rwanda. this tension was precipitated by the withdrawal of the colonial powers in the 1950s and 1960s such that there was tension for the next 20 and 30 years erupting into violence. becoming pretty severe starting in 1990 with the invasion of uganda of the rwanda patriotic front. this violence escalated through the early 1990s. there were preprisal killings i r rwanda. that brings us to our topic of genocide and the u.s. and international response to the genocide. we will talk tonight about the kind of narrative of the genocide itself. what happened between late 1993 and the middle of 1994. the genocide itself taking place over 100 days between april 6, 1994 and mid-july -- early to mird july of 1994. we do this through a number of books that our students have been exposed to. maybe we should talk about them. so we have sam ana powers, a problem from hell which is an interview of the u.s. response to genocide beginning with arm evenia and nazi genocide. we've also read for tonight romio de l

they don't have a vested interest in rwanda. so they get onboard and begin to put pressure on the u.n. to pull everybody out. and they are instrumental in making the decision to leave. it's really u.s. pressure that causes that. so jason's point is extremely well taken. this is just one example of how it's the constituent members of the u.n. rather than, perhaps -- i mean, the organization itself, as elizabeth i think correctly points out, is full of bureaucratic red tape. there's this businessen teen structure you have to go through. rules, bylaws, so forth and so on tha( just get in the way. right? bureaucracy is the enemy of all progress. leon trotsky. think he's light in this situation. even more, i think, jason's point is valid it's the individual member states. perhaps we need to point the finger most strongly at the united states here and say they're the ones who precipitated the shameful acts that the international community perpetrated vis-a-vis rwanda. >> it's so striking because what we know is the belgian foreign min

rwanda. this tension was precipitated by the withdrawal of the colonial powers in the 1950s and 1960s such that there was tension for the next 20 and 30 years erupting into violence. becoming pretty severe starting in 1990 with the invasion of uganda of the rwanda patriotic front. this violence escalated through the early 1990s. there were preprisal killings i r rwanda. that brings us to our topic of genocide and the u.s. and international response to the genocide. we will talk tonight about the kind of narrative of the genocide itself. what happened between late 1993 and the middle of 1994. the genocide itself taking place over 100 days between april 6, 1994 and mid-july -- early to mird july of 1994. we do this through a number of books that our students have been exposed to. maybe we should talk about them. so we have sam ana powers, a problem from hell which is an interview of the u.s. response to genocide beginning with arm evenia and nazi genocide. we've also read for tonight romio de l

modern medicine -- signing up for health care in rwanda. and tuneful trash -- how a youth orchestra puts garbage to use. recent u.n. projections that sea levels will rise faster than previously thought due to global warming have sent alarm bells ringing in many regions. low-lying cities and islands are most at risk. among them, the pacific island nation of kiribati, east of australia. if water levels rise at the pace forecast, this spectacular island country would be one of the first to get submerged and disappear from the face of the earth. as the international community struggles to find consensus on how to deal with global warming, the islanders are taking steps to raise awareness on the issue of climate change at home. approach the international date line over the pacific. we see a crescent-shaped sliver of an island in the vast ocean. we're headed for the island nation of kiribati. tarawa, the main atoll. but this south sea paradise is now under threat from climate change. >> it is very thin, it's low lying, so you can see the sea arou

john liu on solutions from china, ethiopia and rwanda. coming up on "earth focus." [drumming] >> this is china's loess plateau. until recently, this was one of the poorest regions in the country. a land renowned for floods, mudslides and famine. but with the fanfare comes the hope of change for the better. my name is john d. liu. i've been documenting the changes on the plateau for 15 years. i first came here in 1995 to film an ambitious project where local people were constructing a new landscape on a vast scale. transforming a barren land into a green and fertile one. the project certainly changed my life, convincing me to become a soil scientist. the lessons i've learned in the last few years have made me realize that many of the human tragedies that we regularly witness around the world, the floods, mudslides, droughts and famines, are not inevitable. here on the loess plateau i've witnessed that people can lift themselves out of poverty. they can radically improve their environment. and by doing so, reduce the threat of climate change. >> [singing] >> when i fi

we're going all the way to the mountains of rwanda where the true battles have just begun. >>> but firste ""nightline 5."" >> >>> number one in just 60 seconds. >>> good evening. as we go on-air nearly 80 million americans are facing extreme weather tonight. it's the most dangerous month of the year for lightning strikes. as you're about to hear, they can even hit in your own home. here's abc's senior meteorologist ginger zee on how it happens and how you can stay safe. >> reporter: lightning. one of nature's most destructive and unbridled forces. fascinating yet dangerous. ripping through buildings, trees, cars, and even people. killing 12 people already this year, lightning took two lives in two separate incidents at the same park this past weekend in colorado. injuring 20 others. >> we didn't see the bolt. it was just a white flash. >> reporter: even inside your home, lightning can strike. >> all we heard was kaboom! >> all i remember was i was staying with my mom and i got shocked. >> reporter: in atlanta, 7-year-old sebastian zdeno was struck while inside his house with his mother,

ingrid giving him financial support and a former justice minister in rwanda adopted patrick. united prosthetics is helping offset the cost of prosthetic arms for patrick. >> this is going to make further adjustments? >> this is going to become my parents since then up until now. i am who i am because of them. >> slip this off. >> reporter: his adopted brother morris is also here in boston. he's been patrick hands and now he learns how to put on the new prosthetics so he can help. patrick has been able to do most things without arms. he's even a self-taught artist. >> what's his name? >> neil. >> is he a famous rapper? >> he is. >> from the beginning, he'd draw pictures. his teacher would say he's very good at this. >> he writes and since music. ♪ >> music is my name that i use when they look at who i am today, i don't see a puzzle. when i see what has happened to me, i see who i am. so today i know who i am. >> this is perfect. >> yes. >> with his prosthetics, patrick will have to relearn everything. he wants to be able to do basic functions like drink water from a bottle, ta

so a million people were slaughtered in rwanda ethnic genocide in just one hundred days the man who assassinated the country's president spoke that frenzy was trained by the u.s. ministers confirmed the missile the blew up the president's plane came from u.s. stockpiles once the core of massive blood boils predicted by the white house again memos show the us did everything possible to keep the murder going vetoing any intervention to stop the violence and even instructed u.s. government officials and mainstream media not to call the genocide a genocide to avoid public pressure to quote actually do something. be careful genocide finding could commit the us government to actually do some of the genocide spread to resorts rich congo and was a huge success for washington bringing us puppets to power when the scale of the atrocity came out bill clinton was forced to make pups the most on this statement by a u.s. president in thirty years admitting u.s. claimed concern for quote human rights and democracy round the world just crocodile tears even when there is genocide the white house only ever does a

i had images of the dead from rwanda, from kosovo coming back to visit me at night. i would wake up in the middle of the night and see dead people standing around my cot. i would -- when this began to happen during the day, i understood that i was really in trouble. and this is sort of what that was like. in the cold redawn, i can hear generators running and vehicles moving on the other side of the base, but it's quiet inside my tent. none of the other soldiers i share the tent with is even snoring. i've been awake for a few hours, but i stay in my sleeping bag. the taliban have launched a couple of rockets towards the base during the week, so we're all a little on edge, but that's not what's keeping me up. i'm wind led into my be -- bundled into my sleeping bag trying to control my racing heart and trembling because the dead have come to talk to me. they've been coming every night for a couple of weeks, the ted from kosovo or rwanda, beckoning to me, pulling me from a warm, comforting sleep into a series of wretched, tormenting, wide awake dreams. tonight the dead f

as a result, the rest of sub- saharan africa is looking to rwanda for a better way of doing things, for a better model of development. time, we will meet the dogs that can detect cancer. with a remarkable sense of smell, these dogs are trained to detect early signs of bladder cancer. it looks like they really could be our best friend. see you next time. goodbye. "earth focus," fracking, a method of getting oil at a rock, is raising concerns worldwide. coming up on "earth focus." >> the caribbean and does it stretches out across the third of south africa's land area. mountains separate the land in two different habitats harboring the religious diversity and the desert in the world. hear, a world-class astronomy project and a farming industry that exports food around the world producing 3.4 million sheep year. 7 million people rely on this desert for their daily existence. most of the area is extremely dry with about 7-10 inches of rain a year. despite a short summer rainstorm, all of the water comes from wells drilled into the ground and pumped up into the surface parking back to an olde

it has had the establishment of international courts for yugoslavia, rwanda.is called -- it called for the creation of the sierra leone court. the security council is the place. the cambodian context, in the context of an agreement with a sovereign country, cambodia, the u.n. general assembly passed a resolution asking the secretary general to do that kind of negotiation. those are two precedents. in the end, cambodia has critics in terms of whether it is sufficiently independent because of the negotiation that occurred . but legal, recognized structures that the united states contributes to and is involved with the management of were created through those mechanisms . every one of the things that i talked about today that has come up in the last 20 years were unthought of, unheard of before we established the ict why and -- the icty and ictr. think about how to do this. what is unthinkable as you could have 162,000 people dead and not have accountability. >> absolutely. >> thank you. opposition has set up a transitional justice commission. they are looking in

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there will be a statement by the ambassador of rwanda, who holds the presidency this month. but that's not the only thing going on, kamal. we're not getting totally clear reports, but we understand there are a number of initiatives that are taking place. we'll talk about them in a moment after we hear from the president of the security council. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, i come before you on the action taken by the security council. the suprem security council members express serious concern for the protection of civilians on both sides. the security council members called for de-escalation of the situation a situation of calm in the november 2012 cease-fire. the security council members further called for protection of civilians. the security council members will expressed the support for the israelis and palestinians with the aim of achieving peace settlement based on the two-state solution. i thank you. >> people in the middle east were hoping that you would announce at 9:00. can you tell us why it was extended to 2012 while the bombing and continuing contin

i had images of the dead from rwanda and kosovo coming. i would wake up at night and see dead people standing around my cot. when this happened during the day, i understood where was in trouble. this is what that was like. in the cold pre-dawn, i can hear generators and vehicles moving on the other side of the base. but it is quite in my tent. none of the other soldiers i share the tent with are storing. i have been awake but i stay fighting the overwhelming urge to run away. the taliban launched a couple rockets near the base so we are on edge but that is not what is keeping me up. i am trying to control my racing hard and trembling because the dead have come to talk to me. they have been coming every night pulling me from a sleep into a series of wide awake dreams. tonight it is the dead who were burned bible black and twisted into hideous shapes. they lie in the cold rain that falls through the burned away roof. do you remember us, they asked? most assuredly. the night before it was the dead from a village of 45 shot in the head and lef

the prime minister of rwanda. those individuals have been held to account. and if we deal with what has been done, we look at other situations, some past, some very current like that in syria. where the documentation for the syrian observatory of human rightss shows more than 55,000 people killed as of march, 2011. numbers greater than the former yugoslavia and in sierra leone. and the terms of the conduct of the government, the assad government, a war against its own people, beginning with the showed -- shooting a peaceful demonstration leading to the dropping of barrel bombs on civilian neighborhoods, and over time, to the torture and murder of thousands of people. they that are doing the crimes there. they started that activity and the vast majority it is their responsibility, but now we have other groups and armed opposition committing other horrors. beheadings and hangings of the innocent in public view by groups like isis that now spread their poison into a rack -- ira q. the challenge in my office is to believe in justice. heavily take the lessons tha

which means that san francisco is doing worse than rwanda. the 1 piece of news certainly for me is having been born in guatemala that we are doing better than guatemala which is at 0.559. the fact that we are doing worse than rwanda tells you there is something happening here and that we as a city have an obligation to make sure that we lift every boat and those who are trying to make enough of a wage to live in san francisco who work very hard, that at least we give them a fighting chance. that's what this is really about. it's about making sure that we address the fact that the inequality puts us in the company of developing countries. and i just think that san francisco, the wealthiest city in san francisco, has to improve that. thank you. [ applause ] >>supervisor jane kim: chair, seeing no further comments, can we open for public comment? thank you. i do want to recognize that while there are many many folks that were involved in make k minimum wage come before the voters today that of course we want to recognize our fast food workers wh

i spent almost six years at the rwanda tribunal, 500 miles from rwanda, a whole different culture and part of the continent. and we were more isolated from that crime scene. we wen over there all the time. it made our work less significant for the victims and effective communities. in sierra leone we managed to do it in country in a mixed court with 60% of employees see air lyre -- sierra leonians. i mean, i think that you benefit by being as close as possible to the scene of the crime. the other thing we were able to do was an outreach program where every community in the country, even a country without television, without newspapers that print more than 500 issues, at the time it was done more than 90% of the people knew what the court was doing and thought it had been a force for peace and stability. we couldn't have done that if we'd been 1,000 miles away. now, when we moved taylor to the hague, we still tried to make up for it by having the outreach meetings, by showing the videos and we made up for it to a point, but better to be there and better to involve and seek the leadersh

you know when rwanda's genocide took off when ethnic minorities were publicly dehumanized as quote call coaches and vermin in a report named what's orange and black and bugging ukraine u.s. funded radio free europe in kiev brands pro russian eastern ukrainians colorado beetles a bug that eats plants many eastern ukrainians wear orange and black ribbons originally known as the altar of st george which commemorate the thirty million who died defeating fascism in world war two washington's radio free europe links to this ad by key of president poroshenko channel five which pledges to quote kill colorado beetles on the sport harshing co officially calls eastern ukrainians quote parasites washington's blog knows hitler gave the same reason for ethnically cleansing his country u.s. appointed premier yaps a nuke in his official statement calls eastern ukrainians subhumans for extermination ukraine's embassy in washington has no change his transcript in humans which as commentators points out isn't even a noun but boyd by the silence in the west poroshenko just said it again in his official add

a the philippines, b rwanda, c ireland, or d, australia. >>> this week's book is a novel. author edward st. aubinf. "lost for words." the portraits of the people, the quirks, vanities, weaknesses are brilliantly rendered. comic novels are hard to do well. this one does it effortlessly. now for the last look. this week turkey's justice and development party announced the prime minister erdogan would be its presidential candidate in the august elections. his campaign began immediately, and his logo caught my eye. take a look. it's a red rising sun. the party said it symbolizes hope, the birth of a new turkey, unity and togetherness, the winding road they say symbolizes erdogan's journey of life, but people quickly pointed out the logo look familiar. yes, it is very familiar to president obama campaign logo. at the time the logo was chosen as a symbol of hope and a new day and of course because it has an "o." this isn't the only logo people have compared to obamas. in 2008,ed south african's democratible alliance party unveiled this logo. the solidarity logo look like this, a

some million people were slaughtered in rwanda as a snick genocide in just one hundred days the man who assassinated the country's president spoke that frenzy was trained by the u.s. ministers confirmed the missile the blew up the president's plane came from u.s. stockpiles once the core of massive blood boils predicted by the white house again memos show the us did everything possible to keep the murder going vetoing any intervention to stop the violence and even instructed u.s. government officials and mainstream media not to call the genocide a genocide to avoid public pressure to quote actually do something. be careful genocide finding could commit the us government to actually do some of the genocide spread to resorts rich congo and was a huge success for washington bringing us puppets to power when the scale of the atrocity came out bill clinton was forced to make pipes the most on this statement by a u.s. president in thirty years admitting u.s. claimed concern for quote human rights and democracy round the world just crocodile tears even when there is genocide the white house on

some million people were slaughtered in rwanda as a sneak genocide in just one hundred days the man who us.

a, the philippines, b, rwanda, c., ireland or d, australia. the british "lost for words" a look at the novelists and literary types in general. the portraits of the people, their quirks, weaknesses are brilliantly rendered. comic novels are hard to do well. this one does it effortless. now for the last look. turkey announced that the prime minister would be its presidential candidate in the august elections. his campaign began immediately and his logo caught my eye. take a look. it's a red rising sun. the party says it symbolizes hope, birth of a new turkey, unity and togetherness. the winding road celebrates the journey of life but people pointed out that the logo looks a bit familiar. yes, it is very similar to president obama's campaign logo. at the time, obama's logo was chosen as a symbol of hope and a new day and of course because it has an o. this isn't the only logo people have compared to obamas. in 2008, south africa's democratic alliance party unveiled this logo. taiwan's solidarity union's logo looks like this and this is the symbo

i shall know make a statement as -- in my capacity as representative of rwanda. first of all, i would like to thank australia for introducing this resolution on the shooting down of malaysia flight mh 17. --ould also like to thank take this opportunity to it knowledge the presence amongst us of the minister for foreign affairs of australia, the ofister for foreign affairs luxembourg, and the minister for foreign affairs of the netherlands. this incident, no doubt, has shocked the world and touched all of us, in particular the families and the nation's grieving for their loved ones. , once this opportunity to again, offer my president, the people over wanda, -- the people of rwanda, our deepest sympathies and condolences to the families, the people, and government of the 298 victims. rwanda cosponsored and voted in favor of this resolution primarily because, as a matter the deceased and their families must be accorded the utmost respect and dignity they deserve. we also believe that is surroundingat facts the downing of this plane are established and the perpetrat

so rwanda, kosovo. iraq, all places -- the ukraine. the south china sea. all areas where the system actually prevents, discourages nations from using force where we might want to because the gains to the world will be much higher than any costs of conflict under international law they would be illegal and the international system ought to encourage the powers to use force to control those kinds of threats to international system. it doesn't need to worry about war between the great powers where international law does nat have much affect, and the peace has been kept for other reasons. >> one last way to understand this thesis, this is very similar to the way law and economic scholars think about contract law or tort law. there may be a rule. you which i think would be consistent with this approach but which may well be seen as troublesome and potentially illegal under the u.n. charter. the first thing i would say is the united states should terminate the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty is the one that spoke for the u.s. and russia to 1550 nuclear

[captions made possible by kcet television] gg99Ññwçça7guc >> life expectancy in rwanda has doubledthe past decade, and the number of people dying of hiv, tb, and malaria has fallen by roughly 80%! all this thanks to the government's healthcare reforms. hello, and a warm welcome to "global 3000," our weekly look at issues and trends that shape our world. i'm amrita cheema. coming up in the show -- trouble in paradise -- living with climate change on the pacific island of kiribati. morn

currently held by rwanda to schedule that meeting. i am sure there will be countries including the u.k. that want that to happen as soon as possible. so that's the news out of new york. news out of brussells too. we have had a lot of statement -- shocked by this tragedy, shocked by what looked like the death toll. this is a first statement to come out of one of the capitols with further details taking it further. and then the important bit, we scal on all parties to provide full access to the crash site, so kit be secured immediately. to cooperate fully and to share all relevant information. why and that in there. we are getting reports from the scene, or close to the scene, let's certainly journalists operating in the area, are not being allowed free movement, free access to the area. separate itselfs are preventing their movement. we are also hearing and i have to stress the source of this, but interfax, is saying and claiming that a group of separatists have got the black box, have removed the black box, and now have custody of the

in rwanda, the rwandan hospitals should be run by rwandan physicians.armers of the world aren't around anymore, this place will still be here providing great care. >> you know that or just hope that? >> i know it. i know it. >> but there's no question, paul farmer has been a driving force. take aids, for example. in the late 1990s, the disease was ravaging the people of haiti. conventional medical wisdom was, there's no point in giving aids drugs to the poor in third-world countries. but dr. farmer wouldn't give up on his patients. he raised money and gave them drugs anyway. and look what happened. this is joseph. and this is joseph just six months after starting treatment. and here he is five years later, and feeling fine. and the same kind of transformation happened in patient after patient. [ticking] >> coming up, starting a medical revolution. >> yes, there are people here in central haiti who get better care for certain diseases than they would, you know, in parts of the united states. >> come on. >> no, i'm absolutely serious. i've seen it. >> jus

without objection the ambassador to guatemala, ireland, maldonia, slovenia, kazakhstan, turkey, rwanda, republic of turkey. senator corcoran, is there any -- >> i've got all the proxies here and they're supported. i hope we have enough members to vote them out. >> any other members wishing to speak to these nominees? okay. we've now come to tend where we need bodies to vote. so -- we have one person short of being able to pass the business agenda, so i'm just going to momentarily -- we're in the midst of calling offices. >> so -- they did eventually call around. they did eventually wake up enough senators to get them to show up. so today we did get one step closer to having ambassadors to russia, guatemala, france, monaco, bangladesh, rwanda, and turkey, not a bit too soon. we have more standing to be concerned. credit where credit is due. the congress is hurrying along. they also approved the new secretary of veterans affairs. eric shinseki stepped down this spring. late last night a few minutes before midnight the conference committee members in the veterans -- on the veterans issue

. >> to see kids rounded up in rwanda and nigeria and kids being kidnapped, that's fine.ing housed in the detention centers in the united states not so fine. the legal argument they come back with is these are kids and we have to be careful what we're doing. you say what? >> have you ever heard any in this administration or any other administration ever say you can't interview children in rwanda? >> good point. that's a very good point. i'm wondering why so many strings attached to these visits visiting detention centers, talking 50,000 largely kids from all south america. so it's raising questions as well about not only their unique country of origin but why so many from so many different countries are there. i could understand maybe some reticence about exposing that but it is what it is. it's not a mystery we have better than 50,000 kids. what happened? that's what we want show it. >> neil, this is an administration that's becoming unglued. they have controlled the political narrative for six years. the wheels are coming off. so they're reacting with panic the way the

i had images of the dead from rwanda and kosovo coming. i would wake up at night and see dead people standing around my cot. when this happened during the day, i understood where was in trouble. this is what that was like. in the cold pre-dawn, i can hear generators and vehicles moving on the other side of the base. but it is quite in my tent. none of the other soldiers i share the tent with are storing. i have been awake but i stay fighting the overwhelming urge to run away. the taliban launched a couple rockets near the base so we are on edge but that is not what is keeping me up. i am trying to control my racing hard and trembling because the dead have come to talk to me. they have been coming every night pulling me from a sleep into a series of wide awake dreams. tonight it is the dead who were burned bible black and twisted into hideous shapes. they lie in the cold rain that falls through the burned away roof. do you remember us, they asked? most assuredly. the night before it was the dead from a village of 45 shot in the head and lef

that may be the height of the streak that happened of a der rwanda. but my great fear now is that things are happening rapidly in places like syria and as we've seen in the news today, ukraine. if this escalates, i don't know if we have the will. >> shannon, comment? especially if you can tailer the holistic view of things. >> back to the removal of the expatriates, i think we spent a lot of time focusing on the message that that conveyed and i couldn't help but wonder what that had to have felt like, almost encapsulating the points we touched upon earlier which basically speak to the fact that the western world was saying you don't matter, we'll take out the people who do . >> even if these are the people that raised you as orphans early in life, we're going to separate. one of the things we've said in here in other classes, in earlier classes this xhsemester is that genocide undoes, things fall apart with genocide. the ties that bind people together, jep side genocide is fundamentally about breaking apart things like family structure and communities