al jazeera, south sudan. tuesday, south sudan's interior ministry -- interior minister laid it down. nash played it down. now, the president has the constitutional right to carry out the exercise. he will then form a new cabinet. that cabinet can contain some of the old ministers, as well as some new ones. that is how the reshuffle is all about. it is a democratic process required by our constitution. >> the australian government says it will investigate reports of silence seek is at a detention camp in pop was new guinea are being raped and tortured -- papua new guinea. theralian prime and is kevin rudd announced plans to send asylum-seekers coming in boats to papua new guinea. >> there was nothing that could men whofor these young were considered vulnerable, which in many cases, is just a euphemism for men who were being raped. they had to stay where they were. , it could not even serve as a dog kennel. producerc is executive of the "dateline" program who first revealed the details of the abuse. the whistle

their long-suffering homeland, south sudan, was declared the world's newest nation.he independent celebrations on your cell phone. >> taban: yeah. >> simon: how did it make you feel? >> taban: oh, i was overwhelmed, going into tears. >> chanoff: they were an important factor that led to that independence. >> simon: hang on. they were an important factor that led to independence? >> chanoff: i think so. they created a political environment in the u.s. where people were finally realizing what was happening in this remote genocide in sudan that nobody had really heard of on a large scale before. ( women singing ) >> simon: not long ago, sudanese flocked by the hundreds to a town called aweil for a celebration. it wasn't independence day or anything like that. they came to a newly built brick cathedral to witness the installation of that preacher named abraham as the first episcopal bishop of his region in south sudan. >> simon: a lost boy no more, it's bishop abraham now. and who knows what's coming next. maybe your next name will be archbishop. >> yel nhial: i don't kn

the president of south sudan has fired his in tire deputy

. >> three people have been killed in millwood the shoe -- in mali -- a south sudan former vice presidenthas told al jazeera he is keen to take the top job from his old boss. his aggressor has this -- >> he is here because the met with the cabinet last week. being out of power doesn't come easy. according to government officials, the president wishes to reshuffle the government. it came after he criticized the challengesnd leadership. >> are you concerned of the president has overstepped his authority? [indiscernible] it is a dictatorship. in the bush, as a guerrilla force, fighting for independence , there is the strict leadership of the effective army. it is corroding the young nation's democracy. officials insist he is acting within his prerogative as president. law?at is the shows that reshuffling in the cabin is legal. the president suspended his party chairman, and forbid him from talking to the press are leaving the capital. that seems to be a step too far. deprivation.and power that he is ,sing to restrict the freedom the and is unconstitutional. they are still functioning with se

their economy has struggled since they lost oil wells when south sudan separated. they are hoping to tap into something else below their feet. nhk world reports, some are questioning who will benefit in the end. >> reporter: a large part of the republic of sudan's 1.8 million square kilometers is sand. that includes an area just north of the capital but a large project is underway to turn it into lush green land. this is a reresearch and development firm made in the huge desert. the the al fall fas have already started to grow. there is plenty of water underground so crops can grow. authorities plan to have 13,000 heck ters cultivated and want to set up 180 wells to water the farm land. foreigners will be the major partners in the project. a private company from the united arab em rates is funding part of it and foreign businesses will manage the farmland loaned from sudan's government. in may, sudanese businessmen invited foreign corporations to invest in the country. >> translator: sudan has lots of land that is perfectly suited to farming. and there is an abunda

refugee camps near the border with jordan, and also went to africa to visit with those with homes in south sudan. sebastian a short time ago. sebastian, after 30 years of covering war and conflict around the world, what impact do you want this to have? >> the only thing a refugee has when they have lost everything is pride in dignity, and it always seems to shine through in my pictures. i have just been back from assignment with the united nations in jordan, syria, and the sedan, trying to capture what was left of these people, and that was their pride and dignity. >> you have a focus on children in your work. why is that? >> i have children, and i like children, and i find it terribly sad in the middle of war, that the children are completely unaware and have no idea what is going on. there is an innocence of a child at war that has always struck me. >> going into that no-man's land between syria and jordan, very poignant. >> it is a very moving point in that person's life. once they have crossed that no- man's land, they are stamped a refugee, and they go through this process. they have lost e

the area south of the sahara desert that includes parts of mali, algeria, south sudan. also on c-span, the heritage foundation looks at the post changes the senate filibuster rules. the so-called nuclear option. speakers include former parliamentarian robert dove. you can see that at 12:30 p.m. eastern. >> earlier someone touched upon the idea that women could not really predict their role in entering into the white house. but i did find one political observer who commented at the 1860 election that mary started with mr. lincoln when he was a poor young man and with no more idea of being called to the presidency and of being a cannibal. [laughter] however, i try and lay out in my book an educated guess that mary lincoln would not have let a little thing like human sacrifice come between her and her goal because she was a very determined woman. she did talk about mr. lincoln's role perhaps of entering the white house. so she was someone who was a true political partner. >> as we continue our conversation on first ladies we'lwith her, historians and aus including patricia

i've worked in several african countries most recently in south sudan and one of the things that i've noticed over the last few years in particular the last decade half a decade decade is that people who. pretty much don't even have a checking account i mean they're you know they're they're living on you know ten twenty thirty forty dollars a month or some cases the wealthy once a week are buying things with their cell phones they're using their cell phones as ways to transact you know i mean literally they'll just punch in some buttons and boom it happens the money transfer happens there's nothing like that to the best when all is happening in the united states or is there and if there isn't why isn't there. i mean there's the beginnings of these things there's lots of efforts at local currencies in new york there's a local currency and there's a famous one and there are some successful ones in michigan it tends to be that you know people don't want to adopt something like this while they still think they have access to real money right to the dollar you know the issue with local cur

in south sudan, we need access to humanitarian access and we will continue to press the president and others to make that available. finally, the granddaddy of them all, i guess, the question of the possibility of peace between palestinians and israelis. both leaders in the region, prime minister netanyahu and president abbas, have made a courageous decision to try to return to final status talks. it is my hope that that will be able to happen as procedures are put in place by both countries in order to empower that. mr. secretary general, it is a privilege to be here in this institution, which dedicates itself day to day to ending violence, to enforcing people's prospects for peace, and to try to live by a code of universal values that i think all of us are proud to be affiliated with. thank you for your leadership and thank you for welcoming me here today. thank you. as president obama's travel, florida, to speak about the economy. this is about a half-hour. >> hello it is my hope that that will be able to happen as procedures are put in place by both countries in order to empower t

instance, russian support for robust peacekeeping action in ivory coast, russian support for the south sudaneferendum going off on time, which was a major mass atrocity averted. so we work with them where we can get them to see that their interests align with ours and that their interests align with maintaining international peace and security. ok. you had mentioned earlier that assad will fall, and i think we've heard that in the past where it's not a matter of if, not a matter of if but when. seems like he's getting more entrenched, and i'm not quite so sure. do you believe there was a point in time, had we shown leadership, that we could have tipped the scales and he could have already fallen by now? have we missed opportunities? >> thank you, sir. look, i think the situation on the ground right now is very worrying for a whole host of reasons. first, the military gains that the assad regime has made lately. second, the fact of chemical weapons use in recent months, sir, something you and i talked about, i believe, the growth of the extremist presence within the opposition, et cetera. so

protesting around the problems in south africa. and the sudan. and a group of us went to jail. >> what was it like to be in a prison in the segregated south of the united states in the 1960s when even the prisons were segregated? >> i must tell you it was not simple and not easy. you get arrested with your fellow sisters and brothers who happen to be white, asian american, native american, latino, you were put in the jail and you were segregated. the outside world, but to be arrested in nashville or to be arrested in birmingham or montgomery or selma or atlanta, you also had racial discrimination. segregation was real. i grew up in rural level bama and i thought it was -- rural alabama, colored waiting, white waiting, i would ask my parents, my great grandparents, why? they would say, that is the way it is. don't get in the way. i was inspired to get in trouble. necessary travel. going to jail became a place , mississippi, alabama, we studied. we studied the philosophy of nonviolence in jail. we conducted nonviolent workshops. it made us more dete

forum on security africa issa hell, the area south of the desert that includes parts of mali, south sue -- sudan and mauritania. also on c-span, the heritage foundation looks at proposed changes to the so-called nuclear option. speakers include former parliamentarian robert dove. you can see that at 12:30 p.m. eastern. >> the problem was that darwin did not understand, and that's his blunder, that he did not understand that with such a theory natural selection could never have really worked. because, you know, imagine you have a population of a million white cats and one black cat, and suppose that being a black cat does provide you with some big advantage, yes? but in this blending theory, you know, you mix things like gin and tonic, the black cat mates with a white cat, you get a gray cat. the gray cat mates with another white cat, you get the paler shade of gray cat. and this thing just gets diluted and diluted that black advantage will disappear and never appear again. >> on "after words," astrofizz qis mario livio explores the work of five scientists and the mistakes made on the way to thei

but as was true in sudan and south africa, nelson mandela is on this president's mind and the continent. ♪ universal an anti-apartheid hero nelson mandela hovered over president obama's odyssey on behalf of u.s. trade and investment throughout africa. mandela's condition remained the same critical but stable and on life support at a pretoria hospital. the two met in washington in 2005 when mr. obama was a senator. but as the president and first family retraced mandela's life as a prisoner on bleak robben island, a poignant truth emerged, the world's two most famous black presidents would never meet. mr. obama did meet briefly with some of mandela's family in johannesburg. the first couple shown in this white house photo phoned mandela's third wife almost always at his bedside. >> mandiba's health weighs heavily on our hearts. nelson mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world. and he calls on us to make choices that reflect not our fears but our hopes. >> reporter: before arriving here, the president announced a $16 billion joint venture between the united states governm

. >> protesting around the problems in south africa. and the sudan. and a group of us went to jail. >> what was it like to be in a prison in the segregated south of the united states in the 1960s when even the prisons were segregated? >> i must tell you it was not simple and not easy. youret arrested with fellow sisters and brothers who happen to be white, asian american, native american, latino, you were put in the and you were segregated. not only in the outside world, but to be arrested in nashville or to be arrested in birmingham or montgomery or selma or atlanta, you also had racial discrimination. segregation was real. alabama, in rural colored waiting, white waiting, i would ask my parents, my great grandparents, why? it is. don't get in the way. i was inspired to get in trouble. necessary travel. going to jail became a place where, mississippi, alabama, we studied. we studied the philosophy of nonviolence in jail. we conducted nonviolent workshops. it made us more determined to fight the fight. bei realize you have to approximate, how many time

sudan's darfur region where seven people have been killed. we understand that the ambush was carried out by close to the peacekeeper's base which is near in turn to the south darfur state capital. 17 other peacekeepers were injured in that attack. earlier on we spoke to u.n., a spokesperson chris semanic. here's what he told us. >> we had -- it is a patrol that we have from one of our sights to another in south darfur. the patrol was ambushed. extend firefight that went on. and we've lost -- at this moment we know than even of our peacekeepers were killed and at least 17 were injured. these were military and police personnel. that were on this patrol. we'll continue to conduct our work. on average we conduct over 150 patrols a day. these things have happened in the past and will continue to push on. and we'll continue to enforce our mandate here which is marketing protection of the civilian population. >> and we've just received reaction from the u.n. secretary general to that ambush. ban ki-moon says he's outrage by the killing of the peacekeepers calling it a heinous attack. >> in egypt the muslim brotherhood has called for more peaceful protests next we

sudan. seven peacekeepers were killed. 17 others hurt. during an ambush. it happened in southjust north of the state capital. so far, no claims of responsibility. some 300,000 people have been killed in darfur since rebels began fighting the sudanese government nearly ten years ago. >>> typhoon su luk is creeping toward china after drenching taiwan with 8 inches of rain in just 1 day. the storm lashed the island with strong winds and rain, but its trip over the island sapped its strength apparently. it's now been weakened to the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane. china is bracing for that typhoon. it's expected to bring even more rain to areas already soaking wet from earlier storms. i'm alina cho in new york. stay with us. our live coverage of the george zimmerman murder trial continues after a quick break. we will return to sanford, florida, with our don lemon. stay with us. ready? happy birthday! it's a painting easel! the tide's coming in! this is my favorite one. it's upside down. oh, sorry. (woman vo) it takes him places he's always wanted to go. that's why we bought

sudan. seven peacekeepers were killed, 17 others injured during an ambush. it happened in southf the state capital. so far no claim of responsibility. some 300,000 people have been killed in darfur since rebels began fighting the sudanese government nearly a decade ago. >>> typhoon soulik is creeping toward china after drenching taiwan with 8 inches of rain in just one day. take a look at that. the storm lashed the island with strong winds and rain, but its trip over the island apparently sapped its strength, and it's now been weakened to the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane. china is now bracing for that typhoon. it's expected to bring even more rain to areas already soaking wet from earlier storms. stay with us. i'm alina cho in new york. our live coverage of the george zimmerman murder trial cons after this quick break. i missed a payment. aw, shoot. shoot! this is bad. no! we're good! this is your first time missing a payment. and you've got the it card, so we won't hike up your apr for paying late. that's great! it is great! thank you. at discover, we treat you like you