no way they can accept a third term in power for pierre nkurunziza. there's no way he should be in power for a third term. so they want fresh elections in a safe environment and that means pierre nkurunziza they say can't be a part of them. so it's difficult to see how these two very different positions are going to be reconciled in the coming weeks. >> storms and floods in the united states have killed at least 43 people in recent days. texas has been badly hit with 11 killed over the weekend by tornadoes that left a trail of destruction, the twisters demolished homes blew away cars and cut power lines. scores of people were injured and an estimated 800 homes damaged. the extreme weather is forecast to continue over the next few days. >>> now flooding has forced more than 160,000 people from their homes in south america, paraguay is the worst affected country. local media are reporting that at least five people have died and many have been trapped in their homes. a state of emergency has been declared. northeastern argentina has been badly hit. more

entebb enches can the european union union asked hymn to mediate the crisis, when president pierre nkurunziza announced his intention to extend his ten year rule in burundi. >> i encourage the two sides to sit down and have a political solution. >> reporter: activists in opposition says nkurunziza bid for reelection was against the 2006 peace deal that ended 13 years of civil war. they took to the streets earlier this year. but the crack down was violent. since then police have been accused of dozens of extra judicial killings and the armed opposition is accused of provoking military fights. presidential palace in entebbe, within weeks they are due to be moved to jerusha. a number of conditions just for coming to the negotiating table. government delegates have said they are not willing to negotiate with people involved in a failed coup attempted in may. >> they tell you they were not nonviolent when they were not. they continue to use weapons, killing grenades, rockets, this kind of way to is a no to say no something. >> deny they are connected to any armed rebels. they are demanding that pr

the violence there has been sparked by president pierre nkurunziza's decision to run for a third termin april, which he then won. the opposition says that violates the constitution's two-term limit. the u.n. says hundreds of people have been killed in that unrest. the organization accused both sides of reigniting ethnic tensions between hutus and to seize -- and tutsis. the u.n. has announced i is deploying investigators to prevent the violence from spiraling out of control. these are just some of the victims of the right -- reporter: these are just some of the victims of the riots. protests are between the hutus and the opposition, most of them tutsis. the conflict escalated after president pierre nkurunziza ran for a controversial third term and won. today, he said, at the time, we enabled the citizens of burundi to choose freely. but his win sparked bloodshed. today, the un's human rights council held a special session to discuss the situation. they are concerned about ethnic conflict spilling over into neighboring countries. >> i continue to receive daily reports on violations and

president pierre nkurunziza announced his bid to extend his ten year rule in april. >> i really appeal to you the two sides to sit down and have a political solution. >> reporter: activists in opposition said nkurunziza' bid for reelection was against the constitution and against a 2006 peace deal that ended 13 years of civil war. so three took to the streets earlier there year. but the crack down was violent. since then, police have been accused of dozens of extra jicialjudicial killings. peace talks first started in july but stalled. presidential palace in entebbe, due to be moved to jarusha. government delegates have said they are not willing to negotiate with people involved in a failed coup attempted in may. >> they need to tell that you they are nonviolent when they were not, last time they continue using weapons, killing, grenades, rockets, this kind of way of saying no to something. >> but the opposition politicians and activists at the talks deny they are connected to any armed rebels. they are denying that president nkurunziza abandoned his term. saying the election was a fra

they want a safe environment and that means pierre nkurunziza can't be a part of them. difficult to see how these two very different positions are going to be reconciled in the coming weeks. >>> the leader of spain's leftist podemos power, pablo iglesias, told them his party would not become part of a coalition led by the conservative people's parties. failed to get a parliamentary majority. the coalition options are dwindling after the main opposition socialist party also ruled him out. >>> the european union's border agency frontex is stepping up its efforts to process the massive number of immigrants still arriving at the greek islands. among them will be experts in security screening, fingerprinting. omar al saleh gives this report. >> reporter: we are talking about a few days before they will actually start processing and helping the greek authorities. they could be deployed and on the main hot spots, the big islands, we don't know that number yet. frontex didn't tell us. we expect to know within the next few hours. in terms of what these officers will be doing, th

what started out as a bid for a third term by president pierre nkurunziza has evolved into armed violence. people have been killed every night, bodies left on streets. the opposition factions blame each other. >> translation: now, they have found another way. they try to negotiate with the government. but you cannot negotiate with a government committing matters like this one. >> the united nations, african union and human rights groups are concerned about the killings, which they say has an ethnic dimension to them >>> it's a close affair. they were killing followed the 2010 presidential election, but more people now seem to have weapons. >> if they decide to combine forces, the vigilante groups and organised armed groups, we could find a rebellion that is more dangerous, sophisticated and gather more resources to challenge the state. >> the armed men told us they won't give up until president pierre nkurunziza steps down. government forces insist they'll hunt down each one of them. many innocent people are caught in the middle. >> angela is a researcher at the floridaish african institu

the young people suspected of these attacks and taking part in president pierre nkurunziza's time in office, and the biggest fear now particularly within burundi, is the political attacks. becoming ethnic and the country will be engulfed in civil war. people remember what happened during the civil war that ended in 2006, when 300,000 were killed on ethnic grounds. >> mohammed adow live in the kenyan capital nairobi >>> now to northern pakistan - there's been an explosion killing 15, wounding 50. it happened at a busy market in the town of parachinow, 200km away from peshawar, close to the border. no one claimed responsibility for the attack >>> now, there is widespread global optimism after a landmark climate change deal was agreed in paris. 195 countries, as well as the european union saying yes to the pact after two weeks of intensive negotiations. the agreement urges all nations to limit greenhouse emissions. and subjecting them to review every five years. here is the environment editor nick clark. >> reporter: the moment the world agreed to tackle climate change. [ cheering and a

the attacks have stain plate in areas where there is strong opposition to president pierre nkurunziza'sird term in power. witnesses taken to their homes, marched to the street, and executed at point blank range. >> the police entered and took my mobile phone. they broke down the be door and found this man in there. they took him to the street and shot him. >> on thursday they displayed a large cache of weapons they say was seized just this week. unrest began in april when president nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term in power. it's despite whether or not the constitution allows it and critics say a third five year term also violates the arush accord. more than 300,000 people were killed between 93 and 2006, ethnic hutu rebels against tutsi. putting burundi on the brink of another civil war. malcolm webb, al jazeera, cam pakampala, uganda. move raising concerns over the paper's future editorial independence. willie lam is former china editor for the newspaper. he joins us live from hong kong. willy lam how significant is this buy? reshaping coverage of its own country. >> def

pierre nkurunziza decided to run for a third term.as the story. >> government of burundi was able to protect civilians. they also said they will appoint a commission of inquiry to look into the killings that have happened in the country, since april but particularly, the killings that happened on the 11th of december. on that friday 87 people were killed in the capital bujumbura. they have only one more option, ang act which allows them to maintain in a country even before the divorce. fest they can only be done at the summit. only can be invoked by african presidents. however, they have not agreed on invoking it in the past. and that is where burundi might get its escape. >> rwanda's president has praised last week's referendum which cleared the way for him to run for a third term. but in his annual state of the nation speech today, paul kagame failed to make clear if he would be standing in the 2017 elections. rwanda ah's elects commission's. >> it is a privilege and a duty to serve rwanda. not an entitlement. no individual is there

president pierre nkurunziza. mohammad adow is live in the capital bujumbura. mohammed. >> well jane, the african union say they are working on the final communique. the wordings of the communique in which the security council discuss the situation in burundi and agreed to deploy 5,000 policemen and military officers to burundi to -- and that their main mandate will be civilian protection. there is concern after last friday's killings of almost 100 people in the capital bujumbura, some of them executed, that this country is sliding back to civil war and the main mandate of this force will be to protect civilians. and the au is saying it doesn't want to see another genocide happening in the african continent. >> once the proposal is passed at the african union burundi has 96 hours to respond. how do you think they are likely to respond? >> reporter: well so far burundi has been reacting to proposals from the united nations for the deployment of foreign forces in burundi. they say that is not an idea that they will agree to. we don't know how it will be reacting

more than 400 have been killed since april, when the president pierre nkurunziza decided to run for a governme >>> nigeria's fisherize provide an income. they are drying fast. we have a report in our third edition. >> reporter: this man has been a fisherman all his life. the skills have been passed down from one generation in the family to another. he considers the river his life. >> it's been very important. it's a fisherman. >> their accumulation of salt and overfishing are threatening it the load. the rivers are not yielding as much as they used to. this is a meeting point of nigeria's two biggest rivers. for generations, this used to be a busy hub for fishing and forming. in recent years people earning a living from the rivers are seeing their fortunes dry up. >> the appearance of small islands in the rivers added to the fisher many's wows. breeding grounds are disappearing, as the water is shallow. as a result. many fishermen had to switch jobs to feed their families. >> we were raised as fishermen. but the fish supply has depleted. we cannot sustain fishing today. that is why we

when pierre nkurunziza sought a third term in office and went on to win. >>> in neighboring rwanda, a referendum is on, whether allowing president paul kagame can run for a third term. kagame has ruled rwanda since his ethnic tutsi ended the conflict in 1994. tell us what the turnout has been like so far this morning? >> that's right, we are at a polling station in central kagale where president kagame is expected to vote at any moment now. this isn't a regular polling place, people have been very quiet lining up coming in and voting. president kagame himself hasn't said whether he will stand for another term or not yet. he says he is going to wait for the outcome of this referendum so he can gauge the will of the people as to how much they want him to run again. this is a slightly contentious issue while supporters say the reason for this referendum is the will of rwandan people can be realized. opposition leaders of which there are a few in the cupt, th. they say the lack of freedom of speech means that this can't be a free and fair referendum. but the government says and the govern

unrest began earlier this year when burundi's president, pierre nkurunziza sought and won a third term. more 200,000 people have fled the country. russian authorities are investigating the cause of a psychiatric hospital fire that killed 23 patients last night in a village in southern russia. the fire broke out around midnight, and it took firefighters three hours to control it. most of the patients who died were elderly and asleep in their beds. two dozen more were treated for smoke inhalation or burns. wikileaks founder julian assange will finally be questioned by swedish prosecutors about rape charges brought against him in 2012. the interview will occur inside ecuador's embassy in london, where assange has been living under a grant of political asylum for three years. assange has avoided extradition to sweden, which he fears could extradite him to the u.s., if he were charged for publishing a trove of classified military and diplomatic documents five years ago. >> sreenivasan: governments from europe, africa, and the middle east are calling for all sides in libya's four year civil

the attacks have mostly taken place in areas where there's strong opposition to president pierre nkurunziza's third term in power. vims were takevictims were taker homes and executed at point blank range. >> translator: the police entered and took my probably phone. they found a man in there and took him to the road and shot him. >> conducting house to house searches looking for weapons. cache of weapons was found just this week. president nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term in power. it is disputed whether or not the constitution allows it. the peace agreement that ended burundi's 12 year civil war and put the president in power. more than 300,000 people were killed between $93 and 2006. the ethnic violence pitted hutu rebels against tootssi. putting burundi on the brink of another civil war. malcolm webb, al jazeera, kampala. piracy is a real threat in southeast asia that's having repercussions around the world. and later, researchers are saying melting glaciers are affecting the rotation of the earth. impoverished setting had a major impact. >> but with looks, charm... >> i jus

they hope to quell the arrest that began when president pierre nkurunziza announced he would run for a controversial third term in office. an estimated 220,000 have been displaced from the violence. al jazeera's mohammad adow has more from bujumbura. >> the force that will be known as mabrobo will be here for an initial period of six months and will mainly be drawn from the east african nations and may also come from the eastern africa stand by brigade which has been a force put together in east africa for the situation that burundi is in right now. the foreign minister says they have not been contacted by the african union and they will only respond once they get an official word from the union headquarters in ad addis ababa. whenever there is a threat to the civilian population in those countries. >> mohammad adow reporting from burundi. >>> constitutional changes that will allow president paul kagame to stay in office no. 2034. preliminary results indicate an overwhelming victory for kagame. >> the results of controversial referendum were exactly as expected. people at the capital

security is deteriorating in that african nation ant since an when president pierre nkurunziza dlaishedeclared he would defy te constitution. a group of generals have also been charged. yet the u.s. statements warned americans to leave burundi because of the violence. human rights leaders pu zhiqiang has spent a year and a half in jail, al jazeera's adrian brown reports from beijing. >> wasn't much free speech outside page's second, one of china's best known advertise dents. someone showded, the president's infant wands to. >> of course, many people are watching this trial, with great interest. he is a very, very prominent dissident and as you can see it's actually very difficult to film now. among the the diplomats the first secretary of the u.s. embheaarebefore he too was push. he was here to slow support to pu zhiqiang, one of china's leading advocates for free speech. pu was arrested nine months ago. after statements he made mocked chinese government. he was accused of insighting ethnic hatred. the are internationally acclaimed artists ai weiwei. away from the court there is this kind of p

the region to press parties for talks, burundi has been in turmoil since april when president pierre nkurunziza sought a third term in office and won the election. 80 were killed after attacks on military sites last week. >> baltimore's mayor is calling for calm after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the place of a police officer, accused of killing freddie gray, in death whilst in custody. it lead to violent protests. >> let's change gears. typhoon miller has gone. not its rains. it's a never ending season. it's the latest across central philippines. the satellite gives you an idea of its core. it's an obviously formed typhoon. coming across the central philippines. it split apart. most of it appears to have gone over. the circulation went somewhere else. however, it still rained. for much of the time ..in january 2011 he was faced with an unprecedented mass protest movement calling for an end to injustice. he ordered the army to shoot protesters, but the head of the armed forces refused. his decision credited with preventing bloodshed. the protests continued and ben ali fled to saudi arabi

in april president pierre nkurunziza decide he to run for a third term. al jazeera's mohammad adow has the latest from the capital bujumbura. >> at a special meeting in bujumbura, the parliament decided not to allow troops from african union, that the government of burundi was able to protect civilians. they said they will also appoint a commission to look into the killings that have happened, since april, but particularly the killings that happened on the 11th of december. on that friday, that 87 people were killed in the capital bujumbura. with burundi calling its bluff the african union now has only one option. to go back to the drawing board and invoke article 4 of its constitution, act which allows us to interfere in a neighbor country, even without the permission of the neighbor country. the summit is held twice a year and the next one is going to be held in january. and it can only be invoked, the article 4 can only be invoked by african presidents. however they did not agree to invoke it in the past, that's where burundi may get its escape. >> for

in april when president pierre nkurunziza decided to run for a third tirnl. term. the african union's decision to deploy 5,000 troopt 5,000 troop. they said they didn't want foreign forces on their soil. and that the burundi government was able to protect their citizens. particularly the killings that happened on the 11th of december, on that friday, that 87 people were killed in the capital bujumbura. with burundi calling its bluff the african union has only one alternative, to allow it to intervene in a member country even without the consent of the government. the next article 4 can only be invoked by african presidents. however they have not agreed on invoking it in the past. and that is where burundi might get its escape. >> burkina fasso has issued an arrest warrant for blaise compaore. a body of his rive was found with several bullets. >> state of the nation speech today, paul kagame failed to state whether he would be running for reelection. rwandans expect transition from one to another. >> it is a privilege and a duty to serve rwanda. not an entitlement.

. >> in burundi, president pierre nkurunziza announced he would be running for a third term. here is the report. >> ugandaen >> started when president nuppedpierrenkurunziza announceo run for a third term. >> i appeal to you the two sides to sit down and have a political solution. >> reporter: activists in opposition said nkurunziza's bid for reelection was against the deal that ended 13 years of civil war. so they took to the streets earlier there year. but the crack down was violent. since then police have been accused of dozens of extra judicial killings and the armed opposition is accused of attacking military sites. peace talks first started in july but stalled. the talks have resumed here at state house, that is a presidential palace in entebbe but they are due to be moved to arusha in neighboring tanzania. just for coming to the negotiating table. government delegates have said they are not willing to negotiate with people involved in a failed coup attempted in may. >> we need to tell you they were none nonviolent when they are not. last month they continue using weapo

the violence began after president pierre nkurunziza announced plans to seek what many say was an unconstitutional third term in office, winning reelection in on friday, july. officials said attackers hit three military sites residents , accused security forces of rounding up people and killing them in retaliatory violence. a coalition of 17 countries led by the united states and italy have backed the formation of a unity government in libya and called for an immediate ceasefire. libya has been engulfed in chaos following the u.s.-backed ouster of muammar gaddafi in 2011, allowing the self-proclaimed islamic state to claim swaths of territory. secretary of state john kerry said he is confident libya's rival governments will sign the unity pledge later this week. speaking in rome, john kerry said the rise in libya of isis -- which he called daesh -- threatens the world. >> we came here today, members of the libya support group, neighbors of libya, international organizations, theuse we cannot allow status quo in libya to continue. it is dangerous for the viability of libya. it is dangerous for liby