ethiopian woman who came to the uk to study, ithink.thiopian woman who came to the uk to study, i think. she came in the expansion of ethiopia through the emperor, who was sending out stu d e nts emperor, who was sending out students across the world to get education and then to and feed back into the growth of ethiopia. it was a very exciting time in ethiopia at that time. what she pregnant, actually, when she arrived? good question. i am actually, when she arrived? good question. iam not actually, when she arrived? good question. i am not sure she was pregnant when she arrived. i think i was conceived quite literally in the journey. interesting, but here she was, a young woman in a new country, an alien culture, trying to find her place. and she then found herself pregnant, had the baby, and clearly decided she could not live her life with this baby at this particular time, and decided to give it up, you are, of course. women are incredible, ok? in the act of giving a child away to be fostered or adopted is to me the action of a heroi

ethiopian workers already have jobs making the fabric, putting the garments together.but it isn't just about money, but about building a better future for her and the country. the big solution to the population explosion in ethiopian is putting its young people to work. they are building these vast industrial parks across the country, putting in infrastructure, training up a workforce, and attracting foreign companies to make their shirts, skirts, suits, and socks here rather than in asia. as in much of africa, china has a hand in the expansion and sees echoes of its own dramatic growth. translation: why did we choose ethiopia 7 it has a stable political situation and a peaceful society. and it is the second biggest country in africa. without a big population there is no market. there is a huge amount of building going on across ethiopia. the scale and ambition is impressive. row after row of government built social housing. a new electric railway to whisk imports and exports between the capital and the coast. perhaps the most visible sign of ethiopia's economic growth

the head of the international monetary fund is in the ethiopian capital christina god welcome the country's decision to devalue the currency by fifteen percent in october. that god added that despite a positive global trend and there are seventeen countries on the african continent that senior incomes go down not up take a listen. one who will say that the sun is shining on the global economy they all too manyy coununtries thatt also left behind on a per capita basi. and with nearly we have to address that particular. coconcerns and their particular fundamentals to see how we can all help move them t towards a better more sustainanable o one becauset grows going forward. let's take a look at some of the other stories are tracking fear now and had bosseses chief operating officer will be leading the company in february. that'll he's advocate she stepping down off of the border. back his state to take over as chief executive once tom anders leaves in nineteen nineteen. and i was able to

ethiopians now know me as the person called why.nd i don't know how families work, so i am not very... i am not very equipped to understand the subtleties of family. so no, i don't — most of my family don't speak to me. my father's children and my mother's children, actually, and you know, yes, it is complicated, stephen. throughout all of this, i have called it a quest. it involved your foster parents and talking to them, too. but through all of us, you have kept writing. it seems to me that there is serving addressing about your creativity and your poetry in particular. you say that you have to live in the moment. you say, you know, i cannot live in the past, and i cannot look too far into the future. i have to be and i have to create in the here and now. and i understand that. and yet so much of your writing, in this sort of anthology and others, is actually about this past. so you do go back all the time in your head. i have to live in the present. thank you for the reminder. now we can start the interview. because that is a sur

for many ethiopians the dam is not only a symbol of rebirth.it will be nothing less than a new wonder of the modern world. a major case of salmonella contamination is in francis hitting one of the world's biggest food producers french authorities say more than two dozen infants have become sick since the beginning of the month due to contaminated milk not french dairy giant lacked a list has been ordered to halt the sale and export of several of its baby food products. it's a parent's worst nightmare contaminated baby food although his child wasn't affected this father is planning to take action against the food produced aleck tellus together with other parents. purely so we are afraid and we're thinking about what to do we are wondering whether we should go to the hospital immediately about any disease that could lead to. products made since mid february and now being taken off shelves as part of a precautionary measure that could make it one of europe's largest food recalls this year and it is already affecting stories. this morning for examp

rights lawyer calling on cell this and also to an ethiopian activist yet a badge and a gruesome who campaigns for the rights of the disabled u.s. environmental lawyer robert billet also won a prize. they aren't famous but the winners of the right livelihood award known as the alternative nobel prize have dedicated their lives to social justice human rights and government transparency four people were awarded it this year and environmental lawyer from the us a human rights lawyer from india a disability rights activist from ethiopia and investigative journalist from azerbaijan i am honored and immensely pleased that at present twenty seventeen right like going to war my friend. for courage and tenacity in exposing corruption at the highest levels of government to outstanding investigative journalism in the name of transparency and accountability but is my lova couldn't leave azerbaijan to accept it despite international protests her country's government has kept a travel ban against her in place she can only appear via video since the prices founding in stockholm in one nine hundred eighty the

afterwards, the reaction we got, not just from ethiopians inside the country, but from ethiopians all said, "thank you. "thank you for putting the questions to our prime minister that, had we been in the room, with you, we would have wanted to put." conversely, i think that the leaders who submit themselves to the hardtalk interrogation are sometimes, in a way, almost respected for doing that. it's those who just refuse... who want to take you on. yeah, they want to take you on, and they want to submit themselves to 24 minutes of sustained questioning. and that's often, i think, a selling point, when i say to people, "would you like to do hardtalk?" do you ever... 0k, go on, tim, who was your favourite? is there a favourite from hardtalk that you remember, that you think... there was one person who brought me up short, actually, and it was very interesting. i think sometimes the interviews are very surprising — the ones that you don't think are going to be good stay in your memory. this was a man called dennis mcnamara, the un official in charge of displaced people. and i was doing th

a cease fire deal of humanitarian access to civilians the deal which was agreed in talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long conflict the truce comes into effect on sunday which is christmas eve it aims to revive a two thousand and fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year of the heavy fighting broke out in the capital juba well this conflict has displaced more than four million people creating the world's fastest growing refugee crisis hundreds of thousands have fled to northern kenya catherine sawyer reports now from a refugee camp in kakuma. mall of south sudan's displaced people have made their way to this transit center in nothing kenya with virtually nothing to call their own helen good arrived recently both her husband and brother were killed in the fighting she now has to take care of her brother's eight children as well as five of her own she has a family back home a good one she tells us a moment. it's very hard for me i'm the only person now to take care of these children i don't know whether peace will come or not i'm not hope

allow humanitarian access to civilians caught up in the fighting the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long civil war aims to revive a twenty fifteenth peace deal the collapse last year after heavy fighting broke out in the south sudan capital juba. more than two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been dismissed from their posts as part of the country's latest emergency rule to create soldiers teachers and bureaucrats were sacked over alleged links to what are being called terror organizations in total one hundred fifty thousand have been dismissed or suspended from the job since the failed coup in july of last year that's over suspected ties to the movements of the us based cleric len turkey accuses him of organizing the failed coup. is the director of policy analysis at the doha institute he says the latest dismissals show president urged has gone too far. well i think at the very beginning his the action was fully understood because that was an attempt on the life of the president and an attempt actually to ove

humanitarian access to civilians caught up in the fighting the deal agreed to after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long civil war it aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in the capital juba those are all the headlines the news continues to techno. al-jazeera. wherever you are. it's a pleasure to meet the boy a blink of an eye him unlike responses from a machine. that explores the social right the newest generation of androids. is tax.

cease fire has begun between south sudan's warring factions the deal be stopped the talks in the ethiopian capital is the latest attempt to end the conflict is entering its fifth year. liberians will go to the polls on tuesday to run off to choose the next president it follows weeks of uncertainty about whether the vote would actually happen that it was reaffirmed by a supreme court hearing ex international football and george weah is taking on the country's vice president joseph block a mom of the no reports from the capital monrovia. strewed and colorful company morale is in the liberian capital monrovia as the campaign season draws to a close kind of dates in liberia's run a presidential election in a last minute hunt for votes for my international football a drug that will hold going to most polls in the fuss round held in to the gathered his supporters a provia some old tools to. i'm supposed to go out because when you change. we are almost twelve years. your job no no you have to sit for the corner to. his opponent is just walk like d.d.'s vice president for the past four seasons he'

a huge new state of the art factory tens of thousands of new jobs you think ethiopians will be jumping for joy but not when the pace so pathetic you've got to rely on financial support from mum and dad. one pair of jeans after the other row upon row of sewing machines this could easily be one of the traditional textile countries of asia but it's ethiopia one of the world's poorest nations this summer ethiopia's ambitious government opened an ultra modern industrial park with chinese help it's aimed to produce high quality textiles for the european and american markets. for the past few months has been working for the epic group one of the textile producers here the twenty year old comes from the countryside and first to learn how a sewing machine works. and i'm not here because i have a job and no money but i'm also happy to be able to learn something new. he said. lem works six days a week nine hours a day but she and the other young women here earn just forty euros a month overtime is part of the deal unpaid of course. spent years working in the sri lankan textile industry now he's k

peace talks aimed at ending south sudan's civil war due to get underway the ethiopian capital adding it's been four years since the fighting began which has forced more than a third of the population from their homes ever sent as a south sudan's president salva kiir and rebel leader we are expected to attend they are going to zation of american states is calling for a new presidential election in honduras earlier president juan orlando hernandez was declared the winner three weeks after the vote defeated opposition candidate salvador and claimed the bitterly contested election was fraudulent and has renewed calls for street protests. powers the world's busiest airport has been restored after a ten hour blackout forced the cancellation of more than a thousand flights as happened at atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport early on sunday afternoon thousands of passengers were stranded because of this it's believed the cause was a fire which damaged and underground electrical facility. those are the headlines the news continues right here on al-jazeera after front keep it or. counting beca

some poetry in an ethiopian students had a little bit of an argument when they were supposed be on staget, together during culture fest. fast. they couldn't agree about that because some the conflicts they were having in their home country but no, for the most part the students actually got along tremendously well. they figured out they were sharing the circumstance of emigrating to this country of what that experience was like. they had more in common than they did that divide them. >> host: who were some of the students, one or two, that you spent a little extra time with or gravitated toward? >> guest: i was immediately struck by two boys from the congo, sullivan and methuselah. they showed up and the learning curve was so fast, fast the innuendos. methuselah started coming over to me and putting down his homework and for the me. he figured out i was this underutilized resource in his classroom and he could get coaching from me. i was happy to do that. i spent a lot of time with her family and ultimately traveled to the congo to understand better the journey via taken, why they had to

azerbaijan could is my live up to an indian human rights lawyer calling on salvias and also to an ethiopian activist yet no better and you see who campaigns for the rights of the disabled us environmental lawyer robert bill it also won a prize. they aren't famous but the winners of the right livelihood award known as the alternative nobel prize have dedicated their lives to social justice human rights and government transparency for people were awarded it this year and environmental lawyer from the us a human rights lawyer from india a disability.

cease fire has begun between south sudan's warring factions the deal reached after talks in the ethiopian capital is the latest attempt to end the conflict which is entering its fifth year more than a million people have fled the country and tens of thousands of them killed in one of the world's worst refugee crises russia says the u.s. is encouraging new bloodshed in eastern ukraine by providing weapons to kids the u.s. says they'll give you crane and hans defensive capabilities to fight pro russian separatists the big ben bell and the british parliament's famous clock tower has chimed again after months of silence to celebrate the christmas season. bell has been undergoing repairs since mid august the works are expected to be completed in twenty twenty one. well there was all the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off to iraq a deadly deception stage that's a tomato. september eleventh. in the ruins of new york america votes to defeat terrorism but this promise is quickly betrayed. george bush changes enemies asama bin laden is replaced by saddam hussein. see it as this sud

base a day off to warn factions signed a cease fire agreement the deal reached after talks of the ethiopian capital is the latest attempt to end the four year conflict the truce which goes into effect on sunday would allow humanitarian aid to civilians. to form a south american football officials have been found guilty in the us of charges related to corruption in football's governing body pfieffer jones a member of brazil and one on helen approved of power why would charge with the racketeering and conspiracy deliberations about the guilt of a third man will continue next week russia volunteer if you have announced deals covering the exchange of prisoners and mine clearing in syria the agreements were major and talks held in kazakhstan russia and iran backed the syrian government in the civil war while turkey's support some of the biggest rebel groups. a new art installation dedicated to the plight of refugees has gone on display at a london church the artwork and title suspended features hundreds of items that belong to refugees who made it to the greek island of lesbos as are the headlin

norwegian air, air hong kong, my assistant flew from los angeles to dublin for one $10 -- or $110 on ethiopianir. all that capacity means supply and demand, 2018 may be in an expensive year for us to travel somewhere overseas. >> reporter: how about places to stay, airbnb is huge. >> they are, let's look at this in terms of the traditional hotels like marriott since its merger with starwood. they are opening up one new hotel every 14 hours. that is astounding. and they are also growing, controlling 7% of the supply globally. and they are not competing in the number of the rooms but the types of experiences they offer to get you to stay over and above the typical room. a great opportunity to be a buyers market. >> thank you for the advice in 2018. >>> flu season is off to an early start. the cdc says there have been 13,000 confirmed cases of the flu. that is six times the number reported at this point and this year's strain is particularly nasty.>> it starts out like a bank, fatigue, headache, dry cough, fever, chills, body ache , sore throat. general malaise.>> they of -- they estimate it coul

at all on the ethiopian dam. the downs are already having an impact. now always used to be full and i didn't need a pump. less water now. kiersten eamonn is from the g.i. z. the german development agency is providing support to a farm school in the nile delta. these farmers don't just need to save water but must learn to grow more food with less of it. egypt's population is growing dramatically there are two million more mouths to feed every year even small changes can have major consequences. drop in water levels will have an impact whether it's because of the dam population growth or climate change it will affect the soil and farmers will have to learn to deal with that in order to secure their future. as soon as ethiopia starts filling its new giant reservoir there will be less water for egypt. according to ahmed the agricultural consultant no one is quite sure how much less or for how long but one thing is certain there will be less more water. at the moment egypt imports around sixty percent of its foodstuffs. but the country can't really afford a

it is between a convenient store and ethiopian restaurant. investigators having to go through the window, cracking the glass to try and battle this fire. no word on what caused the blaze. >>> a homicide mystery is unraveling in reston this morning. >> this is a bizarre case, and one that with each passing hour we're getting new details. it comes after a couple is found dead inside their home. sources say a teen is in the hospital. scott fricker and his wife buckley were found shot to death inside their home. this was around 5:00 yesterday morning on black fur court. police say a third person with gunshot wounds was taken to the hospital. sources say that person was a in a phone interview, the woman's mother says there was some sort of dispute with their teen daughter's boyfriend because he was allegedly a nazi supporter. >> my daughter and her husband found out about a lot of the nazi stuff just this past week. they forbid their daughter to see him again. >> a neighbor says the couple had just moved into the home not long ago. no one has been

recently my assistant flew from los angeles to dublin for $110 on ethiopian air on a brand-new 737 dreamliner. all that excess capacity means in the law of supply and demand 2018 may be a very inexpensive year for us to travel somewhere overseas. >> what about traveling by boat? i hear there's some pretty good cruise deals these days. >> reporter: right now as i'm speaking to you, every single shipyard in the world is operating at 100% capacity. they're never building more cruise ships than they are now. an overwhelming number of americans have still to take a cruise and with all that excess capacity look for discounted cruises. >> how about places to stay? airbnb is becoming really huge worldwide. >> reporter: they are. let's look at this in terms of the traditional hotels like marriott since its acquisition of starwood. they're literally opening up one new hotel every 14 hours. that's astounding and yet airbnb is also growing. they're now controlling about 7% of the room supply globally and where they're competing is not in the number of rooms. they're competing in the types of experiences

signed a cease fire deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year conflict that's it for myself and the team here in london counting the cost is coming up next say without is there. we are living through a technological revolution but all the machines taking over a piece of machinery goes wrong if there are trillions of these to go to which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning stephen robert stokes to want to see you this time. hello i'm sam is day than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week how u.s. president donald trump's overhaul of the u.s. tax system could spark an international trade war also this week electric cars why the road to zero emissions may be built on illegal cobalt mining in the democratic republic of congo. plus when is a taxi not a taxi resolving then see crisis has implications for the gig economy. two thousand and seventeen if nothing else was the year

access to civilians who've been caught up in the ongoing fighting the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long civil war it aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in south sudan's capital juba. last more news whenever you wanted of course on the website it's always there for you twenty four seven al-jazeera dot com top story the north korea jane will keep you company in the coming hours but i will see you tomorrow morning from seven g. up next inside story. the u.s. issues another strong warning to pakistan saying it's hiding what it calls terrorist groups pakistan denies that and he's angry but between the two countries hit a new low so where does it go from here this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. trump has put pakistan on notice that was the masses from the u.s. vice president during a surprise visit to america's largest military base in afghanistan mike pence addressed five hundred troops in. four months after president trump unveiled his strat

a day after warring factions signed a cease fire agreement the deal reached after talks in that ethiopian capital is the latest attempt to end the four year conflict the truce which goes into effect on sunday would allow humanitarian aid to civilians now to form a south american football officials have been found guilty in the us of charges related to corruption and football's governing body shows a man of brazil and put of paraguayan would charge with the racketeering and conspiracy deliberations about the guilt of a third man will continue next week. russia iran and turkey have announced deals covering the exchange of prisoners and mine clearing and syria the agreements were made during talks held in kazakhstan russia and iran backed the syrian government in the civil war while turkey supports some of the biggest rebel groups rights and those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us and five story that's coming up next thank you for watching. every view for washington from both allies and adversaries with the u.n. vote on jerusalem and the u.s. president but and nations who d

resources nearly a quarter of a billion people depend on it africa's largest hydro dam the grand ethiopian renaissance dam is set to begin filling up this reservoir in the new year and it's not clear what that will mean for other countries downstream so the four point eight billion dollar megaprojects is raising massive concerns about water rights egypt calls it a matter of life or death but so does ethiopia which needs the dam to transform its economy. says previous agreements on water sharing are outdated and now egypt as i asked the world bank to step in as a neutral party. we usually work and cooperate to avoid any kind of tension and there are some issues that should be taken away and separated from others and i think the water issue of egypt sudan and ethiopia should bring us together in a union because it's the issue related to the future and the interest of the three countries. will not bring any significant harm upon the egyptian side and we are working at the state of the us we are trying to be very transparent the important thing here is that if there are any concerns that come

humanitarian access to civilians caught up in the fighting the deal agreed to after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long civil war it aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in the capital juba those are all the headlines the news continues to techno. al-jazeera. wherever you are. it's a pleasure to meet the boy a blink of an eye him unlike responses from a machine. techno explores. the newest generation of androids. this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. fascinating glimpse into the future a world where robots and humans exist creating the technology that would allow machines to think and act like a human is a formidable task but in japan they have begun of cutting edge research that can give the power to imitate even replicate human behavior techno. japan to find out. my check my check one two three test i'm test

allow humanitarian access to civilians caught up in the fighting the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long civil war that aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in the south sudan capital juba you are right up to speed with all the top stories more news after talk to al-jazeera all season. there is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here to go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. you will. see. that. we live in an age of rapid technological advances why.

peace talks aimed at ending south sudan's civil war due to get underway in the ethiopian capital addis ababa it's been four years since that conflict broke out which has forced more than a third of the population from their homes represented as a both south sudan's president salva kiir and rebel leader reid are expected to attend morgan has more from juba. this round of talking with you think it's regarded as the last chance. to end the civil war which started in december twenty third seen. by the peace agreement which was august twenty fifteen here in the capital juba but then a fighting broke out in the capital in july last year between the right wing forces the government and the opposition and the rich much are. declared the peace agreement has collapsed now the intergovernmental body development into governmental authority under development i get a regional block has around the region they're going to south africa sudan kenya and ethiopia to try to bring together all the were inside not just the opposition and the red machar and the government the different other factions that hav

signed a cease fire deal and humanitarian access to civilians the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year conflict that's it for myself and the team here in london counting the cost is coming up next stay with al-jazeera. we're living through a technological revolution but all the machines taking over if the piece of machinery goes wrong if there are trillions of litigation to which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine steven weber stokes to all disease this time. hello i'm sam is a guy who's counting the cost on al-jazeera the weekly look at the world.

ethiopia over a dam on the river nile foreign ministers from both countries have been meeting in the ethiopian capital addis ababa that is see who is the grand. project which also involves sudan egypt is worried that the hydroelectric scheme will reduce its share of the water. we usually work and cooperate to avoid any kind of tension and there are some issues that should be taken away and separated from others and i think the water issue of egypt sudan and ethiopia should bring us together in a union because it's the issue related to the future and the interest of the three countries. this down will not bring any significant harm upon the egyptian side and we are working at the state of this we are trying to be very transparent the important thing here is that if there are any concerns that come from the egyptians we are working very closely to solve. the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics is changing health care more operations and carried out by surgeons using robots but do we want a machine to look after us instead of a human being is lawrence lee. guy's hospital in central londo

violating a cease fire just hours after it came into effect a peace agreement was brokered in the ethiopian capital addis ababa and was supposed to allow for humanitarian aid to get to civilians caught up in the fighting but in a statement the opposition says government troops had attacked opposition positions in yeah a county and launched an attack in cobb county as well more than two million people have been forced from their homes since the civil war broke out in two thousand and thirteen. now it's been a month since imus and i was sworn in as him bob ways new president is a narrative bankruptcy cornum a high unemployment from long time me to robert mugabe tasa reports from harare on what progress has been made since the transfer of power. prices of basic commodities have gone up since president amos and when i took over last month people seem to prefer shopping in the store because it's a little bit cheaper than others but it's still frustrating where i was supposed to buy groceries for. twenty dollars and i mean the so-called sixty or seventy dollars to three times for things and one o

allow humanitarian access to civilians caught up in the fighting the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long civil war that aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in the south sudan capital juba you are right up to speed with all the top stories more news after talk to al-jazeera all season. there is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. you can. see. we live in an age of rapid technological advances where also official intelligence is a reality not a science fiction fantasy every day we rely on algorithms to communicate to our banking book a holiday even introduce us to potential partners driverless cars and robots may be the headline make his but they are being used for everything from diagnosing illnesses to helping police predict crime hotspots algorithms al

peace talks aimed at ending south sudan's civil war due to get underway the ethiopian capital added it's been four years since the fighting began which has forced more than a third of the population from their homes represented as the south sudan's president salva kiir and rebel leader reid are expected to attend they are going to zation of american states is calling for a new presidential election in honduras earlier president juan or the hernandez was declared the winner three weeks after the vote defeated opposition candidate salvador and claimed the bitterly contested election was fraudulent and has renewed calls for street protests. power at the world's busiest airport has been restored after a ten hour blackout forced the cancellation of more than one thousand flights most happened at atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport early on sunday afternoon thousands of passengers were stranded because of this it's believed the cause was a fire which damaged and underground electrical facility. those are the headlines the news continues right here on al-jazeera after front keep it or. on coun

signed a cease fire deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians the deal agreed after talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to and four years of conflict in iraq today with all of our top stories up front is coming up next i'll speak to you after that in about twenty five minutes time. he's the former somali refugee who now serves as canada's immigration minister under justin trudeau but how good is the canadian government actual record on immigration and asylum issues and what does this minister make of donald trump's. i'll ask him that hussain. ahmed hussain thanks for joining me on up front at a time when the world is facing massive refugee and migrant crises which have prompted a lot of western governments to effectively close their borders and crack down on quote unquote illegal immigrants canada at least in terms of rhetoric has taken a very different stance a more positive stance welcoming refugees praising immigrants why. well first of all we're also against irregular migration but having said that as a country and as a society we have historically embraced

a day after warring factions signed a cease fire agreement the deal reached after talks on that ethiopian capital is the latest attempt to end the four year conflict the truce which goes into effect on sunday would allow humanitarian aid to civilians now to form a south american football officials have been found guilty in the us of charges related to corruption and football's governing body pfieffer shows a man of brazil and one put out of power why would charge with the racketeering and conspiracy deliberations about the guilt of third man will continue next week. russia iran and turkey have announced deals covering the exchange of prisoners and mine clearing in syria the grievance were made during talks held in kazakhstan russia and iran backed the syrian government in the civil war while turkey supports some of the biggest rebel groups rights and those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us and five story that's coming up next thank you for watching. every view for washington from both. surveys with the un's vote on. the u.s. president and nations who didn't support him o

ethiopia over a dam on the river nile foreign ministers from both countries have been meeting in the ethiopian capital addis ababa the government says the hydroelectric dam is a much needed project for a country that regularly suffers blackouts while egypt fears it could reduce the flow of the river itself. we usually work and cooperate to avoid any kind of tension and there are some issues that should be taken away in separated from others and i think the water issue of egypt sudan in ethiopia should bring us together in union because it's the issue related to the future and the interest of the three countries. this down will not bring any significant harm upon the egyptian side and we are working at the state of this we are trying to be very transparent the important thing here is that if there are any concerns that come from the egyptians we are working very closely to solve. those twenty seventeen draws to a close we're looking back at some of the biggest stories of the year through the eyes of five families in our final report will focus now on the crisis between north and south korea and