i'm going to you first i mean madam secretary clinton is in algeria trying to drum up support for an intervention into mali. is in the africa these africans do it on their own are they really need western help and i'll talk about american drones later go ahead. yeah clearly ms clinton going to. express this as a concerned concern for the world that the rebels who have now been supported by al qaeda in many different capacities are taking a stronghold in that country and it's not to say that the africans cannot do it on their own well clearly with their limitations echo us which clearly has to take a strong lead on this through its military wing has shown to be very effective in the past in places like syria luna liberia where again ninety percent of that contingency was always supported by the nigerian troops and this time around we already see nigerian troops who are already stretched in their own country dealing with booker i miss you so yes a concern a worry that africans do not necessarily have the capacity or the capabilities or the the financial muscle to be able to resolve the

we'll move now further west to algeria. my colleague, alexis arieff serves with me at the congressional research service. her work there focuses on morocco, tunisia and algeria, and she's actually just returned from a rather path-breaking trip to the sahel, so she may be able to share some perspective about the regional security concerns affecting the countries of interest to this panel. alexis? >> thank you, chris, and thanks to the council for this very timely discussion. um, aye been asked to say a -- i've been asked to say a few words about algeria and in particular anticipated leadership transitions, political dynamics and algeria's role in regional security which chris touched on. so to begin with, i would say algeria remains a puzzle. there has been a lot of discussion lately among north africa watchers about the fact that algeria's regime has maintained and remained stable despite dramatic change and transition on all sides. this has left algeria's leaders and even members of the public feeling isolated and at the s

in the 1990s he served as algeria's foreign minister. after that he was special envoy to afghanistan and then to iraq post saddal hussein. when he became envoy to syria earlier this year he described his mission as quote nearly impossible. he is in new york this week to report to the united nations and security council on that mission and on the situation in syria. i'm pleased to have him back at this table, welcome. >> thank you very much. >> rose: you must be exhausted. >> i'm all right. >> rose: what will you say to the united nations. >> you know what, i'm going to tell them what i have been saying all along about the situation in syria is extremely bad. and dangerous. and getting worse. until now nobody has found a way of bringing it under control. we know that this is part of the arab spring. we know that change is coming. but as i think you know very well, this arab spring has been surprising all the time, when moving from sun surprise to the other. and of course it doesn't work in the same manner from one country to the other. an

places like to wait, vietnam, algeria, indonesia, rocco.ore to get britain into these markets now. today i am personally appointing a number of senior parliamentarians from all political parties. they will engage directly with government in each of these countries and help open up the crucial markets to more british businesses. right now britain is in a global race. it is a moment of reckoning for every country. sink or swim, to or decline. the critical question is this, how does britain compete and win in a world where all around us new countries are on the rise? i believe britain can make it in this global race. we have the global language of business. we have a time zone where you could trade with asia in the could trade with asia in the morning, america and the

into europe, we've been watching this low pressure system over algeria bringing some heavy rain, thunderstorms here. well, it's on the move today, and it's been heading into the mid mediterranean. it's just going to be hanging out for a couple of days. southern italy as well as the southern balkans you're going to be dealing, instead, with those stormy conditions. we're talking about hail, thunder and lightning. and heavy rain. another system coming in along the med, it's going to be hitting portugal by thursday evening. and then stalling out here, as well, for the next couple of days. so wet weather to continue to the south. then we have high pressure keeping things dry to the center of the continent. up to the north, though, we've got another system. now this one, in fact, a new one coming in from the atlantic across iceland straight in towards norway. toward the north, of course, snow, and then it will be rain and wind for western and southern portions of the scandinavian peninsula. getting a break in the british isles. some good news for you here. just hovering around 10 degree mark in lon

negotiations could provide a breakthrough, paving the way for plants not only in morocco, but also tunisia, algeria, and other countries. the biggest question is funding. companies would take on around 200 million euros of the investment. another 400 million could come from national governments involved as well as eu funds. >> certainly an ambitious but impressive project. that is it for now. thanks for watching. >> do not forget, you can find more on our website at dw.de. see you soon. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ we get germs on our hands that can make us sick ♪ ♪ if we open a door or shake a hand ♪ ♪ we spread those germs throughout the land ♪ ♪ so after you go, remember to stop ♪ ♪ shuffle to the sink and do the hand-wash bop ♪ ♪ scrub with soap and take your time ♪ ♪ for 15 seconds, then rinse 'em and dry 'em ♪ ♪ it's nice to share at home, in school ♪ ♪ but sharing germs ♪ is never cool ♪ wash your hands

she was in algeria and came back to france. she had a very white skin. very, very white with speckles? >> freckles. >> freckles. more glamorous. glittering. but she was glamorous for me, sparkles -- no, freckles. sorry, i cannot say. [laughter] but she has beautiful red hair, light afro type but red hair. to me, i was like, oh, my god, she is so beautiful. for me, if i want to be friends with someone that i admire, i have to be like him or her, cannot have the red hair. so i say, i also come from nigeria and i am like you. [laughter] i do not think she believed me so i was inventing names. anyway. so she influenced me. she had white skin. you could see her veins. she was very strange but beautiful for me. i was always attracted by different beauty that i saw everywhere. i remember some movies called guess who's coming to have dinner tonight with sydney party. i remember i said to my parents -- i was 12. if i come with a black girl, what will you say? and they say, if you love her, that is perfect for you. years after when it told them what i could say ab

still see heavier rain down across northern algeria. that will weaken on wednesday and start to move away. things are clearing towards the south. still seeing heavy rain for northern parts of the uk and up into scandinavia. you'll see steady streams of moisture coming up over the next couple days. temperatures are looking like this. i'll leave you with your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. tavis: good evening. from los angeles, i am tavis smiley. tonight, a conversation with thomas ricks. tonight, a conversation with thomas ricks.

high pressure is keeping things clear, but we have this system moving now out of algeria coming to the central mediterranean. that will be you in southern italy, the southern balkans. the potential for flash flooding, short time heavy rain coming down. let's take a look at temperatures. 10 degrees in stockholm, 6 in warsaw as well as in kiev. paris and london at respective respectively. 21 degrees in rome. here's your extended forecast. >>> once again our lead news for this hour, japanese voters have spent weeks listening to their politicians debate the possibility of an early election. now they have a date to mark on their calendars. they'll be going to the polls on sunday, december 16th. prime minister noda will soon dissolve the lower house of the diet. he and his ruling party made the decision after forging an agreement with the main opposition liberal democratic party. >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us at "nhk world," from all of us at "nhk world," thanks very much for joining us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tavis:

heavy rain across northern algeria could freed lede to flashflooding and we could see hail as well. temperatures across europe. 13 degrees in london, we're seeing 10 in paris, around 10 in berlin as well as vie yaen that, through to kiev, 6 degrees, 6 in warsaw, and also down towards the south, we're managing to stay in the 20s in rome as well as athens. i'll leave you now to your extended forecast. ♪ >>> oyster growers in mia ga prefecture, northeastern japan, are back in business. they've made their first regular shipment since last year's tsunami devastated their industry. the region is famous for its abundant seafood. the district in higashi is known for its large oysters. about 30 workers were busy shucking oysters at a facility on monday. last year's tsunami swept away most of the local farmers' rafts, seriously depleting the supply. growers were able to resume regular farming this season, but their output is about 40% of predisaster levels. >> reporter: we are proud of the oysters. i promise we'll be able to ship full-grown ones next year. >> the farmers say their oysters gre

. >> in algeria, i visited refugee camps and these people have been in refugee status for 37 years and they are 95% literate and it's an all muslim ethnic group and they're not going to take too kindly to the u.n. coming in and trying to promote contraception because that's not what their religious beliefs allow, but yet they've managed to educate their girls and they have great school programs despite being refugees, they're working it out. hopefully they'll get they are referendum vote. anyway -- >> i've also gone to many countries overseas to do reporting on how usida money was being spent. in morocco, i went to a pediatric clinic that was underwritten by usaid funding and, first of all, they were not giving abortions because it was against the law in morocco and they certainly abided by whatever the local culture is. secondly, it was the only medical clinic for hundreds of miles. i saw women showing up there with three and four kids, toddlers, you know, babies in their arms, toddlers on their hands. they were getting family medical care there. so should we be funding it? >> i think

a major shift because in the previous years we had some energy superpowers like russia qatar and algeria really dominating the market and now countries all over the world from ukraine to israel to mexico really waking up to their own potential when it comes to exploring shale gas and trying to do it and using it at least domestically and course as far as shale gas being the next best thing was brad while i don't know about because it does have a lot of under reported war backs including the fact that it's actually quite costly and of course it has very shady and environmental practices both since you've been saying and so many countries right now are considering developing shale gas apparently not to be dependent on imports of oil and gas apparently that has to be cheaper than conventional gas i mean is it well what we see in the united states is that it actually is not that cheap and the reason is is because it actually requires this process called hydraulic fracturing and it's quite costly at least for the time being and at the moment it requires some financial subsidies or tang's brak

it's in places like tokyo and algeria they're being forced to literally deflate their balloons reportedly inflatable mickey mouse heads at disneyland in tokyo are being sold well maybe this will stop all the kids here in america birthday parties suck on helium and get i'm really and it's not just make your voice i mean i actually wanted to try and find a helium balloon for this episode so i guess i'm not very much more sophisticated than those kids you're talking to used to do that did of course as well but what's so fun about it i don't know you sound funny. that's. known to me let's move on ok. there are. this is fun because we have dimitri to add his wisdom to intervene peter schiff this week about his hyper inflation predictions which he's been calling for since at least two thousand and eight and dominic's kaleri tweeted me to say sorry capital account i listen to shift almost every morning and he's always said hyperinflation is a worst case scenario so to make sure what you think about that i mean that is true but i guess the question is how long can you kind of qualify such a bold

in algeria it was a different thing entirely because it was a french naval base, and the admiralcy, which is the british naval command, radioed, of course in code, to their fleet in gibraltar, and they said this is what you have to do. you have to sail through the night of july 2nd and 3rd and show up at dawn. and give our terms to the french fleet. and the terms were or were going to be, um, you were our loyal ally in the fight against the germans up until just days ago. sail out of your port and join us in the fight against the germans. if you can't do that, give us your ships. we'll sail them with british sailors and give them back to you when the war is over. if you can't do that, sail the french ships that you have here to the caribbean, to martinique, and the americans will assure their neutrality during the war. if you can't do that, we regret to have to ask you to scuttle your ships within six hours. and if you can't do that, we'll take whatever means necessary to prevent them falling into the hands of the germans, which everybody knew -- [inaudible] >> guest: it came out of the a

peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not forget the progressives' view of educated elites and by their definitions were close to, quote, unworthy of life, unquote. but these trends would marinate for a decade. in the meantime, american prosperity continued spreading to the rest of the civilized world. american advertisers, film, even literature became highly desired in europe. it's another irony at this time, american movies followed a production code that emphasized universal american themes of patriotism. god, fair play, and they avoided sensationalism, sexual situations and other taboo vices. american movies sold american sensualism including, quote, puritanical mormonism, as one put it. they occasionally made fun of those values through the work of buster keaton and charlie chaplin, but this was never meant to totally undermine the system itself. by 1930 the u.s. had 18,000 movie houses and compared to france's 2400 and britain's 3,000. europe simply could not compete with hollywood, and as long as hollywood sold american exceptionalism, europeans wanted to be l

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general patton and others and a large number of soldiers landed in algeria and morocco, and with the british, marched fought, often with heavy losses east into tunisia where they took a little while, but eventually met up with the british 8th army, and the idea was they could then sort of expel the ally -- sorry, expel the forces from north africa from tunisia which would be the launching ground for the invasion of italy, scheduled for that summer and fall of 1943. by february 1943 when my oping l -- uncle arrived in tunisia, it was clear it was a good idea, and the american army suffered a lot learning how to fight, it was pretty clear they would prevail in north africa, but it would be a couple more months of really difficult fighting before that came to pass. tunisia is not flat as a pancake like egypt. it is mountainous. they had good observation points on the mountain tops, making it difficult for the 8th army and american armies to advance through the passageways of the mountains. it was difficult, bloody fighting. unfortunately, both my uncle and jack were -- lost their lives

countries like algeria, syria, libya, jordan, were never really thought of until states until the 20once described them as tribes with flags. >> yes. yemen is a mixed bag. even the turks and the british were never able to influence their influence deep into the interior. >> all right. let's look at place where we should know more about the geography, but we don't, which is mexico and the united states. >> yes. >> when you look at this map, what do you see. >> >> whoo i see is the united states is a virtual island. canada's just a thin band of middle class civilization. 33 million people living within a hundred miles of the u.s. border. the united states's real geographic challenge is to the south where much of the border is artificial. where south of the border, you have a country that's so much poorer than the u.s. that the difference in living standards is one of the greatest in the world, you know, except for maybe that between north and south korea. mexico has a much higher population growth. the average american is in his late 30s. so you have lat inhistory moving noncht that's

general patton and a couple of other generals and a large number of american soldiers landed in algeria morocco and along with the british contingency, flawed often with heavy losses eased into tunisia where they took a little while but eventually met up with the british eighth army and the idea was they could then expel the axis forces from north africa which was from tunisia which would become the launching ground for the invasion of italy which was scheduled for that summer and fall of 1943. so by february 1943 when jack brewster and my uncle arrived in tunisia, it was pretty clear that this was a good idea and that although the american army had suffered a lot learning how to fight, it was pretty clear that they would prevail in north africa but it would be a couple of months of really difficult fighting before that came to pass. tunisia is not flat as a pancake and egypt is quite mountainous and the germans, because they were there first, had occupy it all the good observation points on the mountain tops and made it very difficult for the eighth army and the american armies to adva

never worked in algeria. it didn't work in vietnam or baghdad. it didn't work in kabul.eral and a great man. this guy's a -- >> bill: ken wait. maybe he should have been fired because -- as you assert, if his policies are wrong then fire him because his policies are wrong. don't fire him because he cheats on his wife or he has an extramarital affair. >> caller: the point i'm making is that he is corrupt as a human being. just like the cowl mination -- the culmination of it. >> bill: i hear you. but i'm talking about on what basis do we decide someone should not be in their job. i'm not agreeing with your assessment of petraeus. i think he has been a great general. but if his policies are indeed wrong then fire him because of his policies. not because of this affair. by the way ken says he seduced this woman. i don't know who seduced whom. it takes two to tango. c.j. is in oakland california. hi c.j. >> caller: hi, there. just a quick reality check from someone who doesn't really like to deal with reality. wasn't -- wasn't there a lot of generals to retire before they got

general patton and a couple of other generals and a large number of american soldiers landed in algeria and morocco, and along with a british contingent they marched -- fought often with heavy losses east into tunisia where they took a little while but, eventually, met up with the british eighth army. and the idea was they could then sort of ec -- expel the allied, sorry, expel the axis forces from north africa, from tunisia which would become the launches ground for the invasion of italy that was scheduled for that summer and fall of 1943. so by february 1943 when jack brister and my uncle, rob cox, arrived in tunisia, it was pretty clear this was a good idea, and although the american army had suffered a lot learning how to fight, it was pretty clear that they would prevail in knot africa, but it would be a couple months of really difficult fighting before that came to pass. tunisia's quite mount -- mountainous, it made it difficult for the american armies to advance through the passageways between the mountains. it was difficult. bloody fighting. and, unfortunately, both my uncle and

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there are people that i communicate with who are in algeria, brazil, and different parts of the country. i'm more in contact with family and other photograph eers. so, that's what i would do to build community, use technology. >> thank you. >> my question is what advice would you give the next generation coming up to learn photography? what advice would you give them? >> join a workshop. go to journalism school. >> one of the best things for me was being part of like when i was an undergraduate student and a good workshop for me was -- i'm not sure if it is still happening -- the empire state college photojournalism workshop. that was great, sort of pushed me out there. find a workshop. high school er students. >> i.c.p. has a high school program, i.c.p. at the point. what else is available. that is a good question. >> there are programs. >> there are programs. i guess google it. i don't know. >> hit the books or the eequivalent of the books. hit the books and go to the galleries and immerse yourself in the arts.quivalent of the bo. hit the books and go to the galleries and immerse your

one thing we have no spoken about is, as we get below to morocco, algeria, tunisia, it is obama as africaicy. obama has been well liked in africa, but so was george bush. there was his aides initiative. -- aids initiative. it is too simplistic to say that the country's south of the mediterranean are anti-pro- western. the administration had long relationships with these countries. morocco was the first country to recognize the united states and we have a lot of political relationship with them. we have had long relationships with egypt, saudi arabia. we are involved in the democratic transition of many of these countries there. host: independent scholar from orlando, fla. caller: good morning. how are you? basically, we have a lot of drama going on in the middle east right now. how do you feel about world war iii possibly going on right now? guest: i do not think anyone would feel good about a world war iii. i think there is a fear of nuclear escalation. i do not think anyone wants to see iran develop a nuclear weapon. there's a fear that could really produce the arms race. an israeli att

places like to wait, vietnam, algeria, indonesia, rocco. more to get britain into these markets now. today i am personally appointing a number of senior polymer and terror -- parliamentarians from all political parties. they will engage directly with government in each of these countries and help open up the crucial markets to more british businesses. right now britain is in a global race. it is a moment of reckoning for every country. sink or swim, to or decline. the critical question is this, how does britain compete and win in a world where all around us new countries are on the rise? i believe britain can make it in this global race. we have the global language of business. we have a time zone where you could trade with asia in the morning, america and the afternoon. we have the easiest access to the european markets, the largest gold market on earth. we of some of the best universities in the world, and we have here in london one of the world's leading financial centers. we have architect of a modern commuter -- computer and world wide

the use of technology is a great way to build community that people that i communicate with through algeriamily and other photographers. i think that is what i would do to build community, use technology. >> my question is, what advice would you give the next generation coming up? >> join a workshop or go to photojournalism school. one of the best things for me was being part of a cohort. a good workshop for me was the empire state college photojournalism workshop. it was great and it pushed me out there. find a workshop, find a group of people. i don't know what else is available, that is a good question. >> there are programs everywhere. >> google it, i don't know. [laughter] >> hit the books or the online equivalent of the books. go to the galleries, immerse yourself in the arts and it will pay off. >> things they are very passionate about, and start working. >> there is time to review your work. >> can i make one point? the gentleman over here about building community. i use a photo shelter account, you can build virtual agencies and you can build all of these different little that work

. >> he said today that he was emphasizing the involvement between algeria that's it, ok. ordid i dido this yesterday the day before? how are you doing? let's go, showtime. >> what did you learn of the briefing? >> i think it was very positive that general petraeus agreed to come before our committee. it was good for the country, it was good for our intelligence committee and good for general petraeus to bring closure to a lot of issues that are out there that he needed to take care of and we talked about the first briefing that he gave us the whether it was a dispute about what he had said and he reinforced the fact that in the first 24 hours, he felt at that point that this was a protest, as a result of what happened with the film. he clarified that after more information came in, there was not a protest. he did clarify, which was important and relevant, that he made in a statement to us that there was extremists in the group and that they are al qaeda affiliate's. that was very important because that has been part of the debate. >> congressman king was saying that his r