that will make ethiopia's food supply more stable. that will not be enough to stop the recurring food shortages. >> for the european union commissioner for foreign aid has examined the region to see what has happened. the eu has provided emergency aid but they're also looking at long-term solutions. >> these refugees have made it to a camp but they have lost everything they had. they are forced to flee the drought. the european humanitarian aid commission recently visited the camp to assess the situation. >> it was terrible to see families who had walked for 25 days to get help. i talked to one of them and when i asked them how they felt, they said that we felt lucky because all of our children are with us and our neighbors lost -- on the road. >> this is the worst famine in 60 years. a child dies of hunger every six minutes. within 12 million people face starvation. the european union has earmarked 160 million euros in aid. >> this is going to get worse before it gets better. we have not yet seen the end of the dry season and even wh

one of the bases in ethiopia is already operational. "the washington post" says the bases will be used to launch the unmanned aircraft in somalia and yemen. one of the bases in ethiopia is already on operational. >>> in japan, more than a million people have been told to vatic vatican. the storm is headed to the power plant crippled by this year's tsunami. >>> lawyers are asking prison officials to let a prison to take a polygraph test. demonstrators protested last night. davis insists he is not guilty. mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: troy davis was sent to georgia's death row for the 1989 murder of mark macphail. the off-duty savannah cop was shot as he tried to stop the beating of a homeless man. a fight over a bottle of beer outside this bus station. davis was in the crowd but denied he was the killer. seven of the nine prosecution witnesses have now recanted. four who said they saw davis pull the trigger and three who claim davis told him he was the killer. all seven now allege pressure by police to blame davis. >> he tried to

the post says one facility is being set up in ethiopia. another is already in place on the seychelles. officials have previously acknowledged the presence of drones but have said their main mission was to track pirates. u.s. officials have said there is no plans to arm the unarmed aircraft but cables obtained by wikileaks shows officials were considering weaponizing them. >>> a condemned georgia inmate drawing numerous supporters including the pope and former president carter is due to be put to death today after losing his latest appeal. troy davis, who is willing to take a polygraph test if the pardons board would consider the results is expected to be executed by lethal injection this evening. he was convicted of the 199 killing of a police officer but his attorneys say testimony in his case was flawed and has largely been recanted by several witnesses. supporters have been holding vigils for davis. and nearly a million people have signed a petition to halt the execution. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news early today in

that said there is a deadly lack of food in east africa, somalia, spilling over into kenya and ethiopia. president obama spoke at the u.n. and israel and palestinians got most of the attention but he said to focus on the famine. >> we must act on the belief that freedom from want is a basic human right. the united states has made it a focus of our engagement abroad to help people to feed themselves and today as drought and conflict have brought famine to the horn of africa, our conscience calls on us to act. >> i tell you, i can tell you from being there this summer the stories really stick with you. families like yours or mine are in a desperate position. the u.n. said 750,000 people are at risk of dying in the next few months unless they find more aid. if you want to help you can go to cnn.com/impact. >>> well, coming up we were shocked by the death of michael jackson, shocked even more when we heard that his doctor might be to blame. i'll break down what we know and what we don't. that's next. sed paper. and we switched to fedex 'cause a lot of their packaging contains recycled mater

that are considered to be supportive of groups that ethiopia considers a terrorist. host: based on your years in mexico city, wondering if you know me president calderon of mexico considers drug cartels in mexico and along the u.s.a. border terrorism? to americans? -- do americans? should they? guest: this is something we have looked at extensively. there was a representative from texas who proposed labeling drug cartels in the united states as terrorists. the response from mexico was highly negative. they said that is highly offensive. we do not have terrorists in mexico. this is politically loaded. we have $90 billion a border security built up after 9/11 in the name of preventing the name of preventing terrorism, even though no terrorist has been known to cross that border. it was really loaded issue. the obama administration's came back and said, no, we do not back and said, no, we do not need to prosecute these as terrorists. we have other laws to prosecute them. the in new mexico, using freedom of information laws, we learned that mexico is prosecuting drug- ca

mohamed has is one of africa's most experienced diplomats former ambassador from ethiopia to washington and brussels beijing he's just back from the libyan capital and he says nato has turned it into a ghost town that is no police. there is no administration there is no there is no it's called law and order has been replaced by a motley crew of rebels some fear that the various groups who've emerged might soon stop fighting each other i thought you were open stores have been raided every man's out with kalashnikovs if the tribes fight for their independence their country will enter and never ends in civil war with brutal urban guerrilla warfare analysts argue that even the rebel leaders don't know where therefore it is a from there's no oil in. rebel hands nothing would journal was alarmed to find islamist sleeper cells had joint is tripoli offensive a vast parallel structure of competence has appeared we have no idea who's in charge of been. hopes of a reliable replacement for more ammo gadhafi appeared to be fading libya's rebels remain deeply divided while the chaos from nato bombing

guided bombs and air to ground missiles and network of those drone bases is unfolding in east africa ethiopia is hosting a fleet of hunting killers as they call them in the military a similar installation has opened in the seychelles a. base is under construction. it is slow to enable more flights over yemen and all this is u.s. officials say is being done to target of al qaeda affiliates in the region drones have become the main weapon of america's undeclared wars it's a new kind of warfare one that the u.s. is waging without sacrificing the lives of their soldiers in a number of countries like pakistan yemen and leave it for that matter in pakistan for example u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and have netted only a handful of actual terrorists many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge often by joining radical groups so it's like a vicious circle when the u.s. seems to be fighting terror and provoking terror at the same time and the question where whether or not the policies make america safer is very arguable but on top of the human cost and the boomerang effect of t

we visited somalia, it is spilling over into kenya and ethiopia. a tragic situation. president obama spoke at the u.n. israel and palestinians got most of the attention, but he also called for the world to forecasts focus on -- to focus on this famine. >> we must act on this belief that freedom from want is a asia pacific basic -- is a basic human right. it's been a focus of our engagement abroad to help people feed themselves. today as drought and conflict have brought famine to the horn of africa, our conscience calls on us to act. >> i'll tell you, i can tell you from being there this summer, the stories, they really stick with you. families like yours or mine are in a desperate position. this week the u.n. said 3/4 of a million people are at risk of dying in the next few months unless they find more aid. think about that, 750,000 people. if you want to help, you can go to cnn.com/impact. >>> coming up, we were all shocked by the death of michael jackson. shocked even more when we heard that his doctor might be to blame. i'm going to break down what we know and wha

germany, britain, china, australia, ethiopia and ukraine also made it in the top ten. and as the host nation, korea vowed to place 10 of team in top 10 in 10 events... but only 2 out of the team made it. both results came from the race walk, with kim hyun-sub finishing sixth in men's 20- kilometer and park chil-sung coming in seventh in 50- kilometers. with the 2011 worlds behind... the athletes are now aiming at their next destination,... the summer olympic games in london 2012. english "i feel really good right now, we have london 2012, thank you." english "i'm really satisfied and i'm happy for this. i'm looking forward to racing next year in london at the olympic games." and a year after the london olympics, the 14th iaaf world championships will take place from august 10th to 18th in moscow, russia. song ji-sun, arirang tonight in sports...north korea defeats south korea 3 -2 monday in the women's qualifiers for next year's london olympics. meanwhile in other news, bubba watson leads after round three at the deutsche bank championship. jimmy yu has more... hello,

gaining of it's all about it's a guerrilla war and i've experienced crew wars and goal of mozambique ethiopia. if they don't have an offensive for three months that doesn't matter what is going to happen what is happening to the assassinations will increase the i.e.t.f. will increase and they have been increasing august has been the worst month for u.s. troops nato troops in afghanistan so there is no military option and the military who really know afghanistan they know that they know that and the thing is they say well we need security but the fact is when they leave and if they leave it's search . many areas will be taken over by opposition groups but it may not matter because there are many hardliners in the government and the karzai government who are corrupt or whatever who are even more hardline the total for the opposition groups i think what it is is that you have to forget the labels. and this is how the aid groups were the ones with experience they look at an area and they say ok who are the key players here and they will talk to everyone and they'll talk to nato they'll talk to lo

peninsula yesterday the washington post besides report on some of this to give specific locations ethiopia the station alliance and djibouti how they got this information from u.s. officials so it's interesting to see the double standard of who gets to leak what secret information is in it but they also treated this like some kind of breaking news if you follow reporters people like scahill who by the way is the one that wrote about our proxy prisons and some. alia and it was ignored by the mainstream media for that story until they saw picking up steam elsewhere after a week or two well if you follow people to do real journalism like that you would already know these stories but you've got newspapers reporting it as if it's brand new then you have your televised cable network the most trusted fair and balanced forward leaning names in news but ignored it completely and i'm sorry but how can you sit around and cover with bated breath the president's speech pretend like you're parsing over every single detail and then he says things that are obviously not true you just let that one slide th

foreign service blogs on the internet now to be fair most of them are travelogues we're here in ethiopia and it's a great time in the sun shines all the time or whatever but there are a few that do dress political issues and as far as i know as long as they stayed on topic on talking points well then nobody seemed to bother them about that. sure we're all supposed to clear everything in advance but the idea of five hundred bloggers clearing five hundred posts every day person a thousand tweets and maybe seven hundred fifty based postings it's impossible to do to keep that fairly and so the states are been asked to make choices i think they picked on me because they didn't like what i had to say and kara they now but what i understand part of the state department had clear your book so what do you think happened i understand they went back and they wanted more but actually what happened is i did submit the manuscript as i was required to do about a year ago and the people who reviewed it review it specifically for classified information which there is nothing in there they review it to ma

one will be built in ethiopia, the other in the say shells.ll all how armed drones to be deployed over yemen. >>> an execution scheduled in georgia tonight has prompted protests and vigils around the world. troy davis is set to be put to death for the 1989 murder of a police officer, however 7 of the nine trial witnesses have since recanted testimony and davis is willing to take a lie detecter test to prove his innocence. it is likely to go on as planned, georgia's parole board has removed a last ditch appeal and they are not likely to take up the case. >>> a new study found oakland police are too quick to draw their guns. researchers have reviewed dozens of cases through january and march of this year. they determined officers acted appropriately in the majority of cases but officers did not have to draw their guns in 28% of the incidents examined. the study is part of a fall out from the riders police scandal. >>> time now 6:17 the largest shopping center plans to expand. they are looking to the future and they want to improve the shopping c

report, one of the things you mentioned there was a little bit of hopping and skipping away from ethiopia because the government did not get permission to put a drone base there. do we now have permission? have there been developments? why is that important? >> reporter: it's our understanding that there is permission and that they are beginning to set up a base in ethiopia, but the other significant development is that the sayshels says the drones can be armed. they are sending armed drones back there in the network of drone bases. jenna: thank you. jon: while the mideast dominates the news today out of the united nations we wanted to take a closer look at the muslim world, specifically what they are doing to fight extremism around the world. let's talk about it with michael o apz hanlan, he joins us now. you and a co-author wrote and op-ed piece about this. you said despite what we might perceive on this issue there is a significant amount of effort being made by some muslim countries to stop extremism. >> that's right. we don't want to go so far as to have a lot of happy talk, but the

one will be based in ethiopia. being built now which will allow armed drones to be sent over yemen. >>> president barack obama delivers an address to the united nations in just a few hours and is trying to divert a diplomatic disaster over the issue of palestinians statehood, allison? >> reporter: that's right, president barack obama is facing one of his biggest diplomatic challenges trying to explain why he supports palestinians' push for statehood but opposes their bid for former regular knicks as a sovereign state. he promise missed to veto it if it comes to the un security council but administration is working from behind the scenes to keep the bid from getting that far. president barack obama will meet with mahmoud ahmadinejad but while on republican hill they are threatening to withhold aid to palestinians if they move ahead with the palestinians push. >> this is not the right way to do it. >> reporter: now the president's opponents are also on the attack on how he is managing this diplomatic challenge, more

southern sudan is a north african country bordering sudan, ethiopia, kenya, congo and the central africanepublic. it is actually the world's newest country after gaining independent from sudan on july 9th but still poverty stricken despite containing the majority of known sudanese oil reserves. although the last civil war ended with the 2005 peace agreement, southern sudan is still plagued by militant rebel groups and slave traders. one of the most infamous of these groups is the lords resistance army led by self-declared mystic and prophet joseph kony which claims his insurgency which began in 1986 is aimed at replacing uganda's government with a democracy based on the bible's ten commandments. they're known for hacking off the lips or hearsay of victims. they kill and rape without remorse, leaving behind a scattered trail of missing children, looted villages and burned out huts. they replenish their ranks through abducting young men and boys. the new york-based advocacy group human rights watch estimated in 2010 700 young men and boys were abducted in a single 18-month period. other est

dangerous people by the cartels across the border from places like pakistan, iran, iraq, sudan and ethiopia paid for by the cartels, many of them get across without being registered. this is an insidious problem that goes beyond drugs. it deals in human trafficking, the war on terrorism. on and on. this is an american, not just a texas problem. >> greta: unfortunately it will take some catastrophic to draw the attention. >> i do too. >> greta: general, nice to see you, sir. coming up, president obama, is he looking for a new running mate? hear why vice president joe biden is talking about the future of his own job. also, the next time you go out to buy a birthday card, keep an eye out for hallmark's latest creation. you will never believe what there's a card for now. will anyone buy the card? plus, 99 bottles of beer on the ground. what would you do with them? probably not what this guy is trying. this next segment is one you don't want to miss. .. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables

number of organizations to ensure she gets the best care available, and that she can get home to ethiopiahe hands of the gadhafi family. >>> since airing this story, we've receive add huge outpouring of support for the nanny. donations to a fund-raising page set up by anti-slavery international in conjunction with cnn now topped $16,000. if you would like to help, logon to cnn.com/impact to find out how you can donate and get the latest details on how she doing. her recovery. >>> weren't of the gadhafi family employees has a completely different story to tell. 25-year-old oksana was paid to watch moammar gadhafi's health as one of his nurses. she fled libya in february as war broke out and returned to her native ukraine. she described the ousted leader as a healthy man who gave her a good life, and she said she feels pity for the country's turmoil. in her conversation with cnn, she talks about gadhafi. >> gadhafi -- >> translator: gadhafi was quite considerate. i don't know much about how the nannies were treated in his family, but as for us, he treated us very well. he never shouted at u

is in discussions with ethiopia. >> thanks from the pentagon. ment?survey finds the number of young adults without health insurance has dropped significantly. the gallup survey found a number of them between 18 and 25 dropped from 28% last fall to 24% by the middle of the year. that translates into about a million more young adults who now have health insurance. credit is given to the provision in the president's health care law that allows adult children to stay on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26. joining me to talk about it. the former head of communications for top health insurance company who is now a critic of the insurance industry. the abuses there. thank you for joining us. >> let me get your thoughts on. this hard million more young adults who have health insurance. >> my own daughter has benefited from this. my daughter is 24. she works for a small employer that doesn't offer benefits. she doesn't make enough money to buy decent coverage on the market so she's been able to come on my wife and my policy. and she is just one

by 1937, of course, hitler had remilitarized the rhine land, mussolini had invaded ethiopia.it was clear that the fascist parties in europe were, were aggressive and ambitious and college rent. belligerent. but roosevelt, of course, was stymied by several factors, one of which being public opinion. um, most americans in 1937 felt that we had been sold a pig in a poke in world war i, that we had fought and hadn't really -- we'd lost 100-plus-thousand troops, but we hadn't really gained much of anything. europe had gone back to being its usual argue meantive stuff. here they were again, the germans and the french and the poles and the british all at each other's throats. who knows how it will turn out. you know, this is nothing to do with us and, you know, if we get involved, it will have the same unhappy end although x number of americans will die in the process. so isolationism was a widespread and bipartisan viewpoint. we often forget that some of roosevelt's most vigorous isolationist opponents in congress -- it wasn't all partisan. a lot of them were new dealç democrats.

of africa, going after possible targets in yemen, somalia, perhaps we even are trying to get into ethiopia with bases. what does this tell you about our counter-terror effort? >> i take it as good news, the fact that we're doing it. what you're essentially seeing is the united states has made this strategic decision that we can't do future things on the scale of iraq or afghanistan. that can't be the basis of our counter-terrorism program. instead, the things you're seeing here. whether it's special forces or drones, more narrow, targeted approaches. we may have to do this vis-a-vis fife, 10, 15 countries down the road. i think this is a realistic template for moving forward. >> richard haass, president of the council on foreign relations. thank you very much for being with us. >>> and a former legal adviser to political negotiators and current fellow at the belfour center for international affairs at kennedy's school of government joins us now here. diana, good to see you again. >> thank you. >> what are the chances, do you think, that after this meeting tonight, 6:00 tonight, the preside

that are considered to be supportive of groups that ethiopia considers a terrorist. host: based on your years in mexico city, wondering if you know me president calderon of mexico considers drug cartels in mexico and along the u.s.a. border terrorism? to americans? -- do americans? should they? guest: this is something we have looked at extensively. there was a representative from texas who proposed labeling drug cartels in the united states as terrorists. the response from mexico was highly negative. they said that is highly offensive. we do not have terrorists in mexico. this is politically loaded. we have $90 billion a border security built up after 9/11 in the name of preventing the name of preventing terrorism, even though no terrorist has been known to cross that border. it was really loaded issue. the obama administration's came back and said, no, we do not back and said, no, we do not need to prosecute these as terrorists. we have other laws to prosecute them. the in new mexico, using freedom of information laws, we learned that mexico is prosecuting drug- ca

my foundation works in ethiopia. so i've been there. once i was there in growing season.r granted in america. so a lot of places you try to take the problem and turn it into opportunities. what you have to do there is build storage facilities, build a network, build the equivalent of the farm extension service we built back in the '30s. so in some places you just take the problems and make them opportunities. that's what we've done with agriculture in rwanda, for example. we're building out health systems. in wealthy countries, the by and large problems are related to this financial meltdown. you've got to clear the debt quicker. and then there's dozens of things you have to do. every country, every rich country that is in an open economy has to have a source of new jobs every five to eight years and we haven't had one in a while. now it looked like the clean energy jobs were coming, but it's slowed down by the debt. i know there's a lot of controversy over this energy business in washington now, but the truth is if you look at the last eight years, those energy technolog

this year mali and ethiopia will have one or two cases. it is very helpful neither one of those countries will have any guinea worm after this year. but it still exists in the southern part of sudan, where, for many years, a horrific civil war prevented are getting in there, and as you know saddam has now become an independent nation -- sudan has become an independent nation and they still have some areas of intense conflict. that makes it almost impossible for our workers to go in there safely, on our motor scooters -- they get confiscated. that is a major remaining problem. but we are very hopeful. we will continue to work on it. we work with the government there and we hope to see an end of guinea worm altogether. another important disease is river blindness. we have treated now -- we have given a dose of medicine to 150 million people >> -- people. and when you give them one miraculous tablet given to us by merck and co., they don't go blind. but the disease still exist with worms and the bodies. another disease, the number one cause o

official that we talked to, the preferred location for a drone base was ethiopia but that took time to arrange, in the meantime we plan applying drone missions in the seychilles islands. it's aimed at the somalia group al-shabaab but this system of bases will affect the entire horn of africa and arabian peninsula. bill: we've covered these stories regarding yemen but you wonder how important drones have been in this region already and in yemen, it's one of them but in africa, where? >> tremendous importance. the u.s. has launched drone attacks in six countries so far, afghanistan, iraq, lib kwrarbgs pakistan, somalia and yemen. they've been extremely valuable to u.s. forces in the border regions between afghanistan and pakistan, as you remember. they would go after the al-qaeda operatives, hiding in that ruget border region. important al-qaeda figures have been taken out with these unmanned aircraft. in fact, a top al-qaeda operative was killed just last week in pakistan's tribal areas. planes can be flown by experts in the u.s. but they have to be forward base, near their targets and

. >> kyra, you can probably tell there's a bit of competition between kenya and ethiopia and he was referringthe one whose record he broke and unfortunately for him, it wasn't even able to finish the race yesterday. just to give you an idea of how fast this guy ran. he was running one mile every 4.43. if you go to the jim today, put your treadmill up to 12.6 and see how long you can hang on for. if you can do it for more than two hours you might just be a record breaker yourself. >> that is insane. what a great way to help us visualize how intense they run. all right. well, you talked to some amazing runners. how about this young boxer that is making a name for himself. you got a chance to speak with him, as well. >> yeah. this is amir khan. already a big hit in britain and making a name for himself around the world and in the united states. khan was an olympic campion at 17. currently ranked adds the best welter lightweight boxer anywhere until world. he says he's coming your way pretty soon. he's pretty confident he's going to get a fight lined up with floyd mayweather. listen to how he out

she wants to go back to ethiopia. as soon as she's treated. family. >> dan rivers, thanks for updating us on her story. now,listen to this. >>> how scared are you of possibly being executed it. >> gary tuchman talking to a man convicted of killing a police officer is days away from being executed. there is a race to save this man's life from jimmy carter to desmond tutu. many people are arguing there's new evidence that proves troy davis may be innocent. we'll share the investigation with you next. e always connecte e always connecte we live in a social world. isn't it time we had a social currency to match? membership rewards points from american express. use them to get the things you love from amazon.com, ticketmaster.com, and more unexpected places. they're a social currency with endless possibilities. are you wondering about your options? with over 30 years of medicare experience, unitedhealthcare medicare solutions can help. just give us a call. the annual enrollment period to switch your medicare coverage is earlier this year, from octo