Q a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. And it is stop number 18 on the 50 capitals tour across the u. S. And today its jackson mississippi. Named after general andrew jackson. And joining us on the cspan bus to talk about some of the issues facing his state is mississippis longserving attorney general, jim hood. General hood, as a democrat, whats the secret to getting elected statewide in very red mississippi . I was elected in 2003 and i was grandfathered in. But Law Enforcement, fighting cyber crime, protecting children, those issues are sort of nonpartisan in our state. Mississippi may be seen as a red state but there are a large amount of independents in states. One thing you have been working on is prescription costs. Which you recently won. Describe that for us. It was one of those cases where there was average whole sale pricing and one particular company, watson pharmaceuticals, the company was really a bad operator. We had to try the case. It went on for about ten years.
Those are the headlines to keep it here on aljazeera inside story is next then more news after that keep it or. The number of child soldiers is expanding and many war zones according to the u. N. Tens of thousands of children are involved in conflicts in over twenty countries around the world so what should be done to stop this practice this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im home monday marks the International Day against the use of child soldiers its a problem that shows no sign of ending in fact many Rights Groups and the u. N. Say its getting worse there are tens of thousands of children around the world putting their lives at risk and the global effort to fight this doesnt have the money it needs in two thousand and fifteen less than one percent of the estimated one hundred seventy four billion dollars of International Aid was spent on this issue. But its not all doom and gloom there has been some progress at least five thousand child soldiers were released and i
15 years. The flag had flown over the capitol dome for decades before that. Our Diane Eastabrook is live in columbia this morning. Diane, tell us what is happening there right now, and what the mood is. Reporter well stephanie there are several thousand people here right now, we estimate maybe between 5 and 7,000 people. Everyone is waiting for the honor guard and the governor to come out of the state house and begin the ceremony. We were supposed to start at 10 00, these things sometimes run a little bit behind. We dont know a whole lot about the ceremony. We know the flag is going to be taken down. There will be no music, and then the flag will be transported by an Armored Vehicle to the South Carolina confederate relics room and military museum. Many different people here in the crowd. There are people from out of state, people we ran into from north carolina, people from atlanta. This is an historic event, so everyone here to witness that today. We know how contentious the debate w
Secretary Ashton Carter holds talks in saudi arabia. And find out why a fisherman in east africa are damaging the waters for an asian appetite. Leading opposition figure in burundi is calling for a unity government following tuesdays controversial president ial election. The vote was boycotted by some of the opposition because they say the incumbent president shouldnt be running for a third term eu and others said they would dismiss the poll and before it started a civilian and a policeman were killed in the capitol. So why is this election so contentious . Well, on april the 25th president Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid to run defying the twoterm limit in the constitution. The following day thousands demonstrated in the capitol and that was the start of months of often violent protests and police crack downs. In may the Constitutional Court cleared cleared Pierre Nkurunziza to run a third term and protests and a coup that failed and people died in the violence of 160,000 people s
Plus. Many ways to fall down in rome and the best way is to take a un mrann unplanned pass and a shower in one of the many fountains here. Trying to keep cool as the heat rises across europe. Hello, he defied his countrys constitution and inspired months of violent protests but burundis president Pierre Nkurunziza is on course to win a third consecutive term in office and as votes are counted there are some things to compromise and would not oppose the formation of a National Unity government which is the demand of opposition parties. Early figures suggest as many as 74 of people who could vote in this election did despite the ongoing threat of violence. Result is expected on thursday but the u. S. , the eu and the African Union have already said they wont recognize that result. Al jazeeras harry can join us live from the capitol and harry what more can you tell us about this idea of a unity government . Well its getting late and a lot of people are now heading home but we had a chance