because the displacement in central african republic is so huge. how do we get humanitarian intervention into central africa republic? so those are the few questions that i would answer. >> thank you. if i might just interrupt for one moment. senator isaac has been called to the floor and would like to give a brief closing comment. he has to depart. i'm going to stay. we'll continue the conversation. >> thank you for meeting me in gulu when i was in uganda. i appreciated it and enjoyed our meeting.

the militaries of uganda, the central african republic, south sudan and the democratic republic of the congress ghoe collaboration with the african union continue to pursue the lra and seek to protect local populations. they are leading this effort. as you know, approximately 1800 u.s. military personnel are deployed for operation observant compass across the four lra-affected countries. there's a command and control element in uganda working to synchronize and oversee dod's counter lra efforts and to coordinate at the headquarters level with the ugandan forces. small teams of u.s. military advisers are also now working with the ugandan military and national military forces in field locations in lra-affected areas of central african republic and south sudan. in these two countries u.s. advisers have helped to set up operations fusion centers to enable daily coordination, information sharing, and tactical coordination. the u.s. advisers are also integrating local civilian leaders into the work of the partner forces to improve the effectiveness of the civil military relations. in the dem

because the displacement in central african republic is so huge. how did we get humanitarian intervention into central african republic? so those are the few questions that i would answer. >> can i interrupt? senator isaac has been caused to the floor and would like to gave brief closing comment. he has to depart. i'm going to stay. we'll continue the conversation. >> thank you for meeting me in gulu when i was in uganda. i appreciated it and enjoyed our meeting. jacob, your testimony is compelling. as i listened to both of you i was reflected last thursday in the rotunda of the capitol where we had the holocaust remembrance and honored a swede. i'm part swedish. from auschwitz and i thought about how in history, it's littered with individuals who speak out, work to right wrongs and both of you are in that courageous category and i thank you for your willingness to make this issue visual, because as the chairman knows, out of sight is out of mind, and africa is a long way away from the american media. it's a long way away from our country and some o

military advisers to central africa to help armed forces for uganda, the democratic republic of congo, south sudan, and the central after african republic to hunt down joseph kony and the lra. >> i met with some special advisories that are united states personnel in uganda and central african republic and sudan and uganda adding a great bit of ability to troops over there. >> we are currently working with the defense department, the state department and other agencies to try and figure out what we can do and how we can be more effective and we're going to continue to work with the state department and others in an effort to provide and focus on this issue. >> it may take time. you have to understand in an area where he is thought to be was a densely vegetative, hard to know roads and telephone poles. there are no lights at night. he separated himself from a lot of his followers. >> they're getting very, very close. >> president obama and our u.s. soldiers in the field aren't the only americans determined to help stop the lra. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac

the military of ugonda, the central african republic, south sudan and the democratic republic of the ollaboration with the african union continue to pursue the lra and seek to protect local populations. they are leading this effort. as you know, approximately 100 u.s. military personnel were deployed for operational observant compass across the lra countries. there's a command and control element in ugonda that's working to synchronize and oversee the counter lra efforts and to coordinate the headquarters level at the forces. small teams of u.s. military advisers are also now working with the military and national military forces and field locations in the affected areas of central republican south sudan. and these countries u.s. advisers have helped to set up operations fusion centers to enable deily coordination come information sharing and tactical coordination. the u.s. advisers are also integrating local civilian leaders into the work of the carper forces to improve the effectiveness of the civil military relations. in the democratic republic of the congo, u.s. advisers are suppo

you look in central african republic, sudan and congo, it is only the zanda tribe that joseph kony is apparently harassing. and this was very difficult for me especially hearing from them. i told them and i said you know, there are people out there who can listen. we need to do advocacy and we need to speak loud so that your voices can be heard. and i dedicated my life to work for this young people. right now even if northern uganda is relatively peaceful, but when i go to the congo, seeing the congo girls who have come out speaking to them in my own language, people from central african republic i want to urge the world to stand strong. the war of the lra, whatever approach it is going to take we need to take our approach of making sure t

most of that assistance will be going into supporting protection programs, mainly in central african republic, where we feel that there is a gap at this time. with regard to specific activities that we're doing in enhancing civilian protection, it's certainly on the humanitarian side going in, providing relief services, also providing psychosocial, health services, and then reintegration services, livelihoods. but one of the innovative things we're doing with the state department and with the international community and also with the catholic church is the early warning system. and state department will be -- will be working with 24 communities, we will be working with 24 minutes in the lra-affected areas of the province in the drc. and in those areas, there are about 60,000 inhabitants. the early warning system is one critical component that we found missing. how do we alert villages and attack that guerrillas are on the way? how can they enhance communications between villages? that is something that we're doing. we're also working with vodafone in a private partnership. vodafone will be pr

military advisers to central africa to help arm forces for uganda, the democratic republic of congress co, south sudan and the central african public to hunt down the lra. >> on my trip two weeks ago, i met with some of the special advisers that are united states personnel nrnl u dan da advising the republic of sudan and uganda. they're adding a great bit of ability to the troops over there. we are currently working with the defense department and state department, other agencies to try to figure out what we can do and how we can be more effective and we're going to continue to work with the state department and others in an effort to provide the focus on this issue. >> it may take time. you have to understand the area where he is thought to be is a densely venltative foal and. there are no roads. there are no it poles. there are no lights at night. he's separated himself from a lot of his followers. so tracking him is difficult. >> they're getting very, very close. hopefully this will be the year. >> president obama, congress and our u.s. soldiers in the field aren't the only americans determined to help stop the lra. the c

and what's going on in the central african republic and in that part of the congo and i think even though i had i knew that this was a. this was a very shallow set of insights into it it created this storm of discussion where i think now an awful lot more people are aware of what's going on there you know it's not just you know i mean because what do you make of i mean it's about i mean the thing is there's been an enormous amount of discussion in criticism about documentary but how much people know to learn more about a bird if i can go to you because maybe because of the way it worked on facebook and other places people realized oh it was a scam but nobody really knows why it was a scam you know what i mean. it wasn't precisely the. near future you know a lot of different people will be able to claim. it was their country buescher and there's that to the arrest of coney you know there are now five thousand troops from the african union there are the obama advisers there's the ugandan army there's the colony twenty twelve campaign itself there is there's a lot. of me asking a question it

he is somewhere near the central african republic, a place where it is extremely easy to hide. we thought vietnam had jungles. you haven't seen foliage until you have seen the central african republic, the south sudan and the congo. there is no electricity, no roads, no paths. there are no listening devices. intelligence is all human intelligence. we're fortunate to have great intelligence operatives over in that part of the world. we're great to have great resources over in that part of the world. we're gaining more and more information. i commend our forces also on what they have done in an amnesty program. they drop leaflets in villages that are known to house some of kony's workers and cronies. they drop leaflets that offer amnesty for anyone that leaves kony, comes back to their village and gives information to our forces and the ugandan army and the african union army as to information as to where joseph kony might be. we're getting closer all the time. we're not there yet. thanks to our assistance of foreign-deployed individuals, thanks to the commitment of our country an

there are roads, especially in central african republic, and democrat republic of congo. they need the best they can have in mile an hour life. i feel your voice as american government to the president of the area affected by the l.r.a., who take full ownership . the war is no longer there. i watch our president say we push them away, but what about in the congo where it is still very fresh. what about in central republic? is that enough for the president to say we have pushed the l.r.a. away, and yet it's another group still being affected. i think on them collaborating together and bringing their forces together to apprehend joseph kony is the best way forward that i would request you people be strong on, a diplomatic approach. because when i spoke to the civil society, they think their voices are not being heard, and there are people who are saying, no, the l.r.a. is not a big threat. but every day there are people who are sleeping out in the rain, and you can tell the fear that children that have no future, and they've not been able to go to school and how do we give

were conducted as children, continue to commit atrocities and cause displacement across the central african republic and south sudan. to the north of you got that, for the first time in decades, they are enjoying peace. >> there is laughter these days. unlike five years ago, when the war was on, the children of no. you don are now safe. -- of no. you gonna are now safe. >> may we stand still for the national anthem. >> the number is strong but not interrupted by the terror of marauding rebels. >> they had this trauma of running here and there, especially if there are gunshots. that was a time when many young children were adopted. >> when i was here at the height of the conflict, at about this time of day, just as the sun was setting, there was an extraordinary spectacle. thousands of children would abandon their homes and what to shelters like these because the risk of the abduction was so high. at least here, they had some protection against the distant army rebels, who stalked the villages, forcefully recruiting child soldiers. the last time i met jeffrey was nine years ago. he had just been rush

. >> the lra was committing atrocities in the democratic republic of congo, central african republic and south sudan and still are. the goal is to make that known and rally the world in support of the effort to stop the lra violence and that started with making them famous and you did that. >> and the documentary addresses critics who say the video's oversimplify a complex issue. and he is trying to engage them in a solution. he's in the hospital after a breakdown last month. >>> and meantime, mean facebook messages could be banned. it bans a bill for internet trolling. critics wonder how that will be enforced and whether that threatens freedom of speech. the sponsor put it on hold in the wake of the criticism over it. >>> and beatles fans are buzzing tonight about some music news. paul mccartney's son is considering a next generation beatles band with sean lennon, donnie harrison and zach starkey, ringo starr's son. he is hopeful it will happen soon. james mccartney said he was thinking out loud, don't get your hopes up, and there are no definite plans in the works and that is what

they've gone into sudan, south sudan, central african republic, congo.th them on this manhunt. it was some of the roughest terrain i have ever experienced. i mean, impenetrable jungle that we were hacking our ways through. walking up, you know, to our necks in this black water, these rivers that flow through the jungle. there was this leaf that these ugandan soldiers had warned me about. they said whatever you do, don't touch this leaf as you're walking through the jungle, and i was wearing full clothes, of course, and i brushed up against it once, and my whole body itched. and i'm convinced there are things in that congolese jungle that science has yet to discover. >> you had a machete? >> i actually didn't. i was so incapacitated just trying to keep up with these guys. these soldiers are as tough as steel, and it got to the point they were carrying my gear. you know, i was just trying to stay -- survive out there. but the bigger issue is this guy, kony and the lra, has been brutalizing people for 25 years, and they go to where states are weakest. when

it is believed he may be hiding out in the rugged terrain of the central african republic making it difficultack in. he is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity including mass rape, abductions, and killings. kony and his resistance rmy were the focus of a recent viral video campaign entitled kony 2012. sherry young testified today about her husband's devotion to former presidential candidate john edwards. young is another key witness for the prosecution. they are trying to prove edwards deliberately used campaign donations to hide his pregnant mistress. jay gray has more on today's emotional testimony. >> reporter: sherry young walked into the greensboro federal courthouse and straight to the center of this salacious and controversial trial. >> she was lively, animated, spirited. >> reporter: and did little to hide her animosity for john edwards and his mistress rielle hunter. young told jurors he knew about the donations from wealthy friends to hide his affair, assured her they were legal and at times told her angrily, quote, get the money in. get the money in. she testified she

information about the group and its leader and it will also include more voices from the central african republiche lra are believed to have subsequently moved. so it does sound like it will be a more accurate, more updated version, but i think the work that invisible children set out to achieve initially has already been achieved with african countries actually committing more troops to search for one of the world's most notorious war lords, erin. >>> candy, cookies and cereal. which single family in america is pushing sugar prices up in this country? >>> what does golf's greatest event have to do with how much women are paid? man: 1939 -- my parents ran across an ad for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, we've got this little hot dog cart, and it's on a really good corner. let's see if we can buy the property." and the branch manager said, "all right, i will take a chance with the two of you." and we've been loyal to bank of america

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now to the central african republic, where 100 special u.s.rican partners to hunt down joseph kony and other leaders of his militant group, the lord's resistance army. lima visited one of the bases where the special forces are and i asked her whether they think they're getting closer. >> reporter: it definitely sees like there's reason to be optimistic, erin. those 100 u.s. special forces that were deployed back in october are now finally up and running after having to contend with some of the most inpenetratable forest in the world. the reality is that lar attacks are continuing and one of the words we've been hearing for those involved with this operation is patience. special forces believe that kony is in survival mode and cornered, but the reality is that he does remain a threat, erin? >> all right. thank you to nema. >>> now let's check in with anderson for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> we're keeping 'em honest tonight. the back and forth and the political bickering over the killing of osama bin laden. tomorrow mar

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special forces paired up with local troops and ugandan soldiers in central african republic he is believedged terrain wanted by the international criminal court since 2005 for war crimecrimes against humanity, kony and his forces are accused of going on a bloody ram pain across several -- rampage across several central african nations. >>> chang was held for his role in exposing forced abortions and sterilizations, the hope is to reach a deal before high level talk s with secretary of state hillary clinton s other u.s. officials begin thursday. >>> john edwards criminal trial resumes today in north carolina, the wife of an exaid who falsely claimed paternity of his baby is expected to retake the witness stand. sherry young said her husband told her he would do whatever it took to work for edwards the youngs are crucial to making the case edwards master minded a theme to use wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress, as he sought the white house in 2008. >>> philadelphia man solved his own missing child case. 34 years steven barnes was adopted when he was 4 he was looking at a missing ki

released they talk more specifically about joseph kony being pushed out of uganda into the central african republicdemocraticrepublic of kongo or south sudan. they were criticized for selling wrist bands and shirts. they're showing us what they use that money for on the ground. so this is part of their effort to get the focus away from jason russell and his personal problem and back to joseph kony. >> and all this attention, the millions and millions of people who clicked on that youtube video, has it paid off for them at all? do we have any sense of whether or not people know where joseph kony is or has there been a renewed search for him? >> in a way, yes. u.s. president barack obama already had 100 special advisers based in uganda to support the search for joseph kony, but after the release of the documentary in march, the african union of which most african nations are a member, decided to deploy 5,000 boots on the ground, 5,000 soldiers based in south sudan, led by uganda, with the prime goal to capture or, quote, neutralize joseph kony. that operation is under way, and even in the documentary