he is the governor of borno state up in the northeast of nigeria if you like the epicenter of the crisis really isn't aren't you. you are. going to leave in may of next year you know coming to the end of your tenure as governor but tell me first of all what is the day to day life like for people in borno state. where they. are what the to the people of water what you start with a computer so if you got history what their reality of everyday life especially in the i think. it was. routine. on call i made a point in time. when adventure the phrase well of the but i mean and we have for our politicians all. of the in the nation out of community. for the wall whole program corps. and that intervention by the know it directly from the dining room and one guy three ad. so that if it was from a place that you live in gradually then inclinometer. military has their t.v.'s in. covering a chunk of land toward the local had i'm no longer of course before ten in the corporate existence of the nigeria and your poke poke around is still launching attacks on his resume is just last month in which sixte

boko haram gunmen have retaken control of the town of northeast borno state some residents had only returned to the town in june encouraged by the nigerian government they fled in two thousand and fifteen after one of the deadliest encounters in the fight against boko haram protesters have been gathering in towns and cities around the world to urge leaders to take action against climate change thousands rallied in the center of paris earlier on saturday as part of an international day of protests timed to coincide with key united nations climate talks in. well that's it for the news for now i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with this week's listening post stay with us. a court has set churcher once for four years to honor. our. strike. on archie i say. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week the sentencing of two voters journalists in myanmar and the failed promise of media reform there there's a voice from inside the house the white house and it's speaking through the pages of the new york times the magic and myste

to northeast nigeria now where boko haram gunmen have retaken control of a town in northeast borno state they reportedly fired on soldiers and residents who barely some residents had only returned to the town in june encouraged by the nigerian government they fled in two thousand and fifteen after one of the deadliest encounters and in fight against boko haram human rights groups have condemned egypt's mass sentencing of hundreds of people charged over a two thousand and thirteen pro muslim brotherhood sit in in cairo the protests lasted six weeks and ended with the killing of around nine hundred protesters by security forces in all seven hundred thirty nine people were tried on charges ranging from organizing a lawful protests to murder during the sit in the court confirmed the death sentences on seventy five defendants including muslim brotherhood officials forty four were in the dock with the rest that tried in absentia forty five or sentenced to life imprisonment including the muslim brotherhood's spiritual leader mohammed but the and almost six hundred were sentenced to between five

critical in the northeast of nigeria we recently returned from a trip in know this to niger in borno state in particular we visited two facilities health facilities run by a billion one governmental organization doctors without borders in my degree the capital city where you have hundreds of thousands of people fleeing boko haram fighting in other parts of the state and other parts of the northeast now what we saw there in one of the facilities that are more than one hundred children in a ward and the ward cannot take more much more than that and in another facility is run by the same organization i seventy is getting better i located four children and all of them are suffering from what the doctors call i cood and serve them on the trees in cases and aid workers are telling us it reflects the situation across the region not only in nigeria but also across the border in the chad cameroon and . the northeast in particular off nigeria where a lot of people have been displaced we're talking about more than eight million people impacted by nine years of war quite i mean literally in the next t

in northern nigeria scores of fighters stormed a military base at the armory village in northern borno state and briefly captured the facility book launched its rebellion against the nigerian government ten years ago trying to establish a state in northern nigeria with its own version of islamic law. now the thai government is reconsidering the use of three toxic weed killers one of the chemicals parekh out is already banned in more than thirty countries as it's been linked to flesh eating diseases and that's in farmers in northern thailand when hay has that story. in parts of rural thailand red marks the spot it's an indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers have died others have lost limbs in the province of. where researches say contamination from agra chemicals is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the

thursday on an army polls has risen to forty eight this is what's left of zary the légion northern borno stateafter a large numbers of books around fighters in trucks stormed the base said they took weapons and military equipment before they were pushed out by soldiers with aerial supports. and wanderings i've been voting in parliamentary elections which will decide the makeup of the a.t.c. parliament twenty four cs are reserved for women too for youth candidates and one for a disabled representative the other fifty three seats are up for grabs president paul kagame his party is predicted to hold on to its large majority. now it's a labor day holiday in the u.s. when election campaigning for the midterm elections kicks up a gear in war spin dubbed the pink wave a record number of women are running for political office this year the majority of them against president trump's republican party if the democratic party takes control of congress in november that work to put the brakes on trump's agenda our white house correspondent kimberly hockett went to gauge voters' moods in the battleground sta

boko haram gunmen have retaken control of the town of bali in northeast borno state some residents had only just returned to the town in june encouraged to do so by the nigerian government they fled in two thousand and fifteen after one of the deadliest encounters in the fight against boko haram protesters have been gathering in towns and cities around the world to urge world leaders to take action against climate change it's part of an international day of protests time to coincide with key un climate talks in bangkok the talks aimed to create a draft legal framework for limiting global temperature rise that can be presented at the final round of discussions in poland in december more in the news hour in half an hour al-jazeera world continues that. what changed for me very dramatically and how i see these rooms were of palestine information the conflict was me being there me being there as a soldier me being a part of you know of the depression of palestinian me being a part of the occupation as an act of war so for me with changed it was what i did as a soldier so i was just like th

of jihad is fighters in trucks stormed the base on sat on thursday in zhari village in northern borno stateand briefly seized it after a fierce battle has been waging a deadly insurgency in northeast nigeria since two thousand and nine in recent months it has intensified attacks on hard military targets undermining repeated claims by the military and the leadership that they have the upper hand. all right indeed abuser correspondent funny sharp is tracking this story a story in nigeria capital the capital good to see you funny what more have you learned about this attack well it's actually very difficult to verify details about any military attacks or before i'll buy a car of militants here in nigeria which has to do with the fact that it's a very sensitive issue today during government they want to do is make headlines with victoria against the koran and not us hacks which have taken place again in july and no once again because what we can confirm a lot was confirmed through military sources is the fact that this attack took place last week and of the casualties on both sides as the niger

northern borno state and they took weapons. before being forced out by soldiers with air support. still ahead on the al jazeera news hour. turn out for an. iraq by far right on ras. labor party is tearing itself apart over the issue of. sports a straightforward victory for. the u.s. open details coming up a little later. hello there we're still got quite a bit of rain with this i have a pulse of north america at the moment the satellite picture is capturing the system that's bringing us all what history weather and it's also brought us some pretty stormy conditions as well some places have seen some hail some places some very strong winds and here in michigan we've seen this tornado now as we head through the next couple of days the system is only moving very slowly eastward so for this whole region expect plenty more heavy rain and they could be a problem with flooding here ahead of it staying holt for now with the thirty two as the maximum in new york for the western force here it's quite windy around the coast at the moment that should see a full twenty fold by the time we get

not the twenty five year old and two of her colleagues back in march in the remote northeastern state of borno where violence has displaced many and with armed group is still very active now the i.c.r.c. has turned to social media and it's calling for the kidnappers to release a fourth coworkers at this and how. we have a plea to the uk doctors to release them quickly their health care workers they're all female they have gone the door for the community over long for the nigerians who the hell's work is lacking in the area that they're working with many i.d.p.'s without them and people like them would have access to health care so for is death has shocked and devastated humanitarian community and it's prompted other aid organizations like the norwegian refugee council just head to join the not targets campaign online and some aid workers have even use the hash tag to put in their profile picture or blow brother for their social media this is phillip story he's from the i.c.r.c. and he's put i'm not a target there in his and many have also joined the campaign including unicef to demand the rele