roosevelt then shifted the discussion to north africa. he said he had given orders to free it jews from concentration camps there and to abolish special discriminatory laws against jews. he then said that muslims have also suffered under fresh colonial rule. they have fewer rights than frenchman and jews and there were 17 million muslims. the u.s. would fight for equal rights for all. it was not in favor of greater rights for one group over another. most people who have analyzed this meeting, including me at an earlier stage of research and writing, have looked at roosevelt's comments on north africana as off the central point. actually, and they tell us what was foremost on roosevelt's mind. it is not necessary to see franklin roosevelt as in different to the holocaust or as an anti-semite. it is better to see him as a juggler who had just taken on a new and difficult task in north africana and was worried about the consequences of failure. the american british negotiations did produce a statement on december 17th, 1942, the allied gover

that was especially found in the middle east and north africa. take a look at the news whether you're a coptic christian in egypt, buddhist ther -- >> i would like to introduce our guests. brian grimm, if you look at the recent history of the world, we lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. hundreds of millions more get to vote for the governments that run their countries, and yet we see this rise in religious violence. what's going on? >> well, the study has been documenting two types of restrictions of religion around the world looking at government restrictions and social hostil hostilities involving religion. the old paradigm for looking at restrictions and religion freedom were those coming from governments, communist era governments. but with the fall of communities and changes in the world what we've been documents is a rise in social hostilities involving religion. some of the government restrictions let up, then different forces came into play. we're seeing a world that is much more defined by attitudes and actions of peop

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to eradicate the jews in the middle east and north africa. collaborated closely with the nazis.our new friends in the middle east and our new outreach partners participated, since italians in 1948, to assist in the invasion and the crushing of the fledgling state of israel in 1948. the brotherhood was on the ground killing jews in a revised state of israel. i the early 1950s they wanted the power in egypt. nasser had other ideas. but you here in his own right. but even he was threatened by the totalitarian vision of the muslim brotherhood and i quote him in the book. he says they want to shut down movie theaters. they wanted to cover women from head to do. it was horrible. the brotherhood wanted to share power until they could get full power, of course. they were crushed in the early 1950s. locked up not after -- not before i should say they were through with a succinct egyptian leaders, says an egyptian prime minister, causing a wave of fear, a campaign of terror and mayhem in egypt. and by the way, in the late 1930s, early 1940s, burning synagogues to the ground, harassing jew

archie roosevelt along with many other americans in the middle east during world war ii, and in north africa in particular, were really quite antifrench, and identified with the arab independence movements in the french dominated regions of north africa, and actually roosevelt was sent home briefly because of his tendency to criticize the french. so, it was really very striking is a was reading his memoirs and also his diary of his involvement during world war ii, how profoundly he identified with the cause of arab nationalism in north africa, and he befriended various arab independence leaders. during that period. you also asked about how independent these guys were, and i think they initially have a lot of latitude within the cia, partly because just not that much expertise about the region, and they know something about it. so, they are -- allen dulles is from a similar akris -- aristocratic background, and very much inclined to give kermit roosevelt his head, as it were in this field. but then sort of gradually spat upon -- dulles' brother backs fed up with nassar and suspicious of arab

archie roosevelt along with many other americans in the middle east during world world i and in north africa in particular were really quite anti-french and i identifieded with the air independence movements in the french-dominated regions of north africa, and archie roosevelt was sent home briefly because of the tendency to criticize the french so, i mean, it was really striking as i was reading his memoirs, and, also, his diary of the involvement in world war ii, how profoundly he identified with the cause of arab nationalism in north africa, befriending various, you know, arab independent leaders and others. during that period, you also asked about how independently these guys were, and i think they initially have a lot of latitude within the cia because there's not that area of expertise about the region, and they know something about it, or claim to know something about it, and they are, you know, they are dullless from an aristocratic background, and cia director from 1950 inclined to give him his head, as it were, in this field, but they sat upon, as it were, the brother becoming incr

with me is mohamed val, reports from north africa, right across north africa and knows exactly what the president has been saying and why he's saying it now. one phrase leapt out at me is that the president wants south sudan to take a giant leap forward, giant leap forwards towards what? >> if we listen to what he has been saying, actually from the words are not new. the expressions are not new. in every major speech he gave during the last 15 or 20, even 20 years he's been speaking about national reconciliation, not exactly the same things he has said in the speech so far but visually, when you see hasan, the leader -- >> is it possible to cross back to the pictures? mohamed you may be able to identify who you're talking about. >> actually when we see hasan turabi, the ideologi ideologica, when we see what else bashir is saying, this is a meeting of major national reconciliation. this is a break through for sudan, for 15 years these two men has not set under the same roof. he has been a constant guest in jails, in bashir's jails but has not been invited to a meeting like this. also all

are more details >> reporter: barely into the new year, the first migrand boat has arrived from north africa, a treacherous voyage that mostly takes place when the weather is better. the threat of rough seize did not deter the latest rifles. they came mostly from sub is a h subsaharan africa. it is closer to north africa than the mainland, the site of frequent boat landings, sometimes with tragic consequences. in 2013, hundreds of people died attempting to reach the island. the worst incident occurred in october, when more than 360 migrants drowned after their boat caught fire and capsized. then 304 people died in a ship wreck. it seems the troubled deniid no end at sea. there w shocking footage emerged of naked migrants being showered down. it prompted debate about europe-bound migration. it has led to criticism of the european union's way of dealing with the issue. mistaken hoped the boat disasters would prompt the eu to improve strategy but with war and unrest looming over certain kuntz trees, it seems likely the boats will keep coming to lampadusa. the perilous journal is for some a risk

if you talk to a lot of people on the ground in north africa right now who are con front -- confronting the fundamentalists, what they are very frustrated by is in the west we refer to the muslim brotherhood and its ilk as, quote, moderate because they are not as extreme as the sal byings -- salafis or even the openly-armed salafis. and the people on the ground who are doing this work will say, look, actually it is the muslim brotherhood, it is opening the door for the salafis that is opening the door for the armed movements, that is pushing us really in the direction of a more and more radical interpretation of islam. and so just because perhaps the salafis are even worse does not mean that you should use the label "moderate." you know, they always ask me what exactly does the term moderate mean, and a former student of mine in tunisia wrote me this very acerbic e-mail where she suggested it means you kill your fellow muslims, you don't kill westerners. you're not engaged in al-qaeda-like terrorism. while it is important on the one hand, i think, to be careful ask to try to make distin

scene director of the middle in north africa at the national endowment for democracy.rom our studio in washington, james jeffrey, former ambassador to iraq. he is now a distinguished visiting fellow at the washington institute. and from ann harbor michigan, professor of the university of michigan where he teaches modern middle east history. we're watching now something like the birth pains of a new society. at the end of this violence when this conflict resolves, does it set the table for a new modern iraq, or is it something more dangerous than that? >> let's just start with iraq has been trying to put its act together since the last ten years, since 2003 and the power vacuum that was created. iraq hats been struggling to find an acceptable framework for political interaction. i think to its credit up to this point the political process has not totally melted down. it's still holding. there is still an army, this is still government. the political parties are preparing for elections. but on the other hand very much to the disappointment of the motive of iraqis, that t

. >> barely into the new year and the first migrant boat has arrived from north africa, a treacherousoyage that mostly takes place in milder months when the weather is better. the threat of rough seas did not deter the latest arrivals, coming from africa and pakistan. the small island, a dot in the mid terrainian sea is closer to north africa than the italian mainland, the sight of three migrant boat landings, sometimes with tragic consequences. hundreds of people died attempting to reach the island. the worst situation occurred in october when 360 drowned when the boat caught fire and capsized. another 34 people died in a separate ship wreck. there was condemnation at the way the migrants were being treated at the reception center. shocking footage emerged of migrant shot with disin effectant in freezing conditions. the i want's prompted i am passed debate about europe bound migration, but has led to criticism of the european's way of dealing with the issue. many hoped the strategy would be improved and prevent further incidents. it seems likely the boats will keep coming, the per i

one of the reasons is turkey realized the limit of its influence and capabilities in north africa andmiddle east, and that its effectiveness hinges largely on its relationship with europe and the european union in particular. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. bye-bye. >> time for a wrap of the day's sports news. ok. right. >> a rupture of the interior ligament during the three- -- 3-0 win. >> i am focused. i have the will and the conviction that things will turn out well. i will give 100% every day. if that is the case, i think things will work out. remains7-year-old optimistic about his chances of being fit for brazil. >> i am optimistic. it is an important moment in my career. i never thought this could happen at this point, just a few months from such an important competition like the world cup. i think it is a very difficult , and i am just trying to learn to grow as a sportsman and as a person, and hopefully i will come out of this stronger in every aspect of my life. >> he scored nine goals since moving from madrid last summer. they begin their world cup bid against reese on -

that the number of jihadis going in to fight from europe africa, asia, even some from north america,eatens to make syria a far longer problem than afghanistan was, and that's something we have been living with for a quarter century. >>rose: would you help me define the difference between an islamist and jihaddist? >> islam it's is a political term, muslim brotherhood and some of the political parties that have tried to work in some caress peacefully within the program. jihadis are the fighters, the militants pickup terms to fight. there is a really important distinction, the islamists are far larger in numbers but the jihadis while smaller in number are disproportionately powerful because they pick up been onary -- weaponry and take up suicide bombs. >>rose: do the jihaddists take up with al qaeda? >> osama isn't the fixture he was. but the al qaeda phenomenon it is a frash operation, pick up the line, that have proliferated from north africa into southeast asia and what she can do -- >> the consensus is that the syrian war is going to go on for probably another decade. >> and prois

these bangles were purchased in north africa in 1943 during operation torch in the invasion of north africa during world war ii. her military, connections continued. as she christened the uss nautilus in 1954, the nautilus was the first nuclear-powered naval vessel and the silver sleeve of the champagne bottle that she smashed against the hull. as a military wife, she took great pride in creating a home in each of the 36 places they lived during their marriage. was young girl, mamie diagnosed with a heart conditions. in later years, she was ordered to stay in bed three days a week. that was a little much for her, so she compromised and stayed in bed every day until noon. she was a busy lady. she would get up in the morning, do her hair, put on her makeup, ben wear a lovely bed jacket and lay back in bed. while wearing the bed jackets, she would often meet with her secretary to plan the day. as first lady, she ran the white house with military precision. her schedules were often blocked out in five minute permits per day. we have schedules from every year that mamie was first lady. not

witnesses testify the ideology is talking hold, with new operations across the middle east and north africa. >> the terrorist landscape has become increasingly complex. >> there are some five different franchises at least, and in 12 countries, that this movement has morphed into. >> lawmakers were told more than 26,000 extremists are now operating in syria, and of that 7,000 are fighters from the west with the potential to return to their home countries with new training and contacts. >> how concerned should we be also about europeans or even americans training in syria and traveling back to the west to carry out attacks? >> well, we should be very concerned about this, senator feinstein. syria has become a huge magnet for extremists. >> on the sochi olympics, the nation's top conterterrorism official warned about islamic extremists who promised a year ago to disrupt the games. >> the biggest issue is not the games themselves, the greater threat is to softer targets in the greater sochi area and in the outskirts, beyond sochi, where there is a substantial potengs frl a terrorist attack. >>

not just in syria and iraq, but the middleaths of east and north africa. al qaeda has taken advantage of areas where the government does not have significant amounts of control. and iraq and syria are both prime examples of this, conflicts that have allowed groups to become stronger. >> inside syria right now, there are rival offshoot of al qaeda shoveling for supremacy. where does this leave the secular opposition there, particularly with those international peace talks due to take place at the end of the month? >> it really complicates things for the secular opposition for obvious reasons. governments are extremely wary of arming them, of engaging with them, because there is so little being able toot get the extremist groups, al qaeda linked groups -- not empowering and arming them. the presence of al qaeda in syria has prolonged this conflict and competent it it. -- and complicated it. >> it looks as though the real winners in the conflict at the moment are al qaeda, but also president bashar al-assad, who has been saying all along that he is fighting t

after the greeks and socrates left greece and went to north africa and what they brought back was african science and african architecture. it is so beautiful. and the inside which is european molding. all the work put into wood here. if we kept the term that a lot of cities are where everything is blue and green, we can be sitting here in a glass and green building. i'm so glad that there is something to spare in san francisco that knew to keep this. thank you. supervisor scott weiner: thank you very much. any additional public comment on item 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any additional comments? supervisor london breed: again, i can't thank the planning department enough and the activist from japan town and the fillmore community and all the folks in our community who have come together to try and save marcus bookstore. it's been just really a heroic effort and i also want to thank my colleagues and others who continue to support marcus books and others that came to my office offering what they can do. this is what we can do as a city and landmark location that

of north africa. the nautilus was the first nuclear powered naval vessel . as a military wife, mamie took great pride in creating a home places theyhe 356 lived throughout their marriage. as a girl, she was diagnosed with a heart condition. in later years, she was under doctors orders to stay in bed three days a week here that was too much for her, so she compromised and stayed in bed every day until noon. she would still meet with her staff. she would get up in the mornings, do hair, put on her makeup, and where these lovely bed jackets. as we'll see in the library, we have many notes from those meetings. while wearing the bed jackets, she would often meet with her secretary to plan the days events. ran the white she house with military precision. her schedules were often blocked out in five minute increments. we have schedules for every year she was first lady. for example, on the schedule, we see that not only did she have a diplomatic dinner, but the next morning she was planning to cut the ribbon

seen neighboring countries keep their borders open -- lebanon, turkey, egypt, other countries in north africal doing their bit. to see other countries keeping their borders open, too. i know that my colleague who is the high commissioner for refugees has been talking to countries in the european union, and he says and we all agree with him that we should not see people from syria and other countries drowning trying to get to countries in europe. >> hello. welcome to the health show. you the mosting important health stories from around the world an. >> with their powerful census now, there -- powerful sense of smell, they know whether their diabetic owners will be falling coma., your -- into a, >> in the best way to deliver health care whether you live, work and play in a lagoon are. toshe has been trained detect the telltale smells of people have when they are falling ill and >> that means that dogs like easy can detect a diabetic persons blood sugar levels. >> for one young owner, it has already changed her life.

somalia, and north africa and syria, etc. many of these movements, while essentially locally focused him a probably the most prominent one that has an external focus on the root -- homeland remains which poses the most immediate threat to a potential attack on the homeland. the probability of attack now 2001 at least for me is a very hard question to dispersionuse this and diffusion of the threat whereas we are very focused time period onat al qaeda. we are facing a much more dispersed threat. but we spoke about before, what is going on there may be a new fatah force. what is going on and the attraction of these foreign fighters is very worrisome. cannot pass he ly,iration -- aspirational [inaudible] i can't say the threat is any less. the ability to discern it is much improved over what it was of 2000.rly part creates adispersion harder threat to watch and detect because of its dispersion. that ourar as well collection capabilities are not as robust as they were. the terrorists and this is not specifically because of edward

countries mostly clustered in southeast asia, the middle east, south america and north africa. they boast a combined population of 1.2 billion people, and sales today of 10 million cars a year. expectations of economic growth mean sales could reach 14.5 million by 2020. but winning the race to these new consumers will not come without challenges for the u.s. auto makers. for starters many f othese markets already have established players. >> the government in smaller countries tend to favor local car makers. or big car makers that got in there fast. and have relationships with the government. trench makers dominate, and in south a sha they control 60% of the share. regional leader has even built production facilities locally including malaysia and thailand. toyota has taken that brand approach to to rest of asia so the big players are used to being there. >> political tensions can raise speed bumps for auto makers particularly american companies. emerging mideast countries represent the largest new consumer base. they also bring diplomatic complications and sanctions against ir

the overall rise in religious hostilities, the sharpest increases to lace in the middle east and north africa. the country with a population over 500,000 showing the least hostility? that is this one. for 50 years, the u.s. has been waging a campaign against smoking. today a new report celebrated the progress while adding a number of new diseases, from arthritis to diabetes, to the growing list linked to cigarettes. i spoke to the man who edited the report a short time ago. we all know smoking causes lung cancer. but what else does it cause? >> the list has grown since the 1964 surgeon general's report. as you can see in the 50th anniversary report, we have a lot of evidence. we have 10 different diseases that had adverse effects caused by tobacco. in 1964, we started with lung cancer. now we have 13 cancers. some of the new cancers we added our cancer of the colon, rectum, liver. already on the list, stomach, bladder, leukemia, cervix, and others. diseaseadded on heart and adverse fertility affects. could the tobacco industry say this is about diet and lifestyle? >> we are looking to set asi

particularly in the middle east and north africa and sub saharan africa.qaeda and other violent extremist groups have long exploit the muslim majority countries that have been weakened or fragmented by conflict, and neglected by the international community including the u.s. they take advantage of these places to recruit radicalized and train the next generation of extremists foot soldiers. they use these places to plot and plan attacks including against our homeland. that's why al qaeda and its affiliates first went to afghanistan in the 1990s, that's why they later turned to yemen and somalia in the 2001s, and that is why today they are fighting to build sanction wares in syria, iraq, and libya. there is now clear, present, and increasing threat to america and our allies from those three countries. but administration policy makers have signified any involvement -- i stress any involvement by the u.s. military there senior if all intents and purposes off the table. that means that the u.s. will not be able to assist our local allies and combating the rise

so that the decline in american influence that we see now, it's palpable from all across north africa and the middle east, is only going to get worse. >> what went wrong, and what can we do right if we can do anything? >> well, i think in both the end of the bush administration and throughout the entire obama administration, there's been an unwillingness to face the harsh reality that the war on terror that we saw really begin most visibly for americans on september 11th, 2001, isn't a war we can turn off at our pleasure. this is a war being waged against us. i think we made a huge mistake in withdrawing from iraq. i think we're about to make another huge mistake in withdrawing from afghanistan. people say, oh, but americans are war weary, and the gallup poll says this, and the other poll says that. public opinion polls and foreign affairs are utterly irrelevant when you have presidents who exercise leadership, who explain to the american people what our obligations are, what the challenges we have to face around the world are, what our allies need. and what is required of us. we just

the middle east from egypt to syria and iran the doctors and see how director of middle east and north africa center at aspen institute for policy studies think you very much for joining us. here's what dr charlotte store with the undressing each it nearly three years have passed since mubarak had been ousted. i teach it seems to have come full circle with the overwhelming support of its new constitution but does it did when she sits in the clear or does it have many unresolved issues that remain. i use it that the country's varied interests are polarized under the new tent that governments may last a week. the country approved a reference on a new constitution. and obviously damien say that the government and army chief and cc really use the tweezers and a source of the families to see how great he was hired me you know can start exercising not a reader toys or consensus based unity to it. so that country will remain very polarized the week out you prolly soon democracy in this area the much delayed peace talks are set to be held in switzerland. um what we see much progress in talks with the

societies that tends to impose any models reform from outside on the countries of the middle east and north africaand the experiments in social engineering issues there will come by the clock on the progress made and the process of political and economic modernization and we don't have to offer such examples which once again i call upon all external players to strictly abide by the basic principles of international law of respect for serenity of a state non-experience investigate fast and it is a settlement of disputes understand the outset of the crisis in syria russia i think consistent and it's sure that i can be no solutions on bodies of force and they cannot be found through what would look i love amongst the syria because syrians themselves this approach was the basis for the geneva communique which was with some delay adopted unanimously by the un security council investigation twenty one eighteen as an international legal framework for the human to peace in syria we convinced that we all wish to see syria maintained as a saw friends secular state with territorial integrity in which we see

the protests in the spanish enclave time in manila in north africa has ten other people most of them police officers were injured demonstrations protesting the lack of jokes in the region and tortured barricades in the streets pupils as they can put up a fun and secure. a security measure to fall when the debate raging in the uk off it was repealed the fingerprinting of students become a usual practice in schools the story schools particular control the steel door with a third of schools collected the bases without consulting parents of the stores because the tetons. a lot of the days when the teeny tiny b l t o fingerprint is if he was suspected of crying. nowadays that's daunting and be on the school to be precise with that saves more than a mini eggs schoolchildren had being fingerprinted and that biometric dates we used to identify credit for things like tax free lump states taking attendance. onions look like the pics that borrowing. it is called to the chalet big brother what she's been taking any weight about schools having access to this information ideas and the cop that a k

i was a close relationship between business groups throughout north africa. after the downfall of walmart and got the one to begin to flood into libya due to its weak central government a non secure borders and sorrow to reassert his deputies to revolt against the autocratic leader three years ago i was in tunisia has escalated since the government began the trek to an email to me this year declaring it an outlawed organization. zion you can. a few of the scene rising numbers of muslims being recruited by radical religious groups to fight two wars overseas increasing fears of more terror threats. once these fighters returned to europe better trained than before atheism counterterrorism see if it just occurred to the sea wants the access to passenger data to help in early detection. though there are many voices strongly oppose to that idea. around eleven thousand foreign fighters are estimated to have joined the seer in conflict since two thousand eleven. the new one from europe france germany the uk belgium and the netherlands are seeing a particularly high a

these peacekeepers them proving not to be provoking violence when i think western intervention in north africa or any part of africa obviously produces a huge reaction because that's the tradition is almost such that it's the former colonial power to in the case of france that goes in to intervene whenever there's any problems there and whilst they are intervening in central african republic to try to bring about some kind of peace in the pashtun in reality there is a huge political issue that has to be resolved and the political conflicts throughout the whole region actually stemmed from the drawing of colonial boundaries in one thousand nine hundred four in berlin and the conduct of the colonial powers after that when they divide their power for amongst themselves and the british and french for the most part or keep all of that region who wouldn't leave them to solve their political differences resulted in even more violence if we seem catastrophic and huge loss of life there surely intervention is necessary now is not. it's necessary to have some kind of peacekeeping operation because there

us a franchise of al-qaeda and we can use your name, because it's proliferated all over africa, north africa, the arabian peninsula, yemen, and is this all really organized and run by zawhriri? i don't think so. might be a lot of isolated groups that say they are al- qaeda. >> the fact that cia strengthened their own compound while the state department never got around to it, there's a bureaucratic lapse there. but i don't think it has all these sort of great big dimensions to it. it's just not surprising administrative incompetence. >> yeah, because of 9/11 and osama bin laden, when you toss out the name al-qaeda, you inspire fear in people. but al-qaeda central has been pretty well decimated, but there are lots of people in groups that are inspired by this and there are lots of freelancing terrorists all around the world. >> this is clearly universal absolute tion. >> lot of people who hate her will still hate here. >> as pat said. >> yeah. >> look, she's in charge and got to take responsibility. it was under her. >> right. >> but it was the security part of the state that was responsible.

minister in one scene a lot to say it might as well so what happened that yuri despite protests from north africa. the law. a genial watching cctv news and longer what is an eel population migration on this starts from today in china as people make their way home for the spring festival holiday which began two weeks from now. during the forty day travel period of total number of three point six billion trips are expected at two hundred million more than last year authorities estimated two point six million trip the day on the road at the peak. there will be twenty one thousand passenger ships at the ready and fifty thousand flights a week which is twelve thousand more than normal. on the railways will be five thousand trains every single day before the actual spring festival. the railway operator is directing all its efforts in guaranteeing maximum transport capacity during the travel rush. on this period is most crucial test for the tiniest transferred next word earlier we talked aren't one hundred homes. he taught us how people are coping with the getty ordeal we are not joining the white house

a protest in the spanish enclave town of north africa has turned violent twelve people most of them police officers were injured. demonstrators were protesting at the lack of jobs in the region and torched barricades in the streets security forces later put out the fire and security. a security measure to follow well the debate is raging in the u.k. after it was revealed that the fingerprinting of students has become a usual practice in schools the stories called particular controversy after almost a third of schools collect the data without consulting parents of these norse myth as the details. gone are the days when the only time you'd be off your fingerprints is if you were suspected of a crime nowadays they're starting them young at school to be precise research shows more than a million schoolchildren have been fingerprinted and their biometric data used to identify them for things like cash free lunches checking attendance and what. it is controversial the big brother watch is particularly worried about schools having access to this information and the car particularly when it's been

you earlier mentioned iraq and i can name other examples in the middle east and north africa. if the task is simply the regime change some are trying to do. syria could plunge into complete chaos to order must be preserved. and there's no other method to do that except to maintain existing institutions. oh and political analyst bill bennett is skeptical of the meeting will resolve major issues because some of the key players aren't even there. i think if the sides sit in the same room even if they don't speak directly to each other. ironically enough that will be a step forward it's critical. all major players have said there is no military solution to this crisis i think that the leaders of both sides although it's hard you can see both sides given that there are so many signs right now. i think that all sides recognize that to be true that question is how long has it been taken humming more people have to die before a real agreement that would include the arms embargo as well as a temporary ceasefire can come into effect. we can't afford failure. but i'm afraid that without