mahdi, exhausted but, thankfully, alive. —— mahdi. they found their pockets underground.trapped in a vast lebron of —— labyrinth of minds. many of the dead at young men. the tragedy highlights the dangerous conditions. the backbone of the gold economy, they produced more than 40% of the country's gold with little or no assistance. the celebrations are intermixed with grief. the family is the events of the last few days will force authorities to act to prevent future tragedies. international observers have jointly appealed to nigerians to back the democratic process, after the electoral commission made a last minute decision to postpone elections there. the group, which includes the african union and commonwealth, has called for calm, while the electoralcommission says politics played no part in its decision to delay the election, blaming logistical problems. 0ur correspondent tomi 0ladipo is in the capital abuja. the electoral commission has blamed operational reasons, logistics, logistic problems for them changing their minds and putting off or postponing the vote. tomi

qana me it's still not really have been able to develop its economy beyond the petrel state and local mahdi prices and then also the western sanctions are really hampering economic development and that means for a lot of russians that at the end of the month they don't have as much money left over as they'd like to say that was really kind of the the meat of what putin focused on today and less some of the more systematic issues that is kind of hampering the russian economy as a whole. business correspondent in moscow thank you. thank you. china is known for going on expensive shopping trips across the world buying tech companies robotics firms and even football clubs but now it seems european football clubs are looking to the chinese soccer leagues to support their own squads there of english premier league club mansions the city said it is planning to take over thirty a team based in chain the city football group hopes the acquisition of sichuan to new york will give it a foothold in china's developing sports market professional football has been growing in china in recent years attractin

with the civil war raging mahdi militia went on these first journey into afghanistan. at the time there were six or seven warlords that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. the first thing i notice is the devastation. you counter reminded me of the pictures i'd seen of. germany post world war two. the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there weren't a stick of furniture in the house and all the we we slept on the floor and i and i had a it was kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you don't have slide projector yankers there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts in shoreham some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. the message was always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government we're just doing recognition that allows us to attract the world back to maybe be an answer. then we may have a view.

mahdi militia secretly invited to a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. no prince covered the event. i have some the statues that i got in indonesia and their figures and the people carved out of iron wood and the people are natural. and i had that one of these professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i don't think that's going to work with the dollars bond. said well the days when you got some black trash bags in the alleys and put burgers on the stuff that's what they did with the burgers on the statue. marty miller was a vice president of oil company unocal. they wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. but how did these negotiations influence us foreign policy towards the taliban. and. i am. lucky. enough current capital of kabul is preparing for a new era of foreign forces of mostly was drawn from the afghan soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. but in twenty four teams five thousand of them were killed in battle use

well let's bring in our panel now joining as on the phone from santa is hakimullah mehsud mahdi he's a political and military mediator in amman we have college schembri he's a regional media advisor in the middle east and in the wage and refugee council and in washington d.c. is some of hamdani a visiting fellow at georgetown university very warm welcome to all of you mr must lot of we've spoken so many times over the past eight here is what happened to the yemeni revolution at the lasalle i was removed but why wasn't he replaced by democracy that was a plan democracy was a plan even the revolution was called. a peaceful resolution a place where hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in what was called square. democracy there was a bit of which are. not the case. that. he rejoined his. power he started. ensuring that the. personal by court opened the lion. by that time he controlled. government. other military. war because of the. revolution. and it is because of those thousands and fact millions of yemenis who are suffering and the various ways that yemen is of course called t

stance on pakistan for instance we know that there's general elections coming up prime minister nuri mahdi looking for reelection is there anything to look into that do you think. there is a lot of talk that he may have been forced by the pressures of the election but it is difficult to see because it was a gamble and you need to take such a big military action because you could always there could always be a backlash from the pakistanis should have been right now so it is i think it does a little fire fish to paint that he has done it for. securing an election victory because. in general i think there was a lot of anger and grief in india over the deaths off the military bully so regardless of which ever go michael was empowered there would have been forced to take some kind of action because you know i think indians do not expect. to go back to the time when there will be nor reaction but where the response was the right response. had to be debilitating the government decided that it should go ahead with that. it is difficult to frankly be critiqued i'm going to judge demand that it was

troops in the country patrick shanahan has been meeting a rox prime minister abdul mahdi in baghdad last month president trump angered the government by saying he wanted troops to stick around and keep an eye on neighboring iran shanahan says he respects iraq's sovereignty what's being described as the trial of the century and a stress test for spanish democracy is underway in madrid twelve catalan separatist leaders involved in the failed independence bid two years ago are on trial in the supremes court they face up to twenty five years in jail if convicted of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds seventeen people have died in a hotel fire in india's capital new delhi a large group of wedding guests were staying at the hotel in an area known for budget accommodation thirty five people were rescued most of the deaths were due to suffocation and investigators are trying to find out just what caused the blaze those are the headlines join me for more news here after inside story. what's the future if a caution on years of dependence movement separatist leaders accused of rebellion f

mahdi says that there is more international pressure to end the fighting. it looks like both sides are not very serious about ending the war and it seems that yemen the un envoy to yemen mr martin griffiths is going to have to pull a lot more weight putting pressure on to these parties meaning that he's going to have to rely on the british government and the american government into saying that hey the international community here wants peace and therefore that's what's going to happen so it's really important to see how the two sides in the conflict don't want to see peace but the rest of the world is kind of ready for it especially because of the humanitarian crisis there are two two options for yemen either war or peace and we know that war is only going to make things worse and peace is the only way to save yemeni lives and so it's kind of the only game in town we're going to find out what's going to happen very soon on monday when the united nations has its close meeting about yemen and we're going to find out what's going to happen next i expect that

mahdi militia secretly invited a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. no press covered the event. i have some the statues that i got in indonesia and their figures and the people carved out of ironwood and the people are naked. and i had one of these professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i don't think that's going to work with the taliban. so why would this for you guys and black trash bags in the alleys and put workers on the spot that's what they did with the burkas on the statue. marty miller was a vice president of oil company unocal. they wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. but how did these negotiations influence u.s. foreign policy towards the taliban. and. i am. lucky. enough can capital of kabul is preparing for a new iraq foreign forces mostly was drawn into afghan soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. but in twenty fourteen five thousand of them were killed in battles against the taliban. but the taliban has

with the civil war raging mahdi militia went on these first journey into afghanistan. at the time there were six or seven were lowered that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. the first thing i noticed is the devastation. the counter reminded me of the pictures i'd seen of. germany post world war two. the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there wasn't a stick of furniture in the house and all that we we slept on the floor and i know . had to it was kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you know now slide projector yeah because there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts and short some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. they were measuring always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government to get you in recognition that allows us to attract the world back to maybe be financial. then we may hav

following a meeting with shanahan, prime minister adel abdul-mahdi reiterated that the u.s. mission in iraq must be limited to helping combat terrorism. the senate has overwhelmingly passed a major new public lands bill, voting 92-8 to add over a million acres of protected wilderness, add four new national monuments, and expand eight existing national parks. a provision also prevents mining in over 370,000 acres of land around two national parks including montana's yellowstone. the bill, which now heads to the house for approval, would also permanently reauthorize the federal land and water conservation fund, which lapsed last year. in new york city, a federal jury rendered a guilty verdict on all 10 counts against notorious mexican drug kiningpin joaquin l chapo" g guzman after a three-montnth long trial. the counts include conspiracy to launder drug money, international distribution of drugs, the use of firearms, and engaging in a criminal enterprise -- which carrrries a mandatory lilife sentence. during the more than 200 hours of testimony at the federal district court in

with the civil war raging mahdi militia went on these first journey into afghanistan. at the time there were six or seven war lords that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. the first thing i notice is the devastation. the counter reminded me of the pictures i had seen of. germany pows world war two. the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there were no stick of furniture in the house and all we we slept on the floor and i. had to it was kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you know now slide projector yeah because there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts in shoreham some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. they were measuring always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government because you know in recognition that allows us to attract the world back to maybe be an answer. then we may have to.

such a key to getting a solution for question is then i think better sense of what demand that the mahdi reaches out to to pakistan for finding a solution it's it's simply it cannot happen in an air of in of this in an area which is by a continuous a string of allegations blinding holding every. responsible for everything ok well let's just bring in victoria here mean obviously it's a very heated scenario no matter who you speak to victoria whether it's in india or in pakistan you're hearing what our guests are saying i mean in terms of trying to find a solution and also trying to find restraint how difficult is that for politicians on both sides at the moment because we always know there's always backroom diplomacy that goes on between any two nations and what has to assume there must be some form of backroom diplomacy that goes on between india and pakistan. well there has been very good diplomacy over the decades and i think what one has to do in this this current scenario is go back a little bit to the history and see what's happened before as you mentioned i've written on kasmir i w

the u.s., in response to that momentum will increase and put pressure on prime minister adil abdul mahdi, who leads a government considered technically capable, b has no natural constituency. >> he was turned to by the political parties in parliament and asked to form a gont. he is in that sense a relatively weak prime minister. you don't want the prime minister in a political battle with parliament because in the iraqi system, the prime minster will alwaylose. >> schifrin: today, the top commander in the middle eastss tried to re that the u.s. respected iraqi wishes. >> our military mission on the ground remains very focused on the reason that the government su iraq asked us to come there. >> schifrin: and hested the president's comments had not become a military order. virginia senator tim kaine: >> as far as you know there's not a change in the definition of the mission, at least as far as the pentagon is concerned? >> i have no additional tasks that have been given to me with regard to that.u. >> if th were to change its definition of the mission in n'aq, to be a mission about watchi

well let's bring in our panel now joining as on the phone from santa is hakimullah mehsud mahdi he's a political and military mediator in amman we have college schembri he's a regional media advisor in the middle east and in the wage and refugee council and in washington d.c. is some of hamdani a visiting fellow at georgetown university very warm welcome to all of you mr must money we've spoken so many times over the past eight here is what happened to the yemeni revolution ali abdullah saleh was removed but why wasn't he replaced by democracy that was a plan democracy was a plan even the revolution was called. a peaceful resolution a place where hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered what was culturally where they were. democracy those which are. not the case. that. he rejoined his. power he started. ensuring that the. personal by courts and the lion is. by that time the control of. our government. other military. war because of that. revolution. and it is because of those thousands and fact millions of yemenis who are suffering and the various ways that yemen is of course cal

such a key to getting a solution for question here then i think better sense of what demand that the mahdi reaches out to to pakistan for finding a solution it's it's simply it cannot happen in an air of in of this in an area which is by a continuous a string of allegations winding or link every. responsible for everything ok well let's just bring in victoria here mean obviously it's a very heated scenario no matter who you speak to victoria whether it's in india or in pakistan you're hearing what our guests are saying i mean in terms of trying to find a solution and also trying to find restraint how difficult is that for politicians on both sides at the moment because we always know there's always backroom diplomacy that goes on between any two nations and what has to assume there must be some form of backroom diplomacy that goes on between india and pakistan. well there has been very good diplomacy over the decades and i think what one has to do in this this current scenario is go back a little bit to the history and see what's happened before as you mentioned i've written on kasmir i wr