poverty of us west african home in the liberian capital of monrovia risking his life to cross the sahara desert on the back of a pickup truck and the hope of a better life in the west his name is joseph lamo and his drive to make a new life for his family was fraught with setbacks from two thousand and ten here's the extraordinary story of one man's journey from liberia to the shores of america's great lakes this is joseph journey. and we're you know yeah this is a green truck you're here in front of the green jug you can see you. know that just you see that. as you did this superstore. now we're on the right we need to. do. after two years and i first met joseph blamo while covering a story on illegal immigration that was a chance encounter two years ago little did i know that juice if journey would take him from the sahara desert all the way to new york city. this is the way out of africa the sahara desert begins just outside the town of in the northeast of mali. thousands of sub-saharan africans come through here every year many without documents but with enough money to pay for a tru

there are lots and lots of different sorts of dunes on earth, yes there is the sand dunes in sahara,ere are similar to some found on earth, but actually not the big ones we know about in the sahara. the conditions on pluto are very different in terms of pressure and gravity. 0h, extremely. hugely cold, very, very cold. water and ice, you know it's frozen hard, nitrogen which is in our atmosphere is present as ice on mars, sorry, ithought our atmosphere is present as ice on mars, sorry, i thought pluto. and so is methane. so to actually get these particles moving around in the atmosphere, it's a great surprise. soaped him must —— it must get warmer at some point for ice to be mobile. that's right, even though it's quite weak shown on earth, there is enough energy in the rays of the sun to get the ice to go from a solid to a gas, and grains of met they don't survive, so they stay like that, so it's all down to the sun and wind and ice. you mentioned that pluto is not even regarded as a planet any more it was downgraded to a dwarf planet because it does not have the characteristics for

timbuktu has long been the gateway to the sahara desert and the world beyond. today it is home to some thirty thousand people who seek to maintain a connection to the modern world while maintaining many of their old traditions. just a few years ago ethnic conflicts were rare most of the time people coexisted peacefully fair skinned arabs and some guy who bella and many other ethnic groups with their different languages and cultures. girls went to unveiled and confident women handle business and teenagers probably thought of the same things as they do most everywhere only the ginger bear mosque dates back to the fourteenth century together with the other great mosques of timbuktu it formed the hub of west african scholarship during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in more than one hundred fifty quranic schools affiliated with the mosques the most distinguished islamic scholars of the magreb talk more than twenty thousand students they studied the koran and the prophet's life conducted scientific research and wrote down their findings in manuscripts to this

western sahara. afghanistan. iran. she's currently preparing an exhibition for the house of european photography the m e p in paris it's a retrospective of her life as a war photographer. from all. over the past century these five women have helped write photographic history what motivated them most still young in their twenty's to take up their cameras and go to the frontlines were they as women able to see things that men couldn't. a viennese photographer is believed to be the first woman to record a military conflict on film these albums tell her story they returned from new york back to vienna and ended up in the austrian national library. there the life's work of shonda a viennese jew who converted to protestantism in her mid twenty's she made a name for herself as a war photographer during the first world war. the albums were discovered by viennese cultural historian christiane hup his work has helped restore shellac to her place in history. sinful tools of art and the second method of this at least a photograph

of supporting the opposition group the policy front pasar is fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is on the moroccan control of iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy by training and arming its fighters the rocket will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador about. the reason behind what we did today. is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that hezbollah in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the post to foreign military commando and to train the policy they even handed arms to the policy in september and november i have handed all this evidence today to my iranian colleague during a visit to tehran. millions of privately owned homes could be seized by the government in syria under a new property law syrians have until the middle of next month to present their deeds of ownership or risk losing their properties that includes the hundreds of thousands of people

we are working together in the international coalition in africa we work together in the sire and sahara zone against islamist terrorism so you see we have some disagreements but nevertheless and most importantly we have a common interest that will to work for our common security in the same direction we are no at a historical point and we have to maintain doesn't matter order which we created at the end of the second world war and that is sometimes in jeopardy we have to create a strong moderate literalism as i said in washington. france germany and great britain and negotiated to gether with iran now in europe you have reform ideas that we don't endorse are you disappointed with and get i'm not and i'm not at all i am you know waiting for her reply this is not our only topic that we talk about. germany waited for a long time for france to complete its reforms and i am not here to give good grades bad grades or to say i am disappointed we work together we are partners. with women i think that the chancellor and her government is going to join us and this is torek moment and work togethe

supporting the opposition group the policy front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under control of iraq accuses iran and its lebanese hezbollah of supporting by training and arming its fighters close its embassy in tehran expel the iranian ambassador in . the reason behind what we did today is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that hezbollah in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the polish sario to form a military commando and to train the policy area that even handed arms to the palace are you in september and november i have handed all this evidence today to my iranian colleague during a visit to tehran. the highest ranking chinese official device that north koreans three years has arrived china's foreign minister is there for a two day trip relations have been strained over a cotton chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader

victorian travellers in the sahara talked about the absolute desert.h of these concepts referred to the idea of the absolute desert, the most deserted desert. where everything is taken away. exactly. the centre of the desert. and so, this is kind of a concrete image of transcendence that this idea somehow represents the infinite, the eternal, the absolute. and so, i think it's true of the desert fathers as well as explorers and probably myself, that you're seeking this desert absolut pa naremos. you travel all kinds of places. to china, to australia, to the aral sea in kazakhstan. and to the united states, arizona, the dusty, hot places in the south west. there, you discover that the desert, although it is forbidding and dangerous and beautiful and all the rest of it, it is the border. that is your interest when you get there. the deserts of the south west, particularly the borderlands of arizona and mexico effectively are a wall. we don't need a wall. we know this. because a wall already exists. it's a barrier. it's the most extraordinarily, insurmoun

security council adopted neuros aleutian on western sahara morocco has decided to cut its diplomatic ties with iran morocco says he has evidence of. the lebanese movement backed by iran helping the polish are you front movement which claims independence of western sahara by providing the movements of the of the polish how you've done with technical and military assistance via an iranian diplomat based in algiers. moroccan foreign minister traveled yesterday to tehran and met with his counterpart. and explained this evidence and presented this evidence to. he said that he wanted some answers from his iranian colleagues but he also said that he believed was in shock and provided no substantial answer and thus this decision by morocco to ties to recall him in iran and ask the iranian ambassador morocco to leave this is a very dramatic development in the iranian moroccan relations we remember that in two thousand and nine these relations were severe and then restored when you fourteen at the time nobody traveled to tehran to inform the iranians and the seriousness of the evidence of the

supporting the opposition group the policy area front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control morocco accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy by training and arming its fighters oracle would close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador in robots the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea and three years as arrived in the capital china's foreign minister wang knees there for a two day visit relations have been strained over a cut in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program. six people have died after a sudden snowstorm left hikers stranded in the swiss alps fourteen were stuck outdoors without shelter overnight near the matter horn five italians and a ballgame and woman didn't survive well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after slavery a twenty first century evil staging and so watching. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your bra five jeans will mean off t

friday. 99 cubans were among the dead, which also included people from argentina, mexico and western saharaal condition. one of the plane's flight recorders has been recovered from the wreckage. survivors of terror attacks and relatives of those killed have signed an open letter, calling on the public to do more catch those responsible. the widow of fusilier lee rigby, the brother of a man killed in last yea r‘s manchester arena attack, and victims of the tunisia beach shooting are just some of those who've signed an open letter, urging people to come forward if they suspect a plot. we strongly believe that it is well within the power of ordinary people to have a positive effect on how we handle these things. it really is about reaching out to people who, although they haven't been directly affected, can definitely help us. a key highway route used by hawaiians may be cut off. bushfires ignited by the molten rock have also been spreading, as you can see. officials have been going from door to door to warn households. the first known serious injury has been reported after a man was hit by la

friday. 99 cubans were among the dead, which also included people from argentina, mexico and western saharaut are in a critical condition. one of the plane's flight recorders has been recovered from the wreckage. the times of every train service on four major uk rail operators changes today, with almost a million rail journeys affected. the operator says it will help deliver vastly improved services with greater passenger capacity but not everyone agrees. here's our transport correspondent victoria fritz. from today, arrival and departure times will change on every train run by great northern, thameslink, southern and the gatwick express. it will also have a kncok—on effect on south—eastern trains, together these operations run more than a quarter of all railjourneys in the uk. this is what is part of what was once known as thameslink 2000. more trains, more seats and more destinations at a cost so far of £7 billion. they have had years to prepare, but are they ready? it is going to be ok. i am not saying there won't be a few bumps, we will, but we are here for the next two weeks, means lon

the opposition group the policy area front of us are those fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policies are either by training and arming its fighters. the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea and three years has arrived china's foreign minister young we is there for a two day visit relations have been strained over a cut in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong il works to improve ties with south korea. and french president emanuel macro's on his first official trip to australia join prime minister malcolm turnbull in commemorating those who lost their lives in the two world wars. trip will have a strong focus on defense and he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors. six people have died after an unexpected snowstorm left hikers stranded in the alps footage released by rescue team shows the force of the snow storm that hit the climbers they were hiking

we are working together in the international coalition in africa we work together in the sire and sahara zone against islamist terrorism so you see we have some disagreements but nevertheless and most importantly we have a common interest the will to work for our common security in the same direction we are no at a historical point and we have to maintain doesn't matter order which we created at the end of the second world war and that is sometimes in jeopardy when we have to create a strong moderate literalism as i said in washington. france germany and great britain and because she had to to gather with iran now in europe you have reform ideas that we don't endorse are you disappointed with and get american and i'm not at all i am you know waiting for her reply this is not our only topic that we talk about. germany waited for a long time for france to complete its reforms and i am not here to give good grades bad grades are to say i am disappointed we work together we are partners. with women i think that the chancellor and her government is going to join us in this historic moment and

friday. 99 cubans were among the dead, which also included people from argentina, mexico and western saharan survived, but are in critical condition. one of the plane's flight recorders has been recovered from the wreckage. the time is seven minutes past six. you are watching bbc breakfast. survivors of terror attacks and relatives of those killed have signed an open letter, calling on the public to do more catch those responsible. the widow of fusilier lee rigby and the brother of a man killed in last year's manchester arena attack are just some of those who've signed the letter. james waterhouse reports. the timing of this letter is certainly poignant, not only is it a year since ariana grande fans were brutally targeted in manchester in an attack the singer recently described as the worst of humanity, is also five years since lee rigby was murdered. it reads: the signatories, including the brother of one of the manchester victims, say it is this hatred we must take on an defeat. we strongly believe it is well within the power of ordinary people to have a positive effect on how we handle

yemen we now have new information at the iranians are trying to get into the conflict in the western sahara they are spreading all over the middle east it is extremely dangerous. and part of what secretary pumpin spoke about is that iran has to pull back from these regional conflicts i think then we can talk about moving to a much more secure and safe middle east a short while ago i had a chance to talk to the obama administration's official who was in charge of the j.c.b. oil implementation and he made the point that unlike prior to the j.c.b. oil the trump ministration is highly unlikely to secure the broad recognition the broad implementation of sanctions against iran it will either be alone or with some and consequential allies allies who do not have extensive trade with iran doesn't matter in your view at all what i mean one of the choices that everyone's going to have to make in the future is whether the united states will use secondary sanctions against those who decide that they want to trade with their own you're going to have countries facing a choice they can do business with a r

supporting the opposition group the policy area front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy area by training and arming its fighters morocco will close its embassy in tehran and expel the iranian ambassador in rob at the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea and three years as arrived in the capital china's foreign minister huang he is there for a two day trip relations have been strained over a constant chinese exports to pyongyang as part of its sanctions against its nuclear program. six people have died after a sudden snowstorm left hikers stranded in the alps fourteen were stuck outdoors without shelter overnight near the mats own in switzerland five italians and a ball girl and woman didn't survive. a large snowstorm a school many egyptians off god poor visibility forced many roads to close by the weather is expected to last until thursday. rather rain in the capital last week those are the headlines the news continues. to stream. every. time fo

accusing teheran of supporting the polish sario front sorry i was fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control morocco alleges that iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah support by training and arming its fighters rocco will close its embassy in teheran and will expel the iranian ambassador to russia the homes of millions of syrians could be seized by the government under a new property law syrians have until the middle of next month to present their deeds of ownership or risk losing their properties and that includes the hundreds of thousands of syrians who used to live in rebel controlled areas but fear returning to government controlled territory they know how to reports. was forced to flee because of the war now he doesn't just fear permanent exile in his own country but losing his home in do much to. the syrian government is threatening to confiscate the homes of anyone who don't provide land ownership deeds that requires returning to government controlled territory for many that is not an option. assad regime just. hundreds of thousands if not milli

friday. 99 cubans were among the dead, which also included people from argentina, mexico and western saharaflight recorders has been recovered from the wreckage. more residents have been rescued from their homes in hawaii as molten lava continues to pour from the ground following the eruption of the kilauea volcano. the latest explosion sent an ash cloud 3,000 metres into the air. our correspondent chris buckler has the latest from hawaii. people are being prevented from getting anywhere close to the area. those are volcanic vents, and they create cracks in the ground, and they are getting ever bigger, and lover is shooting out from them. last night we saw fountains of lava from those events. the national guard are preventing people from going into those areas. that means that people have been moved out of their homes, and that has caused all sorts of difficulties. across the road from here you can see that there is a centre that has been set up. in there, people have got clothes, they are being given food, because there are families who have lost literally everything. notjust their houses,

poverty of us west african home in the liberian capital of monrovia risking his life to cross the sahara desert on the back of a pickup truck.

spengler sleeps among photos of afghanistan iran and western sahara they capture her life but also her nightmares. spend less photographs became famous and so did she. she was called the female robert cappa a title in which she took special pride. there with here i am in afghanistan with all my headscarf. as a woman being able to cover yourself in a child or a burka is a big advantage she. says not only am i much less noticed than a man. i just don't stand out at all. new. women of my generation in this profession are very rare maybe ten worldwide. most of them died. they paid for the job with their lives. none of us ever got married or had children whereas all our male colleagues have children. and if i don't have a feminine i i have an instruction as i. am when i hold the camera in my hands a man and woman at the same time. we're there and taking pictures for paris match life times newsweek or standard. i'm always aware that i have to prove that as a woman i'm just as brave as a man. well me why was i courageous because when you're not afraid of death in the you not afraid of anythin

tehran of supporting the pulse sario front while sario is fighting for independence from western sahara most of which is under moroccan control rocko accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting paul sario by training and arming its fighters aco will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador and rip off still ahead on al-jazeera. celebrations in mexico is the first of the so-called migrant caravan crosses the border into the u.s. . the tears after the nine hundred sixty eight uprising may day protests turned violent in france during a new spring of discontent. by the skyline of invasion harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. however we've still got some pretty wet weather into central parts of china at the moment pushing up towards shanghai a little colder in shanghai no real north westerly wind coming in warm for hong kong's have to take any of the thirty celsius and no shortage of sunshine that's where the states pitch a little more cloud as we go on into worth a day temperatures in hong kong hang on to rather he made me crease me here me

likewise, "sahara," demonstrated the critical role a black man in an american military endeavor placing a sudanese soldier at the center of allied military strategy. interestingly they did not provoke any charges from the black press, which could have understandably been angry at a blatant denial of military segregation. it as anewspapers held presentation of a scholarly negro hero. these papers evaluated the struggle for representation within the history of racial imagery characterizing the roles of central actors as groundbreaking. critics, such as billy rowe, understood that the fight for racial equality is being carried out on several fronts, politics, employment, education, and my study in the cultural arena. the state's most direct acknowledgement of black contributions to american life was the documentary the negro soldier. used as a mandatory orientation film for almost all black and white army trainees by the spring of 1944 it despite the -- displayed the countless achievements of black soldiers and civilians assuring mention of any controversial subjects such as slavery and se

in the 21st century, it was partitioned between sudan, which is a very large country south of the sahara, and south sudan, which is ethnically separate, became an independent country. from the moment it became an independent country with all this and dreams it would be successful, has suffered two internal wars. the end result has been devastating famine, migration, and a tremendous number of deaths. especially the elderly and children. finally, the last famine we are going to mention is nigeria. how many of you have heard of boko haram? oh good. boko haram, which is a militia group in the northeast of nigeria, has actually made it a policy of also creating starvation, not through stops stopping -- through crops from being grown, but by burning villages, burning animals, pushing people out of certain areas, and that part of nigeria is a rural part of the country. some of it arises from how the boko haram started. i will talk about that little later on the lecture. in 2008, there was to spike in prices. -- there was a global food spike in prices. and may not have touched you, because we l

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is fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is on the moroccan control morocco alleges that iran and its lebanese hezbollah support by training and it's fine to as has denied the claims morocco will close its embassy in teheran and expel the iranian ambassador in rabat. more people he said did the reason behind what we did today is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that it has been in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the pows are you to form a military commando and to train the post-surgery or the even handed arms to the polish sorry when september in november i have handed all this evidence today to my reunion colleague during a visit to tehran. at least fourteen asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan have been allowed to cross over from mexico into u.s. territory scores of other latin american migrants have been celebrating the news as they wait their turn to enter the united states it took them a mont

town run of supporting the policy front while the sario is fighting for independence for western saharamost of which is on the moroccan control iraq alleges that iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah support by training arming its fighters broker will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador in rabat a former member of the irish republican army has told al-jazeera that backs it could lead to a resumption of the armed conflict with person is comments came as the european union's breaks it negotiate it was visiting the city of london derry or derry as it's also known michelle bonnie is urging the british government to commit to staying in the customs union to prevent a hard border with island in breach of the good friday peace agreement lawrence lee reports the stability is certainly putting the moyles in he's been all over a little here he was to be with christmas and it was except in the city that source so much violence you had a chance to stress the importance of bricks it's not damaging the peace we're all going to bring the solution we'll be able to maintain

in the 21st century, it was partitioned between sudan, which is a very large country south of the sahara, and the south sudan which is ethnically separate, and became an independent country. from the moment it became an independent country that it country,successful -- with all of the ideas it would successful,nt and the end result has been devastating famine, migration, and a tremendous number of deaths. especially the elderly and children. finally, the last famine we are going to mention is nigeria. how many of you have heard of this? militia group in the northeast of nigeria has actually made it a policy of starvation not through stops being grown, but by burning villages, burning animals, pushing people out of certain areas, and that part of nigeria is a vital part of the country. the of it arises from how boko haram started. a grove bowle was food spike in prices. you,ay not have touched because we live in such a plentiful country with so many was, but that price spike like a food atomic weapon. what it did to the global food economy, it actually turned those economies upside down.

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