activities in africa. in fact, they were often more concerned about what the chinese were doing in africa than they were about what the soviets were doing in africa. i thought, this is interesting, maybe i will write an article about some day. i filed it in the back of my mind. then i came across another even more important set of primary sources. to6-2007, i was invited china for a number of conferences. when i went for these conferences come i do it all when theyistorians do visit foreign countries. i look in the archives. this may in front of the foreign ministry archive beginning in about 2004 -- the chinese foreign ministry started to declassify a growing number of materials about its called -- cold war foreign policy. the declassify them in several patches. the first was from 1949-1954, then there were subsequent batches that covered 1955-59, then 1960-90 xt five. this is me in front of the archive. --now the shorts and search shirt doesn't match with my shorts. when you live out of your suitcase, do

jacob zuma's grip on power in south africa is loosening.ll relinquish leadership of the anc at the end of year. and whether he will complete his term as south africa's president is uncertain, as allegations of cronyism and corruption pile up around his government. my guest to day it is thuli madonsela, south africa's public protector until late last year. she exposed a web of worrying connections between the state and big business interests. but are her concerns about to be buried? thuli madonsela, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for being here stephen. it is such a honour. well, i think we have to begin with that explosive report that you wrote and published before leaving the office of public protector at the end of last year. it was all about your concerns about state capture. the idea was that certain big business interest, perhaps individuals, had undue influence on the government. you wanted a fully fledged judicial commission of inquiry to be set up within 30 days of your report's publication. seven months later, that has not happened

we don't have that in south africa. we have a long way to go, but for a country that had an exchange of power from a minority that was oppressive to the majority without massive bloodshed and the events and without a vacuum of power and mass exodus of wealth in the country, we function and we are a power house and we are on the right track. >> are the anc in trouble? >> i think the future is they are losing strength and facing a crisis right now and it's good. the anc was never a party essentially. the anc in order to overthrow the government, they had to bring in all different ideologies. they had communism and socialism and capitalism and everyone under one umbrella. at some point the revolution is over and you have to start building a country and i think they are facing a crisis where they go get the loyalty of the electric or is it to the country. they are starting to realize it's to the country. for the benefit that we don't have one part that controls power indefinitely. it's better to have a vibrant democracy whe

south africa began to sink. england ca ntered africa began to sink.tered home, rattling africa began to sink. england cantered home, rattling the runs out at more than ten and over. already proving a tough summer for south africa. —— ten an over. proving a tough summer for south africa. -- ten an over. very important, so lucky that we play so $0011 important, so lucky that we play so soon after a disappointment, we learned a lot from that tournament, a long way to go in the lead up to the world cup but we are on the right path. certainly believe a lot within ourselves, can back that up within ourselves, can back that up with a performance. lovely evening at the rose bowl. it has been a mixed week for british tennis, andy murray's defeat at queens yesterday one of five for the men and now amy brodie loss at birmingham means only joanna conti is left, she was beaten in straight sets by the two time when berlin champion petra kvitova, continuing her comeback after being injured ina continuing her comeback after being injured in a knife attack. —— johanna

and at the g 20 africa conference in berlin, gentler angela merkel for fresh thinking to deal with africa's security issues. we will talk to the nigerian minister of industry for the prospects for the country -- continent. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us. hundreds have been arrested during anticorruption protests in cities across russia. the demonstrators are responding to the call of alexei navalny, a long-standing critic of vladimir putin. navalny was detained himself this morning, so his rally went ahead without him. the white house has condemned the crackdown. they called for the release of all those contained -- detained. reporter: sandbags inside the kremlin as things ground to a halt. at one end of the street come historical reenactments and celebrations. at the other, and unsanctioned street protests. amid tight security, thousands stood waiting before please eventually moved to close off access. the protest had been intended to take part at a location approved by the government further from the center. navalny alleges authorities put pressure on n contracto

i mean, you race. >> jean: we have, after south africa, the second circuit in all over africa.kay? >> anthony: oh, man. it's good. are you kidding me? i'm hittin' it hard. so, you told me before that if i wanted to, i could get in a car and drive to saint-louis. >> jean: uh-huh, just -- >> anthony: that way. >> abdou: that way. >> jean: that way. >> anthony: how long will it take? >> abdou: an hour and a half. >> anthony: let's go. >> abdou: you going to saint-louis? >> anthony: let me finish my chicken, then we'll go. ♪ g plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical

some evolved in southern africa, some in east africa. find perhaps even older remains. the past of humanity has now been rewritten. pallab ghosh, bbc news. now, if breathtaking scenery, fresh alpine air, and unparalleled peace and quiet sounds appealing, you may be interested in a new hotel opening tomorrow in switzerland. andy beatt reports. it isa it is a room with a view, but not much else. just over $300, guests can book into the zero star hotel and enjoy it unobstructed this is flower meadows and majestic mountains. —— zero star hotel. what it lacks in posing as an creature comforts, it hopes to make up for in alfresco charm. and it is proving popular. translation: we have had requests from all over the world. the beds are almost 80% booked up. people are coming from america, australia, africa, australia, iraq. everybody, young and old. intrepid travellers receive a drink on arrival, organic practice, and the services of a butler, typically a farmer in rubber boots. less appealing perhaps is the three—minute walk to the bathroom, in

some evolved in southern africa, some in east africa.me us. the search is on to find perhaps even older remains. the past of humanity has now been rewritten. pallab ghosh, bbc news. now if breathtaking scenery, fresh alpine air and unparalleled peace and quiet sounds appealing, you may be interested in a new hotel opening tomorrow in switzerland. the accommodation is a piece of conceptual art, aiming to redefine luxury. but there is a catch — as andy beatt reports. it is a room with a view, but not much else. forjust over $300, guests can book into the zero star hotel and enjoy unobstructed views of flower meadows and majestic mountains. what it lacks in creature comforts, it hopes to make up for in alfresco charm. and it is proving popular. translation: we have had requests from all over the world. the beds are almost 80% booked up. people are coming from america, africa, australia, the uk, iraq — everybody, young and old. intrepid travellers receive a drink on arrival, organic breakfast, and the services of a butler, typically a farmer

that is one each for south africa and pakistan.rough to the semifinals. in the same group, on thursday, defending champions india play their second game when they take on sri lanka at the oval in london. virat kohli led his team to a convincing first up win over pakistan as they continue their quest for back to back trophies and ben croucher looks ahead. there is nothing like beating your biggest rivals to put a spring in your step. for india, that there must does that make —— that demolition of pakistan did just that. there collies says he wants a repeat performance against sri lanka. we lost the cost and guys well raring to go, which has taken the pressure. later on, the way that we battered, it was the game changing innings, to be honest. —— lost the toss. initially, we got a good start. india may have had a dream start to the tournament, but not so for sri lanka, who had a 96 run defeat to south africa and were found guilty of a slow over rate the feds. angelo mathews is back from a ca lf feds. angelo mathews is back from a cal

at times parts of morocco were involved, and other times south africa and east africa. there is no single place for homo sapiens became us. reporter: the search is on for more fossils of our species in other parts of africa that may be even older. the history of humanity has been rewritten. pallab ghosh bbc news, paris. a quick update on the main story. a lawyer representing mr. trump issued a statement saying, "mr. trump feels vindicated by this statement issued by james comey, the former fbi director that will be testifying before congress tomorrow." we will have full coverage of that on the day. thank you for watching. see you tomorrow. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. >> planning a vacation escape that is relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. you can find it here in aruba. families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm sunny days, cooling tr

south africa set 182 to win. the value of runs is not what it was.ab de villiers who can make any score unsafe, not to mention any spectator. mason crane was the bowler, a 20—year—old leg—spinner who stuck at it. with his bravery came revenge. ab de villiers became his first international wicket. south africa never fully recovered. england's victory was ultimately co mforta ble. england's experiment had worked. patrick gearey, bbc news. so the white ball kevin starc continues. 2—i, they beat south africa. but new faces in the england side. dawid malan today added to tom curran and the others. now attention turns to the test series which sta rts turns to the test series which starts at lord's on the 6th ofjuly. studio: a good win for england, and a good when for feliciano lopez in the tennis... feliciano lopez has caused quite a shock and beaten marin cilic in a thrilling final at the queen's club in london. cilic began the match as favourite, but the 35—year—old spaniard who knocked out stand wawrinka on his way to the final fought back and levelled

in very scores of africa, the middle east, and asia. the voice of america director took a tour of africa in 1959 and noted the -- it is a bit of a link the quote, but bear with me. i think this sums it up nicely. he reported back, a young african told me in good english that he listened to the following radio stations -- bbc, nairobi, dar es salaam, d.o.a., moscow, salisbury, leopoldo, brazzaville, cairo. he was unhappy because he could not get donna -- ghana. programs are being africanized by africans, for africans, about africans. while each country is concerned with the broadcast of others, most are very eager to share their experience with their neighbors and become the leader of the emerging africa. i was told that external broadcasts took precedence over internal ones. the convergence of this conclusion showed patterns emerging. belgrade, congo, and africa and the audience with nonalignment at the center of world attention made clear that despite superpower interest or intent, these were not primarily and certainly not exclusively

africa.uggests our ancestors are actually 100,000 years older than previously thought — and they were very like us. our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, has been to paris to see casts of the fossils that many are saying will rewrite our understanding of human evolution. the face of one of the very first of our kind. and more casts of bone fragments of the earliest known homo sapiens. the discovery of these fossils were presented at a news conference in paris. they've completely changed the theory of how modern humans evolved. the common wisdom that there is probably some sort of garden of eden in sub—saharan africa, 200,000 years ago, with humans very similar to us emerged rather rapidly. but what the works in djebili have shown is that we have to push back in time much further the age of origin of our species. human remains in ethiopia, kenya and tanzania suggested that east africa was the cradle from which our species first emerged 200,000 years ago. but the discovery of 300,000—year—ol

some evolved in southern africa, some in east africa.ecame us. asked. the search by kaka -- became us. the search is on to find perhaps even older remains. the past of humanity has now been rewritten. palla b humanity has now been rewritten. pallab ghosh, bbc news. stay with us. and before we go, in just a few hours, britons will vote in country's general election. i'll be reporting from newcastle for the bbc. every five years the city is a contender for being first to announce a result. here they are during the brexit referendum running the ballot boxes to the election centre for counting. you can watch the special general election programme on bbc newsjust before 21:00 gmt. stay with us. hello. most of us had sunshine through the day today. it will be cloudy. the cloud is thick enough to bring rain for some of us. the relatively clear whether working out of the north sea replaced by the lump of cloud. the low spinning around their sending south—westerlies across the uk. the cloud will be big enough for us to get wet weather. the wettes

england against south africa in the second of 3t20 internationals and it proved a thriller. england played important, coloured kit was revolutionary, 20 of international is outputting a camera on the umpire would be unthinkable. much is new, like tom curran, the second ball in international cricket he delivered, not usually so simple! taunton is a notoriously good place to bat, ab de villiers is notoriously good at batting, boulders head for the hills. new ball leaves, de villiers went next, tom curran returned and got two more, south africa 17a, once a tarin kowt all, not these days. not with england striking it like this, roy was meant to be out of form but he nearly put it out of the ground and going to 50 but then he changed path fatefully while running south africa claimed he deliberately got in the way of their throw, the umpire gave him out, obstructing the field. momentum lost, england needed four from the final ball, south africa didn't allow them one. not that many remember england's last game in taunton, few will remember this one. patrick gearey, bbc news. after

i want to develop support for the french language and morocco and in africa.i want us to have a multicultural and educational .ocus that has been renewed issues discussed various , we compared our visions of the libyan conflict and we both share a determination to find a countrytabilize the which is of great concern to us in terms of security in the region and in terms of migration and also political tensions in the gulf. we asserted our shared vision which consists of stabilizing the region and fighting against terrorism. finally, we discussed african policy. morocco is playing an increasingly important role and we are delighted to see that rocco has joined the african morocco has expressed its determination to stabilize the region. morocco is a partner that wishes to contribute to our efforts to stabilize the region and the termination to be vigilant with return -- with regard to all other sources of destabilization. together france and morocco have a joint policy that will consist withveloping entrepreneurs, with artists, ,ducators, cultural affairs societi

africa werece and the far more pressing factor. these are photos from the actual meeting in indonesia in 1955, and the idea that there is a postcolonial, post white supremacy shared by these victims of european supremacy the world over is a powerful animating force, and it also has certain residences, given the way the african freedom struggle is progressing. i should stress that much of this sentiment, this solidarity and aspirations of solidarity predate the cold war by decades. we're not talking about something that was just born because of a superpower conflict, but they do take on a certain prevalence. will african solidarity and a african destiny are very powerful. they found these sorts of dynamics and visions persisted and did so fairly well globally. japanese, for example, stressed its racial kinship with its neighbors. chinese pr in latin america highlighted that the american republics and the people's democracy share code skin. perhaps even more tellingly, china argued in africa that its own example of revolution was mor

south africa reached 17a, once at tower in total but not nowadays.ot with england striking it like this. jason roy we re striking it like this. jason roy were supposedly out of form, and he nearly put it out of the ground, going to 50. then south africa claimed he was deliberately getting in the way of their throw while running. the umpire called him out for obstruction. england needed four from the final ball, and south africa did not allow them one. not many will remember the last england game in taunton. few will forget this one. after a thrown in taunton, we had to cardiff for the finale of this t20 international series. owen morgan, the captain, has said there will be changes to the england side with another opportunity for some of the make a name for himself in this england limited oversight. the serious set up beautifully at 1—1 after the second match here in taunton. southampton have appointed the former alaves coach and liverpool defender mauricio pellegrino as their new manager. the argentinian replaces claude puel, who was sacked after one

but how will all the deal—making in europe affect companies in africa?aren allen went to south africa's western cape to find out more. south africa's western cape seems an ocean away from britain's political woes. tourism is big business here, but so too is trade. so when the brexit negotiations began, —— begin, they will be pushing hard not to get cut adrift. alan is back from a lobbying trip and is upbeat. cut adrift. alan is back from a lobbying trip and is upbeatm cut adrift. alan is back from a lobbying trip and is upbeat. it will be about people than product. it will be much more between the two regions than the rest of the world. soi regions than the rest of the world. so i think that the relevance is that we have to be seen as part of a tea m that we have to be seen as part of a team at the end of the day that is trying to find a deal. but it isn't just about britain. 100,000 germans live here. they are not only consuming the products that remind them of home but they also a running businesses, exporting goods back into europe and they are prepar

south africa are ranked number one in the world.ound. hull fc can take a major step towards super league's top four with victory against reigning champions wigan warriors. and with only a few minutes remaining, it's going well. james burford has been watching. wigan have won their last away meetings against hull fc, an opportunity, then, for the black and whites to set things right. hull's revenge mission got off to the perfect start, steve michaels finding space on the touchline, and if the thought is first one was simple, then his second really was too good to be true. the home side threatened to run riot in the first half, danny houghton capping a memorable 40 minutes of hull domination. so was this the wigan comeback? leah marshall provided a much—needed spark. and then hope turned to belief, and inventive off—loads to lewis tierney, wigan backin off—loads to lewis tierney, wigan back in it. but hull, sensing the pressure, responded with some of their own. consolation scores for wigan, perhaps a few bridges too far. with a few m

bad treatment in a country of africa no one would have to leave africa because countries where you can have a live in peace and security so no one would have to leave africa there's only convention nobody nobody mentions that and i think if you build camps where people can go and rest in the cities stayed there peacefully and education for children and. opportunities for for employment and so on and then go back to the countries to rebuild the country to be the most human way ok. goodness thanks for joining us here in our team for your mother. well let's stop all. the program it's the hawks to stay with us. greetings and salutations all right hard watchers. i want you to prepare yourselves for i'm about to tell you i want you to find that comfy chair turn up that volume and break out your favorite snack a mint chocolate chip ice cream man myself because you've got to prepare yourselves because i'm about to drop a few bombs bombs on the mainstream narrative that i can assure you had c.n.n. and others gnashing their teeth and white knuckling when these little stories came blasting over t

about to launch in africa. run me through your expansion into africa and what the reaction is behind that. >> hi. very nice meeting you. yes, we are making announcement that we are going to launch in south africa to be more specific in africa. it is to enable chinese tourists to purchase tickets more conveniently. >> what's the rationale launching in africa, the potential of that market for alipay >> at the moment, we are still targeting the chinese customers who travel to africa you know, with more than 135 million chinese traveling outside china every year, you know, adventurous part of the chinese, traveling more and more to africa. we want to make that experience better for chinese >> how big a business could this be in terms of revenue for the border and financial business? >> we see -- this is the first step we take to enable merchants there and going forward looking to the market more deeper and to see if there's opportunity for us to service the users there as well >> moving over to europe, you have bee

nigeria, kenya and south africa.es where they are often applying technologies to bring down the cost. if you want to serve low income people with financial services in small packet sizes, small insurance contracts, micro-payment transactions, small loans, the cost have to be super efficient. a lot of the companies that are successful are finding ways to drive down cost per user. emily: what is the most promising trend in african tech right now? jake: wow. i definitely think the emergence and adoption of smartphones. the population in africa, roughly speaking of, there is maybe 50% or 60% of the population have a mobile phone. not a lot of them are smart phones, but smartphone usage has doubled in the past couple of years. there is a really strong basis of four connecting people with dish all services. emily: among the challenges, energy and power, things that are very important to operating a business. there are days long blackouts at a time. how do you handle that? jake: people get creative. there are generators all

i think south africa, you need to be brave.liquidity temps turn i think all emerging markets need to beware. that is what is driving emerging markets at the moment. inflows is the magic word. we have had 17 consecutive weeks of inflows into bond funds alone . is there a limit to that appetite? udc pockets of risk of emerging per you have brazil, the turkey referendum, political situation in south africa. does that not make anyone nervous? doug: it makes us nervous as an investor, and i think it makes a lot of other investors nervous. ishink what you are having -- the cash is not being deployed so investors are balancing going into high-yield. at the same time holding cash as well. that is really what is driving the market. until those cash inflows subside, i think we will have that technical position and strong technical drivers of the markets continue. emerging markets, we have seen it before. it is very bullish. then you have the big selloffs. it is really about staying nimble, investing in the market, and hoping that you mis

i watched george bush on africa and i watched barack obama on africa. i was so disappointed with obama on africa leading up to that point. i felt should be much better than obama was. i almost felt as if obama was holding africa at hands off because they came to office and i'm the president of the united states of america. so when ebola happened i was really interested in how he was going to react to this end ellen johnson sirleaf wrote him a letter the city have to help us. you have a history.the french and the british are going to help but youhas to, and i was really carries how he would respond. >> it was very controversial. >> it was a really big deal. and his response on ebola i think made up in my mind in many ways for what i thought was a week africa policy overall. >> i actually think he did do some significant initiatives on africa. but anything he did or said considering that he was accused of being a canyon that stuck into the united states, it was deathly hard for him to have an association. so i want to know a couple of things. did any of t

that is going on in south africa.t that we believe that she is best advised to follow the public prosecutor's recommendations to have that inquiry. cane are always that we bring back certainty and confidence into the equation. what we are missing the most at the moment is investment and certainty around growth rate if we do not solve those problems, he will face a situation likely in february 2018 but the coming budget vote of the new finance minister where those issues well all the cumulate and he could have a lot of pressures around his fiscal revenues, lower growth, and rising demand particularly in relation to public sector wages. that i would have thought the currency volatility was off the charts but it is now. i have a chart. if you take a look at that, you can see the rand month -- one month volatility recovering of late and now down below the five-year average. does the currency help with stability? issues the stabilization over the last year in commodity prices has helped significantly. seeing a fair wind. s

south africa are ranked number one in the world.r ground. maz farookhi, bbc news. the other game in group b this weekend takes place at edgbaston tomorrow — and it's always a huge occasion when india and pakistan play, partly because it happens so rarely. it could be the biggest crowd of the tournament, and it'll definitely be the loudest. their last 50—over meeting was in the 2015 world cup in australia, when india ran out comfortable winners. we don't play them often, they have a lwa ys we don't play them often, they have always been a team that can surprise any team on the day that they play well, so you cannot ever take them lightly, and we are familiar with the way they bowl and bat. i don't think it is going to be a massive factor for us, because we like to focus on what we can do, and if you play good cricket, that works against any side, whether you play them regularly or not. that is all we should focus on. i think the team that will win this competition is the team that can strike, you know, gone are the days of containing

since that we did the landings in north africa. this is june 6, 1944. take a look at north africa. that is all clear. then we went from north africa into sicily, then from sicily into italy. all of that is cleared now. the germans on this side, russians on the offense of. we had the battle of stalingrad. you can see the russian advance here. this is the german empire. this is the way it extends at this point in june. let's take a look at geography. notice the difference. you are in nazi germany now. you want to take a look at the difference between the english channel to germany, and over here on the eastern front. where do you have more space? on the eastern front. as a consequence, it were shifts -- hitler's shifts his priorities. the new difference will be on the western front. itler shiftsence h divisions to the western front. when normandy takes place there will be 60 german divisions on the western front. the germans know where the normandy invasion is going to take place, who wins? germany, that is right. 60 divisions. when we conduct the landing there will be five divisions

how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa.t he'd made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and overtime took it on.

on his own two feet walking into an atlanta hospital after taking his emap while an africa they also saw the devastating effects of the loss of virus and knew they had to find a cure almost sapphire says the issue is that no one has been able to determine what the target molecule should look like but after study and survivors in africa and discovering the exact structure of the key protein loss of our refuses to infect human cells they're finally on the brink of finding a cure and if we look at those people that have survived the disease they can see what immune response they made against and we can actually recreate those antibodies that those humans in africa made to protect them so that the loss of virus on sapphire says she's inspired by the survivors and after ten years is looking forward to finally finding a cure in washington to talk to sweet r.t. a new study finds that being overweight is just as deadly as being obese according to the research one in ten people around the globe has one of these problems now experts say obesity is the cause for many deadly illnesses and now st

in africa, electricity supply is frequently a problem.in particular, there's often no access to power. but many people own mobile telephones which need regular charging. in east african rwanda, our reporter dan hirschfeld came across a simple but ingenious idea which is creating jobs and protecting our climate. claudine kamikazi has a precious commodity that's in high demand. she runs a mobile solar kiosk at the central bus station in the rwandan capital, kigali. correspondent: many of the phone users alighting here have been on the road and off-line for hours. claudine's kiosk enables them to charge up their phones or surf the net, courtesy of solar power. >> business is good, i chose this because it's something new. the fact that they always come to me shochoi.made a good correspondent: the mobile solar kiosk is the brainchild of this man, henri nyakandi. the idea was an obous solution to the situation on the ground, he says. 70% of rwanda's 11 and half a million inhabitants have a mobile phone. but only 22% have electricity. >> people

. >> jimmy: what are some of the unusual sports you played in south africa. >> we have two, south africae basketball. is only played by girls. boys don't play it. it's lice vice versa. one is called netball and -- and only girls play it. it looks like the court -- the court looks like a basketball court and netball you do bounce and the other you don't move, you play static. dp. >> jimmy: can you bounce-pass the ball? >> no. you can only throw. >> jimmy: do you shoot at a basket? >> you shoot in a most embarrassing way. >> jimmy: we call that a granny shot. it's the best way to make a shot. because you get the most arc on the ball and the most backspin on the ball. >> no way to do it gracefully. >> jimmy: we'll witness whether or not you can do it gracefully. this audience is really counted on you. when we come back from the break, if you're willing, i'd like you to attempt a three-point shot, okay? >> okay. >> jimmy: charlize theron is here. her movie is atomic blonde. it opens july 28th. we'll be back with the celebrity three-point challenge. needing others.e into d ♪ then we are told

in africa. for africa because. the solution in africa more and more. in the next year coming from. these. well libya is the country from which most african migrants set out for europe and the city of sound is one of the key human trafficking hopes according to reports people there are being bought and sold on local slave markets video agency ripley money to get a firsthand account of what life is really like in the migrant. that. is the. people who go to kidnapping people they believe you may be more new why do you many people do so well. here i believe how money the harder the more poorly you. go to ali well as you can see on the map right here most human trafficking routes across africa are leading to libya meeting in this city of sample right here those hoping to make it to europe and pay drivers to get them to the capital tripoli and from there migrants are transported by sea packs by the hundreds on board inflatable boat and other vessels mostly unfit for the perilous journey across the mediterranean now some of these people get roped kidnapped and sometimes even murdered in t

campaigning as the first female and southof the party africa. from broner -- front runner, supported by not only union leaders but mounting more and more support from the business sector and business leaders. >> more on the impact on the rand from barclays. >> the rand has been one of the best performers in may. a lot ofe best things, high-yielding currencies, any bad news is being bought into. flooding wall of money into assets, looking for a low volatility environment. i think that is going to continue despite news that you would think what have an opposite impact. that was clearly felt this morning. overall that is going to continue. dollarively soft u.s. where yields are capped as well and low volatility. it is hard to see this turning around any time soon. , bullet upp a chart on the bloomberg. these are the one day price changes. spikes,see some of the in terms of the political africa, whatsouth would a continuation of the government mean for the economy and country for foreign investors? >> overall, clearly investors are looking for an up

south africa and new zealand had their women's world cup match abandoned, without a ball being bowled down. both sides recorded victories in their opening matches. south africa next meet west indies in leicester on sunday — the same day as new zealand take on rivals australia in bristol. there are two more games on thursday — weather permitting — and they include sri lanka against the champions australia in bristol, with both teams looking to make it two wins out of two. the australians began the defence of their title with a comprehensive 8—wicket win over the west indies on monday. nicole bolton — who scored 107 not out in that match — says they'd like to go through the tournament unbeaten, but admits it's a tall order. i guess we train every game in isolation and when that to hold the world cup at the end of the day we have to win the majority of our game. we look at game by game at the moment but i think we are playing some very good cricket. the best thing about this world cup is you get the opportunity to play in every country and come semi—final it is the top four team fighting

africa.ncestors are actually 100,000 years older than previously thought — and they were very like us. our science correspondent pallab ghosh has been to paris to see casts of the fossils that many are saying will rewrite our understanding of human evolution. the face of one of the very first of our kind. and more casts of bone fragments of the earliest known homo sapiens. the discovery of these fossils were presented at a news conference in paris. they've completely changed the theory of how modern humans evolved. the common wisdom that there is probably some sort of garden of eden in sub—saharan africa, 200,000 years ago, with humans very similar to us, emerged rather rapidly. but what the works in djebili have shown is that we have to push back in time much further the age of origin of our species. human remains in ethiopia, kenya and tanzania suggested that east africa was the cradle from which our species first emerged 200,000 years ago. but the discovery of 300,000—year—old human fossil

not so good for south africa's men though. series. chasing 182 to win, the proteas came up 19 runs short. the two sides next contest a four—match test series which starts on the sixth ofjuly at lords. and india have thrashed west indies by 105 runs in their rain—affected second one day international in port of spain. ajinkya rahane top scoring for india with 103. in response, the windies could only manage 205 for six, while kuldeep yadav took figures of three for 50. the result means india lead the five match series 1—0 after the first game was washed out. yamaha's valentino rossi made gp history, returning to the top of the motogp podium for the first time in more than a year after winning at the dutch tt at assen on sunday. the 38—year—old beat compatriot danilo petrucci into second place by a mere 0.063 of a second. the triple world champion marc marquez was third for honda. rossi has now been a winner across all classes for longer than any other rider in the history of motorcycling. sunday's victory coming 20 years and 313