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in bamako, that has already been growing anti-french protests.the northern region, the tribal area where there has been increasing clashes, there is going to be this quiet. militants could easily overrun areas where french military has left. there are even reports that russian mercenaries are moving in, which french forces had left earlier. >> thank you for covering that story of france's withdrawal from mali. breaking news from the united states, a judge in new york state has ruled that former president trump must testify in a fraud probe. he also ruled that trump's son, trump junior, and his daughter, ivanka, must testify in the probe by the state attorney general letitia james into the family business. we are hoping to get over senior north america correspondent on this later, so stay with us as we get more details. stay with us. still to come, drama at the winter olympics. the 15-year-old skater who failed a drug test failed to win a medal. >> the swimmer who was killed by a shark in the australian city of sydney has identified as a 35-year-o

she's in the mali capital, bamako.do _ -- why are we seeing so many? thanks for having me. i do think _ -- why are we seeing so many? thanks for having me. i do think that _ -- why are we seeing so many? thanks for having me. i do think that the - for having me. i do think that the multiplication of coups we are seeing are related to a regional environment so there are specific challenges related to the thing in the sahara were there as a form of exasperation from the people to not elected government and actually deliver against this context. that is one thing and the other is frustration, popular frustrations around the dysfunction of the government and political systems. they empathy is across the west african region, on what i would call the procedural size of democracy, with a lot of focus on elections, they need to focus on what happens between the interims public policy. the inability of states to actually deliver against the demands is one of the dreaded factors behind most of the dreaded factors behind most of