dominic kane. al jazeera. >> the african union is holding its summit in addis ababa. it's also pushing for a power sharing deal between south sudan's president and its vice president. >> peace and security definitely dominating this year's summit. a lot of countries are in crisis we have conflict in south sudan they have been holding direct talks to move forward the peace talks that have taken way too long. since january last year, there is still a lot of contention on power-sharing. the peace and security council also had a meeting last evening they discussed ebola ravaging some of the poorest countries in the continent. they also discussed boko haram its threat to niecialg n and nigeria. calling for forces of 7500 troops, there is also talks of the political issue in libya central african republic still remains fragile. the democratic republic of congo, huge humanitarian crisis in the country. on top of all this, this is an election year, a dozen or so countries are scheduled to hold elections. others that are bound to arise in the year. >> the government in the cen

oirptionopposition leader khalid azea dominic kane has this report. >> an eerie calm on the streets of dhaka. to promote the opponents of sheik hasina from gathering. monday is the anniversary of her reelection but the opposition bangladesh opposition party calls it opposition day. trying to create anarchy. >> translator: i'm requesting the bnp leaders to stop the anarchy caused by killing vandalizing and torching vehicles. because of your wrong decision, you are not in parliament today. you must blame yourself. stop this anarchy and work towards peace. then you may have some chance next time. >> perhaps for that reason, the police barricaded zia inside her party headquarters in the capital until early afternoon. eventually, they let her leave. but a crowd of pro-government supporters had got to the gates. and armed with sticks, they tried to get inside the building. the bnp says its aim is to protect democracy. >> translator: khalid azea has clearly stated, the movement and the voting rights of the people in the country will continue until this government falls. whatever your politica

are dominic kane's report. >> aneerie calm. in a tv address in the last few hours, hasina said she believes leader hasim azir is trying to create anarchy. for that reason they barricaded her inside the capital until early afternoon. eventually they let her leave. but a crowd of pro-government supporters had got to the gates. and armed with sticks, they tried to get inside the building. the bmp says its aim is to protect democracy. clearly stated the movement of voting rights of the people in the country will continue until this government falls. whatever your political affiliation and ideologies, all of you should come forward. >> away from the capital two people were shot in the capital. hits h chalid zir against others. hasina believes she has a mandate to govern. dominic kane, al jazeera. >> still to come in the newshour. a trial begins for one of the alleged bombers of the 2014 boston marathon. plus. >> i'm rory challenge at the technology park ton outskirts of moscow, at the forefront of russia's innovation ambitions. >> a

dominic kane reports. >> ever having to face questions on the cholera outbreak are now further than ever. the judge's ruling says the u.n secretary-general ban ki-moon are immune from the lawsuit. growing evidence pointed to u.n. peace keepers in haiti in 2010. and al jazeera investigation discovered sewage leaking from a nepaleesnepal eastliesnepalese contractor. >> the implications are incredibly grave. it essentially shows that there's nowhere in the world to turn. when the u.n. refuses to provide justice. >> as for u.n, ban ki-moon came to haiti last year and said the organization had a moral responsibility to end the cholera outbreak and tried to drum up support for a $2 billion fund for it. but the u.n. position has remained the same. they continue to refuse to take any responsibility for the cholera outbreak. now just shortly before a five year anniversary of the earthquake that killed thousands of people. gabrielle ales alesandro, al jazeera haiti. >> celebration of thousands of years of surfing. surfing. >> hello again let's have a look at the top stories here at al jazeera. the

dominic kane al jazeera. >>> france's foreign policy has undergone a turn around in the last ten years. it lead opposition to the iraq war. ten years later france has been the first to join the u.s.-lead air strikes. it is also hawkish on syria and iran, and sent troops to central african republic to quell growing i violence there. it was part of the operation which ousted moammar gadhafi. but there is suspicious that much of hollande's keenness on action overseas might because of his sinking economy. how would you describe french foreign policy in recent years, more hawkish, or pragmatic. >> i wouldn't say pragmatic. but he depends key values of the french constitution such as freedom and preventing terrorism from growing. you mentioned the lack of action in iraq because it wasn't about terrorism. but it's action in afghanistan, for example, it's action in syria, and action in [ inaudible ] a few years ago was against terrorism. what is ironic is that hollande was boasting that we do not have any more hostages around the world. and that was a way to portray a victory against terrorism

publisher whacked him with the kane and knock him down the sets so pennet buts out a editioning that -- he lived to do another edition. a iraq cause time. these are to three dominant new york character. >> greely would have been twitter, and bennett would have been facebook with the post0s, i just had a cheeseburger. >> exactly. exactly. that's very good. >> so, let's get to lincoln. >> use this for the rest of my book tour. >> somewhere between chopping wood and reading i by candlelight in his log cab begin, abraham lincoln started to devour newspapers and i took an interest how he could use them. how did this get started. >> newspapers were around, and it is true, the-in in the yin and yang of lincoln. we like to think of him reading the bible and shakes spears but visitors spoke about him spreading out this newspapers bigger than today's nontabloid papers and devouring them and memorizing facts as he memorized shakespeare and biblical passages. when he became postmaster that was a great job for him because people mailed newspapers and it was much cheaper to mail a newspaper than to mail a letter. so that people in fact would write messages to people in their ne