angola to explain the jailing of 15 men without charge and accused of having a coup but human rightsups say they are prisoners of conscious and barney phillips reports. >> reporter: 15 young men more than 100 days in prison and no charges against them and include activists su activists who have been protesting for years against what they say is a lack of democratic freedom in angola and they were arrested in june when according to friends they gathered to discuss a book about peaceful protests against repressive regimes and many of them spend weeks in solitary confinement. angola is led by desantos and in charge since 1979 and his government says the men now in prison were planning a coup and the attorney general told state media he is preparing a case against them. >> translator: they were carrying out acts which could have been preparation for the overthrow of the legitimately elected government. >> reporter: families of detainees have tried to stage demonstrations and some of these have been broken up by the poli police. in angola in theory the constitution guarantees democratic f

angola is let by president eduardo dos santos. he's been in office since 1979. >> translator: they were carrying out acts which could have been preparation for the overthrow of the legitimately elected government. >> reporter: families of the die takenees have tried to stage demonstrations. some of these have been broken up by the police . in an angola in theory, the constitution guarantees democratic freedoms. in practice it takes courage to protest. >> what these young people were trying to do were to exercise freedoms but unfortunately, that has been curtailed. so we're really calling on the authorities in angola to release them or bring them before a competent court to try them. >> reporter: ann goal ah is ay of contrasts. some enjoy fabulous wealth but most liver in squalor. government is less torrent o tof protest. increasingly anxious, they have no choice but to protest. barnaby phillips, al jazeera. >> more on our website, aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ >> hello. you are at the "listening post" these are some of the media stories we a

angola is led by president santos, in charge since 1979. his government says the men in prison were planning a coup, and the attorney-general told state media he's preparing a case against them. >> they were carrying out acts which could have been preparation for the overthrow of the legitimately elected government. >> families of the detainees tried to stage demonstrations. some of these have been broken up by the police. in angola, in theory, the constitution guarantees democratic freedoms, in practice it takes courage to protest. >> freedom of expression, assembly association. all is carteled in angola, and what the young people were to do is exercise the freedoms. that has been curtailed. we are calling on the authorities in angola to release them. or bring them before a competent court to try them. >> angola is a country of contrasts. one of africa's leading oil producers, where a few enjoy wealth, most live in squalor. >> the fall in oil prices help the economy. and made the government less tolerant of dissenting voices. on social med

try them. >> angola is a country of great contrasts. one of africa's bi leading oil producers, but most liv live in squalor. >> on social media families and friends of the detainees are speaking out. increasingly anxious they feel they have no choice. >> now the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to three researchers who have made contributions towards tackling diseases. >> we have awarded the 2015 nobel prize in medicine with one-half for their discoveries of another therapy against round worm parasites, and for the therapy against malaria. >> the new treatments have been particularly effective in helping to treat malaria, which kills 500,000 people every year, many of them children and babies. they are working on the research into round worm and combating parasites in humans and they're credited with discovery the compounds in the sweet wormwood plants. development it's you can read more in-depth on our website whenever you want, www.aljazeera.com. >> the u.s. blames afghan security forces for calling in an security strike that

angola is led by the president that has been in charge since 1979.ernment says the men now in prison were planning a coup and the attorney general told state media he's preparing a case against them. >> they were carrying out act which could have been preparation of the overthrow of the legitimately elected government. >> reporter: families of detainees have tried to stage demonstrations some have been broken up by the police. until an goal, a in theory, the constitution guarantees democratic freedoms in practice it takes courage to protest. >> it's all curtailed in angola. what he were they were trying do is exercise those freedoms, unfortunately that's been curr tails. we are really calling on the authorities in angola to release them. or bring them before a competent court to try them. >> reporter: angola is a country of great contrasts. one of africa's leading oil produce wester a few enjoy fabulous wealth. but most live in squalor. the fall in oil prices has herd the economy and according to opposition groups, made the government less tolerant o

angola is led by the president who has been in charge since 1979. he government said that the men in prison were planning a coup, and he's preparing a case against them. >> they were carrying out acts, which could have been preparation for the overthrow of the legitimately elected government. >> families of the detainees have tried to stage demonstrations. some of these have been broken up by the police. >> angola in theory the constitution guarantees democratic freedoms. in practice it takes courage to protest. freedom of expression, assembly association, all of that is curtailed in angola, and what these young people were trying to do was to exercise those freedom, but unfortunately that has been curtailed. so we're really calling on the authorities in angola to release them or bring them before competent court to try them. >> angola is a country of great contrasts one of a's leading coil producers where a few enjoyed fabulous wealth but most live in squalor. the fallen oil prices have hurt the economy and made the government less tolerant of diss

in angola, in theory, the constitution guarantees democratic freedoms. in practice, it takes courage to protest. >> freedom of expression, all is curtailed in angola. what these young people were trying to do was exercise those freedoms. unfortunately that has been curtailed. calling on the authorities in angola to release them or bring them before a competent court to try them. >> angola is a country of great contrasts, one of the africa's leading oil producers where a few enjoy fabulous wealth, but most live in squalor. the fall in oil prices has hurt the economy. according to opposition groups, it's made the government less tolerant of dissenting voices. >> on social media, families and friends of the detainees are speaking out, increasingly anxious, they feel they have no choice. al jazeera. >> this is the news hour on al jazeera. we are monitoring developments in atlanta, georgia, the trade pacific partnership, the t.p.p. has been announced. representatives from new zealand speaking currently. we are monitoring that for the latest information on the

god bless america over 80% of angola's inmates will never be free again. some don't even leave when they die. they're buried right here, inside the prison walls. >> it's like take you away from being incarcerated while being incarcerated. >> reporter: timothy gay and aldrick lathan are both in for armed robbery. is it something you guys look forward to all year? >> yes indeed. >> yes, sir. >> there's probably not a lot else to look forward to in here, right? >> no. >> not really. >> reporter: their victims would likely argue they don't deserve to have something to look forward to. certainly not those here for the most serious offenses. >> i took a hit and didn't get a penny. >> you took a hit and didn't get a penny? >> i've got to try to change this because corrections means corrected deviant behavior. so i'm charged with correcting him. that's my job. it's not lock and feed and torture and torment. >> reporter: so the rodeo in his mind is rehabilitation. helping to give the inmates purpose. >> okay. >> reporter: at the rodeo's crafts fair the vendors call

over 80% of angola's inmates will never be free again m.eave when they die they are buried right here inside the prison walls. >> take you away from being incarcerated while being here. >> timothy and paul are both in for armed robbery. >> something you guys look forward to all year? >> yes indeed. >> yes, sir. >> probably not to look foretoward to in here. >> no. >> they don't deserve to have something to look forward to. certainly not those here for the most serious. >> i got to try, because corrections means corrections, i'm charged with correcting him. that's my job, it's not torture and torment. >> but the rodeo in his mind rehabilitation, helping to give the inmates purpose. the road yes' trustees served a decade without incident are allowed to sell items they make here. everything from bowls to rocking chairs. >> we'll split that. >> many these interactions are the only time they talk with someone from the outside. >> i've had bunch of them -- i wasn't shopping, they were human again. >> street that the one you want. >> john has been

lee cowan will take us to the louisiana state prison they call angola. >> this isn't your average rodeo. here, prison inmates, not cowboys, take to the arena while spectators look on. >> yet there's people watching you get hurt. >> not me. it's on us. country, how it survived. and why. ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: for the record, singer songwriter elvis costello wasn't born with that name. how he came by his stage name and achieved such great success is a story anthony mason has brought us from england. >> he was a kid with big glasses when he rocked the music world in 1977. was the elvis part your idea? how declan mcmahon than became elvis costello later on "sunday morning." >> osgood: ben tracy previews the fall movies. serena finds something old and something new in the homes of steve hartman watches a near century old hockey player still enjoying. first headlines for this sunday morning the 18th of 2015. jewish worshippers clashed with palestinians who confront them in the west bank today. eight israelis and 40 palestinians have been killed in the violence. flight 1939 from

he spent nearly 30 years on death row, in solitary confinement, in louisiana's notorious angola prison until new evidence revealed he did not commit the murder. he was one of 149 inmates freed from death row since the u.s. supreme court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. in all those exonerations, you have likely never heard a prosecutor admit his role and apologize for his mistakes in sending an innocent man to death row. but tonight, a prosecutor's confession. marty stroud speaks of an injustice he calls so great, it destroyed two lives-- glenn ford's and his own. >> marty stroud: i ended up, without anybody else's help, putting a man on death row who didn't belong there. i mean, at the end of the day-- the beginning, end, middle, whatever you want to call it-- i did something that was very, very bad. >> whitaker: it was 1983, shreveport, louisiana, and 32- year-old prosecutor marty stroud was assigned his first death penalty case. a local jeweler, isadore rozeman, had been robbed and murdered. quickly, stroud zeroed in on glenn ford. ford had done yard work for rozeman and was k

kissinger's the of the book supports of insurgencies and third-party mercenaries in angola provided a template for a the reagan expansion of similar covert operations that led to iran-contra. the second element that is central to the restoration of the imperial state is the increased use of a tourism to leverage domestically as that consensus of ravel's war or the threat of it or violence and brutality was used to leverage that polarization and division for a domestic event. this isn't new. they would use that for domestic gain but in the post consensus of raveling they said you cannot find one foreign policy that they presided over the also didn't take place for domestic advantage in was that emissary to placate the rising right to in the way that everybody knows about the southern strategy with the attempt to win over the racist democrats for the election to ensure the of landslide right wing for third-party but that strategy had a foreign policy of the destruction and brutality visited on cambodia dash blouse was a way to placate the right and also in southern africa as the tar bab

in angola in theory the constitution guarantees democratic freedoms. in practice i.t it takes courago protest. >> freedom of the press, association, these people were trying to exercise those 43 disomfreedoms. unfortunately that has been curtailed. bring them before a competent court to try them. >>> one of africa's leading oil producers where a few enjoy fabulous wealth but most live in squalor. the fall in oil prices have hurt many and made the government less tolerant of dissenting voices. but on social media, families and friends of the detainees are speaking out. increasingly anxious, they feel they have no choice. barnaby phillips, al jazeera. >>> from all corners of the globe we go to kazakhstan, given the job of forming a coalition government. it's promised closer ties to russ. in 2010, kyrgyzstan went through an uprising, first country in south central asia to have a election for cooperation in europe. the voters in portugal have elected the governing center right coalition which is widely seen as oreferendum, this election, on four years of a

he describes it as a kind of cuba-angola arrangement. a cold war reference dating back to the 1970s when cuban forces operating under the auspices of the then soviet union worked in several african countries including angola and adds cuban troops may have been training in russia and may have come to syria via russian transport plane. the course wouldn't speculate just what the troops are doing there but the university of miami reports mostly to man russian tanks supplied to the assad regime. the white house said as recently as yesterday that there's no need -- excuse me, said as recently as yesterday that they should tamp down any cold war comparisons. what josh earnest said. >> i think the president was fairly definitive in the news conference he did 10 or 12 days ago and he made clear the conflict would not turn into a proxy war wean the united states and russia. that is a firm commitment the president has made and that's something that we will abide by. >> reporter: speaking at a conference of the association of the united states army

it is sold out of angola. derisked portfolio. it -- once the angola sale close, $9 of share a cash and trades at $7 today. >> i was going to ask you. if there's one screaming buy on the list, can you even answer that or do you really have that much conviction in all of these? cop, eog, apache, and others? >> you get to pick your beta in a sense. the problem, the downside of the cycle is there are aren't a lot of alpha catalysts. everybody is doing roughly the same thing. you store you cash. you cut costs. you squeeze your program. you move from growth to flat to maybe even decline. so what you're really get to play is beta. conocophillips is fantastic. great way to play a lower beta. eog was the shale oil technology disrupter. it's a great way to play the price rebound. cobalt is the highest of the betas, the deep water the most speculative of the three. >> quick. >> cobalt, that's net cash after debt? >> no, it's not after debt. they've got no debt coming due. they have a couple of convertibles out in 2019 and 2022. but what the

erik: from angola to australia -- >> you're looking at the inside of an lng tank.ur thirst for energy has pushed chevron to almost every corner of the globe. >> we believe there's opportunity to progress. >> good job, erik. erik: the giant company is active in 180 countries. >> it is the largest resource project in australia. erik: pumping almost 2.6 million barrels every day. these are challenging times for big oil. fracking has upended the global market. renewables like solar and wind power are getting cheaper, and

. >> that's one thing about sly, he's got the angola lahr face. >> yeah -- angular face. >> so you put in there olives, >> correct. >> some sea salt. >> a little oranges, a little lemon juice and some olive oil. >> so no vinegar. >> as sed we -- acid we get -- >> i'm sorry. jlo's in the neighborhood, she's else. >> what do you think? >> i think it's excellent. >> and it's healthy, right? >> i notice you didn't try your pom gran gnat pearls. >> what's that? caviar to me. >> it is. >> really? >> try it. >> no, it's pomegranate. >> the red stuff? it's not caviar? >> it's pomegranate juice that i made into caviar. >> how is it? >> you're lucky. [laughter] if that tasted fishy, i was -- >> it's pomegranate. >> so, chef, if we wanted to hire you, we want to try your cooking in real life, where can we find you? i know we're not getting an invitationing to jennifer be lopez's house, right? >> right now i'm at blackstone steakhouse in melville five nights a week. >> oh, you are? okay. and i'm going to be opening a restaurant with the scotto restaurant group -- >> they're not related to my famil

. >> i give the floor to the investor of angola.ank you for calling this in the open debate we will deal with the israeli-palestinian issue. wants to highlight our extreme alarm for the situation. including the actions by extremists. we believe the current state of affairs is due to the for historiceople injustice imposed upon them. also the israeli government and unacceptable actions. contributionngful to a peaceful solution. the current violence is deplorable. we urge those involved to avoid such action which only serves the purposes of extremist elements on both sides. the prime minister stated his readiness to engage in negotiations. it is our hope that such just an acceptable for palestinian leadership. this development is a cause for if this gets and worse the mitigations could be disastrous. sidesongly appeal to both to reinforce political dialogue. at this time it is especially important religious and community leaders to include that direction. the main responsibility of the security council should be to set the course for