anchor: the turkish president says he is ready to send troops into libya. um-backed --he u.n. government and aaa. -- in tripoli. likud party hololds a vote.

benjamin netanyahu faces a challenge from gideonon saar. inin burkina fasaso, a wave of attacks has killed 35 citizens. you are watching france 24. thank you for being with us. regarding says he will present a bill in parliament to send troops into libya. he became the first foreign head of president to meet with the new president. the leaders discussed the libyan conflict. has support -- erdogan already signed a new maritime deal with them. here is the turkish president speaking earlier. erdogan: we will present the motion to send troops to libya as soon as parliament resumes. we have given and will give a al forms of support to the tripoli

government, which is fighting against a general backed by arab countries and europeans. this, we crosson now to our correspondent, jasper mortimer, in ankara. ambitions ingan''s libya? erdogan does desire to be the regional power broker. thatat is for susure. by the s signs of it, thehe turh ararmy is half a millionon men d womemen, and the sophisticationf turkeyyisish air force -- is the military heavyweight o of the easterern mediterraneaean. and i ththink by gettingng invod inin libya, he is demonstratatig turkey's reach, turkey's abilily to project power to his v voters, which numbeberp to half the electorate, this will have a certain nationalistic appeal.

mentioned his voters. if turkish troops are sent to libya, what would pupublic opinn be like in turkey? jasper: i think turkish p public opinion wowould be veryy much against turkish sosoldiersettitg killed inn libya, simply because this is not a c conflict that ty relate t as ado not see libya secucurity thrhreat to turkey. ththe main opposition partitiese chp andhe people'e's democraticc ,arty, the pro-kurdish party they have both come out and said they would oppose turkish military intervention in libya. more imporortantly, i think t te man and womaman in the street would oppose this as well. getet awayrdoganan will wiwith sending milititary advdvs --suppoport the tripo forces

militatary trainers s and perhas some artillery units. would beecombat t troops risky, bececause as sosoonurkish soldiers come back from libya in coffins i think the turkish people would be very much opposed to what is going on. yena: jasper mortimer reporting for us from ankara. voting is underway for members of israel's conservative likud party. the prime minister, ben yahoo!, hopes to keep his seat and take his party to the next general election. facing him is his rival, gideon saar. he has talked about netanyahu's failure to form a government, the third national vote in a year. netanyahu is largely expected to win, despite being indicted on multiple corruption charges. the conservative prime minister remains popular with likud voters.

pg o'brien has the latest. the firstit is serious challenge to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu from within his own party. he is facing off against gideon saar in a leadership election. has don't think gideon saar high chances of defeating benjamin netanyahu. that, primaries are very unpredictable, unpredictable contests. we may wake up on friday morning to a big surprise. considered ag rising star within the likud party, saar was brought into politics by netanyahu in the 1990's. he served as the education minister in 2009 and 2014. more recently, he has framed himself as the only person capable of striking a deal with the centerleft party to form a coalition, a feat netanyahu has

twice failed to accomplish. widely seen as further to the right in his former boss, he has also called for a renaissance of the israeli right, she suggests has suffered through netanyahu's legagal troubles. the prime minister was invited in novovember on n charges of f, briberery, and breach of trust. he deemed there is a witch hunu, refusing to step down. should saad be elected, his rise would be fratricide. he vowed that if he is elected, he supports netanyahu becoming president. two errata next, where authorities have cut off mobile ,nternet in several provinces after commemorations for a man killed in recent protests. .ributes by social media demonstrations in iran started in november. people in the streets were originally angry at a petrol price hike but have been asking for more political freedoms.

authorities launched a bloody crackdown to contain the movement. the public has been n blaming or enforces -- blaming foreign forces. a wave of terrorist attacks in burkina faso left the country grieving. 35 civilians and dozens of soldiers died. multiple attacacks took p placen the north ofof the c country, including in a military basase whwhere 80 assailants s were alo killed. the president has declared two days of national mourning. to the president of the african information club based in paris. thank you for being with us. there have been more and more jihadist attacks in the north of working faso. what is the security situation like that right now? we are in a country where the military were mainly trained to face protest. we are also in a country where the adjustment programs of thee

international monetary fund have made the state, which is the main employer in the country -- has made him poor, unable toto give all the services to the citizens. so it is very difficult foror te state now to repel all those attacks comiming from jihadists. they a are not military. the people in the area are not competent with the help of the military, and don't t help themn the situation. the government in burkina faso, the jihadis they are facing now. yena: burkina faso was relatively spared from violence at the start of the decade, but it all chahanged in 2016. what happened, and what can be done? guest: what happened is simply

that we are now in a country where there was a big trouble .fter the attack in libya that allowed a lot of combatants to come to libya from mind -- from n niger, burkina faso, in e said hell -- the sahel. they came with a lot of means, and the state did not have enough means to repel those terrorists. it is not -- they are not in a proactive position. they want to do it, but they don't have the means. mentioned the economic instability in the country as well as the means security forces may or may not have. how have authorities been dealing with the terrorist threat? guest: first of all, they are in

the sahel, so there are many countries now that are uniting their forces to act against the terrorists. that is the first act. the second is that the u.n. is campaigning in that part of the country. but all of that will happen only if they work together. i don't think they are working from thegether, coming west end african countries, from the u.s., from the united bring a common answer to what is happening in the field. yena: that is allll we have time for, i'm afraid. thank you so much again for your time and analysis. a trail of devastation has been

left in the central philippines. a deadly typhoon has killed at least 16 people. torrential rains and flooding have left locals anand tourists strandnded. the typhoon has hit parts of the islands. electricity and phone lines remain cut off, making it difficult for authorities to assess the damage. across southeast asia, memories of the b boxing day tsunami, 15 years ago, one of the deadliest national disasters in recorded history. the tsunami killed more than 220,000 people across a string of indonesian countries. peter o'brien takes us to the city which had the highest number of casualties. peter: and healing waters, he conquers the waves and his trauma. feel like these waves are the one that destroyed

us. in fact, the waves are now our friends. peter: many of his family and friends were killed whenen the boxing dayay tsunami struck. several thousand people lived in his hometown. onlyly 300 survive the whole region has been extensivelely r rebuilt, and d e populatition has gradually recovered. but scars remain in the archititecture and in the mind. >> i i am still praying and d hg for ee besest for my family. if i it's trtrue they aree dead, lelet's hope thehey are in heav. leave this village. people ask me why. for me, living away from the sea would be even more painful. third-largeste earthquake ever recorded struck of the coast of sumatra inin 20, the planets vibrarated by as muh

as a centimeter and the tsunami reached south africa. in the worst-struck places, some of the tidal waves were u up to0 meteters wide.e. over 220,000 people in 14 countries were killed, and countless more went missing. yena: the bible is being rewritten inin china. xi jinping's administration has modified the religious text to reflect core socialist values. sensors will be able to flag paragraphs they want to see amended or re-translated. beorter: could there soon two different bibles, one validated for catholics around the world by the pope, another different one for the people of china -- reviewed, approved, and corrected by xi jinping? china's number one revealed in november his intention to strengthen control over the texts of all religions. 10 million chinese currently practice catholicism, but the

communist party appoints the priests of the official church. the sermon is checked beforehand for references. a culture under surveillance. it is according to a vatican specialist. even this form of control may not be enough. >> the main principle of the church is contained in the goodwill of the 10 commandments. the premise is considered in the communist party as a criticism of the death penalty. reporter: in rome, chinese tourists arrived by the tens of thousands every day. most of them are not christian. in their eyes, a re-created bible comes as no shock. >> we cannot understand what the bible means. it is different in our country. we cannot get what you mean n in the western countries. reporter: they have a sense of the diversity of the church, praising american indians for

perfectly adapting the dogma to their culture. he said the same of the japanese. but this form of the bible is somethining he will n not be abo accept. negotiations with china are lilikely to drag on. yena: people across asia witnessed an annual solar eclipse today, also o known as a ringng of fire. crowds gathered d to watch the national -- the natutural phenomenon in countries including sri lanka, india, and saudi arabia. you can s see the moon coveverig the cecenter of thee sun, giving the appearanance of a brightht . everye are u usually two year, and they occur only when the earth is in the moon's shadow. we will leave you with ststunnig images from thailand. ststay tununed for more news and analysis, coming up. ♪ ♪

>> under cover of darkness, joey steers his boat toward the sea. a few timeses a month, when the tides are calm, he sets off to meet shipsps from the middle eat and asia. the is a critical player in east african drug trade, carrying contraband by boat into kenya. >> i get a call from my boss, telling me where to go. i go to meet the boats, and they give me three to four packages, sometimes even five. i come back to shore and there is a vehicle waiting for me to receive the goods.

>> the job is profitable. he makes up to 900 euros per drop, nearly the average annual sermon -- annual salary for a kenyan. >> it is a terrible job. really dangerous. the more you work, the more you know, anand then one day they asked me to come alone to get the goods. some of my frienends disappeared at thahat time. we never saw them again after they left to do their job. >> joey will come back a few days after setting off with several kilograms of narcotics. noodles will then transit the drugs through move fossa, -- kenya's second-largest city and east africa's largest port. it is now also a bustling

crossroads of illegal trafficking, with heroin coming in from pakistan and cocaine coming from south america. >> this is a plastic pickle. i'm doing the first wrapping now. >> there are many like david, who shuttled drugs by air between kenya and foreign cities. for his own security, he does not want to tell us his destination, but he does share some. know one thing. we make more money in europe. europe is the best that the nation. maybe three out of five trips

goes through. ine,t is cooking, -- is coca i'm making 6000 per kilo. , he has toapping test the balloons to make sure they are watertight. the stakes are high. if one breaks in his stomach, he will die of an overdose. it's a fate he is willing to grapple with, because moving drugs is easy money. >> we departed from kenya easily. we left. but can you especially because receiving packages, receiving cocaine, we get it really easy. >> the kenenyan drug market is

estimated to bring in more than 100 million euros annually. the trade mainly benefits the kingpins at the top. this mention belongs to a well-known businessman and movee fossa. -- -- in mufasa. being involvedof in drug trafficking, and police have raided his house. >> you must take everything you find. is there anything related to our investigation? through all the rooms in the house is turned upside down. it is big news in mombasa, police inviting local media to show off the war in drugs.

but the record tells another story. >> there was a nepalese man inside, but we arrested him because he was i in possession f cannabis. he had a joint and a half. we also found the equivalalent f in kenyan and nepalese money. reporter: the kenyan interior minister recently declared a renewed addled against traffickers. >> we hahave multiple on the ground. we have those who packagages or get information. a few days later, this county commander will be transferred because of his

inability to stem the drug trade. police officers say their own colleagues are the ones protecting drug barons. investigator is keen to tell his side of the story. he has arrested several traffickers, several of whom were immediately released. he is scared to talk to us during the day or show his face, fearful of reprisals. >> when we take them back to the station, we are threatened by certain superiors. they tell us we will be transferred to z zones where the arare terrorists. some receceived bribes from the big traffickers.

reporter: frustrated and scared for his future, he plans to quit in the coming months. ineffective policing of incoming drugs has flooded the local market with cheap products. drug a addicts are regular fixtures on mombasa's street corners. been using heroin for 19 years, and comes to the center to get free, clean syringes. heroin has become much easier to find in one boss up. -- much easier to find in mombasa. one government study says 3.5% of the population has tried it.

>> water balloons. addiction. reporter: he regularly talks with counselors at this ngo for reminders a aut a sick hygiene. -- about basic hygiene. click sinohub to avoid the dangers of the streets. -- >> i know how to avoid the dangers of the streets. reporter: risks of transmission are high. people come with some of them are learning. will drop out. , andare even professionals

they believe only the poor are affected when they use. everything has gotten out of hand and h has access to it. reporter: historically, kenya has not been hit by widespread use of hard drugs, but that is changing, with the number of addicts on the rise. 5000 people are addicted to heroin in whom bossa -- in mombasa alone. >> i started 19 years ago. i had a and who was shooting heroin. he would come to my house to smoke. i asked him if i c could find ot whwhat it was like.

♪ ♪ years o of shooting up have destroyed his veins, and he misseses a few times. >> get some money, andnd you buy this stuff. there is stuff like this. reporter: but the local market for this cheap heroin is just a tiny part of the trafficking in mombasa. even in an apartment nearby, david is alalmost ready to heado the airport. prays to survive the long trip.

>> returning here. retuturning home. i want to ask god to protect me. i just want him to help me

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