>> part of this state, borno state, is under the control of boko haram.was the last of the towns in the north of the state, the area under the senator for north borno. but it's significant because this is close to lake chad and it gives the insurgents a greater chance to then control that area and move freely between chad niger, and cameroon and nigeria. so the senator for the area has appealed for reinforcements to be sent urgently to recapture baga and those neighboring villages and smaller towns in the area. but it's yet another sign just of how the military hasn't been able to cope hasn't been able to defend the population against these relentless attacks. and remember on new year's day we had news that 40 young men and boys were kidnapped by boko haram. there's been no news of them. but we assume that they were taken in order to be forced to become recruits by the insurgent group, which has carried out these relentless attacks especially in borno state, but also in neighboring yobe state. >> will thanks so much for the update. >>> prosthetic limbs ar

the nigerian army has been battling suspected boka haram fighters in the northeastern borno state.he defense ministry spokesperson said on twitter that coordinated air and land operations are underway in the city of maiduguri. they say hundreds of thousands are facing gravedanger. evan let me ask you about the comments that john kerry has been making in nigh year i can't. here is what he is saying. : anyone who purpose traits violence will not be welcome in the united states. this is according to kerry. what more can you tell us about that? and who is he referring to here? >> well it sounds to me doreen that he is referring to to the main political parties in nigh year i can't. there has been election violence in therun-up to the pope that's due to take place on the 14th of february. last week president good luck jonathan's convoy was stoned by people as he went through towns and villages in the northeast on the campaign trail. in the south, his strong hold where he comes from the opposition say some of their offices have been burned and they allege three campaign workers have been

this is coming at a time when we have attacks on borno state. >> can you talk a little bit about borno state what goes on there, the unrest. put this in context given that we don't know too much more at this point. >> we've seen boko haram attacks. we've seen them burn out an entire village. resident who escaped talk about 2,000 people dead. of several villages. now, the security forces have been at several villages. the reports that some boko haram members have moved in to a degree. there are reports that among them they will probably try to detonate buses who come to different positions. >> parisfrench authorities will increase security across the country after 12 people were shot dead at the headquarters of a satirical magazine. >> this is a woman that the police are trying to find. hayat boumeddien. the seen ended when security forces stormed the building. french prosecutors have made a link between the couple and cherif kouachi. all four were known to security services. >> it appears from the investigation, especially following the phone tappings that cherif kouachi's spouse had c

no part of borno state has been ceded to boko haram fighters. but when you get reports like we are received today it contradicts what they're saying about the fight against boko haram. they remain adamant that this is a battle that they are winning despite reports day in and day out of attacks by the group. >> yvonne in the nigerian capitol. thank you. >>> vote something under way in greece. in a snap general election that could change the direction of the country. al jazeera sue is live for us in athens. this is billed as the make or break future of greece. >> we've been seeing quite a number of people turning up at the polling stations. it's sunday in greece, so we expect the numbers to increase as the day goes on. traffic will increase, certainly, but the numbers are looking pretty much as we expected. we don't know at the moment what the possible turn out is going to be and what the possible lead might be. the radical left party has been ahead in the polls now since last may. everybody expects them to win. it's a question whether they win ou

there's been an attack by fighters in borno state. troops are currently fighting fighting fighting attackers in mandula. this is where boko haram have launched so knowledge assaults in the last 18 months. i would planning the finger of blame is pointing at them and tell us more about what you know so far. >> well that's why the nigerian military are saying that they have engaged boko haram fighters who attacked the capital city of borno state midugery, there is no precise number of boko haram fighters that have been engaged by nigerian fighters. this comes just 24 hours less than 24 hours since president goodluck jonathan visited there. parliamentary elections are taking place and some are wondering hmm does this have anything to do with it, the fact that the president was there and there has been disaffection and unhappiness in the way the nigerian military has been trying to prosecute its war again boko haram a huge election issue. as we get more details more questions will be raised about just howant the nigerian military are and m

this is in the borno region. they say they did not take any of their troops on nigerian soil but have used a jet fighter and troops on the side of the cameroon border with najar the town they say they bombarded the fighters in the main square in the town, and around the administrative building, then when they started running towards the border, they were then attacked by the chadian forces in the town, who bombarded them and they say they do not have the position right now to get into nigerian territory because they do not have the aid of the u.n. security council. they say they're very on the ground tore continue with this kind of attacks against boko haram. >> even though these attacks that boko haram are carrying out really seem to stretch out to various countries cruding nigeria, chad and cameroon, it doesn't seem these countries are speaking in one voice when it comes to the fight against boko haram. nigeria saying it's unwilling to allow troops from some countries within its border. where does that leave re

extremists with the islamic insurgent groups swept into the town of baga in borno state and overran a military base. researchers analyzed satellite images of the area and interview eyewitnesses. they say the insurgents damaged or destroyed more than 3,700 buildings and killed hundreds of people. one of the witness interviews describes how boko haram was shooting indiscriminately even killing a woman in labor. amnesty says the attack has created thousands of refugees in chad as people flee the violence. they're calling on the governments of the two countries to offer humanitarian assistance. >>> the head of the u.n. peace keep ing operations says its department is trying to strengthen its ability to respond to islamic state insurgents and other groups. he spoke to nhk in tokyo. >> now we are facing terrorist groups who are affiliated to jihadists and other networks, al qaeda, but increasingly with links to the islamic statement. >> he welcomed japan's decision to provide $33 million in new funding for u.n. peacekeeping activities in africa. he's praised japan's plan to broaden the role

good goodluck has done nothing. >> the military has occasionally taken offenses in borno state.ernment that's serious about counter insurgentcy would do. there's corruption in the nigerian state in addition to basically now governing, something which creates much more of a space for boko haram to operate. that's one thing that really all these states that have had jihadist groups take over significant territory have in common. the government is failing in real way and lacks capacity thus allowing other groups to come in and at least at first outcompete the government in terms of offering services offering to people. a large part of that is brutality as well. boko haram is some of the most disgusting videos showing amputations, stonings with a crowd scripted out there being forced to cheer for brutal spectacles. >> 2,000 people again echoing this archbishop please give them international support to tackle boko haram. >>> coming up next the brothers who murdered french cartoonists were a fill dated with al qaeda in yemen. one of the men mentioned having financed one of the visits

fighters have attacked the capitol of northeastern borno state.least 20 people killed in violent protests across egypt on the fourth anniversary of the revolution which toppled posni mubarak mubarak. >> there was a popular uprising that brought down the muir barack regime with ordinary egyptians leading the change. bloggers activists and students. mohammed vall looks at the faces of 2011's revolution. >> his name became synonymous with tahrir square and the egyptian up ruling of 2010. a social media executive was one of a few young activists who helped mobilize millions. >> as long as you are standing here, you are a herbo. you are the heros. >> in less than three weeks, they overthrow hosni mubarak who ruled egypt for three decades. this emotional moment caused by the killing of protesters lie state security turned them into a popular one. >> i would be proud to have a son like that. i am so happy he thinks this way. he speaks straight from his heart. >> but four years later, neither he nor the uprising he helped to succeed are part of the politi

significant, as you mentioned, the last town that was in government hands in this area the north of borno, and for the people living in that town and the surrounding villages their lives have suddenly been turned completely upside down. they had to flee into the bushes. as you say, some headed across lake chad into that neighboring country. others have managed to make it into the safety of the main city in the northeast, and one eyewitness told us that it's completely impossible to know how many people have been killed in this attack on baga town itself, because everybody fled and it's simply too unsafe to go back. but we understand the troops at the base near baga supposed to be a multi-national base, but we understand there are only nigerian soldiers in there. they did put up a resistance. there was heavy fighting for hours, but the boko haram gentlemen haddist fighters managed to overpower them. >> the soldiers have come under an amount of criticism that they did flee. the circumstances then weren't as clear cut as all that. it's not that they just lay down their arms and fled before t

lagos hours after boko haram overran a town and launched a failed attack on maiduguri, the capital of bornotate. john kerry the situation with goodluck jonathan, before meeting jonathan key rival in the election. he urged candidates to respect the outcome of the election. saying violence like in 2011 could undermine the fight against boko haram. >> the desire of the united states to engage even more so in the effort to push back against boko haram or any other violent extremist group. the quality of the democratic process is important to contributing to our ability to do so. >> the maiduguri came a day after the president was in the city for a came -- a campaign rally, he pledged to defeat boko haram. [indiscernible] >> we must conquer boko haram. we must overcome terror. in what we know as a peaceful state. >> maiduguri would be a major prize for the boko haram insurgents. andy fall of the other city gives the militants free run into the city. they wabnt -- they want to carve out a state ruled under their harsh interpretation of sharia law. their attacks have killed 1000 people and pushed

responsibility but boka haram is known to be operating in that particular area and the neighboring bornotate. >> troops from chad have roofed in camaroon to take on boka haram just across the board ner northern nigeria. the convoys in the area now in northern cameroon joined by troops from nigeria and cameroon to take on the area. erica wood has more troops from chad rolled bye-bye to join troops from nigeria and cameroon. this is the beginning of a joint military assault involving regional forces. >> war, there is death. in war there is sacrifice. but we cannot be indifferent to what is going on because we are directly concerned and because we believe cameroon must not be alone as it faces boka haram. chad's police department urged other africans nieingsz join in. the issue of whether to form a broad coalition force is to be discussed with african leaders in the coming days there is a wider interest in launching al coordinated offense. the armed 40s has launched more and more attacks not just inside nigeria where its based but outside as well. as the violence spreads, thousands are bein

boko haram islamist extremists islamist militants carried out an attack in the northeastern state of bornoey killed at least eight people in the state capital maiduguri and they seized another northern town. kerry called on all parties to respect the outcome of the february 14th vote. >> it's absolutely critical these elections be conducted peacefully. that they are credible, transparent, accountable. >> he said a successful election will ensure the country's citizens and people around the world have faith in the government that takes office. >>> teachers at a school near tokyo are trying to tap their community's diversity to help teach their students. they're trying to show them that the world is full of different people and cultures. and they're getting help from some special guests. nhk world's fumio kanda has the story. >> reporter: theira kichlt ta elementary school in yokohama come from highly varied backgrounds. almost half of these 300 students have roots in other asian countries. japanese is the first language for most of these children, and they have adopted to japan. but some pa

, which is this huge spate of killings that boko haram has reportedly carried out in the region of bornote in a fishing village on the shores of lake chad. there are reports as hundreds, possibly as many as 2,000 people have been been killed. bodies are apparently littering the streets. security forces haven't been able to go back in there to actually do a proper head count of the dead. you have thousands of refugees who have fled. around 30,000 displaced as a result of last week's violence. 7,000 of them have been fled into neighboring western chad, according to the unhcr. there are some 1,000 refugees who were stranded on an island in the middle of lake chad, and you have 20,000 more who have fled by foot or any way they n can. so a horrific spate of violence to mark the start of the new year and of course this is a month before jonathan good luck runs for re-election. boko haram is clearly sending a message that it wants to show jonathan goodluck, that it will continue to destabilize the region ahead of those elections. natalie? >> yes, certainly strapping a suicide bomb to an innocen

there have been an taken in the borno state northeast of the country. let's go to our course upon correspondent. fill us in on what you know. >> reporter: well, the latest is coming out from the nigerian menster of defense. they tweeted there has been an meet curfew put in lace in maiduguri. this shows the extent of the attack by boko haram militant. we know so far that the attack went on after midnight and went on throughout the night. we engaged suspected boko haram fighters. what we don't know is how many attackers they were, what we don't know is whether there have been any victims in materials of casualties. what the ministry of defense is telling us they would telling us more and it seems that it was quite the defensive going on. >> you might imagine that although determined, this is a rag tag collection of fighters, yet we see people sitting on armored vehicles, possibly tanks. i wonder where they get this weaponry from. is it stealing from the nigerian army outside of battles or where? >> reporter: well, that's a good question that's a question

they were taken from northeastern borno state. witnesses say gunmen rounded of villagers, preached about their group's ideology and ned to a forest hideout with their operatives. >>> a person awaiting trial has died in the hospital. abu anas al nasnas al libbi has died. he had liver cancer. >>> next here on cnn, three more bodies have been identified from the crash of the airasia flight 8501. we'll talk with our experts about the latest on the search and what the future may look like now for airasia. >>> you're watching cnn live coverage. our top stories, law enforcement officers will gather in new york today for the funeral of a murdered police officer. on saturday hundreds of mourners paid their respects at a wake for wenjin liu. they were skillkilled as they sat in their police car. >>> reports say israel plans to freeze the transfer of tax revenue collected for the palestinians. >>> three more bodies have been identified after the crash of the airasia flight. that brings the toe at that time number of passengers identified to

let's start with the latest which was saturday for a market in the regional capital of borno state where a 10-year-old girl had explosives strapped around her waist and they were detonated as she was trying to get in to the market at these controls which had been set up to screen people going in and out of the market. there have been four attacks since july of last year in that a market. the local vigilante groups who control the check points say they believe that this device was remotely detonated by someone watching the girl as she went in. it is possible she had no idea what this was that was strapped to her chest. any way n that attack 20 people at least, lost their lives according to though police, scores more injured. it pails in to insignificance almost when you look at the numbers of people who were possibly killed over the last week since january 3rd. as many -- some reports say, as 2,000 people killed in a wave of attacks on the town of baga and surrounding villages. apparently there are bodies still littering the ground. security forces haven't been able to go in there to make

that's because he fled when boko haram attacked his village in borno state and burnt his house. he and his family have been living in jos ever since. >> translation: we didn't take anything along with us. everything was burnt. we lost everything. i am not happy. as a citizen i lost my place of abode. now i don't have a voter's card. everything is gone. if they can help us to vote they should. >> there are tens of thousands of displaced people facing the same situation as joshua. the law says voters can only vote at the poling station where they are registered. >> people that were displaced were given the chance to register in other states. that deadline was last year. anyone displaced this year will not get a chance. the national electoral commission said only a change in the law could make it possible for people to vote. >> there's no way we can take the papers where they are. how do you take the ballot papers to those people. there is the implication moving to the areas. how do we - how do we develop it. how do we know the presiding officer would consent to that. >> joshua and

10 years old had explosives strapped to her chest which detonated in the market in the capital of bornonce. further south, the nigerian military did manage to repel boko haram militants from taking over a city. what we are seeing is the nigerian military making some headway against militants, but militants taking sways against the borders in northeastern nigeria. they attacked a base in cameroon. the cameroonian government managed to push back the militants and caused heavy casualties. all of this comes close to the presidential nigerian elections set for february 14th. the military says the death toll is far lower than what eyewitnesses have been telling us. the president hasn't mentioned the massacre north of the country. >> witnesses who said the government turned and walked away. >>> new terror threats targeting francis the country steps up security following the deadly attacks. we are back live in paris next. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods will cel

he lost it when boko haram attacked his village in borno state earlier this year and burned down his house. he and his family have been living in this camp ever since. >> we didn't take anything along with us. everything was burned. we lost everything. i'm not happy because as a citizen i was driven from a place, and now i don't have a voter's card because everything was burned. if they can help us to vote, they should. >> there are tens of thousands of displaced people facing the same problem. but they can only vote at the pollling place where they're registered. >> they were given the chance to register to vote in other states but that deadline was last year. anyone displaced this year won't get a chance to take part in the elections. the national electoral commission said only a change in the law could make it possible for most displaced people to vote. >> there is no way we can take the ballot papers to where they are. how do you now take your ballot papers to these settled people. there is implication that you're trying to move to those areas and you're not sure about the level

haram in north-east nigeria, happening on cues night in the town of bag ark, an emote community in borno state on the banks of late chad >>> nigeria's president launched an election campaign ahead of the poll. jonathan goodluck was surrounded by supporters at a rally in lagos. he's considered a front runner but his candidacy split his party. the main rival is a former military dictator >>> counting is under way in sri lanka's presidential election. monitors reported sporadic incidents of violence for the most part the polls are peaceful. turn out is high. charles stratford has more. >> reporter: voters began arriving as the polls opened. it may have been a normal business day in sri lanka, the political significance was huge. president mahinda rajapaksa voted in his home town in the south. he changed the constitution in 2010 to allow for unlimited presidential terms, and says he's confident he can win an unprecedented third. >> translation: we are going to win this handsomely. our victory will be seen as a great victory by defeating as well. >> mahinda rajapaksa never expected he'd have

amid the criticism that the government isn't doing enough the president made a surprise visit to the bornothe same state that the massacre happened and where boko haram is highly active. >>> soldiers there have long complained about not getting enough support from the government. nic robertson has an exclusive report. >> reporter: we're on our way to meet a soldier who's been on the front line in the battle against boko haram. we've been chasing him all day and we're still trying to catch up with him. eventually we meet, hidden in a tiny store, he dares spend only a few minutes with us. he's not authorized to talk. he wants to remain unanimous. he's telling a side of the war we never hear what it's like to be a soldier fighting boko haram. kit yourself if >> yes, i bought mine. >> that's incredible. his base is just outside of this town barely three hours' drive northeast of the capital. it's where the mostly muslim north meets the mostly christian south. and right here just last month, a twin suicide bombing killed 12 people. there are thousands of troops stationed in this town. and there

government officials say more than 10,000 cameroonians are fleeing regions along the border with nigeria's bornoand this at a time when the. d d and wave visa charges for tourists notably from china to stimulate the economy and attract foreign tourists. >> yeah, it's quite the hard time. >> reporter: the store manager has noticed it in his sales he says his local customers feel there is uncertainty in the market. >> the regulation, a lot of people are concerned. so from that they are staying home and not buying more. they iced to buy it you no, they don't. >> reporter: malaysia is the oil producer funds support its policies and future plans few sid is have slowly been reduced meaning malaysians will pay more for petrol and less to spend on essential items. this analyst thinks the government is making the right decisions but needs to be careful. >> the mime minister has come across to show that the government is not panicking. the government has a plan to deal with the sliding oil prices and instilling it's spending economy. but i think there is a sentiment that it's not -- the cuts are not going

they rounded up villagers in borno state.ppened where these school girls, more than 200, were kidnapped last april. >>> members of the christian clergy in jord are throwing their support behind a pilot being held by isis. the 26-year-old airman was taken captive when his coalition warplane came down in northeast syria last week. he belongs to a prominent sunni family in jordan. on saturday representatives of several jordanian churches met with his family. afterward, his father called on isis a sunni group, to treat his son as a guest. >> translator: i hope they will be generous to him and his family and uhl the ones that love mutah to release him soon. >> the pilot is the first known coalition member isis has taken captive. >>> just ahead, north korea is heating up its rhetoric over new u.s. sanctions. kim jong-un is sending signals he may want to cool tensions with his neighbors to the south. we'll have a report. ce. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods will celebrate almos

claim of responsibility, but boko haram is known to be operating in that particular area and neighbors borno state, as well. >> we thank you for reporting. >> troops from chad have arrived in cameroon to fight the armed group boko haram just across the border in the north of nigeria. the convoy is now in the area in northern cameroon. they'll be joined by troops from nigeria and cameroon to fight boko haram. here's erika wood. >> troops from chad rolled by on their way to join soldiers from neighboring cameroon and nigeria. this is the beginning of a joint military seattle against boko haram. >> it is important to say that in war, there is dead, there is blood, there is sacrifice. but to us, we cannot be indifferent to what is going on, because we are directly concerned and believe cameroon must not be alone as it faces boko haram. >> in that fight chad's president urged other african nations to join in. the issue of whether to form a broad coalition force is due to be discussed at a meeting of african union leaders in the coming days. there is now a wider interest into launching a coordinat

he lost it when boko haram attacked his village in borno state earlier this year and burned down his house. he and his family having living in this camp ever since. >> we didn't take anything along with us. everything was burned. we lost everything. i am not happy because as a citizen, i was driven from my place of abowed and now i don't have a voters card. >> tens of thousands face the same situation but the law's voters can only vote at the polling station where they are registered. >> people displaced from their state by boko haram violence were given the chance to register to vote in other states but that deadline was last year. anyone displaced this year won't get a chance to take part in the elections. >> the national electoral commission says only a change in the law could make it possible for most displaced people to vote. >> there is no way we can carry valid papers to where they are. how do we distribute the ballot, how do we know the number? >> joshua and many other displaced people feel something should have been done to ensure their right to vote. boko haram fighters hav

it controls large parts of northeastern borno state bordering chad and cameroon. boko haram has taken over areas of two other states. in early january fighters seized the multi-national military base, hundreds of people were killed in the city, some estimate the death toll at 2,000. twenty people were killed after explosives strapped to a girl dead mated in a market on january 10. the next day at least three were killed and 43 injured after two suicide bombs detonated in a market. let's cross over to nigeria and speak to a human rights lawyer. thanks for talking to us. a year after the president good luck jonathan announced a state of emergency it seems boko haram's attacks continue and the state of emergency has really had little effect on the group. why is that? >> well, declaring a state of emergency is one action, but people want to see the government take concrete steps. simply declaring a state of emergency without actually taking concrete action, take concrete steps getting the military to get into battle and defeat boko haram without doing that i certainly

it's also been reported the militants killed as many as 2,000 people last week around baga, in borno, after seizing a key military base. nigeria's military claim the true figure is 150 dead including militants. cuba completed its release of 53 political prisoners today, under last month's diplomatic deal with the united states. they were on a list of opposition figures jailed for urging political and social reforms. a cuban dissident leader says 17 of the 53 had already been released before president obama announced a restoration of ties with havana. investigators in indonesia finally have their hands on a black box recorder from that crashed air-asia jetliner. it was pulled from the underwater wreckage today, and taken to jakarta for examination. the other black box, the flight data recorder, remains lodged under parts of the plane. officials appealed for patience as they piece together what happened. >> ( translated ): i urge all experts not to give any theory if they do not have a valid data and please don't make people confused. we urge people to wait and be patient with our ongo

for the first time in the history of the royal marines, commanded a royal marine unit in singapore, borno and ma layo which was an unusual trek for a young marine from the united states. so to the point i'm making is, there's no limitations. things i did in my life, in many cases, life threatening. jumping out of airplanes. bubbling out of submerged submarines. things that were really dangerous and life threatening. but they were things that were valuable to keep the process going. i commanded a force reconnaissance company for two years. and believe me, jumped out of a lot of planes. some of you may have never heard of the fulton sky hook system. anybody here heard of that? somebody is shaking their head. it is actually designed by a relative's son i believe or grandson, of robert fulton. and what it was, was, when you had a downed pilot a friendly aircraft came over, dropped the big bundle of rope twine whatever. and it had in there a parachute. an parachute, but a balloon. so you inflated the balloon. and you hook had it on. and it hooked it on to you.nan parachute, but a balloon. so y

soldiers to fight, on wednesday the leader claimed responsibility for an attack on the village in bornon the third of january. human rights lawyer is representing the soldiers. >> in defending the soldiers with respect to the crisis in the military is going through. >> reporter: and so these soldiers hope to win their case despite their predicament, they are optimistic that their former colleagues will beat boko haram. >> military are winning the war because some weapons, i think were removed from the front line some weapons that we were demanding for in the past were brought. >> reporter: winning their case will be difficult, no soldier has ever won a case from the military in these circumstances. i'm with al jazeera, abuja, nigeria. >>> commander of the armed group resistance army made an appearance at the international criminal court and accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity and the first member of that group to face international justice. human rights group say the police killed dozens of protesters last week in democratic republic and demonstrating against changes to el

a senator for borno the state where the attack happened, say the militants razed the town of baga as well as 10 other communities in the country's rural northeast over the past phi days. these towns are just gone. burned down. the whole area is covered in bodies. look, i know that there are people in this administration including our president that think you can win over evil by just being nice to it. offering to buy offices in qatar. offering to release the evil forces -- force's murderers from captivity and that such wonderful, gallant gestures will tush the tide -- turn the tide. well individuals in the government are supposed to protect the people. and we in america and it's causing this weakness to grow which allows evil to grow around the world, there's a vacuum being filled as we have lost our leadership role around the world and it's being filled with evil religious nastiness called radical islam. and as this administration continues to act as if it's not a religion and we can win them over with kindness, more people die. now they're saying maybe 2000 nigerians have died toda