in a sense we were the precursor of post apartheid south africa. we saw ourselves as the rainbow nation at that point. >> host: what happened? clearly what we see now in south africa did emerge and the, although he was jailed for over 20 years, he came to power and there was, at least a summit of harmony. they're still problems in south africa but they're going down most people in the right path. was zimbabwe is really tumbling out of control. what happened there? >> guest: without going into too much detail about domestic policy in south africa, the one crucial thing you put your finger on, modica, he stood down after five years. south africa is on its on its third president. we've never gotten past our first. what happened was mugabe, now 87, had been in power for over 30 years. would actually happen is that he installed himself and became more and more dictatorial, more authoritarian, and then dictatorial. and very quickly establish a one party state with a total grip on power. now, it's interesting because in those early days, i mean, land was a

is the reflection of, excuse me, the just the dynamics that were going on in southern africa, and we talk about mugabe as if this one man, this one person has been ruling with an iron fist in the understanding is that it is actually ruled between ten to 15 people and in some instances mugabe has stepped down, he's not want to be in power anymore, quote on quote and power, and yet it has been these generals from the military and police force that has refused to allow that. can you speak to that? >> guest: there is a moment in which in fact at the beginning of the book i describe the moment where he loses the first election that he suddenly feels deflated and thinks that it's time to stand down. from what i was hearing his wife, grace, too, wants him to step down so she can go shopping and the international capital and they can have a nice life again. and then a mugabe met with his general and the discussed it more. now i don't personally by this mugabe being run by his general stuff or by anybody else. mugabe is an autocrat. he has a group of people around him and he doesn't do stuff a

in after africa, it doesn't take much to do a lot. st an example -- in 2009, i sent a thousand dollars to autism. with that thousand dollars, they were able to have two volunteers, french aba professionals that gave their time, that were not paid for what they were doing, but we were able to put them in a hotel, little things like that. within a week, they trained few teachers and a few care givers. now, this is not a lot, but it's a small step that can be taken and add up to that little by little every so often, six months or a year, you can have a good team of people, you know, with some tools to help. it's always hard when you want to have something on the bigger level and add, you know, come with all these big strengths, but start small, create centers, you know small centers. they don't have to be very sophisticated, but where they can go and get information and where the communication can come from. i just want to add that. >> well, i think we have to remember that until 1975, children with disabilities were not entitled to a fre

one country in africa the democracy could work and could get a grip is zimbabwe and you can see that they are democrats in the day decided to do it in the vein of gandhi and martin luther king and the day would be peaceable and in the face of enormous publication they pretty much stayed to that which is again extraordinary, but i haven't been rewarded by the international community because basically the only get involved when the body count goes up cooking the awful truth so because they don't find out they've been peaceable. the international community tended to ignore them and there's been intervention that's happened more in darfur and in the code to some extent and that is the irony of it. >> host: you mention the civil rights movement and i always think that while for so long the cameras were not there, there were no photographs, no one knew of the violence, the african-americans in this country were experiencing. at some point the cameras did show up and that was so important to give the movement a boost to let people know when the example this is what people are experiencing. a

they actually did experience these things in south africa. we call it 20 experiences in 10 days. what they did is what a typical traveler from china would love do in south africa. >> which is what? >> safari, of course. they love capetown. they love scenic beauty. and diamond shopping is one of those things they love. >> reporter: but the campaign has one big problem there are currently no direct flights from china to here. for now, travelers have to go through hong kong. national carrier south african airways launches its johannesburg/beijing route in september. chinese credit card holders spend over 3 million u.s. dollars in this country. >> however this announcement is a positive thing, i don't think they have been caught napping because it's a developing market. >> reporter: what about the language barrier? >> that's still our biggest challenge in terms of making sure that in south africa we have enough guides that speak mandarin and those are the things that as a country we need to prepare ourselves for in ensuring that we give the chinese traveler a fabulous experience. so

>> ramy and andrew, all this week we've been talking about china's growing influence in africa. we started out by telling you about the situation in sim bzim. it's a place where china continues to pump millions of dollars into sectors such as mining and tobacco. after that, we took you to uganda where chinese construction companies are involved in overhauling infrastructure there. some locals claim that cheap foreign later is stopping domestic jobs and south africa, they're courting more tourists from the world's second largest economy. this is the spending power of its european visitors starts to dwindle. today, we explain how parents in south africa is investing in the future by teaching their children mandarin. [ speaking mandarin ] >> they start at the very beginning. counting to ten. as they get bigger, they graduate to chinese etiquette and simple conversation. by the time they get to high school, these south african kids can't read and write simple sentences in mandarin. >> do you find mandarin difficult? >> at first, yes, but over the years, i've been here for three years

they have been working in the middle east and north africa for more than 30 years. they tell us the political upheaval is inspiring the church to action. he asked us not to reveal his name for security reasons. >> in the first place it is forcing christians to become much more vocal. with their faith. they are being bolder in sharing the good news with others. in many of the countries we have seen the domino effect as people calling out for more freedom. it is not a democracy as we would think in western european terms. islam will probably be the predominant religion. christians say there is true freedom you can experience apart from political freedom. we are finding christians to be bolder in sharing their faith. we are finding more people going to internet sites and making inquiries. the whole unrest is simply made the world more unstable for them and so they are beginning to ask more questions. >> the bible league international works with believers on the ground delivering scriptures an training materials to find out more about their work and this interview, check

, has its roots in africa, but during slavery, this was a combinationunicate with each other, a way to create beautiful objects, and a way to create functional, utilitarian objects for the family and community. the other part that makes it so interesting is the focus on jazz. there are two attritions being celebrated here. certainly, the tradition as we know it -- these are not traditional quilts. they have their roots in traditional aspects, but what you will find in this exhibition are works that include materials on the surface, new processes, copying, and putting photographic images on the surface. you will find packets sewn onto the surface, so the methodology from traditional " making has changed from how traditional quilt makers use the medium. >> our visitors can visit the web site, which we will be showing on the segment, so follow the link to the website, and get all of the latest information about all these events related to this exhibition, and, of course, you guys are very active. throughout the year, with all kinds of special programs. >>

. >> in certain places in africa this instrumentality existed. >> (speaking spanish). >> and the percussionist will play with their hands and their feet. >> (speaking spanish). >> with the african slave trade he used to be in the ports. this type of boxes. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were sit over these big boxes and play over them. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the blacks these type of instruments were not allowed to be played because they were too loud and for the church they will provoke movement that was not appropriate. >> (speaking spanish). >> they could also work as a form of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was what was going on in africa. >> (speaking spanish). >> and from some of the sounds they used to play that we almost lost all of them we still have some that he remembers. >> (speaking spanish). >> for instance -- >> (speaking spanish). >> this means "attention be alert. something is going to happen". >> (speaking spanish). >> wake up. wake up. >> wake up, wake up. (speaking spanish). >> and this are some of the drumming patterns

in addition, the hague commission does have a project on africa to look at this issue and try to make strides in that region of the world, but there's been aidentification at least because the critical role of perm relationships in africa, and i heard this played a large part in asia that having a real regional approach individually based is important so having a conference in the nether larpds or in washington, d.c. does not get countries in africa to start looking at the hague convention, but requires a lot of direct outreach on a personal level. children abducted to africa, their profile of the cases look somewhat different. the africa cases tend to be of african imgrants coming to the united states temporarily or permanently where both parents are from an african nation and the child is abducted by one parent, take p back to the home country and left with extended family, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, or people in the united states who are considered friends., but very much family in the african construct. there are a notable number -- there's a small number, but a notable presence

much of the business is done in southern africa. tuesday, we examine why china's business in zimbabwe looks so attractive. today we look at uganda in the center of the continent where there are abundant resources and plenty of room for growth. chinese companies are active in uganda. even with the projects moving ahead, not everyone is happy. >> reporter: chinese construction companies are literally building uganda, improving the infrastructure with workers brought from china. some complain these workers are taking up jobs traditionally done by locals. >> the chinese consumption, they want to use local people as much as possible, but they also can see there are about the quality of the product. >> reporter: importers, manufacturers, and traders have come to set up shop. street vendors prefer them like badru musaazi. >> cheap products. >> not being cheap but -- >> reporter: some entrepreneurs are a little less than enthusiastic about the growing influence in uganda. in fact, some accuse the government of failing the influx. this gentl

you run that way to save your life of the mugabe forces closing in on their home. south africa is in charge of ensuring the safety of people and injuring six government is not in reach. stories like that how was it possible people are turning a blind eye to what is happening? >> technically the torture that i described that is what led up to the establishment of the hybrid government. subsequently it has not been quite as bad but that case but to show that as his wife and kids tried to escape. i came across that as someone standing around as the opposition counselor in the mugabe area and hundred came at night for him. and they have charged with spears and rocks with all of these people but then and said you better kill me because i know who you are now. they will come back to get you. why would you say that? i would say the error of my ways. [laughter] why would you say that? he said because it was true. [laughter] so there is a bravery almost to this in same degree. >> host: so can you describe you had to ask why. why to the opposition party in a few tries to do with the nati

where they won't like alice in latin america and surround it trying to impede that the same happens in africa and i think the only future for the people is that we have relations independent from the e.u. a c. and then from the nato and we open a new page in history i mean a multiple of world we shall call and thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us live here on r.t. thanks for your time. well while world leaders gather in france to deal with the new world in greece part of the old world threatens to collapse. the chances that greece to exit the eurozone by the day. as thousands expressed outrage over austerity measures we ask how likely is it that greece will drop out of the eurozone that's coming up in a few minutes. but first moscow says the violent crackdown on mass protests in georgia is a blatant abuse of human rights and is demanding an international investigation thousands of taking part in five days of protests calling for president mikheil saakashvili to resign they were dispersed by armed policemen ahead of an independent state military parade thousands ended up i

find the cause try to to convince their mcgreevy and sustain to stay in their home as the stay stay in africa rather than seek asylum in europe and it's impossible to convince them. i don't think it's possible to convince people but but we can do is to help the contras to overcome all the problems in turn problems have some economic and social development so that more people want to stay in this congress but that is a much more long term project so you cannot say to people that wants to live there don't have a job don't have sufficient food or. opportunity for their own children they should stay where they are and not leave the country well the recent influx of immigrants into countries like italy and france has prompted calls for the re-instatement of internal border controls within the european union spotlights even a genius has bred that. the tiny talent island of lampedusa has been swept with waves of illegal immigration resembling a human tsunami situated between north africa and southern europe the island this is is this to nations with desperate to lesions and libyans trying to scape u

and then the west have very different approaches when it comes to the situation in libya and in north africa in general and that is any time you get involved in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation you have to err on the side of caution really be careful about how you do things russia doesn't feel like that's the way things have been time they did not along with china veto the resolution to intervene in libya but have made it very clear that they feel like the resolution has been manipulated in one way or another and it's become much more than just a mission to protect protect civilians with that said that's right g eight leaders asking russia to be the broker in terms of the libya crisis we also know that foreign minister sergei lavrov today spoke to the libyan prime minister who asked him to help personally in and it should be a cease fire so obviously world powers feel like russia is the country to go in and trying to get things done when obviously as the world is watching what's unfolding in libya or rather not it's a stalemate at the moment that something needs to be done because

and we're in africa laughing wherever there are serious problems are really bad so haiti in somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just business human life has no relevance whatsoever. one day in haiti where here some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. i was in charge of the ship i was stuck in the port and it was costing about two million lira a day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. pre-warned hoodie i unloaded the containers usually cream the one on top of the other a girl come from them out one after another going there powering up everywhere but i don't care for me to leave two weeks later i saw the results just it was awful it was radioactive waste you see over. in the end separate decided to inform the powers that be what he was involved in. this would be a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities from all the process interviewed. several allied himself with the anti mafia division in milan and allowed the police to infiltrate his network. and

adventure a half serb half italian with in a ray of passports and identities his name appears on several documents involving the shipment of toxic waste to africa is also spent about a dozen years in prison. he was another who enjoyed the confidence of the somali president and witnessed the network's activities. come often did you visit somalia in number ten times did you have any dealings with the early muddy. there's quite a few that have four or five or six anyway it was even one who authorized the talks of ways to be sent to some other issues of supergirl so maybe. no no i don't think it was him the authorizations were for a. film. and yes in his dealings with the taliban businessmen only claim to have the full backing of the somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. day in your backyard and yet. there it. was or it. yeah. but it happened that. back in the. face of the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and the tray his former associates mirchi know. he says march you know plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge container such as this one. these containers w

in a ray of passports and identities. his name appears on several documents involving the shipment of toxic waste to africa is also spent about a dozen years in prison. he was another who enjoyed the confidence of the somali president and witnessed the network's activities. did you visit somalia in the lead ten times did you have any dealings with the early movie . there's quite a few affair for so anyway was eva one who also rise to talks of ways to be sent to some other issue to see girls who maybe. know of no i don't think it was him the authorizations were. killed. and yes in his dealings with italian businessmen scraggly only claim to have the full backing of the somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. they go back. to the good bye. yeah. but it is after that. tragedy that. faced with the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and betray his former associates. he says marciano plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge container such as this one. these containers were to be buried in the jetty of a porch he was building in north mogadishu. ita

slowing down what we see is elsewhere in the world the number of cases is creasing and it's decreasing in africa it's increasing in asia and countries that have taken effective measures for prevention are now reaping from what's the position of russia if we can period it's compared to other countries i mean in the in the case of new cases and the number of people who are we in the middle of it well it's really high for europe really hard for you we are looking here at all russia is no europe is not old europe richer represents two thirds of the overall economy can eastern europe and central asia so it's are not often the case since it represents a province which was between four and five and one percent which is much higher than in western europe or central europe today it is less prevalent than in ukraine it's less pronounced in a studio but it is high and it is necessarily high and it's possible to prevent a lot of these cases of transmission when you says see a necessary high does that mean that if we put more money in more attention to the matter with me cope the program with me will meet fo

egypt had influence in africa.gypt arrived to the grand lakes in africa. >> the nile was again becoming an important access to egyptian diplomacy. they want closer ties with up stream african states it sometimes cold-shouldered before the revolution. also the suez canal. after the revolution, iranian warships passed through for the first time since the fall of the shah. to the alarm of many, there is talk of egypt restoring relations to the long-broken islamic republic. >> as egypt has transformed and in the process of transforming, that had to be reflected externally in its foreign policy. a policy that is independent, and a policy that is open to all countries of the world. >> the biggest and to some most alarming coup so far for egyptian diplomacy, is the agreement it has brokered between fought, -- fatah, which recognizes israel, and hamas, which does not. the agreement has put the diplomatic momentum on their side. >> we interveedveend and -- intervened and succeeded. this was needed and historically late. it

and by the nato powers it is something after all that we can see currently being taken place in north africa and you know the country that i'm talking about and it is taken place in much of eastern europe as well as the initial proposition in the early ninety's was let's have multi-party elections and then by supporting opposition parties we can then get the existing socialist governments of eastern europe replaced but in many cases this has worked it has not worked in serbia and this is why initially serbia was described as the bastiaan off off of bolshevism and mr milosevic a communist was the number one bolsheviki in europe where police are on it when the united states took over serbia became the last of fascism i mean least two are. obviously mutually in conflict with each other but nevertheless that is the sort of logic that has been used in my view it's fairly obvious mr milosevic resisted that . in eastern europe by the western powers and that is his. crime and that is the war crime of both mr and mr blood each many we're very interested to hear your insight into this thanks very much

someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. severing has since retired from all activity and lives on the street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several involved dumping poison into the poorest countries. was the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. the beyond really ideally yes it makes things easier but richard is it cynical thing to say but it's true. to score for words. i we were already filled healthily ever imagine and we'll come out of the world with a little flags italy's fruit of naples is. missing. and we're about in africa laughing wherever there are serious problems or poverty so haiti in somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just business human life has no relevance whatsoever. one day in haiti where he had dumped some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. here belinda stronach i was in charge of unloading the ship when i was stuck in the port and it was costing about two million lira a day a lot of money the fast

it points out when pepfar began, only 50,000 people in sub is a haren africa were on aids drugs. cost has been driven down to 40 cents per person, per day. and in a region with more than 1 million deaths annually and 16 million aids orphans, keeping parents alive keeps families, communities, whole countries afloat. and people in this country don't see this happening. they don't see it occurring, because it's happening half a world away. >> i will tell you that the people in africa know that americans were responsible for much of what happened to save these societies and they're deeply grateful. >> reporter: church leaders all over the country are urging their members to watch the movie and call congress. still, it is not yet clear amid all the crushing economic problems at home which way the country's political leadership will go. >> barack obama has not only supported these efforts strongly, but he's praised president bush for doing it. very few issues like that. >> reporter: do you think that pepfar can survive the 2012 budget process? >> i think it's going to be a struggle, yo