and 21—year—old imam—ul—haq marks his international debut with a century as pakistan clinch the one dayagainst sri lanka. hello and welcome to the programme. plenty to come but first let's go to straight to the champions league where eight games have been in action on wednesday — the pick of the bunch — a 6—goal thriller between chelsea and roma at stamford bridge. this man, david luiz opening the scoring in that game. it ended in a draw — but that puts both teams firmly on course for a place in the last 16. with more on this, our football reporter chris latchem. a riproaring game but chelsea looked lucky to get away with one point. they are on top of group c but they are playing against as roma and it was a remarkable game. you can see, not very happy with antonio conta. look at that, he put them in front. and chelsea, while they needed their little number ten, eden hazard, but it was him who provided the equaliser with a header. we never see eden hazard scoring headers. a remarkable game of football and leaves chelsea at the top of the group. atletico madrid are just two points in the

and 21—year—old imam—ul—haq marks his international debut with a century as pakistan clinch the one dayo come but first let's go to straight to the champions league where eight games have been in action on wednesday — the pick of the bunch — a 6—goal thriller between chelsea and roma at stamford bridge. this man, david luiz opening the scoring in that game. it ended in a draw — but that puts both teams firmly on course for a place in the last 16. with more on this, our football reporter chris latchem.

age groups fear that figure could go up to one point two billion by two thousand and fifty nicholas haq reports now from the region of phatic in senegal and there was twelve years old when her mother asked her to marry a man as old as her father she ran away from school and hid in the village where her mother insisted on the wedding. ceremony was arranged and then they became pregnant before she ran away after abandoning her child to the thirteen year old worked as a prostitute. pregnant again she is now in hiding in a safe house in the capital. i'm not angry with my mother i mean she did what she could my dad beat her she was young too when she married my mother was just doing what's best for me. young girls marrying old men is the norm here twenty thousand underage girls marry every day mostly in south asia and rural west africa says the world bank and save the children under age weddings are often organized by parents in the village when they grew up boys are seen as contribution to the family by farming or working. girls do the same but they are seen as an extra mouth to feed and so

political move to clamp down on its activities ahead of the next presidential election in march nicolas haq reports from the capital freetown. jogging together on the beach it's an act of defiance for presidential candidate mohamed months and his supporters. the police been running in groups saying it's an activity that leads to unrest and vandalism. and. or destroys. and. you know if. you think. supporters of the alliance democratic party believe the directive is politically motivated to prevent members of the opposition and their candidate from campaigning ahead of the presidential election into their party headquarters it was set alight. believes the ruling party is behind the fire from political internation with some form of political unrest meant and i democrats say we need to allow people to speak up. and peaceful ways the government deny any wrongdoing saying it is promoting democracy. in such a large group. the reason why we continue to be the most peaceful country in west africa it is because the citizens all of. us because of the. with the conflict in the ninety's the decade long

meet victims of sexual abuse to address down watching allegations against un peacekeepers nicholas haq has more from the capital bangui. his arrival here in central african republic is not only to show to people here that the international community cares about this country but also alerts the international community notably donors who are cutting funding in peacekeeping operation in the united states. to show donors that there's a real risk of a genocide happening in this country like the un a chief has mentioned last week on twenty terrorist talked about what he believes as the start of and that cleansing so there are parts of this country the size of austria there are held by rebel militia groups the only people here who could do something about it is the united nations peacekeeping force twelve thousand men and the terrorists want nine hundred extra men that want to ensure the stability of the country just yet but it would allow the peacekeeper to react quickly in order to protect civilians that are being attacked now human rights organizations accused of these peacekeeping forces

troops killed there nicholas haq has the latest now from bangor. until you get terrorists met with victims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers behind closed doors late on wednesday night he told al-jazeera that he will not tolerate any more abuse and all of these cases will be thoroughly investigated today he's meeting with the president with members of political parties religious leaders after of civil societies all of those he hopes will bring back peace to this country on this visit he said that the root of the conflict comes from politics and politicians fermenting hate speech and he says that the solution will also come from politicians and politics a newly elected government that was like to back in january is going to be spearheading efforts for peace and so there's a lot at stake with this new government but some criticize it because there's not enough representation of muslims in that government the u.n. is backing the african initiative a group of african leaders that will come to central african republic in november to try to speak to variou

who've been accused of rape and sexual abuse and for many victims the wait for justice and of nicholas haq reports. the day was thirteen years old when her family took refuge by french military camp to escape the violence in her neighborhood. one of the soldiers to ask her to fetch some water inside the tent thinking she was safe she did as he asked to play in soldiers grabbed me they forced themselves inside of me i screamed they strangled me and covered my mouth when they were done and they let me go human rights organizations believe several children both boys and girls were raped by french soldiers who were there to protect them some were forced to have sex with dogs and even took pictures of the act france opened an investigation but prosecutors dropped the cases saying there was not enough evidence to charge the soldiers involved the french troops left in late two thousand and sixty since the violence and the displacement of people has intensified and it's left to the united nations peacekeepers alone to bring back stability to this country with one mandate protecting the civilian po

written by one of the main shia militia groups a group called assignable haq and in this letter eight franks members of one of the two main it could each party's for their cooperation in this iraqi military operation as i say questions being asked just how it was possible for this victory for the iraqi military to happen so quickly and already to say the conspiracy is all evidence suggesting that they may have been some sort of collusion with members of the p u k i mean the k r g government has of course been on the huge question not only from a baghdad but for regional players to everybody store slee against this controversial referendum that took place in which ninety two percent more than ninety two percent of the people who voted said yes to eventual secession from iraq until up until now there has been no face to face talks between the k r g government and baghdad baghdad demanding that the k r g makes the results of this red from referendum and void i mean this kind of victory in killer cook could only put more pressure on the k r g a to come towards baghdad and start sitting ar

he says that he has evidence of one of the main shia militia groups thanking a group called a sible haq thanking members of the p u k party the kurdish party. all of their cooperation in helping with this withdrawal from the some of these areas around kirkuk that suggests huge sort factionalism within the kurdish regional government and could well cause lots of problems but at this stage one would think there is just a shock about what has happened to a city that many of them called their jerusalem. good stuff charles drive ins in erbil great reporting today as well out on the road near kirkuk an interesting tweet have just had a from james denzel who is with that the charity save the children. he said it's worth remembering this is important with remembering that one in ten iraqis already displaced from their homes before the latest exodus is being reported so so many people were already displaced and now this is happening it just adds to the misery doesn't it so that was charles we saw him and we're also going to hear now from the who is a correspond with access to channel al jazeera