the twenty nineteen nobell peace prize has been awarded to ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed africa's youngest leader brokered a peace accord lastt year with his nation's bitter rival your trail ending twenty years of hostilities. and abby stands in contrast to many strongman leaders on the continent and again key with more on why he was chosen for the prprize. the winner of the norwegian nobel committee's one hundredth peace prize has an undeniably long list of potential achievements making an impact both at home and abroad. the provisions. of alfred nobel's will family in mind. the norwegian nobel committee sees a bit of credit as the person who in the preceding yeah has done the most to o the service. the nobel peace prize for twenty nineteen. abi ahmed who was elected prime minister in april twenty eighteen was chosen specificallyly for his decisive initiative to reresolve the border conflict with neighboring eritrea. under ahmed's premiership the two historic full signed a landmark peace agreement to restore relations in july twenty eighteen. the deal ended two decades of what wa

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that was today's announcement of the nobel peace prize awarded to ethiopia prime minister abi made for his work to resolving the border conflict with neighboring eritrea had was up against around $300.00 and yes he was praised for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation since being elected prime minister in early 28 seeing the norwegian nobel committee made the announcement. earlier this week nobel prizes in the fields of medicine physics chemistry and literature were also ward abi ahmed has only been in office for a year and a half but his push for peace and democracy in that short time impressed the nobel committee. even if much work remains they are has initiated important reforms that give many citizens hope for a better life and the brighter future. met was awarded for the reconciliation he forged with every tray at the 2 neighbors were embroiled in a longstanding border conflict. after a war in the late 1990 s. killed an estimated 70000 people they failed to implement a peace deal. but within months of taking office med's met with eritrea as president for a sum

neighboring eritrea following a 21 year long conflict on their border which began with rule in 1998 abi managed to reestablish normal relations between the 2 countries he also ordered the release from jail of his critics opposition politicians and journalists have even established a ministry of peace which includes some of the government's most notorious ministries such as the national intelligence service and the police force he's also trying to open up the economy allowing foreign investors a sharing traditionally state of monopolies it hasn't been easy though abbie survived an assassin armed with a grenade at a campaign rally last year was. and interests like fighting nationwide forced around $3000000.00 people from their homes abi also survived an attempted coup a few months ago by some soldiers unhappy with his leadership for close allies including his chief of staff were killed in the failed uprising in the am hard region and he's disappointed many of the o.p.'s by failing to quickly transform the economy the only problem they have but. they wanted the change to happen immediately

abi ahmed has only been in office for a year and a half but his push for peace and democracy in that short time impressed the nobel committee. even if much work remains they are has initiated important reforms that give many citizens hope for a better life and the brighter future. met was awarded for the reconciliation he forged with every tray in the 2 neighbors when boiled in a longstanding border conflict. after a war in the late 1990 s. killed an estimated 70000 people they failed to implement a peace deal. but within months of taking office med's met with eritrea as president for a summit where they signed a historic peace agreement. it was a moment ethiopians and eritreans had been waiting for for decades the critics say there has been little progress since then on key goals such as economic cooperation . the nobel committee also recognized for implementing democratic reforms winning jiminy theo paeans respect. he did a lot for example releasing prisoners and granting freedom to people. by law does not mean only one year he has brought so much change hobby is the one who made f

in the nobel committee believes it is now that abi our. efforts this recognition and in the encouragement. in the region nobel committee hopes that the nobel prize will. strengthened prime minister. in his important work for peace and reconciliation. is africa's 2nd most populous country and east africa is known just economy. and peaceful stable non-successful as the oh yeah look how many positive side effects and we'll help to strengthen fraternity among nations and peoples in this region. with the provision of alfred nobel's will firmly in mind in the region nobel committee sees me as the person who in the preceding yeah has done the most to discern the nobel peace prize for 29 teams. thank you very much for your attention. and you are watching live coverage of the of the else 1st taking place in also today of the peace prize the nobel peace prize for 29 teams with me in the studio is peter craven peter craven what do you make of the us i think it's a great time congress model of muslims to good news story for africa and it's very you kn

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ethiopia's prime minister abi ahmed has been awarded the nobel prize for.

on friday he received a 21000 nobel peace prize for his role as a unifier ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed made peace with neighboring eritrea thus ending one of africa's longest running conflicts within ethiopia obvious known for rapid economic reforms and getting the country back on its feet after decades of war and poverty. since becoming ethiopian prime minister in april 28th seen as being hailed as a visionary reformer but analysts fret that his policies are too much too fast for the political old and at the same time too little too late for the country's angry youth whose protests swept him to power be himself says he's pro jobs program and pro inclusive of the on the pathway to prosperity and it seems his agenda is delivering results. on it looking at the general supply and demand there are indications that the economy is recovering. the economic indicators show that our economy is growing at a rate of 9.2 percent this financial year. his policies have included privatization of key state owned enterprises and a proposal to partly privatized ethiopia's national airline but alth

peace even in his country if you look at it yes there has been a lot of apart from the praise that abi has received there has been resistance as well he has come in and shaken the system so there are lots of people who who used to the status quo and coming and shaking up the system with his political liberalization has really disturbed a lot of people and we've seen attempts to disrupt his work we've seen assassination attempts against him we've seen attempted coup attempt at coup d'etat in the region of i'm hora so these kinds of things are still there and of course the ethnic tensions as well he's been criticized for not doing enough to resolve that we've seen millions of ethiopians displaced as a result so there's so much work for. prime minister abbott to do but we have to recognize the massive strides he has taken ok quickly what possible rippling effects of this award to other african countries facing conflicts well obviously i think one major one would be that of diplomacy when it comes to resolving conflict there's a lot of hard headedness we see across the continent but he has

reports that jets are carrying out airstrikes on syrian kurdish positions on the border town of tal abi at the ports from the kurdish that syrian democratic forces say their priority now is to protect the border and focus on confronting the president of unannounced the offensive into tweets before the strikes the turkish armed forces together with the syrian national army just launched operation peace spring against the p.k. k y p g and diet. straight to turkey that day w correspondent dorian jones joins us from istanbul welcome dorian as a tell us more about the turkish military operation. well there has been this ongoing bombardment from the air within hours of the announcement of the operation jets have been relentlessly pounding towns across the syrian border here at least 4 possibly 5 towns have been struck took issue tillery 2 have been bombarding the area along with mortar fire there have been some reports that the syrian kurdish forces have retaliated using small fire and mortars attacking nearby turkish border towns and this is just the very beginning of what is seen the turkis

demonstrations began as a standoff at an activist home then they spread the protesters a challenging the rule of abi ahmed who won the nobel peace prize this month. the head of the world jewish congress ronald lauder has visited the german city of howler weeks after a gunman killed 2 people while trying to break into a synagogue there lauder's visit comes amid numerous signs of a rise in anti semitism in germany a monday he will present chancellor angela merkel an award for her commitment to fighting it. in washington the attempt to impeach president donald trump has scored a victory democrats will get a full copy of the mother report into russian meddling in the 2016 election sensitive parts of the report were originally blacked out but now a u.s. court has ruled that a full copy of the document should be given to the house of representatives judiciary committee it's widely expected that the department of justice will appeal against the decision the miller investigation found that russia had worked to disrupt the 2016 presidential election to undermine the democratic candidate hillary clinton. for

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neighboring eritrea following a 21 year long conflict on their border which began with rule in 1998 abi managed to reestablish normal relations between the 2 countries he also ordered the release from jail of his critics opposition politicians and journalists have even established a ministry of peace which includes some of the government's most notorious ministries such as the national intelligence service and the police force he's also trying to open up the economy allowing foreign investors a sharing traditionally state of monopolies it hasn't been easy though abbie survived an assassin armed with a grenade at a campaign rally last year was. and interests like fighting nationwide forced around $3000000.00 people from their homes abi also survived an attempted coup a few months ago by some soldiers unhappy with his leadership for close allies including his chief of staff were killed in the failed uprising in the am hard region and he's disappointed many of the o.p.'s by failing to quickly transform the economy the only problem that. they wanted the change to happen immediately. we have

the people's needs are acute the nearest hospital and closest doctor in the town of abi dos half a day's boat ride away. but. right thanks it's expensive to go to town you have to leave at night to get there by morning and then you only get called at the hospital if you're lucky otherwise you have to come back the next day for or 5 days before you see a doctor if some of the people in this village for instance the elderly can't travel to town. as they can we must thank god for the priests the mayor of those doesn't do anything for us in. an emergency and 85 year old man had chest pains and difficulty breathing all night his wife has brought him to the hospital ship he wouldn't have made it into town. a sandwich for the bus or move to the mall it was very bad last night was in nearly died yes he kept asking and turning and begging for help we thought it was the end but i said to him hold on to god for the lord is our god send us your will god do something heal him don't let him die room their ship in sept. out luckily for the patient there are 2 cardiologists on board the 2 italian doctor

on our radar this week with one of our producers tara tara 2 weeks ago the ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed wins the nobel peace prize he helped forge that peace deal with neighboring eritrea ending a military stalemate that lasted 20 years and this past week a major media owner in the country says that he is now being targeted by government agents what's the story so richard this is a story about 2 powerful men in a new and a relationship that looks like it's gone fella the prime minister took power in 2018 after wave of anti-government protests and like you say he's just been awarded a nobel prize one journalist said the obvious rival was at the time an obama moment for the ip and the media mogul you mentioned that he was a journalist and activist in exile a controversial figure for a lot of people but very much credited as a galvanizing force in the open and he showed videos and protests strategies from his living room coming newsroom in minnesota after be assumed power joe was returned to ethiopia a very influential player with a formidable new station at his disposal the iranian

operation with that they're saying that it's been quiet so long contact lines around the town of tal abi out to the west of here. so yes certainly at this stage in fact it seems as if you know the cease fire is holding but let's not forget that this is a temporary is a polls so the turks as the turks want they want those s.d. if turkish forces to withdraw and there is concern over what could be construed as ambiguity in this agreement when you consider the fact that the safety zone that the turks want to set up piece around 444 kilometers along the border. and 3032 kilometers deep into syria the s.t.a. if those could reach full she said that they would abide by the agreement but with respect to contact line between russell i ain and tel aviv which is only around 100 kilometers the s.d.f. still control vast areas of this border so there are of course concerns there of a potential problem but as i say at the moment. the cease fire seems to be holding yet charles as you say that sort of means a huge amount of uncertainty with turkey saying this is a pause not a stop to the offensive so what

last year some even credit him with galvanizing support for the protests that brought prime minister abi to power but their relationship seems to have soured. on tuesday i'll be told parliament that people with joining the nationality who also own media organizations should not stir up unrest an apparent reference to muhammad who has dual u.s. and its european citizenship mohamed calls that a threat the problem is that in the parliaments public. perth in the media. you know what i'm expected to mohamed has had official police protection since last year because of threats on his life late tuesday night he says security officials arrived just home and told his guards to leave they refused mohammad says it was an assassination plot and he blames the prime minister's comments over the. encouraged some security officials to independently act or that he give the green light on most of the body be it. oh i don't believe this we want to salute this event if the o.p.'s police commissioner in the short test you denied mohammed's account saying his message that the police were taking measures again

ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed has been awarded the nobel peace prize for 2019 for his work to resolve the border conflict with neighboring eritrea ahmed was up against around 300 nominees he was praised for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation since being elected prime minister in early 2018 the norwegian nobel committee made the announcement in austin low earlier this week nobel prizes in the fields of medicine physics chemistry and literature were also award it. obvious met has only been in office for a year and a half but his push for peace and democracy in that short time impressed the nobel committee. even if much work remains they are has initiated important reforms that give many citizens hope for a better life and the brighter future. met was awarded for the reconciliation he forged with every tray in the 2 neighbors when boiled in a longstanding border conflict. after a war in the late 1990 s. killed an estimated 70000 people they failed to implement a peace deal. but within months of taking office meds met with eritrea as president for a summit where th

news that he was the one who laid the foundation for his successor abi ahmed he was awarded the nobel peace prize earlier this month now on this week's conflict zone with jim sebastian he says that he fought for human rights and democracy in his country and that's despite allegations that he presided over torture and corruption take a listen ethiopia has a new prime minister none of the let who took over have to use a glass here he's now received the nobel peace prize basically for undoing many of the evils of your government and doing what you couldn't do within a 100 days. don't you feel something of a failure when you look at what he does. know that because. i have done my share to bring this change to happen and. prime minister nabil has not come from blue moon it has come from the party which i was at he's 18 yeah but he's begun correcting the massive human rights abuses which were prominent feature of your time to notice that is it is that my party which started the reform process and we say. the process should be no one to the country basically but also to the party itself. and

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ethiopia's prime minister abi ahmed's has been awarded the 2019 nobel peace prize for his work to resolve the border conflict with neighboring eritrea the 2 countries restored relations in july last year after 2 decades of hostilities in a tweet today prime minister ahmed expressed his gratitude to all those working for p.c. wrote that the award is for ethiopia and the african continent saying we shall prosper in peace. abby ahmed has only been ethiopia's prime minister for 18 months but the nobel committee was impressed by his push for peace and democracy in that time. even if much work remains rb our mayor has initiated important reforms that give many citizens hope for a better life and a brighter future at his greatest achievement is the peace deal he orchestrated between ethiopia and neighboring eritrea in 2018 following a longstanding border conflict war had broken out in 1908 and officially ended in 2000 tens of thousands of people were killed and it was 20 years before peace was finally agreed within months of taking office as he met with eritrea as president and they signed the h

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troops from the area the 2 border towns of ras al man and tell abie ad have been the main targets but despite the official u.s. exit an american border patrol was reportedly seen on friday near tell of bad the pentagon also said its troops came under turkish artillery fire near kabbani another border town although nobody was hurt i was there spin a backlash to donald trump's decision to step aside in northern syria attitudes towards america's supposed ally it seemed less settled is more against the explains the kurds a hero's shout that people who couldn't point out on the map where the kurds live brave say the people who never have never would fight alongside them how old how could trump betray them say the people who couldn't care less about kurds it's just fashionable these days playing the card using them to get attention or for pathetic little political games where is the honesty where is the truth. well let's try c.n.n. in this case you're looking at not only betraying the kurds and betraying some of our other allies in the gulf region what the president has done to the kurds th

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on our radar this week with one of our producers tara tara 2 weeks ago the ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed wins the nobel peace prize he helped forge that peace deal with neighboring eritrea ending a military stalemate that lasted 20 years and this past week a major media owner in the country says that he's now being targeted by government agents what's the story so richard this is a story about 2 powerful men in a new and a relationship that looks like it's gone from the prime minister took power in 2018 after a wave of government protests and like you say he's just been awarded a nobel prize one journalist said the obvious rival was the time and obama moment for putin's the media mogul you mentioned. he was a journalist and. a controversial figure for a lot of people but very much credited as a galvanizing force and he showed videos and protests strategies from his living room coming newsroom in minnesota after. a very influential player with a formidable new station his disposal the iran. media network this is hunter was the driver the prime minister when we spoke to him last year

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patrols in an area east of here that runs all the way to the iraqi border and west of the town of tel abi out all the way down to qubani basically the planet is east to get president wants which is this full 440 kilometer stretch of border and 30 minutes 30 kilometers deep free of what the president or the long calls kurdish terrorists now we spoke to free syrian army fighters here the softer noon one commander who's been operating in russell lane and he admitted to us that their their forces the free syrian the kurdish the turkish forces still only have control of around 70 percent of russell laine 30 percent of it was still controlled by the s.d.f. and he said that they were. kurdish forces very much in control both to the east and west here so it is a huge undertaking and as i say no guarantee that we will not see a resumption of turkey's military campaign in the house in the the days ahead thanks very much from the tacky syria border charles traffic bringing us the latest and. plus conason long shower joins me in the studio now it appears that president has managed to achieve this y p

all just less than a week ago is here because prime minister abi alphabet was being hailed for his peacemaking and statesmanship abilities and now these comments a strong warning to egypt over this use of $1000000000.00 niall down project that he says if the o.p.'s is willing to go to war over he said in parliament choose day that we could get millions ready but that's not in the best interests of all of us . about egypt saying that they will take action what ican we want you to understand is that a quarter of ethiopia's population is poor and young so if we are to go to war with other africans we can have many millions on the front line but was do not have many benefits it will not benefit egypt will not benefit sudan and it will not benefit us some may have the capability of firing missiles and some may say i would bomb cairo if it is for my country and my flag but peace cannot be brought by bombing and by fighting talks over the construction of this dam project collapsed earlier this month if europeans prime ministers do to talk to egypt's president on the sidelines of a conference in the r

military intelligence officer a land grab opponent an unpredictable politician a peace maker and now abi adamant can add nobel peace prize winner to his list of accomplishments door such a bari al jazeera. a south african court has ruled the former president jacob zuma must stand trial on corruption charges his lawyers had argued the case was politically motivated and should be thrown out zuma is expected to be back in court next week for his trial he's accused of taking bribes from a french weapons company in exchange for $180000000.00 in government contracts in the late 1990 s. from john miller has this update from outside the courts. the court judgment was handed down in under 2 minutes and jacob zuma was in and out of court in in just a few minutes the court had decided that jacob zuma will indeed stand trial that's due to begin next week but it's also worth remembering that the former president does have the option to approach the supreme court of appeal to appeal this judgement and perhaps further delay his day in court which is a huge cheer said for a long time he wants to have th

military intelligence officer a land grab opponent and unpredictable politician a peace maker and now abi adamant can add nobel peace prize winner to his list of accomplishments dore such a bari al-jazeera let's bring in halleluiah luly he's a political analyst and had a fee if european foreign relations strategic studies that's a political think tank thanks for speaking to us on the news hour i think i know the answer to your to this question but just give me your initial reaction to this when well it was somehow expected but the reaction i think was overwhelming people are not just taking this recall commissioner said cognition to. the prime minister if your votes people are going if you do a proper analysis of the streets of this if you look to terror and facebook's fear people are taking this as sort of competition to what the country has achieved in the past 3 and a half and the resilience all 50 states and its people in their ambition in realizing that ambition for an inclusive and accountable states you have a human rights organization amnesty international saying that prime minist

just less than a week ago is here because prime minister abi out that was being hailed for his peacemaking and statesmanship abilities and now these comments a strong warning to egypt over this disputed $1000000000.00 project that he says if you're here is willing to go to war over he said in parliament choose day that we could get millions is ready but that's not in the best interests of all of us. about egypt saying that they will take action and what ican we want you to understand is that a quarter of ethiopia's population is poor and young so if we are to go to war with the africans we can have many millions on the front line but was do not have many benefits it will not benefit egypt will not benefit sudan and it will not benefit us some may have the capability of firing missiles and some bomb karo if it is from my country and my flag but peace cannot be brought by bombing and by fighting talks over the construction of a dam project collapsed earlier this month it is prime minister as you talk to egypt's president on the sidelines of a conference in the russia later this week the opiu