. >> reporter: this man emerges from a gold mine in the depths of niger.intense work with basic machinery in scary conditions. >> translator: when you enter you feel deep fear. however it goes away over time. >> reporter: he is one of the gold miners who have come here to make a living. one of the deepest mines is called guantanamo after the u.s. detention center, because of the fear minors have of being 60 meters underground. still that hasn't stopped the 6,000 people who have come here to work. >> translator: i was working and succeeded in finding gold. now i am going back to see my family. before gold i used to work in the smuggling business. >> reporter: gold has been mined in niger for 30 years. new sites were uncovered last year, and that has attracted more and more job seekers from neighboring countries. >> translator: i have come to niger in search of a job. four months have passed, and i haven't found one yet. >> reporter: the mine owners who make the biggest profits from gold say the facilities are primitive and don't benefit the people of niger

they have about 5000 men, not just in mali, but stretched from mauritania, all the way over to niger. quite a lot of the men are in chad, in the capital of chad there. to clampstruggling down. simply a dozen or so individuals are thought to be involved in this current hostage crisis, so they are also overstretched because of the number of groups. we mentioned the new groups, one links to al qaeda. attack that left 12 dead. a couple of different groups have claimed responsibility. a newer group we had not heard of much before this year, the front for the liberation of messina. that is a new islamist group claiming to want to install sharia around the country. but not the tuaregs. pro-ethnic group, much closer to the capital than the northern groups are in some have made comparisons between this new group and boko haram, whether they are capable or willing to go to the violence of boko haram. clearly that is the worry. they also have links to mooch out -- to mujao. that is the third groups, perhaps one of the most well-known. its leader just in the past couple of weeks broadcast a messa

troops from nigeria, chad, cameroon, niger are expected to be more effective.oko haram has attacked chad multiple times after its troops were sent to cameroon. dozens of chadian soldiers have been killed or injured in the offensive. thousands have been killed and tens of thousand us forced from their homes. the u.n. is warning about the displacement of more people from the lake chad basin. attacks from boko haram fighters have become less frequent but haven't stopped in niger. >> anybody who has seen these horrible things must be afraid. >> i can no longer go hunting, because i might bump into boko haram in the forest and get killed, so we have to rely on farming. we only farm around the house so that in case we see them coming, we can quickly get together and defend ourselves or run top safety. >> fear of boko haram remains in places where they have been pushed back. for now, that fear seems to have been replaced by triumph. al jazeera. >> still to come here on al jazeera, too scared to be home, south sudanese in kenya say a refugee camp is a much safer option

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. >>> the ancient city in niger has long been a desperate point to leave the area. international organization for migration expects the number to double this year largely due to human smuggling. our correspondent has this report. >> reporter: this is the capitol of niger's largest province. it's here that the exodus to europe begins. the route is owned by smugglers. they deal in not just goods, but people too. these are some of the migrants the smugglers will soon send north wards to libya. >> translator: from libya my dream is to get to italy and eventually france. i will be here for a while, though, as i have rount of money. >> reporter: everyone is waiting. with a long journey ahead of them. all of these men have friends who made it to europe and they believe they can make it too. corruption and the lack of education and jobs fuel human trafficking in africa. the migrants say the smugglers are fleecing them. >> translator: i was forced to strip and they searched for money and took all i had. there are numerous police check points too that we have had to pay money

sees the instability as a threat to a key region and in niger and chad, the u.s. is assists counterterrorism forces battle boko haram and other militant groups. the attack friday in bamako raises the stakes. >> up until the beginning of this year, mali and the u.n. mission there and the u.s. and the french were all working with mali to resolve this long-standing crisis really that bamako, the capital city, was immune to the attacks. >> as the security situation in west africa worsens, a new challenge for the u.s. to contain the threat. mike viqueira, al jazeera, washington. >>> in paris vigils were held tonight on the one-week anniversary of the attacks. they're still claiming victims. another death today brought the toll to 130. we're learning more tonight about the investigation and the alleged raid that killed the alleged architect behind the attacks. adam rainy is in paris. french authorities say a third suspect died in the raid. what else have we learned? >> reporter: we're starting to learn new details from the raid in saint-denis in the northern edge of par

they lack the capacity to refine it >>> there's a gold rush in niger, more hopeful diggers rushing to the country when word spread of fines. many are going home empty-handed, as caroline malone reports. >> reporter: this man emerges from a goldmine in the depths of niger. it's intense work with basic machinery in scary conditions. >> when you enter you feel fear. it goes away over time. now i don't have much fear. >> he's one of many that come here to make a living. one of the deepest mines is called guantanamo, after the u.s. detention center. because of the fear minors have of being 60 meters under ground. it has not stopped 6,000 people that came here to work. some are employed, some work illegally. >> i came from tabatat. i succeeded in finding gold. now i'm going back to my family. before gold i worked in the smuggling business. >> now sites were uncovered. attracting job seekers from companies. such as chad and nigeria and marley. >> i came in search of a job. four months have passed. i have not got one. if i can't find a job, i'll have to go home. >> the mine owners that make t

one of our nest allies in the region is niger -- best allies in the region is niger.ali itself is just recovering from a period when islamist militants occupied two-thirds of the country, and it was only staved by a timely french intervention. so these are countries that are in desperate need of help. now, the help doesn't mean boots on the ground necessarily, but it means training, equipment and, certainly, better intelligence. to be quite honest, i'm shocked that this attack occurred, but i'm not shocked at the same time. the, there should have been better security. a major business conference was held at the radisson this week. africa's richest man was at that hotel. fortunately, he didn't spend the night, so he wasn't there when the attack occurred. but when you have people that prominent, when you have foreigners, airline crews staying there, this is a place that should have been much more secured than it was and, unfortunately, this is what happens when vigilance is lacked. jenna: one report in "the new york times" said, and this is just one report, that the lic

one has been set up in niger. the eu is considering it's handing the prospect -- expanding the prospect. they are afraid it could become breeding grounds for extremism and other dangerous. >> it will become the de facto detention centers that will constitute a serious violation of human rights. we fear women and children will be a great risk of falling prety -- prey to rate and human trafficking. and humane trafficking. >> it is making it easier for their citizens judging mises -- their legal citizens to obtain visas. the influx has strained resources. europe's biggest economy, germany, is expecting the arrival of up to one million asylum-seekers this year alone. >> this plan will fight illegal immigration. and it will also help people to find legal work in europe. >> the plan also lays out a 1.8 billion euro trust fund for africa, money to tackle the root causes of migration, such as poverty and conflict, but amnesty international says europe is essentially paying for africa to take the migrants back. europeanran

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tremendous amount of successes in the lake chad basin area with niger, chad, and cameroon.on the continent, i try to simplify everything because i think keeping things simple helps out even in a complex variety and it's called outside in and inside out. that's how we look at every problem. we have a problem inside the country. we try to develop a plan that looks at that plan and developing support based off of our partners' requirements inside out, and then the countries surrounding it, we look for plans to support outside in, and in niger, chad, am cameroon, this is hugely important because they're containing the boko haram problem where nigeria is inside degrading it and defeating it, and so that combination and connecting them in that way has opened their eyes to a regional solution to the boko haram problem there. >> can you talk about cameroon. there was some news made a few weeks ago about an isr deployment to cameroon. is that in place yet and what are the goals for that mission? >> yes. the cameroonian government requested to be more involved in the operational aspe

al jazeera, niger state. >> four people have been killed as a result of a series of wildfires in western australia. the bush fires have so far destroyed over 300,000 hectares of land and continue to rage out of control. the fires have been burning since saturday. there are fierce that the extreme temperatures could spark fires in south australia, as well. heads of state, fans, teammates and former rivals have expressed shock and sadness at the unexpected death of jonah, the new zealand rugby legend. he died at the age of 40. he played 63 times for the all blacks between 1994 and 2002. he had baled kidney problems. richard martin reports. >> he was one of rugby's greatest. he became the youngest ever all black in 1994 when he made his new zealand debut at the age of 19. it was the world cup the following year that he became a a star. with his great strength and speed, he scored seven tries in the tournament. his performance against england being one of the most iconic moments in sports history. ultimately, the all blacks would lose the final to the host, south africa in front of nelson ma

they brought in merser ins fromout safer ka and the neighboring countries, the militaries from chad, niger and camaroon have come in and been doing that fighting earlier this year. but now we are seeing a lot of suicide attacks. boko haram can't seize and hold land like they used to, but girls mostly are going into markets, into mosques and blowing themselves up. that is why we see so many headlines headlines from out of there. what the country is doing is not only trying to go in with the military but also create a multinational coalition with those neighbors to go in, but it's extremely difficult, you know. a lot of these fighters blend back into the population and that a why we are seeing these bombs. initially the country set a december deadline to defeat boko haram. the military now admits it won't be able to match that eventually most people think that the battle against boko haram will be won but the war against all of these other things, the poverty, corruption, that is what is most important, that will be the most difficult for nigeria to win. >> you also found a population within

us a voice and gave us courage to speak out and was able to bring to light the problem in the n, -- niger paid dearly for it. >> reporter: has pipelines running through here but abandon its installations after his campaign. environmental activists say video recorded two months ago shows shell is still causing pollution. this oil facility owned by shell has caused several large oil spills and amnesty international and people here say. the last one occurred three years ago damaging farmland and fishing waters and shell has still not cleaned up the damage. in may shell was ordered to pay more than $4 million in damages to 91-year-old farmer robert powell. >> translator: they should pay me my compensation so i can use the money to find food to eat before i expire, before i die. >> reporter: shell is appealing the damages ruling and say they are cleaning up their spill but the amount of the pollution is caused by vandalizing pipelines to siphon off oil. this is around her late husband's study and it's evidence that shell is still wreaking havoc and must be stopped. >> the struggle is very much

. >> five polish crew members have been abducted on a vessel attacked last night on the river niger. armed men intercepted the boat which was carrying 16 sailors. the nigerian navy is trying to rescue those taken. >> pope francis is heading to uganda for the secondly of his african tour. he spoke out against bribism in kenya which he said is hurting progress. he was addressing thousands in nairobi. he said kenyans need to unite in order for the country to develop. >> tribe. on: can dry. it can mean having a hand hidden behind your back and having a stone to throw at others. you won't have a dialogue if you don't listen to each other. it is like a worm that gross in society. >> the pope has said that today was the highlight of his trip meeting young people and the poor and got to hear their problems and aspirations. he spoke strongly against corruption, which islam pant in the country. he said the corruption in many other places, including the vatican but told people here that ending it starts with individuals. he spoke passionately about the need to empower the youth. frustration, he

if you look at clinton's role he should have been the great healer and you niger. with his vision to bring them together to say progressives from themselves from those conservative ideas with you to be the idyllic president that he himself through his own failings than blind spots and weaknesses helped to feed the problem that we now face even more that recall blue and red america that is ours to re-emerge in the 1990's and then to see their all kinds of changes once upon a time you had abc and nbc and cbs that wanted to be neutral and objective even if there was a bias. you talk about how important for cronkite's and dan rather then fox and msnbc to bring in more the ideological twist washington is changing. once upon a time mostly men and the spouses and children lived in washington d.c. so they went to church together , little league, a school, gatherings, and now they fly home. >> speaking of his own flaws and how he may have affected our sense of community or lack of it. >> i pick out the juicy readings selected telltale borderline behavior of clinics and hyst

. >> he was able to bring to light the problem in the niger delta. and feared the people, and, of course, paid dearly for it. >> 20 years on, shell has many oil pipelines running through, but abandoned installations after the campaign. environmental activists say video recorded shows shell is still causing pollution. >> this facility owned by shells caused several large stills. the last one occurred three years ago damaging farm and and fishing waters. shell has not cleaned up the damage. >> in may shell was ordered to pay more than $4 million to a farmer. >> they should pay me compensation so i can use the money before i expire and die. >> shell is appealing the ruling. much of the pollution is caused by locals. >> maria shows us around her late husband's study and said there's taj damage. . >> the struggle is going on. we have multinationals, and government - they have to remember that they have to make the multinationals do what is righ right. >> reporter: thousands are due to hold a rally in memory of their son to preach nonviolent struggle >>> p

groups operating in mali, niger, boko haram rom and other groups -- boko haram and other groups -- theyot be sharing operations, but it is definitely a ramping up in nigeria. francine: and of course there is a very strong french link. there are 1000 troops in mali. what can you tell us, to give us context? not the most secure place, but this is an attack that we have never seen a scale this big. andres: these people are working for airline company's, businessmen, not heard of in this part of mali. in the north, where the coup was led from islamic militants -- it is a desolated part of the world, so the attacks are few and far between. when the french got involved in the former colony in 2013, they were able to push back this threat and isolated. since then, the french have widened their presence. they have maybe 3000, 4000 troops across west africa and central africa. a have -- they have a drum base niger.chair -- in tom: jim hertling, i am taken by headlines. fabius he is the foreign minister. i am going to call him the john kerry of the republic of france. u.n. tous wants the solve wh

. >> a vessel was attacked last night on the river niger, well a suicide-bomber has blown himself uptaking part of troubled town where ten people have been killed. no one has claimed responsibility, but the armed group boko haram regularly carries out attacks in that area. >>> a canadian actress has criticized beijing after she was stopped on her way to the finals of the miss world beauty pageant. she was crowned miss world canada earlier this year, but she was unable to get aves i a visa this week. she says she's being punished for speaking out. >> at a chinese government why is it afraid to let in a beauty queen. what kind of precedence does this set for international events they want to hold. ask them why they would also bar athletic athletes were participating in winter olympic games just because they have different views that the communist government does not agree with? what if they support democracy in china? >> the movement combines meditation, exercise, and philosophy, and has gained a large following in the early 1,990th. china's communist government became wary of the prac

. >>> around 25 people have been killed in southern niger in a boko haram attack on a village.ers later managed to drive back the armed group, killing 20 of them. boko haram has stepped up cross-border attacks in recent months. >>> south sudan has invited rebel leader for a peace meeting in juba next week. he was sacked after the a queue. >>> the united nations is warning that more than 50 million ethiopians will need food aid by january. it is the worst drought to hit ethiopia in decades. charles stat ford reports. >> reporter: this man's harvest is ruined. every plant is dead, he tells me. we have nothing now. omar, like hundreds of thousands of farmers in many parts of ethiopia is the victim of a phenomenon that neither he nor his government can control, el nino. it has wrecked the lives of millions across this region this year. the well he used to use dried up a few days ago, because many people from surrounding villages had no choice but to use it. he sold one of his cows to buy enough food to give one meal a day to his children. we have nothing to eat now, he says. we nee

i'll use an example of niger where we have a team in the southeast portion partnering with their force. living right next to them. so the coffee breath close concept. right there with them. advising and assisting, training and equipping doing a number of things along those lines to support the counter-boko haram fight. our guys are living on solar power, and water purification systems which are hugely important. they got water purification systems, sits in a little box the size of a -- little bigger than a briefcase, and it purifies 80-gallons of water per hour. and 99.99% -- i'm knock sure of the other little digit there, what that means, but stomach flu or whatever, but bottom line is, they're doing well, and so what we're doing is we're showing them how to operate in austere, remote areas, efficiently and effectively, by doing it ourselves and using technology to be able to do that. we have a radio system that we're employing as well that connects all different kinds of ways to communicate. fm, hf. cell phone, a system that allows them to talk. because in country x they may use cell

if you look at clinton's role he should have been the great healer and you niger. with his vision to bring them together to say progressives from themselves from those conservative ideas with you to be the idyllic president that he himself through his own failings than blind spots and weaknesses helped to feed the problem that we now face even more that recall blue and red america that is ours to re-emerge in the 1990's and then to see their all kinds of changes once upon a time you had abc and nbc and cbs that wanted to be neutral and objective even if there was a bias. you talk about how important for cronkite's and dan rather then fox and msnbc to bring in more the ideological twist washington is changing. once upon a time mostly men and the spouses and children lived in washington d.c. so they went to church together , little league, a school, gatherings, and now they fly home. >> speaking of his own flaws and how he may have affected our sense of community or lack of it. >> i pick out the juicy readings selected telltale borderline behavior of clinics and hyst

seeing the instability as a threat to a key region and in niger and chad, the u.s. is assisting counterterrorism forces that battle boko haram and other militant groups. the attack on friday in bamako raises the stakes. >> up until the beginning of this year, mali and the u.n. mission there and the french and the u.s. are all working with mali to resolve this long-standing crisis really thought that bamako, the capital city, was immune to the attacks. >> reporter: as the security situation worsens a new challenge for the u.s. to contain the threat. mike viqueira, al jazeera, washington. >>> later this hour i will speak to the former assistant secretary of defense mary beth long. what she says the timing of the attack tells us about the state of al qaeda in west africa. prosecutors in belgium have charged a support with terrorism in connection with with last week's deadly siege in paris a daf after the person was detained after a series of raids. french police are still looking for another man taking part in the attacks and may be hiding in bem jum. >> it's one week

connell: interesting perspective, niger ennis with us today on what's happening in chicago.e'll get into some of the protests regarding walmart maybe a little bit later on in the show, and that plays into the $15 minimum wage debate. more from chicago in a moment as we continue our broadcast here on "cavuto coast to coast" from the mall at short hills in new jersey on black friday. we'll have more on the shoppers here and what they're -- what the trends that maybe are emerging early on a black friday, and we'll get into what's happening overseas in terms of the terrorism fears that have been in the economy, the stock market and in the travel warning that we talked about earlier. terrorists gunning for your wallet? well, there's cyber worries. not just coming to a place like this, not just going out in public, but shopping online, something we talked about earlier, and how dangerous that might be. that's up next, "cavuto coast to coast" continues in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ you may not even think about the energy that lights up your world. but we do. we're exxonmobil. and the cleaner-

but, the president of niger argued it's just scratching the surface. >> ( translated ): it's not enough, $1.8 billion euros; it's far from being enough. the needs are enormous. that's why we're calling on other partners to participate in the setting up of trust funds. and beyond that, what we hope for, it's not only in the form of public development aid; we hope for reform in worldwide governance. >> ifill: talk of the aid plan came amid new moves by several nations to begin tightening their borders. we'll focus on the situation in one of those countries, sweden, later in the program. back in this country, the department of housing and urban development is calling for a ban on smoking in all public housing. a rule proposed today would affect more than 940,000 units. "hud" estimates it will protect the health of 760,000 children and save more than $150 million a year in medical costs, repairs and preventable fires. students at more than a hundred u.s. colleges and universities rallied today against mounting debt. there wre demonstrations from philadelphia to hawaii. protesters called for

troops from nigeria, chad, cameroon and niger are expected to be more effective.oko haram attacked chad multiple times after troops were sent to cameroon. dozen was soldiers were killed. thousands of been killed and tens of thousand us forced from their homes. the u.n. warns about the displacement of more people. attacks by boko haram fighters have become less frequent but haven't stopped in neighboring nigeria. >> we must be afraid. anybody who has seen these horrible things must be afraid. >> i can no longer go hunting, because i might get killed in the forest. we have to rely on farming. we only farm around the house so that in case we said them coming, we can defend ourselves or run to safety. >> fear of boko haram remains in places where they have been pushed back. for now, that fierce is replaced by triumph. al jazeera. >>> an explosion in the iraqi capital killed at least seven people. it happened a baghdad neighborhood. it is unclear whether it was a roadside bomb or car bomb. 23 others were wounded. >> it's been a day of violence in the occupied west bank

three of them were sent back by niger. one of them was sent back. he's in prison.is saif, he had two sons named that. brian: how many times had gadhafi married? jay: twice. one child with the first wife. i believe she was the daughter of a general. he was married very briefly to her. he took up with a nurse whom he met when he was hospitalized. they had, i think -- seven further children. brian: bashar assad. how many children? jay: one son as far as i know. brian: what happened to the son who was killed? the eldest? jay: basil was to be the successor. he was the next dictator. he was killed in a car crash. he was trying to catch a flight to germany. he was in his new sports car. he went in the round about in front of the airport and flipped and died. and the next oldest brother, , bashar, was in london practicing eye surgery. that was his role in life to be an ophthalmologist. he was very quiet and shy. he had no interest in dictatorship or politics or power. when basil was killed, the old man called him home. brian: when did the father die? do you remember? jay:

he was able to bring to light the problem in the niger delta and the military people and of course hearly for it. >> 20 years and shell has many pipelines running through and abandon the installation after they campaigned and environment activists says shell is still causing pollution. this caused several large oil spills in amnesty international and the last one was three years ago damaging farmland and fishing waters and shell has still not cleaned up the damage. in may shell was ordered to pay $4 million in damages to 91-year-old farmer robert wowell. >> translator: should pay me composition so i can use the money to get food to eat before i die. >> reporter: appealing the damages ruling and say they are cleaning up the spill but most of the pollution is caused by vandals siphoning off oil and says the award of damage is evidence that shell is still wreaking havoc and must be stopped. >> the struggle is still going on because if we have to keep harmony and the government to remember but they have to make the nationals do what is right. >> reporter: thousands are due to hold a rally

the anniversary of ken saro-wiwa's death comes as amnesty international says areas of the niger deltamain heavily polluted by oil spills, years after shell claims to have cleaned them up. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a revolt by african-american students at the university of missouri has forced two top officials to resign. on monday, president tim wolfe said he is quitting and columbia campus chancellor bowen loftin announced he will be stepping down by the end of the year in the face of protests over their handling of racism on campus. african-american students have staged weeks of demonstrations against what they called a lax response to bigotry and vandalism. for a week, an african-american graduate student, jonathan butler, staged a hunger strike that he said would only end with wolfe's resignation. students set up a campus encampment in support of butler's action. they've dubbed themselves concerned student 1950 -- a reference to the year the school's first black student enrolled. the adm

the french army has been active in africa, mali, niger together with the african army.d that's the reason why they are striking us. we are a threat for them as much as they are a threat for us so that's what he means by us. it's not a war like the second world irk i. it's an imbalanced war but that's the way it is. >> you say it's not a war like the second world war, yet vladimir putin in the u.n. in september, when he announced he was going to join the fight against isis, then started bombing, he said at the u.n. we the allies need to form a coalition against this extremism just as the allies formed the coalition against hitler and nazism during the second world war. didier, that has not happened. there is no such determined coalition now. i guess my question is how many deaths will be enough to form that real coalition? how much more can your president and other leaders take of this kind of bloodshed in their cities before they get serious about fighting the war in syria? >> i understand your question. i think that everybody has the answer inside themselves. everybody

they were responsible for an attack in niger.rating having allegiances and switching allegiances. you see these shifts. the last six months, who is the most visibly active? islamic state. alignin your interest to yourself, even if you do not have operational communication, financial support, you want to get behind the group that is most effective. francine: we are getting the first pictures from the attack in the capital. when you look at the francestion in 2013, still has about 1000 troops on the ground. what does this attack make us believe the french will do? is it more troops on the ground or will they retreat? have beene french clear. they were not going to step down in mali. they felt they had an obligation . it was strange. francois hollande said he would not get involved and he has continued the policy of sarkozy. 1000 troops, another 2000 the 3000 troops spread across the southern sahara. think about the resources, the drone base that is run with the u.s. they are probably trying to figure out where the attack started, w

niger, and inpia, the process right now of setting up a new drone base.his expansion is happening all across the country, east and west. juan: i want to turn to africom commander general david rodriguez speaking to gail mccabe of soldiers broadcasting news. when asked about the effects of u.s. training on african militaries, rodriguez says african partners now better serve their governments and their people. >> you can look at all of the effectiveness that has been increased in the african partners so the truth concerning countries, desk country meeting countries, which we support the department of state as they prepared us forces, have had significant success over al-shabaab and they have performed well. >> as i understand it, the idea was to help the african military's established themselves as they could take care of crisis on the african continent without our help. >> right. it is about being a professional force in a democracy. many of our african partners have increased their abilities as militaries, but also and probably more important, deserve the

french soldiers spread out across five countries in africa, mali, mauritania, per keen that fast sew, nigerand chad. roesch the french pushed u.s. for involvement to out of qaddafi in libya as well. gregg. gregg: let's turn to ryan more row, national security analyst for the clarion project. mr. more row, thank you for being with us. we began getting reports 10 or 15 minutes ago or al qaeda or al qaeda-linked group is claiming responsibility for this terrorist attack in mali. two hours ago it said looked to you like in fact it was work of al qaeda, though you couldn't rule out isis. what made you think that? >> stylistically seemed more like an al qaeda-type operation where they go in, not shouting about iraq and syria and allowing people they believe to be muslims to leave in order to say they're more humane toward muslims than isis. this is also an area that is considered an al qaeda stronghold, much more so than isis. i notice online, isis accounts i monitor weren't claiming responsibility. very same ones that claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks. that is what tipped me off. greg

has increased its presence with a drone-based in nearby niger. support offering the that they need in the region, these different groups. david: we do know more about this conflict ongoing. it has involved the native tuaregs, but also the radical jihadists. is there any sense that this is an islamic, a radical movement? want their tuaregs own independent nation. they are in political talks and have been on the sidelines in terms of violence. the islamists, on the other hand -- there are a few different groups that have mostly been allied with al qaeda, but in the past year they have changed their strategy, some allied with islamic state. no one has claimed responsibility yet, but this is a sign of sympathy to islamic state. stephanie: there are some reports that some of those hostages who were freed were able to recite verses from the koran. that being the case, assuming the reports are true, that would make one believe that this is a eontinuation of the insurgenc we have heard coming from the north regarding islamists. andres: that could be the

why this that happened, there are typically attacks every now and again in that area speeskcifically niger to isis and showing that it is more operationally ready and tactical. what we can tell you, though, is that yesterday's siege lasted all day. here is a wrap of what went down. >> reporter: bamako under attack. these were the scenes in the malian capital friday morning as gun men stormed the radisson blu hotel firing shots an taking hostages. a u.n. spokesman says at least one of the cars had diplomatic license plates. the siege that left scores dead inside this hotel which prides itself on its tight security. >> translator: the authorities need to take strong measures. if something like this can happen, then i'm worried. >> reporter: for west africa, this is the third fatal terror attack in a week. two days ago, it was isis affiliated group boko haram blamed for orchestrating one bombing in nigeria and suspected in another leaving more than 40 dead. yola was struck first. 24 hour later at a market in northern nigeria, authorities say two young girls, one only 11 years old, detonated s

the french army has been really active a lot in africa in mali, in niger, together with the african armyne. and there is a reason why they're striking us. we are a threat for them as much as they are a threat for us. that's what it means by a war. and it's not a war like the second world war. it's an imbalanced war. but that's the way it is. >> you say it's not a war like the second world war. but yet vladimir putin in the u.n. in september when he announced that he was going to join the fight against isis, you know, then started bombing, he said at the u.n. we the allies need to form a coalition against this extremism just as the allies formed the coalition against hitler and nazism during the second world war. didier, that has not happened. there is no such determined coalition now. and i guess my question is how many deaths will be enough to form that real coalition? how much more can your president and other leaders take of this kind of bloodshed in their cities before they get serious about fighting the war in syria? >> i understand your question. i don't have the answers. i think t

a series of blasts by isis affiliates killed 49 people in apology near gentlem-- in niger.a female suicide bomber in 1991 even assassinated the prime minister of ind why. india. the picture emerging is the juhadist operating more like gang members drawn in by boy friends. one expert told me the boy friends operate more like -- >> keir simmons with that story. >> let's turn now to dillon and the weather. >> it's going to start feeling like fall even stretching all the way down to the southeast by the time we go through the weekend. we have the cold air from the north. it's 14 degrees below average. saturday the colder air works into areas like chicago. we could see several inches of snow in the midwest. sunday temperatures in atlanta drop to a high of 52 degrees and it takes until monday to work its way into new york city. by monday, we should see a high of 45 degrees. that's 7 degrees below average. today we are watching lighter snow through the nor >>> 0 in the peninsula and 40 degrees in the south bay. here's a peak out your window. >>> and sunday night the football night