to mind you were talking about the ivory coast intervention. ok if i go back to france one in paris one of the biggest problems with these interventions as of late libya or maybe even afghanistan and we can look at iraq is the and again now has anybody smart people that planned this military event with their bleeding hearts thought about the end game what comes next year are we going to have a fair trial for the deposed or is it just going to be winner take all yes this is a very and interesting question because this is this kind of an idea of what the people who planned this operation think what we should try as much as possible to remain neutral here and to look at the reality on the facts and the question here is not to to come out or to measure who has no blood on his hand whether what our or or or or by the book we have an electoral process and then after that we have an electoral disputes motto was hard to solve this electorate disputes and again you have to go back to the text. was a sovereign country with a constitution what did the con

they nothing less than yet another legal intervention approved by the un now in the ivory coast a former leader is unseated at the expense of hundreds of civilians. download the official placation q i phone the i pod touch from the i choose amps to. life on the go. video on demand copies mine comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. com wealthy british. market finance. find out what's really happening to the global economy with months cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our feet. ok. with the. flow in the past are beautiful another legal intervention approved by the u.n. now in ivory coast a former leader is unseated at the expense of hundreds of civilian dead while the country's new leader be any different or will the west help him clean his image up is fast as it got rid of his predecessor. led to the. response to turmoil in i recall if i'm joined by now log ok he's in washington he's a political analyst and founder of africa diplomacy dot com in paris we go to france watch and didn't we he is the founder of the african

now in ivory coast a former leader is on seated at the expense of hundreds of civilian dead while the country's new leader be any different or will the west help him clean his image or is fast as it got rid of his predecessor. led. to. the. disgust of turmoil in ivory coast i'm joined by now log ok he's in washington he's a political analyst and founder of africa diplomacy dot com in paris we go to france watch and didn't we he is the founder of the african advisory board and in london we have are you johnson used the founder and director of viewpoint africa are a gentlemen this is cross that means you can jump anytime you want but first let's have a quick look at what has been happening in the ivory coast over the last four months . decisive action and immediate results princess nurture helped transform a calling i recognized missing to convert some justice to the country with one thousand four hundred french troops we're told over and over tow its longstanding leader refused to accept defeat in the last presidential elections the same this fall are iconic for the whole of the africa

now in the ivory coast of florida a leader is one seated at the expense of hundreds of civilians. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter on the day. hey tom are in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. the future of coverage. the official policy allocation your money phone on called touch from the i.q. exam still. life on the go. video on demand tease my old pals and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. the lead take a. listen to. the lonely. people about another legal intervention approved by the u.n. now in ivory coast a former leader is on seated at the expense of hundreds of civilian deaths will the country's new leader be any different or will the west help him clean his image up as fast as he got rid of his predecessor. led. to. the sole end. to discuss the turmoil in ivory coast i'm joined by now love go k. he's in wash

this is the invading army fighting to instore ivory coast elected president. abruptly a radio announcer declares the battle is over. laurent gbagbo refusing to give up power here is preparing to surrender. the news digested cautiously at first. if you say it's too late, well, it's too late. it will be too late. not only for me, but for the ivory coast. i'm not a calm causesy -- i'm not a kamakazi. i love life. i love life. my voice is the voice of the martyr. no, no, no, i do not seek death. it's not my goal here to die. this was the final straw for mr. gbagbo. the united nations joining a furious bombardment of his compound. trapped in the cellar, his generals defecting, a berlin moment in an african city. but the man leading the attack tells me there's nothing to celebrate. he should have gone before, says the colonel. but instead waits until all these people have been killed. only now he thinks it's the time to quit. he's abandoned. he lost the elections. he must go. so is it really over? we head cautiously into a ghost town. then we spot a group of civilia

bbc news. >> confusing time there in ivory coast. in libya, rebel forces on the ground say they will accept a cease-fire is colonel gaddafi withdraws. it began up the government has declined, but it has sent an envoy to london to talk with british officials. they did make it clear that gaddafi must go. yet our diplomatic correspondent has all the details. >> colonel gaddafi and his regime have been under bombardment for two weeks now. the libyan leader has been weakened, but not defeated. some news of his aides talking to the british government raises more questions than answers. the foreign office will not say what was discussed, except that britain has stressed gaddafi must go. >> people serving in the skies over libya -- >> and the prime minister speaking in wales stressed what had been achieved by britain's armed forces. >> i think we should make it clear that by acting rapidly with our allies we prevented and massive sacrifice and benghazi of innocent people -- in benghazi of innocent people. >> it is two weeks since britain joi

." >> beyond dispute in ivory coast intensifies with fierce fighting around the presidential palace. the rebles in libya lose more depround, an envoy from the libyan government reportedly holds secret talks in london. and thousands of military personnel begin a three-day intensive search for those still missing in japan. welcome to "bbc world news." i'm peter dobbie. also in this program -- thousands of north africans migrant to moved to the mainland to ease chronic overcrowding. and prince william keeps his wedding nerves in check by concentrating on work. >> it's quite daunting prospect, but very exciting, and i'm thoroughly looking forward to it. but there's still a lot of planning to be done in the last four weeks. >> troops supporting the democratically elected president of ivory coast, alassane ouattara, appear poised for a final push to unseat his rival, laurent gbagbo, who's still refusing to give up the presidency. the area controlled by mr. fwab gab has shrunk to a relatively small area near his residence in the main city of abidjan, where reports say a swedish u.n. employe

coast is that their elderly warplanes could reach libya but not ivory coast. i think that there's another point worth saying which is say from outside america to those of us in europe we actually think obama has had a perret... president obama has had a pretty good crisis. he showed a pretty deft touch with both egypt and tunisia, pressure but without being too overt about it. bravely getting on to the side of change. you know, libya kind of... american and european leaders always break their knuckles on libya. it's a very, very difficult one but i hope it's the exception and thereafter we're not going to see military intervention. we're going to see diplomatic pressures to encourage people to make change themselves. i think it's terrible if we get into.... >> warner: do you think that militarily though that libya may be something of a new model? or do you think it's a one-off? that is the u.s. just put its military muscle at work on behalf of something though that actually countries are more eager to do and the u.s. essentially lets others take the lead? >> w

in ivory coast -- protests turned deadly. is this the end of the laurent gbagbo era or the beginning of civil war? and did these gravestones tell a little-known tale -- people pursuing the american dream all the way to brazil. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. an outrageous act led by an obscure anti-islamic preacher has produced a terrible result. what may prove to be the deadliest-ever attack on u.s. personnel in afghanistan. earlier this month, terry jones presided as the koran burned at his church in florida. the act when nearly unnoticed year, but the video of the then surfaced on the internet, provoking angry reaction. the protests began peacefully. they did not in that way. we have more on the deadly outbreak of violence. >> after friday prayers, the protests began in many afghan cities. hundreds of korans had been destroyed, not just one. "death to america digest date shouts. -- "death to america," bait shop. -- they shout. the outer wall was breached. the u.n. staff inside were hunte

coast the situation in ivory coast is the product of a very long protracted crisis which has been going on for more than ten years and which involved a civil war in the middle years of the last decade and it's a crisis which has numerous causes many of them deep seas he included the colonial past include immigration and so on but basically the crisis is crystallized around the rivalry between two men as you said in your report not on about war and peace to work tyler what is it what business is it of the west in my view none at all and yet the west in this case france but by means of the united nations has got into the habit of intervening systematically in other people's conflicts and i think what the ivory coast intervention shows because after all we are now in a situation where there is bloodshed and has been now for several weeks is that international intervention simply doesn't work we were told that international intervention would be to protect civilians and now we see the un forces themselves entering the battle between the two sides in other words we're using that when you say

in ivory coast -- protests turned deadly. is this the end of the laurent gbagbo era or the beginning of civil war? and did these gravestones tell a little-known tale -- people pursuing the american dream all the way to brazil. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. an outrageous act led by an obscure anti-islamic preacher has produced a terrible result. what may prove to be the deadliest-ever attack on u.s. personnel in afghanistan. earlier this month, terry jones presided as the koran burned at his church in florida. the act when nearly unnoticed year, but the video of the then surfaced on the internet, provoking angry reaction. the protests began peacefully. they did not in that way. we have more on the deadly outbreak of violence. >> after friday prayers, the protests began in many afghan cities. hundreds of korans had been destroyed, not just one. "death to america digest date shouts. -- "death to america," bait shop. -- they shout. the outer wall was breached. the u.n. staff inside were hunte

." >> the end the game at the ivory coast, the u.s. and azerbaijani claim to have seized the official residence. the libyan government is ready to hold elections, but only the libyan people can decide whether gaddafi remains in power. >> if he is not there for any reason, we would have what happened in afghanistan. gosh the mastermind of 9/11 -- >> of the mastermind of 9/11 being tried at guantanamo. the artist is taken into custody. forces loyal to the internationally recognized president of ivory coast says they have seized a key building in the city of azerbaijani. the attack military and strategic sites including the presidential palace. the spokesman that won the election said that he did not know if he was in the residence at the time it was seized. on the outskirts, convoys have been firing heavily on soldiers. our correspondent is there and he sent this report. >> the deserted highway. just outside the city, a makeshift army camp. soldiers loyal to the elected president. many are just back from the chaos and fighting that raged

ivory coast internationalally recognized president urged the e.u. to lift sanctions amid warnings of a deepening humanitarian crisis. there is no running water or power. most hospitals and shops are closed. people are running out of food. he has made a televised address in which he blamed the crisis firm leon his rival who is refusing to surender power. >> the outgoing president's defiance plunged the city into a grave humanitarian crisis. for a week the residents have been trapped in their homes in fear. i have asked for the european unionion sanctions applied to the ports and certain public entities because of the illegitimate regime to be lifted. >> in the address he said the area around the residence was being secured. andrew harding reports. >> the first pictures of the siege. these are the forces trying and failing to drive him out of his presidential bunker. we are here to destroy his palace says one soldier. but we seriously failed says another. the fight continues. his neighbors have had enough. last night the japanese ambassador was rescue

acss ivory coast, the suen realization today that its over. [unintelligibl as you c s, pple here are elated. they have had mths of unceaint now urengbagbo is gone. people are srtinto lebre. . gbagbo still had sport in thesparts of the country. there ll be tension in e days ahead buright now, there is released. this the end of the brd? >> yes. >> are you sure the war is finished now? no. >> the state's ad h been cut off,ays this soler, nvinced the armed suprters will stopighting. much depends othisan, alsane ouattara, the winr of last year's presidenti election. he has been acced by mr. gbag of up committing atrocities. no he mustringtabity and low shattered ecomy t recove it heen grim fewont, anher test f african democracy. drew harding, bbc news, ivory coast. >> fo more on theajor challeng thaawait alassane ouattara,ike dle led is repo om abidjan. >> laurent gbag had massi there was a massive sh of military force from the freh here ty havbeen operatingunde unitedatio mandate. ed the left basically in a helicopter gunship unid natis helopte gu

we pray to the glory of god the things will be ok. >> french troops from a force stationed in ivory coast have been in control in the streets of abidjan. 500 foreigners have sought refuge in a french military camp. four months of political stalemate and on and off clashes since most of the world recognized alassane ouattara as the winner of the election and urged his rival to accept defeat and step down. during that time, mr. ouattara has been protected by the un. the situation changed when forces loyal to alassane ouattara in the north of ivory coast launched a swift offensive to put military pressure on mr. gbagbo, where political pressure and mediation had failed to bring results. a. on this tv station that supports them, mr. ouattara says despite the many calls for a peaceful transfer of power, the only response has been violent. as a fighting continued today, the african union, which played a key role in the efforts to negotiate with mr. gbagbo, called on him to leave immediately to spare civilians from further bloodshed. >> now to get the very latest from abidjan, we can speak on th

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ivory coast is open to the outside world. to the outside horizon. laurent gbagbo came with controversy and violence. we will sit down and with civility and make this healing process. we will tell the truth of what happened and why and why we should not do that anymore. >> thank you for joining us. speaking to me live from new york. stay with us. we are keeping an eye on the situation in tokyo where we're expecting to hear from the chief cabinet will be updating journalists in a press briefing as we have heard the nuclear accident is to be risen to levels 7, the highest rating in the international stagscale. stay with us. the british prime minister david cameron has become embroiled in a row with [unintelligible] university. only one black person had been admitted to his former university. the actual number was 41. david cameron must have got most things right when he was a student at oxford. he ended up with a first-class degree. he got low marks for saying that today. >> only one black person went to oxford last year. the that is disgraceful. >> wh

russia wants an explanation from the un over its use of force in ivory coast which is currently gripped by civil conflict foreign minister sergey lavrov has questioned if it was legal for international peacekeepers to support one of the presidential claimants u.n. and french troops bombarded targets around the residence of incumbent president laurent gbagbo in the city of abidjan the u.s. says its raids were carried out to protect civilians and forces loyal to the internationally recognized winner of the presidential poll on sunday with her have since claimed to have captured the palace with now you go chasing the terms of his departure while he's been refusing to cede power ever since losing last november's election hundreds being killed during a week of fighting in the country and i'm not joined by his from the americans against the war and association of u.s. activists living in france thanks very much indeed for joining us well we just heard that france's foreign minister said that the fighting in ivory coast has stopped and mr gbagbo has agreed to negotiate so is it fair to say tha

the power struggle continues in the ivory coast. the international committee of the red cross believes 800 people have been killed this week. forces loyal to the internationally recognized president have been attacking areas still controlled by bag bo who is refusing to step down. the whole city is like this now a blizzard of bullets. residents scrambling for shelter. a million have thread. the rest are trampled as the battle for the overry coast reaches its cly -- ivory coast reaches its climax. right now things seem to be going the way the international community wants. the man who lost last year's presidential election outgunned perhaps eevep cornered here, his generals deserting him. one resident described the scene. >> special forces controlled by the president cannot resist all of them are withdrawing, they are running away. some of them are already surrendered. where the president person is living is surrounded now. >> for months the world has told him to step down. but even now all he's proposing is a cease fire. >> the pres

she said that he was still in ivory coast. >> he is a former head of state. it is because of this that he will be under house arrest. we should respect his rights as a former head of state. he should be respected and his physical integrity will be protected as well. >> but french and united nations troops have been seizing every nation left behind. they continue to prowl the streets for reprisal killings. that is a major cause of concern. >> i condemn the massacres and these murders. there should be investigation on how the prosecutor can establish a national inquiry. they should have a commission of human-rights to start an international inquiry. >> he confirmed that the truth and reconciliation commission would be set up. he has already sought south africa's tel. he would include all of those involved, including his own supporters. >> with britain the's royal wedding weeks away quite a bit of businesses are hoping to make a lot of money for their big day. none more than the fashion industry. the blue dress that she wore sold out within 24 hours. she is a ma

>>y and the forces of ivory coast's leader, backed by french and u.n. troops have captured laurent gbagbo. he was seized in his bunker in abidjan at the climax of a power struggle that left hundreds of civilians dead. he held power for 11 years and refuse to admit defeat in the elections. >> i've korean television carried the first images of laurent gbagbo after a rest. he's now being held in a hotel. he appealed for an end to the fighting in a brief statement. >> i hope we can stop the fighting and get to the civilian part of the crisis and and it quickly so the country can get back to normal. >> now all eyes are on ouattara after months of of violence. the ambassador to the un said gbagbo would be prosecuted. >> he is alive, most importantly, and he will be brought to justice for the crimes he has committed. >> but there are also claims that ouattara's troops committed atrocities on their own. they are investigating killings in one town. >> we know that the killings have taken place while forces of the president were in control of the area. but who ha

helicopters fired on forces loyal to the entrenched president of ivory coast today.

the streetsf ivory coast's main have i still dangerous for civilians. most people are afraid to leave their homes. others are trying to escape the country. the french military transported foreign nationals to safety in armored vehicles. >> earlier i spoke to respond fran blandy and asked her to describe the situation there. >> good evening. well, it would appear that fighting is no longer going on around the residence after a morning of hea)y explosions and machine-gun fire seemed to have come to a stop. this may be temporary. residents living around the residence told us the troops seemed to have pulled back. >> how is gbagdo managing to hang on for so long after being cornered? >> gbagdo is well known as one of the most -- [indiscernible] in the initial hours, he embarked on the negotiations. and now -- [indiscernible] enough heavy weapons to fight ouattara's army. how long he intends to do this remains to be seen. >> you're in abidjan. tell us what life is like now for residents there. >> well, it has been an extremely difficult seven days, since the

gets the latest on the ongoing bloody power struggle in the african nation of ivory coast. >> brown: newshour education correspondent john merrow examines a program that targets the very young before they risk falling behind in school. >> the most important time for us to intervene is really in the first 1,000 days of life, a time when interactions with adults matter so much to children's developing sense of who they are and their language development. >> woodruff: and margaret warner gets perspective on the global reverberations flowing from the arab uprisings. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale. and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the real world. at chevron, we're investing millions in solar and biofuel technology to make it work.

this is a military initiatives in libya and ivory coast back at home with president sarkozy losing points and allies over what's being labeled as is imperial ambitions. trash for some treasure for others india is turning into an electronics waste dump with hazardous computer junk from developed countries illegally sold instead of being recycled. hopes for the deepest or cosmic mysteries soon as russia progressed from launching this century's most vicious space project the biggest telescope ever scan of the galaxy. this is r.t. live from moscow where it's now just after two pm on monday. nearly a month into the operation in libya and for those countries involved it's causing trouble at home especially in france where the president is feeling the pinch and starting to die a brutal reports it's not being helped by the country's intervention in its former colony of ivory coast nicolas sarkozy's korea under threat from accusations. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil every coast. is going forward he's no boy for the most unpopular president in the history of france's fift

friends of military initiatives and leave an ivory coast backfire at home with president sarkozy losing points and allies over what's being labeled his imperial ambitions. trash for some treasure for others it's turning into an electronics waste dump with hazardous computer junk from developed countries illegally sold instead of being recycled. and hopes for the deepest cosmic mysteries to be cracked soon as russia prepares to launch the century's most ambitious space project the biggest telescope to ever scan the galaxy. and watching r.t. live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program well it's nearly a month into the operation in libya and for those countries involved it's causing trouble back home especially in france where the president's feeling the pinch as daniel bushell reports it's not being helped by the country's intervention and its former colony of ivory coast with nicolas sarkozy's career under threat from accusations of imperialism. if nicolas sarkozy hoped intervening in libya and the oil every coast would boost his popularity it's backfired he's now why for t

france's military initiatives and leave yet ivory coast backfired home with president sarkozy losing points and allies over what's being labeled he's an imperial ambitions. trash for saab treasure for others india is turning into electronics waste dump with hazardous computer john from developed countries in the bill he sold instead of being recycled. hopes for the deepest cosmic mysteries to be cracked soon as russia prepares to launch this century's most ambitious space project the biggest telescope to ever scan the galaxy. and although prices are down as china said its economic growth slowed slightly because cooler than a trend is that crude is stabilizing the mood joined on his business to about twenty minutes time. to stay on the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program it's nearly a month into the operation in libya and for those countries involved it's causing trouble back home especially in france were the presidents feeling the pinch as daniel bushell reports it's not being held by the country's intervention in its former colony of ivory c

russia wants an explanation from the un over its use of force in ivory coast which is currently gripped by civil conflict from minister sergey lavrov has questioned if it was legal for international peacekeepers to support one of the presidential claimants little screamy certainly as the un peacekeepers in supporting french forces in ivory coast have started military actions taking the side of mr ouattara carrying out air strikes on the positions held by supporters of mr gbagbo we are now looking into the legality of this situation because the peacekeepers were authorized to remain neutral nothing more we've requested an emergency briefing in the u.n. security council we will keep looking into the matter because it's the u.n. and french troops bombarded targets around the residence of incumbent president laurent gbagbo in the city of abidjan the u.n. says it's raids were carried out to protect civilians forces loyal to the internationally recognized winner of the presidential poll on sunday with a sense claim to have captured the palace and now negotiating the terms of his departure ref

crosses a military initiatives in libya and ivory coast backfire at home with president sarkozy losing points and allies of what's being labeled as his imperial ambitions . trashed for sunlight treasure for others india is turning into electronics waste of hazardous computer junk from developed countries illegally sold instead of all recycled. and hopes for the deepest of cosmic mysteries could be cracked soon as russia prepares to launch the century's most ambitious space project the biggest telescope ever scanned the galaxy. plus e-bay the world's largest online marketplace can but as it has more than doubled its russian business from north to join our seas business today about twenty minutes so. it's just after three pm here in moscow on a monday you're with arts here now it's nearly a month into the operation in libya and for those countries involved it's causing trouble back home especially in france where the president is feeling the pinch of salt he's attacking a bushel reports it's not being helped by the country's intervention in its former colony of ivory coast with nicolas s

coast for the ivory coast people to solve regional diplomats may get involved not france once again we show france strong arms its will on others and just like in the past people were behaving like the world's policeman i also believe russia's stance on this issue has been extremely wise. goes from bombing libya raise the risk of a terrorist attack on fronts we were able yes this creates two major trends first there's now more risk of a terrorist attack than a superstar there are bad guys a long fight and good guys on the other we know perfectly well the so-called rebels are from a tribe with many former jihadists in fourteen rock in afghanistan we're trying to put them in power people who don't always have a peaceful friendly actually try country the second major threat is seeing a flood of immigrants because the effect you're having is to open up libya's borders. and so just go around six million muslims in france do you want to bring that number down was above a square. they say we're in a democracy but authorities refused to show the real figures on how many immigrants there are

and the ivory coast, i think, really has been dragged into this. after all, u.n. forces were also striking at the army of gabagal, because they felt endangered. france is supporting the u.n. role there, more than trying to play a neocolonial role there. i think sarkozy would have preferred to pass on that one. >> warner: and the arab world? >> france is, under chirac-- you mentioned jacques chirac-- france saw itself as having a privileged position in the arab world. it had an arab policy that said we will be friends with the arab regime. one of the first things that nicolas sarkozy did when he came to office was to change that, to say we also want to be friends with israel. we want to be friends with the united states. he's done a lot to renew the american-french relationship. and many arab countries think at their expense. >> warner: professor bozo, when sarkozy says, as he did at the paris meetings, that france is committed to playing its role before history, is he speaking for himself in that sort of sweeping terms or is he trying to touch something in the fre

president obama has called to congratulate him on assuming the presidency of ivory coast. chinese government says it's unhappy with the way foreign countries are treating the detained artist as a hero. a foreign ministry spokesman says the artist was a criminal suspect who would be punished according to the law. he is being investigated for alleged economic crime. the japanese prime minister has said that produce is safe to eat despite continuing radiation leaks. he said radiation levels were now dropping and consuming food from the area was one way to show support. japan has reclassified the nuclear threat to be the highest level on an international scale. our correspondent explains. >> as we look at the severity scale used by the authorities, you can see that before today, the leak was put at level five, an accident with wider consequences. it's been raised to level seven. after an assessment of the total radiation leaks so far. the other crisis was at cher noble. the first crisis happened the day after the tsunami. the cooling systems failed and spent fuel rods overheat

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i will bring the ivory coast. you can bring in yemen. all those operations we work with after at -- africom to figure out how to do this together. at this point i am looking forward to afghanistan and iraq making sure we can meet the timeline is coming out of iraq. as congressman smith asked me about how we do that i would say coming from 130,000 to 50,000, that work with general austin and his people in iraq, the material command under general dumb witty has worked superbly, bringing extra equipment through kuwait and jordan getting washed up and putting on commercial vessels is what i was mentioning we did have to activate any ships to do that. that system is working well and making a sure which stuff we will leave and which stuff we will bring home and which stuff will be sent to afghanistan is what we went through last year but this team did a superb job. my portion was not the hardest part. when i think about afghanistan i would say that we found the power of intermodal operation being able to take by surface, much closer to afghani

the ivory coast is cparavely rich. it's the world's bigst coa suly, the raw material tt makes cholate. the wealth hastayewith the elite, its people ha remned the poorest theorld. in abidjan, water is cut in many places, por is erratic and civians put up their hands justo sh they're unarmed to get sic pplies. >> tre a many thin we can't get anyre. banas, vegetables, they'reot coming in because of t fighting. >> once known as the jel o west africa, the city now braced for a vlenthowdown for power. humphrey hawksley, "bbworl news." >> now to yemewhersecurity forces have us te gas and live ammunitiono disperse crowdsemanng the resignation of theirresint. hundreds werwound in clashes onhe cy who died in the south a. in tai at ast 15 people are report of ing killed, some parely by government ipers. r correspondent in thees, 'amny capital cannot bname r serity reasons, but she ins us now on the phon e violence does seem tbe escalating alarmingly y by day. at'soing on? >> it is escaling,nd the protests are escalatg alg with it

. >> of the headlines for this hour -- in ivory coast, un troops secured the city as laurent gbagbo negotiates his way out. a new leader in german politics -- he says he will become e new deputy chancellor. a new exhibition highlights one of the most spectacular not the war crime trials. -- nazi war crime trials. >> we begin in ivory coast where those relative to alassane ouattara they have captured the palace. laurent gbagbo have apparently locked themselves in the bunker, there are rerts gbagbo is negotiating his a surrender. he lost the election last november but still refuses to step down. the international community has recognized ouattara as the president. >> laurent gbagbo has come under increasing pressure after united nations and french troops started targeting his forces. he is said to be hiding in a bunker in his home. after the heavy fighting shook abidjan on friday, the situation was reportedly more, and tuesday. -- more called on tuesday. france has been cost trying to persuade gbagbo to give up the fight. >> what we what now is for gbagbo not to resist any further, and if there'