he went to a special shop in nairobi. he smoked his pipe. he has beautiful shoes. he was very attractive. >> host: at a very resonant voice. >> guest: a deep or a tie in with snap people from across the room. he was very known for that. there are two pictures in the university of hawaii. one was probably in 1960. he has got kind of the young man's exuberance and he is laughing and he is very handsome. there were photos taken, don't know why, when he was back in 71 and he is a different creature altogether. he is solomon sitting by himself. he is again very neatly dressed but he looks tired and he looks old. he aged very quickly so i think the two men minutes someone is that the different appearance. obama jr.. >> host: have you had this notion about president obama and the charisma? did you see a lot of that in the father? >> guest: absolutely. i wish i could've met him. >> host: i was going to ask you, if you came to like him? >> guest: anybody who spends years researching probably wants to make the figure in the flesh. yeah, he sounded like a fun person to be aro

the daughter who lives in nairobi roads and in more and describes being the daughter and how hard it was to get him to pay attention or look at your think about you and tells a story of how she goes to a private school in nairobi which she likes and periodically when the bills were due to a handful of girls would be cold to say your bills are not paid you have to go home. so she walks back, goes to obama's senior in a flurry says no problem but he gets a check but she knows it is no good and the humiliation wears on her than she goes back home i think in the end the administrator took pity but it was a series of humiliations and neglect. >> host: we will take a break and come back and talk about this and the obama story the father reconnecting with his son and 1971. we will be back in a moment. >> as i said before the break the moment when obama's sr. comes back and rican necks with his son in 1971, how did that come about? that was the only time president obama met his father. was that true? how did that come about in how did that meeting go? >> the details are not entirely clear ex

, when the british came at the end of the 19th century england he was curious about the travel to nairobi. he worked for the white man and learn their ways and took it upon himself to improve himself and had high expectations for his son as i mentioned he would draw him on his math sums. you might be sent to your room. obama, sr. was the first boy and they certainly the time were very cherished, very high expectations. at one point he had two daughters with the same life, the mother of obama, sr., wouldn't talk to the girls, but we talked to senior and say you're going to get married and go away. i'm only going to talk to him, in part the seed was planted there but was obama, senior himself. one of the things he had in common with his son not only was he intelligent, she was very ambitious. >> that is another big feeney and i'm sure a lot of people want to learn about from your book and it's sort of how much of the sun do we see in the father and vice versa, and what comparisons and contrasts meaning we should take this moment to look at that. d.c. that president obama is barack obama sen

some city government in nairobi could do more. >> [inaudible] i would like the government at possibleg in a relief group. [inaudible] >> complications at the customs office in kenya have also delayed the airlift to mogadishu. united nations officials say the bureaucratic issues have now been resolved. >> i spoke with our correspondent in nairobi. he has been covering the famine and the relief efforts. i asked him about the difficulty of distributing food to people on the ground in mogadishu. >> we talk to the people of the world food program today, and they told us it was actually no problem for them to distribute the load that arrived last night in mogadishu today, and this was due to the fact that they basically were within the area controlled by the transitional government and the african union forces. we also talked to other ngo's who work in other parts of somalia. they told us that the fighting that took place in mogadishu today enhanced their fears that militant groups in the region might retaliate and could prevent them from distributing small-scale food packages to those in t

rets l let's land under nairobi.refuel and then go to australia. >> the hijackers refused to allow the captain to refuel at cities along his route. they want him to fly out over the water towards australia. and the pilot knows that's a losing proposition. so he hugs the coast. >> they said why are you flying over the coast? australia is somewhere in this direction. and i told them, okay, and i started heading. and now the message came, low fuel. >> almost out of fuel, the plane approaches the comoros islands off the east coast. as the plane descends, the hijackers flight the pilot for control of the plane. >> i said this is all finished now. we are all dead people. let me do it my way. i don't know how they did it. >> they disengaged the autopilot. >> disengaged it? >> yeah. they did. and then i had to start flying it myself. >> in the cabin, passengers start to panic. >> when the pilot first made the announcement that the plane was out of fuel in one engine and running out in the other, the plane just broke into pan

zahn standing in nairobi you know the. bill styron was on one frame really close or in john updike all of them the brain said well paul the only ones who thought of life and around the don't you yourself live in an ivory tower no no no no i love the because some russians and thirty million created by sun are russians who are integrated going america they don't go to they don't read american books they don't go to american theater they don't learn properly. in this exactly they invented this vessel and cultural america aren't cultural marxists probably but it's a very very problem you think all french people because not. russians are culture not you know. you see in the our. our pupils. in the school they make more unorganized economists think than american too it's that the . seeing the display crowds will sometimes give promotion for i'm tickled i get and i just want you to to say yes this is a very important i had a discussion with my father and who is of your generation he said that a cultural person should know a lot o

students and laboratory assistants from kenya and nairobi. they're hoping that they will be able to help the entire region. >> it is rational to fight the diseases where they occur then go somewhere else. the institute has the basic equipment it needs. >> the team also hopes to lay the groundwork for similar tests for diseases affecting animals in europe. german and european researchers can also profit from the research done in kenya. >> thank you so much for joining us. hi, i'm janice edwards, inviting you to join us for bay area vista. as you probably know, bay area vista is your show. we're talking about your community, talking about what's important to all of us, here in the bay area. i always thank you for the great job that you do in our bay area. so, that's what tuesdays at 6:30(pm), here on kcsm, are all about. please join us then.

students and laboratory assistants from kenya and nairobi. they're hoping that they will be able to help the entire region. >> it is rational to fight the diseases where they occur then go somewhere else. the institute has the basic equipment it needs. >> the team also hopes to lay the groundwork for similar tests for diseases affecting animals in europe. german and european researchers can also profit from the research done in kenya. >> thank you so much for joining us. ow! of course. thank you. i'd call her honeydew goodbody, not lisa. the very fact that she is called lisa proves that she exists.

. >> another appeal for help goes out from a district of nairobi, home to many somalis who flew years ago. they are donating whatever food and clothing they can to help set -- to help people suffering but -- people suffering. >> i do not have much, but they do not have anything. every day i donate 10 cents. >> needs at least $300 million. at least in mogadishu, every bit helps. >> that has been our in-depth report on the famine in the horn of africa. thanks for watching and thanks for the company. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

nairobi, bbc news. >> in other news now, standard and poor's has become the latest ratings agency to cut the rating of greece again, this time to adjust to the levels above default. earlier, moody's downgraded greece, while another agency said it could follow suit. it could be ruled that the country is in a selective default, because the eu plan will cause losses for creditors. police in china say they have read -- captured 89 babies in an effort to break up some gangs. more than three other people in southern provinces arrested on suspicion of trafficking baby girls. some had been drugged with sleeping pills. as suicide bomber with explosives concealed in his turban has killed the mayor of the southern afghan city of qanbar. -- kandahar. a spokesman for the taliban says they carried out the attack. back here in washington, the countdown continues with just six days left before the country must lift its debt ceiling or risk of fraud. but despite the nearing deadline and threats that the country's credit rating could be in jeopardy, the political wrangling continues. for more on where

bbc news, nairobi. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, exposed to nuclear tests decades ago. now, some british veterans are taking their fight for compensation to the u.k.'s highest court. south korea has suffered its heaviest rain in a century, with at least 32 people killed, including 10 college students who were doing volunteer work. the rain caused mudslides in various parts of the country. hundreds of people are now homeless after their neighborhoods were destroyed after a deluge of mud and rain. many had to cling to their have submerged vehicles for safety. we have this report. >> before first light in the mountains east of seoul, korea, it was hard to pick out the people. rescuers brought them out. the injured and the dead. many of them students, said to be doing volunteer work here on their summer holiday. they had been sleeping when their homes and cabins shattered around them under the force of a powerful landslide. survivors talked about wading in the mud to be rescued. >> i was asleep at the

donors conference set for wednesday in nairobi, kenya, will try to raise as much as a billion dollarsn aid money. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled from somalia into kenya. martin geissler of independent telelvision news is spending time at three hospitals there this week. and be advised: this story contains disturbing images. >> reporter: this is the biggest humanitarian crisis on earth. the intensive care unit at this hospital. the children they treat here have made it out of somalia but only just. the influx of refugees has put a huge pressure on state and staff. they only admit the most serious cases. today, like every day, the ward is full to bursting. as we film the mother arrived with her baby. when doctors saw minage even they were shocked. >> this is a very sick child. >> age just 7 months but the haggard face of a sick old man. >> i need some light. >> he is so dehydrated the staff struggle to find a vein. eventually they connected a drip and gave him vital fluids. the sir ing was bigger than its tiny arm. bewildered and terrified, he couldn't muster the

plane in nairobi, kenya, this morning. and the view out the window, the parched landscape. we were about to land where hundreds of thousands have already arrived, by foot. some walking more than 100 miles, barefoot in blistering heat, carrying their children to food and freedom. the dust couldn't hide the dire need here. but this is what they are walking to. hope for their children. can you see a difference, though? in some cases, you can see it almost immediately? >> oh, yeah, you can see within a day or two sometimes you see some of the children are sitting up. >> reporter: today, doctors without borders allowed our cameras into their intensive care unit. extraordinarily rare that it's actually raining right now as we walk through the hospital. and around the corner here are the children who they are now feeding. the children who have juststome to the hospital for help. that flash of rain, a hopeful moment where it's needed. we tururthe corner and met the mother and her 8 month old, the baby's blank stare. when the eyelids are half closed like that, it means malnutrition?

nbc's rohit kachroo has the report tonight from nairobi, kenya, and a reminder that some of what youbout to see will be tough. rohit? >> reporter: lester, this crisis has been caused by years of civil war, months of dry weather, and every day it seems to get much worse. people around the world are trying to help, but today insurgents in somalia said that they would do their best to prevent them that help from getting through to those who need it the most. his name is ahmed, 8 months old and desperately ill at a camp near mogadishu. not far behind him, 1-year-old twins arrive, seriously malnourished. here it is the children who are most at risk. >> the mothers and the children. i'm not sure many of them will be alive in the next week or two. >> reporter: in somalia, a crisis made by nature has been made worse by man. the islamist militant group al shabab, which controls many of the worst affected areas, said today we'll continue to block foreign aid, claiming there is no famine, and calling the united nations' declaration to the contrary "pure propaganda." the wrenching images being s

most recently a year ago in nairobi before the elections. speaking by phone to him recently. i was the original sponsor of a relation of somaliland in 99 which called on the mistakes but provide assistance to and give somaliland observer status at the united nations. and to recognize their accomplishments. as you know, somaliland, puntland and mogadishu or somali was all controlled by different colonial powers, and i think that the reason that some have succeeded, for example, somaliland, is because some colonial powers gave more autonomy to the locals and provided them with the opportunity to govern. were as in mogadishu there was very little. this is the only resolution to be introduced in congress that focus on somaliland in two decades at that time. i also met with president for roll out of puntland several times. he testified at a hearing i cheered on somali in 2009 where i encourage the leaders of somaliland, puntland and mogadishu to band together for the future of somalia as a whole. finally come it was in april 2009 and i traveled to mogadishu after all the violence

. >> david mckenzie, joining us from nairobi, many thanks for that report. manisha? >>> now to south korea and much of the country. tremendous downpours during the past 72 hours have triggered heavy flooding and deadly mudslides that have killed at least 44 people. dramatic pictures there. many parts of the capital are paralyzed and thousands of businesses are at a standstill this thursday as floodwater and mud pour through the streets. rescuers are working frantically to locate survivors in chuncheon. five neighborhoods on the outskirts of the capital are under evacuation orders. the rain did lighten up a bit earlier on thursday. it is now coming down hard again. it is expected to break by friday. >>> the sheer amount of rain that's fallen on south korea in the past two days is hard to imagine. me meteorologists say it's the heaviest rain they've seen in 100 years. >> reporter: the death toll has been steadily rising here in south korea, due to torrential rains and mudslides that have been created. now there has been at least 44 people confirmed dead. that's accordi

he came of age after and wasn't into nairobi until the late 1950s. >> let me ask you about what you discoveredson. in my family maybe yours and everyone watching, my grandfather was a hot head. my father was a cool customer. had the same job for 30 years. even tempered. i'm a hybrid maybe. it seems he reacted to his father. did he or not? he wrote a whole book about his father. >> you know, i think two things about that. one, he tried very hard to understand who his father was. that book is interesting to me because he is pretty upfront in discovering his father was quite different in his estreemed figure that his mother portrayed hp he learned his father had a rather tragic life. he peaked very early. he drank heavily and was somewhat of a failure. but they also have many similarities at the same time. >> tell bus that. >> i read from your book, obviously acute, and high level intelligence. >> yes wsh the first thing is just raw dna. some had the imagination, some say arrogance, to think beyond the circumstances ever their youth. thirdly they were both very involved in the political era in wh

came of age after the mal-mal years and wasn't in nairobi until the late 1950s. >> let me ask what you'vevered about father-son. in my family, maybe in yours, one father, my grandfather was a hot head, my father was a cool customer, had the same job for 36 years, i'm a hybrid, maybe. it seems like he reacted to his father. did he or not? he wrote a whole book about his father. >> you know, i think two things about that. one, he tried very hard to understand who his father was. that book is interesting to me, because he is pretty up front in discovering that his father was quite different in this esteemed, vaunted figure than his mother portrayed. he learned his father had a rather tragic life. he peaked very early, he drank heavily, and was somewhat of a failure, but he also -- they have many similarities at the same time. >> tell us about that, obviously, acute and high-level intelligence. >> first thing is raw dna. both obamas were extremely bright, some of his other children were too. both of them had the imagine, some would say arrogance to imagine a life far beyond the quite limited

and earlier i spoke with kelly leasen, she's with the international rescue committee in nairobi, kenyancies being blocked from providing aid, it does mean that more discussions need to take place about how to be creative, to get assistance, to people who are in need of services and in need of food, desperately. >> and miss leeson, i'm going to take this down to a very, i guess, to really simplify this conversation. and it might seem a little silly, but we know that hunger, food, and security is an issue in many places around the world. certainly in somalia, in this area of africa, but then it goes up to another level when a famine is declared. tell me the significance of a famine being declared and actually what that really means. what is a famine? >> well, in terms of the work that we are doing, it doesn't matter what it is declared, because people are without food right now, and that's what we are focusing on. a famine is typically declared when malnutrition rates exceed a certain level, and when mortality rates exceed a total level. and that's why this has been declared a famine in

allan is joining us via skype from nairobi, kennia, and thank you for joining us.e us an idea of what you are seeing and reports from the ground of what is happening there. >> well, i was just in a refugee camp in somalia and there are people coming from the affected areas and people i met walking across the desert. they have very little water. very little food. they are attacked by armed ban dids and hiyenas attacking smal children, and they are making camps from bits of old cloth and twigs from sticks. and, yeah, very short of water and food when they get there. it is really a desperate con dirks and one of the worst situations i have seen here. >> ands a i vint poed out in somalia, the desperation is made more difficult by this civil war that we know is ongoing in somalia, and even al qaeda having a great influence in that country. how is it that help can come through and be given to those who are most in need when you have this gut-wrenching civil war happening? >> well, the war is definitely going to make it a lot worse and it has prevented people from moving

more from the nairobi-kenya border. >> reporter: his name is ahmed, 8 months old and desperately illar mogadishu. not far behind him, 1-year-old twins arrive. they're seriously malnourished. here it is the children who are most at risk. >> the mothers and the children, i'm not sure many of them will be alive in the next week or two. >> reporter: yes, in somalia a crisis made by nature is being made worse by men. the islamist militant group which controls many of the worst affected areas saying it will continue to block foreign aid, claiming there is no famine and calling the united nations declaration to the country "pure propaganda." the wrenching images now being seen around the world have a very different story. the u.n.'s world food program says that despite the danger, it will airlift food to the area in the next few days. >> it's the most dangerous and risky environment in the world. the world food program has lost 14 people since 2008, 14 of our relief workers in somalia simply trying to get food to a child. >> reporter: people are fleeing somalia by the hundreds of thousands.

effort to redevelop a slum in nairobi called kibera. this excerpt focuses on the very different perspectives of silva adhiambo, a midwife who lives in kibera and sara candiracci, the program manager of the u.n. project. >> kibera is very dramatic, it's kind of shocking. the health situations very bad. the sanitation situation is very bad. there are no roads, there is nothing. it's not acceptable that kibera exists. it's not acceptable. i mean-- and i'm so happy that now this project is a successful project. >> ( translated ): since i came from home, i have seen a big difference in my income. so i am happy to stay in kibera. there's a lot of trash, but life is good. >> ( translated ): my name is francis omondi. i am secretary of the settlement executive committee, which is in charge of the slum upgrading. u.n. habitat has something called millennium development goals. one of the goals of the millennium development is that by the year 2020, they should provide better housing for at least 100 million living in slums like the one we live in

donors conference set for wednesday in nairobi, kenya, will try to raise as much as a billion dollarsn aid money. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled from somalia into kenya. martin geissler of independent telelvision news is spending time at three hospitals there this week. and be advised: this story contains disturbing images. >> reporter: this is the biggest humanitarian crisis on earth. the intensive care unit at this hospital. the children they treat here have made it out of somalia but only just. the influx of refugees has put a huge pressure on state and staff. they only admit the most serious cases. today, like every day, the ward is full to bursting. as we film the mother arrived with her baby. when doctors saw minage even they were shocked. >> this is a very sick child. >> age just 7 months but the haggard face of a sick old man. >> i need some light. >> he is so dehydrated the staff struggle to find a vein. eventually they connected a drip and gave him vital fluids. the sir ing was bigger than its tiny arm. bewildered and terrified, he couldn't muster the

embassies in tanzania and nairobi, kenya. i was in east africa accidentally at a checkpoint in somalia. clearly there are people on the ground, working with them in yemen. where much of the u.s. focus has been. al qaeda is a relatively small group and it is, there have been attack against the united states that have been planned and plotted from yemen, but we are talking about a relatively small threat globally compared to a lot of other threats we face. namely our economic situation in this country and receipt responsible has been to use a sledge hammer in place of a fly swatter to deal with these problems but yemen and somalia clearly have been on the obama administration's radar for a long, long time, almost from day one and they've been hitting hard. >> jeremy's exactly right. we commented about it before on this show. had the bush administration engaged in the massive drone strikes that the obama administration had done, code pink would have shut down committee hearings in washington, the "new york times," "the washingto

i'm joined on the phone from nairobi and kenya. the pictures david was showing us are heart wrenching. the problem of hunger and drought in the horn of africa as we were just discussing isn't anything new. what makes this situation, what makes it more dire than ever before? >> well, i think we're dealing with a magnitude in numbers that we haven't seen for a long time. we estimate, you know, more than 11 million people are in need. and of those -- [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. you know, the ones find a who do a super job?k... superpages.com®. for local maps, review

i met recently with the current president in nairobi before the elections. we spoke by telephone recently. i was the original sponsor a resolution on somaliland in 1990, which called on the united states to provide assistance to and give somaliland observer status at the united nations, and to recognize their accomplishments. as you know, somaliland, puntland, and mogadishu were all controlled by different colonial powers. i think the reason that some have succeeded, for example, somaliland, is become some colonial powers a more but autonomy to the locals and provided them with the opportunity to govern, where as, in mogadishu, there was very little of that. this was the only resolution to be introduced in congress that focused on somaliland in two decades, at that time. i also met with the president of. land 0-- of puntland several times today testified in a hearing i held in july, 2009. -- i also met with the president of puntland several times. he testified in a hearing held in july, 2009. i also met with the president, sharif sheikh ahmed, and ministers,

former president of somaliland and we met with the current president, most recently a year ago in nairobi before the elections and speaking by phone to him recently. i was the resolution which called on the united states and give status at the united states and recognize their accomplishments as you know, as you know, mogadishu and somali were all controlled by different colonial powers. i think the reason that some have succeeded, for example, somaliland, is because some colonials powers gave more to the locals and provided them with the opportunity to govern. whereas mogadishu it was limited. this is the only resolution to be introduced in congress that focused on in two decades at that time. i also met with president of putinland, i encourage them to ban today for the future of somali. finally i traveled in 2009 after all of the evil that had occurred during the ethiopia invasion. i met with the president, ministers, journalist, and a prominent coalition of women organizations who were very, very active at that time. these were things that we did not hear about. but that was going on i