s saying seems like this will be prevented when it builds its dam on the blue nile river that some say the project will cost them their livelihood. hello i'm christine one the welcome to news africa it's good to have you along the west african nation of guinea-bissau is just to hold a presidential election this sunday maybe hope the votes will be a step toward stabilizing the country you need to sow has experienced frequent and sometimes violence of evil since winning independence from portugal in 1974 yet there is still much uncertainty surrounding the pope will have more on that in the moment the 1st news lisa in this went to the capital basalt to find out what life is like for ordinary people in one of the poorest nations on. school's out for another day in the capital of any b. sound west africa. it's fun and games for now. but many of these children will face a difficult future they live in one of the poorest and most volatile countries on the planet. as youth activists sacred to watch in yog explains there are few jobs and virtually no industry. and there's been no stable governm

for people living along the blue nile in sudan the river is both a blessing and a curse during the rainy season the rivers unpredictable flow causes flash floods those have already killed a 60 people this year but this may end when neighboring ethiopia completes construction on the grander nascence dam which promises to regulate the rivers flow . sudanese farmers downstream welcomed the grand plan. when you know there was a blue nile is very unpredictable tonight the level of water will be low tomorrow it will swallow houses and sometimes it floods this plantation before we have time to stop it or will the flooding allows for just one harvest per year and that also limits the types of crops that can be planted but once the river flow is under control more intensive agriculture can be practiced it's a different story for sudanese brick makers they depend on silt washed down from the ethiopian highlands to make bricks which are then baked in riverside kilns with the new dam in place there will be fewer silt deposits and less income for the brick makers. and there was only this silt comes t

into the 4 cardinal directions so we came down from egypt we came here following the shores of the blue nile others went to america germany and many other countries under israeli law jews are allowed to move to the country but the israeli government doesn't view the better israel of gondor as jewish under strict religious law that's because the government says they are descendants of ethiopian jews who were forcibly converted to christianity in the distant past. many of them actually converted or their parents converted to christianity for various reasons and now they are if. we should to return to be part of the jewish people they are not considered as jews so that already live as jews but officially them not yet converted so the jews i see nothing as half assed as this is discrimination. some say we're not jewish and there are no more jews here they say we're lying that we're just pretending so we can go there they think will make the religion impure but the only one to know the truth is the god that created us. many of the community has family living in israel the israeli government has b

mediating talks between ethiopia egypt and su done to reduce tension over hydroelectric dam on the blue nile it has been building what it calls the renascence damned near its northwestern border with sudan for 8 years now egypt fears the dam could reduce the flow of the nile river downstream which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its water supply the $5000000000.00 project is part of ethiopia's plan to produce enough energy to meet its own demand and analysts fear the dispute could escalate if a deal isn't reached before the project is completed in 2022 a speech to the cold us in cairo by skype he's a fellow at the top of the institute for middle east policy one of these talks going to achieve some of the. i think it's really hard to say they've been having talks now for nearly a decade and have made virtually no progress in terms of finding some sort of compromise that satisfies all parties the egyptians have been trying to get a 3rd party involved for quite some time in the ethiopians have been opposed to that so it is actually i mean as far as the egyptians are concerned an important vic

of rift valley fever which is a water borne disease the rains of also cause the rising cholera in blue nile and tsunami states $300.00 people have formed an ill earlier i spoke to the un's humanitarian chief marco koch who thinks sudan's new administration is facing a tough challenge we have a new situation in sudan a new government your thirty's i talk to them during this visit but they've inherited an extremely difficult situation of you've as you've just described to me know your headlines are exactly what we're seeing 800000000 people food insecure disease outbreaks conflict and so on some really big important things are changing the new government is giving all the aid agencies much more access to deal with these problems they want to work in a different way with this they want to normalize their relations with the wider international community the past behind them and i think the international community really now needs to step up and to seize this opportunity for my my particular responsibility i would like to see more humanitarian assistance all over the country but also foster huma

was signed in 2015. 3 african countries at odds over a multi-billion dollar down project on the blue nile say they hope to resolve the dispute within weeks the u.s. is mediating the talks and foreign ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan are in washington for talks egypt fears the construction of the renaissance dam in ethiopia will restrict the supply of water to the nile river but ethiopia says the hydroelectric dam is crucial to its economic development mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. . well it came as a surprise when the foreign ministers arrived in the white house for talks with president trump there'd be no prior notification whatsoever and news of the meeting was only confirmed when the president himself tweeted a photograph with the foreign ministers after the talks had taken place he said that the meeting went well and that discussions would continue the 3 foreign ministers are in d.c. for talks under the mediation of the treasury secretary steve this is a curious choice by president to head talks given that this would normally be a function fulfilled by the depa

signed in $2153.00 african countries are at odds over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the blue nile they say they hope to resolve that dispute there within weeks the u.s. is mediating talks and foreign ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan are in washington egypt fears the reconstruction of the renaissance dam in ethiopia will restrict the supply of water to the nile river but ethiopia says the hydroelectric dam is crucial to economic development jill a's chief prosecutor has charge 14 people police officers rather with torturing protesters that's as demonstrations against the government and their 3rd week is one of latin america's richest nations but many people are angry over wealth inequality. bolivians angry at an election they see is fraudulent protesting since the vote last month they want president to step down but as people wait for the results of an international orders of the election divisions in the country a deepening throws about reports. in sendai. the heart of bolivia's agricultural industry a move is underway to disregard the presidency is the most. we are symboli

work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal court where he's facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 years time to decide whether the president will be tried for this crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal court like many of the world victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months israel has targeted hamas in air strikes early on saturday after rockets were fired from gaza it comes to days after the beginning of a cease fire that was supposed to end a week of strikes a fair up that started with an israeli attack on the leader of the islamic jihad group a very force that now reports from gaza it's begun to highlight the friction between hamas and the slum

work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal court where he's facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for those crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal court like many of the world victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. now police in france have fired tear gas to break up protests in paris as the yellow vest movement marks its one year anniversary the movement began on november 17th last year over rising fuel prices and the cost of living and later turned into violent anti-government riots that then spread across the country during its peak 300000 people took part in saturday protests b

update next year and i was 0 then the united states wades into a dispute over ethiopia's dam on the blue nile. hello again welcome back we're here cross much of the levant we are going to be watching some cooler conditions across much of the area notice the gray that you see across parts of iraq as well as over here towards pakistan what that is is actually the satellite seen that cold air in the morning and it really does dissipate in the heating of the day so not a lot of clouds here so the overnight hours those temperatures that do drop very close to freezing across many areas tehran and 18 degrees on thursday down towards point city though we do expect to see some clouds in your forecast with the tempter there of about 30 degrees or here christo how things are looking quite nice we are seeing our temperatures staying about 32 degrees there but we are going to seeing some clear skies down here towards lola the system we're watching in the arabian sea is really going to be dissipating as the remnants push on shore towards india up here towards aba dhabi though here on friday we do expect to

work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal court where he's facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for this crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal court like many of the world victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. well u.s. president donald trump has been accused of intimidation after he attacked a witness on twitter while she testified at his impeachment hearing. out of it the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine was removed from her post earlier this year koster has more from capitol hill. president trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to

rhymes and crimes against humanity in the western region of dar for and the southern regions of blue nileand south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal courts where his facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for this crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal courts like many of the war victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. so barbara's government is threatening more disciplinary hearings if doctors don't return to work they've been on strike for nearly 3 months of a poor pay and working conditions. has more from harare principle tao was fired earlier this month along with hundreds of other genia doctors in zimbabwe. the government dismissed him for going on strike to demand better pay and wor

work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nileand south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal courts where his facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 years time to decide whether the president will be tried for those crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal courts like many of the war victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. zimbabwe's government is threatening more disciplinary hearings if doctors don't return to work i've been on strike for nearly 3 months now or the poor and working conditions are about our size bore from harare. principle tar was fired earlier this month along with hundreds of other junior doctors in zimbabwe the government dismissed him for going on strike to demand better pay

of rift valley fever which is a water borne disease the rains of also caused a rise in color in blue nile and soon our state's 300 people of. my cock spoke to al jazeera earlier and said the new administration has a tough job ahead. we have a new situation in sudan a new government your thirty's i've talked to them during this visit but they've inherited an extremely difficult situation of you've as you've just described to me know your headlines are exactly what we're seeing 800000000 people food insecure disease outbreaks conflict and so on but some really big important things are changing the new government is giving all the aid agencies much more access to deal with these problems they want to work in a different way with this they want to normalize their relations with the wider international community and put the past behind them and i think the international community really man needs to step up and to seize this opportunity and for my my particular responsibility i would like to see more humanitarian assistance all over the country but also foster humanitarian assistance so all th

rift valley fever which is a water borne disease now the rains of also caused the rising cholera in blue nile and sanaa states 300 people have for well let's talk to mark local now who as you mentioned is the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and its emergency relief coordinator he joins us live from it's nice to have you with us we're talking about here is really a perfect storm isn't it it is conflict it is economic collapse and it is natural disaster as well where do you begin to approach a humanitarian crisis such as this. well i think the starting point is that we have a new situation in sudan a new government your thirty's i talk to them during this visit but they've inherited an extremely difficult situation of you as you've just described to me know your headlines are exactly what we're seeing a 1000000 people food insecure disease outbreaks conflict and so on some really big important things a change in the new government is giving all the aid agencies much more access to deal with these problems they want to work in a different way with this they want to normalize

work rhymes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal court where his facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for this crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal court like many of the world victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months foreigners in libya's capital have been left with us talk choice they can stay in tripoli where fighting poses a risk to their lives or head back home to poverty algiers mom would have been wide reports on why some have chosen to stay. feel has haunted this moroc and family since the shrapnel injured their son and brother no beeld for him and his sisters their lives were tu

work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of dar 4 and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal courts where he's facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for those crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal courts like many of the war victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months according to reports and military sources a rebel attack is underway in the eastern uganda region of bengal it comes after at least 14 people were killed in attacks in the same area overnight friday into saturday police say it's revenge for the army's offensive against rebels a regional administrator says on gravels used machetes on civilians in shops and homes last month

work crimes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal court where his facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for the crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal court like many of the war victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. it's time for the weather now and has kevin with some one trained weather coming to head on cap and that's right we're seeing all the combination of ingredients coming together a here across much of the northern part of tehran over the next day of really iran better because it's going to be going down towards the south as well i want to show you what's been going on an area o

blue nile. diamond retailer. their sales are booming online. people are buying diamonds online.irtual reality. virtual try on. trying to build your own ring and setting online. the technology giving people on the luxury space closer to the product. getting some of that feeling of being in store. >> another point that was made, stepping aside from the luxury side, the old show rooming problem p at the foot traffic go in and look at the products and then they go home and order it online. >> watching jackie enter report, one thing we have learned about consumer behavior for the black friday through cyber monday. is that people are not going to run out to the stores often on that friday. one, they know they will be able to buy stuff later in the week or in a couple of weeks so they may start off shopping online. you will get that mix. i also think it is a reflection of two things. brands and retailers have done a great job of saying you can buy from us anywhere, anytime, anyway. take a few weeks to make your decisions. number two, both of those reports wherefrom malls. i think you w

niles, and center districts will be watching closely. in fremont, david louie, abc7 news. >>> the east bay used to be home to a large number of blue collarr the years, the rise of tech, most of those jobs have gone away. still, it turns out new manufacturing jobs are available. there just aren't enough people trained to do them. now a new program in fremont may have the solution, and it's one that could be used as a model nationwide. abc7 news reporter liz kreutz has the story. >> in silicon valley, fremont is the capital for advanced manufacturing. it's where tesla has its factory. but for those businesses looking to hire, they're running into a big problem. >> my name is brian paper. i'm the chief operating officer at bay area circuits. it's important for us to be a manufacturer located in silicon valley because that's where all of our customers are. but that comes with its challenges. and up with of those is labor. >> on top of an aging and retiring workforce, manufacturing jobs are changing. and because of that, companies can't find people to fill those jobs. >> when we bring students in to our facility, their impression is that they