they are from somalia, afghanistan, increasingly syrian. all on a camp that is run by volunteers to provide food and shelter. he has just arrived from aleppo with a vague plan to find his brother in athens. >> our live was assured in syria. we cannot stay in syria. there were bombs attacking the houses. we cannot stay in syria. >> this is where many people cross over to the greek island from turkey. it is seen in the distance behind me. it is not far away, but the journey is dangerous. the boats used are often in battered conditions and at this time of year, the seas can be very rough. not everyone makes it across. more than 20 drowned from this group and here is the only survivor who was finished half dead out of the sea by the greek coastguard. they're now trying to call friends and family to tell them he is alive. he is receiving counseling, but he seems very confused about what to do next. meanwhile, more and more syrians are arriving in athens who know no one in this city and to speak. greek. he ran away from the government army. >> ev

they took off her training in somalia. they went to somalia and mauritania, and later on, some of them are just making them up, and a eventually they went to the religious movement in algeria and eventually became al qaeda. this is now an revolution, which reflects this. so there you have the volatile cocktail of politics and religion. because the motivation of the foot soldiers is to create an islamic state in nigeria. it is something that they dream of. there are videos. and a lot of rhetoric and fun yes, we want an islamic state. yes, one of their leaders went so far when the government was -- when political leaders were opposing amnesty and so forth, until we are willing to sit down and negotiate with him. we don't know what you want, and i said, don't be stupid, we know very well where their motivation is. that is the reason for the devastation of the north today. the country in which years of independence, certain sections of the country consider non-muslims, whether christians or non-muslims -- they consider them di

citizenship revoked while visiting somalia and following bant a man he heard she went missing and as aussies going there to check out reports only to appear months later in a new york courtroom charged with terrorism. bhakti how she stands accused of providing material support to somali militant group al-shabaab how she was stripped of his british citizenship earlier this summer over accusations of his involvement with islamist extremists at the time he and his family tried to contest that decision they claim that m i five. to label him an islamic extremist if he refused to become an informant for british intelligence and spy on the muslim community shortly after his citizenship was revoked he went missing on the outskirts of mogadishu somalia and one of our reporters broke with his parents several months ago when they had no idea where their son was and they were very worried about him apparently all this time he'd been in u.s. custody also on trial along with the ha she faces similar charges or two of the men swedish national and so all of these men are not u.s. citizens and yet th

from those very communities, today people do so as not to judaic somalia. the conflict is not. i say ineffability three-piece idea. it's not what israel is they're willing to pay. president obama implied and prime minister netanyahu had to come to washington to tell him, no we cannot. now we cannot do what you want because it is much deeper than what we are willing to give. the conflict is about the very existence of israel and when you talk to dad with palestinian leaders, you understand that 67 line. they don't want to see jews division in the middle east. i want to conclude and change the language that we speak regarding israel. all the time and in the book is a young generation of israelis, which changed the language. enough with the apologetic tone. all the time have to apologize. so i'm talking in my book about the rights. we have rights in israel and i started with a biblical right. a lot of you are believers, christians and jews a lake written in the bible about the connection of jews to the land of israel. for those of you which is just not enough to prove it and go ba

has been keeping their bull's eye over locations like yemen somalia and pakistan it turns out the u.s. has had a record number of drone strikes in afghanistan american drone strikes reach a record of four hundred forty seven attacks in two thousand and twelve about one hundred fifty more strikes than the u.s. launched just a year earlier so it seems like the death of mastermind osama bin laden in two thousand and eleven didn't mean less drone strikes. us a letter on ours he legislators on capitol hill made some adjustments to the video privacy protection act after the break will shed some light on the new bill and what it could mean for your privacy. the worst you are the only one of the. radio guys. what. have you ever seen anything like. and now do a story explaining what your legislators have been up to shortly before they left for christmas break u.s. congress carved out some time to look over the video privacy protection act part of what this bill does is loosen privacy protections and it appears it was a legislative priority for the company nothe likes now netflix can have its c

has been keeping their bull's eye over locations like yemen somalia and pakistan it turns out that the u.s. has had a record number of drone strikes in afghanistan american drone strikes reached a record of four hundred forty seven attacks in two thousand and twelve that the hundred about one hundred fifty more strikes than the u.s. launched just a year earlier so it seems like the death of the mastermind of nine eleven mastermind osama bin laden in two thousand and eleven didn't mean less drone strikes. and now to a story explaining what your legislators have been up to right before christmas eve the u.s. congress carved out some time to look over the video privacy protection act why so that it could loosen the privacy protections afforded in the bill it appears this was a legislative priority for the company netflix now netflix can have its users display the movies they're watching on their facebook pages it's a nice holiday gift for netflix and facebook but what about its consumers this of course comes as congress is in negotiations to prevent the country from falling over the fisca

we saw that happen in somalia. i do not think you mentioned the amount of warlords. >> warblers are not here. -- warlords are not here. >> the goal of our efforts are to help build up the congolese military and make them capable of taking care of these problems. >> that is born internal defense. >> -- foreign internal defense. >> right now we have three personnel who are part of the monusco mission. when we had the training effort underway for the 391st, it was about 60 folks. there are now out. it is a limited footprint. about 17,000 u.n. troops in the congo. >> all of these different non state, non uniform belligeren ts coming together against our efforts, is there a potential there? >> no. a like to underscore what has been said. about americanng soldiers on the ground, engaged against rebel groups in the drc. that is not something that is in our game plan or in our thinking. what we need to focus on -- >> train and enable? >> to train and unable, build capacity. >> build capacity, an able and trained. -- enable

look at somalia. look at more tanya. -- and more tanya -- look at another country. we would have thought africa is immune. in many ways, african religions, the world views, the perceptions have managed. the extremism in parts of the world, costing billions of lives, literally, in is time to remind africans of some of the ways of managing and also to tell the world. if that happens in other parts of the world, it affects africa sooner or later. tavis: do i detect in what you just said a critique of africa and being complicit in some of this stuff? >> of course. i am not pretending to write about africa in general. what is useful to the coming generations and the world. inevitably, and african- americans. we must also come to terms with our past and stop romanticizing certain features, including activities of africans, said that is just one of the things. tavis: yes. to the point you made a moment ago, i am always leery about asking about africa. it is such a vast continent. but talk about the struggle over the years and even now for africa to come to terms with its r

these are the hopeful signs of a new era in somalia that -- and that long suffering country. the mission in somalia had a strong financial support and training from the u.s. and partners. it could expel al shabob the major cities. -- from your cities. it is fragmented by dissension and much weakened. we can all agree that is good news. the al qaeda core is on the path to defeat. the two most dangerous affiliate's have suffered their worst setbacks in years. if we only had a static set of challenges, we would all be feeling great. but the tumultuous events of the last couple of years in the middle east and north africa have added complications to this picture. in mali, the islamists are tending to is -- consolidate their safe haven. and the subsequent rebellion with weapons from a libyan stocks in bamako have brought and stability. -- has brought instability. we can -- weakened domestic security institutions and civil strife create the kind of environment that terrorists are drawn to. libya has provided one such case where extremists can cause real problems for states undergoi

so -- and it ranks almost dead last and mo abrams index next to somalia. i was in somalia about five weeks ago. i tell you, i can understand that. so it's a tough place, it's a tough -- it's full of atrocities and human rights violations. and somehow we have to support the government of drc to do a better job and to take eastern congo and turn it -- it has incredible mineral -- some of the estimates are $24 trillion of wealth to bring out in the future. it could be a very rich country. >> let's talk briefly the fiscal cliff. your father has been very vocal about taxes. he says come on, bring it to me, tax me more. obviously you'll be in the firing line because you're not a poor man, are you. are you happy your father is leading this call for you to get -- >> no, because i hear from all my republican friends who don't like it. you know, the fiscal cliff, you talk about it, it's like -- you know, it's the result of poor behavior. no one should be surprised. you know, on the other hand the world doesn't end tomorrow if we go off the cliff. coke sells coca-col

. >> the bodies of 55 immigrant who is drowned off the coast of somalia have been laid out for identification. relatives crowded the hospital. survivors said the boat capsized into its journey to yemen. >> in kenya, women and children are among the dead after rival land fighting between farmers and cattle herders. >> in just a few hour this is slage was turn into a scene of carnage. the men who attacked the people here use guns and machetes to kill and maim. among the dead and injured are women and children. the people of the village belong to seminomadic people who roam the land with their farm. each side claiming water and grazing fields in the territory belong to them. >> i believe this is a time to blame them. we need teamwork so that we can be able to help ours from this fighting that we're in. >> the region could be one of the most valuable untapped agricultural areas in the country. but kenya just months away from an election. experts say this is about power and money. >> it is really about politics and the forthcoming election. and it's about numbers. you have a grouping in which the

south and central somalia.inst this backdrop would begin her tenure with us about what we need to do to be more effect to. in general, we believe we have to have a more comprehensive and the more genuinely strategic approach. we had to invigorate our diplomacy to strengthen the foreign partnerships absolutely vital to our success. we knew moreover whether military intelligence community and law enforcement agency of civilian agencies and also governments around the world were not yet sufficiently engaged and we recognize clearly that is not just to reduce the data such as we wanted. but that in that we put a high priority on two key areas. while that capacity building subcultures around the world can do a better job dealing with the threat within their borders and in their region and recognizing we had to address the deputy national security adviser john brennan had labeled the upstream factors of radicalization. the resolve to strengthen our work in countering violent extremism or that government power so they

you should remember the somalia al-shabaab -- much of south and central somalia. against this backdrop we begin our tenure with thoughts about away needed to do to be more effective. in general, we believe we had to have a more comprehensive and to be more and genuinely strategic approach. we had to invigorate the dip that are absolutely vital to the success. we knew more over that while the military intelligence community in law enforcement agencies were all firing on all cylinders civilians agencies here in the u.s. and government around world were not sufficiently engaged. and we recognize clearly that action was not enough to reduce the threat. as much as we wanted it to. with that in mind, we put a high priority on two key areas. one was the capacity building. the countries around the world could a better job dealing with the threats within the border and regions and recognizing we had to address what deputy national secure security adviser had labeled upstream factor of really a callization -- radicalization. we could blubt the attraction of violence and red

to somalia to mauritania and mitterrand sent to afghanistan. until eventually the religious movement in nigeria became allied to al qaeda. this note is an admission which the government has been reluctant to make, but reflects actuarially. so there you have a volatile cocktail of politics and religion because the weapon, the motivation of the soldiers is to create an islamic state in nigeria. it's not something anybody troon says. it's the cds crossing each other and centrists we want an islamic state. in fact, one of the leaders went so far when the government's political leaders were proposing amnesty and so on. the secretion into that convert everyone to sit down and negotiate with him. and so each time you hit the government said please come talk to us, we will listen now. you said it so often and they know very well what the motivation is. that is the reason for the devastation of the north today, a kind show in which after years of independent, certain sections of the country considered the rest non-muslims, whether they're christian, wha

reporters without borders say somalia, syria and mexico are currently the most dangerous places for journalists. now we meet ana lilia perez, a mexican reporter and writer who found out first-hand that corruption, and not the drug cartels, is the biggest problem in mexico. we caught up with her here in germany. >> taking a walk without a bullet-proof vest -- that's been a liberating feeling for ana lilia pÉrez in the six months she's been in hamburg. at home in mexico she spent the past few years protected by bodyguards to ward off murderous attacks. >> it makes a huge difference to be living in one of the safest countries in the world -- a country where it's not normal to see people being gunned down on the street or where armed groups take over entire villages. this is very positive for me because it helps me realize that the things going on in my country are not normal and that mexicans shouldn't accept that situation as normal. >> the journalist was only 20 when she first made a name for herself as an investigative reporter for daily and weekly newspapers. she's convinced her work can bring

my colleague from florida mentioned somalia. certainly in vietnam we tried to do the noble things. we're in a different financial reality. in the absence of a national security interest in the congo, i am afraid that sequestration will force us to retract even though we may wish to the contrary. i yield back the remainder of my time. >> a couple of questions. sequestration is not only obama's, but also our responsibility. i believe we voted for it. >> i did not vote for it. >> we talked about this whole issue. it has been suggested that perhaps -- >> $80 million. is that more or less correct? [indiscernible] >> we will hear that in a few moments. if that is correct, i would point out that this really is a national security issue for america because de-stabilization of africa provides a direct opportunity for al-qaeda and related terrorist organizations. is that the situation in africa today? >> certainly to up the continent, that is a concern. this region we're focused on, we have not seen that concern yet. >> beyond this region into roby on this region. >> clips make it clear that

strengthen, i use this term loosely, the government of libya is very important because if we sees somalias time on the southern coast of the mediterranean, it's very clear that europe will be vulnerable and indeed we will be worldwide, so it seems to me this is something that we should be involved in, but our friends in europe really have a lot at stake here, too. >> ambassador, we want to also ask you tonight about former vice-president dick cheney's latest remarks. now, last night he blasted president obama's foreign policy in the middle east. here's what he said in part. >> i think certainly in my conversations with many of those people, they no longer believe us. they no longer trust us. they no longer believe they can count on the united states of america to do what we did 20 years ago. our allies no longer trust us or have confidence in us and our adversaries no longer fear us. the president can make bold statement and bold talk as he did in the last couple of days but development in syria, but i don't think they care. > >> greta: ambassador, what do you think about the former vice-

meanwhile a state of disaster has been declared in somalia which has been hit by a cycle of and two children are believed to have been killed also widespread damage power lines down trees are being uprooted mass evacuations have been ordered in several areas including the capital where most roads are cut off. well the united states has admitted to detaining more than two hundred afghan teenagers some as young as thirteen years old keeping them locked up for about a year without charge a report to the united nations said that imprisoning the youngsters was a preventative measure against the insurgency more details now from artie's honest . over the last several years what has been going on is over two hundred afghan teenagers that were captured detained as a result of the fight against the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan and held at a u.s. military prison. airbase and the shocking numbers here are that the age of these people was on average sixteen years old a lot of them were a lot younger we're talking about twelve thirteen fourteen year old kids held for an average of a year and curiou

is the russians think -- it imports into four countries, because it is so ethnically rifted -- the somalia and the yugoslavia of the middle east, and that would be a catastrophe. >> be careful what you wish for? >> yeah. the group that has been the most organized militarily has been allocated in the middle east -- al qaeda in the middle east. it will be the most powerful peopf thy fall -- >> that would be a failure of our policy. >> who gets the sarin gas? al qaeda. >> michigan is now the right to work state. >> this will attract more businesses to michigan. those businesses will need space. >> the owner of a michigan construction co., preceded by a union member who works at a general mots plant. michig govrick sande signed legislation -- rick snyder right to work legislation into law. the president said that what they're talking about is giving you the right to work for less money. a right to work at state, michigan? >> it is incredible. the republican legislature has passed this. there are two institutions that greeted the middle class in america with of the 10 states with the highest pe

somalia, north korea, and afghanistan are considered to be the most corrupt in the world. the report said, in greece, public confidence in the authorities had dropped significantly. >> there was this list where it emerged that former finance minister christine lagarde, now the imf chief, pastelist to her greek counterpart of people who were evading taxes, but -- passed a list to her greek counterpart of people who were evading taxes, but it was never pursued. >> politicians and officials are taking bribes, even as austerity programs continue. >> earlier, i spoke to the research head at transparency international. i asked which country had made the most progress in the last year at overcoming corruption. >> it is difficult to single out individual countries. what we want to focus on is the countries that stay at the top of our index. we have the scandinavian countries, countries like new zealand, where the commitment access to information, to the justice system working, to open budgeting, are long standing. the government show a long-term commitment. we have seen countries

we have been in somalia in the democratic republic of congo in sued an for more than -- sudan for more than three decades now, right? at the same time, there is a series of new crisis or recent chris ones in ivory coast and there is another major crisis this year. for us, it's a big challenge to have enough response or resources, both financial and human resources and in sudan, it's a big deal trying to find skilled staff. >> uh-huh. >> and to respond to and treat people in the hospital. yes, we're struggling with this and what we do is try to appeal to supporters and try to appeal to other organizations to step in. >> uh. >> we can't do it all ourselves. >> and you work for someone like the red cross? >> no. >> and you want to make sure that you're maximizing help can you put out there. >> what we want in a major emergency, what, ideally for us, i think we would have the capacity most of the time to respond to most of the medical needs, but it would be helpful to rely on other organizations, the planning and the role of u.n. organizations and this is what we try to do not to be on our

not only in pakistan, but yemen and somalia and elsewhere. but we have had remarkable success going after special operations against al qaeda here and we're continuing to do that. i think that, you know, the main challenge here is obviously to make sure there's no safe haven for al qaeda in which to conduct attacks but the key it that is an afghanistan that can secure and govern itself. those two are inner locked in terms of mission thatted with in afghanistan. >> what if they choose a taliban. you know, i'm very confident that the afghan people want to be sovereign. they want to be independent. they want to be free from the taliban. but they want to be able to determine their future. and that's okay. that's what needs to be done here. just to have an afghanistan that can determine. >> when you talk about defeating al qaeda, just thinking about some of the statistic here, there is still insurgency, 93 policemen in one day joined the taliban. do you think al qaeda will be defeated, even here? >> i think you can reach a point where you so signi

whether it's addressing al-shabab and al qaeda affiliates in east africa, principally somalia, growingextremist network in libya across the region into northern mallly, and -- mali and then he regrowth of boko haram in nye jeer a, signaling the organizations. what i worry about anything, though, is rather than each of those individual organizations, while they are indeed dangerous and important, it is a growing linkage, a growing network and collaboration and synchronization amongst the violent extremist organizations which i think pose the greatest threat to regional stability, more broadly across africa, certainly into europe, and to the united states as well. and i suspect some of your questions will get to some of those details. there are lots of other challenges. the lords resistance army, and for those who know about the lords resistance army, it's a horrific organization. i've come -- the best way to characterize it, if you ever had any doubt as to whether there's really evil in this world, do a little research and see what joseph kony does. it will eliminate any doubt in your m

we continue to face al qaeda, obviously, elsewhere, not only in pakistan, but in yemen and somalia andewhere. but, you know, we have had remarkable success going after special operations against al qaeda here and we're continuing to do that. i think, you know, the main challenge here is, obviously, to make sure there's no safe haven for al qaeda, in which to conduct attacks. but the key to that is in afghanistan, that can secure and govern itself. those two are interlocked in terms of the mission that we have in afghanistan. >> but what if they choose the taliban? >> you know, i'm very confident that the afghan people want to be sovereign, they want to be independent, they want to be free from the taliban, but they want to be able to determine their future. and that's okay. that's what needs to be done here. is to have an afghanistan that can determine its future. >> when you talk about defeating al qaeda, you know, you think about some of the statistics here. obviously, there's still an insurgency. 93 policemen in one day joined the taliban. do you think al qaeda will ever be defeated

the most dangerous countries were syria, followed by somalia, pakistan, mexico, and brazil. in mexico, the drug wars between the cartels and the state continue to escalate, and journalists are often caught up in the crossfire. six reporters were killed for attempting to report on the drug trade, corruption, or human rights violations. >> egyptians go to the polls on saturday in a second round of voting on a draft constitution. opposition parties have been protesting against president morsi and his muslim brotherhood. democratic say it promotes an islamic agenda and was the country toward sharia law. there has been a rise in assaults against women. women in egypt are paying a high price for the country's revolution. violence and sexual assaults by men have become commonplace by day, evening, and night. the first brutal attacks took place during the revolution. an activist was filmed as she was set upon by dozens of men. >> the subways and buses are full of men. when we get in, they instantly tried to hit on us. it happens every day, but what choice do we have? we have got to

community shortly after his citizenship was revoked he went missing on the outskirts of mogadishu somalia and one of our reporters broke with his parents several months ago when they had no idea where their son was and they were very worried about him apparently all this time he'd been in u.s. custody also on trial along with marty ha she faced similar charges are two other men swedish nationalist so all of these men are not u.s. citizens and yet they ended up here this is not the only case in new u.s. courts against alleged terrorists for acts committed overseas one of the things that many find alarming is how the u.s. finds smuggling foreign nationals in complete secrecy perfectly a lawful often keeping the families of those captured in in the dark for months as far as treating foreign nationals suspected of terrorism the u.s. has a set track record hundreds of people have been through the u.s. prison in guantanamo many of them were subject to torture the chief prosecutor at guantanamo and a george w. bush told me most of them were not terrorists and due to the extraordinary rendition p

a little further to the west and we will see flooding in somalia as well. thanks to this area of cloud. embedded in the system is a tropical cyclone it is a very weak one. it looks like the winds should not cause too much problem but already the clouds and rain already started over the horn of africa and we will see very heavy downpours headed toward tuesday. there will be flooding. a bit further north and here in doha, it should be fine and settled. just to the north, rain will be affecting in kuwait -- very wet and windy. >> the award you don't see, wednesday, 11:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. pacific. >> welcome back. let's have a recap of the top stories. syria piece of president bashar al-assad says he will do whatever he can to resolve the crisis in the country. his comments on state tv follow a meeting with u.n. peace envoy lakdar brahimi. a two-day mission to damascus. and afghan policeman killed a u.s. contractor in kabul in another so-called insider attack. the woman shot the man at a police compound in the capital. five afghan police were killed in a

and where is the potential of mission creep and desolation which is what happened in somalia? we know how that dovetailed. and to mention the war lords? >> the warlords are not here. >> very briefly, the goal of the efforts is to build up the congo leaves military. >> that is internal defense. >> the footprint issue is extremely limited. three personnel are part of the u.n. mission to help on information sharing and intelligence issues. with that training under way it was 60 with special forces and they are out. we are one of many players including the french and british about 17,000 u.n. troops in the congo. >> my concern is all of the non state non uniform belligerence coming together against our efforts. is that against our efforts? >> >> we're not talking about america's soldiers on the ground thing gauged against rebel groups. that is not in our game plan number thinking. >> my time is gone. i will yield back. >> we're trying to build capacity. >> mr. johnson? >> the continent africa is the richest in the world in terms of minerals and natural resources. the source of 90%

they sent us on alpha training to somalia, to somalia, to mauritania, later on some of them even to afghanistan -- all of these facts will be coming in. not just making them up -- until eventually the religious movement in northern nigeria became allied to al qaeda. this now is an admission which the government has been very reluctant to make but which reflects the actual reality. so there you have the full -- politics and religion because the weapon, the motivation of the foot soldiers, is to create an islamic state in nigeria. it's not something that anybody dreams of. there are videos, the usual two rifles crossing each other, and we want an islamic state. in fact, one of their leaders went so far, when the government was -- political leaders were proposing amnesty and talk, no, going to talk to the president as a christian, until he converts. then we're willing to sit down and negotiate with him. and so each time i hear the government say, oh, please come on, talk to us, we'll listen now. we don't know what you want. i said, don't be stupid. they said it so often and you know very well what

deficit yet we're still at war afghanistan we have counter-intuitive drone wars happened in yemen somalia pakistan and elsewhere and we're sending a two billion dollars space drone into orbit tomorrow for no publicly available reason by the end of the year our government will be more likely to cut out funding for food stamps welfare education social security medicare medicaid before they dare to well in the cut defense what does that say about this country's priorities . wealthy british style. that's not on the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our. quick i. cut cut cut. cut. cut cut cut. get our sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry.