thousand and one he used to call them the bric nations and that was brazil russia india china and sub-saharan africa i think some of the emerging nations in sub-saharan africa is somewhat to look because of course there's a great percentage opportunity for growth and a lot of the the real commodities which are more in demand now it's very interesting we did some the other day on australia which hasn't been in recession you know twenty five years or some but the youngest of any developed nation ever so our history or anyone else and even the netherlands crazy crazy us i guess is pretty difficult to predict what's going on given the current circumstance. but you know what sort of trends do you see there in the does it leave it were you know i think of trade was on healthy but i think there's going to be an even ing out i think the one thing that's concerning globally in terms of inequality is the tremendous gap actually in skills skilled labor the good news is inequality actually is the lowest it's been since one thousand nine hundred one it pete forty four percent of the world was below the abject po

here in zambia there's a new weapon in the war on malaria still one of the major killers in sub-saharan africa. let's get your reminder now of some of the top stories we're following for you to president trump has fired turning general jeff sessions. long expressed frustration with sessions after he will true some spin recused himself from the rush of pro. sessions firing could place the future of the probe in doubt. pakistan's foreign ministry says the christian woman freed from death row is still in the country bibi was released from prison wednesday reports suggest she'd been flown out of pakistan her acquittal of blasphemy charges triggered violent protests across the country by islamist groups. this is due to the news live from berlin we have more on these and other stories that are website dot com for now though for me bryan thomas the entire team thanks for being with us. a. lot of we were out there when we won. in the percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship.

ago when rebels attacked the facilities thousand and has the third largest oil reserves in sub-saharan africa but the war would started in twenty thirty two years after two thousand and split from sudan with seventy five percent of the oil reserves resulted in major facilities being destroyed. production fell by nearly a third but now a deal signed in july promoted hopes of a return to full production four months on the country is still a long way short of its previous production level at the moment south sudan produces roughly one hundred fifty thousand barrels per day forty percent goes to operational costs and the government is left with ninety thousand barrels out of that twenty percent goes to oil partners such as china sea n.p.c. and religious patron asked and the government keeps the rest but even then the country still has to share some of the profits with the government of sudan that's because south sudan lacks the infrastructure to process and transport its oriel it has the used to dance infrastructure and still has to pay nearly a billion dollars to sudan as part of a financial agr

spoke of them is the most violent jihad is in sub-saharan africa. a little bit fifteen years they've been terrorizing northeastern nigeria and the adjoining states the name can be translated as against western educated. the fundamentalists goal is to establish an islamic caliphate. boko haram has killed thousands of people and taken hundreds hostage mainly women and young girls. when the army in this stage of found wanting to be africans decided to organize vigilante groups and take up bombs such vigilantes operate in the northeastern states of borno. where boko haram is most active. my degree is the buzz. place of boko haram radical islam in nigeria took root in these mosques and the dresses. so me as later the civilian j t f was formed here it's an organization that helps the army fight terrorism. members of the civilian jeje have strong can file often have jobs apart from fighting bokeh horror one such member has recently decided to marry a girl whose life was indelibly affected by boko haram. someone. not. one nation i knew how to. achieve and s

ago when rebels attacked the facilities thousand and has the third largest oil reserves in sub-saharan africa but the war was started in twenty thirty two years after two thousand and split from sudan with seventy five percent of the oil reserves resulted in major facilities being destroyed. production fell by nearly a third but now a deal signed in july promoted hopes of a return to full production for months on the country is still a long way short of its previous production level at the moment south sudan produces roughly one hundred fifty thousand barrels per day forty percent goes to operational costs and the government is left with ninety thousand barrels out of that twenty percent goes to oil partners such as china sea n.p.c. and religious patron asked and the government keeps the rest but even then the country still has to share some of the profits with the government of sudan that's because south sudan lacks the infrastructure to process and transport its oriel it has the used to dance infrastructure and still has to pay nearly a billion dollars to sudan as part of a financial agreem

robust policy is due to government assistance to the north each region or that can give to sub-saharan africa or north africa in order to stabilize this population the second thing the world have to come up with a very robust comprehensive system to fight and contain smuggling and trafficking smugglers traffickers are coordinating as groups as gangs. who are trading arms and in drugs and you have the people and those that we're talking about who are trading in smuggling and trafficking of human beings they share intelligence they share resources they exchange. heavy weapons and they're bent on doing they're controlling the sierras i just mentioned drugs. people. and weapons this is very destabilizing for the world at large and this is billions of dollars of trade if the world does not come up with a mechanism to control this and put it as one of the most important agenda items today on the top of the world agenda i think the situation will get worse and worse and what you have mentioned before that you want to do is north africa becomes really mad you know a drop in the ocean action that was

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migration is the solution to the problem even the view of fifty million people migrating from sub-saharan africa this will not solve the problems to create a huge load of problems for you for the working class europeans specially in competition with the migration it was. enormous strengths on all the social paths on the vala social insurance system and the health system but it will not solve a single problem. britain's biggest police union has hit a treasury chief and claiming he's prioritizing potholes over crime in this week's budget while terrorism policing was allocated one hundred sixty million pounds the funding to repair road holes well was more than twice that this is just another example of the contempt in which the government holds police officers what does it say when a government prioritizes potholes over policing the figures show that england and wales are currently experiencing the highest level of knife crimes on record in one year over thirty nine thousand offenses were registered at the same time homicides increased by fourteen percent robberies were also up considerably. and wh

it but migration is the solution to the problem even the fifty million people migrating from sub-saharan africa this with problems created a huge load of problems for you for the working class europeans specially in competition with the migration it was put enormous strengths on all the social pats on the social insurance system on the health system but it will not solve a single problem. kurdish fighters in northern syria the temporary halt in their operations against the islamic state that comes after kurdish led syrian democratic forces say they came under fire from the turkish military the united states on turkey don't see eye to eye when it comes to the s.d.f. washington supported in the fight against. terrorists the u.s. state department has raised concerns over the turkish president to destroy the group. i don't use them as you know that we have started active intervention operations against a terror organization and the last couple of days we will soon come down hard on the terror organization with more extensive and effective operations unilateral military strikes into northwest syria

the question, so of course, these nations were set up by imperial powers, but just like in sub-saharan africa, if this region were actually allowed to organize itself based on sort of indigenous social forms, you wouldn't have states at all. you would have tribes, ethnic groups, a lot of social units that were really not viable in any kind of modern international order, with some exceptions, iran, egypt, turkey. these are actual real nationstates but the others really are not. they don't have much choice. you're not going to get to any kind of stability unless you can actually create some form of national identity. i was in iraq in late august, and there's been this ongoing struggle because part of the solution to this factionalism is to try to create some kind of sense of overarching iraqis identity, and there are some politicians that are trying to do that but others are perfectly happy to simply push the sectarian agenda of their particular communities. so you can what the alternative is there to having a national story, because we can't undo when hundred 50 years of colonial legacy in tha

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 oh 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. across china millions of cameras are watching citizens every move and scoring their behavior one used to investigate china's surveillance crackdown. on al-jazeera. it was very violent very vicious and terrible. donald trump says he won't listen to jamal khashoggi murder tapes as divisions deepen within

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. 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 up 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 if the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour on a tree branch can cut like a machete. china could be facing a debt iceberg that's according to s. and p. global trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other uses that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on a

right six hundred thirty six that is how many species of animals are critically endangered in sub-saharan africa right now from the black or nasir is to the mongoose lemur hundreds of the continent's unique creatures are likely to disappear forever if nothing is done to help them but among them one story of survival stands out the population of melton go where was is growing now that's according to the international union for the conservation of nature of the organization has now scaled back stead as from critically endangered to endangered. the success came through many years of population monitoring and habitat protection conservation is a series that extinction does not have to be inevitable. it's a rare sight this rugged figure in the forest. but not as rare as before. thirty years ago the mountain gorilla which is darker and shaggier than its low and cousins was nearly extinct. now its population has risen to over one thousand. in rwanda tourists pay large sums nearly one thousand five hundred euros to see these great apes the revenue goes toward protecting the animals. you see me. it's pre

three that involves the stiff stitching of the outer libya and really there's a prevalence in sub-saharan africa is less than ten percent is what gets gets conflated with all the other practices including the practice among the dowdy burra community which is really an absolutely benign but not i met mick it's a symbolic nick the practice the four skin of the of the girl but dowdy bore practice male circumcision which involves the complete removal of the male for skin so we can test this hypocrisy we see it as sexist and we also see it as racism we see it as racist that there are many practices for instance female genital cosmetic surgeries lavey a class that absolutely fit the definition of female genital mutilation that has been laid out by w.h.o. as well as in the legislation that we have here in the us and in other western countries but lady aplastic is not included other forms of female genital cosmetic surgeries are not included and this is because most of the women and adolescent girls who opt for these practices who undergo these practices are wealthy or the affluent countries they're whi

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. to 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 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. as migrants seek sanctuary on it shows the. rescue turns. eighty s. and immigration government has allied with the libyan coast guard in an operation often at loggerheads with n.g.o.s trying to save lives. and people in power is on board with both sides rescue at sea only. five palestinians are killed in violence between israel and hamas across

million have been subjected to female genital mutilation most of them fifteen or younger in sub-saharan africa and arab countries and the care and force is the regional director for asia and the pacific at the un women she says while everyone has a role to play to end violence against women the movement is picking up momentum. violence against women is one of the greatest violations of human rights affecting women's lives everywhere and unfortunately for two alone women who experience violence has been blamed they have been silenced they have been stigmatized the perpetrators largely have gone unpunished and this has kept the magnitude of the problem quiet but we do see that we've come to a tipping point now with the need to movement in other sister movements around the globe which is beginning to change the situation and to transform isolation and silence and you global solidarity everyone has a role to play in ending violence but of course the work itself doesn't happen just during sixteen days it needs to happen every year every day and it has to be done by everybody by governments by commu

the current italian government has prioritized to stop all flows of illegal migration from sub-saharan africa up over libya and into southern southern italy so this is a top national priority for france however france cease the conflict to be resolved through a un mediated process and those attitude converging interests but i am quite confident that the italians and the french can sort out their differences and and in turn lean on the egyptians to ensure that the smooth forward and while we wait for that to happen what is the continued and stability in the media mean for the country and especially its people that eleven through it. well there was during no easy answers to it unfortunately precisely because global powers whether it's the russians and the americans are deadlocked in the political dispute that includes the u.s. presidential election or of the two thousand and sixteen and a future to u.s. russia relationship and directions have very little interest in leveraging that in libya so that's the first aspect the second aspect is that the us air relationship is in disarray over to murde

managed to to work hard and achieve the millenium development goals when no other country in sub-saharan africa was able to do that we were able to build infrastructure develop our roads develop our colleges build eight nine colleges graduate thousands and thousands of air chains from the various colleges so we didn't stop working to feed us for maryam thank you well in the usa hollywood is arguably always been propaganda for the wealthy and powerful even while destroying the lives of those employed by the ogre of show business. it is the subject of a recently published book by the son of two hollywood i go joan collins and the newly that chronicles the alienation felt by those growing up in the spotlight the book is called unaccompanied minor and its author the artist alexander nearly joins me now alexander welcome to going underground so arguably your paintings sure certain alienation about the show business world elite media spotlight is on what made you write a memoir as well when i felt that i was the guardian of this extraordinary treasure trove of memories about growing up as the son of

but there are ordinary muslims who have no education and who come here from north africa sub-saharan africa or the middle east with classic anti semitic prejudices. it's part of the cultural environment they grew up in. to nicholas. the situation is serious in the three years since the attacks and to loosen up the culture supermarket in paris a number of french jews have left the country because they're scared i'm concerned about the future of french jews and the future of france. says raef so we could put a false. this is the paris suburb of stocks and home to one of france's biggest jewish communities. it has approximately twelve thousand jewish residents and an estimated forty thousand christians and muslims on the surface the different faiths live together peacefully more or less but tensions are never far away. in july twenty fourth. demonstration that had been banned by the authorities got out of hand. the mits resulting street battles between arab and jewish youths protesters. attack jewish stores and a synagogue. in january this year and unknown assailant slashed the face of a fifte