this is quite a big project for nigeria because. it cost nigeria two hundred over eight hundred million dollars. thing about ten thousand communities right now is the first time nigeria is had been mitra line we didn't decide to counter so much in it's a first in with africa this is a project that is going to be moving at least for now we have forty five kilometers of the red line that was commissioned to tag it is to have more than the one that was commissioned disheartened by the president is going to move at least five hundred people connect in fact in communities in the country china is not only providing the cash but some of the infrastructure itself why is china doing this so that providing the cash nigerian government so that the nigerian government can buy from chinese firms is it providing a helping hand or taking advantage of niger. what i think i think is bought nigeria is taking advantage of what has happened and by chinese coming in to provide these but the chinese are not come in taken over by so many businesses that a

>> in fact, so in nigeria, we did that with the government of nigeri nigeria, so when dr. ashano was leading the program, withe were focused on setting up dashboards that would monitor the preparedness and results of campaigns, places that performed poorly over long periods of time and then intensively sending special teams out there to address those issues with those communities. through collaboration with usaid, the gates foundation, national health care development agency in my jenigeria and w.h. the dashboard and reporting system for routine immunization services and planned to do that in a pilot state three years ago and roll out to a few other states, in fact, we hit a national level so there's a national reporting system that feeds into over -- i forget the exact number, but it's over 25,000 reporting sites. health facilities that are doing routine immunization. and any manager up in that system can go and immediately see those results in the electronic system and look at the dashboards and understand where there are problems. i don't know if you have -- >> yeah. >>

government of nigeria. when dr. etsano was leading the polio program, we very much were focused through his boc on setting up these dashboards that would monitor the preparedness and the results of campaigns, places that had performed poorly over long periods of time and then intensively sending special teams out there to address those issues with those communities. through collaboration with usaid and with the gates foundation and with cdc, and most importantly with the national primary health care and development agency, in nigeria and the bho as well, we have been able to apply that dashboard an electronic reporting system for him and his asian services and we had planned to do that in pilot stages three years ago. and roll out to a field state but we hit the national level so there's a national reporting system that feeds into over 25,000 reporting sites, health facilities that routinely do immunization. any manager up in that system can go immediately to see those results in the electronic system and s

and this guy had mentioned nigeria and we did ask during that time because newsnight did not want to cover nigeria who actually is very close to the united kingdom and there are a lot of nigerians who moved to the united kingdom it's a relationship there and nigeria actually did suffer greatly during the oil price collapse. so their currency collapse even more they had a lot of debt they had a difficult situation at the time now it's obviously better the world oil markets have recovered and we're glad they recovered but here he's saying as regards to growth because you talk about growth in russia he said russia is an old industrial economy it's not one of those places where you have a lot of peasants coming into the mainstream workforce you can expect it to grow at very significant real rates particularly given that it's stuck in a world economy where nobody is growing significantly but an important aside. this is from the i.m.f. guy ok this guy is an i.m.f. official one can't know the future what if investors wake up to the financial profit to see of the u.s. and other western natio

so loud gridlock of rush hour in nigeria's commercial capital. every day these vehicles discharge talk to gases that are used to enhance and escalate the relief. well there's a solution to this problem and its name was silent. for a start button of a hybrid car. like the one that belongs to a thirty five year old entrepreneur a diploma. the call grounds in both but electric energy it's one of just a handful in nigeria. basically as from the battery or the engine you have the call but i had to call votes the currents today seem to be stored inside a battery so in this mode of my batteries i'm well charged. because the latest one and patch are or d.c. both of which b.g. species the world bank says nigeria's quality is poor and the danger to public health most of those fields you look you see there's also things carbon monoxide now one belongs to his pockets full of all these things you know he shows extra ten days in the hopes of joining the sister. of a devil is circling. he's even become a mechanic of sorts. i started basically by with my love fo

relief workers in southern nigeria are struggling to cope with a new wave of refugees fleeing cameroon in october fighting broke out after separatists declared an independent state called amazonia in the south since then thousands of refugees have been crossing the border to escape the violence up at address reports from the cameroon nigeria border where new registration exercise has started. only in korean and her baby among hundreds of new arrivals crossing over from cameroon so five kilometers from this refugee registration center after wandering from village to village she eventually crossed the border into nigeria three days ago. so is lousy out of call me i wanted to come since last year but now i've bought at the dead including my as hiding inside cameroon because there's a war there we were dodging the troops she's already lost three of our relatives and fears for the lives of several others. an estimated thirty thousand people fleeing the violence and are currently living in nigeria survivors speak of abuses by korean forces including. and summary executions the united nations

this is nigeria we are in a nature conservation area the size of austria which you know asco has placed on its world heritage list. the first destination of the caravans is the away sissified. there is salt here since time immemorial it has been separated from the groundwater and fashioned into cones. this is cattle salt and it's the only product of the desert in these parts that can be traded. it is some of the caravans bear on board when they leave the oasis with their load and they do so as quickly as they can for punching is an inhospitable place the desert is steadily swallowing up the old way says and nial aiding it just as it is bearing more and more land among its margins below the sea. the desert is growing ever more hostile to life within its bank. and ever more beautiful. than. her. her. her. her there. it has taken thousands of years to form this beauty rock drawing show that black africans once lived here and that there were cattle elephants and giraffes as well . but the desert long ago drove them further and further south. water courses long dry can still be made out. in

from some of the survivors it made its nigeria on a total lunar eclipse one of the longest of this century as the world gazing skyward morning. how our soul fifty reported yesterday which is not a great surprise to be honest has been a cloud around but we've seen temperatures in the thirty's easily in the caucasus and you come down to the hottest part of the world really and i'm talking about the southwest of iran and central iraq just to the darker red in there very very late the temperature background nothing really happens here apart from the breeze and the temperature is cooler on the coast as it always is the on shore breeze present point but the hot and dusty air comes out of the middle of iraq than through kuwait at dance or bahrain the eastern side of saudi arabia and it brings the dust with it is typically in the middle forty's little bit down here in the fall cross in recent days was still middle forty's in amman and of course the coast in salalah it's still cloudy still daily with drizzle the significant rain inland there are no side of the red sea up in be an eritrea useful bit

al-jazeera on the nigeria border. the moment we'll have all the weather with rob but still ahead here now to syria. we look at the challenge of ensuring a free and fair election in mali. and install the event this boss explains what kind of impact there will have on italian football. from dusky sunsets over disproving savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. how has been of a bad year in myanmar from the point of view of moms and it's always because i was going to be one country hit badly by climate change and so it's no great surprise now we're in the states count state is pictured here and this is east of yangon so it's southeast and part of me in ma and this is an annual event but it's getting worse and worse i think something like ten thousand people in this small area displaced already of course of rain hasn't stopped the season is at its height of the nereus finish even for the next twenty four hours you just see the science west wind blowing and of course that generates more and more running which is the

this is quite a big project for nigeria because. it cost nigeria two hundred over eight hundred million dollars each square neck thing about ten communities right now is the first time nigeria is had been mitra law and we didn't decide the county so much in it's a phased in with africa this is a project that is going to be moving at least for now we have forty five kilometers of direct line that was commissioned to tag it is to have more than the one douglas commission disheartened by the president is going to move at least five hundred people in clinics in tact and communities in the country ok and it looks fantastic sleek and modern of as we've been seeing but the groundbreaking on this rail line was over ten years ago why has it taken so long when is an issue of counterpart funding you know when nigeria's president took over he went to china where he signed by electron agreement was white house project previous government project and then it went to meet its president will come and now said this is what he's going to do he will a

weather patterns in nigeria the country is currently struggling with extreme weather from heatwaves to torrential floods is it caused by global warming and who is responsible my colleague met with him in the nigerian capital. let's just get down to report the situation as it is situation how would you describe it so far we have been having event that we. are now much higher down what used so to speak in the indication that things are no longer normal as the climate of the country is causing you to keep crime. change. is melting there's heaps in the south and in the equatoria has not affected the rainfall possible generally indoor what tends to happen here or not is as a result of the global warming that is so much destruction in department. different areas in nigeria for instance we're not nearly so much a month over the plan to see if we didn't a short period of time but it says only within the most of us in deposit when we used to have normal onset of rent in most part of the country discover that just as much was status either way but not the concept. that has now changed so now

s migration agency in nigeria. he says the cultural pressure to go abroad and find a new life, like here in italy, is aul poweorce on young nigerians. o >> it's a sourf pride to sayki that i have tw in atlanta or i have a son in london, i have a daughter in geneva. and, because of that, that then tt, the pressure on the n family to send their son or daughter to those countries. >> bra out, the journey to europe is often much harder than advertised. immigration crackdowns in europe and tighter controls on visas are now sending people on this dangerous path. those caught on the mediterranean are often sent back to detention centers in libya where conditions are bleak. amos spent two weeks crossing the sahara, most without food or water. they became so dehydrated, he said h drinking their own urine. once in libya, his smugglers betrayed him, selling him off in a slave market. much like this one seein video obtained by cnn. >> ( translated ): "big, strong bo for farm work," he says "400. 700." >> i spent more than a we

and this guy had mentioned nigeria and we did ask during that time because newsnight did not want to cover nigeria who actually is very close to the united kingdom and there are a lot of nigerians who move to the united kingdom. relationship there and nigeria actually did suffer greatly during the oil price collapse so their currency collapse even more they had a lot of debt they had a difficult situation at the time now it's obviously better the world oil markets have recovered and we're glad they recovered but here he's saying as regards to growth as you talk about. growth in russia he said russia is an old industrial economy it's not one of those places where you have a lot of peasants coming into the mainstream workforce you can expect it to grow at very significant real rates particularly given that it's stuck in a world economy where nobody is growing significantly but an important aside. this is from the i.m.f. guy ok this guy is an i.m.f. official one can't know the future what if investors wake up to the financial profit to see of the u.s. and other western nations where gov

call me in kenya i'm sound money in nairobi and joining me of course is my sounding colleague from nigeria. thank you sharon and i won't come from lagos nigeria to all of you our viewers out there we have an exciting collection of reports about nature and the environment today taking us as usual to both africa and you will hear what we have lined up today. make you provide our environmentally friendly your company could have walked have come up with a green solution. cool technology our farmers be carrying our use of a barbecue we have no pressure while the market and plastic we're living with look at your good supermarket trying to do away with plastic argued. in court divide that ivory coast more than half the population makes a living from i we call it the country is the world's largest exporter of cocoa beans and also grows coffee and fruit. most farmers use chemical plant live on their fields because it's quick and easy. but one company is leading the way making all not all ghani. and it's. moving to be a big thing that we want to find out why. looking for the laser from organic west

she said sn't yet told her family she w back in nigeria. the u.n.'s migration agency flew more than 2,000 nigerians home last december. that's more than double the number in all of 2016.re mohan 6,700 were returned from libya in 2017, but far more are setting out th are being returned. this man has helped smuggle people on that journey. he says he's helped over a dozen get through libya and into europe. he showed me pictures of people he says he'selped land in araly and spain. despite what we from every migrant we spoke to, he claimsev yone knows the risks. >> i said, "the journey's bad. the journey's not good. out of hundreds, only ten .urvive it. i saw it with my e you will not--" >> brangham: so, you knew hundreds were going, and only a few make it through? >> only few, yeah, few. >> brangham: he also says that almost all women will end up doing sex work. >> 90% of them do sex work. >> brangham: 90% of them do? >> 90%, yes. they are doing it. >> brangham: you explain that completely to them, before they begin the journey? >> yes >> brangham: do th

nigeria is very well spent and well taken care of but that is not the issue, the issue is that nigeriauntry is paid for by nigerian resources so i think that the focus should be on nigeria safeguarding and using its resources better but i wa nt to and using its resources better but i want to save the resources given by the british at least during the time i was there where well spent and well accounted for. thank you so much. a week after being released from hospital, following their two week ordeal trapped in a flooded cave in thailand, 11 young boys and their football coach have been taking part in a buddhist ceremony. it's their way of saying thank you to their rescuers. the boys have been ordained as novice monks, and will live in a monastery for 9 days — a tradition for males in thailand who experience adversity. 0livia crellin reports. a temple retreat. further time for reflection for the thai football team and their coach, whose perilous ordeal made headlines around the world. the short visit will see 11 of the players taken through the process of becoming novice buddhist monks.

nigeria unveiled the name of the proposed new airline this week nigeria air nigeria hasn't had a national carrier in over a decade and there are likely to be other parties interested in taking stakes that's just one of the stories from the farm air show which is taking place in the u.k. this week this is the world's second largest show after paris it's where the aerospace industry comes to talk business another big talking point of the show was air freight u.s. plane maker boeing kicked off this week's event with a four point seven billion dollars deal to sell d.h.l. express fourteen boeing triple seven freighters joining us now from london is peter morris chief economist at flight ascend good to have you with us so it sounds like boeing is cashing in on the air freight demanding crease is that what's going on well i think inevitably when been a whole flurry of all those in the last few years that the number of orders are going to be an ant for freight and elsewhere are going to be limited but they certainly have brought in a number of particularly large traitor orders this show. now i ar

it is one of the sixty two nigeria and in our own state we have a boy it is an ethnic groups we havewo religions. and for us elections is very important we must be seen to be doing the right in. forum and because if you are to do that to impede or will interfere with security to believe that the. police conduct you did not conduct elections and because if you not conduct elections we believe that people confidence in the system were not people lose confidence in the system do lose confidence in their leaders when they lose confidence in their leaders. into their hands and this will have serious ramifications on our security so we consulted our people whom we will not go with we can attempt to correct it appeared to. be refused to listen to us for over three months it became very clear that they were not ready to make amends and as such we decided to move to an apache and we moved to the african democratic congress and of course this is all happening where the elections six months or a little bit more than that away mohamad the. chances of re-election certainly taken a blow i mean you

nigeria unveiled the name of the proposed new airline this week nigeria air nigeria hasn't had a national carrier in over a decade and there are likely to be other parties interested in taking stakes that's just one of the stories from the farm air show which is taking place in the u.k. this week this is the world's second largest show after paris it's where the aerospace industry comes to talk business another big talking point it was show was air freight u.s. plane make a boeing kicked off this week's event with a four point seven billion dollars deal to sell d.h.l. express fourteen boeing triple seven freighters joining us now from london is peter morris chief economist at flight ascend good to have you with us so it sounds like boeing is cashing in on the air freight demanding crease is that what's going on well i think inevitably when there's been a whole flurry of all those in the last few years that the number of orders are going to be an ant for freight and elsewhere are going to be limited but they certainly have brought in a number of particularly large traitor orders this show.

the conservation foundation in lagos nigeria thanks for chiming in to our panel african and european environmentalists. here's what we have coming up on the show today. this week will be heading to south africa to find out what's being done to help endangered sea forces. will go to rwanda to meet a woman who creates jewelry from waste. and then we will show you a pretty awful solution to the problem of water hyacinth in. sea horses mysterious and magical moving on and was threatened with extinction in many parts of the world scientists in south africa trying to do something to save. i mean human creatures then developed a method to observe them in the ocean. sea horses are incredibly well camouflaged that protects them but makes it hard for researchers to find them and tell them apart. scientists in south africa have found a way of marking the animals by implanting harmless fluorescent tugs under the skin . that helps them identify on truck individuals. tagging the animal and understanding its movement and home range will be able to understand what habitat and what area it needs for

i think that nigeria outbreak really taught us a lesson. for those in the room who are unfamiliar with that story, in 2003, in northern nigeria, because of unfounded rumors about vaccine safety, they stopped vaccinating against polio, and so there was a really sizable outbreak of wild polio virus in northern nigeria in 2003, and that really, then, affected so many surrounding countries. i was based in ethiopia at the time, and every week when the global update came out, the global update which shows polio cases on a map visually, we could see the polio cases coming ever closer to the ethiopia border, you know, marching from northern nigeria as they spread to the central african republic and then to chad and then sudan, and eventually, we had a polio outbreak in ethiopia as well. and i think that the lessons we learned from that were that we really had to engage faith-based and community leaders. and so, different countries have done that in different ways. in ethiopia, it was the orthodox church that really then promoted the message that va

al-jazeera central nigeria. six. then president assad's forces will also be involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan but it smith has more. assad wants warm day soon to be able to reopen our border crossing the significant trade route allows him to be to start rebuilding syria some time further down the line we know that effective the effectively this is a surrender by opposition forces and over the last few days the terms of those surrenders as you've talked about the terms of the surrender been being discussed china's accuse us president donald trump of starting the biggest trade war in economic history with the world's two largest economies imposing huge tariffs on each other washington fired the first shot with tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods members of the cabinet here in the u.k. a meeting what are expected to be marathon talks as they attempt to resolve their differences over bracks it prime minister to resign may appeal to ministers to perform their juicy head of di

the caravan heavily loaded now with kettle salt is on its way to the cattle breeders of northern nigeria. there in nigeria or the green pastures where the camels can eat to their heart's content once every year but the journey to those pressures is longer every time because more and more of africa's greenbelt is being claimed by the desert the men on the camels are deeply worried. thanks. we are visitors in this place free of any worries where the food and water for ourselves or animals will be coming from and so we can take an unmixed delight in the natural spectacle is great. are you. there. the chances are good that this world heritage site remain unspoiled for many years to come there are no roads or runways to make it easy of access. is no place to be lost in between the sand dunes and the rocks between the tenor of a desert and the air mountains. now this is still the land of the two arik but the desert has begun to starve out those who have long lived within it. it is driving them out of the desert is becoming the norm. coleman. three and a half decades of. france all. told. no on

nigeria was only. the first leg of our african journey takes us by bus from lagos in nigeria to the car in some of it's a traveling art show the mobile museum is a project that's crossing borders. it's been a while since late also seen a vehicle like this this old school bus has been converted into a mobile museum to roll through west africa. bouncing like a fast moving camel it heads cross-country picking up selective office along the way. beyond just residents on wheels is a new experience for the only known african known it before. we spend a lot of time with the boss on the road and of course it's not easy to work on anything inside the bus but we talk and realize the plans we work out at the next stops like here in miami but it makes the stops here through its industrial milton's that's from lagos to dakar the aging bus is traveling five thousand kilometers through seven countries over bumpy roads. across the desert during the stops the artists teach local youngsters about art by john from sydney

in nigeria we know. so much over the. time. when we used to have normal onset of. the country discover that much. but now day. has now changed so now. you will discover that not until may. also even before we start to see that which means that the number of rainy days we have been have now become shorter let's look at industrialization. in for instance for the past few months are we talking about the suit in there are the most fair is being blamed on the burning of hydrocarbons you do blame them burning on tires in the burning or destruction of illegal refineries what can be done to see the situation in which you have a look at the kind of activities we are doing what are they doing that are most likely contributing to her disconsolate event that are causing these problems so the whole let's look at that we can stop doing the activities but we can bring some modification in the way we do our bit is so that if oil exploration and we live in carbon dioxide for instance we have one in maybe the. hydrocarbon that we don't like then what are we supposed to do is modify

also on the program on sunday just three hours of rain in juba and north of nigeria was enough to sweep away hundreds of houses and the people living in them. i really don't know what i should say the water was up to her neck and kept rising. she looked over at her mother and said please forgive me. when she went under and part of the building collapsed on her i had twenty two children and now one of them is simply no longer here. israel's parliament has passed a controversial law that explicitly defines the country as the national homeland of the jewish people it also makes hebrew the country's only official language downgrading arabic to special status and then states that only the country's jews have the right to self-determination prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the votes a defining moment in the history of zionism critics say the law is racist and discriminator ie. protests in parliament against a law that is tearing up relations between jewish and arab israelis. politicians were rejected as they spoke against the law which gives jews the unique right of national self-

now flooding and heavy rains are affecting many parts of nigeria dozens of people have been killed and as as many drinks reports now crops have been lost raising fears of a food shortage mordred she is a community in mourning sixteen people from this village recently died in a boat accident that was caused by two racial rains or model worker survived the accident but the death of his brother means he will have to take on the additional responsibility of looking after the large family he left behind two wives and sixteen children why don't you krugman are going to for ten years we've witnessed floods but this year's is the most tragic we lost a brother most of us can find many more even if you wanted to all of the victims are buried in the cemetery near the village this is a sport where thirty nine farmers were killed just a few days ago there were troubling in an all well ordered wooden board like this one when it sank and many are still missing locals here say the floods and death. are also affecting agricultural production despite the devastating loss mahamudra nick you say so really

s president trump sets off for what's expected to be a stormy nato summit nigeria's army releases a hundred and eighty three children some as young as seven after clearing them of times to block it out and free at last after eighty years under house arrest china allows the widow of nobel peace prize winner usually go to fly to germany. it was the moment the world had been waiting for after seventeen days trapped deep inside a flooded cave system all twelve type boys and their football coach have been rescued in just three days and then the team of divers has succeeded in navigating dangerous passages of flooded caves to bring them out to safety the last four boys and their twenty five year old coach were rescued earlier in the third and final phase of the operation they're all now recovering in hospital where they are expected to be quarantined for a week. meanwhile we are glad we are so happy that all thirteen from the soccer team have left the cave today we're giving away. apple's giving away everything food water every thing i would like to thank everyone who helped me i will feel like a

president as you say never seen him before a model of a celebrated african culture and i clocked in nigeria. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us one of the divers who found the twelve boys and their coach trapped in a cave in northern thailand has told the w. freeing them will be quote a very very dangerous feat he suggested it would be too treacherous to have the boy swim and dive their way out of the ten kilometer log cave complex the rescuers are exploring a number of options to free the group they are stuck four kilometers from the cave entrance on a dry ledge or that in a moment but first this report with some new video of the boy. weak but in good spirits the boys receive medical treatment and food after more than a week underground they are now being cared for by the tiny of the seals the video footage has reassured their loved ones officials are working to install the cable so that parents can talk to their children it is not yet clear how or when the teen will be brought to the surface after their harrowing ordeal authorities aren't taking any risks. we need to be on