i had a book about africa and africa's life blood.so that is the book. why don't you update as as to where we are now? the book answers sort of april/may. explained why we are particularly critical time. >> had we known you were going to write a book we would have let you come with us. the sort of a magazine article. >> alex did an extraordinary job of going into many different countries and going into a villages and health clinics. he lived in the most malaria and stricken places and stayed several nights in northern uganda. the book is really touching. when alex speaks of his first visit and when he came back later after he had the bad men distributed, what a pronounced difference there was. it wasn't a riding of the book from afar. he was really up close and in the middle of it all. this is a critical time. we didn't hit the target of covering all seven hundred million people with three hundred fifty million medved by december of 2010 but we did achieve that in august of 2011. the most telling part of this to me has -- as alex said

is just as dependent on south africa as south africa's dependent on us. this is a global economy, and these two economies are locked together. and 80% of south africa's gnp is dependent upon the mining industry. so that would mean that the whole economy would come to a grinding halt. not only for venadium, but what about gold mining, what about asbestos, what about rubber mining? i mean, if they stop mining, then the whole economy would come to a screeching halt. so it's, it is a challenge for future south african policymakers, how do they begin to restructure their economy where they're not so dependent on an activity that's so detrimental to their, to their people? >> [inaudible] there's nothing intrinsically problematic about mining. it's the name of our industrialized and even iron age societies. it can be, economically can be made safe. we're talking here about pretty rudimentary industrial hygiene, a relatively small investment. and i think that it's not, you know, rocket science to protect these workers. and it's abdicating collective respondent to

aid workers in east africa were so slow to sound a warning over last year's famine in east africa that thousands of people died unnecessarily. that is the harsh assessment of two major posterity's. save the children and oxfam. it took them six months to act on eyewitness accounts and other reliable information. a region of west africa could also be facing a huge crisis of its own. our correspondent reports from jer. >> the mother and children waiting for treatment for severe and attrition. this 11-month-old and showing progress. but many more children are at risk of severe malnutrition in this country and across the sahara at this time. this mother returns to her village nearby. pests did a lot of damage to crops in this region. one of the breadbaskets of the region supposedly. water seems more precious than usual. >> the harvest gave us 10% of the food that we need. my husband went to nigeria to work, but the money went quickly. i have to fetch water and wood and other things for us to get something to live on. >> there is grain on sale in a nearby market in another town, but they can

when i first went to south africa i was basically like close to my neck down.mpany, and the miners were basically look, this is the work that we do if we close it down we will die from hunger. that is our choice and so that meant that we have to respect the workers involved in this process and then provide the resources they need to help make intelligent decisions but not to go to the site and try to impose our thoughts or which is upon them. it is an intractable problem and the injury rate is very high as you can imagine. >> i wanted to ask because obviously people like you and or in the trenches are doing your job and then you go through struggles like this. what has been the impact of the notes your legislation that you pointed to? i don't know if you have been able to see any changes in the epa that may be just in general what has the impact van? >> the impact has been substantial. that is one of the great things about struggle is that you actually do at times see the fruit of your hand. with the epa for example federal employees must take the training ever

speaks to russia's main envoy to africa. chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation calls and also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me here so we'll start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis you as an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to lock receive failed in the country last time i have been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the most awful drill even with the prime minister with the foreign minister where the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day and tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle the mob get together how to we see it live get back to it has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all

oriel that was going to promote locational start west africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always replace the oil that's not the issue the issue is the level of. oil is fluctuating above ninety nine dollars a barrel in new york a speculation the u.s. stockpiles again last week is weighing against those worries about iran. learned is trading at over one hundred ten dollars per barrel european stock markets declined on tuesday as greece and its private creditors continue to negotiate over the terms of a hope for debt swap deal barclays is losing one point eight percent pushing the foot sea point seven percent down the german dax is shedding over one percent led by a three percent loss for heavyweight xena's which reported a drop in fiscal first quarter profit here in russia markets are trading lower in the afternoon the r.t.s. is losing just under half a percent to my xix the sharing point six percent let's take a look at some individual channels on my six most of the blue chips are lower with banking and energy stocks the main decliners beating me is losing a thir

possible solutions to the ongoing strife in the arab world when we speak to russia's main envoy to africa they want to get off sports coming up in the next half hour or two but next let's get across the latest business with dmitri. welcome to business r.t. good to have your company the ruble hit a twenty twelve high against the dollar on tuesday number of factors are pushing it higher including stronger crude prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector economies that xander if you're from b. to b. capital believes the effect is temporary and the currency will weaken later in the . so i think that it's a temporary phenomenon that's a first quarter effect and. helped by a stronger current account because of seasonally high experts and this is no imports and. liquidity so we expect the ruble to this role in the first quarter and then to gradually we can tell what their second half of the year. saying when microeconomics unemployment and russia fell at the end of last year the jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to reach six point one percent in the final month of

and now there's a new famine in the making in west africa. a special report from new share. -- from niger. >> there's a window of a couple months to get more help to the most honorable in the country, to the children in particular. >> hello and welcome. a world of news and opinion. also in the program, the christmas day bombing of a church in nigeria, the key suspect escaped amid fears extremists have infiltrated the police force. the search of at the rex crew ships suspended over safety fears. hopes of finding any walone else alive off the italian coast is fading. its midday in london. two major aid agencies have published a damning report into how last year's famine in east africa was handled. oxfam and save the children say tens of thousands have died because people fail to come up with the cash until it was too late. they want the world to learn a lesson of that catastrophe. a test case is unfolding right now. this time it is in the west african state of niger. now this report from the capital. >> the mothers are waiting. when the health

risk in iraq and afghanistan to move unmanned aerial vehicle assets to cover more of the horn of africa. >> what are some of the things that have happened and some of the major battles, if you will? >> what's worked has been working by, with and through local forces. you know, even given all of the frustration that can involve, working with local warlords, the transitional federal government of somalia, the government of ethiopia and its intelligence forces and the same with the kenyan forces. other things that have worked have been combining the human intelligence and the technical intelligence feeds that have enabled the united states to strike and kill multiple sort of high value targets as they described in the horn of africa. >>> these guys are fighting for different reasons than we are wanting to fight al qaeda? >> in some cases that is true. sometimes the goals overlap but they are not the same. for instance those in ethiopia who invaded somalia in december of 2006 and didn't pull out until early 2009 and are how back in again, wikileaks that came out of the embassy make it quite

was proposing last summer which african union was proposing last summer which president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disavowal that the african union summit african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation but that's all political talk if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because there are ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly in the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today and some people are really unhappy with that fact because then the favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to th

>> goodall: i fell in love with africa long before i ever went there. i got there, it felt like coming home. >> logan: how would you describe the jane of those days? >> goodall: very naive, shy. very determined. always slightly startled that things were working out. and a terrible flirt. >> logan: you were a terrible flirt? >> goodall: oh, i was. ( laughter ) >> logan: was that well received? >> goodall: don't tell me you weren't. >> logan: this is not my story. while jane goodall's work had a huge impact, it was sometimes undermined by the fact that she had never studied science. was it hard to be taken seriously by the scientific community? >> goodall: oh, i was not taken very seriously by many of the scientists. i was known as a geographic cover girl. >> logan: what did you think of that? >> goodall: well, i didn't care. at least, i didn't think i did. because, you know, i was studying these chimpanzees, and if people thought i did it wrong, well, let them go and do it differently. but let me do it my way. >> logan: what did you find about them that

its leader nelson mandela became south africa's first democratic president. and now, the party celebrating its 100th birthday. >> weighed down by corruption. >> many have died, collapsed, perished. not the a.n.c. >> are they losing their touch for a golf tournament for the a.n.c. elite? a man in touch with president nelson mandela acknowledges mistakes. >> perhaps it's worst in our country because we have not as yet delivered the requirement, the services fully to the people of south africa. >> but for all its faults, the a.n.c. keeps winning elections. back in victoria's secretburg, anna says simply they give us freedom. i will die voting for the a.n.c. andrew harding, "bbc world news." >> let's go to the sound of some classical music, woven into venezuelan culture, although almost certainly there is one venezuelan orchestra you've probably never heard of. they play in rather restricted circumstances. sarah granger has been behind bars to see how music can make a major difference to lives. >> doing time for crimes ranging from murder to drug smuggling, most

and we now know that between 1501 and 186,612.5 million africans were shipped from africa to the new world. 12.5 million. 15% died in the middle passage. some 11 million get off the boat to the new world. of that 11 million how many do you think came to the united states? 380,000 came directly. you were looking at my book. [laughter] you put the book. like footnotes. [laughter] 388,000 came directly from africa to what is now the united states and another 50,000 we estimate touched them briefly in the caribbean, you're absolutely right. you get the gold star. [laughter] but think about what that means to read all those other africans went to the caribbean and to south america. i don't know about you but when i was growing up without the slave trade was primarily about us. but the 40 million african american people sent to the 450,000 africans who came here between 1619 and mostly by 182099% of our ancestors were here. it's quite remarkable. but all of those other africans, brazil got over 5 million africans in the slave trade. well here is the reason that i start in 1513 because the

she felt the call to africa after student teaching in nairobi. >> she could hardly talk about africa without tears in her eyes. >> her brother, stephen said she understood the risks. >> a local tried to get at them and all this information that shouldn't been and they were susceptible. >> pirates kidnapped her in october. the prayers were answered when navy seals swooped in for the rescue. >> they are so overwhelmed she is all right. >> knowing she is safe is a weight off all of our shoulders and answer to our prayers. >> she would continue to pray for them and try to bring them to the lord rather than leave. i am sure if anything, her faith sustained her. >> she loves kids. she just loves to help people. that is the reason she was over there just to help. >> jessica's family is grateful to the men who risked their lives to save jessica. >> they are willing to sacrifice their life for my sister. >> the men that risked their lives, can't say enough. i am really, really appreciate it. >> efrem graham, cbn news. >> you may wish to send words of encouragement, visit our world world faceb

frequently what ethnic group or tribe your ancestors came friend in africa. only for the results, will teach you how the science of dna works. what child wouldn't be interested in that, ladies and gentlemen? who would not be turned on by that knowledge? why's it so compelling. genealogy is all about yourself. the historical anecdotes i've collect dead in "life upon these shores" all about arcola is cells. our collective selves as african-americans. counterintuitive stories, quirky stories and also the sad stories of sacrifice and suffering from our people's experience in the new world as slaves. as slaves, but as three women and three men and ultimately as president of the united states. thank you very much. [applause] >> this event was hosted by vietnam history center. to find out more kind is it atlanta.com. >> next, from baton rouge, louisiana, a tour at the john bk library at southern university. booktv recently visited come exploring literary culture of several cities across the country. we spoke to many authors and toured literary locations the city has

in the west africa. -- in west africa. >> the mothers are waiting. the children need treatment for severe malnutrition. it is 11-month-old -- this 11- month-old's first visit. \she is showing progress -- she is showing progress. many other children are in need of help. they return to their village nearby. the last rain stopped early. pest's did much damage to crops -- pests did much damage to crops in the region, supposedly one of the country's breadbaskets. the harvest gave us only 10% of the food that we need. my husband went to nigeria to work. the money went quickly. he has gone back there again. i have to fetch a wood and water -- fetch wood and water. there is grain on sale in the market in the nearest town. the poor can ill afford the rising price. >> does he know -- >> a scheme to help the poor buy food while it is still available. visits by the eu's humanitarian aid commissioner. people are given cash to help them feed their families, increasingly seen as the quickest way to stave off malnutrition. the commissioner said it was now evident th

in the west africa. -- in west africa. >> the mothers are waiting. the children need treatment for severe malnutrition. it is 11-month-old -- this 11- month-old's first visit. \she is showing progress -- she is showing progress. many other children are in need of help. they return to their village nearby. the last rain stopped early. pest's did much damage to crops -- pests did much damage to crops in the region, supposedly one of the country's breadbaskets. the harvest gave us only 10% of the food that we need. my husband went to nigeria to work. the money went quickly. he has gone back there again. i have to fetch a wood and water -- fetch wood and water. there is grain on sale in the market in the nearest town. the poor can ill afford the rising price. >> does he know -- >> a scheme to help the poor buy food while it is still available. visits by the eu's humanitarian aid commissioner. people are given cash to help them feed their families, increasingly seen as the quickest way to stave off malnutrition. the commissioner said it was now evident th

akron -- africa's economic rise. and the fastest stingers in the business -- that his fingers in the business. this pianist says playing quick has more to do with martial arts than mozart. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. the fall of president of charles ko'd of syria is inevitable according to u.s. -- of bashar al-assad of syria is inevitable according to u.s. secretary of state. the backdrop of violence is growing. government forces appear to have largely regained control of suburbs of damascus. we report from beirut. >> it looks like a battlefield and sounds like a battlefield. that is what it has become. this is the town near homs. this is one of nine that the rebels syrian three armies say they have not held -- rebels syrian free army say they have not held. their claims are not able to be independently verified. this is a battleground. increasingly, fighters from the free syrian army are taking on the official state forces from which they have deserted. armed resistance has ta

or her heart grew around africa. but she could hardly talk about africa without tears in her eyes. >> reporter: so far, few details of buchanan's captivity have been revealed. and more than 150 foreign hostages are still being held by various groups in somalia. in november of 2010, paul and rachel chandler were released after 13 months of captives of somali pirates, who had seized them from aboard their yacht. they spoke about the brutality they faced at the hands of their captors, in an interview soon after their release. >> i could see he was slamming the butt of a rifle into her head. and i was dragged off around the corner. >> the anger that i felt they were so cruel, so callous, so -- just so despicable, you have to find a way of dealing with that. >> reporter: tonight, preparations are being made for buchanan to be reunited with her loved ones, following medical evaluations. but she is said to be doing well, considering all she has been through. for "nightline," i'm martha raddatz, in washington. >> thanks to m

in south africa this weekend, the african national congress marks its 100th birthday. party of nelson mandela will hold three days of celebration in honor of the milestone. as our africa correspondent reports, the old liberation party is facing an entirely different struggle. >> we have come to a small struggling town. sewage on the streets, one tap shared by a whole neighborhood. how long have you been like this? >> almost 10 years. >> anger is growing. people expected more from freedom and the anc. they say the ruling party is corrupt, bloated, and it is time for change. >> they cannot even provide for the people. we wish they lose power because we don't want to be in a situation like this or like egypt, libya, tunisia. >> it has been a long journey for the anc. they led years of street protests, armed rebellion, and negotiation. its leader nelson mandela became south africa's first democratically elected president. now they are celebrating their 100th birthday. this is a bittersweet moment for the anc. the party that has done so much for this country seems to be wei

communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was what was going on in africa. >> (speaking spanish). >> and from some of the sounds they used to play that we almost lost all of them we still have some that he remembers. >> (speaking spanish). >> for instance -- >> (speaking spanish). >> this means "attention be alert. something is going to happen". >> (speaking spanish). >> wake up. wake up. >> wake up, wake up. (speaking spanish). >> and this are some of the drumming patterns that have been rescued by the cultural association. >> (speaking spanish). >> the african and review itse s size. >> (speaking spanish). >> to the actual size that he has. >> (speaking spanish). >> the reason why this drum was reduced in its size it was the intention of hiding it from the dominant class so they will not be oppressed by playing it. >> (speaking spanish) (drums). >> (speaking spanish). >> for these wonderful instrument called cajon it's put into different styles. also the cajon today is incorporated intd international music. >> (speaking spanish). >> (drums). (music). (app

i was fascinated by the contact between europe and africa before african-americans got here. and so, i start with images. remember, it is a book driven by pictures and children by images. i start with an image of african monarchs, african kings and queens who received emissaries from europe. there is clean and thing to, from what is now angola who became queen in 1624. there's an image of her receiving a delegation of dutch traders who are coming to negotiate for her -- with her for the slave trade, to get slaves. there is another image of king garcia to second of the congo who ruled between 1641 and 1661. both of them every gillooly with portuguese and dutch diplomats in major slave traders, especially in the 1640s. but you know how we were raised to think that africans were so benighted that they pages that they are and waited for europeans to discover them and that the approach has always premiered to africa. we now know from the visual record that that is not true either, the earliest european emissaries arrived in africa in the 16th century and similarly african emissari

welcome to the best comic chaotic part of africa's economic rise. and meet an entrepreneur and a member of the growing middle class. >> the level of infrastructure or development that is going on, it is obvious that it is changing. there is obviously more investment coming in. we want to pat be part of that change, part of that growth, the so-called promise land. >> like many year, he took part in this month's of street protests. an angry public demanding and winning the return of huge petrol subsidies, and signed for some that nigerian democracy is taking root. >> to strengthen society. >> do you think it will make a difference? >> i am sure that it will. it is very, very determined. >> but oil-rich nigeria it is to spoil by the chronic poverty and corruption. there is talk these days about africa rising, the economy finally taking off, and here in nigeria, the focus is still on justice, on a fair distribution of wealth. powerful voices here are challenging the very idea of affluent optimism. >> i think this is a big propaganda by the big multinati

andrew harding, bbc news, south africa. >> finally good news today when it comes to the u.s. economy and the all-important jobs picture. figures for december showed the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.5%, the lowest level in nearly three years. almost to under thousand jobs were created in december and the news cannot come -- 200,000 jobs were created in december and the news cannot come at a better time for the white house. thank you for turning the. were the jobs come from? is this a sustained recovery? >> this is not a good month in terms of where they are coming from. we're seeing recovery in manufacturing, seasonal areas, things that might not last beyond december. overall this is a good report because it not only in terms of job creation, a meaningful number considering where we have come from, it brings the unemployment rate back down to where we were nearly three years ago, which is an important milestone politically and economically. the problem is, 2000 jobs a month is not enough. we need to see numbers around 300,000, 400,000 jobs a month. if we continue this bas

it wasn't in africa that i learned about racism but here in united states. we were completely broke and i did something real unpopular at the time. four days after high school i joind the united states army. not only to serve my country but to get the,gi bill to continue my education. then i saw young men and women from all across america. from farms and ranches and it matedm made me realize the strength in this country is not from commonality but our great diversity. i had a younger sister named gift of god and christa was a special girl because she suffered from severe epilepsy. she never once complained. she never said across word and it could or would take her an hour or two to line um... up her clothes and do our homework and get her lunch b bag ready. i'm the five minutes bed to - bus kind of guy, you know? well krista saw the baseball movie called field of dreams. very inspiring movie that takes place in the corn field in iowa and decided for her 23rd birthday she wanted to go see that place. she was living in minneapolis and packed her bags to go to

you and i have talked about the situation in south africa where freedom is deteriorating. the government seems to be taking more repressive measures. one of the bright things is the internet. the government cannot seize the internet, the way they could seize printing bands, imprisoning people. you can be outside of the country and do your work. >> i was lucky enough to be funded by the freedom forum in africa, asia, latin america, and eastern and central europe. programs every month on freedom of information, using the internet. the initial audience we thought was going to be journalists, but the audience turned out to be much larger. going back to 1990, 2001, 2002. invariably, the more repressive the government of the country where we were holding the forum, the more interested the audience and the faster they grasped that. this is something our government cannot control. as you know, governments from china to iran are pouring lots of money into this trying to control it with varying degrees of success, but it is and enormously useful tool. we have seen it from north afri

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they served in north africa and italy.the airmen earned enviable record of her heroism, and the 332nd earned a citation for, quote, outstanding performance and extraordinary heroism. the deaths of 66 of their number testified to their patriotism and to their enviable record, and that formed the basis for president harry s. truman to desegregate the military officially in 1948. and without the service of the tuskegee airmen, general colin powell would not have been possible. and without colin powell, barack obama would not have been possible. these are just some of the stories, ladies and gentlemen, that i love in this book that i wrote, first of all, for my daddy. and, but also for our children. for our children, our african-american children and for all american children. because the black story, black history is american history. there is no american history without black history, and ironically, there is no black history -- and there's no african-american history without american history. they are inextricably intertwin