envoy to the democratic republic of congo. he has recently appointed and it's a '70s ambassador of unit states to that country. he has a wealth of express on his bill. career foreign service, and most recently served as deputy ambassador to thailand. but has served throughout a number of countries in east and in africa, including sri lanka, malaysia, cambodia. i'm going to ask the ambassador to give us some remarks at his pleasure. then will be followed by comments by almami cyllah of the international federation of the foundation of election systems. and by david pottie from the carter center. i will introduce them when the time comes. thank you very much. ambassador entwistle. >> thank you very much, steve. i'm delighted to be here this morning. morning. anyone familiar with my record from back in the '60s and '70s would laugh at the notion that i'm speaking at a place like the woodrow wilson center. i've had the privilege and, indeed, it is a privilege and our to be the u.s. ambassador to the democratic republic of the cong

that is the challenge that obviously the citizens of congo, the friends of congo will need to begin to look at, that will come from that. transparency and credibility, which the ambassador mention, extremely extra import. how transparent is the electoral process? from the political parties in the process, civil society in the process, religious in the process, and, of course, very important to women's inclusion in the process of that elections would be extremely, and that could be a challenge for congo. of course, financial support. the ambassador came to a very proper realization of proper statement that, in fact, we should be giving the opportuni opportunity, ned to various african to conduct their own elections. however, i think the parents also of stepping back and not getting the kind of explanation to particularly from the u.n., to the congolese in terms of what needs to be done and what is expected, could pose obviously gives status, we don't care, a stepping back and not worrying about what could happen the day after the election. i think those are the kinds of things we need b

clyde's claim for this book is that you can't understand anything in the newspaper about the congo if you haven't read this book because the story is that complicated, and the news stories are such a tiny piece of the whole in what's really happening there. and the reviews have borne this out, "the wall street journal," "the new york times" book review, the financial times, the economist, i could go on and on. but the reviews of this book have been just an amazing response, and we're really seeing people not backing away, but saying i want to know about this story, i want to hear more about this congo. >> dr. paul farmer. >> well, paul farmer is, as everyone knows, you know, partners in health and has worked so hard to develop health care in places like haiti, has a very interesting, you know, medical school kind of organization and practicing medicine on the ground in places like haiti and like rwanda. and he had, you know, the effect of the earthquake in haiti and the work that they've done and the level that they got to know haiti, he just said i want to write about it. i want to w

the island of minerva took over an island in the congo near the congo to tonga thought it was their territory and cade said they. obviously a very low tech flotilla and forced the the libertarians off the island so one hopes that they have a bigger military for this new approach because right now i question if the libertarians create this little village and libertarian decides that he wants to build his apartment building three stories higher than all together and they all kind of like the sunlight they were getting what happens. that's part of living in a libertarian utopia we'll see what kind of people are say rude they're not screwed there's no bill no there's no place no actual consensus. moving very well. well here's a quote yours only very moving to the island you want to see having a social contract or essentially i'll be a social contract so i'm the social contract is whoever gets there first wins i guess and so you know one of the big things i call libertarians republicans want to smoke dope and get laid because you know they want to decriminalize pot they want to and the laws agains

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for the villagers here in a place called congo, the lightning just became part of their lives. >> translatorere were some visitors that came here and spent the whole night on the water looking at lightning. >> reporter: did you think they were crazy in. >> translator: yeah, maybe. who will stay up watching stuff like that? >> reporter: but folks like the village elder wrote poems about it. >> translator: when the sun sets, the spirit of catatombo lights up the sky. >> reporter: what did you think when it stopped? >> translator: we did realize the lightning stopped. ititas mysterious. we don't have the informamaon to say exactly why. >> reporter: he thinks it may have something to do with a global weather pattern called la nina. it may be tied to the freakish weather elsewhere. >> oh, gosh, that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: the unusually deadly tornados that ripped through the u.s. the droughts. the floods. but perhaps the mystery of why the lightning disappeared begins with why it happens in the fist place. you think, eric, that it has to do with the darkness of the water and the metha

. -- congo, afghanistan, china, mexico.ore than a hundred 30 ensembles and soloists auditioned in january for a slot in the ethnic dance festival. in the end, 37 companies were selected to perform. 26 of those performances are world premieres. >> each year, we assembled a panel of dance experts that is made up of academics, scholars, researchers. people have been working for decades in the field. many of them came to this country in the seventies and have trained the next generation of dancers. they are proud to see many of these students at the these masterful levels. this was one of the best panel'' we have ever had, extraordinary people. at the end of the process, they rank their top groups which are then merged into a master list. >> performers are judged on stage presence, costumes, and innovation. >> the four programs are created around an exciting and dynamic range so the soloists and groups selected each weekend will have enough dynamic range to be a society overall to are experience. >> hundreds of dancers from dif

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he help develop a national campaign to aid refugees in darfur and congo where genocide has ravaged the population. >> i have a saying never again, after the holocaust ended, it should never happen to anyone. it needs to stop. >> he says he will use part of the $36,000 to continue funding different world causes. he hopes to inspire other young people to get involved in a cause. the award will take place at the presidio at noon. >> another monday and another planned bart protest but things may be different today. the warning that bart is giving riders. >>> a father is gunned down in front of his six-year-old son. the crime they are calling despicable. i'm nick smith. >> and hurricane irene may be history but still packing a a punch. we'll have the latest on the we'll have the latest on the damage left behind and the clean ♪ why settle for a one-note cereal? get more with honey bunches of oats.

that cell phone, they die in the congo. >> suarez: ernesto cardenal was born and raised in nicaragua. he left the country in the 1950s totun kentuc with thent foe ppriest thomas merton. when cardenal later returned home, he was ordained a catholic priest and quickly resumed his political activism. a committed marxist, cardenal championed the sandinista revolution in nicaragua. when the revolution seized power in the late 1970s, cardenal became that government's first cultural minister. it was that post which famously drew condemnation from pope john paul ii, who publicly scolded cardenal when he visited nicaragua. the confrontation resulted in cardenal losing his privileges as a catholic priest. later, cardenal left the government and the sandinista party, opposing the leadership of daniel ortega. we recently spoke with ernesto cardenal while he was visiting the u.s. at the poet's house in new york. we spoke about his life and work, looking back to the early days of augusto sandino's rebellion against the united states in the early 20th century. sandino's guerilla war against the u.s

for over one hundred world leaders at the danish royal palace dressed in formal evening wear in the congo on reading politicians talk leaders the action came one day after two activists briefly interrupted the summit finery chanting slogans for climate justice. the book. goes with power governments and the business sector why engage in mass scale corruption mass scale environmental crimes and who sneak in puberty. and get away with it that. what we did was not something different from what we had done before but the twenty one days we go to hear the tension is actually the toughest sentence without trial but anyone that greenpeace activists ever have both in europe so it's really a change. i know that i will be charged with something that possibly could give me up to or in principle to give me up to two years. of trying to show time. public protests trollish. direct action but for normal wish the world right from the u.k. where we've seen preventative arrests where we see if that's true potential police infiltration with the accordingly definitely happens in the us the barely a country th

bear in many mind that this democratic republican of congo every hour 48 women are raped. and then think about the amount of news space we give to silly airheaded celebrities. ask you see what i mean -- and you see what i mean. i also wanted to tell the story of these women because, you know, being a woman in sudan is not a trip to the day spa in itself. the rates of ill literacy somewhere up around 80%. in parts of sudan the highest maternal mortality in the world, one in seven women -- women have a one in seven chance of dying in childbirth. that's a lifetime chance compared with in this country a one in 44,000 chance. that, to me, puts it all in perspective. bear in mind that these women that you see here although they have because of it's a very, um, traditional rural, conservative culture they would never say to you, i was raped. certainly not on the first meeting. i was there long enough that eventually they stopped using euphemisms like i was beaten, i was attacked, i was assaulted, and we got to the heart of it that all these women who had survived had been raped.

for over one hundred world leaders at the danish royal palace dressed in formal evening wear in the congo and for all manner of treating politicians talk leaders the action came one day after two activists briefly interrupted the summer finery chanting slogans for climate justice. to go to. a close with power governments and the business sector why engage in mass kill corruption maskil and buy them include crimes and who can the absolutely included she and and get away with it that is. not. what we did was not something different from what we have done before but the twenty one days we go to hear the tension is actually the toughest sentence without trial that anyone that greenpeace activists ever have in europe so it's really a change. i know i will be charged with something that possibly could give me up to or in principle to give me up to two years. of trying to show time. public protest trollish. peaceful nonviolent direct action this is a normal who she worldwide from the u.k. where we've seen preventative arrests will be she attempts crude attempts of police and gratian with the col

and the republic of congo has its hopes on its newly elected president faces a time tosk of rebuilding the country's economy from the former vice president examined on. politics here with a hope about its present two rivals tunisia and. stories this hour up next with the russian compton who saved all the passengers of his plane when his engines failed in may to at. hello again to spotlight. today my guest is. six years ago two russian scientists. discovered a revolutionary material called. last week they were awarded a nobel prize in physics for what is likely to lucian ice. today. are packing their bags to collect their million pounds. is joining us. from england. born in russia he sent in the muscle of his father was an engineer while his mother was a teacher after graduating with honors from the moscow physical technical university. at a scientific research center in the in moscow two years later he moved to the netherlands way he met another russian scientist on drug game and whose guidance he continues to work the do physicists later moved to the university of manchester in the u.

we may say a prayer for people in congo or rwanda, but how do connect the dots?hink that prayer is powerful and not to be diminished. some of us in this country who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangers health situations and they do not have access to corporate medical care dupree for yourselves -- medical care do pray for themselves and for others. for those concerned with daily survival, i think there is a variety of ways -- it is enlightened self interest. globally, healthy societies are better able to economically empower themselves. there is real connection in the growth of gdp with the health status of a population and come in particular, the ability girls and women to access education, income generation, technology with connecting poor communities with technology. there are connections to increase in that nation's productivity. those stable societies are what, as a global community, we're looking for. i think all of the money that we spend militarily, for example, some of it can be

by the republican all that congo looks to its newly elected president to rebuild the nation's economy which lies in ruins so after years of struggling to maintain independence.

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find out what's really happening to the global economy in the congo report on. me it's easy to. go to meet. some. be sure to tune in to. his. hotel. to. post a photo. of the. room the photo. reports from. the libyan leader's security. according to the libyan one thousand three hundred people have been killed. in. the past week. as human rights groups. and. government.

actually why didn't they go in while you were at libya just go down the road a bit to the congo where literally under a thousand people have been wiped out why haven't we gone there why don't we go and protect the minority tribe in zimbabwe water after there's a lot of injustice in the world there may be injustice even in this country who knows but the issue is that there is nothing that can be done the international community is a big fat rolls berry and what happens to the politicians is that they look around them so they look at this their ratings in the polls and they say you know wall i'm not doing very well here the people who vote for me think i'm an idiot they're going to charge me you know what's in there were about to wander around north africa wonder around the middle east why do we go into saudi arabia where they've banned march is the king as announce there will be severe repercussions for demonstrations and in the east they started firing everybody why don't we go into the am in why don't we go in everywhere what's your answer to all these questions why don't we go into

if you buy petrol or manufactured goods in southern sudan, in uganda, in rwanda, in burundi even in congo, those goods almost certainly came in through kenya. so the kenyan economy is benefiting enormously from this en troupeau status. p >>reporter: the development plans include a deep-water port and oil refinery on pate island, just north of lamu,together with a military port and complete infrastructure network in northern kenya, including new airports, towns, railways and roads. it's a project that many believe is vital to kenya's economic future. p >>onditi: the level of investment that are going to be there is going to be very huge and if you look in termsof employment, it will be a huge employment that is going to be created. and those onwho want to carry the offshore manufacturing, so that they can easily get access to the east african community market, they will be able to put up their packaging and finishing products, machineries within the lamu. p >>reporter: the port, kenya's second deep-water facility after mombasa, would be the main gateway for sea-borne trade for not only sou

but brought about recognition primordial services being held accountable symbol for victims of the congo. stay with us here on our team sports up next. hello and welcome to the sports news in the u.s. the headlines. gave you the season spartak moscow missed the penalty but come from two goals down amid a floodlight failure to win four to a ten on to their you know russian premier league thriller. plus that's why they're champions manchester united came from two goals down to beat rivals manchester city three two in stoppage time and when the community shield. alove to reach russia come back from three goals down to beat switzerland six zero all the crowned european beach soccer champions. refers to a convention of world war and an unconventional match having missed a penalty and endured a break for a flop like failure spartak moscow came back from two goals down to read forty that correct in a pulsating match in the russian premier league the home slice of the first half lease through after that off on thursday morning c.n.n.'s into rebounded penalty to make it clear no answer just befor

put all of the seriousness there in the hopes of sort of congo or people who are more with it why negotiate what we have to talk about the russian authorities are doing everything for them to come and live peacefully but where we have all the agencies for that and we eagerly welcome them to come and give away their submachine guns give themselves up and then relevant agencies will deal with them not should we negotiate with just imagine to go sledding with each and everyone if they killed a huge number of people that is why they are now scared to protect themselves they are now doing everything possible to attract young people so that they ensure their security relief of they know that they have no future for them and if we gave power to them they would not know what to do with this power look it's funny indeed that therefore they had better apologize to the people of the chechen republic and russia and to move them on you would forgive them commission of. professional of course is for giving birth and we should be forgiving each other and in the sake of people for the right signals and. if

well it's a big day for the little republic of congo which is a letting a new leader it's following the sudden death of its president so to get back out passed away in may having led his country of more than six years in a struggle to retain a hard won independence from georgia on his top button is in the abkhazians capital for us are covering the presidential vote the country's interior ministry says the votes going smoothly not a single complaint is that it is not the view backed by the international observers . well at the moment rory in the capital here so cool people voting they're coming and playing their part in the future of their country and choosing its next leader the central election commission and earlier on the the foreign minister both told the dates that it's expected to appear turnout of above seventy percent and that's a very high figure that is yet to be seen whether that actually does materialize the voting has been going on throughout the day all of this because of the surrogate baggage the former president passed away suddenly on may twenty ninth leaving a vacuum a

accepted in south geria on humanitarian grounds this as the whereabouts of the fugitive colonel remain congo. violence in syria claims of more victims with fears growing that political unrest could lead to religious clashes in a traditionally multi-faith society. and you're as a recovery is still on track as the years parliament's economic committee admits the pace of growth is weak concerns over the greek bailout contained. good morning to you live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r.t. with me nice and now it's ten am here in the russian capital eight am in tripoli and family members of colonel gadhafi have fled libya to neighboring algeria this comes as rebels claim to have killed the colonel's youngest son archies river notion of reports now from the capital as people struggle for stability following the recent rebel takeover. graffiti all around the city proclaims welcome to new tripoli the city has indeed changed appearance recently what used to be one of the most beautiful on the african it's rainy and coast now looks neglected and duty . with fighting still cont

next also you speak to russia's deputy foreign minister about only going about that in congo you know as the arab spring and mr la bella off explain why moscow opposes any u.n. resolution against the syrian regime despite its condemnation of continuing violence in the country. the developments in the middle east concern the entire world and russia is no exception russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council as well as an active member of the international court in the middle east russia's deputy foreign minister and the hero but donna joins us to discuss recent developments in the situation in the middle east and answer the question whether the region is going through the arab spring some experts say or a period of decline just about done of before you became deputy foreign minister you were russia's ambassador to egypt for a number of years and witnessed the tragic events that shook the country the life of the vast majority of egyptians remain bitterly hard and it's constant through the cheery do you think there is a possibility that egypt will experience another way of

congo says it's ready to return to six party talks on its nuclear program without preconditions ericus a rocket from the national campaign to end the korean war believes it's south korea and its ally the u.s. who are not ready to start negotiating. and there is nothing to stop any party from city down at the table now you have the opportunity to stop the production of nuclear material you have the ability to discuss such issues you have the ability to begin to develop a peace process that could lead to the militarization and lowered tensions in the region so will they do it will the south koreans and the united states sit down it remains to be seen at this point i think not without the international pressure on the united states and south korea i don't think that will necessarily see if they are talking about the precondition wait you must stop production on a certain date before the talks not on the day of the talks those types of arguments seem to imply that someone doesn't want to speak and we have more than twenty eight thousand troops stationed in south korea and close to one hund

leader to be meeting president every time we've heard of talks in a few days' time it is it comes the congo and struggles under a set of western sanctions right now while beautiful tension on the korean peninsula rumbles on to r.t. jacob greaves reports. thought that energy corp is largely central to these discussions is the something the president himself has championed quite recently and when it comes to these two countries always in the background this is issue of the denuclearization of north korea and russia heavily involved here in the six party talks are ongoing trying to beat that end goal because kim jong il himself this is his third visit to russia his first occurring in two thousand and one and i was under the quest of prime minister vladimir putin then president stay for three weeks came back in two thousand and two it's the third time and this time he's been invited by prism it better that's the first time these leaders are going to meet face to face and that's expected to occur next week in the russian republic the reason for this timeline while kim jong il he likes a child by

look the government at the democratic republic of congo would you let me talk please of burma would you like me to be aghast or you should want to spontaneously combust all by your side i just want to know the libertarian paradise you want to ok america we spent we waste all this money on the f.d.a. and the part about you would you let me talk please they waste all this money on the department bag not even asking for to country would you shut up. we waste all this money on the f.d.a. they don't catch the they don't catch the disease and then the cargo cop is going to pay for whoever we can not which warrants but wait wait all we can not want to put you let me play please would you not like to have me as a gasket i can go all in and you can talk to yourself free. there's waste the money on the f.d.a. and people get sick and them and the companies pay for the disease which cargoes going to do and then we can not waste the money on the f.d.a. and when people get sick pay for their people and we can cut out the wasteful government and all the f.d.a. and although it's longer than your so in

said you can understand what's happening in mississippi understands what's happening in congo we can understand what's happening in london and this we understand something in libya enough to understand common comes back after the first day of writing from his nice little holiday and he calls these young people criminals and the defying the law and order this is the same person who is directly responsible for the massacring by nato of eighty five civilians that same night including thirty five children so let's get some perspective here who's the real criminal in this situation this could go to the police the way they've handled this to face as you mentioned just now serious criticism over the shooting of mark duggan this triggered the rights of those family of course as we know very quick to want to distance themselves from it. what impact will this have on the reputation of all of the british police the way they've handled this now especially the met. well the reputation is frankly in the for black and working class people because this is nothing new smiley culture it was a very fam