but this bicycle is made right here in ghana -- and not out of steel but bamboo!> it's a bamboo bike and it's very light. it's ten times stronger than a metal bike. it's a smooth ride. >> ibrahim's workshop overlooks the city. the bamboo takes several months to dry. then it's sawn into pieces and planed before ibrahim and his team start to assemble the frame. his five employees do the preliminary work. then ibrahim talks them through the hard part. the idea for the bamboo bikes originated in the us about 6 years ago. two years ago, ibrahim partnered with an austrian company. >> in the initial stage it was difficult. we didn't have all the tools, we were using our hands in cutting all the shapes. now we have tools that make the work easier. it used to take a week to build one bike but now it takes 3 to 4 days. they help me a lot. they bought me this jig for about $1500. >> making the steering column is one of the tricky bits. if the drill isn't in exactly the right place, all the hard work is for nothing. the bamboo is stabilized with% resin, which prevents it from

ghana had only three universities. he started small, 10 years ago, just 30 students.ennasity and generosity of those in the united states there are 600 students on a new larger campus. the goal was to create change in a region bogged down in government corruption. needsbe successful, one¢ to be ethical. they were going to be successful because they had integrity not in spite of it f someone is running a bank they want to hire ethical people. >> today, 350 students graduated from the university. >> importantly we're giving hope to next generation. they're going to change the world. his son who inspired him is now 17 years old, and part of the next generation of ghanains. >> after a search a chancellor has been selected at uc berkeley. he's a 61-year-old professor of history who is currently at columbia university at new york. >> spencer is back now. >> yes. forecast that has been wacky today it has. interesting clouds this afternoon. low and mid level clouds moving over the bay and across the bay area. looking over live doppler 7 you!w!vy can see there are mainy light

he is being recognized for trying to change ghana's future. started a university in his home country. leaving a career at microsoft. his goal was to educate students and create change in a region bogged down in government corruption. >> i really needed to return to africa and be part of the solution in africa for the sake of the next generation and the generations after that. >> he started the university 10 years ago with only 30 students today there's 600 students at a larger campus, 350 students have graduated. >>> tomorrow morning oracle's america's cup team has competition they've transformed their eight million dollar catamaran wrecked last month, into a plane. it will be launched or plunged in the 10th annual red bull -- 33 teams will launch flying devices in the bay from a 30 foot platform the team hopes it will help them move on from last month's accident. replacement boat won't be available until february. the event starts at 11:00 this morning. >> they turned night a plane, crazy engineering. >> we'll see if the plane flies. >>> spea

before she left ghana, she spoke before the national asing vering a rare public political speech. in each of the three country she spoke with the leader about her husband's upcoming trip to china explaining he did not intend to normalize relations but to open a dialogue. she also reintegrated america's promise of financial assistance to aid and development and announced the creation of two graduate scholarships for women to travel to the united states to study. not her official pronouncement, however, that earned her the accolades either in the country she visited or back home. with her warmth, the enthusiasm, the genuine appreciation of and afiction for the -- affection for the people she met. in liberia, she gushed to reporters she could not wait to meet people. she certainly did that. she waded in crowds shaking hands, giving hugs, and patting backs. at the inauguration ceremony she gave the president a warm embrace. he called her a woman, quote, of courage strength of character, and fortitude of spirit, end quote. when a group of women presented her with traditional clothes ra

and in just a few minutes violence against women of ghana stand in the futile foreign attempts to stop it. culture is that so much of a given to each musician as opposed to trying to market the carnage continues in gaza israel claims its own farming of the gazans in self-defense at the same time denying to palestinian. kids in sorrow. and hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in a search for gold. why doesn't it bring them wealth. download the official application itself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch our team any time and. won't do the. job or the world as you but as the best and brightest tech minds gather in moscow some came to work while others came to play to get up close and personal with devices that recreate masterpieces and scan russian treasures from inside and from space to keep us safe from oil spills and forest fires unleash your inner gadget geek as i see me just search for the next big thing in the computer worl

and it's the first time in the history of ghana system that irresponsibility like this. has been given to her or that her. if you ask me if i'm happy to be born a woman then i'll say yes even if i have to face many problems even if the situation is difficult and it takes a lot of effort in such a traditional society above all be no woman is being conscious of your own rights. my job is to follow criminals in the province and in fifteen districts of. the departments that i manage has one hundred employees. of these one hundred employees down there are women and the rest are all men i'm legally responsible i'm the one that coordinates and checks the work so they have. to answer to me became following through with their responsibilities and taking orders from. so little it's not easy to understand the courage of these women who put themselves out there and do their best every day. be paid as i want to work hard and however. yeah i want to head. my. i like it. i live in the given my role in the responsibility that i have in my job my life is in danger because i have to deal

>> went i went to ghana. we went to a malnutrition clinic.huge problem in africa. 40% of the kids are stented. they are stented mentally and have irreversible brain damage. there were kids who were -- 14 years old and they looked 8. >> and emotionally and you can't take care of yourself ever? >> yes, exactly. >> cheryl: so it's hard for the country to move forward. >> exactly. the good news, they were feeding these children. they were giving high nutrient foods so they could thrive. they were also teaching their parents how to feed them and giving them recipes. it was really remarkable what was going on there. the degree of the malnutrition is shocking. it's really mind-blowing. >> you haven't traveled but in your work you are aware of this? >> absolutely. one of the things that we find over and over again, the hunger in our own bay area and hunger in our country certainly something we have to take on every day. we look at extreme cases of poverty in places like africa and you see poverty and despair where terrorism springs. we understand how

leaders of a west african -- plans were announced for 3000 soldiers drawn from countries like senegal, ghana, nigeria, and burkina faso. the nigerian president good look jonathan told the meeting that mali's neighbors must unite to impose stability. >> one of the lessons years of conflict has meant an hour subregion have taught us -- that trade conflict in one country as a regional challenge requiring a common regional response. >> plant -- plants could take some while to implement. the first half to secure the agreements with the african union and the u.n. security council. >> for more on this and other stories, you can take a look at the bbc website, bbc.com/news. you all watching "gmt" from bbc world news. >> which of leaders will guide the country through the next decade. syrian aircraft bombed rebel- held town killing at least six people and sending refugees across the border. it is time to get an update on the world of business with aaron. greece -- look, but jets -- budgets -- and desperate for this money from the e you. it hasn't done enough? the people there are not happy. >> they a

i should say there was no yes ghana's then generally my e-mail. do you think now that i said that they will stop looking into my help but i don't think they will make any difference no if they have they had you on the target list you're on the list or are you one part but i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years. so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them do you think we should all likely messages for the i want to say you know mailbox sure mr binney you blew the whistle on the agency when george w. bush was president with president obama in office in your opinion has anything changed that the agency in their surveillance program what in what direction is an instruction taking program changes that it's getting worse. they're doing more that's why they i mean he is supporting the building up of the buff they'll facility which is over two billion dollars they're spending on storage on of data so that means that they're collecting a lot more

complete sense nobody saw it but one may ask what about all those countries that the us has gone back of ghana's them pakistan yemen and others or is it that when you refer to civilian deaths as collateral damage somehow fooling civilians sounds more to bite when it comes to the does a situation you usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in a conflict like this. with the u.s. is not always like that when the government was killing civilians the u.s. forced to sympathize with the innocents there in most graphic terms but it appears in washington sympathy for suffering tenby select it this is hillary clinton on syria the shooting death of a one year old recently by the syrian regime's tanks and troops. is a very stark example of what is going on. one may ask what about those horrible shots of children dying in gaza is it somehow a less stark example of what's going on it seems america's world police mindset and standing up for the weak thing doesn't apply to palestinians instead we hear the same mantra from u.s. officials that israel has the right to defend itself which effe

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soldiers who are trying the new libyan army artie's ghana chicha can report on why america is so happy to help. the pentagon's new outlook forget about full scale invasion is and large footprint occupation instead think of special ops and proxy armies next destination libya the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate money for a special unit reportedly made up of some five hundred people who will train the country's forces according to one b.b. and militia commander a team of americans is already in the country looking for recruits a major obstacle in their wary a vastly divided society there isn't an army and maybe a now and the army is not going to be because whenever you try and get militias which have a legion says to a variety of rays of things that the national interest so they have allegiance to a drive or to a sect or to a religion rather than having allegiance to the nation or to the country you cannot build an army but with training and aid fully via the u.s. we have more pragmatic goals then uniting the army you were just teaching them the best w

investigation broadwell spent a year with a former cia if she's going to ghana stand interviewing him for a book on u.s. warfare she suspected of trying to illegally access petraeus is classified e-mail intelligence expert lieutenant colonel tony shafir told r.t. there is more behind the resignation of just moral issues to show in the book how his ideas are playing one of the lessons of washington is whatever they're talking about publicly publicly the issue is something else entirely and i think that's what's here let's be very blunt here general eisenhower the commander of our forces of world war two related to d.-day invasion one hundred forty four had an affair with his driver f.d.r. president. roosevelt knew about it but they didn't believe it so there's something else deeper here something else that i don't think anybody fully understands this general general petraeus may have is the critics over c.i. a lot of folks have problems at cia i'm a trained case officer trained by cia. but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique c

american forces in europe and the supreme allied commander of nato so john allen would be the third of ghana's then general who fell from grace so abruptly and so shockingly too many first it was general stanley mcchrystal resigned when a magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administration and then general petraeus over a woman and now general john allen three of the biggest names in the war in afghanistan a correspondent in washington there were former five intelligence officer told us the patrols don't fool could be the result of infighting within the intelligence community. it's beginning to look like a very well written drama really interesting sense but now a bomb. to prove his final exam time they can let you use the cream to tweak the old regime. generals who sort of move through the revolving door in military positions of the intelligence that was one of the points it took him to get much coverage about the triumph and that is the fact that he has been very much on a really important really pushing for the idea that there should be some sort of military action again

those news right away and coming up we explore the hardships and trials faced daily by the women of ghana that's after a short break here and stay with us. question is that so much a given to each musician apparently trying to mark latham actual ceasefire things over gaza after eight days of destruction and what did israel actually achieve what about the palestinians. and the mission free accreditation free zones for charges free coming from and free risk free studio time priests. download free broadcast clothing video for your media projects and free media and on to r.t. dot com you. will go into the future to look at the world past you but as the best and brightest take minds gather in moscow some came to work while others came to play to get up close and personal with devices that recreate masterpieces and scanned russian treasures from inside and from space to keep us safe from oil spills and forest fires unleash your inner gadget geek as i see me just search for the next big thing in the computer world and rushes over numerous goodies cooping to take the fight straight to their compe

going to take a long time to crack it, because there's 1.3 million cocoa farms in just ivory coast and ghana. and they pump in about three million dollars a year that a foundation uses to try to deal with the problem on the ground. now, progress has been made, but i've got to tell you, it's not enough. we need more money and we need more resources to really crack this problem. so there's still some slavery in chocolate. i hate tsay it, but it's true. >> hinojosa: and your final message to our viewers-- do what? what do you want us to do? >> number one, read about it and look at the web site so you can find out what's going on. we can't solve a problem... >> hinojosa: freetheslaves.org? >> freetheslaves.net. >> hinojosa: .net. >> freetheslaves.net, because we can't solve problems we don't understand. but the other thing is, take this one idea away-- we can actually end slavery. we're at this moment in history where slavery can be brought to an end globally. it might take us 25 or 30 years, but it can be stopped forever. and wouldn't that be great, a world wiout slavery? >> hinojosa: thank you

. >>> in ghana, a five story shopping center collapsed just before it was set to open.escue workers pulled out 46 survivers, but at least 3 people had died. the shopping center had been built earlier this year in a suburb of the capital. >>> why some three strikers may be going home. >> bill martin is tracking rain. he's back with your complete bay area forecast. >>> the passage of prop 36 was welcome news to some three strike inmates serving life in prison. rob ross went to san quentin and talked to some three strikers who could see freedom soon. >> reporter: they spent a nervous night watching election returns. >> i didn't get any sleep. i'm exhausted. >> reporter: when proposition 36 won. >> this is the best day i've had. >> reporter: jonathan wilson is serving a life sentence. now that prop 36 has passed, he may get to go home. >> i would have never thought i would actually get to be free with my family again. >> reporter: it has to be for a violent, or serious crime. a nonviolent crime, no longer necessarily means a life sentence. >> it will boil down to whether th

. >>> in ghana, a five story shopping center collapsed just before it was set to open.e workers pulled out 46 survivers, but at least 3 people had died. the shopping center had been built earlier this year in a suburb of the capital. >>> why we stand for farmers owning the company; for them taking responsibility for the products they make; for them being in the right place at the right time for over 100 years making tillamook cheese from tillamook, oregon; for these farmers never wavering from their commitment to excellence. we stand for that. >>> the passage of prop 36 was welcome news to some three strike inmates serving life in prison. rob ross went to san quentin and talked to some three strikers who could see freedom soon. >> reporter: they spent a nervous night watching election returns. >> i didn't get any sleep. i'm exhausted. >> reporter: when proposition 36 won. >> this is the best day i've had. >> reporter: jonathan wilson is serving a life sentence. now that prop 36 has passed, he may get to go home. >> i would have never thought i would actually get to be f

the president has clearly stated as rightly he should, that hamas' behavior in ghana is unacceptable. was the israeli response appropriate? >> the israeli response was appropriate and far less violent than would be justified. the principal of proportionality in international law does not mean that you have to do only what the other side did. it means your response must be limited to what is proportional to the necessity to stop the aggression. the aggression is the firing of rockets. whatever is necessary to get hamas to do that is legal under international law. >> eliot: it is also worth repeating that israel's first strike was against known terrorist leader and subsequent strikes are against missile launching entities themselves is hamas getting more aggressive because it has greater support from egypt? do you see that correlation? >> i think one has to assume that. i think there are some other groups now to hamas' more extreme flank that are pressing it. that they're under some pressure. they're not offering enough resistance so to speak. i think that that is an operation. but no s

. >>> hello, ghana! i am very pleased to be in london. moscow. strasbourg. mexico.his first year as president, barack obama undertook more foreign trips than any president before him, traveling to over 20 countries. the new american leader was ginning up global backing for an ambitious world agenda that included winding down two wars, dealing with an ever-turbulent middle east, limiting the nuclear threats from iran, but also north korea, and ratcheting up the hunt for osama bin laden. in june 2009, the president traveled to egypt to speak at cairo university. it was an historic effort to turn the page on america's troubled ties to the arab world. >> i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world. >> you travel a great deal on behalf of the president. what has it done to our international image? >> overnight, it's changed it, and we went from being one of the least respected to the most respected. >> the very qualities in obama that made the hard right recoil, a diverse international upbringing, his cultural fl

he only made one brief trip to africa and ghana.ointing for ordinary africans but they do see him as a big role model. that's what his grandmother said. if we can win with his family history, it is open to anyone in africa to anything they want. said mama sarah. >> thank you, david, appreciate it. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and our viewers around the world. i'm soledad o'brien. lots to tell you this morning if you're just joining us. president obama has been reelected. we're still waiting on what's happening in the state of florida. we want to look at the balance of power. republicans are still in charge of the house. democrats still control the senate. take a little bit of a listen to the president's stirring victory speech. here's what he said. >> it is not small. it's big. it's important. democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. we have our own opinions. each of us

then we go ghana where we have the person's life work is commemorated in the caskets that are made foruals. so if you're a fisherman, you're placed in a fish casket. if you're a carpenter, you're placed in a hammer, so you get the idea. then in tibet -- and we talked about this earlier, so they have sky burials. now where does this term sky burial come from? it's not that they're buried in the sky. but when a person dies, three days after they die, they have body breakers who come out to the site of the burial location and they chop up the body. now, why do they do that? it's a way so that the vultures the and nature can take its course and so that those remains are then taken up into the sky. at least that's the idea. >> i don't know what the union must by for body breakers, but it must be incredible. there must be alternatives here. >> there are. some look at our culture might think it's odd that we put makeup on our deceased so we can have a final moment with them. if you have the money you can have a space burial. we've heard about this. you can send your remains up to space. you c

. >>> ghana orellano está en vivo en miami. >>> buenos días sasha y el día en que 45 millones de votantesde y hace unos minutos había una fila de 60 personas y apenas abrieron las puertas, votaron sin problemas.la florida siempre ha sido un estado clave en las eelcciones. >>> estamso con lucía y nos cuenta cómo pasó. >>> fue una sorpresa ver pocas personas. >>> có se siente votar por primera vez. >>> estoy muy emocionada pues soy demócrata y es muy importante que nuestro presidente concluya los proyectos que ha comenzado.aquí se vive en el condado de miami-dade y regresamos contigo sasha con las novedades. >>> muy emocionada la señora luvía y ojalá todos en sus lugares pueda partcipar también. >>> el mandatario comenta que no hay posibilidades e surgir pero mitt romney dice que sabe cambiar el rumbo de la nación, para leer los noticiarios completos ingrese a univision.com- >>> vamos con el estado del tiempo, adelante. >>> gracias y llegó la hora de eercer el derecho al voto y otra tormenta se forma en las costas y llegarán con fuerte vientos y lluvias de 3 pulgadas para las zonas ya afect

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christi christina kirchner was worried because they've seized a vessel in the port of ghana recently.inally gets done. >> steve you have any thoughts on how that might affect more broadly? >> no idea. >> the basque separatist? >> they would be the basque country, a different part of spain. >> and portugal looks like they cut that out. >> at least they stick to the language. >> different word for every word? that's weird. >> greece, i think has the longest term systemic issues that still aren't going to be solved. >> i don't think greece is smic anymore. >> cut it off and let it go. >> angela merkel has an election next year, and she gets through it and we discuss the question and she drives the bus as well. >> she drives the bus no question. >> michelle, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thanks, michelle. >>> let's get a check on markets. joining us from the cme in chicago scott nations, cool name. >> sounds made up like a weatherman's -- >> president and cio and also nation shares which is a good name, his name and also an "options action" contributor and liesman. >> that's not a made

. >> ghana, bilbray, london, crates, all lost on the basis of redistricting. >> not mac.not going back to your district makes a difference. >> that does. >> it is becoming more and more hispanic. let me just say, part b is, charlie is right to go away you get 12% congressional job approval or 10% is if republicans and democrats give low ratings to the institution. but that doesn't mean republicans are going to vote against republican candidates. republicans blame the democrats. democrats blame the republicans because i think charlie is exactly right. that number shows a lack of confidence in the government and the institution and dissatisfaction with congressman and whatever, but it doesn't predict the vote. >> with the question right over here. >> you both mentioned demographics. so it republicans today, you know, party of grumpy old white man living in a modern family america. what is the path forward, particularly related to the hispanic vote? >> i would say first, angina, i have to think of myself, i'm a businessman, as sympathetic with the business community. i think

so the republicans would have us say to the good people of ghana or south africa, but also to the people of sweden, and ireland, and new zealand, and taiwan who applied to come here legally, sorry we have to withdraw the chance you had so we can convert them to maybe 20,000 stem graduates. maybe. once again republicans' math doesn't add up. here's something i bet you didn't know about the visa diversity program. many come to this country and join the armed forces of the united states of america. but these legal immigrants are the target of the republican bill. i have news for my friends on the other side of the aisle. you can't fool immigrants. you can't pretend to be pro-immigrant and eliminate immigration for one group to allow another group to come. i woke up the day after the election. i saw a new landscape for the immigration debate. it is one where democrats and republicans work together to solve tough problems facing the united states. we should not treat this as an opportunity for politicians to score political points again. but sadly, that is what is happening here. i want repub