. >> almost 100,000 people forced from homes as fierce floods his mozambique and ma law wee. a welcome for pope francis in the philippines. >> satellite images show the deadliest massacre in the history of boko haram on two towns in northern nigeria giving a look at a region which has become extremely dangerous and difficult to access. this was done before the armed group moved in, vegetation shaded in red. all around, you see streets and buildings. here's the same town on january 7. just look at that, an estimated 3,000 homes as well as schools and clinics destroyed. it's a similar seen three miles away. here it is on the second of january, another thriving down and this is how it looks five days later after attacks by boko haram. 20,000 people have fled the area. amnesty international has severed disturbing testimony from survivors of these latest attacks. >> witnesses are telling us that boko haram attacked saturday, more than one week ago went house to house pulling people out of their homes and shooting them in the streets. we've also had reports from eyewitnesses as the

mozambique's government has issued a red alert. mali -- malawi is appealing for international assistance. >>> new travel and trade rules between the united states and cuba are set to come into effect on friday. the measures will let u.s. citizens use credit cards in cuba and american businesses will be able to export some technologies. rosiland jordan has more details. >> reporter: the changes in u.s. regulations regarding economic and personal contacts with persons in cuba have long been expected. now they take effect on friday. what happens is that cuban americans will be able to send up to $2,000 at a time to their relatives. there will also be improved business and telecom communications contact, and for people who fit into one of 12 categories, journalistic humanitarian, and others they will not have to ask the u.s. government for permission to visit cuba as long as they are following other rules. what this means is that the u.s. is very much committed now to the process of normalizing relations with cuba which has not been in

mozambique's government has issued an alert. there are warnings of heavy rain fall and flash floods over the next two to three weeks. >>> now the oil price cash is having a dramatic effect on the global economy. it's arguably good news for consumers, but bad news for producers? june brent crude peeked at around $111 a barrel. and it has had a 55% drop in six months. it's the biggest oil-producing nations that are hardest hit. venezuela needs the price to be around a massive $117 per barrel to break even. russia's average break-even point is around $98 per barrel. we'll cross over to nadine barber to see how the drop in oil prices is affecting jobs in the energy industry there, but first let's go to peter sharpe who is in moscow as we heard the russian economy is starting to struggle. tell us about the pinch and how it's being felt there. >> well really it's all a result of russia's total failure to reduce its dependency on exports of gas and oil. for every dollar knocked off of a barrel of oil, costs russia $2 billion. and russi

when the war ended in 1992 mozambique was the poorest country on earth. 900,000 had been killed. millions were run from their homes. then the hiv/aids epidemic hit. today most people live in villages like this one, farming mostly hand to mouth. >> as you can see, it's one of the poorest. >> mateus mutemba works with greg carr. you know, i noticed-- hey, my man-- a lot of the children, their bellies are distended. >> yes. >> they're obviously not well. >> yes, in most cases, they are not even aware they are sick. >> part of it's because folks like these can't get anywhere close to a nurse or a doctor. >> the clinics are very far away. the nearest is 19 kilometers from here, so when they are sick, they stay at home, pray, and hope that they will get better. [rooster crowing] >> now compare that village we just saw with the future that greg carr sees. these are people from another village called vinho. it's rush hour on the pungue river, which runs along gorongosa park. a couple of hundred of these villagers were working for the park as rangers, cooks and the like. you know, this is

mozambique has flooded. in 2007 floods affected half a million. each weather system lasted for weeks, and opened the gaits of the dams bursting the damage downstream. it appears for the rehabilitation of the people who lost everything. mozambique's government issued and allowing for humanitarian systems to deal with the crisis. there are warnings of rain fall and heavy flooding for the next two weeks >>> pope francis touches down on the philippines for a second leg in o week-long street. he's been treated in manila. these are live pictures now. the pope is there, greeted by dignitaries and political figures, religious figures. we must not forget the people lining the streets are expecting millions to turn out to hear the pope speak in the philippines capital. he is delivering many masses let's join harry fawcett, who is watching up of this. the philippines is a large catholic country, the pope's preps expected to draw millions. it's the third largest catholic country in the world. 80 million are spicted to be catholic. the pope got off the plane i

in mozambique it went off for a half decade without any program.just killing, destroying, and their purpose was destroying. in fact, they could not get a party congress together to build a program, and then to negotiate with the people in mozambique. the same thing was true about the groups in liberia. who were just out for an expression of rage, of alienation, and not having anything else to do. this was a way of showing how they were fed up with the situation. not even fed up, but just loose ends. this is one thing that they could do. when groups like this become successful in the context of this type of event, then they find that they have territory, then they have to start operating like the state, like the government, they have to take care of their people and we'll see what happens now that they have a large area. will they be able to convert into some kind of governing program? >> aminu gamawa. that's the hard part to figure. some of these crimes don't seem to be designed to win either allegiance or at least a fearful obedience or anything.

four days of rain have day luged mozambique. most were caught off guard because it came in so fast. >> for more on the weather here, we turn to nicole mitchell. >> not to the extent we saw in that video out there but as you look across the country we don't have too much in terms of active weather so that's good as beget towards the weekend. through the south, we have a disturbance with cooler air from rain along the coastline to the northern edge of this, places like missouri and illinois seeing a few snowflakes. ahead of this, we have more moisture that there are areas of fog you are going to be in and out of this morning. this continues to clear its way out, mostly through the day today, lingering on the east coastline into the day tomorrow. as we get toward the weekend another dry forecast. i mentioned the northern side is kind of the snow side. a lot of these temperatures southward in the 40s so for the south, even nor january that's a very cold ron this morning and then we have had improvements as you get farther to the nor

this is in the mozambique channel we have seen dropping a lot of rain in this region actually we have seen about 16 to 20 inches of rain across parts of northern mozambique as well as over here towards malawi. of course, over the next couple of days we are going to be seeing more heavy rain in the region. this area of low pressure which the joint typhoon warning center is watching very kairnl could develop. as you can see, more rain up to another foot in the region. john? >> kevin, thank you. coming up, police in belgium say they have foiled imminent major attacks and later a "new york times" columnist, nicholas kristof weighs in. many cities want to get rid of tent cities for the homeless. in seattle, the mayor wants to add more. on earth. >> we're heading to the border between north and south korea. >> a rare glimpse inside. did he have madagascar did he have m a did a good a is c a are in the. >>> this is "al jazeera america." i am john seigenthaler. the government's data collection program. what's the alternative? our jake ward explains. >>> the oil industry has been a boon for th

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so the rain band is still here across northern madagascar malawi and mozambique.e images to show you. the condition of the severe flooding. heavy floods in malawi has killed at least 176 people and displaced at least 200,000. submerging whole villages in some areas, drowning crops and washing away livestocks as you can see here. the threat of water-borne diseases such as malaria, coal rah, diarrhea have become the priority according to the aid agencies. and mallory's government said it is working on a disaster preparedness strategy as we speak. looks like the conditions aren't going to be improving. i'm afraid to tell you we have got more accumulation of rainfall in the area where the images came out from and the river is already bursting its banks. it's the highest level since 1971, and any additional rainfall could trigger further flooding i'm afraid. here in the north we have more rain in southern areas of sicily where 80 millimeters of rainfall fall in a span of six hours. flooding is going to be a huge concern here as well. and in northern locations the avala

we have seen flooding recently around mozambique, malawi, into madagascar. we have further showers extending across the mozambique channel into zambia, extending all the way across. >> time for a short break. still rising, but not as fast, cline in a's economy takes a knock, but it's still ahead of the rest of the world. >> sunny side up, we test the tools that are trying to transform renewable energy sources in abu dhabi. >> in sport how the africa cup of nations favors algeria making a dramatic come you know in the opening match. more on that, stay with us. >> in iraq, isil seized a compound belonging to an influential tribal leader in rimadi. nine were killed in the fight for the home. he led the sunni awakening when tribes fought with the u.s. military against al-qaeda. >> a fight in yemen after a gun battle between houthi fighters and soldiers monday. rebels are surrounding the presidential home and palace. >> voters in zambia are choosing their next president following the death of the president last year. it is a close race. >> a court in bahrain is e

post conflict a lot of the time you think of places like angola mozambique. tell me about the laying of mines on the border with syria. >> first of all thank you for inviting me. we are looking at a very local situation but it is a part of a larger problem. think of people living in the eureka here, or across the channel calais, and people here are horrified by the possibility of are they manage to get into u.k. >> i doubt they think of turkish land mines though or any other such explosive devices to prevent them coming over. >> yes, these are all related. we are talking about millions of refugees already there. this is one aspect. looking at this, the practical practical question, there is a mine field there. you know laying for hundreds of miles. these mines were laid tremendous there in 1950s when turkey was becoming a nato member. these were not only intended against smuggling but for defensive purposes. but in time some human trafficking, some smugglers and armed groups were added into the situation. this is a planned pipeline, everybody knows this. but

hardest hit is the nation of malawi where the government has declared a disaster, and mozambique where 20 schoolchildren were washed away, damage to crops and major roads and bridges and heavy rain and flash flooding is not expected to let up for two to three weeks. >>> back here, deep freeze could be on the way out. kevin corriveau is here with that. >> that's right wind chills last week minus 30 to minus 40, we are now seeing a big change. minneapolis is down to 12, that's quite cold but we're looking better. next couple of days deals with the jetstream. dip in the jetstream right now that makes it so it's much colder across the north. what you notice is the dip starts to make its way over here towards the east. that means it's going to be a little bit colder out here towards the east. but for the central plains and the northern tier states we are looking at warmer temperatures. finally above freezing, hovered around freezing by the time i.t. gets to friday but 38° is going to be the high here on saturday and 38 is about 15° above average. now that's going to stay in place just until

largest attack ever - homes and >>> hundreds of thousands forced from their homes as floods his mozambiqueand malawi >>> pope francis in the philippines. >> i'm robin with the sports

but if it's that many that need help then we're more like mozambique than the united states, aren't we we're calculating the poverty differently. one in three americans are receiving benefits from federal and state government for welfare programs. i mean that's excessive. this is a time to reevaluate, figure out -- neil: they never do. right? >> no, we don't. >> you're absolutely right. >> one of the things you say, the underlying problems conservatives and liberals have differences on what they are. the band-aid nature of some of these programs doesn't solve the fundamental problems and we need find to find those debates and agreement. >> the status quo is not good enough. when you're dealing with government bureaucracy in a lot of these programs it really leads to just a stagnant approach and not an innovative way to think how can we get more people out of welfare? how can we move forward to welfare reform and have less people dependent on these programs? neil: the debate ensues and so does the money that pays for it. speaking of things like food, would you like tofu with that. the n

. >>> mortaren shall rain in south-east africa in mozambique 25 children swept away. in malawi 48 dead and tens of thousands homeless. heavy rain to last 2-3 more weeks. >> cold is creating deadly conditions for millions of refugees displaced by syria's civil war. the u.n. is calling for a huge influx of international aid. >> reporter: it's freezing cold in aleppo. this person is trying to keep warm. without wood and fuel he can't. he has no choice but to use what he find. >> reporter: we >> translation: we have no money, we are forced to break our furniture for heating. >> reporter: aleppo used to be a city for business. it's buried under rubble and covered by snow. most of the neighbourhoods have no electricity. diesel and gas costs have increased threefold. if it's available, people can't afford it. a few clinics look after the sick. they do not have enough supplies to help them recover. winter is killing people. >> tonight, as a result of the harsh cold this is an indirect cause of death. the direct cause was respiratory and cardiac arrest. >> reporter: tents are

also coming up, a state of emergency in mozambique as dozens are killed and tens of thousands displacedy flooding. the u.s. announces further measures to loosen trade and travel restrictions with cuba. >>> and we'll have the latest on who is in line for top

more than thousands were killed in malawi, mozambique. aid agencies are rushing clean water and medical supplies to the area. in afghanistan soldiers are struggling with the aftermath of war. the u.s. military has stepped up efforts to slow the growing suicide rate for afghan veterans but for afghan soldiers the stigma of mental illness often gets in the way. jennifer glasse has more from kabul. >> ptsd, or post-traumatic stress disorder, this soldier wants to go back to the unit. >> you're in a loss not a prison the doctor says. come tell the commander to get me out of here or i will kill myself, he says. the doctor tells the nurse to give him an injection and assures the patient it will make him feel better. he this is tells him suicide is not allowed in islam. >> there are lots of ptsd cases in the west because there are statistics. we don't have any way to measure it here. these cases are present here as well. >> reporter: but only a small fraction end up here. there's a cultural stigma to admitting any type of mental illness. this wa

so it just pulls down the subtropical moisture helping feed thunderstorms from zimbabwe zambia mozambiqueof thunderstorm activity also known as the intertropical convergence zone. you can see in h a arare and all the thunderstorm activity they have experienced lately. this is the rainy season across this part of the world. and that will continue right through to march. in fact, that's the wettest time of the year. over 225 millimeters. by the way, interesting to note january we roughly see 200 millimeters of rainfall in a 31-day period in roughly 18 days. we have far exceeded that in the nation's capital. we're going to look out for the possibility of more flooding into the future. >> incredible the rains keep coming. we hope things improve somewhat. >>> the ebola outbreak that started just over a year ago is being called the worst epidemic of the disease on record. but health officials are finally sharing good news. a serious decline in the number of new cases in west africa due to better treatment facilities for the sick and safer burial. so far there have been more than 21,000 confirme

in botswana zimbabwe mozambique zambia tanzania. it gave us a good position in the trading block.rican community as well. we acquired a bank in rwanda. we think the business environment crated by the president and finance visitor -- minister is exceptional. as we look at that region it's good to have a position you will start from. ever acquisition in nigeria was a key acquisition. we look very much at the key regions. francophone west africa. is one. key positions in those regions and then going from there. francophone west africa, a great example moving towards single currency, single central bank. a single set of banking laws. it is a different approach to invest in baking then 5-10 years ago. >> here in doubles, how much -- davos, how much do people ask you about -- >> barclays has a fantastic operation. they have been there 85-90 years. that was a great chance for me to learn about not just africa it impacted the family in terms of how we approach the foundation. and how banking works. >> we have no time left. thank you for joining us. back to you in the studio. >> thanks a l

yesterday at the end of the fourth talks hosted in mozambique with the various political players, it seems that we are heading towards a presidential council. there is an agreement by all of the players on the presidential council but there is a problem with the number of representatives in the council. the time frame. how long would the council stay in power. what are the priorities for the council? how are we going to pro is this council? is it going to go through the parliament or be by political consensus? it seems this there is a lot of divisions to the point that when i actually walked into the building i was informed that the g.p.c. pulled out from the meeting. and they pulled out because they want to ensure that this process goes through the parliament and the parliament is two articles. 115 and 116. 115 means that the president had consider that his resignation will be accepted. the resignation has not been officially accepted so legally speaking he is still the head of the state. he is not on active duty as head of state or commander in chief but legally still the president

they came from what's now tanzania and mozambique. some of those people in the disaster that was somalia ended up in refugee camps. tanzania and mosezambique offered to resettle them. they're long-lost cousins but the u.s. and u.n. has to give us some money to resettle. state department said forget that we'll just move then to the united states instead. it is an absurd mistake. even for them because instead of moving from -- instead of being resettled in a place where they are already a sort of place that is familiar to them to some degree, actually they're tied to it ethnically we're moving them to the other side of the planet and to a society that is -- these are people who are living on dirt floors and have never seen water faucets or light switches into something that's completely disorienting. it is bad for us, it is bad for a lot of refugees we end up taking. and we need to completely re-assess our thinking on refugee resettlement. >>> tonight on the communicators, fcc commissioner on net neutrality, reclassifying broadband as a

yesterday at the end of the fourth talks that the envoys are hosting in mozambique with the various political players it seems we're heading towards a presidential council. there is agreement by all the players on the presidential council but there's a problem with the number of representatives in the council. the time frame. how long would the council stay in power? >> what are the priorities for the council? how are we going to process this council? is it going to go through the parliament or will it be by political consensus? it seems that there is a lot of divisions to the point when we actually walked into the building i was informed that the gpc pulled out from the meeting and they pulled out because they want to ensure this process goes through parliament and parliament there are two articles, 115 and 116. so the president had, resignation would be accepted at this point. president's resignation has not been officially accepted. so legally speaking he is still the head of the state. he is not on active duty or commander-in-chief but legally he is still the president. at article 116 wil