james bayes. >>> plunging oil prices are taking their toll on communities around the world.h dakota native american populations control vast amounts of land and had benefited from the shale oil boom but not anymore as john hen drin reports. >> reporter: >> reporter: for native americans the oil boom become as much as a curse as a blessing. >> some are just freely just getting up and saying i don't want to live there anymore, and they are moving. >> reporter: the oil benorth the ground has earned the nation a billion dollars since the boom began in 2008. the minority of landowners about 4,000 of the 14,000 members, profit from drill sites on their property but for most lifestyles have gone down crime, traffic deaths and cost of living have gone up. >> there's money always but con is drugs, is the main one especially meth. heroin is becoming a big one. >> reporter: one third of the oil comes from here the mha nation. but many members say they wish it had been left in the ground. so oil hasn't made everything better? >> no it made it worse, you know? people like the money, but,

james bayes reports. >> reporter: an angry crowd mars through the streets of port-au-prince.cent weeks the prime minister here has resigned and parliament was dissolved. these protesters say the new cabinet supposed to event all political groupings is stacked with loyalists of the president. the so-called consensus cabinet as not stopped the turmoil. protests like these have become an almost daily occurrence. they are not just angry at the president and his cabinet, but also at the international community and the united nations. >> translator: the u.n. mission here only causes problems. we see a lot of soldiers every day, and we don't know what they are here for. they brought cholera to our country, and they rape our women. >> translator: they have been in our country for 11 years and nothing has improved. >> reporter: one prominent activist says the under-- u.n. is now hated in the country. >> whenever you have soldiers stepping in a foreign land you are going to have abuses. this is kind of part of it. but the real trouble people have with the u.n. has been this cholera out

james bayes tell us what they have been talking about and what they plan to do. >> reporter: well anent meeting of the u.n. security council taking place behind closed doors. they have been listening to the special advisor of the united nations not currently in sana'a he is on his way to new york. he gave some details to the security council that i think we weren't aware of before making it clear that he believes most military units didn't take part in any fighting at all. the only fighting from the government side was done by the presidential guard alone. this meeting of the u.n. security council called by the united kingdom, their ambassador spoke to me ahead of the meeting. >> we are deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation in yemen. and that's why we have called this emergency meeting. we will hear a briefing from the special envoy, and we need his advice really on how the security council can react to what has happened in the last 48 hours. but at the very least we feel we need to express a united view we issued a statement in the course of today which condemns the ong

let's cross over to -- james bayes. how urgent is it for the security council to have this meeting?reporter: very urgent. they were very concerned about the situation 24 hours ago, when they called this meeting. it wasn't on the schedule and now they added the meeting, and as they meet -- and in the last few moments i have been talking to diplomats as they have been arriving for meeting that just got underway moments ago, they obviously are concerned as they hear the latest information coming from sana'a. they will be briefed by the u.n. special envoy for yemen. i think they do have a real problem here what to do next because there only are a certain number of tools in the armoury of the under and they have really tried most of the ones that they have available. they have tried mediation, the envoy has been speaking to all of the parties, trying to get a reconciliation going. that hasn't worked. so they tried sanctions and setting up targeted sanctions, former president on the list of those being sanctioned as were houthi leaders. that hasn't worked either. the last tool available t

james bayes, port aprince >> two man >> two marines died on friday in a training exercise in southernornia. the accident took place after the aircraft left a marine combat center in the desert city of 29 palms 125 miles east of los angeles. the cause of this crash is under investigation. efforts to raise a fuselage of air flight 8501 failed sought. salvage cruise were you about to lift it almost to the surface, but it sank again when the lifting balloons deflated. the airliner crashed on december 28th with 162 people on board. so far 69 introidz been recovered. the effort to stop the ebola outbreak seems to be working in one west african country. linebiera's assist a hoemth minister says his country has frooichling cases. more than you 3600 people have died of ebola in liberia since the outbreak began last year. a british ward. scomplafrnling. >>> welcome back to "al jazeera america." 27 are dead after rocket attacks hit the port city of mariupol. the ukrainian president,port the reds ig nation of the hadi in sanaa. thousands marched to deny what they call a houthi coup and others mar

james bayes thanks for now. >>> now the russian government is warning the media that publishing religiouses violates the law. images inside ethnic and religious hatred. the move follows pope francis's comments that he believes there should be limits to offending and ridiculing the faiths and beliefs of others. we're joined by a russian political analyst. good to have you with us. how much of a precedent is there for those laws to be used when people are accused of insulting and attacking and mocking religious symbols? >> russia has its own story of dealing with problems like publishing cartoons or other publications which might be found offensive. yes, we do have legislation which punishes any publications which can be considered a sort of fended religious feeling, but i hope you will agree that such legislation especially when it comes to russia can be considered sort of a double-edged sword, and it can be applied selectively, and this is a problem -- this is what is the subject of concern for independent media and human right activists who are saying this can be used for an excuse for a

james bayes joins us live there the united nations in new york. has there been reaction from the u.n.? >> reporter: we have been getting reaction here at the united nations on what is an attack on the freedom of speech many are saying. ban ki-moon happened to be touring the offices of the journalists that work here in the united nations. the original plan was to wish us all a happy new year. he came around to do that and the coverage was playing out in all of our offices, the live coverage of -- of the events in paris. and after he greeted us all and spoken to all of us he then made this statement. >> -- understand today very terrible terrorist attack has happened. so i would like to say a few words first. i want to express my outrage at the despicable attack today against the french magazine. it was a horrendous unjustified and cold-blooded crime. it was always direct assault on a cornerstone of democracy, on the media and freedom of expression. i extend my deepest condolences to the families and my best wishes to all of those injured. we stand w