in the somali population, particularly the somali-american population. there's the direct interest. now that it's gone so far beyond the borders of somalia, piracy, terrorism now that has extended outside. with even american links of terrorism in the form of somali americans, some 30 of them are so who have been directly impacted and the fact that it is impacting the stability of neighboring countries which are lies of the united states, particularly ethiopia and kenya. it is an issue that i think is properly of concern to the united states government, and it is in our interest to try to do something to create -- help create a government that can, in fact, control the country. until that time comes, my guess is these problems are going to get worse, not get better. that's essentially the rational for it. >> thank you. i approach the issue of somalia from sea and my concerns about the international maritime commons, freedom of navigation, our ability as a nation to maintain. if you like the way of life we've had for the last 200 or so years. i see the som

back somali government and intelligence officials on the ground i did. covered that in fact it was a cia base and that they were training and paying somali counterterrorism agents and they're trying to set up an indigenous strike force capable of doing targeted kill and capture operations against the militant group al-shabaab now you also reported that your son line source for one of them that you spoke you said that these guys are lined up about once a month and pay two hundred dollars in cash how much money is that for somalia. for somali people two hundred dollars a month is a huge amount of money i mean let's remember this is a country that hasn't printed its own currency since one thousand nine hundred one it's a place where they're the best chance that a young man in particular has of employment is by working as a militia member with a with an a k forty seven so to to have two hundred dollars is a pretty decent salary especially if it's consistent and i haven't paid an american money is the best way that it could be done i mean relative to what you

it has to be a somali approach and a somali solution. the smp designation is a difficult one. we are trying to get as much evidence together and to discuss this as we can. congressman payne, to raise an important argument. >> briefly, our chief specialist for african affairs on the subcommittee will stay and hear the remainder of your comments. we are at 0 on the house floor onterms of terms -- zero the house floor in terms of votes. if you can go back to the ships at sea that are attacked and talk about restrictive rules of engagement. if you could speak to that as well. it is a harrowing experience. the seas need to be controlled by the navy. if you could speak to that. i think you all for your extraordinary testimony and your work. >> rules of engagement for piracy -- the international task force was set up to address the piracy issue. the u.s. navy, along with 24 other countries, has contributed ships, 48 ships, to look at an area that is extremely expensive and difficult to monitor. during the nine months, the pirates are able to go far from their bases in somalia into ot

is paying the salaries of somali agents who are operating in underground prison and that u.s. of officials are interrogating prisoners there that is one hundred percent true and no one from the government will come forward to deny it because they know it's true and so these media outlets are serving as conveyor belts for the propaganda of the central intelligence agency which is very good at spin and lastly i just want to ask we have there have been some critics out there people that say they even disclose national security secrets and you could be putting americans at risk what's your response to that. our our counterterrorism policies in many of these countries are putting americans at risk especially when we kill civilians but specifically on the issue of these sites the cia needs to investigate their own operational security because when a kid chewing khat leaves on the street knows where your headquarters is that's not good operational security when you can see it when you fly into the airport that's not good operational security so if anything i think that this should be

somali pirate, somali pirate coming to get you. coming to get you. >> let me stop you there. on theçó radio. here i am, a somali pira4qt and i'm coming to get you. you would think they would wantp- the element of surprise. >> you would think. >> did you change course at all? >> we changed course and we sped upfá to 120 and kept that speed until i woke up 6:15 in the morning. >> when you sayi]xd you woke upr 6:15 in the morning, what might surprise some people, here now you've had perhaps your second encount we are somali pirates and you're age to go back toi] ó[ bed. i think i would have been standing on the bridge theree1 looking in every direct, unable to qsleep. how did you manage to go back to sleep. >> i do have a crew.Ñi i stayed up obúu$e bridge and i'll say maybe 45 minutes to 502?y minut&ñ there. nothing on the radar. >>> you're thinking a second >> maybe. or i'm thinking it is a fishing boatÑi wantingç(áo you stay away from their gear. >> fishingÑiq boat or not, it was a nagging reminder of the worst fear, being takençó hostage by pirates and being hauled off to som

is paying the salaries of the somali agents that it is officially run by the somalis but that u.s. agents are able to openly interrogate them they've a.b.c. that made the focus of the story we don't have any black sites we're not running a black site inside of somalia and implied to my story needed to be undermined because it wasn't true the fact of the matter is that the obama administration announced in january of two thousand and nine the president himself that he was going to be shutting down these black sites leon panetta the director of cia said in april of two thousand and nine that he was decommissioning the black sites and what i am covered there is that the u.s. is using semantics to get around the fact that a black site is being utilized by the cia whether they officially own the lease of the building is irrelevant they're making use of that facility so by not reporting the actual facts of what we reported which no u.s. official would dispute can dispute because they're true a.b.c. was a willing participant in a cia spin operation and let's talk about you mentioned you k

somali refugees in the greater horn. it takes great resilience for the somalis to continue forward to be it in january, 2011 or early warning systems estimated 2.4 million people in somalia or in crisis and the latest data now indicates 2.85 million people are in need of life saving assistance. this is a 19% increase in six months. and that means that the estimated 9.9 million people in somalia running now need international assistance to survive. and may i traveled to kenya and somalia to ensure that we are able to respond to foley and responsibly as we are able to to this crisis and also to express the commitment of the united states to the people of somalia during the critical period. along with special long voyage on yates i traveled to of the autonomous region of somaliland. we met with government officials as well as local and international non-governmental associations. while there we met with the president who expressed his concern over the field of training and loss of livestock and the need for assistance while

paul specifically with our somali community. to get onto your next question about the cops program, cops is critical to any local chief of police. i am just going to say it like it is. it helped us to hire officers in very fiscally constrained times with our local government. it allows us to do program such as aimcop and i think that is why we are here today or that is why i'm here to testify about that program. how important it is, we started to work with community policing as i told you in 2004 and we have a group of elders that can address not only our mayor but chiefs of police and others and that is where we came to with aimcop. we saw problem and we knew there was a problem. the one primary thing that our somali people have agreed upon, the work that we have tried to do in st. paul. their youth, the young people. they wanted to be successful. they want them to be productive members of society so i hope that answers your question, maam. >> our chairman also has alluded to some problems with the care organization. i note wit

secret sites in somalia the ones where the cia is running a counterterrorism training program paying somalis two hundred dollars a month to run prisons where prisoners are held have been rendered from kenya is that one story that sheds light on the obama administration for continuing all of those actions they criticize the bush administration for but we interviewed jeremy on this program last week but for some reason none of the big networks and i literally made it not a single one of them decided to give the story any play but then suddenly suddenly today the l a times came out with some groundbreaking information that new american intelligence raises concerns about a widening alliance of islamic terrorist groups plotting to target the u.s. and you know where that alliance is yemen and somalia and you know how they found out some of that information well according to the l a times it was learned when somali all thora these allow the cia to interview shabaab militants imprisoned in mogadishu now this is all according to anonymous u.s. officials of course but it's not odd that first the story

hundreds of somalis moving into this refugee camp, one of the three existing camps for somalis here. and problematic ever since it opened. hot, dust-filled wind blows through the camp for much of the time. for now, all too few of the refugees have the protection to these protections of a tent. a stubbornly high death rate here. the delegation representing the u.s. and other supporters came to see what needs to be done to prevent this refugee emergency turning into a disaster. >> the main thing is to focus on the humanitarian side in very deep need of better tend facilities, better health facilities as well. yes, but this is a top priority and you are right, the death rate that we're seeing here is staggering. >> if the influx of somali refugees continues as it is our becomes bigger, the plan is to turn this area here in to the next refugee camp. it could be needed in just a matter of weeks. everyone agrees that the emergency operation needs to be ramped up considerably. and the latest batch of refugees across the border, the greater number of the elderly and the infirm can be adding

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dishy thailand's broke out in you need to have to supply aid to famine refugees one hundred somalis is limits regard starvation relief efforts as a threat there of course a reported two million somalis are not receiving food and water in militant controlled areas. the u.s. and north korean diplomats met for several hours in new york for the first time since two thousand and nine both sides expressed satisfaction after the talks describing them as serious and business like help get out the sphere but music which will continue on friday is aimed at reviving story the six party negotiations on the north's nuclear program tensions but escalating on the korean peninsula since the sinking of the south korean navy vessel by the north in march last year. hundreds of demonstrators surrounded japan's embassy in seoul angry at the japanese government ban on its officials from flying with korean air the decision follows the south koreans lines test flights at the new air bass jet over the disputed land called rocks a few weeks ago protesters but japanese flags posters but it seems it's. ok that

now tonight we'll talk about the somali man that's being brought to new york to be tried on terrorism charges and you'll never guess where he was held for two months while being interrogated well if you get another obama broken promises the white house makes plans to keep up to ten thousand troops in iraq after the withdrawal deadline at the end of this year and we'll see what it would cost us to adequately invest in green technology but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. you know i thought that yesterday was ridiculous when the so-called knew it was going every over every single little detail of every single juror that was deliberating on casey anthony's case what happened after that verdict was read that's a really takes the cake i mean what do you do when a verdict has been agreed to when started moving on to something more interesting if you work for a corporate media channel and you get responses all the way down to of course what the celebrities have to say about it so personally that. one would be. ok. some people watching the case are now gatherin

afghanistan iraq pakistan libya yemen and now those somali a u.s. military official confirmed yesterday that a drone attack was launched on two leaders of a somali militant group last week bringing the total number of nations that are that our military is dropping bombs on to six there are reports that u.s. special forces have for some time been conducting missions in somalia is the militant organization known as al shabaab is allegedly affiliated with al qaida but last week's attacks mark the first time drones were used and bombs were dropped a clear indication that military efforts in that nation are as of late soon it will be easier to list all the nations in the arab world that we're not currently at war with and listing the ones that we are at war with so it's a strategy of endless and spreading warfare across the arab world really keeping us safe from terrorists or creating more terrorists and even so in the seeds of radicalism right here in the united states here to offer her take on this issue is catherine herridge fox news correspondent and

somali ministers have complained that the food aid is moving too slowly. delicate negotiations continue between the government and al- shabab. and some question why this emergency was not prevented as this food shortage and severe drought were predicted late last year. in somalia, though, people cannot wait for the aid to reach them. war and hunger are driving more than 1000 somalis across the border into kenya into refugee camps. they are desperately overcrowded. it takes its toll on the week. today, the latest victim of the drought was laid to rest in the camp. >> you are watching live from singapore and london. still to come, safeguarding one of afghanistan's architectural treasures. that battle to preserve this historic city. >> and blended kickstart the final race to the finish line to the olympics. and independent inquiry has found that one in 10 experiments on monkeys has no clear sign to the purpose. studies involving monkeys have led to important benefits over the years, such as the development of a polio vaccine and treatment for strokes and park

that means even more somalis are going hungry. thousands have fled to the capital to escape the drought. many more continue to cross each kenya -- east kenya in hopes of reaching the camp complex. >> i spent 17 days on the road with my 12 children. thank god we made it. i have just been given a tent by an organization here. >> additional emergency shelters are being set up around the main facilities. the main camps are terribly overcrowded. the kenyan government finally yielded to international pressure and opened a third can -- camp. kenyans have also fled to the camps. some city government in nairobi could do more. >> [inaudible] i would like the government at possible to bring in a relief group. [inaudible] >> complications at the customs office in kenya have also delayed the airlift to mogadishu. united nations officials say the bureaucratic issues have now been resolved. >> i spoke with our correspondent in nairobi. he has been covering the famine and the relief efforts. i asked him about the difficulty of distributing food t

. >> emergency food supplies arrived in the somali capital. wait -- with a year to go, the head of the ioc extends an invitation to ask -- athletes. >> broadcasting to viewers from pbs on america. this is "newsday". hello and welcome. five months after the uprising after colonel gaddafi's roll, britain has recognized the rebel council as the new government of libya. the u.s., france, and more than 30 other countries have recognized the council. our world affairs editor has this assessment. >> the libyan embassy in central london. a hugely valuable piece of real estate. the siege as usual by a small, ever present group of demonstrators. they were overjoyed by britain's decision to recognize them. this is tripoli where the heart of the city was the green square is decorated with a gigantic portrait of colonel gaddafi himself. he has never been a man to shrink from self publicity. britain, which was keenest about bombing libya has decided to cut the last remaining diplomatic links. >> we no longer recognize them as the representatives of the liby

hundreds of somalis living into one of three existing refugee camps here. it has been problematic ever since it opened late last month. a hot, dust build wind blows through the camp for most of the time, and for now, all too few of the refugees have the protection of a tent. there are stubbornly high death rates here. a delegation representing the u.s. another big donors came to see what needs to be done to prevent this refugee emergency turning into a disaster. >> the main key right now is to focus on the humanitarian side. we are in very deep need of better 10th facilities, better health facilities as well. it is absolutely a top priority, and the death rate we are seeing here is staggering. >> if the influx of somali refugees continues or becomes even bigger, the plan is to turn this area into the next refugee camp. it could be needed in just a matter of weeks. no wonder that everyone agrees that the emergency operation needs to be ramped up considerably. in the latest batch of refugees across the border, a greater number of the elderly and infirm. carin

all victims were somalis who were trying to make their way to saudi arabia in search of work. we have our correspondent in the capital. he says it appears the victims may well have been trying to escape food shortages in somalia. >> i spoke to one and he says he believes all of the people who have died were somalis. he is linking it explicitly to the food and drought crisis in the horn of africa and they were people transiting through saudi arabia where they were hoping to find better-paying jobs. the official site says four yemeni men have been arrested as presumed owners of the boat and only three survivors have been found. >> sudanese government says it's trying to defeat a rebellion made up of thousands of fighters. at least 70,000 civilians have been displaced. despite calls for a cease-fire, al bashir has vowed to fight on. >> the danger comes from above as planes fly over and others scramble to escape the bombs. sudanese government at war with its own people in the nubea mountains. children take extreme measures to avoid the flying shrapnel from the bombing raids. paren

nobody knows how many more somalis will cross the border. >> you are watching bbc news.ill ahead, from canada to california, the duke and duchess of cambridge a ride in los angeles for a weekend visit. -- arrive in los angeles for a weekend visit. security forces in pakistan's largest city, karachi, have been authorized to shoot on sight anyone they believe is involved in violence. at least 65 people have been killed in gratia since tuesday. the current unrest is blamed on armed gangs. many shops and foreign offices were closed. here is this report. >> armed troops to stand on guard on the streets of pakistan's business and commercial capital. three days of violence have been the worst karachi has seen this year. target killings and drive-by shootings are widely blamed on armed gangs linked to rival political parties. >> killing and violence has increased so much. no one is safe anymore. >> this is the heart of karachi's main shopping thi district. as you can see, today they are deserted. most people did not go to work or open businesses because they are afraid of more v

is these areas where somalis are starving to death.has made clear it will continue the activities -- to disrupt the activities of agencies. >> agencies we band before are still banned. some were involved in political activity. others were destroying the lives of our people and we had to ban them too. the last u.n. said -- a u.n. report says there is famine in somalia. we say this is 100% baseless and sheer propaganda. >> the u.n. and the international community face a mammoth challenge. >> it is very dangerous and risky, but we have to reach people. they are not making it all the way to mogadishu. these other ones lucky enough to make a year and these centers are overrun. >> in northeastern kenya, they need food aid simply to survive. but it is the conflict in somalia that has created the famine that is the worst in decades. >> for more on the challenges in getting aid to those who need it most in somalia, i am joined by the project director at the international crisis group. it might seem like a paradox. why is al-shabab ordering aid

. >> their 2000 somali's are arriving every day. -- there are 2000 somalis arriving every day. it has a this grueling 60 walk behind them. dentist child of three left behind for fear he would slow down the others. there are many people coming this way. this child had the circumference of his arm checked. the rate of severe malnutrition is alarming. the biggest problem is simply keeping pace with the numbers pouring in from across the border just down the track. in particular, screen them and making sure that those who are most at risk of survive the ordeal with the help they need most urgently. >> the u.n. high commissioner for refugees came here to see what needed to be done to stay alive. it was obvious from the desperation that not enough was being done. as well as the long-running drought, there has been the conflict which has made it so difficult to get aid to them in somalia. that must have higher priorities. >> this is solving the conflict problem and bring in humanitarian aid to somalia that we can mitigate in the numbers. >> for now, the refugee camp is filling as fast

says tens of thousands of somalis, most of them children, have died in the last three months. and that the famine will spread across all of southern somalia in the next two months without more aid. 3.7 million somalis-- that's over half the population-- are in urgent need of help. the u.n. has less than half the money it's asked for. that's $596 million short. and these islamist militants take much of the blame. the al shabaab have forced aid agencies out of the famine zone and they have taxed aid that comes in. the americans don't want aid the greater risk is that tens of thousands or more somali children will die without it. hundreds of thousands died in the famine of 20 years ago, so it's no wonder so many have treked to vast refugee camps here in kenya where those who remember fear history will repeat itself. >> i've never been able to get somalia out of my skin, if you like. and since i was here in 1992 and when i look around and i see it again... these are very resilient people and they want just food and water. >> reporter: 10,000 families have fled from somalia's famin

calls for massive action in the horn of africa as the somali ministers warned millions could starve toeath. it is a 11:00 a.m. here in singapore. >> it is 4:00 a.m. here in singapore, broadcasting to viewers on pbs and around the world. this is "newsday." president barack obama has warned the republican party that they were playing a dangerous game in the country's approach to resolving its debt crisis. in a live broadcast to the nation, he said the failure to solve the problem with tax increases would damage the economy. he also accused many of his republican opponents of refusing to compromise and allow for a temporary revising of official limits on arwin. >> despite our disagreements, republican leaders and i have found common ground before. and i believe that enough members of both parties will ultimately lead us put party politics aside and help us make progress. i realize that a lot of the new members of congress and i do not see eye to eye on many issues, but we were each elected by some of the same americans for some of the same reasons. yes, many want government to start livin

to escape this drought, hungry, thirsty, desperate somalis are going to the refugee camps. already the biggest in the world, getting bigger all the time. 1000 new arrivals every day. united nations say this is not a famine yet but that it could be. at the moment, they are classifying it as a genetic. emergency, a situation which they say is rapidly deteriorated. it has not rained fully around this region for two years running, and these people are facing their worst drought for decades. aid workers say they do now have an early-warning system to alert the world to impending famine. the trouble is, they say, the world has not been listening. ben brown, bbc news, the refugee camp on the kenya-somali border. >> and in other news, a french writer says she will file a legal complaint against the former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn, alleging that he tried to rape her. she says it relates to an event in 2002 when she went to interview him in a paris apartment. in response, he will allegedly filed a complaint against her. and there is an apparent attempt to reassert control on

at the border crossing, a somali police commander says he's doing his best to provide security. he wishes he could provide food. this is the border between kenya and somalia, the kenyan forces over here, and the somalian forces in this direction. refugees are flowing across the border with dadaab just 60 miles over here. the problem is getting aid much further in this direction, across the border. at the refugee camp, the suffering grows. but for many of the sickest victims, treacherous journeys from distant homes, where there is no water and little food might have saved their lives. tonight the somali government accused the united nations of not doing enough to distribute food aid. the u.n. responded by saying it's doing everything it can. brian? >> rohit kachroo reporting for us, one of the few television journalists there helping us get the story out. thank you for your reporting, rohit. >>> up next, we'll take you to a hollywood movie premiere that ended up looking like the filming of an action movie itself. and not in a good way last night. [ male announcer ] it's a fact: y

. >> and they say the idea to use somalis to do the job came from osama bin laden himself. >> abc's t.j latest on this new front in the war on terror. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob and tanya. the somali-americans in question are considered so dangerous because they know the united states so well and where the country is vulnerable. neither al qaeda in afghanistan nor pakistan now pose as grave a threat to america as their affiliate in somalia, that according to u.s. counterterrorism officials. the group known as al shabaab has even been successful in recruiting westerners. >> al shabaab is recruiting inside american mosques in somali communities like minneapolis and san diego according to the justice department. >> reporter: congressman peter king, chairman of the commtee on homeland security, held a hearing on the increasing threat. >> the terrorist training camps run by al shabaab teach their participants how to kill people and so the ability of one of those individuals to return to the united states and to put into practice that training is a threat. >> reporter:

mogadishu violence broke out as african union attempts to supply aid to famine refugees one hundred somalis islamists were god's starvation relief efforts as a threat to their all fourteen reports of two million somalis a not receiving food and water in militant controlled areas. u.s. the north korean diplomats met for several hours in new york for the first time since two thousand and nine both sides expressed satisfaction after the talk describing the serious and businesslike held in a good atmosphere the music which will continue on friday is aimed at reviving stalled six policy negotiations on the nuclear program so just how but escalation on the korean peninsula since the sinking of a south korean navy vessel by the north of last year. hundreds of demonstrators surrounded japan's embassy in seoul angry at a japanese government ban on its officials for flying with korean air the decision follows the south korean airlines test flight of a new airbus jet over the disputed leon call rocks a few weeks ago protesters japanese flags and protos posters rubber. ok let's check out all the latest

tens of thousands of somalis have arrived here just in the last few days. but despite that, this remains one of the hardest places in the world to get food aid too. this is a very dangerous country. as a foreign reporter, i could only be on the streets for a few moments at a time before driving away as a threat of kidnapping is very real. the saudi-based organization of islamic cooperation, the oic, hopes to persuade more aid agencies to come in under their umbrella. al shabab is more willing to allow islamic charities to distribute aid in their areas. a delegation from the oic vo visited on monday to discuss food and bridging the gap. they need an extra 300 million in the next two months and the president made this plea. >> translator: the situation is very severe and the conditions are very harsh. we are requesting that the international community assist the somalis, those within somalia and the borders. we urgently request quick help. >> reporter: but for many somalis, aid may come too late, especially for starving children. amina is 6 months old and suf

engagement with the somali community. building trust with the community, not vilifying and making a toxic relationship. in fact, trust building. that means police officers, like chief smith in st. paul reaching out to build a trust so a relationship and information can be shared to protect the community. al shabab is victimizing the community. let's not make the somali communities the target. >> let's talk about what is happening in the u.s. that is what peter king has talked about. the obama administration has expressed concern. the justice department has indicted americans with the viewpoints. is that a legitimate concern because that is what we hear from peter king? >> we should fight without the religious religious affiliation of the actors. if you want to attack people on misguided idea of islam, it doesn't matter of those who get threatened and intimidateintimi. our benchmarks should not be religion. we should target people based on their behavior and action, not based on their religious affiliation. this is the bed

mentioning the scales report that it had discovered on its own momos that the cia was helping the somalis interview one or two detainees who had an a.b.c. news report that just printed the cia the miles which are patently false and then you have this l a times report that clearly was picked.

mentioning the scales report that it had discovered on its own momos that the cia was helping the somalis interview one or two detainees you had an a.b.c. news report that just printed the cia denials which are patently false and then you had this l a times report that clearly was dictated by intelligence officials designed to make it seem that not only was valuable information being a pain in the secret prison but that there was a very menacing threat namely there's a union last july i have to play you because you have every hospital. in the arabian peninsula i'm sorry i have to cut you off thank you so much will be right back. the heart of moscow the. news of the world. the. prime minister david. disgraced. member. for the second part of the. so they would like to make a correction on a story that we first shared with you last thursday it was word start to spread about google's new social media program google plus we made two statements that grab the attention of the public relations branch of the company apparently they're fans of the alona show now a p.r. representative contacted r.t.