between when i was an undergraduate six times so i wrote it in the united states and new york and central africa and sierra leone and every place everywhere. >> have you grown used to living in the state's? >> i am an american success and i have the opportunity for that part and in the united states about ten years i lived in sierra leone so i found myself -- it was wonderful for my life and my thinking. >> how has a long way gone changed you, change your family? >> it gives my life completeness. a modernized study. because of the contents people are not really reading and like to perform. what i would expect. i really did not understand what it meant so i had a few mistakes i have made and i just -- when the book came out i moved into an apartment and this area all of a sudden regulating 30 or 40 and we were like what about that so realized just because of that -- to realize that and when the new york times magazine was on the front cover and i was in the sub world in new york one sunday morning and nearly everybody opened this thing so it was instant no matter what and i played around the ring

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past two years alone the pentagon has committed itself to conflicts in libya mali somalia and central africa establishing at least four drone bases and stationing navy ships are along every coast of the continent so to discuss president obama's latest trip and u.s. policy in africa as it stands today i'm joined by mere woods co-director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for coming on to be with you so what is driving the u.s. is pivot into africa well we have to recognize that africa is on the rise africa has over a billion people it has resources that are vital for the global economy from oil and gas to other key resources uranium gold plutonium but this is actually quite long so it is the center of the of africa for the global economy that is actually driving not only the u.s. and china which get a lot of recognition but also brazil india turkey the list is a lot of countries but primarily the brics you know brazil russia india china and south africa i see those drivers in terms of economic determination of the continent so i think these are k

past two years alone the pentagon has committed itself to conflicts in libya mali somalia and central africa establishing at least four drone bases and stationing navy ships are along every coast of the continent so to discuss president obama's latest trip and u.s. policy in africa as it stands today i'm joined by mere woods co-director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for coming on to be with you so what is driving the u.s. is pivot into africa well we have to recognize that africa is on the rise africa has over a billion people it has resources that are vital for the global economy from oil and gas to other key resources uranium gold plutonium but this is actually quite long so it is the center of the of africa for the global economy that is actually driving not only the u.s. and china which get a lot of recognition but also brazil india turkey the list is a lot of countries but primarily the brics you know brazil russia india china and south africa seen as drivers in terms of economic determination of the continent so i think these are key e

. >> a gold mine collapsed in central africa republic killing at least 37 people. t happened in a villeage 440 kilometers of the capital bangi. it collapsed after heavy rains and many workers are injured and unaccounted for. italy's former prime minister says he will fight the seven-year jail term given to him for sex with an underaged prostitute. he also was convicted of abuse of office and given a lifetime ban from politics. but as charlie reports from milan. he never actually will go to prison. >> guilty. a judgment silvio berlusconi is hearing quite often these days. outside the court there was celebrations and prosecutors had pushed for a lifetime ban from politics but the prime minister -- the former prime minister and six years in jail and the judge gave him seven. berlusconi responded with a written statement saying i intend to resist against the prosecution because i'm absolutely innocent and don't want in any way to abandon my battle to make italy a country that is truly free and just. he's at his villa outside of milan, the scene of the alleged bunga bun

centuries and we can trace that back to a potential ancestor, that famous mitochondrial eve from central africathe fourtting one of fields. my professors would be very upset with me. inside of anthropology if you have a question about how does the religious structure or tradition work or how was kinship understood in different parts of the world, or howl is an economic system and forcing some forms of power and discounting other forms of power and how is that like a different era in time or different people in a different part of the world -- it's both a way of learning about celebrating difference, and to learn -- a way to learn about and celebrate commonality. it is where you can have the most fun really questioning where our species and all of is lori and ridiculousness, really, really like being in interpol adjust. >> what do you do full-time? programect a masters at new york university. it's an interdisciplinary masters program. i teach. and there is a field i'm trying to kickstart call discard studies. the book was one project. there are three others we have got rolling. we are organizing

humanitarian call to intervene in a genocide went unaddressed, and the result is we have a war across central africa where two million people have died and it is a tank strategic problem. so i think she and samantha power both understand the ways in which the humanitarian and the strategic are often actually intertwined. >> woodruff: richard haass, does that suggest that between the two of them, and particularly in the case of rice, that there will be more-- there will be more people talking to the president about becoming more involved in syria. >> quite possibly. but the big strategic idea of this administration-- indeed, i think it's historical idea-- was to place less emphasis on the middle east which is so dominated and i would argue distorted america's national security now for more than a decade, and instead to put greater attention on the asia pacific which is where the great powers of this year are colliding and where american instruments can actually accomplish great good. so i would hope the administration will, if you will, state course there, as well as als do what i would argue, which

community, will find solutions to the challenges we face in the democratic republic of con tkpoe and central africa and somalia, solutions that are african-led will be able to yield results. the problems in this region arise primarily from the manner in which the u.n. security council handled the libyan situation. there are lessons to be learned in the episode. we have talked about this in our meeti meeting, mr. president. mr. president, south africa remains concerned at the lack of progress in the mideast process. at the same time we are of the view that a lasting peace in the middle east would not be possible without addressing the other ongoing conflicts in the region which are a source of much -- of much insecurity and instability. we are encouraged by the positive steps you have taken, mr. president, to elect longstanding restrictions on cuba. i further edge you, mr. president, in light of the economic and financial challenges in the u.s. and in the eurozone to encourage traditional supporters, not to abandon their pledges to africa. let me also add that the reform of the united nations securi

and posted to -- which is [inaudible] in central east africa, and then was called out to fight in the war, italians -- [inaudible] ifers born around that time. my mother was an art student from a polish family, and they had a shared love of wild thing, wild flowers. they knew all the wild flowers. i was brought up in an atmosphere much scientific inquiry and love of nature. >> my parents had no interest in religion, but i was -- [inaudible] in schools. again, i think not really happened -- [inaudible] hard to find a school that wasn't in some way churchy. >> and when did you lose that connection? i suppose finally at the age of about 16 when i was in school. but i had my -- [inaudible] of the age about 9 my mother would -- [inaudible] >> when you asked your parents about religion, about god, how did they respond? >> i think my mother told me the standards of a christian story as though she believed them. when i think she didn't. and i got it all from school. >> richard, how did "the selfish gene "come about? >> before i wrote it in 1965, i was asked my my boss if i would stand in and

that's what we are doing in central africa. we are a coalition of countries that is closing the space of where the army can operate. that's what we are doing in somalia where a union forces helping a government to stand on its own two feet. these efforts have to lead to lasting peace and not words on a paper. or promises that fadeaway. peace between and within sudan and south sudan so they get on with investing. peace in the congo. with nations keeping their commitments so rights are at last claimed by the people of this war torn country and women and children no longer living in fear. [ applause ] >> peace where people will make their voices heard in new elections this summer. in each case, africa must lead. and america will help. america will make no apology for supporting african efforts to end conflict and stand up for human dignity. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the oau, now the african union. an occasion that is more historic because they are taking on these challenges. i want america to take our engagement not

that is what we are doing in central africa where they are lowering the resistance and can operate.hat we're doing in somalia where an african union force is helping to stand on its own two feet. this has to lead to lasting peace, not just words on the paper. peace between and within sudan and south sudan so these governments get on with the work of investing of deeply impoverished people. peace in the congo with nations keeping their commitment so rights are claimed by their war-torn country and women and children no longer live in fear. [ applause ] >> absolutely. peace in mali where people will make their voices heard in new elections this summer. in each of these cases, africa must lead and america will help. an america will make no apology for supporting african efforts to end conflict and stand up for human dignity. [ applause ] this year marks the 50th anniversary of the african union. an occasion that is more historic because they are taking on these challenges. i want america to stake our engagement, not just on security issues but environmental issues and economic issues a

least forty thousand of the so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now. on the summer's sidelines zero grabs a new u.s. officials lay the foundations for mega flies free trade zone a little later we are at war and how the plan has hit european jews against each other and why what stock agencies are ringing the alarm bell. the g. eight summit is taking place just as the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden drops another information bombshell you can documents that prove that the u.s. and the u.k. were spying on the delegates of the g. twenty summit in london back in twenty or so tim has promised even more revelations unpredicted more whistleblowers will follow his example during an internet q. and a session archies marina part of the online chat. snowden referred to washington's war on whistleblowers as a draft pony in a campaign he believes will ultimately escalate the scale scope and skill involved in future gover

least forty thousand of the so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now syria's conflict looms large over the israeli occupied golan heights where the border is already troubled by fighting the prospect of having war on its doorstep is it weary israel though not perhaps for the country's elite who have been revealed to have an expensive and impenetrable hijacked poor display looks at what the rest of the country thinks about it. when the missiles come israel's leaders will be here deep underground somewhere on the road between jerusalem and tel aviv about a decade ago the news broke that the government was building a bunker here in the hills of jerusalem to the tune of some two hundred million dollars criticism at the time was that the country had survived for fifty years without one and could for another fifty but back then the threat of a nuclear iran was nowhere near where israel's prime minister netanyahu claim

least forty thousand of the so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now. on the some of the sidelines eurocrats and u.s. officials lay the foundation for medical supplies of free trade zone a little a deliberate form how the plan has your privileges against each other and why watchdog agencies are ringing the alarm bell. the g eight summit is taking place just as the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden drops another information bombshell in documents that prove the u.s. and the u.k. was spying on the delegates of the g twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine story and has a promise to even more revelations and predicted more whistleblowers will follow his example this was during an internet q. and a session marty's worrying about mail follow the online chat. snowden referred to washington's war on whistleblowers as a drop clooney and campaign he believes will ultimately escalate the scale scope and sk

least forty thousand of the so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now now the g eight in the u.k. was overshadowed by revelations of british and american intelligence spied on world leaders under fish bowls at a broad a meeting in london that was four years ago some g twenty heads of state including vivendi president dmitri medvedev apparently had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted the evidence which came from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden suggests fake internet cafe's were also set up to gather the data richard norton taylor writes on defense and security for the guardian and the u.k. newspaper which published the leaked documents he says london and washington were aiming to get a competent competitive edge over their foreign partners. there are two kinds of information there the british and america that we need setting a goal and the latest leaks which are the first is under the g

i am from a country in central africa.he ambassador, before he was appointed here, he was named and he is still named in an investigative report by the senate judiciary committee as a money launderer. , the administration reproved -- approved it. guest: the only way that immunity can be revoked if the country from which the diplomat is from agrees to waive the immunity. that would usually only happen following a request by the united states, or the host country. unless there was a diplomat from the country where the government and the new government did not like the diplomat who was accredited to the other country. or whoever theor diplomat is is in good standing in his home country, it is unlikely that government is going to waive immunity. host: office of immigration statistics, refugees and asylum reason 2012. -- assylees in 2012. 58,000 persons were admitted to the u.s. as refugees in 2012. matthew lee do you know who makes up that number? guest: specifically, no. people are fleeing wars in africa, in iraq. they come f

i am from a country in central africa. the gabon ambassador, before he was appointed here, he was named and he is still named in an investigative report by the senate judiciary committee as a money launderer. yet here, the administration approved it. guest: the only way that immunity can be revoked is if the country from which the diplomat is from agrees to waive the immunity. that would usually only happen following a request by the united states, or the host country. unless there was a diplomat from the country where the government changed and the new government did not like the diplomat who was accredited to the other country. if the ambassador or whoever the diplomat is is in good standing in his home country, it is unlikely that government is going to waive immunity. host: office of immigration statistics, refugees and assylees in 2012. host: 58,000 persons were admitted to the u.s. as refugees in 2012. matthew lee, do you know who makes up that number? guest: specifically, no. people are fleeing wars in africa, in ir

chairman, we are facing a serious and growing national security threat in central africa. rebel groups long active in the region have taken on a new form of elicit activity to fill their coffers, and that form is poaching. on the black market, ivory from elephant tusks run over $1,000 per kilo. rhino horns are worth their weight in gold. more than their weight in gold. $30,000 per pound. the black market for wildlife is now in the league of drug smuggling. the low risk and high reward of poaching makes it ideal for criminal groups but also for extremist groups. indeed, groups like the lord's resistance army, which the u.s. military is helping africans to track down. and the al qaeda-linked al shabab are reaping the benefit it's by brutally slaughtering these majestic, defenseless animals. these aren't your poor man's poachers, either. many poachers today are outfitted with the night-vision gol goggles and sophisticated g.p.s. equipment, they fly helicopters, they slaughter these endangered species from above. a recent u.n. report cites an increase of advanced weapons used

s list these other individual -- more than one people dead are in the wars in central africa.ost: we appreciate your voice to the conversation. we are basing this on the piece in the "national journal." a lot is written in the papers about syria. it will be a key topic of conversation as the president heads to northern ireland for the g-8 summit, including meetings with russian president blattner putin. here is another portion from the piece they have enjoyed a free hand in the face of obama's limited response, which until now, has amounted to civilian and medical aid. in the west, the nato nations especially france and britain are waiting for washington to take the lead. secretary of state kerry concluded in january that the u.s. was late in getting involved. the story is available online at nationaljournal.com. is syria the president's third war? caller: good morning. i have been a lifelong conservative. i am a republican. i never voted for either george bush or barack obama. when i heard that george bush was running for office, i told my father, this is the death knell of c

before he went he appointed russ feingold to the special envoy, in africa is known as the great lakes region, a centralion going on. great things. they also have really tough countries. putting feingold in there was a very big deal. he was on the africa subcommittee for 18 years. he's known in africa. it was a clear signal that this administration wants to engage at a higher level and wants actually to be prodded a little bit. >> so i want to ask you about his reception there and his reception in south africa. i'm thinking of the president. there are some criticisms he has been checked out of this relationship. i want to talk about nelson mandela and south africa and the kind of amazing poetic resonance between two men's trajectories right after we take this break. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive

i am from a country in central africa and the ambassador before he was appointed here, he was named and is still named in the report, the investigative report by the senate judiciary committee as the money launder, a trafficker of all kinds and yet the administration approved it. is there a process to invoke it? >> guest: the only way diplomatic immunity can be revoked is if the country from which the diplomats is from agrees to waive and that would usually only happen following a request by the united states and the host country where that diplomat is so it would be unusual unless of course the diplomat from a country where the government changed and the new government did not like the diplomat who was accredited to the other country. that might happen but i would think that if the ambassador for whoever the diplomat is is in favor, is in good standing in his home country then it's highly unlikely that government is going to wave him. >> host: from the department of homeland security office of immigration statistics, refugees and asylees in 2012. the u.s. provides refuge to persons who

least forty thousand of the so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jollity is fighting against the syrian government right now. and still to come here and see the u.s. president calls for russia's help in cutting down the global stocks of nuclear weapons on camera at least to his charm offensive seems to have worked with this kind of. script skepticism is running high among the german public. for now oxys own crew in turkey felt the full force of the police this week after it became the target of a water cannon and government unrest has been plaguing the country's biggest cities as police on least that non-lethal loss and all to quell the anger. and reports from the streets of the capital ankara. the smell of gas is thick in the air and you can see the water cannon busily working surrounded by youths pelting them with stones trying to clear barricades on the central ankara streets but part of. this confrontation really exploded just shortly ago and the police charged

things in northern rwanda, building a hospital there, starting the first cancer center in central -- in rural africai think that it is about hope. it's about trying not to be socialized for scarcity to assume that if you're working with people living in poverty, well, the second best or third best will have to do. and that happens a lot, i think, in haiti is everywhere -- and everywhere. we lower our expectations for poor people in the united states, we lower our expectations for poor people everywhere. so the relationship between the failures of imagination that come when you're dealing with scarce resources and that town to me is that after the earthquake we'd already decided we were going to build a hospital. -- we were going to build a hospital you were in on that discussion, a community hospital. after the earthquake so many people said we want to help out in haiti. you were there that day, i know, we should build a teaching hospital outside of port-au-prince because the teaching infrastructure had been destroyed, you know? i think most people here know that almost all of haiti's federal buildi

central america and mexico. there are immigrants from africa an asia but most of them from mexico and central america. >> what is the dream act? you look at the expiration of the executive order. what happens after that expires? >> really somebody has to do something after june of 2014. otherwise all these kids are eligible for deportation if there's no bill. if immigration reform fails in congress. they're literally in limbo. they only have 12 more months for something to happen. >> i imagine those three that you featured in the piece are lucky because they were able to be reunited with their mothers there. how would that happen? would someone have to apply to that organization and say my mom was separated? can you make that happen for me? >> these are young people who had been very vocal about their situation and who had been working, coordinating efforts to raise public awareness about their situation. these some of the kids who have been very, very active. you have seen them in protests and different public events talking to congressmen and going to the capitol during different things and that's the reason w

because they were from italy or poland and the like, now people who come in from central and south america or from haiti or africae opposed to a very serious way or those who come in from the middle east. so i think realistically here what we have to acknowledge is that america is built upon the strength of diversity. that diversity embraces all peoples, lands, bring us your tired masses, your teeming, you know, people here to america so that we can welcome them with open arms. now we want to put up fences 700 feet long. we want to, you know, have 30,000 more border troops. we want to spend a whole bunch more money on technology surveilling them. we know we can do that pretty well. the reality is that we have got to really open our minds to the reality that this is america and either we're going to celebrate the virtues of opening our gates, yes, with limitations that are put in force that have always been put in force but not with this kind of xenophobic passion that begins to in one sense prevaricate, tell a lie, mendacity about the truth of the american dream. either we're about it or we're not. >> what did yo

public organizations with agricultural marketing and low to middle-income countries in africa, the caribbean, central and south america, eurasia and the middle east. the emerging markets program fund something $10 million per year in this food stamp and farm bill. over the five-year life of this legislation, funding is $50 million. the emerging markets program duplicates and overlaps the federal government's much larger marketing agricultural program. by way of example, in 2010 at least 27 of the 82 projects funded by the emerging markets program went to entities that also receive funding from the federal government's marketing agriculture program. emerging markets program expenditures are quite informative. $30,000 was spent on, quote, brazil craft beer school seminars for the brewers association, end quote. $468,000 in hard-earned taxpayer money was spent studying, studying food consumption in china's second-tier cities, the new frontier for u.s. agricultural export opportunities. $212,000 of taxpayers' hard-earned money was spent concerning, quote, hotel department for the united states department

africa important to u.s. interests? or how important? >> right. excellent question. so in a negative sense, as we've seen al qaeda central attacked, it's spread out into the rest of the world, in particular we've seen al qaeda groups across west africa, and that's raised new security issues. and it's raised the necessity of working with african allies to try to contain this problem. but i think more positively, africa is booming economically. i still think a lot of americans think of africa as it was maybe 20 years ago. six out of the 10 fastest growing economies in the wrorld in africa. if you are a company and you're thinking about growth markets, you're not thinking about europe. you should be thinking about africa and, of course, asia. and so i think that the potential opportunities, the upside in turns of economic partnership on business is really tremendous. and that is really why the president is starting to talk, finally bthese economic opportunities. >> warner: that is a big focus, at least according to the white house, of this trip is economic development, seeing africa as a big market for the united states. ho

supporters after returning from a trip to north africa some of those who gathered at the airport chanted let's go let's crush taksim well the plaza and central istanbul has become a symbol of a flourishing anti-government drive in turkey the demonstrators have been packing cities across the country for weeks now after police crushed a peaceful environmental sit in in taksim square that ignited street battles which left reportedly three people dead in clashes which saw it tear gas water cannon and electric baton to deploy washington based foreign policy expert barbara slavin joins me now to give us more analysis on this well to barbara thanks for joining us here so what's your impression of howard is dealing with a protest against him. well so far i don't think he's doing a very good job and this is a huge blow to him personally to his image and also to the turkish model which he has been touting around the middle east as something that arab countries should emulate also take a look at his surroundings i mean the government specifically do you think they are united enough to prevent the taksim protests from undermining his leadership you know

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his supporters after returning from a trip to north africa some of those who gathered at the airport chanted let us go let's crushed the plaza in central as stamboul has become a symbol of the flora shing and to merican anti-government drive in turkey and the demonstrators have been packing cities across the country for a week now after police crushed a peaceful march malsat in taksim square that ignited street battles which have left reportedly three people dead in clashes with some tear gas water cannon and electric baton deployed some are already voicing fears of my hobby while before the military is called in to quell the unrest. many generals and even former chief of staff of turkey are in prison now i mean this is a very special situation when they are waiting for the developments because the arab in me will take. control although only if there will be more serious disturbances their way they may be the prime minister in the president will start negotiating with the demonstrators maybe it will be some peace and process i mean this still waiting for something good to happen but if instead of negotiating with his own people the pri