twenty people dead but what makes this critical at the moment is today's the same day when the nigerian army also launched its intensified operations against the book group which it says quote will completely destroy the local armed groups within the next four months now yesterday as well this also comes as yesterday during president hari met up with u.s. president donald trump to basically out amplified the renewed commitment to end the presence of the book group it remains to be seen whether this will have an impact but clearly a message is being spent here that group of books are running very much in the north east and is of course to be reckoned with by the nigerian army that's right and many has been killed and displaced by the violence in northeastern nigeria any indication as to how the government plans to to fight on the say there's going to be any change in their plan a strategy. well what they're trying to buy now is basically looking at these new arms deal that it had with the you with the government it's unprecedented it's almost five hundred million dollars which will basically

the control of the book group in two thousand and fourteen it took more than a month before the nigerian army was able to live liberated but that fact that not stopped last year a similar attack happened in a mosque which left at least fifty people dead another incident again happened which has left at least twenty three billion that so this comes at a critical time as you mentioned earlier that the jury an army again launched an intensive operation around the league of chad where it is believed that about a several book our members who are with allegiance and connections to isolate are actually based out of nowthen a syrian army has put a deadline for it to finish the presence of the book around at least about four months but many question whether that is possible given that majority of the focus is on a military solution and not a societal went yeah that's right because nigerian government has been claiming for a while now that it's winning or that it's won this battle against book around but now when we see these attacks that still happen in the northeast of the country is this part of an

the latest attack comes after the nigerian army announced it was launching a new operation to defeat dhaka her own defense if will begin around the lake chad area hosting the group's faction linked to eisele more than two and a half million people have been displaced in the fighting between the group and the nigerian government as many as fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of central african republic a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at worshipers in a church in bungie a list of questions that robert mueller will supposedly ask president trump as part of his russia probe have reportedly been leaked. slammed choose days disclosure on twitter calling it discourse full and a witch hunt the list contains at least forty questions for the president including trump's list ties to russia and other questions designed to determine whether he obstructed the inquiry. those are the headlines next up it's the story.

affiliated with i so are actually situated so this could just mean basically a message to the nigerian army that they are a force to be reckoned with and it may last longer than the forty four month deadline that the need that the nigerian army actually put on themselves ok thank you for that jim and i will talk to you again later if there are any more developments in a. now in the armenian capital yet of on thousands of people have gathered outside parliament which is set to vote for its new prime minister the opposition leader and they call question him as laid weeks of protests just like these in fact these are live pictures the protests which forced the long time leader surge to resign after a round of questions pressure a shimmy and i'm sorry can of the be voted in all the parliament and then call for a snap elections all those people out there gathered waiting for some sort of news from inside the parliament. remember this whole government shakeup has all come about in just the past two weeks the protests started when that outgoing president serge ended his second term that was april

and the nigerian army says it's rescued more than a thousand book are on captives from several villages in borno state. a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after allegedly being gang raped and set on fire in india a man has been arrested in connection with the attack it happened in eastern jharkhand stage on the same day as a sixteen year old girl was murdered that she was also raped and burnt alive the latest victim suffered from first degree burns to seventy percent of her body. meanwhile india's supreme court has moved the trial of eight hindu men accused of the rape and murder of an eight year old kashmiri muslim girl to a neighboring state the victim's family and lawyers say they face death threats priyanka gupta reports. they look at peace but this family is in pain prosecutors say that on january an eight year old girl was kidnapped gang raped by at least three men over the course of four days and then killed her body was dumped in a forest the indian supreme court has banned media from using the girl's real name her family is part of a nomadic community of muslim

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time today in the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact when you its commitment to end depressants of the book group in the north east of nigeria. gunmen from an armed group linked to i sell have opened fire on unarmed iraqi civilians and tamira north of bank towns at least five people have been killed or nine others injured in the assault the iraqi military says security forces have gained control of the area and defeated the attackers. at least fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of central african republic protesters mbanga a march towards the presidential palace carrying the body of a priest shot dead in the it hundreds of people had gathered for mass when gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers in a church. that you know when we were in the church and everyone was running one of my church sister

and frequently now we're hearing about the nigerian army rescuing people from the hands of how is this possible what's leading what's helping you know the nigerian government in achieving this well what happened actually that the military are gone what they're supposed to do and taking over and what are honestly when we continue to this believe that the say this is over well the pocket the matter is that the obvious of getting to that is minimal and that we are now trying to take up from that and that is why the government has claimed it was too. only be at rest when do you now take a sort of a multi pass it up roach that is from the bottom of the well you look. in the process of making it's sort of a peace process right. of the locals for them to find i'm a couple way to the complex now the government and i don't you are talking of cross border issues right because there are a number of countries in that region who are affected of course the government claims to have technically defeated bokhara but we're still seeing attacks by by the group there still kidnappings even though

and the nigerian army says it's rescued more than a thousand captives from several villages in borno state. a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after allegedly being gang raped and set on fire in india a man has been arrested in connection with the attack that happened in eastern jharkhand state on the same day as a sixteen year old girl was murdered that she was also raped and burned alive and they suspect himself in the first degree burns to seventy percent of her body. meanwhile india's supreme court has ordered that the trial of eight hindu men accused of raping and killing an eight year old muslim go be moved to another state after the family's lawyer said they were. facing death threats. and twenty five thousand rape cases reported across injured twenty twelve this job i nearly sixty percent in just four years to forty thousand by twenty sixteen the conviction rate for a best of for in the past forty years was forty four percent in one hundred seventy three to twenty seven percent in twenty thirty only one in four trials leads to a conviction in india and many ca

group in two thousand and fourteen for over a month and even if it was already liberated by the nigerian army then attacks have not stopped since then in fact last year a similar attack happened in the same area where the book group also eight attacked a mosque which left at least fifty people dead another attack in another group of sibylla civilians was again perpetuated where the group left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time today the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in the span within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact we knew its commitment to end the presence of the book group in the north east of nigeria. iraq's military says gunmen have opened fire on unarmed civilians in a town north of baghdad killing several people the military says security forces all searching the area in the town of tamira where the shootings took place it's unclear how many people have died one witness told the reuters news agency th

boko haram the latest attack comes after the nigerian army announced it was announcing a new operation to defeat. effects of will begin around the lake chad area hosting the group's faction linked to i still. going to has more on the attack according to police it was a double whammy need twin bombing committed by two suicide bombers it happened in movie a critical town in the north east simply because this was an area controlled by the group in two thousand and fourteen for over a month and even if it was already liberated by then the german army then attacks have not stopped since then. at least eight people have died in an attack in the capital of the central african republic a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers in a church in bondi hundreds of people had gathered for mass when the attack took place australian cardinal george pell is pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual abuse spanning decades a day before his trial starts in melbourne cardinal pell will be the most senior catholic clergyman to be tried for sexual abuse. and the un's nuclear watchdog says there's

the latest attack comes after the nigerian army announced it was launching a new operation to defeat back around if unsafe will begin around the lake chad area hosting the group's faction linked to eisele more than two and a half million people have been displaced in the fighting between the group and the nigerian government as many as fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of central african republic a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at worshipers in a church in benghazi a list of questions that robert mueller will supposedly ask president trump as part of his russia probe have reportedly been leaked. slammed choose days disclosure on twitter calling it discourse full and a witch hunt the list contains at least forty questions for the president including trump's list ties to russia and other questions designed to determine whether he obstructed the inquiry. those are the headlines next up it's the story. tion for me ok you're in the stream today it was an uprising that started with a controversial change to his pension plan but do we suppose the end of president

more than a month before the nigerian army was able to loot liberated but the fact that not without. elsewhere at least eight people have died in an attack on the capital of the central african republic a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers in a church and bungie hundreds of people had gathered for mass when the attack took place all meaning is ruling party says it won't vote for opposition leader nicole passion yun to become prime minister parliament is voting on the top job after weeks of anti-government rallies forced the former prime minister. to step down but the opposition doesn't hold a majority in parliament and passion yet needs the support of m.p.'s from the ruling republican party if he's going to win he's warned of a political tsunami if he is not picked to be prime minister. the un's nuclear watchdog says there's no credible evidence to back israel's claims that iran is secretly continued its nuclear program on monday israel's prime minister said he after thousands of documents that proved iran lied about its nuclear weapons activities but the i.a.e.a. s

the nigerian army has confirmed it's rescued more than a thousand book captives the hostages were safe from several villages in borno state those rescued include young men forced to become fighters they armed group. a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after actually being gang raped and set on fire in india and has been arrested in connection with the attack that happened in eastern jharkhand state on the same day as a sixteen year old girl was murdered there she was also great and burnt alive. at least six people being killed in a saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen over thirty others were injured in the raids targeted the presidential office inside. but of what about what about us but yet targeted the presidential office the neighborhood is full of people unemployed youths were at work we rushed to rescue people whether we were trying to rescue a man from underneath a car and a child on the terrorist type target us with no mercy for human beings martin militia citizens have nothing to do with what is going on we are not leaders no leaders work in these offices we

levels being supported by the voters and everyone has seen that in all parts of the country the nigerian army'sconfirmed it's rescued more than a silos and boko haram captives all stooges were saved from several villages in borno state those rescued mainly women children and some young men forced to become finds his way on. that amir putin's been sworn in for another six year term as russian president he's now been in power for eighteen years including a four year scale as prime minister who is in secured office again after winning more than seventy percent vote in the march presidential election. britain's foreign secretary has appealed to the u.s. president not to pull out of the iran nuclear deal or is johnson is in washington d.c. for two days of talks as the deadline to extend the landmark twenty fifteen agreement approaches this week. buses have arrived in northern syria to collect thousands of rebel fighters and their families as part of a peace deal the russian withdrawal is the latest agreement allowing for more territory to be returned to the syrian government and starbucks says it's

the nigerian army says it's rescued more than a i was and vocal her captors from several villages in borno state who say to me and the women children and young men forced to become find for the glory. of god a mere person has been sworn in for another six year term as russian president meaning he's now been in power for eighteen years. britain's foreign secretary has appealed to the u.s. president not to pull out of the iran nuclear deal boris johnson is in washington d.c. for two days of talks as the deadline to extend the landmark twenty fifteen agreement approaches this week speaking to u.s. media johnson mess of the deal has its witnesses but said could be improved over time. well the president set a world a legitimate challenge in january which was to try to address all of the bad stuff that iran is is doing in the region to try to stop iran getting missiles intercontinental ballistic missiles stop them interfering in neighboring countries and also to fix the cool problem of the deal which is that it expires in twenty twenty five and then there's no way of of stopping the rain's

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact when you its commitment to end the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria the international monetary fund says saudi arabia needs oil prices to go up to around eighty five dollars a barrel this is in order to balance the state budget the kingdom has projected a fifty two billion dollar deficit some analysts are warning the recent recovery and or prices could ease pressure on riyadh enough for the pace of economic and fiscal reforms to slow. i think the fact that we are witnessing. globally and the fact that oil price is going up it shouldn't at any point in time considered as a way for the effort and to be complacent. with north. korea. the french president takes office with. more on that stay with us. welcome back deep area of low pressure is giving some part

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact we knew its commitment to end the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria at least fifteen people have died in an attack on a church in the capital of central african republic or testers and march towards the presidential palace carrying the body of a priest shot dead during the violence hundreds of people had gathered her mass when gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers. the government opened fire on unarmed civilians at an iraqi town north of baghdad killing several people iraqi military says security forces are searching the area and the town a tar mia it's unclear how many people died one witness told the workers news agency that sixteen people were killed and three wounded thousands of mourners have attended funerals for victims of monday's su

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time today in the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in the span within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact we knew its commitment to end depressants of the group in the north east of nigeria. syrian rebels have surrendered in the northern homs countryside they've been given the option of pledging their allegiance to the government relocating to rebel held territory in northern syria what is live for us from beirut reports of a new deal is this another win for the government. well unlikely well first of all state media is reporting this they're saying that the rebels have agreed to surrender to lay down their arms and to be bussed to the north of the country to rebel controlled territory in the north of the country there's still no confirmation from rebel factions that this ultimatum has been given to them but activists on the ground opposition activists have told us that the russ

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact we knew its commitment to end the presence of the group in the north east of nigeria china's foreign minister suit to arrive in north korea for a two day visit warney is the highest ranking chinese official to visit the north in three years relationship and strained over a cause in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong un works to improve ties with the south taking sturrock summit last week in march he was in beijing in his first overseas trip as leader that's going live out of beijing. brown is with us so it was have been so long since a chinese foreign minister was lost in north korea. well quite a few reasons really adrian but basically relations between poor and young and beijing have been

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact we knew its commitment to end depressants of the group in the north east of nigeria the un's nuclear watchdog is skeptical about the israeli prime minister's latest allegations regarding iran's nuclear program the i.a.e.a. says that there were no credible indications of iranian attempts to develop nuclear weapons since two thousand and nine on monday benjamin netanyahu presented what he called conclusive proof that the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lies to iran as rubbish his allegations of zeros under some in support. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have unveiled secret files and computer disks describing them as conclusive proof that iran's nuclear program did exist this was an innocent looking compound it looks like a dilapidated warehouse

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact we knew its commitment to end depressants of the group in the north east of nigeria. iran's ambassador to morocco is being expelled and diplomatic ties cut because the iranians are accused of supporting the policy front the opposition groups fighting for independence from western sahara. iran and its lebanese hezbollah a training and fighters. the reason behind what we did today is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that hezbollah in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the post to foreign military commando and to train the policy they even handed arms to the policy in september and november i have handed all this evidence t

the nigerian army has confirmed it's rescued more than a thousand captives hostages were saved from several villages in borno state those rescued include young men forced to become fighters from the armed groups. when you see your house now after the second part of i knew but not to stay with us if you can't. see. me. before. this barbaric act that it is. president bush once again. and then when i got my. good cooperation in the organ that. following the attacks on september eleventh two thousand and one pakistan found itself at the center of american attention. islamabad chose to fall in with the americans even though there was considerable support for the taliban and al qaeda on the streets of pakistan that. they are on the no. islam about saul paul looney and desperately sought a last minute solution. a senior delegation was sent to taliban leader mullah omar in afghanistan to convince him to give up bin ladin. among the delegation was general mahmoud othman head of pakistan's intelligence agency the i.s.i. . and also the new dean shams i respected head of the bin nouri mosque in karachi

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the nigerian army says it has rescued more than a thousand hostages being held by the islamist militanttry's north east, with people rescued from four villages in borno state, an area largely controlled by the militant islamist group. this is the third time the army has claimed the rescue of boko haram captives in the last four months. and there are still more hostages. the bbc‘s chris ewokor gave us this update from abuja. in february this year, the army did claim that it had rescued 1100 people, mainly also women and children, and then in april, is claimed to have rescued another 300 people. now, we don't have details of those who were rescued, but it is also sometimes difficult to verify the claims by the military, but there are indications that, with the ongoing operations by the military in the north—east, a lot of key places held by boko haram, there are indications that more hostages would be rescued. we also have the problem of those girls that were abducted in chibok, about 100 of them are still held in custody, and there is another girl abducted who is still in boko haram cust

here's the nigerian army response. that is a malicious force.e president covered these allegations we're on and the committee was set up to investigate. the military cannot sit down and say, in oppression like that, there have not been infractions. when there are infractions, we take steps to correct them. people involved are punished. the military has been battling the insurgents in this area since 2009. more than 30,000 people have been killed in the conflict, and about 1.8 million people have fled their homes. earlier i spoke to mayenijones in lagos. many of them have fled boko haram in north eastern nigera. they say that they moved to two camps internally displaced with their where they were separated from their husbands, who were expected of being members of boko haram, and they ended up in very appalling conditions in the camp, they describe starvation conditions. and they alleged members of the military and the task force used tactics of coersion using food and promises of humanitarian assistance to coerce them to enter in relationships.

the nigerian army says it's launching an operation to defeat the armed group boko haram the offensive will begin around the lake chad area hosting the group's faction which is linked to eisele more than two and a half million people have been displaced in the fighting between the group and the nigerian government forces mike edge of four is the former director of nigeria's security services he joins us now from mike edger for have the security services in nigeria failed. i would. have room for improvement. if you know this war before this is over begin to appreciate people should have prosecuted forces. launched now to the front of these according to the military is now being launched. i think we should be able to achieve a result but my judgment actually is that. each time these operations are launched. we begin to wonder i would have actually defeated the insurgency asked him by a government record out sometime ago. but. technically if you take this image that they really do want to do so operation so i had to guess where how to challenge we the new war is always focused on the long

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact we knew its commitment to end the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria gunmen have opened fire on unarmed civilians and iraqi town north of baghdad killing several people the iraqi military says security forces are searching the area and the town a tar mia it's unclear how many people died one witness though told the warders news agency that sixteen people were killed and three wounded. thousands of mourners have attended funerals for victims of monday's suicide bombings in the afghan capital kabul as afghan and global monitors warn of a rise in attacks yes defense department watchdog says the afghan government is continuing to lose ground to the taliban and eisel jennifer glass has more from kabul. special prayers for the dead as morning continues for the tw

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact we knew its commitment to end depressants of the group in the north east of nigeria. the head of iran's national security committee has vowed to respond to what he's calling israeli aggression in syria iran blames israel for last sunday's missile strikes on military bases in syria which reportedly killed multiple pro iranian fighters israel hasn't confirmed it was behind the attack but has previously struck iranian and hezbollah targets inside syria the chief of hezbollah is also warning of direct conflict with israel. where we are in syria the proxies have been defeated the proxies have failed we are now facing a new stage the war with proxies is almost over however it can start with the real backers today we don't know how israel is behaving in syria into work he is leadi

left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian armylaunched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact we knew its commitment to end the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria. elsewhere as many as fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of the central african republic protesters in the capital bungie have marched towards the presidential palace carrying the body of a priest shot dead in the attack people had gathered for a mass when gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at what was in the church at the u.n. has condemned the violence. the united nations mission in the central african republic miska reports that the situation in benghazi is tense and evolving with violence and casualties being reported in the capital's second and third districts. this follows an exchange of fire earlier today between central african internal security forces and the a

nigerian child republic as well as being a republic which is not directly affected by yet it's contributing forces to the fight against now that is called named operation d. point it's holding simultaneously as the army or regional forces launched another operation called operation last all on the shores of the lake chad try getting particular islands why they suspect a book. and i carry from where they're carrying attacks now that particular faction is actually are like to this next state in west africa a group that the military in the region is trying to see that they've been denied access to arms and ammunition and freedom to operate in that part of. the world. we value. the women who. are torturing it's. completely destroying. the world. committed to getting the child. would be the first woman to run the. confirmation hearing amid criticism of. torture against. who is gina housefull the intelligence veteran endorsed by six former cia heads to become the agency's next director she is not only a highly respected nominee but she is among the most qualified that will ever serve in that role or as critics have called her the head cheerleader for waterboarding it sends a signal to the rest of the world