>> this is one of the biggest issues in the niger delta.king about two spills, bearing in mind that there are hundreds every single year. there are huge health risks to live in with this amount of pollution and petroleum in the water, on the land, on the air. but nobody has ever studied the impacts and companies deny that there are negative impacts, which seems almost impossible living in this context that there wouldn't be negative health impacts. >> mentioning the word deny. shell denies it. shell says the spillage came from theft basically, nigerians siphoning off the oil. and we have seen some evidence of that, haven't we? >> these two cases at the uk court, or the legal action in the uk, shell has actually had to admit that these two spills were caused by equipment failure, so shell's own equipment was the cause of this. but shell has for years been defending its record in the niger delta by saying pipes are sabotaged, there's theft of oil. but the basis for shell's claims are shell's own internal investigations of oil spills, which ar

so all of nigeria east wealth come from the niger delta. is an extremely rich country with impoverished people. the people there would obviously want to see their own person as president. and hopefully when he is there, their hope will be that he'll be able to right some of the wrongs, you know, that his predecessors have done, you know, to harm the country and the niger delta. there will be people who might say they don't want him as president again for another term, and then there will be people who say they want him, because they want him to be able to justify why they voted him in, and also we'll be [ inaudible ] poverty, he'll be good to hopefully eradicate the flaring -- >> but has he achieved any positive things for anythingians in these years that he has been in power? in because very often what we hear about is a security failure. you know, him not being able to deal -- >> sorry this line is extremely bad. i could hardly hear you, ma'am. >> our apologies. i'll try to repeat it a bit louder. i'm asking you what his record is. what h

books, one is a peace keeping play book and one is how they handled the low level issue in the niger delta in the last few years. the distance between where central command is and where the fight is, long logistics to get there. they're going to have to rejigger and regroup and become a more flexible military to be able to respond quickly and to respond effectively. >> well, how big a problem is the government itself? nigerian president goodluck jonathan is running again. a new york times op ed says it's the most corrupt government since nigeria gained independence in 1960. who's right? >> the corruption has always been there. every government i've followed has been, they were corrupt, corruption is out of control. corruption in nigeria is a fact, there is no question about that. unfortunately, nigeria seems to be moving down the list on transparency, international, instead of improving on the list of transparency international. they have to improve that not just for the boko haram but for the overall good of the country. they've made some strides, the economic issue out there is quite goo

to leave on friday or face sanctions >>> two police many have been killed in a bombing in niger delta. the officers were inspecting the device when it went off at a train station. another small bomb is set to have exploded wounding three. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalists, detained in egypt for 317 days. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed are falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they are appealing against their prison sentences >>> ukraine says it will freeze state payments meant for breakaway regions in the nation's east. up to 2.6 billion will be withheld from the donetsk and luhansk regions, where pro-russian separatists declared the public. pension payments and government benefits will only resume after separatist forces surrender. >> translation: our citizens are in the regions, and the government will not let them freeze. it will humanitarian disaster. our territories and people are there. we'll decide who are personality. all payments, loyalties, we are keeping track of them. >> when the russians get out of

shell has been sued in london by 15,000 farmers and fishermen from the niger delta. they say poor maintenance was to blame and that they have internal company documents to prove it. shell says the leaks were caused by people trying to steal from the pipeline. cleanup costs could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. also, we've been looking at europe's uneven recovery and what it means for some of the countries involved. one area that's been getting a boost is what's become known as the sharing economy. millions of people -- yes, sharing what? cars, even homes through apps like uber and air brvebnairbnb. but they're looking to share everyday items like a drill. just secured 7 million euro in foreign investment. we'll have more on "gmt" in just over an hours time. we want to know what you think. do you share? do you trust it? follow me, tweet me @bbcaaron. back to you. >> short and sweet, just like i like it. >>> msf says it is to begin three potential trials for ebola in west africa. medical staff will use two anti-viral drugs and blood plasma from survivors.

about if we, you know, if we wanted to just choose a place, maybe we could say nigeria, the the niger deltahat kicked shell out of the territory. and people think they didn't know about climate change. nigerians in the '90s called one of their largest protests operation climate change. and i learned that, actually, by reading a book that esperanza helped ed kit. and, of course -- edit. and, of course, the fight in ec what with door to -- ecuador to keep the oil underground in the amazon is, has been at the forefront of the keep the carbon in the ground model. and, you know, one of the quotes that you have in the box is very simple -- in the book is very simple, why should we sacrifice new areas if fossil fuels should not be extracted in the first place, which is a very good question. the concept of climate debt says, yes, let's leave the oil underground. but in leafing the -- leaving the oil under the amazon, that should be recognized as a contribution to the world, and there should not be a choice, a false choice between the right to education, the right to health care, the right to jobs,