African leaders approving a 2 billion plan to stop the flow of refugees from africa. Two of the venezuelan president s nephews indicted in the u. S. For conspiring to smuggle cocaine. With all the latest sport including two of footballs biggest rivals go head to head as argentina faces brazil in the world cup qualifier. We begin the news hour in lebanon. Two suicide blasts there, the Southern Suburbs the countries interior minister says 37 people are now known to have died in the explosions. Which were almost simultaneous, in the southern suburb of the city, near the area. It is a strong hold of the armed group hezbollah, or at least its supporters. This has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts. Al jazeera is there at the scene, and described what you have seen what has happened there . Chaos. The Security Forces quartenning off the area, the people are in the streets. Very angry, but at the same time, you feel the sense of defiance. Like you mentioned there were tw
Worlds smallest and isolated countries could save the global bee population. The e. U. Has signed off on an agreement that creates a 2. 2 billion dollar Emergency Trust fund for africa to help tackle the refugee crisis. They have been meeting in malta. What is this money exactly supposed to buy for the europeans . Reporter well, its a sweetener, to be honest. Thats not my opinion. Thats what a senior european official described it to me last neat night as being. It is basically trying to get over the migration crisis is to appeal to african countries and say, look, if we give you this as an additional amount of money for economic development, then in return we expect you, they say this is legally binding, to help remove African Economic migrants from the continent and help repat tree eight them into africa. Theyre wanting to send money back home and more managed migration, but this trust fund was always going to be the center piece from the european perspective of their offer, if you l
World football brazil and argentina face off in a world cup qualifier so, then, the European Union signed a deal worth more than 2 billion to try to stop the flow of refugees and migrants. Its been taking place in the maltese capital, and planned after around 800 drowned when a boat sank off the coast of libya in april. Lets join lawrence lee live from valletta. What do we know about this agreement . Well, of course, it was planned from the european perspective to be the sense of this. Over 2 billion investment. European leaders describe it as a sweetener. They accept its not much money. In return they believe it is legally binding to repatriate failed Asylum Seekers and migrants back to africa. That caused problems in the summit. As day two started, we saw the big difference between the european perspective and the african one as well. This is a leak of the action plan that the europeans agreed. Coming courtesy of mark, who ran the blog, migrant report in malta. You spent a lot of tim
Were in ethiopia where families are struggling in the worst drought to hit the country since the 1980s. And ill be here with all of the days sport including the biggest football rivals faceoff in a world cup qualifier. Hello, the European Union has signed a deal worth more than 2 billion with African Leaders to try to stop the flow of refugees and immigrants. The meeting was planned after around 800 people drowned when a boat sank off of the coast of libya in april. Lawrence lee joins us. Tell us about the agreement that was signed, lawrence. Reporter at this point, i do wonder whether europes leaders actually they have achieved anything particularly remarkable. Maybe they thought africa would roll over the prospect of a couple of billion dollars and in return africa would help bring back economic migrants and protect its borders. But africa pushed back really hard and leader after leader tried to change the conversation into one that went into a much deeper dialogue that had to do wit
From syria and iraq, to the Central African republic and south sudan 2014 was the worst year for young people since world war ii. If you look at now the map of the world and imagine the countries in crisis, and tell me which one looks like its going to get better. War aside, millions of children die every year from preventible causes. Those kids dying every day are an abomination. Even some of the wealthier countries are failing to care for their own youth according to u. N. I. C. E. F. No society is healthy if the inequalities in that society are growing. Lake has served in a variety of roles for the u. S. Government, including as National Security advisor in the clinton administration. His advice for president obama now about the wars in syria and iraq. Join with other nations and do everything you can through bringing influence to bear through diplomacy to end this war. I spoke to anthony lake in new york. As i sit and speak with you your office put out a frightening report about wh