is to get china and put their money in sub-saharan africa if they want to benefit in the emerging market germany in twenty minutes or more the thousand the business. from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. millions of russians are lucky to hit the phones later and there's one number there after prime minister vladimir putin will take calls no doubt some very direct questions this tense televised phone and let's get the details now from our. recent events i suppose partner suppresion is expecting some tough questions from the public what song russians minds. of a dimmer putin is widely expected to break silence on the mass protests following the state duma elections elections which were tarnished by fraud allegations judging by the questions currently listed as nos stossel on the show's web site but these years program will focus on traditional social issues such as policy ponchos and health care but at least two visitors to the site also hooten for his opinion on the protests in particular voters want to know if the current legislation would be amended and punishment for a lot

are any of those countries in sub-saharan africa? which countries in africa are doing the best across the whole broad range of combat malaria and who are the laggards? >> thanks very much. this issue of eliminating malaria is where many nations have put that in their current plans, that is what they want to do, in the discussions that led to the updated rollback malaria goals for 10 countries to eliminate in the coming five years, they did that because there are nine countries that are in the who european region. this is not western europe. this is a set of relatively small countries that have almost no malaria but they have little pockets of it. those are slated within the next five years to hopefully eliminate their malaria. armenia was part of that group and just declared elimination two months ago. yes, there are a number of countries in that state. in terms of other places, you ask specifically about africa. as ambassador green has mentioned, a small part of tanzania, the islands off the coast, are not very far away and this is t

resource extraction the international monetary fund estimates that sub-saharan africa's economy will expand by five point five percent this year and five point nine percent in two thousand and twelve experts warn investors may be missing a giant business opportunity if they fail to pay attention to africa and it's a mistake russia is key to avoid having the side that the reward outweighs the risk of not being part of the next success story. more in the dory rotters a modest independent all company lou call it back to going up for the fam i am soon fessed up to nine hundred million dollars into the continent seeking to compensate the declining domestic production experts say african fields cleared out around ten percent of the calls are now. let's have a look at the markets and the crude is higher despite news or oil protel opec raise its output c.-leg and others like crude prices have also shrugged off speculation that europe's watching debt crisis could come up tomorrow for commodities. markets to coins and does side with manufacturers and commodity linked funds we have of the close

some say investors should forget china and park the money in sub-saharan africa if they wish to benefit from the growth in emerging markets a delegation of russian officials and entrepreneurs is heading to ethiopia where that discuss how to make their business ties even stronger but may nichols not even takes a look at what's making africa more appealing than ever before. most people associate africa with an abundance of natural and that were cultural resources like oil gold diamonds minerals cocoa and coffee but investors can't help but overlook a long history of currency fluctuations poorly developed markets and political risk so when analysts say the west has peaked in terms of economic growth and the best emerging markets are in africa it leaves some scratching their head the african landscape itself on the political and economic front has been changing significantly the political environment is becoming far more stable fewer conflicts in terms of the macroeconomic story in africa far better economic management all of that which is contributing to making that as a more interesting i

the number of new infections is rising, but most are found in sub-saharan africa. over 20 million of the world's 34 million hiv-positive people live there. the who says african patients are getting more access to drug therapies and that the rate of new infections is falling. >>> we will have more of the fight against aids with reports from the ukraine and thailand coming up in just a few minutes. >>> she has been called a literary what this of the 21st century. she has died in berlin. she was 82. she was one of the leading writers in east germany. her life under communism and form her work. some claimed that she was too close to the regime, but her writing earned her plaudits on both sides of the iron curtain bee. >> her life and writing career were dominated by political upheaval. she lived in nazi germany and communist east germany, but it was greek mythology that inspired two of foremost inspired works, recounting aged myths to explore contemporary themes. >> it continues to occupy me how early civilizations and the history of other people's is still visible tod

there are dwindling populations of christians throughout the middle east and sub-saharan africa.ng governments bring people to justice when they perpetrate that violence. all of those trends are very disturbing and could lead to the extinction of christian or other religious minority populations in a part of the world where they've been very important to stability, security and economic prosperity. megyn: leonard leo, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. megyn: well, new warnings today from some doctors regarding the nation's health care law. after a new survey finds that nearly two-thirds expect quality of care will decline. just ahead, i'll be joined by a panel of doctors for a look at what this means for you and your family and their health care. >>> and is california's former first couple getting back together? why some say the expression "i'll be back" may have a new meaning today. >>> plus, he was a popular novelist before he was convicted of killing his own wife. the case was dubbed "the staircase murder." it got a ton of publicity. so why has this guy, michael

now, the other places in sub-saharan africa, first of all south africa still has transmission but in focal areas along its borders with zimbabwe and swaziland and mozambique, and that is alive because not the mosquitoes moving across the border by people moving across those borders and they are in particular trying to pay attention to whether not they can eliminate it. this is actually a pretty important discussion because that's southern cone of africa, swan swan swan and maybe a, zimbabwe, once a gift beyond its political strife it has an incredibly strong health system and -- or did and it's been hampered in their recent years particularly from the political strife, but that could turn around and if that does, you could have namibia, botswana, zimbabwe and swaziland is actually quite close. just north of that, i mentioned we worked a fair amount in zambia. there are parts of zambia where you can now count cases and districts on your hands and maybe hands and toes. that is new and that is why i'm talking about this budha will change and the innovation has got us thinking and got co

mobile phones are commonplace in sub-saharan africa. experts tell it's the great growth market but things to innovate is ingenious leaders in both the public and private sector in africa to become not just simple mobile phones, but amazing logistical and analytical tools to address global health challenges. perhaps one of the best examples is the malaria early academic detection system known as meads funded from the american people from usaid centers of disease control and pmi. adel island of zanzibar is probably known a part of tanzania. they have almost eliminated malaria from the shore. to help them cross the finish line of charlie braking malaria's death grip, the tool called meads was created. working with the zanzibar malaria control program it was developed to detect the early stages of an epidemic within two weeks of onset. every single monday health leaders from 53 different stations in zanzibar use text messaging technology to send an treen automated server any positive test they have of malaria. if in fact there is a positive

the young adult population in sub saharan africa, the parents who teach their children to be good communitylly growing up alone and learning from each other. infinite family is based on relationships that transform the lives of children and young adults by teaching them life skills. once or twice a week, the children come to the computer labs. they turn on the computer. they turn on the web cam. and they see their mentor. >> hi! >> hi, lisa. >> the minute i see surprise, it is like fuel for the soul. >> can i ask you a question? >> this little guy is having to deal with such grown-up issues. the drugs that he sees and that he encounters. and the peer pressure. so then he asks me those questions. >> as soon as someone half a world away believes that you have a future, all of a sudden we see the self-confidence start to develop, focus on schoolwork improve. >> and three times nine? >> one of the things we saw last year was that the national average on passing the metric exam was about 67%. and amongst the infinite family net buddies that took the exam, it was a 90% pass rate. >> how are you?

sub-saharan africa accounts for 22.5 million of those cases, or at least it did in 1999. cases there. overall, even in the areas that are worst hit, cases are decreasing. there is just one exception to that and that is the area of eastern europe and central asia. numbers there of new hiv/aids cases are increasing. researchers aren't sure why. there are a number of theories. one of the main goals of world aids day is to get the word out about aids, educate people be hopefully stop this virus and overall due to these plateauing numbers and decreasing new cases, it seems that message is getting through. >> as carl mentioned with be 30 million lives an counting. aids has been a worldwide crisis for three decades and the fight is not over. i want to look at some of the global impact. >> reporter: hiv cases continue to rise here in europe. that according to the w.h.o. the epidemic here still not under control. campaigners say awareness is crucial to battling the stigma that surrounds the disease. >> people in european countries don't tend to be as aware of this issue because fo

size of the staff in south africa to oversee the money for aids and infectious diseases in sub-saharan africa and then opening the satellite office on a small satellite office in port-au-prince haiti to help the regional office in el salvador oversee the humanitarian assistance and reconstruction of the post earthquake haiti. so i think that regardless whether it is a contingency operation or just a standard agency coming u.s. aid obligation i think we uniquely situated to do that work to do the oversight work. in iraq we started the oversight in 2003 long-term and when the embassy got up and running and the mission got up and running we established an office of seven auditors and investigators so we have been there pretty much with sigr from the beginning. on the programs and iraq are sort of leveling off to the traditional country office machine operation at about $270 million we are going to reduce the size of the staff to the auditors to the investigators move the additional people over to egypt of the [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> thank you, we now recognize

size of the staff in south africa to oversee the money for aids and infectious diseases in sub-saharan africa and then opening the satellite office on a small satellite office in port-au-prince haiti to help the regional office in el salvador oversee the humanitarian assistance and reconstruction of the post earthquake haiti. so i think that regardless whether it is a contingency operation or just a standard agency coming u.s. aid obligation i think we uniquely situated to do that work to do the oversight work. in iraq we started the oversight in 2003 long-term and when the embassy got up and running and the mission got up and running we established an office of seven auditors and investigators so we have been there pretty much with sigr from the beginning. on the programs and iraq are sort of leveling off to the traditional country office machine operation at about $270 million we are going to reduce the size of the staff to the auditors to the investigators move the additional people over to egypt of the regional offices and then provide iraq, provide oversight of iraq from egypt and from i

size of the staff in south africa to oversee the money for aids and infectious diseases in sub-saharan africa and then opening the satellite office on a small satellite office in port-au-prince haiti to help the regional office in el salvador oversee the humanitarian assistance and reconstruction of the post earthquake haiti. so i think that regardless whether it is a contingency operation or just a standard agency coming u.s. aid obligation i think we uniquely situated to do that work to do the oversight work. in iraq we started the oversight in 2003 long-term and when the embassy got up and running and the mission got up and running we established an office of seven auditors and investigators so we have been there pretty much with sigr from the beginning. on the programs and iraq are sort of leveling off to the traditional country office machine operation at about $270 million we are going to reduce the size of the staff to the auditors to the investigators move the additional people over to egypt of the regional offices and then provide iraq, provide oversight of iraq from egypt and from i

size of the staff in south africa to oversee the money for aids and infectious diseases in sub-saharan africaand then opening the satellite office on a small satellite office in port-au-prince haiti to help the regional office in el salvador oversee the humanitarian assistance and reconstruction of the post earthquake haiti. so i think that regardless whether it is a contingency operation or just a standard agency coming u.s. aid obligation i think we uniquely situated to do that work to do the oversight work. in iraq we started the oversight in 2003 long-term and when the embassy got up and running and the mission got up and running we established an office of seven auditors and investigators so we have been there pretty much with sigr from the beginning. on the programs and iraq are sort of leveling off to the traditional country office machine operation at about $270 million we are going to reduce the size of the staff to the auditors to the investigators move the additional people over to egypt of the regional offices and then provide iraq, provide oversight of iraq from egypt and from ir