there's a high level of impunity. >> adam raney is joining us from mexico city. good to see you. what is the latest on the investigation with the students? >> well, they are still awaiting results from austria to see if remains found at one of the several mass grave sites are those of the 43 students. the attorney-general of mexico, he said that members of the organised criminal group, united warriors, or warriors united, confessed to the fact that members of the gang killed the students. the way that he presented the evidence at a press conference is particularly what upset and angered many of the families and students in that area in guerrero. they don't buy the government's story and think they want to solve the case. they want to have separate experts from an argentine group confirming what ever remains to be said. it's still a missing person's case. >> adam raney stand by, i want to continue the conversation with christopher wilson, senior associate for the mexico institute at the wilson center in washington d c. a reporter with the new york review of books that covered lati

as adam raney now reports. >> reporter: protesters in acapulco the latest of nearly daily demonstrationsco. confrontations followed. blood was spilled. some protesters are getting more brazen and pr provoking authoris like these these in acapulco. in cabrero state. angry demonstrators have repeatedly fire bombed cars and taxed government buildings. some protesters had even attacked some of the most sacred symbols of national power. here at the national palace where president enrique peÑa nieto a hand of. of protesters tried to break the door down. and set fire. it shows an enraged nation, one calling fought justice. one tired of the fact that 30,000 people have gone missing in a raging drug ward. daniel moreno. >> translator: the people are asking if a major change, what they are going to achieve is difficult to say. every time people speak out the political class tries to shrink the movement and divide public opinion. >> reporter: today he says is different, perhaps this has awakened the public. they are still seeking justice in a country where that eludes so many. adam raney, al jazerr

we can get the latest now from adam raney who is live for us in mexico city. us up-to-date with what is am live happening on the streets at the moment. >> reporter: well, this protest, which is the state of guerrero was meant to be a peaceful one, but it soon seems to have gotten out of hand it. attracted many left test teachers and perhaps some other student teachers perhaps from the same college where the missing students attended school. and it soon got out of hands. they did torch the state headquarters for the pre. the country's ruling party. it's not the ruling party in guerrero, but it is clearly a symbol of power in this country. now, it's important for our viewers to understand this isn't so rare in mexico. more than a year ago, protesting teachers torched that same headquarters when they were upset over a pending education reform. so it's long been a symbol that is up for attack by people upset with the ruling party. now, this follows protests on monday in which several police were attacked. reports that one was actually unconscious after being struck

. >> reporter: i am adam raney in a wheat field in central mexico.ing up we meet scientists trying to develop new variety is of this important crop to try to feed able creasingly populated planet. >>> hello. >> everyone, we start with break news coming out of the battle against isil and it appears, reports of a new video from isil showing the beheading of an american aid worker. his name is peter. 26 years old. we have seen him in previous in this shot in previous videos as well he's actually been held captive for a year an iraq war veteran at the age of 26 years olds the news is that he has been beheaded in a knewize ill video. let's go to imran kahn, he's in baghdad and can tell us more about what we know at this stage, imran. >> reporter: well, in the last few minutes a video was released through credible isil associates media accounts, people that used accounts to send out videos in the past that have been confirmed it allegedly shows peter, he had convert today islam, being beheaded as well as several syrian soldiers. once again, there is a man

adam raney explains. >> it's specific to friday evening, he ended the press commence. he said "enough, i'm tired", a rude informal way to end the conference. and the past month of him seeing as not invested emotionally in the case and looking to wrap it up. the day after that announcement on friday where he said "yes, i'm tired, enough." there was an explosion on facebook. and out on the streets people marched sake i'm tired, i'm tired of corruption, of 30,000 missing, a corrupt government and injustice and impunity in this country. he didn't handle it in the best way. what it appears to be is that the attorney-general have taken ab active stance a few times a week giving the press conference, showing a way to clasp down on the international clamour, but each step he and the president take looks insensitive to others. a country ruled by criminal groups as it is by the government. >> adam raney reporting from mexico city. >> in nigeria, the number of kidnappings for ransom is on the ride. it is increasing in the southern states. a construction worker from germany was ki

. >> i'm adam raney - coming up we meet scientists developing a new crop of wheat to try to feed the entire planet. >>> a new public and brazen atrocity by the islamic state of iraq and levant. in a video out today i.s.i.l. claims to have we headed american hostage peter cassig, and a dozen captives. peter cassig was captured last year whilst distributing medical supplying to refugees. >> the video shows 13 beheadings, 12 alleged soldiers and peter cassig. i.s.i.l. say he was beheaded because he was an iraqi war veteran who came to iraq during that war to kill muslims, he, himself, had converted to islam drug his captivity. as i say, it's a brutal video, but it's the propaganda that i.s.i.l. want out there. what they are capable of doing, the message they are sending to americans, that you can't bomb us without impunity, you'll be affected. there are other western hostages, it's not just about western hostages. i.s.i.l. killed 17 iraqis, 20 syrian journalists, and there's 80 people at least that have been kidnapped - journalists in iraq and syria, whose whereabouts they don't know, b

adam raney is in mexico city. what is game on with the protests today? >> well, we have students and student teachers protesting in the resort city of acapulco on the pacific coast - 4-5 hours drive from the capital. it was a provokive protest. 11 riot police have been injured. they marched to the airport, the protesters did, and showed a brazenness on the part of protesters. it's important for the viewers to understand these people joking in the city of acapulco today come from a leftist confrontational stance, the leftist teacher's union and the teachers from which the other students, which they studied with the ones missing from september, were from the same teacher's college that some of the protests in acapulco came from. it must be said that most of the protests in mexico have been peaceful. and the protest you mentioned, in which protesters tried to enter the palace, they tried to break down the door, they were unsuccessful. and dozens were arrested. that followed a protest in which thousands gathered and a powerful protest in the main plaza. >> g

. >> i'm adam raney in a wheat field. we meet scientists trying to develop new varieties of crop to feed an increasingly populated planet. >> and in sport, how the dallas mavericks eat up the wolves, later in the news hours. >>> you're on the newshour on al jazeera. a video has been posted online appearing to show the killing of several i.s.i.l. -- syrian officers, and peter kassig. he was in syria helping refugees. >>> army is preparing to move on the beiji army. fighters were driven out of the town, the biggest victory yet >>> an explosion outside the afghan target. three people have been killed. the suicide bomber was trying to kill a leading advocate of human rights, she was injured in the attack. >> egypt's armed forces say they killed 10 terrorists in north sinai as part of a campaign. it came as one group pledged its allegiance to i.s.i.l. and threatened to continue attacks on the government of abdul fatah al-sisi. >> reporter: to a backdrop of music, the egyptian army showcases its might. in a video broadcast on s

adam raney reports. >> reporter: this poor but peaceful neighbourhood is where some of the mass graves were found. a warm afternoon, friends. family. inside the humble shacks, people are afraid. they tell stories of horror and fear. people around here keep to themselves. why risk crossing anyone. they know the price they can pay. i asked the policeman on duty if he heard the same stories, because this had been a place where cartels bury their victims. >> reporter: now, police will not let us go any further. some of the graves found here are two kilometres up to the road. locals tell us that any time today or tonight they will see cars go up the hill quite full. when they go down, it was pretty much empty. >> reporter: this man lived here for nearly three decades. he slept on a floor. he would rather be poor than join a gang. >> reporter: three of his nephews have been missing for years, and he often writes poetry to deal with the pain living amid deaths. his latest honours the 43 missing students. the students fate is still unknown. this man, living so close to death can only imagine t

adam raney has this update. >> reporter: there has been a wave of protests in mexico on saturday, into sunday. it's a response in part to attorney-general's announcement on friday that he has suspected alleged killers of 43 students in custody. he held a conference on friday in way he played grisly tapes of evidence, of what appeared to be remains of some of the students, and also of confessions by people admitting that they took part in the killing of the 43 students. strangling or shooting them dead. the attorney-general went on to say that they are considered missing until they prove the identity of the remains. it's a double message. on one hand he is saying "we have people that conconfess to the killingsment at the end the press conference he ended in an abrupt, formal and rude way of "enough, i'm tired." it caught the tension of mex caps and spurred anger on saturday and sunday. there were people carrying a hashtag symbol, carrying hashtags saying i'm tared of the killings, tired of 37,000 missing. tired of impunity, tired of there being no justice. we had on sunday the arrival o

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we have been to the mexican city and adam raney has been meeting one man going to extraordinary lengths masses. >> reporter: he grew enough poverty on a small farm growing corn, rice, and wheat. the crop which he ended up devoting his working lyle. he eventually developed more than 480 varieties of wheat have that have boosted world production of this staple crop by an estimated 200 million-tons and helped him win the world food prize. the challenge now, he says, is to keep an increasing population fed on a planet with a rapidly-changing climate. to do that, he said it's vital the world's small-scale farmers are given the access that they need. >> they don't need big tractors, they don't need harvest, combine harvest, they can do that. but they need good seed, that one seed, good genetically advanced seeds. >> reporter: once a new seed is discovered some of his colleagues go out and meet small farmers and train them to exploit the new varieties as best they can. you can have the best seed and the best plants you want if you don't have a former who knows how to put it in to a working sus

here is adam raney from mexico city with the latest. >> reporter: protests in mexico on saturday turned in the state of guerrero as students and angry protesters torched vehicles and state government houses in that pour western state, where the students went missing. meanwhile, in the capital here in mexico city, we have protests converge on the main plaza. where we had hundreds if not thousands of people protesting against the government calling for the restless i go nation of the attorney general, calling for the resignation of the president. and this comes a day after the attorney general announced on national television that suspected criminals in the case had confessed to killing the missing students. he played grizzly images of evidence and also reenactments of these people confessing how they killed the students, but, of course, after playing this provocative material and saying this before a national audience the attorney general said that he still considers the students missing. whereas the family members see this tactic and strategy by the government to give updates on the cas

peÑa knee are eto'o's toll edges of corruption is partly for blame for the students disappearance, adam raneyhas this update. >> reporter: more violent protests in gave rafer owe on we understand where leftist radical teachers torched a straight chamber in and eye library there. there were no ledge shaders there, they also set on fire several vehicles. what it shows is increasing intensity and anger in the frosts in the south western state of guerrero around this case of the fourth three missing students. this teacher's union is allied with many of the teacher training students at the college where the students went missing and it shows that they are fed up with the answers from the government fights the fact that the attorney general last week announced a major breakthrough in the case in which he said gang members have confessed to how -- showing how these students had been killed and incinerated. he, of course, went to say he still considers it a missing persons case because they have been unable to identify any of the remains as too fast of his students. these protests show the problem is

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adam raney is in mexico city with more. >> protests in mexico turned violent as student and angry protesters torched vehicles and state government houses in that poor western state where the students went missing. meanwhile, in the capital in mexico city, protests converged on the plaza, where we had hundreds, if not thousands of people protesting against the government, calling for the resignation of the attorney-general, and the president. this cams a day after the -- comes a day after the attorney-general announced that pictured criminals in the case had confessed to killing the missing students. he played grisly images of the evidence, and also re-enactments of these people confessing how they killed the students. after playing this provocative material and saying this before a national audience, the attorney-general said he considers the students missing. whereas the family members need this strategy by the government give updates on the case as a way of saying the students are dead, and not look for them alive, which is the main priority for the parents of 43 missing students, and they

. >> adam raney reports on the outrage in mexico city. >> there has been a wave of protests in mexicourday into sunday. it's a response to the attorney-general's announcement on friday, that he has suspected alleged killers of the 43 students in custody. he held a press conference on friday, in which he played grizzly tapes of evidence, of what appeared to be remains of a student, and confessions by people, demilting this they took part in the killing of the students, strangling or shooting them dead. the cornering went on to say they consider them missing until they prove the identity of the remains, on one hand he is staying they have people that confessed to the killings, and in the other. at the end of this press conference he ended in an abrush, informal way saying "enough, i'm tired", and it caught the tension of mexicans, and spurred anger on saturday. and here on sunday. you have people carrying a hashtag symbol. the army saying "enough, i'm tired of the killings, tired of 30,000 missing, tired of impunity, tired of there being no justice." we had on sunday the rival in the ca

the studies tell a story of violence until area, as adam raney reports. >> reporter: this poor but peaceful neighbourhood is where some of the mass graves outside of igwaila were found. a warm afternoon, friends, families. people were afraid, telling stories of horror, fear. people around here keep to themselves. why risk crossing anyone. they know the price they could pay. i asked a federal policeman op duty if he heard the same stories, that this had been a place where cartels buried their visibling tips. -- victims. police will not let us go any further beyond this point, but some of the graves found here, outside of iguala are 2km up the road. locals tell us that at any time of day or night for years, they would see cars go up the hill quite full, but when they came down, they were pretty much empty. this man lived here for nearly three decades and sleeps on a dirt floor. he would rather be poor than join the gangs. >> reporter: three of his nephews has been missing for years. he often writes poetry to deal with the pain of living amidst so much death. his latest poem is to honour the 4

adam raney introduces us to a scientist in mexico trying to boost world food production. >>> this man grew up in poverty on a small farm, growing corn, rice and wheat. a crop to which he devoted his life. he developed more than 480 varieties. wheat boosting world production of this crap by an estimated 200 million tonnes, helping him win the world food prize. the challenge is to keep an increasing population fed on a planet with a rapidly changing climate. >> to do that it's vital the small-scale farmers are given the access they need. >> they don't need big tractors. they don't need combine harvester. they can do that. they need good seed, one seed. good one seed. >> once a new seed is discovered. some of his colleagues meet small farmers and train them to exploit the new varieties as best they can. >> you can have the best seat. if you don't have a farmer that knows how to put it into a working sustainable system, you will never get the participation out of that. >> he conducted much of his research here, at mox coe's -- mexico's international improvement center. >> one of the bigge

adam raney reports from mexico city. i beg your pardon, we don't have that report. we'll move on and bring you other news. the world's largest seawall is being funded in john eesha to present jakarta from disappearing under rising sea levels. the massive project to reclaim land could wipe out coastal and fishing communities >>> the indonesian capital jakarta is slowly sinking at a rate of 7 centimetre every year. by 2030, according to experts, half of the city will be below sea level. the water from below ground is seen as the main reason for the city's predicament. >> i don't know of any other place in the world where this happens. especially not in a densely populated area. we can speak about the emergency situation. we have tried to make the politicians and government institutions aware of this - yes, emergency condition that is threatening jakarta, and its population. >> the government has teamed up with dutch experts specialising in land reclamation. the proposal is for a giant dyke that can protect the city for the next 15 years. eventually a permanent structu

adam raney met him where he conducted most of his research. >> they grew up in poverty, growing corn, rice and wheat. eventually he developed 480 varieties of wheat that produced world production of the crop by an estimated 280 tops, and helped him win the food prize. the challenge is to keep an increasing population fed on a rapidly changing climate. he said it's vital that small-scale farmers are given the access they need. they don't need a combined harvest. they need good seed. once a seed is discovered, some of the colleagues go out to meet farmers and train them to exploit the new verties as best they can. >> you can have the best seed, but if you don't have a farmer that nose how to put it into a working sustain -- that knows how to but it into a working sustainable system, you won't get that. >> reporter: scientists follow in his footsteps and work on developing new varieties, and testing ones in the field. a break through is the development of smaller and stronger wheat that doesn't saw down easily, so is productive. the challenge is greater, producing wheat to withstand extr

adam raney reports. >> we have seen the third straight day of violent protests in guerrero. here on wednesday, they torched the chamber of the state congress and set on fire a library. the officers and the rooms in this state congress were empty. there's no session. but shows the intensity and violence. the protesters turn up the heat. they went on to torch vehicles. this protest was mainly full of demonstrators. and the teachers' union were allied, some of the students that attended the same college, that the students studied before they went missing. the president has to deal with an ongoing waive of violent protests and peaceful protests in other parts of the country. he's buffed by another scandal. >> qatar expected to learn whether it will host the 2022 world cup. they faced accusations that they paid bribes to secure the tournament. results of an investigation by soccer's governing body are expected tomorrow, a source close to f.i.f.a. says qatar will face criticism over its bidding for the tournament. there'll be no harsh penalty. russia faced criticise. in massachuse

adam raney introduces us to a scientist trying to boost food production. >>> this man grew up on a small farm, growing corn, rice and wheat. he developed more than 480 varieties of wheat, that boosted world production of the staple crop by an estimated 200 million tonnes, and helped him win the world food prize. the challenge is to keep an increasing population fed on a planet with a rapidly changing climate. to do that he said it's vital small-scale formers are given the a.b.c. they need. >> they can do that. they need good seed, one seed. once a new seed is discovered. some of his colleagues go out. meet and train farmers. you can have the best faith you want. if you don't have a farmer put figure into a working sustainable system. much of the research is conducted here. scientists work on developing new varieties, and testing ones in the field. a big breakthrough is a development of smaller wheat. now the challenge is greater. to produce wheat that can stand extreme weather brought on by climate change. a change that the world is ready to take on. >> people in france have the opportun