push back boko haram in areas they're known to operate especially in northeast nigeria. this is not the first that bee co-had a ram attacked a base in cameroon. remember ten days ago it attacked a base in northeast nigeria where soldiers from chad and cameroon were supposed to be operating. although during the attack the base contained only mostly nigerian soldiers at the time. >> ahmed, how much coordination is there between the nigerian authorities and cameroon authorities in fighting boko haram, and have they said anything on the latest attack against their military? >> well, basically they say there is some form of coordination between the two countries. as we all know everyone country makes decisions that it seems necessary to defend it's own people and defend it's own territory. so nigeria and cameroon are seeking different approaches to deal with boko haram. there has been corroboration and it may not work all the time but they are taking individual steps to try to restore different areas. at this moment what we're hearing from security forces inside cameroon. >>

and remarkably the president of nigeria condemned the attacks in paris, but has remained silent on the violence up in the northeastria. we have had some comments from the military, now saying that efforts are being prepared to re-take this town. but, yes, you're right. it's a horrific list of atrocities going on in the northeast of nigeria. and as we heard from the catholic archbishop of jos in central nigeria, he's calling for that same kind of resolve that we saw on the streets of paris, the international community coming together. he's calling for the same for nigeria. but frankly, we know that's not going to happen. yes, there is some military support from countries like america and britain, with training of troops but even when almost 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped last year the rallies that were called rarely got more than a few hundred people out on the streets. >> will ross. >>> there's been a firebomb attack on the hong kong home and the former offices of the media tycoon jimmy lye. now, mr. lye is a pretty outspoken critic of beijing. he also played a prominent role in the pro-democracy protest in hong k

those who could flee to safer parts of northeast nigeria leaving behind horrific scenes. no one knows how many died in baga. it is too dangerous to count let alone bury the dead. amnesty international say it could be the group's worst-ever attack. >> i'm speaking with several eyewitnesses that said boko haram went house to house. we believe this is the latest in a series of attacks where boko haram is attempting to carve out territory in northeastern nigeria. >> the list of atrocities is long in jerusalem. -- long and gruesome. the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped are still missing. at gunpoint, they were forced onto trucks and driven away. the violence in the northeast of nigeria is relentless. there are calls for more countries around the world to do more to help in the fight against boko haram. britain and america are training some troops here, but there is no desire whatsoever to become more deeply involved in this conflict. elections are due next month but the jihadis to tax have not really become a national issue -- jihadist attacks have not really become a national issue.

the armed group continues to attack northeast nigeria.the african union is setting up a multinational task force. and pushing for a power-sharing deal. from al jazeera's research center for studies joins me now on the set. the african union say they are going to tackle some pretty important issues. can they do it? >> i don't think so. african african african -- union has become a talk shop. they haven't shown leadership on the pandemic of ebola, or shown leadership on dealing with challenges of boko haram and al-shabab. >> why not? why has this been allowed to go on for so long? what is the problem? >> the problem is they are not -- they are not empowered by the member states to -- for example to effect impugntive measures for those who violate human rights for example. and the peer review which was proposed by the regime during those days so it has not been effective, because they don't have mechanisms to ensure that the -- that they implement certain basic things within the african don't -- continent. >> but they have had some small suc

they are unable to respond to the violence occurring in northeast nigeria. ng situation and shows just how dramatically the security forces in nigeria have deteriorated in recent years, that they are just not able to respond to the sort of crisis that we're seeing. >> so if they're not able to respond, why not accept some of the help being offered by the international community? >> well, you're right. the international community has offered assistance, it has provided some assistance. but in nigeria, at the moment, the situation is so politicized, including what to do about the counterinsurgency, that it's difficult to be effective. my view is, this needs to be de-politicized. there will need to be a rethinking and restructures of the nigerian security forces and they'll need the international support. in the end, it will be an insurgency that will be necessary here, as well as a political process. at the moment, there's just a lot of drift and talking to nigerian security forces, my analysts have found them very demoralized and very demotivated. >> 10-year-o

>> reporter: well, so little, because it's up in a very remote corner of northeast nigeria in a fishing community on the shores of lake chad. we're hearing reports from eyewitnesss from refugees who have fled that it could be hundreds, it could be as many as 2,000 people who were kills since last saturday when boko haram militants moved into the city and started pillages, slaughtering, setting fire to the houses, and they have done the same thing in surrounding villages. apparently bodies are littered across the ground. it's been impossible for security forces to get there and engage in a true head count of the number of victims. but a local official has said as many as 2,000 people have been killed in this spate of obscene violence over the last week. thousands of refugees have fled. there are 1,000 refugees sitting on an island in the middle of lake chad stranded effectively. there are 7,000 refugees who fled into western chad. and 20,000 more who fled to the regional capital which is about 230 kilometers further south where they are being looked after in refugee camps or centers for

nigerian president good luck jonathon visited in northeast nigeria a strong hold, he has promised victims of the armed group latest attack, that they will be able to return to their homes. and prosecute err general says he will ask russia to hand over a shoulder who kill add family of six. crowds of people have gathered outside the base and a russian consolate for a second fight. the head of the i.n.s. says a sharp drop in oil prices will not be enough to boost the outlook in the oil economy. the price has slumped fearly 60% from last june of 115-dollar as barrel. now, it is operating around $47 mark, so why are prices falling so much, it is an issue of supply and demand, there is a surplus in oil which is leading to a decline in prices. that is bartley because some countries aren't consuming as much oil because their economy remains sluggish. perhaps more crucially it is down to big oil consuming countries like the u.s., finding alternative ways of meeting their energy needs. the u.s. has invested heavily into developing technology which can pass into unconvention fall resources like sha

. >> much of the northeast of nigeria is extremely inaccessible and dangerous. so much so that these first pictures of the violence around baga have come from these satellite images. they show the destructive nature of the group, boko haram, but they don't give us anymore clues as to how many people were killed in this violence. >> the extremist group has a long track record of violence against civilians. the nigerian government says no more than 150 people were killed in baga but people fleeing suggest the number is far higher. one eyewitness tells the bbc that the jihadists have detained hundreds of women in the captured town. they wouldn't be the first to be held against their will by boko haram. more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped nine months ago are still not free. the nigerian military has managed some successes, repelling recent boko haram attacks. but the jihadists seem to be growing in strength. on a visit to nigeria, the former head of the united nations spoke to the bbc about the crisis in the northeast. >> they are brutality, the murdering of innocen

northeast nigeria is a black hole for information, which is one reason this story is not getting theoverage it deserves. the other is the president good luck jonathan doesn't want boko haram setting the agenda before the election and doesn't want to spend time talking to journalists about the group. our starting point this week is the capitol. >> boko haram is in the remotest parts of the country, northern nigeria, where much of the media is absent. if we are absent, then once we get to the other output or none at all. >> information comes out very slowly. we have inaccurate information coming out initially, and we all know that what people hear first is what they'll remember. if you have a figure such as 2,000 bandied around, that figure will remain as opposed to the official figure realized by the military, which was 150. >> i also remember that nigerian journalists are not the best. they don't have insurance. if a journalist dies while covering anything, in local parlance, we say he is on his own. o.y.o., on your observe. boko haram not your regular army. they delight in killing j

nigeria for talks about the presidential elections set to take place in three weeks. his visit comes as the army is battling boko haram fighters in two towns in the northeast of the country. let's talk now live from the capitol of nigeria first the latest attack by boko haram what can you tell us? >> in the last five minutes we've spoken to an eyewitness on the ground, a member of the civilian joint task force ordinary nigerians helping the military fight boko haram. what our source is saying is that 20 soldiers have been killed within the last one hour. he said he lives near one of the barracks and has seen the firefight take place hips. earlier, the same individual has told us that civilians have been killed in the crossfire that he had counted at least 10 bodies, including children, and that three to 400 boko haram militants, suspected boko haram militants had basically stormed the area. it's very difficult to independently verify what our source is saying, but it does corroborate in a way or stack touch what the military are kind of saying about what's going within object which isments, of course. they have tweeted there is fighting going on, but they're saying they

. >> a suicide bomber has killed five people in northeast nigeria. a bomber drove a car rigged with explosives into a bus station wounding another 35 people. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. still to come this hav hour: a record 6 million people turn out to see pope francis celebrate mass in a rapey manila. >> in selma 50 years after african-americans won the right to vote. a new hollywood movie comes out, we will look at the legacy of what happened here and how people are reacting. ney >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> one of 6 fighters killed in annitsisi airstrike in northern syria, a field commander and the father of i amad killed in 2008. isil released around 200 mostly elderly captives in northern iraq. those released are receiving medical attention and have been pla

boko haram militants have carried out a second attack in northeast nigeria.ocal government officials say the militants burned down most of the town. as many as 2000 people are thought to have been killed there in a previous assault on saturday. for many of the 3 million refugees who fled the conflict in area, the hardship has just become even worse. after a winter snowstorm enveloped much of lebanon. a six-year-old boy and two men died of exposure while they were lost in a blizzard as they crossed the border. the united nations refugee agency has been giving out emergency winter aid, but the need is urgent and immense. >> winter is one more thing for syrian refugees in lebanon to endure. children are most vulnerable to the diseases that come with this weather. many are poorly equipped to brave the cold. the caps are a pitiful sight. the children have no bread, he says. we do not have enough would to keep them warm. it's hopeless. please, we need help. >> this is the fourth winter of war in syria the fourth winter the refugees have been stuck in atrocious cond

the border between nigeria and cameroon have taken on boko haram fighters in the village in northeast nigeria say they first used a jet bomber to attack the fighters and those who fled to the border were then attacked by their ground forces, who were stationed in the cameroonian border town. forces don't have the authority of the nighian government to fight boko haram inside nigeria, and the reluctance by nigeria to allow canadian and cameroonian forces in their country to fight the boko haram fighters is putting at risk the entire regional efforts that have been put in place to fight boko haram. nigerian authorities are said to prefer troops from countries that are members of the economic community of west africian state. cameroon and chad have also been affected by the boko haram attacks with chad at risk because the road that links it to nigeria is currently closed by boko haram. >>> boko haram is high on the agenda at the african union summit in the ethiopian capitol. members calling for 7.5 thousand troops to eradicate the group. >>> the government in the central african republic has rej

this year's african union summit leaders particularly focused on the boko haram attacks across northeast nigerias a plan to set up a multi national task force to fight the armed group and also pushing for a power sharing view between south sudan and the former vice president and catherine reports. >> reporter: peace and security definitely dominating this year's summit a lot of countries in the continue continent are in crisis and south president and rebel leader have been holding direct talks to move forward the peace talks that have taken way too long since january last year there is still a lot of contention on power sharing. the peace and security council also had a meeting last evening and discussed ebola epidemic with poor countries this the continent and discussed boko haram and threat to nigeria and neighboring countries and the need for security council calling for a strong force of 7500 troops and also been talks on the political turmoil in libya and the flow of the country and being used to fight in other countries central africa africa republic remains an offensive against the fdlr r

hope that the resent victories by the military and vigilantes will hold i'm with al jazeera, northeast nigeriae woman has died and three others were injured from a land slide and destroyed 7 houses but managed to pull two children from the rubble alive and the houses were hit by the slide and were built on an old coal mine that closed 50 years ago. in the u.s. thousands of people have paid their respects at the funeral of new york police officer shot dead with police partner in brooklyn in december and both ambushed by a man who said on social media he had intended to kill police officers to avenge shooting of unarmed black men by police. some police officers at the funeral service turned backs on new york mayor bill deblasio and criticized him for not backing police force during a resent waive of antipolice protests. trial of one of accused in the 2013 boston marathon bombing opens on monday and prosecutors seeking death penalty for dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> reporter: 21 and plead not guilty to 20 federal charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and he and his brother are accused of a

the attack took place in nigeria's northeast in an around the town of baga nearly two weeks ago. these satellite images released by amnesty international show before and after pictures of baga. the red indicates areas of vegetation. the second picture almost all that vegetation gone, burned in the attack. reports say people who sought shelter in homes were burned alive. others fled into the lake to escape. the rampage left bodies everywhere. one witness reported that the whole town smells of decomposing corpses. >> we obviously condemn these attacks in the harshest terms. boko haram remains a threat, a horrendous threat. you have to look around to know that. >> while boko haram steps up its campaign to carve out an islamic state in west africa, also in northeast nigeria boko haram was blamed for two attacks by female suicide bombers that killed 30 people. nigeria is calling for united nations support to fight boko haram. >> offers of support most of those supports in terms of -- in terms of civilians. so we need to go beyond that and that is why the nigerian government is trying

that tells you how the government has mismanaged and abandoned the people of the northeast of nigeria that's why many people are not happy with the government. they feel like the president is more interested in winning the next election than in the security problem that has been affecting the northeast, which does not address as we've seen now, it will not only escalate to other parts of nigeria but escalate to cameroon chad and niger. boko haram has started to attack cameroon already, and we've seen that at the border towns in chad and cameroon. but the president was in paris marching. no one has come to nigeria to sympathize with us or collaborate with the nigerian government to find a solution to this problem. this is really a very serious issue that has been mismanaged by the government and the community. >> we'll be back after a short break. we know we return we'll continue our look at boko haram. what does the group want? like isis it has claimed a caliphate. stay with us. >> tuesday. from race relations to foreign policies, terrorism and the economy. >> if this congress wants t

there are fears of casualties in northeast nigeria after a new series of attacks by that terrorist grouplocal official tells cnn militants, boko haram militants went on a burning spree and destroyed 16 villages. the number of people that have been killed are now in the hundreds. >>> was the attack at "charlie hebdo" office part of a much bigger terror plot? stay with cnn. ♪ ah, push it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ push it. ♪ ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. ♪ if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. ♪ it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ i'm pushing. i'm pushing it real good! >>> i think for everybody in the world, the most important today is be together being together strongly together and really really deeply freedom of speech. that's the most important for me, and this is why i'm here. >> yeah that sentiment expressed again and again in paris over the past day. i want to bring in the paris bureau chief and france corresponden

he was teaching in northeast nigeria when he was kidnapped in july.he was kept in isolation and said he wasn't sure if he would survive. >>> afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. human rights watch say that the the 2014 was the worst year ever for vie republicans and threats against journalists in afghanistan where eight journalists were killed. we look at how freedom of speech is compromised by a stand threat of violence. >> on january 17th akil was the first afghan journalist to be murdered this year. odds are he won't be the last. being an journalist in afghanistan is increasingly a dangerous job. just ask this investigative reporter. he was assaulted last march after writing about corruption. >> the biggest threat from journalists from the north come from warlords and elders who cannot accept criticism. >> the emergence of a free media with dozens of tv and radio stations has been hailed as one of the success of post taliban afghanistan. but they say that freedom of speech is under threat here, and that t

but it is just an uptick in the violence that boko haram has been waging on the civilians of northeast nigeriaive years now. we saw an attack of various suicide bombings over the weekend carried out by children. a girl as young and 10 years old had explosives strapped to her chest which detonated in the market in the capital of borno province. further south, the nigerian military did manage to repel boko haram militants from taking over a city. what we are seeing is the nigerian military making some headway against militants, but militants taking sways against the borders in northeastern nigeria. they attacked a base in cameroon. the cameroonian government managed to push back the militants and caused heavy casualties. all of this comes close to the presidential nigerian elections set for february 14th. the military says the death toll is far lower than what eyewitnesses have been telling us. the president hasn't mentioned the massacre north of the country. >> witnesses who said the government turned and walked away. >>> new terror threats targeting francis the country steps up security follow

as we speak now, the -- the boko haram fighters are occupying a larger territory in northeast nigeriapecially in the states. boko haram is chasing them out of their barracks. sitting civilian populations and killing thousands. people are wondering what exactly are happening. >> why are areas in the north being attacked by people who claim they are an islamic group? >> that is one question that is bugging the minds of many nigerians. they have attacked mosques and church. when it started five years ago, they weren't targeting any other group except the police chiefs and local emoms who they say ideologies are different from them. and eventually they are now attacking even the muslims they say -- they want to protect, or the islam -- the sharia law they want to impose in the north of nigeria. so people are beginning to understand this is a different thing all together it's not about islam or sharia or setting up an islamic state. otherwise how could someone rape kidnap kill, name and even burn properties. that's the questions people especially the muslims are asking. >>> three countries

. >>> now residents of the northeast and nigeria town have gun returning home. they were forced out when boko haram fighters took control of the commercial center. there are reports on how the town is struggle to go recover. a warning that some viewers may find images in this report disturbing. >> harvesting what remains of the family farm. boko haram fighters had overrun the town. >> we were supposed to have harvested two months back. but due to this incident we're not able to until this time around. due to this incident i lost my father, who owns this land. >> as they work all around them are the sights and smell of death. the result of six weeks of occupation by boko haram. >> there is one dead body there and it is stinking, so we likewise many around us. you can find some dead bodies around our farmland. >> on the way to town the streets are littered with evidence of the carnage. weeks after boko haram fighters were chased out the area is largely deserted. security forces are in charge now but despite their presence most people who fled are staying away. man

shocked the world last spring when insurgents kidnapped over 200 girls from a high school in northeast nigeriaing me now is journalist china ocaci who was raised in nigeria and has written politics for nigeria.com. i'm not sure when i heard about boko haram, but it might have been when they kidnapped the girls. that's when the world started paying attention. >> this might be a problem for hillary clinton. boko haram has been around for a while. it became a stronger hold in 2009. when hillary clinton was secretary of state, she was a bit reluctant to put boko haram on the terrorist list because she did not want to give them that validation they were looking for. it wasn't until john kerry came in that they heard about that move. what did they do when 9/11 happened? they said, 9/11, never forget. what is the culture around that forgetting. why do we not have a memory around that space. why people not saying, april 14, 2014, we lost over 200 girls. i'm guessing it's 300-something were kidnapped, so on and so forth. we're just going to stick with 276. why are we not saying april 14, 2014? why are

while bomb caha ram -- also in northeast nigeria, it was blamed for two attacks by female suicide bombers that killed more than zero people. nigerian government is calling for more concrete support to fight boko haram. >> united states, france, china. but mosul does support in terms of -- we need to go beyond that, and that is why the nigerian government is counting. from the across the globe. >> but critics accuse the government of playing politics as the area's most effected by the violence have been the main opposition strong holds. not so says the government spokesman. >> it is not just about the election we want peace we want stable, we want people to go ahead in the upmost fair, that is conducive. >> knicks las krzysztof is a columnist for the new york times and he joins froes the times newsroom, welcome, it is good to have you i would like to start with nigeria and the horrors out of that country are almost unspeakable there's been -- i think substantially less media attention regarding boko haram, why do you think so. >> you know, i think part of it is that it is a hard story to c

report, "those terrible weeks in their camp: boko haram violence against women and girls in northeast nigeriand joining us by democracy now! video stream, horace campbell is professor of african american studies and political science at syracuse university. he has written extensively on african politics, including the article, "the menace of boko haram and fundamentalism in nigeria." he is working on a book about u.s. militarism and african independence. welcome all of you to democracy now! let's begin in washington, d.c., with adotei akwei. talk about these maps and what you think at this point has happened and how many casualties you believe there are in northern nigeria as a result of boko haram attacks. >> thank you. amnesty was able to commission satellite imagery that showed baga before and after the attacks. clearly, you can't completely estimate the number of casualties until you actually have physical access, and that of course, is to dangerous at this point. at the level of destruction during baga, for example, of at least 3000 indicate the number of casualties is probably closer to

. >> in nigeria, the militant group boko haram has laid siege to the town of baga in northeast nigeriathe militants have reportedly decimated the town and attacked surrounding areas, leaving bodies strewn in the streets. the death toll is feared to be in the hundreds, with estimates from local officials ranging from over 100 to as high as 2,000 people. the south asian nation of sri lanka has elected a new president, dealing an unexpected defeat to president mahina rajapaksa, who has ruled the country for nearly a decade. rajapaska is credited with defeating the tamil tigers in 2009 after a 26-year civil war. he is accused of presiding over war crimes in the complex final stages. his opponent, maithripala sirisena, who won the election was acting defense minister during the bloody final days of the conflict. in the mexican state of veracruz, 13 local police have been detained over the disappearance of a journalist. moises sanchez, who reported on drug-related violence and corruption, was kidnapped from his home in medellin de bravo earlier this month. the 13 officers detained constitute

. >>> there are fears of heavy casualties in northeast nigeria.eel like we report on these boko haram attacks way too frequently. once again, there was a series of attacks. >> a local official says militants went on a burning spree wednesday, destroying up to 16 villages. the number of people killed is now in the hundreds. >>> still to come for you though it's one egyptian's image of extremism. a prominent cartoonist responds to the attacks on "charlie hebdo." >> and he tells us how he's been empowered. stay with us. [ male announcer ] stop! living with hair loss, that is. losing your hair is no fun and no one wants to be bald but there is hope. getting my hair back was the best thing that ever happened to me. i'm happy with the way i look now. i'm very excited about my hair. i feel beautiful. i love my hair. [ male announcer ] hair club offers all proven hair loss solutions backed by our commitment to satisfaction guaranteed. if you're not 100% satisfied with the solution you choose hair club will apply the purchase price to another proven hair l

. >> reporter: boko haram also suspected of being behind two attacks in yobo and bachi northeast nigeria1 killed including 5 soldiers in one attack and bomber drove his car into a bus station making it the third attack in the town within the past month alone and in bouchi state another attack happened at a military check point. and mali declared free of e bow with 42 days and no cases and 8 1/2 thousand died in west africa what is the worst outbreak of the virus and the number of new infections across infected countries is falling. >> reporter: a year after the e ebola out break took hold in africa there are people dying everyday and doctors risking their lives to help them but tou some good news has come out of mali an indication perhaps that all their hard work is starting to pay off. >> translator: after 42 days of monitoring with no confirmed ebola virus cases and in accordance with the sanitary directive i declare january 18 2015 to be the end of the ebola epidemic in mali from now on travelers and goods no longer subject to special treatment abroad. >> reporter: last week guinea li

this year's african union summit and leaders particularly focused only boko haram attacks in northeast nigeriau has a plan to set up a multi national task force to fight the armed group and also pushing for a power sharing deal between south sudan president and the former vice president and we have more from catherine covering the summit at the eu ethiopia capitol and of course it seems like it's no ordinary eu summit what is at stake here exactly? >> absolutely. security in the continent is at stake here and what the leaders have been talking about. many sideline meetings on different countries that are in crisis. the opening session of the summit is still going on and those who made speeches are focusing on security and the au chair, the au commission chair talked a lot about security in the continent but she also talked about eu agenda 2063 and need to diversify economies and also the need to feed itself and a speech by ban ki-moon who touched and the crisis and on boko haram he said the u.n. will support africa troops and expressed concerns about the peace process and called for decisive a

i'm with al jazeera, mobi northeast nigeria. >>> palestinian president abbas in talks with jordan foresolution to the security council and calls to end to israeli occupation of palestinian territories and rejected an earlier draft last week. >> translator: we will go again the u.n. security council, maybe in a week. we will consult with our brothers in jordan because first they are close to you and they are the only arab member in the security council and we might go again and again and again. we will never be board of going to the security council until we gain the recognition and in the end they will recognize us. >> reporter: more bodies expected to be identified as rescue teams resume search for the wreckage of the flight 8501 in indonesia and the black boxes are believed to be located close to where five large objects spotted in the sea and carrying 162 passengers and crew when it crashed last sunday. in the united states thousands of people paid their respects at the funeral of new york police officer who was shot dead along with partner in brooklyn in december and ambushed. and

boak company ha ram has -- boko haram has claimed responsibility for mass killings in a town in northeast nigeria. estimates say 2,000 people were killed on january 3. boko haram still maintained control of that town and a military base as well. a prosecutor with the international criminal court says those most upon for war crimes will be -- responsible for war crimes will be held accountable. >>> a case of international computer hacking. federal prosecutors say hackers gamed access to a u.s. army computer network while targeting microsoft and several video game dovers. sentencing we're told is set for may. >>> police are looking for clues into a shooting which left one man dead in prince george's county. it happened yesterday morning on coral gardens court in capitol heights. medics rushed the victim to the hospital but doctors were unable to save him. police are looking for witnesses and other information to help solve the case. >>> two people suffered minor injuries last night when a military helicopter overturned. the army chopper flipped during a hard landing atra money that airport in -- at

become so difficult to report from northeastern nigeria that satellite images are basically as close as we can get it seems. >> yes, because parts of the northeast of nigeria are basically a war zone. if you talk about the case in baga now, the military is trying to take control of the town and the surrounding villages at the moment. it is not possible for journalists or any observers to go and assess the situation. the other problem is that boko haram destroyed all the talking medication in the region, so it is not possible -- telecommunication in the region, so it is not possible to communicate. only refugees can tell us the story of what happened. they tell us what happened is really terrible, a real act of slaughter by boko haram. >> the nigerian president goodluck jonathan just made a surprise visit to the northeast of the country. why'd he do that? some people say you did that to prove that boko haram is not in total control there. >> that's what many people think. people are positively surprise he decided to go there. last time he went to the northeast of the country was 2013 quite a long time ago. even when there was the abduction of mor

at least 100 people killed in the northeast of nigeria. very much for bringing us an update. >>> let's bring you more on our top story now, of course the attacks that took place in paris. the search for the perpetrators continues. we know 12 people died in the attack. police have issued a witness appeal for cherif and his older brother said is also -- is also on the run right now. they are suspected of being the two men who carried out the shootings at charlie hebdo on wednesday. there is also a third suspect who drove the get away car. all three are believed to be french muslims of north african decent. sharif was arrested in 2005 for being connected to a criminal cell. he went on trial in 2008 the court heard he had become radicallized hearing of the mistreatment of muslims by u.s. forces in iraq. sharif was handed a three-year suspended sentence which he already served in the pretrial years. >>> just want to bring you some live pictures coming us from paris where you can see people are gathering to pay tribute to the victims of the atta

. >>> boko haram militants have captured a key military base in the far northeast of nigeria, which wasby a multi-national force to fight the insurgents. they've also seized the town of baga which was said to be the last in the area still held by government forces. residents of baga who fled by boat to neighboring chad said that many people had been killed and the town was set ablaze. will ross is our correspondent in nigeria. i put to him that losing this base would be a very big blow in the fight against boko haram. >> well it is significant, as you mentioned, the last town that was in government hands in this area the north of borno state, and for the people living in that town and the surrounding villages their lives have suddenly been turned completely upside down. they had to flee into the bushes. as you say, some headed across lake chad into that neighboring country. others have managed to make it into the safety of the main city in the northeast, and one eyewitness told us that it's completely impossible to know how many people have been killed in this attack on baga town itself

"reuters" reports, "two suspected child suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in northeast nigeria on sunday. the second apparent attack in two days using young girls strapped with explosives." >> yeah -- >> this is horrific. we're not hearing a lot about this. this unbelievable. >> it's a level of barbism that even isis as extreme as they are, it's difficult to imagine isis using child suicide bombers. unfortunately part of the problem is because there's been so much focus on what's happening in france, for good reason unfortunately we're losing sight of other things going on. from isis' perspective, if you ask them wloshtshether or not using a 10-year-old as a suicide bomber is okay. they don't subscribe to any ideology other than death. >> jim, where's the world global outreach here? 2,000 people. little girls strapped and used as suicide bombers that don't even know they have the bomb on. absolutely the world has to be outraged with france but shouldn't the world be just as outrage ed outraged at what's going on in nigeria? >> rerndthis is the same group that kidnapped small sc

things are happening in so many places and we have seen how these girls have been across the northeast of nigeria parts of the northwest. >> where are these girls coming from? are they related to boka haram members? >> well, some of them are related to active members of boka haram. some are related to the second and some also could be girls and young boys from villages in the northeast, especially in the states of borneo where boka haram is known to be active. we heard about instances where boka haram will single out young men and girls, take them away to the bushes train them there probably to carry on with what they are doing. so many people believe that these are some girls -- some of these girls are part of those girls who have been kidnapped by boka haram and taken away some few years or few months ago. >> akmed in abuja there. thank you very much for updating us on another disturbing story of child suicide bombers in nigeria there. now, sri lanka's government says it is investigating a block vote could you tell after last week's presidential elections. a spokesperson for the president says