Gcioss midst of a baby boom. The mean age across the continent is just 19. The bbc investigates in africas population explosion. The population of africa is set to double by the year 2050. To 2. 5 billion people. The young are moving from the countryside to the towns. Unfortunately for us, in the last two, three years its been a deluge. But many end up in slums and cities are struggling to cope. An Industrial Revolution could transform african countries and lift millions out of poverty. Every year it grows, 20 millionjobs per year over the coming decades. An Industrial Revolution could transform african countries and lift millions out of poverty. Every year it grows, 20 millionjobs per year over the coming decades. But idle youth could mean millions more migrants and drive many into the hands of islamist extremists. And that is everyones problem. There is nowhere in the world where women have more children. Half the girls here are married by 15. So it isnt surprising that children have
Fight, anthonyjoshua waking up still the world heavyweight champion after retaining both belts in cardiff last night. He endured a frustrating evening before eventually stopping carlos takam in ten rounds. More from our sporsts correspondent david 0rnstein. Voiceover the career is still young, only 20 fights in, yet already, the entrance, the aura of a king, by round two, a king with a cut, the damage done by Carlos Takams head, nobody said judy liz was pretty. In round four, joshuas power began to prevail, soon, it was the opponents nursing the winds, carlos takam had only 12 days to prepare for the contest, he was nothing if not durable, courageous, awkward for the champion, however, eventually the big shots came out and the referee stepped in, debatable call, carlos takam thought he could go on, many in attendance, too, the celebrations were muted. 100 record intact, another important step on the path to big gold. Joshua had done what he needed to do. Without winning, people will no
With a full use of all that full round up of all the news. In the final week of the Obama Presidency, a Louisiana High School Marching Band Rehearses for the big day. We do not see colour, race, gender or ethnicity. We see potential. They are one of ten School Bands Chosen to play at the inauguration. There has been a lot of talk of how we need healing and sometimes. You just have to do it. But as it marks the transition from obama to trump, america is having two very different conversations about race. This is the life that black people live. We live so it is not a conversation about race, it is just a conversation. And with tensions over the issues of Police Killings White Supremacists feel emboldened. Hailtrump hail our people hail victory and for some, talk of a return to The Good Old Days signifies nothing good at all. I look at is as master has reclaimed his house. And even though master allowed the slaves to look after the house while he was on vacation, we are still in the same
With a full use of all that full round up of all the news. In the final week of the Obama Presidency, a Louisiana High School Marching Band Rehearses for the big day. We do not see colour, race, gender or ethnicity. We see potential. They are one of ten School Bands Chosen to play at the inauguration. There has been a lot of talk of how we need healing and sometimes. You just have to do it. But as it marks the transition from obama to trump, america is having two very different conversations about race. This is the life that black people live. We live so it is not a conversation about race, it is just a conversation. And with tensions over the issues of Police Killings White Supremacists feel emboldened. Hailtrump hail our people hail victory and for some, talk of a return to The Good Old Days signifies nothing good at all. I look at is as master has reclaimed his house. And even though master allowed the slaves to look after the house while he was on vacation, we are still in the same
Bea at ten oclock Michelle Hussain will be a full round up of the days news. First, this weeks edition of our world. First, this weeks edition of our world. On the barren steppe of central asia, hidden from the world, a testing ground, where, over a0 years, 500 Nuclear Bombs were exploded by the soviet union. They called it the polygon. The local population was supposed to have been sent to safety, but some were made to watch. Thousands lived in villages that werent cleared. Villagers endured radioactive exposure the scale of which the world has never seen. 25 years after the polygon was abandoned by the soviet union, the effects still blight young peoples lives. This is a film about the victims of the Nuclear Testing in the polygon, and one man who has dedicated his life to preventing it from ever happening again. Karipbek kuyukov was born in 1968 in the furthest flung corners of the then soviet empire, here in the vast expanse of the kazakh steppe. Karipbeks parents had already lost