tavis: mm-hmm >> i was just coming from accra, and so when i got into the hotel in accra, ghana, i wentnstairs. the number one beer in accra, as you know, is club beer, and you go to jamaica, number one beer is red stripe. but the number one beer in the world is utopia, and so i thought well, if i want to drink a beer for mommy, i want the number one beer. so that's what started it. then everyplace you go you do something that reminds you. i cooked with my grandmother and my mother, and of course you know my sister, gary, was a great cook. so a lot of my good memories are about food, and i just found a way for me to incorporate it, to bring it out. tavis: how does engaging in that activity allow you not just to remember your mother, but to connect with your mother? >> i think that we all do things that the people we love do, and so in this case it's cooking. tavis: mm-hmm. >> but then that would be my sister, my mother, and my grandmother. and the art of repeating it, because i'm also, if -- and i say this with no arrogance, but i'm also being able to share mommy with the rest of -- bec

this is accra, a district named after the capital of ghana. it's populated by african workers, most without visas are residency permits, and they hate cameras. >> translation: i have come here looking for a job. things are not going well. i am still umnemployed and have been for many days. >> salim is barely 20 and will not admit he plans to sail to europe. like his friend moussa, they are afraid of being arrested and sent home. thanks to funding and help from europe, the mauritanians have been winning the battle. many from ghana have abandoned the dream. omar's brother drowned in 2010. >> if i have money i will see my family to come here. to live here. >> but the aid and experience that made omar change his mind are lacking among the new groups of migrants. to them, riding the atlantic on hopes of a prosperous life outweighs the dangers of getting there. >> letting kids be skids. a children's hospital goes out of their way to let kids with cancer enjoy a special >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy, here are today's headlin

twenty eleven and under yeltsin reference thirty to forty from accra region courtroom offer only forty eight an italian jail. they had been appointed at the mad and said to have some sad not to push his housemates never did catch as catch and was found stabbed to death at the top tube exchange student said it was and the two thousand and seven. prosecutors said it was the result of drug fuelled games gone wrong knox and so did she kill a need to be convicted bake some confused on deadlines and dna evidence to discredit it in the twenty eleven week trial. with the let's turn our house didn't like the city's highest court ordering faced fresh trial the defendants are being tried in absentia. we can all is not planning to attend from the us wanted to post it hasn't been said before that committee is seeking an agent in lincoln in the league and to the supreme court. it's easy as any in the case of a defeated to the conviction of its elite asked for an extension. and any attempt to be decided. amanda knox had set of symptoms in eighteen eighty one is a word she said that america will be no

after a heavy handed crackdown on casey contacts of this nastiness beanies in accra scandal. his response another crack at this time on the judiciary and police who he says a link to form a line in topeka the tuna today the first objective will be to convince cisco counterparts in europe that what's happening in turkey is a cold engine year by the goodness within the turkish judiciary and the church police. therefore you'll stand by him. the mall to see muscles them will be asking in the masses need to become the cause of the techies justice minister annan says the justice system should remain independent. the technique is to keep its eu candidacy on track. this politicization has charged to make this an alcove for racially aggravated did gesture it was on sunday twenty eighth inning game against west ham the elk heads in the ad now infamous can and gesture a gesture that was made famous by the french controversial comedian the agenda make a gesture that the faa has ruled that is anti semitic the former france international and now faces a minimum by the game and under the fa

wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in johannesburg, south africa; nairobi, kenya; accraghana; new york city; atlanta, georgia; jackson, mississippi; or memphis, tennessee, the cry is always the same: "we want to be free!" [applause] and another reason that i'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. survival demands that we grapple with them. men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. but now, no longer can they just talk about it. it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. that is where we are today. [applause] and also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. [applause] now, i'm just happy that god has allowed me to live in this p

facebook shares surged in accra hours -- in after-hours trading. particularly on mobile.th more is caroline hyde. they have done pretty well so far. >> they have. shares were up after-hours. at last, facebook has shown, proved it can make the move into mobile. the key figure for analysts yesterday, for investors, now more than half of their advertising revenue comes from adverts that are placed on the mobile. this is important. this is the biggest social network. more than half of all internet users use facebook. 1.2 5 billion active users. this is what is driving sales up 62%. this is what is driving profit up eightfold. they can really show the quality as well, not just quantity. people were very worried that they were not going to have as many adverts on the newsfeed. they cut down the, of adverts but they upped the price. they upped the price by 92%. companies are willing to pay. >> what about the concern that it was losing support from teenagers? >> this was a big worry. that aalysis shows quarter of all 13 to 17-year-olds have dropped out of using facebook. since 20

. >> this is accra. it is entirely populated by african workers. most without visas are residency permits. they hate camrose. >> i came looking for a job. things are not going well. i'm still unemployed. >> seline is barely 20 and plans to travel to europe. they are afraid of being arrested and sent home. thanks to funding and help from europe, mauritanians have been winning the war. >> but the aid and experience that maid him change his mind is lacking among the new groups. for him, making it a more prosperous life. >> now, a commission set up by myanmar's government denied mass killings this month. the u.n. and human rights group say 40 minority were killed. but the commission says these allegations are unjustified. they play host to a rohingya population, there is concern that many look adequate protection. there's around 31,000 un-registered rohingya refugees living in two official camps in bangladesh, and they are 200,000 living in makeshift camps, and their status is not recognised. most arrived two decades ago. recent violence means thousand

washington makes it not business friendly accra we have seen so many companies move their headquarters to the state. >> asked boeing why they move to chicago. that was a message in terms of taxes and things like that. this vote is going to be important because if it does not go boeing cost way, they will move to south carolina or one of the other 22 states. >> belling is playing hardball. the local machinists union is playing hardball. ultimately, who wins? >> jobs are jobs. the union is saying, i think correctly, that there is no guarantee that some of those jobs might not be contracted as -- out to someone else. we that as it may, this is going to be jobs in washington or somewhere else and that is the rock and a hard place they are in right now. >> what do you think is going to ?e the outcome >> i think it will probably go the way of keeping it in washington, but if it doesn't, the governor is right. not are going to lose jobs just because of this, but they are going to lose other jobs in the future. washington could be very much behind the curve in its traditional position as a maj

accra soft microsoft -- is still sitting on so much cash. era, $20 million in profits. a must.ty >> a utility, phone company. who is first on the list, bill gates or carlos slim? they are bolstering their bottom line. there are challenges. are we going to stop using desktop beginners in offices anytime soon? are we going to do everything on mobile devices? no. >> but, this is a business that ultimately some would say needs reorganizing in a way that is more suited to a world that we are moving into. historically microsoft has done fantastically well. it needs a bit of fresh thinking. when this process started everybody said to me, we need an outside candidate. we can carry on in the way that we are thinking at microsoft. >> one, the person has to be of the tech world. two, they have to be outside. >> alan mulally, was he not tech enough? we don't know. mulally,ld have been he didn't get the job so he is ending speculation. until we have great reporting inside -- stuff like that comes out years later. someone writes a book and we figure it out. hopefully they have a ceo by the t

that was angelo eric hadi and corrupt lawyers in accra city council. they in turn, after satisfying themselves that they were dealing with authentically corrupt arab sheik then passed the undercover agent, or set up meetings for the undercover team with the congressman and the senator. it was a network from the outer circles to the inner circles that is what really made abscam so defective. host: a viewer tweets in -- now, we covered a little bit of that but please go ahead and revisit that. again, was there a targeting of specific officials or was this going to be wide open to all 535 members of the congress? guest: that is the good -- a good question. in the first instance, there was no targeting of an official. the undercover operation simply continued -- let's say, when angelo said i want to introduce you to a congressman who can help the sheik with legislation, it would have been a dereliction of their law enforcement duties if they said, no, we don't want to meet with them. they had to meet with them. this goes back to what i said. there is nothi

angelo eric hadi and corrupt lawyers in accra city council.hey in turn, after satisfying themselves that they were dealing with authentically then passed sheik the undercover agent, or set up meetings for the undercover team with the congressman and the senator. it was a network from the outer circles to the inner circles that is what really made abscam so defective. in --a viewer tweets now, we covered a little bit of that but please go ahead and revisit that. again, was there a targeting of specific officials or was this going to be wide open to all 535 members of the congress? good --hat is the a good question. in the first instance, there was no targeting of an official. the undercover operation simply continued -- let's say, when angelo said i want to introduce you to a congressman who can help the sheik with legislation, it would have been a dereliction of their law enforcement duties if they said, no, we don't want to meet with them. they had to meet with them. this goes back to what i said. there is nothing wrong with setting up the op