the ongoing human rights crisis in ethiopia is extremely troubling to me. to the resolutions and other co-sponsors, to the many americans of ethiopian heritage and to numerous human rights groups, i firmly believe the passage of this resolution will encourage the ethiopian government to end its practice of violence and repression and provide a strong basis of an inclusive government. specifically, this resolution condemns the excessive use of force by ethiopian security forces and the killing of peaceful protesters. of the arrests and detention of journalists, students, activists and political leaders. and the ethiopian's government abuse of the anti-terrorism proclamation to stifle political and civil dissent. the resolution does not simply highlight the ethiopian's government increasing authoritarian acts but also encourages the united states to support efforts to improve democracy and governance in ethiopia. i believe that the united states can take actions that will positively influence the ethiopian government and use our existing institutions to furth

the region of grey lies in northern ethiopia. just broke extreme heat water is scarce in this part of the globe. flight accompanied never and his charity on the journey to another world is for the for the about psychosis the fish dishes. estimation that's about seventy to get that stuff so i thought. as an a few stretched out i turned out to have a visit from mr manders about. the hour bite here is just more that. in. our mentions than a minus the chanson a cloudless devote their own good edge that's why more than they are much of the amount got to come from the war and. that's the same thing what about throwing the . limon on field look at a farm on. the hear them and you can. move. the flight from frankfurt to add the capital city of ethiopia takes around eight hours . the team are only given a moment to get their breath back. after all that's what today. you know. it's a different world from that of a professional footballer. it's the simple things that matter here clean water hygiene and education. has brought his team along

the ethiopia totaliser is absolutely staggering.ly is marvellous news and we can't say a big enough thankyou. that experience has strengthened my faith in humanity. people who just were moved by what they saw on the screen could respond so generously. band aid became one of the most successful fundraising campaigns in history. dawit giorgis now lives in namibia. now, in november 2006, in what seemed like a story straight from the pages of a cold war thriller, a former colonel in the russian secret service was murdered in london. alexander litvinenko had been poisoned with the highly radioactive substance polonium 210. his wife, marina, told witness why she thinks her husband was targeted. scotland yard is investigating the suspected poisoning of a russian dissident living in britain. alexander litvinenko, once a colonel in the russian security service, now he's fighting for his life. when i met him first time, i didn't think it's my future husband. he was very shy, he was absolutely different to what you usually think about officer

on average there are almost five children to a family in ethiopia. clean water is rarely close at hand and food is scarce. she went to develop better when is when it comes to family planning. and. how do. you say that had a. plan and. that is why social workers such as maha it's are important. in a company's her child consultation. again the focus is on hygiene and the use of clean water. educational work from within the community. this is the key to success. in context. context. context. it's. defaults and. given that some kind you don't toss off the edge of the the. puzzle i'm of unless there's more work to be done at the hotel each evening. it's not quite the five star luxury professional footballers' a used one the. plans for the day ahead to discussed with david. excursions to remote areas are long. but the reception they receive at schools is worth the wait. even if never and sometimes seems a little overwhelming. thank you thank you. thank you. throughout his journey nevin visits many different projects. to the wilds where is the water clean.

take sides but ethiopia ethiopia has not only opted to remain neutral it has called for dialogue encouraging the parties to come forward in an attempt to resolve this rift in the meantime as you said the amir in april chose ethiopia as the first country in africa to visit during his time in office a recognition of just how dominant a role ethiopia plays in the horn of africa the two countries i have already signed as you mentioned eleven agreements of cooperation in the areas of infrastructure tourism the country of qatar is investing heavily in infrastructure and renewable energy projects and the emir has encouraged the business community here to continue investing it's also said that ethiopian agricultural products products have an open gateway here in this country also fully on the topic among topics to be discussed is counterterrorism because as you know the horn of africa plays a very geo politically strategic role not only in africa but as well the g.c.c. thank you very much for that natasha name lifeforce stay in doha now as i mentioned the spin over. effects of the g.c.c. dispute has

and radio series which educate children across ethiopia in a fun way. she hopes to bad girls will become a success and help challenge taboos we're starting from hard core subjects like stop only married. but the thing is you know that is why the part of animation is very interesting because it is animation it is fiction and so people can pick a distance and feel comfortable to talk about it and that's what we want the first step is talking about it. but it's not always easy. sometimes i get those treated you know shouldn't be creepin years to get to this point and you know i should reach more kids should have been by now you know. only stuff because distributing the programs is difficult and resources are scarce social entrepreneurship is not yet common in ethiopia the holy see stone self with us because we're still look as a business person so we've been passed cuts to the same way what the mrs would call good we're fluent in the readers we are in smaller resources we have to do a lot but the team behind to bad girls is strong and motivated and they wo

opposia outside of ethiopia than inside. >> what? >> moret opposian doctors in botswana. >> probably even los angeles. >> the issue is what do you do? we learn from the u.s. program emts, how don't ask, don't tell basic emt work and having basic health care providers. low cost, private contributions, private sector, that helps masque maternity and infant mortality issues. >> when we had a hearing, the deputy secretary testified before the full committee regarding state department's redesign plan, which really seems like it's a miss. you might be able to talk about that, all of the combination of programs. but in particular, i asked about a special envoy, specifically south did you dsudan. the deputy secretary thought the statute was put in by congress. that's not the case apparently. what we've been told is the department of state believes that the responsibilities can be administratively realigned and covered by the bureau of african affairs. i want to know if you can provide details about the dash that will cover this and how we th

so much more to come on the al-jazeera news hour including work continues in ethiopia and what will be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam can challenge from egypt on a mission to transform france's relationship with africa president kroll embarks on a four day war of the region and the job will be here to tell you why these football players have to run for cover in a brazilian gave. the early results have given him. a shot in the presidential election supporters of. are celebrating after the announcement from the electoral court with more than half of the votes counted he has a lead of forty five percent to forty percent current president to one orlando hernandez was expected to comfortably win a second term doesn't seem so likely anymore that sanchez is in the capital to speak to her now and then maria that it's actually been nearly twelve hours since the electoral tribunal announced the first results that we've just mentioned but since then the numbers have not been updated do we know why that might be. well barbara. indeed it's been more than twelve hours now and the president of th

now ethiopia is pushing on with construction of its massive new dad and that despite growing objections from egypt the project is strange relations between the two countries because egypt which. eyes downstream sees it as a risk to its water supply from the blue nile mohammed val has been to the site of the five billion dollar project which will one day be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam. work at the ground if you open it in a sas continues through the night flood lights help workers connect iraq it's a beehive atmosphere on top of the central section of the one point seven kilometer down concrete slabs suspended from giant cranes for the next layer of the world the project's chief engineer says work is so advanced that some of the sixteen pilot or binds already place. within this hydropower scheme we have two powerhouses one is on the right side and the other on is on the left side the right is a cure for the with ten units and the left is a cure for the with six units in total we have sixteen units with this we can generate up to a maximum of five hundred megawatts of electricity.

northwest of ethiopia. now reindeer herders in norway are calling for the state owned company to take action after more than one hundred reindeer were killed by freight trains in the past four days sixty five of the animals were loaned out line down by trains on saturday a low. in a remote area of the far north reindeer a car in migrating from the mountains to the coast a route which often takes them across train tracks state rail companies already set lower speed limits but there are now when you calls for safety fences well. now it cyber monday the time of year when online shoppers bagged deep discounts on everything from gaming consuls to big screen t.v.'s and people in the u.s. is spending big black friday in thanksgiving online sales of a record high of seven point nine billion dollars nearly eighteen percent from a year ago and the buying frenzy continues analysts expect cyber monday to drive six point six billion dollars in internet sales making it the largest u.s. online shopping day in history onli

are looking to weiss in toronto folks be going to the ball in ethiopia but a writer has found his her own publishing company to launch a series of children's books with home grown stories. on the head of a bun just like his video assistant referee system has been replaced and it's accusations that he inappropriately influenced matches. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. the dangerous effects of global warming on pacific islands takes center stage as fiji opens the un conference on climate change in germany it builds on twenty fifteenth's paris climate accord which aims to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from twenty to twenty these are considered to be a major cause of global warming one hundred and sixty eight nations have ratified the agreement so far and their representatives are in the german city of bam to hammer out the details fiji is chairing a conference like other island nations in the south pacific it has already been hit hard by rising sea levels with more than twenty three thousand people from one hundred ninety seven countries attending fiji's remote locatio

city side mosque to be a mosque in america and the illustrated books full of motifs from persia ethiopia angola brazil. they carved stone into a seemingly wild profusion of motifs nautical motifs as though ship's ropes were the most natural way to hold stones in place. mythological characters from other cultures and even their own fantasies during their travels. using new craft techniques learned from silversmiths in india or africa the artists created statues on a months and release with an astonishing wealth of motifs their work gave rise to a new style named after their king the man willing style which is found nowhere else in the world. man when the first not a great king but certainly a fortunate one whose reign just happened to coincide with portugal's greatest hour impatiently pressed ahead with the construction of the ministry at times more than five thousand craftsmen and laborers were employed on the site. in the massive name charged with a powerful aura of the sacred the verve and abandon of the stonemasons seems extinguished. in comparison with the cloisters the wealth of man

i got a report from a friend's father who works in development in ethiopia who hacked together digitaltraining course for somali refugee women. now he's training them and sending them out to go into work on up work and that's available for free so i encourage you all if you want to start a computer training program in ethiopia with her curriculum, please do. >> thank you. go ahead. >> as more and more jobs are taken by machinery and new technology we create, what do you think our world economy will do it to create new jobs to replace the ones being lost and what do you think the government can do to help businesses creating jobs in this area? >> that is the trillion dollars question. i will say labor economists in general are quite divided on a.i. i spent some time at these economists, eric purnell said interim mcafee are the basic about it. >> a little bit. they've adjusted a little bit. >> it's really hard speaking with an economist because i can't her about my random ideas as fast. >> i fact checked everything. so i think the jury is out. i talked to a lot of people at client compan

for combat and engaged to the nations including turkey, georgia, theory and iraq, afghanistan and ethiopia and the philippines s and cuba. were all these instances and nation in addition to countless missions around the world to include those which took the lives of those. in april of 2014 the government solicited the bid for the recovery, casualty and search and rescue aviation support and high risk environments in the following 14 countries, nigeria, cameroon and as directed by operational requirements only five of the countries have ever been notified pursuant to the powers that we ar be are plannio engage inat the casualty in connection with high risk activities. i would like a process that informs congress and the public that is equal in transparency to inform them of thers contractor. so we introduced in authorization intended to keep the congress and the american people informed of the military depredations and engaged in carrying out the constitutional duty to implement a implement te counterterrorism campaign they do not necessarily operate in one country or follow the convention

when you think of countries that dominate long distance running ethiopia immediately springs to mind but the country is currently facing a slump in form having won just a single gold medal at last year's olympics in rio judging by these pictures though that slump won't last long thousands turned out on the streets of art is that for the ten kilometer great ethiopia run as well as those running for fun many up and coming out cleats also took part something which delighted the events founder former ten thousand meter world and the limbic champion haile gebrselassie who is now president of the ethiopian athletics federation. that you want. you know you go to. stepping it up a notch and some hardcore runners have been taking part in the coldest and most isolated running race in the wealthy antarctic ice marathon fifty five competitors bundled up in warm weather gave around forty two kilometers in minus thirty degrees celsius battling strong headwinds along the way the winner of the men's race was frank you hanson who finished in three hours thirty seven minutes and forty six seconds the

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greece's ekaterini stefanidi, belgium's nafissatou thiam and ethiopia's almaz ayana are up for the femalenounced on the 24th of november. slopestyle mountain biking has being showing off its wares in china on sunday as lukas knopf secured the biggest win of his career in chengdu. the german pulled off some wonderful moves that included some daredevilflips, somersaults and generally things you wouldn't see on a regular basis to claim the title. staying with extreme sports, austrian climber angela eiter has become the first woman to successfully climb a 9b route, one of the most difficult climbs in the world. the attempt was two years in the making for the 31—year—old, who achieved the feat in climbing la planta de shiva in villaneuva del rosario in spain. it makes her only the third person to ever complete it. one match taking place in the nfl, the detroit lions at the green bay packers and the packers are 7—0 down with around 1.5 minutes remaining in the first quarter. from me, tulsen tollett, and the team, goodbye. well, there's been a change in the weather, and tuesday morning is going

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. >> i thank the representative of and nowr his statement recognize the representative of ethiopia. on the briefing on the ballistic missile test yesterday by the people's republic of korea, a violation of the relevant resolutions. for the past three months, we have been hopeful that the tension in the korean peninsula would be subsiding. thate less optimistic there was reasonable ground for a diplomatic way out from the very dangerous stalemate. this undermined the hope that we have, but we are still convinced that it is not proper to abandon this hope because in our view, there is no other acceptable option. , assolution is political the under secretary said a while ago. many who spoke before me have changed dprk has approach and behavior. we agree. meantime, everything should be done to avoid any escalation and all efforts should be made for de-escalation. it will not be easy, but we believe all those who are in a position to make a difference should spare no effort in a united fashion toward finding a peaceful, diplomatic, and political solution to the situation in accordance wi

now is trying to focus on the countries of origin we just talked about ethiopia we talked about niger meaning that they want to eliminate the root causes of why people make that trek to europe and that is something they try to do with financial aid and of course also trying to convince those countries to take back the migrants that don't have any right to say in the european union but that brian is a very very long process it will take years decades it's a step by step progress process and that so many presidents heads of state heads of government are talking here of the jaw that's already a success ok max often for us and others i'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of that summit max thanks very much for now though. get your mind of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has reacted to the latest north korean test missile launch saying we want and what china is voicing grave concern about the test the missiles all three north korea's most powerful today. i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks for being with us. germany is a strong country. that we hav

engaged in combat to 14 nations, including libya, turkey, georgia, syria, iraq, afghanistan, yemen, ethiopia, djibouti, somalia, kenya and cuba. were all these instances and nations and places really associated with planning or support of the attacks of 9/11? these legal interpretations are in addition to countless train and advise missions around the world to include those which took the lives of the four service members in niger. this is not an unforeseen combat environment. i found this interesting. in april 2014, the united states government, department of the navy, solicited contractual bids for personnel recovery, casualty evacuation, and search and rescue, aviation support, end quote, in high-risk environments in the following 14 countries, algeria, libya, mali, morocco, my nigeria, gawn na, opportunity niece ya, as directed by operational requirements. only five of those 14 countries have ever been notified to congress pursuant to war powers, letters, but we are planning to engage in casualty evacuation in connection with high-risk activities in all of these countries in africa. i wo

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do somethingis bbc news. the latest headlines: pope francis celebrates mass for the first time in myanmar. north korea test—fires another ballistic missile, triggering condemnation from washington, tokyo and seoul. thousands of visitors are stranded on the indonesian island of bali, after aircraft were stopped from using its only airport for a second day over fears a volcano may erupt. mt agung is sending gas, ash and smoke thousands of meters mount agung's eruptions show no sign of slowing. thick and muddy flows are spilling from the surface. they are dangerous, but not as devastating as the red—hot lava which could follow. as long the impact of the eruption is already spreading. with more than 800 flights cancelled, the only way in and out is by boat. for kerry rannie, it is time to leave. it is quite scary. it seems pretty close. this flower satisfies; ' cele; $54! “5414.5 9224915? ch; m“ “5:24? the“ the has d raft parliament has approved a draft law the wan, legalisation - gay marriageesfgfilfi

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djibouti, ethiopia, chad, cameroon, among others. it's really during the obama years that we saw major expansion. how its the military getting away with this. how are they, how are they being allowed to do this without any particular oversight? i think off the radar for congress and the american people i don't think are served very well. by the mainstream media on this. u.s. africa command has, basically held the line that they have one base on the continent. other names, contingency operative locations. these are bases. i think the media has done a relatively poor job of digging into this. and -- you know when africom puts out press releases or talks about its exercises, they're framed as training missions or humanitarian operations. and, there haven't been a lot of people who have been, digging into-- the other missions that go on across the continent. you know, i made myself persona nongrata at command for digging into this for five years or so. they've dent look on't like to e the i have to base a lot of reporting on freedom of i

and he taught me so much about that and about his own country, ethiopia. i didn't present him with a six-page memo on how to write a column. so the world is a big data problem, this is my algorithm. this is how i go about cutting through it. i thought about some of this before but i never put together until i did it in the memo for him. i face explained that a new story is meant to inform and it can do so better or worse, , the post to write a story about the festival and marty will tell them whether they get better or worse. but a call them, an opinion article is meant to provoke. it's is meant to produce a reac. so i am either initiating this is for the lighting business. that's what i do. i made a doing a heating or lighting. i'm either stoking up and emotion in you or illuminating something for you, and if i really do it well, i do both and create heat and light and a reaction. and i can tell if i create heat or light by the reaction i get from readers. some might lead to call and set didn't know that. that's a good reaction. you could supply. some mig

undeclared no fly zone and anti-aircraft defenses there have been rumors on social media here in ethiopia about possible air strikes by egypt to destroy them all to getting fears of what could be africa's most ambitious hydroelectric project could perhaps provoke a destructive conflict one hundred five a disease at the ground or in a north western ethiopia. on the al jazeera news. i will do what he did to staying hell even to sleep the only night without somebody . robert mugabe may be gone but fair of him remains the zimbabwean. farmers tell us why. how climate change is sucking the life out of all the farms across the mediterranean. one of europe's most successful football clubs father coach peter we'll tell you more. on counting the cost crocodile economics what emerson melange god what will have to do to transform zimbabwe's finances a modern day slave trade in libya and how china's internet giant ten cent over took facebook. counting the cost at this time on a visit. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth as i would that's what this job. you are making very p

once they buy into it we may actually then tommy and scale with our life for example the museum in ethiopia. we give them a really we studied african art and give them a really good african art museum but of course like now that we're trying to define raising we realize also you see over here it could be a more difficult country right now to do such a thing there so we may end up like toning down some of the architecture of the show and i totally get that it's probably the case all the time. but that still if you get half of it done or third then it's very different than the classic yes exactly. the same way as would go in cannes ocean in my home i was in the early tediousness them i took two of them. and outside with. your boy to blonde on the system is as close as it is come and i think it's a film called ghost moms of this is shown in class commitment on side on off the opportunity card no other good morning course so that mom got a little skateboarding moms and if you're good. it's good it happens on the wrong because it was of a moment i was in the midst towards was on my. mind a kid t

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when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do somethingrock music friends felt the same. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the egyptian armed forces say they've launched air strikes against the militants they believe carried out the attack on a mosque which killed at least 235 people. president sisi has promised to respond with an iron fist to the attack. the new president of zimbabwe, emmerson mnangagwa, has praised his predecessor, robert mugabe, but pledged to take the country in a different direction. at his inauguration he promised to hold free elections, end corruption and rebuild the economy. the mediterranean sea is the world's deadliest frontier, according to a report from the un's international migration agency. it says that since the year 2000, more than 33,000 people have drowned, attempting to reach europe. nearly 3,000 have died or gone missing in the area this year alone. the author of the report says the figures probably underestimate the true scale of the tragedy. sophia tran—thomson reports. more than 1,600 migrants

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do something the same. this is bbc news. the latest headlines... indonesia's disaster agency warns that mount agung on the island of bali is close to a full scale eruption. the first united nations aid ship has arrived in the yemeni port of saleef after the saudi—led coalition eased its blockade. ten years ago on the bbc‘s andrew marr programme, the ugandan—born archbishop of yorkjohn sentamu cut up his clerical collar in protest at the behaviour of zimbabwe's president robert mugabe the archbishop said mr mugabe had "taken people's identity" and "cut it to pieces". now the president has resigned, on sunday's programme, andrew presented the archbishop with his former collar. i could try and put them all together using super glue. it would be a pretty ropey collar. ropey collar. and i actually think the lesson for zimbabwe is the same — they just can't try and stitch it up. something more radical, something new needs to happen in terms of the rule of law, you know, allowing people to get jobs, beca

in terms of percentages ethiopia is actually the hardest country in which to find a safe toilet or a decent toilet so a toilet is able to keep the waste separate from water which is essential and you look at ninety three percent cent of the population there not having a decent toilet in terms of numbers partly because india is so large then india is is top of the list however india has made great india and ethiopia have made great strides over recent years in trying to end the problem of people using toilets open deaf cation so going to do their business in wasteland and bring in the idea of toilets into communities here why is it especially important for women to have this say space toilets what impact does it have on their lives if they don't. not having a toilet means that women's lives are. so the limited so in many areas where women don't have access to toilets they have to go out and do their business. in wasteland all using a shared communal toilets and. there are reports of women fear being attacked and sauted when they're going out to to do their business. in fact we did a s

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do somethings felt the same. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon, in singapore. i'm kasia madera, in london. our top stories: prayers for the crew of a missing argentine submarine but hopes fade as the navy says there may have been an explosion at the vessel's last—known location. zimbabwe prepares for the post—mugabe era — the incoming—president, emmerson mnangagwa, is to be sworn in later. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world: the philippine star is headlining president duterte trying to step up the government's war on illegal drugs by bring the police back into the fight. the philippine drug enforcement agency had been in charge of the violent crackdown, but the paper reports that duterte is not satisfied with its performance. the financial times from the uk, reports on a booming eurozone economy, saying that the region's jobs growth and factory orders are at a 17—year high. exports are powering the surge and the zone's business performance is at its best for more

is being treated and used to construction in countries including ethiopia into nature and here in the post. with many strains ten times stronger than steel and a rapid growth cycle of four to five years bamboo is one of most eco friendly building materials on the planet. and the middle east to engineering graduates in gaza have created an environmentally friendly break called green cake this uses coal and wood ashes a fill it instead of sand making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the ground. and and guatemala one nonprofit has built a school using natural resources and rubbish that would normally pile in landfills the organizations made a system out of old tires capable of holding thousands of gallons of rainwater materials like these and many paving the way for a green a probe that redefining the spaces we inhabit. singapore is a low lying island city state eighty percent of its population live in high rise public housing resulting in one of the highest population densities in the world challenges for rapid urbanization sea level rise and an increasingly chaotic climat

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do somethingiends felt the same. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: prayers for the crew of a missing argentine submarine but hopes fade as the navy says there may have been an explosion at the vessel's last—known location. hundreds of thousands of rohingya mu refugees could be sent back to myanmar after a deal is signed between myanmar and bangladesh. for almost three weeks now some of the most privileged members of saudi society have been held in the ritz cartlon hotel in riyadh, and interrogated on the orders of the crown prince. muhammed bin salman has presented the arrests as a crackdown against corruption, though it would also seem to consolidate his position as the most powerful man in the kingdom. very few have been allowed into the hotel—turned prison, but our international correspondent lyse doucet was given rare access. we drive in under police escort, just past midnight. no—one enters here now without official permission. the world's most talked about hotel. riyadh's most palatial

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do something same. this is bbc news. the latest headlines... indonesia's disaster agency warns that mount agung on the island of bali is close to a full scale eruption. the first united nations aid ship has arrived in the yemeni port of saleef after the saudi—led coalition eased its blockade. the man who mediated the resignation of robert mugabe says the former leader will continue to play an advisory role. father fidelis mukonori spoke to the bbc‘s richard galpin. outside the capital, harare, a celebration of the first mass in what is a new era for zimbabwe. the end of robert mugabe's long rule already unleashing a sense of freedom not felt for decades here. and thejesuit priest conducting the service, father fidelis mukonori, is the man who helped bring it all about. he is close to robert mugabe, and acted as the mediator for the army. he played a crucial role in the transfer of power. what can he now reveal about the deals done to persuade robert mugabe to finally stand down? and how is the for

. >> someone on social media said it is not a barbie but ethiopia doll named rahel, beautiful curly hairrican clothing. i love it. i don't know that it was modelled after me. >> and i love your culture and in general. >> thanks, diane. >> thanks, diane. >> well, this black and white photograph of president john f. kennedy is now for sale. the last jfk sign in the oval office on november 21, 1963, the day before he was assassinated. there is also a handwritten note to the ambassador west african nation, auction experts have put the opening price tag at $80,000. >> more accusations against the alabama republican senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct, with teenage girls in the 19 70s. roy moore is denying the latest allegations, yesterday, beverly young nelson described how the gop senate candidate allegedly assaulted her decades ago when just 16. qualls growing on capitol hill to drop out of the alabama rales. the election next month. >> the jury in in the corruption trial of bob end end dez of new jersey resumes deliberations this morning, despite telling a judge that they were de

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do somethingmusic friends felt the same. you're watching the briefing. our headlines: zimbabwe prepares for the post—mugabe era — the incoming—president, emmerson mnangagwa, is to be sworn in later. prayers for the crew of a missing argentine submarine but hopes fade as the navy says there may have been an explosion at the vessel's last—known location. for some it is taken for granted that if you call an emergency number, someone will pick up and help will be on its way. however in kenya, that's not the case. in the capital nairobi, alone, there are more than 50 individual numbers for ambulance and fire services. two entrepreneurs have come forward with a plans for a sloution two entrepreneurs have come forward with a plans for a solution but can it help the poorerst? catharina moh has more. when a medical emergency happens in nairobi it is a real problem in the slums because it is hard to access and in the city because it is plagued with a trafficjam. calling foran plagued with a trafficjam. call

when bob geldof of the boomtown rats saw the tv pictures from ethiopia, he decided he had to do somethingriends felt the same. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: egypt says it has carried out air strikes against suspected militants behind an attack on a mosque in sinai which left more than 230 people dead. zimbabwe's new president has urged the international community to re—engage with his country as it tries to rebuild its shattered economy. the supreme court of appeal in south africa has more than doubled the jail sentence handed out to oscar pistorius. mr pistorius has now been given the minimum 15 years —— he will now serve 13 years and five months. milton nkosi has more. what we saw today is the supreme court of appeal here in south africa overturning that six—year sentence and increasing it all of the way up to 13.5 years for oscar pistorius. the family of reeva steenkamp who was shot on valentine's day in 2013 has already said that they welcome this change in sentencing and they say it shows thatjustice can be achieved in south africa. on the other hand, from the oscar pistori