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these 11 countries in africa are were doing it. that is the dilemma you face. >> in both the issue of hiv aids and malaria, on behalf of all my colleagues, this has been an area at time when people look despair of bipartisanship. bipartisanship has been superb on both these issues for years, and americans should know that is happening here in this body. >> the center menendez. >> mr. president, thank you for your incredible continuing service to this country and for the world, for what you are doing with the foundation. mr. gates, thank you for making a difference as an individual, using your resources to be willing to make a difference in a really powerful, positive way. i am fortunate to chair the subcommittee on all our foreign assistance abroad. i would like to take your experiences and try to extend out some of those experiences on how we may do better. mr. president, as the united nations special envoy to haiti, you have a tremendous amount of convening power as well as tremendous reach across multilateral efforts in haiti. i

>>reporter: world cup fever is running high in south africa. the event is a major chance for both the continent and the country to showcase itself to the world and even a chance to dream about african glory in the tournament. >>: but at fifa's first medical centre of excellence in africa at johannesburg, there's less optimism. there may be plenty of grass roots players awash with natural talent in africa, but few will become stars, because poverty and poor nutrition hold them back. >>constantinou: if you have a ferrari that is popped in the driveway, it may be able to do good things but it's not going to do anything good unless you have the right type of fuel and that you have a full fuel tank to do it with...that's the same as with a football player. talent might be there in terms of certainaspects but if you're not optimally ready to do good performances, you're not going to be able to, so if your nutrition is lacking, you're not going to have the energy, you're not going to have the speed, the agility and the endurance to be able to perform

there is a popular story told in south africa perhaps apocryphal. it goes like this, a white south africans traveled to the united states in the mid 80's and landed at o'hare international airport in chicago. at customs a white american immigration officer summed silently through the south africans passport for a minute or two prompting the white south african traveller to ask the middle-aged officer if there was a problem. so you're from south africa the officer asked without looking up? his i am the traveler answered expecting the worst. the officers stand his passport, lifted his hand to look the south african in the eye, smiled and returned it to him. we like the way you handle your niggers over there and he waved him through. consider this in 1961 the year that obama was born and mandela formed the armed wing of the african national congress black americans earn on average 54 cents for every dollar earned by white americans and 100% of all south africans living in poverty were black. 47 years later, 99% of all poor south africans are black and

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i wrote a book about south africa in the 1980s called january sun. >> a village in south africa. >> exactlyout a force red mooufl until a village and it was about three families, a white family, an india family and a black family. that book is being released in time with this with a new introduction by me. and when little brown, the publisher of long walk to freedom was looking for someone to work with mandela that the editor-in-chief had read that book and hired me to work with mandela on the autobiography. so it was very serendipitous. i had never met him before. it was the classic offer that you can't refuse and it was the greatest experience of my life and the opportunity to work with one of the greatest men of the century, one of the greatest men who ever lived and to have this incredible intimacy with him over a period of years and the special kind of rapport given the nature of what we were doing and to me what this book about, "mandela's way" is to tell you what i learned. to... you know, i was present at the creation with this historical man at a historical moment and i want people

south africa's black majority government build homes for the people that left them without the money to pay their rent provided them with running water but shut off the tap when they couldn't pay the bill. replaced names of bullheaded white segregationists on the public school houses with those of black liberation heroes but didn't replace the shoddy roofs. ordered companies to hire blacks but permitted them to slash their wages. so it goes for the new south africa where a small white minority continues to inhabit a splendid country, splendid country that is for all intensive purposes canada while

for polio, that is the last place in africa it still is. we have seen some relief there with a bit better government. >> senator, could i go back? one thing you said relates to what senator lugar asked me on the impact to our foreign policy. before the current coalition government took office in zambabwe, we were providing pediatric medicine and some other retrovirals. 2/3 of all the kids who get this medicine didn't have any other way to get it. now, we cleared it, but the state department made the right decision. they said even though we are at odds with must guantanamo bay -- mugabe bi, people are still pouring across the border from zambabwe. there is an inherent conflict sometimes between how good the government is and how much the need is. there is no one rule. but you can't walk away from the humanitarian crisis, and it turns out that is the best policy. >> senator cardin? >> president clinton and mr. gates, thank you for everything you have done, and thank you for beale here. your presence helps in the challenge that senator kerry p

you talk about all these kids that dye being in africa. the mortality rate is very grievous for babies born with hiv aids. even though we say a lot of them receive even though we save that a lot of them, it is horrible. 80% of the people that die from waterborne diseases are under 5. they are almost all in poor countries. that is what i would do. i would spend money on that. >> i mentioned at the drop in childhood deaths to 9 million. we cannot think of the remaining workers as the death between 30 days of age and five years, where it is really going to be vaccines that carry the weight. we have a new vaccine for part of the pneumonia burden. hopefully we will have a few more, and we will have a malaria vaccine. if you could cover those disease conditions, you could cut the 30 day to a five-year piece by well over half. that would still leave a gigantic number in those first 30 days. that is where all these words about integrated approaches come in. if you get the mother, starting at prenatal, making sure she has the right vitamins, make s

we are talking about countries in south africa. if you

we have to train and retain health care personnel in africa. fifth, prevention is still the key. if you look at the caribbean, where we started our aids work, in the last two years there have been no mother to child transmissions in at the bahamas. we are still reaching no where near the number of pregnant women who are hiv-positive with a medication that will -- it is 98% effective. bill is going to talk about vaccinations. they work and they are cheap. it is the best. i think that it is very important that we continue that. the third thing i would say is we ought to do more on clean water. 80% of the people who die from waterborne diseases -- cholera, dysentery, diarrhea -- our children under 5. my biggest worry in haiti is that the sanitation problem in the rainy season will lead to a second round of death. those children will just a surely be casualties to the hurricane as anything else. procter and gamble has a pill costs 10 cents that will clear water for a family of four for three days. finally -- i know people say this and nobody ever does it. you're being given an opport

in central africa monkeypox continues to kill. dr.f takes sanjay and me to the democratic republic of congo where 20 people have just died from a monkeypox outbreak. we fly to a remote town where in a walled compound we find koi. alone in a small hut. >> now we're standing out here. she is in there. why? >> we need to isolate the patient. >> are we at risk? how contagious is this? >> just looking at the patient you have no risk. but when you are in direct contact with the patient at that time you are in danger. >> koi is the latest victim. all of these people are slowly recovering and quarantined in this makeshift clinic. painful sores cover their bodies and they say they feel tired all the time. >> if she hadn't made it to you, to this place, what would happen to her? >> some patients recover, but others die. >> koi probably got monkeybox through contact with bush meat which she said she handled over the past few weeks or came in contact with an infected person. its exact origins are still unknown. it is unlikely mop ki pox could bec

last summer, i had occasion to travel in south africa. my wife to reset and i saw firsthand the realities of this struggle. we saw them particularly when we visited a primary school. we saw care givers who devote their lives to helping the region's aids orphans, children left with no choice but to assume adult responsibilities at a tender age and single mothers scratching out subsistence in mud houses, their husbands lost to a horrific disease and many of them hiv-positive. we saw the crushing economic impact of poor health, which underscores why improving health lays the foundation for better economic development across the board. clearly, our fight is far from over, but we also have more challenges. as our climate changes and mosquitos expand their range, malaria is surging in areas that have hardly seen it before, like the kenya highlands. we must ask ourselves -- are we doing enough to prepare for the challenges climate change may bring on a massive scale? we in congress must answer another crucial question. is this an investment we c

they shoot into africa. the european countries, they shoot it down to africa. the cause -- i'm sorry, this crisis, this insecurity. >> on that note, acting president goodluck jonathan, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> and please join us on twitter where we have a hash-tag debate about whether goodluck is a part of the political machine. tell us what you think using the hash tag nigeria @amanpour/ni r @amanpour/niger @amanpour/nigeria. >>> next, kofi annan. [ woman ] mom was diagnosed with moderate alzheimer's. it was tough news to hear. everything changed. mom. ♪ i didn't know what to do. that's when i asked my doctor about exelon patch. he said it releases medicine continuously for 24 hours. he said it could help with her cognition, which includes things like memory, reasoning, communicating and understanding. [ female announcer ] the most common side effects of exelon patch are nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. the likelihood and severity of these side effects may increase as the dose increases. patients may experience loss of appetite or we

sister pam africa talking about movement. he left such a great example.ss whom we just lost bearing dtance runners and that's what we're talking about when we're talking about wrestling with the prison industrial complex. thank you so much, virginia thanks so much. [applause] >> thank you. thanks so much, dr. west. dr. fernandez for your ation mu let's keep fighting. we need to do this again. >> beautiful, beautiful. [applause] >> mumia is a former black panther party member convicted of killing a police officer in 1982. he awaits the pennsylvania appellate court decision on whether his original sentence will be carried out or commuted to life in prison. he's the author of several books including live from death row and we want freedom. for more information, visit citylights.com. >> in his book "the next 100 years" a forecast for the 21st century, george friedman predicts which countries will rise in power and where the wars will be fought over the next century. he spoke at the carnegie council in new york city for about an hour. >> g

history moving through east africa while i think we are doing well, the nature of the threat is always changing. >> let's open for comments and questions from the floor if the speakers could identify themselves and rate for the microphone we have the first question here. >> georgetown university. but thank you for your service to our country. the word file into extremism was tended to be used like the eight islamist never came out of your mouth and some people think the above the administration has turned his back and not taken in the war on terrorism as seriously as a results of the fact that you don't grow it is from. of it reminds me brandy's you wrote the way and i helped to do that that meant madame albright said not use that term anymore is it a way to connect to the muslim world that is on is not the issue although there are extremist who were puzzled. is that the purpose? >> i get to this question with every appearance. i think the best way to put it is the issues of what constitutes true is on and what it does not the best answer among muslims them by muslims and our concern i

we maybe should think about finding the same sort of help and africa where our universities could be there in partnership with african universities and build their capacity, even as there is an architecture school from the university of north dakota their. i think he should really think about it. this is a very discreet strategy that universities are following in the middle east. it is going to be good for our foreign policy, but it is only because they are rich. we really need to do this where people are not rich. i think he should really look that. . . they thank them for the generosity. we have that online at the website. you can affect the video on a the look of the video on malaria and aids. you can see the heart wrenching stories. the most have successful outcomes. we have had a lot of the european governments during the equivalent there. the awareness of the program is not the fraud. -- that brought thad. their generosity is important as well. global health is more visible today than it was 10 years ago, but not as visible as it needs to be so that people feel great that this

naval forces africa. three pirates were captured and two others were taken in custody described as the mothership. the former counterterrorism and security analyst at the naval criminal and investigative service and says the sailors were likely well prepared because combatting piracy is an important role for new africa command or africom. >> i would anticipate that piracy plays a bigger part in afrecom than in other commands, because it's africa- africa-centric problem off coast of somaliia and the other commands in the united states and europe have plenty else on their hands with iraq, afghanistan and terrorism worldwide. >> this comes almost a year after they took american captain hostage from maersk. they rescued phillips and killed the pirates. navy sources says the pirate activity picks up this time of year after the monsoon season when it's easier for the pirates to maneuver on the open seas. officials say the pirates picked up in this incident will likely be tried in kenya. chris? >> mike emanuel r

we continue to see a trickle of individuals of somali ancestry heading for east africa. so while i think that we are doing well, you know, the nature of the threat is always changing. .. i wondered, you tended to use the word violent extremism, words like islamist never came out of your mouth during your speech. and some people think that the obama administration has turned its back and not taken the war on terrorism, if may use that term, as seriously as the result of the fact that you don't talk about role of islam. reminds me of when rob litak led the way with term rogue state. rogue reg geem. and i helped to do that, too and mind one albright said let's not use that term anymore. is the trace of language a way of communicating to the muslim world, quote on quote, that islam is not the issue even though there are extremists who are muslim? is that the purpose? >> i get this question with every appearance. i think that the best way to put it is that the issues of what constitutes true islam and what does not our best answered among the muslims and non-muslims and if th

. >> the world's press flocked to see this picture of what's in south africa -- of white south africa with anthems and salutes from the past, mourners came to say goodbye to a man they hail as a hero, but a man whose ridicule was despised by the majority of south africans. the short distance away from where the mourners gathered, the house where eugene terreblanche was bludgeoned to death. two farm workers, one at a teenager, are charged with his murder. despite all of the column, -- despite all of the of calm, this battle cry. that we are buying pistols and revolvers so we can protect ourselves. >> eugene terreblanche was leader of the right-wing paramilitary group the awb, which stood define and the dying days of apartheid, using violence to try to sabotage reconciliation talks. by the mid-1990s, it was clear the awb was irrelevant. today's flags and uniform suggest a different story, a resurgence prompted by fears of crime. although they don't represent the whole nation, people were out here in force, bearing emblems of erases past. eugene terreblanche may have represented a minori

. >> hello, sudan's historic elections, the first multiparty poll in africa's largest country in a quarter of a century. all that is now in jeopardy. sudan's main opposition parties are withdrawing from the whole electoral process. presidential, parliamentary, and state elections. washington special envoy spent the day in talks in khartoum trying to save them but the opposition says because of frauds and threats there's no chance they could be free or fair. the bbc is in khartoum. >> this is the man who triggered the present insurgency. described by many as the main opposition candidate for the presidency, it was the shock announcement around 24 hours ago that he was withdrawing from sudan's landmark elections. within hours of the announcement, president obama's special envoy to sudan, was holding extensive talks at his offices in khartoum. but he wasn't giving much away. >> we're in the process of learning and trying to determine a lot of factors. so i'm listening right now. and i really don't have a judgment. >> you're smiling. so you aren't worried? >> i'm an optimist. i'm always an opt

anti-apartheid movement was largely set in motion by black americans like randall robinson and south africa's afrikaners white settlers of dutch and french extraction who initiated the formal part by state or the spending architectural image of

it is now africa's friend. what an image. >> reporter: and how about this image? of these exuberant looking children-- every one of them-- has hiv or aids. they would all be dead or dying if it weren't for america. now, they're alive and thriving. viola is 13. her mother died of aids, and she was dying from it, too, until she began taking those drugs provided by the united states. we met viola at her home where she lives with her aunt. that's a lot of pills to swallow at once. >> viola: i take them every day. >> reporter: and you never forget? >> viola: i can't forget. >> reporter: what would happen if you forgot to take your pills? >> viola: i think i can die. >> reporter: viola will be fine, but dr. sabrina kitaka, a pediatrician, remembers all the children who died before america came to the rescue six years ago. she had 2,000 children who needed lifesaving drugs, but only enough pills to treat 30 of them. so she sent home more than 1,900 hundred children with only vitamins and hope-- a false hope, because all but the 30 chosen children died. you were, in fact,

i'm going to read from the last chapter which is about a young man named lee alexander, south africa, young south african, 28, and he married a young african-american woman from chicago. and he -- this chapter begins basically when barack obama is about to accept denver and there is a crowd of people, about ten people mostly black but not all, some blacks and whites, some arab and we are watching television as barack obama takes the stage and this young man, wheat, is watching and everyone else is sort of celebrate -- the ret in celebration, and lee is looking with his head between -- he's on his knees looking pensive almost like she's worried and i describe this leader in the conversation about this moment and why he was looking so peacefully -- pensively and i will store reading from here. materially very little has changed for his black countrymen since beijing quist right to lead the white minority rule in the first space election. on and plan it is higher than ever. economic disparities have grown. the crime rate has soared, schools are crumbling and the farm land, the country's

listen to this. >> it must be so amazing for you to see where you are right now, see where south africadays which were only a few years ago. >> when you take into account that the way of south african society was split from top to bottom by tension, conflict and bloodsh bloodshed, what has happened in these days is a miracle. >> and it was a miracle. i think you'll agree largely because of nelson mandela. >> yes. he really felt in the years i worked with him in '92, '93, '94 that the country was very close to a potential civil war. this idea that he represented when he came out, forget the past, forgiving whites for apartheid, saying let's reconcile, let's move on. let's bring what unites us together rather than what divides us was something that he understood that he had to do as a leader, but wolf, as a person, he felt it. he felt bitterness himself, he didn't feel love in his heart for his enemy. but he realized as a lead tore avoid civil war, to avoid this kind of armageddon situation you had in south africa, he had to rise above it and project an image of harmony, of forgiveness an

. ♪ >>> the diamond trade in parts of africa can be notoriously brutal. stones under the control of ruthless war lords and lawless leaders. nowhere is the toll as great as sierra leone. those seeking justice may have found an unlikely witness in mia farrow. not that naomi campbell wants the talk about it brian ross has our report. >> they're hearing evidence about one of the bloodiest massacres in recent time. now the involvement of two celebrities has put a bright light on some serious allegations. in the film "blood diamond" an enormous uncut diamond is at the certainty of the plot. >> that diamond could be priceless. we split it. you get your family. >> reporter: the fill system a ficti fictional version of a real life tragedy. it left thousands dead or maims in sierra leone. >> if i were not here. >> reporter: behind it all, say prosecutors, was this man, charles taylor. once the president of liberia. accused of using the blood diamonds to ferment the violence. >> they made possible the continuation of the conflict but they profited charles taylor. >>

from a trip of one week in africa.n this position. africa is really, really one of the most important challenges. more than one year ago, we did a big conference to take stock of what has been done in the past -- the good reserves, the bad things, the mistakes, discussions with authorities, discussions with the private sectors. all this discussion ended with a new mandate, a new partnership between the imf and african countries. since then, i think we delivered. at least that is what the africans are telling me, not only the governments, the central bankers, but also the ngo's, the unions, the business unions. i will not argue that everything we are doing our is perfect. of course not. we changed a lot the way we work with african countries, helping them cope with the crisis. as a result, the african countries did come up rather well with the crisis. they are recovering at -- at the same speed as the rest of the world. after other recessions, african countries recovered with some delay compared to other countries. it i

she reported on the crisis in darfur when few western reporters were there and has returned to africa repeatedly to cover the conflicts in sudan, chad, and the congo. she's also reported from the middle east and from iran for that country's presidential election. charles sennott, longtime foreign correspondent for the "boston globe," was bureau chief in both jerusalem and london and has more than 25 years of experience covering the world. he's now the executive editor of a new venture, an entirely web-based service devoted exclusively to global news. it's called global post. so welcome to you both. >> thanks. it's nice to see you, frank. >> all right, we know what nbc is, so let's let charles tell us: what is global post? >> well, global post is a new web site. it's free. it's called a destination site. so you can go to globalpost.com anytime and draw on the stories that our correspondents, 65 correspondents in 50 countries, are covering every day. we saw a tremendous opportunity in this sort of meltdown of traditional media that's happening right now. newspapers and networks are stru

[applause] and pam africa tirelessly year in the struggle for mumia is also year. [applause] >> add to this point* it is time to open a conversation up even more and i invite your questions and comments for the panelist and other people that can be a part of that. >> maybe i will start us off it is wonderful to have you here i am thrilled and incredibly moved by the conversation that we just witnessed. the question i want to ask as a follow-up that virginia and i had this morning i want to refer you all to this amazing website very important resources and the issues that concern tv tv -- mumia the issues we gravitated to the at this of contextualizing the struggles for mumia writes in a post 9/11 climate in the politics of fear and in what way this struggle has met new challenges and how we think of meeting those particular one's. if you want to reflect on some of those aspects? >> i think in many ways also in the age of obama i think that 9/11 took place during the age of reagan it was a very, very different moment the bush was a representitive. [laughter] actuall

our correspondent is there. >> the legacy of africa's longest civil war.n arsenal of weapons that flooded into south sudan from around the world. but since the authorities are trying to claw back from the hands of civilians -- weapons the authorities are trying to claw back from the hands of civilians. these are just some of the weapons collected. the leaders are saying this disarmament campaign is the only way to stop the rising tide of ethnic violence. >> we are giving the people here a deadline of two weeks. after that, anyone found with a gun will be jailed for five years and will have to pay a fine of 20 cows. >> south sudan is supposed to be at peace. five years ago, a deal was signed to end the war with the north. since then, violence within the south has spiralled dangerously. a threat to the new fledgling governments in the south and their hope for independence. easy access to guns has transformed conflicts between nomadic groups here. traditional clashes over cattle and grazing have turned into much larger military-style confrontations. and it is

today, we see in africa a rather terrifying movement to criminalize, imprisoned, and execute homosexuals, fomented in the united states, created by the american religious right. in my lifetime, when i grew up, when i was born in my own country, homosexuality was illegal. it was criminal. people were jailed. people lived in fear. today, they still live in fear. not really in many parts of this country, but in large parts of the middle east, in vast amounts of africa and asia, people today, even in places we think of as a relatively civilized, suffered tremendously because of this. in iran, young gay men are hanged in public because they're homosexual. this is based on religious doctrine, first of all. it is based in this country on the bible, and i think it is silly to deny the fact that the bible does explicitly condemn homosexual sex. i'm not one of these people trying to pretend it does not. leviticus is very clear on this matter. romans seems to be pretty clear that it is not kosher. [laughter] i hope that will not be interpreted as anti-semitic. [laughter] does this work today as a p

copeland grew up in south africa, and she moved to the u.s.ith her husband peter. >> i think it is extremely valuable for people of all ages to be able to use in music to find duties -- beauty and enjoyment. after 9-11, i noticed my students increased and found refuge in playing piano as a security at the time the country was in turmoil. in a funny kind of way, the arts are dependent on individuals giving. this has been beneficial and not beneficial. i love playing and creating. it does not exist unless someone plays it. i love of saunders said -- seeing understanding coming into someone's eyes when i am teaching, and it is great. >> there you have it. american citizens use the arts does a retreat, and an economic struggle is both a good thing and of the thing. it may provide inspiration, but it does not provide incentives for corporate sponsors to give to the arts. >> we have to have winners and losers in the economy to be prosperous. if we are all medium, no one is going to try to do better, because no one did go to get paid for their succes

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robert and under privileged to live in south africa for a short time, and the idea of the messiah test -- we get it all honest. that is something that africans and african-americans, that we've always believed in but i have to say i'm not sure that it's ever existed in this country and to some extent, it's been the failure of a messianic figure in barack obama or even the last 30 years in some ways i think is emblematic of just the sort of polarizing class divisions that have erupted in the last 40 years in our community. so what you have our people who are more and more distance to from working-class people and concerns of working class people and i don't want to give to esoteric about this there is a theory in one of the chapters to talk about the factory workers of chicago and these are essentially there is this -- when they decide they're going to strike and they argue about should the strike and have a sit-down strike there is basically the discussion came down to whether or not mexicans most from keefer over the last ten years many didn't have papers to be honest. would they be d

be true, oakland you see basically the rate this third world as you see in june thomas burke south africa and so it seems like a distraction. it's not that big a deal personally. there's so much more to be concerned about. the irony of this book and barack obama is that at the time we appoint this black president we are black people, more isolated from the mainstream from our neighbors than ever at any point in the history of america when you think about jim-crow is gone which in some ways to deliver on how far we could go and now we have incredible distance between wealthy african-americans and everybody else which is true of the entire country and that is unsustainable. that is how the communities and people collapse so i'm just kind of agnostic on the census issue. >> after we take your question why don't we in power women and see if any have a question. [laughter] [inaudible] >> ibm willy parker and i grew up in alabama so the deep south [inaudible] to respond to two things. you sit in the book there's a wide variety of opinions for people in african comerica and community. would you

i want to especially singled out south africa, because south africa is singular in having a nuclear weaponsrogram, having moved forward with it, and decided this was not the right path, dismantled it, and has been a strong, effective leader in the international community around non-proliferation, so south africa has special standing in being a moral leader on this issue, and i wanted to publicly comment the president and his administration for the leadership they show as we are working towards the possibility of them helping other countries down a similar direction of non- proliferation, but i feel very good about the degree of commitment and a sense of urgency that i think the world leaders have so far on this issue. we think we can make an enormous progress, and this becomes part of the broader focus we have had over the last several weeks with the signing of the treaty between the united states and russia, reducing nuclear stockpiles, a nuclear posture review released that such a clear signal that those who abide by the nonproliferation treaty will have no assurances, meaning that if the

we continue to see a trickle of individuals, somalian ancestry heading to east africa. so while i think that we are doing well, you know, the nature of the threat is always changing. >> thank you. let's open it up now for comments and, questions from the floor. if speakers could please identify themselves and wait for the microphone. we have the first question here in the front row with raymond tanter. >> hi. ray tanter, georgetown university. ambassador benjamin, thank you for your service to our country and our outstanding presentation. i wondered, you tended to use the word violent extremism, words like islamist never came out of your mouth during your speech. and some people think that the obama administration has turned its back and not taken the war on terrorism, if may use that term, as seriously as the result of the fact that you don't talk about role of islam. reminds me of when rob litak led the way with term rogue state. rogue reg geem. madeleine albright said let's not use that term anymore. is the choice of language away of communicating to the muslim world

mandela becoming free and becoming president of south africa. these are two very remote possibilities in my mind and the fact that he is president and still pinching myself. at the time we did this conference of course the campaign was going and he was looking good in the polls, but they knew that perhaps he would never be able to really confront the issue of race and racism until bill and i decided to do it. because once we learned that he attacked in secret service protection long before he was not dictated, just when he announced he was a candidate, that was the america, the legacy that i remember of our country. and as he was moving closer to realizing the dream, i still thought he wouldn't be able to talk about it. just go i think the irony that t. is a black man had to campaign on the basis that he quote transcended race. and i kept saying why does he have to transcend race? wives and the responsibility of all of us who have had a history of imposing on slavery, jim crow, segregation, rampant instrumentation, why was it his responsibility

a violent bloody murder in south africa.he victim a former political leader who fought to keep apartheid going in the 1990s. the body of eugene blanche discovered on his own farm a colleague saying he was beaten with pipes and hacked to death with pangas, big african knives used to cut through the jungle growth. he was the former leader of a political group that wanted to create whites only state within south africa. he lived in obscurity in recent years. in fact police believe he was murdered by a young man and teenager in a dispute over wages. iran's hard line regime again defying the west tonight. this time daring the united states for more punishment. president mahmoud ahmadinejad saying potential new sanctions would only serve to strength iran. further ice lace would help the nation's technological progress, forcing it to become more independent. this, as the u.s. and other countries negotiate new measures to stop iran from enriching uranium. despite international concerns, the islamic republic says the nuclear program

you saw kara down there in africa.went to monrovia to the food bank, to feeding america. >> i went to seattle and bill gates twhand they're doing globally. we, of course, two years ago went to kenya together. >> larry: break them down, children's health fund, what is that? >> which one is that? is that the one you went to -- >> not the one i went. >> singer/song writer paul simon. he founded it. it helps with pediatric care. >> larry: one of the groups. >> malaria no more. >> larry: i thought we wiped out malaria. >> we eradicated here, but not other parts of the country -- or other parts of the world. it can be eradicated. i think bill and melinda are 100% behind the eradication of it. and to have the resource to do it. >> larry: what's feeding america? >> feeding america is something i just learned about recently and i went down this morning. david arquette is involved. i think he's the chairman. it's called second harvest. they renamed it feeding america. in the last few years, it's amazing that you kind of -- you a