is expanding its drone operations in niger. the deserts parating north africa from west africa can be forbidding. but for ugglers, human traffickers and, more recently, n-state terrorist organizations, the remote expanses can also be inviting for moving fighters pod wea freely through the region. much to the concern of genal thomas walhauser, the commander of the u.s. forces in afica. >> one way to character niger would be is they have been a good partnerdn a very, very ba neighborhood. >> agadaz, agadez, the traditnal desert crossroads and trading outpost in central niger is about to become t new hub of expanding the u.s. military's drone operations in the african nation. here in the middle of the desert is where the u.s. is constructi its newest drone base, now that more drone missions are originating out of africa than the middle east. estimated cost, $110 million and counting. the decision to build the base was made more than five years ago, while making mali was under siege. according to ambassador to niger, eric whitaker.

young men, now stranded this international organization for migration refugee camp in central niger,aiting to be repatriated byei respective countries. the u.n.'s internationalni orgazation for migration is teaching thierno and other migrants more resilient farming practices that would t it possible for them to return to farming in their home countries. >> to create awareness, to let people know that past practices may not relevant today just because of climate change. people need to adopt new techniques of farming. they need adapt new ways of living their life so that they can adapt to the reality of climate change.ep >>orter: unable to change the climate or generate enough aid for deing with growing humanitarian crises, the major humanitarian groups like the wod food programme and car are working with local farmers to make their fields and crops more drought and flood resistant. a and th developing new seed stocks for the shorter and more erratic growing seasons. o >> for them to be able tt the seeds and farming inputs that they need. care has organize them, especially the women, i

thierno diallo made it as far north as algeria, bere being sent back to niger, along with these otheroung n, now stranded in this international organization for migration refugee camp in central niger, waiting to be repatriated by their respective countries. the u.n.'s international organization for migration is teaching thierno and other migrants more resilient farming practices that would to make it possible for them to return to farming in their home countries. >> to create awareness, to let people know that past practices may not be relevant just because of climate change. people need to adopt new techniques of farming. they need to adapt newof living their life so that they can adapt to the reality of climate change. >> reporter: unable to change the climate or generate enough cd for dealing withwing humanitarianses, the major humanitarian groups like the world food programme and care are working with local farmers to make their fields and crops more drosiht and flood ant. and they are developing new seed stocksor the shorter and more erratic growg seasons. >> for them to be able

joining me now, niger innis and doug schoen. good to see both. >> good to see you, trish. and e e find it historically just so wrong and culturally insulting, frankly, to anyone who lost a family member during those horrific world war ii years, whether it was in a nazi germany concentration camp or whether it was a family member who fought to free germany. i mean, you got these guys out there, these young guys trying to say that the administration is the equivalent of the third reich? come on. >> well, i guess -- i come at it a slightly different way but reach the same conclusion, trish. i am proud that our embassy is now, because of president trump, in jerusalem. i'm proud that this week he recognized the sovereignty of the state of israel over the golan heights. to compare a president who has a 95% approval rating in israel to someone who has anything to do with nazi germany is, to me, ridiculous. and on immigration, call jeh johnson, obama's secretary for homeland security, who said we have a crisis at the border, a acknowledging what the president said. what we need is

military personnel were killed in the african country of niger when this came to light members of the u.s. armed services committee those are u.s. senators had no idea what they were even doing there but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger and you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in these air did you know i didn't know and for something that topple like that officials don't even know about it's rather extensive so we decided to go out and talk to members of the u.s. public about afrikaans activities perhaps they have some information that top government officials don't have box lotus what does that make you think oh literally nothing back ok so me what do you think of. drug music from africa junction serpents what do you think that is i think nothing comes to mind how about maybe an alcoholic drink definitely and a justified seimone yeah. yeah i don't know. an actor that's what you think kodiak contra might be having a clue you think it might be like a drink possibly cocktail possibly actually the name of the u.s. military operation in

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two workers for royal dutch shell who were kidnapped in nigeria southern the niger delta region last week have been rescued they were attacked while returning from an official trip to the southern and by less state. there's reports from some far this type of crime is becoming increasingly rampant all across the west african country. kidnapping for ransom is becoming one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in niger it's not restricted to places like the northwest of nigeria like in this impoverished community where the residents had to pay several thousand dollars to kidnap us over the last one year to get their own people released from the kidnappers all the oil producing niger delta why expired treats and the rich are being targeted by these criminals now it's even spread to other parts of nigeria in the capital it's so difficult to move from a to kaduna which is just less than two hundred kilometers away from the federal capital now almost every week we have reports of people being abducted on a highway that is supposedly being protected by the security forces the nigerian

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effects that this refinery could have something that i've seen with my own eyes when i was in the niger delta just a couple of weeks ago a main hub of oil production nigeria which led that production of oil lead to environmental pollution to basically fisherman not being able to fish because rivers and lakes are being polluted so some people you talk to i very much overjoyed by this and others are very much concerned ben so tell me why is the world bank telling africa to go green back in this project. well the world bank actually told us upon our requests that they are actually going green and we should look at the number of funds from twenty eighteen they say they have invested in renewable projects around twenty billion u.s. dollars and they did they have disputed the findings of this research group that has been part of they have named projects for example like this should be using lies in india to prove the fact that they are very much focusing on renewable energies now nobody is disputing of course that the role bank has projects which are very much particularly designed about goin

. >> niger, you were running this a little bit with the states that are codifying roe v.. they're not doing anything that's not the law of the land now. roe v. wade is only infanticide if you want to call it that and put that label on it. this is not new moves. is that hand in glove with this effort? >> i think that the extremes on both ends are defining the debate on this question when most of the american people are somewhere in the middle. you know -- >> how are you in the middle about whether or not someone's got a right to choose? >> it's late term abortions, for example. >> who did late term abortions, what state made late term abortions okay? >> the state of virginia rejected a law. but you had a legislator, julie chan, that was pushing a piece of legislation. she was confronted by one of her colleagues in the house of delegates and asked, would a woman who was dilating and about to give birth be allowed to have an abortion? julie chan -- >> stop this b.s. right now. that is b.s. >> the state didn't adopt it. jennifer, go ahead. >> that is not what is happening. wh

joining me now on the line from the sri lankan capital colombo is journalist jamila niger mateen jamila these raids are the latest of the police operations that have been taking place the cut across the country what can you tell us about the state of investigations right now. yes well last night there were at least have been the in the gun that committed to that doesn't believe that the concrete and. more people that i'm actually operating because they believe that the parodic group who are hiding in that. what the also know is that. the forces that i'm better. to take into of how we have a lot of them on the end of the bomb that i'm living and they are probably if i think that i was only part of the donkey in could i think that the truth of yes but i need the help of the forces at the moment and other parts of the country all thought to learn from healing people happen to be questioned and basically on the hunt for anyone needing to be well cloudy for me and for fundraising those i'm. jamila churches have halted sunday mass for the first for the time being prayer is that mosques yester

a new government led by mahathir mohamad reopened investigations into one and properties linked to niger were raided us he and his wife were banned from leaving the country while this new government of being came into power on the back of strong with a backlash for what they perceived to be corruption and abuse of power in the previous administration so i think this new government can be seen that it's acting on these issues that i think often corruption is i think tough on abuse of power i think that's why the reopen this case at least six countries have ordered investigations into one and be in the united states prosecutors allege at least four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund in total not to places forty two charges he's pleaded not guilty to all of the following wednesday is the first of several against not just in this one he's accused of pocketing more than ten million dollars from a former subsidiary of one m.d.c. among hundreds of millions allegedly transferred into his bank account if found guilty he could face decades in prison florence li al jazeera. the bri

a new government led by mahathir mohamad reopened investigations into one and properties linked to niger were raided us he and his wife were banned from leaving the country while this new mission government i think came into power on the back of strong with a backlash with what they perceived to be corruption and abuse of power in the previous administration so i think this new government can be seen that it's acting on these issues that i think corruption is i think tough on abuse of power i think that's why the reopen this case at least six countries have ordered investigations into one and d. in the united states prosecutors allege at least four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund in total knowledge of faces forty two charges he's pleaded not guilty to all of the following wednesday is the first of several against not just in this one he's accused of pocketing more than ten million dollars from a former subsidiary of one m.d.c. among hundreds of millions allegedly transferred into his bank account if found guilty he could face decades in prison florence li al jazeera.

at the university of nigeria in enugu south this niger and of course i'm joined by my colleagues the alone level in south africa hazy how you don't today. just grates n t good to see you again hello everyone and greetings from johannesburg as n.t. said will be covering quite a lots of grants this week so let's take a quick look at what's coming up. see how with a little ingenuity you can make a wildlife sanctuary an even more peaceful place build a truly low impact home using materials and use organic waste to create something useful and the last thing. a first report comes from right here in south africa few natural phenomenon are as spectacular as the sight of an enormous flock of birds gathering to breed sadly climate change and other factors have had a devastating effect on many breeding areas in recent years but lucky for us there are dedicated conservationists who refuse to sit back and watch as entire generations of birds a lost for ever. come first in south africa january two thousand and nineteen a devastating scene drought and a lack of water supply by the local municipalit

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here leaves from fishing but in the past few decades niger traumas have decimated fish stocks. local fishermen were getting desperate and to the national coast guard started patrolling together with ocean conservation and geo sea shepherd before the start of the operation few vessels had been arrested since january twenty seventh fourteen fishing vessels have been reported for you now fish populations are slowly returning to the area i used tons for illegal unreported or under glittered fishing . we were like just by choice forty to forty five percent of our costella by the coming of sea shepherd have given us that opportunity to extend our posture as far as almost ninety percent of our water my share of the boats that have been arrested for are you have been chinese vessel sea shepherd provides there have been coast guard with ships small boats and crew there going to ascension also carries our groups on how to board suspicious vessels at the partners in form and train the coast guard on how to carry out security inspections. during this exercise captain until bird food from s

what he and prove their wrongdoing did indeed occur when malaysian police raided properties linked to niger they seized handbags jewelry and cash worth more than two hundred seventy billion dollars investigators say money stolen from one m.t.d. was used to fund lavish lifestyles for his family and his associates including buying high end properties building an art collection and funding a hollywood movie one is being investigated in five other countries including the us the us department of justice alleges for the half billion dollars were stolen from the fund this trial marks the first time a former prime minister of malaysia has been in but it's also significant because it will put on public record details of the fraud that allegedly occurred at one m.d.c. and the highest offices of how transactions were made shell companies allegedly set up to cover the money trail the connections between him and others accused of taking part in the financial scandal lawrence. after more than a week of deliberations a jury in the u.k. has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of the police officer in ch

reorganize or restructure the process as well as deal with rising cases of criminality in northwest niger in particular as interested which is seen more than one hundred people dead in the last two or three weeks now the well the u.s. secretary of homeland security kristen bell sent out donald made the announcement on twitter and while the official line is that nelson resigned tums made no secret about his anger at how things have been going along the border with mexico atika or some washington. it's fair to say that cures didn't else and will go down in history as the most controversial secretary in the history of the young department of homeland security she put in place what many saw as draconian policies under her watch thousands of children were ripped from their parents trying to cross the southern border many housed in crowded camps until a federal judge stepped in and demanded the families be reunited she leaves office with potentially thousands of children misplaced separated from their families and the government now says it could take up to two years to reunite them all because

of a huge base in niger in west africa. so we see this war not winding down at all but actually ramping even look atnot the forever war, because even if we were to withdraw from afghanistan and completely from syria, we have to look at this in its entirety and really think about what we are doing and why. host: let's talk to jim, who is calling from pocatello, idaho. jim, good morning. yes, thank you for taking my call. states has never started wars. they always going to support the countries that fought. and we had two parties that were on the same team except for supporting the socialist dictators, and the other ones supporting the people in the country itself, and maybe they can get something done. thank you. iest: uh, yeah, you know, don't know how to quite answer your comment other than to say, um, you know, i think politicians often will say, "oh, this time this war will be quick and effective and cheap." part of what we are trying to do at the costs of war project essay that is never the case. it is never quick and c

they have capacity or competition what you see instead is the stronger markets including markets like niger and some areas competing more aggressively more benefiting from this free trade area and and to say that one should be concerned about non african actors taking advantage of a free market bringing hyper competitive ability to bear in a market this is some to be concerned about is to me concerning because that's the reason one of the reasons why africa it's as developed as as quickly at the pace that the continent would like us say this is well so it's a look at every reason if you have an example rate it let me interrupt real amp and use the story ownership to let me interrupt you there because you're taking us rather neatly on to the issue of f.b.i. . you're suggesting that you that you rather nervous about the introduction of foreign. involvement if you like in gauge went in local african economies but foreign direct investment is a necessary ingredient for growth we've always been told this. of course of course . that for foreign capital supporting african countries african entrepr

reorganize or restructure the process as well as deal with the rising cases of criminality in northwest niger in particular as interested which is seen more than one hundred people dead in the last two or three weeks. the u.s. secretary of homeland security kissin nielsen is donald trump made the announcement over twitter and all the official line is that nielsen resigns trumps made no secrets about his anger at high things have been going on the border with mexico that's equal him as the reports. it's fair to say that cures didn't ailsa and will go down in history as the most controversial secretary in the history of the young department of homeland security she put in place what many saw as draconian policies under her watch thousands of children were ripped from their parents trying to cross the southern border many housed in crowded camps until a federal judge stepped in and demanded the families be reunited she leaves office with potentially thousands of children misplaced separated from their families and the government now says it could take up to two years to reunite them all because

armed groups violence is spreading fast into neighboring countries like booking a fast food charge and niger and the u.n. says more than three million people in mali on now in desperate need of food and humanitarian aid. al-jazeera. a rising political star in thailand has been charged with sedition and could face up to nine years in prison than a torn. need to was greeted by hundreds of supporters as he arrived in the police station the charges stem from his role in a student demonstration four years ago that a torrent says the thailand's military government is trying to silence him as future forward party came in third and last month's election. so the rising cost of living in pakistan is putting pressure on poor communities and placing has reached its highest level in five years pushing up the cost of fuel and electricity it is for some farmers to take second jobs just to stay in business come on higher reports from the islam about countries. it's morning in the religion of kerala and though we'd been stick around green this is reynolds god pharoah dean takes his goats out to graze this pl

military cooperation engagements and contracts with mercenaries in the central african republic sudan, nigerlook at the bigger picture? the health secretary has told mps that a woman caught trying to bring medical cabin —— cannabis into the uk may get the drugs back. appleby had a three month supply of the medicine which cost over £4500, seized as she landed with her family at a south and airport on saturday. she bought the drugs to treat her nine—year—old daughter who has severe epilepsy. the law was changed in november to allow cannabis prescription by some doctors but without clinical authorisation, it can't be imported. however, we have made available the opportunity for a second opinion and the products have been held not been destroyed as would normally be the case. and to set out what action he was taking. i have asked and england rapidly to initiate a process evaluation to address barriers to clinically appropriate prescribing. and he had asked for research and to provide cannabis. some of these young children have 300 seizures a day. they are given drugs which actually don't seem to

have been soundman to cut ties with a close adviser linked to the niger janis jamal khashoggi well that age is sound a tiny it recently been sanctioned by the united states for his alleged role in the killing rosen and john reports from washington according to the guardian newspaper the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has told the saudi crown prince that he needs to cut all ties with his close political adviser and former social media chief solid alcohol any the removed paper says that mike pompei o told mohamed been solemn on that. ongoing presence is undermining saudi credibility when it comes to the investigation of the murder of the saudi journalist jamal the last october that goes to the fact that u.s. intelligence has said that mr al fatah he was very likely involved in the planning and carrying out of mr household she is murder and it also has suggested that he is very much involved in ongoing efforts to or press political dissidents within the saudi kingdom so far the state department has given a no comment response to the guardian al-jazeera has also reached out for comme

you know he was encouraged by terms of the policies sometimes our shows when trump decided to go to niger as are most captive of israel and it's over until. the pope by the. seat and heights he felt why not if trump approves and accepts everything that you know i ask on the amount then why are you not suitable for that hand to demand from him precondition all of this or it's all right you're welcome by the west bank. well polls have netanyahu in fierce competition with benny gantz who leads the centrist blue and white alliance the former army chief is promoting himself as an honest alternatives and this young who it could face corruption charges in the coming months is also among those who accuse ness yahoo of stalking religious divisions of soldiers an army base in southern israel have cast their ballots ahead of tuesday's election if netanyahu white when the kid party wins he'll serve a fifth term as prime minister. there is a political and diplomatic correspondence with the globe's business paper and she joins us now live from tel aviv thank you so much tom for being with us today coul

armed groups violence is spreading fast into neighboring countries like booking a fast food charge and niger and the u.n. says more than three million people in mali on now in desperate need of food and humanitarian aide. al jazeera. a rising political star in thailand has been charged with sedition and could face up to nine.

time you know he was encouraged by trumps the policies sometimes actions when trump decided to go to niger as are most captive of israel. is that it's over until. the pope i. couldn't see the heights he felt why not if trump approves and accepts everything that you know i ask on the mound why not just to go further and demand from him the mission of israeli serenity over the local by the west bank by poles have nets now in fierce competition with benny gantz audley's the centrist blue and white alliance the former army chief is promoting himself as an honest tentative to netanyahu who could face corruption charges in the coming months gantz is also among those who accuse netanyahu of stoking village's division harry fawcett reports from western assume it is going to . be million become moot four years ago benjamin netanyahu pushed the responsible google goog to boost in a facebook video on polling day he used fears of the palestinian israeli vote to mobilize his own cause support. apologized for that but in this campaign israel's prime minister has deployed race is an issue unapologeticall

sjd the soldier killed in niger.you can't put aside your own petty issues to console the widow of someone killed in action when that soldier reports to you as the commander, there is something wrng with you as the president of the united states. president trump is comfortable. you can see in the rallies. he is comfortable winging it and doing stand up comedy. but when he has the moments he has to be sober it's not easy. >> also the other gold standard, remember during the campaign when he had the fight with the other gold star family. >> the kahn family. he has this moment with conservative -- dsh the conservative on the view megan mccain who lost her father you know how this president feels about megan mccain's father. they are family friends. the mccains have said it they put pout a statement. is this orchestrated? what do you think of that? it was powerful you have megan mccain saying i'm happy you're in the race and i admire and respect you >> obviously the families were close, biden and mccain. it's well documen

but niger, what do you make about dean's argument?like me and people like you who are trying to fuel a false narrative that this party is further left so you can may the socialist card. >> well, forget me and others that might try to do that. look at 2016 when a identify who was a registered socialist for most of his political life, bernie sanders, got nearly 50% of the democratic voters to vote for him. the heart and soul of the democratic party, and howard makes a good point about the number of congressional speets were won in purplish districts. they're going to be very vulnerable. the rock stars, bernie sanders, for that matter. and more than that. you've got these folks defining the narrative, they're defining what will be the presidential contest. i can't wait. >> he's putting the bernie bros up your nose. >> i think the terms, left and right, are being somewhat, they're somewhat obsolete. i love aoc. i think she's a fantastic spokesperson. and the reason for that is not because she said she's a democratic socialist. she's going

jennifer granholm and niger ennis.on't believe this is about states thinking these laws are going to stick. it's about pushing the envelope and seeing what happens and what they can agitate at the supreme court level. but as you heard, gov, i liken these to jim crow laws, because i saw that as the same pernicious intent. let's codify it. let's solidify it at the local level so at least we're starting with a base, and then we'll try our luck, see how long we can keep it this way. how do you see it? >> yeah, no, i think you're >> yeah, no, i think you're totally right. they know that these laws are unconstitutional. they know that they've been struck down. if you want to know what the fight about kavanaugh was all about, this is it. they want the right case to get to the supreme court which would overturn roe versus wade. let me just say, one of the states that, of course, as you mention is under the microscope on this is georgia. there was a senator in georgia who said we will reclaim our rights when we reclaim your sea