then we captured boxes of the drug being thrown over the fanes. finally as we were leaving the paperwork was arrested going to literally for stealing tramadol we tried to film that to one. of the words. my you tell me of the. you know i must. have let them. know. you. know. customs did take it seriously filming that is we were detained and pressured to delete our footage of the arrest. in the end though they let us go and official later confirmed that the arista pool worker had stolen the tramadol. but the ports of lagos are just the start of the problem next we travel to my degree in the north east of nigeria the city was once the headquarters of. the islamic state franchise terrorizing this part of the country since 2009. which has been fighting a jury and military forces attacking schools and declaring an islamic state in territory it controls since then through attacks and suicide bombings that killed an estimated 27000 people over 2000000 civilians have been displaced. we've heard disturbing reports the tramadol might be playing a role in the

faoulÉ fane and his brother madou are both farmers, and also operate a small roadside stand.oulÉ: we're not selling charcoal for fun. we know that climate chahange s real. but what can we do? the land doesn't give us enough to survive on. if we had a choice, we'd stop selling chcharcoal. reporter: but things may be changing, thanks to the new insights the mayor gained at the workshop. those new ideas have won over sheik mamadou coulibaly. he and his family run a small farm on just two hectares of land. in recent years, their harvests have been too small. recently, sheik mamadou started planting different crops. now his family c can make e es meet without destroying the forest. sheik mamadou: the mayor told us that fewer trees means less rain. that's why i decided to stop making charcoal and start planting trees. i can live off of that. i sell trees from my nursery and grow eucalyptus trees that i sell for lumber. reporter: he's already sold more than 10,000 seedlings. conservationism is taking root in fana ever since the mayor launched his environmental campaign. mayor coulib

country can't cope with any syrian opposition fighters and russian government forces agreed to assist fane focused but asked strikes and artillery bombardments almost daily or cardin's. there is no hope returning to our homes because of into his daily bombardment every day there are jimmie's taking all were village after village syria's president has stepped up his promise to tick up to every inch of syrian territory controlled but opposition fighters it live is the only province remaining out of bashar al assad's control here his forces celebrate the seizure of more than 20 villages in. the villages have either been killed or displaced at the border. run by techie charities of forcing many of the newly displaced into makeshift camps where a deliveries are rare as the winter bites the turkish government wants syrian refugees to return to a so-called safe zone in the north east of syria seized from kurdish led forces in october president i don't is support for the plan saying he would otherwise be forced to open the gates for syrians to head west into europe whole villages have been emptied

correspondent sagna guy a guy who's joining us live from belfast a bad night of the day good night fashion fane how has the election played out there sanya and what could the results mean for the notion of a union there. well elizabeth it's really been about one subject and that subject has been breck's it breaks it has underlined everything here when you consider that northern ireland voted to remain in the 2016 referendum the whole boy that was made by boris johnson to get it done and his slogan really did not play out well here a toll added to that as well his withdrawal agreement which he said was vastly improved from to resume a's withdrawal agreement did not go down well with the partners of the government at the time the d u p who saw his withdrawal agreement as a betrayal the reason being it's because that it instituted checks and customs down the irish sea there for cutting off northern islands and from the rest of britain that really could not be underestimated and in fact how much of a sense of betrayal by was to do with this in the meantime as well on the other side is that you've g

joining us live from new york this greenberg thank you very much for staying with us on al-jazeera miss fane but can you hear me. miss greenberg this is elizabeth pran in the presenta and just checking if you can hear me ok i apologize we don't have a connection with karen greenberg a new in new york let's go to see what the u.s. president is saying in battle creek michigan. what. people. i think one of the best things i did as president a lot of people would say you know what we've done for the economy but one of the best leagues is firing james yellow me. who is imports are cut did you see the other day well 1st time now it's never wise is 50 percent there for. the golden. anyway. so what we're doing is we're doing things that are going to make our the you know it's like a tree we need that extra for us with so much even right to try you know right to people who are traveling the terminally ill. that's the president and vettel creek michigan let's try reconnecting with our guest karen greenberg the director of the said to our national security at fordham university school of norman's queen