. ♪ >> nigeria wants to become africa's aviation hub.e number of passengers raises, so does too the amount of investment. >> we are about to take off from nigeria's capitol to the commercial hub. this is one of 500 flights that will fly through the skies daily. there are not enough pilot flights or aviation services to meet the demands for air travel in africa's most populace nation. planes are almost always full with 10 million people flying through the countries 22 airports each year. that number is set to increase to 50 million over the next decade. there's a race to improve capacity and services across the board. it's being led by nigeria's aviation minister. >> we want to accomplish at the end of the day is to have nigeria become the natural hub for the region, and then extend it for the continent. >> these air traffic controllers are benefiting from a plan to train nationals for aviation jobs. the countries airports are being given a multi-dollar face lift >> i'm trying to make it impossible for you to remember that there used to b

leaving a tough choice for the generation born in nigeria.bc news, nigeria. >> china is targeting dozens of drug companies in a crackdown on corruption in its healthcare system. . it follows a bribery scandal involving the british rub giant glaxosmithkline. british pharmaceutical giants glaxosmithkline. the routinely pay chinese doctors to get their medications described. we have the story. the cost ofcounting its health care. entire salary on her husband's medication. he is suffering from a brain tumor and government health insurance only covers part of the cost. the family survives with handouts from relatives. >> when my husband fell sick he was a young man. we did not have a lot of savings. beijing expands provisions for healthcare, government spending is soaring. they are investigating possible price-fixing in up to 60 pharmaceutical companies. a detained executive from the british firm glaxosmithkline confessed on state tv that his company paid bribes to doctors so they would describe their drugs. he said the bribes were then absorbed i

leaving a tough choice for the generation born in nigeria.bc news, nigeria. >> china is targeting dozens of drug companies in a crackdown on corruption in its healthcare system. . it follows a bribery scandal involving the british rub giant glaxosmithkline. british pharmaceutical giants glaxosmithkline. the routinely pay chinese doctors to get their medications described. we have the story. the cost ofcounting its health care. entire salary on her husband's medication. he is suffering from a brain tumor and government health insurance only covers part of the cost. the family survives with handouts from relatives. >> when my husband fell sick he was a young man. we did not have a lot of savings. beijing expands provisions for healthcare, government spending is soaring. they are investigating possible price-fixing in up to 60 pharmaceutical companies. a detained executive from the british firm glaxosmithkline confessed on state tv that his company paid bribes to doctors so they would describe their drugs. he said the bribes were then absorbed i

so i say, i also come from nigeria and i am like you. [laughter] i do not think she believed me so i was inventing names. anyway. so she influenced me.

we are neighbors to nigeria. a lot of the civil society in ghana is insisting we have to see what nigeria did wrong and avoid doing that. there is something called publish what you pay. when the citizens find out what the government is getting from the oil revenue, if it is not kept the great it gives them help in trying to say, where does the money go? i think they're going to make efforts to make sure that they do not do the bad things others have done. >> richard, do you agree? james davies has written a lot about revolution. he says that populations do not start demanding more things, demanding new rights, intellect vacations are no longer being met. it is not when things are so bad, it is when suddenly their expectations go up and they start the mending new rights. could seeing what other countries have done and seeing this influx of cash be something to motivate them to demand changes? >> this is a value chain issue. oil discoveries and natural gas will increase exports, but much more refining and processin

and i resolved then i would try to go nigeria. he did cohome. and he was jailed with eight other minority rights activists. within a year it was november 10, 1995, after a trial he was executed. we went back to nigeria, we visited his family one of the men in his community came forward after they sang us a song and met his parents who since died. he recounted for us the last speech of ken in court. then we discovered the other story of villagers who had got ton speak with chevron executives on a barge because there was an oil spill. they wanted the forest cleaned up and they wanted jobs, and ultimately the chevron flew in the nigeria military on the barring and opened fire and killed two and critically rounded a third and others who rounded up in a prison. we did a story "drilling and kilt -- killing." it's those kinds of stories we feel are critical to shed a spotlight on places that americans night not know about, and, you know, you can't -- so why is that this could happen in nigeria? it's our job as journalists to go where the silence is and

togo. >> leaving nigeria. >> 63 years old and hasn't played in nearly 20 years. as you can see in this video filmed in wisconsin in the u.s. mary houston doesn't seem to have lost her touch. she is enjoying massive success online and has racked up some 4.5 million hits on youtube making the woman dubbed grandma drama the latest web sensation. >> let's look at what weekly news magazines have been saying around the world. hi, flow. let's start with the situation in tunisia somewh. we saw massive demonstrations against the ruling islamist part and we look at the fracture between the islamists and rest of the country. it points out while across the arab world in egypt and tune initial they are seeming to have a hard time dealing with the reins of power. can he hold on and it has been a dangerous summer for tunisia after the opposition of the -- murder of the opposition leader and massacre where nine soldiers were killed. for now the islamists seem to be persistently in denial but this blind determination can become fire and they wonder could tune initial face a -- tu

. >> other news, at least 44 people have been killed at a mosque in the northeast of nigeria. it is believed the attackers were members of the islamist group boko haram. they opened fire during prayers. boko haram frequently kills christians in northern nigeria, but the group has also attacked mosques in the past. rescuers are treating a group of 20 condors which were found poisoned in the chilean andes. the birds have a wingspan of anything up to from 3 -- up to three meters. to have died. it is thought they may have eaten poisoned carcasses or drunk water contaminated with an sex a guide -- insecticide. goldtine ohuruogu has one in the 400 meter world and moscow. it took a photo finish to establish that she was one -- that she had won by just for thousands of a second. toew british record went christine ohuruogu . two young british women arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling in peru say that they were forced to carry the cocaine that was discovered in their luggage. michaela connolly and melissa reid were stuck in lima last tuesday. michaela mccollum on the left was arrest

activists here in this country who are looking out what ties us was on its aid to africa when i was nigeria all gone now so i think one way that you can get the aid to help with transparency and democracy in those countries is to make sure that there is an insistence what it's tied to that democracy is not that we want that dictate of luton with us in the un by rather we want real democracy to take root so i think aid it's probably probably properly lou. and can be helpful to introduce aspect of the corporate social responsibility c.s.r. whoever these outside investors are the major multinationals to the extent that they practice c.s.r. as a form of economic development they can affect the outcome for for better as well and we're going to make that happen to support he is good business schools in africa the faster they develop the world standards the better everything will be in transparency and more democratic control there richard america an adjunct professor at georgetown university and founder of the democracy and conflict research institute thank you thank you thank you and a setback f

is on its aid to africa where there is nigeria. so i think one way that you can get the aid to help with transparency and democracy in those countries is to make sure that there is an insistence what it's tied to that democracy is not about we want to dictate of luton with us in the un by rather we want rio democracy to take root and that was richard american adjunct professor at georgetown university and founder of the democracy and conflict research institute. and moving on with huge internet companies like google taking over more and more of the web a bit of paranoia is understandable but are there moments of just too much paranoia the residents laurie harvest with more on that. this year we've been bombarded with stories about the government and corporations spying on us and that's making us all paranoid enough to where web developer has been whacked has created a web browser plugin called paranoid browsers we all know by now that wherever we go on the internet can be tracked and used against us the problem the spires are up ag

had impairments, we had effects like big foreign exchange movements and also we have a situation in nigeria which is giving us some concern. >>> japan's top consumer electronics companies on the road to recovery. sony and sharp both deliver better than expected earnings. analysts aren't sure if that's enough. >>> warm welcome to the program. we kick off with eurozone manufacturing pmi growing for first time in two years in july. factory outputs surging. markets using pmi up to 53.3 in july. from june's 48.8. revised slightly higher from the preliminary reading of 50.1. and over that 50 threshold for the first time since july 2011. follows a string of fairly good or more promising economic data out of the eurozone. unemployment also falling slightly. did revise actually the june number. still near the record high. euro/dollar during the session tracking down, 1.3232. was 1.33 post the fomc and u.s. data as well. just got the greek component of that. it hit a 3 1/2 year high in july as well. so that little bit of data will play into the ecb's discussions. but by how much? jeff and annette are

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neil: well shop till you drop as long as you can deal with the heat, walmart prefers of heat of the nigeriaso guess what walmart is doing? seeking other locales out away out, like africa, where it is planning on 90 stores in a a continent that welcomes the retailer, john, does it make you love walmart more or less? >> makes me love it more, they will not be pushed around, dc does not' walmart with a 75,000 square foot rule, a big box rule, saying lowest wage employee can be $ 12.50 an hour, 50% higher than their competitors, a unfair advantage. and walmart said they wi and walmart said they will take their jobs elsewhere. politics has hurt the very people they claim they are trying to help. neil: i don't know when you are in jackson hole or heaven. >> he has the greatest back screens. neil: the light is shining in. mr. unger? >> we should probably acknowledge this is not first time walmart opened up stores overseas. neil: understood. but largest single commitment to a continent. >> i hope that angola and walmart will be blissfully happy. if they get walmart out of this country, let main str

resent supplies disruptions in libya, iraq and nigeria. american consumers are hardly feeling them in what they pay to fill their tanks. >> gasoline prices in the pump this summer are virtually at the same level they were one year a go. that largely reflects the steadiness in crude oil prices globally. >> thanks the oh the dramatic rise, the international energy agency forecasts that 2014 will see the biggest world wide supply increase in 20 years. that will mean cheaper average crude prices in the market. and opec's power the to influence prices. >> so it's less than what it would have been had there not been this u.s. oil production. >> reporter: that extra cushion made it easier to tighten on iraq but some experts warn against being complacent. the oil still makes up the same share of u.s. economy today as it did 30 years ago. >> the market is still vulnerable today. i think that's important the for policy makers to understand that we are still one on the other side of the world away from the entire u.s. economy and back in to a recessi

the countries affected are nigeria, ghana, india, pakistan, bangladesh, and sri lanka. refundableked to pay bond, as much as $4,600. the prime minister david cameron pledged to cut immigration as part of his election campaign from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands by 2015 as the country wrestles with unemployment and austerity brought on by the economic crisis. the public anxiety was made worse when an influential group ofbritish mps said a group migration figures were a little based onan guests random used by travelers. a journalisthave and commentator and founder of a political blog. a representative of refugees and migrants form -- forum. what do you think of these proposed measures? discriminatorye in different ways. those going aring of the slogan the 1970's. is against the law to be an illegal immigrant in the uk. that is the problem i have with them saying go home. the problem i have with a 3,000 pound bond is that it is clearly discriminatory. coming from south asia or south african countries, and a lot of the people who stay in this country are from so

was followed by the ivory coast and nigeria. will be a test of character for frankfurt. they are smarting after a 6-1 bashing by berlin. now they could face a punishing second round against the champions. >> the coach is not lost his sense of humor. he knows his team has serious work to do on saturday. said it wasady important to win last week in berlin so we could take that confidence into the match. but we didn't do that her. >> frankfurt was humiliated. few expected such a devastating score line. frankfurt are now trying to put the debacle behind them. back.tough to bounce i would rather be favorites, but we're not. the outsiders can always produce an upset. >> if you think that frankfurt will have the firepower to worry the defending -- few think tha frankfurt will have the firepower to worry the defending champions. got off to a slow start, until this happened. the suite stalled until the defender pounced on a loose ball to a corner. fou rminutes -- four minutes to go, a 2-1 victory was clenched. to tennis now. the top seeds have taken a taken a tseats have umble. s

are scarce there, meaning the country is dependent on gasoline and diesel imports from neighboring nigeria of the fuel is smuggled over the border and sold in bottles illegally along the road at much lower than market prices. raymond azokpota is concerned that entire families live from selling the smuggled goods. >> it's an enormous problem. there are always serious accidents. houses burn down and people get hurt. >> these plants could help resolve the country's energy shortage. villagers have planted jatropha bushes on 430 hectares of land, a plant native to tropical countries. many women from the cooperative work in the fields. two times a year, they harvest the seeds. >> up to now, we've made soap out of the seeds and use it to do our laundry. but in the future, we want to produce biofuels, too. >> this project is a real bonanza for our group. >> they're happy about the good harvest. raymond azokpota explains that jatropha is inedible, but the fruits' seeds yield a great amount of oil. the plant is only being raised for local use, rather than in enormous, industrial quantities. the don'

for how climate change will affect the world, even regional forecasts, but what does that mean for nigeriaypt? what will it mean for water supplies along the nile? water flow between pakistan and afghanistan? pakistan and india? are linkingnalysts regional climate projections with political demographic information. through the national academy of sciences the cia is working with leading climatologists. >> folks within the community have spoken more and more frequently about climate change as a risk. the security community thinks of it as a risk. even science more than the political world does. >> the cia may be saying that it does not matter if this is man- made or natural as a threat, it could even be cyclical, which is what some of the biggest critics is thatt what matters we have to respond to it. >> the phrase that you hear again and again from officials is that if we wait for 100% certainty, we are dead. they see clamp -- climate change as a risk, the stabilizing, changing the security environment that they're dealing with. >> climate change risk assessment means preparing for tomorro

returning to power, which was unlikely, or we have what is happening now, like what happened in el nigeria in 1992. in 1992.a the president does not have much alternative now. >> that is the point. he does not have a lot of leverage in this situation, which made his statements sound in effectual. he did not have much to say other than to deplore the violence. even then, he was so measured, he wanted to be evenhanded in his statement. of a was sort parenthetical reference to religious institutions, and the christians are really being clobbered over there. under the morsi government, he allowed it to happen. >> and it is happening even more so now. it is very sad to watch. you watch this whole area of the world which had been marked by since the and juntas early 20th-century, and each time there is one overthrown and there are hopes for change, it turns out badly. those periods between events, i think, are shrinking. you talk about 10 years in algeria. with the current communications we have, these tumultuous events will happen more and more frequently, and they are incredibly dangerous and

. ♪ an e-mail from nigeria says i won $1 million a check will come, made out just for me ♪ ♪ what doe looks to good to be true, it is ♪ go to verse one, say "we." ♪ we want to stay connected there is a big world out there email flying through the air i may be over 60, but i love those mp3's face time us ♪ you'll be googling us later. stay safe out there in the internet world. take care. yo yo. [applause] >> we will get started. for the second half of our mourning, as you know, the lead davis joined us this morning, and we have dave clark joining us for the next half. dave has been an award winning newsmen for 35 years. he has been broadcasting for 35 years. he started when he was 17, so i have not had a chance to ask him what that special experience might have been about, but maybe you'll get a chance to ask him about this. i was interested in reading about all the places that he has worked. he has ben in new york city, washington d.c., he has been in los angeles. probably the most interesting for me was the fact that he was in philadelphia for a number of years. we know in the depar

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nigeria believes more attacks by the boko haram group are likely, focusing on the town of maiduguri. the attacks are designed to coincide with the last week of the muslim holy month of ramadan. zimbabwe and president mugabe -- president mugabe is leading in the polls. m morgan anger i -- tsvangirai disputes the results. >> they have come back to the polling station where they voted in wednesday's general election. early results have been posted outside. zimbabwe's electoral commission will announce the presidential results. officials from mugabe's party say they expect a landslide win. people in this neighborhood are just glad the voting process is over. >> even after election, we can see people moving around, doing their business peacefully. when i look at it, i say this is wonderful.>> but mugabe a's rival said the's polls were not free and fair. >> our conclusion is that this has been a huge farce. the credibility of this election has been marred by illegal violations which affect the legitimacy of its outcome. >> outside of the headquarters in harare, there were police in riot ge

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countries that form the index include nigeria, ghana in africa, qatar in the middle east, vietnam andtan in asia. over the last 12 months, the index has risen over 20%, significantly outperforming the emerging markets. but the frontiers are not to everyone's taste. >> i think the easy trade in emerging markets is over. it was a very nice sweet spot for ten years, but i agree there are great opportunities there. but i would not look out for research in those markets because that's not where the opportunity is. so if you want to do that, then trade in s&p index futures. but of course there will be winners and losers and less winners than losers. but if you apply to emerging markets and frontier markets, i think there are great opportunities emerging. >> reporter: so investing in frontiers is not for the faint-hearted. but while investors may have concerns about the security of putting their money in more volatile markets, exotic, a frontier market brokerage, says the main risks of these economies may not actually be where you think. they cite the slowdown in europe and the end of qe as

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anxiety given the syrian events coming right after a reduction in oil production in libya, problems in nigeria, problems in iraq. so i think the risk premium is probably appropriate where it is right now. >> should we choose to live in a world where a thug and a murderer like bashar al-assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity even after the united states and our allies said no. then the world does nothing about it. there will be no end to the test of our resolve. >> without considering any open-ended commitment without considering any boots on the ground approach what we will do is consider options that meet the narrow concern around chemical weapons. >> a lot of talk on the network today obviously about the price of oil and how that could be impacted with a conflict with syria. interesting because mark wolf treated today essentially the peak in oil seasonably typically happens in mid-september, december, which over lays with the timing of a syrian conflict. >> i think colonel jacobs the knee jerk will be higher as the headlines come out this weekend. you will see a ascent sell-

he has advisors -- >> he has done a much better job in nigeria and climate than people realize. he did it quietly in the first term. he was much more vocal about it in his second term. he's consistently pushed hard on energy and climate and in fact this is something that has blown up really this year, starting last year but has blown up this year and become kind of a prime fight. >> you got involved a few weeks ago in the b.a.r.t. strike. it wasn't a strike yet. they were talking and coming to logger heads and before the governor stepped into the avert a strike you showed up at a b.a.r.t. station in solidarity with people who clean up the station. what is the billionaire doing standing with people who clean b.a.r.t. stations. >> the person who -- there are two unions involved. i really only know about one of them which is really the lower paid workers. and the person who is reppi i representing them and she said tom you should come down. she gave me the what people get paid when they start, what they move up to and their benefits. come down and spend a day in their shoes and see