on the record or read it that these advisers are going south sudan and the democratic republic of congo as well so when you look at that area in central africa and you see young mound of oil in the amount of mineral riches at play and when we see that china is making inroads commercially in this area and when we look at the africans agenda which is to combat china commercially viable military zation of africa then you understand is one hundred the beginning of may any will be going to go the soup had a lot to talk about and priming our intervention why now. why oh why now ok once again i was so there was getting e-mails from africans including people from luganda and congo and it's fantastic because public opinion in this country it's the our english will soon to go to the web in english all over the world they know what's going on they know about hidden agendas and you know they're saying out right of course this today for attention from what's going on in your pocket by all stream from the crash of the american economy the fact that obama now has had to play. very tough. in terms of o

ok once again i was the tail is getting emails from africans including people from again there and congo and it's fantastic because public opinion in this country is the are and will fill out soon through to the web in english all over the world they know what's going on they know about hidden agendas and you know they're saying outright of course this today further attentions from what's going on in new york yaki allstream from the crash of the american economy this fact that obama now is happy to play. very tough. in terms of organizing his reelection in two thousand and twelve the power plate size stablish meant that the military intelligence status mean to us where david petraeus now is running every single ever sing for do this counterinsurgency and this what's going on and i'm going to also advise so people in africa know what's going on you cannot feel them anymore and you know that seems to me now clear a timeline for the u.s. military involvement there how long do you think the troops and well being there and the. times there are a half an hour of clips this is the this is that

riches very close to canada as well and there has been a civil war in congo for years with over four million people there were ten united states nasser wanted to interfere in the cold war so why again that and why not so this is part of a much bigger thing which we call the direct lash between beijing and benfica and it's also people's african and their guns african command so maybe it's it is getting very complicated to get their plays in libya look at what's libya nowadays it's a cataract by civil war and it's going to be that for months if not years so why not start with who can go can these anglo feel it's a very good beach head for the u.s. in central. africa from again that it came on it or it is huge area including all those riches in south sudan or oil and minerals and in cologne will all in minerals as well so we start with like in vietnam one hundred advisors let's talk about it when you're. ok and you know the u.s. forces there they're combat equipped so they're prepared to defend themselves and attack and they need to but are really only supposed to be providing informati

then they put in the power structure somebody who does their business like joseph kabila in the congo or pol bigamy in rwanda or the transitional council in libya this is. the way that the corporate power structure and is fighting against the system and to seize control of the resources in libya and seize control of the region to serve their interests from libya and it's everything that the people of occupy wall street are standing against following the reasoning through talk about the libyan libyan interim government how are they going to play their cards where are they going to go in trying to establish themselves in other countries what will i do think it's going to play out. way all this politics plays out a. bunch of thieves and criminals get together in buildings and have special meetings and world bank money into it corporations come in and rip the place our. carbon slow walk or a small investor in very independent investigator thank you for so clearly putting your views as you see them very good to have you on the program tonight thank you. lemme put his decision to run for th

one second i was so there was getting e-mails from africans including people from the again that in congo and it's fantastic because public opinion in this country the r. angle full be out soon to to the web in english all over the world they know what's going on they know about it in agendas and you know they're saying else right of course it's to divert attention from what's going on in your preoccupation or street from the crash of the american economy to fact that obama now is have to play very tough in terms of organizing his a reelection in two thousand and twelve the power play inside the status meant the military intelligence status when the u.s. where david petraeus now is running everything it ever since for those patrols this counterinsurgency and this what's going on and i'm going to also applies so people in africa know what's going on you cannot fool them anymore and you know that seems to me now where a timeline for the u.s. military involvement there how long do you think the troops well be there i'm here for a leader i do crimes there are and i have been a law clerk. this

the second congo trial is under way. and a third trial is starting.t of those indicted by the court are still free. and it seems unlikely that the prosecutor can ever really challenge the most powerful countries. but nobody likes to see people getting away with terrible crimes. the court exists because that desire for justice doesn't stop at the border. and if we want a less violent world, really, what alternative is there to the rule of law. >> brown: in august two and a half >> brown: in august, two and a half years after lubanga's trial began, lawyers delivered closing arguments. judges are now deliberating the verdict. "prosecutor" premieres on documentary channel on this coming sunday, october 9. and you can learn about the "economist film project" or submit your own film at film.economist.com. >> woodruff: finally tonight, the story of the boat that took ernest hemingway out to sea and helped him weather the storms of fame and ruin. it's told by the author of a new biography on the famous writer. . >> a man who lead his own insides get eaten out

first, the starkly tense relationship between uganda and the democratic republic of congo. in light of that, do you see a ugandan military as the force leading operations in drc or will we have some of our special forces working with the drc's 391st battalion that was trained by africom? >> thank you very much, representative berman. on the issue of kony militarily, i think we need to focus that the approach is a multifaceted approach. it has to be addressed in the problems with the crisis from the victims who have been -- >> i understand that. >> the other issue is, too, politically is to help the politically, militarily, economically all these countries that are the victim of kony to coordinate much better to go after kony. >> will our forces be working with the democratic republic of congo's 391st battalion? >> that's correct. >> yes? >> yes, that's correct. >> and in that effort -- the state department has trained the 391st, the battalion, that are right now on the border area, the issue of uganda troops in the area -- it has to be a coordination between the drc and the

liberia, congo, the stories you heard from congo, i was in congo. congo is not short of activists.esources. this country has resources. what your short of is activists. [laughter] [applause] >> if you put me in a tiny community in this country, i'll give myself a year, and i would have created a community. [applause] i went to emu, and i'm not kidding you, when you learn to exist in a community, you cannot exist without a community. my sister died in june of 2006. i came back to school in the u.s. in august of 2006. she died when i was driving her to the hospital, and i drove around with her body in the car for three hours and could not cry because i was looking for a place to put that body. i came back to school, and determined that i would not live an isolated life, so the first thing i did was identify every african, and there was not a single liberia in all the africans. those africans were always hungry. my apartment always had food. a community has started. the next thing the african-american men started coming. the arabs came, and before you knew it i was called big mama or

military budget this is the congo and. i would you know i would rather see ten interventions like this and see. you know u.s. troops come out of iraq by december as was promised as in the agreement to see the u.s. troops come out of there in a standby probably fourteen or sooner as people all around the world are expected. so i wouldn't put it on the same play as these other interventions with the u.s. you know involved in directly killing and we're it's very clear that the people of iraq people in afghanistan don't want u.s. troops and i want i want i want i want something else going on in some of these countries around africa and that is a major economic development on the part of china i'm wondering should we make any connection between what's going on with china and its development projects and this new plan on the part of the obama administration well the united states always takes into account. of course you know what's going on in the region and what its interests are. well you know in the case of the intervention i

this area is so huge the resource rich hugely oil rich southern sudan or western uganda north eastern congo huge oil field what happened last time in two thousand eight hundred thousand nine beginning in two thousand and eight the us advised something close encounter contributed a million dollars worth of fuel satellite organized interacted the separation into north eastern congo where there had just been these huge oil discoveries the result reported by i.p.s. the institute for policy studies was six thousand casualties one hundred eighty thousand refugees and when you talk in this region about one hundred eighty thousand refugees you need to go on and ask her may those people are going to die because a lot of the war dead in this region die in i.d.p. internally displaced persons camps or refugee camps of hunger disease or other kinds of birchip. let's check on what's catching your ride r t v dot com this hour there is plenty going on in the world to bring you down our humor online our online humor hub put some satirical perspective on what's going on and for more cutting cartoons check ou

this area is so huge the resource rich hugely oil rich southern sudan or western uganda north eastern congo huge oil field what happened last time in two thousand eighteen thousand and nine the guinean two thousand and the us advised something close operation lightning thunder contributed a million dollars worth of fuel satellite organized interacted this operation into north eastern congo where there had just been these huge oil discoveries the result reported by i.p.s. institute for policy studies was six thousand casualties one hundred eighty thousand refugees and when you talk in this region about one hundred eighty thousand refugees you need to go on and ask her maid of those people are going to die because a lot of the war did in this region die in i.d.p. internally displaced persons camps or refugee camps of hunger disease or other kinds of birchip and sticking with the story publisher and editor in chief of the black star news investigative newspaper milton ali mahdi believes that the u.s. operation to protect civilians may inflict even more casualties. it's a very undetermined an o

hugely resource rich hugely oil rich southern sudan or western uganda eastern congo huge oil field in september there was a conference in kenya building a pipeline to bring the oil from this region out to the indian ocean what good is it going to go again with everything that's gone on with the arab spring that we're seeing in libya that we're seeing in syria at the moment the way the pan out is just the right time to be doing something like this if there's ever a right time of course resumes and all that bit of timing doesn't. yes yes it does and in fact i was speaking to some ugandan friends. in an online forum last week and i suggested that they had been holding these marches walked to where walk to pray about the soaring cost of food and other basic necessities and uganda since the beginning of the year and stage an occupy event so that they would be on the map of how to apply of interest in the world and the response was we're close to having it could in time here are some some kind of a coup within the army and there are police you have only armed with riot gear on every corner

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the white house said they will be sent to sudan and democratic republic of the congo as well u.s. personnel will be on the ground to provide training and not engage the lra forces directly unless it is in self defense. in a letter to congress president obama said i believe in deploying u.s. forces furthers the u.s. national security interests and foreign policy and counter the efforts of the lra in central africa. the soldiers are roming the jungle area. president obama said u.s. troops will help local sources working for the removal of joseph coney from the battlefield. one questioned why he let them know yesterday. >> these are terrorist and keeps a harem of young village girls and impresses small children as child soldiers and requires them to kill their parents. he is a vicious guy and the united states is doing the useful thing here. why the administration to chose to hide this on friday night? >> the white house is following a 2010 lieu where congress supported u.s. effort to eliminate efforts to oppose the threat by the lra. >> reaction coming in about the move to send spec

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this is a reality in the democratic republic of congo.ting the deadliest war since world war ii are funded through the trade of high-value minerals that tech companies use in our phones, video games and laptop computers. you've heard of blood diamonds. these are conflict minerals and it needs to change. frank paulson, director of the new documentary blood in the mobile joins me now. you spent three years covering this story. you say 1 million people die in the congo every three months is equal to the number of people killed in haiti's earthquake which really puts the problem in perspective. first what did you see when you went down into these mines where this material is gathered? >> i mean this place is hell on earth. it is deep in the jungle and it is controlled by warlords. they worked several hundred meters underground for several days and dig out these minerals we use to create mobile phones. >> and how many hours are these children down there and do they even understand that they're caught in the middle of this? >> well, i mean the

first, the historically tense relationship between uganda and democratic republic of congo, in light91st battalion that was trained by africom? >> thank you very much, congressman berman. on the issue of kony militarily, i think we need to focus the approach as a multifaceted conferences approach not only militarily but it has to be also addressing the problems with the victims who have -- >> i understand that, but -- >> the other is politically, to help militarily, and militarily, economically all of these countries that are victims of kony to courtney much better to go after kony. >> will our forces be working with the democratic republic of congo 391st battalion? >> yes, that's correct. and in that effort we have, state department has trained 391st battalion, they are right now on the border area. the issue of uganda troops in the area come it has to be a coronation between drc in the ugandan troops. the issue of sovereignty is to coordinate the work between those two forces at how they will corner of kony's forces and how they would eliminate. the issue is, i will give you an exa

, central africa, congo, parts of uganda.decision on a bipartisan piece of legislation coming out of congress that if we could help through advice and assistance, not putting americans into combat, to help the countries of the region end this threat once and for all, then that was a worthwhile investment. we need to make the distinction where we send advisers and trainers which we have in many different parts of the world that are not engaged in combat, as is the case here, from actual combat. in the case of libya, let us also recall that not a single american soldier was deployed. on the ground. not a single boot on the ground. all that we accomplished, and it was a great deal, was accomplished in the first instance by diplomacy and second instance by a coalition of nato and arab partners that employed air power and we contributed enormously to that in the early days and subsequently and intelligence throughout and accomplished a mission that some said wouldn't be accomplished without boots on the ground. there's more than o

. >> international observers are warning the security in the democratic of congo has been deteriorating. two have been killed already. they say they are stroking their alliance from any i netta, and that despite spending cuts. >> and king abdullah has named a successor after the death of his brother, the crown prince. last week. >> and now news of a -- we use the word thrilling too often in sports. >> you can use that word with impunity. it was almost the gridiron score, 10- against the texas rangers in game six of baseball's world series. head to win to keep the world series alive. it's 3-3 going into friday's decisive game seven. that's a local boy as well to make the schedule more terrific. queuing massive celebration on philadelphia? . they were down during that game. he said keep it simple. it's a tense moment. he's a local lad. he says remember baseball is a simple game and it's exactly the same game i played when i was a 6-year-old. >> we tied that up. we just kept battling. we have to find our team, the way we kept coming back. we've been doing that for a long time. and -- >> so

richmond, virginia, see modern sculpture as long the african art that inspired them at visions from the congo. at the virginia museum of fine arts. that's your "early today" event of the day. >> thanks so much. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. turns out johnny depp's role in the upcoming "21 jump street" movie may not be a cameo. he may be resurrecting the role. cast and crew are under strict orders to keep details a secret. >>> under the heading of the rich getting richer, expectant mother beyonce has announced plans for a new line of maternity clothes, of course, under her fashion label. >>> expect more stories about problems between ashton cusper and demi moore after "us weekly" detailed interview with the 22-year-old woman who claims to have spent the night with kutcher on his and moore's sixth wedding anniversary. so shady. >>> and finally, scarlett johansson's embarrassing nude photo leak has apparently been solved. the fbi has arrested a florida man who allegedly hacked into numerous celebrity phones and then distributed photos and informat

and i came in on this i said anna from the congo you know i know she was there, but we didn't have anyt she had done. >> right. >> when we uncovered the story how this little tiny lady was dragging wounded gis, under fire wearing an american u.s. army uniform we have to go further with this. >>> michael 600,000 u.s. troops involved, 81,000 americans died over this period, has now the story been told are our kids learning what they need to know about these great sacrifices. >> i don't think so in a way history in schools are being shoved off everyone is talking about science, technology, engineering which are fine they are great but if you don't know your history you will repeat it as they say and i believe not only for the battle of the bulge but world war ii in general, what these great veterans did, both men and women, is almost income pro hencable they lived through the depeg then had to go to war -- depression and then had to go to war and come home especially for many of them who didn't speak they went back to what they knew. to get these stories you can never get complete stories

other american trainers will be deployed to the democratic republic of congo, central african republicd south sudan. president obama was in michigan today, trying to leverage the government's bailout of the auto industry, into political support and some crucial rust belt states in this country. nbc's kristen welker with us tonight from lake orion in michigan. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: good evening, brian. as you know not everyone liked the auto bailout but the workers at this gm plant did. they say it saved this plant and also saved about 1,700 jobs. the auto bailout really one of the few economic success stories of this administration can point to. now earlier today, south korean president lee donned a detroit tigers cap as both seemed to be on a campaign style tour of the plant. in addition to the bailout, the leaders touted the trade agreements, which congress passed this week. today the president called it a win for the united states and for south korea. now some labor leaders have said that the agreements could cost jobs, but the administration projects that it could act

know you come from congo if you're going to be not over there is it because you're under don't want to argue that this is our land this is my gun then no this is my ground that i don't know. the real happiness with a shotgun. ok. was i not. vote for samir for that he. really no i hear what's happening he doesn't look no he does not one for no receipt here is something we have known in the darkest day of history then did it. finish ever said i didn't know i would no one told me i did not know i didn't know i didn't know of course at the top no because they did not want to know my main complaint my main scream like me. is how in the government who ordered this because you see crazy extremists fundamentalists you have in every society. the problem is how much power do they have and how much freedom do they have for implement their crazy ideas their violently yes a vicious a but here back up they all exist but here a little if all this. here on your list take camp you take them all but if you don't touch me why do you want me to stop what do you want me to stop this is not respect you call

a couple hundred yards from this office and find a pretty decent well congo phillips is the largest producer in the san juan basin and they look at the total between our work force directly and indirectly for the forest it's about a person the local population so we're a very large employer in the basin. industry has brought jobs and money to the. but for gilbert our mentor the price is pretty much too high. and this gate will be the gate to enter into my property the old company had me completely locked out for two and a half years and the only way they would give me a key. is if i agreed to keep the gate locked at all times. illness three has the mentality that. it's all theirs and don't belong to nobody else. and that's what they tell us when they come off the grill here on our land that it's ours and you're in our way. we just think the good neighbor program was something that was somewhat elementary interest respect because if you don't two things will happen first is the government will regulate and a lot of times regulated out of business and second is the mexico becomes an unfriendly

americans have arrived in the region that includes south sudan-- scene of a long-running civil war-- and congo, the sight of the deadliest conflict since world war ii. today we sat down with the defense secretary, leon panetta, and he told us the americans will train local forces to fight terrorists, including al qaeda. you're sending 100 troops in, roughly, is that the beginning of many more? >> obviously we are all very careful about making sure that no mission like this expands beyond limits and that we keep a tight rein and for the moment this is more than adequate to meet the mission we're assigned. >> why now? >> the longer you delay, the longer you avoid trying to provide assistance there, the more dangerous these groups become and the greater the instability that develops there. >> pelley: did you have reason to believe that this part of central africa was becoming a haven for terrorism? >> there are elements there that either have ties to al qaeda or that represent the forces of terrorists among their own and that's what's dangerous. >> pelley: a lot of folks at home would be concerne

we trained the design of the democratic republic of congo. we're providing equipment to the armed forces of the central african republic and supporting the uganda's people support force. so it can maintain its presence in somalia. we believe that despite the assistance they will benefit from the capacity to process information on the information. -- location from leaders and convert it into operational plans. the u.s. advisers point to the operation. they have the right skill sets to help with the shortfalls. there is a specific timing to the deployment. it was predicated on the availability of the pre u.s. -- appropriate u.s. forces. forces. >> thank you. >> maybe we will get to the rest of it. >> i have not measure the success. >> thank you very much. thank you to both of you for excellent testimony. we will begin our questions and answers segment now. i wanted to ask you if the president's report to the congress transmited consistent with the war powers resolution trigger the authorization requirements under section 4 of the war powers res