of frantic parents. >> i saw with my own eyes 11 boko haram vehicles. they were with the children. when they got to the road, they stopped and blocked the road. they did not talk or agree to anybody. they dropped the children at one corner. everyone came and i got my child. reporter: the girls are back in their community, but some are clearly marked by their months of captivity. aged between 11 and 19, they are still coming to terms with today's unexpected freedom and mourning the friends who did not make it. >> there were five of us that died. those that died were not killed by boko haram. they died because they were trampled upon. it was stress and trauma that made them tired and weak. reporter: while their relatives reflect on a month of uncertainty, the nigerian government has denied paying a ransom for the girls, saying what they call back channel efforts brought the breakthrough. >> it was agreed it would be no force. that is why it was possible for them to drop the girls. it was part of the agreement. released the girls. reporter: most of the kid

boko haram came and invaded boama. on the third day of the invasion, a childhood friend to my senior other, who had joand boko haram, led other boko haram men to ou house loking for my brother. he could not see him, so he said they're going with me to the bush to go and marry me. my father objected. they held him, and in my presence, they used a knife to ice his throat and kill him instantly. my step-mother also protested. they also held her and killed her. fortunately enough, my mother was not at homtoe, so theok me away. >> woodruff: i can't even imagine. and you were helfor how long? and how were you treated? >> ( translated ): i got pregnant in their custody, and my pregnancy was abo nine months when i escaped. i can't say precisely the as unt of mon stayed in their custody. one day i brvegged they were not paying attention in the night when they were in the mosque. i succeeded in escaping. >> woodruff: did you blieve you would be able to safely escape? >> ( translated ): i never thought i could escape, but it was

and, surviving boko haram. two women describe the horrors of living under the insurgent group's control, and their harrowing escape. >> ( translated ): i never thought i could escape, but it was the best thing to do at that moment, because i was nine months pregnant. i felt i may die in the process of giving birth, so i better die while escaping. >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the cooration for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: the investigation of apparent serial bombings in texas shifted today. therhad already been four bombings in austin, that killed two people. overnight, a package exploded at a feex shipping center just outside san antonio. one worker suffered minor injuries, and the site was cordoned of

one hundred of them are still in captivity or still with boko haram but a huge amount of them amount of them was released last year for example dozens of them were released and in the beginning the government claimed they were unconditionally released late on sources within the government confirmed that there was money paid for their release and also some senior fighters and members of the terrorist group where were released in exchange with the current jap she of doctrines the government again claims that the release was unconditional but this is not very likely why would let them go off to keeping them for one month without receiving anything in return and a lot of people are fearing the consequences if money was paid indeed for those girls again to the terrorists this might be yet again an incentive for them to invade other communities and ducted another set of people in the future and it's a double edged sword indeed remind us again if you and if you will how it was possible in the first place that this group of schoolgirls were able to be kidnapped in such a brazen way. well it

of frantic parents you know again you do know what i saw with my own eyes eleven boko haram vehicles they were with the children when they got to the road they stopped and blocked the road he didn't talk to anybody he didn't greet anybody they were just shouting. they dropped the children one corner everyone came and i got my child and i was. there the girls are back in their community but some a clearly marked by their month of captivity. aged between eleven and nineteen this still coming to terms with today's unexpected freedom and mourning the friends who didn't make it. was the mood there were five of us that died those that died were not killed by poking around they died because they were trampled upon it was stress and trauma that made them tired and weak. while their relatives reflect on a month of uncertainty the nigerian government has denied paying a ransom for the gold saying what they call back channel efforts brought the breakthrough it was i agree that it will force the authorization. that's why it was possible that it was this part of that movement that was against wha

haram extremists who abducted them dropped them off but they left a warning with the family so don't try educating your daughters again or we'll be back also coming off the facebook data scandal gets the attention of german chancellor i'm in her first speech since starting her fourth term she lays out her new government's vision and on facebook boss mark zuckerberg breaks his silence offering users a feature to turn off those third party apps but not a word about facebook and its role in the u.s. presidential election. it's good to have you with us tonight the homecoming in nigeria that no one was expecting militant islamist boko haram have freed many of the one hundred ten schoolgirls they snatched from the town of death she just a month ago but their act of clemency came with a haunting warning to parents don't try sending your daughters to school again or we'll be back we begin with this report. there were new limits to the jubilation in dempsey. to the complete surprise of local residents a convoy of pickup trucks and into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidn

earlier in the day boko haram militants had driven the girls back into town chee and set them free to the delight of dozens of frantic parents. you know i got need to do and i saw with my own eyes eleven boko haram vehicles they were with the children when they got to the road they stopped and blocked the road he didn't talk to anybody he didn't greet anybody they were just shouting allahu akhbar they dropped the children at one corner everyone came and i got my child and i was. there and the girls are back in their community but some are clearly marked by their months of captivity. aged between eleven and nineteen this still coming to terms with today's unexpected freedom and mourning the friends who didn't make it. was the mood there were five of us that died those that died were not killed by poking around they died because they were trampled upon it was stress and trauma that made them tired and weak. while their relatives reflect on a month of uncertainty the nigerian government has denied paying a ransom for the gold saying what they call back channel efforts brought the breakth

well basically when you when these girls were taken by boko haram last month there was anger towards prospering them there was a lot of comments on this from the nigerian side for from nigerians but the government and the nation have still to learn from the experience beside the experience of chibok in two thousand and fourteen now people are questioning whether or not the government when i think what we protect to build in the show landlords as security services secure boarding schools and that children all students in those schools will be protected but what's happening is that she is alive to that that the schools are still vulnerable and that there is no i'd be good protection to the schools as you can use to go the police that they're deploying thousands of their own to secure their schools but everybody knows that all quarter army fights when these locations are most vulnerable well for the moment we'll leave it there and it's thanks for the updates we'll come back to you when we get more information thank you moving on a tour of the top story in police in the u.s. state of tex

and boko haram militants free scores of girls kidnapped from their school and duck she nigeria but the extremists warn the girl's parents against ever sending their daughters to school again to go back to lagos for the latest. i'm sorry so much going to good to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel has marked the beginning of her fourth term in office with a wide ranging policy statement the chancellor addressed a number of issues including the emissions scandal surrounding the automobile industry and she also spoke about migration and islam in a contradiction of her newly appointed interior minister of course a whole for she insisted that islam had become a part of germany. it is up to no question. that historically our country is christian but i am i am i'm right this is it's also right to say that the four and a half million muslims living in germany mean that their religion islam has not become a part of germany. let's bring in our chief political editor michelle or cooper who is in the bundestag. this was a chance or so first major policy speech since she was sworn in a

just a theory and its allies have been fighting boko haram in the lake chad region for years but brazen kidnapping and drop off of victims indicates that the group is far from being defeated solomon job aid are there. pressure continues to grow on facebook over revelations that personal data from the social media site was misused by a u.k. analytics company facebook shares have rallied slightly of a volatile few days which cost it fifty billion dollars in market value but a us president is saying it and the u.k. for cambridge analytical for obtaining data without their uses permission well could be the first of many nor suit our correspondent mike hanna is in washington for so why what concerns are there in the u.s. over this. well massive concerns not only with facebook but of course that company rich analytical which used data it had harvested from facebook allegedly to influence the twenty sixteen election well a senate committee on intelligence has been looking at election security in the course of the day but other lawmakers as well are demanding that facebook give some reasons for

now in the jury of boko haram militants have freed more than one hundred girls abducted from a boarding school in northeastern nigeria a month ago when out this exclusive video that you're about to see a chained by d.w. from our partner station a channels television here it is shows the some of the freed girls or shortly after their release of boko haram warn parents so not to send the girls back to school the nigerian government said it did not pay ransom for the girls or her release and that more girls can be expected to be released in the days to come. on the don't use it or increase is in law goss and i spoke to some of the released hostages and he described the mood for us in the village. well you've seen it it's time for jubilation she today but it's also time for shock for some of the people because this came really as a big surprise there were not a lot of indications that pointed in this direction that the girls would be released anytime soon so we've learned that the terrorists came into this through the town early this morning and first people were scared they thought it coul

one hundred of them are still in captivity or still with boko haram but a huge amount of them amount of them was released last year for example dozens of them were released and in the beginning the government claimed they were unconditionally released late on sources within the government confirmed that there was money paid for their release and also some senior fighters and members off the terrorist group where released in exchange with the current death she of directions the government again claims that the release was unconditional but this is not very likely why would let them go off to keeping them for one month without receiving anything in return and a lot of people are fearing the consequences if money was paid indeed for those dumps the girls again to the terrorists this might be yet again an incentive for them to invade other communities and abduct another set of people in the future right it's a double edged sword indeed remind us again if you do and if you will how it was possible in the first place that this group of schoolgirls were able to be kidnapped in such a brazen

boko haram fighters it dropped the girls in the center of the early on wednesday morning the nigerian government says it chose to negotiate with the armed group rather than use military force we have been in negotiations. with this faction of. the subjects for quite a while because most what. else nor money peter. this isn't the first time schoolgirls have been abducted in nigeria there was international outrage in twenty fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from chibok many of them still missing i should derry's father is just grateful his daughter is safe and his family when they have to leave you at first when i heard the news i was waiting for confirmation when i found out the children were coming home after ten minutes the town was crowded with people celebrating and praying people were really happy. much needed time with their families will have to wait the next step for these girls is the capital of buddha had a meeting with president mohammed duper hari richard martin al jazeera two yemeni government ministers have resigned after calling for their p

boko haram is the most deplorable organizations on the planet. since 2009, they killed, depending on what you read or statistics you see, well over 20,000 people and displaced millions. they are notorious for the things that you talked about. with regard to the chibok girls, almost four years ago this month, april, four years ago, 276 were taken away. 163 have been returned, 60%, in a closed session, we can discuss where we think the other 113 girls are. february 19th, there's a location that's about 150 miles north of where chibok is and though no group claimed responsibility based on location, based on open sources, we believe it's isis, west africa. isis west africa was at one time part of boko haram but they split for a whole host of reasons. one of the things i will tell you is we have been asked to provide assistance to the government of nigeria to try to help find these girls. we can talk more about that in a closed session, but we are providing assistance in terms of intelligence, support, planning, and the like that they have asked us fo

by would appear to be a convoy of boko haram fighters nigeria's information minister says one hundred four girls are freed at least five are rip reportedly died in captivity yemen central bankers seized all activities due to shortage of cash comes after a large shipment of yemeni reelz was seized by u.s. forces in february a letter obtained by al jazeera shows the central bank request of the funds be released but it's yet to receive a response well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statement that so much of my fellow. we are witnessing around the word this whole remind me which is only looking at how to make the next profit. economies devastating ecosystems putting a price on the protection of nature green economy is sound good it was all about privatized sation of nature should our environment be for sale what we're trying to do this destroyed people to stabilize the country giving them a financial incentive to do that pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera.

just nigeria and its allies have been fighting boko haram in the lake chad region for years but brazen kidnapping and drop off of victims indicates that the group is far from being defeated solomon jobby the. so there. let's get more on the story joining me now in the studio is david autor who is a counterterrorism analyst specializing in back of her thanks very much for coming in to speak personally here so how did the government managed to secure the release of these girls from that i mean what we the story we got from the government is that you know these girls were brought up very early in the mornin by a book or i'm fighters it was a triumphant entry and we've seen a lot of celebrations but what we also get is that you know vin brought in the goes in the boat nine s.u.v. trucks and then preached for them for about thirty minutes before even left the goes in various locations to the appearance and perhaps to local officials but we don't really understand why book who could actually drive as you read trucks you know into your bear which is highly fortified and then midway away back

you know i don't need to and i saw with my own eyes eleven boko haram vehicles they were with the children when they got to the ruled they stopped and blocked the road he didn't talk to anybody he didn't greet anybody they were just shouting allahu akhbar they dropped the children at one corner everyone came and i got my child and i was. there the girls are back in their community but some a clearly marked by their month of captivity. aged between eleven and nineteen this still coming to terms with today's unexpected freedom and mourning the friends who didn't make it but not the looks of love that there were five of us that die and those that died were not killed by the koran they died because they were trampled upon it was stress and trauma that made them tired and weak. while their relatives reflect on a month of uncertainty the nigerian government has denied paying a ransom for the goat saying what they call back channel efforts brought the breakthrough it was i grieve that will be a real force for the christian. that's what was possible that took us this part of the agreement that wer

boko haram strikes again, kidnapping over a hundred schoolgirls in nigeria. now nearly a fortnight on, eye—witness accounts start to emerge. i am kasia madera in london. when of russia's new generation of weapons unveiled by president putin say they can't evade us defence system. and hoping for oscar glory... the profoundly deaf six road who bejoining the glory... the profoundly deaf six road who be joining the stars on the red carpet this weekend. —— 6—year—old. live from our studios in singapore, and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where president trump said it's unfair trade as he announced the us will impose tough tariffs on steel and aluminium imports next week — up to 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium goods. and the response? the eu says the move appears blatantly protectionist. canada — the biggest exporter of steel to the us — called it unacceptable. and china, the main target of the tariffs, said they'd retaliate. nick bryant has the details from wa

well it's a homecoming no one was expecting in nigeria the islamist group boko haram has freed most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls that they snatched from the town of doc a month ago but their act of clemency came with a chilling warning to parents don't try sending your daughters to school again or we will be back our correspondent chris has this report. limits to the jubilation and dope show. to the complete surprise of local residents a convoy of pickup trucks said into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. many of them however are still in shock. that. we don't know why they brought us back out but they told us when muslims and we share the same faith so they didn't want us to suffer they didn't molest us or subject us to any kind of sexual harassment but they kept one of the girls on religious grounds where she's a christian and refused to renounce her religion that is then reassess. the parents of the returned girls can hardly believe their luck with some of them even fainting . and yeah why am i how i oh i was crying if you guys back but

that's a homecoming no one was expecting in nigeria the islamist group boko haram has freed most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls that they snatched from the town of doxy a month ago but their act of clemency came with a chilling warning to parents don't try sending your daughters to school again or we will be back our correspondent critias this report. there were no limits to the jubilation in dempsey. to the complete surprise of local residents a convoy of pickup trucks and into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. many of them however are still in shock. that. we don't know why they brought us back out i told us when muslims and we share the same faith so they didn't want us to suffer they didn't molest us or subject us to any kind of sexual harassment but they kept one of the girls on religious grounds when she's a christian and refused to renounce her religion and that is that. the parents of the return girls can hardly believe their luck with some of them even fainting. and yeah why am i how i oh i was crying if you guys back but today i am

most of the hundred ten nigerian schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram last month the been reunited with their families the girls were returned to their hometown abducted by would appear to their convoy burke around fighters nigeria's information minister says one hundred four girls were freed but at least five girls were reportedly died in a few still missing police in the u.s. state of texas say the suspect in a series of possible bombings as killed himself authorities say they found a phone recording of marc condit confessing to the crimes five possible bombs that exploded in texas this month killing two and injuring several others well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after age a select statement that's what. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current of families that matter to you. al-jazeera. the.

and syria's government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now free a few though are still missing they've been brought to the president and ministers who negotiated their release. syrian rebels have surrendered a town and thousands of fighters and civilians are being allowed to leave harasta and travel to province to other areas in eastern grew to remain under rebel control . the former president of france nicolas sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation questions for twenty four hours over allegations that his two thousand and seven presidential campaign was partly funded by libyan money he could face charges of corruption misuse of libyan funds and illegal campaign funding. reports from paris. well back in two thousand and seven when the killer sarkozy swept to power in france it was around that same time that the former libyan leader colonel gadhafi was trying to reenter the world stage gain some legitimacy for years libya had been a rogue state gadaffi a political pariah and in sarkozy's all someone who could hel

eye witnesses have told a largely cut dow that boko haram drove the girls out of town on a truck. totally disappointed by the action of the government fully i mean that same for the security sewage in the in the town after three weeks ago. so this. would draw back to the barracks and gave them. that moment where own sort as a result of that and then. come as a result of that the state's commissioner of education rejects any responsibility he says it's impossible to place soldiers on guard at all schools under his charge but he's concerned that parents in the region might stop sending their children to school on the school for one week. i don't think it would open that school after the one we would have given because the pattern is developing to fit they will not be willing to as their wants to go back to the school after one week that on his own is already a setback so the terrorists can achieve their targets. always younger daughter doesn't want to go back. she says she's too afraid with her father continue to send his children to school. and to get into that. prayers and face he

that boko haram drove the girls out of town on a truck. and were totally disappointed by the action of the government fully the. same for the security suzi in the in the town after three weeks ago. so this. would drop to the barracks and get them so at that moment where only sucked as a result of that and then. come as a result of that the state's commissioner of education rejects any responsibility he says it's impossible to place soldiers on guard at all schools under his charge but he's concerned that parents in the region might stop sending their children to school on the school for one week. i don't think it would open that school after the one we would have given because the pattern is i develop the code to fit they may not be willing to as their wants to go back to the school after one week that is already a setback so the terrorists can achieve their targets. that. always younger daughter doesn't want to go back. she says she's too afraid with her father continue to send his children to school. and get into that. by the skittish ab

also coming out boko haram militants free over seventy five girls kidnapped from their school and she nigeria but the extremists warn the girl's parents against after sending their daughters to school again we'll go live to lagos for the latest. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us a british academic who created the app that harvested data on millions of facebook users says he's being used as a scapegoat by both the social network and the political consultancy behind it that data grap facebook says aleksander kogan violated its policies by passing the data to cambridge analytic and the u.k. based firm is now in hot water after its c.e.o. was filmed by undercover reporters boasting about the dirty tricks he uses to swing an election results. the center of london home to cambridge analytical. the firm c.e.o. had a reputation for enjoying media attention but in the past few days alexander nick seemed less happy in the media spotlight. on tuesday cambridge analytical suspended next following an undercover investigation by british broadcaster channel four he was secretly film

haram but insists that no ransom money was paid. at least four people are dead after a car bomb exploded in the somali capital of mogadishu the explosion took place near the parliament building police say the bomb was detonated at a checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped a suspicious vehicle. is a test stepped up security ahead of the country's three day presidential election which begins on monday president sisi is hoping for a high turnout to legitimize his rule took power in two thousand and thirteen after overthrowing egypt's first democratically elected president opposition figures have called for a boycott of the poll. authorities in belo groups have arrested dozens of protesters ahead of an opposition march in the capital minsk that was banned the attempted demonstration was meant to commemorate belarus's one thousand eight hundred proclamation of independence from russia earlier authorities detained two opposition politicians and several of the marchers organizers. and formula one there's been a surprise opening t

the government denies paying boko haram a ransom. suspect linked to a series of explosions in austin, texas has died. the suspect blew up an explosive as police and fenced on an earlier today. lycee they have 25 minute audio recording of the suspect in which he described the bombs he constructed, after searching his home. the television presenter ant mcpartlin has been charged with drink—driving, after being arrested in connection with a road accident in south—west london on sunday. several people needed treatment for minor injuries following the crash in richmond. ant mcpartlin will appear before magistrates in wimbledon next month. itv has said his on—screen partner, declan donnelly, will host their programme, saturday night takeaway, on his own when it returns at the end of the month. now it's time for newsnight with emily maitlis. 0ne years since terror hit the streets of manchester and people lost their lives. the attack confounded security services. who was the perpetrator? did he work alone? tonight, and extended newsnig

haram but insists no ransom money was paid. egypt test stepped up security ahead of the country's three day presidential election which begins on monday president c.c. is hoping for high turnout to legitimize his rule of sisi took power in two thousand and thirteen after overthrowing egypt's first democratically elected president opposition figures have called for a boycott of the poll. at least four people are dead after a car bomb exploded in the somali capital mogadishu the explosion took place near the parliament building police say the bomb was detonated at a checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped a suspicious vehicle. the first ever statue of david bowie has been unveiled in england music fans gathered to watch the ceremony in the town of aylesbury where the rock star debuted his ziggy stardust character though he died in january two thousand and sixteen after a battle with liver cancer. in formula one there has been a surprise in the opening race of the season in australia with german driver sebastian vettel s

follows despard wait for his daughter was dozens of other nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram return home. a swap deal in syria's. changed for rebels ahead of the first the evacuation of civilians but as the saudi crown prince visit washington u.s. media say the police documents show the extent of lobbying to try to influence the trumpet ministration. and. have all the day's sport including serena williams is the latest victim a twenty year old. as a former world number one falls in the first round. the boss of facebook has promised to safeguard the information of its two billion users after a major data breach it's the first time that mark zuckerberg has publicly addressed accusations that fifty million users had their data harvested by a third party app and passed on to a political consultancy that firm cambridge analytical is accused of improperly accessing the information to manipulate u.s. voters during the twenty sixteen election cycle book says that it's a breach of trust he's committed to stopping the use of the social media platform to interfere in elections including

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isis west africa one time was part of boko haram. one of the things i will tell you is that we have been asked to provide assistance to the government to nigeria to help fund these girls. we can talk more about than a closed session but we are providing assistance in terms of intelligence support planning and the like that they have asked us for. they are trying to find a negotiated solution. it's very precarious. >> when we passed the ndaa and 2017 we created a new authority under section 35 that allow the secretary of defense to transfer up to 75 million to usaid and the department of state to implement foreign assistance programs. are these programs help less we are looking at the challenges facing women and girls in places like nigeria where they are reintegrated into their societies and their challenges with doing that and can you tell me if the secretary of defense has requested any of those dollars? >> the 385 program is a new one this year so we have had to work her way through several to see how we can apply it and so on. cu

and jubilation as dozens of kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls return home from boko haram captivity but the extremists warn that bad. kind of welcome. we've made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg a sudden response to the data scandal involving his company and the details mining kimmage analytical in a statement on his facebook profile apologized and promised he uses a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which cambridge analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an end this and passion ology queries and ended up with the dates of fifty million. when facebook profiles being used to sway elections now the question is why did facebook allow academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to win the knife edge u.s. election the scientist behind the quest says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean that's the thing i was pretty heavily siloed as far as anything else powers funder or clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else or to give people more options than just like f

haram but insists that no ransom was paid. egypt has stepped up security ahead of the country's three day presidential election which begins on monday president sisi is hoping for a high turnout to legitimize his rule a c.z. took power in two thousand and thirteen after overthrowing egypt's first democratically elected president opposition figures have called for a boycott of the poll. at least four people are dead after a car bomb exploded in these tamale capital mogadishu the explosion took place near the parliament building police say the bomb was detonated at a checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped a suspicious vehicle. the first ever statue of david bowie has been unveiled in england music fans gathered to watch the ceremony in the town of aylesbury where this rock star debuted his ziggy stardust character he died in january two thousand and sixteen after a battle with liver cancer. in formula one there's been a surprise in the opening race of the season in australia with ferrari is german driver sebastian vet

haram but insists that no ransom money was paid. at least four people are dead after a car bomb exploded in the somali capital of mogadishu the explosion took place near the parliament building police say the bomb was detonated at a checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped a suspicious vehicle. is a test stepped up security ahead of the country's three day presidential election which begins on monday president sisi is hoping for a high turnout to legitimize his rule he took power in two thousand and thirteen after overthrowing egypt's first democratically elected president opposition figures have called for a boycott of the poll. authorities in belo groups have arrested dozens of protesters ahead of an opposition march in the capital minsk that was banned the attempted demonstration was meant to commemorate belarus's one thousand eight hundred proclamation of independence from russia earlier authorities detained two opposition politicians and several of the marchers organizers. and formula one there's been a surprise openin

boko haram releases one hundred one of the girls they kidnapped last month from their school in nigeria. hello i'm marianne.

haram fighters took them for. in their school induction town in northeastern nigeria the girls say five of their fellow students died. when they took us from the school whipping sitting thinking about what we might eat then we heard a gunshot everybody was confused they asked us to come to the school gate we were in the area they picked us into the vehicle and asked who were the people fasting that they gave us a drink certain cake this was on the way after when they took us food there under a tree and gave us food to cook we cooked and asian proceed further we continued going we entered one river then we boarded a canoe and crossed the river into a village they took us away from the village in the night we boarded another canoe to another place and remained in a place until today when they brought us back we didn't go to any other places they didn't mistreat us the dust in the distance are the boko haram vehicles which dropped off the children parents and relatives have been anxiously waiting for weeks to find ou

haram is acting they could their assets to other places because their t security light t boko haram may not be on the top of the list with the internal issues with those countries. >> mentioning chad a very dangerous part of the world it has been my understanding related to these operations it is a capable and productive partner is that accurate? >> it is that the main concern would be the issue of foreign fighters coming from libya. >> so having a relationship has an impact in the united states? former secretary tillerson indicated united states is considering moving chad from the travel ban. i have been concerned about the rhetoric we have seen from the president with muslims and african nation disparaging language to african nation that could damage our standing in that part of the world. i would like your thoughts as to any impact on relations with chad as a result to be included in the travel ban and how important the partnership of dealing with very serious issues writing one -- writing out of africom we keep working with chad to demonstrate our desire to help them build capac

cheeriest government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted by boko haram fighters last month are now free one hundred five girls were brought to a boucher to meet the president and ministers who negotiated their release jarius government says to agree to a temporary pause in fighting with the armed groups. police have placed francis former president nicolas sarkozy under formal investigation after questioning over the past two days and a five year long inquiry into a legal election campaign donations sarkozy denies receiving millions of dollars just before he was elected in two thousand and seven from the former libyan leader more market off easy. u.s. media says donald trump is about to announce fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on products made in china the white houses are paid only accuse china of unfair trade practices and stealing intellectual property and his ministry of commerce says that they recently resolutely opposed american protectionism keep it or more to come on al-jazeera people in power is next. to. the. usa is constitutionally controlling th

just nigeria and its allies have been fighting boko haram in the lake chad region for years but brazen kidnapping and drop off of victims indicates that the group is far from being defeated solomon job aid. let's go back to now and speak to our correspondent marianna sanchez about president petro pablo kaczynski often has resignation to congress he has been mired and corruption allegations marianna so will the opposition will congress accept the resignation. well elizabeth the congress has already accepted his resignation. congress was about to impeach him tomorrow in a few hours from now and many called that he would survive this second impeachment proceedings in less in three months however these videos surfaced just forty eight hours ago where you could see members of his. allies of his party apparently negotiating bolt is for try to keep him safe the presidency however this has caused a debacle here in the political is the pattern here because many congressmen and all of the political is. that this has been this that this is a crime and even members of his own party said that they

boko haram releases one hundred one of the girls they kidnapped last month from their school in nigeria. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up a russian asteroid kills twenty two people most of them children as they leave a school in syria's a province facebook shares rally but only slightly with mark zuckerberg yet to break his silence over the misuse of its users data. and the suspect in a series of bombings which terrorized austin texas and blows himself up as police move in to arrest him. come to the program our top story most of the one hundred ten school girls who were abducted a month ago in northeast nigeria have been reunited with their families one hundred one girls were released to their hometown of by a car on fighters but a handful is still missing nigeria's government says it equated temporary pause in fighting with the armed group to secure their release a solid binge of aid has the latest. it's difficult to hold back their tears after would these girls have been through these are some of the hundred and children who were kidnapped l

boko haram strikes again, kidnapping over 100 more schoolgirls in nigeria. their parents tell us of their desperation to find them. and hoping for oscar glory — the profoundly deaf six—year—old from swindon who'll be joining the stars on the red carpet this weekend. coming up on sportsday on bbc news — could arsenal avenge their league cup final defeat against manchester city, with the premier league leaders tonight's visitors to the emirates. good evening. hundreds of motorists are stranded on roads in parts of southern england tonight, as heavy snow and blizzards continue to sweep across the uk. the met office has issued weather warnings for almost everywhere many have been stuck for hours on the m62 near rochdale, others in hampshire. the met office has issued weather warnings for almost everywhere tonight, with amber alerts — the second highest level of warning — in place over large parts of the uk. but the worst of the weather is here, in these parts of southwest england and south wales — where a red alert is in force, meaning there's a ri

boko haram fighters dropped the girls in the center of the early on wednesday morning the nigerian government says it chose to negotiate with the group rather than use military force we have been in negotiation. with these faction of. the subjects for quite a while cost most what. else no money peter. this isn't the first time schoolgirls have been abducted in nigeria there was international outrage in twenty fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from chibok many of them still missing i should derry's father is just grateful his daughter is safe and he's there when i have for you at first when i heard the news i was waiting for confirmation then i found out the children were coming home after ten minutes the town was crowded with people celebrating and praying people were really happy. much needed time with their families will have to wait the next stop for these girls is the capital of buddha and a meeting with president mohammed dooper hari richard martin al jazeera. some are boys tobacco farmers have kicked off their annual selling season with high hopes some com

a situation that has been going on for a long time there are reports of boko haram infiltrating infiltrating the military and knowing in advance the movement of the military units in that area thank you. now mayor mas army is being accused of bullying and intimidating a range of refugees in the no man's land between its border with bangladesh al-jazeera spoken to witnesses who say the troops fired slingshots and threw bottles at the refugees and some even tried to come a fence into bangladeshi territory but bangladesh has told me in march to put its forces back from the shared border around the horn has more. these were some of the first range of muslims to flame me and six months ago finding refuge on the thin strip of land between me and mine and bangladesh that hugs the tundra canal now the troops that pushed them out of me and a back into making it very clear they want the revenge is gone for good. as. they came out around ten am brought in seven trucks with two ladders in each vehicle a total of fourteen and they tried to cross the barbed wire fences to forcefully destroy our camp. the

boko haram fighters dropped the girls in the center of the early on wednesday morning the nigerian government says it chose to negotiate with the group rather than use military force we have been in negotiation. with these faction and. the subjects for quite a while most won't. tell us nor money peter. this isn't the first time schoolgirls have been abducted in nigeria there was international outrage in twenty fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from chibok many of them still missing i should derry's father is just grateful his daughter is safe and he's there when i have with you at first when i heard the news i was waiting for confirmation then i found out the children were coming home after ten minutes the town was crowded with people celebrating and praying people were really happy. much needed time with their families will have to wait the next stop for these girls is the capital of buddha had a meeting with president mohammed do bihari richard martin al-jazeera egypt's president. has said events hello us interviews that egyptians should not fear speaking free

it's the homecoming that no one was expecting in nigeria the islamist group boko haram has freed most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls that they snatched from the town of doxy a month ago but their act of clemency came with a chilling warning to parents do not try sending your daughters back to school again or we will be back our correspondent adrienne creech has this report. that will new limits to the jubilation in dempsey. to the complete surprise of local residents a convoy of pickup trucks and into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. many of them however are still in shock. we don't know why they brought us back out but they told us we're muslims and we share the same faith so they didn't want us to suffer they didn't molest us or subject us to any kind of sexual harassment but they kept one of the girls on religious grounds where she's a christian and refused to renounce her religion and that is that. the parents of the return girls can hardly believe their luck with some of them even thinking. yeah why am i how i oh i was crying if you

speak to the families of some of the freed schoolgirls abducted by boko haram in nigeria. struggling to stay on track we'll ask if there's a future for iraq's creaking neglected railway system. the top story the u.s. national security advisor h.r. mcmaster has resigned from the trumpet ministration he will be replaced by john bolton who also advised george w. bush on foreign policy issues master replaced michael flynn fourteen months ago bolton as a so-called hawk he has previously advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea. as has become almost customary for trump's major personnel and policy decisions the announcement came on twitter mr trump tweeted i am pleased to announce that effective ninth of april john bolton will be my new national security advisor i'm very thankful for the service of general h.r. mcmaster has done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend complete alcatraz more now on h.r. mcmasters time with the trumpet ministration general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security advisor he arrived at a tumultuous time ju

government says most of the one hundred ten schoolgirls who were abducted by boko haram fighters last month without free however a few remain missing the freed girls have been brought to a boot to meet the president and ministers who negotiated their release the girls are expected to return to their hometown nigeria's government says that it agreed to a temporary pause in fighting with the group in order to secure that freedom more now from al-jazeera interests who is in northeastern nigeria. this is the rule book fighters drove through with one hundred and four goals initially they dropped one of them in a village on their way here and then they drop them off the one hundred and fall right over there some two hundred meters away from this place and we were told by residents that one of their be cool developed a puncture or other they have had a flat tire they change the tires here and then they drove back they spent nearly thirty minutes in doxie this particular route they came through it's the same road they used to go back to where they came from but on incidentally right over ther

freedom for more than one hundred schoolgirls held by boko haram in nigeria. and iraq ends a three decade long ban on hosting international matches but fans in the capital feel shut out of the action joe will have the details and school. to formally accept the president's resignation or pedre public was facing an impeachment vote over corruption allegations vice president. to be sworn in as his replacement on friday the pressure had been mounting after a video emerged of his allies offering rewards to the opposition if they voted not to else then the ada kaczynski has denied any wrongdoing but in a nationwide address he said he didn't want to become an obstacle to problems development john heilemann takes a look back at the political career. but then sometimes seven year old. had waited years to become president of peru finally he had a chance to put his arm vicious plans for the country. yet all or not. i want a social revolution for my country hope that in five years peru is a more modern country more just more equitable and have more solidarity. but his pla

boko haram fighters dropped the girls in the center of the early on wednesday morning the nigerian government says it chose to negotiate with the group rather than use military force we have been in negotiations. with these factions. inside this for quite a while cost most what. else no money peter. this isn't the first time schoolgirls have been abducted in nigeria there was international outrage in twenty fourteen when more than two hundred seventy girls were kidnapped from chibok many of them still missing i should derry's father is just grateful his daughter is safe and he's there when i have with you at first when i heard the news i was waiting for confirmation then i found out the children were coming home after ten minutes the town was crowded with people celebrating and praying people were really happy. much needed time with their families will have to wait the next stop for these girls is the capital of buddha had a meeting with president mohammed duper hari richard martin al-jazeera. forty four african countries have signed a free trade deal the biggest since the world trade organiz