and we want to start in sudan's darfur region.ere the government officials there say that a captured vulture is part of an israeli spy mission. nema al bagger is following the story for us. and i asked her, just what evidence do the sudanese officials have to give their claim any support. >> ashleigh, after that deadly strike on the sudanese weapons factory back in october, which sudan blamed on israel, it did look like relations between the two countries couldn't get any worse but it appears this, in fact, can. the griffin vulture migrates en route through israel and the ecologists have been tagging the bird for years, but when a bird fell to earth in sudan's western darfur region, local authorities were a bit perturbed to find hebrew righting and a tracker on the wing and promptly declared to the local press that the gps tracking devices were clearly the latest in mossad spyware. we have no word on the bird's current whereabouts. ashleigh? >> bashar al assad fired four scud range missiles at rebel fighters today according to u.s

the christmas miracle offering, the church has built 243 schools and 19 clean water facilities in darfurealth clinic in south sudan. he says children have been among the most enthusiastic supporters. >> that's one of the things that surprised me the most. i really thought we were going get pushback from kids, that kids would not understand this. and what happened was the kids began to worry that if they got presents, other children would die. i was shocked. >> the church also supports several projects to help the local community, which has been hard hit by the economic downturn. there are ged programs, jobs programs, and food pantries. marcia florkey directs the church's outreach ministry called "new path." >> we've been really blessed because we have a lot of folks here who are really concerned about their neighbors, who really want to do all they can do to love their neighbors. >> in recent years, several international humanitarian organizations have been sponsoring projects to help others at christmas time. for example, through operation christmas child, samaritan's purse urges people

uprising in darfur so. just pulling their order to make sure that they can contain a warning as a regional homered that's correct ok ok but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is been heightening his auntie iran rhetoric and tehran is doing the same to israel can this circle be broken by either side. yeah there is another factor another very important factor i mean you know. israelis have always saying that it won't is somehow. also. they are saying that you are nice and not. all who are they or exaggerate you ring in defense in order to reassure americans to come along and to forget you want you know where you can't stop the rain in peace or nuclear technology. i think what would have to leave it there i'm afraid we have to leave it there thanks for joining us there mohammed sun conny with those thoughts from the faculty of political science and islamic studies at the best thank you. doctors and nurses are once again on the streets calling for plans to privatized hospitals to be scrapped striking but

darfur, sudan, the question arises, is it genocide? does it meet the terms of genocide as a legal matter? do we lose something by not causing -- by not calling it genocide? it has been argued by some at the powers that the word was avoided by longtime by powerful countries because they did not want to incur an obligation to intervene in cases of genocide. there has also been the argument that the use of the word genocide can cover too many situations. there is some interesting writing on this by judges, seeing that there is not a hierarchy of crime. genocide, while it might be the crime of crimes, in fact, crimes against humanity, things like that can be as bad or worse. it is illegal category -- a legal category. having that said, i think it is inevitable that people are drawn to and concern about this debate. i think there is room for academic research. i think we have relatively little empirical knowledge about how important these words actually are. do people react differently when you talk about slavery versus trafficking? i am su

our goal is to put in place policies that will have the kind of certainty that will encourage our darfur creators, and courage of those out there seeking to pick the would-encourage our job creators and encourage those seeking -- will encourage those of their seeking jobs. thank you. >> mr. speaker, today we are watching and it tends to perpetuate a hoax. for everybody watching, to not bother to take notes. no need to call the family to see history being made here. just move along. nothing happening here. we have a plan that comes nowhere close to be a solution to the fiscal cliff. it has no chance whatever of coming off. the process that brought us here has been equally shameful. we are the greatest democracy on earth. it has been painful on the occurrence -- painful to watch the majority played their assigned roles pretended what we did last night was normal and legitimate. last night, we saw the youth greatest miscarriage of justice in the democratic process in mind time on the rules committee. the majority decided to cobble together a last-minute legislation on a wing and a prayer. l

i cover somalia, darfur.re else things are changing or getting a bit better in some cases. congo has stayed the same for almost ten years and that same is very disturbing state of anarchy. >> ironically, congo has enormous national resources, is a beautiful, lush country, right? >> yeah, it's spectacular. it is really one of the most beautiful places i've been anywhere. just last week, there was a huge volcano with streams of smoke shooting out of it. it's very lush. it's very fertile. the lakes are beautiful. the environment is clean. it's blessed with mineral riches, gold, timber, copper. diamonds, just about everything. that's part of the reason why we're seeing this fight. the u.s. government has tried to get their hands around this by passing this resource conflict legislation that tries to get their arms around better regulating the minerals that come out of congo. that hasn't really worked. it's not purely a mineral issue. it's a lot of power and control and politics. that's why this is so complicated

protesting the genocide in darfur and we shared time in a cell two times together. a lot of people don't expect john to be involved in that type of protest but he was there he was there because he thought it was important and he thought it was important that the world know that people are watching. -- are watching what was happening in darfur and sudan. he's thought me a lot and i value his friendship very much and i'm going to be his new congressman so i expect i will hear from him on a regular basis. as for barney, i will miss him like everyone here very, very much. when i was an aide to joe smoke lee in the early 1980's, no matter who joe moakley was speaking with, he'd have the tv on watching the proceedings on c-span. when barney came to the floor, he'd tell everybody to shut up, be quiet, listen, this is boing to be good. he would increase the volume an everybody would watch barney frank in action. there is no one i enjoy, there's no one i think most of my colleagues enjoy seeing debate on the floor more than barney frank and i would say that there's probably

he has helped fund schools in darfur in refugee camps, now belongs to a satellite project with george clooney. mr. prendergast has worked for peace in africa for well over a quarter of a century. then we will hear from mvemba dizolele, who is a visiting fellow at stanford university's hoover institution, and professor, lecture and african studies at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. mr. dizolele has testified several times before the congress. his work has appeared frequently in many major news publications, and he is a frequent commentator on african affairs on television and radio. he served as election monitor in the drc in 2006, and again in 2011. and has also been indicted with united nations peacekeepers as a reporter. in addition, he is a veteran of the united states marine corps. thank you for your service. and i'd like to now go to steve hege. >> chairman smith, ranking member bass, and members of the subcommittee on africa's global health and human rights, thank you for this invitation to testify at the scene on the current crisis in eastern

that are happening in these images are actually stilli still happening today in syria and egypt and darfurges of the american south with the two different water fountains, the colored water fountain and the whites only water fountain. and we think about that as some odd historical curiosity. that only went out of existence 50 or 60 years ago. apartheid is a much more recent story. >> my photo class came here really to broaden our perspective on photography and politics and just humanity in general. because that will influence how we seat world. >> when you're seeing the terrified faces of all these people that are going through the protests, and all the people being carried off bloody after being shot by police in peaceful protests, it just shows the world that ignorance really does have its own effect. >> by looking at the images you can kind of see the raw emotions, the expresses of the people, and you could feel what they're feeling and feel their pain, see their anxiety. >> growing up with a white parent and a black parent, it's kind of different for me to see that it's so hard for the