Moving closer to russia, which happened after coups in neighbouring burkina faso and mali. Later, leaders from the 15 countries that make up the Economic Community of west african states, and the eight leaders from the west African Economic and monetary union, will meet to discuss their response. Brandon kendhammer is politics professor at Ohio University and expert on politics in west africa. Hejoins us now. Thank you and welcome to the programme. What is your take on what we are witnessing in niger right now . Right now . Good morning. I think what right now . Good morning. I think what we right now . Good morning. I think what we are right now . Good morning. I l think what we are witnessing right now . Good morning. I. Think what we are witnessing is likely the consolidation of any Military Regime. Enough time has passed now that we have a general sense of who was in charge or who would like to be in charge and while we have seen a fair bit of International Response at this point,
But we are also very focused on working together with partners to try to help the haitians restore security, restore stability. That really is the necessary foundation. The developments happen as a Christian Aid Group says an american nurse and her child have been kidnapped in the country. It happened on thursday near the capital, Port Au Prince, after the us advised all its citizens to leave the country because of the worsening Security Situation. Gangs control large parts of haitis capital Port Au Prince and kidnappings for ransom are common. Earlier, i spoke about the situation in haiti with harold isaac, a journalist based near Port Au Prince. Kenya says that it is prepared to send a Multinational Force to haiti what more do we know about that and how it might work . Very little at this stage. I mean, for many people here, it came as a bit of a surprise, especially after over nine months of waiting for a word or an actual commitment with regards to Foreign Police or Military Person
The crisis had been hit country. And prince harry accuses the British Press of having blood on its hands as he gets evidence in a lawsuit against the newspaper against a newspaper publisher. Ukraine and russia are accusing each other of going up a major dam and flooding towns and villages in russian control of blowing up a major dam. Thousands of people have been evacuated. It links the banks of the dnipro river and supplies electricity and cools the zaporizhzhia power plant. Until monday, the dam held back 18 cubic meters 18 million cubic meters of water, generating electricity and providing fresh water for hundreds of thousands of people, but not anymore. The most Immediate Impact for tens of thousands of civilians downriver. This is the can this is the ukrainiancontrolled side. The river swelling, overwhelming the banks. Residents being evacuated. I was evacuated from the flooded village. Our local school and stadium downtown were flooded. The stadium was completely underwater. On t
Crew touching 95 a barrel. 4. 6427 is the new cycle high. Tom this thursday is more tumultuous than monday through wednesday. An equity pop at the back end and we are short covered. And the optimist will be here with us in a little bit. You have to reset and recalibrate. There was a moment yesterday and let me get out the surveillance mouse and tell you that we had a 2. 30 10 year real yields. I did not frame that six months ago. Jonathan the equity market is kind of a snooze. Bond market huge moves. Fx one point four briefly against the dollar. The dollaryen getting closer to 150. Lisa that is exactly the right observation. Why are stocks so subtle and why are they not responding to the markets. Is there just simply a paralysis, or this is forced selling for funds that do not have a big position. At this point are we looking at some unraveling that is gaining steam that nobody wants to get in the way of. Tom i am going to when mike mckeen gives us the gdp blah blah blah, but there is
California facing the driest winter on record. The States Government asking people to do their part. H1n1 is one of the strains that doesnt take much contact for it to be transmitted from one person to the other. Why more young people will be hit hard this season. Good morning to you and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford coming to you live from new york city. Voting in thailands election has ended. It could take weeks before results come out. Antigovernment protesters making good on their promise to disrupt the voting. Many polling centres have reported problems. So far it seems the election has little to resolve some of that viaed spread anger over the Prime Ministers government. Scott heidler reports from bangkok. In her north bangkok neighbourhood Prime Minister vin arrived as the yin arrived Yingluck Shinawatra arrived as the polls opened. Setting an example. Translation as thais its our duty to exercise a vote. Doesnt matter who you vote for. In other parts of the c