to my research into this story but it's certainly worth mentioning that in the short time since eritrea's independence in one thousand nine hundred one the country has spiraled downward into this current grim condition in two thousand and one nations are a product leadership banned all private media leaving only a tightly controlled state media and its place reporters without borders and notes that there are also twenty eight journalists currently detained in the country and that access to reliable information is impossible in the absence of satellite and internet connections between the abysmal conditions that keep eritrea and a media black hole america's thirteen point drop in the rankings. and the inability of other world powers like china and russia to improve their standing in the two than fourteen world press freedom index plane paints excuse me a global community in decline. uninhibited access to information is humanity's most powerful weapon which is why every society should arm itself with a free and open press in order to be truly free. i. i. for the last three years california

fenland another lens and norway which are highlighted and white and turkmenistan north korea and eritrea ranking dead last these countries along with others with terrible rankings are shown in black. perhaps the most glaring statistic in this year's report was the us is raking on the index which plundered by thirteen a whole spots in just one year that means the u.s. now ranks forty sixth in the world of putting america just above the haiti in regard to forgive the press but as dramatic as this plunge is it's not too surprising between the manhunt for snowden and chelsea manning sentencing and the seizure of a.p. phone records by the department of justice doesn't thirteen saw a particularly concerning trend of government action to punish leakers and silence whistleblowers the report added that the case of the u.s. is quote one of the most significant declines amid increased efforts to track down whistleblowers and the source of leaks but our biggest ally the u.k. saw three point drop at thirty third which actually is quite generous considering parliament's attempt to indict guardian jour

in the absence of satellite and internet connections but between the abysmal conditions that keep eritrea and media black hole america's thirteen point drop in the rankings. and the inability of other world powers like china and russia to improve their standing in the two than fourteen world press freedom index plane paints excuse me a global community in decline. uninhibited access to information is humanity's most powerful weapon which is why every society should arm itself with a free and open press in order to be truly free. i. i. for the last three years california has experienced a drought of epic proportions according to u.s. drought monitor nearly the entire state in the midst of an extreme drought the second highest level in the scale all parts of central california are experiencing exceptional drought the highest level on the scale although some rain has recently had the state department of water resources is saying at this point it's virtually impossible to reverse the effects of the drought california governor jerry brown is urging all residents to make major cutbacks when it

many of the bacon's up from eritrea the depression and papa t they cross the border to sit down. they kidnapped sold to gangs and eat its northern sinai peninsula and held for ransom. he tortures and clean and elegant than the sum of money which is a minimum of thirty thousand prostitutes huge sum of money i've got to talk to their release would construe the phone when the doctors have been called and talked and played in every ten seconds the other option because international community is not doing anything egypt is not going to make it due to false accusers cairo failing to take action against security officials to create one topic has insights into these with victims from as recently as last month. they tell of the suffering of the hands of the traffic as you something it's a monday. i was kidnapped his anti woohoo was speeding. a year and four months and was being tortured for months and months and then they start returning the time. unfortunately due to her. jen's few months and the child's life. if the child is now being cared for he is now the intended destination for man

the island and eritrea has been living in a small village and asks diet are polite and was extending the games would be built just nearby. until then reality set in. they felt that finally our men would get to work there but they didn't hire any locals at all if you've registered locally you're out. it doesn't matter if you're an engineer are black. all the new construction has also killed their crops and promises an assertion municipal council had not yet been met with joy giving each are you a promise to get connected to the gap on the olympics are already here and we still don't have gas or water. however in places such as valentino have been muted by the extravagant economic costs fletcher has put into these schemes president led him to put an end of the budget of twelve billion us dollars one so too was awarded as olympic host city back in two thousand and seven today that number has increased fourfold and a state of the highway and railway was built to connect the coastal and mountain olympic venue for a cost of eight point seven billion us dollars more than the total cost of t

he was from a country called air eritrea. retreat -- we got to talking. interesting story.e came here because he wanted freedom. he came over here with the green card. he had a family member that got him in the country. he started working in the taxi business as a young guy. got married. had five kids. eventually ended up working for the capitol police. --was open up letters opening up letters and inspected the letters before they came into the congressional offices. hard worker. he had a dream. he loved the taxi business. own taxi to own his company. a fleet of sedans. he said, i have worked hard and saved up money. he had five kids, god bless them. ago he year and a half quit the government gig and started a cab company. they were beginning to realize as telling me the number one issue was health care. what happens if we get successful? if we have to employ more people? we had to buy more cars? that is the dream, what we want. anybody that goes into business, they want to become a big flourishing business. what happens when you have to get health care for our employees? t

one of them left eritrea, walked to either thiopia, and eventual walked to israel.s out. what you're seeing is the big divide in the world today is between a world of order and a world of disorder. you have all these states and ukraine may be one of them, where the combination of population, environment, economic stresses, that the cold war masked and we prop them up, and those props are no longer there. they are literally blowing up. >> so i would take it you think the order is continuing to win at this point? but that the fight is getting more difficult? >> yes, it is. because we basically ended a period, becky, this applies to the west, too. to be a president, a mayor, a governor, a college president on balance in most of these countries was to give things away to people. i think we're entering an era, i hope it's short. to be a president, a governor, a mayor, a college president on balance is to take things away from people. the politics of taking things away from people, especially in a country like egypt or ukraine where they missed 50 years, there's a headlin