that's a reference to the nigerian president goodluck jonathan who appears to be poised to run for presidentin the next year. the people of nigeria are waiting and hoping that the girls are returned eventually home. they're hoping that the government take decisive action against the boko haram, who has declared itself a caliphat perks. >> one of the girls who were able to escape is here in washington to speak about her ordeal. she talks about the night the boko haram fighters burst into her dormitory. >> they come in, and they have guns. we think maybe it's the security to come and guide us, but we don't know that it's boko haram. then they asked us to gather ourselves together and not to shout. if we shout or runaway they will kill us. >> coming up on al jazeera america. nfl commissioner roger goodell said he's sorry for how he has handled the ray rice case, but some people want more than apology. >> who made money on the indianapolis? indianapolis--ipo. we'll have all that and more on real money. >> i'm ali velshi, >> i'm ali velshi, the news has become the news has become this thing where

nigerian president goodluck jonathan says his government is doing everything they can to find them. >> towns of innocent people have been killed and hundreds of peasants kidnapped. innocent daughters, we are facing with resources at our foal. >> all that and still no sign of the girls. they were taken on april 14th. 57 managed to escape soon after that and the international community rallied to help including the united states which sent 80 troops to coordinate an aerial search but the u.s. mission was scaled back six weeks later after the pentagon said it was no closer to finding the girls. the cries of nigerian activists echoed around the world. demonstrators from washington, d.c. to london soon joined the protest but the attention to the plight of the girls has faded since then. now the only information about where the girls are seem to come from rumors, including this week's information that the girls were in nigerian custody. a latest dead end in a traj with no end in sight. paul beban, al jazeera. >> aubbe, former nigerian minister of education and once served as the vice presid

nigeria's president goodluck jonathan has said that his country is now free from the ebola virus, something that has yet to be confirmed by the world health organization. here he is speaking to the united nations general assembly yesterday. >> nigeria was able to respond effectively to control this threat of the disease. the situation in liberia and sierra leone requests sustainable, collective, global action to contain. through the concerted effort of our health care professionals the world health organization, and our international partners we have been able to contain the ebola virus disease and we can confidently say that nigeria is today ebola free. >> police in getting arrested -- in guinea arrested 27 suspects over the murder of an ebola education team that was attacked. they went missing after their delegation came under attack during an outreach. eight bodies have been recovered from a septic tank nearby. a rescue effort is underway off the coast of cyprus in the mediterranean to try and save hundreds of migrants stranded on a small boat off the coast. a crew ship has been instruct

. >> williams: nigeria's president goodluck jonathan hailed the militias as national heroes. but soon after i started investigating boko haram, i began hearing stories about these militias: atrocities some of them were committing, along with members of the military, as they carried out operation flush. i talked to witnesses and militia members who described arrests, torture and even the summary execution of civilians. and as proof, they gave me over 120 videos, many of them they shot themselves. i independently corroborated these videos with multiple eyewitnesses, militia members and human rights experts. we've managed to track down an insider who has agreed to see us, but only in a safe location. he belongs to one of the militias and asked to be called "abdul." he gave me 35 videos. >> (translated): we only have one life. god has given us the same as he's given them, so we thought, "why not just confront them? we either kill them or they kill us." >> williams: he said members of the military trained some of them and even paid some of them directly. >> (translated): they took

goodluck jonathan, president of the federal republic of nigeria. >> thank you, mr. president. mr. president, secretary general, the excellencies, members of the council -- mr. president, i would like to theent by appreciating convening of this timely and crucial meeting. it maintains a long-standing commitment of the united states to the high incidence of national peace and security. appreciation also goes to the secretary-general ban ki-moon for the clarity and depth of his briefing. , in nigeria, and world -- anding the peaceloving world is horrified by the murder of individual journalist, and of course, today, you mentioned the french prisoner was killed. this marks mentality and impunity. is not alone, i.s. in this despicable campaign. al-shabaab in somalia and boko haram share this agenda to enlist terror, ma'am, and instability -- mayhem and instability across the world. moreharam have perpetrated heinous, violent acts than any of the known terrorist group. it is no doubt that foreign fighters have added a troubled dimension to this face of terrorism. from attacks by al qaed

goodluck jonathan, president of the federal republic of nigeria. >> thank you, mr. president. >> we're going to dip in and out of this. we're streaming it live throughout the day at foxnews.com if you would like to listen, it's there for you. i want to get to the matters that president just laid out. hard to imagine anything more important on the global stage at this moment than the alliance that the president and the secretary of state, john kerry, have brought together. these five arab nations and the united states trying to, as they put it, degrade and then destroy isis. our chief white house correspondent ed henry travels with the president at the united nations on manhattan's east side. ed, it was a big moment. he welcomed the new prime minister of iraq and everyone that i know is hopeful that this prime minister will be inclusive, that the people will feel they're a part of the government and the entire nation of iraq, not of a region or just a sect or just a religion, and that they'll be able to stand up so that we can stand down again. >> right, shep sh. you

goodluck jonathan attended a counterterrorist council but boko haram still has the girls.gbackgoodluck2015, a presidential effort jonathan says was started without his approval. people aren't buying it, though, and thousands have responded with tweets like this. if they fail to bring back our girls, we, too, would fail to bring back goodluck in 2015. this one, i don't think anyone has shot himself in the leg so many times without surgeon suggesting a below the knee amputation. president jonathan ordered the campaign's removal ten days after it launched. speaking of elections, here's an update on my one voter challenge. when i did my ice bucket challenge, i challenged you to get one person registered to vote. primaries were held yesterday in five states. here's me taking my daughter to vote here in new york. i also asked you yesterday to share your voting photos on the #1voter. salty pepper tweeted me her voting pik. looking good. and burton did his sifg civic duty because what voting is. you can learn more about the challenge at thereidreport@msnbc.com. keep telling us wha