he was sentenced to angola in louisiana, death row, where they were executing people left and right. he spent 14 years. he had nearly half a dozen execution dates. and yet he survived and he's here today. and actually -- i know you are on the third panel. come on up. come on up. this is james "j.t." thompson. he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mother. i was a father too. the system didn't see none of that. it did not see me not having a criminal record. it's hard to accept. it's hard to keep on continuing to accept a prosecutor or somebody that wants to sentence swub to death with a system that's corrupt as ours. all right. [applause] >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the sponsors who have made the su

french president nicolas sarkozy and german chancellor angola merckle are in crunch talks amid a highly anticipated summit in brussels, working on a master plan to avert another crisis by imposing greater fiscal discipline on member countries. they say they will try to push it through even if not all of the eu countries agree. >>> with herman cain out, republican presidential candidates are scrambling to win over his supporters. newt gingrich seems to be gaining momentum right now. the former house speaker is leading the polls ahead of the iowa caucuses. but the polls for the nation's first primary in new hampshire show romney has a sizable lead. political analysts say gingrich may have a tough time winning over conservative voters. >> we need your vote. if not on this vote, the ayes are 51 -- >> g.o.p. candidates will meet in des moines for a debate this saturday. and herman cain has yet to announce who he will endorse. >>> president obama is expected to make his case for extending payroll tax cuts later this afternoon. he wants congress to extend and expand the cuts, that expire at th

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an article on january 16th about drilling for oil off the coast of angola erroneously reported a story of cows falling from planes, a risk to any engineer-- in that engineering endeavor, no cows, smugged or otherwise ever fell from a plane into a japanese fishing rig. the story is an urban legend. >> and that's-- (laughter) >> remember that as you read your local newspaper this year. and that's a wrap on news watch for thi

does not want sudan involved in the oil production in africa china has some major investments in angola but the sudanese oil fields is china's only major controlling stake in what's going on lo and behold we find out that the south sudanese army the sudan people's liberation army their salary is being paid by the united states one hundred million dollars a year is being paid funding. the south sudanese army and on top of that the so-called ethiopian peacekeepers that almost ten thousand of them now are surrounding the a b. or field supposedly to keep the peace the same army that's conducting genocide in the den is having their entire expenses and salaries paid by the united states so united states very much wants to see the sudanese oilfields shut down and china kicked out of africa and the united states which gets twenty five percent of its imported oil or fifty percent of twenty fifty percent of its imported oil twenty five percent of its total oil from africa continuing to maintain its control over a very very important strategically critical or all resources of africa they want they

getting angola and libya to produce more oil in hopes of filling that in.f course, that depends on large part on what the overall oil market looks like and if there is economic recovery, overall demand could go up and it could make it much more difficult. >> kimberly: fascinating issue. saved sanger, thank you so much. >> which candidate do you trust? who is too slick? these are some of the questions greta asked college students. their answers may surprise you. it's all next. when bp made a commitment to the gulf, we knew it would take time, but we were determined to see it through. today, while our work continues, i want to update you on the progress: bp has set aside 20 billion dollars to fund economic and environmental recovery. we're paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and we've established a 500 million dollar fund so independent scientists can study the gulf's wildlife and environment for ten years. thousands of environmental samples from across the gulf have been analyzed by independent labs under the direction of the us coast guard. i'm gl

maybe we have an opportunity, i think of nigeria and angola, to step up more than is currently the situation. that is not to deny that there are not major problems and the aids community should not do what it can. there may be opportunities to press harder for the nation's most affected to step up more themselves. >> yes? >> there clearly is a great need for financial transparency. one of the things that alma is doing -- the measures are not just about public health. there are rigid there is financial transparency, removal of tariffs on goods and preventive bed nest ts and products such as that. i could not be more supportive about the leadership. we are delighted that ellen johnson sirleaf is coming in as the leader. and is important to squeeze the most value for money out of every dollar, euro, yen that goes into the global fund but ultimately the united states is the indispensable nation in this. if the united states is not there, the effort will be significantly imperiled. >> a couple of thoughts that i think are important to put on the record -- remember, this challenges like other deve

would be quite untruthful to say that would have been easy to relieve famine in angola. it was going to be very difficult in the midst of world war, but the fact that churchill refused to try it mishitting allocations to india and the rest were actually cut because of the demand of the end of these operations and other places and it was not as bad but it was an example which is a british possession which is several in east africa in which people were very, very hungry they didn't quite starve to death but that wasn't -- these are stories which 20 or 30 years ago nobody really wanted to go there and of course the big picture it's the big battles that crossed the day and all the great battles and so on and so forth these are the big events but we just have to be aware of all these other things the were going on in which more people were dying. but one absolutely fundamental fact and simple but it is still fundamental you have a far better chance of coming out of the war in one piece if you were wearing your uniform if you were a service man than a few to civilian most of t

there isn't a guy in angola saying, another war has gone by and there hasn't been a war here, or nicaragua. only when you calculate rates of violence as a proportion of the world's population do you know whether violence has gone up, gone down, or stayed the same. what the numbers show is -- >> is that the foundation of -- is that your data set that you're asserting in this book? is that the proportion of violence is at a record low? >> yes. well, one of the chapters is on war across the world. there are other chapters on crime, on tribal warfare, on cruel practices, like burning heretics at the stake or executing 7-year-old girls for shoplifting, slavery, blood feuds, dueling debtors' prisons, and another one on the decline of old-fashioned wars between two armies from two nations, which have almost disappeared off the face of the earth. the remaining wars are almost all civil wars. so violence has gone down on a lot of scales. everything from world wars down to the treatment of animals and children. people spank their children less. there are fewer -- the practice of lynching has been el

central europe, but in central america, central asia, like afghanistan, and in central africa, like angolaere it hurts the most, in the central nervous system. you would engage mightily in the war of ideas, you would say our right to the soviets, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie to, to cheat" to against their aims, as ronald reagan did in his very first presidential press conference. you have to understand, this was ok for a speaker on the g circuit to say. it was ok for a speaker at the republican national convention to say. it was ok to say it in the water club. but for the president of the united states to say it in his first press conference right there, setting the stage for diplomacy over the next eight years, that was awfully new. presuming that their government was illegitimate, you would call the soviet union an evil empire, and the focus of evil in the modern world. and you would cry out, "mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall." all of this stems from the unconventional mind set that somehow reagan adopted. similarly, he saw or felt the transforming nat

maybe we have an opportunity here, i'm thinking of nigeria and angola with her considerable oil wealth, to step up with more than what is currently the situation. that is not to deny that there aren't major problems and that the eight communities should not do what i can but given conditions these may be opportunities to press harder for the nation's most effective to step up a little more themselves. >> yes, dr. bowen. >> just to pick up briefly on that, there clearly is a great need for financial transparency. that's why one of the things that alma is doing is, measures and not just about public health measures. there things like financial transparency, removal of tariffs on antimalarial goods and preventive bed nets and products such as that, so i couldn't be more supportive of ambassador green's leadership and we are delighted that ellen johnson sirleaf is coming in as the leader of alma and i would also agree with dr. sethi's comments that it's important to squeeze the most value for money out of every dollar, euro or yen that goes into the global fund but ultimately of course the