moved to malawi after malawi refused to invite ba sthoir attend. there are some countries where he's unlikely to be able to travel. that being said, with the recent au position and the south african be be position, be thoughts may be changing. >> thank you for joining us live on al jazeera. where. >> thousands of syrians have fled across the border, to r cushedz ypg fighters say they have most of talabyad, be close to the i.s.i.l. stronghold of raqqa. where. >> reporter: for 14 months i.s.i.l. controlled this syrian town on the border with turkey. not anymore. these are fighters from the syrian kurdish ypg. their flag now flies over this border crossing. forced thousands of people to cross. u.s. led coalition air strikes have helped the ypg pushing through. the price these people have paid are homes turn to rubble. >> we lost our home ten days ago. fierce fighting forced us to leave to save our fighting. before that life was okay. >> reporter: >> translator: we were terrorized by i.s.i.l left because of heavy bombardment from both sides. i will nev

perhaps malawi could learn some lessons, malawi could be a case study for how women's empowerment has happened in peace times. sometimes i worry that we tend to throw the baby out with the bath water with african customs. is there -- can we learn something from african customs and practices on women's empowerment because sometimes we tend to think that african customs don't have systems for african empowerment. perhaps you could think along those lines. thank you. >> i'm going to just ask the remaining people to very briefly put their issues down because i know people have to leave. so we'll ask you to be very brief. just the ones who are up already. >> good afternoon. my name is matilda banga. i'm originally see earierra leone. i just want buttress on what the gentleman said about the media and the effect of media in politics and how it empowers people. because i walked with the late president and we were some of the women that changed our names to be on radio and i know how effective that medium was to bring information and change to sierra leone. but as far as today, my question is

in recent years, al bashir has traveled to the middle east chad, the republic of congo kenya, and malawi, all icc members. some say the court has been disproportionately targeting black leaders from the continent. the african union has previously asked the icc to stop proceedings against sitting presidents. laura: calls for a truce in yemen as peace talks kickoff in geneva. ban ki-moon is calling for a two-week cease-fire to coincide with ramadan. expectations for a deal are low. houthi rebels have yet to arrive, while saudi arabia and allies continue to bomb sanaa. net: talks -- nick: talks are underway, but they began without whose the rebel representatives. that highlights how difficult these talks will be. the u.n. secretary-general stressed how much is at stake. yemen must not become an open wound like libya or syria. ban ki-moon: [indiscernible] nick: the u.n. is calling for a two-week truce for ramadan, but before the warring parties could consider that, the goal is to see whether they can agree to face-to-face talks. >> the idea is to bring them together. but if that does not hap

to determine the origin of the 6 and a half tons of ivory seized in singapore and shipped out of malawi. it all came from a neighboring country, zambia. wasser's team had made a discovery that would revolutionize law enforcement's approach to poaching >> basically this study debunked some of the assumptions that you and interpol had about how these activities were working? what were those assumptions? >> so there were assumptions that law enforcement in general had and one was ...when you get a big seizure, they were cherry picked from all over africa, and what we showed was that is not what is happening. that there are poached in the same area over and over and over again. >> the plight of the african elephant has been well-documented. these heartbreaking images were shot in a sanctuary for elephant orphins in kenya >> from before, the biggest enemy of elephants... >> this two year old being bottle fed stood by his mother's body for three days after she was murdered for her tusks. >> first you kill the bulls then they kill the matriarchs so now you are destroying the leadership in your

why malawi africa, why is that so important to you and your husband?> africa in general is very special to us. we've adopted from africa. it's really our second home if you will from philadelphia, because we are there so much. but they have the largest aids/hiv population per capita in the world. there are so many kids under the age of 7 that do not have a mom and dad. they really -- yes, their community takes them on but there are only so many resources that community has. just to be part of something clearly so much bigger than yourself and to really give back to a country that you know has a no guns policy has a very stable government supplies half the world in tea alone, it's just a very pleasant place to be. and it's so beautiful. it's swarming with kids that need hope that need a place. they have no school system set up there. they literally get caught under a tree no bathroom facilities no teacher, no wages. >> that's quite the education for yourself. and fulfilling work. you can help out this the sixth annual diamond and denim charity event is

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democrat did not vote earlier today, senator menendez we expect them back at 5:00 o'clock eastern malawi expect them to return from the closed-door briefing, we are going to hear from colin goddard and we will continue to expect to hear about gun control. >> the gun control debate following the charleston shootings. we have colin goddard with us. for those that don't know your story, how did you come to work on this issue? >> i came to work on this issue in an event that happened when i was in college. international relations in 2007 one morning in my french class we heard a loud name that we thought was construction and a few minutes later it turned into somebody shooting through our door in the most intense situation that i have ever experienced. and that morning there were 17 people in there there were 32 people killed in total, shot and killed, and there were over a dozen others that were shot and injured and several others as well. so that shooting situation open my eyes to something that i knew very little about. and i was frankly shocked to learn that we don't even require a backg