we traveled through the sahara it's a dangerous journey. even by car there's a risk of sandstorms 40 degrees celsius and there's no shade nor are there roads we traveled in a military convoy. large unit is the last village before the algerian border. anyone headed for algeria has to pass through here. for years use of only living as a middleman connecting migrants looking for a ride with truck drivers for 3 at the time this was legal now everything has changed your mind about with the new law i can hardly find any migrants would be i carry luggage back and forth to earn a little money at least. the use of told us that ever since the e.u. started exerting pressure on asia the business of moving migrants happens almost exclusively at night others also tell us of jeeps that cross the desert border in the cover of darkness the trucks shown here were full of workers from the air since spring 2017 algeria has been extradited huge numbers of migrants who had previously spent years living in algeria back in tunisia. but it's a tense situation in al

if you look a lot of sunny aired parts of the west african sahara, that used to be a dry season, andhen the rains would come around, the grasslands would grow again. unfortunately, we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall making the rain season very volatile and less predictable. anchor: pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson has been found liable in a massive lawsuit accused of feeling that opioid epidemic. -- fueling the opioid epidemic. they flooded the market with them. it will pay damages of $572 million. it is the first case to go to trial after many lawsuits against opioid medication or is and distributors. shares of the company rose 5% following the decision. opioid overdoses have become a nationwide epidemic, claiming the lives of tens of thousands americans every year. nationwide, 130 people die everyday from opioid overdoses according to the u.s. department of health and human services. involve0% of the cases drugs prescribed by a doctor. life just outside -- live just outside oklahoma city. why is this scene as a landmark seen as a landmark rul

on the other side the semi nomadic herders of the sahara all the full on these. domes accused of over stepping on their farmland to feed their animals. accused of killing and stealing their cattle. now they're killing each other. the violence is not limited to mali in neighboring countries have been in conflict with other tribes as well. fueling this conflict are armed groups stepping in and taking sides some have been fighting in the war in libya. well mostly mean an al-qaeda affiliate is calling on full on these to join their ranks in exchange for protection. so is the slum mixtape in the greater sahara who are gaining a foothold in the region and into burkina faso. despite 14000 u.n. troops known as when you smile among them british canadian in german soldiers and 4000 french combat troops and the regional force g 5 hell made up of armies from the region the violence is spreading spiraling out of control not further down this road is where g 5 the hell officers are stationed people here want to see them out of this neighborhood and also out of this country thi

on the other side the semi nomadic herders of the sahara the full on these. dual domes accused of over stepping on their farmland to feed their animals. accused of killing and stealing their cattle. now they're killing each other. the violence is not limited to mali one neighboring countries for lonnie's have been in conflict with other tribes as well. fuelling this conflict are armed groups stepping in. in taking sides some have been fighting in the war in libya. and al qaeda affiliate is calling on full on these to join their ranks in exchange for protection. so is the slum mixtape in the greater sahara who are gaining a foothold in the region and into burkina faso. despite 14000 u.n. troops known as menu smoke among them british canadian in german soldiers and 4000 french combat troops and the regional force g 5 hell made up of armies from the region the violence is spreading spiraling out of control not further down this road is where g 5 the hell officers are stationed people here want to see them out of this neighborhood and also out of this country thi

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it's strategically placed on the edge of the sahara and is known as the doorway to the desert. this is where joad small business is based morocco gets some 3000 hours of sunshine every year 28 year old joad has 4 employees and he says business is booming and that's partly because morocco his government has been investing in sustainable energy for years and was sat is now home to one of the world's largest solar power plants. you know what does out is the world capital of solar energy because of this new large power plant. nor does it. even from far away you can see the plant's main tower it's been names nor which in arabic means light until recently morocco relied on imported fuel for almost all of its energy needs now the country is changing that by developing projects like this one there is some 7 and a half 1000 mirrors surrounding the towers in a vast field the mirrors reflect the sunlight focusing it on to the top of the tower which heats up to more than 1000 degrees celcius. the moroccan manager of the project. is meeting with mark was fresh enough from the german develop

we have not talked about the sahara. molly went through a crisis -- a mali went through a crisis. there are so many security issues in africa that in my mind have deteriorated since the start of afrikaans. i thought there would be a focus on that. i thank you for doing this and i'm glad you covered so many issues, but security is so , sortant and africa is big my question is, will you promise me that you will do a real security forum. [laughter] and let us talk about these major security issues. chinan't compete against by pulling back on security issues in africa. >> i promise. we added and we will. this one is on the six countries we mentioned. >> good morning. associate for african orthodox church engagement. thank you for the presentations this morning. my question has two parts to it. i will be quick. i haven't heard much about women's empowerment and gender equity in the world of women in any of these discussions. i would like to hear more about the role of women relative to security. i would also like to hear more about the specific area of faith and religion as a motivatio

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so is the slum mixtape in the greater sahara who are gaining a foothold in the region and into burkina faso. despite 14000 u.n. troops known as menu smoke among them british canadian in german soldiers and 4000 french combat troops and the regional force g 5 hell made up of armies from the region the violence is spreading spiraling out of control. further down this road is where the 5 to hell officers are stationed people here want to see them out of this neighborhood and also out of this country this is a feeling that many millions have towards the security forces whether it be the u.n. peacekeeping force the security forces or that he fights to help they're not a source of protection but a source of danger. this is because insurgent and rebel groups are targeting security forces launching suicide attacks and car bombings. has become the deadliest u.n. peacekeeping mission more u.n. troops are dying in mali than anywhere else for at any time before. president. says the country is being torn apart with its unity at stake who profits from the state of instability and how can the violenc

she says the climate has become as dry as the sun held region in the sahara because little rain and large scale evaporation. distribution of water will become an increasing challenge in dry alpine banners all far tears will have to do the best they can. so in some comfort it does. pain the future there will be more and more bottlenecks. are simply won't be enough water to irrigate all the meadows i suspect there have to be stricter partitioning . like in dry countries in africa. africa so definitely is. a. descent into the underworld ice climber dani arnold is exploring inside of 10 martini glass yet can they count on a ban in switzerland. deep in the grass he finds spectacular rock and dice formations. not many people have ever been down here let me write that down even get to the very bottom only because the ice is solid enough this permafrost is thousands of years old. yeah. this is steep and dangerous climb back out a unique experience. it might not be possible to do this in the foreseeable future . the smoke with nothing actually makes me think if you bear in mind that researchers sa

military unit in northern became the fast so it happened in nassau and that's in soon province in the sahara region the military says it could be the worst attack on its armed forces within a faster has endured months of violence that's killed hundreds of civilians. so than former president omar al bashir says he received millions of dollars from saudi arabia's role family during his press presidency but the fathers were not included in the country's financial records the revelation came during his 1st court hearing on corruption and bribery charges have been more than reports from khartoum. he was once feared and guarded as the head of the country now sudan's former president on what it was here is under a different guard as he appears in court to face criminal charges which include illegal possession of foreign currency and bribery investigators say they found more than $130000000.00 in his house days after the military deposed him in april. presenting the head of a country to trial proves that there is a rule of law in the country and that no one is above the law this message is not just

we haven't talked about the sahara. molly went through a crisis the sahel is huge. we haven't talked about africa. there's a war in libya. there are so many security issues in africa speeded we'll step away from this discussion briefly for a quick u.s. senate pro forma session. congress is on its summer recess of house and senate are beatingg every three days for the brief gavel in-gavel out sessions. live coverage of u.s. senate here on c-span2. .. one is i haven't heard much about women's empowerment in any of these discussions. i think that warrants discussion. i'd like to hear more about women and other issues mentioned and i'd also like to hear more about the specific area and motivation in morality and i think there's a tie-in specifically for women as well so if you can relate to those questions in more depth i'd certainly appreciate it, thank you. >> i'll take one more question. there's a lady behind you, i believe. >> my name is adelaide. i'm a cameroonion activist, leader of an organization. so i have a question coming from cameroon. i'm wondering how, con

being held in places like gardez traveling through the sahara desert with no food received no war. women and girls who are talking about being raped by their driver was being beaten and and you know we can i think some of them dying and just you know being thrown as their vehicle is moving and then once in captivity they are forced to walk for long now as without rest they are confined some of them i can find in a building they're not allowed to talk to their family lives sometimes they're not even allowed to be friends with the other girls that have been trafficked there's a lot of violence you know a lot of threats when girls for sistar say they are not able to work many of them say they got pregnant they were forced to undergo abortions in very unsanitary conditions and then they're white charged for most abortions and immediately after they have to start working and then they watch on their own so much money into something like 20000 euros so really they remain being very traumatized and very distressed they come they have come by rebel lots of pain and over a lot of trauma and

see this the center of your screen, fires are bunning in a big section of sub sahara africa. they maybe clearing big parts of land to plant crops. environmentalists are warning it's cheap but dutching carbon dioxide into the air and can destroy ecosystems. >>> let's check in with sal for a look at traffic. what part of the commute are you looking at? >> gilroy, looking at the commutes that are far away from gilroy, san jose, morgan hill, up into the main part of the silicon valley. a big commute. we don't see a lot going on. we see a little bit of slowing here coming up through morgan hill. it's not much. we are off to a nice quiet commute for the early commute. you can see traffic is looking very good. this is 280 san jose. all the commutes are still very nice. you can get out of the house and take advantage of a nice looking drive. bay bridge, a little bit of a back up here, a little bit, but it's less than 10 minutes before you make it onto the span. delay is there but small. let's bring in steve with today's forecast. >>> i'm not ready. >> steve? >> now i'm ready. >> mr.

that same hermas started in the mass started- air in the hair -- sahara before it moved to europe.ted north, setting records across scandinavia. in a bizarre circulation, it drifted to the west. normally the flow is to the opposite direction so this warm blob of air drifts over the ice sheet, and greenland was well temperatures,ice 34 weeks above normal. -- three to four weeks before normal. sheetarm air over the ice is a conspicuous example of how ice and climate change in the arctic have been steadily warming. we see an acceleration of loss from our canada, alaska, greenland. it has a lot of downstream effects. it is flooding the north atlantic with freshwater, disrupting ocean circulation in ways we do not appreciate. part of our climate system which is getting unhinged as carbon continues to accumulate in the atmosphere. is a delayedect response to the enhanced greenhouse effect we are really just starting to see, as the climate system punches out of the noise of the last century, a very clear, steep rising temperature in the arctic that is affecting weather patterns around the

sowore is a human rights activist and the publisher of the online news site sahara reporters. he ran against president muhammadu buhari earlier this year in an election he said lacked a level playing field. his party, africa action congress, declared august 5 the start of the days of rage, inspired by the recent popular uprising in sudan that toppled authoritarian ruler omar al-bashir. the protests went ahead this week despite sowore's arrest. just two days before he was arrested, sowore tweeted -- "all that is needed for a #revolution is for the oppressed to choose a date they desire for liberty, not subjected to the approval of the oppressor. #revolutionnow #daysofrage #august5" to see him in our documentary "drilling and killing: chevron manager is dictatorship" that was produced by me and jeremy scahill, you can go to democracynow.org. the u.s. is warning turkey against any incursions into northeastern syria that would attack kurdish forces. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is warning a military operation in the kurdish-controlled northeastern region is imminent. the

sowore, who publishes the online news site sahara reporters, was arrested on august 3 after arrested on august 3 after calling for nationwide protests under the banner "revolution now." he ran against president muhammadu buhari earlier this year in an election he said lacked a level playing field. a coalition of press freedom organizations and human rights groups recently petitioned the united nations and the african union, while a group called the african renaissance organization sent a petition to the u.s. department of state asking the u.s. government to apply pressure on president muhammadu buhari for sowore's release. and ththose are some of the headlines. this democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report.. i'm amy goodman. after weeks of anticipation, the swedish climate justice activist greta thunberg arrived on the shores of lower manhattan wednesday afternoon after a two-week voyage across the atlantic ocean in an emissions-free yacht. greta thunbergg was welcomed on land by thousands of supporters at the north cove marina. as her yacht sailed over the horizon

in the beginning of 2015, of the 49 leaders in power in sub- sahara africa, right now only 22 of them are left. this is really a historically a change for anywhere in the world. certainly for africa. that's coming with a lot of promise and opportunity, it's coming with a lot of threats as well. let me talk in particular about the country that i think is the most important story we are talking of her today. all of my colleagues are really important stories. for me ethiopia is the most important story we are seeing right now. this is a country where more than a hundred million people fast-growing. in a very strategic part of the continent in the on cost of the golf close to the other parts that really matter for security and other reasons. a country that has very long time has been deeply authoritarian under leadership, the epr df coalition of political parties. still authoritarian 2015 elections, they won every single piece in the parliament. 400 and something seats. that was really the tipping.in some ways it in 2016 started to see large protests in the two largest regions of. for var

being held in places late i got days traveling through their sahara desert with no food least no war 3 women and girls were talking of old being raped by that dries was being the 10 and you know witnessing some of them dying and just you know being thrown as the vehicle is moving and then once in captivity they are forced to work for long hours without raised on fire and some of them i can find in a building they're not allowed to talk to their family lives sometimes they're not going to allow to be friends with the other girls that have been trafficked there's a lot of violence you know a lot of threats when girls were sistar say they are not able to work many of them say that they go pregnant they were forced to undergo abortions in very unsanitary conditions and then they're white charged for most abortions and immediately i. that they have to start liking and then go out on their own so much money you know something like $20000.00 u.s. so really they remain very traumatized and very distressed they come they have come back with a lot of pain and with a lot of trauma and poverty o

this is how some of india's newspapers responded to that move — the urdu daily rashtriya sahara's headlinetled by india's decision" and the tribune leads with " pakistan downgrades ties, india unfazed." 0ur correspondent rahul tandon was following modi's speech in delhi. the reason he gave for removing article 370 which had given kashmir its special status and greater autonomy was simple. he said it had not worked at all. he said all he did brought was nepotism, separatism and terrorism and that it was time for indian administrators to enter a new era and his message really to the people of indian administered kashmir, how they're watching it we're still trying to work out because there is no connectivity in the area. they may have listened to it on the radio because cable television has been shut down. it was he was going to bring them jobs and he was going to bring back tourism to the area and make it a world hub for tourism making it make it the centre of shooting movies like it used to be. 0n the the pakistan—administered side of kashmir, the suspension of trade with india is already s

we traveled through the sahara it's a dangerous journey to. make even buy can't there's a risk of sandstorms 40 degrees celsius and there's no shade nor are there roads we traveled in a military convoy. large unit is the last village before the algerian border. anyone headed for algeria has to pass through here. for years use of earned a living as a middleman connecting migrants looking for a ride with truck drivers for 3 at the time this was legal now everything has changed but you know my other work with the new law i can hardly find any migrants would be i carry luggage back and forth to earn a little money or at least. the use of told us that ever since the e.u. started exerting pressure on asia the business of moving migrants happens almost exclusively at night others also tell us of jeeps that cross the desert border in the cover of darkness the trucks shown here were full of workers from there since spring 2017 algeria has been extraditing huge numbers of migrants who had previously spent years earning a living in algeria back in tunisi

here in africa but at the height of all of the pro- immigration policy, open borders where the sub sahara africa did not need the visa in order to come to libya i believe there is something like two and a half million migrants in libya compared to a total population of 6 million. so the migrants played a huge role in regard to the economic backbone, society within libya so when you see a breakdown in terms of the government structure when it's not affording basic human rights when you're not allowed access to basic services and you don't have a means in terms of general livelihoods, you move quickly from being able to have positive factors that actually benefit both the host community and countries to a situation where we see today in libya where many of these individuals there's not a lot of hope. >> it strikes me that as were talking if we would just replace the word libya with venezuela and what we're talking talking about and in venezuela you see a destination for workers again because of an oil boom and they were very welcoming toward escaping the macro wars in the '90s and now look

throughout the rest of this week, part of the reason why we have a lot of desert winds coming off of the sahara's helping dry things out and keep things calm in the atlantic. in the pacific it's a different story. it's beeirly aive. we're up to the hs now tropical storm henriette is sitting to the south-southwest of baja, california. but that is going to continue to move out to sea. it will not really be a threat but create rough surf mainly over the water elsewhere across the country we are looking at a chance of severe storms today especially through iowa this morning, extending down to st. louis. flash flooding is a possibility because of the heavier rain and more storms could fi >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. here is a live look outside in san jose as we are going to start out with some cool weather, clear skies. but it will be slightly warmer today. with our highs in the upper 80s. we'll see some low 90s in the east bay and south bay valleys. and then for the north bay expect up to 95 degrees today. this will not be the hottest day of the week. in fact, it gets hotter as we

hay un elementoque juega en su contra y es el polvo del desierto del sÁhara. lluvias monzÓnicas de arizona. el ambiente tambiÉn estÁ más tranquilo si residen en oklahoma el calor hoy es el protagonista con temperaturas que pueden subir hasta los 108 grados. tendremos aguaceros y en la costa oeste con lluvias en arizona que tambiÉn van a menos. el atlÁntico está bien activo y veremos quÉ pasa para los prÓximos dÍas. >> en mi caso creo que voy a dividir 150 aÑos. >> amelia, buen provecho. facebook, instagram y el snapchat son algunas aplicaciones por las que podrÍan estar acechando a sus hijos aquÍ le decimos todo lo que debe hacer para protegerlos verÁs el doloroso testimonio de keylla salazar, la niÑa que muriÓ en el tiroteo de california. raul- ademÁs es un dÍa decisivo para pablo lyle. "despierta amÉrica" en la corte con todo lo que ocurre sobre el caso. jesus: enterese sobre lo que hizo larry hernÁndez que le cambiÓ la vida a varias niÑas. quÉdese con nosotros en "despierta amÉrica" en donde mantenemos todo lo que le gusta. alan: se nota que es jueves, papÁ

actividad en el trÓpicoy los vientos del este van enviando a las islas caribeÑas polvo del desierto del sÁharae lluvias para tallahassee y el norte de tampa. estiro estas tormentas a partir de maÑana.en las carolinas tendremos lluvias y tormentas, viento intenso, rayos y granizada al igual que en la zona del valle de ohio. miren esta nube amenazadoraque se podÍa ver en kansas city que nos anunciaba tormentas que terminaron produciendo granizo y tambiÉn algunas nubes. >> tenemos temperaturas para arizona en donde tendremos 110 grados para la tar asÍue hidrataciÓn y no se olviden de revisar el asiento trasero del vehÍculo. vamos a continuar con mÁs de despierta. alan: quÉ buenos juegos! jesus: quÉ bueno que comenzaste por esto y que lo reconozcas. alan: la situaciÓn de los ingleses y el atlante estuvo sensacional. el venezolano es una mÁquina. jesus: y estÁ peleando liderazgo de goles con vela. >> muy buenas dÍas y quÉ bueno poder estar con ustedes en este viernes. Éste partido se viviÓ en atlanta. renato ibarra apareciÓ empataba al asuntoluego roger martÍnez ponía por delante a las Águilas y to

follow roots purely of wetlands, the ospreys across the sa ha ra wetlands, the ospreys across the saharaere 200,000 pairs of ospreys in the uk. there are only about 300 hour. tim appleton, you know he is someone who birdwatchers a lot because he has his binoculars. and the osprey is very important this weekend. absolutely, because not only are the ospreys here, it is an opportunity for them to engage with the bird, it all started 21 years ago when outside of my cottage on the water's edge, two birds over the summer that the water's edge, two birds over the summerthatl the water's edge, two birds over the summer that i thought, wonderful, they have come back again. but what inspired me and roy dennis from the scottish foundation to actually bring the birds, and so we brought chicks down here and they have bred several years later, and this is the first breeding in england for 150 years. the whole project started here. just quickly, what can people do if they want to help bring the osprey back to the uk? they can certainly come to bird fair and learn about the mission that we have to engag

quiet in the atlantic because we have seen plumes of dust moving across the sahara across the centrald see quite a few over the next few months. what does it mean for our weather? at the moment we don‘t have any x tropical storms heading away but you would think that. it doesn‘t feel very summery. wet and fairly windy weather to the country, a ridge of high pressure will be following on behind, a nice day for thursday for many of us and there you will notice those other areas of low pressure there, they will arrive just in time for friday on the weekend u nfortu nately. for friday on the weekend unfortunately. for this afternoon, a lot of cloud around, further rain across england and wales, temperatures a little disappointing, the mids and tight teens. the rain tends to clear away from eastern england as we head through the overnight period. it stays wet for the northern isles, temperatures you will notice 11 to 15 degrees, that is warmer, a warmer night than what we have had in the last few night. there will be a few showers around, it will move away, then into the afternoon a much b

yes, but conditions a few weeks ago were quite windy over the sahara and that brought a lot of dust intoe uncertainty of the track, they are very difficult beasts, particularly when they start interacting with land, it may weaken for a bit and then strengthen again before it arrives to florida. perhaps during monday, and of course it is labor day, and there‘s the potential for it to move towards a orlando, a lot of residence there, a lot of holiday—makers, and disney world prides itself on being open 365 days a year, it is only closed seven times since 1971, because of storms, so we will have to keep an eye on the volume of rain, it will bea eye on the volume of rain, it will be a very slow—moving storm so it could bring significant flooding. be a very slow—moving storm so it could bring significant floodingm the rain is what to worry about, more than the winds. it looks as though it will be so slow, obviously huge storm surges well for low—lying coastal areas potentially flooding as well. very rough seas, damaging gusts of wind, but it is really the fa ct gusts of wind, but it is really

that just cut off the been coming in of the sahara desert.the way and some sunshine too. this what you got at the moment. there was a lot of cloud filling in the atla ntic was a lot of cloud filling in the atlantic and some of that is going to head our way and bring some rain. this profiteer is already drawing —— one or two thunderstorms as you have seen one or two thunderstorms as you have seen there and they are moving their way across scotland and north—east england. further south more showers and most will be dry with more sunshine. the showers we do have will put their —— push their way across the north sea. head of that, clear skies in north—east scotland and it will be quite chilly in rural areas in particular. not quite as cold as last night further south, but with some breezes. quite a few showers from the word go in the north—west. this is the main rain and main thick cloud that is coming in from the atlantic together with some strengthening winds. that is going to affect northern ireland and scotla nd going to affect northern irela