certainty is the main component in any economy is trust and the shelling out of trust so that in somalia what you're saying here has a stable economy based on a stable currency whereas in the u.s. or the bank of japan or the u.k. it's completely unstable because the currency is incredibly volatile because people don't trust these governments central planners all well you identify a key word there is just trust and here the are the central banks i just listed they think they can command and control they can force you to trust when there is no trust in the system why would you trust any derivative products from j.p. morgan to goldman sachs why would you trust any of these debts that any of them are payable why would you trust to ever work and pay your taxes again when as we see in ireland when people are refusing to pay their taxes it's just being transferred directly to a small group of bankers now the economists article brings up this issue of trust and says the shilling has a further source of strength since each party to a transaction is likely to be able to place the author within som

about writing and somalia is putting america to shame and the other thing actually you can apply this to look at the american intellectual property rights this term so here's a group of people without any command and control government no central government for twenty years max no central bank for twenty years and here they're able to say we'll accept some forgeries because it's the cost of doing business and by this alchemy in imitation of a thing which is already have a notional value turns out to be worth something so you can apply that to the whole intellectual property market that's right you have a central planning central command and control problem in the economy with the fed that's blocking free market and competition and the n.p.a. a motion picture association of america and the recording industry association of america is acting like a centralized command and control intellectual property central bank which is destroying competition or trying to anyway in that industry as well so here you have in somalia it's spontaneous it's a spontaneous organization these people don't ne

they said they do not speak for the people of somalia. the fighters that are often said to be inspired by al qaeda are forced into adopting guerrilla tactics. 9vq7q attack ser that this is still one of the most dangerous countries on earth. >> still very dangerous indeed. the u.s. said that it is ready to resume the trial of guantanamo bay prisoners charged with the attacks on to november 11. among them is the legend mastermind of 9/11. he halted the previous military trial saying that he wanted them prosecuted in a civilian ourt, -- court, but congress halted that. americans assumed they had been charged already. >> they have been under george w. bush's administration. the suspects were charged, the plan was to go to military trial. when president obama wanted to close guantanamo bay, he wanted them to face trial in civilian court. the administration was left with no option but to press ahead with the military trial. >> probably the most famous of this group, ksm, and because of the controversy surrounding his treatment. how does that go

they said they did not speak for the people of somalia. the alshabab fighters have been on the wrong foot in recent months. their recent return to the heart of the capital serves as a reminder this is still one of the most dangerous countries on earth. bbc news. >> still dangerous times there in somalia. today, the u.s. military says it is ready to go forward with the trials of the guantanamo bay prisoners charged with planning 9/11, among them kalid sheik mohammed. president obama had said he wanted the men and prosecuted in civilian court, but congress opposed him. for more, i am joined by jonathan blake, and most americans would say has this guy not already been charged and tried? >> in 2008, under the bush administration, these five suspects were charged with the september 11 attacks. it was planned to be a military trial at guantanamo bay where they were being held. he announced these charges would be withdrawn and the suspects would go on trial in a civilian court in new york. that plan turned out to be so unworkable it was scrapped.

have attacked two others downs today in the south of somalia. elbaradei and another town where they inflicted casualties. it is a hit-and-run operation. they do not aconfront forces directly. they will move out if too many troops attacked and hit back at a later date. >> weakness is a relative term, because it is pretty damaging. it is, but the number of areas they control has diminished and they have lost a lot of fighters. but they are still a major force. with such a suicide bombing, they can go on for long time. >> thank you very much. french concerns about suspected islamic extremists have been raised, this time with another round of arrests in locations stretching from the southern coast to near the northern border with belgium. in pre-dawn raids witnessed by local journalists, at least 10 people arrested for their connection to islamist web sites and for allegedly if threatening violence in the online forms. this is the second round up since mohammed merah killed seven people in and around to lose last month. he was eventually shot dead b

is not a routine thing in somalia.the problem. this is a country that had 20 years of dictatorship from the 1980s. no real culture of parliamentary debate and dialogue and then 20 years of state collapse. so we're really dealing with somali political figures that have no history, no culture of the give and take of parliamentary debate. >> there's a guy in one just wailing on somebody with a cane, intending to do some real harm. >> i've seen more effective fighting in other places. this was really haphazard, but it was quite dangerous because of the way they were using chairs and sticks. i mean someone could have gotten killed. >> peacekeepers are eventually allowed into somalia in 2007. and as a result, fighting among somali insurgents increases. >> we've got a very serious political crisis on our hands, and it has triggered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. 3.8 million somalis are in immediate need of humanitarian assistance. 1.8 million displaced because of fighting. u.n. considers somalia the worst humanit

they did not speak for the people of somalia. the fighters who are often said to be inspired by al qaeda, had been on the back foot, driven out of mogadishu and forced into adopting guerilla tactics. their ability to stage an attack in the heart of the capital serves as a reminder that this is still one of the most dangerous countries on earth. >> you have more on a disease which is harmless in the developed world but is killing babies in vietnam. >> that is right. it is rising at an alarming rate. that's from hand, foot, and mouth disease. 11 infants have died. within 15 of them -- more than 15,000 others have been affected. there is no treatment. it is thought the good hygiene reduces the risk of catching it. we are joined by skype from the vietnam red cross who have just launched an emergency appeal. thank you for joining us. when of the peak periods for the disease? >> good morning. thank you for having us on the air. the two periods starting l. in april -- now in april and it goes to june. the second. it is august to novembe

somalia's prime minister was speaking at the time of the attack. at least six people were killed when a female suicide bomber struck a ceremony at the national theater. the victims included two of somalia's top sports officials. >>> the u.s. has put a $10 million bounty on the head of islamic militant leader saeed. it seems like an easy payday for mb. he held a news conference yesterday in pakistan right across the street from pakistan's army. he taunted the u.s., calling the bounty laughable. saeed is suspected of planning the 2008 attacks on mumbai, india. he says he'll be in lahore, pakistan, today. >>> a senior u.n. official arrives in syria today to try to finalize a cease-fire agreed to by the syrian government. but as you see there, syrian troops have not stopped their crackdown on opposition forces. syrian artillery pounded the city of homs yesterday while other troops stormed rebel positions. >>> coming up on the morning news, the rebuilding begins. people in north texas hit by a string of tornadoes assess the damage. first though, a previ

he said they did not speak for the people of somalia. the fighters, who are often said to be inspired by al qaeda have been on the back foot in recent months, forced out of mogadishu and in the foothills. this serves as a reminder that this is still one of the most dangerous countries on early. "bbc news." >> at last the americans are going to try the man alleged to be behind the 9/11 attacks. >> that's right. khalid sheikh mohammed and four of his co-conspirators are going to trial. they have been charged with terrorism, hijacking aircraft and murder. they will be tried by a special military tribunal and could face the death penalty. here is our correspondent. >> these five men are accused of planning and executing the worst terrorist attacks on america in living memory. the u.s. government holds them responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 people in attacks on new york and washington. the process of bringing them to trial has been long and complicated. their charges were suspended under president obama as part of his plan to close d

were detained by coast guards a day earlier at a huge warehouse near the port all of them are from somalia five died during the journey. they needed some help. with that. because they don't have any government via. plate and then. it takes a small boat ten to twelve miles to cover the distance between the african continent and lampedusa. quite often the engine runs out of fuel because of a poorly planned route. as a result a log scale operation welding high speed motor boats and coast guard helicopters has to be melted in an effort to save the refugees. spring has indeed triggered a big influx of immigrants we have rescued about twenty thousand refugees from both libya in italy itself the growing refugee exodus from other countries has provoked many social and political issues. the island is falling into decay even in the main streets the ones flourishing restaurants for sale signs. children are rarely seen here these days last year lots of the parents sent them to sicily instead. nowadays the local citizens of lampedusa a mostly over fifty sixty three year old. logs his shop well ahead of

the port on the island of lampedusa a group of refugees is just arrived from somalia and is being ferried to the mainland once they arrive they will be sent to the refugee camps got across italy. some somalis who were unable to make it out of this post wait for the next run many of them are happy with the prospect of a new life. good. this is one of the centers where refugees have their identity checked the little old what's in store for them. but first they go through a complete medical check up then they face a procedure establishing their identity and an interview with a psychologist. the. refugees may spend several months awaiting a decision on whether or not they are allowed to stay in italy. all the while they have to remain in isolation behind three metre high fences with civil war still raging in somalia refugees from that country can count on a decision in their favor for the people who've left their homes in countries in the wake of the arab spring have little chance of finding refuge in italy. citizens are sent back as a rule it's assumed they face no problems in their homeland

you have an expanding air war in pakistan, in yemen, in somalia. you have night raids, you have an expansion of the use of special operations forces. and yet we remember the pledges that president obama made when he was candidate obama, how he was going to dismantle the bush doctrine, and he was going to reengage the world. and, indeed, the first several executive orders that he issued dealt with dismantling parts, key parts of the torture apparatus in the united states. pledges to close guantanamo. the united states doesn't torture, bottom line. in fact, he gave that speech at the national archives. and yet if we fast forward to where we are now and we look at it, how big of a break have we seen from the bush doctrine when it comes to foreign policy? >> well, i think up until recently there was relatively little break. i mean, that is -- i would put it this way, in the bush administration we already saw a break from the bush doctrine. that is, you have the first bush years, and then you have what i would call the gates doctrine which was kind of a

. >> i was recently in somalia, people are beheaded for having a bible. i don't think it is a place a lot of missionaries would want to go to to disciple. >> no, it is not. one of the huge challenges is leadership development. how do we find those people and get them ready to be leaders of a small group and then of a larger group and oversea several small groups. how do we disciple them, train them, bring them along as leaders? that is a huge challenge in a place like somalia. you can't sign up for bible school classes. it is too dangerous. >> what can individuals do? >> i think one of the key things is pray. we need to pray for the church in restricted nations, for true doctrine to be taught. we can help provide satellite television broadcasts that are preaching true doctrine and training up leaders. we can help provide bibles so they can study the scripture and see what it says. those are very practical tools that help the church avoid these confusing churches. >> todd nettleton, always good to have you here, thank you for joining us. >> learn how you c

the united states continues to be involved with secret prisons including somalia, pakistan, relations deteriorated between the u.s. and pakistan and terrorism or perceived threat of terrorism expanding in countries where the u.s. claims to be trying to stamp it out. these two realities cannot be seen as separate from each other. we have to come to grips with the possibility, the reality that u.s. policy is fueling terrorism but also giving people a justifiable reason to be angry at the united states. in all of the country's i have seen in the past year i have seen that in a very clear way. one of the forces that i go to, serious analysis for people who will think outside the box -- i sound like mitt romney. i am not a washington insider. one place we go regularly to read serious analysis and be provoked in a very good way is tom dispatch and the work of tom engelhardt. join me in giving a hearty welcome to the author of "the united states of fear," tom engelhardt. [applause] >> jeremy is a stand-up guy and i'm a stand down and die. i am an editor. is rare in my life i am in front of a

until somalia -- until somalia stabilizes, you know, from end to end, the whole country until there'snt or a functioning government that can control territory, we're going to see -- the piracy problem isn't going to go away, but it's getting harder for them. there's been a naval response that has made it harder to hijack ships. more pirates have been arrested. i think these two things are happening at the same time. as i wrote in this story about mogadishu, with the advent of more businesses and more sort of normal life, there's going to be an alternative for young men to take a normal job. and i met guys that were trying to get out of the killing business. they were militia fighters, and they had spent years carrying a gun and working for this warlord or that warlord, and they said, you know, i just want to be a driver. i just want a normal job. and that wasn't really possible until recently. now mogadishu is just a piece of it. there's a big country and a lot of it is still very underdeveloped and poor, but as these -- as the country gets more stable and there's more economic opport

in the case of yemen, pakistan, and somalia, the local governments approve but how legal is it? this would not apply to against dan or when we were in the iraq. the case becomes more difficult in yemen and somalia and pakistan and wherever else we plan on using the drones. there is a lot of animosity out there for this program and a lot of suspicion and i think a lot of it is warranted. host: you said currently the u.s. is building more drugs than pilots and aircraft? guest: that's correct. it was either this your last year was the first year that they produced more unmanned systems than they do manned systems. they are cheaper and easier to maintain that they are not as technologically advanced. compare a drawing to an f-22, there is just no comparison. the drones are slow. they have limited defense. i believe you can mounted stinger missiles which is nothing like anything else can clock -- that can engage aircraft. stealth't have capabilities. you could shoot down a drone with a world war two fighter. they're good on counter insurgency were the enemy does not have a robust ant

a lot of the people that knew me before somalia don't understand me. and i feel like i come here and it's okay. whatever changed me, you know, about somalia, here it's understood and it's okay. >> ifill: there's much >> ifill: there's much more about the combat paper project on our web site, newshour.pbs.org, including a slideshow of veterans' art projects and an expanded look on how combat paper is created. also, if you're a veteran involved in arts therapy, please share your story with us on our art beat page. >> again, the major developments of the day. president obama declined to discuss the case of a chinese dissident who's apparently being sheltered by americans in beijing, after fleeing house arrest. and more than 100 people were killed in a ferry disaster in northeastern india. two corrections before we go tonight. on friday's broadcast, we reported that u.s. economic growth expanded 2.2% in the first quarter this year. we should have indicated that was an annual rate. and we said spain was the fourth largest economy in europe. it's the fourth

craig cashed out his savings and headed to somalia with intention of joining al. he made a stop in kenya, was arrested by the fbi. faces 15 years in prison. a woodbridge man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for producing an online propaganda video. 24-year-old juber admitted to providing material support to the same terror group that is blamed for the deadly attack. in addition to the video, he also received military training from the group and professed a wish to die. jury selection continued today in the trial of john edwards facing six counts in federal court, related to $1 million in campaign cash used to hide his pregnant mistress during his bid. a jury expected to be seated next week. edward's mistress is expected to testify as well as edward's oldest daughter. still to come here on the news edge. tax day next tuesday. might be tempting to blow your refund on something fun. may be able to get more use out of it. we have some ideas. >> very, very nice weekend weather coming our way. brian, we'll have the specifics. the entire forecast all coming up in

whether those operations are taking place in pakistan, afghanistan, in yemen, in somalia, in other parts of the world. they are unified in the approach. they're working off of strong intelligence resources that are being shared. the operations that are developed, whether done covert or worked out within the operation centers that developed in each of those areas. there's very close coordination. there isn't a target that is taken on that doesn't involve the participation of both the intelligence and military operations and they're doing it very effectively. i do think that, you know, we need to learn the lessons. i think you're right that we need to put in place probably the kind of lessons learned so that we can make sure that the kind of cooperation that's going on now is one that continues. that's probably my biggest concern is that it's working well now. we're facing al qaeda. we're facing terrorism together, but, you know, as we are able to achieve some success there, there may be a danger that both of these may go off and try to do their own thing. that's what we have to pay attent

during a bombing at the reopening survey of the country's national theater the president of the somalia olympic committee and the head of the national football federation both died in the attack by the islamist al-shabaab group which says it planted the explosives that militants were pushed out of market issue by african union troops last year but they've continued to carry out bomb attacks. passenger grams exploded in pakistan has killed at least six and wounded nine others through the injured when a critical condition visual said device was planted inside the van in the khyber district which is known to be an al qaeda and taliban. self-proclaimed mastermind of the nine eleven terror attacks and four suspects the couple says are finally set to go before a guantanamo war crimes tribunal that charged with terrorism hijacking aircraft almost three thousand counts of murder any trial could still be months away and if convicted they face the death penalty. britain suffering a nasty hangover from a nationwide bargain basement binged low cost alcohol is being blamed for a spike in drug relate

interests in yemen is the same interest we had in the fatah and we have in somalia, which is to go after those terrorists, those al qaeda terrorists, who are involved in planning attacks on this country. no more. no less. >> could i add, mr. chairman, just 30 seconds? >> if the chairman -- >> that's on the -- on the, what we're doing kinetically but i also want to point out that we are working very closely with the, with the military in yemen. notably their special forces to increase their capabilities as a building partner capacity endeavor. so i think it's important not to see this as, you know, we're only doing one thing and not the other. we're actually trying to round it off. >> appreciate that. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, again, for you both being here today, and just real briefly, over the next three months, can you just explain to us how you see the opposition? do you see it fragmenting or do you see it coalescing? how do you see this playing out over the course of the next, say, three months? >> in syria? >> yes. sorry. >> that's okay. >>

a story of pirates in somalia, told from the perspective of the pirates.s toning your arms for summer, steve hayes puts us through his workout. >>> in january the sundance film festival a awarded a prize to the 17-minute film "fishing without nets." the film's director joins us this morning with more on the making of this short film. good morning and welcome home. you're a washington-area guy. >> yes, arlington, virginia. >> tell us, in fact let's take a look at the trailer and see a little of the film. >> okay, tell us how did you decide you wanted it make a movie about these pirates? >> yeah. basically back in 2008 i got really obsessed with the somali pirates after reading this, these "new york times" articles that were chronicling the whole, the whole epidemic, if you will. and just got obsessed with who are these guys and why are they doing this. >> we were covering those stories. pretty regularly at one point. but you decided you wanted to tell it from the pirate's point of view. why? >> i think first and foremost, to me it was the most interesting a

we saw some terrible wars in africa and somalia and mozambique and angola and we went to pakistan and spend a lot of time and afghanistan. we moved to cyprus and traveled through the arab world. we went to moscow for three years and got to jerusalem. there had been a pattern covering conflict. we got to jerusalem thinking that might continue on. is important to remember in 1999 it was different in jerusalem. it was quiet. for three years there had been no major violence. after the cold war ended in 91 the israelis and palestinians began talking to each other. they were meeting on a daily basis. as we walked around one of the first day as i was there i went to the temple mount. the place where the ancient jewish temples were and where the golden dome of the rockabilly dismal the iconic dome of the rock has been built on top of the ancient temples. the church where jesus was crucified and buried is half a mile -- all within yards of each other. this muslim -- palestinian muslims at prayer. mostly older people older -- reading from the koran but what jumped out at me was 20 israeli soldi

. >> for the past 21 years there has not been water on somalia drive. just recently the president and i, we dedicated or opened the first water main since 1990, so people along somalia drive now have pipe-borne water. >> reporter: curious to see if rhetoric matched reality, teecee left the interview and went straight to somalia drive. after hours of fruitless searching, she found no evidence of water flowing from city pipes to local taps. since the war, it only came once. teecee did find a local man profiting from the water shortage by re-selling bags of water. but he also had seen no proof the city was pumping water to his neighborhood. >> before the war there was water all around here, but now we don't know what is the problem. >> reporter: kulah borbor fled heavy fighting in the interior during liberia's civil war and came to west point, one of monrovia's largest slums. she arrived with husband and four young children, only to face another battle. >> when we get here, we started drinking good water, it went bad with a bug that hit our stomach, so he

he was arrested in kenya before reaching somalia. a final vote tally for and at large d.c. council seat. vincent orange led his challenger by four of543 votes. election officials will count absentee and provisional ballots and the polls will be announced after 5:00 this afternoon. >> the nationals will face the breads again tonight. >> the d.c. 9 started their first-round series of the season with a victory in front of a packed house. gio gonzalez struck out seven. a wild pitch to clinch it. in the bottom of the 10th inning, this wild pitch for ryan zimmerman. he crosses the plate safely and the nationals win. the capitals are down after game 1 of the stanley cup playoffs in boston. >> scores!. >> the only goal for kelly, but it came in overtime. sudden death. boston wins. game two is tomorrow afternoon also in boston. >> 6:006, 45 degrees. >> newark mayor cory booker making national headlines. >> and metro raising fares. we will tell you how much a ride could cost. >> a weekend warmup is not here yet, but it's coming soon. adam caskey has a forecast. lisa baden >> newark m

going into somalia, dealing with high value targets in yemen, again, kinds of goes back to that pointking about in terms of how al qaeda has dissipated moved off to different areas. so you have to where possible, e ito isatn llg ay s,hise'gongo do >>ao unck atie of, wt he aintrio isilngo do. dad corn, youav a book that details a lot of the decision making behind the killing of bin lad laden. tell us more about that and the credit that the president is due and or how reflective the decision making process is of his administration and his ethic. >> well, my chapter on bin laden is my favorite chap per. i think it's a great episode in presidential decision making. you used the word deliberative. i would also say decisive. i'll give ra bore geheorr fda rng. atha meetin uto then,ci analysts told hi we have a 60 to 80% certainty that the guy there is bin laden. mike knows how this works. they took a red team exercise, that is they gave the same intelligence to a bunch of analyst who's who hadn't looked at it before and they said we think 40 to 60. here it is going in the wrong direction at