young people came up to me, ethiopian americans, and just thanked me. they were in tears for what i had done in terms of human rights in ethiopia, and that we had really made a difference. that the ethiopian government -- they are large community in my congressional district. they are a community that was effectively pushed out of ethiopia for the most part, the diaspora by very authoritarian government that really was abusive in terms of human rights. and was always threatening the united states with withdrawing support if we criticized the government there. they were helping us in the war on terror, and it reminded me in the cold war when we supported authoritarian regimes that did not respect the human rights of their people. because they were anti-communist, we supported them. we were doing that in ethiopia in their support of the war against terrorism. a lot of the weapons we were given them and the ammunition, they were using against our -- their own people. they put a lot of pressure on congress to not even vote on house resolution 128, and threa

tribal elders in a town on the kenyan ethiopian border calling for calm after twenty one people died in a week at ethnic violence welly said saw on both sides of the border fighting in ethiopia between ethnic romo and somali communities this year has forced thousands of people to escape to the kenyan side samus ravi reports from nairobi. a refugee crisis is playing out on the ethiopia kenya border. last week a decade's old dispute over tribal lands on the if your side of the town of moore yalit turned violent again forcing the most vulnerable to flee into kenya. if you want to go back home but our houses have burnt. the population of a split by an international border that runs through the center of the town a legacy of colonial rule that adds to the tensions in a place divided along ethnic lines for generations continuing fighting this year has forced thousands of refugees into kenya many are still there too afraid to go back their population that is here is to go back. to. being. worked on and if this people stay here most likely the host communities will have a lot of pressure on

what's happened of the ethiopian side. members of the community government as security officials we are making sure what happened on the site doesn't spill over into kenya. peace committee meetings in kenya during the past week involving both romo and somali tribal elders are seen as a key part of maintaining peace on the ethiopian side these communities live on both sides of the international border individual realty is on the if one of the on . the immediate impact on families from. those who escape fighting are safer now living with friends and family on the kenyan side of a divided town but the situation remains fragile for a lasting solution experts say the ethiopian government must resolve the land dispute in more yalit but it is difficult to divorce the fighting in a small border town from the bigger tribal dispute between ethnic or romo somali communities something that's been going on for years and cuts across international boundaries for now aid groups and local leaders here in kenya are trying to make sure that

what's happened of the ethiopian side treat the wedding dress members of the community government as security officials we are making sure what happened on the site doesn't spill over into kenya peace committee meetings in kenya during the past week involving both and somali tribal elders are seen as a key part of maintaining peace on the ethiopian side these communities leave on both sides of the. individual realities on the side so if one of the. immediate impact on families from. those who escape fighting are safer now living with friends and family on the kenyan side of a divided town but the situation remains fragile for a lasting solution experts say the ethiopian government must resolve the land dispute in more yalit but it is difficult to divorce the fighting in a small border town from the bigger tribal dispute between ethnic communities something that's been going on for years and cuts across international boundaries for now aid groups and local leaders here in kenya are trying to make sure that score settling doesn't bring the violence over the border. cuba's new president

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for the ethiopian government the solution is to invite foreign investors. would be ok but would they let them but i think it will be for the good to the ladies. that of my lessons in how we think that the lameness they're all about it all but investment and that some are not yet and yes again known as that focus on buyout which i would have thought it was if you took any sort of milage you know you can about which not just diplomatically took out the investment leg and you can be sure to. the call from the government is heard in the luxury hotels of the city i meet international business people inventors looking for opportunities the hot topic on everyone's lips is farmland what they call the new green gold. good. to. see. the. when i came here i first went to investment office they said that they were very keen to have foreign investment here to stimulate business and also to improve the foreign exchange ballots. to commercial operation i could see that it was suitable for what i wanted to do here great rainfall. good soils and you're really interesting si

and the ethiopians and the somali government you mustn't forget the somalis are fighting al shabaab in a very fragile condition and the there are trends now that they've ended this conflict with the ethiopians have thousands of troops of it with. it is it possible that a brigade piece in from eritrea to somalia to increase the security of the city somali government. that is something that is on the cards are perhaps it will be signed today in mogadishu. on the other side of this evolving diplomatic equation there is a not another scenario going on and saudi arabia seeking an alliance with six countries one of them is somalia should we when it comes to thinking kind of fold in an awareness that there might be other fingerprints or miss process because other countries have a desire to put a vested interest into this region well that's certainly true i mean i think the relationship with the south. they really brutal you between ethiopia and eritrea along with the americans so there. is a wider trippy say arab interest in the with africa and that is something that has developed in the in r

precious resources into something and a rewarding investment for the farmland has been called the ethiopian green go into the country as an abundant supply and leases it to international negra from giants . the government during the next more revenues and the corporations high profit margins. but not everyone benefits from the coming business. the selling out of a country dead donkey no hyenas starts december twenty ninth on t.w. . welcome to this edition of africa then vironment sell magazine show it's car produced by deutsche welle in germany channels t.v. and i seriously and present c.v. and saw that.

and a rewarding investment move from the farm land has been called the ethiopian is green and gold the for the country has an abundant supply of food and leases it to international giants the government is after high export revenues for corporations profit margins. but not everyone benefits from the booming business. going to show an environmental destruction starvation the best selling out of a country dead donkey. most starts december twenty ninth on t.w. if you would like to be our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan looked into for you. so nothing is just that the children who have already been the boy and those that will follow are part of a new process. they could be the future of. colombia. granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. made for mines. twenty nineteen come. to starting with salt is about to sell the premier event of. kick off. and identify the favorites of sharks coaches players fans up close and personal touch. twenty nine to. the big kickoff series starts december twenty seventh w.

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farmland as we call the ethiopian is a gringo the country has an abundant supply and leases it to international giants. the government is after high export revenues and the corporations high profit margin. but not everyone benefits from the booming business. mix nutrition environmental destruction starvation. and the selling out of a country dead donkey. starts december twenty ninth on d w. this is the. wrong but not the next send off the armenians velvet revolution counts it is underway in the country on a mentoring fight crime in a study called. nationalities hoping for a majority in parliament to push through is the full agenda also coming up assessing the damage in paris off to move on and on protests yellow vest demonstrators demand for the reforms is french president i'm on your own thousand address the nation unlike with union groups in the coming days.

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ethiopian troops have withdrawn from the border between ethiopia and eritrea.troops have been there for years. the fighting stopped back in 2000, but a peace deal was only signed injuly this year, triggering the reopening of the border. emmanuel igunza has been to meet families who've started going back to one of the areas. a once abandoned and destroyed village slowly coming back to life. for two decades, this road leading to the eritrean border was closed. war caused many to flee their homes, and the uncertainty that followed the dispute kept many away. well, this area was an actual front line during those years of border conflict between eritrea and ethiopia, and these ruins for 20 years lay here as a constant reminder of the devastating effect of that war. but now a peace deal has been signed between the two countries, people here have started rebuilding their lives. this man's house was destroyed at the beginning of the war. now he hopes to put it back up and convert it into a shop, to take advantage of the big number of eritrean businessmen coming to ethi

in what has been called the ethiopians are going to go into the country as an abundant supply and leases it to international giants. government to hide export revenues and ration high profit margin. but not everyone benefits from the booming business. tax evasion environmental destruction starvation. going out of the country dead donkey. starts december twenty ninth on t.w. . indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for the volcano that caused the tsunami last weekend they've warned that fresh activity from the on that karkare tower volcano might cause another tsunami and they've ordered all flights to stay clear of the area saturday's deadly waves killed at least four hundred thirty people. reports from syria say the government of president bashar al assad has sent troops to the north a.

eritreans now that they've ended their conflict with the ethiopians have thousands of troops available. it is possible that a brigade will be sent from eritrea to somalia to increase the security of the city somali government. that is something that is on the cards perhaps it will be signed today in mogadishu i mean i think the relationship with the south. they really brokered the deal between ethiopia and eritrea along with the americans so. why do we say our interest in the mall of africa and that's something that has developed in there in recent months how far it will go we don't know it was a lot of money changed hands between the saudis and. to make the deal we don't know what is being done with the eritrean. but the saudi relationship with these countries is absolutely critical. the french government is urging the so-called yellow vest protesters not to hold demonstrations as we can following the attack on the christmas market and strasbourg earlier this week on monday the french president emanuel macro offered a minimum wage boost and tax concessions to end the movement the prot

the intention is great but it appears as if the ethiopian government income bella is exploiting the development program to clear land for the internet. the investors. the p.b.s. program is funded by the us the european union and the world bank. the world bank is the world's largest development bank and is financed by tax money. the mission of the bank is to end extreme poverty and build prosperity. in ethiopia the world bank has put over two billion dollars into the p.b.s. program. the world bank is engaged in many countries that have institutional weaknesses that have ethnic tensions that have big development challenges and that's why we're there ultimately. i think development often involves trade offs and many development aspects to come with costs. people should not be disadvantaged by by a project whether they own the land all they don't allow. any form thing is to make sure that those projects are television or quality way without jeopardizing the environment so. making sure that we protect people and in fact benefit society at large without necessarily creating new reserves. in ethiopia

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when i talk to communities, when i talk to the ethiopian communities, the chinese community, i say always be present at the budget hearings. always be present and know your stats. know how your community is being serviced or not serviced, because that's wheat the counci hears and that's where you're being representative and that's where it counts. make yourself known. make yourself a nuisance. there are people in the council hearings that you know for years, oh, yeah, that's so-and-so. and they come and speak about every issue, but at least it's in the consciousness. that's how you make change in policy and how the money then gets diverted to affecting those communities. >> and that's engagement in the political process, because those activities activities, those hearings are part of the political process. any other questions? >> i think it's time. >> i'm sorry? okay. so one quick point about the laws. really, thank you for your question. as you know, the united states is considered by many, by some in a pejorative way, to be the most letigious country in the world. that's not necessarily

what's happened of the ethiopian side treat the wetted us members of the community government as security officials we are making sure what happened on dates european site doesn't spill over into kenya peace committee meetings in kenya during the past week.

discovered near the coastal town of see it on sunday the grave contains the bodies of thirty four ethiopian christians who were killed by eisel in two thousand and fifteen and the bodies will be repatriated to ethiopia hundreds of thousands of people have migrated from sub-saharan africa to libya in recent years many hoping to eventually reach europe. thousands of asylum seekers living in tents on one of greece's aegean islands are enduring another winter without proper shelter heating or running water there is no space at the official camp which is supposed to house them and as john psaropoulos reports from some most they'll continue waiting in the cold until the government builds somewhere for them to live. when abdullah poda and his family from afghanistan arrived on some us a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but nowhere to live because there's no space and the government run camp together with a friend they made this tent for their wives and turn children but there isn't enough room for the mall called make an embittered i sleep outside the tent only my children

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and ethiopians believe that their king was the son of king solomon.ow, there's definitely another novel to be written there. [laughter] >> i'm seeing a trilogy, solomon, 400 years. you've got the 400 years between the old and new testament. >> it really goes bad shortly after solomon. i'm not sure i even want to go into that place. israel really was dispursed and, you know, some of the most tragic events of a very tragic people happened in those years. i think we'll stop with solomon. >> the cover of "caleb's crossing", is that a real picture of martha's vineyard? >> yes, the figure is art work, and the figure is trying to convey a little bit of what caleb might have looked like when he was first encountered. so it's as close as we could get, eastern native american hunting attire, but the photograph is a wonderful local photographer, and i didn't -- i knew him, and i didn't know what photo they were going to choose, but i was so thrilled that that was the one that the publisher selected, but that is one of my favorite places on the planet. that is th

to judge or say african-americans are now less than 3%, but if you take the immigrants, like the ethiopians and all the other black face people and take them away from the san francisco citizens that are here, our population would be down near 2%. god knows what it will be in ten years. and that is why i am getting ready to take the helm. newsom is a governor elect. i will knock on his store door in sacramento because he knows me, ace on the case. we need that equality and everything from 8-z-letter in the city by the bay. we will try and bring stability back in the city by the bay and we will try to bring it back here at city hall which i coined as silly hall. it doesn't have to do with being laughing all the time, it means racism, discrimination, and all those other things. i put it under the category of silly. that is why i coined the name silly hall y'all. i have not been here y'all. i am trying to tell you all. i shed some tears. i look young, but black don't crack that much. [laughter] [please stand by]

these are not the ethiopians. this is just -- it's an immigration thing.eople in poor countries want to move to rich countries. i would too. i don't begrudge them that. i would.ou i would do exactly the same as every person in that caravan, and i mean it. but i'm not in the caravan. i'm an american. it's my country. and i want the best for my country. so what is the best for the country? and why is a wall not? so i'm honestly confused. >> again, israel besieged in a way that americans are not. now i will say this. donald trump, to the point that all the people were making that you were deriding. he will have an other. if he gets the wall, it will be something else. it will be terrorists of this color or that color through election day of 2020. >> tucker: i don't care. but it's not about trump. you know what it's about? all this border security hasn't worked and we have tens of millions of people living here whose names we don't know. they are using fake ids and they're living in our country, and it's a disaster, so let's di something that works. >> since i

course do they know it's christmas written by bob geldof amid shool which is raising money for the ethiopian famine in one thousand nine hundred eighty four course it featured every pop star they could get available to sing it and it wasn't just number one and i said before it was again in one thousand eight hundred knowing and it was again in two thousand and four and over the years it has raised millions for famine in africa and it really did kick start a whole lot of aids thing one has to say because. the famous live eight concerts that happened in ninety five again that was live eight in two thousand and five and i believe they've that has raised over two hundred million actually over the years quiet charity fundraiser it has to be said it's warm pretty well i like to hear it you know and it pops up on the radio at christmas but i believe good. bob geldof himself has kind of grown tired. that was reported recently in the press that he evidently when he goes to the supermarket in december he tries to avoid supermarkets as much as possible to some extent keep saying this only drives him nu

some people find their home in some deeply orthodox traditional, russianrthodox, greek orthodox or ethiopianodox and others would find that stifling and would rather be christian scientists or jews or whatever. >> what do you hope people will take from your bok as they read your personal story? >> two things. one is that we can li a lot more than we can possibly imagine we can survive. i never thought iould survive what happened. i wasn't sure i wanted to. but it is amazing to be able to do that and second that these religious traditions may have some deepvalues that you don't have to throw it all away because you disagree with certain seideas, becou don't believe in x, y, and z. not dash but i do think fore it is enormously important to have a sense of a spiritual dimension in life. >> all right, the new book is why religion? a personal story, elaine pagels, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> schifri and you can find all of jeff's conversation all of jeff's conversations during theiami book fair online. search "book view" at pbs.org. >> schifrin: and now, a second look at norway's growin

if it is about ancient romans or ethiopians or 10,000 years in the future. if they like the writing, they like the story, it is about humanity, don't worry about the subject. the book i wrote already and put out or 12 years ago, this year you write your novel, i think is good but a lot of ways to go about it. you can look up self publication. there are a few -- aal bc is one organization that helps with self-publishing. another thing is if you read a book and you like that book and you think that your writing is somewhat like what that book was, you can call the publisher, get to the editor, ask who represents that writer and call that agent and tell the agent i think i have written something that is like this other book you represented and how can i get it to you? they will usually say center for chapter and let's take a look and we will see if that is true. also, taking courses in writing classes, you need other people who are trying to do the same thing who will share that information and teachers often have that information. you might not need the class

when china build the railway in they signed the deal with the ethiopian central but local governmentsere not involved in the process, economic planning or job creation and the economic activities are not really included in the scheme so far. local to include governments in the b.r.i. projects is a key area. that i hear most is this distinction between g2g and b2b. that's another, i would say the internalproblem, defect with the b.r.i. design. g2g means government to government. b2b means business to business. when the chinese talk about they want to to tell the receiving government that these thatconomic activities might be carried out by state owned enterprises but state enterprises essentially by day, they'ree still economic and commercial players. they're not political players. i think that's a message the chinese try very hard to send. therefore, when a contract or an areement is signed with the chinese want thiseceiver to understand this is a commercial activity and they want the receiving government to respect the logic of the project signed. that on oneity is hand, chinese comp

i stand in solidarity for ethiopian bloggers who expose human rights abuses in that country. i have talked frequently about china, a country that engages in routine censorship and online blocking, harassment, reprisals, and detention of journalists, and visa delays and denials for journalists. another "time" cover shows maria risa, the chief executive of the philippine news website rapler who was indicted on tax evasion charges on president duerte's administration as part of a crackdown on free speech and dissent. according to a committee to protect journalists, an independent nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom nationwide, more than 600 journalists and media workers have been killed in the last ten years while doing their jobs. of the member states for the organization for security and cooperation in europe, russia remains the deadliest country for journalists. turkey is the largest jailer of journalists in the world, and scores of media outlets have been closed since the attempted coup there. the heavy-handed measures used against media freedom in turkey both