rule on two french nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle over 100 door for orphans -- 100 darfur orphans. details.pson has the >> after six years of legal wrangling, emily and eric are finally set to learn their fate. >> we are pleased he can finally talk about the whole thing. we waited six years and the court really listened to us. so on that front, we are really satisfied. >> in october 2007, the couple, alongside fellow members of their french charity, attempted to smuggle 103 children from chad and darfur into france. they claimed they were orphans. before they made onto the airplane in chad, they were caught. theyof the parents thought were interesting the children to be educated by the charity. the eight volunteers were sentenced eight years hard labor in chad before being pardoned by the president a year later. the condition that they would be tried in france. the pair was sentenced between two to three years in prison. both remain adamant that the operation was legal. >> lovers around the world are celebrating valentine's day today. that makes this month particularly ros

it neighbors south sudan, darfur, sudan, the d.r.c. and chad among other countries.example is the presence of the lord resistence army that fled uganda and has found a safe haven in c.a.r. and the ugandan army with the help of u.s. assistance was fighting the l. r.a. in the c.a.r. and now we are seeing now movement of population from the c.a.r. to chad and cameroon and even the d.r.c. so instability in the c.a.r. is not good for the region. the last of countries you mentioned are it's complete with other countries that have had recent problems of either internal refugees crisis crises, a lot of government inning that bit. unsteady rains that caused the fragile food situation. i mean, this is -- you know us, get a couple of thousand people or even a couple of 10s of thousands of people fleeing from one place to the other. can t* can cause problems in the place they can, can't it? >> definitely. and the -- another issue is that right now the muslim population is running away, fleeing and going to chad. so i am kind of -- i fear the neighboring areas of chad, for exampl

first proposed by president park last year in a six week postpartum marked in yellow intifada km wide darfur border or so the project was proposed with a team of improving allegiance with north korea the ministry for interpreting affairs also announced constitutes forth and so called debates and instead called for linking energy and logistics infrastructure across the continent. the ministry said it will explore messrs to renovate and fifty four km track connecting north korea's port city of not seeing and russia's eastern border town of basra the project this old wants to ultimately build a distribution channel director of south korea's southern port city of his time doing north korea and to rush out. for the project had been underway since november when president i've met with russian president palmer in and signed a memorandum of understanding. bill hall south korean companies take part in the real me with bodily season projects the unification ministry also announced it will look into this unsuspecting hands cultural understanding between the two kirby yes i'm working in various areas in

last at number one hundred eighty even behind north korea admittedly my knowledge of the small is darfur and country was limited prior to my research into the story but it's certainly worth mentioning that in the short time since eritrea's independence in one thousand nine hundred one the country has spiraled downward into this current grim condition in two thousand and one nations are a critical leadership banned all private media leaving only a tightly controlled state media and its place reporters without borders notes that there are also twenty eight journalists currently detained in the country out in that access to reliable information is impossible in the absence of satellite and internet connections between the abysmal conditions that keep eritrea and a media black hole america's thirteen point drop in the ranking and the inability of other world powers like china and russia to improve their standing in the two than fourteen world press freedom index plain paints excuse me a global community and decline uninhibited access to information is humanity's most powerful weapon which is

used to bee way we angry about darfur for or bosnia. i still have a little green armband that says never again going back to darfur four. there is no sense of outrage in the world today about syria. is for young people everywhere. had we get them to respond? >> i have not seen a single person who is not outraged about what is happening in syria. people can only do so much. i was enraged two years ago. i started a grassroots initiative. i am not in a position of power to do a big change. -- enraged.ranged we should be doing something about this and we should do more effort. we should put our hands into doing something. we should look at this issue as a long-term issue. it is very important to look at this as now. what we can do now. we should also be forward-looking. it is the empowerment of education. it is not too soon. soon to start this. -- this is a form for businessmen. there is an excellent opportunity. there is a lot of opportunity to start developmental projects are amazings. there talent inside the tents and people who can do a

we all know that celebrities, george clooney with darfur and other political issues in the past, somek out. i do have to say, gretchenish i was surprised because i look to sarah jessica parker and her character of carrie for advice on shoes when she came out saying this about chris christie. people on the right find it precarious a governor so hands on would know nothing. this isn't just democrats that feel this way. >> chris, i'll let you take a stab at that. >> sarah jessica parker on a little watched show on little watched channel on the dial. >> it was pretty popular, chris. continue. >> i'm talking about the show where she made comments. not s"sex and the city." where she made these comments. at that little watched station there's an absolute feeding frenzy. i think they ask the passing janitorial staff where they stand on chris christie as long as they have something negative to say about him. this jihad there on chris christie has reached the point, sarah jessica parker is here, lets see what she has to say about chris christie. the absurd, spiraling down further and further. >

i think what's interesting is that darfur, which was happening, was a unique flash point. i was writing about chinese investments in sudan during that time frame for "the wall street journal." american students built this movement that did -- while we see the robust response from people in the know, we don't see it from ordinary americans as much. >> syria is not just the only issue in russia's backyard as it were. richard, you are departing for the ukraine this evening. there are dramatic pictures coming out of there today. how much has that unrest filtered its way into the -- >> i think this is a far more important story, one that has really significant political geo implications. a group of protesters, who were violently clashing with police all day, have barricaded themselves in the center of the city. they have lit bonfires all around them. they're throwing molotov cocktails at riot police. they have tried to storm into independence square to drive these protesters out. it looks very much like a revolution. according to the demonstrators, nine have been killed today.

a fateful decision was they brought in hired gun, mersinaries from the conflicts in darfur and chad. they were brought in on a promise of getting paid when victory was achieved. >> victory was achieved. they kicked out the former president, took power last march, but there was no money to pay the fighters. even more than that, the seleka leadership could not feed and house the fighters. so the fighters said, "we're going to take it ourselves." they went out and started to pillage and over time the pillaging and the abuses became worse and worse. they were essentially uncontrolled bit the leadership. now, this was not primarily a muslim christian conflict in the begin, even though most of the country - 85% is christian, and the seleka were muslim. what happened was these fighters tended to abuse the christians more and pillage from them more and it got worse. so eventually the christians organised themselves to fight back. that's the militias that have been talked about in bangui. >> and you got a new interim president, catherine samba-panza. is she going to be able to make a differen