dollars worth of local currency at a time where mr sirleaf was the bank's deputy governor. and now to some other business stories making the news around the world. dutch prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against oil company royal dutch shell over the one point three billion dollars acquisition of a nigerian offshore oil field the company's alleged to have made illegal payments to nigerian politicians and officials to make the purchase in two thousand and eleven. the french and dutch finance ministers have met in paris to clear the air after a surprise change an air france k. limbs shareholder structure the dutch government increased its stake in the carrier without informing france the netherlands now has a fourteen percent stake in the company in line with from its. online retailer amazon has done away with its dash order button that allows you to order in the new supplies of your favorite products the online retailer wants to focus on related to digital services these and that includes virtual dash buttons that you can find on the amazon website. ten years ago ca

sirleaf is also the son of liberia's former president ellen johnson sirleaf the arrests are just the latest developments in a major scandal that began brewing last october over the disappearance of a total of about one hundred million dollars worth of bank notes in a report commissioned by the lib liberian government after the story first broke consulting firm kroll and associates said they had quote identified discrepancies at every stage of the process for controlling the movement of banknotes into and out of the liberian central bank. and staying on the during money be royal dutch shell is once again facing legal trouble over their business practices an oil rich nigeria the corporation disclosed earlier today that prosecutors in the netherlands are preparing to press criminal charges of the company's efforts to acquire energy rights bought by wible energy company any of italy the company's stock took a hit as the dutch prosecutor's office confirmed they have found that shell committed prosecutable offense is involving suspected bribes to try to secure rights to o.p.l. two forty fi

after an investigation into a banknote printing scandal charles sirleaf is accused of conspiring to overprint local currency worth millions of dollars for personal gain he is charged along with the former central bank governor and another senior executive. floods in southern pakistan and afghanistan have killed at least fifty people have the rain over the past ten days has cut off tens of thousands of residents the afghan government has flooding was the worst in kandahar in at least seven years charlotte ballasts reports from kabul. the afghan military flying over flooded kandahar province on a mission to rescue one thousand people trapped by floods there's been heavy rain in afghanistan and southern pakistan for more than a week on saturday flash floods swept through towns and villages across the region we didn't just do your part and i would prefer that if a disaster took place in kandahar's there's no drainage and there is little public awareness which is why so many people were affected most of the affected people were already internally displaced and living on the river banks s

iran's foreign minister mohamad jevons raef was in baghdad to lay the groundwork for rouhani is visit sirleaf expressed hope relations between the two neighbors will improve the days for parliamentary elections in the world's largest democracy been announced the voting in india will take place in seven phases in a poor i'm a results will be announced may twenty third those are the headlines one ace does next. africa's most populous nation. as a youth unemployment problem. we bring you the stories. counting the cost on al-jazeera. thailand is one of the top us nations in the world to a political. five years of military rule and refer to their stuff for free expression. as the nation goes to the polls. meets thailand's rebel. fighting back against the generals desperate battle for democracy. like a call to fight for what. is making thailand's military. but when. it comes. to the. song my country's slams corruption military control. the power. five years ago when they cut. in the rafters with but the truck with connecting with the public. the general elections five times. since its release in oc