particularly in rwanda were only 13% of girls continue into secondary school.is also an economic issue, investing in young women. that is the smartest economic investment you can make in the development of this extraordinary country, which as you mentioned, at 17% of the population was slaughtered in less than at fremont's. bayh it thank you up for this -- i thank you for this honor. you are all invited to come visit and follow our>> of all ol principals, he worked closely with the non-charter schools and one of the principles that is a good example of charter schools being a catalyst for improvements in the whole public school system, thank you to peter thorpe for his work in the san francisco unified school district as well. supervisor campos: i just want to echo those comments. i had the pleasure of working with peter when i was at the school district and i do think it is commendable what he has done. you are not going to find some more committed to public education and helping young people. so thank you, peter. president chiu: it is my honor to make the nex

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cast your mind back to rwanda. there was only one african leader at the time, african political leader at the time who had anything to say about rwanda. would anybody like to hasten a guess as to who that was? >> [inaudible] >> nelson mandela, of course it was. desmond tutu spoke out constantly and thoroughly as he has on darfur but, of course, he's not a religious leader. i'm sorry, he was a religious leader rather than a political leader. it was only nelson mandela who had anything to say about this, and that is the tragedy of africa. that's an example of what is happening right now in abyei, um, although that photograph was taken in darfur. which takes me to the reason that i wrote a novel about darfur. since i went there in 2004 to the refugee camps, i have given endless speeches, and i have written endless articles, and i'm always preaching to the choir. i'm always talking to people who are already concerned. and i was quite inspired by the example of the kite runner. here's a guy who wrote a novel about afgha

in 1994 genocide took the lives of a million people in rwanda and left a quarter of a million widows.were raped and are now living with hiv. >> i felt that i would like to connect with some of the widows there and ask them how they've managed to go through their grief. >> reporter: garborini brought a video camera and asked them to share their stories. what she heard surprised her. >> ( translated ): i have already forgiven those who killed my husband because they killed him and it's over and he can't come back. >> ( translated ): i realized life is there and i have to live. >> what they went through was so horrific. they have lost their children. they have lost their husbands. it was beyond my comprehension. but they were still standing. >> reporter: the women performed a reenactment of the day their families were slaughtered, a ritual they repeat periodically. >> one woman would find another woman, and then another woman in the fields, hiding. and they would carry each other back to places that were safe. the women in rwanda taught me, you can pull yourself out of the rubble. >> rep

the same thing happened in rwanda. it is important that we be very robust and collecting that evidence while we try to stop it and died -- bringing to the committee how important that is. he made a number of serious recommendations and i would appreciate any elaboration on that. you say the united states cannot begin to consider normalizing ties with sudan and should not be listing them or approved this outlaw nation while these terrible crimes against humanity are occurring. you also say the u.s. and international committee must act. you also _ because of the bombing campaign, people have not been able to plant or tend to their crops. by october when the crop should have been ready to harvest, there will not be enough food to feed tens of thousands of displaced persons and you call that a slow motion genocide by design. you also make a very impassioned appeal that effective peacekeeping forces with a real mandate to keep the peace and not stand by while mass murder occurs house to house around the clock. in your view

i had a horrible experience my first trip to rwanda in 2004. i went to a prison where there were 5,000 people who had committed genocide. and rwanda's such a poor country that you only get locked up if you had actually killed a large number of people or if you were a mastermind. so you think of the implications of that is that this case of someone i know every day when she leaves her hut, she looks into the eyes of the person who killed her mom and dad and raped her. they can't afford to put him in prison because there's so many people who participated. .. pretext, and we say to a generation of unemployed disgruntled young men, your destiny is to get greater germany to fulfill the promise of your people, young map, arise. he said, that's our role, you know, to manipulate and up still fear, and naturally i was taken aback by this. i said, don't be -- you know, why are you here? in the rwanda system because they are so poor, if you confess, say where the body's buried, they let you out. he said, why do i want to get out when i get food in her and

gabe was on his way to rwanda when he heard he won.he spent 12 day was the school project, helping bring supplies and teaching lessons in schools in the village. >> in rwanda these thees people have lived through having a million people murdered in 1994. the reason we should care is this the world we live n these people are real people just like us. >> gabe hopes to inspire other young people to get involved in a cause. >> it's -- if there is a kid out there who doesn't, he wants to help but doesn't know if he should, might get made fun of, that, make sure you follow what you think is right. >> and so, tonight we salute the 16-year-old for all of his hard work.zv to help victims of genocide around the world. if you know someone we should salute please go to our web site and send us an e mail. >> and the spanish word savor means flavor in evening lish. tonight some of the flavor of an exhibit that opens tomorrow, it celebrates influence of latinos in american popular music. >> rhythm, passion and traditions of latin music impacted ameri

read samantha power's book, watch what was taking place in rwanda. president clinton felt bad about it and went to rue rwanda to apologize because the safety department was watching. what is taking place here took place in rwanda as the secretary alawed to take place and nobody did anything. read samantha power's book. china is the problem. you have to remove bashir. you have to remove bashir. he has to be removed. government change, regime change, there's no other way. it's been going on for 21 years. 2.1 million people, mainly christians, but some muslims, 200,000-400,000 people killed in darfur. u.n. and others were turning people over to be taken away. that sounds like the nazis to me. sounds like something out of a bad movie. the u.n. has failed. these are war criminals. they are war criminals. that's it. they are war criminals! i don't think anyone connected to this government ought to be permitted to visit the united states, period. close their embassy down and force them out. if you'reworking -- i mean -- libya is a problem because of gadhafi

(applause) >> jon: keep trying, rwanda. (laughter) wow. and by the way, not only is closing corporate loopholes-- (laughter) you are a nerd crowd. (laughter) >> jon: there's no doubt in my mind. (cheers and applause) by the way, not only is closing corporate loopholes and raising the marginal tax rate class warfare, it totally wouldn't even work. >> you can tax rich people all you want. and you're not going to -- >> the idea that if we raise taxes as the president said on millionaires and billionaires, raise taxes on oil companies, raise taxes on owners of private jets, that that somehow is going to make a difference. >> the president wants to raise the top 2 income tax rates which would raise about $700 billion over ten years. you know what, that's only a tiny fraction of the federal government's deficit. >> jon: $700 billion over ten years. (laughter) that's less money than warren buffett's cleaning lady pulls out of his shower drain every week. (laughter) no,-- so-- so $700 billion of raised revenue over ten years ain't even worth the e

. >> charlie: that's what we should have done in rwanda. >> that's what we should have done in rwanda and we should forget the models in afghanistan. >> charlie: should we intervene in syria. >> i believe at the moment -- >> charlie: there is an indigit nuts revolt. >> we should be saw scious about syria. >> charlie: should we have intervened in libya. >> yes but the president's mallity there is smart because it's not black or white. it doesn't say either w do nothing or we put 100,000 troops on the ground. what he's saying no troops on the ground, we're going to protect the population. people say, i mean the reason i like the libyan thing is it's a moderate policy. not an extreme policy. and people get impatient, they say qaddafi is still there, you failed. >> charlie: so but would military, would th use of military force in syria that had nothing to do with putting boots on the ground be effective in support of those who are opposing the government. would that be a wise policy, no troops on the groundut military air support for the rebels. >> i think at the moment that would be unwi

. >> have you talked at all about what happened in rwanda? >> actually in this book it mentions rwanda just briefly, but i would say what i was looking -- when i was looking at the news accounts i felt like i was reviewing my old archival documents again. the similarities were haunting. stories about women who had been raped by soldiers and now they're going to carry an enemy soldier's baby and these dilemmas that were so painful to me when reading them because i kept seeing the same story over and over again. >> you tell a story in here of a woman who to this day won't give her real name or was raped and i can't remember exactly what it was but you alluded to it. what was it that some of the rapes that happened, eventually children were born? >> yes. there were many half japanese half chinese children born as a result of the rape and one of the missionaries at the time, louis smith, said that there were thousands of these children being smothered to death or drowned, because very few women really wanted -- i mean, they couldn't love these ch

we may say a prayer for people in congo or rwanda, but how do connect the dots?hink that prayer is powerful and not to be diminished. some of us in this country who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangers health situations and they do not have access to corporate medical care dupree for yourselves -- medical care do pray for themselves and for others. for those concerned with daily survival, i think there is a variety of ways -- it is enlightened self interest. globally, healthy societies are better able to economically empower themselves. there is real connection in the growth of gdp with the health status of a population and come in particular, the ability girls and women to access education, income generation, technology with connecting poor communities with technology. there are connections to increase in that nation's productivity. those stable societies are what, as a global community, we're looking for. i think all of the money that we spend militarily, for example, some of it can be

if you buy petrol or manufactured goods in southern sudan, in uganda, in rwanda, in burundi even in congo, those goods almost certainly came in through kenya. so the kenyan economy is benefiting enormously from this en troupeau status. p >>reporter: the development plans include a deep-water port and oil refinery on pate island, just north of lamu,together with a military port and complete infrastructure network in northern kenya, including new airports, towns, railways and roads. it's a project that many believe is vital to kenya's economic future. p >>onditi: the level of investment that are going to be there is going to be very huge and if you look in termsof employment, it will be a huge employment that is going to be created. and those onwho want to carry the offshore manufacturing, so that they can easily get access to the east african community market, they will be able to put up their packaging and finishing products, machineries within the lamu. p >>reporter: the port, kenya's second deep-water facility after mombasa, would be the main gateway for sea-borne trade for not only sou

read the book, kofi annan watched was taking place in rwanda. he went to rwanda to apologize. what is taking place here took place in rwanda and secretary christopher allowed it to take place. read samantha powers' book. china is the problem. you have to remove bashir. you have to remove bashir. he has to be removed. government change, regime change. no other way. it has been going on for 21 years. 2.1 million people, mostly christian, killed in the north-south battle. people killed in darfur. he just said the u.n. are turning people over to be taken away. that sounds like the nazis to me or something out of a bad movie. the u.n. has failed. these are war criminals. they're war criminals. that's it. they're war criminals. i don't think anybody connected to this government ought to be permitted to visit the united states, period. we should close their embassy down and force them out. if you're working -- libya, libya is a problem because of gaddafi and syria is a problem because of the president assad. this guy's much worse. and to meet with them is incredible. they should be e

or other parts of the world that are being bombarded i never saw the response of the tech the and rwanda or in gaza. or and i've been on. this he says preposterous and we were they were firing rockets which has been fired you know i'm sure that my colleagues here from the other procedure will say that they can't soldiers in year or something i regret they'll say anything syrians are using civilian shields print but that's something case i'm sorry i'm not even if they're going to kill me which. my credit. ok. tell us what's happening in your hotel now how many international journalists are there with you and tell us what is the safety situation i mean i understand that it's not very impressive there at the moment but can you describe what everyone is going through emotionally being there. we are going through we're teeter tottering . you know there's fear there's anger there's exhaustion let me tell you lot of people didn't sleep because the nato bombings and needle bombings kept this up before this event because they did it in the tent city bombing campaign in order to have you surface r

this is what i take for my thyroids forty year old cancer survivor rwanda says the people of the navajo nation have been exploited by corporations and abandoned by their government you have no generation there's nothing at the me my daughter don't want to have kids because she's come out before and my son the want to have kids. but i have one that has kids but there's problems in two thousand and seven the environmental protection agency launched a five year plan to clean up been a whole nation which included five hundred abandoned sites extending to utah and new mexico twice a month fresh drinking water it delivered to some fifty four thousand citizens contaminated homes have been rebuilt and people relocated but many still say federal officials have fallen short where really matters helping to rebuild a decent quality of life that people feel that through all these years even if you just point two thousand and eleven nothing has happened you have seen no action see no roads being improved no housing being built. very very little has happened so they're questioning how long do we live

back rain or other parts of the world that are being bombarded i never saw the response technique rwanda or hasn't or another not. as this is preposterous and we were they were firing which was meant for you know i'm sure that my colleagues here from the other procedures will say that the cat soldiers in year or something rather killed they'll say anything syrians it is using civilian shields but they're something case i'm sorry i'm not even if they're going to kill me which are. pretty good might. ok. tell us what's happening in your hotel now how many international journalists are there with you and tell us what is the safety situation any i understand that it's not very impressive there at the moment but can you describe what everyone is going through emotionally being there. we're going through we're teeter tottering. you know there's fear there's danger. exhaustion let me tell you a lot of people didn't sleep because the nato bombings immutable i mean skeptics. they didn't attend sit by me campaign in order to have you serious or write in this new indian track and so it was a very i

nobody does and i think i have that i have a different view and i wonder i supported intervention in rwanda and i blame the united states and france for not only not intervening but affirmatively preventing the united nations from intervening so i'm not somebody who says there should never be any intervention the question is under what circumstances and by cohn one of the key things that president obama did was to recognize that there's a difference between legality and legitimacy he knew he could force his way. and to a u.n. resolution in the security council the u.s. has a long history of that by bribing threatening to get votes it happened here it will happen again it's happened before but he also knew that without clarity from the arab league and the african union that wasn't going to be possible so early on if you recall the disaster was less than those already rolled away in question here a from some way on talking about the questions iran was asked and he recognized you know let me just say the question for me is partly international legitimacy and having both the arab league and the

gabe was on his way to rwanda when he heard he has won. he spent the next 12 days with a school project, helping bringing supplies and teaching lessons in school. >> in ra wanl did a, its road to atrocity having a million people murdered. this is the world you live in and these people are real people just like us. >> gabe hopes to inspire other young people involved in a cause. >> if there is a kid out there, he wants to help but he doesn't know if he should. make sure you follow what is right. >> so this morning, we salute gabe for all his hard work helping victims of genocide all over the world. >> using credit card reward points used to be free but often you have to pay to cash them in. i'm michael >>> it's been a popular way to get a cheap flight is frequent flyer miles. in fact redeeming them may cost you money. michael finney explains why. >> reporter: they had long planned a dream vacation to europe. >> we're going to take a two week news. >> they planned to up grade the coach seats to first class using points they on the other hand

there or rwanda. that is what they learned. lightning storms in florida but not the lightning capital of the world. >> it's quiet for us. >> it is. look at that. isn't that beautiful? peter dials that in, and you can see it southbound from volmer peak. gorgeous shot. it reminds me of yosemite or niagara falls if you will. they are clouds. they're clouds that will be around about an hour longer today than they were yesterday. let's talk about what is happening now. we'll get in the depth of the forecast. 52 at san rafael. 61 at mountain view. we have the mid-to-upper 50s. we have slower sunshine and that means mild temperatures today. we have flight arrival delays to sfo, nearly 60 minutes. check out our flight tracker online at abc7news.com anytime. thicker clouds, even drizzle tonight. that will set the stage for cooler than average temperatures. look at today. we're same in livermore, warmest weather in east bay valley. 88 there. napa, close to average with 82. one degree cooler. oakland and san francisco, two. san jose, thre

of despair as if it were the second act of a tragedy when confronting the war of the balkans and rwandawe felt we were facing new forces, ethnic hatred and civil war which we were unable to deal with. a third act symbolized by dayton in 1994 when the international community rediscovered its confidence, seemed to feel there were things it could do so as a young diplomat are served when i left indonesia at the east timor referendum and move to kosovo and bosnia participating in the high tide of a new idea that we had the formula. we could go into other countries and engage in state buildings and create governance and end conflict. this led to numerous -- the triumph that led into afghanistan and iraq. a sense that we had been told we couldn't do it in kosovo and bosnia and guess what we did. when people said we couldn't do it in iraq and afghanistan we were going to prove them wrong. the fifth act, a humiliating mess. the terrible realization over the last nine years of the limits of our power and knowledge and legitimacy, a sense of impotence. i believe we should not come to the end of t

medical school kind of organization and practicing medicine on the ground in places like haiti and rwanda. the effect of the earthquake in haiti and the work they have done, he said i want to write about it. i want to write about what is happening. is the response adequate? is the response from world leaders what it should be? is the aid being used in the best way it could be? he uses this as an opportunity to get haitian voices involved in this issue. he gets different people involved in haiti that he has known for many years to write about this too. paul is not only talking about the experience in haiti but give voice to people in haiti who in all the publicity have not necessarily been heard from. >> susan weinberg the girl the vote on the covers powerful. >> we were looking for something that would convey the mix of the motions when you think about haiti and the earthquake and the recovery. it is such a mixture of hope and maybe despair. grand plans but everyone is so vulnerable. >> we're talking with susan weinberg, publisher of publicaffairs books. on your board i want to talk about

my family was headed back to rwanda where i've also been working and had no idea why i would be getting a call from a friend in washington that evening so i heard about it then. but really took a long time -- >> charlie: sharyl mills called you. >> it was sharyl mills and was good enough to let me know. she thought i might be in haiti. she knew i was down there are for the holidays. ani had no idea of the dimensions that the quake but also the impact on the city on the infrastructure itself. >> charlie: when you, so you turned around and went right there. >> i went to join president clinton at the united nations the next morning. and there was no getting in and out of the airport except through, and the commercial traffic was close. and so i came here to new york the next day, there was a session on haiti. there were some, a friend of ours who had been working with haitian diplomate, he hadome up for a meeting here. i came and met them and i went directly from new york. >> charlie: you have said and i think right in this book everyone knows i haiti or people involved with haiti knows wh

medical school kind of organization and practicing medicine on the ground in places like haiti and like rwanda. and he had, you know, the effect of the earthquake in haiti and the work that they've done and the level that they got to know haiti, he just said i want to write about it. i want to write about what has happened, what is happening. is the response adequate? is the response from world leaders what it should be? is the aid being used in the best way it could be? he also in his book uses this as an opportunity to get haitian voices involved in this issue. he, um, he talks about how -- he gets different people involved in haiti that he has known often for many years to write about this, too, so paul is not only talking about the experience in haiti, but he has also been able to give voice to people in haiti who in all the bruhaha and all the publicity have not necessarily been heard from. >> sw susan weinberg, the photo on the coffer of this is really -- cover of this is rather powerful. >> it really is. we were looking for something that would convey the mix of emotions that you get wh

a number of examples, nelson mandela, ahead the privilege of visiting rwanda last december and was quite impressed with genuine progress in light of the tragic past. what i would like to know in all the we discussed so far the extent to which leadership is important and what is your prognosis for the future and the role that leadership will continue to play in development. >> let's start with rebeca grynspan. when you talk about the role of leadership, brazil for example has seen remarkable leadership over the last few years. if you could give us very quickly perspective on the economic transformation that has taken place in latin america and yet you do have these clashes, erosions in terms of the emerging inequalities, in terms of the environmental concerns that go with this kind of development. and respond to the question of education. talking to my friend who was kenyan and teaching at the school of government, his doctoral thesis was from brazil and he raised some fundamental issues regarding the role of science and technology in bringing about social and economic transformation in t

surely, we don't want humanitarian catastrophes anywhere, and we did the wrong thing in rwanda by notntervening sometime ago, and some of the policymakers now were part of that mistake. but on the other side of the matrix is our interest, our strategic interest. and if you map these countries which are different from each other on that matrix, libya doesn't come out very high. i mean, because it doesn't threaten our strategic interests. a country like syria does, yemen does because there are people in yemen actively plotting to send and actively sending materials in colloquial english into america that are inspiring home grown terrorists here. so yemen threatens us directly. syria's a back door from iran to lebanon and then to israel, and it harbors two very, very toxic terror groups, hamas and hezbollah. you can't say those things about libya. so my point is this is a zero sum game. we have limited resources in terms of people, in terms of money. everyone gets that. and limited brain cells. and we really have to focus on the top targets for us. when you look back on what we did in li

to the stage where today in africa we pride ourselves of rwanda being one of the most robust economic borders in africa. and, of course, donald was very much the architect of economic transformation. he is now, or since 2005 the president of the african development bank. he started at the university, my alma mater. took his degree in economics from there. and later went to glasgow in scotland where he obtained his doctorate in economics. so you can understand that we do have a formidable panel before you. i think will have a very lively conversation. so, let me begin by asking both of them a very general question. over the last 40 years, rebeca and donald, we have seen within the global society a number of looking at north-south relations, looking at how we can build a more just and more humane global society. what richard and his colleagues in the '70s and '80s described development, described as a developer of the human faith. so we went to the commission, we went through other commissions in terms of the environment, climate justice. we went to the south commission which was chaire

inequality as far as income compared to other countries -- we are down there with the philippines and rwandaerll of these countries. they have air-conditioning, refrigerators. how heartless can you people be? next time -- the heritage foundation, i do not know why you would have him on there. this white -- right wing think tank. talk about the rich and what they contributed to society. guest: one of the points that i am making here is it is very important for you to understand that when john stewart or anyone else uses these figures about how much the rich have versus how much the lower half of the population has, the fact that we take $1 trillion away from the rich and give it to the poor and welfare programs is not counted. we do not count the taxes paid by the rich. those inequality figures are meaningless. the entire welfare state is across the book. the taxpayers are in a bizarre set to ration. you say we have all of this party, and take $900 billion away and give it to low income people. when you count party the next year, you do not count any of that $900 billion. it does not make any

the only thing that has prevented another rwanda-type genocide from happening. but time is running out. most n.g.o.'s operating under the umbrella pulled out. the rainy season in south sudan has effectively closed supply routes to the south until november and december. daily bombings have terrorized the local populations. cultivation is not taking place during this crucial planting season. they are cut off and facing a severe crisis within 60 days unless relief flights are allowed to recommence. this will not happen while gunships continue to patrol the skies. they refuse to allow human being observers to document what is happening, which should not surprise anyone. it is absolutely essential that the international community bring pressure to bear on the united nations to immediately declare humanitarian emergency in the nuba mountains and to impose a no-fly zone to stop the bombing campaign and allow humanitarian access so that relief flights back into the region may resume. im conclude by stating there is more than enough evidence to justify speedy action on t