hamaha used to attend secondary school in timbuktu himself together with girls by occupying timbuktu he and his followers wanted to stop the advance of western lifestyle as they put it omar will have a hard scene here with his followers during the occupation and twenty twelve had a hard time winning over timbuktu's population and the local media to his religious goals. the chasm between his fundamentalist ideas and the historic city of learning and trade was too large. for the west timbuktu has long been a place of fable full of mystery and a measurable treasures a symbol of the remote and unknown. but the city known as the pearl of the desert has centuries of history as an important west african crossroads today it belongs to mali. timbuktu has long been the gateway to the sahara desert and the world beyond. today it is home to some fifty thousand people who seek to maintain a connection to the modern world while maintaining many of their old traditions. just a few years ago ethnic conflicts were rare most of the time people coexisted peacefully their skinned arabs and. bella and ma

having to go to timbuktu is not worth the sacrifice. they are saying you can get to mars. the thought of ryanair strapping us to rocket fuel for 50p a time. off you go and see how far you get. it is worrying. they are going to tell you what you can claim for once yourflight going to tell you what you can claim for once your flight is cancelled. they have promised that. somebody likes the papers so they say it is likes the papers so they say it is like i have been on the sherry all afternoon. after nights like this, thatis afternoon. after nights like this, that is what you need. you can see all the front pages online. you can watch the programme on i player. both of you, thank you. coming up next, the weather. good evening. willa new month bring a change in the weather? we end september on a bright start this weekend. things will go downhill as weekend. things will go downhill as we move into october. it will turn wet and the winds will be strengthening. everything coming in from the atlantic. we have had a few sharp showers. elsewhere, some clearer skies overnight and it

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provide translations and explanations of the content of the timbuktu manuscript. which could have been written in 15th century florence. it's all about humanism. i'm curious about the content and voices that you think should get out and is there -- who should be doing that? who can do that and how? nadia: great question. the good thing is that there is actually a plethora. as research in my book, i was going -- i said if you look at education, there is also self-entrepreneurs. for example, one young man living in dubai was watching his kids watching children's stories on tv. the very intolerant, almost fascist ideas that we're superior we're muslim and non-muslims are not human. he was not comfortable. even not directly haven't, it's that great area makes it easy for to you get to the next state. you have to go through it. so he quit his job and studied this platform. children stories in beautiful arabic. he hired top linguists and local actors to for the stories. which basically aim at instilling in children curiosity about the other. about the world in general.

my mother was a math teacher in timbuktu. my brother tagging along 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 professional development in title ii part a of essa is redundant and duplicative. and limiting title ii part a sends a message that teachers, school staff and principals 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 paraprofessionals fall into? sec. devos: first of all, the title 2a program has b

by the reporter as actually having been delivered on the floor when the speaker probably was in timbuktu. he was right to be skeptical of all of that and knew about that. people did, in those days, really care -- in the early days my start practicing law, people really did care about the actual language of what was being worked out in subcommittee. we forget the four statement, but they were food fights and parliamentarians were called in to rule on the ability of this amendment or that amendment and how many people have heard about an amendment to the third degree? [laughter] one and goes up. god, you couldn't get through it, it was actually great theater to go to a markup session and watch the food being fought over whether or not an amendment could be used to amend an amendment that was being used to amend an amendment used to amend the statute or whatever. people really, really iran every single word of the text and i can assure you, with my experience, john dingell never would have given any discretion to epa that if he could possibly of whatever he gave epa the number they had to u

and inserted by the reporter as having to deliver on the floor when the speaker was somewhere in timbuktu. he was right to be skeptical of all of that and he knew all about that. in those days, the early days when i first started, people did care about the actual language of what was being worked on. forget the reports, forget the floor statements. ande were food fights parliamentarians were called in to rule on the validity of this amendment or that amendment. how many people have heard of an amendment to the third degree? one hand goes up. you could not get through -- it was great theater to go to a session and watch the food being fought over, whether or not an amendment could be used to amend or an amendment could be used to amend an amendment. people would ground out every word that i can assure you from dingellience, john never would have given any discretion to the epa if he could avoid. he gave them the numbers they had to use. it was not dream up or grant, it is that is what it is and live with it. congress started, part of it is the three day work week, it is hard to have deep s

the google cultural institute is to provide translations and explanations of the contents of the timbuktumanuscript. the could've been written in 15th century florence. curious about the content of voices they you think should get out. who should be doing that? who, and how? >> the good thing is there is -- the research in my book i was is that if you look at education for example one young man was watching his kids watching children stories on tv and saw actorsry intolerance, most precious ideas that we are superior. all these ideas that he is not comfortable even if not directly violent about the gray area that makes it easy for you to get to the next stage. so he quits his job and started the platform of children stories. he hired top linguists of vocal actors to put forth the stories which basically aim at instilling in children curiosity about the other as opposed to animosity. tolerance, diversity, individualism, he believed that his kids need for 21st century. so his product we get zero advertising.hat? so there's music, film, and short film there's a plethora of talent.. people wh

agree with mark, it's frustrating to see them keep kicking the debt ceiling can down the road to timbuktuhat, you know, you're not going to shut down the government when we've got this horrible tragedy. neil: i do think the hurricanes have changed the complexion of the debate, maybe for good. mark, i concerned and your thoughts on the number of conservatives of freedom caucus folks as well concerned that the president's deal to restrain spending just isn't there, that the very fact he's working with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi telegraphs that, i think that's a little sweeping and simplistic, but is that a concern of yours that maybe the president is doing this out of frustration? yes, but he's sending a signal to those worried about spending, get over it? >> i think we need to cut that down the middle. i think the president has never expressed his yield for cutting spending, that is a problem, the base needs to express frustration about that. neil: they just did, right. you hear the freedom caucus and the president said who cares, right? >> and i agree, and so i agree with the freedom

an example i'm working on with my timbuktu renaissance project in mali and working specifically in timbuktu, northern mali you mentioned, working with the global cultural institute, is to provide translations and explanations of the content of the timbuktu manuscripts, which could have been written in 15th-century florence. it's all about humanism. so i'm curious about the content and the voices that you think should get out. and is there -- who should be doing that? who can do that and how? >> so, a great question. the good thing is that there's actually a plethora. so, as i'm researching my book, i was actually going to -- i saw that there's -- if you look at education, there's also -- so, thought entrepreneurs, if you would. like, for example, one young man, a jordanian living in dubai, was watching his kids watching children's stories on tv and saw the very intolerant, almost fascist ideas that we are superior because we're muslim and non-muslims are practically not human, so all these ideas that he was not comfortable, even though they're not directly violent, it's that gray area that