>> i look to robert mugabe and i see the extreme of where it can go wrong.en the whole thing started to culminates at the stars to go, you judge a man on his action. for me, i always look at it like the system is flawed. the men can have the confidence that is unshakeable, they can have the ethics that run to their core but if you are representing the system that is in the majority unfair and corrupt and very biased and bipartisan is a bad thing to me. for you to be representative of that system, i don't see you. i see past you. i am still looking at the system. my mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer. i was impressed that -- racially, i was impressed. it has been about economics. honestly, everything has been about economics -- i don't want to say since the beginning of time but for a long while. tavis: america was a corp. before it was a country. >> when i see the focus on not being on a revolution of the economy, a change of the economic system, not to me it is the same old same old. this was so

robert mugabe, at one point a freedom fighter, after 30 years in power has become a political dictator. he has written to the elections since the year 2000. zimbabwe, which has one of the highest aids rates in the world, and a large part of that epidemic has to do with the following. at there is a myth perpetuated by the traditional healers that raping a version will cure aids. part of my focus in zimbabwe is to document the work of the girl child network. in many ways, here she is in a developing country, on the verge of collapse, and they do a far better job. after a week of filming, 15 central intelligence officers arrested her and myself and our assistance, beginning in our deal that led us in the torture center of zimbabwe. the we spent three days in a co- ed overcrowded prison. i was urinated on, i saw a man get tortured. and we were lucky. after three days we got out. my husband had hired un rights lawyers, the u.s. embassy was involved, and said you have to get out before the weekend or you will be raped or killed. the experience has forever changed me. every day i think about

>> reporter: the african nation of zimbabwe is run by another international pariah, robert mugabe, who has sent mercenaries to libya in return for qaddafi's petrol dollars. >> i was almost rendered speechless with the idea of he and mugabe together. >> he's very unlikely to think that's a very safe haven for very long. >> reporter: henry schuler, who has worked in libya on and off for 50 years, points out that mugabe is in his late 80s. he won't be around much longer to protect qaddafi from those who would prevent him from telling all he knows about terrorist networks and the black market in nuclear technology. >> these people will be looking for him and they have less scruples than we do and they may very well take him out if he's in zimbabwe. >> reporter: so not only is qaddafi a pariah, he's a pariah who knows too much. katie? >> couric: david martin at the pentagon, david, thank you. meanwhile, the gunman at the tucson massacre is officially charged with murder. a federal grand jury indicted jared loughner today for the murders of a federal judge and a congressional aide. he was al

thousands of supporters of zimbabwe's president robert mugabe rallied today against economic sanctionsosed on their country. trucks and buses brought the mugabe supporters to an open field on the outskirts of harare. mugabe addressed the rally, and threatened to seize foreign businesses as retaliation. the sanctions target mugabe and his party leaders over human rights abuses. pope benedict the sixteenth has now proclaimed in a new book that the jewish people were not to blame for the death of jesus. the vatican officially adopted that position in 1965. in his book "jesus of nazareth, part two" benedict makes his own case by asking, "how could the whole people have been present at this moment of the crucifixion to clamor for jesus's death?" a holocaust survivors group said today the pope's statement helps, by confirming that view for a new generation of catholics. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to a much anticipated free speech ruling from the u.s. supreme court. it upheld that the first amendment does protect the rights of protestors to