and has been heard from inside that hotel and we are monitoring the story from the nigerian capitol abuja and this is the latest that we know about that situati situation. >> well, that is right shuilue it's active and on going situation and what we are hearing and information we are getting is pointing to perhaps something jihad inspired and security is saying they were jihad behind the attack and came in the compound in the hotel with diplomatic license plates and if you have been to these sorts of places and been to places like this before security is normally very tight at these hotels given the history you have already explained ed the attacks we saw in march and the attack we saw in august security is normally very tight and something here suggests they are under cover if you like and also know listening to the freelance journalist we had on the line outside of the radisson blue that mali forces and french army and u.n. forces have surrounded the perimeter wall of the hotel and one has to imagine there is some sort of ongoing operation to try and gain access to free these hostages.

we have reports now from abuja. >> the attacker is looking to cause maximum damage. most of the victims were young men and women. >> we went to eat. after eating we sat with some tea. in the blast. three of my friends were killed. hoppeds here are struggling with the injured. although no one has claimed responsibility the attack are similar to those carried out by boko haram. the last being an attack just a few kilometers from here. dozens were killed. countries step up the operations but what they fail to do is to stop the deadly attacks on soft targets like markets. in this year alone hundreds have been killed in such attacks. there are warnings that suicide attacks will increase al jazeera, abuja, nigeria. >> nigeria's president has ordered the arrest of a former national security adviser who is accused of stealing billion dollars which was intended to be used in the fight against boko haram. allegedly he funneled money into bogus contracts ammunition and aircraft. the president's office said that he wanted $140 million to go transferred to accounts in the u.s. an

after a suicide-bomb attack, let's go straight away live to the capital of abuja.hat more do you know about this latest attack? >> well, the emergency worker confirmed the attack in northeastern nigeria, and more than 30 people so far have been confirmed dead, and more than 70 are also injured receiving treatment at hospital. this is a preliminary treatment that they have at the moment. of course, this is the second attack. the first attack happened just a few kilometers away. >> presumably the fingers of suspicion are going to be pointing at boko haram. >> exactly. for a while boko haram had been up in the northeast. but these attacks where boko haram has carried out atrocit atrocities. >> we're live there in the capital of abuja. we'll keep you up-to-date on the attack in yorba state. >>> following the paris attacks, leaders around the world are trying to protect their citizens. the focus has been on syria where isil fighters are trying to retain control of key areas they have seized. john kerry said he's confident that the u.s. will be able to help turkey seal o

it's a waste of money but leaders say it will lead to improved services and we have the story from abujater: filling out application forms to have their names included in a new national identity database and also get an identity card. it's an attempt by the government to collect data for planning and to improve public services and security. and he is applying. after filling out the form he needs the biometric details taken. >> and they don't want to bank and help us in our job and secure a job. >> reporter: the project was launched in august of last year but only 7 million people's names are on the database so far, that is less than 5% of nigeria's population of 170 million. the government says a lack of internet in rural areas, poor power supply and lack of money have been factors but in january a law will come into place making it difficult to get certain services without a national identity number known as ni number. >> you can't open a bank account without an ni number. you can't deal in transactions on land would an ni number. you cannot deal in pensions. you cannot deal in insuranc

and u yvonne is monitoring from the capitol abuja and there are several nationalitys caught up in this hostage situation. >> well, that is right shiulie because it's a hotel that is freaked by people from various countries. it's a hotel where you have a lot of ex patriots and a lot of diplomatic staff staying and using the hotels and the facilities. i stayed at the radisson blu hotel in neighboring qatar and lots of foreigners there and as you were explaining in the intro staff from turkish airlines have escaped the attackers and turkish aunt lines would have been using the hotel for crew and pilots during the lay overs for the various flights that come in from turkey and there are reports of nigerians involved and not known if they are working at the table or trade between nigeria and mali and the united states embassy talks of an active on going shooter situation happening at the hotel and warned citizens to stay away and with we also know from security sources that apparently the attackers arrived in vehicles with diplomatic license plates and would have needed to some extent these

a report now there abuja on what's being done to lean up the industry. >> reporter: the president promisedould fight corruption in the oil industry before he was elect ed in march. billions of dollars have been lost in the sector in the past three years, most it have by the government-run oil company the nigerian national petroleum cooperation. he is the new minister of the state for petroleum. >> there definitely was corruption the level of volume of it i can't tell. but just looking at the accounts, the lack of accounts, the number, in the press, the company had lost its profitability in terms of serve eightsbility. accountability and transparency. >> reporter: last month the former minister of petroleum was detain ed in london. she denies allegations of bribery and money laundering. last year, the form every governor of the central bank said $20 billion was miss from the state oil company. that was revised down to $1.5 billion by auditors in 2012 the government disputed $7 billion in fraudulent transactions was paid out by the state company. nationwide protest says took place when the g

don't know what is going on right now and yvonne is monitoring this story from the nigerian capitol abuja and what is the latest you are hearing of what is happening on the ground? >> well, what we know shiulie is the hotel is still under siege and security services from the french army and sinigal special forces and u.n. operatives part of a peace keeping mission are trying to diffuse the situation and i want to give out a sense and an idea of what the security situation would have been like leading to this point and know from security sources that these attackers apparently arrived and not confirmed but what we are hearing arrived in a vehicle with diplomatic license plates which points to the fact that this area would have been heavily secured given first of all the history of attacks in bamiko animally in august there was an attack in which at least five u.n. workers were killed in a central malian town and also an attack in march at a restaurant in which people were killed, sprayed with bullets, so this kind of area would have had a lot of security anyway. it's a place where you have

more from akmed who is in abuja now. tell us more about the attack. officially the number of deaths stands at 32, and 80 injured. this is what the officials are saying. some of the injured are critically affected by the blast yesterday. and according to eyewitnesss, they said the numbers could have been higher than the ones registering now. the suicide bomber can take as many lives as possible. they started sharing money or dishing out money to people, mostly women and children who are in that market area. when a huge crowd gathered they detonated the device, killing those people. a few kilometres from where the suicide bomber attacked a mosque. killing dozens of people in the state cap stam. tall -- capital. >> the battle, president harare is close to defeat. is that the case? >> well, the military has driven boko haram. they have claimed victory after victory on boko haram. what the military failed to do so far is stop the spate of bombings happening across the country. we have seen over the last five or six months, hundreds of people have been kill

. >>> in burundi, bu abuja bujumbe spoke to a freelance journalist in bujumbura that we are not namingause of security reasons. >> the people are afraid, most of the people living in the suburbs, the suburbs that were known to have a lot of opponents in their midst, they're not just fleeing. the army and the police are searching homes now and everybody is expecting the worst. there was already a first wave of refugees that went to rwanda, congo and also to tanzania. the people that are leaving the capital now leaving to the country side. most of them have relative in the country side and that's where they go. so they leave their homes behind. sometimes, the husbands they stay there just to watch over their possessions over their homes but most of the homes are empty. they can say that they're defending themselves but actually this government i can say it has been terrorizing the population for the last couple of months. >> sunday marks two years since one of the most powerful storms on record made landfall in the phil peens. typhoophilippines. typhoon haiyan. iajamilla alendoggan has t

we have reports from abuja. >> these are the latest victims much a six-year cycle of violence devastating nigeria. their attacker was looking to cause max damage. most of the victims were young men and women. >> we went to eat. after eating we sat with some tea, and then the blasts, three of my friends were killed. >> this is the third of such attacks here. in hospitals here are struggle with the injured. some of whom are in critical continues. although no one has claimed responsibility the attack resembles similar ones carried out by boko haram. the most recent occurred just a few kilometers from here. >> what the operations failed to do was to stop attacks on soft targets such as markets and places of worship. hundreds of people have been killed in such attacks. security experts warn that sued attacks will increase as the deadline set for the military to defeat the fighters nears. al jazeera, abu i can't, nigeria. >> now nigeria has half the world. >> women who depend on these trees say they should make more money. they're producing a natural oil that is made into a skin moisturizer. it

. >>> yvonne ndege has been monitoring developments from nigeria's capitol abuja.his is a confusing picture as to whether the attackers are still in the hotel. what do we know at the moment? >> reporter: well, that's right, julie, there has been conflicting information about whether the hotel has come under the full security of the various security forces. official security forces who are trying to diffuse this situation. earlier there were reports that all of the hostages were out, that they had secured the building. that's french personnel, malian, and u.n. peace keepers. it now appears that may not be the case at all. there could be an ongoing battle between gunmen holed up in the hotel and the various security agencies. and that will tally up with some of the conflicting reports about the number of gunmen involved because it was first suggested that there were only two gunmen involved. but in the last two or three hours that rose to between 10 to 15 gunmen, and that was coming from security sources on the ground and a couple of freelance journalists who were re

we have reports from the capital of abuja. >> these are the latest victims of a six year cycle of violence. the attacker was looking to cause maximum damage. most of the victims were young men and women. >> we went to eat after eating we sat with some tea, and then the blast. three of my friends were killed. >> this is the third of such attacks. in hospitals here struggling with the injured. some of whom are in critical continue. although no one has claimed responsibility, the attack resembles similar ones carried out by boko haram. the last being a friday mosque attacks just a few kilometers from here. dozens were killed. boko haram may be investigated as police step up operations. this year alone hundreds of people have been killed in such attacks. security experts warn that suicide attacks will increase as deadlines set by the president for the military to defeat the fighters nears. >> nigeria's president has ordered the arrest of a former national security adviser who is accused of stealing $2 billion intended to be used in the fight against boko haram. they funneled money, ammunition

we have reports now from the capital of abuja. >> president buhari said that he would fight corruption the oil industry before he was elected in march. billions of dollars have been lost in the sector in the past three years. most of it by the government-run oil company, the nigerian national petroleum corporation. the new minister of state petroleum. >> if there is corruption, the level of it i can't tell. but looking at the accounts, the lack of accounts, the numbers, the company had lost its focus in terms of profitability and accountability and transparency. >> last month. perform minister design was detained in london. she denies allegations of bribery and of money laundering. last year the former government said that the central bank said that $20 billion was missing, that was brought down to $1.5 billion by auditors. nationwide protest took place when the government tried to increase the price of subsidized fuel. >> the government believes one of the corrupt deals take place when they pay for government-sub subsidized oil. >> the bottom line is that we are very poor. you've got

we have reports now from abuja. >> these are the latest victims of a six-year cycle of violence devastatingnigeria. their attacker was looking to cause maxi maximum damage. >> we went to eat. after eating we went for tea. the blast killed two of my friends. >> the hospitals here are struggling with the injured. some are in critical condition. although no one has claimed responsibility, the attacker resembles attacks carried out by boko haram. the last attack just a few kilometers from here. dozen mrs. killed. boko haram may be on the back ground as military step up their operations, but they've failed to stop the deadly attacks in markets and places of worship. >> this plac year alone hundreds have been killed in such attacks. they have been warned that attacks will increase. al jazeera, nigeria. >> meanwhile, the nigerian president has ordered the arrest of a financial vicesser who has stolen $2.5 billion which was supposed to be used to fighting boko haram. the president's office said that they want $140 million to be transferred to accounts in the united states and elsewhere. >> banglade

ivan is gauging the situation for us out of abuja, bringing a different perspective. your perspective having been there a lot. if this is being driven by what, five different agencies involves now. it comes down to probably one guy making a decision to talk to these people to where there is a point that either you beat them down and wear them into submission, or that's the tipping point where you do something military. this is a prison in mali. at what point do we reach that decision that has to be taken? >> we have seen this -- we have seen the pattern that algeria set in this respect, and we have seen also several other situations where when it comes to hostage taking -- like a high probability of bloodshed taking place before it becomes peaceful, because there is a peaceful [ inaudible ] but now what we see is that this calm around the hotel and inside it, i expect this situation either to be protracted, as i said, if they have -- if they have food and water, they can keep on for days until they make sure that part of their demands is met, which i doubt, because th

our correspondent has more from abuja. >> reporter: the suicide bomber wanted to take as many lives asble. he started sharing money -- or dishing out money to people -- mostly women and children who were gathered at that market area, and then when a huge crowd gathered he detonated the device, killing those people and injuring a lot of people. just a few kilometers from where another suicide bomber attacked a mosque, killing dozens of people in the capitol. the military has driven boko haram from so many areas. they have claimed victory after victory on boko haram, but what the military operation has failed to do so far, is stop the fate of bombings happening across the country. we have since over the last five or six months, hundreds of people have been killed by boko haram, and a vast majority of those killed in these attacks are actually -- are actually killed by suicide bombers and ied's planted at locations such as markets, mosques, churches, and other -- and other places where people patronize in large numbers. >>> nigeria has run out of fuel. oil importers deny withholding petro

another three people were confirmed dead and yvonne is monitoring this story from the nigerian capitol abujand get us up to speed and what do we know? >> well, what we know is that the situation is live and active and on going. the siege is still underway. we managed to speak to some eyewitnesses who are on the scene outside of the radisson blu hotel. what they tell us is that french military who operate in mali who have a base in mali, mali special forces and u.n. forces as the u.n. peace keeper mission there are around the how elbow hotel and surrounded the hotel and some of them have tried to go in the hotel to diffuse the situation and free hostages. earlier there were reports and i'm not sure if you mentioned this already that some had managed to escape and staff from turkish airlines managed to escape and at least three members of staff and still trying to verify if that is accurate and not sure if you said this actual will but some who were able to recite versus from the quran were freed and we understand that three people have been killed, earlier this morning i was reporting it was

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defense fund for the naacp volunteered their services to represent wesley cook, better known as mumia abuja mall, our country's most notorious cop killer. this nomination can be interpreted only one way, it's a thumb in the eye of our nation's law enforcement officers. it demonstrates a lack of regard or empathy for those who strive to serve you and everyone in our nation and keep them safe in our streets and homes and we believe that law enforcement in minority communities need to build even greater bonds of trust and respect yet your civil rights division under the leadership of the prior officer thomas perez and roy often has increasingly built obstacles to this goal with this punitive approach toward local law enforcement agencies is. so now your nomination, you've been named as acting, is that right? but have not yet been nominated. >> that is correct. >> and prior to joining the department of justice you served as deputy legal director for the american civil liberties union and director for its center for justice and prior to that you were an attorney for the racial justice program an