chapati from east africa, and shuwa, oman's classic special event dish. this all over the world, but shuwa is special. they slather a goat with a spicy paste consisting of cumin, coriander, red pepper, cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg. then wrap the meat in palm or banana leaves, dig a hole, throw in some meat and cover it up and leave underground for a day or two over hot coals. >> anthony: oman has changed in a way that's unique to anywhere i've been. i mean, i haven't seen any place that has, sort of, maintained the architecture and the character that this country has. and that's a really unusual thing. >> hassan: yeah it's one of the only countries that i think, in the gulf that has kept their tradition. and, if you travel outside muscat you see the flavor of the old life still there. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: hassan meer is one oman's preeminent fine artist who works in painting and photography. muzna al musafer is a filmmaker, artist, and provocateur representing the increasingly vocal point of view of the young omani women in the middle eastern art scene. >> mu

good transportation ling's and this may also drive the chinese investment in railway projects in east africa for example right out of my gate into cause i want to talk about the politics now of this all a lot of african governments will say to you today that they like doing business with china because there are no political strains attached china doesn't demand good governance in the countries that it does business with is that necessarily a good thing for africa. look this is that something you need to need to get a little bit. of the entire china if not politically should energy in its dealing with the rest of the world and that's said to collect on the capital one cat but i think it is the most important so you know i'm sure that if you can what if you don't. have to pretend that you get rid of it we cannot cut it terribly you saw today only one after the country had snapped it on every issue. that i want to write and you can't that cannot go on the pressure on african countries you can google but i think i'm going to be problematic because. we have really bent on the democratic problem w

dollars through for example develop these railways which will link up to very cities in east africa but about eighty percent of the funding comes from china and these are loans and not grants so at one point they will have to service their loans and they will have to pay them back and so if you have chinese bankers to deal with this can be become an issue in the future let me bring in adam on that particular point as that address says he is a lot of these project projects in africa where whether it's incentive gallow guinea or elsewhere based projects what happens if senate all guinea or tanzania not able to pay back these loans. so this is a very serious issue if you look at what happened recently in bangladesh where. was he captured because the country couldn't be. that bad that the that part from that from china. that i brought from other countries because. most of these loans i get under the rug i don't know. about the decision probably i want to share with the decision making but the system so i did end of the day at a time when even the international financial institutions couldn'

dollars through for example develop these railways which will link up to very cities in east africa but about eighty percent of the funding comes from china and these are loans and not grants so at one point they will have to service their loans and they will have to pay them back and so if you have chinese bankers to deal with this can be become an issue in the future let me bring in adam on that particular point as that address says he is a lot of these projects projects in africa where whether it's incentive gallow guinea or elsewhere based projects what happens if senate all guinea or tanzania i'm not able to pay back these loans. so this is a very serious issue if you look at what happened recently in bangladesh where. was he captured because the country couldn't be. that bad that the that part from that from china. that i brought from other countries because. most of these loans i don't think we should get under the rug you know informed about the decision probably i want to share that with the decision making but the system so i did end of the day at a time when even the internat

international trade and commerce yes the free trade zone won't just boost your butties economy but that of east africa as a whole neighboring landlocked ethiopia for instance will benefit from accessing the port within the zone china has also invested billions in rail and road networks within the region. the project is an important part of china's belt and road initiative its global infrastructure project that's also been dubbed the maritime silk road chinese companies in particular are likely to make use of the chance to manufacture and export products judy free. to beauty's government will be the free trade zones majority shareholder with three chinese companies owning the rest since ninety percent of djibouti land is made up of desert raw materials are in short supply just one reason for the country's high unemployment rate the government hopes the free trade zone will offer a range of new opportunities to help lift its people out of poverty. but china is also getting a military payoff for its involvement djibouti has allowed its number one asian investor to set up its first military base in africa

europe but is also the platform that the united states has used to project power into the middle east or africaand then there are forces, infrastructure, bases, intelligence in europe that also helps to protect the united states. so we are together, and as long as we are together we are safe and secure. nato allies together are half of the world's military might and half of the world's economic might. so as long as we are together we are able to deal with any potential. >> can you just give me a yes or no, have nato allies agreed to a 4% share of their military gdp spending? >> we have agreed to make good on the commitments we have made, meaning increasing defense spending substantially and there's a new sense of urgency, and new money is coming in just since last time. more than $40 billion has come in. >> thanks so much for joining us from brussels, secretary-general ian stoltenberg. >> thank you. >> just to be clear nato allies are saying that they have committed to that 2% over the next two years up until 2024, which is what was called for during the summit when they agreed on this back in

zanzibar has one of the richest food cultures in east africa. based in st louis. and this is. one of the most interesting things about my raby is its diversity the more than forty two different and. communities living here over kenya i'm with them they all bring unique dishes traditions and neighborhoods. today we're rewinding to two thousand and eight travel to the holy city of jerusalem where for centuries people of different cultures and religions have worked and eaten side by side but after years of rising tension in recent months have seen a huge escalation a palestinian protest against the jewish settlement program exacerbated of course our president donald trump's controversial decision to move the u.s. embassy to the holy city of jerusalem all of which makes it hard to imagine that today they can make a film using true slim's focal church to show how muslims jews christians and armenians and manage the list side by side in the holy city for so long from two thousand and eight a decade ago here a street food. an ancient city sacred to three different feeds. the jews the

we begin today's show looking at the storic peace effort in east africa between ethiopia and eritrea, where leaders of the neighboring countries have signed a "joint declaration of peace and friendship" and declared an end to the nearly two decades of a state of war. from 1998 to 2000, ethiopia and eritrea fought a border war in which 70,000 people were killed. since then, ongoing disputes had kept the two countries in a state of conflict. on thursday, the pro-government eritrean press agency announced on its facebook page that eritrea has withdrawn its troops from the heavily militarized border with ethiopia as a "gesture of reconciliation." on wednesday, the first direct flights between ethiopia and eritrea in 20 years took off from addis ababa, headed to eritrea's capital asmara. the majority of the flights' passengers were members of families separated by the long-running "state of war" between the neighboring countries. this is an eritrean passenger, abraham tilahun. >> it has been like 22 years. , we did nothe fight have an address to communicate with our family. piece, i have c

the director of coastal oceans research and development in the indian ocean cordier as it's known east africa good to have you earth david so a lot of focus right now on the so-called blue economy is it more than just the rebranding of marine exploitation. yes it's a it is much more than that. the glue economy is we trying to get his word sustainable because really the economy is about using utilizing that ocean because also this sustainably without damaging and this is really there are waves of huge deep sea mining of hydrocarbons diamonds for example still problematic right yes it still problematic but you know it's still a long time into the future particularly in our region the west indian ocean deep sea mining i think the technologies and the incentives of the prices to really extract those minerals as far as the feature it's most closely with national gas in mozambique while there are huge lines of national gas and several companies moving . theirs but that has transparency implications countries around mozambique and very strong and most of the or the there are many systems in that res

so i'm heading to the topeka the footballing terra incognita in east africa not for the first time i went there before when binyam was a sixteen year old talented youth player in the capital a name he's been and of course he's going to keep. being i was living in a dorm for talented new athletes four hundred fifty kilometers away from his hometown to read quite privileged in his own mood. when he wasn't on the pitch he was making a little money as a construction worker to support his family back home. back then. because something special and i mean really special that's the man who introduced us you have him think i k the german coach ignore ignore this guy's eyes this is german guy german t.v. . he wants to see the talent the future of it your p.r. but don't be god look at look at. your team pick up also told me that ilya has an e.u. visa and is looking for trials and shit and that he doesn't have an agent yet. so what if he also changes my life completely by having me as is the agent in. this now wealthy and glamorous future ahead of me. back down to them half it's instead of the e

the end of a more than twenty year long war it's hoped that will help boost economic growth in east africa ethiopia's economy has grown at a faster rate than any other african country in the past ten years and it's been trying to open up its economy but foreign investors and local businesses complain a shortage of foreign currencies like the u.s. dollar a stifling the private sector mohamed out o. reports from. this is the greatest dump on the blue nile nearing completion the project has been fully funded by the government and the people of ethiopia it's a fact that many here are proud of yet the infrastructure projects like the dam have put pressure on the country's foreign reserves which are already short supply foreign currency shortages the worst that i've witnessed in my entire life and it's all the time that we have heard of and seen and this is because look at the economy look at the construction sector you look at the manufacturing sector look at the import everything and the government projects all those that have been planned and viciously have slowed down another cause for the c

military power into asia the middle east and africa. but other news china has accused the u.s. of bullying and warned that it will hit back at any further trade tariffs imposed by washington on wednesday the u.s. escalated the tit for tat tat war by threatening new charges of two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods beijing called the move unacceptable last week president trump slapped thirty four billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods which beijing immediately counted them a war sound i would like to stress that the united states behavior is typical trade bullying china will definitely make the necessary counterattack and firmly protect our legitimate rights and interests i would also like to say this is a fight between unilateralism and multilateralism protectionism and free trade might and rule china stands in line with the international community on the correct side of history to protect the rules of the multilateral trade order together libyan warlord helly for half the has agreed to return control of major oil ports to the internationally recognized g

it helps to protect europe and helps the united states protect power, to the middle east, to africa. [inaudible] we look forward to the meeting with president putin, all of the leaders are looking forward to that. pres. trump: i think it is very a massiveermany makes oil and gas deal with russia, they are supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out to pay billions of dollars a year to russia. weare protecting germany, are protecting france, all of these countries. and then numerous other countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they are paying billions of dollars into the coppers of russia. we are supposed to protect you against russia? but they are paying billions of dollars to russia. i think that is very it important -- very important. 70% of theirhave russia controlled by with natural gas. is that appropriate? i have been complaining about this since the time i came in. it should never have been allowed to of happened. germany is totally controlled by russia. they are getting 70% of their energy from russia in a new pipeline. you tell me if that

display was visible for most of the southern hemisphere at the best views were across eastern europe, east africaeclipse was visible. the moon is passing right through the centre of the earth's shadow so it is the shadow at its widest in the last the longest and the only light from the sunlight can reach it is actually the light that has been filtered through the earthatmosphere we'll just wait goes with dusky red colour. catching a glimpse was hit and miss. cases in the uk due to cloud conditions but the lucky one's managed to see the moon go fully read. the cast for the next star wars film has been revealed with a mixture of veteran stars and new faces set to appear. the late actress carrie fisher will also feature, using previously unseen footage. fisher, who played princess leia in the film series, died suddenly in 2016. veterans mark hamill, who plays luke skywalker, and anthony daniels, who plays c—3p0, have also been confirmed. time now is 11 minutes past six and there is a change in the weather this week. it will have the latest ina this week. it will have the latest in a moment. let's lo

east africa, and asia, where the entire eclipse was visible.arth's shadow, so it's where the earth's shadow is at its widest, and so it lasts the longest. and the only light from the sun that can reach it is actually the light that's been filtered through the earth's atmosphere, and that's why it goes this beautiful dusky red colour. catching a glimpse of the eclipse was hit—and—miss for stargazers in the uk, due to cloudy conditions, but the lucky ones managed to see the moon go fully red. meanwhile, in brazil, people of all ages were out to enjoy the spectacle. translation: it's very beautiful. very beautiful. it was great being here, and the moon was very beautiful, more so with this telescope. translation: it was very interesting to see at the beginning, when the moon appeared, when it became very clear, and bit by bit, the earth throwing a shadow. i thought it was very, pretty and i liked the planet mars even more, which you could see right next to the moon. over the coming days, mars will be at its closest point to earth since 2003, but t

in the uk because of cloud, but the so—called "blood moon" was visible from europe, the middle east, africasz. for a time this morning skies were looking like this but the cloud have rolled in and a dramatic change to our weather in the last 24 hours or stop very blustery weekend in front with showers and very heavy rain and there is an amber in northern ireland, torrential rain coming and going, so check your local weather. elsewhere it is hit and miss showers and sunshine, as well, and another speu and sunshine, as well, and another spell of very heavy rain and strong winds on the way to south—western parts of the uk and there could be a lot of rain in the brecon beacons and south—western parts of england and south—western parts of england and coastal areas on sunday and through the afternoon, with gusts of 40-50, through the afternoon, with gusts of 40—50, and you can see the rain sweeping north and east across the country. a fresher datamirror still, around the high teens —— a fresher day tomorrow still.

at least part of the eclipse was visible from europe, the middle east, africa, australia, most of asiath america. victoria gill reports. passing through the shadow of our own planet. in the darkest skies, sta rgazers own planet. in the darkest skies, stargazers took in the view of the moon during the longest lunar eclipse of the century. and natural satellite spent one hour and 43 minutes spectacularly red as it was totally eclipsed by the earth. —— oui’ totally eclipsed by the earth. —— our natural. the moon is passing right through the centre of the's shadow, whether shadow was widest, at last the longest. the only light from the sun that can reach it is actually the light that has been filtered through the earth's atmosphere, which is why it goes that beautiful dusky red colour. at the same time, our solar system neighbour, mars, will be as close as it is possible to be to the earth on its own journey around the sun, significantly improving our view of it. this recent picture captured by the hubble telescope shows the detail of a dust storm on the red planet. so where it is clear, s

you need to have bollywood or a lot more localized content you know whether it's you know middle east africa other parts of the world they're trying to penetrate and it's all tingly right now it's created really new age for content and netflix recognizes there as they expand internationally content sticky and that's why from bollywood to other areas they're spending significant dollars going after some of those demographics than you are in new york to speak with you thanks so much for being with us thank you and finally lake eyre high is one of the most popular tourist spots in southwest china tracting up to forty million visitors a year but it's become a victim of its own success and businesses have been asked to shut up shop as china try to save the two hundred fifty square kilometer like from the asian city of dalí adrian brown reports. china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for a wedding photos before the big day. and the high lake in united province is a popular backdrop it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most beautiful. almost forty

know you do out bollywood or a lot more localized content you know whether it's you know middle east africa other parts of the world they're trying to penetrate and it's all tingly right now it's created really a new age for content and netflix recognizes there as they expand internationally and contents the t.v. and that's why from bollywood to other areas they're spending significant dollars going after some of those demographics than you are in new york good to speak with you thanks so much for being with us thank you and finally lake eyre high is one of the most popular tourist spots in southwest china tracting up to forty million visitors a year but it's become a victim of its own success and businesses have been asked to shut up shop as china try to save the two hundred fifty square kilometer like from the asian city of dalí adrian brown reports. china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for wedding photos before the big day. and the high lake in united province is a popular backdrop it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most beautiful. a

the end of a more than twenty year long war it's hoped that will help boost economic growth in east africa ethiopia's economy has grown at a faster rate than any other african country in the past ten years and it's been trying to open up its economy but foreign investors and local businesses complain a shortage of foreign currencies like the u.s. dollar a stifling the private sector mohamed out reports from addison. this is the greatest dump on the blue nile nearing completion the project has been fully funded by the government and the people of ethiopia it's a fact that many here are proud of yet the infrastructure projects like the dam have put pressure on the country's foreign reserves which are already short supply foreign currency shortages the worst that i've witnessed in my entire life and it's all the time that we have heard of and see and this is because look at the economy look at the construction sector you look at the manufacturing sector look at the import everything and the government projects all those that have been planned and viciously have slowed down. another cause for

was visible for most of the southern hemisphere, but the best views were across eastern europe, east africantire eclipse was visible. the moon is passing right through the centre of the earth's shadow, so it is where the earth's shadow is at its widest, so its last the longest. the only light from the sun that can reach it is actually the light that has been filtered through a earth's atmosphere, which is why it goes the beautiful dusky red colour. catching a glimpse of the eclipse was hit and miss for stargazers in the uk due to cloud conditions, but the lucky ones managed to see the moon go fully read. meanwhile in brazil, people of all ages were out to enjoy the spectacle. translation: it is very beautiful, very beautiful. it was great being here and the moon was a very beautiful, more so with this telescope. it was very interesting to see the beginning, when the moon appeared, when it became very clear and bit by bit the earth was the shadow. i thought it was very pretty andl shadow. i thought it was very pretty and i liked the planet mars even more, which you could see right next to th