assad hasa, president officially registered to run in next month's residential election, an election he is widely expected to win. to beote june 3 is set held as usual despite the raging war that has gone on for three years and left 150,000 dead. republic,tral african foreign troops have evacuated over 1000 muslims from a neighborhood in the capital. as the convoy departed for the safety of the north, scores of locals swarmed into the former muslim stronghold to loot the remaining houses. byerim authorities supported french and african peacekeepers are still struggling to restore order to the country. thomas waterhouse explains. the trucks form a line along this road. over 1300 muslims have been waiting to be evacuated from the northern capital neighborhood. finally, the chance to leave came on sunday. >> with the rebels killing all the muslims, we cannot stay here. we have to leave to save ourselves. >> escorted by foreign peacekeepers, the 18 tracks left for the relative safety of the north. once the convoy had finally taken to the road, locals rushed in to loot what remained. 15 m

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and that's because new york hasa very high cigarette taxes. >> we have a new form of organized crime.that's right. or a life line for the old formd of organized crime. going back hundreds of years in america getting around excise taxes and sin taxes on things like cigarettes, smokes and booze basically. >> i think most americans like the idea of our electeled officials manipulating us in ani good way. for a while, we had luxury tax, another form of sin tax. we had a tax on private planes and on cars valued over $30,00 . boats over $100,000. that seems fair.ot rich -- >> nothing underscores more m clearly how sin taxes are often symbolic gestures. those types of taxes become biga luxury taxes during recessions. you're looking to scapegoat somebody. this happened in i guess the early '90s where people were like okay. let's go after luxury yachts. these billionaires who -- let's screw them by taxing them on that. what that does iys reduces the demand for yachts and the people who make yachts are not billionaires and you had lots of people thrown out of business. same thing happened with

i don't think there is any country in the region athat hasa 10th of that much power.land is probably 20, 30 times ahead of competitors. >> reporter: for years thailand's government has been aggressively aggressive to expand solar polar and it's 2:00 for the 600,000 cells at the farm and do not push a huge amount of electricity in the grid, only enough for 70,000 homes but government and investors hope the concept, a mid size solar plant will help decentralize the nation's power grid and means smaller communities can generate their own power. the cost of pb-solar cells is half after what it was just two years ago and the majority are manufactured in asia and adding to a rapid expansion and next year it will double but the next step to r the industry the government is thinking small. >> they want to see how to promote and adopt solar technology on a smaller scale so whether it's urban situation on top of rooftop or industrial park. >> reporter: meaning households and businesses installing their own solar cells giving the people of thailand having a district hand pushing

it is not only the physical presence and not only the number of fighters, but we see that al hasa's brand and ideology prospered at a time when we were more inclined to count them as having been completely irrelevant, or at least that was the clichÉ around the time of the arab spring. especially worrisome, something that mary brought up, is not only is there being this externally -- extraordinary expansion,, but the core al qaeda in pakistan has remained remarkably resilient to the extent that few people have imagined. i have written on this. on this.also focused much of the conventional wisdom over the past decade or more has been consistently incorrect. the strength of the core is yet another example. core al qaeda has always had a much deeper bench then we have imagined, and this is why mary's strategy thatthe relies on attrition is not going to succeed over the long run. there are any number of individuals who most of us in this room have not heard of, but are veterans of the afghan-soviet war, who have three decades of experience and credentials to assume positions of leadership in t