be dominated and this is very interesting by china by india but also by the middle east and sub-saharan africa if those regions are do catch up in terms of productivity levels and that's a very big if but you see at the end of the century that the biggest region in the world economically speaking is not china or india it's actually sub-saharan africa . and then it's india and then it's middle east and then it's china and the u.s. is down at about five percent of world g.d.p. from about sixteen percent now so the long run picture is one of the us lou you know becoming like germany to the world economy and that's driven by you know very interesting the fact is that the un is projecting a population explosion in terms of the world population mostly concentrated in sub-saharan africa in the middle east and this is going to produce a an increase in population of the world by one china in the next twenty years and by three china's over the course of the century so all these factors are going to go through time i agree with you it's not going to be tomorrow but through time people are going to wake u

that said there are a lot of young countries in the islamic world lot of young countries in sub-saharan africa so i don't believe the age of violent revolutions is over what we see in the yemen and syria that's where the youngest arab populations in the world. country government that. the government of a country that is mostly made up of young population how do they make sure that it doesn't necessarily turn into evolution if things aren't going to well well if things are not going to well it's difficult to avoid anger so it's necessary to start to give people an opportunity to see real change so giving younger people opportunities to join leadership organising. investing in. not just education but actually jobs that allow people to use their education so starting new projects building new research centers or communities encouraging foreign investment all of these things can help younger people who are ambitious feel you know this government is giving me a reason to have a stake in the future it's not giving me a reason to give up hope and then there's the money factor of course that alan talk

that said there are a lot of young countries in the islamic world lot of young countries in sub-saharan africa so i don't believe the age of violent revolutions is over what we see in yemen and syria that's where the youngest arab populations in the world. country government that is. the government of a country that is mostly made up of young population how do they make sure that it doesn't necessarily turn into evolution if they aren't going to well well if things are not going to well it's difficult to avoid anger so it's necessary to start to give people an opportunity to see real change so giving younger people opportunities to join leadership organising. investing in. not just education but actually jobs that allow people to use their education so starting new projects building new research centers or communities encouraging foreign investments all of these things can help younger people who are ambitious feel you know this government is giving me a reason to have a stake in the future it's not giving me a reason to give up hope and then there's the money factor of course that alan talk a

that said there are a lot of young countries in the islamic world lot of young countries in sub-saharan africa so i don't believe the age of violent revolutions is over what we see in the yemen and syria that's where the youngest arab populations in the world. country government that. the government of a country that is mostly made up of young population how do they make sure that it doesn't necessarily turn into evolution if they aren't going to well well if things are not going to well it's difficult to avoid anger so it's necessary to start to give people an opportunity to see real change so giving younger people opportunities to join leadership organising. investing in. not just education but actually jobs that allow people to use their education so starting new projects building new research centers or communities encouraging foreign investments all of these things can help younger people who are ambitious feel you know this government is giving me a reason to have a stake in the future it's not giving me a reason to give up hope and then there's the money factor of course that alan talk

. >> the migrants themselves come mostly from sub-saharan africa. ceuta, which have barriers that separate them from the rest of morocco, built to stop immigration and smuggling. (people shouting) >> 70 sub-saharan africans migrants were injured when they tried to get through the razor- wire-topped fence. >> this is the moment where their struggle to enter europe was stopped at the top of a six meter barbed wire fence facing rows of spanish officers waiting to turn them back to morocco. (music playing in distance) (moussa): (sizzling) (breathing heavily) (breathing heavily) (wind howling) (camera operator): (moussa): (indistinct chatter) ♪ ♪ (moussa): >> more than a thousand people surprised the moroccan border patrol and ran for the fence. >> hundreds of migrants entered spanish territory in north africa on friday. upon arrival they shouted, "freedom." (shouting) ♪ (aziz): (people chanting) >> "merkel must go," they chant. this is the backlash against germany's generous refugee policy. >> the right wing has been making spectacular gains here in ger

change operation see an open air slave market so it's clear that human rights situation in sub-saharan africa and north africa is at its worse and human rights groups have spoken out against this move by israel what is the conversation with the israeli government what sort of pressure is on the government to change this policy. the human rights groups in israel it within israeli society are under unprecedented assault from her right wing israeli government and you know african and non jewish asylum seekers have faced open race riots in telling me that we're actually stirred by the culture minister married to reggae a member of benjamin netanyahu is ruling we could party who referred to this rally to africans as a cancer in israel society they face street harassment and violence and it's a very unpleasant situation for those who actually allowed to be on the street and those who advocate on behalf of them from within jewish israeli society also its incitement and are very marginal so it's unclear to me how any group from within israeli society can create the necessary pressure to stop this pot

in sub-saharan-africa, it's around 23.6%, and that's partly down to quotas. that figure is also roughly the global average. a we head to senegal to meet women who have to fight hard for their right to make a change. >> yama ndiaye is the organiser of this project, planting a special kind of grass and eucalyptus saplings which help desalinate the soil. she also brought together the women who are implementing the project, and got the local foresters involved. it has not been possible to grow crops here for two decades -- the soil is just too salty. >> when i was a child, we grew our own rice here in joal-fadiouth, and never had to buy any. the same with peanuts and millet. >> the problem is the rising sea level. salt water is invading and destroying more and more fertile land. this dike was built five years ago, and provides some relief. ousmane gning works for an environmental ngo. he advises the women and heleld them get funds from the un-backed green climate fund. he also helps farmers here. >> the vegetable growers also want to benefit from the fund. what c

he was working in libya but the country wanted people from sub-saharan africa to get out using. what looks i did it is sometimes more sinister below the surface. this image of ships in the mediterranean is actually a refugee both graveyard italian authorities don't know what to do with them so they pile up there. to. his first. people and knives on the outskirts of. the exhibition combine stephan and is his talent as both a photographer and storyteller and it takes you to the coolness of europe you've never seen before. and this week's series when tree lights we attempt to bring some light into when to start this also applies to the invention of french i just felt a little for the no water. the paris based our professor had a bright idea he invented surfaces with thousands of little limbs that start to shine when they come into contact with water everybody is invited to be part of the art so leave a message let it shine. electricity and water not an obvious combination but water is the only thing that can light up just a hilly de wall. water like graffiti was created by a french

congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who one day able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cause like a machete. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support to terrorism the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the us i'd definitely heard of this with a political trial and the views were political prisoners because we were able to see the secret world we were able to tell in a two part series al-jazeera world ex

congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who weren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. valued as a gem of africa nairobi has gone through many changes over the past decades took to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera unbelievable it sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses slid

fall of muammar gaddafi, and it's become a choke point on the deadly trail of migration from sub-saharan africa the mediterranean to italy. migrants carry horrifying stories of beatings, kidnappings, and, yes, even slavery. the reports sparked outrage across the globe and protests on the streets of paris, london, and new york. the international organization for migration says that because of this reporting, the dam has burst on this issue. governments from the u.k. to france and africa itself have condemned it, and they're demanding action from the u.n. and repatriation efforts have already begun. as i said, it all began with this game-changing report in november from our team, led by correspondent nima elbagir. >> [ speaking native language ] >> a man addressing an unseen crowd. "big strong boys for farm work," he says. "400. 700." "700?" "800." the numbers roll in. these men are sold for 1,200 libyan pounds, $400 apiece. you are watching an auction of human beings. another man claiming to be a buyer. off-camera someone asks, "what happened to the ones from niger?" "sold off," he's told. cnn w

while nearly 35% of the adult population in sub saharan africa as a mobile money account, the higheste impact of technology is growing in ways which, even if you years ago, we couldn't have imagined. just last week, a drone saved two boys drowning off the coast of australia by carrying a four station —— a flotation device to them. the use of artificial intelligence is transforming health care. in one test, machine learning reduced the number of unnecessary surgeries for breast cancer by a third. the development of speech recognition and translation is reaching a level where we will be able to go anywhere in the world and communicate using our native language. while british—based companies are pioneering the use of data science and artificial intelligence to protect companies from money—laundering, fraud, cyber crime and terrorism. in all of these ways, harnessing the power of technology is not just harnessing the power of technology is notjust in all of our interests, but fundamental to the advance of humanity. but this technological progress also raises new and profound challenges, w

the south koreans of the australians or the indonesians or even countries in latin american sub-saharan africa talk to the heads of state their ministers they will tell you they're paying a lot more attention to beijing these days than they're paying to washington and that that's a very big deal that's a dramatic change in the geo political order in that let me bring it to your a bomb before we run out of time i want to ask you about. exit in your assessment you you seem to see breaks as consuming all of europe's energies this year and making it almost a non player on the global stage you're nowhere to be seen do you really think is going to be that severe well i actually don't think that there are a lot of risks that are affecting europe itself as you said at the beginning the global economy has turned much more positive and while that's not true for the u.k. it real wages are doing worse in the u.k. right now than any country in the o.e.c.d. for twenty eighteen the continental europe feels to me fairly benign even italian elections are not something we're worried greatly about merkel's going

the world do they even have some of these internet or internet connections in some areas like sub-saharan africa etc well i think we have as i mentioned earlier we have i think we have certainly for speaking for switzerland very good connectivity and the providers the telecom providers operators are investing to keep investing a lot in that both fixed and mobile but as you mentioned i mean if you look at the global scale if you look at this this issue there is clearly. something a risk in a sense that we get to a digital divide where we have people with access and we have others we don't and we know at the moment on the global scale it is not a really positive picture because too many people don't have access to the internet and again as important as the open internet the fundamental freedoms that can be expressed over the internet and unfettered. access is important of course is to get the physical infrastructure in place and there i believe technology helps us in the sense that we have a lot of mobile great mobile technology or satellite also that helps to leapfrog in the number of countries w

sub-saharan africa is in very difficult shape because of hundreds of years of slavery and colonialism and then after independence no infrastructure was built by the western countries and this is only because of the change in the last ten years but china so how the lack of tricity lack of water lack of roads it's appalling and this has not been great except by a few of us over many years now the obama administration the clinton administration the bush administration none of the others just this question in the media did not see it important to take up at that time so i think that some real hypocrisy going on here as with the question is how what's the reaction could u.s. relations with african nations not be affected and if so to what extent could it encourage them to to further turn away from the u.s. and look towards perhaps places like china for more investment for more interest there. well right now the african countries are already turning to china china's new silk will is now in transforming the world but it's the first time that infrastructure has been built in a significant siz

it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how life will receive influence the course of history was the cumin revolution colonist away feel castro is a feudal east the not a communist just a wanted his country che wanted international revolution became a point when the relationship

congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor of it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. the united nations report condemns iran saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for their roles in the war in yemen.

it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber for remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially committed capacity for those who weren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the roof. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen. that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more

it's the cheapest rail service in the deol congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who weren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. am. i and this is al jazeera live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha jamal santa maria welcome to the newsgroup i'm in pic here to see for north and south korea united about.

in the indo pacific region, middle east, and many of the former soviet countries as well as sub-saharan africave been very active. opec is open in 108 countries. we are looking worldwide, but giving it a specific emphasis on central and the western hemisphere. shery: the company's vision at one point envision closing down your agency. how much support are you know getting from the white house? -- now getting from the white house? ray: taken to that question because i am getting it all the time. the question i had to the administration is, how do you look at development agencies that are so important to our foreign policy objectives? once we had many discussions about it, president trump, his administration have given us great support, and we are very pleased with that. i was willing to accept the job. my confirmation with senate relations,gn and since that in august, we have had support. traveled with the president on his asian trip. we did a historic memoranda of understanding with the japanese equivalent, which we will get very involved in developing projects with, and then i went to vietnam

between emerging-market economies and part of the world i was certainly worried most about is sub-saharan africa, where we have a combination of factors that lead to lower income for capital. i think we should celebrate, we but weo that so often, should celebrate the policies that have been implemented by policymakers and by central bankers. i think one of the reasons we are in that sweet spot at the moment is the cycle of upswing, but largely attributed to multiple policies that have been implemented. monetary policies that we had no idea about 10 years ago. fiscal policies in many corners as well, which have been reasonably good. but it is thee, result of good policies. but what could go wrong, i will mention three vulnerabilities. first of all, financial vulnerabilities. and the u.s. tax reform would have positive effects in the short-term. lead to serious risks, and we can discuss that later if you want. and that has an impact on the financial vulnerabilities, potentially given the high asset prices that we see around the world and the easy financing that is still available. i would say the

helped to force a more robust trade relationship between the united states and the nations of sub-saharan africa. agoa has helped to create economic opportunities for thousands of people in africa while also benefiting u.s. farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses by providing new markets for their goods. the bill before us today will make agoa even more effective. it requires the creation of a website to make information about agoa benefits more readily available to both sub-saharan partners and the american people and provides much-needed technical assistance to help eligible partners fully utilize the available trade benefits. the legislation also provides new authorities for the millennium challenge corporation, an independent agency that is charged with promoting economic growth, reducing poverty, and strengthening institutions in eligible countries. specifically, it will give m.c.c. to enter into regional compacts by simultaneously engaging several countries to fund investments that could benefit all of them. we know economies fail if they are isolated. coordinating investment across t

asian and sub-saharan africa are key areas for opportunities. and here of course implied u.s. companies can play very important role, , both in termsf building power plants, providing capital, and also providing leadership in those countries. having said that, those countries, especially in china, india and african countries, they have their own policies, their own targets. and when i look at those policies, they are geared to having energy at the lowest possible cost. keeping an eye on the environment, and also diversification of the energies as you rightly can imagine. i think those countries would welcome investment opportunities from u.s. and elsewhere if the investments are in line with their three goals, namely, the united security, affordability of energy and at the same time the production. in many u.s. companies, they are working in those countries. bu t main forrgy projes are huge across the world, huge infrastructure needs, especially in asia and africa. >> what about this question of research and technology and innovation? and how do you see that in terms of how we

we do $37 billion in goods with su sub-saharan africa in 2015. ng like african nations and haiti and el salvador are s-hole nations, we actually do for trade with africa and others than we do with norway. so only their whiteness would make you say why don't we bring in more people from norway. >> that's essentially what a the love people feel. i should tell you this is personal for me and other haitians out there. both my dad still lives in haiti, runs a large nonprofit. there my parents emigrated from haiti. they both got phds in this country. i sit as a reporter giving people information. haitian people really contributed. there is literally a plon umemon savannah, georgia, dedicated to haitian free black soldiers that came do help the united states fight in the revolutionary war. haitians from the very beginning of this nation have been pouring in and contributing to american society. >> the person that founded chicago was haitian. ali, there is another issue here where i think we're not talking as much about and as we fight the war on terroris

, merging market economies and part of the world that i would certainly worry most about is sub saharan africa where there are lead to that lure income per capital. i think we should celebrate, we don't do that so often, and at the imf identify negative down side risks, but we should celebrate the policy implemented by policy bankers. i think one of the reasons we are in the sweet-spot this morning it's a cycle up spring, let's face it but largely attributable to policies implemented. policies that we had no idea about ten years ago. reasonably good policy. it's debatable what was on exactly eight years ago. but in the main it's the result of good policies. what could go wrong, i'll mention three vulnerabilities as i see them. first of all, financial vulnerabilities, and while the u.s. tax reform will have positive effects in the short-term, for the u.s. and for other countries around, it might also lead to serious risks, and we can discuss that later if you want. and that has an impact on the financials and their abilities, particularly given the high asset bricprices we see around world. i w

imagine terry that there are other parts of the world literally drying up that's right monica sub-saharan africa is really suffering at this point especially way down south in the cape the cape region of south africa is in the grips of the longest drought in living memory since twenty fifteen the area has seen no substantial rainfall and none is expected before may or june water is already being rationed and the authorities say they have to cut all all supplies for non-essential use by april. a lack of rainfall in cape town is making south africans very nervous water in the city's main reservoir the teva tis kloof down is down to thirty percent capacity the situation isn't much better in other reservoirs cape town has imposed a level six alert level six is the next step that we're taking it to. people most significantly less if they can than eighty seven liters per person per day anyone who exceeds the amount of water permitted for each household faces severe penalties that's why a growing number of people are getting their water from public reservoirs so it doesn't change their water meter read

that's sub-saharan africa.t goes to what jay-z was talking about beautiful everything and beautiful people. let's go to the center for american progress and is their report saying that brown -- well, that black immigrants are much more educated than any other immigrant population that comes here. >> april? >> so that speaks to it. i'd like to give shermichael another quick word because i'm out of time. >> i'm sorry. >> that's not your fault at all. to april's point, why did he respond to jay-z and not mnm? >> it leads to a lot of people questioning president trump's standing on racial issues, people of different ethnicities. i can understand why people may say maybe he does have an issue with people who are not white. look, as an african-american, i am proud of our community. we are the product of slaves. people who were brought here from an unfamiliar place, and in spite of all those things, look at the progress we've made. so in spite of donald trump's hateful rhetoric, we will continue to make progress in th

you spoke about india which produces coal but a lot of energy demand is arising in africa, sub saharan africa and i'm curious if coal in your mind is a reliable energy source to these rural communities and how it can be brought there if it is and what other -- how could it be done to ensure that it's sustainable and beneficial to the communities in the long run? thank you. >> well, it's a complex question and something that we had actually issued a report about a couple months ago called -- our energy access report, which is a report affiliated with our world energy outlook. we looked at areas there where grid supply of electricity had not been -- people don't have access to electricity and we saw that a combination of policies, in some cases grid extension like we're probably going to see in india, but also other policies particularly with solar pv these days that now actually make it much more economical to expand access and connect more people to -- to get more people access to electricity. coal in certain countries in africa when they have the resource, of course, south africa you know ve

it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. there.

and we seem to be focusing when it comes to northern africa, sub za saharan africa. but i do worry about seeing budgets being proposed from administration. they are slashing a lot of these critical programs that ultimately create an environment for stability where we are not allowing folks to go down that pathway towards radicalization. in addition, our diplomatic resources in africa, something that we have concerns about as well. and investments we are making in institution building and the like. and i wonder if you can comment on that because senator young has made this point numerous times and i tend to agree with him. and actually growing more worried that we are relying on our military interventions with the thought that might somehow not only solve the problem immediately but deal with what i think are the longer term causes of radicalization. >> great senator, thank you for raising it. i think ambassador polaschik and i and the entire state department and administration would give you the same answer. and that is that the kinetic aspects of counter tore rhythm