the biggest improvement was seen in sub-saharan africa. authorities in new york have arrested a man suspected of planting -- planning bomb attacks in the city. the charges include plans to kill american troops returning from overseas. the suspect has appeared in court to hear the charges against him. he has yet to enter a plea or make any comment. police believe he was acting alone. >> he is a 27-year-old citizen born in the dominican republic. police said they monitored them since 2009. a police informant taped conversations with them. -- with him. >> the suspect was a so-called global, motivated by his own resentment of the presence of american troops in iraq and afghanistan. >> police arrested him at his new york apartment as he finished work on a pipe bomb. they say he was planning to bid police patrols and post offices. >> i think is pretty frightening that it is this close to home. >> it is nice to know that he was working alone. but it is surreal. >> loan suspects pose a particular worry for intelligence agencies. they're difficult

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and some of the most sparsely populated regions of the earth are some of the poorest, such as sub saharan, africa of the populated are richest, no correlation here. >> paul: dan. >> two issues to this issue and one called taiwan and the other is south korea. both countries after world war ii were full of people and in poor and put in place the right economic policies and they have boomed and people have grown in prosperity and wflt, but there are a lot of them in those two countries. i think the criticism from the united nations and development agencies and some of the other people is based on the fact that their economic policies by and large do not produce the economic growth at that picks people out of poverty. >> those are based on the state control and redistribution. >> exactly. when that result occurs and they're left with all of the people. their default is attack the people. now, argue population control. family planning and the rest of it. >> what about the increase in food prices, commodity prices, and corn has been at a record now for almost a year or close to it. the suggestion is th

and it's not by coincidence that there are humanitarian organizations that used to work in sub-saharan africa but they are now coming in athens and they're saying that the capital of greece is facing a humanitarian crisis so that gives you an a d about what's going on there i mean in the way it's used to be seven hundred euros now it's around five hundred euros you know just a few months there for the first time after the second world war people who don't have enough money for food it's something that no one would expect just one year ago so this is the situation in this was created by the austerity measures that they were that were imposed. by brussels very lehman the greek government to put another document she coming out the electronic maybe a telephone that's out yes we believe that the next day. when you leave under economic look at basin is that for a nursing greeks there we try to sell off the public property and we are following examples in other countries from united states who were asked for their money or united kingdom where there were massive privatization programs but destroyed

i mean, you find that, for example, bush actually was not unpopular in, you know, sub-saharan africa, israel, the philippines, poland. where he really was unpopular was in western europe, and where the contrast is sharpest with obama is western europe. and so that's, when people talk about world opinion, that's really what they often mean. but you could also ask yourself what does it really amount to, i mean, what are the -- what specific concessions have governments made in france or germany to the u.s. because of a more or less popular american president? i mean, sometimes it doesn't really amount to much in concrete policy terms. governments make these judgments, i think, for their own reasons. >> professor dueck, do presidents get credit for less than major or different foreign policies such as president bush in africa where he increased aid to africa, he increased the aids budget, etc., do they get credit for to more or less sideline issues, and is that fair to call them sideline issues? >> yeah. sometimes they don't get as much credit as they should. i think if you remember the

journalist about what we called certain national people who have no passport are coming from sub-saharan africa and are absolutely serious lot of problems and a lot of concern about about their fate during and during the situation and typically that's one of our priorities detentions people detained are always always with high availability so we are there to try as much as we can to make sure that they are respected and we will follow that very closely but i must say i'm also very concerned about all health issues in terms of in fact infrastructure hospital were hit i mean can see a lot of doctors and nurses left the country we need to make sure that there is ability in libya to have a health system which works again otherwise we would be confronted with very serious problems what can you say about libya from the point of view of compliance to the wooden rules are very. humanitarian law i mean where they are they really violated those conflicts in my experience and i'm sad to say it and i have not gone across an econ flicked where the rules were always respected right by all sides yes absolutel

the united nations aid program says that 34 million people around the world had hiv and 2010 sub-saharan africarea accounting for 68 percent of those living with hiv since 1995 about two and half million deaths in poor and middle-income nations have been averted due to hiv and drugs >>overweight people eat less often than people in the normal body weight range but they still taken more calories and they're less active over the course of the day researchers writing in the journal of the american dietetic association said that nobody knows what people who eat more frequently have lower weight they suggest snacking may have staving off the intense humber that causes people to eat a lot more food [ male announcer ] tom's discovering that living healthy can be fun. see? he's taking his vitamins. new one a day vitacraves plus omega-3 dha is a complete multivitamin for adults. plus an excellent source of omega-3 dha in a great tasting gummy. one a day gummies for grown-ups. is here to give us some great ideas of four thanksgiving side dishes ... we have some corn muffin mix some regular corn and some

calcutta you can't possibly object to growth because you know that those people need food in sub-saharan africa in their own cities and united states has plenty of room but what we've got to do is move away from this militarized economy that is based on killing people and based on polluting the planet instead move into an economy that's based on finding ways to feed starving people help them grow food more efficiently store and distribute it and clean up the terrible pollution and come up with better transportation and communications and energy systems and get rid of these huge powerful multinational banks in place the more with local basis so much that we can do this so much room here for us to create a better economy and we really must move forward or you know we've got to become sustainable high definition of a species that isn't sustainable disappears while and so if we continue on as course i don't know where we're headed i want to quickly get to our solutions at the end but i really have to touch upon this because i'm sure many of our viewers i have seen are into these or read your books

i'm sure there's people in sub saharan africa that's like ooh, tents. look at you, mister. perspective. the guys in syria have a very different issue that they are dealing w.but giving that, until people have hope that there is some sense that their grievances are being addressed and addressed seriously and that the government is becoming more agile to deal with it. >> thank you, man. with thanks to jon stewart, that's it for this first ever -- >> i'm a not guy to have done this. >> for all the folks here who put this broadcast together, we'd like to thank you for being here with us. please join us tomorrow evening for nbc "nightly news" and next monday night for the second ever "rock center." we're registered at bed >>> set for sale chlt auction outrage at solyndra chlt why the bankrupt solar company is about to