intervention in somalia. that was when the united states intervened militarily and economically to deal with a famine in the country. dan, shouldn't there be some way to stabilize the government of somalia this many years later and, and enable the people of somalia to handle their own political and diplomatic matters, and economic matters? >> well, there was what i consider to be a reasonably stable government in place in somalia in the second half of '06. it was something called the islamic courts government. but, ethiopia, and also what is sometimes american paranoia on subjects, managed to persuade the american government of that time, that islamic extremists were taking root, or were nesting, inside ts islamic urts government. and so, on that basis, with our support, ethiopia invaded somalia and overthrew that government. well, now that relatively moderate islamic courts government has morphed into something called al-shabab, which is much more militantly islamic, and much more violent. in the meantime, w

violence and instability -- a semblance of normality in somalia. the man who came to power said he did it not to separate somali's but to unite them. towards the end of his 20 years in power, he sent bomber jets to bomb his opponents into submission. >> this is the monument, reminding the people here of the bill but will they fought to break away from the rest of somalia in 1991. this is the fighter jet used by the forces of the leader to bomb the city. he also attacked it from hillside positions nearby. in this battle, tens of thousands of people in somaliland were killed. >> very nice to see you. >> very nice. >> now, there is no turning back, as the president of somalia and told me on a recent tour, to press its case for independence. >> somaliland is a country. it has government. it does not want to be sucked back into confusion. but few do not have any sympathy for the people suffering in the other parts of somalia? >> there is a difference between having sympathy and support and becoming part of that confusion. we do not want to be part of th

we visit some moly-land, part of somalia, which is actually prosperous. and what became of the dog found floating on an ice floe. -- we visit somaliland, part of somalia which is actually prosperous. hello. egypt has seen a second day of anti-government protests, even though demonstrations are banned and hundreds have been arrested. a woman and a policeman are reported dead, although according to the authorities, they died in a car crash unrelated to the unrest. in the arab world's most populous country, people are on the streets in large numbers, demanding an end to the 30-year rule of the president. crowds said a government building on fire. >> the second day of violent confrontation, but today, the police are more ruthless. as protesters tried to gather, the police fired tear gas, apparently without hesitation. many demonstrators were manhandled or wrestled. earlier today, the government announced that all protests were illegal. the police left little doubt about the top line to be taken. [inaudible] where are the arab people? where are the egyptian pe

somalia has been without a functioning central government for years. it is a country run by clans and malicious, a poverty is rife, leaving fisherman with little alternative but to become pirates. >> i often don't have enough money for breakfast. that is why i want to be a pirate. at >> the pirates are armed with assault rifles, mortars, and even rocket-propelled gredes. they target cargo ships and crews because kidnapping officers and sailors is lucrative. >> we have another 1. >> ransoms amounting to millions have been paid in the past. the number of pirate attacks around the world has only risen slightly since 1994, but not as fast as the number of. kidnappings. last year set a new record with over 1000 settlers kidnapped. the european union special naval force active in the gulf of aden and the indian ocean has made scarcely any impact. the area of its responsibility is too large and the somali pirates are operating at ever greater distances out in the indian ocean. they even use of larger vessels suitable for the high seas. at the smaller boats ar

prior to that i was in somalia in late 2007 and also a very difficult place to work.and came away from that, i don't know, with a rather bleak outlook and crashed, i guess you could say. i needed, i needed some time. and i took that by moving back home, you know? a 30-year-old man moving back home with mom and dad, and i did nothing for as long as i could stand it. and i think had i not done that, things would have been a lot worse. so, yeah, i slept in. played video games. [laughter] >> host: what were some of the worst experiences you had? this. >> guest: i was briefly kidnapped twice in chad. actually not covered in the book. hinted at at the very end of the book. in somalia i spent some time in the after guy ya refugee camp with, among -- surrounded by one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, made friends with somali reporters some of whom have since been seriously hurt or killed. that has been very trying. iraq and afghanistan there is always those bursts of extreme violence that rattle you. i think in the balance, though, somalia and chad have been my, the

>> kumar, lebanon, chad, somalia, congo, off the somali coast. and maybe for forgetting a few.n nicaragua, you're in there. >> that doesn't sound boring. >> way. the title is meant to be war, lat ironic, but not entirely. i war, the modern experience oflof war, low intensity warfare is a lot of sitting around. a it's 99% weighting in tedium and boredom punctuated by 1% sheer terror. i thinkf that describes the porter experience of the typical soldier, but the same for reporters, too.distanceu have between the logistics of where you have to travel, logistics or being a reporter, arrangingnguad interviews and negotiatingot languages and cultural differences. you spend a lot of timed wheedling and maneuvering for the gold nuggets of excitement for the tiny little gem of alika good story. >> this is done much like a >> gue comic book. if a nonfiction. and you write here that i love how were they do appreciate thee little things. he said coming almost like ec popping ecstasy. what do you mean by that? >> and actually never done ecstasy, but i imagine

somalia has been without a functioning central government for years. it is a country run by clans and malicious, and poverty is rife, leaving fisherman with little alternative but to become pirates. >> i often don't have enough money for breakfast. that is why i want to be a pirate. at >> the pirates are armed with assault rifles, mortars, and even rocket-propelled grenades. they target cargo ships and crews because kidnapping officers and sailors is lucrative. >> we have another 1. >> ransoms amounting to millions have been paid in the past. the number of pirate attacks around the world has only risen slightly since 1994, but not as fast as the number of. kidnappings. last year set a new record with over 1000 settlers kidnapped. the european union special naval force active in the gulf of aden and the indian ocean has made scarcely any impact. the area of its responsibility is too large and the somali pirates are operating at ever greater distances out in the indian ocean. they even use of larger vessels suitable for the high seas. at the smaller boat

where it's actually headed according to transparency international afghanistan comes second only to somalia as the most corrupt country in the world i mean the relatives of karzai traveling with unspeakable millions of dollars in cash which is of course not not that i know any details but not the stuff that makes people not wonder about corruption the wall street journal the other day had a piece they figured out about ten million dollars a day was simply leaving from kabul airport the afghan g.d.p. gross domestic product is only about thirteen billion dollars that's a quarter of the g.d.p. going out a year just out of kabul airport with the war not going away anytime soon but it looks likely to last for at least three to four more years where we'll billions more of taxpayer dollars and up i think we're going to see them at the gambling tables of abu dhabi by the sound of it i mean this is not situation where the money is going to be traceable the cash fraud mis man. and she the recordkeeping have been going on for quite a while to see the east the u.s. has already been fighting in afghanis

rescuers have found about three survivors so far believed to be from somalia thousands of africans try to reach yemen every year in shabby and overcrowded boats usually run by smugglers. across the world waters have been treated to the side of a partial solar eclipse visible for about three hours or so the best views were apparently in northeastern sweden the moon's shadow hides between a half and two thirds of the sun's surface turning it into a yellow wore red crescent and for most of europe it started at sunrise but in central russia and china occurs at sunset in november two thousand and twelve say there will be a total eclipse of the sun. and restore that eclipse here in moscow about two hours ago and it was quite a stunning sight now new statistics suggest that malaria is a much bigger problem in india than first thought and study calculates the number of people killed by the disease could be over ten times higher than official figures many blame the country's health care system for failing the rural poor who are most at risk artie's charan singh reports. in india's eastern state

after north korea is iran, afghanistan, saudi arabia, and somalia. >> worldwide, worst place is primarily in the muslim world. >> christian persecution increased significant in places like iraq jumping to no. 8 up from 17 last year. >> iraq has jumped specifically because of the inteional targeting of the christian community of extremist of the factionsof iraq. al-qaeda indicated on its websites, christians were quote, legitimate targets for their holy warriors. >> just before christmas, muslim waged attas including a massacre at a baghdad church. >> we are labelling it religiouside, they want to exterminate all christians from the country of iraq. >> the obama administration is condemning e attacks. state department is deeply concerned about what appears to be a rising number of attacks on christians in middle east and africa. ephram aham the cbn news. >>> christians in egypare cryinout. egyptian officials blame al-qaeda. egypt christians say the government does nothing to protect them. heather sells has more. >> reporter: they are trying to determine if home grown islamic radicals were

to me at felt like somalia. so the americans are pulling out and their motto was we're going to have security over to the police and the army. as they stand up, we will stand gather the problem was the iraqi police and the iraqi army were participants in the civil war on one side. the americans pull back and the iraqi police and iraqi army were going into sunni neighborhoods opening fire at random on houses, and they realized that they're going to comment, that this war in iraq could lead to a regional conflict. and president bush two years away from the end of his reign was being worried about his legacy. you begin to pay much more attention to events iraq. he realized the one thing would be leaving because he of the original conflict, jordan, syria, saudi arabia, iran would all get involved and it would be much, much worse. so he had the sunni position that they lost and you have tempers of the past by sunni militiamen to fight al qaeda. al qaeda came in. yes, it was effective against the americans because it

it felt like somalia which is headed for the first time a year earlier. so the americans are pulling out, and then their motto was we are going to hand the security over to the army and as the stand-up we will stand down. the problem with that was the iraqi police and the iraqi army were participants in the civil war on the one side, so the americans pulled back and saw that the iraqi army were going into the sunni neighborhoods opening fire at random and they realized especially down to the warning that they were going to come in that the civil war in iraq was a regional conflict. and president bush two years away from the end of his reign was beginning to worry that his legacy. so he began to pay attention to the events in iraq and they realized the one thing worse than staying was that they would be leaving because he would have a regional conflict, jordan, syria, saudi arabia, surely iran would get involved and would be much worse. so you have the realization that they have lost and the sense that in the past by the sunni militiamen 25 al qaeda. al qa

. >> somalia? you got them too. but what about hezbollah? anybody who thinks this is going to be a democratic revolution, doesn't understand the forces there. there are too many in egypt. the army has the hard power and the muslim brother has the soft power. muslim brotherhood won 60% of the contested seats. >> where is the sixth fleet? >> in the mediterranean where it has always been. >> where is jabutte -- jabuttei. >> where is it in realization to -- relation to yemen? >> across the city sea. >> how many american troops are in there now? >> i think there's a thousand. >> me, too. >> mubarak has kept this country frof political ideology there. ive that the only alternative to his repression is what pat is talking about, the muslim brotherhood. albaraday is saying there is a whole rainbow of political ideology there. and the muslim brotherhood is late to this protest. so i don't think that we can assume that the regime we don't want. >> what is the best thing that could happen -- >> but we don't have any control over that. >> what is the be

many retain this clan affinity back to somalia with the civil war. and they felt attracted to the radical imams in this country. as i said, the first generation of those fighters, some of them have returned, and others will. i think we have just as much concern about the second generation. these are not naturalize like the first generation, but they are naturalized americans, young men in their teens who are still influence. to date, the self-radicalized sells detected in the united states and canada have lacked a level of sophistication, experience, and access to resources of terrorist cells overseas. their efforts have been in the nascent stages, and many of their efforts have been amateurish, but it is not the success. it is the intent, and eventually, they will get it right. given what i have outlined, i believe we have every reason to be concerned about terrorism in 2011 and beyond. as we know how quickly al qaeda metastasized after 911. al qaeda central may be slowly dying, but its tentacles around the world live on in very remote areas, and th

military has freed all twenty one the crew members held on a cargo ship by pirates off the coast of somalia and they've come on days stormed the vessel killing eight pirates and capturing five others the chemical transporter was hijacked at the weekend while on its way to sri lanka from the united arab emirates. thousands of people had gathered near the interior ministry demanding the dissolution of the new interim government and it came amid a national day of mourning for those who died during the month long uprising that overthrew president but at least seventy eight people were killed during the wave of violence security forces are patrolling the streets trying to restore law and order chaos lucic in the capital tunis. australia is considering spending cuts under special times to help also the massive economic impact of widespread flooding in the country experts say that the devastation in queensland victoria will cost about three billion dollars in lost agricultural production the reconstruction of roads and homes completely washed away by the deluge is a top priority for the government

korea's military has freed all twenty one crew members held on a cargo ship by pirates off the coast of somalia navy commandos stormed the vessel killing eight pirates and capturing five others the chemical transporter was hijacked at the weekend while on its way to st lanka from the united arab emirates . news about anna chapman now the so-called sexy spy ring for her which will take another career turn this time on the russian t.v. sets. the answer. well if she is after years of living under the radar snooping in the united states the spy world pin up girl is now uncovering strange phenomenon in her own network primetime series got to hand it to it's called secrets of the world in a season and i get to the bottom of the song. real life ex. russia and iran. will be spared. ok president karzai is meeting with. the sophie shevardnadze next tonight he tells us how he plans to solve this fragile country's mounting problems across its borders. you. eat you. eat. eat. eat you. karzai afghan president it's an honor and pleasure to have you with us today sir. what were your hopes and two thousand and

founding print of the founding reason for that terrible plane crash in april two thousand and ten in somalia and it's still a very sensitive and divisive figure. as a lot of reporting for us from many thanks for that update. ok well the russian foreign minister who we have from earlier in that report has been outlining the main events that shaped moscow's international policy in twenty ten so he loved it all said he hopes russia and nato will be able to find common grounds over the joint defense projects in. the house been following the meeting for us. the year two thousand and ten will go down in history as the year of radical change in their laces between the two countries all says the year of signing a new city to arms reduction treaty and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said he's very happy with the work that you countries have done in two thousand and seventeen to their relations and what it takes for another successful years simply for the two countries to fulfill to fulfill the promises they made to each other last year this year also this year has been very important for w

military is free to all twenty one crew members held on a cargo ship by pirates off the coast of somalia navy commander stole the vessel killing eight pirates and capturing five others the chemical transporter was hijacked at the weekend while on its way to sri lanka from the united arab emirates . introducing the thousands of people gathered near the interior ministry demanding the dissolution of the new interim government payment made a national day of mourning for those who died during the month long uprising that overthrew president ben ali of the seventy eight people killed in the wave of violence security forces are patrolling the streets trying to restore law and order in the chaos and looting in the capital it's. in five minutes tonight we report more on the israelis being vilified for trying to get their country to find a peaceful solution is coming up shortly after the business of shareowner. welcome to our business program i'm surrounded. plus growth is speeding up in russia presidential aide our college of our coverage forecast inflation may top two percent in january earlier

korea's military is freed all twenty one crew members held on a cargo ship by pirates off the coast of somalia may be commandos stormed the vessel killing eight pirates and capturing five others the chemical transporter was hijacked at the weekend while on its way to sri lanka from the united arab emirates . a new round of talks about getting the turkish cabalist ball over iran's nuclear program discussions between the six world powers involved are expected to revive a fuel swap plan however and a rainy delegate said that issue wasn't on the agenda the talks are set to conclude saturday the country is currently under four sets of u.n. sanctions despite to the un insisting its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. anna chapman the so-called sexy spy is taken another career turn this time once of russian t.v. sets. me i'm still on edge my name is anna chapman. and i'm starting the investigation well after years of living under the radar snooping in the united states the spy world pillow girl is now uncovering strange phenomena in her own network primetime series it's called secrets of t

but his entities are still on the ground in places like somalia and nobody knows again who's paying him and where there are what he's doing is in the interest of the united states or contrary to the interest of the united states. or more likely in my own mind in the interest of partisans within the united states who don't particularly buy off on what our country's policies currently are but do you think of this also highlights the fact that our intelligence agencies that the cia the perhaps even military intelligence aren't all that good if they had even reached out to claridge and this private spying operation to begin with. i am not sure i would go that far and i am not sure that we have the expertise of afghan and pakistani culture that we need. but that isn't that's as much about american culture as it does about anything else i'm not sure that do it claridge knows anything more about our afghan and pakistani cult culture than anybody we have in the cia but what i think it does say is that everything about our policy right there is sort of. you know at the mercy of our a lack of inf

has only you know one out of two countries in the world who hasn't actually signed it somalia apparently is our is our neighbor there are you know what other laws are there. yes well the convention or actually the child explicitly prohibits this practice but there have been there are. other un councils that have looked into this issue and other nations around the world who are specifically criticize the united states for this practice in fact just recently in november of two thousand and ten when. the u.n. human rights council did their universal periodic review i think seven different countries specific lee criticized the united states for assent being the only country in the world that sentences kids to life in prison without the possibility of parole and i do want to mention in jordan brown's case in the case of pennsylvania. this is a mandatory sentence so the judge will not have the ability to take into consideration you know any mitigating factors including the age of jordan brown at the time of his offense once if he is convicted in adult court and that's one reason why pennsylvan

this morning, people in somalia say islamic militants have banned unrelated men and women from shaking hands, speaking or walking together. people in the southern part of that country say insurgents threaten to whip, imprison or execute anyone who breaks those rules. insurgents in the area have already banned women from working in public. >> new this morning, a young girl is alive and well after a plane crash in venezuela that killed the other five people on board. all five of those victims are her family members. miraculously the ten-year-old girl survived the plane crash without any injuries. the small plane took off from the caribbean headed for an airport near caracas. the cause of the accident has not yet been determined. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," living like george jetson, the new generation of robots that will clean your house while you sit back and relax. >> got one of those at our house. i know they work. >>> there is the golden gate bridge or at least the bottom half. it got fog and chilly temperatures to kick off your weekend. the rest of your forecast is coming u

although by 1977 the very last case of smallpox -- smallpox found in somalia.tely in atlanta at the cdc and in moscow it turns out the russians were making it illegally and who knows where it is now. there is a big fear the buy-out terrorist could get aholdd of it but now it is gone that led to thew expanded program. there was almost a bit of humor or comic relief a supposed to be the most pristine water in the united states at crater lake and it had a terrible diarrhea epidemic broke my wife said on the book was finished it is interesting there was too much diarrhea. [laughter] i said this is what happens. refusing to admit there is a problem kept having the very sick restaurant workers continue to work and pass it on to other people then the cdc was blamed for not closing the park earlier. they close the national park. of the first time it ever happened. the very next year, i call this the chapter of livingnnin dangerously. t because at the beginning there was a huge three year there was going to be the swine flu epidemic. it just shows how myopic the news me

it felt like somalia. americans are pulling out and their motto, the police and the army, we will stand down. the problem was the iraqi police and iraqi army were participants in the civil war on one side. americans pulled back and the iraqi army going into the city neighborhoods opening fire at random on houses and realized they were going to come in. this civil war could lead to a regional conflict. president bush, two years from the end of his reign was worried about his legacy. he realized the one thing worse than staying was leaving because you had a regional conflict, jordan and saudi arabia and surely iran. it would be much worse. you had this in the realization that they lost an attempt in the past by sunni militia men to fight al qaeda who came in to iraq. it was very affective against the americans because of the suicide bombers and a self-defense militias because it was so brutal but it was also brittle against the sunni population. in the and bar province it was disrupting smuggling routes and

of the cold war in the last two decades the united states has engaged in military interventions in somalia, bosnia, haiti, kosovo, iraq and afghanistan. these military interventions had varying motives, but they all ended with the united states spending a lot of time and effort trying to build a working governmental institutions in these countries to use the familiar term. we have got ourselves involved in nation-building all over the world. whenever you think of those particular missions with you are for or against him we really come to the end of them. there are just too expensive. none of them have been all that popular with the public. they came about in response to an attack on the u.s. states. now that in the nation-building has become unpopular. although i think members of the foreign policy community and members of the government see this kind of activity as the wave of the future. a lot of talk about reorganizing the defense department and converting the state department so that its officials will be better at doing the things of we have done in these countries. i think the public

nonetheless, they did manage by 1977, at the very last page of smallpox was found in somalia. ever since. they still kept the smallpox in freezers ultimately in atlanta at the cdc and in moscow. it turns out the russians were making it illegally and who knows where it is now. so there's a big fear bioterrorists may get hold of it. but for the time being it's gone. that led to an expanded program and that's an enormous impact on the world. this was sort of a bit of humor comic relief. crater lake is most to be the most pristine water in the united states. and it had a terrible diarrhea epidemic. my wife while she was complaining how long it was taking me to finish the book. it's a great book but there's too much diarrhea. take it out. i said, hey, this is what happens. anyway, the concessionaire refused to admit to and had very sick restaurant workers who continued to work and passed it on to people. it's an interesting thing and then the cdc got blamed for it for not closing the park earlier. they closed the national park, the first time that it ever happened. the very next ye