which time to make unity attractive and vote the government in the north and the government of southern sudan were to walk to make unity attractive but the option of war was always there for the people to exercise their right of self-determination to choose whether to remain part of a united sudan or to go their separate ways i think. we'll find out of cause after the friend on what is the choice of the people but the good thing is board the government of sudan and outsiders today and most of the african countries endorsed by the united nations have said we must all respect i said and respect the decision that will be made as a result of the referendum but to make the unity attractive after the referendum both sides have to agree on such issues as the future of oil sharing assets liabilities security international agreements border there are occasions citizenship and water who will maybe a the resolution of these of these issues right now the african union has set up a panel high level panel led by president bakiev the former president of south africa. to war with the parties even before the

relations well here's how president dmitry medvedev described russia's attitude to the referendum in southern sudan. it is my firm conviction that no matter what this referendums result is it will not only determine the future of sovan sudan its people who also have a substantial influence on the general political situation in the region i hope that the referendum will produce a result which will make it possible to establish the conditions necessary for continuing the post conflict settlement process and ensuring sudan sustainable development. is there a risk that in order to prevent the session our southern sudan had to could withdraw from the two thousand and five comprehensive peace agreement now how would the african union and the un react in this case i sincerely doubt that that is likely i think both sides of committed to implementing the c.p.a. the contras if there's agreement the african union have come in support of the implementation of united nations particularly secular mr banking one has made it a priority of his administration to have the parties to a sure a that the referendum goes

is what he said i quote there is a liaison between the dar for rebels and the authorities of southern sudan and who out what consequence will the in the tens of sudden sudan have for the situation in darfur equal complicated but they are the same time is a call also. be resolve some of the issues that is the equivalent of history of course we want a peaceful relationship between the fall and southern sudan whatever the decision may be as a result of the referendum because as you know right now there. in southern darfur they have there are some bunder issues which are sudden there for southern sudan now suddenly they're to become independent then this will become international borders so the problem will be accessibility secondly as many of the opposition group in for seem to be moving towards. jim is believed to be there as early minimum now we believe not only believe he said this and in juba right now there is. a conflict between the government forces and that of s.l.e. we who is in juba so there is the the danger that. the spillover effect of the the outcome of the of the referendum who

, they will help us think through what might be to happen in the next few months in sudan, in southern sudan and abiya to read our first speaker will be from the embassy of sudan, ambassador fatahelraham ali mohamed with the rank of the ambassador. prior to serving here on washington he was the executive director of the sudan national assembly speaker's office from 2004 to 2006. from 1999 to 2004 he was in the embassy incident and prior to that he held other positions in the sudan foreign service. >> good morning. thank you, mr. smock, for giving me this opportunity to share in this forum. as you know, the referendum is a product of the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement. the historical achievement that brought the end to 50 years of war which began before sudan gained its independence. it is the fruit of joint effort in the long course of their negotiations that stand great lengths of time. the government and splm with the support of the international community and represented by the community were able to come together and produce the steel document that called for implementation of time s

. >> i have never seen a country which will be starting out with as little infrastructure as southern sudan should the referendum result in a vote for separation. >> suarez: we have two takes on charitable giving-- a look at the use of social media for fundraising and the story of a company that puts its profits into philanthropy. >> brown: judy woodruff talks with veteran congressman james oberstar of minnesota, one of the leading democrats swept out of office in last month's election. >> suarez: we examine an arizona law that restricts what can be taught in ethnic studies classes. ♪ >> brown: and we remember the life and music of jazz ambassador billy taylor. >> brown: that's all ahead. on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's going to work an a big scale. only, i think it's going to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to wor

, they will help us think through what might be to happen in the next few months in sudan, in southern sudan and abiya to read our first speaker will be from the embassy of sudan, ambassador fatahelraham ali mohamed with the rank of the ambassador. prior to serving here on washington he was the executive director of the sudan national assembly speaker's office from 2004 to 2006. from 1999 to 2004 he was in the embassy incident and prior to that he held other positions in the sudan foreign service. >> good morning. thank you, mr. smock, for giving me this opportunity to share in this forum. as you know, the referendum is a product of the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement. the historical achievement that brought the end to 50 years of war which began before sudan gained its independence. it is the fruit of joint effort in the long course of their negotiations that stand great lengths of time. the government and splm with the support of the international community and represented by the community were able to come together and produce the steel document that called for implementation of time s

. >> suarez: still to come on the "newshour": southern sudan's coming vote on independence; new models for charitable giving; departing democrat james oberstar; shutting down ethnic studies classes and remembering jazz legend billy taylor. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the snow plows kept going in new york city today, four days after last weekend's blizzard. officials said crews have plowed every street at least once, and they're trying to get down to the asphalt streets. some blocks were still impassable because of abandoned cars. mayor michael bloomberg today called the city's response to the storm inadequate and unacceptable. he's been heavily criticized, but he promised to get answers, after the cleanup. >> you can get angry or you can focus on number one keep our work force out there and trying to solve problem of today. number one priority and to do it safely. number two, we can then go and have an investigation to learn so that we can do it better. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, new storms in the west dumped heavy rain and snow on ari

, they will help us think through what might be to happen in the next few months in sudan, in southern sudan and abiya to read our first speaker will be from the embassy of sudan, ambassador fatahelraham ali mohamed with the rank of the ambassador. prior to serving here on washington he was the executive director of the sudan national assembly speaker's office from 2004 to 2006. from 1999 to 2004 he was in the embassy incident and prior to that he held other positions in the sudan foreign service. >> good morning. thank you, mr. smock, for giving me this opportunity to share in this forum. as you know, the referendum is a product of the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement. the historical achievement that brought the end to 50 years of war which began before sudan gained its independence. it is the fruit of joint effort in the long course of their negotiations that stand great lengths of time. the government and splm with the support of the international community and represented by the community were able to come together and produce the steel document that called for implementation of time s

southern sudan, which has had a world with northern sudan, southern sudan on january 9, 2011, very soon, is going to be voting for it's right to it's own independence. now 80% of sudan's oil is in the south of the country. there's only one way that oil leaves the country, through the north. through a pipeline, the pipeline is heavily protected by chinese oil interest. it used to be a u.s. company which has divested because of so much political power. i had the very curious conversation with some of the former farmers, sudanese farmers solved off of their land by oil interest; right? they are now essentially fisherman, they fish in puddles. i had a group of men say to me, why can't you bring back chevron. we much perform chevron and western oil interest to chinese ones. at least they try to get to know us. that is to say in what looks like economic policies, we need to say out of particular areas is frequently on the ground much more complicated than it looks at a distance. >> host: good morning, you are on with eliza griswold. >> caller: hi, i wanted to thank the lady between the statem

going next week to see them is because we are about when hundred days away from a referendum in southern sudan that is going to determine whether or not the southern third of the country of saddam basically sissies and creates two new countries. we want to highlight what has happened there because the potential berthing of a new country is leading to great fears that a war, that war will resume in southern sudan. remember, in dark fur at the height of all of the death and destruction and genocide the high range estimates by. and we don't really know how many people died. but 400,000. it was two and 1/4 million. so second deadliest war in the world since world war ii. all hands on deck to try to prevent this war from happening. we wrote about this metaphor of two trains on the same track rushing at each other. you can see them from far away. we know that it's coming. we actually know that there are side rails that can be taken so that we can divert that train wreck through diplomacy, real pressure, united international action, often through u.s. in diplomatic circles. that's why it was so heart

in southern sudan it was two and a quarter million so the second deadliest war after congo, so all hands on deck to try to prevent this war from having -- happening. two trains on the same track rushing on each other and you can see it from far away. we know that it is coming. we actually know that there are side rails that can be taken so that we can never dead train wreck through diplomacy through real pressure, and through united international action, through often u.s. leadership and diplomatic circles and that his wife was so heartening when president obama was so committed leslie during the united nations general assembly and the meeting dedicated specifically to sudan amongst all the world leaders. i am on the one hand very concerned as anyone be as all sudanese are that this could end very badly and on the other hand this is an opportunity to finally end the terrible saga that southerners have gone through during the slave raiding century and the 19th century to the wars of the 20th century for the southern sudanese. we have the chance really to end this cycle with this process i

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southern sudan will vote on january 9 on whether to remain united with northern sudan or become an income pendent country. tomorrow, a panel will leave you that referendum. live coverage from the u.s. institute of peace begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. later on c-span3, a forum on the future of afghanistan as the u.s. plans to begin withdrawing troops next summer. that is live at the center for a new american security act 1:00 at 30 eastern. >> it is hard to get there and hit hard to leave here. all of us to leave and the senate always continues. >> search for farewell speeches and look at retired members on the c-span video library with every c-span program since 1987. more than 160,000 hours, all on line, all free. is washington your way. white house economic adviser lawrence summers said that he expects low consumer demand to remain a drag on the u.s. economy for several years. he spoke at the economic policy institute. mr. summers is stepping down as director of the national economic council at the end of the year. this is all little over an hour. >> hello, my name is larry mi

panelists include representatives from southern sudan and national unity. >> it is hard to get here and it is hard to leave here. but all of us do leave and the senate always continues. >> here from retiring members in the senate and house on the c-span video library with every c-span program since 1987. 1 67 found our all on line and all free. washington your way. white house and economic adviser lawrence summers said he expects low consumer demand remained a drag on the u.s. economy for several years. cheese the economic policy institute. he is stepping down as director of the national economic council at the end of the year. this is a a little over an hour. >> hello. i am the president of the economic policy institute. thank you for coming to hear larry summers today, director of the president's national economic council. he will offer his remarks after his two year tenure in the white house. we are very pleased to be able to host this event. imus admit that a number of people have looked at me and thought this was a little odd to have larry summers here. but i want to set the record

the pirates hijacked the ship in 2008 will likely to kenya with weapons for the southern sudan.hey got $3 million in ransom. >> wikileaks soon won't be the only secret-spilling game in town. a former co- worker of wikileaks founder julian assange plans to launch a rival website monday called openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. domscheit-berg, who during his time with wikileaks often went under the pseudonym daniel schmitt, said he quit the project after falling out with assange over what he described as the lack of transparency in the group's decision-making process. right now live look out of washington d.c. our rally service member's legal defense is holding the raleigh to call upon the senate and the president to remain in session until they passed and the repeal of the don't ask don't tell policy. we will be right back. watching seven day forecast scattered showers today headed into the weekend has tomorrow upper 60s highs on sunday near 70 nice weather monday chance of showers back in the forecast tuesday. >> jury delib

southern sudan will vote on january 9 whether to remain united with northern sudan or form an independent country. today, a panel will preview that referendum. live coverage from the u.s. institute of peace begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan 3. later in the day also on c-span 3, a conversation on the future of afghanistan as the u.s. plans to begin withdrawing troops next summer. that is live at the center for a new american security at 1:00 eastern. house majority leader steny hoyer said earlier he expects the tax cut package to pass the house later this week. the senate moved forward on the measure earlier. congressman hoyer spoke at the national press club. this is one hour. >> the house of representatives shall be composed of members chose ever second year by the people of the states. so says the constitution. at a time when some americans were pushing

. >> next month, the people of southern sudan will take part in a vote that might make them an independent war. back in october, i reported on george clooney's trip to sudan. >> i'm up to my knees, but i do believe that there's a real possibility of saving a lot of lives. making it harder to kill people. >> reporter: making it harder to kill people because it's going to be in the light of day? >> i think the light of day is a pretty amazing thing. >> reporter: george clooney has been trying to use one of his most potent assets, his fame in an effort to prevent it. you may remember our trip in october. >> how are you? >> reporter: when we met people worlds removed from scenes we take for granted. like seeing their own image. let alone on something like a tv camera. many had suffered tragedy and we listened to their stories. she's saying pregnant women were burned to death. old women were raped. these are the worst things. a spark for a new war, a scheduled referendum on independence for the south. clooney wants sudan to document just how perilous the situation is. are you more convinced or

united states is expected to become a player in south sudan could go oil industry, said a development that could only be made possible by southern independence, as current sanctions prevent this. american investment groups are already buying up large tracts of arboriculture will land in south sudan, though it is believed their interest is in untapped oil reserves. oil currently represents nearly 20% of saddam's gdp, so when it's threatened to oil production would represent an immediate -- so an interruption to oil production would represent an immediate loss. neighboring countries would also incur significant economic costs to the loss of trade. the question is can the self afford to go to war? -- the south afford to go to war? the result to beat the loss of all the element gains made in the last five years, and possibly wide-spread starvation. the south cannot take its oil fields and live happily ever after. the refineries are of located in the north. the only pipeline for export runs through the north on the red sea. it would take many years and hundreds of millions of dollars to change this situation. in today's hyper-sensiti

and united states is expected to become a player in the south sudan oil industry, and the development could only be made possible by southernependence, as current sanctions prevent this. american investment groups are already buying up large tracts of agricultural land in south sudan. their interest is in untapped oil reserves rather than farming. oil currently represents nearly 20% of the cidoni is gdp. an interruption -- 20% of the sudan gdp. this is a significant sum to a developing country. neighboring countries would also secure cost be to trade. -- costs to trade. if they block oil shipments to the pipeline, the result would be the loss of all development gains made in the last five years and possibly even starvation. the south however cannot just live happily ever after. the refineries are all located in the northcom and the only pipeline for export in the landlocked self runs through the north at the red sea -- the refineries are all located in the north, and the only pipeline for export in the landlocked south runs through the north at the red sea. an important oil producer like sudan, it would have immediately --

and united states is expected to become a player in the south sudan oil industry, and the development could only be made possible by southernt this. american investment groups are already buying up large tracts of agricultural land in south sudan. their interest is in untapped oil reserves rather than farming. oil currently represents nearly 20% of the cidoni is gdp. an interruption -- 20% of the sudan gdp. this is a significant sum to a developing country. neighboring countries would also secure cost be to trade. -- costs to trade. if they block oil shipments to the pipeline, the result would be the loss of all development gains made in the last five years and possibly even starvation. the south however cannot just live happily ever after. the refineries are all located in the northcom and the only pipeline for export in the landlocked self runs through the north at the red sea -- the refineries are all located in the north, and the only pipeline for export in the landlocked south runs through the north at the red sea. an important oil producer like sudan, it would have immediately -- it would immediately produce an effect

southern independence, there is a very good chance that this could drive a downward spiral in chinese-american relations. given the wide ranging economic, political, and security ramifications of a new conflict in the sudan, current concessions over poorly made cargo bombs emanating from yemen and airport pat-downs, these pale as security issues compared to the ticking time bomb in the nile basin. thank you. [applause] >> that was certainly scary. we have time for only a couple of questions. i want to be mindful of the next panel at 3:00 on yemen. perhaps we could take one or two questions and i also encourage you, if you do not get a chance to ask your question, i get in touch with the analyst directly. it will be here for the afternoon. the first question from this gentleman here. >> thank you. i'm from the canadian government and thank you for your excellent presentation. i think my question is for jean- luc about the recent statement from aqim in which they informed the french public, they are often the cozy 84 hostages with osama bin laden directly. to me -- could you give your assessment on whether this is a sea change in aqim strategy moving to hostage-taking in support of global jihad? and could