i went to niger which is a fascinating experience and i went to kenya. and i wanted to show you -- when i was in niger, i couldn't go into the villages. let me cue something up for you here. i want you to look at this little movie here. i had a digital camera with me and it occurred to me, oh, gee, i could actually take little movies, you know, like you can with a digital camera and i was like a magnet of the children who would come up here and i took this film. and it's very charming but it has a very serious ending but i turned this into a youtube and if you wanted to look at this, you can go to my website, which is just my name, mark pendergrast.com and you if you click on the outbreak stub page and there's a link to what you're about to see. and also if anybody wants to get hold of me, it's easy. it's go to that website, my name.com and you can email me directly. so let's play this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you go to school and you learn english, yes? yes. your teacher's name is annise? okay. i want to hear a song in german. can you sing? no? [laughter] ♪ if you're

during the 50th anniversary of independence, there was a blast that went off and that was linked to a niger delta group. they usually send out a warning before the attacks. there was no indication this time. there is also a radical islamic sect called boko haram which operates in the north of nigeria. they carried out attacks starting off on christmas eve and they have warned that they will carry out more across the country. it is possible that they're responsible for this. >> in a televised new year address, the leader of ivory coast laurent gbagbo is refusing to step down as president. he is indicating that he will not give up power. he accuses the international community of drying and could talk. north korea has called for a peninsula free of nuclear weapons and for improved ties with the south. confrontation between the north and south should be defused as early as possible, the north said. millions of people in brazil have been partying on the beach ahead of a traditional fireworks display to welcome in the new year. the display consists of 25 tons of rockets and it is a very and loud

so i went to niger which is a fascinating experience, and i went to kenya. and i wanted to show you when i was in niger, i couldn't go into the village -- let me just, let me queue something up for you here. i want you to look at a little movie i took. i had a digital camera with me, and it occurred to me, oh, gee, i could actually take little movies. you know how you can with a digital camera? so i was like a magnet for the children who would come up here. and i took this film, and it's very charming, but it has -- i'll warn you, it has a very serious ending. but i turned this in to youtube, and if you wanted to look at this, you can go to my web site which is just my name, markpendergast.com. and if you click on the outbreak subpage, then there's a link to what you're about to see. so anybody -- and also if anybody wants to get hold of me, it's easy. just go to that web site, my name.com, and you can e-mail me directly pa there. -- from there. so let's play this. ♪ ♪ >> you go to school and you learn english, yes? yes. [inaudible conversations] >> your tea

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the voice on the tape also said the fate of five french hostages being held in niger depends on french soldiers leaving muslim lands. if it is bin laden it will be the first time he's been heard from since last october. >>> president obama continues trying to build bridges to big business. today he's creating a new economic advisory panel headed by jeff immelt, the ceo of general electric. the panel will focus on creating jobs. >>> in a just released cbs news/"new york times" poll look at america's perception of the economy and the president. cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on that this morning. hey, bill, good morning. >> good morning to you, jeff. the president heads to schenectady today. he'll talk to jeff immelt at a ge plant about jobs, then he'll head back and talk to some other folks who are worried about jobs, their own. members of the house, democrats on their annual retreat. last night the president celebrated a democrat president from another time. it was a gala marking the 50th anniversary of president john f. kennedy's inauguration. >> i conf

is interesting about his comments is that they have been basically been based in the ninth year -- niger what we have not seen is that going eastward towards a van. indre is the director of a consulting firm, aberfoyle international, and also works at georgetown. with that, i would like to pass it over to dario. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> so the thank you very much, first of all, for inviting me here. normally, i am used to speaking at boring and empty academy gatherings. if i should die because of the emotion of what is going on, -- actually, i will try to do this the best that i can and explaining in my view the three main developments related to the evolution of al qaeda in the past few years. ok, well, the background, this is, in my view, this is an organization which has been weakened in the past few years from the algerian efforts and counter-terrorism. the algerian government now was far better in preventing the entrance of raw materials. they have been able to get lots of surrenders with the

have to look at the situation in algeria and libya, mauritania, morocco, tunisia, chad, mali, and niger. on the basis of our studies since 9/11, we recorded an increase of some 558% of the number of terrorist attacks in the region. but my friends, it is not just the number of bad tax. it is the impact, and i'm afraid that with the new developments, we are going to have an increase. clearly, it will look at the various open sources, there is no question that al qaeda and the moderate, together, jointly, with various al qaeda affiliate's, for example, the arabian peninsula -- they represent the most dangerous threat, both regionally and globally. the problem of fail-safe -- the terrorists are exploiting the open spaces in order to recruit, in order to be involved in narcotics trafficking, in human trafficking. it is unbelievable. if you go to the region and see what is going on, the links. now, what can be done? we now have quite a number of recommendations. i would like to mention at least two. one of them is on the intelligence level, and we do have experts on intelligence who can discu