. >> reporter: these are some of the banned products on sale at the market in nigeria's capital abuja. including beans, sesame sads, palm oil, dried fish, meet and other products. sami, who sells dried fish is angry about the e.u. decision. >> translation: nigerian foods don't can't tain harmed food pesticides. i invite people from around the world to test, and buy our food. it's organic, it's natural. if it contains harmful pesticides, it would affect us too. >> the e.u. found the organophosphate diclor us exceeded legal limits. >> it is unfortunate, it's blown out of proportion, because of some challenges within our supply chain back home. >> nigeria's agency for food and drug agency is trying to detect where the food with high pesticides are coming from. it's a huge challenge. every year the food safety agencies test about 2,000 random samples of food for high pesticide levels. the tests are a tiny fraction of what is consumed locally and exported and are dependent on food producers to bring in sampling. >> scientists blame corrupt food producers. >> many circumvent these processes

three bombs exploded on the outskirts of the nigeria capital abuja. 15 have been killed. these are the first attacks to hit the city in over a year >>> pro-russian rebels say they started withdrawing tanks from the line of contact with government troops, coming a day after peace talks took place in paris. the tank withdrawal is in line with the minsk agreement, reached in february >>> four of f.i.f.a.'s biggest sponsors called on sepp blatter to immediately stepped down. saying they want him out now, because he's an obstacle to reform. blatter responded saying resigning now would not be in the best interests of f.i.f.a. >>> the indictments and extraditions pushed sepp blatter into ending hi 17-year rein. since an announcement that he was being investigated, the for criminal mismanagement and misappropriation, the pressure for him to go has become intense. coca-co coca-cola, one of the biggest backers said in a statement that sepp blatter must resign because: coca-cola's demand was quickly followed by other. >> there's one more step, to threaten to withdraw sponsorship. we

. >> now, three bombs exploded on the outskirts of the nigeria capital abuja. 15 people, at least have been killed. these are the first attacks to occur close to the capital city in over a year. live to our correspondent who is in the scene of one of the blasts, and is just on the outskirts of abuja. just what is the scene around you. well, all of the places there's human tissue, a piece of bone here, blood, and an indication of also how people panicked and ran when the blast happened last night. it's been 14 hours when the device went off here, and security is saying that there are three - actually, there are three bombs that went off. one at this location. which caused the maximum damage, and another, a few hundred meters away, close to a police station, and one in the area which is a scene of bomb attacks by boko haram fighters. the last one being, like you said, in may 2014, where more than 19 people died. right now forensic experts, the military, the paramilitary organizations, the police and special forces from the counterterrorism unit are busy trying to sort out details of what

. >>> two bomb blasts rip through theout skirts of nigeria's capital abuja killing at least 16 people. the explosions happened near a gas station and bus stop. this is the first such insurance insurance en -- incident in the capital city in a year. at least 41 people were injured. >>> in baghdad blasts took place in the northern part of the city. another bomber was wearing a suicide vest. isil has claimed responsibility for both attacks >>> russia has announced it's about to ramp up attacks on isil in syria. moscow says it's going to intensify air strikes that began three days ago. the military claims its war planes hit nine isil targets today and that the campaign has substantially weakened the extremists. human rights organizations say the attacks have killed 40 civilians but also 14 members of isil. david camron is railing against russia saying the offensive in syria is making things worse echoing comments from president obama yesterday. they both worry russia is taking out moderates who could replace bashar al assad's campaign. >>> barack obama is calling the air strikes a recipe

. >>> three bombs exploded on the outskirts of the nigeria capital abuja. 15 people, at least have been killed. these are the first attacks to occur close to the capital city in over a year. live to our correspondent who is in the scene of one of the blasts, and is just on the outskirts of abuja. . >> yes, exactly, this was one of the first blasts, there were three blasts last night, the first happened at a police station hundreds of meters away interest this location. this is where most of the casualties were recorded. the attack on the police station was targeted. and the bomb went off prematurely, carried by a people suicide bomber. but the bomb went off before she could enter the police station. and a few minutes later, the bomb at this particular location happened where at least 12 people were killed in this particular location, and then in an area which was a scene, attacks by boko haram, two people were killed there. what was certain about these three blasts is two of the attacks were carried out by female suicide bombers, and this is a market area. it was - it happened in the ni

us on al jazeera, we'll have more world news including the latest from nigeria, where there has been an attack on the capital abuja. stay with us. a. >> in kunduz, hitting nine staff, the u.s. military may be to blame. also ahead, multiple bomb blasts outside of abuja, the first attack in nigeria's capital in over a year. south sudan's president orders the number of states tripled. opponents say that he's undermining a peace deal. plus separat

nick schifrin is on assignment for us in nigeria; i spoke to him earlier today in the capital, abuja.k, so you were in the town where the bombings happened. you're in a different city now. what can you tell us about today's violence. >> hari, good evening. can't get into the center of maiduguri nor can they seize any land outside of it. they're strapping people with bombs, more bombs, according to intelligence officials, in the last nine months than the previous 16 years combined. this morning, the attack was actually thwarted by police. last night's attack, horrific. somebody actually got into a mosque and blew himself up. the vast majority of boko haram's victims are muslims. >> sreenivasan: what's the u.s. doing to fight boko haram. >> the hope is to retrain nigerian forces to fight boko haram and flood the zone with drones. there is a brand-new base in northern cameroon. intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, these are the kinds of things the u.s. will give nigeria and the whole region. there will not be troops on the ground. the u.s. hopes to train more to have the local for

abuja, nigeria. no group claimed responsibility. we have this report. >> the three attacks on the outskirts of nigeria's capital bother the hallmarks of boko haram. two of the attackers were said to have about that female suicide bombers. two bombs went off here close to the main airport. another simultaneous explosion targeted a bus station, which was attacked twice last year, roll in nearly 100 deaths. this time, some eyewitnesses say more than 20 died, and some of them could have been saved. >> i witnessed about 20. i confirmed them dead, emergency services also confirmed them dead. >> a few hundred meters from the attack, a second device went off. it killed a female suicide bomber, but no one else. officials say they responded as quick lip as they could. >> the division has all it takes, personnel required for emergency response. as soon as the blast occur road, they respond'd. the response time was fast. >> security officials say more could have died if the attacks were launched during the day. >> this is the busiest part of the area, a market and its narrow streets. on a normal day, it takes 20-30 minutes to pass through beca

also ahead, multiple bomb blasts outside of abuja, the first attack in nigeria's capital in over a year. south sudan's president orders the number of states tripled. opponents say that he's undermining a peace deal. plus separatist begin pulling back weapons from the front line. "doctors without borders" describe the horrific bombing of its hospital in northern afghanistan. at least nine people were killed in an air strike on a building in kunduz. they say the u.s. may be responsible. it provided the hospital coordinates to afghan and u.s. forces well in advance. >> this is what is left of the hospital in k unduz. it was hit several times in a sustained bombing tack. the airstrikes started at 2:00 in the morning local time where most of the hospitals more than 100 patients would have been asleep. in a statement nato says that u.s. forces conducted an airstrike. the strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility. this incident is under investigation. but a spokesman for the afghan government said that the hospital was targeted for a specific reason. >> doctors