algeria is virgin territory industrially. today, france sees a chance to strengthen its economic ties with algeria because the stakes are so high at the moment. >> more than 3 million people of algerian origin live in france. many have dual citizenship. they make regular trips across the mediterranean, their cars piled high with goods bought in french shops. about halfway between paris and algiers, this gives a sense of how close the countries are, but the relationship between them is complicated. the french occupied algeria 132 years. for them, it was more than a colony. they considered algeria to be part of france. the war for independence was long and bloody. more than 1 million people were killed, both algerians and french. this person was born in algeria. so was his father, grandfather, and his great-grandfather. he and his family fled as refugees in 1962. he says the french built by jerry it into a great country and have nothing to apologize for -- he says french built algeria into a great country and have nothing to ap

investment from france is welcome in algeria. french carmaker renault's as it is drawing up plans to build a new plant in the country -- french car maker reynaud says -- french car maker renault says it is drawing up plans to build a new plant in the country. >> israel's plans to build new homes for jewish settlers in occupied territories have been condemned by the international community. the ute's foreign policy chief strongly opposed what she called the unprecedented expansion of settlements. >> these latest plans were also condemned by members of the security council, with the exception of the united states. israel has made several announcements accelerating its settlement program following the united nations upgrading of palestinian status. a new rights report on serious as the fighting is increasingly putting sunni rebels against the tribe of president assad and his christian allies. >> the report also underscored the threat the growing number of foreign fighters pose in escalating violence. memo more weapons to fight assad

france is the biggest foreign investor in algeria. francois hollande's claims france has created hundreds of thousands of jobs there, so it could be mutually beneficial for friends. there is a market for its products. also the creation of jobs, very important for a growing population. >> hundreds of people have paid their respects at a funeral for a health-care worker. they have since been suspended, but local health workers are considering vaccination's under police protection. police say a woman who was a gang rape on a bus is in critical but stable condition. the campaign is demanding a review of rape laws. the government says it will create five new courts to speed up prosecution. police have arrested five suspects and are looking for a sixth. in sri lanka, three days of deadly rains have caused landslides. at least 25 people have been killed, but the worst may not be over. >> he is lucky to be alive. his family escaped the dilution of mud that rolled down the mountain. >> of about 4:00 in the morning we heard of a huge roar like

for 50 years, algeria has been waiting for an apology from france. the french president addressed the parliament a few hours ago. this was how the president responded to date. >> i recognize the suffering here that colonization inflicted on the algerian people. amongst these sufferings, there was a massacre in other places o f algeria. these are in the minds of the people but also of the french people. >> following that speech for us was our correspondent who explains now why president hollande avoided a more specific apology. >> it seems as though he is taking the route of truth than apologies or using the word sorry, because that would be very difficult for french people to swallow because after all suffering. these were people whose parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were born in algeria. president hollande would have alienated all those people and not done justice to their memories or their suffering if he came out with a one-sided apology. what he did do was in clear, unequivocal terms acknowledging the crimes of the past. >> it is ab

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

in algeria. many years ago they held a popular election which ended with the victory of the islamists and then the civil war which still affects the country. same in egypt the same in tunisia the majority vote for islamist parties they're not for for the secular liberal forces which are really in the minority in this part of the world and whose ideas are contrary to many of the basic elements of the islamic political culture syria another problem country in washington and london have been concerned lately that pressure assad may use chemical weapons against and against the protestors does moscow share this concern no there is no such concern in moscow. may be disliked by many and he deserves that but he is not a lunatic in a sense and actually the russian position. on syria is that actually will turn it over to. at this point looks much worse than an ass of himself. because. it is now clear that a large if not the larger part of the so-called protesters just international terrorists international

more than 200,000 malians have fled to mauritania and -- algeria also populations of refugees.rt to mitigate the effects of a complex humanitarian crisis, we are providing humanitarian food, assistance to those displaced in the region. in 2012, the united states government provided some $445 billion in assistance to the sawtelle region. $119 million of which was in support of emergency use within mali and among refugee populations outside of mali. the humanitarian response should remain a civilian-led effort in order to ensure neutral and impartial character to the humanitarian operations. we have encouraged greater international cooperation in coordination in developing a comprehensive approach to mali's multiple crises. the u.n. secretary-general secretary-general's recent appointment of a special envoy will provide the needed facilitation and coordination. we will discuss the drafting of the secretary general's integrated strategy at a meeting in rome this friday. it is important that the next u.n. security council resolution be based in part on the u.n. secretary-general's

position as the world's second biggest arms export are the main buyers were india and algeria and vietnam president vladimir putin has recently stressed that russia needs to normally keep the existing multibillion dollar contracts but also secure new ones to compete with fears international rivals so i've got pilbeam here to fill us in so kitty fourteen billion dollars that's not bad it's not that it's always actually being seen as a really positive figure really substantial is an improvement we'll be able to see that for three years running now russia's exports of arms have actually increased as i say three years running so that is substantial and russia now supplies weaponry to fifty five countries in toto really enough to maintain its position as the world's second exporter after the us also not just that but that's made it in also announced recently that we have had this fourteen billion dollars made but in terms of contracts and deals made this year it's been fifteen billion dollars so it looks like those numbers attached are only going to continue increasing and it's such a fierce c

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 i'm it's not high it just makes your voice i hear and i actually wanted to try and find a helium balloon for this happens so so i guess i'm not very much more sophisticated than those kids you're talking to used to do that. of course. but what's so funny about it oh now you sound funny. you know dimitri 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 you measure 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 pr

algeria also hosts large populations of maliian refugees. in an effort to mitigate the evens of the complex humanitarian crisis, we are providing humanitarian food assistance to those displaced in the reswron. in 2012, the united states government provided some 445 -- some $445 million in assistance to the region. $119 million of which was in support of emergency needs within mali and among refugee populations outside of mali. the humanitarian response should remain a civilian-led effort in order to ensure neutral and impartial character to the humanitarian operations. we have encouraged greater international cooperation and coordination in developing a comprehensive approach to mea lee's multiple crises and the greater sahel. the recent appointment of a special envoy for the sa hembings l will help provide the needed facilitation and coordination. we will discuss the drafting of the secretary general's integrated strategy at a meeting in rome this friday. it is important that the next u.n. security council resolution be based in part on the

and the major governments love to apply when it comes to the democratic process whether it be in algeria or in the gaza strip that doesn't benefit western interests so of course the results should be respected because people are saying there are some problems with the budget during these elections in which case there should be an international monitors though i don't think it matters so much as regards the. social issues and those kinds of rigid muslim brotherhood as long that the masses support because of its network of civil society structures that help the floor and the district. that was. used in. iraq because this is what it has been sentenced to. was not only was it when she wanted. to. talk to. some of the. some. of the things to watch since then the i.m.f. and the world bank that had anything to do with. the poor books of the arab world what. they think should happen it's about the poor. close certainly be interesting to see how the next few months on the fault thank you so much for that that was action our tongues the author and journalist speaking to us live from london. well t

algeria also holds large mallion populations of refugees. in an effort to mitigate, we are provided humanitarian food assistance to those displaced in the region. in 2012 the united states government provided some 4450 million dollars in assistance to the region. $119 million of which was in support of emergency needs within mali and among refugee populations outside of mali. the humanitarian response should remain a civilian-led effort in order to ensure neutral and impartial character to the humanitarian operations. we have encouraged greater international cooperation and coordination in developing a comprehensive approach to malli's multiple crises and the greater is a hill. the u.n. secretary generals recent appointment of a special enjoy will help provide the needed if a silltation and coordination. we will discuss the drafting of the secretary general's integrated strategy for the area at a meeting in rome this friday. it is important that the next u.n. security council resolution be based in part on the recent report to the security c

peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not fit the progress is a view of educated elite and by their definitions, were close to quote life 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 of 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 exceptionalism, including quote puritanical moralism as one observer put it. they occasionally make fun of those values to the work of people such as buster keaton and charlie chaplin, but this was all done tongue-in-cheek and never meant to totally undermine the system itself. my 1930, the u.s. had 18,000 movie houses, and compared to france's 2400, and britain's 3000. europe simply could not compete with hollywood, and as long as hollywood sold a

on, some of them are just making them up, and a eventually they went to the religious movement in algeria and eventually became al qaeda. this is now an revolution, which reflects this. so there you have the volatile cocktail of politics and religion. because the motivation of the foot soldiers is to create an islamic state in nigeria. it is something that they dream of. there are videos. and a lot of rhetoric and fun yes, we want an islamic state. yes, one of their leaders went so far when the government was -- when political leaders were opposing amnesty and so forth, until we are willing to sit down and negotiate with him. we don't know what you want, and i said, don't be stupid, we know very well where their motivation is. that is the reason for the devastation of the north today. the country in which years of independence, certain sections of the country consider non-muslims, whether christians or non-muslims -- they consider them disposable material. an interesting thing happened. some of these were sent out and then came back holier than their masters. and it looks to their mentors

we will sell more in algeria in the next three years than the united states. so what are we supposed to do? are we supposed to sit here and just say, oh, it's too hard? >> rose: and if you don't get the business somebody else will. >> somebody else is going to get it. we're down to the point after 130 years that basically we're the only american company left and most of the businesses -- love us or hate us, we're the only american left. so i think you would be better off as an american citizen wanting g.e. to be able to go to every corner of the world toe to toe compete hard then sitting here and losing market share in the places in the world that are growing. i can tell you with great certainty it is 100 times harder to get an order in angola than it is in chicago. i wish all our customers were in chicago, i really -- >> rose: (laughs) >> it would be infinitely easier. but the places where our customers are are the places and you don't do that unless you create jobs in other places at the same time. but i'm here to tell you, we're a big exporter, we'll always

the front has instituted masked kidnappings of people from their homes into western algeria. they have been in prison in camps for 35 years. the front colbrates with the likes of cuba who ration food in the camp and indoctor rin ate children while partnering with al qaeda. they have a plan, which i will submit for the record that addresses these issues with a clear and democratic solution to the sa harrah crisis. this is where america support should lie. mr. speaker, the united states can and must continue to advance fundamental human rights as we in this chamber continue to work together for peace, justice and human dignity in the western sahara. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. are there further requests for one-minute speeches? the house will be in order. members and staff, remove your conversations off the floor. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from california, mr. miller, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. miller: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time a

in the beginning when we were in iraq for example, we had people from libya, we had people from algeria, from tunisia, yemen and saudi arabia and so forth. in al qaeda in iraq always reported in two different dimensions. in one dimension they wanted to create a sunni-shia conflict in iraq. jenna: a civil war. >> a civil war between sunnis and shia. but also at the same time throughout the years jordanians disrupt ad few plots from people who were trained in iraq who wanted to go to jordan and conduct terrorist attacks. in 2005 actually they were successful in doing so, bombing three hotels killing about 57 people. it was abu musab al-zarqawi who was behind the plot. al qaeda in iraq was established by a jordanian who is abu musab al-zarqawi. jenna: hard to keep all the networks organized into your head who follows which leader. whether or not that leader is still powerful and what type of threats these groups place the united states. let's tie this into another story which is syria. >>> sure. jenna: we're concerned about chemical weapons. a report said al qaeda is setting up a training

algeria which is yet to face the arab spring and reform. and north africa and egypt.is a very critical region on the boarders of several areas that are very sensitive right now. jenna: what are the islamists doing in that area right now? >> well they're imposing their harsh brand of rule. they have destroyed a number of world heritage sites. islamic monuments ironically enough. they're imposing brutal punishments upon the people. more importantly from the security side they're digging themselves in and threatening neighboring states, some of which are already very fragile. jenna: what kind of threat does this specific group pose us here at home? >> well it poses the threat, al qaeda in the islamic maghreb, the al qaeda affiliate sort of spearheading all this has been linked to the attacks by some on the consulate in benghazi. it was involved in attacks and planned attacks in europe. a lot of people forget they tried, actually in the 1990s to fly a plane in the eiffel tower much like what happened in new york on 9/11. so it's a very, virulent group that certainly threa

azerbaijanny gas, turkmen gas competing with european gas or russian gas, for that matter lng from algeria, it may drive the market share down, it may drive the prices down, and europe is really at a, at a crossroads because they need to decide whether to go with natural gas or continue with coal and continue with nuclear. so gas plays a strategic energy role in europe right now. and you asked about what can we do. >> that's the most important crux of all of -- >> trillion dollar question. we did not coordinate enough with western europe, and western europe by itself especially now with the economic crisis is not really focused enough on insuring that east/west plans will go through. i think they lost to the russians on fobuko, the big pipeline that was supposed to come from the caspian through turkey into western europe. but a good, smaller alternative was a spur, a side pipeline most probably what is called west nabuko which is a pipeline to austria. we could have done more. especially when the regime, the leader changed in turkmenistan, i had conversations with senior state department o

maybe algeria, whatever other states you might want to identify. turkey is a nato ally and already under nuclear umbrella. in force that relationship by providing patriot missiles. so just give you the briefest overview of why we are also fearful. much much more to worry about there. the trouble they can make in the region. so i think focusing on iran because what it can do itself, maybe not. >> let me be a little more pessimistic. just emphasize something different. proliferation is slow. and if iran had nuclear-weapons there would be much greater instability. there would also be many more demands placed on the u.s. to keep the others. and in that they may be some slip ups, some bad moments, and with a growing nuclear capability in the region, which i think would be inevitable, you could see countries decide to cross the line. and so there could be in a sense surprises in the long term. i think will see it coming in the short term, but you could have just like we have seen him a proliferation would just continue, and it may not be a cascade becaus

. >> i like the fact he mentioned iran because iran has haunted policymakers for 30 years and algeriahas haunted policymakers for 20 some odd years. but to answer your question, i don't think this is inevitable. i have liberals have been in touch with since the beginning say we don't believe we can bring mercy down the hopefully we can teach them a lesson. it's a misreading of the wave the brotherhood sees the reader right now will likely see the political arena post-referendum. i don't think there's anything inevitable or necessary about this moment. the brotherhood, how they had a better understanding of politics by other means and what the revolution is truly about because they relate to it would see the wisdom in actually building consensus and understanding with the demands are in concerns are many, many egyptians, even those who stood on the stage with morsi last june. they do not see the world that way. they see it as a vanguard of knowing that they know what's best for the country and they can transform the country and that certain to section a freedom to hold. >> ms. barakat

maybe algeria, any other state we would like to identify. i do not need the cascade and to get extremely nervous about iran. there is much to worry about there. just an iran per se, and the threat they will present to us and others. focusing on iran because of what it can do itself. >> let me be a little more pessimistic. proliferation historically has been very slow. iran had nuclear weapons, there were be greater instability, also many more demands placed on the u.s. to keep the others from proliferating. in that, there may be some slipups, some bad moments. with the growing nuclear capabilities in the region which i think would be inevitable, you could see countries cross the line. there could be surprises in the long term. i think you will see them coming in the short term, and but you could have, just like we have seen, proliferation would continue. it may not be a cascade because of countries like the united states, but it may be inevitable. >> i want to keep the conversation moving on this. if we are in agreement that a nuclear-armed

the memory of algeria shapes everything that they do and we can disagree whether or not these years are legitimate but that is the way they see their world around them. my hope is that if they feel more secure, if some of those threats can be removed and the judiciary, the more independent role than maybe they will be double to get that. i don't know. we will have to wait and see but i think that would be the hope. there are variables that will affect that that we cannot control. with the u.s. does and the international financial institutions do is going to matter. morsi cares about with the international community to cares about him. they are sensitive to that because they need outside support to get their economy back on track so there is a point of leverage. if we can use that i might be more optimistic. but in terms of a long-term goal is, it is islam for a reason and they're going to become liberals. all this talk about post islam is unrealistic because we are talking about deeply religious conservative societies where large majorities maybe they don't vote on the basis of sharia b