u.s. says there is progress towards a cease fire but calls for more commitment from the warring sides. on the divide amongst ivorians following the civil war and crystal action violence there we take a look at the country s long journey ahead to peace. or the fires against the current virus is far from over that s the warning to americans from joe biden in his fast primetime address since becoming u.s. president he s urging people to get vaccinated to keep social distancing and to continue to wear masks alan fisher has more now from washington d.c. . from the east room in the white house joe biden s 1st national presidential address good evening my fellow americans when you know on from the global pandemic being declared the president took time to consider the human cost the growing number of deaths the families torn apart the lives left to be rebuilt we all lost something a collective suffering a collective sacrifice a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living
to do it all over again. and ship breakers working at unsafe conditions in bangladesh when the right to sue british owners for deaths or injuries. welcome to the program we begin in northwest nigeria where gunmen have raided a college and taken a number of student hostages the armed group or targeted the forestry college and could do the state later on thursday officials say $180.00 students were rescued in the early hours of friday but 30 remain unaccounted for that school attacks in the north of nigeria are becoming more frequent. kidnapping is a tactic commonly used by armed groups in criminal gangs in nigeria and is it international says it s been escalating since january there were 2 massive directions of schoolchildren of february officials say they carried out by bandits loosely formed armed gangs that rob and kidnap for money nigeria denies paying any ransoms but many believe regional instability in north western states has allowed kidnapping to become a lucrative sou
is the 4th mass school kidnapping since december. 3 open in the pacific is essential to each of our future leaders of the quad grouping hold talks for the 1st time in what s seen as a bid to present a united front against china. match with sponsors japan turned down the other vaccines from china and christiane and how they reported the lines of families back to around madrid after eventis were knocked out of the champions league. complete welcome to the new italy s capital and the wider region will be placed into lockdown from monday as coronavirus cases rise as a nationwide lockdown will be imposed over the easter weekend in april now the government is trying to control a surging coronavirus cases and hospital admissions from monday restaurants and bars will close in low risk areas and movement between tiles will be severely limited at the end of january last year it only became a. first country in europe to take measures against covert 19 suspending flights to china and dec
around the country overwhelmed and gunmen abducted 30 students from a far street college in nigeria s kadjina state the 4th mass school kidnapping since december. but we start in the united states where the city of minneapolis has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement on as a result of the death of an unarmed black man and this of course sparked protests worldwide in may it is a settlement of the death of george floyd of course council members voted unanimously to pay his family $27000000.00 for died after they self sadak show than knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes show than his facing murder charges jury selection in his trial began this week the lead lawyer for floyd s family says this is a landmark settlement it was a watershed moment for america it was one of the most eagerly just so in shock and documentations of an american citizen been tortured to death by a police officer for having his movie on his men for 8 minutes 46 circuits one of the worst ever witnes
one of which from beirut to jerusalem was a textbook and might middle east coursework as an undergraduate. tom s full bio is printed out here. now let us turn to our man of the hour, doctor nabeel khoury. he s a nonresident senior fellow for the middle east. in addition to reading his work on our website, you can read it on his own blog, middle east corner. he retired from 25 years in the u.s. foreign service with the rank of minister counselor. no small feat. as last overseas posting, he served as the deputy chief of mission at the embassy in yemen. in 2003 and during the iraq war, he served as spokesperson at central command. he earned his bachelor s degree in political science. and his masters and phd in political science from the university of york and albany. he has published articles on issues of leadership and development in the arab world. in the middle east journal, and the international journal of middle east studies. when he was posted to yemen in 2004, i recall