in mexico adam raney talked to families looking for answers. >> reporter: a song for the missing. in this garage on the outskirts of the city, police came to remember a federal police officer and others who went missing five years ago. they disappeared on a mission to a lawless state. thought to have been killed by a drug gang, bodies have never been found. investigators told lewis's mother not to expect much. >> she searched on her own. >> it's not that we want to stop being households. it's the circumstances. we realise that we are learning to do what the government is doing. >> she was shocked by behaviour. >> there is total inept attitude, corruption. >> reporter: she found strength among others who lost someone they loved. she joined this group among families of the missing. her goal is to find clues about her loved one's interference. >> forensics is searching, looking for evidence. where are they, why did this happen. what happened exactly and when. i'm the one forcing investigators to gather coffee jars and others. that dirt may have had evidence bone. >> reporter: fast-fo

let's get more on this from adam raney. how have the families of the missing reacted to this u.n.reporter: well the parents, of course they welcome the u.n.'s findings that mexico needs to do more to investigate what these are called enforced disappearances. what that means is that state actors are involved in the disappearance of people. one of those speaking in geneva said they assume there are thousands of much cases every year in mexico but that they are really not kept track of that mexico has done an abysmal job of monitoring this. and only six people are being charged in this case of 43 missing students. the parents don't have much faith in the federal or state government to truly investigate this. they say they live in a state run by organized criminal groups and they point to the fact that the man who was governor when these students went missing had to accept aside, and now several members of his family are being linked in a multi-million dollars corruption investigation. so they say the whole state is corrupt, and don't have a lot of faith in their leaders to investigat

adam raney reports. >> reporter: oil, it's the life blood of mexico's economy.rgy profits pay for more than a third of allstate spending. but a midst huge drops in prices, mexico is now slashing those budgets by more than $8 billion. that downturn comes at the precise moment the sector is controversially opening up to private, foreign firms for the first time in nearly 80 years. closingposing opportunities and risks for this overly oil dependent country. we traveled to mexico caps deepest waters to gauge what the future hold. many on the national crew are upbeat about their prospects. at the moment money is being spent to find out where the formations are where the oil is and the future, once they are complete. once we go in to the appreciation and production stage that's when money starts flowing in. >> reporter: mexico long run of in shallow reserves as been reluctant to dig deeper. these costa the love money and now there are only four in mexico. they were hoping that reform will allow them to have more. those hopes have been dimmed by the latest announcement

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adam raney reports. >> reporter: the lifeblood of mexico's economy.nergy profits pay for a third of spending. amidst drops, mexico is slashing the budgets, and more than $8 billion. that comes at the moment. the sector is opening up to private foreign firms for the first time. posing money and risk. we travelled out to mexico to gauge what the future may hold. many see the crew on the platform talking about their prospects. >> at the moment. there's a formation. the future they are complete on the reduction state. that's when the money is blowing in. >> long rich reserves have been deeper. >> these platforms cost a lot of money. the hope is under the new reform, they'll have more classes looking. >> hopes have been dimmed. it is now on hold due to the 4 billion. when the deep water wells are tacked. the state-owned company has been hit. it's worth billions. >> we are fighting bribery, corruption. people know. people know now that the punishments are tougher. it didn't point to any specific example of people held accountable and the prosecution of crim

adam raney reports. >> reporter: oil is the lifeblood of mexico's economy. oil paying for a third of spending. amidst the drops, mexico is slashing the budgets by more than $8 billion. the downturn comes at the moment the sector is controversially opening up to private, foreign firms for the first time in 80 years posing opportunities and risks for the oil-dependent country, we travelled to mexico's waters to gauge what the future may hold. many were upbeat about the prospects. >> at the moment money is spent. finding out where the formations are, and the future, once it goes to the production stage that's when it comes in. >> mexico has been slow to dig deeper. >> the water exploration platforms cost a lot of money. there's four in mexico. the hope is foreign investors will allow them to have more platforms looking for oil. >> reporter: the hopes have been demed by the head of penn ex deep water projects are on hold due to $4 billion in company budget cuts. when the deep water wells are not tapped. it's unclear that pep ex will spend widely they have been h

. >> adam raney, al jazeera, mexico city. >> you have the sports news. what's happening? >> a few minutes to the biggest africa showdown. african football's best side will be crowned in a few minutes' time with ghana soon to kick off against the ivory coast in the final of the cup of nations. this is a repeat of the 1992 final which was won by the ivory coast on penalties. >> that's the only time they have lifted the trophy. this will be a record final for ghana. . >> so it's a final with two very good teams, two very strong country in africa it seems for a long time. so we know it won't be easy but it's rockchester all of the final, i think. we will try to do our best. i say we will try. we want to do it on the pitch and this group of players, i think, show that they know how to fight and they know how to play football and if i may say, they can be proud of this team. >> now let's go live to our correspondent. we are just minutes away from kickoff. any surprises in the team line-up? >> reporter: absolutely not. i mean they are obviously going to feel it on both sides, as