cnn, nairobi. >> the new president of france is starting his first full day on the job. emanuel macron was inaugurated after winning election far right candidate marine le pen, he's just 39 years old, the youngest president in french history. >> he thanked his supporters in this speech after taking office. >> on the seventh of may, the french made the choice. and let them be. >> the responsibility which they conferred isn't and i'm aware of the gravity of that. the world in europe need france more than ever. they need a strong france, sure, of its destiny and france which pose high the voice of freedom and solidarity, they needed france which knows how to invent its future. >> for more now, let's bring in our senior international correspondent live in the french capitol. jim always a pleasure to have you here on the show. macron, he's a fresh new face. he's promised a lot with regards to hopefulness and national confidence, but now it's his job, his job to do it. he has a lot to do. >> while, he does, and first on the agenda this morning just to name a prime minister, th

a school nairobi in for girls where mcgovern-dole s a school -- provides a hot lunch. i helped serve a meal of bulger wheat and vegetables. one told me how grateful she was to go to school every day and eat every day. she grew number a village over 100 miles away. when she was 12 her father tolder she had to marry an older man. she refused, her father ordered her to her uncle's house and get his cha shutty and bring it back to him. she knew he was going to kill her. she ran away, walking alone for days, because she had heard of this school. when i met her she was 15, healthy, and well-fed, the top of her class. i knew i was talking to someone who will someday be a leader in her country. in the very best way she will never forget us . when we take food away from children, families and schools, those communities will never forget us, either. they won't forget that we took away their children's future. i wouldn't forget it if it were my child, would you? mr. speaker, there are many ways to advance u.s. national security and economic interests abroad. education and child n

the chinese built line links nairobi to mombasa, covering 472 kilometers in about five hours.t replaces the network built when kenya was under british colonial rule, making it the country's first new railway in over 100 years. the line is part of the standard gauge railway, plan to link east african countries. this stage costs nearly 3 billion euros, 90% of which was financed by china's import-export bank. the kenyan government when ahead with the new railroad despite a warning from the world bank that it would be cheaper to refurbish the old one. king transport minister says that thanks to the revenue generated by the railway, being china backed their problem. 05/30/17 05/30/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> two men lost their lives standing up to somebody spewing hateful words directed at muslim passengers on an afternoon commuter train. these two men died heroes as a result of a horrific act of racist violence. another man was injured. amy: retiar

the deadly attack on the popular westgate shopping mall in the heart of nairobi shocked the world. 67cted the biggest—ever defeat on the kenyan army. the un says at least 150 kenyan soldiers were killed at a base in southern somalia last year. al—shabaab is clearly kenya's biggest security threat, and sureya hersi is in no doubt of the scale of the problem, whetherfrom radicalisation, or the abduction and trafficking of women to somalia. i don't think anybody has any statistics. probably the government could have their own ways of finding out. and i can assure you, almost every family is affected. you either know somebody, or your neighbour has gone. in the course of this investigation, i tried repeatedly to find out from the government what was being done to stop this trade in kenyan women, but all attempts proved futile. it has been very difficult and frustrating to get comment from the relevant government officials on this issue. this is the second time i've come to this office this week, and i've just been thrown out by the regional coordinator of security, the man in charge of se

kenya where they have opened a major new railway between the port city of mombasa and the capital nairobi20 billion fund a chinese line is kenya's biggest infrastructure product since independent senators china's in raid initiative to create new trade links. president trump says he will be making an announcement soon on whether the united states will withdraw from the parrot to limit paris climate change deal. media outlets say he will be pulling out the donald trump says he will make the donald trump says he will make the decision in a few days' time so whilst the world waits for that decision, those who want the us to stay are speaking out. jerry brown has been speaking to the bbc about how he will work with the west of the world with climate change including china's president. this was very much created because of 0bama and the chinese president, i bomb has left the scene and president trump has gone a while and now it is up to president shi in california he will work with other countries to do everything we can to offset the negative pathway prose about —— chosen by president trump. i

it will run to the capitol of nairobi. with plans to connect kenya to six other countries.ce independence in 1993. replacing the colonial belt line, it's planning to take half the load, which currently travels down a slow and congested two-lane highway. for now, all tracks lead to here, to the brand new terminal, which ought to become operational this june. stay hoped it will open up the eastern. $3.8 billion price tag which is 6% of kenya's gdp. it's a massive risk which they hope will pay off. >> this is a big step that you've taken in comparison to your economy. i think there will be a strong return from this investment, but, obviously, it has been expensi expensive. >> kennian officials did not to see to chinese authority referred to as em grats either. chinese presence of the continent has seen allegations of corruption. and oemp the chinese labor and lack of transparency. the company behind the project, crbc, employed 25,000 locals on this railroad. for environmentalist, it can be fixed and wild life. they have designed wild life. locals, though appreciate the dependa

alistair liithead, bbc news, nairobi.ildings. to get to the top, you need to climb more than 2000 steps. that's exactly what thousands of people have been doing this morning, taking part in what's known as the annual taipei run up. two australian's won the race — the fastest man was mark bourne, who completed it in just 11 minutes and 26 seconds, and suzy walsham was the first woman to reach the finish line, this year, after completing the race in 13 minutes and 36 seconds. you have been watching newsday. on the day emmanuel macron has been elected president of france. his decisive victory over marine le pen has prompted celebrations and halted the momentum of the populist movement in europe. the challenge to reform france's flagging economy though, remains. it's not going to be easy. we will be bringing you continued coverage. stay with us. hello there. there is currently sunshine around the next few days. we may well have seen the next few days. we may well have seen the peak of the temperature over the weekend. it was

alistair leithead, bbc news, nairobi.dical treatment. he has missed the last three cabinet meetings. his team are saying he is recovering from an unspecified illness. mr buhari had only returned to nigeria in march, after two months of medical treatment in britain. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news: the mayor of the canadian city of montreal has declared a state of emergency as heavy rain and melting snow have resulted in the worst flooding in decades. in the province of quebec, more than 2,000 homes have already been flooded, with water levels set to rise further. the military has tripled the number of troops helping to evacuate those affected. the brazilian football team chapecoense have won the santa catarina state championship, their first title since most of the squad died in a plane crash last november. the new coach, vagner mancini, signed 25 new players injanuary to replace those killed when the team's plane ran out of fuel and crashed in colombia. the world's longest pedestrian suspen

alistair leithead, bbc news, nairobi.declared a state of emergency, as heavy rain and melting snow have resulted in the worst flooding in decades. in the province of quebec, more than 2,000 homes have already been flooded, with water levels set to rise further. the military has tripled the number of troops helping to evacuate those affected. the brazilian football team chapecoense have won the santa catarina state championship, their first title since most of the squad died in a plane crash last november. the new coach, vagner mancini, signed 25 new players injanuary to replace those killed when the team's plane ran out of fuel and crashed in colombia. so, as we have been hearing, emmanuel macron will be france's next president. the 39—year—old, who has never before held elected office, comprehensively beat his far—right rival marine le pen. let's leave you with some of the more memorable scenes from election day in france. thanks for watching. hello there, good morning. there's going to be some more sunshine around for t

alistair leithead, bbc news, nairobi.nfirmed he won 66% of the vote. hello there, good morning. there's going to be some more sunshine around for the next few days. we may well have seen the peak of the temperature, though, over the weekend. it was pretty much wall—to—wall sunshine in northern ireland. and here we had the warmest day of the year so far. same temperatures in glasgow and we had the warm air all the way from wales towards the south coast. but these areas that had the warmth by day are getting the chill right now with the clear skies. and in rural parts, we may find temperatures not far away from freezing. in the towns and cities, this is what the temperatures look like. and further east across england and scotland, there will be more cloud off the north sea. essentially, an east—west split to the weather on monday. another lovely sunny day for northern ireland. best of the sunshine in scotland in the south—west. sunshine for wales and western england. but a cloudier day than yesterday across the midlands and

. >> reporter: mumbe lives in unami, a village 170 miles northwest of nairobi. >> ( translated ): i felt like i was in a different world, because my house was well lit. i knew i was no longer going to spend money on oil. i was also not going to spend a lot of time walking to the market to charge my cell phone. >> reporter: her home was recently hooked up as part of the "last mile connectivity project," a government program to connect 70% of kenyans to the grid by this year. it's part of a larger goal to achieve universal access to electricity by 2020. it's an ambitious undertaking. kenya would become one of the first sub-saharan african nations to reach this milestone. and kenya has made progress rapidly, going from 27% of the population connected in 2013, to 56% in 2016, adding more than 1.2 million households to the grid last year alone. the quest began a decade ago, by building transformers that distribute electricity. first priority was connecting hospitals, market centers, and schools to the grid. now, the "last mile" project is focusing on connecting rural households. mumbe uses th

and when i stepped off the plane in 1990 in nairobi, it was unrecognizable to anything i had experiencedso, for instance, there's now domino's pizza and beurger king and lots of big american brands. and in a way, that's diluting the character. and some of the things we're exporting aren't necessarily the best aspects of our culture. but the gap between africa and the rest of the world is closing. but it's still huge. you look at life span and the number of kids who die from preventable diseases, i mean, it's something like almost a million african kids die every year from malaria, which is essentially a mosquito bite. and that doesn't happen anywhere else. >> let's look at one of the places you covered really well because it's an intersection of many of the trends and a way of getting the world interested, which is somalia. somalia is a place that is very poor, often very weak government, as you say, has pirates. but it also has radical islam. and you know, explain to -- did you understand why radical islam was able to spread into somalia, spending time there? >> that's a good we. we hav

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cardinals with the catholic church should be doing guys to pick up trash people who are slumdwellers in nairobi people who are organizing the poor people from guatemala. with the automobile like head the save the children the pope brings in all these poor people this guy tries to change the way the church interacts as catholics and atheist interact with each other. is getting is out of power, persona and people don't like that. and the like getting out of my comfort zone with the homeless some believe they should run it this way but he does a great story and about jesus with the woman caught with adultery and they condemn her and he's let the person without sin cast the first doughnut everybody leaves in jesus is on the ground writing in the dirt some guy thought it was because they, the woman in the actual activities put his head down and did not want to embarrass her i know what happened to the guy but the rule was used to own her. the pope francis says that the end of jubilee jesus said i don't continue sin no more. christians knew she would send again because we all do he doesn't want her t

first, you know, al qaeda attacked twin -- you know, conducted the twin bombings in east africa in nairobi. so when we start securing embassies around the world, they attack ship, we start securing ships with the uss. you know, they use the sector and they use the planes to conduct 9/11. we start securing the aviation sector, they attacked, you know, buses and subways in london and in madrid. so they shift their strategy, then you take in order to go around the security measures that's being put in place to make us secure. they have to be successful, you know, sorry, we have to be successful all the time. they just want to be successful, one, and you have a lot of groups out there and a lot of, you know, radicals, regardless to which organization they believe they join. now, those guys have the motivation to the attack. they definitely have the intention to attack. sometimes they don't have the capability. a lot of times law enforcement and intelligent services deprives them from capability. but everyone, every now and then are able to do, you know, a paris or a brussle or now a manchester

this facility isjust outside nairobi, is one of the few in the country that have been trying to handleine years they have seen nearly 100 cases. sometimes there is nothing you can do for the child. sometimes depending on the diagnosis, sometimes they may require medication. sometimes they may require surgical intervention. back in western kenya, dillon has found a way to rise above stigma. he formed a church and created a community in which he is accepted and adored. he hopes that by projecting his voice, others born like him, will also find their ways in society. a surfer who was rescued after spending 32 hours clinging to his board in the irish sea has said he had prepared himself to die. speaking exclusively to the bbc, 22—year—old matthew bryce spoke of his relief at being spotted by the coastguard helicopter, but he said when it first flew over, he thought it had missed him. our ireland correspondent, chris buckler, has been talking to matthew bryce in the ulster hospital in belfast, where he is recovering. by the night—time, it wasn'tjust my shoulder, all my limbs were cramping.

pbc correspondent in northern england, spent time in nairobi, athens, he seen a lot here. ed thomas of the bbc. ambulances are is still injured people away. it has been a horrible night for people there. the next order of business was to have been a news conference by authorities on scene. we are still expecting that. it was originally scheduled for 20 minutes ago. they are just a little bit behind. when it happens, we will take you there live. senior policy advisor for the counter extremism project. it has all the hallmarks, i suppose it could be related to syria and any number of things. manchester police believe they have an attack tonight. now that the figure out who did it, why, and how to stop the next one. >> there's a lot right now we know and a lot we don't know. it has all the hallmarks of the terrorist attack. it may have been a suicide bombing. it happened at a large public event. a concert. we sought here in 19 people killed. probably targeting young people. making it even more horrific. having said that, there's a lot we don't know. it has a hallmarks of a po