immigrants during the last two decades now some one hundred thirty thousand ethiopians most of whom are jewish live in the country however the ethiopian minority population is heavily marginalized and segregated not to mention the experience exponentially higher poverty and unemployment rates than that of native israelis and in fact there have been multiple instances of racist mobs who have vandalized and harassed ethiopian neighborhoods and even these nationalists are even supported by some members of the israeli knesset at one nationalist rally the knesset minister. described illegal immigrants as a quote cancer to the country but these instances of racism have long plagued israel back in one thousand nine hundred six thousands of ethiopian jews clashed with riot police over the news that blood they donated was secretly dumped out because of fear that was contaminated with aids but perhaps more disturbing than all of this is that the ethiopian jewish population has been struggling with a staggering fifty percent decline in their birth rate over the last decade and this week we've

minister confirming that the ethiopian women were given birth control so they could not get pregnantd it was forced upon them. wow. that's devastating. what do you think happened there? is there a plan to address that? >> well, the ethiopian immigration has been a successful immigration where israel is one of the only nations in the world to bring in an african population in an organized way. and today it's a proud community in israel, well integrated but with many challenges. they came from a very different place into a very developed economy. but by and large this has been a tremendously successful immigration in israel. there are more jewish ethiopians in ethiopia, but many are in israel and it's something that we're very proud of. >> cenk: the forced sterilization, stunning numbers 50% decline in ethiopian pregnancies in israel. it brings up if there is a racial component here. is the government aware of the severity of that problem and are they going to do anything about it? >> i have seen those reports. declining birth rates are part of a modern economy today. it has nothing to

needing in the ethiopian capital, the president of the south sudan and his counterpart from the northsay they want to diffuse hostility and restart will transport across the border. fighting has continued, despite a peace deal last september. hundreds of local tourist have set forth -- bushfires in tasmania. thousands are stranded by the blaze on the eastern side of the island. the temperatures have eased for now. firefighters are warning it will take a long time to contain the place. dozens have been less -- left homeless by the blazes. >> record temperatures and wind have driven the blaze. tasmania and and tourists alike have fled the blazes. firefighters were confronted by the aftermath of the bush fires. dozens of buildings and burned to the ground. worst hit was a seaside town. one-third of the homes have been lost. even the school is gone. residents are struggling to cope. >> i've lost both my houses. my brother has lost his. >> there is hope the government will help them rebuild their lives. >> we are working with them, as with the state government, to support people through. >

. >> reporter: last fall dees won a verdict against a klan member for the killing of an ethiopian man. that case and others where are portrayed in a tv movie called "line of fire." these things have placed dees on a hit list. >> a young member of its organization mark sums is getting a prison sentence down in fall brook for a plan that would involve causing physical harm and the fbi caught him. he was convicted. it was fbi who helped find the people who burned and kill the residents. i think it's -- i'm blessed to know that they are out there doing it. >> reporter: here in the bay area there has been a rash of incidents. dees says the neo natzis and skin heads are growing in the bayarea. >> along comes a mexican saying, their problems are not their problems. you have to stop them. you have to hurt them. you have to keep them down to keep you up. nobody ever got up by climbing across the back of anybody elses and stayed up very long. >> reporter: but there's a more incidiary racism. >> it just enflames them that the leaders of our country are not standing up for equality of all our cou

sudan and south sudan are meeting in the ethiopian capital for the second day discussing oil and border issues with mediators. they came close to war last year, both accusing the other of supporting rebels in their territories. a report from syrian state media that a journalist or a pro- government television station has died from wounds sustained during a rebel attack. in syria, there are more reports of violence. residents in the damascus neighborhood have reported an explosion thought to have been caused by a makeshift bomb. no casualties have been reported yet. activists have reported shelling. they say there are casualties in one town. the pictures are said to show people pulling bodies from the rubble. we have several teams on the ground in syria. one is on the ground where there is a severe shortage of medicine and doctors. we have more on what our team has seen. >> in syria, nowhere is safe. this elderly woman was injured when government forces shelled a funeral procession. she had gone to pay her respects to those killed in an earlier attack. there are no more hospitals left. t

the leaders of sudan and south sudan have met in the ethiopian capital adas abba for a second day of crisis talks, discussing oil and border issues with african mediators. sudan and south sudan came close to war last year after the south became a separate state, both accusing the other of supporting rebels in their territories. at least 100 homes have been destroyed by wildfires on the australian island of tasmania. the mainland is also on high alert as bush fires sweep across the states of south australia and victoria. andrew thomas reports. >> forecasters have warned tasmania was about to endure its hottest temperatures in years and they produced the state's worst wildfires in almost half a century, carried on by hot wind, flames swept through the southeast of the island state destroying at least 100 homes. some escaped the fires spending hours up to their necks in water. in dunali, the worst affected town, the local school was among the buildings destroyed. once flames passed, destruction was clear. >> they've lost both their houses. my brother's lost his up there, millions of dol

representatives of the union's 54 members gathered in the ethiopian capital, pledging kz 50 million to support troops from france and from across africa fighting islamisttants. they are linked to al qaeda and control a large part of the country. >> made a commitment to pool our efforts together to assist this country. >> representatives from japan, the u.s. and europe will discuss the situation with african leaders later in the day. the japanese are expected to contribute $100 million in aid for refugees. >>> a senior united nations official says the needs of millions of syrians are growing as their country's civil war rages on. john ging says the u.n. will ask governments at upcoming donor conference to raise $1.5 billion in aid. >> the 400 million people in need within syria, we also have a plan to respond to the refugees which now number over 650,000 in the neighboring countries. and that plan is costing $1 billion. >> ging spoke in new york after a mission to syria. he said the u.n. will make the request for aid after the donor conference in kuwait. he says the civil war has damage

senior vice dporn minister masaji matsuyama made the pledge at a donor conference in the ethiopian capitalddis ababa. >> terrorism takes away innocent lives. we will never condone such acts. >> he said donor countries need to address poverty and unemployment if they are to eradicate terrorism. he said government officials have earmarked the money for security measures and to help refugees and nations in conflict. >>> japanese officials are focusing on the terrorist threat at home, too. officials with the national police agency say nuclear plants are an obvious target. they're asking for more money to reinforce security. agency leaders are requesting nearly $20 million for the coming year. that's four times the budget for the year that ends in march. they're hoping to buy more machine guns and bulletproof vehicles. officers are stationed at 22 nuclear facilities nationwide. they guard them around the clock. but they say they need more safeguards against the threat of islamist terrorists and other extremist groups. >>> thousands of people waiting to go home. tons of debris waiting for dispos

. >> the president of sudan and south sudan are due to me shortly in the ethiopian capital.otiating unresolved will issues dating back to the civil war which ended in 2005. the ownership of the oil-rich region is still in dispute. they accuse each other of supporting rebels in their territories. rebels from the democratic republic of congo are threatening to walk out of peace talks with the government. the m23 group is demanding the president signs an official cease-fire for negotiations to continue. the two sides are holding a new round of talks on friday in uganda. the offshore oil company transocean has agreed to pay over $1 billion in fines for its role in the gulf of mexico oil spill in 2010. the company owns the deep water horizon rig which suffered a blowout, causing one of the biggest and terminal disasters in u.s. history. the settlement includes $1 billion in civil fines, $400 million in criminal penalties. a hearing against the former haitian president aristide has been delayed until next week. he is accused of exploiting street children for political gain. police

representatives of the union's 54 members gathered in the ethiopian capital, pledging $50 million to support troops from france and from across africa fighting islamist militants. they are linked to al qaeda and control a large part of the country. >> made a commitment to pool our efforts together to assist this country. >> representatives from japan, the u.s. and europe will discuss the situation with african leaders later in the day. the japanese are expected to contribute $100 million in aid for refugees. >>> a senior united nations official says the needs of millions of syrians are growing as their country's civil war rages on. john ging says the u.n. will ask governments at upcoming donor conference to raise $1.5 billion in aid. >>> in addition to the 519 million for the four million people we decided as in need in syria, we also have a plan to respond to the refugees which now number over 650,000 in the neighboring countries. and that plan is costing $1 billion. >> ging spoke in new york after a mission to syria. he said the u.n. will make the request for aid after the donor co

a cold case involving a young ethiopian woman who fled violence from her country to be killed in california may have been solved. there were no leads. until time, and tenacity turned the case around. george is in mountain view. >> this is where they sound saba girmai in a dumpster three decades ago. that's a long time. but family and friends may be finally getting answers. >> it's a bit of relief. we were wondering all years, who was the killer. >> reporter: after 28 long years, friends and family of saba girmai may finally be getting closure. mountain view police arrested 53-year-old daniel garcia of fresno on friday. >> i'm really happy that the day is going to have some relief. >> reporter: girmai's body was found on january 28th, 1985. girmai who was born in ethiopia, was a political refugee in sudan. she and her family moved to san jose to start a new life. garcia met girmai in an english language class. >> he was sharp. he was really sharp. >> reporter: the santa clara county district attorney's crime lab developed a dna profile from girmai's fingernails that was matched to garcia. >>

investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help poor people it was used by the ethiopian government to cement a corrupt hold on power the u.k. government refused saying that the money doesn't even go through the government but according to human rights watch they say it does and this investigation showed that in fact supporters of the opposition. to receive food or seeds or fertilizer which is what the aid was destined for a second example is in india a three hundred eighty eight million pound project aimed at improving indian schools the government here hailed as a huge success they said more children are going to school as a result of it but the indian government says that around seventy million pounds of it was either stolen or lost much of it was allocated to schools that didn't even exist and that some of it went to by cause for dignitaries officials in india again the u.k. government refutes that and nigeria thirdly one hundred million pound project improve again the quality of education in nigeria an independent report showed that actually the results of it had been not to im

is there was control there yeah let's talk about this chinese ethiopian shoe factory for a second because this signals a new chapter in that instead of looking at china as a source of extremely cheap labor china is now generating finished goods finished products so this is why they emerge now as a global player in the finished goods markets and so this is really cutting into what american europe has as their value added so-called is the ability to maximize that extremely cheap labor by producing goods that china is moving into that market now let's talk a little bit about what china will be doing in addition to taking the prominent and dominant role in african economics they are rumored to be introducing in twenty thirteen some kind of gold back r. and b. gold backed chinese currency as a way to truly put the spike into the dollar as well reserve currency your thoughts down collins well absolutely china has been you know i'm not sure how to go back remember it's highly possible so everybody knows china has been accumulating a lot of massive scale oh well you know six or seven years now th

that just broke and was verified this week about eugenics being practiced in israel against the ethiopian population there really disturbing story even more disturbing is a population that was subject to these kind of forms of discrimination in hitler's regime is now practicing against the minority segment of their population that much more coming up next check it out right abbie lookin forward to it thanks for that update that's in a half hour but that's going to do it for us here from our in the stories we covered check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash r t america we post everything.

they may be sitting rusting in some ethiopian shed somewhere. who knows? so, this could be unique.utifully made sword. typically by wilkinson's who made lots and lots of decorative and commemorative swords this is, um-- has a wavy blade. this beautiful wavy blade, which is made of steel of course, and it has this gorgeous gorgeous gold and red flame effect running right the way down the blade. but the-- the unique thing about this, of course, is the pattern. it's the pattern from which the others were judged so there is not another one of these and that's what makes it interesting to me. so, in the late '60s you swapped this for a knife? yes. worth...? £14-- £14 was the value of that. ( laughs ) £14? yes. okay, um i think today... this sword-- it's so unique, it's worth between £2,000 and £2,500. not a bad investment. i'm surprised. my father was a vicar in smethwick and yorkshire, and then it was in the vicarage, and then it was moved to clark eden, and i really remember it from the clark eden vicarage. i would be about 9 years old then. i don't know where it came from only that i

the same thing happened during the worst of the ethiopian famine of the 1970's. it was discovered that this food counter movement away from famine area is a common phenomena. why does this happen? because people do not start because there is not enough food. people starved because they cannot afford the price of food. the history of civilization has depended on the stable price of our daily bread. people who live in cities and urban cities cannot plant acres and acres of wheat. in order for civilization to moves toward and now that course, we have to stabilize the amount of food and the price of food. at the height of the hunter numbers in the 21st century and 2008 -- height of the hunger numbers in the 21st century, 2008, that was the greatest year in the history of wheat production. what is happening is that wall street and bankers have gone in and some part of the system and transformed the price of food. host: you can find out a more about our guest's thought in his book, "bet the farm." thanks for your time. coming up on tomorrow's program, we will take a lo