populationhe wider in timbuktu.here were some individual damages mostly to people whose direct ancestors were buried in the shrines that were destroyed in 2012. as well as people relying solely on economic activity surrounding the shrine. apart from that only collective damages. educationgo toward about the value of these things and a memorial. he will spend the next nine years in jail. he wasn't evil able to pay for his own legal costs for the trial. there will be a trust fund for victims. they have been asked to fund raise this together and they are also the ones who will have to decide how it will be done. andmuch will be collected they have until february 15 of next year to draw up the plan that will show what money will go where. set at this could precedent when it comes to punishing cultural destruction around the world. >> that is certainly what the court hopes. they have warned people shouldn't expect too much and cautioned that if too high damages are awarded on an individual basis that could incentivize pe

my mother was a mess teacher in timbuktu. -- my mother was a math teacher in timbuktu. my brother tagalong with my father for graduate work for my parents. we would get into classrooms and act like we were students, thinking we were just as smart as some of the students were. the point is, we all have so much invested through our families, through our organizations back in our home states. so, we have our work cut out for us. we are planning our best efforts to squeeze this through the area that we can make improvements in and take a hard look, but realize we need to get a bill. >> secretary, you previously stated funding designated for title ii part a of essa is redundant and duplicative. and limiting title ii part a sends a message that teachers, school staff and principles have hit all the benchmarks and they do not need to improve, or they are doing so poorly that there is no need to invest in them. which category do you believe teachers, principals and professionals fall into? sec. devos: first of all, the title iia program has been spread very thinly. it has been

she says, if i'm in timbuktu, i'll be back in a new york minute. >> yeah. >> and the audience didn'tou could tell by their reaction. >> it was a total surprise. >> they didn't even see suzy or myself. they saw the bedroom set, and they knew it was from the "bob newhart" show. and they started applauding the bedroom set. >> it was a great surprise if ever there was one. you remember talking before we came on camera here, and i was saying to you in some ways, speaking of suzanne pleshette, you're the last man standing, mary fran is gone. tom poston is gone. you're 88 this year? >> i'll be 88 in september. >> 88 in september. what -- >> still foolin' them. [ laughter ] >> still makin' them laugh. what do you make of the fact, you're so blessed, that's my word, not yours. >> no, i feel the same way. i've been very blessed. we were talking during makeup. and we were talking about the first album. the very first album, a comedy record. >> still in chicago then. >> i was in chicago. >> still living in your parents' home at the time. >> that's right. we recorded in houston, texas. and we tho

tojohannesburg, steven mcgowan has walked into a news conference, he was kidnapped from a hotel in timbukturs and held hostage by al-qaeda for several years. he is on the right. he still has severe headaches but he has decided to come and speak to you and i'm not sure how long he will be able to go on, but we will ta ke will be able to go on, but we will take it a step at a time. his family will speak to you one—on—one after the news conference if you want. stephen will answer a few questions. please bear with him. i want to introduce a very important person first of all, without whom this would not have been possible, the man on the left, mohammed, a person of mali origin in south africa. he agreed to take on the case in 2015. i was looking for a person of mali origin who knows the tribes and was prepared to go into the region and meet the people who can lead to the captors and within two hours he walked into our office. he has been to mali nine times and at some point his wife was ill and his children wail but he stayed there nevertheless. he has not taken any money and has not asked for

it a lot has changed since he was taken hostage six years ago in timbuktu.in what his reaction was to find that donald trump is now the president of the united states, this is what he said. donald trump... i know he is making... from the major eugene side, they say he is making enemies that they are pleased because they say it is good for islam because there will be more mujahedin getting into war to fight america. that is their view. my view, i'm just in the moment. mcgowan has dual citizenship, here's south african but also holds a british passport. but he made every effort to downplay his uk connection because he did not want to attract further hostility. it took a long time for the british state is to fall away. my family were pushing for this and i was pushing for this because it is dangerous to be british, i think. because it is dangerous to be british, ithink. i because it is dangerous to be british, i think. i think american, french and british are the top forms. at one stage, he thought he was going to be next when he witnessed a german hostage bein

the base in the city of timbuktu was attacked by unknown men armed with machine—guns, according to ae reportedly killed in the assault. in a separate incident, a un peacekeeper was shot dead by armed men in central mali. burkina faso has declared three days of national mourning after at least 18 people were killed in the capital, ouagadougou. president roch marc christian kabore has condemned what he called a despicable and cowardly terrorist attack. two assailants who opened fire on a turkish restaurant were killed. around ten people were wounded during the attack, which lasted several hours. alex duval smith reports from dakar. security forces sealed off the area around the avenue. eyewitnesses say two men drove up on a motorbike to the assembled restaurant at about 9:30 p.m.. they opened fire on donors seated on the terrace. translation: we had just finished eating, and then we left the restau ra nt. eating, and then we left the restaurant. we were waiting outside for the driver to come and pick us up, and then we heard the shootings. after that, i didn't see anything. translation

timbuktu, a city rich in history. it suffered a violentjihadist invasion five years ago.kers but tourists have not come back to this unesco world heritage site. and so this unesco world heritage site. and so the lucrative jobs for the locals have become even fewer. just outside the town a fish farm project supported by the red cross. it is aimed at providing jobs for the young men and women here, since the nearby river niger appears to be shrinking, affecting localfarming and fishing. translation: the only reason tojoin the and fishing. translation: the only reason to join the armed groups is for money. if young men can find a job, which will allow them to cover theirfamily‘s job, which will allow them to cover their family's needs, i job, which will allow them to cover theirfamily‘s needs, i think they would prefer to remain here. 300 kilometres away in the town of gao, the challenges are similar. international organisations have attempted projects to empower local people but these have not thrived because of insecurity. there really isn't much to keep the young people h

un peacekeeping mission in mali have been killed after gunmen attacked that base in the city of timbuktu. helicopters were deployed to the scene and both gunmen were killed the peacekeeping mission in mali is the deadliest of the un's sixteen global. operations. well in two hundred people have been confirmed killed following i'm huge mud slides in sierra leone and according to charity work is that number is expected to rise. heavy rains overnight caused part of the sugar life mountain to collapse onto a town. on the outskirts of the capital freetown. nnova river of mud gushes through the outskirts of freetown. amid heavy rain sierra leone's capital is ill equipped to handle the deadly torrance which have left hundreds dead. with roads washed out people did what they could to remove bodies and search for survivors. after him be stabilized and buried ramshackle homes that once sprinted. much of the coastal city laziness c. level drainage systems a pool. it leaves overcrowded makeshift settlements far more at risk during the nation's annual rainey's. other infrastructure in the city has bee

one of my favorite books last year was reading that bad ass librarians of timbuktu which i commend to my colleagues as a terrific book of just simply the sub-saharan terrorist organizations connected with al qaeda and the islamic state and others, just their relentless effort to destroy thousands of years of islamic manuscripts just because they could. so i hope that you recommend to the treasury department that when secretary mnuchin goes to the coal this year to discuss this gulf states headquartered terror finance unit, that this issue of antiquities transfer be put on his agenda in the gulf states to guess i've no doubt if you wanted a relic from the levant it seems like that would have high-value among gulf state actors with funding. following up on doctor foster's comments about the buy side come on the sell side, where is in your view the major leakage of cultural artifacts? are they primarily exiting through turkey to these other markets you described, or to the coast come summer on the mediterranean. talk to me about where you think we should be most vigilant and looking for

one of my favorite books last year was reading "the bad us assrarians -- the bad librarians of timbuktu." i recommend that book. terrorist organizations associated with islamic state, their relentless effort to destroy thousands of years of islamic manuscripts, just because they could. hope you will recommend to the treasury department that when secretary mnuchin goes to the gulf this year to discuss the gulf states-headquartered para finance unit that this subject of antiquities transfer be put on the agenda. because if you want a relic from the labonte, it seems like that thed have high-value from funders. following up on dr. foster's comments, on the sale side where is on your view the major leakage of cultural artifacts? are they primarily exiting through turkey to these other markets you described? or to the coast somewhere on the mediterranean? talk to me about where you think we should be most insulin at looking for the -- vigilant about looking for the leakage. have pretty much stepped up. the numbers of artifacts that the turkish police forces have actually recovered are actual

one of my favorite books last year was reading the bad librarians of timbuktu and i commit to my colleagues as a terrific book. the relentless effort to destroy thousands of years of manuscripts just because they could. i hope you'll recommend to the treasury department that when the secretary goes to the golf this year to discuss this issue be put on his agenda as i have no doubt, if you wanted a relic from the labonte, seems like that would have high value with funding. following up on doctor foster's comments, where is the major leakage of cultural artifacts? are they primarily exiting through turkey to these other markets you've described, or to the coast somewhere on the mediterranean? talk to me about where you think we should be most vigilant in looking for the leakage. >> thank you for the questions. the turkish law enforcement has actually stepped up to the current crisis about site looting and the number of artifacts that have been recovered are extraordinary and point to the effectiveness of the law-enforcement response. my own view on this is that much of the large antiquities,

worldwide, and it got to be sort of quite a joke that the next phone call was gonna be for andrew from timbuktu of people actually found the whole episode a little bit macabre, where others were absolutely fascinated. when something of interest arrives for auction, it may not necessarily be of great value, but there's very often a wonderful story behind it. >> it's a wild story. >> it is. churchill had a lisp, and these partial dentures were specially designed to maintain that lisp. so it was, you know, of paramount importance. >> word got out. >> yep. i came across it in the himalayan times newspaper. and i thought, "probably now, we've done enough p.r." >> coming up, the bidding begins. >> and it just went rapidly, rapidly, rapidly up. >> who buys dentures? >> well, a very, very good question. >> and one we'll answer next. what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. say carl, we have a question about your brokerage fees. fees? what did you have in mind? i don't know. $4.95 per trade? uhhh and i was wondering if

has dual south african and british citizenship, was one of four foreigners seized in the city of timbuktu to secure his release. speaking at a news conference in johannesburg, mr mcgowan explained what he believed his captor‘s motivation to be. i don't believe they knew my nationality when they caught me. they would have preferred me to have been british. this would have been first prize. it took a long time for british status to fall away. my family was pushing for this and i was pushing for this. because it is dangerous. to be british. i think american, french and british, these are the top ones. so you know, they kidnapped me, because ijust wasn't a muslim. that was it. i suppose they... want prisoner exchanges and they... want prisoner exchanges and they want money. but i'm not certain, i don't know the details, i'm not sure how i got released. this is what they would like. yeah. so they would kidnap anybody i understand, because if they're non—muslim. the situation is commercial. i didn't understand the language. 0ne commercial. i didn't understand the language. one of our first expe

has dual south african and british citizenship, was one of four foreigners seized in the city of timbuktuce in johannesburg, mr mcgown explained what he believed his captor‘s motivation to be. ido i do not believe that the new my nationality. the obviously would have preferred me to be british. 0nly took a long time for the british ideas to fall away and i think my family were concerned because it's so dangerous. to be british. i think you to issue are the top tier. they kidnap me because andi the top tier. they kidnap me because and i suppose they they want prisoner exchanges, but i'm not sure, i don't know how the details of how i've is released, but i yet so limited that anybody i understand, because if their numbers. it takes a long time to get your head and get around the situation. they didn't understand the language, the environment, the worst was when we put into a camp andi worst was when we put into a camp and i was like 0k and i'm probably in the situation because my british ties. and over of confusion. the headlines on bbc news... the national crime agency says the scale of sl

otherwise, you know, but timbuktu as well as parts of tangiers is where he hung out. so we got there he wasn't there. so the part and toes there's a a place we can get upstairs room you can have on the fifth floor. we get what you call the top floor, you know, onto the roof, you know, this building. about 3:00 in the morning someone came in through the window and took ralph wallace and all his money and everything. everything. and i saw him run across the rooftop it it was too late to catch him, but ralph said that's enough for me. the next day -- how to find out information, how was he traveled traveling, will he be arriving at certain times. but it did my best to i said what are the greatest fear in tangiers. i stayed there the fall 30 some odd days and missed malcolm complete because i could not get a bead on what exactly where he was becoming a lid on i'm going to discover that certain other kind of things happening in his life that delayed that arrival. i tried to time in such way, but anyway i missed him there. i was going going to be some again, peter, february