east africa, southern africa, where cattle is one of the traditional livestock species is becoming difficultpeople may be shifting over into goats, which is hardier and can deal with some of these increasingly difficult conditions. >> challenging times ahead. thank you, philip. next week, china begins the once in a decade handover of power and this week we are taking you to a different chinese location every day so that we can bring you a series on the challenges the new leaders will be facing. we are in shanghai, the commercial heart of the chinese economy. their growth was once seemingly unstoppable across the country, but there are now growing concerns. >> the chinese leaders could choose one image to symbolize their decade in power, this might be it. the rise of shanghai has been dazzling. the building boom has provided jobs for millions of workers, pushing the per capita income well above 2000 u.s. dollars per year. but shanghai, the symbol of modern china in another important way as well, those who are growing rich here, who pay for apartments like this one, are acutely aware that the

southern africa were demanding the right to go to the pacific. calling for a state of south california. would the south secede if its demands weren't met? would the federal government fight back? nobody knew. could northerners be made to stem the flow of fugitive slaves? those weren't academic questions that were tearing the country apart in congress, and the senate, 15 free states matched evenly against 15 slave states, giving the south virtual veto power over any legislation that even remotely seemed to threaten slavery. california, californians, 200,000, people fled to california during the gold rush. very quickly they demand admission to the union, as a free state. which will tip the balance in the senate. abolitionists are battling slavery advocates over the expansion of slavery elsewhere in texas, and is the most likely ignition point, is claiming the entire vast new mexico territory, which is far vaster than the present-day state of new mexico, and threatening to carry slavery across it at gunpoint if necessary, raising troops to do so. an

we're working right now in trying to be of help in southern africa with regard to the independence of namibia and the removal of the cuban surrogates, the thousands of them, from angola. so, i can say there are a great many interests. i believe that we have a great interest in the pacific basin. that is where i think the future of the world lies. but i am not going to pick out one and, in advance, hypothetically say, "o y >> mr. mondale, you have described the soviet leader, as, and i'm quoting, a total lack of press in them. 6 at makes you think that the annual summit meetings with them that you have proposed will result in agreements tt would satisfy the interests of this cotry? >> because the only type of agreements to reach with the soviet union are the types that are specifically defined, so we know exactly what they must do; subject to full verification, which means we know every d whether they're living up to it; and follow-ups, wherever we find suggestions that they're violing it; and the strongest possible terms. i have no illusions about the soviet union leadership or the na

most of them live in subsaharan africa and southern asia.they can't wait for large infrastructure projects to kick in. in the philippines, we went to meet a man who believes in a simple and yet effective way to bring light into the homes of those who can't afford electricity. he calls his initiative a liter of light -- and that's exactly what he hopes to deliver to a million homes around the world. >> there's a lot of hammering and chiseling happening on the roofs of manila. noemi velasco and her children look a bit skeptical, but they're eagerly awaiting the moment when a bottle is inserted through the hole in their corrugated iron roof. >> it costs 2,400 pesos a month for electricity. that's more than we can afford. we can't afford lamps. so it's always been very dark in our hut. >> a plastic bottle filled with water and a dash of bleach -- is that really all it takes to transform the lives of thousands of filipinos? illac diaz thinks it is. when the sun shines on it, light from above is refracted through the liquid into the gloom below. t

southern and central africa to work in the factories and mines in southern johannesburg. had music at night and people who were practicing somewhere. there were wedding songs we played and we sang childrens' songs and played street games. we didn't have television. and we listened to records and -- if here and from all -- from here and from all over the world. so by time i was 5, i was a piano player and i've been in music for the last -- 67 years. >> you just recently completed the 25th anniversary tour of graceland with paul simon overseas. how did that go? what was it like to revisit that whole period of time? >> it was fantastic because people who have seen it when they were in their 20s came back and they were in their 50s and -- the real sing along. that record sold almost 20 million records. it was a whole lot of people. we played to 75,000 people in hyde park and we did stockholm, sweden. we did copenhagen and we did amsterdam. but everywhere it was people who had seen it when they were young and they brought their children. >> need lest to say there's not enough

we're working right now in trying to be of help in southern africa with regard to the independence ofnd the removal of the cuban surrogates, the thousands of them, from angola. so, i can say there are a great many interests. i believe that we have a great interest in the pacific basin. that is where i think the future of the world lies. but i am not going to pick out one and, in advance, hypothetically say, "oh, yes, we would send troops there." i don't want to send troops any place. >> i'm sorry, mr. president. sir, your time was up. >> all right. >> mr. mondale, you have described the soviet leaders as, and i'm quoting, ". . . cynical, ruthless, and dangerous," suggesting an almost total lack of trust in them. in that case, what makes you think that the annual summit meetings with them that you have proposed will result in agreements that would satisfy the interests of this country? >> because the only type of agreements to reach with the soviet union are the types that are specifically defined, so we know exactly what they must do; subject to full verification, which means we know

tactics, same principles, and still want, at the end of the day, the -- they cover all of northern africa, southern europe, the middle east. that's what they're stated and intended goal is. and ansar al sharia basically means protector of islam. so they have sworn an oath to do that. so they are that extremist, jihadist group. all of them continue to be dangerous. and the interesting thing, again, soledad, is we also know now that on the 13th of september, there was what we believe is probably an affiliated of al qaeda attack the u.s. embassy in tunisia. four dead, not americans, and they also hit the american school there. nobody's really talking about it. but that tells you the level of coordination and of sheer interest in trying to hit western targets. >> so let's talk about that a little bit, if we can. i want to go through some reports. earlier we were talking about, talking about the "l.a. times" report, which said this, i'll piece of it, said the assault on the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi last month appears to have been an opportunistic attack rather than a long-planned operation. a

southern china. many places around the world have had malaria problems-- brazil-- that they've brought under control. not so in africa. eradication efforts are erratic. yellow fever is another mosquito-transmitted virus that the french encountered when they occupied west africa. so the way the french dealt with this was to conduct an ongoing every-four-year campaign to vaccinate every person in every country they occupied. they had groups of doctors and nurses--that's all they did. they just went from village to village on this four year cycle. that way, the most that could happen is you'd have a group of susceptible children, but it would never get very big before you'd be through vaccinating the next time around. that way, they kept yellow fever under control. now, when those countries became independent, there wasn't money for those programs. and i got introduced to yellow fever in africa because, in 1965... some seven or eight years after senegal got its independence, there was a big epidemic of yellow fever, and it was all in children under 10 years of age, because they hadn't been vaccinated. when we started of

at the opportunities that are now emerging in the southern, in southern atlantic with countries like, you know, brazil and the horn of africa we've seen the moroccan businesses, of course wishing that europe will be fixed, but also looking very strongly at africa as an area of growth and opportunity. i think that by the way, mustapha, part of the fixing your come is europe looking at africa in, themselves looking at africa in a different prism. that nevertheless, in terms of the as soon be issue, of course -- s. in the issue, of course is not the silver bullet but consider company like ocp, i'm sure this is the case, you know, employees, uses subcontractors and partners but 500 industrial companies. so indeed our competitiveness depends on their competitiveness, but there's a lot we can do to help them become more competitive and become also export oriented. >> a question here at the front table and one at the back table. >> thank you. do morocco and tunisia have private sectors that are alert, energetic, and imaginative risktakers wax or more tranquil risk averse, only wanting to engage in familiar and comfortable activiti

southern china. many places around the world have had malaria problems-- brazil-- that they've brought under control. not so in africa. eradication efforts are erratic. yellow fever is another mosquito-transmitted virus that the french encountered when they occupied west africa. so the way the french dealt with this was to conduct an ongoing every-four-year campaign to vaccinate every person in every country they occupied. they had groups of doctors and nurses--that's all they did. they just went from village to village on this four year cycle. that way, the most that could happen is you'd have a group of susceptible children, but it would never get very big before you'd be through vaccinating the next time around. that way, they kept yellow fever under control. now, when those countries became independent, there wasn't money for those programs. and i got introduced to yellow fever in africa because, in 1965... some seven or eight years after senegal got its independence, there was a big epidemic of yellow fever, and it was all in children under 10 years of age, because they hadn't been vaccinated. when we started of

africa i think is -- we haven't seen it. >> it's limited. i want to play some southern, from the dnc, the democratic national convention in september where the president unquivocally said al qaeda is being defeated. let's listen. >> a new tower rises above the new york skyline. al qaeda is on the path to defeat and bin laden is dead. >> so just days after that, that's when you have this attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the ambassador and three others were killed. al qaeda called it a gift here. do you think that the united states is vulnerable to al qaeda? what is their reach here when it comes to north africa? >> reporter: well, i think it depends. the benghazi consulate was clearly not adequately defended, you know. american embassies in other north african countries i think would be a much harder target. so, you know, this group did attack the u.n. building in algiers some years ago which is, you know, somewhat defended. so they do have some capacity. but i think we need to be careful, you know, this is not al qaeda central suddenly capable of attacking t

exclusively maghreb as part of the middle east or as the southern part of europe and missing its main nature, its main identity which is africa part of africa. you know, the world bank has a menna department, has an african department, doesn't consider that north africa is part of africa. many diplomacies have north african partners -- you know, policies that are part of a broader middle east policy. so i beg, you know, i beg you to consider that north africa is also part of africa. i'll stop there. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. so there you have it, the economic issues seen from the broad comparative perspective down to the regional perspective down to the firm perspective. thank you very much to our panelists for helping lead us down that progression. we have about 15 minutes for questions. i would ask if you could, please, identify yourself, if you could only ask one question, and then my pet peeve, if you could ask your question in the form of a question which is to ask a genuine question of our distinguished panelists and not to make a statement and say what do you think of my statement. i see a hand righ

southern turkey. no one was hurt, but the turkish military returned fire. a similar exchange earlier this week left several dead on both sides. the turmoil deepened today in south africa's mining industry. the world's largest platinum producer, amplats, fired 12,000 miners for staging an unlawful strike. it was the latest turn in two months of labor unrest and violence in south africa. in august, police shot and killed 34 strikers working for another major platinum concern. nearly 80,000 miners are currently striking across the country. the highest court in britain ruled today that five terror suspects can be extradited to the u.s., including abu hamza al-masri. the radical muslim preacher, and the others, had fought extradition for years. al-masri's mosque in london was known as a training ground for radical islamists in the 1990s. he's accused of trying to set up a terror training camp in oregon. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and we come back to politics. in the battle for control of the u.s. senate, many expected missouri would be an easy pick- up for republicans. gwen ifill reports on why the seat is now back in play for

africa. the experiences of countries on the southern shores of the mediterranean offer competing visions of of the course that change may change. the in tunisia, we find a government faced with security challenges and debates over fundamental constitutional principles while economic struggles that helped motivate original calls for change continue. in libya triumph and tragedy have marked the transition that has successfully produced libya's first elected government in 50 years, yet libya remains haunted by its divisive legacy, and its new government has a long way to go to build its own capacity and assert national leadership. egyptians have taken the first steps beyond the political gamesmanship that characterized their early transition period, but president morsi and his allies find themselves grappling with the responsibilities of elected power and balancing competing domestic and international demands. in algeria, we see a durability of broadly-based authoritarian rule but looming leadership transitions and persistent economic challenges may place obstacles on the horizon. and lastly, in

tell us the 43rd president has taken art lessons and in his free time between trips to africa and his work at southerny, he sits at his texas ranch painting both landscapes and portraits of his -- >> john: they sold the set. the ranch was a set. the ranch was purchased when he ran for president. it was never his home. he had never lived there. that's why he was clearing brush. he was clearing brush because he was afraid of horses. there's no animals in on the ranch. he now lives in a dallas suburb. so that was one inaccuracy. i'm glad he's found a hobby since no one has asked him in the campaign this year. only those two? >> that was three. >> john: i want more. i want more "full court press." >> we'll do it next hour. >> do you really want a lot of that? drag it out. >> john: dab is a great -- dan is a great broadcaster. i would have you here the whole hour if it was my show. >> dan, get out! >> get the hell out. >> john: we'll be taking more of your calls on the debate and bib ghazi. i'm pleased to welcome to the show someone i've admired for awhile, from puz feed, please welcome -- from "buzzfeed,"