the landslide in northern afghanistan. over 2,000 has been killed. joining me from kabul is mark bowden, the united nations humanitarian coordinator for the country. thank you for joining us. can you update us on the situation and what you are hearing about those killed. >> my latest understanding is that there's a question of whether 2,000 died or not. that's under arrest. >> okay. >> we know 1,000 families are affect affected. 300 houses were destroyed. we know that we are expecting 4.5,000 people to be displaced. [ inaudible ] . >> it's a bad line. forgive me if i repeat anything that you have said. you said several thousands people have been displaced. can you tell us what the situation is now, and how challenging the rescue operation is, considering the mud that is everywhere - all right, we have last mark bowden, unfortunately. we'll try to get him back to get more information on the landslide in afghanistan. >>> still ahead - south africa's opposition party hold final rallies, are they fighting a losing battle? >>> plus 13 years in captivity a

. >> they have come to remote area of northern afghanistan with the tools and shovels to help the rescuers but the focus is shifting from funding the survivors to keeping those that did alive. >> we have helping to facilitate the needs of around 700 families more than 4,000 people displaced directly or indirectly and the needs range from food and water, of course, to medical help as well as shelter needs. >> it is hard for the teams to reach the site, the roads are damaged by the rain and can't take the heavy machinery and the hillside remains unstable and it is fearing another part could cave in. >> a rally is held in belfast in support of the leader jerry adams and he's being questioned for a 4th day in the connection of a murder from 1972. she was a mother of ten. jerry adams denies any involvement in the killing. >> the trial of three al jazeera journalists is adjourned again until may 15. they are accused of falsifying news and conspiring with the muslim brotherhood and al jazeera is rejecting the charges and the court appearance is going along with the international freedom day for s

. >> volunteers are coming to the err of northern afghanistan with the shovels to help the rescuers but the focus shifted from trying to find the survivors to keeping those that did alive. what we are doing now is helping to facilitate the needs of around 700 families, more than 4,000 people displaced directly or indirectly by what's happened. the needs are food and water, of course, to medical help as well as shelter needs. >> it is hard for the teams to reach the site. the gnash row roads are damaged by rain and can't take the heavy machinery used for recovery efforts and the hillside is unstable adding to the fears that another part may cave in. al jazeera. >> a deadly virus is coming state side mers is already infected 370 people in saudia and there are number of cases arriving to the middle east and it is only a matter of time before reaching the american shores. healthcare officials are scrambling to track down the people that recently travelled the same route as a man who according to the cdd tested positive for the deadly mers virus. it is a healthcare person. he connected throu

. >> a landslide in northern afghanistan confronted the country's president over the government's response. hamid karzai, where hundreds are reported dead. more than 1,000 are missing. we have this report. >> security was tight ahead of hamid karzai's visit. hamid karzai travelled to the remote area six days after a landslide destroyed much of the village. speaking to a group of survivors, he promised them they would be taken care of. at one point a man stood to confront the president. saying he had lost everything in the landslide, and his family was barely able to survive since, there, through his tushan, he took a ground, a dramatic tile of protest symbolizing a lose of dignity. hamid karzai assured the man he would be taken care of, but didn't say how. >> we asked him what the government intended to do. >> it's six days since the landslide. people here are in a fairly difficult situation. what have you promised them in the days ahead. >> three specific things. one emergency assistance. of which there is a lot, fortunately. second, the - those who wish to have - bury loved ones and rela

and at least three hundred and fifty dead after a landslide berries villages in northern afghanistan. it's happened in remote and the next time province near the borders with tajikistan china and pakistan. local authorities fear the death toll could rise steeply. i know. call welcome back to what you just joining us this is the world this week which in the company. and i to mary of the international new york times. also of with this tradition of ice to cool sites. we are pleased to join in on him the heel of the french news agency afp and every this crazy heat of the bloomberg news agency. we discussed made in moscow in parliament session. icicles are either made a nice tumble this year tobacco. if you don't do well. if you know annie was very violent and we cannot we went into government protests and mobilize for new housing and police and streets were closed on transportation is for stop the need felt almost like a cbc to her. the state of emergency run to the east and will celebrating may day and is specific to the current context or is it something happens every year the thing is

now to the latest information on the deadly landslide that has happened in northern afghanistan. we have some new numbers from reuters that says a spokesperson for the provincial governor confirming that more than twenty one hundred are dead in a massive landslide which had a remote village on friday. the melon this area had experienced several days of heavy rain and flooding has caused the side of the cliff to collapse onto the village of hobo blurry search began on saturday morning amid the concern that the un stable hillside make a vegan. way to get to know that now we can only help displaced people. those straps and the landslides and who have most lines. it is impossible to do anything for them they are bad though when i was then distributed to less like survivors in the provincial governor is saying about three hundred homes but third of the houses in the area were hit after it will collapse of the village local officials are saying most of the missing are feared dead. as most of the houses are buried under aut twenty meters of debris landslides in the collections are frequ

it is springtime and unfortunately northern afghanistan has one of the most diverse climates. in the summertime temperatures are in very dry, into the 90s sometimes triple digit. in the winters we get quite a bit of snow across this region. mountainous conditions here, this is where the highest peaks are in afghanistan. between 20 and 24,000 feet high. in the winter time we see quite a bit of snow in this area and then what happens as we get into spring you get rain and the melting from the snow pack. what's happened is we have flooding as well. last week we saw about 180 people killed because of severe flooding that went on in this particular area. i want to show you a little bit closer in on what it's actually like when you get down towards the low level geography in this area. it's very arid so when it does rain there's really no vegetation to hold any of this moisture in. and when you see when it does rain, the rain fawls falls withn these ravines. these valleys are really the only transportation in and out of afghanistan. like secondary roads mainly dirt roads in this are

. >>> local police are doing what they can for the survivors of the landslides in northern afghanistan. they are handing out water and food to the villagers. on saturday morning rescue teams struggled to reach the people buried under the mud. roads to the village are open. they are said to be unstable for heavy machinery. >> translation: now we can only help the displaced people. those trapped upped the landslide and lost their lives, it's impossible to do anything. they are dead. >> rescue operations have been hampered by difficult conditions due to the heavy rips that northern afghanistan. 180 people died and thousands homeless. president hamid karzai ordered erm si re -- emergency relief to meet the village. roads to the village were open. passage was not suitable. the afghan government has not so far requested assistance. >>> july elections this thailand could be delayed. opposition party leaders said political reforms are needed before going to the poll and are calling for a 6-month delay. anti-government protesters halted elections whilst trying to oust yingluck shinawatra. >>> a

. >>> the grief is palpable in northern afghanistan as the search for survivors of landslides is called off the the focus is on those left homeless in harsh conditions. more than 2,000 are feared dead, buried under hundreds of feet of mud. heavy rains are blamed. we have more on the badakhshan disaster from gerald tan. >> reporter: they spent the night in the open, and during near-freezing textures, looking over -- temperatures, looking at what used to be their home, and praying for anyone sign of life. >> translation: seven members of my family were here when the lapped slide happened. four or five were killed. i'm half alive. what can i do? >> translation: we have not received assistance as of yet. all the villages are digging with shovels. it's a challenge for all the people. people who fived the land -- survived the landslide left. there's no excavator digging. we need more machinery. working with shovels is not enough. >> days of rain caused the site of this mountain to collapse. a wall of mud and rocks swept into the village, destroying all on its way, hundred of homes buried - ma

. >> survivors of a mud slide in northern afghanistan say they are afraid that if heavy rain continues, it may trigger a landslide in the area. strong winds blew away some of the tents in the aide camp, where the displaced are based. temperatures dropped. friday's landslide killed hundred, and more than 1,000 are missing. >> let's cross over to our correspondent. it looks nasty weather there in badakhshan. it's making the terrain more treacherous. >> reporter: absolutely. it's a miserable situation for the survivors of the landslide. nearly a week since it happened. as you pointed out, heavy rains overnight. heavy winds blowing some of the tents away. many woke up to a miserable scene - lots of mud everywhere, and, of course, they were all very, very cold. the situation here is, frankly, quite bad. however, it is getting a bit better, in the sense that aid is coming this way, but the reality is that the coordination of that aid has been hampered by this terrible weather. >> hampered too by the scuffles that we saw in the past two days, with gunfire to be fired. has that calmed down a b

that's this sunday 7:00 pm arkansas >>> landslide in northern afghanistan - more than 2,000 people areled. >>> hello, you are watching al jazeera. these are the top stories - kiev launches a new military operation in eastern ukraine. moscow condemns the death of pro-russian demonstrators in odessa. >>> a ceasefire or surrender - syrian rebels may be about to give up the fight for the city of homs. >>> on trial for going their job - three al jazeera

. >> tonight the focus in the northern afghanistan landslide shifts. the search is called off after rescue workers are lost in another landslide. 2,000 are feared dead. now to helping the thousands left homeless. more from the badakhshan disaster. >> reporter: mass prayer for a mass grave. the afghan villages gave up on finding survivors. now they just want to locate the bod yes of family and friends -- bodies of families and forehands. the focus has shifted to thousands that lost their homes. >> translation: i'm a survivor. right now we need tents. 700 houses are under threat of flooding and rand slides. there are -- landslides. there are fleers of floods -- fears of floods because there are four valleys where water can flow in. if that happens we'll be underwater. >> digging machines are being brought in. >> seven members of my family were here. four or survive were killed here. i'm half alive. what can i do? >> days ofs rain in nearby -- of rain in north-eastern badakhshan caused this mountain to collapse mud and rocks destroyed everything in its wa

imagine even more so in a remote place of northern afghanistan. sam, thanks very much. >> you bet. >>> the search continues for hundreds of girls abducted in nigeria. coming up for you, why these protesters you're seeing now say the government isn't doing enough. >>> welcome back to "cnn newsroom," everyone. i'm ear errol barnett. >>> nigeria is searching for hundreds of girls taken from a boarding school. they say 276 students were dragged from their beds last month and that number could increase. vladims live in lagos. it's one of these stories that breaks your heart. these young girls just wanted an education, and i understand some relatives even raised money themselves so they could go and search, feeling helpless because of what the government's not done so far. what's happening there? >> reporter: that's exactly right, errol. we've spoken to some of those family members. they say that over the last couple of days, they've attempted to take some rocks, sticks, machetes, whatever they could find, to go into the area where it is believed boko h

. >> this is about the two men, one who is currently the governor of northern afghanistan and the other is one that comes from kandahar. so it open with very interesting pictures of you in our company. and you stand out in that group even more than you do sitting here. >> thank you. >> yes, i've had the interesting pleasure of viewing both of these men each. so he is currently the governor coming up on eight decade. he is a native and grew up there and joined when he was a teenager and then went on to join the taliban. along with his longtime nemesis, he joined the americans with the central northern ca back to the taliban in 2001. so he has just finished his run for the presidency and it looks like from the numbers he doesn't quite have a shot. but it shows him from the southern part of the kandahar area, and coming from this area that has a long way to he of this in afghanistan, he helped the americans which was the center of gravity for the taliban in 2001. >> he said that the american helped him? >> yes. and then he -- he took the governorship of kandahar for himself and then was ta

. >> northern part of afghanistan, the roads that come into here are secondary roads, anything goinghrough here is river valleys, that's all we're talking? let me go a little bit closer in right there, and you can see a lot of these villages are within these river valleys. notice these river valleys as shown on google earth are fairly dry. what is happening now is besides the rain that has fallen over the last week causing a flooding in the area, a lot of the snow in the hiefe higher elevations s melting. when it does rain in this area, a lot of the rain will funnel down within these ravines and valleys and it causes of course the mountains to be very unstable. this particular area is very notorious for landslides. unfortunately this particular landslide happened to fall into one ever these populations. they are talking about in the area where there was about a thousand residences. 300 are covered. some of the mud in this region, anywhere from 30 o90 feet deep. unfortunately more rain is expected in this area. we expect to see another two to three inches within the next week. >> kevi

but you could be because i'm not the only middle game it is interesting to northern afghanistan before two counters and they took out the only practice of all twenty eight so you see but can i ask you something you know i think the operation in afghanistan was essentially broken into two stages the first initial objective was just to dislodge al qaeda reach need to you know other forces present on the ground i mean civilian forces managed to do fairly well but then the objective was upgraded to nation building and this. where everybody started having problems do you think that was a wrong thing to expand that call because i mean you know there is a tendency on the part of western countries of you know having those very broad objectives not just providing security but building democracy as i think we can seem ukraine some of my dear lady. of the. world although you know. to me is a special case which we have to discuss in the way we are discussing now because of course you may be right. but there's the case where you have. got to. come to and then you have to battle community because. t

afghanistan. it happen in the northern province. numberous homes covered with 30 foot of mud. instantly. 2100 people are missing but other leaders say the figure may be too high. the u.s. military said they are ready to help if called on. the mud slide hit after several days of heavy rain. snks a decorated u.s. marine serving two tours in afghanistan, sits in a mexican jail today. andrew was arrested back on april 1st after making a wrong turn and accidentally entered mexico. he is now chained to a cot in mexico and his mother called it a nightmare. the reporter is from fox affiliate wsbn in miami has the story. >> she said her son u.s. marine sergeant feels like there is no end in sight. >> when he was in afghanistan, he was a brave committed warrior to the american cause and he was highest level of achievement and promoted to sergeant on the field. now he is defeated and demoralized and hopeless. the decorated marine serving two combat tours in afghanistan now a prisoner in mexico. >> they would not allow him to turn around. i made a wrong turn and got lost can you let me tu

the ecosystem of terrorism all of the way from nigeria akrocro northern africa and yemen over to pakistan and afghanistanyou can't base your policy on what's trending on twitter. it has to be more than hash tags ant se and selfies. this is a huge growing problem that has been relatively ignored. >> it has been going on for a long time. hostage negotiators are expected to head to nigeria to help. >>> fresh blood is needed at dracula's castle. >> welcome to my house. >> count cradracula. >> i am dracula. >> the castle is eastern europe's biggest tourist attraction with more than 500,000 visitors each year. the owners say they are ready to pass it on. 9 asking fries $79 million. >> one of the most iconic nation's reopening in three years the washington monument has a new lease on life after sustaining damage. we have a snaek peak. good morning. >> good morning. we are about to see lines outside of the washington monument once again. it took about 40 years to build this thing back in the 1800's. it only took a few moments though back in 2011 to shut it down the result of an earthquake that caused cracks incl

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police in northern ireland based and band leader gerry adams after four days of questioning. and afghanistan hold the day of mourning after a landslide they lived in london and support. ukraine continues to teach that. rock the east of the country has spread to the southern port city of odessa hat for russian separatists there have stormed a police station and fried it dozens of fellow activists. ukraine's the interim prime minister our city gets a new one in odessa. earlier on sunday he's blaming russia for orchestrating violent clashes that led to a deadly fire on friday when forty people were killed on the ground it's no longer clear who's in control the new district about two thousand truman should demonstrate his defeats the police station. some fools the way inside and demanded the release of the activists being held in a short time later police lt almost seventy of the prisoners goes. not that into listed on suspicion of provoking friday's violence that resulted in street battles and the fire in which more than forty people were killed. in eastern ukraine reports say at least one sepa

this is an area, a region of afghanistan that's very prone to these natural disasters be they landslides or flooding as we've also seen in northern provinces over the past few days. >> the afghan government has said it has enough resources to be able to deal with the disaster itself. but in this buried village the people are less sure. dominic cane, al jazeera. >> a fast-moving wiemple wildfis supposed to be a controlled burn. national guard helicopters now helping to battle the blaze, although officials say the wildfire is 75% contained, it threatsens homes near guthrie, oklahoma. jonathan thomas reports. >> he raced to get to his family in guthrie. >> what street i can go down to remove to get to them. >> unwinnable battle against the wildfire driven by winds of up to 30 miles per hour, and fueled by lots of dry brush. it started late sunday afternoon and has so far blackened nearly 4,000 acres. >> once we get daylight and we can get out and on foot on the accurate number of homes lost we'll update our numbers accordingly. six was the number we were able to count before dark last night. >> reporter: fire officials confirmed tha

northern city of darwin have been evacuated. >> military fighters say figh fighters crossed over from afghanistan and killed one soldier. >>> allegedgang rape and killing of two teen aged girls in india. ages 14 and 15 have been strangled before they found their bodies hanging from a tree. they had been gone missing on tuesday evening. >>> a survey from save the children say nearly 70% of them have to fend for themselves. often lost or stolen or taken away from their parents. karishma veras has the story. >> collects paper plastic and bottles. anything he can sell. 50,000 children in india's capitol who work for a living. he wants to save for better life but the $5 he earns today is usually spent or taken by his mother. >> if i could open a bank account i could open -- save money and that could be better. >> the reserve bank of india couldn't agree more. asking children over the age of ten to open accounts without adult consent. organizations that work with destitute families say the decision will help working children save their way out of poverty. >> they have big dreams and they will get oknow that they want to become policemen,

ecosystem of tment that's all the way from nigeria all the way across northern africa to aqap and yemen, all the way over to pakistan and afghanistanyou can't base your policy on what's trending on twitter. it has to be more than hashtags and selfies. this is a huge and growing problem that's really been relatively ignored. i just got back from chad. chad has been screaming for help from the united states for two years on one front boko haram on the north, they have al-qaeda and then in the southeast they have el sha bob. and they're try fighting to push all of that back. not a lot of help from the united states. can we help with the girls? i think we can and we should and we must. but we also have to worry about the women of afghanistan, some 11 million. we're getting ready to walk away from them. in syria, you have 12 million women who are under siege, some 150,000 syrians. last week a school was bombed, 25 kids killed. this is going to continue to happen unless we have a robust holistic approach to what is radicalism and extremism popping up all around the world. >> schieffer: there's so much to ask but this morning. let me just

northern ireland continue to question gerry adams. >>> the top stories - search teams have gin up hope of finding survivors that swept through a remote village in nearby afghanistan. two people are reported missing and 4,000 displaced. at least three people have been killed and several others injured in twin explosions in kenya's port city of mombassa. a grenade was flown at a passenger bus. >> ukranian troops conditioned their attack on troops. the soldiers have made more gains as part of a terror provision. >>> police in northern ireland are holding gerry adams for a fourth night. he has been questioned about the murder of jean mcconville, in 1972. she was killed by members of the irish republican army. >> reporter: the arrest of gerry adams revolved old arguments and images from the trouble past. a sinn fein rally in front of a mural in west belfast. fellow party leader martin mcguinness is not ruling out withdrawing future cooperation over policing. >> anyone here - gerry adams arrest is not intended to disrupt the election campaign. >> it's not just in the north where the arrest is parking a rehabilitation. over the border in county lov, gerry adams's privat

afghanistan, for example. i think what we're seeing here is, unfortunately, a spiral. so in northern nigeria, there is very little education. women are marginalized, partly for cultural and historical reasons. a lot of people cite islam as the region. then that leads people to think girls shouldn't get educated, that leads them to attack schools so girls don't get educated which leads those areas to be further marginalized, women to be less part of the economy, less part of the society, and leaves groups like boko haram to have even more influence. >> as you were pointing out, part of this is a power struggle. these are armed gangs trying to wrest power from the federal government. you look at these guys who kidnapped these kids, you don't get the idea he prays five times every day. this guy is a thug who is leading in oppression of women. >> the laerd of boek shar, abubakar shekau, is actual a lunatic. he took girls from a boarding school some years ago in northern uganda. both of them use religion. koney claims to be catholic. it's really not about islam than about seizing power, a

. >> this part of northern nigeria is lawless and similar to the way parts of afghanistan and pakistanless. is it too difficult for the nigerian government to do anything on their own? >> this is an example of how a government like nigeria can come apart. this is a country of about 175-180 million people, 2/3rds of the united states, 25% of all africans are nigeria so if there is instability there the risk of the north becoming a haven for terrorist groups is serious. >> eric holder talked about fbi involvement. is that something that could help? >> i'm sure the fbi can provide forensic capabilities but there isn't much evidence gathered needed to be done. i think it might reflect the terrorism is a law enforcement problem. these people are conducting terr terrorist attack and there is a terrorism problem in north africa. we have seen it in libya obviously and now that we have an african command at the pentagon we need an anti-terror strategy in north africa. we don't have one. >> how would you recommend about building that? >> you start with the governments involved nearby. a lot of t

invaded afghanistan thirteen years ago as part of the so-called war on terror. six thousand people have taken to the streets in northern california to protest against police brutality and choosing the demonstrators angered by the deaths of three people in as many months at the hands of officers called on thora seized to end racial profiling police violence has long been a source of public anger in the u.s. state leading to several riots in the one nine hundred ninety s. . now russia has won the world ice hockey championships following a hard fought victory over finland the red machine won five two in the final in bela roofs. in moscow st celebrations erupted at the final whistle the victory marked a dramatic turnaround for russia just a few months ago finland to the winter olympics on home ice in sochi russia stepped up its game for the tournament in minsk defeating defending champion sweden in the semi's and then a come from behind performance against the koreans and the nation gold in the decider the fourth time that russia has won the world hockey championships in the past seven years. now after the break a special

afghanistan in late 2001 almost 2,181 americans has been killed. >>> some young people with a talent for science attended the white house science fair today and northern california was well represented. castaneda developed a solar powered walking cane. and soto came up with solar powered batteries to charge a schooler. and haines created a concussion cushion for football helmets. >> i think we need to encourage girls because without encouraging them and pushing them and telling them that they can come up with these things sometimes they don't believe it. >> reporter: hains dream of becoming the first female college football coach. and the president announced a competition to train math and science graduates to become teachers. >>> warming up, our >>> oh my god. >> oh, geez. this is what can go wrong when motorcyclists split the lanes but it's legal here in california. we discovered though that the practice of lane splitting is leading to more collisions between motorcyclists and cars than ever before. ktvu's john fowler tonight tells us what's changed to make this happen. >> reporter: with more and more cars on the road, no surprise drivers get ticked

mistakenly released the name of the cia's top spy in afghanistan putting his assignment in jeopardy. >>> well, a freak boating accident off northerning with a whale. the impact was so hard, it boat into these rocky cliffs. they're all okay, and we're told the whale was not injured. >>> and the coast guard helped rescue a fisherman off oregon after his boat began sinking. a rescue swimmer jumping into the water then helping hoist that fisherman into the helicopter. he is listed in good condition. >>> and finally on this holiday b weekend full of friends and family, you may want to put down your camera. a psychology professor in connecticut has issued a warning. she says taking too many photos of places and events could actually impair your memory of what you're taking a picture of. it's called the photo taking impairment effect. it has to do with our brains are wired. when we focus too much on taking pictures, we're not allowing our brains to absorb the memory, so, guys, no more selfies with sailors out there or you won't remember doing it. >> what are you doing? >> spider-man. >> it's memorial day. >> it is memorial day. we'll sta

afghanistan in late 2001 almost 2,181 americans has been killed. >>> some young people with a talent for science attended the white house science fair today and northernalifornia was well represented. castaneda developed a solar powered walking cane. and soto came up with solar powered batteries to charge a schooler. and haines created a concussion cushion for football helmets. >> i think we need to encourage girls because without encouraging them and pushing them and telling them that they can come up with these things sometimes they don't believe it. >> reporter: hains dream of becoming the first female college football coach. and the president announced a competition to train math and science graduates to become teachers. >>> warming up, our chief meteorologist bill martin is telling us how warm it's going to get. >> and the speedy sale of the clippers following the controversy of the owner. to pass three balanced budgets, on time. for the first time in thirty years. today, the deficits are gone and we've invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. democrat

afghanistan and syria and egypt. who risk everything, in some cases give their lives to report the news. >>> you're watching the newshour coming from doha - coming up, anger in northernreland as police question republican leader gerry adams. senigallia shoe makers struggle to compete with the rise in cheap chinese goods. and boxer mayweather shows why he's worth every penny in vegas. the latest in sport. >>> south africa's political parties are holding their final rallies ahead of general elections on wednesday. supporters of the ruling african national congress gathered in johannesburg, and is expected to have its majority reduced after corruption scandals. 25 million voters are registered to take part in the polls. our correspondent is live in johannesburg. and the interpretation building. >> reporter: well, the crowd here is electric. take a look at this venue at the moment. this is what 90,000 in a stadium looks like. red, black and yellow are the colours of the party. the stadium is full to capacity. there are many outside trying to get in. president zuma will speak in an hour or two. the a.n.c. have a lot of support. some feel that over the years the a.n.c. cou

northern nigeria, northwestern, northeastern nigeria. i remember a decade and a half ago around the city of, in the north. they have grown to become a very large network similar to that caliban in afghanistanlitary experts and may be special forces will be helping. we do have the resources. what we don't have now is policy that would allow us to put a lot of troops on the ground, boots on the ground. the other question, how are we going to do it? and know that we can locate them hundreds of these girls. and they could be scattered around nigeria, which is a very big country. >> it is. it seems clear now as we get more detail, this is a country that is essentially unable to deal with this terror groups. there was a report today put out by amnesty international which is being the amelie denied by the nigerian government that they had for warning of this raid. they did not have the troops. they feared for their lives, which suggests to me that they can pretty much come and go as they please. >> that's true. i spoke with many nigerian officials when they visited us here in the united states and in europe. actually, they do have the troops. it's a difficult decision. nigeria is made up of diffe

speak there are training camps in libya like there were in afghanistan before we went in with less than 500 americans, but we helped the northernalliance muslims kick out the radical islamic taliban. my friend is coming to the floor, he and i have traveled around those parts and he had been engaged with many moderate muslims in fighting the russians even, back before my predecessor, charlie wilson, was in congress. i'm very proud to consider him a friend. i'm proud of the efforts we've , it to reach out to allies was he who introduced me to so many of the moderate muslims that just want out from under oppression that radical islam brings. so, mr. speaker, we conclude is week, i want to encourage those in egypt who are standing up to radical islam, i want to encourage universities to stand up against radical islam and have the courage to recognize moderate muslims who will stand up and have the courage to speak up against the real war on women in this world and it's not by conservatives, it is by radical islam. mr. rohrabacher: would the gentleman yield? mr. gohmert: my time's about expired but certainty. mr. rohrabacher: i will

three hundred schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern nigeria on the fourteenth of april very a few did manage to escape. a spate of taliban attacks across afghanistan marks the beginning of the annual spring offensive at least three people have been killed and several more injured insurgents have targeted provincial buildings airports and security several cities including the capital kabul violence is escalating as nato troops get ready to withdraw by the end of this year. a third of people in the u.k. the spread of android technology according to a new poll the biggest concern is the potential use of killer machines in the hands of the military so already sarah firth went to find out whether robots are a threat to humanity or just handy. well they say the truth is stranger than fiction and when it comes to robots they could well be right take a look at this little guy he's been designed to mimic people's movements their way here at the imperial college robot say and it's a case in some of the cutting edge technology and there's lots of interactive areas that people can join in i'm just going to come over here to. take a page thank you very much fo

invaded afghanistan thirty years ago as part of the war on terror it's an express train slammed into a parked freight train in northern india at least forty people were killed in the accident rescue workers trying to free those trapped on the wrecked carriages india's one of the largest rail networks carrying twenty three million passengers daily systems plagued by frequent accidents which are often blamed on poor maintenance and human error. let's go back now to our breaking news story ukraine's military is expanding apparently it's offensive in the country's south east a large number of casualties are being reported tonight is going to cross the latest our correspondent in the area is maria for national hi there really give us the latest updates that you know them tonight. well indeed the situation in these countries got to massacre the military operation launched by kiev to stop and to government turn it into a very active contextually a very violent day here in the city of donetsk where we are now how he called. the ukrainian military tried to regain control over the city. on monday clashes. not quite clear whethe

afghanistan, from other parts of world and even islamic radicals from europe have come fray and their goal an islamic state in syria. they even controlled this group ofs, controls a chunk territory in northernyria fieldsome of the oil are. and there even have been allegations that they, this isis the regime are in cahoots and that they've been selling oil to the regime. host: just to close the loop on that because as we said earlier, the" require times" is report -- "reich times" -- reports that -- abc news is reporting that syrian rebels have captured one small village syria afterern killing some of assad's supporters. but no indication on what the death toll is in that attack. course, as france and the u.s. confirming that syria and othersed chlorine chemical weapons in 14 recent attacks. our guest is edward djerejian, the former u.s. ambassador of syria, now with rice university. bakerthe director of the institute for public policy. ron is joining us from bayside, new york. morning. caller: good morning. ambassador, thank you for your service. yeah, this is an incredibly difficult situation. what thedon't know west, vis-a-vis, the united states can do. absolutelyare horrible. the regime,

northern town of blast sunday washington has also voiced concern over a growing number of people joining the war in syria many of them europeans. a roadside bomb has killed at least twelve civilians in eastern afghanistan most of the victims were women they were returning from a wedding ceremony when their vehicle was hit by a homemade bomb improvised explosive devices killed some nine hundred civilians in afghanistan last year alone. and the turkish prime minister has warned protesters to hold rallies on the one year anniversary of the start of massive protests over individual press freedoms security has been boosted in istanbul with thousands of police officers and thousands of water cannons deployed. all across turkey after officers brutally broke up a demonstration against the redevelopment of gezi park in the city four people were killed and thousands injured during clashes with police. now the international monetary fund has approved yet another two point eight billion dollars cash injection for the greek economy the government claims the country is well on the path to recovery even though it still needs the money to stay afloat it's. found in greece young adults are grappling with fears their fu