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south sudan ripples through the region - ethiopia, uganda, kenya. drc, car. that's why countries are concerned. the implication of a collapse africa. >> princeton lyman, senior advisor of the north-south negotiations, an expert on south sudan. thank you for joining us on "consider this." >> we appreciate it. >> now to another crisis overseas. the civil war in syria. syrian government helicopters dropped crude barrel bombs on rebels in the second largest city of aleppo and surrounding suburbs. more than 300 have been killed in the barrel bomb attacks in the past week. white house spokesman jay carney say the attacks killed more than 300 syrians in the past two days. we are joined from denver from nader hosheme, the center from the middle east studies from the university of denver at josef korbel school of international studies, and the coeditor of "the syria dilemma", what is the u.s. interest at now in getting involved in syria? >> syria represents the largest moral and humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st centuries. 100,000 killed, half a million injured, approximately 40% of syria's population internally displaced or turning int

ethiopia. he had met with african leaders. about this newd form of struggle in south africa.i yet been to the -- he had been to london to spread the message of the anti-apartheid movement. wasmeeting with us essentially to get reports from us about our work and how we work on pushing tasks from our mission in terms of setting up provinces. and the beginnings just at the end of the previous year, so something like 6, 7 months previously, of our first sabotage actions -- which is leaders we had participated in personally. otherswere busy training for the underground, setting a machinery, preparing explosives. as a result of his arrest a couple of weeks later, to actually let me say liberate steal than steel -- dynamite from a road construction company, which meant the actions of that sabotage phase of our struggle was on the point of really operations.dramatic the first operations were rather based on the kind of homemade kitchen-type chemicals that people have read about or you learned about at school. but we were very, very serious and committed and believed we would really w

south africa and gone. i'm still on its way is up and saw the nigeria. let's be honest ap ethiopia tanzania and where things have changed hugely for the best in the last twenty years since mandela. in a juicy tidbit that south african revolution africa's changed enormously and i think the security problems having will drop in the nineties i've decreased sent me this is more economic growth in the fuel can fix that was what we left when i think are the conflicts and all that much not standing when it's what's going on in eastern congo that deprivation is against women and children now all what was seen to this weekend saw a freak or even the insurgencies in all the money on all nigeria that the day basis and maybe they need him in the tree they need a minute intervention to deal with them. but what i think is really concerning a is the best ongoing with the political intervention. i think you know that africa is building up its ministry chickenpox is a question about that. i'm here for example look at what happened in eastern congo. you had a good time and full sweep tanzania and so

ethiopia an my father is american. i sppbt most of my childhood in africa, mostly in the 1980s, a time when south africa was a country that we con even visit as a result of the composition of my family. and so today as a correspondent in south africa, living froly in a nonracial country where anyone can marry anyone they want, where anyone can live anywhere they want, it's an extraordinary feeling for me. particularly since i, myself, am in a multiracial relationship. so it's a real transformation for south africa. and i think it's a real inspiration to the world. >> woodruff: lydia polgreen, with "the new york times", thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: we'll talk with south africans about the mandela legacy, a little later in the program. unemployment in the u.s. dipped to 7% in november-- the lowest rate since 2008. and, employers added 203,000 jobs. but the number of people actively looking for work remained near a 35-year low. paul solman explores the data and the debate over long-term jobless benefits right after this news summary. the jobs numbers touched off a rally on wall street. the dow jones indust