which is now an ngo. it is a nonprofit medical center in seattle. it is named for a former member of the black panther party. one of the questions i get asked about this book is why did we not know anything about the black panthers health activism. when the curious things in the seattle case is that you have a clinic that is named for the former black panther. there is a plaque that says this clinic is working in the tradition of the black panther party. very much valorize his and recognizes the contributions of the black panther party and the fight against medical discrimination and the struggle to expand health care access. that clinic still exists today. it is a thriving clinic that serves all sorts of eople. the city of seattle as well. another legacy, a more sweet legacy is the formation of the common ground health collective, which is an ngo in the state of louisiana. in 2005 after hurricane katrina in august, 2005, as you will recall, there was the health care infrastructure that collapsed in new orleans. many people were left sadly in charit

when you're holding up a camera and taking pictures like this, it could appear as though you are not an ngoinstead a member of the press. what kind of risk were you taking? >> well, i was in syria without the authorization of the government, so i moved for several weeks i was going to different parts of the countries and the most important thing obviously was to remain before the radar screen because i did not want government forces -- government authorities knowing that i was in the country. and obviously it was also important for me to be extremely careful not to put in danger the people that i was speaking to and interviewing every day. so, yes, there was that particular element. >> donnatella rivera of amnesty international, thank you so much for bringing us the stories behind these images and opening people's eyes to all that's taking place from your point of view there in syria. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> there is a fight brewing over bob dylan's original electric guitar. the one that he may have used for the first time at a music fest ral in the 19 festival in the 1960s. [ fee

great support but bernie easton isn't alone in his fight others are campaigning on a different scale an ngo network present in around thirty countries is also campaigning for a ban on all depleted uranium weapons its headquarters are in manchester. show you some of the materials that we campaign with and some others of the organizations say we have briefings with each kid is there a big and quite complex issue to use every try and pull together all the necessary information into an easily digestible format this was a briefing which we produced for members of parliament in the u.k. a few years ago say this is the national campaign and we held a parliamentary briefing that. it's always it's. on is to try and get the politicians up to date on the issue. douglas is all too aware of the consequences of uranium based weapons he has studied the subject since the balkan war in one thousand nine hundred four in that time he and his team have devised a method for identifying and decontaminating bombs zones his first battlefield was in bosnia where the americans were already using depleted uranium wea

and an ngo comes to wiki leaks rescue as the infamous whistle blowing site teeters on the brink of financial collapse. so good to have you with us here on our to today the number of people killed in the bombing of a bus with israeli tourists in bulgaria it now stands at eight the injured have been returned to israel believe the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber who used a fake u.s. id this video has just been released have a look right here allegedly showing the suspect on security cameras before the bombing israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu was blamed iran for the attack claiming all signs point to the country iranian state t.v. however has rejected the accusations calling them ridiculous about thirty people remain in hospital with injuries some in critical condition independent research and writing. says that it's unlikely iran was behind the attack knowing you were only plunged them into an even deeper diplomatic crisis. this time yahoo and israel in fact need to play the victim card in order to be more aggressive and in the past few months a few years israel has lost

plus an ngo comes to wiki leaks rescue as the infamous whistle blowing site teeters on the brink of financial collapse. the green revolution in india opened a new market for international agricultural johns' government efforts to increase crop yields by adopting modern chemicals and forced dozens of farmers to return to their roots as well. i mean she's sharma is part of a movement of tens of thousands of farmers in india breadbasket turning back to their traditions in organic farming. by adopting organic farming we're not dependent on anyone we don't have to buy anything on the market as we're self-sufficient. but it wasn't always that way millions of farmers in india got hooked on chemicals and pesticides during the so-called green revolution a time in the one nine hundred sixty s. when the indian government began importing hybrid seeds to increase crop yields after a major famine this opened the door for several foreign agricultural corporations to sell into this new market the increase in expensive chemicals also brought about a new dependence that varied farmers deep in debt i even forci

as far back as april to evacuate twenty thousand american citizens from lebanon and embassy staff an ngo workers ok this is this is really happening ok you haven't read about it but it's long good sort from in beirut that is happening now what does that mean that means they're already planning for the destabilization of lebanon washington so is this good news for lebanon no it's not just briefly then what is the end goal for all of this regional destabilization what's the main aim here just briefly from your point of view. the main aim from from a western geo political perspective is to first bring syrian government down so that it is no longer an ally of hizbollah then the next step is to bring neutralize hizbollah and possibly to confront them militarily and to dissolve hizbollah this will be easier done by destabilizing lebanon through some kind of a conflict once isabel is eliminated the door is now open for israel and the u.s. to unilaterally strike iran which they've been talking about on and off for the last six or seven years so they can't do that yet because as we saw in two tho

existing accounts if they have even though they might live in geneva they might work for some kind of an ngo and so how do you properly handle something like that i mean do you necessarily have something to hide if you have a swiss bank account i have time for each of you to give you no one answer absolute there's no reason to stop people from having swiss bank accounts with one hand you could have very legitimate reasons for doing it if you live there another legitimate reason is maybe you want to hedge against the dollar this is not a patriotic issue where you have to keep all of your investments denominated in dollars on the show you've talked a lot about the strength of the swiss franc why not put some money in a swiss bank account and hold it there alternately this is no one's business really this comes down to no good reason to try and extract as many dollars as possible from every single person to the point where we now have to say you know we're going to be pulling money from overseas this is this comes down to the fact that we have a really complicated tax code it needs to be much s

. >> reporter: later, she might work for the state department, or an ngo, whatever she does. >> i willpend the rest of my life speaking arabic,. >> reporter: these students are speaking chinese, arabic, kindy, and persian. these are what the u.s. government calls critical languages and that is why the kids don't have to pay tuition and the cost the program is paid for by a federal grant. >> we need speakers if we're going to do business with the rest of the world and try to end wars with the rest of the world. >> reporter: a greater understanding starts with negotiating the price of a taxi cab in surgeon. >> and that is not. >> i said no, too much. >> working things out one culture to another. >> think it's good when you learn another language. you gain a new soul. >> reporter: in howard county, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> and good for them. >>> coming up, major hotel companies come together to keep costs down for wounded warriors in need. we'll have details. >>> and a photograph or a mission to find this couple after capturing a surprise wedding proposal on the national mall. we're ba

. >> reporter: later she might work for the state department or an ngo.r she does -- >> i want to spend the rest of my life speaking arabic. >> reporter: these students are learning chinese, arabic, hindi and persian, what the u.s. government calls critical languages. that's why the kids don't pay tuition. the cost is covered by a federal grant. >> we need speakers of these languages if we're going to do business with the r

it started off as a government initiative and then it has morphed over the years into an organization, ngo -- >> non-profit, totally bipartisan or non-ferguson. >> and were you the first employee? >> i was. >> i was thinking about this -- and i will not be cavalier. if you are a bible student and you go back and you say adam and eve, at that time you say he had a lot of power if you are a biblical scholar. at what point along the way did women lose their voice? was it just because men were louder and stronger and may be taller? how did it culturally worked out that half of the population of the world is women -- how did it worked out that women just lost their boys and now this new effort -- and look at how long it took in the united states for women to get their voice? >> i think we are seeing really interesting trends. i think for a very long time, as we were trying to gain our rights, we were talking about rights and we were saying it is only fair. we are 51% of the population. then i think it shifted over the last decade to look at how -- as 51% of the population you cannot pete -- com

an exemption? >> they consider ngo organizations as foreign agents, if they are supported by the west from abroad, then the law includes them as an organization that is involved in something that is non-russian or western influence and that puts a negative taint on all including religious organizations like russian ministries which we call association for spiritual renewal. >> what role does the political situation play in all this? >> the young people today on the streets of russia want to determine the future of russia. they want to experience democracy in a very big way like america experienced it and other countries. all of a sudden russia is going to more of dictatorial type of leadership and the upper house determined the future of the land without the voice of the people. this is where russian ministries, we want to become involved in training the next generation, religious leaders, helping them to determine the future of politics and how religion and christianity will go in that part of the world. so today we see a contradiction where the people want to go one way and the government is dete

i recently worked with an international ngo and a lot of our work had to incorporate or assimilate the mdgs so i'm really interested to hear from all three of you on if you feel that the mdgs have been a successful tool for measurement and if it has or has not been, what's your recommendation for tools of measurement for impact and finding results? >> so the question is is the mgd a good metric, good tool for measurement. i don't know the term. >> millenium development goals. i think actually probably you've done a lot of work in this area. one thing i want to say, mdgs are goals and underneath those goals are all sorts of, literally hundreds different indicators that organizations or governments use to measure whether or not they're achieving the mdgs. but i think you've done a lot of thinking on this. >> yeah. the millenium development goals were a set of ten broad goals and then as carrie said, a bunch of subtargets that were adopted by all the nations of the united nations in 2005, because the deadline is 2015. and i'm going to comment on this from a public affairs perspective rath

he was the founder and director of an ngo that's focusing on hiv counseling and testing in rural areas in swaz siland. he's been deeply engaged with the hiv/aids movement, and in particular with civil society oh the years. -- over the years. immediately to his right we have dr. thomas frieden. tom is the director of the united states centers for disease control and prevention. prior to the time he was the health commissioner for the city of new york where he led very innovative programs dealing with noncommunicable diseases, particularly tobacco control in new york city which has taken some of the most aggressive steps the reduce the scourge of tobacco. he himself has international experience having worked for five years in india running a tb program in conjunction with the indian minister, ministry of health. and finally on my far right although he prefers to consider it far left from your vantage point is dr. dirceu greco who is the director of the department of st d/aids and viral hepatitis of the brazilian ministry of health. brazil was the very first country to come out with a nat

authoritarian drift with a european or unwilling to say it was a free and fair election you have an ngolaw that passed the last ten days that for the squeezes civil society. you have had a law that tries to out all independent political parties and provinces. you've got russia with all due respect who has been a lifeline in both syria and in iran. when i was the president's special envoy yesterday, there were things we couldn't get through the u.n. security council on sanctions because china got 6% of its oil. we the together collision of the europeans and others over 20 some countries that put sanctions on their bank and other things so they had to cause trouble. you don't have to wait for russia to say you may do this and you've got russia against the missile defense deployment, you've got russia using their oil to intimidate -- first, to be honest you talk about it, you know, for better or worse i've got less than pleasant guys and sam, you are not doing good things never surprises them. they know they are not. putin knows what he is doing so we have a fall of politeness we don't wan

ngo's that receive funds from abroad. supporters say it will prevent interference. critics say it is an attack on civil society and democracy. >> 374 votes in favor, three against, and one abstention. the majority was overwhelming, and the upper house is expected to follow suit. president putin's united russian party says the law is limited in scope but is necessary. >> most ngo's are not affected by this law at all. it only applies to those that get funding from abroad and is used it for political ends -- and misusse it. >> a leader of the moscow- helsinki group has been fighting against oppression. like many ngo's the group has been getting funding from abroad until now. >> we now have no option but to stop taking the support. so that we do not get branded as foreign agents. i am not a foreign agent for any state. we protect our citizens from our state and our officials. then the parliament has now passed four controversial pieces of legislation since may, also targeting press freedoms and the right to demonstrate. critics say it is part of an effort to quash opposition. with increase

have been talking about, it is easy to geo- russia your ngo hig political foe but in the real world they have power whether we like it or not. here is an instance where having a more positive relationship with russia is potentially giving us some leverage or some ability to engage in diplomacy, to address this particular issue. yes. we will get to you next. there is a gentleman here. >> what is the position on north korea? >> i think the position on north korea has been stable throughout the second bush administration through obama. again, talk is cheap for the challenger. being able to say we have a growing threat and the president has not solved the problem, president bush could not solve the problem, either. our ability to influence the north koreans is very low. they have a huge amount of weaponry they could use against south korea. some sort of unilateral attack or even a strong western attack against nuclear facilities would end up in a lot of lives lost in south korea. that is an option that none of the parties or presidents have felt was on the table. in many ways the only game in town is trying to get to the koreans to the bar

an equal sided triangle. all conflicts should be solved once we sit down to debate in a three-sided triangle. one of the sides constituted by unions and ngos, the other side that business owners, and the third side all levels of administrations. depending on what level of our ornlle organization we are, we should meet in a triangle like this with the first question being asked what make of, let's say, 20 computers we have here we decide to choose in order to solve our problems. because we will never reach an agreement if it were not for computer. so once we decide which make of a computer we have the second question, whether all of could with respected demands and we answer this and we have follow with a third question. how many variance of the solution do you want to get following the canadian or american example once we eentter data we are given back the cd roms and only the fourth question is asked when shall we meet again in order to for one of the variances. and this is calculated and the young people have answered that era when they can reach it in 20, 30 years you will write appropriate to help us solve conflict and emotionlessly, l

ngo's. [applause] that i want to imply think spending on international organizations can go to zero. that is not true. many countries still meet support to grow and sustain their progress and build an infrastructure necessary to run their own health programs effectively. >> international technical assistance can be very expensive. some organizations take themselves up to $600 a day. for the cost of the day of consulting, and we can put three people on treatment for a year. every time we make the former rather than the latter choice, we have got to know what we are doing and prepared to defend it in the light of day. otherwise, we should go on for life savings. let me say that i think channeling more money to catchable governments is catching on because it will save money and because it will build capacity and reduce sustainable results in the countries that need them. they have recently announced their intention to transition ownership to national governments. i am very grateful to pepfar. the national government and the health minister is here today, dramatically reduce overhead and the entire health care work force of the country. i applaud these efforts and i think more of this

an opportunity to negotiate. it is not based on natural gas or oil but ngo. the lowest priced at a producer in the world has incredible implications. the steel industry has become transformed. it is a symbiotic relationship between growing and the need for turbular steel. the u.s. is seen incredible investments. the manufacturing jobs we think we can look at a in a very conservative way are between three and 4 million between now and 2020. the implications include what is happening in the u.s. economy and it is pretty profound. >> allow to go back to the bigger picture u.s. questions. michael and ed wanted to intervene. >> in the picture that had painted and will be worried about is important. it takes is to a time in our history where we did not have as open of the global trading system. preferential arrangements for oil trade and tariff systems made geography matter more than it does today. when we had a world superpower rival, the soviet union, that we worried would invade. we are not in the world now. but we could be in the world in a couple of decades. o