leadership you know me i want to give this one to you and this person is tweeting about that because one of the reasons that she dropped out is because she said she wanted to create a strong and viable coalition to defeat the incumbent will you make about. before we talk about the possibility of a coalition you know just to touch on the second part of the tweet saying if we can see the sort of the many are some some people seem to draw or or it's fair that you know obviously dropping out is a blow to women in politics but to be honest you know if we men but it's their standards. haven't you know politicians that. possibly she is concerned you surely feel that it's a little too late elections only three weeks ago they really a.b.c.'s of. coalition two thousand and thirteen but that question happened a full two years before the last elections even what if that happens right now. and it could likely be for them as if you have to go three weeks for the election i had

a very little time to live to organize to mobilize and it's on it's pretty much areas so let's put that stat one more time because i know that you spoke to the president of nigeria last year. what challenges. caricature on the women part first before we go to that when clearly into whatever you want you know three things that militate against women candidates in nigeria when is lack of resources to is like over good fathers and third which is the biggest one is. that if they have something that i also got for the reason you know you have to have a big gunfight a big guy behind you to have lots of money would empower but the most important ingredient that is militating against women is a lack of mutual support for each other women don't seem to support women in nigeria political culture for all around paul and you need to give us an example where every ever every time you see a big politician or

a rally most of the people behind the guy would be women but if there is a woman candidate moving around with the people behind the men easy but to the issue of. ok but i think you want to say that. i don't agree that i don't agree with. this. process in nigeria in fanning the political elites have fallen away to appropriate the question of justice them to women and i said this because when you look at the major political parties they have a position called a women leader what does that mean why don't they have a men and you are looking at positions about nine percent eleven twelve positions one is assigned to just one woman and they call it a woman leader and i always try to x. myself what does that mean if we are going to ensure our some level of equality but you did see for both men and women that it was sadly the political process let's

look at your money money first so let's look at. open offices why should a political party with about nineteen to eighteen offices not sign its credit simply good numbers six nine ten eleven and ensure that women are also actively participating in the process rather than just saying oh well we have one position for you guys it's called women leaders and did it come things that bring women to just come and dance and that segues the left over us and get to work so i feel like it has to be a point sharp and a deliberate effort that is led and driven by this potential to go practice with an ideology we got on the stand and that women and men can actually help to move this democracy from one point to another rather than. oh well where manager you guys when you want what we can offer you and that i frequent and. i think that when i.

come back to the question as about having his main mission of the movement he's to stick into the three basic compare agenda that he had back in twenty fifteen fighting boko haram fighting corruption and the economy but he still has challenges also three of them. really has been you understand about what i do and you know in your in your interview with him and he was actually quite upbeat about how much progress happened right let's have a little listen to that and have that. one reach. for a two for for at least seven or eight to look at it go months in the northeast and know you can check for people that the book is not holding in the field who can go month. so that. welcome house arrest of a halt that it had before i present

a high was in power absolutely and that is true if you were to the north this had been committed. base for when i was hot and i just want to do some part of nigeria and that's in the border town between you had a knee jerk cameron and a country that had devastated by the what on his i can see. life as a return to normal basically but they still managed to you know run around and attack especially military installations and things like that so and like the president said using young girls to just they just attack suicide bombings and things like that so that part is. the economy now has refused to but it still remains at one dollar three hundred sixty nine which it was it was less when you first came into office so and with corruption is where you have he's having his toughest fighting that we got three we got three. connell and corruption right count right. if i may jump in yeah yeah me go ahead and then i'll come after you

because those are exactly the three things that everyone online is saying focus on me right i mean does it in three main issues they haven't changed it was the same in twenty fifteen however the dynamic changed. a majority of the people in twenty fifth possibly worried a lot more about insecurity and corruption more than they did the economy well right now that dynamic has changed a lot of people are worried about the economy because. still make great reading for example niger is not the province of copies of the world unemployment has more than doubled on that this administration and it's not to say that people aren't worried about the security of course it's a big worry and the dynamics of it have also changed because i'm of the big threat in twenty fifteen now the reds have actually changed much so i just got a big. you got a story conflicts in the middle of the country and those have been sent. it's what you regard as a for free response from the government so i do agree that this is the three main

issues but in terms of what people care about the most also the economy is definitely an insecurity has also changed that's why and i like lee said carson is a problem and that's the president's big tagline and to corruption the fact that he hasn't scored a runaway success in that field that's that's telling me so i want to share this just one second i want to share this because we just got this live on you tube peters says i think i'll go back i will defeat hari on february sixteenth because bill harley has woefully failed to fulfill the yawning aspirations of nigerians and one of those some community members are saying as we've all heard already is about the economy so i want to play this video comment we thought from simon a table he's the publisher of today's news africa space here in d.c. and here's what he said you know less than two weeks nigerians go to the polls to elect a new president and to me one of the key issues yes unemployment more than twenty two percent of nigerians unemployed them exceed more than twenty million names you

who cannot find work and there is an astronomical number been exposed and we have to fix unemployment both that the economy and and then show that corruption is really for. so mercy it we saw on that fact card earlier about the opposition member former vice president of a backer he's also an entrepreneur he's a businessman and so worries about the economy do you think that those will be reasons that some may vote for him. i think between the economy. include kerry and put this to issues the major candidates have been putting that agenda forward but more importantly this election is about the first time voters from one thousand nine hundred ninety six new young people are going from young people are going to be voting for the first day and of this number

we have about forty three million young people in the in the in the registered. ballots according to the independent national electoral commission and of this number about twenty two million i don't people first time voters so it's going to be an election where young people are saying to themselves we have a few three million extremely poor people. who is putting out the economy issues for us and why does the white of the economy matter you know what i demand from another point of view that there is well if we don't fight corruption corruption will graham nigeria there and that is where the incumbent president is that he is fighting corruption and he wants to come back and keep fighting and. i can say that this economy needs to be fixed and it has to be fixed now. is it pretty much look depends on who you want to keep talking to one night and if you are.

there inside again in the northern part of nigeria with the incumbent president are there and you invite your me rightly pointed out that i'm a fighter of change and there's been an upsurge back in there not so it's ok i mean i'm going to push on let's i'm going to push on because because we actually have three more programs two more programs we're going to talk about the elections i want to push on so i really think it's important to get and nigeria's chief justice has been suspended this is what the nigerian bar association had to say about that have a listen never had a time like this. have we experienced you know this kind of assault on the fundamental law of this country and because students of law and i refer to lawyers in this case must be the ones to meet and then determine who will forward and i'm in this particular case to the best of my knowledge the m.b. is requesting that there be outright reversal of the suspension of the justice of

nigeria because it follows the fundamental law of the land it destroys the very foundation upon which nigeria is built and it is one of some of trouble song for us at this moment. so in an election where it would be contended all might be contended that chief justice is the person who would decide who overseen what happens next so there is concern that that chief justice is no longer in a job right now so many what is our community saying about this being a free and fair election they're giving it a side i this is lake on twitter who said this is french and of the chief justice is a bad move it's another hypocritical decision it makes us doubt if the government can allow credible elections a lot of people online are talking about wanting free and fair elections it's something you often hear when it comes to countries are in the west you never hear that about the west but is it valid in this case especially because we know in twenty fifteen largely what observers say is that they were free and fair elections

i think it's the timing that matters in this election i think the timing of the system by the president of the c.g. and is what is triggering this this noise this political battle over the place and their two recent appointment that but i remember that triggering this kind of controversy when it if you just says that the police chief and both of them have a lot to do with the outcome of the elections when you're supposed to oversee the legality of the election the security aspect of the election and so when you make changes to these positions let's not a month to the election you should expect a lot of reactions like this right now the country is divided along the agree disagree you know with the with many but everybody is politicizing this of course is he in the airwaves with you know criticizing behavior over this and by it is trying to say this guy has not declared he said so that's why he has to work but no

matter what reason the government advances for the suspension of the troop just says this is going to be controversial obviously you're going to hear yeah so. the timing. i mean the process as well you know is incredibly cordial so likely you said the chief justice who has now been suspended is a supposedly an investigation for a four i said to collaboration scandal in quotes. the government has said that his trial has been delayed by technicalities but then again for a government that blames that delay on technicalities it looks as though it is itself taking advantage of a technicality so to suspend him it's essentially not a question of whether you know he may have done what he did or he may not have done what he did it's a question of due process and to. to take this step only three weeks before the election given the time it is bound to his questions so i do agree the timing might says but do you process of removal or appointing

a new chief justice absent the trumps everything else due process to be respected that's what we're country of laws right message just take it a little sitting right there. playing with her actual very possible atmosphere right now is what. i think young people are excited about it and i hope that you know the process is you know i speak as full as we wanted to be ok this is a little you know tension here and there but you know. there is this excitement for the younger generation especially those that would be putting for the first time i mean they have been concept that they've been. program to get a biochemical. excitement all right so thank you thank you thank you community thank you before we go two things to tell you about so i called and i am a running an initiative called hash tag nigeria speaks as election approaches it is

a close facebook group right here so if you want to join it you can just look at the nigerian facebook special program. special programs we are planning here at the stream we're going to air one hour election specials february thirteenth and fourteenth each show will be on t.v. with an hour on line for you there. the hungaroring of armenia's natural riches as uprooted residents. desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. but a remarkable campaign by local residents. of the country's investors. getting high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigate. the new mining out. on a zero. every

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to convince the e.u. . online booking giants are kids to profiting from war crimes by doing business with israelis in occupied palestinian territory plus. qatar you celebrate is their side thrushes asian cup hosts the u.a.e. in a politically charged semifinal. venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ready to negotiate with opposition rival one guy dole who's declared himself interim leader the jury made the offer during an interview with russian news agency r i a the kremlin is one of my most important allies he also said u.s. sanctions on venezuela's state and oil company. will be going to rural. challenge a little later in the program from moscow thing. well

a former. government supreme court banned the opposition leader from leaving the country judges also. reports now from neighboring colombia. it took the government less than twenty four hours to attempt to strike back against the latest round of sanctions the country's attorney general announced that the leader of the opposition and self-proclaimed interim president will be banned from leaving the country and his bank accounts will be frozen. we have opened a preliminary investigation we have come to the supreme court to request cautionary measures three measures as we carry out the investigation against the citizen a travel ban to avoid his departure from the country and to the. property and real estate three the freezing of accounts. shrugged off the announcement as more of

the same. i'm not downplaying the threat of being imprisoned i don't want you to see it that way but frankly i see nothing new under the sun unfortunately this is a regime that offers no answers to the venezuelan people the only response is persecution and repression the freezing of accounts appears to be an effort to complicate a u.s. plan to direct oil revenues to the opposition as they try to win support from military officials still loyal to president nicolas maduro more than twenty countries have now recognized as being the. leader. still has some international support mainly from china and russia who once again said that the u.s. sanctions are illegal. what the united states and their closest allies are doing. is of course very worrying crudely violating international law taking a direct course at legal authority in american nations. over more than

a week demonstrators have been taking to the streets protesting the dire economic situation in demanding president might do those steps down. the premier with force and the threat of imprisonment so in total i think we have some just over forty people i believe to being killed in different manners so far this includes at least twenty six people reported to have died after allegedly being shot by security forces or members of pro-government groups this by the violence the opposition is calling for another massive demonstration wednesday and another one on saturday as been a power struggle continues with no end in sight both inside and outside of the country alison. the british parliament has given the go ahead for to resume aid to return

to brussels and try to secure a better brags that deal but one of the u.k. prime ministers most important negotiating tools was watered down as m.p.'s voted to reject a no deal bragg's it but in barbour explains what it means for the u.k. and how the e.u. has reacted. oh. outside the u.k. parliament the debate was fierce that is jesus bricks it is still as divisive as ever and as the prime minister opened the debate on plan b. she referenced the enormous defeat the commons gave her withdrawal agreement two weeks ago the vote was decisive and i listened so the world knows what this house does not want today we need to send an emphatic message about what we do want to hear the opposition labor party back to an amendment ensuring parliament would get time to vote on ways to prevent a no deal breaks it that plan was defeated but another simply rejecting no deal passed so these guys i mean the eyes have it so did

a government backed amendment calling for the so-called irish backstop to be replaced with unspecified alternative arrangements but the european union has consistently said the backstop must be in the deal as an insurance policy to prevent border checks returning between island as an e.u. member a northern island off the brics it on tuesday the french president at a summit in cyprus was unequivocal coming across a european as the european council has clearly indicated this withdrawal agreement negotiated between the european union and the u.k. is the best deal possible and it is not to renegotiate. the e.u. second most senior brics it negotiator has said events here in westminster feel like groundhog day or an endless loop but amid daya warnings from businesses and the health sector about the impact of a no deal scenario time is certainly not standing still for tuesday was meant to be about parliament giving us an idea of what kind of a deal it would be prepared to back but now we know they'll be weeks more

deliberations here and it's looking more and more likely that the u.k. will have to ask the you for an extension to article fifty buying itself some more time. for the new team barbara al-jazeera london general is outside westminster in central london journals such a reason may now faces a huge challenge to convince e.u. leaders to reopen negotiations so how would you take this forward. well look and a huge challenge assuming there are to be any negotiations at all and as we speak we're not aware of any plans for it's a reason made to hurry off to brussels just yet first of all the softer noon as we understand it to resume i will meet with jeremy cool been at her in the invitation he's the leader of the opposition of course he's agreed to meet her ostensibly perhaps to come up with a solution of unity to take to the e.u. more likely though jeremy corbyn he's going to reiterate his demand that the

government legislate against a new deal breaks it and try to push to resume a towards labor's version of brics it which is a much softer one including permanent customs union membership and more possibly a frail ute to what might happen if in two weeks time to resume a comes back with no further concessions from the e.u. in the interim though what she is going to do the strategy is going to be to say to the european union via contact look there is now a majority in parliament for what this house of commons will accept which is a version of the existing deal with the backstop to northern ireland backstop bolted and replaced with quote unquote alternative arrangements to keep problems here the first the e.u. has no interest in changing the backstop it's there for a reason it's an insurance policy to protect an e.u. member the republic of ireland they don't want to change it the other problem is when asked on radio short while ago what alternative arrangements meant the current

briggs's secretary has stephen buckley said he didn't know and that they were going to embark on a process of exploring options one of two weeks now to explore those options with a negotiating part of the e.u. that already thinks it's found a perfectly workable option and jonah just tell us a little bit more than about this proposed alternative to the bad stuff because nobody quite knows what the detail is. yeah well we're probably going to hear more about that pretty quickly i would have thought it's only one possibility and it's certainly not a possibility this is guaranteed to fly it's been put together by a cross party group of m.p.'s revealed on tuesday and it's gathered a bit of support what it essentially means is that you extend the transition period to sri years nearly at which point if there isn't a trading relationship in place if talks are still going on then the backstop becomes a sort of de facto free trade or arrangement face on w t o rules with special

arrangements technological solutions to avoid hard borden checks on the island of ireland it's essentially the no deal scenario that a lot of people are so worried about now but with three years to prepare for it to happen which is why a lot of hard bricks it is as they're called here quite like it again the problem is this technological solution has already been rejected out of hand by the e.u. so there's no guarantee that that solution will work there's no sign that there is indeed any solution that will work to replace the backstop general thank you now online for cash and companies have been accused of supporting human rights violations against palestinians amnesty international says israeli listings of homes and activities is directly contributing to the expansion of illegal settlements or about money explains. and the sea international is accusing some of the world's best known hotel booking travel companies of supporting illegal

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gave the green light for the eviction of all villages in september israel has offered them two places to move to one beside a former rubbish dump near abu dis and the other an old sewage plant near jericho well armed see international says it's time for these companies to stand up for human rights by withdrawing all of their listings in illegal settlements. now a blast of arctic air from what's being described as a polar vortex is bringing dangerously cold weather to parts of the u.s. and canada the u.s. midwest region is particularly hard hit chicago and michigan blanketed in heavy snow. at the coldest temperature minus twenty nine degrees celsius thousands of flights have been canceled and schools are closed in canada a storm dumped more than twenty centimeters of snow in toronto the heaviest snowfall there in a decade. or more that coming up in the weather now and then we'll look at whether

a small prisoner exchange in yemen will help. kenyans displaced by the fight against. to go home reports gains more on that stay with us. hello again and welcome back we have crossed the southern part of asia we're looking at some better conditions appear to the northern part of the philippines luzon we're looking at partly cloudy conditions for the most of the timeframe with manila see about twenty nine to grease in your forecast but it is still quite wet down here across much of the south individua will be sings of pockets of very heavy rain over the next few days with carter seeing a high temperature there on thursday of thirty maybe going up to about thirty one as we go towards friday well down here towards australia of course we've been dealing with the wildfires they've been ongoing here in parts of tasmania i want to

show you some current video that has come in across the region now they are going to be getting a break but the wildfires are still going to be a big problem as we go towards the weekend and into next week temperatures are on their way back up as we go through the weekend we can have one break tomorrow with those temperatures diving down but we're going to be seeing those temps is coming back to into the low thirty's for some locations here's that frontal boundary as a pushes through that is the break they are going to get but unfortunately it is not going to last long other cities here we are seeing a break for you as well adelaide twenty five degrees melbourne at twenty one but over here towards perth we're looking at thirty seven degrees and as we go towards friday we're going to be seeing those temperatures coming back up to about thirty seven degrees as well. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars join the medieval

islamic period in the field of medicine. science tend to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together. to such like a magical that the more i learn about the more i respect science in a golden age with professor jim miller on a. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ready to talk to opposition rival won by dollars to trade himself interim leader but during made the offer to join an interview with a russian news agency. the british parliament has given to reason may the go ahead

to return to brussels and we negotiate have regs that deal with the e.u. has ruled out any significant changes to the agreement. and a blast of arctic air from what's being described as the polar vortex is bringing dangerously cold weather to parts of the u.s. and canada and apple has recorded the coldest temperature minus twenty nine degrees celsius. not least twenty eight people have been killed when two boats capsized off djibouti the boats were counting at least one hundred thirty migrants and refugees when they tipped over shortly after departing many of the migrants are still missing thousands from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea to find work in the gulf countries. the saudi u.a.e. coalition yemen says it is really seven who is the prisoners after the who things reached a saudi prisoner on tuesday the international committee of the red cross facilitated the transfer of the prisoners back to riyadh he's suffering from advanced hepatitis c. the u.n.

envoy to yemen martin griffith says he wants to make prisoner swaps more common in an attempt a shaky cease fire but it speaks to the human political analyst often nasr who is in the sweetest city of gothenburg how important all these prisoner swaps particularly within the framework of a very shaky cease fire deal and how data that could collapse at any time absolutely i think it's very promising that we see one move forward and read it from my experience and and comforting the peace talks here and three then i still how. the different mornings find peace. you know this isn't a political purposes and then using the prison there would. be a put instance going to the yemeni government and the south would be a party they would like demanding that would he still need there's political

parties like. well it can party who are host and that is that would be and then on the other side you see how the what do you think the swap he could read the larger political purpose and that has put it to you missed the seeds come from the. most fun.