none of this was ever for the congolese. of these buildings, except as help. not even allowed to walk their own streets after dark. not a lot of dependable electric power left in the city, but what lights do glow around town, much of it comes from places like this -- small kiosks serving the congolese version of barbecue and what passes for cold beer. christian is one of our fixers, tasked with keeping us on track and out of trouble. which, believe me, is a big job around here. you know, it's an amazing-looking city, if you blur your vision a bit, you can see it the way it used to be. >> beautiful. i think it could be the best place to live. very kind people. people like listening to music, sitting, taking their meals, eating. >> what's the congolese word for barbecue? >> barbecue. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> i like any meat on a grill. it's looking good. grilled goat, with a traditional stew on the side. >> now we're talking. >> roasted, put some sauce in there. >> that's delicious. >> as you can see, people don't eat meat. me

and after 75 years, the congolese had had enough. but independence came quickly.st democratically elected leader, the cia and the british working through the belgians, had him killed. we helped to install this miserable bastard in his place -- joseph mobutu, he stole billions of dollars from his people and pretty much became the template for despotism in africa. needless to say, this situation deteriorated over the next 30-odd years, and by the time he was done, the congo was mired in a series of civil wars, the government was no longer paying its bills, and the trains basically stopped running. this is kisangani station. there's one short run left. service once a week, when operational, which isn't often, i'm guessing. abandoned by the belgians, shot up and stripped by the rebels in the '90s, the station, the engines, the ancient passenger cars, and the tracks themselves, have slowly receded into the jungle. and yet all these years later, with hardly any resources, alub emile, the railway administrator and a staff of clerks, conductors, mechanics and engineers sh

and after 75 years, the congolese had had enough.ated their first democratically elected leader, the cia working through the belgians had him killed. we helped to install this miserable bastard in his place. he stole billions of dollars from his people and pretty much became the template for despotism in africa. needless to say, this situation deteriorated over the next 30-odd years, and by the time he was done, the congo was mired in a series of civil wars, the government was no longer paying its bills, and the trains basically stopped running. this is kissagani station. there's one short run left. service, once a week when operational, which isn't often, i'm guessing. abandoned by the belgians, shot up and stripped by rebels in the '90s, the station, the engines, the ancient passenger cars and the tracks themselves have slowly receded into the jungle. with hardly any resources, the railway administrator and a staff of clerks, conductors, mechanics and engineers show up at work and do what they can in an attempt to keep things in wo

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and after 75 years, the congolese had had enough. independence came quickly.tically elected leader, the cia working through the belgians had him killed. we helped to install this miserable bastard in his place. joseph mibutu. he stole billions of dollars from his people and pretty much became the template for despotism in africa. needless to say, this situation deteriorated over the next 30-odd years, and by the time he was done, the congo was mired in a series of civil wars, the government was no longer paying its bills, and the trains basically stopped running. this is kissangani station. there's one short run left. service, once a week when operational, which isn't often, i'm guessing. abandoned by the belgians, shot up and stripped by rebels in the '90s, the station, the engines, the ancient passenger cars and the tracks themselves have slowly receded into the jungle. and yet all these years later with hardly any resources, the railway administrator and a staff of clerks, conductors, mechanics and engineers show up at work and do what they can in an attemp

and after 75 years, the congolese had had enough.eir first democratically elected leader, the cia working through the belgians had him killed. we helped to install this miserable bastard in his place. he stole billions of dollars from his people and pretty much became the template for despotism in africa. needless to say, this situation deteriorated over the next 30-odd years, and by the time he was done, the congo was mired in a series of civil wars, the government was no longer paying its bills, and the trains basically stopped running. this is kissagani station. there's one short run left. service, once a week when operational, which isn't often, i'm guessing. abandoned by the belgians, shot up and stripped by rebels in the '90s, the station, the engines, the ancient passenger cars and the tracks themselves have slowly receded into the jungle. and yet all these years later with hardly any resources, the railway administrator and a staff of clerks, conductors, mechanics and engineers show up at work and do what they can in an attem

that have been brought here from the all congolese region and reconstructed piece by piece now the village has almost two hundred visitors a day from all over the world. back at home it was time for me to start my holiday properly. but first things first of course. so with fresh. yes. he. told me. that meant grabbing a couple of buckets and heading out sawing know the jury is running water for me. they tell me it's clean apparently it's pretty. handy stuff. now that i had my water i needed to boil it up. on a fine. old stove. everything seemed to be going so well. until we have one small problem. and. it's now clean water. and i happen to be living in a massive pile of kindling. i think maybe time to win this some help. i decided that burning my house down was probably not the best way to india myself to the locals so i headed into town to meet one of them and find out a little bit more about the mundra the way of life. hello james where are we going well this is our old village very happy to see you here all of our houses were built in the nineteenth century. they were brought here from t

you're right in the congolese capitol last night. is exe expected to arrive in the eastern city today. also expected to visit rowanda and uganda neighboring countries who are both accused of supporting the m23 rebels though both countries deny it. they will come back to congo having the leaders in both those country its to make some progress in resolving the conflict. it's not clear what the u.n.'s position is now that the rebels are further away. they are talking about peace talks and diplomacy but in the last few weeks they are with a military solution by trying to defeat the rebels. >> all right. thanks so much. walmalcolm webs webb there. >>> just south after the president has the previous government. she is the second woman to become prime minister. she was justice minister in the corruption case golfing senior officials. >> japan's government said it will take a more direct role in the fukushima disaster. on sunday it revealed radiation levellevel soared near the cheml water. they say it can kill a person in hours if they are n

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director of the gaza-based palestinian center for human rights, congolese wege, andist denis muk .hiswas agronomist hans herren awardsout annually, the are widely known as the alternative nobel prize. they will be given out in the swedish parliament in december. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. 30 activists with greenpeace remain jailed in russia and face possible parsi charges one week after they were detained during a peaceful protest against arctic oil drilling. many of the greenpeace activists are appearing in a russian court today. a freelance photographer and a greenpeace spokesperson have just been ordered to be jailed for two months in september 18 greenpeace activists attempted to scare russia's first arctic offshore oil platform. a nearby russian coast guard ship with agents mask on board responded. the russians proceeded to ram theflash -- slash greenpeace inflatable boats. they deta

happen boy what happened to the constitutional principle that congress has the power to make war congolese a rice during the bush administration laid out a strong argument along with president bush that mr assad was a butcher it was mr obama has let him congress to get a third he too would be arrested or obama in his campaign that said we needed to sit down with mr assad in. sit down with butchers but this president signaled to mr assad that we were going to reset and we were going to try new measures of communication to reach our options by doing that he told emboldened to engage in all manner of butchery that he has continued on if you want to stop the bloodshed the president and may go forward with this strike but what you don't meet and what he hasn't done is make the case that congress is this is there for that process and i think it's for that reason that it's likely to fail when the house of representatives. well listen this is a disaster a record of success in middle east interventions right now is zero zero i mean even our success country we put up there tunisia is having problems

it is working with a congolese government that is still very weak and sometimes follows fairly dangerousicies towards its neighbors. of themeantime, many congo neighbors including rwanda are still interfering in internal in fares in the country. in u.s. has a massive task trying to maintain some sort of stability especially in the eastern congo. that has made some progress. momentas a very unhappy when un peacekeepers were unable to stop rebels seizing the city of goma in the east of the country last november. the un peacekeepers stayed in the city to protect civilians and their presence did save lives but nonetheless, it was humiliating for the un to see the peacekeepers pushed aside by the rebels in that way. what the un has done response is quite bold. it has set up a new brigade within the peacekeeping force. the peacekeeping forces around 20,000 personnel. this brigade is just 3000. those 3000 troops have a special mandate to go and attack the rebels, to neutralize the , through and try force, resulted problem of militias and disorder in the eastern congo. that is a risky mandate. i

it is working with a congolese government that is still very weak and sometimes follows fairly dangerousuding rwanda are still interfering in internal in fares in the country. the u.s. has a massive task in trying to maintain some sort of stability especially in the eastern congo. that has made some progress. there was a very unhappy moment when un peacekeepers were unable to stop rebels seizing the city of goma in the east of the country last november. the un peacekeepers stayed in the city to protect civilians and their presence did save lives but nonetheless, it was humiliating for the un to see the peacekeepers pushed aside by the rebels in that way. what the un has done response is quite bold. it has set up a new brigade within the peacekeeping force. the peacekeeping forces around 20,000 personnel. this brigade is just 3000. those 3000 troops have a special mandate to go and attack the rebels, to neutralize the militias, and try, through force, resulted problem of militias and disorder in the eastern congo. that is a risky mandate. it is one that is not popular with many un officia