on religion, the middle east and north africa have the highest scores in both regions. one of the findings is that the restrictions, government restrictions on region in the middle east and north africa, were on the rise in the years before the revolution called arab spring. we do not make a claim that the restrictions on religion coming from governments and their tightening was the cause of arab spring. it's an important part of the context to understand the forces active in the region today. as we looked at the data. and different religious groups that were impacted by the restrictions and hostilities one interesting finding in the middle east and north africa, was that muslims themselves faced harassment from government and others in society in a larger share of countries than did christians or jews. so it's often the minority faiths, the minority muslim groups in a country that are facing the problem. so it could be the sunnis in a difference majority country. one question we looked at in our data is whether or not government restrictions are self re-enforcing. do mo

baltimore ravens wide receiver and a former teammate from when he was with the cardinals are in east africa bringing awareness about food crisis. >> we will hear from them via skype and leto now -- let you know about their mission. >>> health news could the secret to shedding pounds lie in your morning cup of coffee. details coming up next. >> also video this morning of a family desperately trying to escape a fire. the wild fire going on in colorado. lynette. >> and the wind is acting like a bad house gets. it won't -- guest. it won't leave. details coming up. >> reporter: and another incident on i-95. coming, we will check your drive coming in from harford county on the north side this morning. >> reporter: in today's tech bites it appears facebook is getting radity to first public sale of the stock. the social network has asked for a halt to the private trading of the shares and plans to hold the initial public offering in may. it is expected to be the biggest internet ipo ever. living social customers can now order take out food without using the phone. the site is launching the service

east style protests in china. it just want to get more on the situation regarding west africa. talks of -- from of them about as many as a million people facing -- children facing starvation. thomas, thank you so much for being with us. what is the single biggest problem that you face? >> first of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about the food security crisis. the biggest single cut chip -- challenge we are facing now is to find enough resources to be able to meet the food needs of more than 8 million people. that is our target for the coming months. >> and the time frame -- we are talking about a humanitarian catastrophe potentially. what is the time frame? >> actually our program will rollout essentially -- we started for early this year -- started earlier this year it to assist someone vulnerable groups, especially children. but we have plans for general food distribution, starting from april, which is the beginning of the season in the african region. >> given what we saw last year in east africa, given what our correspondent was saying moments ago, the

so i think in the data looking at middle east and north africa and then some of the other countries that mohammed was speaking about including turkey, which is out by our measures, outside the middle east and north africa and pakistan, we see wide -- >> you'd like to think so, anyway. >> we do it by geographic -- >> sure. >> designation. so, yeah. nothing implied in the designations. so in those three countries, there was wide variation in government restrictions, and ironically in tunisia it wasict were lower than in the neighboring countries. n libya and in egypt, and higher and increasing and tunisia, that's why it came as somewhat of a surprise to many people that these revolutions started there. there wasn't as much of a strong government clampdown, and then turkey falls somewhere in the middle in terms of government restrictions on religion, keeping sort of a -- at least by our measures, somewhat of a high but not very high level of restrictions on religion, but in pakistan, contrary to the previous two, have very high restrictions coming from the government and also very high soci

as transport improves and human movement becomes more efficient, hip thinks its way to east africa uganda and kenya men are not circumcised over there from a different ethnic tradition so they come from her the nile valley. and millions of men are not circumcised so in that population it is explosive now instead of one or 2% sometimes as high as 20%. look at a country like kenya that has one ethnic group that does not circumcise retain a but everybody else does. the hip rate among kenya adults but the other is 20% it is a catastrophe around lake victoria and the area where the center of learning the president's father, the area is devastated. in southern africa all of the group's would have circumcised 200 years ago but now that tradition and goes into decline. some is the rise of modern life and being away from home. but in southern africa you lose circumcision traditions and they get the of regis hiv rates. to go to bet gay community it is less of an issue because it anal sex which is much more in issue to spread it they and vaginal sex. '70s and '80s you have a culture where men have m

joining us live odds are you from east africa thank you for coming on the program today you've covered events in bahrain from inside the country that you've seen how the doctors who are on trial how they were treating protesters what are the medics being accused by the authorities. we're going to use on this there are three million period over in the soviet invasion and the crowd. approves this is a peaceful cruises and they do which is being in the hospital. the doctors the nurses the scales and they were doing and mind. the experience. with hundreds of thousands of people coming in with internal injuries from. own rules to ask. this incident involving the regime isn't particularly want you to them that it is because they or the final witness is really who it is are issues of human rights then who. says go to war burn any regime or so there's an. instant peaceful civilian difference religion in the way we did in the middle east must be and must be continued and i think that's what what's behind this is. going to say it isn't just wishful should be true i don't see children ok such as

the middle east. africa. all of them cannot despise their resistance. despite their refusal stop that march of death. despite their resistance. communists repressives. zionists and anarchists. none can evade the march. this one is not coming with hammer and sickles . all wars surrender to. but when comes the cry? when will it really happen as death is peace? when can i truly die. you will never know yet you may have already and this life is your way of paying hommage to the power that loves and you left you with the taste of immortality on your lips. nothing mystical. no cries. power, your way. or buddha in the wings. even lying on your back, you are mocking. this is not a cynical, or pessimist or neonnist poem. join deaths to your life and you will live as if there 1 drum to march to. there is no march at all. you are there. all will be well for all. [applause]. >> >> >> >> [music] ♪[applause] thank you. >> thank you for applauding. never know. [laughter]. so, these next few pieces are jewish art songs the jewish art song is not something that most peo

it never got to the explosive levels he later saw in east africa and southern africa or in the united states or europe. there are different reasons for both of those things and i'll take them one at a time. in the congo, anything in subsahara can opt -- sub-saharan africa boys are circumcised either at birth or when they go through -- and that is a deep and ancient tradition among many african societies and muslims. in the places where male circumcision of was routine, hiv never got beyond one, maybe two or 3% of adults getting it because the is much more vulnerable to hiv than other parts of the man's body. as a consequence, you have a persistent low-level simmering epidemic in the congo basin. as the years go on and as human movement continues to become more efficient, hiv makes its way over to east africa and rwanda, uganda and parts of coastal places like victorian in those places men are not circumcised. they have a different tradition rather than coming over from nigeria or west africa. they came from down the nile valley and so you have millions of men who are not circumcised s

it had never got into the kind of levels you salt in east africa and southern africa or the community in the united states and europe and there's different reasons for both of those and i will take them one at a time. so, the congo and in most of sub-saharan africa boys are circumcised either at birth or they go to the initiation ceremony of adolescents, and that is as deep and ancient tradition in this society is as it is for muslims, and in the places where male circumcision was routine, hiv never got beyond one or two or 3% because the foreskin is much more vulnerable to hiv and other parts of a man's body and as a consequence, you have a persistent low level epidemic in the basis. as the years go on and the transports moving into the movement continues to become more efficient, hiv makes its way over to east africa into ugonda closest to lake victoria and in those places men are circumcised and that is because they are from a different ethnic tradition rather than coming over from nigeria and west africa they came from sudan and down the nile valley so you have millions of men cir

policy should be like in africa nowadays in my opinion the urgency for the u.s. east to foster business relationship when partnership kind of a partnership with these growing economically growing countries africa is a market of one billion comes potential consumers which could be an opportunity for american companies but also for africans and sell because they believe that by doing business we can also tackle a lot of issues so when you see that nowadays only two percent of american foreign trade or outflows are going to africa only two percent are three hundred billion which is nothing i mean and most of them go to an extractive minerals sector but for me it's not really relevant compared to the reality of the continent and interest has a lot of entrepreneurialism really. and that's what i would like to see it seems to me once again we go back to perceptions i really like what julie had to say here because again this documentary film makes africa look like a completely hopeless broken down place that just needs to be rescued and julie saying really just the opposite

. >>> bold season heading to east africa tomorrow raising awareness about drought and salmon affecting3 million people across the region. he will be traveling with a former teammate, larry fitzgerald who, is a wide receiver for the arizona cards. they will be there for four days. in november they taped a public service announcement about the growing r relief funds in the region. >>> are you tared tired of working? nobody won the mega millions. we will let you know what is going to happen. be $356 million. the cash option, $255 million, not too shabby. the drawing is tomorrow night. let's go in on tickets. we can split $355 million. >> we would be black and blue, people would beat us up in here. let's talk about black and blue, let's talk about blue on the map. you can see in the northern tier states, that's where we are seeing the blue colder temperatures, that will trickle down in to our area, colder air coming in from canada as we move through the overnight. for today, we will deal with the breezy weather as well. now, not too breezy , the winds north at 3 miles an hour, baltimore, 7

to the contrary, in east africa, drought and famine. so i would like to extend my sincere condolences and sympathy to the victims of all those natural disasters. we talk about march 11, at the tsunami and the nuclear power accident. japan has faced tremendous difficulties. but with your compassion and support and encouragement, japan is now on the the way to recovery and reconstruction. [applause] thank you very much. thank you. with your determination and prayers, and again, support and friendship and from you, we will overcome this tremendous difficulty. thank you is again for your help, and thank you. [applause] i would like to extend my gratitude to the mayor. thank you. >> what a beautiful tree, and while we have the children gathering, i want to read one of the minute -- many wishes we got on the origami. it says i wish for a world for our children more just, more fair, and more kind than the one we know now, president barack obama. [applause] i think they're just about gathered. you will tell me when. this is the chinese-american

baltimore ravens wide receiver is taking a trip to east east africa. he is traveling with a former player, fitzgerald. tebow will will be introduced as a new york jet. jets have scheduled a press conference for today at the new jersey facility, ryan hinted that tebow may take on another role besides quarterback. today's first lady, michelle obama will welcome school children to joint her for the white house kitchen gardens spring planting. it's the first since roosevelt's wartime victory garden. >>> it will be a good day for gardening. tonight, that's when it's not so good. for all of the gardening that was done previously, things could be killed. i hate to say ta, we have the freeze warning that's in effect for all the light blue color. for southern baltimore, also arundel county sp howard county, viewing area here, under a freeze watch as we go through late evening in to tomorrow morning. things aren't looking so good. i will show you the freezing temperature in a second. we are not looking although any type of freezing. we are mild this morning as w

women there and in east africa wear cloth garments called kongas. the old ways are on proud display. we have the report. >> reporter: streets of konga the traditional clothes. not just in clothes, but scarves, wrapping and sleeves. one of the places where they buy their konga is here, downtown. one konga costs about $3. customers check the color, design and also this, a phrase written on the edge. the printed message is usually a proverb. it can be spiritual, humorous or personal. they are often given as gifts. times are changing, though. many young women buy the traditional clothing old fashioned. she wears western dress where she goes to work in the city. when she gets home, she changes into her airy, comfortable wrap. >> translator: i look like a country girl when i wear one in public. >> reporter: she keeps one special konga passed down from her mother. >> translator: i always wanted children but it was difficult. when i finally had a daughter, my mother gave this to me. >> her mother had been worried about her. she expressed her love with a kon

. >>> baltimore ravens said that anquam boldin is heading to east africa. he wants to raise awareness of drought and famine. he'll travel with his former teammate larry fitzgerald. they will begin the four day trip next week. in november, the two players publicked a 30 second public service announcement about the need for funds for the region. >>> the fbi is going back to the scene today where human remains were found in texas the remains have been there for a long time and they're heavily decomposed. there's speculation they belong tie teenager, haley dunn. she disappeared in 2010. it could take about a week to make the identification. >>> no word when that caused a huge fire at a marina in san diego. officials said that nine boats caught on fire, five of them destroyed and four damages. the total cost about $1.3 million. fortunately, in one hurt in the fire. it doesn't appear to be suspicious. >>> it's easy to get a few bees if you have them in your house. but 25,000 bees? that seems like a big problem. and that is what a tennessee man had to deal with. w

. >>> ravens wide receiver anquam boldin is taking a trip to east africa to raise awareness about thelack of water and famine in that region. >>> children from henryville, indiana will be going back to school. >>> time for a check on the weather what is going on? >>> it's good that indiana is try for today. but back off in the west, there's a big plume of moisture. and the big plume will slide off in the east. and could reach us as we go into the weekend where we have the chance for more showers and thunderstorms. we zoom in around the carolinas and also virginia. that is what is popping up there. but closer to home, we're dealing with lots of fog. and that will be scenario as we go through the remainder of the morning and early afternoon. so visibility is reduced four miles in baltimore and dealing with one in a lot of spots this morning. so take it easy on the roadways. future trend picking up on a couple of isolated showers in the afternoon, especially if we get more sunshine a little early. and we'll do it all again as we go into thursday. hour by hour, it brings our temperature a

they got president obama on them and others you know to put one hundred military advisors into east africa and central africa to pursue fields of quality by supporting the regional militaries and i think that this is just their attempt i think it was probably somewhat ok unfortunate in the information that they gave which i agree with i always very out of date ok i'm going to do with it they're going to be hidden agenda and i'd like to i think there is a hidden agenda and we'll talk about those advisors that would you go to the end of last year but jeff if i have if i can ask you stay with you just before we go to paris i mean are you disturbed by this good guy bad guy bad guy approach of the documentary because he's getting government ten years ago i was most would say we're not good guys in these conflicts ok and i was well i think you are sorry and that was whitewashed in this documentary why i don't think it was about the ugandan government this is not invisible children is an activist group that has been very much focused on joseph koni and so i think it's fine for other groups who ha

this stage and i'd be happy later to discuss subregion increases, in particular with regard to east africa, northeast africa, south asia. first i'm going to switch to talk about the situation with regards to the suppliers. the headline here is really that it seems that not much has changed. the same five major suppliers continue to dominate, that is the u.s. followed by russia, germany, france and the uk. although they remain the same, their share of the international trade is declining. i guess there are some caveats there. we think that israel is probably underestimated in our rankings and accountings. outside the top ten there's a number of noneuropean suppliers that are merging as major competitors on the international arms trade. they're competing not just against each other but more established players, for example, south korea, south africa and brazil. but i think those of you who have hopefully seen the data, china is not one of them. to the volume of chinese imports has been declining but the volume of exports has increased by about 95% between the two periods we're paccing about.

are severely malnourished and oxfam claims the world waited too long to respond to the problem in east africa and cannot wait as long this time for help in sahel. fighting goes on in the area and the cash they earn helping help the buy food if it's available. oxfam says a far greater effort is needed across this region if a potential catastrophe is to be avoided. mike woman ridge, "bbc world news." >> the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami will be marked. it was one year ago that a huge tsunami struck off the coast of japan. a year on, how the st. -- thousands are still missing. the bbc's roman burke has been to see the recovery efforts there. >> this is the new sea wall built to replace the one that was smashed. a pine forest once stood here, but it was knocked down. the tsunami was so big, it went right over the top of those buildings and left a waste land high into the valley as far as the eye can see. so what have they been doing over the past year? clearing up, gathering the debris and eremains of the town into huge piles of concrete and metal. the police are sti

the charity says the international community waited too long to respond in east africa, and the same be allowed to happen again. and now, after 60 years on the throne, queen elizabeth has begun her diamond jubilee tour of the u.k. >> that's absolutely right, rico. crowds lined the street of lester to welcome her majesty, and as an added bonus, the duchess of cambridge was there for the festivities as well. nicolas was there, too. a warning, his report does contain some flash photography. >> 10 years ago, the jubilee got off to a comparatively slow start. that wasn't the story today. the people of lester, a culturally diverse city in the heart of england, came out in the thousands to launch the queen's diamond jubilee and to welcome the queen's guest companion for the day, the duchess of cambridge. it is that cultural diversity that made lester the place to begin the queen's diamond jubilee visit. few cities better demonstrate the changes that have occurred in british society over the 60 years of her reign. at lester cathedral, queen attended a special service at which representatives

. >> we will fine out his mission to help save lives in east africa. >> fitness the unusual place basketball pans why caught squaring off. >>> also ahead, critters are for the hangout this morning. find out the latest animals to utes smart phone. >> you don't need the heavy coat today but keep it close. i will tell you when you will need it. >> reporter: we will let you know about the morning commute if there are areas you need to avoid coming up next.

and the preliminary work is looking at a number of cases from afghanistan and iraq to west africa and east african cases. i think that i'll have a better idea in terms of some of the concerns but also some of the ways perhaps to mitigate and to limit some of the concerns for particular regions in the coming months. we're using the data we have, plus a number of interviews with various stakeholders. >> okay. thank you very much. i think, yeah, joe. you'll get the last question for you. >>. >> thank you. i just wanted to ask as we look ahead to the negotiations in july, what do you anticipate will be key issues, key potential sticking points or in the diplomacy between now and july? where do you think major efforts either need to be focused or you can expect to be focused? >> okay. thank you. >> i need to think about that for a minute. >> i'm going to give you the glib answer while bill gets into the specifics because obviously, i'm not negotiating the treaty. but i would honestly anticipate given my experience with u.n. processes that no word is too small to focus four weeks attention on. a

resistant state close examination of recent events in syria clearly distinguish it from the middle east and north africa for instance the capital cities of the states where the center for the people's protests and demands while in syria we see that the massacres was largely the scene of rallies supporting the regime even during the referendum the highest turnout it was in the capital moreover protests in syria began three and a half months after the protests in other countries and only along the borders they started as armed movements aimed at creating civil war and the anti regime groups were soon supplied with weapons so the protests could take their current form for these reasons we believe that the events in syria differ from those in yemen bahrain or egypt above all killing the syrian people is a red line for us and we denounce murderous operations conducted by both parties as we do confirm the necessity of meeting the demands of the people or. the head will be in what we witnessed the rise of islamic parties to power in egypt tunisia and

influence election results some of these threats relate to changes taking place in the middle east north africa as well as the arab revolutions which were led rather peacefully and quietly by the muslim peoples and we're currently witnessing political and security changes which have come as a response to popular demand say look we could america's presence in the region and empowered resistance against zionism and against repressive regimes in a very bad situation and netanyahu is incapable of taking decisions were seriously thinking of attacking iran to this unlikely attack ever happen israel would face dire consequences they know this well and netanyahu statements reflect his fears because they are very weak now iran is much stronger than them even in the current circumstances what. what are the consequences of a possible attack by israel on iran you know. we have different retaliate every options however we're not convinced that israel has the capability to launch a military attack on iran and we see it as unrealistic any move against us would be strongly responded to and they would regret it

thanks to the gulf impact exactly so and then the big three with a long range jacket from ghana east africa and travesties one. that switched attorneys where there has been a major upset at indian wells eleven say johnnie's not beating world number one novak djokovic to reach the final of the b.m. paper perry open is there is a giant six foot nine inches in the times djokovic struggled to cope with this volley gang in american morning a try first set on a tie break joke of a should begin this night in the three previous meetings did respond by taking the next step with the six three and it looked like he just might bring the decider back to back to the strike as the first is now winning the typewriter because twenty eight still the mccabe will now face forty federer in the final to be rafael nadal in straight sets while in recent years it's been a down he's held the upper hand in these contests but this time around it was the swiss he dominated federer taking the first set six games to three in just forty two minutes. again here string of when he's in the sack and then found himself serving

it sponsors hamas in gaza and terrorists throughout the middle east, africa and even south america. iran's proxies have dispatched hundreds of suicide bombers. they have planted thousands of roadside bombs. and they fired over 20,000 missiles at civilians. so from terror to skies and terror on the ground, iran is responsible for the murder of hundreds if not thousands of americans. in 1983 iran's proxy blew up the marine barracks in lebanon killing 240 marines. in the last decade it's been responsible for murdering and maiming american soldiers in afghanistan and iraq. just a few months ago. it tried to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states. this is in a restaurant just a few blocks from here. the assassins didn't care if several senators and congressmen would have been murdered in the process. iran accuses -- iran accuses the american government of orchestrating 9/11. that is as brazen as denying the holocaust which they do. [ applause ] >> iran calls for israel's destruction and they work for this destruction. they work for this every day, each day. relentlessly. i

he released a public service announcement to raise funds for east africa.ught is affecting 30 million people in that region. >> there is a new bumper sticker you'll be seeing a lot of. it is part of a campaign to make motorists aware of the move over law. here is rob roblin. >> the new law went into effect in october 2010, but apparently many marylanders don't even know about the law. you are watching motorists breaking the law. we sat with a state trooper with her emergency lights on. >> the law requires the driver to move over and clear the lane, creating a safety barrier for firefighters or police on the side of the road. >> as you can see, most motorists did not move over or slowdown. that is why today, police organizations across the state held a press conference to make motorists aware of the move over law. >> we need motorists to move over when we make these traffic stops. sometimes we cannot control where the stop is at. this will help officers make our police departments say for and motorists who is stopped safer, too. >> a came over this morning a

as a matter of fact, donald payne traveled to africa, east africa, west africa throughout his career, and he knew all of these countries on the continent and he knew the leaders, past and present. as a matter of fact, don didn't wait for a could he delve a lot of people to be -- codel of a lot of people. don would get on the airplane, a one-person codel and travel, set up his own meetings with the leaders of those countries, talk with them about what was taking place in those countries and get such an understanding of what needed be done and coupled all of this with the history of the countries of africa. he was a teacher, he was a historian and so he knew a lot about the backgrounds of these countries because he studied that and so when he couplehood that information with what was going on at the present time that he was visiting and working on the issues in those countries, he made it all come together and he helped us all to understand. he was our got g-to person. when we wanted to know what was going on and some people who were not that involved in foreign afasde in africa, they j

. >>> turning to people who do sports, a raven will join the fight against hunger in east africa. anquan boldin plans to travel to ethiopia to raise awareness about the drought and famine affecting 13 million people. his trip begins on the 27th. in november he recorded a public service announcement. more good news in the nfl this morning as well. tim tebow is now a member of the new york jets. it was kicked of on and off again yesterday. the broncos will receive a 4th and 6th round draft pick in exchange for him. the jets already have of course mark sanchez as their starting quarterback. he is expected to be used as their change of pace guy in certain situations. he became expendable in denver when they signed peyton manning. >>> it is sweet 16 action here, first syracuse playing wisconsin at 7:00. then the battle of ohio, the buckeyes playing the cincinnati bearcats around 9:30, depending on how long the first game goes, all right though right here on wjz 13. >> i am thinking that now denver will become the team that baltimore fans love to hate. you have elway, who didn't want to