vibrant, polluted, and poor — antananarivo, madagascar‘s capital city.monitor the sapphire rush with great interest. the sapphire trade is a sensitive issue here. the government really doesn't like to talk about it, and somejournalists have been arrested for trying to expose the nepotism and corruption at its heart. the authorities claim they are trying to regulate the industry. but still, the illegal mining goes on. in recent months, ministers have talked of reform, to tighten the law and control small—scale mining. but ngos working in conservation say what really stops effective policing is a lack of money. officials on the ground can't even buy fuel for their vehicles. these are in national parks, often, where it's happening. the authorities seem powerless. yes. u nfortu nately, most of the sapphires, gems, even gold rushes that we've had have been in protected areas, sometimes national parks. and it's all illegal, of course, but then, there is very little capacity to enforce legislation generally in madagascar — especially in very, also remote areas,

four hundred kilometers south of the cups antananarivo was worst affected. among we asked the state to come and see what we are going through and to look at our situation and find a solution to clear out the water but it is stagnant and we don't know where to put our children. is not the first lethal storm to hit madagascar in the last twelve months in march cyclonic no killed at least seventy eight people and destroyed a lot of crops rescue workers are struggling to cope with the phenomena. we have a contingent plan that contains three scenarios of floods and psych loans the first one is currently in progress and the expenses so far are no less than twenty million dollars. and as the cycle of natural disasters returns to strike madagascar the financial cost as well as the human cost continues to rise powerful storms on poverty combined to deadly effect of disease. colombia's government says eleven rebels have carried out attacks on oil installations and military forces just hours after a cease fire expired its prompted president juan manuel santos to suspen

is the worst affected further north many parts of the capital antananarivo remain flooded of a crossed into madagascar on friday bringing winds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers an hour twenty two people are still missing and more than seventeen thousand have been displaced. police internet fire tear gas at demonstrators are stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis anti-government protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against planned price and tax rises the government says the measures are necessary to reduce a ballooning deficit and to satisfy international lenders prime minister use of childhood says twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship. it's been seven years since twenty eleven have the government didn't do anything for us so it's natural to protest i think the demonstrations will be bigger than before because of these major price increases people are no longer accepted this high cost of living and that is contributing to the parties to all of the country of poor people like me can no longer bear the burd

southern parts of africa lots of rain in the northern parts of our map and it stretches across into antananarivo. the i. personal stories of lebanese villagers on the border with israel. their daily struggles when they go to the regency forces when we go there ventured out and peaceful protests. to reason in the place of the interior defiance and resistance at this new time gets means no more night and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al jazeera. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories syrian warplanes have launched an offensive targeting the rebel held province of idlib killing at least twenty people the syrian observatory for human rights says the jets had a market and that a hospital treating people wounded in the earlier strike. the f.b.i. as deputy director has resigned ahead of his official of a target date the u.s. president has repeatedly. accused andrew mccabe of political bias the white house has denied having any involvement with mccabe's departure though and colombia's government has put pe

southern parts of africa lots of rain in the northern parts of our map and it stretches across into antananarivo. there with sponsored by qatar. the scene for us where they're on line which is a very new sand in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat do people the choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on a. zero. to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories syrian warplanes have launched an offensive targeting the rebel held province of killing at least twenty people and the syrian observatory for human rise says the jets had a market and then a hospital treating people wounded and early a strike the f.b.i. deputy director has resigned ahead of his official retirement date the u.s. president has repeatedly accused andrew mackay political bias the white house has denied having any involvement with the caves. a

antananarivo -- tana for short. madagascar's crowded, chaotic capital city. how are you doing man?that's quite a rain. i don't know. i'm not sure i can be, uh, in front of the camera. [ laughter ] >> anthony: yeah, just ignore 'em. >> darren: i'm so used to, like, controlling everything. >> anthony: darren aronofsky -- director of the films "pi," "requiem for a dream," "the wrestler," "black swan," and, as it would turn out, sort of appropriate to our location, "noah." he asks me if he could go along on a trip with us. i said, "where do you want to go?" so, madagascar. i knew almost nothing about it. i knew it was animated film that i've seen many times with my daughter. >> darren: i guess it's one of the more extreme distant places that you hear about that you know you'll never go to unless something really weird summons you, and you're sort of that weird force. >> anthony: we're on an island in the indian ocean. >> darren: right. >> anthony: with this amazing ethnic mix. incredible landscape. something like 80% of the animals here don't exist anywhere else. >> darren: what does i

southern parts of africa lots of rain in the northern parts of our map and it stretches across into antananarivo. the scene for us where online what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sept there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera the current tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in the colonial harvest from egypt point of view the nine to twenty nine agreements will be closed because of the new political realities on the ground or increasing the sense of uncertainty over clooney as the rhythm morrow there was a need to do to other neat and hollow the countries to which good neighbors kind of been defeated could topple the struggle of the nile at this time when all disease. it's. coming from some roots. thing is a problem. is the name of the

the worst affected for the north many parts of the capital antananarivo remain flooded winds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers an hour hit the island on friday several people remain missing and at least seventeen thousand die in this have been forced from their homes. russia has asked turkey to control armed groups in syria province after a suspected drone attack on one of its bases this comes as turkey's foreign minister accuses iran and russia of undermining agreements to reduce fighting in so-called deescalation zones but the smith reports. in northern syria is supposed to be one of four so-called deescalation zones set up to reduce fighting if anything battles between government and opposition forces are intensifying russia turkey and iran agreed last year to be guarantors of cease fires in those mainly opposition held areas now the turkish government says the syrian regime is claiming to attack what it calls terrorists targeting the so-called moderate opposition. ninety five percent of the violations are carried out by the regime or the groups who backed the regime why is th