in 1994 he escaped from his home in rwanda during a period of genocide. here is some of the single, "back to life." ♪ tavis: good to have you on. >> is a pleasure to be here. i love your show. i am doing great. tavis: i want to talk about your journey in a second. i want to ask about how a u.s. debut compares to debuting elsewhere around the world. you are known elsewhere around the world trade when you say u.s. debut, that means what? -- around the world. when you say u.s. debut, that means what? >> it is a really important chapter in my musical journey. when i go back and try to reconnect with mine used and when i was young and innocent and i eve about the business. i just wanted to sing and -- and naive about the business. i just wanted to sing and write songs. i knew english first. i connected with the english right away. it is almost like the debut -- and i do not want to put down my french career. i am so thankful for it. the u.s. debut for me means that finally doing something that really matches the images and ideas and the dreams that i have. tav

>> it is the story or one set of stories about rwanda and the rebirth of rwanda after the terrible genocide of 1994. we tell the story from the perspective of several people who are really trying to do something great. they are trying to rebuild this country. one is an anglican bishop, and he was actually living in uganda when the genocide occurred. he immediately went back. he was visiting america on a missionary trip of some sort. he goes back to uganda and gathers up a group of ministers on a bus and drives them into rwanda. they come across these horrific scenes, some of which have been seen by the national audience. he ultimately decided that what he needed to do was move back to rwanda and become part of the rebuilding process. he started a boarding school, which is now one of the best schools in the country. it was primarily aimed at orphans from the genocide. he also has a ministry that works in the prisons with people who were perpetrators. he has a village that he set up that brings perpetrators and victims together and essentially models living in harmony. >> here is an excerpt f

it's a continuation of the genocide in rwanda. and in many ways, it tells us when we didn't deal with it 15 years ago, we're still facing it today. the intahamwe, the rebels who committed the genocide in rwanda escaped to congo. they escaped to congo after a few years of continuing their attacks against rwanda, the rwandese sent their troops to stop them, upon that there were new rebel groups created in congo, congolese groups -- or rebel groups to fight the invaders who are the rwandese and eventually the army also came into power, so what started as a continuation of another genocide eventually became interfighting with all these layers, it eventually became a fighting over resources and it eventually became also combined with criminal sources, so it's one thing that started with a political reason, it's now all over the place. >> lehrer: finally, is there any reason at all to be optimistic that any of this awfulness is going to end anytime soon? or can be ended anytime soon? >> first, it's a good period right now -- there is a

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. >> state radio in rwanda was taken over by one tribe, one group, and they began to put out propaganda so that the tut sis were -- tutsis were targeted by the officials of rwanda, and to this day, they control the radio, very purposely to make sure the government can control the media. this is the way with chavez, social change he has done, really an incredible revolution. a dramatic revolution to begin to put the people and property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in venezuela rebelled, and had another revolution and chavez then started to take the media very seriously." glenn: america, i hope to god that takes your breath away. this is the man that is going to be the diversity czar, that is going to be implementing the rules that will put people like me out of business, and he just said the incredible revolution. what was it? was almost lost by chavez because of these corporations? >> the property owners. the property owners revolted against chavez taking over the country, and with the help of the american government, which of course was bad, because they did

. >> state radio in rwanda was taken over by one tribe, one group, and they began to put out propaganda so that the tut sis were -- tutsis were targeted by the officials of rwanda, and to this day, they control the radio, very purposely to make sure the government can control the media. this is the way with chavez, social change he has done, really an incredible revolution. a dramatic revolution to begin to put the people and property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in venezuela rebelled, and had another revolution and chavez then started to take the media very seriously." glenn: america, i hope to god that takes your breath away. this is the man that is going to be the diversity czar, that is going to be implementing the rules that will put people like me out of business, and he just said the incredible revolution. what was it? was almost lost by chavez because of these corporations? >> the property owners. the property owners revolted against chavez taking over the country, and with the help of the american government, which of course was bad, because they did

but they tried something new and remember, many of these came from rwanda where you had the worst massacre brother on brother massacre that perhaps the world has ever seen. >> bonnie: but did she make any progress? will the $17 million drop in the bucket of u.s. funds, still we're in a recession here, will it help those women? >> $17 million is a drop in the bucket. she had to carry something. i think what we need to do now is the woman who monitors -- >> bonnie: the ambassador of global women's issues. >> there you go. she has to go four months later to the congo, she has to meet those women, the police officers that are supposed to be bought, she's got to look at the efforts that will be brought to niece issues, i agree, i think this will be a blur, an africa blur, and they wouldn't be able to tell nigeria from the congo. what's happening here? >> another hillary strategy here. >> so much of a cloud that surrounds the cloirnt period, the worry was, what would happen if hillary clinton became president? bill clinton, and his roaming around the white house, she's never been given a break o

has lived in houston, london, moscow, and now rwanda angola and i have two questions. one is are there differences between relos and foreign countries and in the united states? that's the first question. and then the second question is in one of the locations, my son and london actually lived in the community rather than an a reloville. so the second question is do you see differences between the results of families that live in neighborhoods of their choosing verses those who lived in these eight communities where everybody is a multinational employees? >> i am going to try to remember both of those. >> let's talk about american relos. i don't think you're talking about farmers saying is there a difference for those in this country versus going abroad, is that correct? those going abroad get more perks because companies are taking greater risks with them. it costs a lot, $70,000 to send them abroad. that is typical unless you are a senior person and go to six figures well into six figures. so, they have got more perks, private school tuition, car and drive we learning

c-span: have you talked at all about what happened in rwanda? >> guest: there actually--in this book, it mentions rwanda just briefly, but i--i would say when i was looking at the news accounts, you know, i--i--it--i felt like i was reviewing my old archival documents again. it was--it--some of the similarities were haunting--stories about women who had been raped by s--soldiers and now they're going to carry an enemy soldier's baby and--and th--these--these dilemmas that were so painful to me when reading them because, you know, i kept seeing the same story over and over again. c-span: you tell a story in here, i think, of a woman to this day won't give her real name or--what? --was--was raped in--at--i can't remember exactly what it was, but you alluded to it then. what was--that--that--that some of the rapes happened a--eventually children were born? >> guest: you see--yes, some--s--there were many half-japanese, half-chinese children born as a result of this rape. and one of the missionaries at the time, louis smith, said that, you know, the

i mean on the scale of -- it's been referenced to on the scale of rwanda, just in terms of the numbers of people that have been forced to flee and that have been displaced. so 2 million people three months ago fled their homes. some of them overnight. some of them with very, very little notice. and basically swamped the areas of mardan and districts around that. so in terms of crisis, this is big and it's still big. >> but i thought, you know, as many people in this country probably believed, people had started returning back to the swat valley, going back home and this, this crisis was slowly starting to alleviate itself? >> well, that's partly true. some people have gone home about 600,000 of the 2 million you know have voted with their feat and are heading home now there are problems with that because not everyone are actually going hole. there are still fighting going on in some of the mountainous areas. the challenge is going to be, if they do get home can, they stay? is the fighting really over? the second thing is, they need a lot of support. they need at least six months' suppo

we all agree we would try to intervene if another rwanda were predicted an like to do more in darfur. in the years and decades to come, the rise of other nations will constrain our ability to act in this way. a further constraint will come in the form of tightly controlled military budgets. the extreme pressures on our own defense budget, obviously necessitates a strategic defense review, which an incoming scud conservative government will certainly undertake. it is crucial that such a review is informed by the changing pattern of threats i have described, rather than financial considerations alone. france is also busily engaged in reshaping its armed forces. beyond britain and france, there is no sign of other european nations making a serious effort to develop greater military capabilities. it is our criticism of eu defense arrangements that they too often involve the duplication of data structures. just calling something european does not mean it has enhanced europe's ability to act. does this background of a decline in our relative economic base and severe constraints on our milit

it turns up baby jessica got more coverage that rwanda. you might wonder why that is.nd tragedy, 10,000 statistics. one of the problems which made of is it is such a single, cleary offence that i think it will have a huge impact on how people behave. what they do with the money at the end of the day i don't think is going to matter that much. i think he will increase, bisek prediction is he will increase. it is not going to matter that much but let me tell you something i think that could have been positive with the aig bonuses that we have all been reading about. here we have another very clear case. wiki of the aig billions of dollars. who cares about a few million dollars. why do we care? we care. there's no question that we care. we care because we think there is injustice, because we think it is betrayal. there is a proposal of capping executive salaries. is this a good idea? i think it is a terrible idea. let me tell you why. imagine if they ask you to follow, would you help me change a tire on my car? the good chance is he will say, dan seems like a nice guy, wh

cherry" you know i don't think of myself as a dekensian -- dickensian or fan and i didn't gro up in rwanda up whited in a country that privileges that with teeth that came in straight despite my lack of orthodontics. and those of you who didn't read those books, there is a story i like to tell to acquaint you a little bit with my family. i made a few bucks, i was redoing my mother's kitchen, and a tile dude pries off a tile and holds it up and there is a perfect circle in it and he says to my 70-something gras gray haired mother, why ms. karr it looks like a bullet hole. and thinking he's being wicked and my sister says, isn't that where you shot at daddy? [laughter]. >> and my mother says, no, i believe that is where i shot at larry -- over there is where i shot at your daddy. and now that is the story i like to tell to explain why i write memoir instead of fiction. because who could make this shit up! [laughter] larry at whom my mother shot, was my daddy's gay pill.-popping nurse and my mother's paramour for a period of time and my father had drunk himself off a bar stool and had a littl

crisis and the significance of less significant fiscal crisis, they are closing down operations in rwanda, uganda, ethiopia and many others. they have a 20, 25% cut in budget and while food prices are rising and the financial crisis and the economic crisis is bringing unemployment and cutting back remittances, that is a major crisis that we might incidentally remember, that when the british landed in what is now bangladesh, they were stunned by its wealth and splendor, and it didn't take long for it to be on its way to become the very symbol of misery, not by an act of god. well, the fate of bangladesh should remind us that the terrible food crisis is not just the result of western lack of concern. in large part, it results from a very definite in clear concerns of the global managers, namely that are on welfare. it is always well to keep in mind, an astute observation by adam smith about policy formation in england. he recognized that we called the principal architects the policy. in his day the merchants and manufacturers, make sure that their own interests are of most peculiarly attend

somehow, we get the video rwanda again. -- rewound again. he grabs another stone. he can get it.e stone. that does the trick. martha: that is incredible. christopher, it seems to me like the moral here is, are we not giving birds and of credit for being smart and maybe reasoning this whole thing out? >> the that we are finding that the crow family is really quite intelligent. they have quite a small rain. they seem to be able to do some remarkable things. we're being surprised all the time at their amazing things that they can do, using tools to solve these rather complex tasks. trace: these birds have been able to use these various tools. they are very much like crows. it is kind of amazing here. it is amazing to me that he figured out that it was not high enough. you put another rockin there and it is not high enough. it is kind of amazing how the theory of deduction goes into this. >> certainly. they seem to understand the task and the tools that they are using. so, we see that they're able to find -- to figure out the problem using reasoning. we thought that was unique with h

quite frankly, who wants to be at a bad hmo in rwanda?imes it comes with the credit card offers you see? >> you have to read -- >> you want your own insurance. >> you want your own insurance because some of those credit card policies, once again, it's the lowest bidder who gets to get you out of the country. not a good idea. >> you're going to an exotic place. sometimes you hear about infectious diseases, bad weather. is there insurance to cover those things? do you get it? >> there's a lot of weather insurance. some resorts and destinations are offering hurricane insurance. >> speaking of hurricane season. >> but here's the bottom line. you have to buy it before the weather service actually names the storm. duh. so you can't -- you can't hear of a hurricane and then buy the insurance. you buy it when you buy your trip. the other kind of insurance that happened now recently with the swine flu, a lot of destinations are offering insurance saying, if you actually go to mexico now and contract swine flu, they will fly you back at their expen

it is to make an observation that 15 years ago and rwanda in thea lee to act in a timely basis to make a difference a tragedy took place and we are on the cusp of the tragedy again if everything falls down and darfur and in the south and with the elections so it is critical i think the u.n. forces in concert with african union get the manpower but also of tactical and logistical equipment to secure the rights of those women to go get firewood is going to take the high-tech things you were talking about as well as aerial support through helicopter as if nothing else so continue to work to push them because if that does fail in 2011 in the southern referendum where we have a break down before then it could be a catastrophic situation for africa and for the whole world. >> one thing i would like to add to are correct but the fact that unimed can't cooperate is disastrous. if there is a problem in the three areas in southern sudan those forces and darfur can't come over to assist. that is something that has to be changed and we need to work on ann arbor ability between the u.n. command and

we looked at the criminal tribun for rwanda and yugoslavia >> what tms to they use?>> it's the reliability of the statement. >> the point i'm making to the committee, if you compare our military information system, particularly the fm version to an international court trial at the hag, we're much more, for lack of a better world, liberal in terms of the protections that you would get if you're going to go to the hauge. i had no problem with that. i think that's a good thing. now let's get back to the what the courts are likely to look out in a commission trial, mr. kris. i think the bedate is a bit con pausing. it's not so much as an arican citizen, but the courts will look at these in terms of due process and they will make a judgme as to whether or not it meets some minimum standard of american court. that correct? >> that's exactly what i think. >> and i think that is correct. when y look at history of military commissions, the world war ii tal is not exactly the showcase you would want to use. thos trials hooked newpaper a matter of days from the time the evidenc

nigeria, rwanda, ghana, south africa, they all have peacekeeping troops and therefore where they areng to assist the population. -- they have peacekeeping troops and therefore -- in darfur. i think everything countries are taking responsibility for the fate of the continent. host: how can obama address the drug trade that flows through ever crack corrupting heads of state? guest: -- drug trade that flows through africa corrupting heads of straight -- heads of state? guest: it is about strengthening the judiciary, and strengthening the police forces, giving them the capacity to be able to check any type of corruption that comes out of the drug trafficking. host: next up is ally from georgia. caller: i just wanted to come back to a question referring to the ties u.s. has with africa. i wanted to draw a paradigm between the situation in senecal. those countries have strong allies to the u.s. we africans see the u.s. government is making a double standard, where as far as the interests guaranteed by the leaders, god knows that the situation is unbearable because the two presidents of tho

as you know, earlier today secretary clinton was in rwanda, angola, where she participated in the partnership framework with the angolan prime minister. she also met with the angolan president. the secretary then flew to the democratic republic of the congo where she visited the mutombo hospital and research center. the secretary is also scheduled to participate in a town hall discussion with former nba star dikembe mutombo at the college there. she will also later today participate in a meeting and go to a dinner with the prime minister. with that, i'm ready to take your questions. >> nothing. >> nothing? wow. >> do you have any updates for us on the three americans in iran? we heard general jones say he believes they are in iran. have you heard this from the source? >> as general jones said yesterday, the iranian government confirmed that these three individuals are being held in iran. that, however, has not been communicated through our swiss protecting hauer. so i know that the swiss are trying to gain consular access, but have not been able to do so. we would remind the iranian governmen

it is to make an observation that 15 years ago and rwanda in thea lee to act in a timely basis to make a difference a tragedy took place and we are on the cusp of the tragedy again if everything falls down and darfur and in the south and with the elections so it is critical i think the u.n. forces in concert with african union get the manpower but also of tactical and logistical equipment to secure the rights of those women to go get firewood is going to take the high-tech things you were talking about as well as aerial support through helicopter as if nothing else so continue to work to push them because if that does fail in 2011 in the southern referendum where we have a break down before then it could be a catastrophic situation for africa and for the whole world. >> one thing i would like to add to are correct but the fact that unimed can't cooperate is disastrous. if there is a problem in the three areas in southern sudan those forces and darfur can't come over to assist. that is something that has to be changed and we need to work on ann arbor ability between the u.n. command and

abortion from our midst, otherwise we are no better than those who perpetrate the conflict in darfur, rwanda or any other country where human beings are in slave, butchered or denied their rights just because they are now eager or weaker. i am here to say no, mr. president, abortion is not health-care, but rather death care and i don't want to pay for it. it is that simple. >> good afternoon. my name is gene nelson. thank you for the opportunity to be here today. i served as executive director for the network of politically active christians. it serves as an organization to teach, train and activate social conservatives, particularly in the african-american minority communities, to be more politically involved. this issue regarding health care is an important one for our nation, it is particularly important for me. about five years ago, i could no longer afford the health care plan my family and i had. but it required me to do a little research and i found something that now is called health savings accounts. this particular card is an example of golden rule, a face based health savings acco