- we'll, we're going to the sahara; i forgot about that. yeah, we're going back to the sahara, and listen to what life would be like there. and so, if we could, let's go to st. macarius monastery in the deserts outside of cairo. >> the word monk , or monastery, monasticism, from mono - mono means single, one-say but one. here is all the monastic ones - mono, monk, monastic - they lived as hermits alone in the desert. now we live in a community together, so we built a wall all around the land but till now, we live alone ourselves. we work together, pray together, eat together one meal a day in our dining room, but we live alone ourselves. every cell has two rooms, small kitchen, small bathroom, in every cell, for one monk - comfortable sense - but no radio, no tv, no newspaper, no refrigerators, no fans, no heater, nothing; only light and water, enough for our life. a simple life. >> we're here at st. macarius monastery, a coptic orthodox christian monastery, located deep in the desert between cairo and alexandria. as i followed brother mark

it's called, two against the sahara. >> i'll bet you just happen to have that ready to read. >> i happen to have it ready to read. >> isn't she amazing? well, fire away. i'd like to hear it. >> these two, the husband and wife, who were newlyweds are walking across the sahara desert, and they've gone - well, with camels - and they've gone 3,000 miles. and you can imagine the hardship and the joy and everything that goes along with that. anyway, "we moved on through sunset. a cold breeze chased away the last shreds of heat. the sun sank into a net of translucent clouds, like angry scratches on the sky's belly. in a moment, it appeared to balanced uncertainly on the edge of the dunes. i felt suddenly the tiny planet we were traveling on - an umbilicus bound us to it. it was not separate from us; we were as much manifestations of the earth as the rocks and the sand, the grass and the trees, the insects and the birds, the clouds and the rain. our ancestry ran back into the unfathomable ages, through branches and junctions of the tree, and down into the tap root of the mother plant. from this

when you live in the sahara area, you have to rely on capitals.hether the cells are the one up on the mediterranean side. basics of life, flower, things that allow you to exist in that harsh environments. there was a concern that national elites would distort -- destroy the tuareg's. the one thing i discovered, they call themselves the people. their recognition is their whole culture is in their language are. after independence, we see a pattern of forcing the tuareg children to learn southern linkages -- languages and pushing out the tuareg language and culture. fast forward after the rebellion, we move into it a period of temporary peace and stability. algeria had stepped in and there was an agreement, i will not go into the details. we can bring this up in the discussions. we will move forward to the years of 2006-2009, 1 there was a third rebellion. all coming back to grievances that the tuareg were never dealt with. during 2006-2009, there was an interesting dynamic. ) the time when narco trafficking was starting to grow. trafficking started

is it climbing everest, going through the amazon or sleeping in the sahara? what is it that you have always dreamed of doing? not to people who ever dreamt it, but actually done it. we start our big dream series. >> my name is jason lewis and i am the first person to circumnavigate the world using just human power. people have road across oceans and bicycled across continents, but nobody connected a continuous journey all the way across the world using only their own body. it took me 13 years. we would bicycle across the continent had walked across the oceans we would use a specially designed paddle boat. we would tie act. and the means of non-motorized or wind-assisted transport. we struck out into the atlantic on this tiny little boat. the support boat with land beneath the horizons. only then did i really appreciate what i had got myself into. 5,000 miles, it tucked 111 days, 3 months. it does take a tremendous amount of effort not only to get a dream off the ground, but keep going. i was run over by an 82-year-old drunk driver. that was a huge trip ender

richard galpin visited the remote facility in the sahara desert. >> the funeral in scotland of kennesaw, one of the british hostages murdered at the gas plant in algeria. -- kenneth. today we traveled to the southeast of algeria to see the plant for ourselves. now there's a heavy military presence here. soldiers demonstrating that they're in control, unlike two weeks ago. the islamist militants broke into this accommodation area searching for senior foreign managers. we were told many more hostages died here at the gas processing center. the black and that towers, evidence of a bomb detonated and next to a group of foreigners chained to a mental work. -- blackened towers. some employees are back looking at how to repair this. there will be to get it up and running as soon as possible with all the employees returning including the expatriates'. for the foreigners in particular, they will want reassurances that the security here has been improved. they want to feel safe. the general manager says what is needed is a permanent military presence here. >> i ask the military and my company to

camping tents from logan you at the this tenth is a french league on eres tenth designed for the sahara. this came from north face prototype tenth called the wind tunnel. it was 20 years old when we took it to,k 2. here's our mottly crew of 12 climbers. the gentleman in the white shirt left after one week after he found out there's no alcohol in pakistan. i don't tell you anymore where he's from, but this is - what is this doug? deadly. avalanche. we call this the mother of all avalanches a year after desert storm. intense from spain and you can see the guys running out in their underwear. fortunately nobody was killed in this avalanche. this is the art memorial in honor of, art gillke. we climbed a lot at night and these for tops of pots and pans that have been carved out in the names of climbers that died on this mountain. we climbed at night and it's difficult because you can only see ten feet for front of you and 6,000s of feet below we heard plates clanging against the rocks and i thought really is this a good way to honor my sister. finally 78 days later it was time to go home. i

but now fear has driven away the tuareg who control the salt trade from the sahara. they fled to refugee camps in neighboring countries. >> i ask what they're afraid of. of guest, he says. of being killed by malian soldiers. it's not just tuareg who are under suspicion now. nearly three weeks ago, just after france intervened in mali, this man saw something he's afraid to speak of openly. the malian military had arrested three students in islamic dress who had no identity papers. >> when i got there, the students had their hands tied behind their back. they were on their knees. i heard one of them say, for the sake of god, don't kill me. i'm not the enemy. i'm just a student of the koran. but one of the military guys said, don't listen to them. they're infiltraters. they talked amongst themselves and then one said, fire, and they shot all three of them in the chest. then they dragged them by their feet and threw them into a well. >> we went to the place he described. there are reports that as many as 20 or 30 suspected infiltraters may have been executed by malian fo

terrorist jihadists islamist groups which basically had serious potential for destabilizing the whole sahara and region and of course the state of mali michael but does that justify interventions military interventions you think. it becomes a problem for the international community and our smiley the state of mali is unable to do with it obviously there has to be international support and that can sometimes be in foreign intervention depending on the scenario at stake i mean in the case of mali at the ninth of january they its national committee had to really give it out and had postponed every action till september two thousand and thirteen but then the jihadists decided to make an incursion and were heading towards but michel on the ninth of january when france decided that they were going to intervene on the tenth of january to stop the creation and the advance towards about marco so actually the jihadist. go to by michael is more or less a blessing in disguise because if they hadn't done that the whole war that given up on mali and had left to its fate onto. will september twenty third t

in north africa where britain and this time france involved in deployment of forces all across the sahara well on our website that's r.t. dot com we've got more details on where exactly john kerry might be taking america's foreign policy so our mind to get the facts analysis as well as reaction. a massive drugs bust on the edge of moscow has once again highlighted the alarming rise in the illegal heroin trade from of ghana sam into russia almost two hundred kilos of high grade heroin was seized by a drug control officers those monday at a busy market now earlier artesia sean thomas describes those details. great story here the russian federal drug control services say that they have discovered one hundred ninety kilos worth one hundred eighty million u.s. dollars outside of moscow and how they discovered it is kind of interesting in fact the drugs made it all the way from afghanistan here in bags of radishes in fact you can see the radishes and then the green heroine check this out it's dyed the color of the red it is radishes so that it's less noticeable less easy to detect and there the

north africa where britain and this time france involved in deploying to move forces all across the sahara. the lack of harmony in relations between washington and moscow will provide the backdrop to john kerry's meeting with russia's foreign minister sort of laugh it off later on tuesday as autism is in our reports they will have a lot to talk about. conflict in syria miss out on defense and u.s. expansion of projects in eastern europe plus iran and north korea's nuclear programs amid test and escalating rhetoric these issues have been on the table for years now let's take a closer look at some of them syria ripped apart by violence for two years now a militant opposition there trying to force out president also that russia from the beginning has pushed for a diplomatic solution and avoiding intervention at all costs while saying that time is limited moscow still believes negotiations are the way to go the u.s. has constantly called for are said to step down while supporting rebels despite them not being able to unify or willing to sit down for talks with asad a strictly one sided solutio

in syria but there are some who are now come back as you say in neighboring algeria down into the sahara we have this threat of violence and one problem. is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that it's rather neglected by the west as nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so receives for its economy is now in a nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense errors to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the north this is as you were trying to position the tunisians are more calm than a professor of international relations of bilk and university joining us live here on r.t. thank you for coming on thank you. it's predicted the outcome of this year's general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis angola merkel's main challenger the country's former finance minister says she's been simply too harsh on athens artie's control of a far the story. the main contender to angola merkel in this year's general election the social democrat party's peacetime brooke has said thi

talking about meditation and mysticism, and we're going to be going to a desert monastery in the sahara, where of course people are silent all the time, and what does that mean? what is it about religious experience that says, "shut up." eventually, you have to be quiet and listen to something within, something experientially that makes it authentic. now we can talk about prayer, we can talk about meditation, or we can talk about just going for a long, quiet walk in the woods or perhaps a long hike in camping by ourselves or a trip down to the ocean sitting by the sea, and when we talk about different kinds of mystical experience, we'll touch on those. but there's something about human beings as part of this need is the only way to quiet the chatter of the mind is to go through some kind of religious practice or another and meet this kind of silence. so in our last set of graphics here, as we're winding up what's been a great class, i want to talk about the different styles, and paul munshank, actually, i believe, came up with this very clear way of thinking about religion, and it gives

syria but there are some who you know come back as you say in neighboring algeria or down into the sahara we have this threat of violence and one problem for poor is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that it's rather neglected by the west as nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so it was full of its economy is now in a nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense errors to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the north this seems to me to be very trying to position the traditions are more common a professor of international relations of bilk at university joining us live here on r.t. thank you for coming on thank you. it's predicted the outcome of this year's general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis going to merkel's main challenger the country's former finance minister says she's been simply too harsh on athens artie's cricketer all of us felt the story. the main contender to angola merkel in this year's general election the social democrat party's peac

control of the country and they have all these resources that exist only in mali but all across the sahara and many of these other countries there are also sort of similar movements so whether it's uranium whether it's if these governments that have been loyal to france if it had sort of i don't to say profit sharing but you come in and you take our minerals we get a little bit of money people go completely hungry these sorts of arrangements could be broken up and so they had to act and they had to act fast to keep this sort of major major economic relationship for france intact absolutely and i want to play a clip. actually on the ground there now. regional banks food medicine and fuel specifically in this part of the region in there are about seven thousand refugees children so for the most unless medication is brought in the centers treating malnutrition like the one we saw him up to would face tragedy of course like any intervention you know the under-reported issue of the refugees that come out of the situation is really untold talk about the situation of the refugees and what's being

control of the country and they have all these resources that exist only in mali but all across the sahara and in many of these other countries there are also sort of similar movements so whether it's uranium whether it's if these governments that have been loyal to france if it had sort of i don't to say profit sharing but you come in and you take our minerals we get a little bit of money people go completely hungry these sorts of arrangements could be broken up and so they had to act and they had to act fast to keep this sort of major major economic relationship for france intact absolutely and i want to play a clip. actually on the ground there now. regional banks food medicine and fuel specifically in this part of the region in mufti there are about seven thousand refugees children so for the most unless medication is brought in the centers treating malnutrition like the one we saw him up to would face tragedy of course like any intervention you know the under-reported issue of the refugees that come out of the situation is really untold talk about the situation of the refugees and wha

we are seeing huge growth in africa because we have opened up in the south of sahara area, and also seeing brazil powering on, the largest company for our business outside america. ashley: you mentioned china, russia, the inaccessible places. how do you reach potential customers? >> obviously we work through the banks and people like the post office in russia, there is in other areas. and the advent of mobile brings a new space to russia because in russia have people still paying their utility bills and believe me, minus 23 outside come you don't want to be doing that to the advent of mobile commerce will change life. ashley: we are already out of time, thank you for being here. very interesting. thank you so much. the closing bell will be ringing in 50 minutes from now. a few nuggets on his relationship with a former top prosecutor. charlie gasparino has all the details. what should you be doing with your money with stocks at a five-year high read he has seen his share of market cycles. see where he sees opportunity in 2013 and sectors to avoid straight ahead on fox business. friday night

here is a woman named sarah in sub-sahara cooking over these fires. >> the smoke from cooking affectsjust the way they are. [ coughing ] they make this world black. they also make us black inside. >> michael: she's right. this dirty smoke is not only bad for human health but for the health of the planet as well. each dirty cook stove producessed a much carbon dioxide as a car. and it might produce more black carbon another type of pollutant that is a contributor to climate change second only to carbon dioxide. the issue became a top priority for former secretary of state hillary clinton who committed $12 million to funding clean cook stoves during her term. in january she described why she fought for the initiative as hard as she did. >> when i first started beating the drums on this alliance there were people who said, oh, there she goes again. clean cook stoves, what does that have to do with world peace, prosperity, humans rights rights democracy and freedom? well everything, actually. >> michael: here to tell us why clean cook stoves has everything to do with democracy and freedom

terrorist jihadist islamist groups which basically had serious potential for destabilizing the whole sahara and region and of course the state of mali michael what does that justify interventions military interventions you think. it becomes a problem for the international community and our smiley the state of mali is unable to do with it obviously there has to be international support and that can sometimes be in foreign intervention depending on the scenario at stake i mean in the case of mali at the ninth of january the international community had to really give it out and had postponed every action till september two thousand and thirteen but then the the jihadists decided to make an incursion and were heading towards but michael on the ninth of january when france decided that they were going to intervene on the tenth of january to stalk the creation and the violence towards but marco so actually the jihadist attempt to go to burma or call is more or less a blessing in disguise because if they hadn't done that the whole war that given up on mali and had left to its fate until september

. >> moments later sahara's car is rammed by another police vehicle. suspect keeps driving, mounting a median and steering the battered honda to a gas station across the street. there he's hit again but sahareth keeps moving. this time police use their guns to stop him, opening fire with a barrage of bullets. >> i could hear bullets impacting the walls around me. i was extremely concerned because i knew there's a passenger in this car. in my mind i'm thinking she's going to get killed. >> i was ducking down. i was covering my head. just didn't know what to do. i can feel it pounding, bang, through the car. i was just waiting for bullets to come through me. i was just waiting to die. >> the suspect's car was stuck on a raised planter and the smoke from the tire surrounds the honda and unable to see their target, the police hold their fire. seconds later sahareth is able to maneuver the car free. officers unleash another round of bullets. >> you can clearly see one of the officers executing what's known as a speed load, where he's trying to reload his gu

same-- to attack americans and other westerners wherever they may be, even on a barren patch of the saharart. there were eight americans at the algerian gas plant when the terrorists struck-- three died, five survived. tonight, you'll hear for the first time from three of them. >> steve wysocki: i was 100% sure i was going to die. >> rose: so each of you thought you were going to die? >> wysocki: yes. >> nick frazier: absolutely certain. >> mark cobb: there was no doubt in my mind that a lot of people were going to die through this event. >> rose: the event, a three- pronged attack, unfolded before dawn on wednesday, january 16. 32 al qaeda fighters stormed this sprawling natural gas field. they sprayed buildings and vehicles with automatic weapons and launched rocket propelled grenades. these three men-- nick frazier, mark cobb, and steve wysocki-- all worked for the oil company b.p. all witnessed the simultaneous assaults. they showed us where they were on a satellite photo of the gas field. >> wysocki: my office was approximately right there. >> rose: wysocki, an oil and gas well expert

north africa where britain and this time france involved the deployment of forces all across the sahara. well moving on now it looks like francis pratt planning to build a rapid reaction force and station it in west africa to help fight eliminate insurgents after its official war in mali ends that is at least according to u.n. based diplomats now while paris hasn't officially released the details it is believed that the so-called beyond the horizon force would most likely be deployed in senegal need share or chad now these are of course countries as you can see on the map there were france currently maintains military bases or for some analysis on this issue let's turn now to lawrence freeman he is the head of the african desk at the executive intelligence review magazine sir thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us it does look like france is of course in the ending stages of its military operation in mali but from these reports it looks like they may be stationed on the continent much longer how how do you read into this what's behind this in your view. this is new so. p

england and switzerland, in 20 years the sahara desert in northern alberta. pristine northern forest. if this pipeline goes through tell your government will further assist in the raping and pillaging of the lands of my ancestors. ignoring the basic human rights to clean air and water and our inherited constitutionally protected rights. i am bound by natural law and there is nothing natural about a people dying from cancer. fish with cancers on them. moose with pus bubbles underneath the skin. babies being airlifted to the hospital for drinking contaminated water. that is the truth. communities like my sisters, located in one of the three tar sands deposits. they experienced a massive oil spill, bigger than the kalamazoo in michigan. this is what our future looks like. the law is being broken every single day as more and more industries to break into my nation's traditional hunting territory. today over 19,000 permits are granted from our government, profits pushing through expansion. ultimately the size of florida when they are done. then they will promise t

the country is also worried about stability in western sahara so that is north africa. then there's the problem of the spillover into west africa with the territory in northwest algeria. the stability is complex and they run deep and we can talk more about those later on and specifically in western and northwestern africa mauritania is generally considered by the e.u. in the less problematic state. the number of youth recruited remains very small and the attacks carried on the soil the capabilities are extremely limited and its affiliated networks are disorganized and weak today. it pursues the and imprisonment of a violent extremists as disrupting the growth of the militant movement. but like other countries are faced with a challenge of ensuring control of the borders. i mean, it shows ilana border on the 2,400 kilometers. it is even more than algeria which shares 1300 kilometers border. he. it's all forms of smuggling and also as i said, slipping in the northern mali to mauritania and he. the aggressive approach to fight the violent extremists and it's definitely mor

at the same time, here is going to be an increase for each of the sahara application, and that will be used for stem training in our own schools. at a minimum, it is $3 billion in 10 years. it could be as much as $5 billion in 10 years. we have gotten that by combining educating our own students with making it easier to bring in some of these best and the brightest. >> if i told you who i have looked at your bill, and what is interesting about the bipartisan support is the likelihood of bipartisan opposition. john mccain is probably going to have to stare down ted cruz. all you have to stare down in your own ranks? >> it is complicated to explain. we came up with a cool name, in edition -- i-squared. part of it is making it very clear that when you look at the numbers, it means more jobs in america, and that we are doing things to train workers on the same jobs. >> you are not going to talk about who? >> we will have no critics. i am kidding. you do not want to make critics would you do not have them. the president actually mentioned this part of immigration reform. he mentioned the pa

kind of give them a little bit of intelligence and whatnot so they're able to chase them across the sahara. he was finally captured in northern chad. having said that then, what we have is things were happening. circa 2004, 2005 there were discussions on counterterrorism programs to east africa, and counterterrorism initiatives was expanding in the horn of africa. and so folks were going hey, the initiative worked very well over here, and we're doing some programs in the horn, like it would do something more robust? that's the genesis that got us into the ostpc. the operation enduring freedom trend and the counterterrorism program. so as a starter looking at this, looking at this holistically. and oef ts covers 11 countries, unless that changed. i'm not sure. we have some military folks here. it's about 10, 11 countries. so the program was actually to get these countries to try to tackle the threat that was potentially going to grow or was growing in the region. we did a lot of training. mali was a recipient of this training. however, we had to start off with the basics and then kind of bu

mexico, and with all her technologies in everything we do we still have -- could you imagine in the sahara where but there's not that much technology, not that much projection and now you're trying to control algeria and algeria and moravia all its same time. that will be difficult to do. >> let me raise another area. as i alluded to, by introduction, although one pardon with constitutional measures, much like military coups, the fact that the coup and now did not occur in a vacuum. all our wishful thinking, there was profound problems of corruption, soldiers stopped, better off working with radicals, they pay better and get paid regularly. they are flushed in an involvement of regime officials and the drug trade. ironically, i think it's well known in interval and other law enforcement circles, senior officials who were involved as business partners with the people in islamist and extremist because they were working together and everyone taking money and happy together in the drug trade. .1. .2, if we fall into a situation of insurgency, which at least there's a very real danger of, we al

sorry when decolonialialization took root, the people in the sahara were pushing for political an ton my often sparking conflict. as we approach mali's independence the tensions were already there. by 1962 we we seeing the beginning of the first rebellion. 1962 to 1964. not all of the groups in the north were on board with the rebellion. with the help of france, the government was able to crush the uprising. in that process, a couple of things happened that play out today. one interesting thing for those who are following the events in mali, you have a guy who is the -- [inaudible] during that time period, his father, who was from the tribe of the or had gone and joined -- in his trek going north to crush the rebellion, members of the a different tribe killed the father. until today also killed during the rebellion and he is the head of the military section. so all of these triable tensions play out throughout the years. bear that in mind. between the '70s and '80s what we see is right before that was there a my gracious of --my gracious throughout the region. as some of you know they

at the same time, here is going to be an increase for each of the sahara application, and that will be used for stem training in our own schools. at a minimum, it is $3 billion in 10 years. it could be as much as $5 billion in 10 years. we have gotten that by combining educating our own students with making it easier to bring in some of these best and the brightest. >> if i told you who i have looked at your bill, and what is interesting about the bipartisan support is the likelihood of bipartisan opposition. john mccain is probably going to have to stare down ted cruz. all you have to stare down in your own ranks? >> it is complicated to explain. we came up with a cool name, in edition -- i-squared. part of it is making it very clear that when you look at the numbers, it means more jobs in america, and that we are doing things to train workers on the same jobs. >> you are not going to talk about who? >> we will have no critics. i am kidding. you do not want to make critics would you do not have them. the president actually mentioned this part of immigration reform. he mentioned the pa

and avoid meals and booze, and i'm like in the sahara. >> mike: get out a big bottle of water.> tucker: i respectfully disagree with the scientists on that. >> alisyn: okay. [snoring p [snoring] >> was that you? >> and former mayor guiliani is speaking out about camp liberty. the iranian dissidents, the u.s. disarmed and promised to protect a promise that guiliani now says has been broken. >> where was the united states to vindicate its promise of protection? nowhere, nowhere in sight. the united states must stand by its promise. the president of the united states should lead from the front not from behind. >> alisyn: guiliani also spoke in support of a more democratic iran and pressed for u.s. officials to do more. an illinois man passes away and leaves his million dollar estate to two soap opera stars he never met. peter barton starred in the young and restless and kevin who starred in a show luken received notices that ray fauk left his estate to split. and folk's lawyer says quote, the men were friends and barton and gropy have not publicly responded, i'm going to leave the