picture yourself a virus living in a monkey in central africa. humans are coming in and tearing down your habitat, tearing down a monkey's habitat, killing the monkey for food, building villages, settlements, timber camps so the rise ins, the prospect of that particular virus are shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. at the point where the monkey approach is the brink of extinction two things can happen to the virus. it can go extinct or make a leap to another host. viruses the test purposes, they don't make choices. evolution is not really logical anyway. things just happen and they have consequences. if the monkey is killed and there is no spillover the virus goes extinct probably with the monkey but if the virus get into a human by chance, by opportunity and finds itself able to replicate in the human and adapt to the human by mutating and undergoing natural selection so is better and better adapted to the human and force to replicate in the human and transmitted to the next human that virus is one that has passed from species of host with sh

there has been a bullet outbreak again in central africa. the democratic republic of the congo has an outbreak that has killed three dozen people by now and it's still going on. there was another outbreak across the border in uganda unrelated to the spillover that had caused the outbreak and these things are happening. this is like a drumbeat of disease outbreaks and small crisis is. in the arabian peninsula there was a virus that emerged that closely resembles sars. it really scared the disease experts back in 2003. this new sars virus has killed one person and another man in the hospital in britain. scientists are watching it carefully. they are watching it carefully because they know that the next big one could look something like that. so as i said, say, there is a drumbeat of these things. the diseases that i mentioned all have two things in common. they all come out of wildlife. they emerge from nonhuman animals. among those that i have mentioned, they are all caused by viruses and that is a particular profile of this phenomenon. the s

[stopwatch ticking] >> this is a gold mine in central africa where men lift tons of dirt one pan at a time. the world is paying top dollar for the gold they're producing, and those dollars are helping to fund the deadliest war since world war ii. >> craig bovim is a local inhabitant and a surfer. he leads a group of concerned citizens who believe that chum makes sharks associate people with food. bovim thinks that may be why a shark attacked him three years ago. he remembers it every time he looks at his hands. >> and i can't describe the fear that went through me then. i mean, it's everybody's worst nightmare, and it was busy happening to me. >> the king of sushi is no longer treated like royalty. it is scraped and planed and then cut up into blocks. the industry's ability to supply the global market with inexpensive sushi has stoked demand, and that's created a mediterranean gold rush. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. precious commodities are, by definition, rare, valuable, and in high demand, and very often they're located in places that are difficult to reach and

celebrations in central africa as the government signed a cease-fire deal with the rebels. police in the u.k. unveil a report detailing 50 years of sex abuse by one of britain's biggest tv stars. it is yet another fail for the party is trying offer a solution to serious conflict. american and russian diplomats meeting in geneva for five hours. the only thing they could agree on is talking some more. when it came time for the u.s. special envoy to the region to address reporters, all he could do was expressed sympathy for syria. >> we are all very deeply aware of the immense suffering of the syrian people. it has gone on for far too long. we all stressed the need for a speedy end to the bloodshed, to the destruction, and also the violence in syria. we stress again that, in our view, there was no military solution to this conflict. >> the suffering of the people continues inside the country. video uploaded by activists accuse -- apparently shows the government shelling a village. al jazeera cannot confirm this. more under allied video from outside of the northern city shows a

we are picking up a few showers here in central africa across parts of the coastal regions.the forecast map for the next couple of days. we don't expect anything to be too heavy. lagos be just out of the rain. for parts of libya, especially coastal libya, showers. a disturbance across the mediterranean. benghazi, anywhere along these coastal areas, we expect light rain towards saturday. about 18 degrees is what we expect toward alexandria which will also be getting showers as well. cairo, a high temperature of about 20. near europe, it will be quite messy as systems come out of the northeast. this one system making its way across central europe. another one across germany. the forecast map looks like this toward saturday. snow across parts of the alps as well as heavy rain across parts of germany. london will be mostly cloudy for you, a little warm" >> top stories here on al jazeera, venezuela's information minister says president hugo chÁvez has a severe lung infection, recovering from his fourth round of cancer treatment in cuba. he is to be sworn in for another term in si

we will defend democracy that has existed in central africa for almost 10 years. we cannot let it be destroyed by some opportunists. >> the president is a man under threat, traveling in a motorcade. he has turned on france, accusing the colonial power of abandoning his country and whipping up hostile reactions from the people. the french flag is removed from public places. he has upset several states by not telling about the major appointment of south african troops, but he feels safe. >> we feel safe, but the truth is why i am here. i will not run away. i am not frightened by everything that has happened. i have done what needed to be done so my brother the country man could be together to build the country. they want this share at any cost. -- chair at any cost. >> what this amounts to is an offensive ahead of the talks. he is expected on friday. i asked him. he has had elections that were criticized for being flogged, so one -- being flawed, so why not have free and fair elections to solve the problem. >> it is alive. the elections took place for international

africa. seasonal rains pushing away further -- it extends southwest as we move into central parts of africa. we have seen significant parts of rainfall in zanzibar. it is a mixed bag. >> hello again. top stories here on al jazeera. five men in india are due to be charged in court of the murder and a gang rape of a young woman. the 23-year-old woman died in a hospital in singapore. thousands have been calling for stricter laws to protect women. air strikes against rebels in the northern state in myanmarl . more now on our top story. more about the tribal leader's life. >> he has been a crucial link. only for connections between the pakistani and afghan taliban and for harold al qaeda. he was suspected of having sheltered and -- and for afghan al qaeda. he was suspected of sheltering an being a part of the command and control. they were planning attacks across the border on american and coalition troops. he was using that clout with the pakistan military to provide support to al qaeda in some of the fighters being transported into afghanistan for fighting coalition troops. >> the father of an

que juntos, podamos contestar al llamado de la conservación de los ecosistemas forestales en África centralropia supervivencia. y somos nosotros los ciudadanos de estos países más desarrollados los que debemos presionar a nuestros gobernantes así como colaborar con las fundaciones que sirven de conexión entre estos dos mundos. ♪ en bioparque, un bai artificial está empezando a captar la atención de una población que desconoce la belleza y fragilidad de la selva. es el principio de una cadena de información y educación que llevará a crear una conciencia sobre la necesidad de proteger la selva tropical. a miles de millas de aquí, asistidos por las fundaciones de diferentes zoológicos europeos y americanos hay científicos y guardias en el otro extremo de la cadena, la última en la línea de acción. estamos en un momento determinante de una batalla por la supervivencia de las selvas. tal vez haya que tal árboles para salvarlas, tal vez haya que abrir caminos. levantar poblaciones y domesticar parte de estos paraísos hasta ahora intocables. sea cual sea la respuesta será mejor que tener una polít

now, this is a replica of the ishango bone, which originated in central africa some 20,000 years ago, and it's thought to be one of mankind's first tally sticks, a simple device used for counting. in its use of notches to stand in for objects or instances, it becomes one of the first examples of abstract thinking. but even more, the columns of asymmetrically grouped notches suggest that early humans had a mathematical understanding that went beyond mere counting. the notches on both the left and right columns are all odd numbers: 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, and 21. the numbers on each of those columns add up to 60, and the numbers in the central column add up to 48. now, 60 and 48 are both multiples of 12, perhaps indicating an understanding of multiplication and division. but perhaps more intriguing is the fact that the numbers on the left column are all primes. twenty thousand years ago, someone may have recognized these numbers for their uniqueness. did early humans know what made the primes special? now, most historians agree that ancient cultures seemed to appreciate numbers for their uti

we had like 100 cases and patients coming from central africa and belgium. that's when i went with tom quinn and joe mccormick. it was so overwhelming because they knew it was not there before and also the head of the internal medicine manner had put aside for ice 55 patients are ready who had died in the previous month or so and this was the extent of it. the fact that it is slightly more women than men, which is very unusual. let's not forget and 83 that this was a sub one thing. i never understood why you would care about a orientation. so jump from one host to another. that is the sex is about. i saw that said i can't believe it's heterosexual and there are far more heterosexual sex in the world in same-sex sex and knowing all set for my studies on sexually transmitted diseases that were very rampant and they said it's going to be a catastrophe. unfortunately, i was right. >> you together with john admin said percy sita, an aids project in kinshasa. the first time he met with 1985, the first international aids conference in atlanta, georgia, which fit al

from all the hinterlands of south and central africa this train carries young and old african men whoous mistake. but when the [bleep] hit the fan, hugh and miriam, i mean, they could barely be contained. hugh would say "what the [bleep] did you ever do for south africa?" you know, i mean, there were times when we really had to like hold him back. hugh wanted to be in a fight. so mostly, we were trying to explain that we were as anti-apartheid as could be. that hugh was in exile. that miriam was not allowed to come back for the burial of her daughter. that we were very much against the regime. and they think about the loved ones that they left behind and may never see again... masekela: we used to have furious arguments about the boycott. you know, 'cause i said, i just said, "it's great and it's helping south africa but when you start to like also ban south african musicians who can't make contact with the rest of the world and they are outstanding artists you can't be hard on people who are already suffering in south africa. you can't witch-hunt your people." this show is gonna be a

the virus is found in central africa and asia and there is no vaceen or treatment. -- vaccine or treatmenty found the new york area could be hit in august and september. in atlanta the risk runs from june through september. and miami could be at risk all year long. >>> san jose police say an 82- year-old woman was struck and killed. she is the first traffic death of the year. she was hit last night at 6:00 p.m. police say she was crossing the road when she was hit by a truck. the driver stopped and cooperated with police and investigators say they don't think alcohol or drugs played a role. >>> scientists examining a 2 billion-year-old rock from mars say it could be a missing link. they say the rock is older than most they have studied and contains more water. the rock was discovered in 2011. about 65 have been recovered on earth. >>> new rules at san francisco's homeless shelters, what the city is doing to keep violence from coming inside. >> high clouds moving in to the bay area right now, how much of a temperature jump for your friday? vÑ look at you guys with your fancy-schmancy u-vers

for example, if it's true that aids first arose somewhere in central africa, it would have been-- the world would have been a lot better off if that part of africa had had a better surveillance system and could have discovered this problem a year or more earlier than they did. that's just one example. this inter-relatedness of the world community was instrumental to the formation of the pan american health organization... even though the year was 1902. the intention was to provide a forum in which the countries could tell each other about what diseases were a problem, and agree on approaches that would allow for the control of the diseases-- these diseases-- without impeding trade. in those times, of course, was largely by ship. in 1948, the concept expanded with the formation of the world health organization, and six regional offices that included paho. some of its efforts are focused toward the eradication of single diseases like polio, using thsalk d th. david bennett: with these tools, particularly the oral vaccine which is very-- relatively easy to use, and very effective, we fel

people send little kids out with a people, men who do the bush meat hunting from villages in central africa. little tips that include filter papers, the kind that are used for medical purposes and not that different from what you filter your coffee with. ziploc bags, they pay the hunters to collect samples for them. a data of blood on a filter paper placed in a ziploc bag now can be used as a sample from which -- enough dna or rna to identify a virus. that is what we do. that is a big advance with what used to be done. and they rush it back to the u.s.. liquid nitrogen -- the dots are bloodier at room temperature. they used pcr technology and a lot of other fancy laboratory things. we can't grow it. to extract dna and rna to identify what was there. that is what nathan wolfe and his people are doing, the idea being to spot the next big one at a very early phase. decades past before we realized hiv was in the human population. we catch the next big one earlier than that. >> how do these deadly animal viruses tend to evolve? do you think they will continue to evolve at the rate that they have

central parts of africa, the rain continuing to push farther south.ll some showers at high temperatures of 30 degrees. the heaviest rain across the more southern parts of africa in angola and botswana and there's been heavy rain in south africa. there's more heavy rain in the forecast. >> welcome back. the top stories. france's army chief says the soldiers are preparing for ground assault against rebel fighters in mali. up until now the frontier said only african soldiers should carry out any ground operations. a helicopter has crashed near a busy railway station in new london in boxhall, kyliyah two people. a helicopter crashed into a crane. the taliban claiming responsibility for suicide bomb attack of targeting the afghan intelligence forces headquarters in the capital, killing three and injuring many more. pakistan is blaming india after another of its soldiers was killed along the disputed border in kashmir military. officials in pakistan say indian soldiers died and killed the man without provocation. india has not responded to the accusations o

africa, quiet weather conditions expected. in little coal on the coast of algeria. -- a little cool. germany still quite cold, just 16 degrees expected in cairo. central parts of africa, affecting southern parts of the democratic republic of condo. southern parts of africa heavy rain across angola extending across zimbabwe and in toward mozambique heavy downpours. but it looks fine from madagascar, highs of 25. >> top stories on al jazeera. a co-founder of the kurdish separatist movement pkk found dead of gunshot wounds in paris. killed inside the kurdish institute. a sri lanka in maid was beheaded in saudi arabia after being convicted of killing a baby in her care. her parents and the shirlington government had repeatedly appealed. opposition groups and coalition -- peace talks in gabon stall when rebels demanded the president stepped down. a protest government rally is expected in venezuela later after the supreme court ruled the inauguration of hugo chavez could be postponed. the delay is necessary because the president is recovering from cancer surgery in cuba. but opposition has condemned the ruling and wants to know just how sick chavez is. from

down toward central portions of africa, we will be seeing mostly clear conditions, but we are seeing some clouds here. along the coastal regions, saturday, january 26 at 8:00 p.m. >> headlines here now on al jazeera. china calling for restraint after north korea announces further nuclear testing. the u.s. defense secretary is set to lift the ban on women in contact -- in combat. that means they will be able to serve on the frontlines and potentially lead commando teams. spain's unemployment rate hit 26.2% at the end of last year. almost 6 million people are out of work. there are new pictures from last week's hostage crisis in algeria. a local journalist says 11 workers at the compound were helping the attackers. the japanese government it has also concerned that two of its citizens were killed in that attack. >> life inside the compound during the hostage crisis. these pictures were apparently film when algerian worker held against his will. they show some of the chaotic scenes before the gun battles between the kidnappers and government forces. more than 700 people worked at the fa

up until 2007 there was no distinct central africa command in terms of the way the pentagon cleaved the. in 2007 there was africa command and it currently is stationed in europe, not actually in africa. there have been a variety of initiatives to train the soldiers of different african regimes, counterterrorism training, other kinds of training and in fact the soldiers of mali. mali was one of the star pupils in the -- >> and they're the same people now we're fighting. >> right. so i want to turn to mali in a second but first i want to push back -- not push back but to play devil's advocate about this intervention question on libya. when you look at all the negative consequences of libya, what do you say to the point about syria? everything that you could say about libya, weapons, destabilization, refugees, everything that's terrible about what has been the fallout of libya seems to me happening in syria as well where there hasn't been the same intervention and so maybe it's just the nature of the conflict as opposed to what the u.s. or the west does. >> no, that's a copout. it's not th

so-called war on terror is actually a war of terror against the arab and muslim people of central asia and africa and it's being waged by the us empire to seize the energy resources of the world and to position itself strategically against those trees that might prevent it from getting world hedger mommy like russia china and iran and those so-called war on terror what they're actually doing is they're trying to shatter international the international rule of law law concerning the invasions of other countries laws concerning. not in their parents and internal affairs and also the laws about torture and illegal imprisonment and this is where i wanted him off it's in it's part of a. torture bases that stretched from guatemala through prison ships to eastern europe and kosovo and in my opinion the real. criminals are not in those jails the real criminals are the terrorists who start the wars like obama bush blair harper and so on those are the people who really belong in the jail can't phony washington off lectures other countries about civil liberties democracy without a mind a credible does the u

will meet the obama administration's received asian tilt and more importantly with the unrest in central africa, had the cia plans and tackling that. >> guest: good question. remember come the cia doesn't make foreign policy. the foreign policy team has decided to rebalance their focus on asia and obviously appropriately to focus on mali and in particular, which is a field state, where we have reason to believe this again is in the price, that a lot of terror organizations are grouping and training. the cia's role is only to provide intelligence about these parts of the world, not to make policy. i have worried over the years and adding that john brennan has, to, that too much of our intelligence practical. it focuses on who's coming up with the next hill on the battlefield. i think everybody gets it. most of afghanistan over recent years, how the wars are going to come out. it is a good idea to restore some of our focus on other parts of the world, including asia. i would hope that every bill and says the former policymaker and someone who has a policy institution, i would hope to rebalance tu

surprise is not really a surprise, but the fact that we get to study it is a surprise, the elder centrality of africa to this entire story. i wanted to pose the question, what is the big story here, but not just what happened in the court room. well, the big story is one of slavery and freedom, and it begins in southern sierra leone. my account begins by asking a very simple question. who were these people? who was people have made their revolt? where their lives like before they were enslaved? who were they? well, they were, first of all, a motley crew of at least ten different west african ethnicities or nationalities. they spoke probably 15 different languages among themselves. the largest among them was called then day which is the largest kind of cultural group in southern sierra leone. about two-thirds of the amistad africans or from this group. there were three or four other groups including ten day, kono, bowling, and one or two people from other groups. basically they mean culture groups of seven sierra leone. want to get noticed is that they had an unusual capacity to communicate with each

and in thinking about africa and the instability and the number of nations and central africa, molly, what we're dealing with now, i want to know whether or not those nations are subject to those type of contracts and whether or not exesmingses or waivers should be used? >> thank you for your efforts on africa. there's only three nations where the state department has an exemption by congress for using different contracting rules in order to get the best value for our country. those are iraq, afghanistan and pakistan. so every other country in the world, we are under the kind of contracting rules that i think do interfere with our capacity to get the best deal, particularly when it comes to security that we should in these countries where the threats, unfortunately, are going to always be with us. >> should we look to extend to the d.r.c. or somalia? >> i would certainly recommend. there was an article in one of the newspapers today that went into some detail basically here's how it started. for more than two decades the federal laws required them to select the cheapest rather than th

. >>> the united states military is getting involved on a new front against al qaeda in central africa against islamic rebels in mali by deploying troops and drones to the country right next-door. our pentagon correspondent, chris lawrence, is joining us with details. chris, how many u.s. forces, first of all, are we talking about? >> potentially, hundreds, wolf. and here's why. niger's ambassador to the u.s. basically confirms to cnn that his country is going to allow the u.s. military to place drones in niger. a u.s. official tells me that if that were to happen, you'd have to have an infrastructure there. in other words, you'd have to have operators to fly and guide the drones, as well as u.s. military security personnel to protect that infrastructure. so that's where you could get into the hundreds of boots on the ground. these drones would be unarmed, they would primarily be used for surveillance, spying on the al qaeda groups operating in places like mali. right now, the u.s. has drone bases in ja bu ty and southern europe, but the drones can't fly that far, so it's difficult to

central strategy out of africa. out of pakistan these days so i think it's it's a foundation to launch more attacks into europe ultimately e.u. is very concerned about it i might add so they see in the monitor what's happening in mali is provoking attacks possible attacks in europe and elsewhere and yet the french seem to be wanting to islam is him and stop the islamists taking over not just the whole of the north of mali but also the rest of the country not just bombing them and using a military exercise against them does that really get rid of an ideology and the actual threat. no i don't think so because after ten years of doing something similar in afghanistan we're ready to pull out. to move back in so there's some question as to just how effective this approach is going to be and i think that this is something that the french are going to have to to weigh for themselves but it also could bring a number of other countries back into a long drawn out conflict already germany is beginning to show some resistance t

one, africa is a central front with al kay dan. number two, these resources that we really have not been attending to in any fashion resem bling the chinese. >> that's true. >> chinese will deal with anybody. they're right there in the sudan. they will go and deal with anybody. >> they were in africa early. >> they put cash on the barrel head. they're all over latin america, all over africa, john. they are dealing in a commercial mercantile way with these regimes, and we have a foreign policy that deals of of israel. meet yahir lapide. >> a new arrival on the scene is and personality lapide who leads israel. why has netanyahu lost steam? >> this is a very interesting revolution. there's no doubt but this election, in fact with the defeat for netanyahu. >> meaning what? he won the election. >> he may be the next prime minister. his party went down. >> who, yahir? >> no, netanyahu's own party went down from 42 seats to 31 seats. so his party had fewer seats. this guy came out of nowhere. his first time running for office. he got 19 s

also, in western and central africa, how she intends on tackling that? guest: good questions. the cia does not make foreign policy. it is the president and his cia dean who has decided to refocus ali ina, and also in m al particular, a failed state, where we believe a lot of terror organizations are in training. these are important things to do. the cia pastoral is only to provide intelligence about these parts of the world, not to make policy. i have worried over the years and i'm betting that john brennan has, too, that too much of our intelligence is tactical, focused on who is coming over the next hill, on the battlefield. we surged -- most of our intel assets into afghanistan and iraq over recent years, or about how those wars would come out, and it is a good idea to restore some of our focus on other parts of the world, including asia. i hope our rebalance -- i am speaking as a former policy maker and someone who has a policy institution -- i would hope this rebalance toward asia will not focus on how we make relationships with china and others more difficult. i hope it

and in thinking about africa and the instability and a number of nations in northern africa, central africa, mali, you know, what we're dealing with now, i want to know whether or not those nations are subject to those type of contracts and whether or not exemptions or waivers should be made? what should we do? >> congresswoman, thank you very much for your emphasis on africa, which i think is going to be increasingly important. there are only three nations where the state department has an exemption by congress for using different contracting rules in order to get the best value for our country. those are a rock -- iraq, afghanistan and pakistan. so every other country in the world we are under the kind of contracting rules that i think do interfere with our capacity to get the best deal, particularly when it comes to security, that we should in these countries where the threats unfortunately are going to always be with us. >> should we look to extend that to mali? to the d.r.c.? to somalia? >> well, i would certainly recommend -- there was an article in the -- i think in one of the newspa

africa documents that's african central command directive and their purpose of african was to evict china's influence from the current event and if the british and the french are only offering in a twenty eight split to mali for their goal business i'm sure china would probably offer a better deal and give them infrastructure so this is about keeping china out of africa in the larger scope of what the people there in itself the people now they've been seeking self-determination for decades what role are they playing here because obviously there are lots of islamist extremists coming in from mali and not all of this is necessarily homegrown or is it all the two arcs now in some ways joining up with these extremists. well you know you only have to look at the last the late the late days of the overthrow of the cook off the regime in libya and the tourists were were effectively allied with moammar gadhafi regime there was a recognized gadhafi and perhaps gave safe haven to his son saif for a brief period of time before he was turned back over to the new government in libya now the there are ag

us beyond the core leadership in afghanistan and pakistan, including the middle east, and east africa, central asia, and southeast asia. although each group is unique, all aspire to advance al qaeda's agenda by stabilizing the companies in which they operate and attacking the u.s. and plotting to strike it u.s. homeland. in south asia, al qaeda continues to pose a threat from its base of operation in pakistan's tribal areas. in order to use that to carry a attacks against a homeland as well as our interests and those of our allies and partners in pakistan, afghanistan, india, and europe. the united states faces to counter terrorism charges -- a direct threat posed by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the individuals and charities that flow from the region to al qaeda and its affiliates from world. on this point particularly, i want to emphasize severing the pipeline is a major part of what we're doing in its administration. al qaeda has shifted its activities to the relative safe haven of northern mali where it is training fighters and other allied organizations. their tactic of kidnapping

central. and al qaeda in africa. are we struggling in a way?the information we have on pakistan and the lack of information, is it harder to get the intelligence we need because we do not have this tool? >> one of the most important threads of information that i saw when i got there and still in 2006, late in the game, was detainee information. i already suggested to you that i am willing to adjust the detainee program. we have other penetrations and sources and knowledge. we have a better sense of the imminence of attack, what state of danger we are in as a nation. i told you we entered the black side in 2006. - the black site into a dozen sex. -- in 2006. lazy journalists sometimes they we closed them. we did not. we kept the option open for the president. between that date and the time i'm leaving, we captured two people. it isn't setting indoor records compared to what we have done. it had become far more difficult to do this. i understand that. i do. statement. we have made it so legally challenging and politically dangerous. you tell the

, and in thinking about africa in the instability in the number of nations in northern africa central africa moly i want to know what we are dealing with now and whether those nations are subject to the stick of contracts and whether or not exceptions or readers should be made. what should we do? >> congresswoman, thank you very much for your emphasis on africa, which i think is going to be increasingly important. there are only three nations where the state department has an exemption by congress for using different contract in rules in order to get the best value for our country. iraq, afghanistan and pakistan so every country in the world we are under the kind of contracting world that i think do interfere with our capacity to get the best deal, particularly when it comes to security that we should in these countries where the threats unfortunately are going to always be with us. >> should we look to extend that to the drc come to somalia? >> there was an article i think in one of the newspapers today that went into some detail. basically years has started. federal law required the state

al qaeda central has been dealt a serious blow. they are now activen north africa.nch are in the lead. are we going to help them, how much? >> the french are in the lead in mali, not in nigeria and why?? this is a francophone country that france is in. not because they are concerned aboutt africa, only because e of the francophone countries. it represents an ecoconomic interest that they ve in those countrieies. francece is nonot stepping into a vacuum in africa. they are not doing such a thing. >> i have never accused the french of altruism. i can see e your point entirely. but i do not give a damn why they're there. they are stopping the islamists in my reading mali, and no one else is. >> in the rly 1990's she brought down john gotti the head of the gambino crime syndicate, and brought to justice the terrorists responsible for bombing a rough trip center and the american embassies in africa. i would say that is a pretty good run. if you do not want to mess with mary jo. >> mary jo white is the president's new twist to be the he of the sec. thprident also renomina

al qaeda central has been dealt a serious blow. they are now active in north africa. the french are in the lead. how much will we help them? >> the french are in the lead in mali, not in nigeria. this is a french-speaking country. they are concerned, about francophone countries. it is because of economic interests they have in this francophone countries. the idea that france is stepping into a vacuum, they are not doing that. >> since when is the french all for altruism? i do not give a damn what they are there. they are stopping the rebels in mali and no one else is. >> president obama chooses a former prosecutor >> she brought down john gotti, the head of the gambino crime syndicate and brought to justice the terrorists responsible for bombing the world trade center and embassies in africa. i would say that is a pretty good run. you do not want to mess with mary jo. >> mary jo white, the new selection for the head of the sec. president obama also nominated richard cordray to the head of the consumer protection financial bureau. >> this is a message consistent with w

africa command, but u.s. central command and the transportation command as well. that is our residence on the continent. -- that is our presence on the continent. there are 100 personnel who are supporting africans in the effort to joseph kony and his senior lieutenants to justice. they are indicted by the international criminal court. there is a u.s. log that tells us to do that -- u.s. law that tells us to do that. if there is a law that tells us to do that, we go and do that. and it is important part of the consideration. as i mentioned, i have been to or need to of the different countries. -- i have been to 42 other different countries. there is always a senior american and it is never mean. it is always an ambassador. -- thereit is never mea is always a senior american and it is never me. it is always an ambassador. there is a consultation and support on the chief of the mission and that particular country. that chief of mission, the ambassador is our presence in that country. is to support that ambassador in the attainment of his or her objectives. the one s

and west africa and still resembles the problem what's happening in mali now is going to spread to unstable where there's no uprising going our central african republic i recall even to nigeria as we very fearful we are this is a dangerous operation what it's doing it's it's like dropping an explosive in the middle of a fire it's spreading the fire were putting it out of riots right especially as france has already acknowledged that the militants turned out to be better equipped and armed than they had initially expected just how long do you think french troops will be stuck in mali the president. has said that it's going to be. a couple of weeks but a french a think i think was going to rush through because there's nothing as permanent as the temporary. you know if afghanistan is any example the french could been back there for a long time britain and the u.s. have ruled the placing boots on the ground in mali is well previously we heard similar assurances from france to you but if france gets bogged down in the conflict how likely are we to see a fully fledged intervention by nato powers. it is possible there are a. it's an america

central has been dealt a serious blow. however, they are now active in north africa. the french are in the lead. are we going to help them, how much? >> the french are in the lead in mali. not in nigeria, for example. why? this is a francophone country. they are concerned only about the francophone countries. because of economic interests they have in this francophone countries. i just want to knock down the idea that france is somehow stepping into a vacuum in africa. they are doing no such thing. >> i have never accused the french of altruism. so i can see your point entirely. i do i give a damn why they're there. they are stopping the islamists in mali, and nobody else is. >> the president picks a couple of for prosecutors to be his top regulators. a message for wall street? >> in the early 1990's, she brought down john gotti, and she brought to justice the terrorists responsible for bombing the world trade center and the american embassies in africa. i would say that is a pretty good run. you do not want to mess with mary jo. >> mary jo white is the president's new twist to be the head of th

africa command. that's the over riding story of the past couple of months. the nexus of the islamists insurgency in many ways was centralsia in the last decade. this deck krad it is lo-- decad is looking like north africa and western africa. it is not terribly far from north america. we can do things. in syria we don't need a no-fly zone or putting u.s. boots on the ground. we should put secular forces in the war. we should do that politically saying enemies are our friends. we need to support people who aren't boy scouts. it isn't a nice thing to do it is essential for our interests and for the safety and security of americans abroad but also american citizens right ear in north america. >> i don't want a post-it note what you are saying tonight but to bring it one thing i got out of what you said is we haven't done enough at this point and we have to. christian whiten joining us tonight. thank you very much. >> rescuers now going into a mine looking for workers trapped after an accident on the job. it is our top story as we go around the world now in 80 seconds. >>> china, that search coming days after a cold outburst

africa command, but u.s. central command which is just across the gulf of aden. transportation command as well. that's our enduring presence on the continent. other places on the continent, the military, our military goes for specific missions usually limited scale and limited duration such as the hundred personnel who are supporting the africans in the effort to bring joseph kony and his senior lieutenants to justice. they are indicted by the international criminal court, so we think our efforts not only is there's a u.s. law that tells us to do that and kind of principle one for the u.s. military is follow the law, so when there's a u.s. law that says do this, we go, we go do that. which is an important part of the consideration is that, as i mentioned, i go to -- i travel a bit. i've been to 42 of the different countries. whatever country in africa i happen to be in, there's always a senior american, and it's never me. it's always the ambassador or the star jay defair. we don't do anything independently. the u.s. military doesn't do anything independently in a