companies in africa has not decreased the needs of asia and europe will not stop growing nearly two trillion dollars of investments in african oil and gas are expected in the next two decades. mostly to school the.

next year when there was hospital yeah i know. there are no good all sit on the ground by some. they tell you that feet go vava bottoms croissant or fielders and they occur present but don't disappear position a ball exploited. in may two thousand and fourteen president obama announced that he would allocate an additional five billion dollars to the fight against global terrorism. but as we move to train and advise mission in afghanistan or reduced presence there allows us to more effect of we address emerging threats in the middle east and north africa. earlier this year i asked my national security team to develop a plan for a network of partnerships from south asia to the sale. this strategy has been very persuasive an increasing number of african governments have

signed on to the africa com program like in asia where the u.s. military brought together african forces composed of one thousand soldiers from seventeen countries for military exercises. footlockers an international exercise this year we could really have it in different areas of of africa as a tremendous opportunity for all work together and more from one another. during two thousand and thirteen alone africa has organized ten exercises on the fin clock model fifty five other operations and four hundred safety seminars with forty nine african states. the united states has also established drone bases in djibouti. kenya ethiopia somalia south sudan. and this is shams. in september two thousand and fourteen the united states announced that they were

sending four thousand troops to liberia as support during the boehner crisis and to coordinate other unspecified military activity it's. not to be outdone france also announced plans to increase its military presence in the saya with a redeployment of three thousand troops. the increasing militarization of africa is a new profit center. covered by the military industrial complex with millions of dollars of contracts for arms manufacturers and private contractors. emersion of will see nearly a fifth interest ability though that official. so the corp so they do diminutive visuality force a book called the goods on the world the most original furcula vision for germany.

surveyed you ludicrous. for there's a lever it's all for naught. the united nations has established a peacekeeping force of twelve thousand troops to help stabilize mali among them the chinese military as well as african troops trained by afrikaner the arsenal of east peace keepers include surveillance drones and apache attack helicopters. more than one hundred thirty years after the berlin conference a new division of the african continent is underway as new powers seek to ensure oil supplies strategic minerals arab oil land and even the water under the desert sands so did god really do over all the problem so.

look at the regalia. efore necessary. if we're going to get approved just a few somersaults just because. the so-called war against terror in this a high is more than it seems the battles ways here are part of a not just struggle for influence and control in a world of shrinking resources this battle the fight for the sponte is the real and less war.

hello again welcome back we're here across australia particularly down here towards the by we are watching a lot of clouds here so sure where the precious is and that's making its way towards the east now what we're going to be seeing over the next day or so is for adelaide particularly winds are coming out of the north and that means you are seeing some warmer conditions there but as we make our way towards wednesday we are going to be seeing that system push east and the winds are going to be coming out of the south so from twenty eight to one thousand degrees as your high here on wednesday the system makes its way towards victoria new south wales and clouds and rain are going to be in your forecast there so from melbourne rainy conditions there down towards tasmania as well we do expect to see mostly cloudy and rainy conditions for you well here across new zealand things are looking better as that one system makes its way towards the east we're going to sing auckland staying in the clouds but as we go through the next couple days maybe tuesday night they're going to start to break out of it and then a little bit of a a trough pushes through christ church and you're going to be seeing some clouds in

your forecast but by the time we get towards wednesday. things are going to be light much nice with the temperature into the mid teens and then here across japan you're going to sing a lot of clearing as a typhoon and tropical storm has moved now into the russian maritimes so partly cloudy conditions across most of japan here on tuesday really staying quite nice as we go towards wednesday at twenty four for tokyo. one suffer because wealthiest country together with an i am great libya is mount told the talks everybody wants to have his share of authority and the money they can not be good centrally just from one city like to put in the big picture that dissects the roots of the conflict and asks who's to blame in the last for libya the only job of fortunate these to be commission members. coming soon on al-jazeera . this is our babies as

a nation where we can find full blown babies cases every day and there isn't a visitation i give my team with that many of the family even laboratory appreciates that what he does contribute to the prevention of such. big together many sectors to achieve one goal eliminating babies i lead by lifelines the quest for global health on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes. indonesia rushes to get

aid and equipment to sulawesi island as victims of friday's earthquake and tsunami are buried in mass graves plus. it will transform north america back into a manufacturing powerhouse president trump aless new trade deal with canada and mexico as the biggest in u.s. history police move in to break up protests in barcelona on the first anniversary of catalonia as independence referendum. in sport manchester united manager george . some of his players have an attitude problem. some are more than others united manager goes on for the club's worst starts for league season in three decades. we begin the news hour in central in the days where rescue teams are still combing the straw homes and buildings on the island sulawesi in search of trapped survivors

the death toll from friday's deadly earthquakes and tsunami now stands at eight hundred forty four and the u.n. is warning that around one hundred ninety one thousand people are in urgent need of aid indonesian troops are leading a rescue effort in the affected area while the president has accept that offers of international help when have reports now from jakarta. three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami this is what is left of the city of palu much of the city of more than three hundred thousand people has been destroyed rescuers are trying to reach those who might still be alive. with hospitals damaged the injured are being treated in the open and the airport is doubling as a field hospital it was also badly damaged in the quake the military has secured it to allow aid to be flown in and the injured else. so that is. what the earthquake was so powerful all of us run out in

a big group we were shouting people was screaming god is great people were repenting. as more bodies are recovered graves are being dug for mass burials to try to prevent the spread of disease those who did survive a disparate me trying to leave. we have not eaten in three days we just want to be safe. we have been here since yesterday we need to fly there are eleven of us we haven't been allowed to board. the indonesian president has been trying to reassure the people that help is on its way. we will send as much food as we can today by hercules aircraft directly from jakarta. these are the problems we're trying to solve as well we're expecting fuel to get to politic day because special flights are being sent there because one of the main challenges facing rescue workers has been the lack of heavy equipment to dig for survivors for now

they're using whatever tools they can find or their bare hands to try to get to those buried under the rubble wayne hay al jazeera jakarta well under thomas sent us this update from paul so in central sulawesi he's on his way to paddle. like so many others out same as trying to reach probably you can't fly there are commercial planes direct in any way once you get there there are no cars available no food no water all those things i supply of things that we need to. the only ones in this huge queue of traffic trying to get pride throw in a city that's a six hour drive away from poland where here in the nearest place that we. are trying to get you to drive to probably because they're worried about relatives they want to take their own supplies in but this is just the. outspoken in that city. by the military was digging big mass graves and many hundreds of people will be

buried. on monday government meanwhile has early on monday said that this disaster is of such a scale that i now welcome for a night that is significant with a law like the few weeks ago in the government that it was able to cope. very different this time around they are welcoming foreign aid they want to get as much as quickly as possible so as well as all these people once they get. driving. on a personal level. official foreign aid should be reaching into. well for more on the situation in indonesia i'm joined by oxfam's humanitarian director nigel timmins who was in indonesia after the massive earthquake and tsunami back in two thousand and four thank you so much for coming in to us here at al-jazeera so you were actually in indonesia back in two thousand and four the working for oxfam another another charity obviously you saw the aftermath of that we're seeing just a few pictures really consider everything that presumably will come out of

indonesia now before what you're seeing how does this compare to two thousand and four i think the picture is just suggest is very similar intensity i mean the geographical scale appears to be a bit less but the sheer intensity is very clear i think what struck me when i went before is. it's not just a wall of water but it's all of water full of debris concrete tree glass cars vehicles everything being churned around like a giant cement mixer so that it's almost like a huge bulldozer the just clears away the land and after as you just left with this complete chaos right now the official death toll is just under a thousand people in two thousand and four eventually and there being two hundred thirty thousand and just in indonesia about one hundred sixty eight thousand dead and some people that missing were never found i mean how long after the initial tsunami in two thousand and four did we start to get a clearer idea of what the death toll would be because obviously eight hundred forty four is totally unrealistic i can remember exactly but it was

a good couple of weeks because so many bodies are missing get swept out to sea are buried i mean we're also dealing of course with the aftermath a very significant earthquake and as we talk and rescue missions are going on so many people are buried there are a lot of remote fishing villages all along that coastline accurate census data may not be totally available i mean the moment the census suggests there's two point four million people in effected area so it could take some weeks before we really find out what the true extent was and obviously people are in this wind of aid right now what are the challenges of getting aid to all of these places are all of the moment as you course one who is showing sheer access the airport is functioning in the indonesian authorities making sure humanitarian flights are pricey access roads have been cut off by landslides major bridges broken down so physical access is a real challenge the other one is information i mean electricity is down so the communications are down many people there first process simply family tracing i mean there are

reports of children turning out to medical centers unaccompanied looking for family members people just trying to work out who survived which the relatives around who's gone so just basic information is a real challenge is still very agonizing stories of people being literally torn apart by the water and just all on a final poll. point what have been your lasting memories of what you saw back in two thousand and four i think the initial heartbreak i remember people coming out some your photos just simply showing the faces and saying have you seen. but at the same time also the sheer courage and resilience of you know in the months and years after his people group rebuilding their lives the sense of optimism the hope that it can build back better so the good and tragic of the same time this speaking of rebuilding i mean last time i think about fourteen billion dollars were pledged by the international community to help all the countries affected by the two thousand and four tsunami do you think that's the kind of money that's needed for this as well and did the pledges come in well certainly i think clearly there's a need for ongoing investment in in disaster preparedness whether it's quake proof

buildings improvements the tsunami warnings the fact that we're still struggling to get heavy lifting equipment into help evacuate people from class buildings but still more to be done but certainly internees has come a long way since two thousand and four in addressing a number of government policies in this area nigel timmins oxfam's humanitarian director thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us thank you thank you now the white house says authorize the f.b.i. to expand its investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh as long as it's finished by this friday that's according to the new york times earlier president trump told reporters the f.b.i. should talk to whoever is necessary to the inquiry but i think the f.b.i. should interview anybody that they want within reason but you have to say within reason they should interview but they should also be guided and i am being guided by what the senators are looking for but i've also made reference to

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thanks to thousand and sixteen campaign promise delivered ahead of the mid-term congressional elections in the united states donald trump says he's negotiated a new trade accord with mexico and now with canada it will be the most advanced trade deal in the world with ambitious provisions on the digital economy patents very important financial services and other areas where the united states has a strong competitive advantage mexico and canada have agreed to strong new labor protections environmental protections and new protections for intellectual property so important if approved the new u.s. mexico canada agreement would preserve a one point three trillion dollar trading zone u.s. dairy farmers will be able to sell more of their products in canada canada gets to keep a dispute mechanism to resolve fights with the u.s.

over lumber exports and auto workers in mexico will be paid more to produce parts for the u.s. market that last point mattered to officials in ottawa we have reached an agreement on cars and car parts inspired by creative canadian ideas which as some of you will remember we put forward in our talks in montreal back in january that was a key turning point in this negotiation mr speaker the draft treaty now heads to parliament in ottawa until congress in both washington and mexico city we've got a most being a less a little more. where was that we will make sure it does not contravene the sovereignty of the people and we will be guarantors of the federalist principles that maintain our republic analysts say there is a reason why canada is joining the deal now its economic future what is important is that we be an attractive place for foreign companies to invest and.