recording and drawing attention to instances like this filmed a few days earlier when they were confronted by israeli settlers documentation is the most important every day attacks happen here but how can you show them to the word if we go in the future to the i.c.c. and statistics that we have for the future if we're talking about the tech and kids and the un we have to come up with with the statistics until last month such documentation had been the job of observers from the temporary international presence in hebron or to if it's twenty five year presence in the city reporting on violence and human rights violations was brought to an end by the israeli prime minister who accused the monitors of working against israel tips mission began in the aftermath of the massacre in one thousand nine hundred four of twenty nine palestinian worshippers inside the ibrahimi mosque whose neeraj abby was praying that day near the front when an american israeli settler opened fire from the back of the room the main thing. i think about of all the time i was tripping over people lying on the floor the dead the wounded calling for help it's an

unforgettable tragedy the gunman goldstein was a follower of the far right jewish rabbi and politician mayor hanna whose party was banned as racist in the one nine hundred eighty s. now days before the massacre anniversary israeli prime minister has pushed for a current day kahan his party which includes members who celebrate goldstein to form an alliance with one of his own coalition partners the head of april's election a particularly bitter israeli election campaign along with the objection of the monitors makes for a potentially explosive backdrop to friday's demonstrations marking the anniversary there also to protest against the divided militarized nature of daily life in the part of hebron twenty percent of its area that remains under israeli control this was the commercial hub of hebron old city but since the division the palestinian shops in this market have been shuttered only israeli traffic is allowed to drive down these roads there is a heavy security presence everywhere it's yet another illustration of just how otherworldly the city has become over the last twenty five years. it's noted by

this group of french muslims on a tour one tells me the checkpoints look like they're for cattle not humans. it's present in a jewish group that came in days earlier on the heavy army escort the guide calling the activists in their observer vests terrorist supporters twenty five years since the mosque massacre hebron remains a place of close quarters friction a frequent flashpoint of violence for said hebron in the occupied west bank still ahead on al-jazeera. and minding their language with me on mexico who are trying their native tongue.

and i bet things are gradually changing for some of us across europe me not to be glorious for most of us over the past few days have been plenty of sunshine in the temperatures have been well above average for the west impost that that's going to continue now for the east hey we've got more cloud already and that system will be pulling itself together as we head through the next couple of days it's working its way southwards too so it's going to be the southeastern parts where we see the worst of the weather the temperatures will be dropping at this from makes its way across us and we'll say see a fair amount of wet and windy weather do expect things to turn cooler and for some of us snowy as we head through the next few days athens then will have a top temperature on saturday just of ten degrees and it will be wet and windy too for the other side of the mediterranean well for similar back days fine enjoying fairly warm it up temperature of twenty three but elsewhere so ready a little bit cooler but actually only getting to fifteen but as this system over the eastern parts of europe makes its way south winds will also be driving more showers towards that north coast of africa say for some of us here will see the

temperatures drop further as we head into saturday will succeed quite a few rather lively shower as i mean further towards the south most of the showers here are around born but further west there is plenty of dry weather to be found in just the old shower if your lucky. donald trump was told of a special bowl with kim jong on. now the u.s. president a north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam good both very honored to eight months after making history in singapore and they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally and the korean. phone it was on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera and let's take a look at the top stories right now venezuela's border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop a you from getting an interest says he's considering closing the border with colombia and. its president donald trump has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria two hundred the main on the ground forming what the white house described as a peacekeeping force and palestinians across the west bank will rally to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre at a mosque in hebron twenty nine worshippers lost their lives when israeli settler opened fire in one thousand nine hundred four. one our top story the debate over aid to venezuela mark is the co-director of the center for economic and policy

research he says the u.s. offer of a it is more. than an effort to help the venezuelan people. it itself won't make a difference it's not that much aid anyway especially compared to the damage that's being done by the economic sanctions that the united states has had on the country for years now in fact the sanctions since august of two thousand and seventeen created financial and bargo and that is cost the economy i am for size the economy because it's often portrayed as though the sanctions really hit the government but they really hit the people many many billions of dollars have been lost along with the imports of medicine and food and spare parts and everything else so the aid is really a symbolic thing that the trumpet ministration and the. president the self declared president i should say. quite go have been saying from the outset

they're using it as part of the regime change operation that is they're trying to use it in a way that would get armed forces of venezuela to disobeyed orders of the president and it's all about public relations and i should say that's why the united nations and the international red cross and the groups that are actually concerned with humanitarian aid they want no part of this and they've very harshly criticized the whole thing today to the meeting at the vatican looking at sexually some children by priests all seen more testimonies from victims some of them have already dismissed an action plan presented by francis on thursday it's not going far enough or a challenge supports the vatican now acknowledges that catholicism has an existential crisis it's described a sexual abuse meeting as an attempt to restore the very credibility of the church

are putting the unprecedented events on thursday pope francis said action was necessary. yeah. basing the plague of sexual abuse by the churches men against minors i thought to consult you because all together we should hear the holy spirit and listen to the cry of the young who want justice the way to pastor an ecclesiastic responsibility which forces us to discuss this together is a burden on our meeting about how to face this evil which afflicts the church and the whole of humanity the holy people of god are watching us and wait not just for simple in expecting conviction but concrete and effective measures. senior clergy have been summoned to the vatican from all over the world francis wants bishops and cardinals to understand that sexual abuse by priests is a scandal that they all have a responsibility to stop for a lot of years the first the problem was to call them to avoid the scandal of the

good name of the church now the gold is not going to happen and something is changing the absolutely but it is a process that needs time and i told about the victims of abuse like canadian leona hawkins who was abused by a priest from the age of twelve reassured by what they've heard from the meeting so far as survivors were on the outside i'm concerned some of the things that i'm hearing coming out the bishop of milan said this morning that we're looking for mercy for both the survivor and the perpetrator this focus should be on the survivors only on the crime of clergy abuse you know pretty good they may be on the outside but survivor groups like ending clergy abuse and still trying to keep up the pressure hoping that their message is getting three the phrase they keep you here is the reason that i don't know why they wanted sex abuse to throw and i know

the priest was saying for those who are doing that to me and if this reward thing at the vatican wrong has not produced on it and the people here won't be satisfied that the catholic church is really facing up to its responsibility to protect i don't always really want to challenge this how does their approach. india says it will divert water away from pakistan after last week's attack an indian administered kashmir that killed forty paramilitary troops under a deal signed in one nine hundred sixty pakistan india agreed to divide water in the region and currently allows water that does not use to go to pakistan but it is not clear when and how new delhi plans to stop that supply some armed groups in indian administered kashmir warning of more attacks or been using social media to get the message across to people in the territory as tamil reports from new delhi. have been reading the latest message on twitter thought to be from the armed group his blood you had seen were several based in indeed in mr kashmir it's in response

to last week's suicide attack claimed by another group jaish e mohammed that killed at least forty one paramilitary troops the unconfirmed message says in part the coffins of your soldiers will continue to fill the days and far when our fifteen year old children will strap explosives on their bodies and barge into your army vehicles separatist leaders and indeed in mr kashmir say armed groups are gaining because there is no negotiation over the disputed region this is also a huge issue for those that the years old twenty five years old ata becoming suicide bomb because this is something which the which the world community has to look in that hollow and generation often is being pushed by the indian state many rights advocates are not surprised young feel frustrated when the government of india never listened to them then you because they have that young blood they have been trying to defy the guns the social media is the name of the game this former

advisor to the indian government believes the main point behind the message put on social media by armed groups is to remind the public they're still active so sometimes they're claiming things sometimes they are they want to raise a banner. to show that they're still going strong. these messages are keeping tensions high and throughout india as there are fears there will be more violence and as armed groups speak out about last week's attack india's military is doing the same. on tuesday the head of indian forces in kashmir held a news conference throughout the rest all of them out of the question here who lives at present there are some who have. these young men listen to the generals words but it's not necessarily changing their minds i mean obviously. you can't push people to the wall and then expect not to react. as the battle for hearts and minds in kashmir goes on local kashmiris

continue to feel stuck in the middle of the conflict without an end in sight because jamil al jazeera. tens of thousands of people have rallied across the government of an action over a death of a journalist it's been one year since investigative reporter john couey was shot along with his fiance and what prosecutors say was a contract killing it was to publish a report alleging ties between politicians and the italian mafia four people have been indicted the notated has been set for a trial sixty percent of mexico's indigenous languages are in danger of dying from a nation against the country's native tribes and migration in their communities to the big cities are to blame home when reports from mexico city. mbaye is up his palace the high temple of mexican culture poet seller lena sanchez is reciting in her native tongue sabi. yes. it's

part of the celebrations for international mother tongue day here it's missed specially big deal seven and a half million mcs can speak one of the country's sixty eight indigenous languages but not always well more than half of them are in danger that that will now if my language dives i'll never know how to name things how to see the world from my point of view i wouldn't be able to do that the loss of native languages hasn't happened by accident here and the generous people have historically been discriminated against even punished for speaking their languages in schools migration to cities or the us has also taken its toll when he says he's now one of the only young people from his village in the tricky region to still play the old songs. and things have to change we shouldn't be thinking that people are less bespeaking an indigenous language i want to tell the world that it's actually very valuable because it locks

in all of our ancestral knowledge music and medicine the things that we've been losing myths can seem to be coming round to that point of view those taken the now what two poems hundred outburst fissures in the metro a keen to hang on to their roots but now they've got a bit of it is just it's important not to lose our traditions and languages because there are inheritance we've already almost lost them but we should teach our children to value what we have that spilled into mexico's artistic life but it hasn't necessarily got beyond this increasingly sentence and support for cope with this one but linguistics to say that it's in the day to day that things change for example in hospital in indigenous areas because of the. could be interpreted people coming to see exactly what's wrong with them the same in the judicial system in which indigenous people have been sent down we don't really know what's going on in the trial those are the harder list visible changes in the new government will

have to gauge with if you want the country to continue celebrating. its mother tons john home an. exclusive. supply is being threatened by a decline in biodiversity that's the dire warning from the united nations and a report it says food production is becoming increasingly susceptible to shocks like pests disease and weather events that's because only nine plant species make up most of the world's crop population out of a possible six thousand we speaking to the author of that report and the next hour a japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid thought to be as old as our solar system or celebrations at the exploration agency and. that is where the pro touchdown on the you grew asteroid and it's traveling through space three hundred forty million kilometers from earth explorers expected to return in two thousand and twenty with samples of the asteroid as a tryout for scientists from the japanese space agency reid who is relatively small

just nine hundred meters wide that because of the rocky terrain the landing zone for. was only six meters it's the second time a spacecraft has landed on an asteroid but this is the first off one of its rich in carbon offering the possibility of answers to the origins of our solar system and even life on earth but for that to happen to a mess now collect samples and bring them back and pristine condition more shows is author of several books on space exploration he says it's a challenging mission. this is the advantage of this mission is that so many probes go out to visit planets and asteroids but very few of them come back to the wood and the samples will be stored in a medically sea a container they've got to be dropped back and survive atmospheric reentry in a small capsule be landing here in a straight towards the end of twenty twenty and then they'll be swiftly transferred

to a laboratory in japan and it's very challenging partly because the terrain of the asteroid is rugged but it's also because the gravity is very weak and it's very uneven and if you don't approach at the right hangal or at the right speed you can land you can balance off the asteroid or you can even crash so and to do this so remotely with no human intervention where the whole langton sequence is order magic was very tricky in some ways it's a mission in space but it's also like a time like time travel because we think that some of the samples are probably in a fairly pristine condition and they've probably stayed that way for billions or possibly even billions of years and so it's like seeing what the early history of the saw of the solar systems like probably before the earth itself had even formed so we're getting insights into conditions backwards in time.

and richelle carey let's recap the headlines now on al-jazeera and israel's border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop the usa from getting at but our us says he's considering closing the border with colombia as well opposition lead when terrorists are trying to get the first delivery end to venezuela by saturn a but the army as blocking them. yes president onil trump is pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria two hundred will remain on the ground forming what the white house described as a peacekeeping force saying in syria at least twenty people were killed after an explosion at a market in. village near jars or areas held by the u.s. backed syrian time a crowd of forces and is close to an oil field palestinians across the west bank will rally to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre at a mosque in hebron twenty nine worshippers were killed when an israeli settler

opened fire in one thousand nine hundred four day two of a meeting at the vatican looking at sexual abuse by priests will see more testimony from victims some of them of already dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far enough and he says it will divert water away from pakistan after last week's attack an indian administered kashmir that killed forty paramilitary troops under a deal signed in one nine hundred sixty pakistan india agreed to divide water in the region and the a currently allows water that it is not used to go to pakistan but it's not clear when and how the delhi plans to stop that supply tens of thousands of people have rallied across the blocky accusing the government of an action over the death of a journalist that's been one year since investigative reporter jon q shot was shot along with his fiance and what prosecutors say was a contract killing is due to publish a report alleging ties between politicians and the indian mafia a japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid thought to be as old as our solar

system or celebrations at the exploration agency and succumbing horus in the in the protests down on the asteroid it's traveling through space three hundred forty million kilometers from earth or so the headlines keep it here and says story as that next. africa's largest democracy goes to the polls to elect a president parliament and governance corruption insecurity and economic uncertainty that dominate nigerian politics remain widespread al jazeera brings you coverage of the issues the candidates and voters nigeria of course. nigeria is about to choose a new leader it's africa's most populous country in one of the world's largest oil producers but its economy continues to reel from crisis to crisis so will elections make any difference and is democracy the out so to nigeria's wounds this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program dennis millions of nigerians finally had to the polls on saturday to elect a new leader after the election was postponed by a week that whoever wins will have to address at least three pressing issues the sluggish economy security problems and corruption it's expected to be a tight race between president mohamed bihari he's seeking a second term and attic of a burka the main opposition candidate the bihari has promised to fight corruption but his opponents have focused on what they see as his failure to fix the economy the main contenders made their final appeal for votes on the last day of campaigning on thursday. our this have

a quick look then at some of the key moments in nigeria's democratic history fifteen years of military rule ended in nineteen ninety nine and the first civilian to win elections going of us and joe was himself a former army general who motto. was next before good luck jonathan became president in twenty eleven his time in office was widely considered to have allowed for rampant corruption and he became the first democratically elected president to be defeated in an election four years later losing to opposition candidate mohamed bihari. well nigeria has a population of more than a hundred and eighty million people it's also got all oil lots of it is africa's largest producer of crude but the economy consistently underperforms a variety of reasons are given including corruption and internal conflict with armed groups like the her despite its riches nigerians have got steadily poorer

cording to report last year by the world poverty clock network there are now more extremely poor people in nigeria than anywhere else in the world. by this introduce our guest now in a village in the nigerian capital we have it a director of the center for democracy and development in london antony goldman you see of pro media consulting and a former senior africa analyst at the economist intelligence unit also in a bit via skype we have the investigative journalist. he was winner of the twenty seven hundred nigerian invest it is it of journalist of the year award welcome to you all it's airplane we come to you first because this delay in elections is being greeted with a great deal of skepticism hasn't it both inside nigeria and out how much is this delay would you say eroded confidence in the actual process of democracy in nigeria

today and i think the deluded elections are for their sick kid the trust of the people in democracy itself of damp in the more valid that people they view disappointment and there is the believe that what is there has a sense of democracy and attempt to you risk you did the i'm a christian but if hillary were come to the lot meant people who are also in several parts of the country g eight to fall in the forthcoming elections scheduled for their return to toward. thank you not right. do you think it's going to have a big impact on turnout the fact that the election has been delayed by a week absolutely it's going to have a big impacts. and i said this because of the nature of what's in a nigerian so people have to do weird you need to stand so if for instance you in

living in the southwest and you registered to vote and then over the last four years you have course we look it's an up out of the country you have to charge buck you know and people already knew it is joining is the last time so the question is what is it darren see that nick in so journeys will do fruitful at the end of the did so it's clear that. what our party is already in place right and antony this seems to become to have become a little bit of a regular occurrence isn't it the last two elections were also delayed weren't they by some time i mean after twenty years of holding elections shouldn't nigeria be at least able to hold an election every four years. well yes it it should but i think it is very difficult. as you've indicated it has a lot of infrastructure constraints a lot of capacity issues

a lot of problems with the system in terms of the capacity of people who are in it and i think these problems in the abstract when you translate them into something practical like all that organizing an election begin to show themselves on the issue i suppose is what can you fix in a few days which wasn't ready by this time last week and i think the pressure will be on the commission to show that actually it's able to to it and to to deliver on an election that meets the minimum standards i think that there is a perception amongst the rival parties that perhaps there's been accusing each other of trying to delay the process there is also the just tickled challenge but there's also and i think this speaks of the culture of the culture if you like of mediocrity and public administrator in is it possible to attract the best people to the best jobs at the right time and the election commission in a rather have a clever and awkward birth as soon as the elections out of the way everybody

disappears and you said people come in and this is a real lack of institutional memory and i think that this creates a challenge in building up that kind of institutional strength if you like what the pillars that on which democracy sits and deficit coming back to you that argued for more electronic voting you think that the whole process should go completely digital but in a country that can barely guarantee power supply to its people is that really feasible is that the best way forward when you have these electronic machines that are now having to be rebooted because of this this delay in the election. yes if nigerians are really serious about getting this done to be done don't forget we demolish in stick country does have to be before she got simply because they were programmed to work on the south end it from a southern town to another town in us or let me guess the country's population is huge millions of people landmass really even begin sizable it

creates constraints but then it's something we can do right now you have a system where banks. identification numbers for individuals and i've known businesses bindi's him so if you can compile all these the m one thousand to one it's very possible to go to a point with them is electronic and it's only we need to do so that we can tuck rule was a blue what our party if people could who was in the car for the or use use online you know the problem of people having to travel long distances to vote wouldn't our eyes and it means that i'm in him and god forbid even you have to win elections twice or thrice next it's too dissin inconvenience is minimal so it's something right we definitely need to start going to do it i am just wondering whether all of these problems that are associated with holding elections in nigeria actually cause

people in the country to question the very system of governance the very system by which their leaders are chosen does democracy actually work for a country like nigeria with more than three hundred fifty ethnic groups and this vast country with some of the problems that we've already outlined. but there is that you know not substitute to that more question and one to answer with acma point in time however i want to go back to a military regime down there with a yeah i mean it's very strong demand for democracy yes there are challenges in terms of the democracy delivering development to the people in tempe in forms of public good that they're busy but the main challenge for democracy is the quality of we leave death itself the quality of the leaders when you have people we will mainly in these too busy kelly in which themselves or bullet politics if

in the means of a restraint and not to the people where this is in that's just me isn't this that is that sorry to interrupt but isn't this isn't this the crucial problem not just in nigeria but on the continent as a whole the fact is that in many ways politics is determined by personality not by policy. not. gradually actually there is beginning to you fall that change in terms of politics of personalities to go towards the politics of issues and policies in the country but the truth of the matter is that when we are busy kelly the people with the watch it look at the forthcoming elections on saturday there are several to treat candidates vying for the office of the president of nigeria some did three different political parties platform three different policy ideas but the three main that dominant parties

i did don't want had it been this contest because they have the resources to be life and let people know about them they have what we call political structures achoo of the several of us and if one local government of nigeria and the i have to to reach the people does the becalmed only option available to the people of nigeria the air of the senate in one or the political party and antony i mean a lot has been said about the political godfathers in nigeria and it's a big money business pretty much like it is in the united states isn't it and i just wonder whether this is a system that is about to be unsettled in any way given the new ways of of the younger voters i mean obviously there is a great use bulge in nigeria like in the rest of the continent. i think part of the problem with politics in nigeria over the years is that there has been

a level of it's an industry every four years and the campaign is about money as well as much as it is about ideas and when you have the number of candidates not just for the presidency but also thousands of people trying to get themselves elected into the national assembly state governors this speaks of a thing that is as much about generating money over a few weeks period as it is about changing public administration or ideas or or policies and i think that the challenge i think is to find a way of engaging with young people to give people a sense of attachment to the process and we there are new technologies and new ways of communications that perhaps open up some space but i think that if you look at the pattern of elections in nigeria and as you say this is twenty years since the end of military rule you know the challenge is creating

a democracy that goes beyond simply how governments the effectiveness of elections even with a free and fair election in twenty fifteen level of voter participation was barely forty percent in some cancer of the country significantly less than that and i think that this is a warning sign i think unless you can get people involved in it if the biggest block of people if the biggest block of voters are people who don't vote at all then i think that this is something that should be over concern to all of those who are the genuine interest in trying to change nigeria for the better rather than trying to use the political process to extract fronts and. there is obviously now this this huge swathe of young people first time voters in nigeria many of whom probably can't remember military rule how do they feel about the scenario about the incompetence is many would say of the electoral commission for instance not being able to hold the election on time and so on how do they feel about the state of politics in their country. well it is the population

issues that i mean largely. she was that it's time to elect younger and it's you know it among them understand the worry in these mid seventy's as it was in these early seventy's it's time for nigeria to start. looking on to giving young up on its hands whether that will up one you know we have to see we have to see because those work and can do is we need to be judge of the idea. into school have an idea of houses there was walking out our countries and wonder since when i do that what is your talent is that you my us or electorate in that you know people who were in rural areas way in the hinterlands people who are all politicians blind where the house reporters who've never been to school i don't

care who does want that man to be their article has a scene so it's looking like it's a good example because they don't of the speak english or social media election you have to go out no well the ones in the back this is one it's illegals are the guys who are ready to die will you william woods and. at let's come to the challenges now because we've we've identified three main challenges for whoever wins this election and those challenges have every main pretty much the same haven't they throughout this twenty year period and that and chief among them is going to be corruption there's the economy and then there's the security issue i mean the hari to give him some credit has at least attempted hasn't he to overturn this this endemic corruption for which nigeria is is well known but it doesn't seem to succeeded very well. no because corruption and the problem of corruption in one thousand goes beyond fight in

political corruption what we save where we as johnson has been voted into office in twenty fifteen these it has waged a war against him punitive that has been lead to on our attempts to actually he is to to shun the allies the fight against corruption and deceit will continue to deter mean if people in one thousand if the citizens we eventually been their feet on the dividend of democracy so corruption is defining in this campaign it's about the forces of wes' actually mockups than the other and at the same time the jurors do not to be i agree that any of digital frontline can't and can't get it and their parties are completely clean because they are every dense is from all sides too sure that. remains our endemic but why don't we move forward from the elections the most important thing is what will nigeria look like posts

posts much much ninth trying to nineteen when all the elections would have been conquered it the fact remains that. number of insecurity devlin the country in five out of the six geopolitical zone there can now me an attendant where even on employment especially among the young people we define what we need to look like and there is a lot of this problem don't see that what we are actors are trying to do at this point in time you begin to money just practitioners because there is that you will also have our one and how to of these problems nigeria lives in the globe but if im ignored by village itself if security will are cut out able to do improve on its economy what happens with orpik will lovely impact on our economic shifts when you look at it that we are still all right so to be

sent dependent economy right let me take that point and put that to anthony because that also comes to the core of the issue and that is isn't it that the nigerian economy is surging pendent upon the price of a barrel of oil that it is pretty much shattered isn't it the minute prices go down and what steps have been taken what what. a positive moves have been put in place that could possibly wean the nigerian economy off of this destructive dependency. yeah i think these three things are all linked there's the distortions created by an economy that overreliance on oil for export revenue there's the issue of corruption and there's the broader issue systemic issue of the rule of law and how it how it's applied and i think that actually for the bahari government this is something they had they had to deal with very early on because the collapse in oil

prices in the months after it came into office in twenty fifty created the kind of fiscal challenges that i think it would have created huge issues of public order in many other countries that face a basically a collapse in. in government revenue of about half or even slightly more than that because. as prices more than half the production also felt quite significantly because of security issues in the niger delta now production has come back a little bit you know the security issues of the east a little bit but i think that what the government took away from that was the need to really make progress on the diverse cation of the economy this was something that the high was always very keen on and as it turned out in twenty fifteen sixteen there was really no alternative but to try to find ways of injecting urgency into getting people back on the land to niger from

a country that was importing rice to a country that was growing rice and now is close to being self-sufficient in production and also processing not just of rice but of a number of other agricultural products and so if you move away from the cities in nigeria if you go to some of the the smaller towns villages and rural areas actually there's a quite different perception of how the last four years have gone and i think that there is some positivity but of course this is an. incremental process it took nigeria a very long time to slip away from the country that had commercial agriculture was able to deliver on service right it was involved in mining and i think that this process. the reconstruction recalibration will take a long long time there's no quick fix. coming to you what do you make of them and what do younger nigerians make of what has been i think essentially a gentlemen's agreement about switching the leadership of the country between the north and the south at the moment apparently it's a northerners tan and you've got to northerners battling it out for the top job i

mean is this something that is that is redundant now i mean do younger people feel that the country should be divided between north and south between muslim and christian. it's it's will it went beyond the younger people it's a sentiment that resonates across the country you know don't forget now you know in politics is played along the lines of is it to religion to political violence so the sentiments exists among the youth and it went beyond but the reality is that it's never going to work i mean right now where he's been on saying that if you win isn't senator it is going to hand out to someone from the from the southeast and then the decision is made said the southwest so i think that those who truly follow now you know in politics who understand is that it's just it's doesn't mean it's

not cheap talk about i mean the politics of twenty twenty two we do time when he becomes president in genting to be to guide us also. to guide us of the promises that have been made or the expectations that people have when you start to look good on sound never become president easy boss didn't die in office and the dynamics change immediately does buy that argument that the argentinean not at the time yes men do not and became so it is indeed it was controversial wasn't that have it i at i'm i'm just wondering you know nigeria is is often seen as being the sleeping giant of africa it's just hit this most depressing of statistics of having the world's largest community of extremely poor people overtaking even india what on earth is going wrong with nigeria and what do you think might help it . i think of the biggest challenge with like one theory a is the lack of inclusive

economic growth progressively before the country went into the economic recession you found that at a point in time our growth g.d.p. was that of a some a percent. i was going at them p. think this year it will go around two percent at least have which one hold the rate but what continues to our village so that this group is not inclusive so the mardi reach are getting richer the more did poor get poorer which is actually a paradox in the land of plenty really and what you'll have to happen really for nigeria at this point in time is deemed best he needs the youth in it's young people which is the next i am focused when we have thinking in terms of diversifying how i cannot how their countries are hedging we continue to have younger people but the biggest challenge is also confident in this young people is

the quality of education and campania employment so we'll have to walk a lot on improving on that human development index these combatant corruption at all levels not just political corruption but illicit financial flows and also cover action that almost i remind you and it's actually been forged in the hideout vented plea in that event tentatively there may be there will be part definitely they'll be positive development right evolving few years to come well thank you all very much indeed. and to the goldman and. thank you all very much indeed for just touch someone is a really large su i know that thank you so much indeed for a really interesting conversation now if you want to see this program again remember you can always go to our website al-jazeera dot com should you want to discuss and you can go to our facebook page. that is facebook the. inside story

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and richelle carey this is al jazeera live from coming up. the white house says a small contingent of troops will stay back and syria. twenty five years on the massacre of mosques and hebron remains a flashpoint of israeli palestinian tensions. a dire warning by the united nations our food supply faces a serious threat to to a declining plant and animal life. but as well as border with brazil has been closed as president nicolas maduro steps up attempts to stop the usa from getting it he's considering closing the border with colombia as well opposition led volunteers are trying to get a person livery enter venezuela by saturday but the army is blocking them a lot of america it was report from san antonio all the venezuela colombia born. a

caravan of opposition deputies scuffle with national guardsman trying to block their way to the colombian border that's where opposition leader vows to defy the government's prohibition to bring in tons of food and medicine donated by the united states and others. pretending that humanitarian aid is not going to reach bin as well as an act of cruelty. as opposition leaders slowly make their eight hundred kilometer journey to the border the binational bridge that joins colombia and venezuela is quickly becoming the stage for a bizarre jewel. on the colombian side of venezuela aid live concert with world famous pop stars in support of in israel as opposition movement. and not to be outdone on the other side a hands off the israel a concept called by embattled president. jewel to get underway in unison on

friday as you can see the stage on the venezuelan side of the bridge is almost ready for the battle of the bands but this doing music event is framing a bigger battle over who is going to take credit for providing food and medicine for venezuelans desperately in need or the. president insists he can provide for his countryman and says shipments of medicine from russia and china have just arrived to prevent opponents from attempting to bring in stockpiles supplies from neighboring brazil he's ordered the border sealed until further notice. but so far here in the border with colombia remains open and thousands of volunteers have been crossing into. and say they're preparing to confront the armed forces to bring food and medicine back into than israel on saturday when gives the word saleem ok we know the government has blocked the bridge with containers but we're here to make it possible to bring in that humanitarian aid by whatever. means necessary why go

says he'll be bringing the supplies across four bridges here in patchy data as well as two ports in northern venezuela. exactly how the u.s. backed opposition plans to do it without being stopped is still a mystery and that's exactly what's raising the suspense and the tension on both sides of the border you see in human scent on you know that israel a result vice president has told al jazeera his country will help but it won't cross the line we're not going to spend the border ok what we're doing what we can do we can put supplies on the our border in a forgiving as well as want they can come and get it but i don't think this will work ok because as you see from routinely until the river it's almost a thousand kilometers and all these are empty space in venezuela so there is not enough population there to come to brazil to to reach for poor supplies ok i think

that the main points for g.'s humanitarian aid would be the ports and hours of the border was colombia the president has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops in syria two hundred main on the ground forming what the white house described as a peace keeping force donald trump has been under pressure from advisors and allies since the surprise announcement last year ever elizondo has more from washington d.c. . it's been over two months since donald trump made the surprise announcement that he was going to be pulling out all two thousand u.s. troops from syria that's an announcement that came as a surprise and also went against the advice of many of his top advisers at the time well now we're getting indications that trump is backtracking from that a little bit with this announcement that the u.s. will keep two hundred troops within syria for an undetermined amount of time. the readout that came from the white house indicated that the phone conversation with

trump and on the both sides indicated that they wanted to do what was right for both of the country's interests within syria and that really comes down to what they're calling this potential safe zone there in northern syria now the turkish air to one he wants this safe zone area stablished and in that part of syria in order to clear the kurdish militia forces out of there considers them to be terrorist organization but the kurdish fighters were very much allied with the americans and helped very much lead the fight really in many ways the fight of clearing syria from eisel fighters and so the americans standpoint is they still want to protect the kurdish fighters in a lot of ways too so there's still a lot of unanswered questions on how this is all going to be coming about but clearly we're getting indications that trump indicates that these two two hundred

troops remaining in syria will be good for the united states and it appears in some ways at least that this pretensions he is agreeable with air go on as well now the turkish minister of defense will be in washington on friday meeting with his american counterpart the interim secretary of defense for the united states will be continuing these to these discussions what is also unclear is well is how this decision will affect european. allies particularly the u.k. and france they announced that they would also pull out of syria if the u.s. did that as well but now with these two hundred u.s. troops remaining remains to be seen if the u.k. and france remain in syria as well david they were say is an associate professor at the near east south asia center for security studies and previously served at the pentagon he described the u.s. move as a political gesture. it's not a large number of forces so it's too small to be militarily significant so when you

look at s.p. political politically significant and i think there's two possible messages one to the turks is that yes we are serious about protecting your interests as you see it and so we're willing to keep our forces here in order to restrain their kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces from align themselves with the p.k. k. attack in turkey and i think the second message will be to the y.p. g. forces which is that you're not going to be abandoned we will have a presence on the ground here to restrain the turks from attacking you do so in extent. in practice it looks as though these guys will almost be. there as hostages to both sides to keep them on their best behavior before this report that we're going to be no troops being left there so i think they will welcome it bear in mind you know the numbers that we have in syria is only about twenty nine hundred that is not a large number either and so they were looking at nothing i think two hundred is

substantially better than nothing and you know they're there is enough in that to provide the levels port that we're willing to provide but it certainly won't be the same numbers as we had at the height of the battle to fight isis and staying in syria at least twenty people were killed after an explosion at a market in a hell village near daraa zoar there is held by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces that is close to an oil field and s.t.'s fighters are continuing to battle eisel and perhaps the last pocket of territory in eastern syria it's believed up three hundred eisel fighters remain in the villages and cause an unknown number of civilians are also trapped. palestinians are preparing for demonstrations in the coming hours to mark twenty five years since a mass shooting inside a mosque in hebron in the occupied west bank twenty nine palestinians were shot dead as they prayed by a far right settler in one thousand nine hundred four issues protests are happening

as israel's prime minister a six support from far right groups ahead of elections in april fossett reports. it's early morning on a hill above hadrons old city and a group of palestinian activists is on the move their mission they say to a school children safely to school to the city's divided streets but their approach is barred by israeli soldiers the army has declared the area a military exclusion zone off limits to nonresidents the activists say it's to prevent them recording and drawing attention to instances like this filmed a few days earlier when they were confronted by israeli settlers documentation is the most important ever happened here but how can you show them to the word if we go in the future to the i.c.c. and statistics that we have for the future if we're talking about the tech and kids and the un we have to come up with with the statistics until last month such documentation had been the job of observers from the temporary international presence in hebron or to if it's twenty five year presence in the city reporting on violence and human rights violations was brought to an end by the israeli prime

minister who accused the monitors of working against israel tips mission began in the aftermath of the massacre in one thousand nine hundred four of twenty nine palestinian worshippers inside the ibrahimi mosque whose neeraj abby was praying that day near the front when an american israeli settler opened fire from the back of the room. where i think about it all the time i was tripping over people lying on the floor the dead the wounded calling for help it's an unforgettable tragedy the gunman goldstein was a follower of the far right jewish rabbi and politician merica hanna whose party was banned as racist in the one nine hundred eighty s. now days before the massacre anniversary israeli prime minister has pushed for a current day kahan his party which includes members who celebrate goldstein to form an alliance with one of his own coalition partners the head of april's election a particularly bitter israeli election campaign along with the objection of the monitors makes for a potentially explosive backdrop to friday's demonstrations marking the anniversary

there also to protest against the divided militarized nature of daily life in the. part of hebron twenty percent of its area that remains under israeli control this was the commercial hub of hebron old city but since the division the palestinian shops in this market have been shuttered only israeli traffic is allowed to drive down these roads there is a a heavy security presence everywhere it's yet another illustration of just how otherworldly the city has become over the last twenty five years it's noted by this group of french muslims on a tour one tells me the checkpoints look like they're for cattle not humans. it's present in a jewish group that came in days earlier and the heavy army escort the guide calling the activists in their observer vests terrorist supporters twenty five years since the mosque massacre hebron remains a place of close quarters friction a frequent flashpoint of violence. that joins us live now from hebron it's clear that this this horrible event is that

a mark of the palestinians that's right its legacy looms very large here not just in terms of the memory of what happened that day.