i'm in there to move on. when most of the guns are but only. me along a new job but i was you for me is a long way. for love luke little. son little love it when girls and the little. male go into the little of the rows only as. we set off from our goddess to follow the route migrants take to reach europe our destination is still cool. and from there we want to drive towards the libyan border we will travel with an i.o.m. team that's on a rescue mission. looking for migrants who are lost in the desert and three car army escort provide security. we soon get a taste of what travel in the desert is like we're just outside their core and

we're already having the second public car breakdowns often leave migrants stranded in the desert. our first stop is the village of la thai with thousands of migrants used to drink water from this well today military patrols are frequent and i am team leader. is told that cars with migrants no longer stop here. soon we're back on the road driving towards a nearby oasis called. it is known as a hiding place for migrants a desert ghetto. once to show us something very disturbing. for. ted to do you know. the driver who took these migrants avoided the main roads but his car broke down after three days of walking the migrants arrived here. and if

you see it if you do. these you're not. sure if you know. if you're one of the one who's afraid of. quite a few. or. they think it's a woman. because of the nail polish on the toes. most debt migrants will never be found. the i.o.m. estimates that more than twice as many migrants now die crossing the desert as in crossing the mediterranean. you see she wrote the scene of.

a she saw. the. incredibly there is a well nearby. the migrants who died drank the water from the well too quickly. we set off again after a while the stops our convoy. seen somebody was waving at us. don't know if you know. the man's car has broken down around five kilometers away when we get there the head of our military escort you don't have diarrhea himself inspects the vehicle. when you're searching the cars what are you looking for is. there because i wore

gave the. society his you. help is already on the way and we leave these men to continue their journey. our final destination is a place called mahfouz the last well before the border with libya it's a place where i.o.m. has previously found migrants in distress. it's a dangerous place where gangs and bandits i acted carrying weapons that matched those of our military escort. does sites where to set up camp. it doesn't buffel. many. don't. have night the military stops to patrol and bandits and traffickers own the desert

as we make our beds the guns are ready. the next morning we descend to the well. so the ground is still wet there were people here and really recently. their own congruently everywhere are the worry of a regime. that all. well are fighting their way will require work here will moderate. sample size your b.g. . procured with your buffalo news here pointing. out that. it's time to start our long journey back to deal cool since october two thousand and sixteen the i.o.m. team has rescued nearly nine hundred migrants the overall number of africans

transiting through may have gone down but the ones who still attend the desert crossing face a much more dangerous journey. since our arrival india cooled we've heard complaints that the migration ban has damaged the local economy nearly every family used to make money from the migrant transport but now sales at the market have dropped and young men say they can't find employment and that. we have heard today that crime is on the rise and to find out more we have a range to meet prosecutor mussa ibrahim. or join richard. roth. in the regional courthouse he takes us to where the evidence is stored. these items were found by the military police less than a week earlier. that's what that's hashish so. let's just.

say it was so on. and i said this on the i'm so this was found in a in a car that also had my guns and i had to do all you want and it was a lot of them don't and so it was that the police also seized weapons and ammunition some criminals seem to have a lot of firepower this is not just for self protection that's for serious fighting so that it that's what that yes that was the. moment that says that something that if. it's this into a few words of the seal of the it's all of that sort of. the easy availability of weapons from libya mixed with growing local discontent about the loss of income has given rise to more crime the prosecutor says some drivers have

become smugglers. and he. did. it very much says he's been threatened with kidnap and even death people and that he's hoping for more security not just for himself but also for his young family. and security is where the e.u. has been investing this is the nigerian police force demonstrating their new skills in the capital niamey that the without doubt that they have been trained by the e.u. civilian security and defense mission otherwise known as you cap the occasion is the celebration of you cap six year in the country. front been a murder and summarizes you cap successes and. you know

this. is over there are. you. you know yes. you could have came tunisia to stop the rise of al-qaeda affiliated groups who had gained a foothold in neighboring countries since then and you kept as trained around twelve thousand members of new shares security forces with specialist skills this man explains how drugs are trafficked all the the ability to see a lot of people all for you know if not all of it all. the organisers of a reception follows but we managed to pry you caps head of mission away for a quick question i want to know how worried he is about the impact of the migration ban that is not question of course this is a good take of the jobs of our people of course when they start the blood the fight

against migration there are efforts for the business development projects like and i guess they have they're not that visible as we want. it is estimated that since the introduction of the anti trafficking law agadez has lost over one hundred million u.s. dollars in income in response to e.u. has spent three point one million dollars financing projects that include training schemes and cash for work rebuilding our goddess all city but many feel it's too little and too slow. meanwhile the e.u. funded compensation scheme for migration workers has come to a halt after less than ten percent of successful applications received business start up kits. we've come back to see businessmen mandelamine more sell at his compound to elders are voicing their

grievances the pair are soon. when a particular job is. easy but the most i to do are for the name for the person to tbilisi. they show me lists of names. these are all drivers exam today is sadness only. to move well these are the two who drive us ok you know in paris you do companies out there didn't get any compensation. so excuse all that to have a theist reputation gained by fighting a series of rebellions against the central government some girlfriend in a more liberal. lucilla killers are going to be. the elders say they have to calm their youth she want you to come to my pretties

when to get in a bunny i don't get in. but getting me the man say the discontent may create an opening for religious extremists and obama. i would like. a little not enough in other words. i'm the. one with. the least in the mushroom cloud with a. minimum season of their fear is justified armed religious groups have already made inroads in other parts of me jack and i mean that you have to see how the system is one attempt that if your knowledge rather amor. and then you know. and i. showed. him from.

them i did of. you to nose with. the e.u. insist they are addressing this the highest representative in the share ambassador denise alien that you need to has granted us an interview is there the will in brussels to act fast but risks that some of the young people especially fall in the that are packed up by extremist movements and definitely. we need to move we need to move fast. when the renovation of the old city was completed ambassador you need to visit it agadez she says the e.u. is also looking at new development on a far bigger scale we are working on let's say the next generation off corporation which is using our resources as seed money for attracting the private sector

offering gore and keyes to say about the fact that we are providing the ground part of big infrastructure financing for big infrastructure works eats up a couple lies there for further economic activity. back at the barrier that marks the exit from the gods inspecting travel documents we are told it's because we're filming and that the checks are usually a lot less thorough. but one man may have slipped through which country are you from. what. you want to. come back or are you going back to libya. but is going to. leave the south. good luck. he's off before we can ask about his documents. as long as migrants want to travel there will always be someone prepared to take.

the real challenge lies in addressing the root causes of migration not just in transit countries like malaysia air but in the migrants home countries tune. until then made those who still decide to travel to be safe. taiwan. a sovereign island state or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies and crossed very.

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ayatollah. the. us secretary of state pompei of course on arab countries to stand against iran in a case speech delivered in cairo. and present questions about the validity of democratic republic of congo's presidential election plus. the murder. is an atrocity and in the front two humanity members of the u.s. congress hold of the. sabita kushal one hundred days after his murder. the u.s. president has been to the country southern border to drum up support for his proposed wall separating the u.s. from mexico donald trump is asking for five point seven billion dollars for the war which he says is needed to stop an influx of crime

a standoff over funding has led to a partial government shutdown that's lasted nearly three weeks can be held at has more from maccallum texas. this is one of the places u.s. president donald trump wants to build his border wall mccallan texas the busiest stretch for illegal crossings from mexico into the united states i want to thank everybody trying to make sure all the prox ron display like drugs and weapons seized at the border as he met with officials of a calendar for a photo op designed to convince skeptical americans additional money for his border wall is necessary turned argued those organizing the illegal crossings are the real criminals victimising the migrants they have women tied up they have tape over their mouths electrical tape usually blue tape they call it. it's powerful stuff not good trump has been criticized for calling the latest influx of migrants into the u.s.

a crisis at the border on thursday truck tweeted the speech of president obama also calling the situation a crisis in twenty four teeth as waves of children arrived in the united states we now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all it's certainly not impossible to enter the united states illegally especially here in macallan texas while this fence is very very tall this one right beside it is not if you're physically fit if you can swim across a river through this thick brush scale a four metre concrete wall over the razor wire you're in should be happening in our country that's what trump says he wants to stop her but his push for five point seven billion from congress to reopen the government and direct to steel border wall has become a dueling narrative for or against the president. along the streets of macallan there were signs of protest but there was plenty of support for the

president as well. trump says he still hopes for a deal in congress to pay for his wall but he's not ruling out declaring illegal immigration a national emergency freeing up already approved funds to get what he wants can really help kids al-jazeera mccallan texas. well john heilemann has more now from the mexican side of the border. this is the fencing that covers about a third of the border between mexico and the united states which president trump says isn't enough he wants a woman to cover this border the reasons he's given for it of various he says that it will help to stop drugs that doesn't quite stack up actually the vast majority of drugs go through ports of entry they smuggled through that way rather than over the fence saying he's also said that it will help with terrorism actually most terrorists go through airports rather than trying to get over this fence but he's

also obviously given the reason of migration there has been a big uptick in migration over the past year but again if you take the bigger picture over the cut last couple of decades or so it's actually gone down quite a lot now what has changed is the number of women and children who were trying to get across to the united states that has gone up quite a lot now there is analysts would say the aren't too resulting in the ending with that problem is more immigration judges and a more efficient system to work out which of those people deserve a sign of many of them are coming from countries like honduras and el salvador that are racked by gangs now a lot of people coming for economic economic reasons they wouldn't qualify for asylum a lot of people are coming because of the violence they suffer back home and they could qualify for asylum now of the would say that the quick of those cases can be

seen and treated the less backlog that will be in the system and the more that this mess will be sorted out obviously president trump has gone another way his solution a wall that's going to keep a lot of people out of the united states don't transform into i am michael cohen has agreed to testify publicly before kong. next month about his time working for tom his testimony could strengthen the investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election and further damage the president's image and december kong was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to congress and paying hush money to a pole star who alleged she had an affair with trump. that's where we're on to other news now and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has laid out the trump of ministrations vision for american policy in the middle east speaking in cairo he called u.s. leadership a positive force in the region but the main focus of a speech walls confrontation with iran child stratford has more. the u.s.

secretary of state might pompei always touring the middle east almost described as a mission focused on shoring up support among arab allies against iran. since withdrawing from the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal last year the u.s. has increased pressure on teheran which he accuses of being a destabilizing force in the region many middle east experts say pushing iran into a corner is a dangerous move but in the egyptian capital cairo america's top diplomat didn't mince his words the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people of iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like a normal country. middle east follows confusion about donald trump's withdrawal of

a around two thousand u.s. troops from northern syria. the president's announcement schult arab allies as well as a u.s. political leaders and military commanders concerned that the battle against eisel in syria and the wider region is not over yet. tried to reassure them president trump has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria we always do and now is the time but this isn't a change of mission we were made committed to the complete dismantling of isis the isis threat and the ongoing fight against radical islamism in all of its forms. the u.s. withdrawal from syria is also having ramifications for american relations with nato ally turkey u.s. troops have been working with kurdish y.p. chief i choose who control a large area of northern syria close to the turkish border turkey considers the white peachey a terrorist organization president received type order one said the suggestion on

choose day by u.s. national security adviser john bolton but protecting the white p.g. as a precondition to the u.s. troop withdrawal plan was a serious mistake there was very little if anything from pumpin about the store the israeli palestinian peace process very little on the saudi and amorality led war in yemen that has killed tens of thousands displaced millions with millions more threatened with famine and disease. pressure increased on president trump from both democrat and republican senators to end support for the saudi involvement in yemen after the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi many suspect crown prince muhammad bin solomon ordered a saudi hit squad to fly to istanbul last october that the united states is the main provider of saudi military assistance and support in the war in yemen

so the the not united states is not an objective observer at the war of yemen it's an accomplice in the water of yemen. pompei was keen to lay much of the blame for what many describe as years of chaos in the middle east on former president barack obama's administration president trump has reasserted america's control as a force for good in this region he said we have rediscovered our voice. there are millions of people throughout this region who are grateful for the u.s. led coalition success in the battle against eisel but they will also be many made nervous by u.s. administration that blames the region's instability in the previous u.s. president and iran. al-jazeera. iran has had back at the dress in which he said that america retreating from international affairs lead to chaos iran's foreign minister mohammad tweeted whenever wherever the us interfere is chaos repression and resentment followed. so the democratic

republic of congo in our the election commission has surprised many by naming opposition candidate kerry the winner in the long delayed presidential election but officials from the roman catholic church say that his results don't match the tallies from their observers as head of metasearch reports from the results although provisional have led to celebrations for some bought protests by others. and once meant few expected one that could set the stage for the first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty feel it had seen his father lead congress opposition for more than thirty five years had a message of unity. i know how many of you find it hard to accept but i say with sincerity i pay homage to president joseph kabila president of the republic today we must no longer consider each other as adversities but rather as

partners and democratic change in our country. thousands of his supporters poured onto the streets to celebrate their hold it will be a new beginning to suffer in this country there's no job in this country i was in south africa. there's no job in country. after that there's nothing the result. and congolese catholic church leaders are also questioning the result local authorities in concrete in the south west of the country say at least two civilians and two police officers were killed during riots several police stations were torched. just a kid is rival martin is rejecting the provisional results and alleges what he calls an electoral. cure all those who learned of the truth of the ballot boxes especially to congress national.