western central africa defeated regional director she joins me now from the senegalese capital dhaka hi samir good to have you with us thanks and welcome to day to be as africa what is your assessment off the situation in cameroon as we speak. to what you can say that the situation in relations human rights is getting worse and worse in the country. and nation in the area. in. their recent religion and. any kind of. region. and this is why we've seen the. hugely mass arrests during the demonstrations in region last month all right so we're talking about the leader of the opposition going on on trial on that sort of point out view is that the procedure in the country that we're talking about camera is that a judge is still assessing if there is enough evidence to go to trial and that's where we're at right now. i just want to know is there a chance as a mirror that this judge finds that there is not enough evidence and that there won't be a trial offer or in which charges that could result in the death penalty could be hurt. the candle and the world of people that have been arrested more than

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samir ahmed.ging to explain the process of leaving the eu 7 and chops away, just how did the bbc managed to suggest that bbc could —— theresa may could be flying off to brussels in the bbc‘s spitfire. it has been another week of brexit drama and with fewer than 60 days until the uk's scheduled departure from the eu, the arguments have been rating ever more passionately. he is the conservative mp, mark francois, vice—chairman of the pro—brexit european research group, responding to the german chief executive of airbus who suggested the company might have to leave the uk in the event of a no—go brexit. if he thinks because he runs a big company he can bully british mps out to vote, he will be sorely mistaken. my father was a d—day veteran and he never submitted to bullying by any german and neither with his son. if mr enders is watching, that is what he can do with his letter.

the bbc‘s samir hashmi has more. rapid growth of india's online shopping industry. every day this facility collect nearly 100,000 parcels from different online retailers and then ships them to customers across the country. but new and strict rules for e—commerce companies will change the way they do business. most of these parcels belong to customers who have either placed their orders on amazon or flipcart, which is owned by walmart. both companies together control 60% of the market share when it comes to india's e—commerce industry —— flipkart. with strict rules set to kick in these companies are now at expected to face tough condition from indian firms. according to the rules online websites can't sell products and companies in which they owned a stake and they are barred from doing deals with companies to sell their products exclusively on their platforms in a big blow for amazon and flipkart who have relied on the business model to offer huge discounts to customers. the changes area discounts to customers. the c

hello and welcome to news watch with me, samir ahmed.e to news watch with me, samir ahmed. brexit is getting closer, how well is bbc news managing to explain the process of leaving the eu ? managing to explain the process of leaving the eu? and chops away, just how did the bbc managed to suggest that bbc could —— theresa may could be flying off to brussels in the bbc's be flying off to brussels in the bbc‘s spitfire. it has been another week of brexit drama and with fewer than 60 days until the uk's scheduled departure from the eu, the arguments have been rating ever more passionately. he is the conservative mp, mark francois, vice—chairman of the pro—brexit european research group, responding to the german chief executive of airbus who suggested the company might have to leave the uk in the event of a no—go brexit. if he thinks because he runs a big company he can bully british mps out to vote, he will be sorely mistaken. my father was a d—day vetera n mistaken. my father was a d—day veteran and he never submitted to bullying by any ger

we're very proud of what we accomplished in 2018 and looking forward to an amazing 2019 >> so samir,et's talk about send grid. it reminds me of marc benioff bought target. you need push to phone but e-mail, particularly for marketing on this platform so tell me let's say pick a client that you both work with and now you're together being one plus one equals three >> yeah, well, you mentioned, jim, airbnb as one great customer they're a customer of ours as well so any of your listeners throughout, when they make a reservation for a given stay, they'll get a confirmation of that reservation in their e-mail inbox. that's being delivered by sendgrid that's one example from our 82,000 paying customers, and a joint customer, and one plus one equals five because we believe companies like airbnb and the 140,000 other joint total companies that we serve in our twilio family now, they're going to need ability to orchestrate communications, different ways to engage with their users over a myriad of channels e-mail certainly a important one. sms, push, messaging, we're excited about the combinat

scaring i think the very room twenty four peaceful negotiation the room for peaceful transition that samir had this referred to earlier is shrinking day by day because of the actions of both sides and you know something needs to be done very soon to. a military and interesting to me i'm looking at what i would i would like them out and i want them in a sense that space and take i had. them and tell you to help at this time i like and then his hesitation to a hostage situation and so i see i see a very difficult path out of a hostage situation through dialogue which has been tried once and again to no avail yesterday. now i would just like to point out that my co-hosts are speaking from iraq as they were at the border they covered the situation the border travelled back to crack are speaking to international media so again. the description that there that i had just heard of the. venezuelan society required sorry requiring to be saved by any intervention of marines needs to be balance frankly needs to be balanced and i would disagree also with the with the vision that the window for negotia

samir hussein, bbc news, new york.n? simon french from panmure gordon joins us again to discuss. we will start off with the value of the pound, how much different it is across the country. a lot of britons will recognise this story, as your wages, your money goes further in the north of england than in the south of england. what's interesting about this is it tries to quantify that, it goes 20% further in the north rather than south. to some extent that is being seen as the inward migration decisions of people to leave the south—east where they might geta to leave the south—east where they might get a higher nominal wage but it doesn't go as far. if the cost of living, isn't it? yes, so people are having to calculate decisions taking into account housing, groceries, commuting particularly the time in commuting particularly the time in commuting as part of their decision on where to work. a lot of firms pay extra if you work in london because of that, everything costs more, be it housing or coughing on the way to work.

time of the revolution but she talks about what she learned about that time from her family this is samir and this is what she told the stream. there's a lot of cultural trauma that exists around the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution many families were forced into exile and their security was at risk my family along with countless others had a different experience and they came to the us to pursue their education they actually wanted to return back to iran after graduating and unfortunately they were not able to as a child i always knew that my parents had immigrated between iran and it was something that i was curious about i remember in school we had school projects about where your family's from and what your background is and that i had a different experience than some of my classmates at that time in high school i became involved with an iranian organization in the diaspora and this ultimately led me to becoming more interested in learning about my history and led me to pursue studying middle eastern studies in university. says that a could hear what it's like room someone a m

they are democrat ibrahim samaisamara samaiis samir samira, gregg nelson and connie hutchison. >> people are really upset. they feel that things have gone amok down there. >> putting in place leadership to move forward. dr. samirah has faced controversy of his own. the same website that exposed the racist page, showed sahmirah as a college student. >>> more twists in the alleged attack against "empire" star, saissie smollett. now, his attorne he will not speak with investigators again. this refusal comes after the two brothers captured in surveillance video, they were wred by smollett to stagehat they called a hate crime. smollett's lawyers insist this is not a staged attack. the two men have ties to "empire." police say, one of them worked as an extra on the show. >>> it's a well-known fact thatn cigarette smis bad for you. a rutger's university study compared those who smoked less than 16 cigarettes in their lives to those who smoke more than 20 a day. researchers foundeavy smokers had me trouble seeing subtles differencein contrasts and shades of colors. experts believe smoking affect

on wednesday, environmental activist and community radio producer samir flores soberanes was killed in the state of morelos shortly before a referendum on a thermal-electric plant and pipeline project he had opposed. on saturday, radio announcer reynaldo lopez was fatally attacked by armed gunman in sonora. another reporter, carlos cota was with lopez, but survived the attack. radio hosts have now been four murdered since the start of the year. a u.n. panel is raising g alarm over reports of ongoing mass atrorocities in south sudan. experts say oil companies in the resourcece-rich region could be complicit in war crimes. >> there are thousands of civilians who have been forcibly displaced following the scorched-earth policy in which the party to a conflict are attacking the villages, tortured and homes, killing siblings and raping women a and girls. if you are involved in oil instruction in the area and asked d to assist one e side ore other, you could be accused of complicity in war crumbs. amy: three foreign oil companies operate in the region -- the chinese national petroleum compan

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samir ahmed.id the bbc managed to suggest theresa may could be flying off to brussels in the bbc‘s spitfire. it has been another week of brexit drama and with fewer than 60 days until the uk's scheduled departure from the eu, the arguments have been rating ever more passionately. here is the conservative mp, mark francois, vice—chairman of the pro—brexit european research group, responding to the german chief executive of airbus who suggested the company might have to leave the uk in the event of a no—go brexit. if he thinks because he runs a big company he can bully british mps out to vote, he will be sorely mistaken. my father was a d—day veteran and he never submitted to bullying by any german and neither with his son. by any german and neither will his son. if mr enders is watching, that is what he can do with his letter. mark francois had clearly planned that stand, but should the bbc have done more to challenge him? bbc politics clipped the moment and it was shared online, leading to critici

welcome to news what with me samir ahmed.to el paso in texas, speaking to a rally held to campaign for the wall with mexico. in the media area was bbc washington correspondent gary o'donahue who reported the following day on what happened during the speech. journalists are regularly shouted at and abused. but this time, one member of the crowd took matters into his hands. i have reached the lowest level in the history of our town. whoa! he pushes the camera violently from behind, into my cameraman. usa! then, as he's restrained, he continues to yell abuse at the media. booing. fortunately, my cameraman was not hurt and the man was taken away. later, the bbc wrote to the white house, asking them to review security arrangements for the media at rallies such as this. and the white house condemned violence against journalists. they asked supporters to behave in a peaceful and respectful manner. to tell us more about what happened and about the challenges facing journalists in america at the moment, garyjoins us now from washingto

. >> so douse that mean, samir, that the money should continue to flow into u.s.> you know, again, we would take a little bit of a contrarian approach. we still like the emerging markets. we think if a lot of these issues resolve themselves, the trade, fed patience, if there's fiscal stimulus in europe, we think a lot would benefit in the emerging markets when we were talking about europe itself and the uk, we probably would be more cautious there, maybe more of a neutral stance we really think emerging markets are the play u.s. will also do well, but if we were to rank, em first, u.s. markets and developed markets three. >> clearly the markets like this with a lot going in regional banks. do you think it says anything about where we are in the economic cycle, in the credit cycle? >> you know, i think what it says more than anything that banks are realizing growth opportunities will continue to be limited and so for them probably consolidation is one of those levers that they can pull to try to generate a few more earnings out of the kind of the existing framework

. >> does it seem like, samir, that the mexican president is kind to the immigrants?yes, he's opened the doors and taking the opportunity to pass through the other countries. i think it's a good president. >> another big signal, leland, was the asylum, temporary asylum and temporary work program that he gave the signatures, capping at 12,600 because they had too many people doing it. bottom line, the message is very clear with the new caravans, that is that mexico is helping. this is dr. juan hernandez of the state that we passed through the director of immigration. >> these 2000 people also, they say they're fleeing poverty, they' they're fleeing violence in central america so our heart is with them. the governor said, we treat these people first with the heart. it doesn't cost us a lot of money, a few bottles of water. it's a few sandwiches or tacos, in this case, and so, once again, we give them the right care so that they can push the united states to treat our people right up there. >> this comes as the dhs officials tell fox news that they intend to expand that

. >> samir era absolutamente un lÍder local, un lider muy conocido por su posiciÓn contra la termoelÉctricapez obrador lamentÓ el asesinato pero dijo que el referendum seguirÁ adelante. >> tambiÉn en mexico los lÍderes de las fracciones en el senado llegaron a un acuerdo para aprobar la creaciÓn con la guardia nacional con mando civil que se votarÁ de forma unanime a pesar de las recomendaciones en contra de varias organizaciones, con la creaciÓn de este cuerpo se pretende garantizar la seguridad pÚblica y la tranquilidad de la poblaciÓn respetando sus derechos humanos y acorde a los tratados internacionales en la materia, los legisladores dijeron que eso no representarÁ la militarizaciÓn del paÍs. >> mÁs adelante mas noticias aquÍ en un nuevo dia, pero ahora vamos a enlazar con marco que se encuentra en la bella zona de xochimilco en ciudad de mÉxico, adelante, marco. >> gracias, muchas gracias. aqÍi estamos en el bello xochimilco en la ciudad de mÉxico, nuestro mÉxico lindo y querido cuando la gente viene a la ciudad de mÉxico no se pueden perder venir a xochimilco y aquÍ estÁn tres hermo

griff: so what samir was first talking about the mexican president obrador very pro-immigrant helping u.s. border. the trump administration reports "the washington post" they are going to expand to other cities and san ysidro port of entry and san diego and one of them is likely to be el paso, texas, as these migrants begin to get on buses headed directly towards that area. griff? ed: we will be getting back to you. it's interesting. because obviously the border issue is playing out. huge battle in washington. remember, nancy pelosi had said just over a week ago mr. president reopen the government and we will negotiate. and i was covering it in the middle of this week back in washington the democrats on that bipartisan conference committee put together to get some border security money saying everything is on the table. we want to get a compromise. money for a barrier if not a wall. and nancy pelosi comes out 24 hours later and says nothing. you will get no money at all. so you have got to wonder if they tried to pull a fast one on the president and that's why he may go for a state of