kofi annan, his predecessor will be in tansd. iran president hassan rouhani and british prime minister david cameron, joined by gordon browbrown, tony blair and mr major. nicholas sar cosy will join francis hollande. >> can you tell me how much people in south africa will use this as an event to determine how south africa is today? >> i think that will be what today is about. as well as watching on the tv screens at home, i think people will reflect on the way the country changed in the last 20 years. we are about to celebrate 20 years of freedom since the first democratic election. people will be looking back at the early years thinking about nelson mandela's influence no building the country we see today. it will be a time of celebration and reflection for the south africans who have seen their lives change. >> we have seen graca mandela arriving at the stadium as the proceedings carry on. i'm interested in the speakers chosen to give eulogies as to who is allowed to speak and who has been left out. what is your impression of t

peggy fox is in annan dell. >> reporter: good morning. -- peggy fox is in annan dell. >> reporter: good morning -- annandale. >> reporter: good morning. this is what you'll find as you get outside this morning. a lot of ice around. ice on your sidewalks. ice on your driveway. ice on any kind of plants, trees, and that will be causing a problem this morning with branches falling. i drove over a branch on my way over here this morning, a fairly large branch. fortunately no damage to the car but be careful out there because i think things will be falling. this is pretty heavy ice you can see. we're here on little river turnpike just east of columbia pike because there's a transformer that has blown. if you can see across the street there, this is the intersection of pine crest vista and 236 also called little river turnpike. you see those flames in the woods? i went up and took a look at them and they are branches on a wire. they just keep burning. been burning about an hour now. beyond that is a transformer. we're told by the rescue crews that were here a little bit ago that a transformer

ban ki-moon, will people, and former general secretary kofi annan. prince charles is representing the throne. we'll have more from south africa with ali velshi who is on the ground. men american forces are being called on. chuck hagel is ordering the u.s. military to transport troops. 400 have been killed in fighting between christians and muslim groups. we go to the capital where the french troops are diffusing the crisis. looking like a muslim here can make you a target. the man dressed in white is surrounded by local christians. they say he's a seleka general. they want to kill him. he says he's a local businessman. the french intervene ordering people to move away. they arrest a muslim man taking him away. in another suburb of the city a man is carried to safety. he's been stabbed. locals accuse him of being part of anti-balaka. a christian militia group. >> we found this man walking. we have two grenades. we ask him where he is from. he couldn't tell us. >> french soldiers have a difficult task. there are thousands of armed people in the city. f

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and he and kofi annan were going on a secret mission. day that plane was due to leave south africa, sadly, the bombing started and they never had the chance to try to get saddam hussein to step down in the interest of his country and the people. he was trying all the time to try to resolve conflicts rather than encourage the starting of conflicts through his province. >> nelson mandela was a flight away from trying to stop the iraq war before it happened. i hadn't heard that before. >> no. and you know, he said he'll be willing to go as long as we could get kofi annan to go with him. and kofi annan agreed to go with him. it was a great pity that it never happened. history might have been changed if it had happened. but it just showed the lengths he would go, even as a very old man, to try to avoid the misery of conflict. >> sir richard branson, thank you very much. it's important, i heard you use the word he did get angry. people need to know that. it wasn't that he didn't feel anger, but it's what you do with it. very sorry for your los

they are about the rules that bind president annan people. and we really don't get n angel, we get it over. so we really do want the bill of rights to protect us at all times. john: many say it is that inteally. but john mccain said this. needs to do more than firing up libertarian kids and their college dorms. >> it did fire up libertarian kids. i thought that was great. stand with him on twitter, it's about. but you worked with senator john mccain. how is that ing? >> we have a good personal relationship and i respect him as a wr hero. it doesn't mean it is always right, but he deserves our respect and others for his time spent as a prisoner of war. but one of point of view is that if you are deemed to be dangerous, of course we can't incarcerate you with no trial d no attorneand no harges. in my response to that is that it begs the question. who gets todetermine whether or not you are guilty you of something? the government has critea that says that you ar susicious if you like to pay cash atthe ore. if you have missing fingers, stains on

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he went to prison and insisted he learn -- as we see tony blair, kofi annan, the former secretary-general, that he learn afrikaans, the language of his oppressors, as well. >> there was a great activist, that said you can't dismantle the house with the tools. you have to use the master's tools. and you have to learn the language. you have to be intimately familiar with the rhythm, the cadences, the structure of being. the consciousness of the so-called enemy. and you lessen the gulf between you and the other person. there was a way in which his very activism bled over into his own -- you had to learn so-called the enemy, to make him your friend. nelson mandela won over, converted so many people, as a result of his willingness to be vulnerable and to meet people more than halfway. >> to put himself in the shoes of his oppressors, as well, dr. frazer. and it brings up the point. we think of nelson mandela as an ultimate freedom fighter, a man of great moral courage. we see him return to robben island. and he was, like abraham lincoln, be flexible in the tactics he used to achieve, the goal

they are about the rules that bind president annan people.t over. so we really do want the bill of rights to protect us at all times. john: many say it is that internally. but john mccain said this. >> needs to do more than firing up libertarian kids and their college dorms. >> it did fire up libertarian kids. i thought that was great. standwith him on twitter, it's about. but you worked wit senator john mccain. how is that going? >> we have a ood personal relationship and i respect him as a war hero. it doesn't mean it is always right, but he deserves our respect and others for his time spent as a prisoner of war. but one of point of view is that if you are deemed to be dagerous, of course we can't incarcerate you with no trial and no attorney and no charges. in my response to that is that it begs the question. who gets to determine whether or not you are guilty you of something? the government has criteria that says that you are suspicious if you like to pay cash at the store. if you have missing fingers, stains on her clothing, or have cha

. >> kofi annan. >> a monitor here that is difficult to see. >> they are from the same neighborhood as nelson mandela and extraordinary leader in the anti-apartheid movement. >> absolutely. i think they became the voices of the struggle while he was away. remember also desmond tutu is still very much seen as the moral voice and often taken on the mental of mandela as he got sicker. desmond tutu has come out. very critical of anc, the liberation movement that mandela led in the last few years and essentially accusing them of deviating from mandela's original vision. so it has been transferred or continued still through arch business bishop desmond tutu. >> when we lay him to rest knowing that our memories of him will endure. >> outside the stadium, still people streaming in. no doubt it's going to be full in an hour or two even though the rain continues. >> you know what is extraordinary as we watch some of the formality? the military band playing the national anthem. obviously, blacks are in the military. the last years before mandela became president, the ministry was about instigatin

kofe annan. and the former president of ireland is there. dozens of others are en route. president obama and the first lady left for south africa, board air force 1 joined by george bush and his wife. are ali velshi is leading our team in johannesburg. ali, set the scene for us literally hours before the event tomorrow in johannesburg. >> well it's gone cold, tony, it's raining tonight in johannesburg. it was a clear day. police were setting up barricades and rerouting. you could see dignitaries coming in and police convoys. as you said jimmy carter is here as well. george w. bush, bill clinton will be here, world leaders from all over the place. i had a chance to sit down with jimmy carter, who knew nelson mandela very well. he was on the same plane coming down. he said in all the times he knew nelson mandela, he never said thank you to the u.s. government to end apartheid. here's why. >> i would say i had many talks with nelson mandela. i never heard him say, that he was grateful to the united states. he was grateful to cuba, he was grateful to others that spoke up for

were talking to us, f.w. de klerk was arriving and also, alongside with desmond tutu, we saw kofi annan. these will be the scenes of these world leaders and former world leaders who will be arriving by the dozens to pay respects to nelson mandela. and this soccer stadium that we are now having this memorial at, and that is actually now jacob zuma. this is the current president of south africa. jacob zuma arriving. of course, he will be delivering what is, i guess, referred to as a keynote address during this memorial service. at this soccer stadium, which has played so many moments during mandela's life. it seems fitting to have his memorial there. >> absolutely, john. there could not be a more fitting venue for this memorial service for nelson mandela. this is the site of nelson mandela's last public appearance. the closing stages of the 2010 world cup. that's when we saw him along with his wife on the back of a golf cart, if you will, wrapped up against the wall. scenes that touched the heart of many as they saw him. he looked frail. he was obviously advanced in his years. that was th

secretary-general kofi annan caused nelson mandela a courageous voice. the uk prime minister called him a hero of all-time, as a predecessor stressed his practicality. >> he understood politics. this is something important to stress. i always thought he was a very shrewd politician. >> reporter: the body of mandela was transported to a military morgue. there will be a national day of prayer on sunday. a memorial at a huge soccer stadium on tuesday. and buried the following sunday in his home village. in attendance will be president obama and first lady michelle obama. former president george bush and laura and former president clinton and hillary. clinton sat down today and recalled mandela's long years in prison. >> i said, tell me how this changed you. how did you give up 27 of the best years of your life and come out a better than than you went in. he said i realized they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. those things i would have to give them. he said, i decided not to give them away. >> reporter: all told, there are ten days

memorial as part of the elders delegation, an international human rights group that is chaired by kofi annan house has backed away from a reported statement made two years that president obama had never met an uncle who lives near boston. it turns out the president not only knew the uncle, he actually once lived with him. why all the confusion? here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: he's a 69-year-old man who lives outside of boston. the "boston globe" previously cited the white house as saying the president and his uncle had never met. now the white house press secretary said this -- >> the president said he stayed with his uncle for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready. >> reporter: he said he said with him for three weeks. why the different accounts? >> back when this arose, folks looked at the president's book and there was no evidence that they met. >> jay carney said it was when he asked the president when he was told. critics of the white house say this speaks to a deeper credibility problem of the president and his staff not being forthcoming. >> so really, it was such

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retired anglican bishop desmond tutu was seated near the former secretary-general of the u.n., kofi annan, and dignitaries from the united kingdom. despite the rain, the crowd cheered and sang along throughout the entire program. ♪ three of his 18 grandchildren took turns speaking for the mandela family. they were greeted with overwhelming cheers. >> he towered over the world like a comet, leaving streaks of light for us to follow. we salute you. m mandiba -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> the giant tree has fallen leaving messages of peace, of love, and reconsideration. >> child of the wind, of the land, child of dreams of the future where black and white, rich and poor, men, women, and children must live side by side dreaming the same dream, realizing that the crucible of time in our land, we salute you. >> president obama, the first lady, the clintons, the bushes, they didn't leave for the memorial until after it started. somewhat for security reasons. eventually, the three former presidents were all seated together. president obama got a warm welcome and greeted the mandela family b

. >> we used to recite, the annan smack would have us for site the partridge in a pear tree and we woulddd to it every day coming back for much time. we would study for an hour. we would study every lesson we had up until then reciting it. mother is the memory of education. everything is parroted back over and over again and that is the way the nuns taught. >> there are two things why this is surprising. i thought coming in, let everybody be themselves and they will be incredible things that happen. let everybody figured out for themselves. take the brilliant guys in the brilliant when -- women and let them figure it all out. that is where i came from only started. my bias was there. we are going to find that so let's find it in the research that is the case. i had my bias is too. i also want to catholic schools and i was like that can't be the way. [laughter] as i said the research was more and more prescriptive and i said to myself when i was doing the research, let's say i was a top-level teacher. say i was, i'm i met the top-level teacher. what i want to be a part of the system that

i thought that there was a meeting that kofi annan had set up in the u.n. that was to do with afghanistan, and it was my understanding that we were meeting with the foreign minister. he had been the perm rep at the u.n. the same time i was. we walked in, i thought he looked different but so did i, and so i said, isn't it nice when the perm rep it comes to foreign minister? nothing but isn't it great when you know your way around the u.n.? nothing. so i turned to the entire bench behind me of all iranian experts and i said as this -- and they said we don't know. [laughter] it turns out that it is not on his the deputy prime minister who is now the foreign minister. i think the issues are that we lost our kind of knowledge of what was going on. also, i had to send anything to went to be careful about this now, we embraced and too much. and, therefore, whatever the reaction to him in tehran is was something that i think we need to watch now. but i have to tell you, sanctions were there, so i decided that i would lift the sanctions on the stashes, rugs and cavi

secretary kofi annan, called a the loss of man dale la a -- mandela a loss for the world. here is a little bit what u.k. prime minister david cameron had to say. >> one of the brightest lights of our world has gone out. nelson mandela was not just a hero of our time, but a hero of all time. >> reporter: now in a strange twist news of the death of mandela last night broke during the u.k. premier of his biographical movie "a long walk to freedom." mandela's passing was announced at end of the film, we're told to gasps even to screams in the audience. in attendance a members of mandela's family and royal family. the vatican marking this day. pope francis calling nelson mandela's promotion of human dignity, against violence, for truth, absolutely monumental, everybody, religious figures, leaders, rock stars, models, you name it, all coming out and expressing their condolences and their love for the man. back to you. bill: a lot of people have been waiting for this moment but the reality when it happens is still a different thing. greg palkot, looking forward to your coverage i

the table, which iran, as i understand it, has not done yet, which is the plan put together by kofi annan as a kind of starting price for moving -- lace for moving ahead. that is a minimum but necessary quotients to move ahead. i think we are already seeing some potential to move syria ahead. now, iran may not be there at the first meeting, but i cannot conceive of having a syrian deal without iran in at the end, if we can put that in. had the president follow through with initial threats to , wouldearlier this year there have been an interim agreement? if there had been religious syria,-- a strike in definitely there would have been no interim agreement. let me agree with you on iran's overture on syria. >> we could stay here for a few more minutes and make this very exciting. [laughter] >> to mention, the only positive development since the beginning isthe syrian crisis dismantling chemical weapons. in theian crisis, even last two years, this is the only serious positive development. this is only due to cooperation with iran, russia, and the united states. cooperation between washington

grandchildren, as well, before the world leaders, ban ki-moon, including the former secretary general, kofi annanof georgia, more than 100 nations of jordan, more than 100 nations represented by their leaders today. an extraordinary gathering coming together to celebrate the life of nelson mandela today. let's listen in a little more to the -- it general mandela, the elder of the mandela family. >> is for us all to live in deference. although he no longer walks among us, the quality of humanity and genuineness will continue. with this flame now out, to all nations, to all people young and old, far and wide, let us urge to continue in the way of harmo harmony. [ inaudible ] [ indiscernible ] >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >>. >> from all over the world, we have well over 91 countries that have sent delegations. >> deputy over nelson mandela and the anc. >> thank you for being here. >> a sort of favorite of nelson mandela's. >> nigeria, argentina -- >> become quite a wealthy businessman in africa. the question, will he one day be president of that country. >> many will continue acknowledging

he served as assistant secretary of the interior in the reagan edmonds ration ms urge annan said theunited states senate. he was president and ceo of cross maps technology and is currently a senior fellow at the migration policy institute birth border control and security initiatives. as a board member of human rights first, we've been incredibly blessed with his with an expertise of which have been invaluable to us in navigating complex political challenges. please join me in welcoming board member, jim ziglar. [applause] >> thank you, lease for that very kind and generous introduction. excuse me. it is a particular pleasure and honor for me today to introduce the keynote speaker. senator patrick leahy from the great state of vermont. if a particular pleasure because i consider pat leahy to be a good friend. and yes, for all of you out there who are doubting thomas is, it is possible for republicans and democrats to be friends in washington today. i didn't see was easy. i said it was possible. but it is a special honor to introduce senator leahy because he is a real, honest-to-goodn

kofi annan and president george w., 43rd president of the united states, as president obama just wrapped up his remarks. >> that's right. there are a number of world leaders in attendance. our president did shake hands with raul castro, number of people for the memorial of nelson mandela. 21 years ago today, mandela and leclerk won the peace prize. >> we will keep you posted on all news coming from johannesburg. >> if you want to continue to watch what's going on, go to foxnews.com. we're covering it live. >> if you are planning to undergo surgery, don't schedule it on a friday. whoa. this according to a new report that claims you're going to have 24% increased risk of death. here to explain this is dr. david samati. that's a starting number n it's a secret that all the surgeons and staff probable lea know about this -- probably know with this. as you get closer to thursdays and friday, you may not have the same surgeon on board. if you have complications, you're going to come in on saturdayed and sunday. you might not