. >> reporter: i am in southern tunisia.ill be explaining why so many people are leaving this region and the impact it's having on the community here. ♪ ♪ >>> the u.s. has criticized nigeria's decision to postpone presidential elections scheduled for next week. secretary of state john kerry has issued a statement saying the u.s. was deeply disappointed with the move. he said political interference with the independent national electoral commission is unacceptable and it is critical the government does not use security concerns as a pretext for impeding the democratic process. now, the electoral commission says the polls will be held six week later than planned because of the security concern. kerry says the international community will watch closely a report from abuja abuja now. >> reporter: the head of the said he was ready to conduct the polls. but the security chiefs said they could not guarantee the safety of voters, in particular of areas affected by boko haram. >> if the security of personnel voters election observers

southern tunisia is mainly oil smuggling from libya since the security has been beefed up.l trade has come to a stop. now there is little to do for most of the people here. >> translator: nothing will change whether one talks or not. it was daily trade. they call it smuggling. it was just enough to feed us, nothing more, now there is nothing. >> reporter: the situation has hit young people, particularly hard in an area where economic development is close to none. some say it's so dire it is pushing some of the youth to look in to the wrong direction. >> translator: the youth in this country are under pressure to find a solution. they have lost all hope. so they deciding to and maybe die. >> reporter: it's a worry that haunts him his two sons of 28 and 30 years old are unemployed. he says they are at breaking point. >> translator: they could steal, they could look the other way and join isil. they have nothing to lose. of course some will go for sure. the government is doing nothing for them. my sons are disgusted. there is so much danger for the youth now. >> reporter: peop

. >>> and part 2 of our series on depopulation - we will be in southern tunisia, where some areas were coast downs. young people were relocating to the capital, because they can't find jobs. sunday here on al jazeera. >> next here on the newshour it's been a here since the russian city of sochi hosted the winter olympics. we tell you why sanctions are now leaving it out in the cold. cold. we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. >> we pursue that story beyond the headline, past a spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capital. >> we put all of our global resources behind every story. >> they are waiting to take in the wounded. >> and follow it no matter where it leads... all the way to you. al jazeera america. take a new look at news. >>> scientists in the u.s. are preparing to launch a satellite they hope will give them warning of solar storms. it can damage the power grid and communication systems on earth. >> reporter: a combination of gas, mass and energy erupts

to have the support that matters >>> and there's more on de depopulationde depopulation and southern tunisia. i'll be back to update you on the top stories but that's it from the newshour. past? and create a better future? an al jazeera america special report race in america all next week part of our special black history month coverage on al jazeera america >> protests across yemen against the houthi coup. >> this is al jazeera live from doha. i'm adrian finnigan. also on the program. ukraine's agenda back on the program. in donetsk people struggle for rifle survival. >>> and taking control back from isil. it's been a year since the

. >> al jazeera southern tunisia. >> the spread of h.i.v. in villages has called for a clamp down. in september hundreds of people tested positive for the virus after an unregistered doctor used botched treatments. we spoke to some of the victims in northwest cambodia. >> in the village people are scared. the deputy village chief was one of the first to test positive for h.i.v., along with his wife and two of their children. >> after confirmed we had h.i.v. the rest of the villagers were very afraid. they got tested, too and one after another more cases were confirmed. >> the local medical center now finds itself treating well over 200 sufferers with still more being diagnosed. >> we got really worried when more and more people began testing positive. we know the impact this will have on the community. >> investigations quickly identified dirty needles from an unregistered doctor as the probable cause. he has been arrested and is awaiting trial. >> this episode is a big setback for com bowed i can't in tackling h.i.v.-aids. it's held up as a model cutting its 2% infection rate by h

. >>> and don't miss part two of this three-part series which takes us to southern tunisia in search depopulation. a region where once thriving communities are now ghost towns as young people head to the capital tunis or further north to europe look going work. >>> still ahead this hour. will a new satellite help us avoid the sometimes catastrophic impacts of these spectacular-y eruptions? >>> in sport new zealand's rug did sevens take a step closer olympics thanks to this schoolboy. >>> plus. >> reporter: i an daniel lack in the canadian city of hamilton, what going on behind me technically is illegal. but can't stop young people here from enjoying a great winter's day. ♪ ♪ >>> scientists in the united states are preparing to launch a satellite that they hope will give them advanced warning of solar storms which can do major damage to power grids and communication systems here on earth. dominick cane explains. >> reporter: a combination of gas, mass, and energy erupts from the surface of the sun. while it may look spectacular it can cause substantial damage here on earth. the electr

new cabinet, tunisia is a success story of the arab spring but faces economic and security challenges. >> hundreds of child laborers were recently discovered in a plastics factory in southern india. police rescued at least 350 children working in the plant. nearly 200 of them are from one of india's poorest states. >> the pilots of an airliner which crashed in taiwan are hailed as heroes. the mayor of taipei said main lives were saved as the aircraft stricken with engine failure scraped past high rise apartments and plunged into the river. the pilot are among those dead, another 12 of missing. we have a report from the crash scene. >> deep into a second night still they bring ashore the fragment of the flight. they seem so light so flimsy. it's hard to imagine they were part of the fuselage designed to with stand the forces of flight, no match for the final steep plunge into taipei's river. incredible that anyone managed to survive. this man did and he saved four ours unbuckling their seatbelts also the water rose around them. >> i saw the others were drowning. if i did not move quick enough to help them, soon they would have been dead. >> he was one of several to say some