now back in the sixties and seventies the somali capital mogadishu is known as the white pole of the indian ocean among travelers but decades of civil war have destroyed the economy now the country's trying to tap into the booming global tourism industry and rebuild what could become a lucrative sector. this is not the picture that most people in the west have of somalia. conflicts and terrorism of the past decades have shaped the image of goodness african country. last october attacks by islamist militants killed hundreds of people in the capital mogadishu a few foreign tourists venture into the country the still torn by civil war a hostile almost. non somalis are modest numsa modest the muslim people must of been european forty that was the number of international customers he had in twenty seventeen the somali government wants to rebuild the tourism sector last year the country joined the un world tourism organization there are regular flights to mogadishu's international airport somali is ready to welcome the war somalia is in the developing stage somalia is ready to host the eve

nine somalis not so modest none somalis the muslims people most of them european forty that was the number of international customers he had in twenty seventeen the somali government wants to rebuild the tourism sector last year the country joined the un world tourism organization their regular flights to mogadishu's international airport so money is ready to welcome the war somalia is in the developing stage somalia is ready to host the events on the conferences you know the continent and globally. but the beauty of the country is overshadowed by the tense security situation many governments warn their citizens against traveling in somalia and a holiday here isn't for bargain hunters a double room in a good hotel costs two hundred euros a night a comparable stay in egypt just fifty euros. and this week we brighten up the docks names of winter. was bustling scenes. illuminating a long. and unspoiled nature. on series this week. the roman. center. see it. find it a. discovery. video and audio podcast from language courses. d.w. media center. at media center don w. dot com. climate change. w

in a hurry i mean they're saying that there has to be partly a function of somali capability that they want to contribute to that and that rushing ahead with this before the conditions that are both political and operational terms of capacities. leaving before that is in place would be very counterproductive you've highlighted some of the challenges that are facing the government of somalia and they are many and how far do you think the involvement of outside play is is actually making the situation worse much harder for the government. well i mean i would say that on balance the involvement of outside players is very very positive somalia. is lucky to have such a high degree of international support whether for responding to the drought development activities supporting it security sector so i think that's the main the main thing i think the problem is that somali politics are a fairly free style there aren't that many rules and regulations governing political conduct or at least if there are rules and regulations they're very difficult to patrol so you know it is very tempting for so

the united nations says that more than half of somalis population is in need of emergency aid due to a major drought and worsening conflict millions have been forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands of children have been left well nourished the u.n. says the situation will worsen unless it receives one point six billion dollars in extra funds and its myth has this report. most somalis are finding it hard just to survive day to day after more than four years of drought and the continuing war with al-shabaab fighters the u.n. says it just managed to stave off famine in somalia last year but with poor rains forecast again this year more intensive aid will be needed to help the one in every two somalis who are displaced by widespread fighting. together over the smaller than two million a fifth of the population were. displaced away from their home this is fuelling suffering it is fairly the levels of humanitarian aid and they do not have neighborhoods or ways to survive for more than a decade fighters who are linked to al qaeda have been trying to take over somalia bombings in

most somalis are finding it hard just to survive day to day after more than four years of drought and the continuing war with al-shabaab fighters the u.n. says it just managed to stave off famine in somalia last year but with poor rains forecast again this year more intensive aid will be needed to help the one in every two somalis who are displaced by widespread fighting. together over the smaller than two million a fifth of the population one into somalia says displaced away from their home this is fuelling suffering it is fairly the levels of humanitarian need and they do not have neighborhoods and other ways to survive for more than a decade al-shabaab fighters who are linked to al qaeda have been trying to take over somalia bombings in the capital mogadishu and conflict nationwide makes it hard for aid groups to introduce projects that will help the economy grow long term and reduce dependence on a war has to be a long war on how. we support the somali people know that we are not in the third rear responding was born in the right. the threat from al shabaab gunmen remained signifi

amy: you are part of a group, as a young somali american muslim legislator, of america's cabinet.nd nonpartisan project launched by young elected officials. can you talk about what this is? this pastize that year we could be in the streets, we could resist some of the horrendous ideas that are coming , or we couldgton get involved as young electeds who have fluency and understanding of what our constituents need. we believe we have bold ideas that are going to lead our country to be able to keep up with fulfilling its promise. amy: i want to briring mararu ma into thiso conversation, an activist and undocumented immigrant with the group northwest detention center resistance and the group mijente. she attended the state of the union address last night as a guest of washington senator maria cantwell. welcome back to democracy now! talk about what the atmosphere was like inside congress as president trump spoke and the significance of your being there. me to sitwful for next to a lot of people that were cheering him up. at some point i was able to see him clap for himself. i decided

smugglers on board reportedly opened fire the overcrowded vessel is carrying one hundred fifty two somalis and ethiopians who were fleeing the war in yemen and those are the headlines will have more news for you on al-jazeera of the inside story next. from afghanistan to south sudan to syria aid groups that were once almost

not somalis not so modest not somalis the muslim people most of them european forty that was the number of international customers he had in twenty seventeen the somali government wants to rebuild the tourism sector last year the country joined the un world tourism organization their regular flights to mogadishu's international airport somalis ready to welcome the world somalia is. in the developing stage somalia is ready to host the events on the conference's you know part of the continent and globally. but the beauty of the country is overshadowed by the tense security situation many governments warn their citizens against traveling in somalia and a holiday here isn't for bargain hunters a double room in a good hotel costs two hundred euros a night a comparable stay in egypt just fifty euros. to ecuador now for a look at the life of a man who's one of the current band he's the last of the ice merchants of ecuador's highest peak his back breaking work as a source of joy for local people and it's just earned him an honorary honorary doctorate for leadership take a look. twice a week but

is appealing for one point six billion dollars to provide humanitarian assistance to millions of somalis they say that six million people in this country that at least half the population need humanitarian assistance at least half of those people are children and all of that amount half of the people who need assistance need emergency lifesaving assistance what's also of concern much like the people at this camp in mogadishu is that two point one million somalis have been displaced by drought. rainfall as well as the realities of poor security in many parts of the country and that's one of the issue for the united nations a round development and the future of somalia is that of security african union forces troops that have been in this country for ten years securing the country pushing back al shabaab fighters are expected to continue their withdrawal this year at least one thousand troops did leave somalia at the end of twenty seventeen or twenty two thousand are expected to withdraw by twenty twenty two main concerns to the united nations one security the other again averting famine i

most somalis are finding it hard just to survive day to day after more than four years of drought and the continuing war with al-shabaab fighters the un says it just managed to stave off famine in somalia last year but with poor rains forecast again this year more intensive aid will be needed to help the war in every two somalis who are displaced by widespread fighting. together over the more than two million a fifth of the population. is displaced away from their home this is fuelling suffering it is their levels of humanitarian and they do not have neighborhoods or ways to survive for more than a decade fighters who are linked to al qaeda have been trying to take over somalia bombings in the capital mogadishu and conflict nationwide makes it hard for aid groups to introduce projects that will help the economy grow long term and reduce dependence on a war. to be a long war on. the support. though that we are not in the. real is. the threat from gunmen remained significant despite being forced from much of the territory they controlled by forces from the somali army and the african un

will be less the second rate a very serious problem is conflict and displacement a very very many somalis have been displaced from their homes. last year more than eight hundred thousand all together over the smaller than two million a fifth of the population one in two somalis is displaced away from their home this is fuelling suffering it is feeling the levels of humanitarian need and they do not have neighborhoods and other ways to survive and need assistance. now french police have raided the headquarters of the dairy giant like dallas over the salmonella scandal like alice has recalled milk powder from eighty three countries after it was revealed its factories were contaminated with bacteria the company's own test discovered the contamination in august but the firm failed to take action more than thirty babies in france were poisoned when children affected in greece and spain to . in hong kong two pro-democracy activists is starting jail sentences for their roles in the so-called umbrella protests more than three years ago the judge rejected a request for joshua wong on rafael wong t

smugglers on board reportedly opened fire the overcrowded vessel is carrying one hundred fifty two somalis and ethiopians who were fleeing the war in yemen and those are the headlines will have more news for you and i was the era of the inside story next. from afghanistan to south sudan to syria aid groups that were once almost universally viewed as neutral increasingly find themselves targeted why the change and what can be done to make things safer for aid agencies and the critical work they do this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong there was a time when aid groups working in difficult places were almost universally regard.

poor rains forecast again this year more intensive aid will be needed to help the war in every two somalis who are displaced by widespread fighting. more than. a fifth of the population. for more than a decade fighters who are linked to al qaeda have been trying to take over somalia bombings in the capital mogadishu and conflict nationwide makes it hard for aid groups to introduce projects that will help the economy grow long term and reduce dependence on. be a long term war on how. the support. for the we are not in the. rio responding was born in the rise of. the threat from al shabaab gunmen remained significant despite being forced from much of the territory they controlled by forces from the somali army and the african union reduced funding means twenty one thousand a year troops are due to leave somalia by the end of twenty twenty somali government leaders say they don't have the resources to plug the gap those troops will leave that risks more instability and rather than a group's helping somalia become self-sufficient aid workers are struggling to keep the population from starving

is appealing for one point six billion dollars to provide humanitarian assistance to millions of somalis they say that six million people in this country that's at least half the population need humanitarian assistance at least half of those people are children and all of that amount half of the people who need assistance need emergency lifesaving assistance what's also of concern much like the people at this camp in mogadishu is that two point one million somalis have been displaced by drought rainfall as well as the realities of poor security in many parts of the country and that's one of the issue for the united nations a round development and the future of somalia is that of security african union forces troops that have been in this country for ten years securing the country pushing back al shabaab fighters are expected to continue their withdrawal this year at least one thousand troops did leave somalia at the end of twenty seventeen or twenty two thousand are expected to withdraw by twenty twenty two main concerns to the united nations one security the other again averting famine

of united nations and your son dormouse that plans to do three things to save the lives of somalis up to five point four million of them who need immediate humanitarian assistance us you have also mentioned out of that five point four million three point three adequate immediate assistance many of them are women and children the second the part is to strengthen them the capacity and the effect of ness of our systems and protection of the most vulnerable because many of them situations of of protracted abuse that they need assistance to my make their lives and the third one is to support the somali institutions to peer pull to work with humanitarians and to peer put the progressively take on accountability of their own people so we all respect you know if i could a if i could jump in here i mean i've read the u.n. plan a report that's been released or all those broad goals that you've stated but the devil is in the detail as they often say in a place which is as complicated and unstable as somalia is there an actual mechanism other than the broad goals you've mentioned for you to achie

really the form and that he was capable of, and he was clearly disappointed, hampered it seems by somali injury, we later learned. in the short term i am disappointed, andi in the short term i am disappointed, and i have to accept that. i didn't get my best out on court, for sure. but there are so many positives that override the last two weeks, and i have to focus on that. very pleased with what i have done at the start of the year. at a fortnight as a whole, trends up the experience, what it is to finally find yourself in the public eye —— suddenly find as having the eye? it's when you are doing well that these things come. i think it is good, and if i go up the rankings, it is going to get more and more, so i had to learn to bray said. there is so much to look forward to after this tournament. an improved ranking means that future grand plans will be a little easier. he is due to fly home producing to the uk. i am sure that he will get a hero's welcome. a disappointing end to his australian open, not really the form he really need to be 100% to challenge against marin cilic. his oppon

well, not xenophobia, but afrophobia, where africans turned on other africans, be they nigerian or somaliroperty and businesses and people were fearful for their lives. what did you feel? that song we played earlier is about migrant workers. it is a legacy of cecil rhodes and british colonialism, originally when they brought indigenous africans to south africa, they could only come in as endangered servants of migrant labour and they were segregated from the south african indigenous population, living in single men's hostels. the community was manipulated into thinking otherwise. you blame the old apartheid system and white colonial rule for the attacks that we saw? because that might not wash with everyone. i blame them for chaos across the world. you have said africa's problems are cultural. in 20 years, when my grandchildren ask who i am, i will say, it is rumoured we were once africans long ago. you feel africans are denigrating their own culture? the conquest and defeat of africans over the years, urbanisation, mis—education, politics and religion, have made africans think their own

truck bomb blast in the capital of somalia then another the same day killed more than five hundred somalis the on group al shabaab said it was behind the explosion al-shabaab which has between seven and nine thousand fighters still controls large parts of somalia it was forced out of mogadishu in twenty eleven after an offensive of the african union troops has imposed a strict version of sharia law in areas under its control and assad's by the group of left many children without parents and no one to care for them algeria summit or miller has this story from mogadishu. medina mohammad plays with her three month old grandson hussen his grandmother is looking off to him because his mother was one of the hundreds killed in the twin bomb attacks in mogadishu last october house and was just eleven days old when the bombs went off as well as hoskins mother two of medina's other daughters and niece were killed their bodies were never found. the most difficult thing is that i've been left with twenty children to look after and really old now and a calm provide for them a cumberland house is a can

earlier we were joined by a political analyst and a commentator shabbir a somali who believes that those who want to ferment strife in iran will not be successful. i think those people who said that this is an internal iranian issue absolutely correct because it is the protests started because of. economic problems people are a little bit upset with certain economic policies where the price of things is certainly over and you have telegram accounts by the barrel load targets in iran teaching people how to make most of comp sales how to make i.d.'s how to assassinate people this is not normal and then all of a sudden you have trump and nikki haley middle east people coming along and saying that you know. we stand with the people of iran this is america israel saudi arabia interfering at least from a distance within iran's internal affairs so to create a serious style civil war inside iran this is not going to happen iran is far more resilient and the government is wiser and more importantly the world is wiser. turkey's president has taken aim at washington over the conviction of a turkish

smugglers on board reportedly opened fire the overcrowded vessel is carrying one hundred fifty two somalis and ethiopians who were fleeing the war in yemen and those are the headlines will have more news for you on al-jazeera of the inside story next. from afghanistan to south sudan to syria aid groups that were once almost universally viewed as neutral increasingly find themselves targeted why the change and what can be done to make things safer for aid agencies and the critical work they do this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage i'm joining there was a time when aid groups working in difficult places were almost universally regarded as neutrals and most conflicts all sides respected them and while aid might have been blocked from reaching particular areas aid workers themselves were rarely attacked but that era is long gone in recent years aid groups and their activities have frequently been targeted in conflicts around the world wednesday's attack on the salon about office of save the children was only the latest example of what has become a disturbing trend w

had to start yet to be exactly right and that which i agree with the molly he was a dark skinned somali guy and he told me we started he started after me like when i was from and i read what i mix and i always have like often feel that there's like a level of kind of like blackness inherent in it and its isolation of being mixed and stuff but i was at a mic so i told him and then he was like you know what i have to i just have to marry an english woman and i count my out because i wish i'd spent kids so they come out and i would just like i am not the one how do you remember is this is that everybody and where can we meet your fiance. not remain in the i mean what i saw was just i mean really i want to miss the point because i've got i've got nigeria i did not get i did not. and i know you're trying to get in here so i'm going to direct this to you because these are two sides and argument so mike here says living four years in or africa with less pressure on appearance i found that people were more comfortable in their own a skin they were able to process sensitive issues away from in y

the military who had beaten him up severely and while he was held in custody and he and we're two somalis trouble trouble is that the minister talking about suspension in his west mission told one he himself in his testimony in chief he never said he was a prisoner oh is he wrong you know he says he was tortured yes the minute they did it in the uk to destroy it is wrong because the actual person didn't allege did he tell me and i didn't beat him up not there to beat him up anyway but you know in a sense activist well you never said that he won't have this very hard to fight in court when by the court records isn't it when somebody says a place and or in that's what you go back i saw no making it up as his lawyer said it was a very brutal and draconian way of dealing with problems if you say that but i can accept very much so and i tweeted about it myself that this is not the way i want to do things but so fucking issues the country that you've created a few weeks ago the man are you calling us thugs don't know about the man you're going to let me finish the man who is now president had t

above the law it was one of the world's most deadly attacks in recent history more than five hundred somalis were killed in twin bombings in mogadishu three months ago among them paramedics and civil servants but many of the dead were also parents left more than one thousand five hundred forty children orphaned read imola as this. medina mohammed plays with her three month old grandson has and his grandmother is looking after him because his mother was one of the hundreds killed in the twin bomb attacks in mogadishu last october i've asked and was just eleven days old when the bombs went off as well as has since mother two of medina's other daughters and niece were killed their bodies were never found. the most difficult thing is that i've been left with twenty children to look after i'm really old now and a calm provide for them a come with them houses can do anything for them the only way we are surviving right now is money from well wishers it is not enough for all of us. the truck bomb blast and a second attack later the same day killed five hundred and ninety people injured hundreds mor

and migrants fleeing the war in yemen have drowned near the city of aden since the boat carrying somalis an ethiopian capsized when people smugglers on board opened fire donald trump has told the world economic forum that the u.s. will not turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices those are the headlines the news will continue after risking it all. it's the school election and the candidates are pulling out all the stops so i can move i mean you have let him actually live on farms and gifts. as i say in this telling me as i'm apparently society i am good for a vote at this time on al jazeera. extra fee. feel.

a hasty withdrawal all the you feel is could open the door to a takeover of the somali capital mogadishu behind a call full of all the african union headquarters itself a gift from the tiniest government african leaders this cost the need to do away with the beginning bulls and i think this thing they want to see an african union fully funded by its members and i've devised the plump up calls on member states to live in zero point two percent on imports to fund the union but sulfide just twenty one of the fifty five member states have implemented it and this is a form is existential for the organization unless you can fund own organization well no right to ask for the. taxpayers to found the african union. president paul kagame has taken over the leadership of the u. general assembly he's expected to use ya'll the heart to push through the agenda he developed for a more independent a you on the theme of the summit tackling rampant corruption in africa leaders named nigerian president obama to body as a useful and to corruption champion it's a move seen as a completion of his efforts to f

people smugglers on board opened fire he have a crowded vessel was carrying one hundred fifty two somalis and ethiopians who were fleeing the war in yemen many people travel to yemen to escape unrest in the country's put on a time to return home. the vessel is believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who are attempting to take refugees and migrants to djibouti while also trying to extort more money from these refugees and migrants. the book the boat capsized amid reports of gunfire being used against the passengers in his first speech in six years the president of democratic republic of congo has confirmed his country will hold elections joseph kabila said polling will go ahead even though voting has already been postponed twice he also denied accusations that his security forces are cracking down on protesters who are calling for him to step down catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. the democratic republic of congo faces political uncertainty over. accusations of human rights abuses by government forces security crises and protests by the catholic church and opposition

>> keith ellison has the largest somali- american population in the country and on the cutting edge ofould be assimulating muslim and immigrants to our country and nevertheless contrary of assimulating them to being good americans, he's reflecting being a role model of radical americans that puts fear in the minds of most mainstream americans. loupe lou i love the fact that he is vice chair of the democratic national committee. >> go figure. >> lou: that tells us about him and the democratic national committee as a party and what they face. and turning to daca. suddenly a priority, molly. they have six's and eight's associated with amnesty and the white house. and with the exception of you know, john cornyn and the chair of the judiciary committee chuck grassly. this is a group of no name senators who are suddenly negotiating on daca and amnesty. >> what matters is that they get a good negotiation. >> lou: woah. what matters. who the heck is negotiate something >> the end result needs to be serious changes to the immigration policy. >> lou: says who? >> we currently have random people

warning humanitarian assistance will remain vital to millions of people over the next six months now somalis have been particularly vulnerable to food shortages drought and the displacement of people now the government says it has a plan to improve food security in the long in the middle. ameena and her family left their home in chile about three hundred kilometers away to find food and security in mogadishu a severe drought last year meant the could not grow in the crops and they feared for their lives as rival plans for it but there is nobody left in my religion very young people it was too much fighting and we had to leave because there was no food at the peak of last year's dropped more than three million people were in need of urgent humanitarian assistance the united nations says that numbers dropped to but only by half a million the humanitarian needs are still very high and we are still seeing the tradition levels that are amongst the highest in the world so that very much once a continued attention at the same time the progress that we've made shows that we have a much more effectiv

who had beaten him up severely and while he was held in custody and he and to me actually we're two somalis. talking about him in these various vision told by himself in his testimony in chief he never said it wasn't he was a prisoner on the wrong you know he says he was tortured he was the they did it in the uk to destroy it is wrong because the actual person didn't allege and didn't he tell you they didn't beat him up no they just beat him up and he never you know in a sense actually of invest well you never say that he won't have this very hard to fight in court when by the court records isn't it when when somebody says a place and or even that's what would go back as oh are we making it up as his lawyer said it was a very brutal and to colonial way of dealing with a pose if when he says that's what i can accept very much so and i tweeted about it myself but this is not the way we're to do things but so thank you suze the country that you've created a few weeks ago the man are you calling us that don't know about the man you're going to let me finish the man who is now president had to f

if this was three weeks ago, police say they are looking for his this person, a somali suspect, slenderuild with a slight afro style on top. minnesota is one of the top states prices inspired terror attacks. morgan evenson is now wondering about her attacker's motive. >> he did this to me for no reason i don't know if he is looking to do it to somebody else. if it was a one time thing because i'm a woman, was it because the color of my skin, was it because i was wearing, was it the person i have on my shoulder even though he didn't take anything from me. >> any one with information about that case is urged to contact police. >> shannon: the las vegas review journal had a ten interactions with him in the days leading up to the october 1st massacre. a spokesperson for mandalay bay said nothing lead them to believe anything was out of the ordinary. there were numerous interactions with stephen paddock every day at the resort including a room service delivery and a call with housekeeping on october 1st all of which were normal in nature. he killed a 58 people that night, as you recall, the