in north africa, it was a present technique on both sides. the use of landmines. ironically, a lot of times, both sides run into their own minefields. we mentioned the commander of the 10th panzer division going into a italian minefield that was not marked. at el guettar, when the half tracks were backing out, a lot of them were hitting american mines that had been sown the night before because they were not properly marked. it was a problem. a mine is indiscriminate. in terms of kasserine pass, i cannot answer that. it was throughout north africa. >> i am not sure there was any specific technique that would be universally used. remember when the germans broke , through the american line at the opening of the kasserine sequence, they are on the eastern dorsal and it is smooth sailing. i do not think they hit a lot of minefields in the middle portion of the drive which is from that eastern dorsal to the western dorsal where you find kasserine pass. that is one of the great panzer rides of the war. two or three days, no enemy fire, no worry about mines. i agree with

so when the rain forest from north africa the dust flows over it goes into south america during the northnorthern hemispheres winter and moves down in there and many of the plants derive their nutrients and are fertilized from the west in the same with asian dust blown across fertilizers some of the northern why. island rain forests and sustains them so there are some very positive things. science can play a part in understanding predicting and preventing dust storms this knowledge the needs to be used by policymakers. we're very good in developing technologies for launching satellites and doing things but when it comes to policy things many times we act stupidly we become stupid we don't understand the realities on the ground over don't care about the long term consequences of our policy. very very committed to set a cation is something that we need to tackle at a very difficult level and it's monday muslins planting trees using proper irrigation making sure that we have a vegetative cover that avoids to aerosolize ation of the tops of the foot. before thought is an awful phenomenon is a

for more north africa you know he's. got more cost forecasting is very similar to what was the case but also the week right based on all this i. went last week your job more or less cost is how much. basically what we're producing now are we doing. this is a full cost from the boss alone a group for three days in june twenty sixth seen. the high concentrations a yellow and brown. but the resolution and accuracy on get up to the standard or detail of whether for cost. in fact i don't know that requires even more computing time than i would think it would require but it's only by having them cheap like the ones we have i don't think we're going to want if we don't. end up not only beefed up speakers themselves with your i think the management of the needs of these would be used but you see the order of the divides i think that if it's. the boss alone or a nasa scientists know their full cost will be helped if they had better local data from the countries concerned the other thing that we need to bring in is more data that

one project is to predict dust storms in this case for europe the middle east and north africa. other centers in china japan and korea cover the asia region and the aim ultimately is to alert people when a dust storm is expected. the role of course was somebody to provide every day found or were not offered to go. to boston or cost forecasting is very similar to what was the case but also the week right based on what i. went with your job more or less cost is how my. basically what we're producing now are you doing. this is a full cost from the boss alone a group for three days in june twenty sixth seen. the high concentrations a yellow and brown. but the resolution and accuracy are get up to the standard all details of weather for cost. in fact are those that requires even more computing time that's what we would require but it's only by having a machine like the one we have i think that we're going to want if we don't. end up not only the dutch makers themselves i think to my mind yeah beads of beads would be if you would you see the order of gigabytes i don't know if it's. th

africa. the united states sees the only country to have divided the world into separate military sectors to monitor and patrol these are north com. south com you calm centcom and now africa. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance afrikan implanted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with a growing number of african countries. but was this the only reason for africa repast create god i saw a little to the oil is that it's not there i mean sort of course you know you set up by variables up from utah is a notorious list therefore so who should ought to. security don't those also go to make sure i don't they are me arrested because all the screwed up by donald dumps of all. she. had friends. established itself as a counterweight to french and american interests on the continent in the first decade of the twenty first century china had overtaken the rest of the world to become africa's not just trading on. this new us side is also going to go above all who don't vote to keep its all sorts you don't doubt it all about that you get a false a top under the need to do so w

deutch, the ranking member of the subcommittee on the middle east and north africa of the foreign affairs committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. deutch: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, ranking member engel and chairman royce, for your support of this legislation. special thanks to chairman mccaul for your leadership in recognizing the need to take action. we must work together to stop the brutal iranian regime's human rights abuses and demand the release of american hostages that iran is using as pawns for political leverage. i'm proud to partner with you, mr. mccaul, in this effort. the iran human rights and hostage-taking accountability act, sends a clear message to the iranian regime and the rest of the world, this congress, this country will not tolerate the flagrant disregard of the most basic of human rights. my colleagues have explained the merits of this bill and i know it is difficult for many americans to imagine, but we are here today to show our resolve in the face of really unbelievable circumstances. for my constituents, the fami

even more important to the gulf certainly africa but comes of critical importance to the little classes in washington. of strategic interests is a side to the north algeria and libya the largest oil reserves in africa and to the south those of the gulf of guinea. the vast untapped petroleum deposits in the sari itself where another temptation. in two thousand and three a dramatic kidnapping pave the way for the rival of the u.s. military. wanted to. cement. this was the first acts against foreigners in the sahara. a huge manhunt was launched for five months to kidnappers evaded capture in the end after a ransom was paid by the german government the tourists were released. four days later a report is based announced area received a fax a veteran of the algerian army patta the paratrooper claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. the so-called terrorists background was leaks by algerian intelligence officials such unsubstantiated evidence was all the bush administration needed to label a power osama bin laden's man in the sahara. certainly we have. to show you. the extension if you like of al qaeda right into this part of africa. and that is what

and so east and west and north africa.at i think it is going to go. it recently made a pass right over beirut. it made a pass right over beirut. it made a pass over tajikistan. so those are the sort of place is that it is coming right over right now. just having a look at the shinwa newsagency, from china, they are saying it broke up over the south pacific, re—entering at 8:15 a.m., mostly burnt up on re—entry. a p pa re ntly mostly burnt up on re—entry. apparently i am giving you breaking news. well, i am a little sceptical, you see, because that is the same report they gave an hour ago as their prediction. and so what tends to happen in these cases is what was a prediction, once the time passes, becomes, quote, fact, without them having been able to actually confirm it. and so i am going to wait a little while, because i think this is one of these stories where you get these reports and then an hour later it turns out maybe not. we will come back to you if we get some confirmation. if you are watching in the middle east

of a new migrant crisis in the mediterranean — a steep rise in the number of migrants leaving north africa

and along with homs so joining me now from berlin is yost hiltermann he is the middle east and north africa program director for the crisis group thank you very much for speaking to us and so as we were hearing that president assad has been regaining territorial control of syria much of syria not all of it over the past few years but it's not a sustainable situation because he has done it with the help of the iranians and the russians what point will we see the various act is try to find a way out of this conflict that is based on transition possibly and compromise. well you see many many attempts of course to do exactly that over the past two years of the syrian tragedy that has unfolded and. usually in conflicts of long duration of this sort of great cruelty and suffering it takes the conviction on the part of all the parties that they cannot win and i think that the syrian regime on the other hand at the moment thinks to the contrary that it can still win because it is just defeated the rebels in duma and in eastern or so it's now wants to push on but i think the other areas that remain

north africa is evenly distributed within the middle three categories of ranks. unfortunately, there are also four countries in this region we were unable to rank because of political instability or violence. sub-saharan africa has only one country that can be considered mostly free and eight others moderately free. the majority of african countries lack almost any significant elements of economic freedom, trapping their people at low levels of development. despite these differences in and among the regions, there is one relationship constant. countries with higher levels of economic freedom have higher, and in most cases much higher per capita incomes than countries that lack freedom. this chart compares incomes in the five freest and five least free countries in each region. in addition to celebrating countries that do well in the ranks, we like to recognize countries no matter their ranking that made significant improvement this year. haiti had the most overall game in economic freedom with a major effort to get its fiscal deficit under control and significant

the united arab emirates topped all countries in the middle east, north africa. canada is for the ninth year in a row the freest economy in the americas. as assistant united states i have to say that the last fact is a great disappointment to me personally. this chart shows the bottom 20 and the top 20 overall scores and our index. i put up mail because it gives me an opportunity to talk about the united states, which is fallen over the past ten years from fifth place the 18th place in the rankings. there was a slight uptick in the u.s. score this year which gives some hope that the decline is coming to an end. but we'll have to see the impact of the new policies like the tax cuts that were adopted earlier this year. on the other side of this chart there are many sad stories but none sad i think then venezuela which ranked 46th in the world when we started this project in 1995 but now has full right to the bottom of the rankings just above north korea. as you can see from this like they're only modest differences in economic freedom between the various regions. y

unemployment is very high and immigration crisis, they have had to take in a lot of people try to flee north africaourse we know about their own debt crisis, as it were. it also helps to fill that brexit related funding 93p- fill that brexit related funding gap. no doubt it will increase tensions, many eastern european countries have had elections and they have stuck with the eu because all of the money they get. cash has been a big part of it but also, there are questions on legality as well, which is eastern europe not playing to the same rules as eve ryo ne playing to the same rules as everyone else. michael bloomberg to the rescue. the billionaire who did consider running for president during the last election, but he pulled out because he feared that if he ran them donald trump might get thejob. he got it he ran them donald trump might get the job. he got it anyway. he ran them donald trump might get thejob. he got it anyway. he is coming in with a $4.5 million a cheque to put the money into the pot that hasn't been going in for this paris climate deal. just that this year, it doesn't cover th

comes to fighting against terrorism working together to solve problems in the middle east and in north africa alexandra what about the differences here we know that they went into these dogs with differences on the iran nuclear deal they came out of that with. mr trump saying that he's willing to talk about a new deal or mr mack wrong saying that. as well how do we read that. well the differences remain that's for sure i think that's mccrone strategy here is to say that he admitted. that the current iran deal is not sufficient but that that controls some of iran's nuclear activities until twenty twenty five and then the press that's the french president is ready to work on the new deal so his strategy here seems to be to tell mr trump let's stick to the current deal please do not pull out of it and while we are working to try to achieve a better deal a deal that would be addressing other problems like iran's activities in places like yemen and syria and iran missile program and alexander we know that this is a week of european lobbying in washington very german chancellor she's expected in wa

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to do for taking israel hear their story on talk to al-jazeera in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera.

in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera. it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government's real. hello again i'm retired and are these are the top stories on. israeli fire has killed a palestinian joy and border protests for protestors in gaza have also been injured as israeli army fires live ammunition and tear gas at the gaza israeli border people in gaza been renewing protests after at least twenty one people were killed over the past week and more than one thousand four hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire the un has urged israel not to use excessive force and says foreign should be used only as a last resort. has more from the border totally the number of people who actually pushing closer to the fence has i

actually achieved gender parity and so we have to look at countries in the middle east is well and in north africaey have managed to achieve here is that women will be able to work alongside men, they will have to segregate them at lunch and there are some exceptions in that. what is your experience there? i have probably done more business in the uae than i have done in the uk in terms of innovation and education, which is obviously our area in terms of what we work with. i have actually found that they are really looking at driving forwards, they are at innovation, they looking at the new economy, how are they going to make money and they are ploughing a lot of money and investment into these areas. ntu, has gender been an issue or not? investment into these areas. ntu, has gender been an issue or nowm hasn't, no, absolutely. i have been really thrilled to do business with them. let's look at this story that you want to talk about as well, telegraph business section. brussels wa nt to telegraph business section. brussels want to start up tax breaks, what is going on here? this is very frustratin

the alliance should work with our partners in north africa and the middle east to address conditions and activities that enable terrorism, such as traffic of weapons, irregular migration, and regional instability. nato's expertise can help strengthen the resilience of partner countries as well. we call on nato to increase its interactions with regional organizations that are fighting terrorism. the united states is unwavering in our support for nato's open-door policy as well, and our commitment that any euro-atlantic country that wishes to join the alliance and meets the requirements may do so. we will continue to work with aspirants bilaterally and through nato structures to help them meet those standards. and as the alliance works towards the july summit here in brussels, we will focus on three priorities: increased defense spending and burden sharing, strengthening nato's deterrence and defense, and countering terrorism. we look forward to making progress on each of those issues in july. i also want to congratulate the republic of korea and north korea on the historic meeting, an

in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera.

francine: amar mark properties has grown more than threefold and expanded in the middle east and north africapolitical instability. what kind of leadership does it take to shepherd a global company through turbulent times? mohamed alabbar, the chairman and founder, is here. what kind of leader are you? we were talking about anduraging your leaders portfolio managers to be aggressive. do they always need to be on their toes? mohamed: they have to be relevant, number one. changes take place in the world. we also have to believe in the reset. we are upgrading everyone month because there is so much happening. do we really act? we have to be relevant, we have to act, we have to have discipline, we have to believe in the best people, we have to take care of society. these are the elements i depend on to manage my business. francine: what does it mean being relevant? in traditional times, you can ask a customer what they want, now the change of pace is so fast. mohamed: are you watching social media what is going on with your customer? no way to search in 30 days. how alert are you? how alert are y

sunshine for a while also this class been the west that has bit more benign the looks issue in north africa you may not agree it's an area of low pressure pumping out warmth from africa and dust to east and sides were talking about up over for the ball couldn't and greece and to the west that spinning low to west of our own will help to eventually pump up some wont here so we've got to easily teens in london twenty in zurich and that circulation is producing another cloud rather less in the way of rain i think we'll see more rain develop this is come monday for italy in slovenia and suits and ups are austria and beyond but the wants is still with it is temporary not quite as nice it might be a pretty good spring weather otherwise now i said you know i agree if you are in the north west africa algeria in particular where they have been really suffering from a northerly wind been quite strong and it's been raining to some to a millimeter is in the capital of algeria now that is obviously easing to some degree the low is still spinning it's been a stronger wind now and the rain is edging ever

: the company has grown within three fulton's 2011 and expanded heavily in the middle east and north africate political instability in the region. what kind of leadership does it take to shepherd a global company through turbulent times? is here. and founder what kind of leader are you? we talked about encouraging your regional leaders and portfolio managers to be aggressive. do they always need to be on their toes? mr. alabbar: number one, they have to be relevant. change is taking place around the world, so are you relevant? theyou have to believe in reset. are we upgrading every month? we have to be relevant. we have to act. we have to believe in the best people, and we have to care about society. these are the elements that i have to depend on. francine: what does it mean, being relevant? the change in pace is so fast. mr. alabbar: relevance is watching social media daily. what is going on with your customer and your business? you? ert are and alerts about how your customer feels, with what is going on in the industry, politics, with new tools of management? are you awake? you need to b

francine: amar mark properties has grown more than threefold and expanded in the middle east and north africaspite political instability. what kind of leadership does it take to shepherd a global company through turbulent times? mohamed alabbar, the chairman and founder, is here. what kind of leader are you? throughout the program, we were talking about encouraging your leaders and portfolio managers to be aggressive. do they always need to be on their toes? mohamed: they have to be relevant, number one. changes take place in the world. are you relevant? we also have to believe in the reset. we are upgrading everyone month because there is so much happening. do we really act? we have to be relevant, we have to act, we have to have discipline, we have to believe in the best people, we have to take care of society. these are the elements i depend on to manage my business. francine: what does it mean being relevant? in traditional times, you can ask a customer what they want, now the change of pace is so fast. mohamed: are you watching social media, what is going on with your customer? there is

in recent years there's a hell of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera. former south korean president park geun to hey is sentenced to twenty four years in prison after being found guilty of abuse of power bribery and coercion. logs a whole robin you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in also coming up former south african president jacob zuma faces trial on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar arms deal plus. palestinians for pavel protests after israeli forces killed twenty one people along the gaza border in the last week and . standing by supporters rally in brazil as the deadline for former president to go to jail edges closer. to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of south korea where former president good to haiti has been found guilty of abuse of power and coercion the decision was made after the chief judge read a lengthy statement by ending the eighteen c

we want to tell you about breaking news in north africa.s is brand-new video just into our newsroom. more than 250 people are killed in a military plane crash in algeria. the country's state radio says that crash happened near an air base and it's not clear what caused that crash or if there are any survivors. officials say they are starting the process of identifying the victims. >>> it is 6:34. we have new details now on the arrest of a contra costa county sheriff deputy accused of having sex with two jail inmates. internal records obtained by the east bay times shows the deputy may have committed rape. detectives stated in an affidavit that 26-year-old patrick morsemen committed multiple violations of rape under the color of authority. he was arrested earlier this month. at least one woman said the sex was not consensual. so far no comment by the sheriff's office and why the deputy is not facing more serious charges. >>> troublinged former football star aldon smith is scheduled to appear in court today in san francisco. smith has been in

in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. of battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera. and you know you're not going on in your job. in china. will seem to be challenging the government quickly feel the heavy hand of state security the chinese government has to tour to manipulate to the people and one is the violence. the are the is public and. now democratic countries warn china is carrying out its system of control and censorship world one of the biggest issue of our time in my view is china. for the first time the f.b.i. and cia accuse china of using a global web of spies and informants to harass intimidate and neutralize anyone daring to speak out. on steve cho on this episode of one of those yes how far will the money go the sun it's pretty. toronto canada is a world away from china. when democracy activist should have fled here seeking asylum she believed she was finally free from the watchful eye. i have chinese authorities.

others are seeking relief across the middle east and into in your opinion and north africa. they have become a nationalist boogieman in many far right campaigns in recent years. more than 6 million people still in syria have left their homes. they are considered internally displaced of the the assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons at least 30 times since 2011 according to u.n. investigators and recent news reports. what is the assad regime accused of using? this is important. let's think about the syrian people now. the chemical alleged to be involved in the recent attack is not known yet. the regime has used exploreine gas. it was devilled for use in world war i. it cause as burning sensation in the nose throat and eyes. people expose ready in danger of developing fluid in the lungs which you can die even a day later. now, in the attack last year that prompted this missile strike we have been talking about by the trump administration, sarin gas was used. it prevents the body from switching muscles off. it causes convulsions and paralysis and even death. in low d

a spanish semi enclave on the mediterranean coast of north africa and has become famous in recent years through images of people scaling fences to enter but there are other reasons why this place is so singular economically malea lives from tax concessions and border traffic the proximity to morocco and that's to the african continent opens up a coveted market. after cattle twenty is a trade unionist and melia and of moroccan descent. ejaculations the exploitation of the disadvantaged and underprivileged people on the border including the mule women. when the best available than the owner she had the water i saw these women for the first time when i was seven or eight because we lived quite near the border it was perfectly normal to see them working between malea and morocco and it's a form of survival because there are no jobs neither in malaya nor in morocco the only way to ensure a daily income is to join the smuggling business and carry the packages. and the porters are the final link in the smuggling chain in malaya you. go to the other one the smugglers earn millions of euros on t

comes to fighting against terrorism, working together to solve problems in the middle east and in north africabrent: what about the differences here? we know they went into these talks with the differences on the iran nuclear deal and came out of that with mr. trump saying he is willing to talk about a new deal and mr. macron saying that as well. how do we read that? alexandra: the differences remain, that is for sure. i think that macron's strategy is to say that he admits that the current iran deal is not sufficient, but that it controls some of iran's nuclear activities until 2025, then the french president is ready to work on a new deal, so his strategy here seems to be to tell mr. trump, let's stick to the current deal. please do not pull out of it here it and while we are working to achieve a better deal, ideal addressing other problems unlike iran's activities in places like yemen and syria, and iran's missile program. brent: we know that this is a week of european lobbying in washington. the german chancellor is expected in washington on friday. will angela merkel get a warm welcome an