, from north africa, with the potentialfor high south, from north africa, with the potential for highth and east of scotland in particular. we could see an occasional brighter speu could see an occasional brighter spell and there will be rain across the north west of scotland but otherwise another cloudy day with occasional brighter spells possible and look at these temperatures. potentially going as high as 15 degrees in north—east scotland. in aberdeen, it should only be 6 degrees at this time of year. 9 degrees at this time of year. 9 degrees above normal. beyond that, temperatures eased on three monday and tuesday but there should be a greater chance of at least a little bit of sunshine with temperatures across england and wales knocking around three or 4 degrees off as we head into monday and tuesday. the skies should be brighter with more sunshine poking through. in the run—up to new year celebrations it isa run—up to new year celebrations it is a mostly dry picture with some fog patches developing overnight. this is bbc news. the headlines at four: at least 12 people are killed

the atlas is the highest mountain range in north africa. it's an inhospitable area the highest peaks are in excess of 4000 meters the 1st snow already falls in october. and there are only a few villages in these parts but people keep sheep and goats. on some of the steep slopes they've created terraces for farming whoever can leave here does so to look for a job in the city. perhaps as a taxi driver. we're now back in egypt driving along the nile delta. tariq the taxi driver from cairo is on the way to that small city full of old mercedes coos. looking was it does feel good. because it's it so people here believe. that god knows how you. judge a guy. his looks they might stay in. the market square in fact who says also the main stop for the share taxis some are over 50 years old in addition to that stroke age the w 110 known as the fin tail is omnipresent. and it was 1st built in 1961 the rare long wheelbase mercedes models are especially popular with 3 rows of seats for 7 passengers. or in this case 11. despite appearances everything is or

cars from the latter part of the last century in germany they're now collector's items but in north africa and latin america many are still in use as work courses helping people earn a wage. this is the mother church every year hundreds of thousands of car fans make the pilgrimage to stuttgart and the control center of mercedes. more than 130 years of automotive history are on display and they were saying he spends museum. among the 160 vehicles on display are legends like the 300 s.l. . prototypes that never went into production. and silver arrows that made motor racing history. the museum also boasts regular road going models from yesteryear restored to tip top condition and available for sale assuming you're ready to spend the price of a new car on a 40 year old model the stroke 8 is the germans called the new generation w one 114115 was launched in 1968. the egyptians called it can see it or piglet of all things because that's what they thought it looked like. tariq law is a taxi driver he drives a mercedes $200.00. cairo on the nile the biggest city in africa on the longest river in t

human trafficking remains a lucrative business in places like a death is seen as a gateway to north africa w.'s travel to aga days where many claim pressure from the e.u. is now making the situation for migrants more dangerous for nearly 30. broad people across the border from i got us into libya he never thought he was doing something criminal. this who had it's not true that we are so-called human traffickers and we are deceiving people it's also not true that we treat them in humanely or badly. europe's politicians have demonized him as a criminal smuggler but here people like him used to be called press sirs and their work was considered the most normal thing in the world why should it be criminal to bring people from a to b. most asks for centuries the desert city of agadez has profited from people passing through from west to north africa in search of work. but this stopped in 2015 when the european union signed agreements with several transit countries to curb migration to europe because of that suddenly became unemployed 6000 other former smugglers in asia shared his fate store and

and the relationships and the priorities and the dynamics at the regional level the dynamics in north africa the dynamics in the mediterranean region we are still talking about the dynamic of crisis and we are not considering the lives of the people who are leaving the country or stay in in grief in the country at the diplomatic with probably address the symptoms of the crisis but they are not going to resolve the deep rooted. causes of the conflicts the deep root cause of the conflict in this country and we have learned from many many many other countries that made it or interventions been agreed diplomatically or not are not going to resolve it we have the example of syria iraq and other countries it is only when people sense down and consider the past right hauke about what has happened how we can learn from the past and move on a diplomatic solution and on we have about a while i think the right even if i made the sami very briefly sami at the end of the day is that we are going to 20 some kind of serious an area with to a lot of powers playing a role but 2 powers influence ascending rus

for centuries the desert city of agadez has profited from people passing through from west to north africa and search of work but this stopped in 2015 when the european union signed agreements with several transit countries to curb migration to europe because of that suddenly became unemployed 6000 other former smugglers in asia shared his fate store and hotel owners who used to live from the travellers had no income. even though migration decreased it never stopped say human rights organizations such as doctors without borders this week even though the laws been in force in 2015 the bigger issue never stopped and they will never stop oh if you put boards to the regulation the reviews are good doors so what we see is the waiter in small compared to the past they are much more vulnerable why because everything has to be. over in the close the city hidden we managed to meet a smuggler who still active now his job is illegal if he gets caught you risk several months in jail ever since the military started patrolling the borders he tells us scenes like this one are getting more and more common

us hit with the sounds of middle east and north africa they live in america musician relates tales of struggle while expressing the power of political engagement and this instance the son of a libyan pro-democracy activists he was an opponent of then leader moammar gadhafi go bass rapper has campaigned for a host of activists causes he was a headline name among several arab american artists who joined the employer 5 peace saving syrian lives tour in 2017 now k m is preparing to release his most personal and focused work yet. have it's good to have you in the stream hello. it's a pleasure thank you for having me we're almost 8 spy at parents our family but you all story about how you came what inspires you comes directly from your dad even mentioning right at the top of the show you sent us some pictures this is your dad tell us about him and how that influenced where you ended up going up so. my father you know obviously was a political prisoner in libya. our form of position movement and we grew up in lexington kentucky a muslim community a political dissidents and i just remember my

very hard to repatriate these fighters back there is a growing al qaeda presence right now in north africa nobody's addressing this matter at least in a serious way there's north african countries and nato has been silent they have not been able to address these issues now i know that the starting from 2021 turkey sad to see him delayed a ship of nato spear had for speech was created in 2015 specifically to watch the russian borders and to reassure the poles and the bulls against the suppose it russian aggression now do you think the poles and the bulls will feel any safer against the russian aggression on did the turkish command well when turkey is serving under nato there's totally different mandates for what the military needs to do in the turkish military is professional it follows its mandate it's serving under the nato flag right there. not under the turkish flag so there's no reason for the poles not to feel or the baltic states not to feel secure because of turkish presence in the end this is a nato command mission not a turkish mission and they will be following what their command

threats right now are mainly non-state actors instability in the middle east instability in the north africa these are the areas that the nato should be concentrating on we look at what europe's doing. no type of humanitarian effort into these areas trying to just block migrants or outsource the migrant issue they're not even taking back any of their isis fighters they're trying to outsource that issue to iraq which is not going to work because turkey is working very hard to repatriate these fighters back there is a growing presence right now in north africa nobody's addressing this matter at least in a serious way there is instability in libya very key country protests throughout the north african countries and nato has been silent they have not been able to address these issues now i know that the starting from 2021 turkey sad to see him delayed a ship all the nato sphere had for speech was created in 2015 specifically to watch the russian borders and to reassure the poles and the bolts against the suppose it's a russian aggression now do you think the poles and the bulls will feel any saf

obama has that type of a tab uganda then if you will slow to western and north africa there are terrorist groups all over africa has a read out terrorist problem i live in washington and i don't go there in the sense that western countries take terrorism in africa seriously they think it's a secondary problem they blame african governments this while the government is not perfect the government has corruption so until they clean up their act the they have to deal with i think that is wrong we have to use the same yardstick when that terror is victims whether europe whether in the middle east or whether in north america we have to understand that we need to bring this event groups to their political circle to talk but if they pick up then their state marceau president so that in that sense i don't killed we need to protect african lives the same way we protect our lives now the un and sent a rapid response team to the central african republic house of fighting broke out between shop owners and fighters demanding money at least 40 people were killed in the capital bogey on thursday dozens o

this similar to nowhere in africa which one of the oscar will on the surface of its it is because north africa is also a story of a jewish family that flees nazi germany that's a very very different film of that film is about a very urban intellectual family that flees to go to kenya ends up emigrating to kenya and try to work on a on a farm there it's a very different story and the film itself is much more about. trying to adjust to a new culture a new a new landscape and the problems they have also within the family of just what unites the 2 films i think is their focus on the family which is always a focus is no because you know links films and also their emotional haft i mean she's great at giving very well defined characters within a family structure and having incredibly powerful motional stories and when i still think robin is another great example i mean did carolyn link consult judy's column about the making of this new film yet she was able to speak to the author when she was 95 and talked to her about her childhood memories is these this is very much based. you never talk about what

this similar to nowhere in africa which one of the oscar will on the surface of its it is because north africa is also a story of a jewish family that flees nazi germany that's a very very different film that film is about a very urban intellectual a family that flees to go to kenya ends up emigrating to kenya and to try to work on a on a farm there it's a very different story and the film itself is much more about. trying to adjust to a new culture a new a new landscape and the problems they have also within the family of just what unites the 2 films i think is their focus on the family which is always a focus is no cause you know links films and also their emotional haft i mean she's great at giving very well defined characters within a family structure and having incredibly powerful motional stories and when hitler stole the grab another great example i mean did carolyn consult judas cause the making of this new film yet she was able to speak to the author when she was 95 and talked about her childhood memories is these this is very much based. talk about what. it was like growing up in ger

lampedusa hundreds of people have died in the mediterranean this year trying to reach europe from north africa you are right up to date with all the top stories up next it's planet s.o.s. more news in 30 minutes i will see you very soon. as nato turns 70 leaders will go in london to plan its future but after france's president mark wrong called the alliance brain dead is nato going through an existential crisis and what will this summit mean for future transatlantic military cooperation join us from december the 2nd for the u.k. nato summit on elm disease. i . hello i am a man is a barrel and this is climate s.o.s. the land is one of our best weapons against climate change but why are we destroying it scientists say humanity is stripping the earth its ability to sustain life and that extends to the way we produce films but we're wasting a lot of it one not feeding all who are hungry we speak to people working to transform our relationship with the land embracing sustainable practices and we'll look at what's coming up at the cup.

it comes across this species of grasshopper in north africa that lives minding his own business chilling out eating grass. occasionally there are heavy rains so the grasslands expand and the population grows and then the rain stops then the grasslands contract so they get closer and closer to each other higher population density and at a certain density genes are triggered genetic changes take place and the grasshoppers transformed out over generations like dual animals the front legs get shorter the back legs get longer the thorax changes shape coloring and head changes the same dna same species same bug. they become hyper aggressive and start fighting each other and cannibalistic and then they swarm the biblical plague of locust swarm over north africa eating everything in the path destroying everything until there's nothing left and then most of them die and the ones that survive remain grasshoppers. we are swarming right now but because of the conditions we are living in we often find ourselves acting like locus. so you don't need to buy the book. that's it right there. [laughter] so

the anglo american allies had kicked out of north africa. they invaded italy and were expecting to make steady progress against the germans and that peninsula by november of 1943, when this takes place. they had one into a literal -- they had run into a literal stonewall in the form of the gustav line and had been hung up in a precarious position. such was the situation of the war at that time. the big three allies that were allied against the third reich, britain, u.s., and soviet union, the leaders of the former two, churchill and roosevelt, met several times, in washington a couple of times, in quebec, casablanca. but they wanted to get together with stalling. in. they wanted to have a big three summit conference. they wanted to have everybody together in the same room to discuss the strategy for defeating the third reich. i actually had access to some of the diplomatic cables, or virtually all the diplomatic cables running back and forth between these three guys. i excerpted them at crafted them into a conversation, more of an argument,

this is a proxy conflict that splits the middle east and north africa and beyond the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and russia have all given greater or lesser assistance to have to but if we have to or might topple the government of national accord has spurred turkey into overt action for turkey their interest is not libya itself anybody who looks at a map of the mediterranean will see that egypt to turkey south south cyprus greece and potentially libya if it falls on the half that and therefore goes into the u.a.e. or bit is forming a sort of maritime choke hold on to turkey for taking libya is the final chance to prevent this chokehold from taking place although libya's g.n.a.t. has ratified the security and military cooperation deal it struck with turkey last month is not immediately clear what kind of military support turkey might offer libya or when but it reinforces turkey's role in influencing libya's future like with syria russia and turkey have taken different sides increasing their diplomatic leverage and corporation. we russia by the way are in permanent contact with

from sub-saharan africa north and indeed within there's a large component of the side of the sea the street who have a genuine fear for their own personal safety many migrants do as well they may not be entitled to sign but they are definitely people in need of could in need of protection and. i think what we generally is really talking about is that there is a huge equality that you see in the world it leads to people spontaneously leading a lot of good governance in their countries i mean for the songs of the mercy all these fuckers who you so well documented in that last piece most mothers have no interest in the welfare of the people of their charges they want the money pure and simple and all who do the peace seems trade and somewhat sympathetic to us losing out in this game calling and problem here and murderous in their treatment tomorrow so i think what we need is more equality and better migrants governance so we say from this formerly in this regular people are not encouraged to put themselves at risk and use it all for ways so often in tragedy well one thing that the europ

spoke to me and even her al-jazeera world goes inside an italian prison meeting men and women from north africa who left home only to face life behind mas double exile on al-jazeera. and that's because technological and peace into an awful us and group over to live side by side. in its. life ups challenges kenya up developers to help small scale farmers cultivate a new future but can mobile phones really be the seed of change it was poaching because it's all over the world people. live outside silicon savannah the knowledge of the euro. a passenger plane with 100 people on board crashes in kazakhstan at least 9 people died. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkey outlines plans to send troops to libya next month to tripoli against the huffed us forces. iraq's president says he'll resign rather than a private candidate for prime minister backed by the biggest block and politicians .

a proxy: this is conflict that splits the middle east and north africa and beyond., saudi arabia, egypt and russia have all given greater or lesser assistance, but the fear that the government of national cord might be toppled has spurred turkey into action. >> for turkey, the interest is not libya itself. anybody who looks at a map of the mediterranean will see that potentially libya, goes into the uae orbit, is putting a maritime choke hold onto turkey. for turkey libya is the final chance to prevent this chokehold from taking place. reporter: although the libyan gna has ratified the security and military cooperation deal struck with turkey last month, it is not clear what kind of military support turkey might offer libya, or when. but it reinforces the turkish role in libya's future, increasing up a and cooperation -- increasing diplomatic cooperation. >> we are in continued contact with the government and continuously communicate with partners, including those in turkey, europe, other countries. our opinion is that the best solution would be a compromise between

host: another side effect of rising temperatures is desert expansion, something north africa's sahelregion knows well. large areas of the sahel now regularly experience drought. fertile land is becoming a rare commodity, leading to increased conflict in the region. take mali. it's has been mired in crisiss for years. ourereporterÜrg schneneer travelled to the landlocked country in west africa. in fana, he enjoyed the hospitality of the local mayor, who has become an expert on climate change. reporter: there's only enough moisture in the sand for the butterflies, even though the rainy season just ended. abdulaye coulibaly is the mayor of fana, a town in southern mali. mayor coulibaly: it wasn't as dry 10 years ago. now we can't plant rice anymore. if we don't stop chopping down trees, we soon won't have any rain at all. reporter: a few months ago, mayor r coulibaly got t a phonel from the capital bamako. it was an invitation to take part in a seminar on climate change, one that the mayor was happy to accept. mayor coululibaly: i've been oppoposed to the desestructiof our forests for a

spoke to me and even her al-jazeera world goes inside an italian prison meeting men and women from north africa who left home only to face life behind mas double exile on al-jazeera. hello i'm a song with the top stories on al-jazeera the un general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against rohingya muslims and other minorities and myanmar 134 member states voted in favor of a resolution calling on myanmar's government to end violence against minorities memo also faces a charge of genocide at the international court of justice thousands of wrangel were killed and nearly a 1000000 fled into bangladesh after a crackdown in rakhine state in 2017 or earlier i spoke to benjamin's a wacky who's a southeast asia analyst and he says this u.n. resolution is too late and law.

couple of days as for southern africa we still have a few showers in say the east of south africa further norththat's where the wetter weather will remain into madagascan water madagascar pushing across into northern areas of mozambique further north. what happens when plans for a new life abroad id railed by committing serious crimes from drug trafficking terminal bring to mind only i don't remember how many times it stopped the way her boyfriend spoke to me and even her al-jazeera world goes inside an italian prison meeting men and women from north africa who left home only to face life behind bars double exile on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines you use the misinformation but i use the term by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions how unique a load is this in terms of modern american history when it comes to racism you have the makings of a nail fascist moment international filmmakers and world class journalists bringing programs to inspire you. on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder about top stories this hour iraq's president says he'd rath

spoke to me and even her al-jazeera world goes inside an italian prison meeting men and women from north africa who left home only to face life behind was double exile on al-jazeera. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al jazeera. in. iraq's president submit his resignation saying it rather quits than appoint a prime minister has been rejected by protest is. a very warm welcome to the program i am maryanne demasi and london also coming up. reports that libya is requesting military support from turkey against attacks from . tripoli. results suggest israel's embattled prime minister has survived a leadership challenge to his party to.

toft they are about top of uganda then if you will soon go back to western and north africa there are terrorist groups all over us so africa has a real terrorist problem i live in washington and i don't get the sense that the western countries take terrorism in africa seriously they think it's a 2nd group problem they blame african governments this is a well the government is not perfect the government has corruption so until the printer there are the they have to deal with it i think that is wrong we have to use the same yardstick when there are terrorist victims are whether in europe whether in the middle east or whether in north america we have to understand that we need to bring dissident groups into the politico circle to talk but if they pick up arms then the state must still pres them so that innocents are not killed we need to protect african lives the same way we protect our lives i want to on the ground this was the 1st attack on this scale in about 2 years but how does it effect yes people's confidence living in this situation if you like that that rug could be pulled from

so let's discuss this further now serif mansoor is biddle east and north africa program coordinator for the committee to protect journalists and he joins us on skype from philadelphia we're just listening there in the background to this story so we have the identities suppressed senior figures exonerated what questions are left in your mind after this trial. a lot more question the we today expected more than a year later to be answered by certain vishal but it wasn't surprising at all that the keep and continue to try to cover of the crime was only. 2 weeks ago when congress finally give a deadline to saudi authorities when it spares its national defense act which require the head of u.s. intelligence to publicly testify in front of congress which should happen within the next 2 weeks the list of people who are responsible for the killing and we know from day one what has happened but always the question of what are we going to do about it and what are we going to do about it now. not just by the fact that the illusion that justice can happen inside saudi has faded away that's also why

every so if africa sees a migration of was eastern coast and he was travel north from ontic tika we think carves last year saw the largest number of words on record off the coast of cape town scientists call savation ists and tourists continue to learn more about these giant marine animals we went along to find out more. at certain times of the year special visitors can be part of what is our 1st day in south africa. where the huge mamas migrate from one talked to the woman worked as off the coast of mozambique to come. very good after a few months to return some of the long the same route and researches have seen an encouraging rise in numbers. in the great conservation success story since the end of whaling alison people stopped catching them commercially in the late seventy's around southern africa the population have been increasing rebounding. they can be and we think getting up toward the carrying capacity of the ecosystem the population of the west and the east coast of africa have been increasing probably close to 10 percent yet the researches used a hydrophone an underwater micro

another side effect of rising temperatures is desert expansion something north africa's to hell region those well large areas that this is a hell now regularly experienced drought. thailand is becoming a rare commodity leading to increased conflict in the region take mali it's been mired in crisis for years. now reports a year in schneider travelled to the landlocked country in west africa in found that he enjoyed the hospitality of the local man who's become an expert on climate change. there's only enough moisture in the sand for the butterflies even though the rainy season just ended. up doing. is the mayor of a town in southern mali. it wasn't drawing 10 years ago now we can't fight rice anymore we don't stop. we soon won't have any rain at all. to say. a few months ago mayor coulibaly got a phone call from the capital bamako it was an invitation to take part in a seminar on climate change one that the mayor was happy to accept. now for to me any. sort of i've been opposed to the destruction of our forests for a long time. but thanks to the workshop i learned even more about the co