>>> coming up, as ethnic violence claims more lives in pakistan, one devout muslim tries to make a difference. >> i've been asking people one question. we've been muslims for 1400 years. why don't we become human beings? >>> and what the mormon church is doing about what it sees as a growing problem -- too many singles. >> there's definitely a lot of pressure to get married. at the same time there's not pressure to rush into any decision. we can all say that we're looking. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development, and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. the estate of william j. carter, and the corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome. i'm deborah potter, sitting in for bob abernethy. thank you for joining us. >> humanitarian organizations continue to rush aid to famine victims in east africa, as the unit

all of this because the neighbors are from different ethnic groups.n this area, it is the other group that says they are being targeted by pashtun. they say they have come under fire from gunmen in the neighboring area. this 13-year-old was shot in the legs by a pashtun sniper as she tried to take her younger brother and sister to safety. children here have to learn quickly about the ethnic divide. >> our people cannot go into their area and their people cannot come into ours. this is how it has become. the hatred has grown so much that our children now do not want to meet people from that side. >> as more areas get marked out by the group they belong to, the fear of much more bloodletting to come. bbc news, karachi. >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc. >> a reminder of the main news for you. there have been violent scenes in parts of the u.k. new reports from the midlands, although london has remained relatively calm. some 16,000 policemen have been guarding the capital. good of you to join us. thank you for watching. >> make sense of inte

and it is the same if your country, if your ethnic group has undergone genocide. it's the same if your people have been enslaved. you need someone to say that something bad was done to you. and so i really do, i'm a big supporter of the icc, and the people of darfur were just jubilant when they heard about the indictment. your question, um, i really should have mentioned this. about what we can do. i should have mentioned the fact that one of the maddening aspects of all of this, the way the west reacts, is that we never appreciate how much leverage we have. over regimes like the sudanese. and we did exactly the same in bosnia, incidentally. we never fully appreciated all the cards we had. if you look at sudan, they have something like 30 billion of debt because despite all that oil, they've spent it all on weapons. they desperately want access to the international monetary fund and the world bank, and they want to be accepted into the community of nations so they can develop their economy. this is, this is khartoum i'm talking about. they really want to be taken

more wounded in pakistan city of karachi in the past twenty four hours during ongoing political and ethnic clashes identified men were reported setting fire to houses and vehicles police say about two hundred people were killed in karachi in july loan the city which has a long history of ethnic and religious violence has deployed additional police and paramilitary troops to tackle the unrest. japan's energy operator tepco has detected the highest level of radiation at the fukushima nuclear facility since the manch quake and tsunami hit the plant but reading between the first and second reactor buildings registered at levels considered fatal to human health the government and the company that say that they remain on target to bring the reactors to a safer state of shutdown by january tens of thousands of people meantime remain in temporary shelters after a no go zone around the complex was in force. a legendary russian military

the demographics, this is the ethnic breakdown. five males, seven females, 12 ambassadors, four african- american, four asian, two pacific wilander and -- pacific islander, and to latino. the age ranges from the early 20's to the early 50's. they are a diverse group in every way. what distinguishes the community ambassadors program from similar escort programs are safety programs is the role modeling by the multi-ethnic team. the team and african american ambassador with a bilingual ambassador who was able to communicate in different languages. also the direct involvement of the community-based organizations and experts. the emphasis on safety and information. the ongoing relationship established with business owners of schools, transit, law enforcement, everyone who was involved and the distribution of information on city programs and services. we do things like education on 311, muni, healthysf, the id card. the ambassadors do this for a spread we are adding an additional element on avoiding consumer scams and fraud from wireless

a single interethnic clash but we live in build our future treating everybody equally but we give ethnic minorities an opportunity to promote their cultural heritage including their language and everything. but when asked about tolerance and events at nine years in a square. no manuscript in the corner there was nothing interethnic about what happened on monday square just as in other countries if somebody masterminded all this gathered people and wanted to stir them up against each other but i'm sure that we are incapable of it we've always stood together as good friends i'm sure the chechens will never go to manage square or to any other square and won't be declaring our entity we already saw this we saw what happened after rallies and what rallies bring about. the russian constitution states any citizen of russia could become president of the russian federation do you think a non russian could ever become russia's president clinton for the whole of course if the constitution says so why not get a muslim to come russian president bush one with a film of the mind why not. public enemy.

he got a new name, became an ethnic german -- stateless, of course. this was the precondition for being able to get these travel documents from the red cross. and then he could get to south america, to bolivia and live there after the war. there are many other of these, many other, you know, famous cases. one of the most maybe very unique case is the the case of carl hass, a get stat poe -- get gestapo officer in rome and he was responsible for the killing of 335 italians in march 1944 together with the man i mentioned earlier and others. after the war he was for a short period of time in custody, american custody. he got out three time, escaped prisoner of war camps three times. and in '47 the cic, the american counterintelligence corps, invited him to work for them because he had anti-communist knowledge. he knew the communists in italy very well. so he was recycled for the early cold war purposes and worked especially in italy, but also in southern germany for the counterintelligence corps. officially, he was wanted by the italians, of course, for

however, by far the biggest impact has been that on racial and ethnic minority. and this has been recognized by scholars, activists and others from across the political spectrum. since world war ii, hundreds of thousands of people have been forcibly displaced by polite condemnations, and also by economic development takings of the sort that the supreme court approved in the trade came? but the vast the good of those people were forcibly displaced are, in fact, called poor african-americans or hispanics. during the 1950s and '60s, the prejudice in these sorts of takings was so blatant that urban renewal takings were referred to by many people as negro removal. today, minorities continued to be disproportionately victimized by polite condemnations and other takings of that type. in my view today, the motive is really open and explicit prejudice against minority. however, the political weakness of the urban minority poor is a big factor and the reason why they tend to be targeted for these sorts of condemnations. and that political weakness is of course at least a p

how do you think it's possible to foster tolerance religious and ethnic in our society and you know our country because according to the latest events we're far away from that is it possible to bring up an ethnically tolerant generation but if not more of course yes why not how. everything is being done for that in our republic there is mutual understanding in all respects in terms of religion and ethnic origin mine we haven't had a single interethnic clash with will even build our future treating everybody equally but we give ethnic minorities an opportunity to prove their cultural heritage including their language and everything flows through. but when asked about tolerance i meant events at square. there was nothing interethnic about what happened on the nation where just as in other countries somebody masterminded all this other people and wanted to stir them up against each other but i'm sure that we are incapable of it but we've always stood together as good friends i'm sure the chechens will never go to money square or to any other square and won't be declaring our entity we alre

serbs violence erupted last week when they were in the breakaway province and ethnic albanian police to enforce a ban on said in imports and. then a canadian film director things the serbs will end up being forced to make concessions. they're sending five hundred fifty more german troops and one hundred fifty more austrian troops. they would not be sending troops into kosovo if they didn't estimate that the situation could explode into a larger conflict and considering that the international community has an interest in solving the so-called north kosovo issue it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they are trying to sort of fix this issue as fast as possible and i strongly believe that if force is necessary to do what they have planned they will use it this escalation of violence of course is not helping belgrade because. the people of serbia. see this as a provocation and it is making their sentiment against reaching a compromise. not very favorable for tried your side so i think this is not definitely helping anybody whatever the both sides are urged to negotiate it is mostl

was completely inexcusable if you have enough people who don't feel or have a future of whatever ethnic background they're only takes a small proportion to respond in this outrageous way it's been kind of the things to look at that multiculturalism and ethnic ethnic groups have nothing to do with what happened we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police cuts still plenty going through when it does do things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force of much worth problem. there's a perfect storm there's the quote for travel is rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which was paid to pour over sixteen year old from spain education university tuition fees have been troubled all of these together. continued to. get more devastatingly increasing numbers of people who feel they have an easy chair they feel they have nothing to look forward to and i think we could see a lot worse down the line when the cuts the government's response many increases as kneejerk b

had a single interethnic clash we live in build our future treating everybody equally but we give ethnic minorities an opportunity to promote their cultural heritage including their language and everything feels like a question you wanted to make chechnya a destination for tourists where you at right now could you imagine an english couple bunch of american kids visiting your republic for vacation but. there are a lot of tourists coming here we have a very unusual place in the density district a very beautiful place a lot of people are going there and there will be two tourist resorts there are actors performers officials come up with what do you make of the saying keep your friends close and your enemies even closer but i thought that was in a colorful it's very bad if you have enemies how can i keep him close by or even closer to. if you have an enemy you have to deal with him. i don't have anything so i don't know where to keep of the court i have friends not enemies there is no such person who could sit down together with me and say i am your fellow ramsey here's what i don't like yo

. >> ethnic serbs continued to block roads. they have come in their hundreds with no intention of leaving. this is despite an ultimatum from nato peacekeepers. ethnic serbs would like to contain' control of 50 border crossings. belgrade has sent a negotiator to the province. once we will continue to fight for our interests in a peaceful way. this is not a ghetto, this is serbia. >> in fact, this is a state recognized internationally. this is a cause of the enduring tension. nato's peacekeeping mission is set to get reinforcements from germany. there is little sign that the latest flare-up is about to subside. ethnic serbs have vowed to continue their blockades until the demands are met. >> lethal levels of radiation have been discovered at the fukushima power plant. the latest sign that the danger is far from over. the japanese government has extended a ban on beef shipments. radioactive substances were found in several cows that were fed contaminated hay. >> it beef from this region is considered a delicacy. it turns out that

the reason you don't use white actors is you don't concentrate on the ethnicity. you concentrate on the acts they are performing. >> i didn't say ethnicity. >> you like the sill labelles. they made it even harder to say. >> what was i supposed to say? >> ethnicity. >> they never would have noticed. >> what was i supposed to concentrate on that thing? what happened there? i saw a lady leave a cab and a guy on his cell phone and a lady in the train station. that was the most con vow luted -- con vow lewded and weird looking -- i am not saying nothing. >> it was like the beginning of a made for tv h-usa movie that is not as good as 24. >> have i no idea what is going on there. a soft core porn movie. the next thing is they are all in the hotel. >> and you know what they should say? don't call the police. if you see something, say something to the guy. it is the white guy who leaves the bag on the train, that's me. it has his sweat socks in it. >> but some say those are just as explosive because you don't clean them. it comes down to a fear of being labeled easy llama

and and calm settles in northern parts of iraq to recent ethnic clashes.

now, sudanese human rights activists are lobbying the united nations to stop ethnic-based violence. on a visit to the u.n.'s headquarters in new york, a bishop claims the car too many was carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign. >> at this rally in new york, protestors urged the world not to forget a worsening conflict. they called on the u.n. to protect their people who are being attacked in the province here. >> these people have come here to u.n. headquarters in new york because they can no longer appeal to the u.n. in their own countries. despite appeals from some members of the security council, it has refused to renew it. >> they closed the u.n. mission when they is he seeded and joined the united nations. at the same time, the sudanese army stepped up a military campaign against former guerilla fighters, which it says are still allied to the new southern state. but a bishop from the province says this is much more than the leftovers of the civil war. >> there is a lot of killing going on and we consider this as ethnic cleansing. so that is why we are calling on the u.n. cou

me that along with all of the religious reasons one might have for joining the taliban or all the ethnic reasons one might have for joining the taliban, there was an economic motivation as well which was linked to climate change. because in the war there are two positions on poppy. nato and the afghan government oppose it and attack it, frequently more often than not just in rhetoric because there's so much corruption that people can buy their way out of the eradication programs, but that doesn't mean that eradication isn't onerous for the farmer or a threat. and the other side, the taliban, defend the farmers' right to grow poppy. so in be -- in facing this drought and adopting to it through poppy, that is the side of the conflict that will defend the farmers' right to grow the one crop that's economically viable given the environmental crisis they face. people get confused about the taliban and poppy. um, they support poppy production when they were in power except for one year, the taliban, due to international pressure and also a sort of glut in the opium supplies. and for one year r

in this outrageous way to being cut off the streets of london but multiculturalism and different ethnic groups have nothing to do with what happened we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police cuts still plan to be going through when it does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force of much worth. there's a perfect storm the rich haven't yet there's rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which was paid to pour over six in your office then education university tuition fees have been troubled all of these together will breed continue to breed but more devastatingly increasing numbers of people who feel they have no future they feel they have nothing to look forward to and i think we could see a lot worse down the line when the courts the government's response many of. the same time seems to be mirroring public opinion the public want the government to crack down on the perpetrators and they want them to be punished severely nothing else a good

this was an attempt to scapegoat people this are the whole range of people involved from different ethnic backgrounds the common factor with all of them is poverty and unemployment and again it's not just occasional what happened was completely inexcusable if you have enough people who don't feel have a future of whatever ethnic background it only takes a small proportion and to respond in this outrageous way it's been kind of the streets of london but multiculturalism and ethnic groups have nothing to do with will happen we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police still planned on going through when it does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force. much worse. the perfect storm the rich haven't yet this rising youth unemployment. government took away the educational maintenance allowance which is paid to pour over six in your three education university tuition fees have been trouble all of these together will breed continue to breed resentment but more devastating really increasing numbers

alone in one of the deadliest months in the country in decades so a city which has a long history of ethnic and religious violence has deployed additional police and military troops to tackle the latest in the rest. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has agreed to discuss a possible return to pre-one nine hundred sixty seven borders with palestinians the country has been occupying land in the west bank where palestinians hope to build their own state since the six day war announcement for those been minutes and yeah it was consistent rejection of the same proposal put forward by the uk obama may in return the palestinians would be expected to drop their bid for statehood at the un and formally recognize israel as a church state. police in britain have released incredible c.c.t.v.

it also looks like ethnic violence, religious violence, civil war, counterinsurgency, zenith of the esa and the current policing. what i try to do is tease out in these different situations for causality, the causal role of climate change. i never argued that climate change is the sole driving force of violence in any one place. but that is a contributing type error. and always works in conjunction with preexisting bases. the idea of the book came to me when i was reporting on the economy and afghanistan. farmers there are a vast come away with a growing this illegal crop and running the risks that came with that, of getting arrested, having a crop destroyed by the government. part of the answer that came up again and again in different places of a series of words is that poppy was very chart resistant. it turns out that afghanistan is suffering the worst drought in living memory, which is: i did with the of nationbuilding in afghanistan. and poppy uses one fifth to one sixth the amount of water that week requires. so given this drought, the worst in living memory, it's really one of th

to have a future of whatever ethnic background that only takes a small proportion and to respond in this outrageous way and in kind of the streets of london but multiculturalism and ethnic groups have nothing to do with what happened we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police start still planned and going through when it does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force of much worse to come. the perfect storm because the cuts which haven't yet as rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which is paid to pour over sixteen your sustain education university tuition fees have been troubled all of these together will breed continue to breed huge resentment but more devastating really increasing numbers of people who feel they have no they feel they have nothing to look forty and i think we can see a lot worse down the line in the courts the government's response many of prisoners is kneejerk but the same time since the mirroring public opinion the pu

because of also leaders are branded the nato mission proposal to end a border tensions with ethnic serbs as unacceptable additional troops were sent in after violence escalated when kossovo police moved to the checkpoints to enforce a trade which was a response to service restriction on costs of and goods the deal would see

believe about two hundred people were killed in karachi in july alone the city has a long history of ethnic religious and sectarian violence among the city's main political parties. pro get off the forces of launched a counter attack against rebels near the libyan western city of the tunick killing at least seven people taking control of the town is a key step for rebels who plan to advance from vera to the capital tripoli gadhafi son saif al islam says a fighting in libya will continue until the country is quote liberated the ongoing civil war started over four months ago and has claimed the lives of an estimated two thousand people. colombian authorities have captured two suspected leaders of a cocaine operation involving the transfer of twenty tons of drugs per year to the

school force to protect themselves from ethnic aggression on a daily basis. eighty two year old little bits who leaves in history an enclave in the cost of a pope's tonight will be trouble free on march the it will not stop them if they want to steal they'll do it anyway as they have been many times but i feel better if i do this love them of the people she fears are all ben ians limits is small village there are only twelve houses here is in the middle of a larger billion community if something happens live it say who lives with your little grandchildren says no one will come to help them cause. this you are tractors and cows we live in fear we never know what tomorrow will bring we try to think about it but many of us have gone if nothing changes i think there will soon be no subs left in cos about what the last. and some statistics ecolab it says fears in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight before need his woman of serbia albans made up sixty six percent of course of its population today three years after the region's self proclaimed independence this f

already patrolling the area one officer was killed in clashes between kossovo special forces and ethnic serbs when police took control of two disputed border crossings special forces were sent to the border by the cost of a government to enforce a trade ban on a serbian imports it was in response to belgrade existing embargo on costs have been goods which has been in place since cost of zero so you know a lot of old declaration of independence in two thousand and eight more a smuggler ski a serbian a canadian a film director says that serbia is under pressure from the e.u. to recognize kosovo. situation in kosovo is very unstable this is due to the illegal acts of the so-called government of course of all it is not helping the saddest talks of course in the negotiations that are due to continue this september and the whole escalation of violence is simply not going towards a peaceful solution that everybody is hoping for but considering that the international community has an interest in solving the so-called north kosovo issue it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they are tryin

serbian population in kosovo every abend in family here has from four to ten children making these ethnic group one of the fastest growing populations in europe and it seems as the serbian minority decreases forces grow louder and the fight turns fiercer. recent clashes in northern kosovo at the disputed border with serbia following christina's attempt to take control over the checkpoints showed that serbs are standing strong over their communities will be just. how long should i prove to the rest of the world that this is our land that is how long should we fight for it i want to know my life back so much but we're afraid they won't stop until we all live or die. one bedroom one big dining room and one room for children this little cozy house used to be a home to one serbian family but a decade ago life stopped within these walls since one thousand nine hundred nine men e.f. nick serbs have fled casa and still afraid to return living sad reminders like this one spread all over the region there are fears that what serves always considered as their heart could soon just stop beating. riff

i alone the city has a long history of ethnic religious under sectarian violence along the city's main political parties. when explosions have struck western backed down killing four and wounding thirteen officials said the first blast occurred near a local convenience store with the second bomb going off a few minutes later when police and witnesses have gathered at the scene which comes after iraq's political leaders gave the government the green light to negotiate with the us for a possible deal to keep their troops in the country on a training mission. colombian authorities have captured two suspected leaders of a cocaine operation involving the transfer of twenty eight tons of drugs per year to the united states via submarines police said the arrest was the conclusion of a six year investigation into the drugs ring i mean what i provided after the u.s. coast guard announced the capture of a submarine off the honduran coast carrying seven and a half tons of cocaine haul had an estimated street value of one hundred and eighty million dollars. all right you're up to date now with the