january two thousand and thirteen four thousand french soldiers are deployed in mali. their mission to stop separatist rebels advancing on the capital bamako. but operation survival is different from the long series of interventions by france and its former african colonies. today the french are not the only ones with interests in the region they have to deal with new players china and now the united states is. africa is now a key territory on the global chessboard of the twenty first century. and from libya to the central african republic from south sudan to northern mali conflict and chaos has spread throughout the continent. at the heart of this turmoil a strategic territory. the vast region that straddles the sahara to the north and the savannahs in the south has become an important new front in the so-called war against terrorism. but is the official narrative the fight against terrorism masking a larger battle. the resources are plentiful. there's castor oil there's called. and the list goes on and on and on to. tell you how to keep. the new scramble for africa s

january two thousand and thirteen four thousand french soldiers are deployed in mali. their mission to stop separatists rebels advancing on the capital bamako. but operation is survival is different from the long series of interventions by france and its former african colonies. today the french are not the only ones with interests in the region they have to deal with a new place china and now the united states is. africa is now a key territory on the global chessboard of the twenty first century. and from libya to the central african republic from south sudan to northern mali conflict and chaos has spread throughout the continent. at the heart of this turmoil a strategic territory the size the vast region that straddles the sahara to the north and the savannahs in the south has become an important new front in the so-called war against terrorism. but is the official narrative the fight against terrorism masking a larger battle. the resources are plentiful. there's castor oil there's call to. gold. and the list goes on and on it ought to. tell you what actually market.

initiative and in the pan so how initiative basically was to work with countries in the salah like mali like. chad mauretania in order to give them some of the basic stuff communication equipment where they can talk to each other across the border. just simple stuff to where they can help us find. l. paul and power i was eventually captured with the help of the united states. the u.s. armed forces now had a foothold in the south and they are. why don't we take this little thing called p.s.i.i. and make it a little bit more robust where we start taking countries from within the region sally and region and became a trance a hell counterterrorism program and try to get them all to work on something that we all care about which is counterterrorism so will do training and equipping and all in this training and equipping then we come together bring those countries into a live exercise. as we bring all these countries together we do this live exercise we flex our muscles in the region because send a message to the bad guys saying don't mess around everybody's working together in concert true m

some very exciting new environmental stories for you from africa and europe such as how farmers in mali are dealing with the climate change situation in this a hell region but that's not all here are the other stories we have lined up for today. our solar car wash and surprising cameron is expanding. don't talk about how the songs raise can be used to distill water. and how an artist in uganda trannie try to hold a. press let's head to in cameroon one of the problems affecting the metropolis is a shortage of water especially for the local cower services which is believed to waste quite a lot of it experts estimate that it takes more than one hundred liters of water to clean just one single car and that is not good a local startup has proved that environmentalists business friendly activity is a growing market in africa it could africa takes you on a ride to the coward. sylvania will not regularly inspect says machines a local entrepreneur when he launched his business last year and we've just a few now he has twenty five part time washington. we bring them something new you know most of

the mali empire most of the buildings you see there are all gold with. holes this is how the team builds a wall. they use different mud mixtures layered one over another that gives the house an interesting aesthetic there's a good exercise through you know. but all the walls are really solid enough. just like a sedimentary rock real mcinnes adamantly rock by deformed thousands of years. piling on top of each other over thousands of years but we are often in the process so. when for sunshine the word green after some time is big it's like a manmade storm. the company has built four houses so far it started out with a little prototype building experimenting with different materials and techniques including using bricks made in. this cafeteria in north and gone i was more ambitious and scale. this residential project is the biggest so far materials are cheap it's cost about one hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars that's about one third less than the price was invention new building and there are more advantages you get very very good in indoor air quality.

united the rebel forces launched an offensive against mali and soldiers in several garrison towns in the north. these mannion troops had completed years of training by africa home but the training didn't pay off. for a bit but is it as you need to sort of visit to dissolve the book give it to the foremost chill for some better call to maybe not so none of the local is unity. for me so sore dysart ok it's a song means so but a dakota did have it. worse was yet to come when one thousand million soldiers were captured and summarily executed in a rebel attack on the offices in bamako mutinied against the government they say it was incapable of controlling the situation. the coup was led by one of afrikaans top pupils captain amadou sana book who was trained as an infantry and intelligence officer at the u.s. bases in virginia georgia texas and arizona. this was a guy the americans had trained and invested time and money and then he made things ten times worse in mali. and then more setbacks for africa calm. again. other rebel forces invaded the major cities of northern mining they met li

january two thousand and thirteen four thousand french soldiers are deployed in mali. their mission to stop separatist rebels advancing on the capital bamako. but operation sarah vowell is different from the long series of interventions by france and its former african colonies. today the french are not the only ones with interests in the region they have to deal with new players china and now the united states is. africa is now a key territory on the global chessboard of the twenty first century. and from libya to the central african republic from south sudan to northern mali conflict and chaos has spread throughout the continent. at the heart of this turmoil a strategic territory in the sinai the vast region that straddles the sahara to the north and the savannahs in the south has become an important new front in the so-called war against terrorism. but is the official narrative the fight against terrorism masking a larger battle. the resources are plentiful. there is castor oil there is called. gold card. and the list goes on and on it ought to. keep it's going to p

in-between vacation snaps we got a glimpse of rallies in support of the opposition in the capital mali while on other social media platforms we were able to see support for the president's progressive party the maltese now just as electoral campaigning ended we heard news of government raids on opposition headquarters and throughout the week reports on line point at a possible crackdown on dissent we spoke to my neck really are a journalist for channel thirteen in the maldives this is what she had to say. everyone is really excited for this presidential election this year because this is the first time after the new constitution that a president is being elected just by for the first round because there's only two candidates this time the current president abdoulaye are going to talk a little and the morning were democratic party's candidate also a parliamentarian of love hearing he never knew mr graham was suddenly so there's two candidates in the roots really excited to go toward also. some people like using the election commission that there were previous election however according

the mali empire most of the buildings you see there are all build with. this is how the team builds a wall. they use different mud mixtures layered one over another that gives the house an interesting aesthetic there's a good exercise through you know. all the walls really solid enough. is just like a sedimentary rock real mcinnes adamantly rock by default thousands of years. yes piling on top of each other over thousands of years while we are forced into process so. when for sunshine the word green after some time is big it's like a manmade storm. the company has built four houses so far it started out with a little prototype building experimenting with different materials and techniques including using bricks made in. this cafeteria in north in ghana it was more ambitious and skill. this residential project is the biggest so far materials are cheap it's cost about one hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars that's about one third less than the price was invention new building and there are more advantages you get very very good in indoor air quality. the wa

opposition supporters on the streets of mali is their leader abraham mohammed sali claimed victory in modise presidential elections. for five years president i believe you mean has been in power they say he has been dethroned and want him to concede this is a moment of happiness this is a moment of hope this is a moment of history for many of us this is been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prism so four years of exile politics in the most daves has been tumultuous since my home in the shade became its first democratically elected president ten years ago he was ousted in a coup the spent most of his time in exile intra lanka he watched as his friend and ally saleh rallied opposition leaders into a coalition to take power back i like to call that i congratulated on the grandmama so i did the president elect. yeah has got that dream the heart and it's jeems like living there in the last four or five years firstly it's inside was arrested. the maldives has been in political turmoil do you mean during his five year tenure two former presidents the prosecutor general and a n

joe leaves behind his wife, mali -- is mali here today? and mali and joe together have a beautiful two-year-old daughter named jodi. and i hope that we as a community will continue to uplift and embrace jodi and share with jodi our own fond memories of jungle so that she will grow up to know the man that we knew. joe "jungle" will be truly missed. the city of san francisco has lost a giant, an hero, an angel that walked among us on this earth. today, we have jungle's family as well as members of the svip family. i humbly ask that my colleagues take into consideration that we close today's meeting in honor of joe tatui so that we can ensure that his work lives on. although he has left this earth and is no longer with us, his spirit, his memory, and his legacy still lives on. and family, i know this is a difficult time, but i'm so happy to see you here today, standing united together. i want to give supervisor safai an opportunity to also speak, and if there's any other members on this body that would like to recognize jungle's contributions

his supporters have held celebrations in the capital, mali.ed his rival, president abdulla yameen, and called on him to accept the will of the people. this is a moment of happiness. this is a moment of hope. this is a moment of history. for many of us, this has been a difficult journey. a journey that has led to a prison cell, or years in exile. it has been a journey that accompanied politicisation and breakdown of public institutions, but it has been a journey that has ended at the ballot box because the people will lead. in the uk, labour party officials in the uk have agreed the wording of the brexit motion to be discussed at the party conference in liverpool. it will propose that, if there isn't a general election, labour should support all options, including campaigning for a public vote. that could include a referendum on a brexit deal. and as our political correspondent iain watson reports the government will also be releasing more information today about issues including immigration once britain leaves the eu. that will meet to discuss

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some claim to this atrocity took place in mali. 0thers said it was filmed in the far north of cameroon the story was taken up by bbc world news's investor —— investigation strand. thank you for coming on newswatch. when the video went viral, what was

continent and we already seeing chinese peacekeepers very active in countries like south sudan and mali and catherine is there anything that germany can learn from china's relationship with africa. well other than the fact that you know africa union chair commission chair fuck you said that china in africa does centuries of history and as well as you know fighting the imperial fighting imperialism china does offer no strings attached in terms of politics when it comes to giving these loans so these countries that take up these loans don't necessarily have to be accountable and they will not interfere in the in the internal affairs of african countries some people argue that these african governments do not have checks and balances when we have rampant and runaway corruption in the continent but no strings attached is basically what makes china so attractive noninterference policy so not interference policy that from china looking at this partnership over time would have been the main benefit for african nations. well those who say that we have seen a lot of development in africa since t

some claim to this atrocity took place in mali. others said it was filmed in the far north of cameroon, where government soldiers have been fighting boko haram since 2014. the story was taken up by bbc world news's investor —— investigation strand. thank you for coming on newswatch. when the video went viral, what was the response of the cameroonian government? well, initially the cameroonian government denied that these were cameroonian soldiers, that it was... that this killing happened on cameroonian soil and they continued to deny and deny and call this fake news. so usually you would expect that with the kind of clues we had, which had to do with the uniforms of soldiers were wearing, even the ammunition they had on. the government said that this was not typical of cameroonian soldiers in the far north of the country, where this video was recorded. but that is where the investigation came in and we were able to uncover that is indeed actually was the case. and talk me through some of the other things that you set about proving

some claim this atrocity took place in mali.t was filmed in the far north of cameroon where government soldiers have been fighting vocal around since 2014. —— the story was taken up... the reporter therejoins me now from nairobi to explain what happened next. thank you for coming on. once that video went viral, what was the response of the government? well, initially the government in cameroon denied that these were their soldiers. that this killing happened on cameroon soiled. and they continued to deny and call this fa ke they continued to deny and call this fake news. usually you would expect that with the kind of clues we had that with the kind of clues we had that had to do with the uniforms the soldiers were wearing and the ammunition they had on the government said that this was not typical of soldiers in the far north of the country where this video was recorded. but that is where the investigation came in and were able to uncover that. talk me through some of the other things that you set about proving to be able to sho

the newly reelected president of mali is about to be inaugurated on the eve of saturday's ceremony in bamako police fired tear gas to disperse crowds demonstrating against the election result. one by a landslide in august opposition groups allege widespread voter rigging. news whatever you wanted on the website al jazeera dot com is the address you need also via the on your smartphone to up next is art trafficking i'll have more news in thirty minutes about. antiquities trafficking is one of the most profitable illegal trades in the world estimated to be worth several billion dollars a year it ranks on after illegal arms and drugs precious objects plundered or discovered in clandestine excavations find their way onto the official market into museums and galleries. the main victims of the pillage nations are now demanding the return of their stolen treasures for a long time these demands were ignored. but systematic ransacking of heritage sites meticulously staged by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a global outcry and has reopened the debate with changing publi

are still so out the tropics still in the saddle sometimes we've seen recent flooding in nigeria and mali most likely in senegal to. my endanger it is a place where this is going to truly call in to hold. you have to plan group spring you know the ones you've made to ones you know you all ends up with money managerial is resilient and is just sort of surprises the plan and here he does say is yes to every normal. mind nigeria. on al-jazeera. the russian orthodox church has deep pockets and the opposite sponsor may bear its crucial role in putin's grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to saying to president putin is our leader that given to all the good people in power investigates how often it's attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the hall the russian state the orthodox connection on the. back the critical top stories russia and turkey have a great setup a demilitarized zone in syria's province to separate government forces and rebel fighters after that announcement syrian state media said its defense forces and intercepted a number of

journalist with the multi-verse independent news website he joins us on the line from the capital mali welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera just give us a sense of what the turnout and the atmosphere is like today. to have on the turnout from untold turkey that for the. three hours ago very much of commission spokesperson told me about thirty eight percent of a lot of had turned out to work at that point which was. packing and around eight in the morning. and like you pointed out earlier reports of quote in an hour that secure the long periods outside oh our politicians we have in the capital and every hour you can attend the courts from. the session across across the country as well . junaid the people they're voting on the basic ordinary predictable electoral issues or are they voting on the state of democracy in the country i think it.

opposition supporters on the streets of mali is their leader abraham mohammed so lay claim victory and mow dave's presidential elections. for five years president i believe you mean has been in power they say he has been dethroned and want him to concede this is a moment of happiness this is a moment of hope this is a moment of history for many of us this is been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prism so four years of. politics in the most daves has been tumultuous since mohammed in the shade became its first democratically elected president ten years ago he was ousted in occur in a spend most of his time in exile intra lanka he watched as his friend and ally soulé rallied off position leaders into a coalition to take power back i like to call that a conduct alert on the ground moment so i mean the president elect. yet has worked it seems the hard and it's jeems living dead in the last four five years specially since i was arrested. the maldives has been in political turmoil and do you mean during his five year tenure two former presidents the prosecutor general and a nu

for mali has devastated health infrastructure has struggled to do the casualties in the past. and as the war with began in the one nine hundred ninety s. goes on somali civilians continue to suffer. out of their. israel's navy has been firing on boats attempting to breach the naval blockade of gaza the palestinian vessels are part of a flotilla that planned to sail off the gaza strip to join an international campaign against the siege carrying students activists and patients who can't get the urgent treatment they need due to the strict blockade imposed by israel human rights watch is calling for an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia following the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month on saturday the saudi amorality coalition admitted the attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed this week the un will lead talks to try to end the conflict but the warring parties won't actually meet face to face with more from djibouti. human rights watch uses very strong language to condemn the saudi led coalition operation in northeast yemen at t

important very quick the united states has been warned about bad consequences in syria new riyadh in mali the former prime minister of iraq said that the civil war would spread to iraq they said no and it's it did spread their african union in libya the african union warned the united states that after cut off the falls there is going to be and migration disaster is going to be a carrier so it really didn't at least two thousand and three there was no isis in iraq and there was no isis in syria mark we hear humanitarian catastrophe we've heard this many many times before look what happened with aleppo when it was liberated was there a humanitarian catastrophe no it's completely forgotten ok the same thing the humanitarian forces of al qaeda were completely driven from the city. i mean this coming from the united states is simply rise of bull. no one cried about a humanitarian catastrophe when the u.s. was bombing the iraqi cities of. salt or uninvited the syrian cities of rock body man be when they were driving jihadists in this case isis out of western iraq and eastern syria in fact in a

some claimed that this atrocity took place in mali.was filmed in the far north of cameroon, where government soldiers have been fighting boko haram since 2014. the government of cameroon initially dismissed the video as fake news. one month later, they announced seven members of the military were under investigation. but there has still been no official admission that these killings were carried out on cameroonian soil by government soldiers, and there is still no guarantee that anyone will be held to account. so how can we tell what really happened here? over the next few minutes we are going to follow these women and children on the short walk to the end of their lives, and to glean from this video the clues that tell us where this happened, when it happened, and who was responsible for this atrocity. gunshots. this looks like the kind of dusty anonymous track that could be anywhere in the sahel. but the first a0 seconds of the film capture a mountain range with a distinctive profile. we spent hours trying to match this range to the

some claim this atrocity to place in mali. 0thers this atrocity to place in mali.ar north of cameroon where government soldiers have been fighting boko haram since 2014. a detailed bbc investigation has proved where this happened, when it happened and who is responsible for this atrocity. in latejuly, we received a tip—off from a cameroon source. close to the lb, we found a match for this ridgeline. it places the scene on a dirt road just outside a village. the video also reveals this track, these buildings and these trees. putting all this evidence together, we can see the killings happened here. as to when the killings took place, this building is visible on satellite imagery, but only until february 2016. the murders must have happened before that date. satellite images also capture this structure, the walls surrounding at present in imagery dated march 2015, but not in november 2000 14. this group have also only appears in the hot dry season between january and april. as they lead these women away, the soldiers, like moving sundials, cast shadows on the track.

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of mali's stone is already famous in croatia for its excellent oysters and mussels now it has another visitor attraction to offer each year five thousand red wine bottles were deposited on the seabed where they age for two years. white wine incidentally would need to be stored at a much greater depth to ensure adequate temperatures. this special wine goes perfectly with meat and cheese but it doesn't come cheap a bottle of normally aged underwater wine can be had for seventy year olds one aged in a clay amphora for even two hundred eight euros people are usually bought for special occasions but if you ask me we only live once so i think every special case. the winery has patented this unique and for aging method which they say gives the wine its special flavor. the romans and greeks they used them for us before for transportation to wine but they put the wine directly into the cli and now for eyes different because first it put the wand into a glass bottle and then we put it into play and for. wine connoisseurs they do probably it's high end now to a restaurant appreciate the pricey b

opposition supporters on the streets of mali is their leader abraham mohammed so lay claim victory and mow dave's presidential elections. for five years president i believe you mean has been in power they say he has been dethroned and want him to concede this is a moment of happiness this is a moment of hope this is a moment of history for many of us this is been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prism so four years of. politics in the mold daves has been to mulch you a sense mohammed in the shade became its first democratically elected president ten years ago he was ousted in a career in a spin most of his time in exile intra lanka he watched as his friend and ally soulé rallied off position leaders into a coalition to take power back i like to call that a condo delivered on the ground moment so i mean the president elect. yeah has worked it seems the hard and it's jeems i love it that in the last four fight there's this insight was that just. the maldives has been in political turmoil do you mean during his five year tenure two former presidents the prosecutor general a

the mole deaves independents an online news website he joins us via skype now from the capital of mali thanks very much for being with us so we just mentioned there the concern being expressed about. the state of things there and these elections and how they're being conducted in your view are those concerns justified under these concerns near term. to really have seen from the early part of for example. three months ago a few months before action that they were told. that was written to riches commerce . who was osama loyalist of that. are in prison and he was actually a leap. up presidential election in prince william it was for him it would be their consumption and short really because. it's so a lot of the coins don't sit around and especially. drain on day. i was assured so a lot of these have lead to an increase in some outs. of this election all right apologies jeanette mohammed we're going to we're going to have to cut this short unfortunately because the quality of our connection to you is is. is not not the best at the moment so unfortunate was difficult to hear but we thank

we were given a space in mali just for one ready and that shocked the. ruling regime and now the they've rounded it krista for five more nights and they refused to do that and also. european union and others did not come because they have a certain demands that the european union made your opinion and believed that. all the political leader has been arrested and they should be released before the elections otherwise it is not going to be free and fair so we have a candidate that all the political leaders have agreed agreed full and. but the problem here is that there was deva never a child being a free and fair election in more days. because we did not get equal opportunity to ken and neither do we did we get other people who should become just in the election to contest so. in july this year the european union made some demands and these are not to abide. by the government. supreme court judges they their kids through the roof and veg the chief justice of the flow and dragged him out of the. of his and put him in jail and got the former president to ser

you're not then you know you need to mali call us implementing my thought out loud problem you just got to go you. i mean honestly i want to call it was you know things got out of the ticket but the. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see them. not that i would have that happen not that i am not out of the budget that i'm not out of the i'm not of the money the daily planet actually. this was a good time to. try to move there i'm. not done that out loud yet my little funny not why not check gender again why x. generated the whole people we believe is of the o.p.'s. lot of i can say what the bible says john even a lot of the moment about a mother had a lot of kids or is it a little odd i'm a little like a mad builder left about the things i don't want to put out a looked almost party without all the muslim brotherhood. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent o

you're not then you know you need to mali call us implementing my thought out loud problem you just got to go you. i mean honestly almost as equals you know things that are the secret but the. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the mountains and the slowdown so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to be culled from rich eight point

country has seen a surge in islam as violence in part due to crackdowns on insurgencies in neighboring mali and the share. police in turkey have detained hundreds of workers who are protesting over conditions at istanbul's new airport thousands took part in protests sparked after more than a dozen people were injured in an on site accident the demonstration was broken up by riot police who fired tear gas at the crowd. german chancellor angela merkel's conservative allies in bavaria the c.s.u. have met in munich to discuss strategy ahead of a key regional election next month polls show the party could be heading towards its worst result in more than sixty years as voters defect to other parties including the far right. the party's leader horse as a whole for who also serves as germany's federal interior minister has dropped in the polls after clashes with merkel on a number of issues including migration. is at the c.s.u. party conference in munich for us need it recently the c.s.u. has taken on some of the far right viewpoints of the anti immigration has that failed as a strategy. well migra

opposition supporters on the streets of mali is their leader abraham mohammed so lay claim to victoryand mow dave's presidential elections. for five years president i believe you mean has been in power they say he has been dethroned and want him to concede this is a moment of happiness this is a moment of hope this is a moment of history for many of us this is been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prism so four years of. politics in the mold daves has been to mulch you a sense mohammed in the shade became its first democratically elected president ten years ago he was ousted in a career in a spent most of his time in exile intra lanka he watched as his friend and ally soulé rallied off position leaders into a coalition to take power back i like to call that i congratulated on the way the grandmama saw that the president elect. yet has got that dream the heart and it's jeems like living dead in the last four or five years specially since i was arrested. the maldives has been in political turmoil and do you mean during his five year tenure two former presidents the prosec

brought disastrous results for everyone including western countries but then there is intervention like mali intervention that actually prevented a more disastrous results on the ground should we say no to interventions all together or surely you know maybe she's in peak where we can do and here we can't my second term would course multilateral and then give you two exhibits ok. there were two interventions in iraq one by father bush one by son bush father bush and secretary of state james baker to over one hundred countries to get support for un resolution it was the legal war and the war whole world supported the son bush went ahead and i was in the security council in two thousand and one two thousand and two sitting next to sergei lavrov for two years. and that war was against the opposition of the international community and that's why it was a disaster so i say yes doing to be in but followed the international rules willing to venture in which is get security council approval before you intervene. thank you so much for this wonderful into your insight i really recommend all of you to r

remember this dramatic rescue when mamoudou gassama from mali, was caught on camera dramatically rescuingell, the child‘s father has just been given a three—month suspended sentence for neglecting his parental responsibilities. prosecutors said he‘d left the boy at home alone to go shopping. he was also ordered to take a course on being a better parent. the british artist jason decaires taylor, whose sea sculpture was destroyed by the authorities in the maldives, says he is extremely shocked and heartbroken. the art work, called the coralarium, was labelled by a court a ‘threat to islamic unity‘ because of the use of human figures. mr decaires taylor said it was a ‘sad day for art and sad day for the environment.‘ president trump has delivered a scathing attack on what he called the ideology of globalism. in an address to the united nations general assembly, mr trump said america would always act in a spirit of patriotism. he also attacked the iranian leadership, accusing it of instigating ‘chaos, death and destruction‘ across the middle east. our north america editor jon sopel reports. w

from mali is devastated health infrastructure has struggled to do the casualties in the past. and as the war regarding the one nine hundred ninety s. goes on somali civilians continue to suffer. some of the job out of their. human rights watch is calling for an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia following the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month the rights group is accusing the military coalition of committing war crimes in yemen on saturday the saudi an erotic coalition admitted the attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed. well yemeni president. hadi is preparing to travel to the united states for medical treatment hadi has been treated for a heart condition since two thousand and eleven and he's been living in exile in saudi arabia since the iran backed rebels took control of the capital sana and twenty fifteen. of a kind of corruption in guatemala in june is still having a knock on effect on farmers in the area they're struggling to rebuild their livelihood since a huge swathe of agricultural land was destroyed by well count

mali's president. kato has been sworn in for his second term in office this ceremony and by marco went ahead after the constitutional court confirmed he won last month's runoff election and dismissed fraud accusations from the opposition candidate cato has vowed to strengthen national security against extremist violence. also in africa the former democratic republic of congo warlord. has announced a long delayed december presidential election as a quote parity after the country's top court banned him from contesting it bumba was one of six presidential hopefuls excluded by the election commission from the vote he appealed but the constitutional court has upheld the balancing it was because of his conviction by the international criminal court the i.c.c. for bribing witnesses at his crimes trial. well the term of office in the fall or term of office of the d r c's incumbent president joseph kabila and a two years ago but he refused to step down in the violent unrest that followed the roman catholic chur

believe that maybe they didn't see me it's not me and said look at me look you voters in the capital mali queue to cause the ballot so i'm cautiously optimistic that change is still possible i'm just going to take this my nights and i'm going to vote and i'm hoping that we have a free and fair election. there are only a quarter million registered voters in the mold to use your position say the big to read prison. and his reelection for another five years is a foregone conclusion. alex the top lists are. well in last hour i spoke with the former president mohamed nasheed the maltese first democratically elected leader and he says he is confident the opposition candidate will defeat president i mean i think the president is going to go through this process i do not think that he is going to win this evening voting is very. overwhelming we have an exit poll. and we are doing over sixty so this is very good and even if the president. it will be enough. majority i think i believe that we are going to get through tonight. if the president. would. request the international community. not to acce

wednesday's show comes from the home of sheffield steel and we talked to rajiv majid the british from mali lord bath of the south yorkshire city deal then keep in touch with us via social media that's it for the show we'll see you on wednesday the birthday of one of us renowned reputed political prisoners ought to be imprisoned native american activist leonard peltier called great of modern brando to die the padrone by barack obama has been celebrated in music by rage against the machine pete seeger harry belafonte jackson browne mos def as you. bumpus pushing the europeans to understand that. we have to be together because the only way to be to get there means reacting to these threats is say i think the traced straits of triumphalism or go straight for your. prosecution will need to become almost. a full. court where you question the thread you'll find somebody known to us you do i mean yeah yeah i mean political pressure on that i need to know through security genocide knows when to pull your bundled up business models he was my american corporations doubt he's sold on could be mental d

continent and we're ready seeing chinese peacekeepers very active in countries like south sudan and mali and catherine is there anything that germany can learn from china's relationship with africa. well other than the fact that you know africa union chair commission chair said that china in africa's centuries of history and as well as you know fighting the imperial fighting imperialism china does offer no strings attached in terms of politics when it comes to giving these loans so these countries that take up these loans don't necessarily have to be accountable and they will not interfere in the in the internal affairs of african countries some people argue that then these african governments do not have checks and balances when we have rampant and runaway corruption in the continent but no strings attached is basically what makes china so attractive noninterference policy so no interference policy there from china looking at this partnership over time what have been the main benefits for african nations. well those who say that we have seen a lot of development in africa since the you