and talk about why burundi. saul williams: ok. well, i'll tell you a little bit about it first, because, in fact, i started working on this song way before what has recently happened in burundi since their president, nkurunziza, has changed the e constitution and is now serving what some e would call an illegal third t term and d is, of course, you know, suppressing the voice of journalists and of protesters.s. there's been o over 200,000 rerefugees that have e left the couountry in t the past six months. there have been hundreds of murders from people speaking up against the government. none of this had gone down when i started writing about it. i started writing about it primarily because my wife is from rwanda, and so, over the years, i've learned m more and more about the great lakes region, of course. there's lots of-lots of interesting things that happen there. one,e, like 80 percecent of the cobalt and coltltan that our technoloy is depended on comomes from that t region. ok? and as you can imagine, the story around those m

he was a government official in burundi, east africa. which he says is the -- devolving under the post arab spring instability that is causing refugees to flee. but why are some ending up in of all places lewiston, maine? they were pointed here after they arrived in boston at the airport, a fellow african noticed they seemed lost. >> and approached them. and told them the best place now they can go is lewiston. or maine. sharyl: ashcan tibet is seek age sigh lumme fleeing an arranged marriage. >> he came to lewiston because i learned there were many tibutans living in lewiston. and i thought i could get help by the and i can be supported by the community. sharyl: lewiston, maine, is struggling to build a new economy after its once bustling textile mills shut down. today, it's become a magnet for asylum seekers catching everyone off guard including mayor robert mcdonald. >> and i never heard and didn't know what this was. but i went up to the welfare office. and i was up there and telling me, a whole bunch of people. from the congo. and t

>> anthony: so unless i'm mistaken, the gentleman just said that cutting edge research moved to burundieen to preserve the patrimony that existed. all this was state of the art back in the '50s when the library was built. but for 20 years, there hasn't been electricity to run the dehumidifiers to keep out the damp. through so many wars, through all of these difficulties, he has maintained this facility to an extraordinary degree. >> horeb: yeah, absolutely. >> anthony: uh, why? >> anthony: staff still show up to work and organize, catalogue, and write requests for funding, perhaps to kinshasha or a central office where someone may or may not ever respond. he was here pre-independence, yes? >> horeb: yeah. >> anthony: uh, does he remember the belgian, uh, rule? [ speaking foreign language ] >> horeb: oh yeah, he remember, he remembers the, that period of colonial life, colonialists, that, that was the good, the best time that they were living. [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: what do you say to someone who suggests that belgian colonialism might have been the good times? ♪ the r

you intervene in elections in burundi but not in the united states of america. platently. this is an obvious attempt to weaken the democrats and to help vladimir putin and help donald trump. it was a slip i will row cigarette when i said "trump." second, it tells you the kremlin really wants trump to win and they see an advantage in that. that is because the prime objective of the foreign policy of vladimir putin has been to destroy nato. that statement that we heard last week from trump and repeated by gingrich that estonia is far away and we may not want to support it, or defend it in case of an invasion, or a russian attack, that is a serious thing and he sees vladimir putin does, he could have a partner in the white house in donald trump witnesses. -- wins. >> next on what the donald trump campaign will do to go up against the d convention in philadelphia. the international olympic committee has decided not to been all russian athletes from the games in rio de janeiro, the track and team of russia has been kicked out over a doping scandal, saying that it is up to indiv