is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in eurasia. he has served as the director and dean in various capacities at the buzzer by john -- at the the azerbaijant university. prior to joining the faculty in -- he workedas with various parts of the u.s. government. the central intelligence agency, the state department, as well as voice of america root, radio free europe and radio liberty. he has frequently worked in ethnic and religious issues, and has been an advisor to the latvia, andestonia, lithuania, during the drive for independence from the soviet union. he is extremely well-qualified to give us that point of view. paul, over to you. hela has asked me to speak about the fraught relationship between moscow and ethnic russians outside of the russian federation. i would do that, but i cannot resist adding to john's very insightful comments that those of you who are going to become interested in the issue of countering what the russians are doing in the propaganda and disinformation wars, nature of america's leading specialist on disin

paul goebel is a longtime ethnic andin religious questions in eurasia. he has served as director and dean in various capacities at the azerbaijan diplomatic academy. theas been associated with euro college at the university of tartu in estonia. he also launched a series there. the work inning estonia, he worked for the state department, the central intelligence agency, the international broadcasting bureau, as well as voice of america, radio free europe, and radio liberty. he has frequently worked in ethnic and religious issues and has been an advisor to the government of estonia, latvia, theirthuania during efforts for independence from the soviet union. he is fully qualified to give us his opinion there. over to you. >> thank you. has asked me to speak about the relationship between moscow and the russian federation. i will do that, but i also need to respond to john's insightful comments. those of you that are going to counteringrested in what the russians are doing in the propaganda and disinformation wars need to remember the name natalie kraft, who

predominately muslim ethnic albanians, the second largest ethnic group in the country, sees the monumenteroes as an exclusive club of macedonian christians. in 2013, the government put up a statue to a serb ruler known for having subjugated the albanians. one night, a group of ethnic albanians tried to topple him from his pedestal. they did not succeed. but the statute did suffer damage. an expert commission has found it was put up illegally and it is slated for removal. in the meantime, police stand guard. >> the accusations of vandalism against me are ethically and politically motivated. the toppling of the lenin statue in ukraine was guarded as a democratic act. our actions are being labeled vandalism. as i see it, randomly putting the statue up without our approval is vandalism. >> the leader of the democratic party of serbs of macedonia would like to see the accused vandals prosecuted. yet he is aware the macedonian government is supported not only by his party, but by the albanian party as well. >> what this woman says is laughable. if she expected this to have a major impact, she

if not only their different between ethnic russians who live in uzbekistan and ethnic russians who live in estonia and the questions and ukraine. there are enormous differences. but the important thing to keep in mind is that those people are disappearing. you may have seen the articles last week in moscow saying where are the 3 million ethnic russians from ukraine? you know, they have disappeared. sure, they have decided the term of identity they may speak russian, but they identify not only is ukrainian citizens, but members of the ukrainian civic nation. and that is what happens when you make ethnic identity, as the russian state has, dependent. we can't afford to allow that. what do i think we should do? that they suggest -- i guess i will go back to three things. i like trinity's. that'll keep me better in the 10 to 12 minutes ifad. first, we have to recognize the probably face of moscow is not simply moscow's lies. not simply moscow's disinformation directed at russians abroad, but in the entire structure and the reporting by russian television to the neighboring countries is itse

the situation could descend into ethnic cleansing. and where muslims and christians can meet, the atmosphere is tense. the few people would go on camera, saying the main wish is for peace to return. >> we are together, altogether. all we want is peace, peace so we can go back it oo business, to deal with our needs. into this volatile position came the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. the security council will vote on the peace-keeping force for the country, she says it cannot come too soon. >> no question that we need to redouble our efforts every day. with this add - it adds more urgency to the task of getting more troops and police deployed rapidly. >> one contentious issue is the make-up of the international force that is currently in country. chad supplied thousands of troops. many are muslim, and that is an issue for some people. >> we'd like our central african authorities to accept those in the third should leave and g else were. they go away whether to their country, so the authorities can talk to the christian rebels, d

the ethnic group and their hutu sympathizers were killed. the killing sent tens of thousands of hutus and tutsies fleeing into neighboring nations, causing disruptions in those places that are still sources of conflict today. it was paul who led the military force from neighboring uganda to stop the genocide 20 years ago. he became president in 2000 and has led his country in an economic and sew site al rebirth. it's still a poor country in the last five years, the economy has grown an avenue of 8% per year reducing child mortality by 70%. rwanda hopes to be a tech driven power. a thousand miles of fiber optic cables and last year signed a deal to cover 95% of the country with a 4g network. no one disputes how far the country has come economically in recent years and the elth nick violence that tore the country apart is a thing of the pass but the president's critics say he rules with an iron fist cracking down on internal dissent and supported rebel groups in neighboring congo. back at the ceremony, the secretary general of the united natio

the only reason i bring up the ethnic - 9 circuit court >> the reason the ethnic circuit court of appeals sequa law is the case law from the state court that's what's relevant to our decision we need to look at here what do the state court of appeals say and the we don't have any california supreme courts. >> okay. thank you. okay. i will end my questions for now and supervisor campos >> i'll remind you, we have not heard in the project sponsor that will be forthcoming. >> i'll defer my questions i know there's probably members of the public that wyoming want to speak on that. >> director reiskin our presentation. >> good evening members of the board and public. i appreciate the tint as our sfmta director we're charged by side board of supervisors policy we've been tripod in the industry educator to advance the city's charter of employee shuttles that are the proposed pilot subject are a form of permit that at least on their face is vance the cities policy consistent with virtual policy. however, as i've said we've heard very clearly and well articulated before i many speakers and public

can you tell us exactly why this ethnic conflict exists?>> i think to go to the length of ethnicity is oversimplifying. what is happening in south sudan is a struggle for political and economic power. let's remember that you had a -- a -- basically a war that has broken out, a ceasefire signed just a few months ago in january, but really continued fighting, because this -- which is really africa's newest country, you know, south sudan became independent in 2011, tla has been since then a real struggle for the future of the country for political and economic power. there have been attacked and counterattacks on both sides. the government as well as the rebel forces. the government understanding that he has -- feeling that it has unlimited power has also committed horrendous atrocities as have the rebel forces under the former vice president, who essentially was kicked out of power, because it was assumed he was launching a coup. so you have a quest for political and economic power -- >> let me stop you there, are you talking about the former

because they are partially ethnic-motivated. >> right. i want to get to how deep this goes. what is your reaction that a local radio station is broadcasting hate messages, encouraging people to attack other people over the public airways. >> this is essentially a nightmare scenario. one the international community has been working against since the rwandan genocide in the 1980s. also with u.s. responses itself have been around, trying to prevent this use of hate-speech. it is definitely a warning sign that things are likely the escalate and get even worse and why the peace keeping operations and the u.n. and the international community need to be prepared for dealing with this protection crisis for months if not years to come. we need to get reenforcements in there right now, not only to just protect people but also to ensure that humanitarian assistance can reach them. >> four months ago there was a peace treaty in place and many were talking about development in south sudan. today there are five, six, 7 million facing hunger. there is t

that prohibited a runway at the airports this was like the tahoe case it was not reverses by the ethnic circuit they other day with the trial court on the baseline issue. the disagreement had to be with the contract issue that's different. also even if you accepted the excited condition at the baseline and they told you they do know what the baseline is that's the problem they said that the agree didn't have substantial evidence to support their baseline so even if we accepted the illegal situation at the baseline the mta has milled they're developing a whole new network of appeals court shuttle networks. this is with an was an ironic change but clearly one hand so not talking to the other the stopped are changing in not a status quo also the city a change the law most important the city has amended the transportation code to make it legal for business to to the at the shuttle stops this will increase the number of shuttles operators the number of shuttles stops and finally as the subsequential evidence there was let's talk about the budget analyst report even if i don't believe our exp

those who call for the killing of ethnicity are criminals. they must be immediately arrested and must be brought to justice in accordance of international commitments of ukraine including in the field of human rights. and rather than to create a, the skeleton of a national guard and the current leading elite, despite the fact in their report the ukrainian society is quite fairly described as bilingual, the real situation of the russian-speaking population of the country is not reflected rightly. so sometimes the russian-speaking population refers to as people who are not, who are not full-fledged citizens and so forth. the harrassment by radicals, physical violence against the representatives of the former authorities and those who do not agree with the current regime continues. recent examples, on the 7th of april, a number of participants of the meeting of justices were harassed during the night of april 15th. the headquarters of the communist party of ukraine was attacked unfortunately. the participants of the current kiev regime were not

some attacks against the ethnic , in particularty russians that were affiliated to the former government, were also reported. were neithere systematic nor widespread. they were isolated incidents which were then exaggerated through some biased meeting -- media reporting, fueling fear and insecurity amongst the ethnic russian community. there have also been some cases fromcitement to hatred certain groups, such as the so-called right sector. fear and insecurity breed when incitement to hatred, discrimination, or violence is not curtailed. it is therefore crucial that this issue be addressed as a welcomef priority and i steps already undertaken by the government and the prosecutor general of the ukraine to publicly condemn and investigate any such instances. in this context, it is clearly unacceptable that one presidential candidates calls his followers to arm themselves in the east of the country, whether or not he is beaten because of his political views. monitors are verifying these serious allegations. , i visit fromnt the 21st to the 22nd of march was the most recent busy at -- visit

the country has struggled with ethnic fighting since gaining independence from sudan in 2011. but u.n. officials say that in bentiu, the targets included not only dinka, but traders from darfur and nuer people who refused to cheer the rebels' arrival. president obama condemned the killing. in a statement, he said: meanwhile, thousands of people headed for protection at the u.n.'s base in bentiu. it now holds 22,000 civilians, but they're limited to just one liter of water per person, per day. >> woodruff: we take a closer look at this continuing crisis with nancy lindborg the assistant administrator for humanitarian assistance at the u.s. agency for international development. she was recently in south sudan. and khalid medani, an associate professor of political science with a focus on africa at mcgill university. he is originally from sudan. we welcome you both. nancy lindborg what is the latest on the situation there? >> well, as you've just seen, this is an absolutely horrifying attack. and it is part of what we are seeing as an escalating series of killings that began last

contrary to what the city attorney said are authority if their published unlike state courts the ethnic district is unpublished it reversed the trial court but the district court i have it downloaded the ethnic district >> i've been hearing the ethnic court rolled not against the baseline but from the city attorney side it swept up the baseline. >> the ethnic district decision is not it's short in the first paragraph they agree with the district court the t rp a had no basis for the legal opinion so the agency decided not to use the police as the baseline so it till came out right to the plaintiffs and the illegal activity was not the baseline. the other decision a state supreme court decision a that's not published so it's not citeable but it's right, in fact, that's the court we're going to we're going cross the street to superior court it might be a smarter just he agreed that illegal activity for failure to enforce the law is not right and the cases which were unpermitted activity so, in fact, there was a failure to get a permit for the airport expansion and neither would be illegal

in the years that there has been this push back against the use of race and ethnicity consciously in admissions decisions has there also been the undermining of the idea that diversity is important, that it would be valuable to have different kinds of people on campus? >> not on the university of florida campus. i don't believe in the state of florida itself. i think that we have reaffirmed our commit to diversity, and we constantly strife to ensure that the campus is a very diverse environment because we believe that only in a very diverse environment can the true benefits that an university education can completely realized. we work every day to ensure that we have an environment in which all of our students will benefit and be prepared to diverge into a very diverse world. >> thank you for joining us. >> when we come back we'll talk more about the cumulative power of various court rulings, and ballot initiatives around the country, how it has changed the landscape for initiative offices >> welcome back. i'm ray suarez. on this edition of this program we're talking about affirmativ

the united nations condemned what it called an ethnic massacre in south sudan. it accused rebel fighters of killing hundreds of civilians after taking control of the city last week. images show the aftermath of the attack. many of the victims are reportedly children. >> those killings were done on the basis of ethnic affiliation and nationalities. the un mission also strongly fmdemns the use of -- 99 radio station to broadcast hate messages directed at certain ethnic groups. >> thousands of people have been killed in south sudan's civil conflict which is increasingly taking on ethnic overtones. one million people have fled the violence, sparking a massive humanitarian crisis. u.s., the boston marathon was held under heavy security a year after a bombing killed three people and wounded hundreds. before the race, there were emotional themes, as runners remember the victims. almost 36,000 took part in the marathon and huge crowds lined the route. for the first time in more than three decades, an american won the men's race. runners whoof many could not complete the

was largely seen as a figure that united the army across ethnic lines. so i think we have seen a positive development, and a potentially. >> you talk about the ethnic dimensions there, some on servers say that increasingly, this conflict is being fought along ethnic lines would you agree? >> that quickly disintegrated into an ethnic conflict, mobilizing their bases. using ethnic base rhetoric, we have now heard reports of fm radio, broadcasting hate speech when the rebels took back control just last week. and we are seeing increasingly devastating revenge attacks from one group against the other. it is a very dangerous cycle that requires the international community before this escalates any further. >> just teen, just a final thought before you go, what about regional solutions to the problem is is should there be a wider force to help people on the ground? >> i think absolutely that would be a positive development, two countries in particular that are very well respected and are seen as primarily neutral in this conflict, are ethiopia and kenya. and if

he says he is defending ethnic russians. they could be any anywhere. >> what i'm hearing is it could happen here. >> no way. >> give me some odds. >> i think we're talking about astroid hitting the earth. one in a couple trillion. >> what you are saying is it could happen here. >> that's not when i'm saying. you already give met odds. >> can't take it back. too late go to the package. >> it could happen here. >> so i headed to where piewton is most likely to invade next a far away place where russian language and traditions dominate the local culture. a terrified neighborhood called brighton beach brooklyn, america. skeptical? well, then let's examine the parallels between crimea and brighton beach. why was crimea ripe for the picking? >> the people don't like like the people of the rest ukraine. a lot of people see themselves as exsoviet or russians culturally. >> okay. let's see he if the people of brighton beach are truly russian. criewpy soviet vibe, check. russian style leisure. >> this is your version of sunbathing, ch

identity for reasons of political and cultural orientation be they russian ethnic be the ukrainian ethnice they primarily of soviet identity they look towards russia for direction and for their identity and it has been instrumental that the press has been instrumental in this process of denying the. they're there they keep insisting on this mythology. propagated by both the putsch regime and the western governments that this is all due to a mysterious russian agents men in green that neither c.n.n. nor c.b.s. nor n.b.c. or the b.b.c. have been able to face to find a single russian agent on the ground there they've talked to hundreds of people and they still can't find any russian agents the only agents that we know for sure that are interfering in the politics of the ukraine at this moment are the cia who have visited and who are operating out of a floor of the ukrainian intelligence committee in kiev you know more consumers this go on from the very very beginning i've said this is really more about a media war here because according to western media there are no fascists and the people i

ethnic albanians hold the majority of the population. they are critical of putin's action. >> translator: putin just wants to increase his territories to make a big russia. >> translator: putin is trying to make a comparison with kosovo. but the cases are not the same. >> reporter: in the capital pristina stands a statue of former u.s. president bill clinton. many residents here consider him as a hero who protected them from a persecution and massacre by the serbian troops. in 1999, clinton led nato's bombing campaign on facilities of then the federal republic of yuk slav ya. an increasing military pressure withdrew the forces from kosovo. >> reporter: over 100 countries have recognized kosovo's independence. but serbia and its strong ally, russia, have refused. >> it is not obvious at all what could possibly be the legal basis for even considering the recognition of this unilateral declaration of independence. >> reporter: the majority a albanians and minority serbs live here separately. that said is albania's side. i am standing on ser

we have ethnic violence. so it's exciting but i feel nervous. >> brown: a country in a state of de-isolation. poor, ethnically divided, with a very troubled past. and a potentially booming future: exciting but nervous. >> ifill: tomorrow, jeff looks at what this new political openness means for myanmar's cultural heritage. and on our art beat page, you can read jeff's travel journal, which is part of his series, "culture at risk." >> woodruff: now, the search for that missing malaysian airliner. it underwent a major shift today, as officials decided to give up listening for pings and start looking at the ocean floor. >> woodruff: for days, crews on the australian navy vessel, "ocean shield," had been preparing a u.s. navy robot submersible to go deep in the indian ocean. their chance came today, six days after the last known signal from what may be the plane's recorders. >> today is day 38 of the search. the guaranteed shelf life of the batteries on the aircraft black boxes is 30 days. >> woodruff: angus hous

and there was nothing you would describe as ethnic strife. there are hundreds of places on the map of western regions of modern ukraine united by their bloody history her example there are usually. yuki we're on march twenty sixth one hundred seventy nine poles were murdered each year polish and ukrainian delegations come here to honor the memory of those innocent victims many of those who lived in the linea and nearby and witnessed those tragic events are still alive they managed to survive. general miroslav get him a ship ski a pole and this first astronaut is one of them but back in one thousand nine hundred three the future space conquerer was a helpless baby boomer racker loosely survived. two of them were lost my story is very common. there were thousands of similar stories of poles living in ukraine. of course i was only eighteen months old at the time. so i don't have any personal recollection. but i remember the stories my parents told me well you know our family suffered a lot during the following year. and my mother often talked ab

they were telling their followers their ethnicity to go out and kill people. because indeed i would see people would get to see that even the agreements. they helped while explaining to compromise on photoshop. most of every important compromise but if any delicate compromise for instance. and do that. our political and military power sharing was a fake screen almost in the tales can be soo cool and he's a courtroom drama advantages to the rebels to the rpf. i kept telling her that it's the rabbitohs to the tutsi rebels. i kept telling the president and his all to the divisional of twenty because of this compromise might not be deemed to be the ideal compromise but that will need at the end of twenty two months and it was agreed also in the courts to the elections and do explain it to all these displaced portions of the hosts hundreds of thousands of dead and the don'ts of styles and they will then go back to their fields. i don't want to live in these as soon as the agreements are put into place and or implement that you are talking obviously balinese he told

those killings were done on the basis of the ethnic affiliation and nationalities the un mission'shod also strongly condemns the use of ten to ninety nine fm radio station to broadcast the message is directed at certain ethnic groups thousands of people have been killed in south sudan's four months civil conflict which is increasingly taking on ethnic overtones. a million people have fled the violence sparking a massive humanitarian crisis in the us the boston marathon was held under heavy security. yeahh still bombing at the event killed three people and wounded hundreds before the race to emotional scenes as runners remember the victims. almost thirty six thousand to punch in the marathon and huge crowds lined the route. for the first time in more than three decades an american won the men's race. make it easy he was one of many runners in the field and couldn't complete the race last year tensions continued to manage in eastern ukraine where pro russian religions to dip their occupation of key government buildings the separatist groups refuse to recognize the geneva de escalation a

village, the congregation celebrating an easter monday service was made up in equal portion he of ethnic russian he, ukrainians and moldovans. we met a bulgarian who teaches art in the local school where lessons are held in both russian and mol moldovan. >> the banks of the river were filled with people enjoying a holiday barbecue. i joined one family to sound out their opinions. >> ukrainians say wherever russia enters things get worse. it's quite the opposite. people are living much better than here than moldova. >> approving very popular here it says he paid back $400 billion of foreign debt. he hosted the most successful olympics in history and oh yes, he took back crimea. putin's laterrest move will also prove popular here. he signed a new law relaxing the requirements needed to get a russian passport. you have to be fluent in russian or live in the foremost soviet union. are equating last week's ferry disaster to murder. latest update, stayed media is reporting 87 bodies recovered so far. harry fawcett has more. >> the man in the cross hairs of public age are like no one else in so

the ethnic russians hearing a crane shot to the belief that they are written in this country and claim the idea to be far from reality. alexandra cool summer is a popular ukrainian rock star. she was born in russia are raised in tn. her father with the military officer and soviet union. she believes there's a different reason behind some russians feeling discomfort in ukraine three i held him i think the current pensions now that it's hot it's been suggested don't feel bad enough the un protection from the government and that's why they don't feel you know they have it dismissed lg the best of it in an antique actually not the guests bring their a games changes eighty six year old retired ukrainian work or live in a close call but stresses that she in all three years of experience has never had any issues with ethnic russians in an opening at nine ukrainian time when you mention playing in theaters and it has been deemed a new kind of infringement. on a stampede as if they will go on in here. the mosque al strongly believes the question is reflected in the ukrainian territory there are

my ethnic with the kikuyu have been known not to eat fish for some reason, we don't. and i thought i didn't eat fish, until i went to kizumu. there's a way where fish is made, where it's a whole fish, and i mean, we don't know what we're missing. we get called the potato people by other tribes because we eat a lot of potatoes. if there's one thing i'd wish we'd do more of, is be more adventurous in our eating. i think down in the coast the swahilis, the culinary culture is big and i think we need to learn with them because we just tend to boil stuff. >> our current system has gone very far awry... >> there's huge pressure on the police to arrest and find somebody guilty >> i think the system is going to fail a lot of other people. >> you convicted the wrong person >> i find that extraordinarily disappointing... >> to keep me from going to jail, i needed to cooperate. >> the evidence was inaccurate >> they still refuse the dna >> somebody can push you in a death chamber >> it's not a joke >> award winning producer and director joe berlinger exposes the truth. from the

mostly ethnic tutsis were butchered. rwanda enjoyed economic development. >> we have more. >> this is the genocide memorial, a place for the nameless dead. 50,000 people died in the school at the height of the genocide in which ethnic hutus killed mostly tew tuesday. the government encouraged them to come here so they would be safe. it was a trap. now there are only the remains of the dead to remind the living of what happened. >> this represents a crisis of humanity. >> it's easy to say it happened in a small african country, it has nothing to do with me. >> this is a failure of the rest of the world. >> this is one of only a few people who survived. but his parents and ate brothers and sisters were murdered. it's by choice. it's his way of dealing with what happened. i'm feeling proud. i feel that it's my responsibility. i'm feeling the void i my dad, mum, brothers and sisters. >> in the 20 years sing the genocide they have made strides in avoiding to repeat the past. in the field with mass murder was submitted farmers

can you tell us why this ethnic issue exists? >> to go to the lens of ethnicity is disturbing.t is happening now is really struggle for political power and also economic power. let's remember that you know you had a -- basically a war that has broken out, a cease fire signed just a few months ago in january but really continued fighting. because this -- which is really africa's newest country, you know south sudan became independent just back in twefn 1 and since then there has been a real struggle. >> i want you to talk about the starvation and how serious it is to south sudan. >> even though this is an oil producing state and big oil companies are continuing to take the oil out of the country. you know it's said oil revenues have gone down for a minimum of 20% in the past year of the fighting in spite of the incredible richness people are left with nothing without access to food or health care or even to send their kids to school in the midst of these atrocities. you have faith based leaders across the board that are calling for a real you know end to this crisis for a resolu

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