you know, 'cause i said, i just said, "it's great and it's helping south africa but when you start tona be a smash and is gonna play to many people who have never heard of south africa. [chorus singing in zulu] when i was in exile in botswana, i had thought of joining the anc. but over the years, i've learned that if an artist or anybody has really something to say about their concerns for the well being of people then they are in the wrong place if they join a political party because they have to then follow the strict rules of the party. and i've never been able to like live under rules. [applause] mndebele: when we went to zimbabwe, paul wanted to give south africans a chance to witness what we have been giving the people in europe in america all over the world. so he chose to do it in zimbabwe, and a lot of south africans came over to witness this and it was beautiful. ladies and gentlemen comrades and friends this is graceland in concert 1987. [crowd cheering] simon: she's been in political exile now for 27 years. they call her "mama africa" and "the queen of south african music.

it is on going. >> south africa is struggling to change in the face of what many call a rape epidemic. >> you are watching bbc world as america. and inauguration, missing the big day in venezuela. it doesn't stop tens of thousands from turning out. journalists at one of china's top newspapers have ended their protest against government censorship. they have gone on strike after an official replaced a new year editorial calling for guaranteed constitutional rights. he revels in the newsroom managed to hit a nerve nationwide. today, a few protesters were forcibly cleared by plainclothes officials. >> this is what you get for speaking out in china. bundled on to this wheelchair, they took away this demonstrator. he was the only one today. the cities have become a rallying point for those seeking political change in china. journalists have been on strike after an editorial calling for political reform was censored by the government. the staff are back at work. >> a sound off may have ended, but outside, the protesters are still gathering to show their support for the newspaper. >> they sp

opponents of the merger will take some convincing that walmart's our arrival in south africa is good for farming year and good for the retail market. >> some news just coming in now. we are getting reports that a roadside bomb in pakistan has killed 17 soldiers and wounded 22 others. we will have more on that as we get it. pilgrims are that area in northern india for an event held every 12 years. it is the largest gathering of hindus in the world. our reporter is in the city where millions are affected by the two month festival. >> these are just some of the early arrivals. early arrivals.

. >> to south africa now were striking farm workers have been involved in two days of confrontation. they're calling for the minimum daily wage to be doubled. >> this highway has become a battleground and they have the superior firepower, but there are hundreds of businesses. the seasonal workers want the minimum daily wage increased from $8 to $15.50. most of south africa food for aid borders is here and it is built on the banks of for the paid black workers. >> i am bending down trying to pay wage i cannot afford. >> he says he already record a loss on every carton. he is worried about what will happen if the can of bill is export orders. >> in the long run, the chances are good that they're going to lose their jobs and the labor unions are not telling the workers that. >> they pay for 110 season workers and the helps the full- time staff with medical b ills, housing, and electricity. >> the workers do not want to be identified because they are afraid it will be targeted by the people are a strike. one man was on his way to the farm when he was doused with petrol. >> he believes th

rusher says no, i haven't been to south africa but you must have been to south africa or you would not be making such heavy weather of it. what did you learn in south africa that you think is so important for us to know? he turns a weakness into a strength. don't give an inch. turn it around. it is not the politics of personal destruction but it certainly politics of personal one upmanship. rusher believed in the battle of ideas the noon with more than a battle of ideas. that there was a role for which and drama in politics and a final rusher quote to kick off the top of my head. but we loved to see. he also went one point had a

. >> south africa is looking at newark power for its future nuclear ended -- at nuclear power for its future and nuclear energy needs. >> the corzine were the original inhabitants of southern africa. for at least 2000 years, the hunted, herded, and gathered on the land and the sea. skeletons in the sand and evidence of what and where they ate. >> maybe they ate the food out of the jars. >> the land was seized by colonialists. under apartheid, their identity was further fracturing the proposal to build a nuclear power station here is unacceptable. >> they take our land. they are ready to take our identity away from us. everything we have got, they take away from us. now what is left for us is only -- >> these artifacts were all collected here. she and her husband, a traditional healer, are trying to preserve a culture they say is not respected. they do not have former first reform of first nation indigenous that as yet. -- they do not have formal first nation indigenous status yet. >> it is not for them to say this community is right, this community is wrong. >> nuclear power now only

world the ever incarcerated debtor around the world indebted and in slieve by their debt first is south africa striking workers burn vineyards in protest over hunger wages and farmer arrested for firing on thousands of demonstrators striking farm workers in south africa's biggest table grape growing region set fire to more than thirty hector's the vineyards to protest against what they call hunger wages they apparently only make five pounds a day and one of the strikers says you cannot buy anything with that money for the stunt really hunger wages there's a starvation wages i think they need to brand their protests a little bit more you know accurately they're starving which is the wage consolation we've seen around the world people are now being forced into this starvation wage mentality while the top one on one of one percent are benefiting from all the money printing the likes of the i.m.f. world bank will look around the world and say oh you know it's poverty to have two dollars a day it seems like with all of the data collected on us and all of our footprints around the world digitally on

mexico and in a way there's not much gold left behind in south africa which the all the easy go did south africa was ripped is it can imagine mexico also with passage of nafta under clinton it allowed for north american miners encounter particularly to go down to mexico on a new trading engagement and reopen mines silver mines and dormant for years and they get anything modern technology or track and some are ok there's still recovery on the ground but seven million ounces but it's being bought up by the industry and we're running out of so around there's that worse at what point do we have a silver shortage crisis because you're saying two things there you're saying that supply is pretty ample but you're also saying there are shortages bottlenecks developing is it a distribution problem where we're at this point does it become we see the evidence that you know i think the what will happen is there is a massive potential demand for suv which is why we think the process will rise much and as the price rises the mining industry will respond to rising prices by salting to find some of the su

makes it and in a way there's not much gold left behind in south africa all the easy go did south africa was ripped is it can you mention mexico also with passage of nafta under clinton it allowed for north american miners encounter particularly to go down to mexico on a new trading engagement and reopen mines silver mines that have dormant for years and they get anything modern technology to track and sell for ok there's a silver coming out of the ground but seven million ounces but it's being bought up by the industry and we're running out of so around there is that worse at what point do we have a silver shortage crisis because you're saying two things there you are saying that supply is pretty ample but you're also saying there are shortages bottlenecks developing is it a distribution problem where we're at this point does it become we see the evidence that you know i think the what will happen is there is massive potential demand for so which is why we think the process will rise much and as the price rises the mining industry will respond to rising prices by salting to find some of

and hitting a high note in south africa. we meet an unlikely star whose voice takes them from -- hollywood. across >> a combat soldier still -- still carries a treadmill in his chest. he will be the first wounded soldier to ever serve as secretary of defense. not everyone is happy with his nomination. >> this is the man president obama wants to lead the largest military force the world has ever known. a former soldier who knows the cost of war. >> he knows war is not an abstraction. he knows the sending young americans to fight and believe in the dark and muddy is something we only do when absolutely necessary. >> he is to be a republican senator, but he is a provocative thick. -- pick. >> i will do my best for my country and those i represent at the pentagon and for all of my citizens. i will always give you my honest and most informed counsel. >> he served in vietnam twice wounded and twice decorated. he had friends who got their heads blown off. he criticized the handling of the iraq war calling it -- >> the most dangerou

the turn -- >> rose: no political talent in south africa. > very little talent, you see the talent going away, the best who just left the party, by far, you and industry met him on many occasions and he is gone, he bolted, rama know/foe stow one of the wealthiest businessmen, number 2, he is pretty incapable, it is really a turn toward the lowest the denominator of politics, and it is a hell of a lot of populism, south africa is not performing so you look at the brics and brazil is doing well, although the growth is well but russia, india, china, south africa, actually provide most of the significant political risk plus the middle east, that we look at in 2013, it is not the u.s. and europe and japan and that really is a page being turned from the financial crisis in the past four years. >> rose: so of all of these predictions which one are you least sure about? >> i am probably least sure abouthe china versus information point, precisely because it is one if there was -- china -- the leadership itself is very zer opaque, seven people at the top of that governing structure if they decide

also in this program, top concerns as one in three women in south africa try to lighten their skin.nd an amazing escape by helicopter after it crashes into the sea in brazil. ♪ >> hello, happy new year to you. the deal is done now, the u.s. is counting on the and calls fof wrapped -- house of representatives to approve a bill that would avert the fiscal cliff. it was approved by the senate in the early hours in new year's day. the deadline was technically missed, but as long as the bill clears its final hurdle, a few effects will be felt, as today is a u.s. public holiday. >> vice-president joe biden, dropping in on congress until -- as the clock ticks down to midnight. with good humor, a deal with senate republicans had been struck. >> i feel very good, we will get a very good vote tonight. happy new year. >> members of both parties overwhelmingly backed an agreement that had required compromise from all. >> it took an imperfect solution to save the constituents, but in my view, it was worth the effort. as i said, this should not be the model for how we do things around here, but i

there was great concentration on south africa. they were banned from the olympics for many many years. in the meantime the mall and picked for held in moscow, etc.. a couple of boards about cuba and a relative indifference to the suffering of cubans, ordinary cubans but also the dissidents, people who starve themselves for death and hunger strikes. why did they go to these extremes? i have spoken to a great many people about this problem, our indifference to cuba and one of the most painful phenomena of our times. there are many people that i think of one in particular, a man on the cover of time and "newsweek" and is still on the cover of time and "newsweek." there are to be songs about him, poetry, movies, movies of the of the week and they have to be on 60 minutes every other week. a man named oscar%. he he is a heroic and brave man, and inspiring man, a practitioner of nonviolence. he was in the cuban gulag as i don't blush to call it, for 12 years and got out last year. a interviewed and tribute him as soon as i could. he's a

it is on going. >> south africa is struggling to change in the face of what many call a rape epidemic and inauguration, missing the big day in venezuela. it doesn't stop tens of thousands from turning out. journalists at one of china's top newspapers have ended their protest against government censorship. they have gone on strike after an official replaced a new year editorial calling for guaranteed constitutional rights. he revels in the newsroom managed to hit a nerve nationwide. today, a few protesters were forcibly cleared by plainclothes officials. >> this is what you get for speaking out in china. bundled on to this wheelchair, they took away this demonstrator. he was the only one today. the cities have become a rallying point for those seeking political change in china. journalists have been on strike after an editorial calling for political reform was censored by the government. the staff are back at work. >> a sound off may have ended but outside the protesters are still gathering to show their support for the newspaper. >> they speak the truth, says this woman. i've got no w

continent may soon become a global growth and we're going to see countries like ghana nigeria ethiopia south africa kenya become major centers of productive investment capital markets will have to deepen to provide for that the also have to be big increases in education to help the labor force in africa become more productive if those young populations that are growing very quickly do not get the education and the capital they need they may become politically explosive places as we've seen in north africa and the middle east in just the last year the poorest continent has already become home to some of the richest and giants in the latest news and boss is considering setting up shop in tunisia several decades ago foreign capital helped to build china into a low cost manufacturing powerhouse of that cheap china is losing its edge as the world's factory it's now one of the leading investors into africa helping it become the next full global outsourcing and young for cost foreign direct investments in africa will reach one hundred fifty billion dollars by twenty fifteen from about eighty five billion

what did you learn in south africa that you think is so important for us to know. so he turns a weakness into a strength. again, don't give an inch. turn it around. it's not the politics of personal destruction. but it's certainly a politics of personal one-up-man-ship. rusher believed in the battle of ideas but knew there was a role for wit and drama in politics, and a final rusher quote off the top of my head. buckley loved to ski. also at one point visited the soviet union and had a national review group that got together. most of them went, and i think it was the winter of '75 or '76. rusher refused. he said, no, because they don't have the right to grant permission. i'm not going to ask communist permission for anything, even to visit their country. ll wait until they're thrown out and then i'll go, which he did. he told me, once said to buckley i would no more go to the soviet union on vacation than i would if hitler had permitted it, had skied in the austrian alps during world war ii. and buckley took some exceptn

the banks in south africa causing flooding. some of the roads are impassable. some of the bridges are out. this will cause a major problem. we do expect to see drier conditions over the next couple days. johannesburg will have a sunny day at 26. >> welcome back. let's recap headlines. and we're getting reports of iraqi at least five protesters have been killed and 40 wounded in scuffles between the army and worshippers near fallujah. the violence began after the police blocked anti-government protesters from entering the city. these are live pictures coming in as crowds gathered in tahrir square to mark the second anniversary of revolution. opposition groups are planning and an anti-government demonstration in the next few hours. north korea has threatened physical counter register against the south. is warning its neighbor against supporting harsher u.n. sanctions. there were imposed after north korea launched a satellite in december. at least six people have been killed after a fire swept through a slum in mumbai. about 200 were left homeless. it took over a

even the democracy that changed south africa was impacted by this philosophy. nelson mandela sat in a south african prison for 27 years. he was non-violent. he negotiated his way out of jail. his unarmed suffering, 27 years in a south african prison, is ultimately what brought about the freedom of south africa. that is nonviolence. we do not have the moral authority. i know that it just does not happen. people have to allow themselves to be used by god. martin committed himself totally to god's will and purpose. god is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that. tavis: try as i did to get her to open up about her own life, it is hard to fathom the burden that coretta scott king carried every day of her life following the tragedy in 1968. what an honor and truly unforgettable moment for everyone on this program to spend time with mrs. king in the church that served as the beating heart beat of the civil rights movement. on monday night, we will celebrate the 2013 king holiday. i will be joined by the man handpicked by mrs. king to publish the papers of

south africa showing a huge increase. doctor, a lot of americans getting procedures done overseas and are the doctors qualified? >> in 2013 you have to look at medicine as global. we have patients who are extremely educated and looking for the best doctors. americans are flying there and some are coming here to get the best care. the cost, you have the cardiac surgery in this country, about 150 to $175,000 if you don't have insurance. in other countries, india, mexico, 20 to 30 thousands. that's one of the reasons they go. the other is access, do they have access to healthcare. that's the second reason. finally, quality of the surgery and availability. we have, for example, when it comes to robotic surgery, not too many -- >> that is your specialty. >> yes. we have a lot of patients coming in as a medical tourism. if you're willing to do this, if you're willing to go to other countries or come here, look for the best doctor. look at what kind of accreditation they have. have they done a residency, is there malpractice? if

thought we had lost. >> reporter: commercial crocodile farming is a small but growing business in south africa. they areaised for their skins and meat. the farmworkers say they'll go out and catch the missing animals as soon as they're spotted, but that's easier said than done. this reptile is one of africa's most feared predators and in water has few pairs. crocodile experts across the country have been asked to help with the search. the advantage for them is the crocodile is used to being the hunter, not the hunted. >>> a nevada woman just looking for true love on match.com, but what she found nearly cost her her life. mary beckman is suing the dating website after she broke it off with one of her matches and he tried to kill her. she says a man she dated less than two weeks broke into her home and attacked her with a butcher knife. >> he broke into my garage and when the police arrested him, he said i was not there to hurt her. i there was to kill her and so his intent was to kill me that night. >> the nevada woman says she's not the only victim. she says her attacker killed an arizona woma

. >>> a fire has swept through poor settlements in cape town, south africa. three people died. 4,000 people lost their homes. domestic media say strong winds spread the flames through the densely populated area at dawn on new year's day. the makeshift shacks were built with pieces of wood and had tin roofs. firefighters managed to put out the flames about four hours later. >> i don't have nothing now. the way you see me, only the stuff i have on is all i have now. >> the cause of the fire is yet to be determined, but many residents used fire for cooking. south africa has rich natural resources and is considered a growth engine for the african economy, but more than half the population lives in poverty. >>> two groups of climbers have run into trouble in the northern alps in central japan. rough weather is hampering rescue efforts. the nagano prefecture police have had difficulty reaching a tent in the mountain range. two climbers are reported missing. their climbing companion told police the men left their tent on monday to check the route but never returned.

rusher says no i haven't been to south africa but you must have been to south africa or you wouldn't be making such heavy weather of it. now what did you learn in south africa that you think is so important for us to know? so he turns a weakness into a strength. again, don't give an inch. turn it around. it's not the politics of arsenal destruction but it's certainly a politics of personal one-upsmanship. rusher knew that it was more than a battle of ideas, that there was a role for wit and trauma in politics and a final rusher quote picked off the top of my head. buckley loved to ski. we also have one point visited the soviet union and had a "national review" group that got together. most of them went in i think it was in the winter of 75 or 76. rusher said no, because they don't have the right to grant permission. i'm not going to ask the communist permission for anything even to visit their country. i will wait until they are thrown out and then i will go. and he told me, i once said to buckley that i would know more go to the soviet union on vacation then i would if hitler had pe

they meant human rights in chile and philippines, and above all, a partide south africa. that was the great human rights cause, the great moral cause of that time. i knew who the players of south africa were very, very well, the name of political prisoners, the political actors, and i think i knew the politics of south africa better than the politics of my hometown. there was great concentration on south africa, banned from the olympics for many, many years. in the meantime, the olympics were held in moscow, ect.. a couple words about cuba and our relative indifference to the suffering of cubans, ordinary cubans, but also disdense, people of conscious, people who starve themselves to death for example, and hunger strikes, why the extremes? i spoke to a great many people about the problem, our indifference to cuba, and i recall one saying it was one of the most puzzling and painful phenomena of our times. there's some, many people, but i think of one in particular, a man who ought to be famous. he ought to be on the cover the "time" and "news week," and he ought to be a bi

i think i knew the politics of south africa better than the politics of my home town. it was great concentration on south africa. they were banned from the olympics for many years. in the meantime they were held in moscow, etc.. a couple of words about cuba and our relative indifference to the suffering of ordinary cubans but also dissidents, people who starve themselves to death, for example, in hong your strikes and why we go to these extremes. i've spoken to people about this problem, our indifference to cuba and kirkpatrick said it is one of the most painful phenomena of our times. there are so many people but one in particular a man who ought to be on the cover of time and newsweek and we still of covers of time and newsweek there ought to be songs about him, poetry, movies, he ought to be on 60 minutes every other week. he's a man named oscar basset come he's a brave man, an aspiring man come a practitioner of nonviolence, and he was a cubin googled as i do not rush to call it, for 12 years. got out last year. i interviewed him as soon as i could. he is a followe

we have ongoing projects in cambodia, haiti, and south africa and helping out in areas just as the tsunami> and all of that is coming from the lgbt and friends community. so we work as ambassadors for our community and we help change people's minds and hearts about who we are and what we care about. besides providing humanitarian aid, we try to inspire hope in all of our projects and we have found that hope is really just as important as aid, if not more so. and we have worked with a lot of communities in desperate situations arounded world and we found that providing a little bit of humanitarian aid and a lot of courage and hope it is amazing that people in desperate circumstances can do to improve theirs life. so seven years ago we really have a feeling that in the united states, we really need to increase our hope also. and we decided to do that by creating a global art project, the world, tree of hope. and what you see behind you is a live, 23-foot christmas tree and it is covered with 10,000 pieces of oragami and most of it is white cranes and all of the white cranes

players china russia south africa the brics countries basically you know that tending to militarize this competition trying to expel the chinese from the region the natural resource is very important especially when you know because it's a very necessary element and resourceful friends this is basically a new fight and competition over the resources of the african countries this is going most probably to spread in the region it's going to affect definitely libya because this is the largest border between mali and libya this and i see drug dealers jihadists and fighters going back and hordes who know that the fox with gadhafi and all back with heavy weapons this could affect the whole west and north africa this is for sure we're not going to stop here but of course at the end of the day it's the population who pay the price. well like we just heard analysts are suggesting that africa may be a huge source of economic interest for western powers and they're linking the intervention campaign in mali to the country's vast reserves of natural resources well despite mali being considered among

in africa, south and east asia, europe, and, of course, the middle east. by far, the lanchest -- largest part of her work is an author, and also as a quiet partner. she has, in either way, more than 60 books to her credit, and these cover a number of generas, poetry, fiction, both adult and children's. she's the author of an adult or magic trilogy if i recall correctly, and a children's series called "tales of the king," but a lot of her work has been non-fiction, and that, too, has coveredded a vired of subjects. some of her nonfiction dealt with the issue of single motherhood, but a good deal has dealt somehow or other with the issue of religion in human life, in politics, and in social life. this is including a book on the difficulty journalists frequently have in properly understanding religion as a motive in events, and the book, itself, is called "blind spot" don't together with roberta, and my colleague, who is here today, paul marshall, published by oxford press and won several literary prizes. it's also included work on a book entitled a table in

players china russia south africa the brics countries basically and now that tending to militarize this competition trying to expel the chinese from the region the natural resources are very important especially when you know because it's a very necessary element and resourceful france this is basically a new fight and competition over the resources of the african countries this is going most probably to spread in the region and there's also this new cold war that it's taking place one of its battles being fought in syria and as we speak and it's now also in africa we've seen what happened in libya and now the french are coming back again they're all former colonies to basically play the role of the master especially to deal west no is more focused on now in asia so it's a big political game and geopolitical game in the region artie's andrew farmer has been looking into the possible pretext for an international struggle over mali and the rest of africa. mali potentially has a wealth of minerals that can be exploited as far as oil is concerned there is zero proven reserves however it is

what did you learn in south africa you think is so important for us to know. so she turns a weakness in to the strength. again, turn it around. it's not the politics of personal destruction, but it is certainly a politics of personal one upmanship. he believed in the battle of ideas that he knew it was more of a battle of ideas. there was room for the drama in the politics. to pick off the top of my head, he loved to ski and at one point he visited the soviet union and he had a national review group that got together. most of them went and i think it was the winner of 75 or 76. rusher refused and said no because they don't have the right to grant permission. i'm not going to ask communist permission for anything. i will wait until they are thrown out and then i will go, which eventually he did. and he told me i once said to buckley that i would no more go to the soviet union on vacation the and i would if hitler had permitted it and had skied in the austrian alps during world war ii. [laughter] and he said, buckley took exception to that and it was a point