deep in mozambique.usting a bush pilot who frankly looks like he should be behind the stick of a video game. how old are you? >> i am 21. >> reporter: you're 21? okay. i trust you. we eventually dip into the 115-degree heat, and after making sure there are no baboons or warthogs on the runway, touch down in the national park. bob is there. good to meet you, bob. anxious to get us into the bush before sunset. and eager to tell of this place that's become one of the most audacious experiments in africa. >> here is a nice scene. these -- >> reporter: oh. >> the babies are everywhere. i mean, look, everything has a baby now. it's just -- it's nuts. >> reporter: he's spent most of his life like this. one hand on the wheel or camera, eyes peeled for movement. but this place has really honed his game-spotting skills because the wildlife here was almost wiped away entirely. 15 years of civil war made this the lost eden. while around 1 million people lost their lives, soldiers also shot almost every creature that

but local population pays the price -- the local population >> here in this village in northern mozambique, farmers have planted corn on state land. the state has leased land to european investors. the farmers say the investors are now occupying their fields illegally. >> when they came to my field, i was not there. they just started surveying the land and choosing what they wanted. i left me only a small plot and said the rest belongs to us. i said, you cannot do that. this plant and harvest our mind. but they just said, that has changed. -- this land and this harvest our mind. but they said, this has changed. >> now trees are growing here instead of corn. an investment fund now has the company grow pine and eucalyptus. earmarked for export. green and sustainable, that is how the fund present itself to investors. the rate of return is an impressive 13%. the company running the plantation does not like to hear protests from the villages. it says the local people knew the risk they were running by planting on state land. >> we can talk like this -- it is a procedure. this procedure involves

understand this nocturnal art form, we met up with filmmaker martin dorhn, in the dusky wilds of mozambique>> thermal camera, basically, there, if you can see that, you can see the way they -- they stand out. >> reporter: they're ghostly. >> very ghostly. really lovely. >> reporter: yeah. >> just the kind of image. >> reporter: look at that. that's fantastic. >> beautiful thing, be but ultimately just means you can see them, they're five miles away, i could still see them and that makes this an incredibly powerful tool for working at night. >> reporter: after years of shooting in places like the masi mara in kenya, martin thought he knew exactly how apex predators behaved. but when he started shooting them in pitch blackness, he discovered a valuable nugget. now, for any reason you happen to find yourself alone in the middle of the night in the middle of the african wilderness, if there are lions around, you should stand absolutely still, because these thermal cameras have taught us that lions can't see very well unless there's a full moon. >> we filmed it, there's an animal that the lion i

the is supporting the project in mozambique.e the baby a future, make a donation, save a life. ♪ >> welcome back. it was one year ago that a young tahitian street vendor, at the end of his rope, after abuse of police in and confiscated his license and his wares, set himself on fire in protest. he cannot have known that his suicide in the desert town would spark a revolution that would sweep not only across his own country, but across much of the arab world as well. within a month, the dictator of tunisia fled into exile in saudi arabia. within two months, hosni mubarak was ousted by egyptians. within nine months, libya's muammar gaddafi reached a bloody end. now, 1-year on, president saleh of yemen is set to leave office. and did not forget syria, a sock's power appears to be weakening. the arab spring is far from over, even in tunisia. we went back to where it all began and found that life there is still not easy. >> the day begins in a typically tunisia and way, with demonstrators blocking a road. the demonstrators are taxi dr

i get a lot of travel requests and it's to peru and mozambique and tanzania and at the bottom it saysuch it costs and it's usually zero and those are the ones i like to sign but it really does. and i want to just acknowledge the d.p.h. aids office staff, please raise your hands, because you clearly -- [applause] >> some of you, in culmination of years, i know you have hundreds of years of experience here and i know that is so, so important and we've done some incredible work in san francisco and you've taken your work and your understanding of this disease to other parts of the world and it makes such a big difference for everyone in the world, particularly around ending this disease. you're doing aids planning and my job as the principal investigator is to help with space planning. this is a 100-year-old building and we were in all kinds of spaces and i want to acknowledge the staff that helped and figured out how to move people and how to construct behind them. mark primo and martine soto -- raise your hand, martine. he's been my negotiator whenever people are trying to figure out w

guy in angola saying, another war has gone by and there hasn't been a war here, or nicaragua or mozambiqueu calculate rates of violence as a proportion of the world's population do you know whether violence has gone up, gone down, or stayed the same. what the numbers show is -- >> is that the foundation of -- is that your data set that you're asserting in this book? is that the proportion of violence is at a record low? >> yes. well, one of the chapters is on war across the world. there are other chapters on crime, on tribal warfare, on cruel practices, like burning heretics at the stake or executing 7-year-old girls for shoplifting, slavery, blood feuds, dueling debtors' prisons, and another one on the decline of old-fashioned wars between two armies from two nations, which have almost disappeared off the face of the earth. the remaining wars are almost all civil wars. so violence has gone down on a lot of scales. everything from world wars down to the treatment of animals and children. people spank their children less. there are fewer -- the practice of lynching has been eliminated in th

africa still has transmission but in focal areas along its borders with zimbabwe and swaziland and mozambique, and that is alive because not the mosquitoes moving across the border by people moving across those borders and they are in particular trying to pay attention to whether not they can eliminate it. this is actually a pretty important discussion because that's southern cone of africa, swan swan swan and maybe a, zimbabwe, once a gift beyond its political strife it has an incredibly strong health system and -- or did and it's been hampered in their recent years particularly from the political strife, but that could turn around and if that does, you could have namibia, botswana, zimbabwe and swaziland is actually quite close. just north of that, i mentioned we worked a fair amount in zambia. there are parts of zambia where you can now count cases and districts on your hands and maybe hands and toes. that is new and that is why i'm talking about this budha will change and the innovation has got us thinking and got countries talking about what it takes to do a lemon nation. the other place

africa, i believe it was australians, south africans, and brazilians working on a project many mozambique. he said i didn't want to do it, but i don't know what choice i have when you look at what is coming out of the administration when they don't want us to invest in american energy. so, ladies and gentlemen, i have to tell you i came here today, this does not directly affect me district, but it does affect my country and i care deeply about my country. our country needs jobs. we need affordable energy. keystone pipeline helps us both have jobs and affordable energy. and that is why it's important for every person in the united states to understand that we must have the keystone pipeline, and the sooner we start, the sooner those jobs occur and the sooner we get more oil supply that's not from our adversaries in the world, the people who would like to see the united states torn down, but from our friend canada, who understands that together we can build a more prosperous north america. ladies and gentlemen, with that, i would like the yield back to the gentleman from nebraska. mr. terry