once again. lose will be a brotherhood the result. is a lamb in there to move on when most of the guns are but only so bugger me along a new job that has given me. a long way on a very solid fluke little blue you. certainly look lovely on girls and a little of a male going to a. little nerve there. we set off from agadez 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 to cool and we already having the second part of our breakdowns often leave migrants stranded in the desert our first stop is the village of the 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. few. of them. tend to do not get off. 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 did you do. it. if you. if you. don't. quite know. what. they think it's a woman. because of the nail polish on the toes. most step migrans 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. see to see richard. the brave under. he has a theory of the. incredibly there is a well nearby. the migrants who died drank the water from the well too quickly. and . we set off again after a while as our convoy. seen somebody was waving at us. i 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. 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 active carrying weapons that match those of our military escort. decides where to set up camp. it does a. mini me. 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. say on congruently i village are the worry. if you include. that at all. well are fighting their way will require work so you're almost there it is for. your b.g. and world where there's no buffalo news here you are to me. 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 in joe cool 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 find employment and that. we have heard today that crime is on the right 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 a. shock. and yes i said this on the. so this was found in a in a car that also had migraines and i had to do all you want to. look at them don't assume it was 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 to get it that's what that yes it was for. the moment influence is something that. is in the fields worth of the skill but it's all of that so that when 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 the doubt that there doubt. 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. frank dunham aaron summarizes

you cap successes and. you also this. offer. 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 you see a lot of all you know if you thought. of it all. your years of reception follows but we managed to pry you cap's 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. is a good take of the jobs of our people of course when they start the blog the fight against migration there are efforts for the business development projects like and i guess they don't really have they are 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 mamdani more sell at his compound to elders are voicing their grievances. soon. i'm not going to be cute when appellate lawyers are is. the most i to do i for going in for the person to tbilisi. they show me lists of names so these are all dr as you saw today is that since 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 with rycote in a bun you know i don't get injured and it was you know. but him were getting me the man say the discontent may create an opening for religious extremists obama. i would like. a little not enough you know the one you know. 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 victim is while attempting that if your knowledge rather amor.

and then you know. you. showed. him for. them a bit of. if you could to. 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 tracked 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 have provided the ground part of a big infrastructure of 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 or what 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 down. 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 lies and prostrate ties on a. i'm hoping that the constitutional court we call a deliberately commission to recount the ballot papers the opposition candidate

martin ulu mounts a legal challenge the result of democratic republic of congo's presidential election. elephant of the one i'm come all sons of maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera south africa's president wins the voters with promises of jobs and land reform tries to stem the a.n.c. party's falling popularity also the teenager who fled saudi arabia fearing her family would kill her touches down in canada after inspiring other saudi women. and protests on the streets of paris the yellow vest movement stages its ninth weekend of demonstrations against the french government. there is always concern the presidential election in democratic republic of congo wouldn't be clear cut maybe they'd be claims of irregularities or worse violence

now the result is in court martin says vote counting by catholic church election observers actually show he won sixty one percent of the vote and is therefore the winner rival the opposition candidate but the declared winner felix is the care they're getting just eighteen percent but the congolese catholic church and the french government official results saying it doesn't match election observers saw. i'm hoping you got to the constitutional court we called the electoral commission to recount the ballot papers because that's what the law we are totally disagree we did result that sydney has announced that if they have fabricated nothing to do with the truth and that one day it's reached the truth as to come from the recount of the people following events for us from kinshasa in which us. martin tell you he says he hopes that the courts will be independent it

was a day that was full of drama he was meant to be the course at nine in the morning but he only saw that. because some of his supporters were dealing with police issues some of them wanted to come with him to court but the police told them they cannot go with him to court because they were concerned about the size of the crowd that would be able to control it some of them who did try to come to court then dispersed by the police some of them we told were beaten up the police saying close roads leading up to the course they went before you lose house in the city have we're not going to stop you from going to court because it is your right but you cannot bring your supporters he was unhappy about that he didn't break with not to go to court and say his lawyers eventually showed up and he told john that he really believes that this election was stolen and the judges will meet on monday and tuesday go through this evidence that for you he says prove that he won the election if they decide that there's no case in this throw the max out of the kids will be officially declared president elect and he'll be sworn in on january

eighteenth so what do you allude to there's a concern he could tell the supporters to block the street and protest if that happens the right police could be deployed they could be violence not just instance but elsewhere across the country i've just spoken to the katie spokesman and his mission to fight you is listen we comrades we've been through elections this fall. how can you say we cheated we won genuinely come to work with us we both this country bought a bit of congo with us for you to listen to that we don't know right now all eyes are on the course and i was a tenant others are just going to be. still in africa in fact south africa where the ruling african national congress has launched its manifesto for elections in may durban was the city chosen to host the event in the province of course in a town where support for the a.n.c. remains divided from me to miller explains why. there is certainly a significant show of support at the most as maybe to stage him in durban where the african national congress is holding its manifesto launch at least eighty five

thousand people have come out to you know what the ruling parties plans are around the election and what it plans to do following that the a.n.c. of course concerned about a drop of support in recent years a lot of that to do with corruption scandals has been embroiled in as well as the resignation of almost president jacob zuma president it's all we have this launch is taking place is the home of zuma this is a province where he enjoys a lot of support. these community members sing outside a courtroom lousy in the city of durban there seeking justice appearing in court an african national congress councillor accused of killing another councilor from the party. it's been three months since sperm up more than was shot and killed him his family says he was targeted because of factional infighting within the party we can sort of the truth is that at home we live in fear because we don't know what's happening we can see now that there are two factions in the organization. was the

government says forty councilors have been killed in the past seven years mainly because of power struggles and greed of a government contract so that africans ado at the polls in the coming months to vote for provincial representatives as well as a new president president at all is important for political parties the province has the second highest number of voters but it's also where the ruling a.n.c. which is riddled by disunity faces one of its biggest challenges president jacob zuma resigned last year after a long running corruption scandal and was replaced by similar. but zuma despite the allegations continues to enjoy significant support in his home of course in a town adding to concerns of a split within the party the a.n.c. leadership had a message of unity touring the party's one hundred seventh birthday celebrations this week. we're here we're with all of. you

no mother so only yes there is unity that flow of this is. from a person his first general election as president of the a.n.c. is trying to solidify his position in the party ways approved appears to be split between him and his predecessor jacob zuma so that some of the biggest regions of the a.n.c. across the country in case so it's very important to understand that if your case then is weak divided it has possibility to divide the entire nation or to cause massive rifts within the city and of course this is the base well of former president zuma. causer natal is. former stronghold of opposition the in-car to freedom party there are concerns that a lack of unity within the a.n.c. allegations of corruption and poor delivery of services could see the party lose some of its supports to its rival. president still roma course is now addressing

the crowds here talking about some of the achievements the government has made in recent years who is also expected to deal with the manifesto itself some of it outlining what the agency's plans are it says it plans to transform the economy to serve all people south africa really struggling with high levels of poverty inequality as well as unemployment at least a third of young people don't have jobs the president also talking about advancing social transformation and stepping up the fight against corruption through out society and safeguarding what people are concerned around in terms of transparency and just how this party will deal with an issue that has been plagued by for several years now. a saudi teenager who fled from her family this week saying she feared for her life as arrived in her new home in toronto eighteen year old moon

was granted asylum by canada on saturday should grab international attention after barricading herself in a bangkok airport hotel had refused to meet her father and brother who arrived in thailand trying to take it back to saudi arabia canada's foreign minister met the team at toronto airport where she explained why her country stepped in quickly to help the saudi national. and it was glad that you were able to leave and offer refuge seeing everything she must feel in a state and often precedes she a person is laid in danger as the prime minister of state yesterday in canada will be very strongly in standing up for human being in the room and people need their insistence that women's rights are saying. that something needs to be being kept on hearing and that's something we believe in acting on something in the room

and. also trying to report for us might cannot looks quieter now there might but early in my goodness a lot of attention on this young lady indeed yes the size of the media contingent a reflection of how of this country canada has involved itself in this ongoing crisis actually arrived in those statements made to the media the canadian foreign minister saying that she needed to rest for a while what we understand too is that the process of getting sanctuary in town and now begins old though she was granted an emergency sanctuary because of the particular situation the process itself stays the same for her to get legal residence in canada which could take a matter of weeks maybe even a matter of months but she's safely as the canadian foreign minister puts it she is in the safe condition here now she can start focusing on a future and

a career she says in architecture. the foreign minister giving reasons for why he can a decided to step in so quickly could we also say there was some political reason behind it as well given the state of relations between canada and saudi arabia. well let's just take a look at the state of relations say certainly very very rocky indeed back in august saudi arabia severed all diplomatic contact with canada following criticism of its human rights policies then in october the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi certainly up the ante as a mess of demands being made the canadian government to cancel a multibillion arms deal with saudi arabia so relations have been fractured to put it like mildly in recent months and certainly the decision to grant sanctuary to saudi dissident is going to likely worsen the relations even further but it must be noted kemal the comments made by the foreign minister that human rights women's

rights are human rights and that human rights are far more important than any diplomatic ties or any kind of trade deal certainly a message being sent across the border to the u.s. as well no ambiguity there is very mike hanna live in toronto thank you. still ahead if you want to al-jazeera rocks thrown through a car windscreen this is in the occupied west bank our attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians are increasing. in puerto rico our record breaking musical going back to its roots. how i think lebanon and iraq have probably syria had the worse for the time being the next massacre developing is clearly heading that way going for us aleppo but if i take you over the next twenty four hours or so where less than that you'll see

the cloud itself is just cloud and sudden iraq there comes a concern higher ground in this is where rain starts to fall yes it will catch northern iraq.