this person from gambia who lives in switzerland says conditions are not good.thers said they were pleased to be here. they said they wanted to live in places like germany or norway. they believe they will have a better life. for now, they are in limbo in lampedusa. the facility has 300 people and there are now four times that number of migrants here, including 200 children. it is unprecedented as this time of year. boat after boat arrived yesterday and last night. among them, children without parents as young as nine. >> there are currently 1200 yes inside -- guests inside. among them, 200 children. reporter: all of the people got into flimsy boats in libya where there is chaos and civil war. the most whom made it to the southern tip of europe feel lucky. many more before them died. katty: in the next few weeks, all eyes will be on negotiations with iran. we hear a lot about the mood here in washington. what is the feeling inside of iran. that is the question that steve inskeep set out to answer and he joins me now. thank you for coming in. you third trip to ir

[chorus singing] (narrator) in the countries of mali senegal, and gambia in west africa musicians knowngriots have traditionally played an important role in society as storytellers and historians. the griots sing songs and proverbs accompanied by astrument known as a kora a spiked harp with a gourd ronator. (brown) in many african cultures there aren't written traditions. i mean traditionally there weren't books, there weren't forms of wting and people needed ways of remembering things, of preserving their history and culture and values. and one of the ways in which they did that was through song. one example can be seen in the kora and the tradition of music that surrounds it. the kora is always accompanied by song, and those songs recount the deeds of heroes and kings, and these days, merchants and traders and other important people in the society. it's a repository of historical knowledge and also of cultural values. the kora tradition goes back several hundred years in west africa. it basically comes out of the old mali empi. the mali empire was founded in 1235 by sunjata the first

we've seen our students arrested in the gambia.e actually just learned about one of our students being beaten up by police in ethiopia, just a couple weeks ago. simply for holding an event to discuss these ideas. but, inspiring thing is that students like jorge and others are not backing down in the face of these thugs. they're continuing on. john: fortunately most of you are from america. you haven't had this happen. you have questions for alexander or jorge come up to the microphone. >> john, i'm from bristol virginia, go to university of virginia. my question for who are say. i had cousin not recently, last year was protested in venezuela put in jail. what do you think the future for central and south america is moving forward? john: south america has the same resources we have but it stayed poor when north america got rich. do people have a sense it was government that did that? >> i don't think they did. all the history and sociology teachers give a marxist view of history and tell us how america became rich by exploiting lati