[captioning made possible by kcet television] >> paul kirika is one of kenya's leading botanists, who has discovered several new plant species, plants whose seeds are stored at kenya's national gene bank. >> hi, jalil, how are you? >> how are you? >> oh, i'm fine and you? we have to wear this? >> we have to wear this, we're going in the cold room. >> okay. because of the changing landscapes, extension of agriculture, building of new highways, it is expected that there are many plants there in the wild we are losing and that we may not know and it's initiatives like the seed collection that would save these plants. >> code number is gbk-456001. >> 456001? >> yes. >> at the gene bank, seeds from some of kenya's most endangered plant species are preserved at minus 18 degrees celsius. >> 303, gbk-303. >> a global initiative spanning 50 countries is underway to collect and safeguard seeds from species faced with extinction. tim pearce is one of the project coordinators from kew gardens in london. >> we've all heard about the...the red list of endangered animals, the panda and the tiger. bu

so this is going to be greeted very, very happily by many in kenya, aren't they? >> well, v greeted it with happiness, and others are skeptical, saying that it is not really much to pay back to people who endured such torture. >> we are getting reports that there will be as many as $20 million worth of compensation. admittedly, it goes across 5000 people, but that must go some way to redress the terrible injustice that these people have suffered over so many years. >> some of those who suffered have excepted and said, yes, this is a good start, but it is not close to the payment of those who believe this is a drop in the ocean. the amount of torture that they endured is not anything that can be offset by a mere $4000 u.s. >> there is also going to be a monument in memory of those victims during the mao mao uprising. is that something that is also make people feel is long overdue? yout is long overdue, if recall that the kenyan government has not one much for war victims, especially the mao mao. this will be a good gesture. there has been an effort to try and get s

state of kenya has built absolutely nothing. so it is through that part of the country. to be in. continuous form a narrative because that is literally true development. because all. we are glad we have something to say to you know eighty ninety percent of the people going out to the donate so it is a mentor chided for the country in the hope in that with a new constitution would up with will develop those who come up short of my generation people and those kind of communities have the country. it is obvious that the government of kenya prefers to ask for help from abroad in order to feed the starving turkana instead of doing infrastructure and development work in the area. millions of kenyan from us producing green. you know in a must it becomes difficult for every request wants to skim off ten percent to go moving from village to village asking that i need ten percent of the grain for my stuff but if it's food aid you can put it tonnes of to send it to becomes easier for you to skim over from that the food if it's not about fo

northern kenya was one of the regions affected during this recent famine wave. the land is arid and barren. that was. how i never. was carried here that was written i am the turkana are this region's inhabitants one of kenya's most traditional tribes that were never. forgotten my. dad did that with. their nomadic pastoralists. for centuries they have learned to survive on this harsh land depending on the rain periods. i. have never yet. i. but in recent years the ongoing droughts threaten their very existence. i give that money and yet we. are in northern kenya and we had a year with basically no rain at all to qana region is seeing. successive droughts of the past few years and what we're seeing is the stress getting more and more frequent and the rain is becoming less and less common. the travelers left many of the enemy was very very weak so people didn't have that didn't have the usual income. money trisha live was really short on. what the global acute malnutrition bricked fifteen percent in some areas of true can it was up to fifty seven percent that is mo

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his new bribe, tabitha, a fellow student at the bible school, would choose to begin a new work in kenyadonations from the supporter from the u.s. allowed them to acquire land, where they opened the children's ministries, which is a training facility and church. but even with a strong faith, john garong admits it is a daunting task, as he carries the weight of a nation on his back. >> i am fighting a different battle, but god is with us. >> reporter: in moistbridged, kenya, i'm russ jones. >> wendy: thanks, russ. coming up, science verses faith. why did a catholic university in belgium fire his professor for his belief in the healing power of prayer? >> george: and welcome back to the show. to silence religious freedom is to s e moral conscience of america. that from the researched samuel rodriguez speaking at an annual religious freedom conference in washington, d.c. this week. rodriguez is president of the hispanic evangelical association, but today he spoke to people of all faiths. he is calling on them to build together a firewall against unprecedented attempts by the government to v

kenya knows about all my lovers. if i have a girlfriend or someone i'm interested in, she knows about that person. - ( murmuring ) - yes, and i know them. i meet them. he knows my boyfriends. i've been with one man for-- - oh. oh. did you hear? "boyfriends." plural! and what about your children? how old are your children? and do they know about your lifestyle? - our children are nine, 12 and 14. and yes, they know. we don't believe in hiding stuff from them. - okay, so what do they know? in what context? - well, what they don't know-- what they don't understand is why all of our neighbors and all of our friends are divorced. what they love about us is that we're together and we're happy. their friends come over to be at our house because there's so much love. there's a man and a woman present. and we're intelligently teaching our children. so that's what they do know-- that we are doing a spectacular job as parents with them. - ( applause ) - mm-hmm. - and where do you find the time? with three kids, your marriage, y

kenya after the president for trial in the hay so yes different standards and very troubling and yet be international justice apparently not so jap but unfortunately this is all they have time for believe joined up again playing playing time here on the part. is the perfect material it's a lie you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. not a pretty top not. going to this is a little complicated. it's like geometry we start by marking out the incision lines as a guide. it's very intricate work. my life has changed a hundred percent. it was a field operating table here more than just a very small table as long as i had a flashlight and a working battery and i had a good enough environment to work it. was among them along with some other terrorist leaders. as if he's reminiscing about just. looking at you at the same time he's somewhere else. when i watch this. doesn't feel like me at all and. it's someone totally different someone i don't know. live. live live. live . he. echoed our says it can grant asylum to be on their own whistleblower edward snowden while

kenya after the president for trial in the hay so yes different standards and very troubling and yet be international justice apparently not so capital punishment because this is all they have time for believe joined up again plain plain time here on the part. of. the civilized world produces more food needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every. where remedial is the most tragic. flood or droughts to blame. it was a bad year without a train. we couldn't see anything but. there was great. as it did help comes too late and with good intentions. diplomacy and business. lol lol. lol . live. live. live . live. cut. cut. cut. cut. if. american whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow airport as russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive. and despite the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. finance chief announces a funding boost for the country spying agencies while slashing welfare spending. and deadly scenes on the rest shock yet again as the opposition gears up to mar

case they took a radically different approach and were highly critical of kenya and determined to keep kenya the president for trial in the hay so yes different standards and very troubling and yet international justice apparently not so jack but unfortunately this is all we have time for believe join us again playing time here on the part. if. heat is easy to heat in if you feed. it it'll. cut its. lead. player . play . up clue. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker see it's a step forward oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either th

his son is now currently president of kenya. i just wanted to ask you if any of you smoke newport cigarettes. there is a charter in the united nations and by the general assembly and millennium declaration. i will leave a copy for you if you are interested. >> thank you. next speaker? good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. i know we had a wonderful time of celebration with asian pacific heritage month. i have some sad news to deliver this afternoon. a very personal friend, a very fine city folks, business owner in memory of tony keng. where it all began and in the beginning. many of you are aware that advertising was established back in 1990. tony king was ahead of his time even before the u.s. census of 1990 that informed us about americanation demographics in collaboration with the founders opened the advertising agency partnering with companies to target the asian american consumers who would meet for hours and conduct business in hotel lob easy -- lobbies across the city. corporate america was about to talk to these

that is 130 times the minimum wage in kenya. more from nairobi. every protester shouting with this pig at the gates. the protesters vented their frustration with the .arliamentarians seems to have united the canyons, it is their anger to the pay rise to take their salaries to $126,000 per year, almost 75 times the average minimum wage. >> the dictatorship of parliament will be brought down by people. we are 2 million. we have the power. .> behind the fence, the mps the national debt rose last year with a public wage bill. it is said that kenya cannot afford to pay more. >> it is not just about the money. they were voted in under a new constitution that was supposed to bring in a new era of accountability and responsibility. the mps have completely failed. no mps were available to speak to aljazeera. isy say the salary they want lower than what several commissions have recommended. but none of that washes with the bloody protests. that ordinaryle taxpayers have to win. aljazeera, nairobi. >> hello there, and welcome back. a reminder of our top stor

will be buying my cd very [captioning made possible by kcet television] >> paul kirika is one of kenya'species, plants whose seeds are stored at kenya's national gene bank. >> hi, jalil, how are you? >> how are you? >> oh, i'm fine and you? we have to wear this? >> we have to wear this, we're going in the cold room. >> okay.

jennifer [inaudible] kenya. next speaker please. >> [inaudible] i'm in a shelter with my daughter because she has to be with me 24/7. i wanna be brave and talk about [inaudible]. i'm really mad because [inaudible] really bad. they throw all my medical supplies in the garbage. [inaudible] they don't care about homeless, they don't care about families. [inaudible]. it's a life. a lot of things i sew, they don't care. [inaudible]. nothing. [inaudible]. very abusive, sometimes [inaudible] and they don't care. [inaudible] because my neck and they don't care. they don't care about families, they don't care about anything, you know. i see many, many things and it's very [inaudible]. >> thank you very much, ma'am. next speaker please. >> my name is [inaudible]. i'm with the homeless co/hreubgs and i'm also a resident at hamilton transitional. don't mess with something that's already fixed. i've been at hamilton transitional a year and if it wasn't for the stability i had there -- it can affect the child. i was overheari

your second question, kenya. you know, there had just been an election in kenya that thankfully, did not see the same kind of violence as the previous election. a newly installed president but let's be honest a situation in which this new government was still working out issues with the international community in part daghtsd back to the previous election. and the timing was not right for me as the president of the united states to be visiting kenya when those issues are still being worked on and hopefully at some point resolved. we believe kenya needs to abide by various international commitments that it's made. having said that kenya can is one of our oldest partners in the country we have outstanding bilateral relations. people-to-people contacts remain extraordinarily strong. we work with them on all sorts of issues. economic, security, youth exchanges, you name it it and that will continue. my personal ties to the people of kenya, you know, by definition are going to be strong. land stay strong. i have been

. >> still ahead, entrepreneur dan agoglia engineers an economic boom in one of kenya's poorest regions. for 40 cents, i got an egg. i got gum. a kazoo. a candy necklace. i got one of these. helium. fabric softener. [ pop ] lipstick. two pills a day is what it takes to stay alive if you're h.i.v.-positive. those pills cost about 40 cents a day. ...and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. >>> take me back to that night. i want to get on you record explaining. >> the day that i was injured i was 24 years old. it was a time in my life when everything was going right. i was working at harper's bizarre and i had a summer share on long island, and there was a pool at the house, and the metal ring ladders that they normally put in the deep end was actually put in the shallow end. the second that i dove in, my chin hit the bottom of the pool and my head snapped back with such force that it shattered my c-3/c-4 vertebrae. i was completely awake, completely conscious and paralyzed. the first thi th

it is a crisis in kenya. about a two% of young people cannot find work. h.g.h. test for the new leadership. two% of young people cannot find work. is a huge test for the new leadership. assembled a summit helicopter from scrap metal. to 6 feety fly up above the ground. >> i made this to attract attention so i can get help to get a job or funding to enable me to build things. >> it has not worked. he still does not have work. he cannot even fly it. he has no pilot's license. his craft has not been cleared for flight. >> i have not had any help from anywhere up until now. i have written to the government asking for funding or a job. i have not heard back from him. >> unemployment remains one of kenya's he challenges with unemployment at 16 million. most are young people. many are turning to crime. some job seekers have turned to more than technology. after an unsuccessful search for work, he has published a website for job-seekers. would take the pain a way of take away the- we pain of finding jobs. we work together with the employers on one platform connecting th

in kenya, the migration runs across maasai communal lands. recent reforms mean that individual maasai can now sell their land, and the temptation to do deals with commercial farms and hotel chains is huge.

but a questioner brought up a sore point, the president's decision not to visit kenya, the home of hisher, even though he promised just that in 2010. >> will you keep your word on that? >> mr. obama pleaded for more time. >> i have got three after years, so if -- in three years and seven months i am not in kenya, then you can fault me for not following through on my promise. >> inside the town hall, the president basked in approval. >> reporter: outside, far left protesters angry with the president's counter-terrorism policies clashed with police. >> the president's top advisors said south africa is now a vie grant democracy and street protests are also part of mandela's giftf freedom. >> axelrod: major, tomorrow the president is expected to deliver his most significant speech of this trip, what can we expect to hear? >> reporter: that is what the university of cape town, jim, it was there in 1966, just two years after mandela was first imprisoned by the apartheid government here, the robert f kennedy delivered his famous ripple of hope speech, what the president will outline is a new

. >>> coming up, sean hannity thinks president obama grew up in kenya.ss that and other bits of misinformation and his interview with "playboy" magazine next on "now." you'll find reviews on home repair to healthcare, written by people just like you. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> what do donna summer, "brave heart," angelina jolene, meditation and "passion of the christ" have in common? they're a few of sean hannity's favorite things. in an interview with "playboy" he talks about these things. hannity plays playboy obama grew up in kenya and told "the new york times" he went to a school there and one of the beautiful things on the planet is islamic prayer on a sunset. the problem with this is it's still in the water supply. >> not only that, but he got no geography education in school because indonesia, kenya, whatever. it's pathetic. >> television should be an educational tool. let me say to sean, indonesia is just off of asia. >> do we have a map. >> kenya is in africa, so t

they are in kenya and he sees britain as a colonial part which in his view oppressed kenya said that is the intellectual background. >> host: what board world war ii have been like if winston churchill hadn't been pre-minister at that time? >> guest: i was 9-years-old when mr. terkel became prime minister and i was quite certain from the beginning from his tenure that he was going to win the war but a lot of people went and things were very tricky particularly in 1940 when we were alone. we had been deserted and betrayed by the french. we had no other allies outside of the commonwealth. the americans were hoping, doing as much as they could, but there was no question of them actually joining us. and things were very, very bad. now, mr. churchill kept our spirits high in three different ways. first of all he was a great orator. i used to listen to all his speeches on the wireless sitting with my father. we've been right through the first world war and we listened to winston churchill and what he said. second he was a tremendous people. he had little papers he sent to his subordinates

even in kenya, the mau mau were seeng as terrorist -- were as terrorists. they feel they need this recognition. shaking off the colonial chains, as it were. i think that's what they will take away from this as perhaps the most important development today. >> angst very much indeed. thanks very much indeed. south korea says it wants official talks with the north to begin as early as next week. from soul, -- seoul, harry fawcett reports. >> it has been used to warn of impending nuclear distraction. towne bank, on thursday, -- from pyongyang, on thursday, came a very different message. ,> the resumption of talks humanitarian issues such as reunification of separated families and relatives will be discussed if necessary. >> the kaesong industrial zone has been idle since first north korea and then the south pulled their workers out in april, at the height of a particularly tense period in their relations. >> our government welcomes the north koreans. we hope the talks between the north and the south can be an opportunity to build trust between the two korea's,

in the final part of our series on somalia, we will look at why not everyone is grateful to kenya for driving al-shabab out. police in china say a man suspected of starting a bus fire that killed 47 people left a suicide note explaining why he did it. the 59-year-old died in the blaze in the southeast part of the country. they found a note in his home saying he was not happy with life and was trying to vent his anger. age. said talked about his the second day of informal meetings between u.s. president barack obama and his chinese counterpart, meeting in rancho mirage, and the talks are paving a way for a closer relationship. friday, they agreed to work on all disputes over cybersecurity. there've been recent tensions between china and the u.s. let's go live to rancho mirage. rob, what is the latest? , the latest ist that resident she -- president chi has left the area. president obama will stay in rancho mirage area another day and leave sunday. we will get some more information when president obama's national security advisor, tom donlin, briefs reporters a little later in the day.

because he's at risk of committing suicide if you returns to kenya. if you look at. it is possible for him to. join the fust potentially dangerous individual that the home office of tried and failed to deport jordanian terrorist suspect abu qatada has avoided extradition for over a decade his lawyers argue it's against his human rights to return to jordan where he could face torture. people but it did happen. it was hard to death in broad daylight by two men wielding meat cleavers the murder of the country the suspects have been known to morrissey's and questions have been asked about whether or not the police could have done more to amend the murder and yes a week later we learned that a mentally unstable man who claims to have killed hundreds of people gets to stay in the u.k. the ruling once again raises questions about who safety the british immigration judges are protecting. auti london. clashes between hundreds of supporters and protests. in the heart of london at least one member of the british national party was injured in fighting and the sixty people were a

he says he's murdered up to four hundred people with a machete and his native kenya killed police and taken part in female genital mutilation but a court ruled that twenty seven year old john few o. is free to stay in the u.k. he arrived illegally back in two thousand and three but when the home office tried to deport him he appealed and an immigration tribunals ruled that hugo suffers from schizophrenia and had made up the atrocities he was granted leave to remain in the u.k. because he's at risk of committing suicide if he returns to kenya you would normally think this is not appropriate person to bring into the u.k. . if you look at the european convention of human rights it is possible for him to stay here because criminal of this to have the sort we've seen in sierra leone. or in. character and this is one of those he. he's going to be allowed to walk the streets of britain and that's the problem john theo is the first potentially dangerous individual that the home office of tried and failed to deport jordanian terror suspect abu qatada has avoided extradition for over a decade p

s recording with m i five because this man had been in kenya in the somalian border why are they doing this right now and how all of that while they're cutting what the science research budget pollution controls flood controls closing down libraries hurting the dispossessed the people with fragile lives they want to put all this money into the intelligence agencies and also i should add they're also increasing the aid foreign aid budget which so many farias and strange operations also occur in the name of foreign aid to help other countries. now despite the cost cutting drive being in full swing that he was trying to mobilize billions to tackle use unemployment. it's now at the top of the agenda for you were absolute or is and is about averting a catastrophe and saving a generation more on that shortly here on r t don't go away. it was not only politically motivated in delivering the judgment but it was actually playing a very active role in influencing be banned from the ground that's quite a charge for any given court let alone the international criminal court don't you think. were y