wilbur, can you tell us just kind of quickly how journalism attracted you when you were in angola andit meant to you and what it did for you? >> i discovered when i got out, i discovered myself in, you know, what was at that time the bloodiest prison in the united states, and i saw things that were just absolutely horrific. i had never been in a world like this before, and i just couldn't believe that people knew what was going on. they couldn't know. the rest of society couldn't know because if they did know, i don't think they knew it was going on. yes, you send people to prison top punished, but not what's taking place in the prison, and i -- by then i decided i wanted to be a writer, so i decided i would try telling what was going on. i wrote newspapers and asked for a forum and the only one that answered me back was a chain of black weeklies for the louisiana and mississippi who said we'd like to have a weekly column from you called the jungle because that's how i saw the prison, a jungle, and i started writing my weekly column. i didn't know who was reading me. as it turned out

definitely part of the wider context luncheon over a gate that china has more investments probably in angola or zambia than libya but definitely china is part of this equation that's worrying washington i'd say rather more than european union leaders but definitely one only has to look at khartoum to see chinese investment in africa and gaddafi was one person who for all his privatization and later suddenly coming back to the western fold he still didn't like african american defense network now a good hit in germany regarding africa and he didn't really like the u.s. dollar and what is going to currency for the continent of africa we have to wait and see to find out but if china does have significant interests in libya why didn't it veto that u.n. resolution on a no fly zone in order to protect its interests do you think it's rapidly becoming a mystery to quite a few people why russia and china decided to abstain in u.n. security council resolution one hundred seventy three i think some people would say that china ironically has some some colliding ambitions as it were when it comes to liby

consulting allies and the north african refugees back to instantly in the fields of international angola and listeria france could no longer lecture regimes like you're wrong when it picks on its own ethnic minorities but cracks up for me the french government over its hardline policies civil court approval of politicians in the ruling party last week quit and more are expected to do the same in the coming days only bush will see this coming up in the next hour for you we've got more on europe's immigration problems and this time in the u.k. . why don't we in britain decide ourselves how many people come in every year. we talk to an m.e.p. who says the european union is tying great britain's hands in its attempts to tackle a massive life or an influx of. that story in the next hour here in our team now exactly fifty years ago this week europe again made history when he became the first man to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of manned space exploration that is to say i met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i've been

-- there's a whole chapter on this looking at the industry transparency initiatives operating in angolaand now in chad. it's hit and miss. there's not a truly successful case where the eiti that was created by george and started as publish what you pay, forcing mining companies to disclose the revenues or disclose the payments they make to governments in oil rich and mineral rich countries, and the purpose of that -- again, it's perfect megadiplomacy. the oil companies are now committed to disclosing revenues because they want to have something of a level playing field because otherwise they are outdoing each other with bribes, and you don't profit anymore, so they have an interest this doing this. you have the local governments who need the revenued income and fear that being sanctioned and having laws put against investment in those countries through sanctions if they continue to be so negligent, and then you obviously got the civic groups and the eiti requires that substantial portions of mineral or oil revenue are put into an escrow fund, the minimum which is co-determined by local

happened time and again we haven't been too successful in the past in arming rebel movements remember angola remember nicaragua remember the worst case was when it seemed like a great idea to arm the mujahedeen against the soviet union during the cold war and look what we got that we got the only threat to the u.s. homeland since the war of eight hundred twelve so i think we really have to be careful about unintended consequences and certainly i risk i wish the rebels well but i think your other guest made a good point if they have the money to buy the weapons i don't mind them buying them but i don't want the u.s. getting in too involved in on the ground training and that sort of thing because i just don't and of course there's a doubt about whether the rebels are competent enough to use these weapons they don't have very good leadership they don't have very good tactics and they don't even really know how to use simple weaponry so i'm not sure you know how they get the training but they can purchase training. overseas from countries that are willing to sell them the weapons but i don't rea

sure i mean china has got just in libya alone i mean i could give you a long manifest from angola to uganda tanzania to chad to zimbabwe just in libya alone chinese contracts or some value something like twenty billion u.s. dollars ok sizable investment on the parts of the chinese in libya now if you look at the instability that has been caused by the situation in libya and across north africa according to beijing's minister of ministry of commerce the chinese the turnover from these chinese investments in north africa has dropped almost fifteen percent in the first two months of this year so destabilization. is hampering chinese influence and economic investment how is it that if there is this tension this potential cold war why isn't it a fact that china hasn't been more outspoken about what's been going on in libya for example it did have the chance along with russia to veto the u.n. decision to impose a no fly zone and carry out aerial bombardments now if china felt its worst interests risk that why hasn't it spoken or indeed indeed vetoed that sanction. sure look i think this is

. >> as we take an extraordinary look inside angola, louisiana's maximum security prison.e's spent 33 years on the inside. no one knows prison life better than wilburrideau. he was sent here for stabbing a 47-year-old woman to death. he was 19 years old. >> all the psychological and social crachs that prop you up and enable the average person to walk a line and go about their lives, all that is removed. i mean, you have absolutely nothing. you got to build an existence in a vacuum. >> he did just that teaching himself to write. he became the editor of the prison magazine. he won national awards in journalism for his stories about the violence, depravity and dangers that are part of life in prison. so a few months ago, we asked him to take us into this world he knows so well. this is pictures of prison life from the inside out, images no one on the outside could possibly get. [applause] >> we'll have a discussion running perhaps 45 minutes or closer to an hour. i want to leave time for questions from the audience. when you do have questions, and please make sure they are co

make -- the me sure that it is not just tolerated but our problem is malt bilingualism -- model angola's and not the most bilingualism. [applause] >> i do want to add one more thing. it came to me as i heard both of you speak. a lot of my reading day chretien comes to me as you think lowered to reem in spanish or english? i cannot figure it out.h it i do both i think depending on your have been talking to. but my riding definitely has a lot more flavor i believe because the of the adages ie have heard since i was a child growing up. barrel where things would not come to me or what they would represent a would not come in english or in my existence in english america and the culture but yet to they are very important and have a strong meaning that i think again with my riding i think has been that much more flavorful because of the ability to blend those to influence it is. so if anything is that much more richer of the ability s several languages to contribute. >> governor castro did you want to comment? >> i have no fear the english-language would bet disappearing. con -- to theto contr

. >> as we take an extraordinary look inside angola, louisiana's maximum security prison.e's spent 33 years on the inside. no one knows prison life better than wilburrideau. he was sent here for stabbing a 47-year-old woman to death. he was 19 years old. >> all the psychological and social crachs that prop you up and enable the average person to walk a line and go about their lives, all that is removed. i mean, you have absolutely nothing. you got to build an existence in a vacuum. >> he did just that teaching himself to write. he became the editor of the prison magazine. he won national awards in journalism for his stories about the violence, depravity and dangers that are part of life in prison. so a few months ago, we asked him to take us into this world he knows so well. this is pictures of prison life from the inside out, images no one on the outside could possibly get. [applause] >> we'll have a discussion running perhaps 45 minutes or closer to an hour. i want to leave time for questions from the audience. when you do have questions, and please make sure they are co

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to portugal the idea is he wants to hook up with mercenary groups come and get on a ship to go to angola and the problem is he doesn't speak the language, he doesn't know the culture. he is running out of ideas, so he goes back to london and now he is really running out of ideas, he robs a jewelry store, robs a bank, he is trying to get to johannesburg or salzburg and when they find him he has this on on him which is a time table with plans to the south africa and they also found this book which is a sort of overview guide to rhodesia. they also found a loaded revolver which he had in his pocket. i guess times were different back then you to the board a plane and with a loaded revolver no problem and in fact when they caught him they didn't really make a big deal about it they just wanted to know if he had a permit for the gun and they asked him why do you need a gun? what's your story? he said i'm going to rhodesia and things are difficult down there and they basically accepted his story but, you know, they said we've compared your fingerprints and they actually compared fingerprints wi

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. >> as we take an extraordinary look inside angola, louisiana's maximum security prison.e's spent 33 years on the inside. no one knows prison life better than wilburrideau. he was sent here for stabbing a 47-year-old woman to death. he was 19 years old. >> all the psychological and social crachs that prop you up and enable the average person to walk a line and go about their lives, all that is removed. i mean, you have absolutely nothing. you got to build an existence in a vacuum. >> he did just that teaching himself to write. he became the editor of the prison magazine. he won national awards in journalism for his stories about the violence, depravity and dangers that are part of life in prison. so a few months ago, we asked him to take us into this world he knows so well. this is pictures of prison life from the inside out, images no one on the outside could possibly get. [applause] >> we'll have a discussion running perhaps 45 minutes or closer to an hour. i want to leave time for questions from the audience. when you do have questions, and please make sure they are co

. >> along with major projects off angola and in russia, hibernia is one of exxonmobil's biggest investments and it's paying off. every five to six days, a tanker leaves here with a payload of crude oil worth about $100 million. multiply that times hundreds of wells and tankers feeding exxon's refineries, and it adds up to make exxonmobil the largest corporation in the world. >> we manufacture a lot of different products. we manufacture gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuels. >> smith: in 2007, exxon's revenues surged to over $400 billion. after expenses, the company cleared $40 billion, the largest corporate profit ever reported. >> today, we still have our geoscientists go all over the world looking at rocks. >> smith: at exxon's houston research center, their best and brightest scientists and engineers spend all their time deciding where to drill next. >> a common technique is something called a geophone. you can see motions in the ground that are 10,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. >> smith: for now, exxonmobil is investing less than 0.1% of its profits in renewable energy

economic development, whether it's sewer challenges or fort wayne, ain go la with streets and sewers -- angola with streets and stures and things they know what they'd like to do and accomplish, are all affected by federal government one way or the other. it drives costs up for -- ultimately for the citizens. spending continues to accumulate and increase and we have to remember that the american taxpayer, the american citizen, we as citizens are the ones ultimately responsible for paying that bill. as we come into our budget process over the next couple of days, i think we should be reminded and would be remiss if we didn't take the opportunity to look through the scope and look through the eyes of what our founding fathers imagined and intended for our country through the constitution. as we face $14 trillion of debt. states, local governments, families don't have the ability to continue to borrow dollars, specifically states and local governments don't have the same ability that the federal government has, so they are disciplined and so they realize that the decisions they make affect local

water producer number one now in the word, and how we move forward not only with brazil, but with angolaand other countries around the world i think gives us an opportunity because of the fact that we went through the national crisis of the deepwater horizon and the macondo well to develop the gold standards of the world as we move forward with oil and gas production in the earth's ocean. if this president, for president obama, and me as his secretary of interior, our policy has been clear. we believe that oil and gas is part of our energy portfolio for the united states. it's important for our economic security. it's important for our national security, and so we will continue to have a policy that says we embrace oil and gas drilling in the oceans of america including in the deep water, and when we say in the deep water, we say, yes, even though we went through the deepwater horizon and the macondo well, we believe the lessons we learned and continue to learn will allow us to move forward in a way that allows us to develop that resource in a safe way, so you have a major assignment as

i will say the reason did ministration appears to give to conflicting accounts of thetr angola is you could not get to a u.n. resolution to say our goal is regime change. there are plenty of autocrats who find that i pretty difficult to abstain or vote with.m china and russia abstainedtain and you can guarantee they would vote against the resolution instead of saying protect it is messy but you have to make the least bad decisions. not the ideal decisions and and in the context of we did not do anything about rwanda would recover and took up the french radio stations and readat into anything in bosnia over two years and that weighed heavily on those involved whether susanved rice during the massacres and weighed heavily onmass samantha powers as the massacres were happening and it also weighed heavily on obama. >> i read in the paper that a general is using the worderal ground troops in namibia. do you know, about that oris will that happen? >> i think it was the u.s.o commander in charge of the operation and i think he waspe misquoted. >> i would be surprised. >> peter knows much mor