business professionals somali, our taxi drivers somali. we actually get to meet the 99% on a regular basis. >> hi, i am a star. >> somali-minnesotans, prominent and otherwise, have led a varied media campaign, drawing in the larger local community. >> we hosted a charity dinner. >> i'm a star because i donated money that i earned from a car wash. >> i organized an art show. >> i collected pennies for somalia. >> it's a whole different side of somali culture that people don't normally see. and then through, i think, that lens, you can see a dynamic, amazing group of people and your ability then to believe that if this country is full of people like this, there's huge hope for that country. >> is it working? >> it's working really well for us. >> how do you know? >> actually we are seeing the same outpouring of compassion that we saw for haiti. i think we will be one of the very few organizations in the world that can say that, that we're tracking about the same. >> in response to crises, donors fall into two distinct categories, according t

people the war on the somali people is getting worse and the one bright spot is a reach for where i live the island the food and africa's horn of hunger is just had sanctions passed against that again by the united nations and security council i now a name that we often hear when people talk about africa and goodwill of the same sentence is bill gates and he's held as a great philanthropist in helping africans has he helped or harmed and people in africa well you know bill gates has gotten so far. a malaria vaccine just so happens that the malaria vaccine doesn't work unless it's combined with a another medicine that's the patents held by. glaxo smith kline which the strong suspicions that bill gates has got major investments and in other words you get their vote malaria vaccine for free but you've got to buy the g.s. case medicine to go along with it in other words you know you donate. a billion dollars in tax deductible donation for a malaria vaccine and maybe make ten billion dollars in profits off of. selling a medicine that every five years the patent has to be renewed on becau

or kilometers or thirty square miles of mogadishu so now you've got a million somali refugees sitting in a refugee camp and what a blow and behold this summer the world food program and other western aid agencies announce that they're cutting aid to the somali refugees which they created the minimum age was cut by seventy percent in other words they're going to get thirty percent of the food they allow they need to survive and they're going to starve the somali refugees in the process and in a few weeks later what do they do they're crying crocodile tears saying oh we need hundreds of millions of dollars to provide the somali refugees what they need to eat and all the while they're spending millions of dollars buying tanks helicopter gunships and artillery for the troops that are occupying mogadishu which are creating the refugees in the first place well i mean you say it's a double standard but the same policies by the same countries in the west the us and britain and to take in there are applied to their own populations so it's not so much a double standard as it is a consistent sta

our taxi drivers somali. we actually get to meet the 99% on a regular basis. >> i'm a star. >> i'm a star. >> reporter: somali minnesotans, prominent and otherwise, have led a varied media campaign drawing in the larger local community. >> we hosted a charity dinner. >> i'm a star because i donated money that i earned from a car wash. >> i organized an art show. >> i collected for somalia. >> a whole different side of somali culture that people don't normally see. through that lens, you can see a die... dynamic and amazing group of people and your ability to believe that this country is full of people like this, there's huge hope for that country. >> reporter: is it work something. >> it's working really well for us. >> reporter: how do you know? >> actually, we are seeing the same outpouring of compassion that we saw for haiti. i think we will be one of the very few organizations in the world that can say that. we're tracking about the same. >> reporter: donors fall into two distinct categories according to

pirates yeah the somali pirates somali pirates they got the right idea. oh i want back to the beginning. we minister we have listen here i mean don we know you're already with us three minutes is going to be a special hour we're going to be charlaine guys are you for coming to a theater near you well again we were on to something that we could release a feature length is a report online just like louis c.k. there should raise money to send us to somalia to do a report on pirates you know once raise money on pirate my film bucko. anyway you know there are a lot of predictions being made about elections the u.s. election is of course the big one in the news but i want to look at the french election because of course how the economy is doing and how people feel about the economy is very crucial whether in a convent to get reelected french most gloomy about economy so this is according to a poll and the two gloomiest on the economy are the brits and french almost one in ten britons or nine percent expect their economy to improve in the next six months and onl

david cameron reveals plans for involvement in a while rich somali is describing the country as a threat to british security. in moscow why matt trezise good to have you with us here at r.t. our top story thousands of protesters have gathered again in central moscow protesting against this month's parliamentary election results mass rallies being organized by various opposition groups claiming the vote was rigged for more on this we go live to our correspondent in isa now at the heart of the demonstrations good to have you again with us and nice oh so fifty thousand people expected to turn out of the protest you're there on the scene how many so far. while it's hard to count i'm bad with numbers we're hearing very conflicting reports as to how many people has still not let you take a look for yourself you can see a stage has been set up the official think you are hearing is around thirty thousand the opposition is saying on the clock hundred that it's one hundred twenty thousand you can see this is a street at knox college very wide streets completely packed as you can certainly there ar

i'm looking at political march second the oil and gas one of the biggest used as a huge somali community around here that i represent most of whom are from the south but not all and they're not saying to me please intervene they're saying can we please have support to get a functioning system of government and. since somali some see this as a direct result of the perceived success by the government of the campaign in libya operation me to oust gadhafi successful next stop somalia. coming up her controversial goodbye just days after u.s. troops withdrew from iraq r.t. takes a look at the legacy that some say they've left behind. will be using briefly fall that first nigeria at least sixty one people have been killed in days of unrest in the northeastern part of the country members of the radical muslim group boko haram clashed with security forces in a fierce gun battle people living near the city's central mosque were asked to leave before armed soldiers moved tanks into the neighborhood the recent string of clashes began on thursday with boko haram campaigning to implement strict sharia

some somali some see this as a direct result of the perceived success by the government of the campaign in libya operation me to oust gadhafi successful next stop somalia. now coming up on our team what do you look for. do you think that sense of humor it would be appealing in a world leader think it's an international where you're speaking you know everybody gets it and everybody likes it. our own resident in new york and people on the streets about the must have qualities for the world leaders of today. there was draw of us troops from iraq has left a wave of sectarian violence in its wake america says it left stability behind but even the largest oil reserves in the world aren't enough to pay for the peace iraqis want r.c. sean thomas investigates what that means for the reputation of the u.s. in the region and beyond. packing up to head home it may be easy to overlook the total costs of war at least one hundred fourteen thousand iraqi civilians killed as well as four and a half thousand american soldiers millions displaced from their homes not to mention a one trillion dollars finan

the unsays the number of somalis at risk of starvation is down to 250,000 people.ll a huge number. 250,000. some aid groups had to scale back operations in the refugee camps because of explosions which were directed at the police. more than 500,000 somalis are still living in overcrowded refugee camps, and there's little reason to expect they'll be headed home soon. keep them in your thoughts. when i was in somalia, there was a different story unfolding on the other side of the world. diana nyad, the woman who i say defines tenacity. she is 61 years old. you see her jumping in to do something that no human had done before, swim 103 miles from cuba to key west. after 29 hours in the water, asthma and a bum shoulder got the best of her. in september she tried again. this time stopping after 67 miles. that's how far she swam. this time stopping because of severe jellyfish stings that paralyzed some of her muscles. so she tells us, you will believe this, she's working on a jellyfish-proof suit so she can give it another go. so inspirational. >>> coming up, one of the m

their yacht and is the first case of somali piracy to be held in court. yacht was attacked in 2008. the french forces stormed the vessel two weeks after it was captured. one of the u.k.'s leading universities, the london school of economics has been heavily criticized in a report for accepting large donations with donations. the university said it will implement all the report's recommendations and it had already brought in many of the advised changes. let's head to singapore. the central banks have taken new steps to support the global financial system. >> that's right, and the action it assigned basically to prevent a credit crunch that might threaten the survival of the euro zone. they approved of the move after signs the european banks stopped lending to each other. for more we go to michelle. >> the reaction was swift, within minutes of the announcement, share prices rose in markets across the world, including the u.s. >> with this news out of europe that the liquidity crisis might offensive board verted at least for the time being, the financials ha

right now, more than 3.5 million somalis are at risk for starvation.rs like this one we visited run by care international crucial. while it is helpful to know there will always be food here twice monthly, the ritual can be daunting. >> if you can imagine having to do this thing every two week to come and get your food. it's about dignity, as well, knowing that you are dependent upon food rations to be able to survive in your family kind of hurts. >> reporter: yet the refugees here make the best of the situation. supplementing their rations and in the process growing their community. each camp is home to bustling markets where you can buy or barter for just about anything. >> this is not what people expect when they hear about a refugee camp. this is a town. >> this is a town. people have been living here for the past 20 years. they accepted life here so they need to make it better. >> reporter: one recent development here -- >> they have spinach, green peppers. >> gardening, growing hope with each leaf that manages to survive in this drought-plagued re

oil gas one of the biggest suit is a huge somali community around here.most of whom are from the north and saying to me. can we please have support to get a functioning system of government and. so you see this as a direct result of the perceived success by the government of the campaign in libya operation to oust gadhafi successful next stop somalia. stay with us here on r.t. still to come a controversial goodbye just days after u.s. troops withdraw from iraq r t takes a look at the legacy some say they have left behind. could you take three. three. three. three stooges free. videos for your media projects a free media. from phones to. t.v. don't come. thanks for staying with us here on our team nineteen minutes past the hour in the russian capital taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe starting in nigeria where at least fifteen members radical muslim group boko haram have been killed during clashes with security forces the gun battle was the northeastern town of. those living near the city's central mosque to evacuate

there are around a hundred thousand somalis living in the u.k. making up one of the largest muslim groups according to m i five somalia is the native terrorists training ground where british residents from a variety of backgrounds pakistan baghdad dash and yemen go to study jihad the risk is that they then come back to the u.k. and carry out terrorist attacks there's all say the threats of piracy out of the kidnapping of aid workers and tourists but crucially somalia also has boston gas reserves and other natural resources including which the u.s. and other countries have had their eye on for years is many points also to somalia is to teach position presiding over a large parts of oil transport routes through the gulf of aden and usually following military strategist to planning long term intervention somewhere. looking at. the oil gas one of the biggest has a huge somali community around here. most of whom are from the north pole and they're not saying to me. have support to get a functioning system of government and. since the money some see th

i'm looking at political map second the oil to gas is one of the big issues because a huge somali community around here. most of whom are from the south but not all and they're not saying to me. they are saying can we please have support to get a functioning system of government can pay. and some money some see this as a direct result of the perceived success by the government of the campaign in libya operation to oust gadhafi successful next stop somalia. stay with us here on r t still to come what do you look for. do you sense of humor it would be appealing in a world leader think it's an international way of speaking you know everybody gets it and everybody likes it our own resident in new york asked people on the streets about what must have qualities for the world leaders of today. but for us the withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq has left a wave of sectarian violence in its wake america says it's leaving behind a stable country but even the largest oil reserves in the world won't be enough to pay for the peace erakat want artie's sean thomas investigates what that means for the reput