overall thirty full stephanie on fun is that in dakar joins us now. stephanie just how has the french president and his message being received a conference in setting these capital. with ever was very well received a have to sentiment about goal was just behind me two minutes ago i'm studying right now at the french read it all in that god you spoke about for a go for it. you know how to put french languages in schools here so that was also interesting also part of the educational a program earlier there was this very big conference it was the third edition. and i have to say that front victory he gave a new step to its own tradition through the fall because as you said it's going to be. two hundred billion euros that will be the participation of fronts into the phone and you have to also know that france will also contribute to one hundred billion euros. just for senegal which is a bilateral aid in order to actually build a school but also finance education so it's a lot of money. the goal actually that needs to be rich for the phone is already board

that's all from us in dakar.he in northern syria, as pro—government forces step up their military offensive in the rebel—held province of idlib. panos moumtzis, who runs the un's humanitarian aid programme in the country, told the bbc at least a quarter of a million people had now been displaced in idlib province — as richard galpin reports. this is idlib province, and the aftermath of yet more air strikes by pro—government forces. for the rescue teams, known as the white helmets, these are frantic times, searching for civilians trapped under the rubble. in the face of this intensified government offensive, thousands have been fleeing their homes. we are extremely worried about the situation on the ground. we have seen about a quarter of a million additionally knew the displaced people, who have fled their homes, additionally newly displaced people, who have fled their homes, heading towards the turkish border. this is a catastrophe for the people in idlib. and this an example of what that catastrophe looks like.

country where i was warned by a law there she would see most of the terrorist attacks in the capital of dakar was carried out by youths who in fact came from affluent families they had a very good life in fact they were brainwashed by this islamist terrorism not only by videos but by to logical understanding of it and when it comes to children children are not being able to be. because of the upbringing they are getting because they are of the islamic extremist ideology it in fact denies you of any kind of creation that children will need to grow up with all that happens is you know all the everything highball culture is not today how are some of the occasion in some countries. the younger kids on radicalization only extremism right from the young age so we that's what we call in for. regulations to prevent such a behavior even on online videos or what you know we have to regulate the education curriculum so the country is required to be looked into and see how the education curriculum is being taught in schools. russia is mourning the loss of an air force pilot who died fighting in syria aft

country where i was warned by a law there she would see most of the terrorist attacks in the capital of dakar was carried out by youths who in fact came from affluent families that a very good life in fact they were brainwashed by this islamist terrorism not only by videos but by to logical understanding of it and when it comes to children children are not being able to be children because of the are bringing they're getting because they're at the islamic extremist ideology if in fact denies you of any kind of recreation that children can will need to grow up with all that happy knowledge in all the everything horrible culture is not right now or some of the decay ssion in some of countries they educate the younger kids on right because they should only extremism right from the younger age so we that's what we calling for we call some regulations to prevent such a behavior either on online videos well watch and you know we have to regulate the education curriculum from the countries required to be looked into and see how the education curriculum is being taught in schools. a recent poll has f

so much to talk about today with me to do is a journalist based in dakar senegal in los angeles that end sensei as an activist or writer cultural critic t.s.a. is creator and illustrator of kwezi the first south african superhero comic book series and jesse holland right here in the studio author of black panther who is the black panther greetings guess the forever. it's so much to talk about and also there will be spoiler alert so if you haven't seen this film yet i don't know where do you think is in your ear close your eyes run out the room save this for later. jesse what has happened with this film it's an amazing worldwide phenomenon no one really expected this movie to be as big as it is right now but it's taken over the entire movie landscape and changing entertainment in america and around the world forever who are. in is that a goal do you agree i definitely agree i mean all across the continent here is a glorious plaza and not a plaza it's roaring it's deafening it's beautiful and i just hope that we can say this moment from much much longer on here we've got. the young afr

it isa it is a regular sight in dakar, pupils of daaras or koranic schools begging in the street.eir parents think they are receiving a religious education, but some will not learn a thing or verse of the koran. a lucky few will end up at the safe house, the children's empire. there is to care, shelter and fun, salvation from the harsh conditions of the street. translation: if he doesn't return with the right amount of money he will be beaten. the children are really maltreated. how can anyone bear to see children in that situation? any love, affection and to be with their families. it is their right. this children's rights activist argues that the government is not doing enough to regulate the schools and enforce an existing ban on begging. the bill to modernise daaras was drafted years ago but has yet to become law. 0ver years there have been efforts to widen the curriculum of senegal‘s daaras by introducing subjects like maths, history classes. they have even attended change the learning for entire generation is going to koranic schools. in most creep primary schools, this woul

world leaders meeting in the senegalese capital, dakar, have pledged 2.3 billion dollars to fund educationganisers of the global partnership for education conference say it will fund projects in nearly 90 countries. britain, the european union and norway were the biggest donors. the kremlin has condemned the pentagon's announcement that it's to modernise america's nuclear arsenal, including developing new cruise missiles that can be launched from ships and submarines. the us says the move is largely in response to russian actions in recent years. palestinian officials say a teenager has been shot dead in clashes with the israeli army in the occupied west bank. israeli forces say they entered the village of burqin to find a man suspected of murdering an israeli rabbi last month. the israeli military says it's checking the report. thousands of corsicans have held a rally to push for more autonomy from france. the local authorities said about 6,000 demonstrators turned up — organisers put the figure as high as 25,000. corsica's governing coalition of nationalists have been buoyed by a resound

was in dakar this week i asked her how the i.m.f. sees its role in the region and what it's learned from past experiences it has been criticised in the possible putting pressure on countries to impose austerity policies that bring pain for poor people and benefit bank. i think the i.m.f. is a slightly different institution from the days that you were referring to and clearly in the past few years we have been focused on a new set of topics number one we care very much about what i call the social safety net so whenever we give policy advice whenever we finance programs we always ask the leaders and i see them on a regular basis we always ask the leaders to really be mindful of those that are most exposed of the poor of the underprivileged of those that are likely to suffer as a result of potential. fiscal consolidation that are sometimes needed you know when a country comes to the i.m.f. and asks for a program we are lending international money and as a consideration for that we asking that country to restore its public finance but w

right i guess you can say and president trump said that he supported resolution for dakar for dreamers so i mean i guess you can play semantics or suggest that he's playing semantics with it but if you take him at face value with what he said then again like i said she got what she wanted unless you think that somehow he was. tiptoeing around his words to mislead her in the american people in the media that he was talking to their power which i guess is all to do with tiptoe around folks like mislead the american people that's there and i hope right and you're not going to get any argument from me that i think paul ryan on the right are regularly liars so maybe we can agree on that but i mean if what he said was what i heard was what he meant and he wasn't being intentionally misleading then nancy pelosi got what she wanted ok well then there's the people sitting on then look this seems that nobody seems to really be happy ultimately with this with the budget agreement or this budget arrangement so people on the left feel betrayed because they feel like it's being pushed through before

the west to east cartney it takes at least five days to travel by road from the senegalese capital dakar to the capital of djibouti flights between east and west africa opening up but fares are not cheap so in the final part of our series looking at new global trade routes nicholas hack reports from senegal. on board the five fifteen train from the car to chess most passengers are on their way home after a long day of work in the city. the fifteen minute journey home always seems a bit longer than the morning commute. after years writing this train so has learned to enjoy this moment free from distractions. remember i'm talking a good time for myself here if i drive to work it would take me at least four hours and i'd be stuck in traffic trains are still the quickest safest and cheapest way to travel. they call it the little blue train the locomotive was bought from pakistan the wagons from india. the ports were brought to senegal and refurbished in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's the only passenger train left in senegal all the other lines including the historic train to mali were

anger on the streets of dakar to bangladesh sentences former prime minister khalid his ear to five years for corruption. and the pride of democracy activists captured thailand's attention but also enjoying anger from the nation's military place. however the weather's looking at a dry across a good part of australia still want to see showers just around the cape york peninsula maybe into the top end as well but further south and we settled and generally sunny it's hot sunshine fragile a temperatures here getting up to thirty nine twenty seven in melbourne and rising will get up to around thirty one here as we go on into south a little more cloud just making its way through the by just taking the edge of that temperature we have in adelaide to twenty nine degrees through the weekend but so we are looking at system very hot weather ahead of that of course hot enough in alice it around forty degrees celsius it's also want to see showers into the southwest perth around thirty two degrees chances and right into north out of the new zealand as we go on through the next couple of days south ali

it is a regular sight in dakar, pupils of daaras or koranic schools begging in the streets. will not learn a single verse of the koran. a lucky few will end up at this safe house, the children's empire. there is food here, shelter and fun, salvation from the harsh conditions on the streets. translation: if he doesn't return with the right amount of money, he will be beaten. the children are really maltreated. how can anyone bear to see children in that situation? they need love, affection and to be with theirfamilies. it is their right. this children's rights activist argues that the government is not doing enough to regulate koranic schools and enforce an existing ban on begging. the bill to modernise daaras was also drafted years ago but it has yet to become law. over years there have been efforts to widen the curriculum of senegalese daaras by introducing subjects like maths, history or french classes. there are even attempts to change the learning for entire generation going to koranic schools. in most pre—primary koranic schools, this would not happen. there would be no

the twenty nine thousand presidential vote comes a week before the end of the trial of the mayor of dakar and all physicians challenger to president nicolas sarkozy and his following the story for us. for. one day when i gather. their election ahead of the presidential election that will take place in two thousand and nine. elections are year and a half away so why is this happening right now well they say here it's because the government is imprisoning their political leaders in the last few years we've seen the former president of. being in prison. and then there is. the mayor of the car and we supposedly also be seeing corruption charges he says this is politically motivated now we spoke to this person of the government and the representative of the ruling party and this is what he had to say. the president sound is a real democrat he's results of the election was simple can you did he's ambition is not to be the only can you that democracy has gone through to a successful and peaceful transitions currently we are heading to the polls with a party with a great record and the weak a pos

live now to dakar senegal al-jazeera is nicholas hockey's abt that education conference nic it's quite an ambitious target to have every kid in school by the year twenty thirty can it be done. we're talking about two hundred thirty four million children right now that are out of school most of them half of them are young girls so an ambitious project and was for the last decade adrian aid for developing countries has gone up money for education has stagnated and has even dropped in certain areas especially here in francophone africa and that's because western country mostly donor countries are not giving money towards education instead they're funding other projects like climate change or the fight against terrorism and this has dire consequences on people here especially those who are vulnerable especially those who have disabilities and that's one of the themes that's going to be addressed in this conference how do we get children who have disabilities who are visually impaired who are handicapped and get them into school so that they are also taking care for this system now joining

high profile opposition figure on corruption allegations is to twenty next week solidly niagra of dakar is expected to challenge the president mikey's polls because huck is in fact. the rival political party gathering together in place one of the things i gather following the release date of their election ahead of the presidential election that will take place in two thousand and nine. elections are a year and a half away so why is this happening right now well they say here it's because their government is imprisoning their political leaders in the last few years we've seen the former president of iran for a while being in prison on corruption charges even sent into exile and then there is a legal scholar the mayor of the car with the also the sitting corruption charges he says this trial is politically motivated now we spoke to the spokesperson of the government and the representative of the ruling party in this is what he had to say to some of these. companies the president macky sound is a real democrat he's result of intellectually simple candidates his ambition is not to be the o

anger on the streets of dakar after bangladesh sentences former prime minister holiday to five years for corruption. this will be the end of protected areas in the gary. gary an activist fighting to stop one of europe's most ancient forests being turned into a ski resort. and the posse continues for the philadelphia eagles following a super bowl win more from their victory parade coming up in sport. of bangladesh. has been jailed for five years around two hundred fifty thousand dollars in donations meant for an orphanage trust eldest son and four aides were given ten year sentences the seventy two year old has served as prime minister three times but has sentence could now bar her from running in december's national election. zio also faces some thirty all the charges including allegations of orchestrating political violence she and the current prime minister. of the country ultimately since ninety ninety one she says the allegations are part of a plot to keep her and her family out of politics there are fears is jail sentence could trigger a political instability. or protests have a

have already been protests in dakar with police firing tear gas or supporters her party is called the nationwide demonstrations on friday to protest against the verdict time a child has been monitoring events in dhaka. former prime minister and bangladesh nationalist party chairman khaled as the i was brought to this old central jail in a makeshift accommodation basically a day care center this central jail no longer exist here the central jail has been moved to its god of the city she was brought to by a white s.u.v. accompanied by her dumb ass the cattle chill be kept until from their order now the defense counsel told me they will file for it at pill the high court that depends on how soon they get the start if i'd write it in their hand that could take weeks or even few days the call don't open till sunday a lot of onlookers there and curious people heavily cordoned off area and i would try to talk to a lot of people didn't want to go on the camera because of heavy security presence and now we know a lot of people off the record told us the country faces a serious political uncert

let's go live now to the global partnership for education conference in dakar senegal as a serious nicholas hawk is there nick it's. an ambitious target to get every kid in the world into school by twenty thirty can it be done. well people here believe it can be done not that it can be done it must be done because today we have two hundred thirty four million children and you see this again two hundred thirty four million children that are out of school and half of them are girls this is a problem of education is a crisis of education not just in the developing world but also in the developed world where secondary education in europe targets to get children through secondary education is not being met and so there's a lot at stake here so you know we've been we've covered events like this where conference happened where world leaders gather and promise and pledge to give money to education but time and time again that promise has been broken joining me now is . key from the one foundation. and the one campaign and you have your own foundation you started when at the age of seventeen you're

was in dakar this week i asked her how the i.m.f. sees its role in the region and what it's learned from past experiences it has been criticised in the possible putting pressure on countries to impose austerity policies that bring pain for poor people and benefit bankers. i think the i.m.f. is a slightly different institution from the days that you're referring to and clearly in the past few years we have been focused on a new set of topics number one we care very much about what i call the social safety net so whenever we give policy advice whenever we finance programs we always ask the leaders and i see them on a regular basis we always ask the leaders to really be mindful of those that are most exposed of the poor of the underprivileged of those that are likely to suffer as a result of potential. fiscal consolidation that are sometimes needed you know when a country comes to the i.m.f. and asks for a program we are lending international money and as a consideration for that we're asking that country to restore its public finance b

of a global push to have every child in school by twenty thirty but as nicholas hock reports from dakar only half the money needed to fulfill that goal has been pledged . they came to the conference of beats hoping donor countries would take the right steps and pledge more money to children's education because two hundred thirty four million children worldwide are out of school half of them are young girls. truly a killer does a former australian prime minister she heads the global education partnership a platform to mobilize funds to get children back to school she says funding from donor countries has stagnated in some areas of africa it's dropped here we are trying to get the world community to side let's solve the global learning process let's get the quarter of a billion children to die in school into school and let's lift the quality of education for hundreds of millions more who are in schooling i don't learn to read or rot or do any math because the quality currently is size. world and african leaders came to the stage promising to make education a priority in the audience or ch

monitoring report which is published every year by the un's cultural body unesco he joins us now live from dakar in senegal manas thanks for being with us what's the key to increasing access to quality primary education does it simply come down to money. well it's through the global education morning telling reports that scoundrelly no income countries only one in two children complete primary school but the got in the dictation agenda is not limited to primary education it extends to secondary education in these countries only thirteen percent of children complete secondary school and if you look at the poorest go only two percent do so so to achieve higher taxes of course the key constraint is poverty. and that is the major constraint but countries also need capacity and that's where financing comes to play a major role and that includes financing by donors by the international community and that's why there was a gathering here in the car to extend and increase the pledges to finance international education so one of the hurdles to expanding the reach of education throughout the world is it c

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