it can't be directive, and it can't be imposed on mogadishu. it has to impose the feelings at the local level, and there are different stakeholders, but there has to be some structure to it, especially if they are going to reach the timetable of by the end of this year forming the new provisional federal map of somalia with all the provisional interim member states. we are supporting and encouraging a slightly more structured approach to this. we will see how we get on. i am cautiously optimistic we can reach that goal by the end of this year of somalia's having decided the new federal map. to the international engagement progress, i think there is progress worth remarking. johnnie alluded in his opening comments that somalia is a unique land of internationalism. it has been quite experimental in many ways. we have the african union doing the fighting. we have the united nations giving the report and the mandate from the security council. it is quite an innovative model. but it's working. it's delivering the results that were hoped for and expe

it can't be directive, and it can't be imposed on mogadishu. impose the feelings at the local level, and there are buterent stakeholders, there has to be some structure to it, especially if they are going to reach the timetable of by the end of this year forming the new provisional federal map of somalia with all the interim member states. we are supporting and encouraging a slightly more structured approach to this. see how we get on. i am cautiously optimistic we can reach that goal by the end of this year of somalia's having toided the new federal map. the international engagement , i think there is progress worth remarking. johnnie alluded in his opening comments that somalia is a unique land of internationalism. it has been quite experimental in many ways. we have the african union doing the fighting. we have the united nations giving the report and the mandate from the security council. it is quite an innovative model. but it's working. it's delivering the results that were hoped for and expected. on that side. there is a second unique bi

parliament has now come back meeting in mogadishu. it has to enact several key pieces of legislation in this session or else which shall be off track. so we will know quite soon whether this outrageously ambitious project is going to be doable or not. but at this stage there is no reason to say that it can't be done. meanwhile, apart from having this plan of action of achieving these three major big ticket items, there is an outbreak, if you like, across somalia of free market, free market bidding process to become federal member states. so on the ground people are taking the initiative to set up their own federal states without waiting for a federal government led orderly process. so we have currently as many of you will know, between those advocating a three region and those advocating a six region federal-state, which is a difficult issue. we still have the implementation of the juba administration agreement which is taking time to work through, and then we had to develop freelance initiatives where lower chevelle the, metal shed v

including the capital, mogadis mogadishu.then tsg have control of probably less than one square mile of the city in and around somalia. but the past five years have seen an enormous amount of change, and an enormous amount of progress. today, the transitional federal government is no longer there. the former president hassan sheikh mohamud step down. there's a new provisional constitution, a new president, a new prime minister, and tremendous and growing international support. on the military side, led by uganda, but also including troops from burundi, kenya, and as far away as sierra leone. we have seen al-shabaab pushed out of mogadishu, many of the major towns and cities in south central. at the same time we have seen a sharp decrease in the level of piracy off the coast of somalia and the red sea. there has been changed, and somalia looks different from the way it did five years ago, 10 years ago, or 20 years ago. today, we have with us the person who was most responsible for the conduct of the united nations operations o

they are told they are going home on wednesday. >> first they will go to mogadishu, and then we'll take here to -- whoever we have taken their names and where they came from, and we'll take them back there. >> reporter: somali officials say these people say they want to return to their country. >>> more people have been deported from the united states under president obama than any other president. since 2009, 2 million people have been forced to leave the country, but some insist they are u.s. citizens and america is the only home they have ever known. adam has this exclusive report on one man's fight to stay. >> i don't have nobody right there. >> reporter: this man is caught in an endless cycle. he gets deported, crosses back, and lands in jail. he insists he is a u.s. citizen. one smuggler broke his hand. another time he was kidnapped only surviving by the help of a stranger. the u.s. government couldn't prove he is not a citizen. he can't convince him he is. this is his father's arizona state birth certificate. usually enough proof that both father and son are citizens, but not for

it's in that suburb known as little mogadishu that security forces intensified the crackdown on refugees on wednesday. the government says some refugees support al-shabab, and are behind recent violent attacks, wanting to send them all back to refugee camps, a move condemned by human rights groups. the government is under pressure to do something about unsecurity about the country. riot police were in force in case the appeals for calm were ignored. the government must interphone. it's in the about the leaders. they make is too such. >> the grave is close to the mosque. the outspoken cleric was a key sniggator. the attack on westgate, where 67 died was justified because kenyan soldiers were fighting. the troop presence in somalia and the crackdown on refugees are nonnegotiable. no one a claiming responsibility for killing the cleric. his death and the crackdown may have the effect of driving muslims into the open camps. >> the kenyan president says the fight against al-shabab is in the national and regional interests. they want everyone to unite. the government has to convince everyone h

this is known as little mogadishu. the hub of somali's community. it has grown tense since the government said all refugees, most of whom are somali must leave the city and head to two designated camps, that's because some of the people responsible for recent attacks have been refugees. the people argue they are suffering punishments for the actions of a few. >> the trial of kenya's president at the international criminal court has been postponed until act. there was violence in 2007 resulting in the death, and the trial has been delayed. dan quigley is an international law professor saying prosecutors are searching for financial records providing evidence again kenyatta. >> mr kenyatta asked that the charges be dropped because the prosecutor acknowledges she does not have sufficient evidence to proceed with the case. the prosecutors view is that there may be evidence that would serve to convict, but that is found in financial records, that she says are in the possession of the government of kenya. so she is asking the government to supply the recor

we informed colleagues in mogadishu, because they were to be sent to somalia, to make sure they could follow those cases and other cases in the future. >> in the last 24 hours police officials say nearly 500 people have been arrested. the raids are mainly happening in the east. a somali neighbourhood. >> the police are moving house to house, going door to door, looking for illegal immigrants and rev guess. when they -- refugees. when they get to a house they ask to see a passport or id. if you can't produce it, they arrest you, and you are only released if you can prove you have a right to stay. >> some somalis believe the community is blamed for the actions of a few. >> the kenyan government says they will continue to protect the people from what it calls terrorists. >> syrian state tv says 25 people have been killed by two car bombs in the syrian city of homs. the bombs went off on a busy street, half an hour apart, happening in an alawite neighbour hood. >> this is a group associated with support for president bashar al-assad. >> two oil terminals captured by libyan fighters have b

it's in that suburb known as mogadishu that security forces intensifies the crack town on wednesday. some refugees support al-shabab, and are behind violent attacks, and wants to send them to refugee camps, a move condemned by the human right groups. the government is upped pressure to do something about insecurity in the country. riot police were in force in mum bassar in case the appeals were ignored. >> the government must intervene, it's not all about the leaders, but the whole community. they make it too simple. we can't take it lightly. >> the grave is close to the mosque of the the government believes the outspoken cleric was an sniggator of home grown attacks. the attack where 67 died was justified because kenyan soldiers were fighting al-shabab and somalia. troop presence in somalia and the crackdown was non-negotiable. >> no one claimed responsibility for killing the cleric, but his death and the crackdown on refugees may have the effect of driving more young muslims into the open arms of groups like al-shabab. >> the kenyan president says the fight against al-shabab is in

the other thing is we informed our colleagues in somalia, mogadishu, because they were central to somalia, to make sure they'd follow these cases and possible cases in the future. in the last 24 hours police officials say 500 people have been arrested. the arrests are happening in the east. a neighbourhood of nairobi. >> police are moving house to house, door to door, looking for illegal immigrants and refugees, when they get to a house they ask to see ids and passports. if you can't produce it, they arrest you, take you to the station and release only when you can prove you have a right to stay in kenya. >> some somalis and kenyan somalis feel the community is blamed for the actions of a few. the arrests will continue to protect kenyans from what it calls terrorists. >> two oil terminals captured by libyan rebels have been handed back to the army. a deal was reached at the weekend. fighters are demanding greater regional autonomy and a share of oil revenues. >> the trial of three al jazeera journalists held in egypt resumed. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, and mohammed badr have been

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and in mogadishu. >> peter would have reported on the 20th anniversary of the rwandan genocide, where nearly a million are guilt. tom rhodes is from a group that advocates for journalists and says things could get worse. >> it's worrying for in region, once they crackdown on high profile names such as al jazeera, what does that mean for the local journalists, even here in kenya, who don't have the institutional backing and support? yes, it's a dangerous precedent. >> this woman has been a journalist for a year. colleagues like peter greste inspire her. >> he is fighting. because he's fighting. i'm inspired. al jazeera rejects the charges against his staff and continues to call for the release of staff. >> alison bethel-mckenzie is the director of the the journal if institute in vienna and calls for the rest of the community to rally for the staff. >> there is no case against them. they should be released, not jald for doing their jobs. i am happy to sit here, knowing that there is consensus among colleagues from around the world, from pretoria, new york, london, that we will not stop

first to mogadishu, and then people coming from different places, and we'll take them from there.have taken their names, so we take them wherever they come from. we'll help them do that. >> human rights lawyers say it's illegal to send them home. >> these families said they want to return to somalia. the government says no one will be forced out of the country. >> olympic athlete oscar pistorius has told a south african court me didn't intend to kill his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. >> i had her head on my left shoulder. and i could feel the blood was running down on me. >> part of the statement there he made as state prosecutors started their cross-examination of the paralympics sprinter. cameras were directed away from him. they faced a life sentence. >> italy says it's rescued around 4,000 immigrants trying to reach its doors. many are trying to reach the coast on crammed boats from north africa. 15,000 people have been picked up by italy's navy since the start of the year. >> kata lonia's president will hold a referendum on independence from spain. despite the spanish governmen

. >> reporter: your mom said your dad told you guys she was killed in a rocket attack in mogadishu. >> no. that's just lying. >> reporter: the kids say their mom only wants to reunite with them now to get out of a refugee camp. >> we already have a good family here. we love her, but she left us when we needed her the most. so we don't want her. >> so they don't buy the story. they don't think he was running away to go see his mom. do they have any idea, his own brothers and sisters, why he did this? >> they say their brother always talked about going to africa to see his grandparents who raised him, but they really don't think that's why he got on the plane. so they really don't know. they said all of this really doesn't make sense and near confused. by the way, we -- they're confused. by the way, we should mention he still is in a honolulu hospital and his father plans to fly there and bring him back to the bay area. now he's in the custody of child welfare services. >> he's done this before, taken off? >> he's taken off, but he's never climbed into the wheel well of a plane. they're

he told them she was killed in a rocket attack in war-ravaged mogadishu. he only found out the true two years ago from someone else. his mom told the newspaper, if i could give a message to my son, i would say i am still alive and i will come one day. i am extremely worried about my son. the fact that he did what he did shows he's unhappy." the teen's mother said she is currently in the process of getting a sponsor to move to the u.s. and she is determined to win custody of her children. she had a message for her ex- husband. "you are supposed to protect them and put them first but you didn't do what was best for them. now look what has happened?" betty yu, kpix 5. >> the woman also told the "daily mail" she doesn't believe her children are safe with their father. as for the teen, he remains at a honolulu hospital. it's unclear when he will return home. >>> 4:32. two men have been arrested in the shooting death of an oakland dog walker last summer. she was killed while trying to protect her neighborhood. mario floyd and stephon lee were charged with murder

your dad told you guys she was killed in a rocket attack in mogadishu. >> no that's just lying. yeah. it's lying. >> reporter: the kids say their mom left them when they were young. and only wants to reunite with them now to get out of the refugee camp. >> we already have a good family here. and we don't -- we love her. but she left us when we needed her the most so we don't want her. >> reporter: betty yu, kpix 5. >> his brother and sister told betty they don't know why he stowed away on the plain in the first place but they don't think it was to try to fly back to africa. this morning he's still in the hospital and his father is making plans now to bring him back to the bay area. >>> we have developing news from san pablo bay where the next step is to recover a small plane that crashed on sunday. the wreckage has been found in about 15 feet of water north of the richmond san rafael bridge. the contra costa county sheriff's department marked the location and officials are not saying whether the pilot has been found. it's not clear whether the cessna broke apart when it hit the

let me point out that while the 18 american rangers were killed in mogadishu in october of 1993.he rangers killed about 1,000 somalians. that's almost never said. as a result of the 18 rangers causing embarrassment for president clinton, and because republicans turned on clinton and said no mar intervention for us, to save his political bake job, he made sure in respect no reinforcements sent and as a result of political needs, 800,000 tutsi were killed. they could have stopped it but didn't. i know it takes political will, but we talk a big game and all these people, all the nations proclaim their fidelity to r 2 p. but when it comes it it they protect when their own national self-interest is at stake. >> as you look forward you mention the central african republic, and syria is a country thrown out as perhaps on this level as rwandan genocide. do you think it's too late. do you think there are things that the united states and other western countries cap do to stop the killing there. to show you i agree with you, i don't see any solution to syria. the only party so far as we fi

move on, do you think there was the lingering effects of that disastrous peacekeeping mission in mogadishu. do you think the hangover from that set of circumstances had something to do with what many considered to be the lack of strong action from the united states in particular. even as i concede your point about the world community. >> certainly. i think person looking at what happened in somalia, we were not interested to get involved on the ground in rwanda and africa. it was still taboo in the sense of having a presence on the ground after the somalia attacks. i think you are 100% right. i'm not dim jipishing our failure in not recognising this was a genocide. don't get me wrong on that. we failed, but everyone in the community, in the world community failed, and our optic was somalia, and we did not want to go into rwanda at that time? >> how well as rwanda, coming to present day here, done in healing itself and how real is the reconciliation? >> i think for the young people there, they are doing today a walk of remembrance, which i think is powerful and significant. one of the uniqu

but what became more predominate in this, is the fact because mogadishu and the american losses in somalia six months before, and the reaction of the americans and president clinton who said, we will not intervene anymore unless it is in our self-interest, and the fear of casualties spooked international community. and no one wanted to get into the middle of this complex problem and take casualties. >> that was general romeo dallaire who is head of the u.n. peacekeeping report referring to somalia the year before when the u.s. lost 18 military and what has come to be known as black hawk down. jean-marie kamatali, did you feel abandoned by the world at this point? >> i'm sorry, did i -- >> did you feel abandoned by the world? >> exactly. and this is what people needed theiranda, just giving time. what people needed was at least hope there was something that could be done. remember when i was hiding in bushes. there were some u.n. soldiers. building in one big and just on top of one building. people could see them looking down. a guy with a gun and everything. and say, this is the united nat

might have been a reason i was paired during the battle of mogadishu. that was pretty good. seal team six cannot last summer did really well. easy day for the debt will be out in october. riding pretty high right now. but for that at some military success. silver star, navy hurt my purple , addition metal. does anybody know why they give you these nice medals? yet, because they don't want to give you a raise. the silver star is one of the need is medals ever created. that and $0.50 will give you a cup of coffee. the purple heart, have mixed feelings about that. i look as bad as an navy marksmanship medals. qaeda shot three times and get a purple heart. what does he gets? that is what the military does for you. just so you know, before success this is how i grew up. i was raised door was born to a 15 year-old mother, born two months premature, was a preemie. almost died because of surfactant around my lines not developing completely. after that i was adopted, moved to a small town in georgia and abused daily. not like the with the fest, but the with about regular. after that

. >> translator: i came to mogadishu with my children and left the others. we need everything, and we're calling on those who can help us to hold out a helping hand to we can have shelter and our basic needs. >> reporter: somali hasn't had a strong central government in over two decades, and as more people become homeless, the government is struggling to provide food, water and shelter. >> translator: of course, there is somali government coordination among the ministry of interior. the ministry of health and disaster management agency are handling it as well as our agencies. we have the coordination and we're ready to respond in the coming days. >> reporter: they are facing a major humanitarian crisis. apart from the 1.2 million displayed in the country, there are over 1 million living at refugees in neighboring countries. there have been accusations of sexual violence in refugee camps, and many are angry at the slow aid response by the government and other agencies. for her and many others, all they can do is survive one day at a time. >>> the philippines

your mom said your dad told you guys that she was killed in a rocket attack in mogadishu. >> no that's just lying. yeah. just lying. >> reporter: the kids say their mom left them when they were young. and only wants to reunite with them now to get out of a refugee camp. >> we already have a good family here. and we don't -- like we love her. but she left us when we needed her the most. so we don't want her. >> reporter: betty yu, kpix 5. >> his brother and sister told betty they don't know why he stowed away on the plane but they don't think it was to try to fly back to africa. this morning he's still in a honolulu hospital and his father is making plans to bring him back to the bay area. >>> right now state of georgia likely the next target of a powerful storm system that has produced multiple tornadoes across the south. and the midwest. at least 29 people reported dead. alabama, mississippi, tennessee, were hit by the brunt of the storm yesterday. one twister gutted buildings and totaled buildings in tupelo, mississippi. >> i've seen them come through. never had to be right in the mi

once you altogether, when i was in mogadishu i was with some of you guys, my best friend was a delta force snipers and i didn't think i was in a better than him in any form or fashion. it's a matter of getting together and training together. we are talking of politics earlier, if we could get seal team six to go to washington, d.c., get all the democrats and republicans in one room, locked down, says he could, have snipers on the nsa you guys are playing nice together before you leave this building, you know? [applause] that's my kind of filibuster. you're not just for newark 1.5 did you and get paid exorbitant amounts of money. you have to get your butts in you, solve some problems were my guys are not letting you leave. that's the mentality you got to get through. i say that in jest, but it's the mentality of teamwork. as corny as that sounds, teamwork with those guys and when you cross train with them, everybody benefits. >> unfortunately, we only have time for one more question. we're going to go over here to the right, sorry. go ahead. >> you've answered part of my question abou

soldiers re killed and horrifically treated in the streets of mogadishu by the somalian people there and it was reticent to get involved in another situation in africa. it's a tight line to decide whether to go in or not. and the president made a mistake, he admits it. and we have to realize that the united states of america has a special place in the world, we're the only country that has the ability to see that mankind doesn't engage in horrific generalsides again. so when the opportunity for the united states to get involved and save a slaughter, save a genocide, the united states has responsibility. as much as it's difficult after the wars in iraq and afghanistan that our troops, the action, the situation like rwanda present themselves, it's incumbent on taos support whoever is the president in -- it's incumbent on us to support whoever is the president to take action. i thank whip hoyer for calling for this hour, mr. cleaver for leading it and i want to add my thoughts and reflections after having visited rwanda with a great member of congress, donald payne. i yield back the bal

they first went into mogadishu to disrupt the international efforts and the somalian national governmentwhich was brand new at that point in time and have also expanded those efforts out into kenya. as you said, the westgate mall and recently another significant vehicle-borne ied in kenya all focusinged at going after the troop-contributing countries. so i think that it continues to be a positive effect. the government is recognized now, so that's been a step forward as well as the ability of al-shabaab to control large swaths and major cities. so that has decreased significantly. but as always, there's still a long way to go to get the somali national army and police to the level that they need to be. and then, of course, the development of the somali national government. >> could i just from a policy perspective to the first question recalling the an verse verse -- anniversary of the rwandan genocide, i think in addition to the response forces that africom has at its disposal, when you think back 20 years at the time there a department of defense perspective we had multiple different c