It is time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Nigerias stability and unity is threatened by internal tension, conflict and corruption, from the boko haram insurgency in the north to violent militancy in the south and separatist aspirations in the east. Amid all this turmoil, how effective in securing the country is the Nigerian Army . My guest is army chief Lieutenant General tukur yusuf buratai. Are his forces playing a constructive or destructive role, as nigeria tries to keep a lid on its problems . General tukur yusuf buratai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. General tukur yusuf buratai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. A couple of years ago your president , new president , set you a Clear Mission to eradicate boko haram. He said it could be done within months. It would be fair to say, would it not, that you have failed in that mission . We have not failed. We have achieved that particular mandate, as at that time. We were appointed on the 10th of
Investors liking what they heard last week from that speech. Doc, ill go to you. You said the market rally was hanging on the speech. Some said it was light on details. But for this president at this moment, style over substance maybe was more important. The tone certainly was favorable to what investors wanted. Yeah, thats right, judge. The tone was terrific. The way he addressed things. It was exactly like the market wanted to hear. Now, when he builds a hotel i know this is a dumb analogy but you know me. When youre building a hotel does trump go out there and tell you the stress test of concrete or steel or any of the rest of it . Thats mnuchin and thats what cohen do as far as comparison. Trump just does the 30,000 foot picture of what its going to look like. And he did a great job laying it out last night. 258point rally out of the dow, that tells me the report card is two thumbs up. Anthony, he clearly delivered what investors wanted to hear last night by virtue of a 250point ra
Viral, right this minute. Ha, ha, ha youre about to watch a dramatic resuscitation. Oh, no way at the wild animal sanctuary. You can see people giving chest compressions to this baby rhino. But watch this next somebody breathes into the rhinos nose. Come on. Really . Absolutely. All this because they decided it interest to dehorn it. The reason why theyre dehorning these animals is because of poaching. So what happened . Did they oversedate it or Something Like that. They didnt say. It was just an effect of the sedation. That can happen to humans and animals. Giving cpr to a rhino and how they have to do it. You see almost all his body weight to do it. You need several people involved to do this. You can see they are successful. Moving. She is moving. You guys, she is okay. This rhino was found standing by her mom who had been killed by poachers. They decided to leave her horn for her safety but this happened. The good news is shes back playing with the other baby rhinos. Be glad they
Uconn triumphs over florida to topple the number one seed and wyoming defeats wisconsin with a dramatic threepoint buzzer beater. It will be an unlikely National Championship not seen in 35 years. Hey, good morning, everybody. Also coming up this morning, the royals are on the move. Prince william, kate and baby george heading down under. George following in his fathers footsteps. He took the same trip when he was roughly the same age. And the queen giving special permission to allow will and george to travel together, as typically, two heirs to the throne are not usually allowed to do so. The full report from new zealand. Their first stop coming up. Another big story from this part of the world. A possible break in the search for flight 370. First a chinese ship hears two fleeting electronic pulses in the indian ocean. Now in a separate area, the australians say they may have heard something as well. Its all happening as the batteries on those black boxes are quickly running out of ju
By 1 5 today. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton joined by one hide. The eu imposed its strictest sanctions on moscow since the iron curtain fell. We are joined by Ryan Chilcote. Lets talk about the shank the sanctions. Eu did it. It will surprise some people. Three is really the eu is going to ban state backed banks in russia from issuing new bonds and stock in europe. The second thing is they will ban some technology for the oil industry that they need for unconventional projects, more sophisticated drilling, deepsea drilling, shale deposits. The export of that material from the European Union is now banned. Get ane are going to arms embargo. The one caveat is that france will still be able to sell its warships to russia as it was hoping to do. These are not retrospective. I think obviously we were expecting these, but when you have 28 countries involved, and they all have their own vested interests, and those interests are vastly greater than the fact thaterest, the this happene