china and the sudan. first china where there has been the firing of a very important political figure. we talk to richard mcgregor of "the financial times" and damien ma of the youra-- your asia group. >> to put political context, let's remember many of the top leaders don't like him as a politician precisely because of his western style charisma, that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. and i think he was in some sense banished out of chongqing from beijing where he was a finance minister. he tried to make a name for himself doing all these red songs, maoist cultural revolutionary shenanigans that r i think, disturned the top leadership at some point. >> rose: and then there's the sudan where george clooney and john prendergast recently returned from south sudan. they testified before congress in washington and met with the president and the secretary of state. >> we were the u.n. the day that the south announced before the referendum they announced if there is a vote for independence for the south, we

and south sudan. actor and activist george clooney will testify. he will be on the second panel. he will talk about an organization he founded called the satellite sentinel project to document the situation in sudan. he is just returning from a trip there. the u.k. "guardian" reports he may be dangerous crossing from south sudan into the nuba mountains region. that is the second panel. the first panel will consist of state department officials, a special envoy, end an official with usaid. le members of the press, poli ase. >>in first will be the state department special envoy for sudan. >> thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you. mr. ambassador, we are delighted to welcome you here today. one of the privileges and responsibilities of our committee is to shine attention on important issues when they are not part of the daily drumbeat of the news cycle. we all remember the famous moment in charlie wilson's war, when having achieved the objective of driving the soviets out of afghanist

south sudan. i have the privilege of being in sudan a number of times over the course of the last few years, and particularly, for the referendum. i saw the expressions of hope for the future and watched the difficult birth of a new nation. i was privileged to be there with ambassador lyman, with george clooney, and john prendergast. we would do well to remember that you can have a vote to have a new beginning for a nation or for any number of things, but you can lose the future when the tough choices that follow are denied, when they are deferred, or when collective attention is somehow diverted. that's why at a time when the world faces a lot of competing crises, we need to wrestle with and understand what steps the united states and our partners should take to help sudan and south sudan resolve the complex challenge before them. make no mistake. it is the leaders in khartoum and juba who must choose between a future of conflict and poverty, or a future of security and prosperity. we must not ab

south sudan.d other crimes against humanity, that the tribal conflicts, and now border clashes. the extreme violence and deprivation that characterized much of that conflict has recently been brought home to millions in this country through the viral youtube video that the picks of the cruelty inflicted by joseph kony and the lord's resistance army. the impact of the bloody fighting in sudan and south sudan has been brought, and another way. the comprehensive peace agreement, signed in 2005, finally achieve the separation of south sudan from the north last july. it was hoped that the petroleum wealth that they share would be deemed too precious for either side to forgo. instead, oil exports have stopped, putting upward pressures on oil prices globally, even though the united states no oil from sudan, oil is traded on the global market. any major loss of supply affects all prices and the crude america imports and they buy at the pumps. that's why i've stressed the importance of improving transparen

south sudan.rge clooney was a witness at the hearing, he is also a guest at the state dinner. meanwhile, here is another of the day's events with prime minister cameron. he was invited to a luncheon at the state department. this is 25 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice-president, dr. jill biden, and the secretary of state, accompanied by the prime minister of great britain and northern ireland and mrs. samantha cameron. [applause] >> thank you all very much. please be seated. welcome to the state department. we are thrilled and so pleased to host this luncheon for our very special guest, prime minister and mrs. cameron. it is wonderful to see all of you celebrating spring with us and knowing that our relationship -- it is always spring. it is always being renewed. it is always curable. it is a cornerstone of both of our nation's foreign policies, and it has such a great resonance between our two people. i want to recognize our chefs today, a native of birmingham, england, not alabama. who

the people's republic has a huge appetite for oil, and oil is plentiful in both sudan and south sudantwo new countries formed by one former country and both now officially recognized by the united nations as of last year. china's demand and world demand, including that of the united states, would produce vast returns, that would go far to relax tensions between the two nations, previously mortal enemies of each other. >> we can take this moment and engage with china i think for the first time. it seems to me we could use this opportunity this window of opportunity before it gets too long, too lasending a high level envoy. >> question, what is the current status with oil in the sudan and china, and what do you think of the treatment of mr. mr. clooney being arrested? south sue can is not producing the oil, north sudan is not pumping the oil out so it's stopped. >> pipeline trouble? a mock -- >> no, they're note getting along and they've just called it quits on the oil production. >> they can't get it out unless they're in unison? >> that's correct. and. >> okay. >> it's important becau

and south sudan or within sudan.ctively involved to try to help with the united states, help bring -- >> what do you want, the u.s. to go to china and say, stop the killing in sudan and -- >> we've all done that. i've done that trip to china. you try to throw guilt their way. that doesn't really work and it never has. you can't appeal to someone's better angels in these situations. what you can appeal to this time, we actually is a situation where china and the united states both have economic interests in this being resolved. when china is buying six porpoise of oil somewhere else, that's driving up our prices as well. the president said that the other day. we have an opportunity with high level, the president, so that's the perfect moment to say, listen, this is a moment for china and the united states to work together to solve the problem that will get the oil turned back on so that you guys will start to get your oil again. >> of course, the big issue, the immediate issue is to stop the bombing, to stop the slaug

south sudan succeeded when they left sudan. sudan that is left behind without the south is at war in a number of places. this is along the western and southern border of sudan is on fire. basically they are fighting a civil war and they are using tactics that are designed to clear people out. it is ethnic cleansing in the areas where the active war are. so instead of fighting against the rebels, they go after the civilian supporters of the rebellions, the oastest trick in the book. drain the water to catch the fish. drain the people and harder for the rebel to stay afloat. that is why you see terrible war crimes in sudan. >> chris: what did you witness on the ground and happening to the people? >> guest: once we got into the conflict zone, you can see the remants of a fairly active war. there were dead bodies laying around. in the north. villagers came out with signs. no more. and that kind of stuff. they are opening up a cargo door. if if they hit you, you probably would be safe. but it comes down to a program of fear. it is a

or peace in sudan. at the very least humanitarian corridors to get to these people before they die. there is a bigger issue that we have to address because we can't just keep putting band aids on this. but there's a band-aid that's going to be pretty quickly. >> woodruff: you're talking about putting the squeeze on the government, the kartoon government, getting the chinese involved. why is it in their interest. >> china has built about a $20 billion infrastructure in oil, oil rigs, pipelines, retain ruiz, mostly in southern sudan -- refineries mostly in southern sudan where the oil is. for instance the south who has the oil and the north who gets it in the refinery and keeps most of it and keeps the money and buys bombs and bombers and equipment to actually attack the south or other regions. the south just turned off all the oil. now a lot of people they get bad for both but who it's really bad for is china, who gets 6% of their oil imported from the sudan. now when they're not getting it from there, t

sudan. >> what's at stake now? what are we looking at in terms of the biggest picture you'd like to see governments around the world in the worst case address? >> the general scenario is the inside of sudan heats up and the world resumes in north sudan and south sudan. remember, they had a referendum two months ago, the southern sudanese voted 99% for independence and it became the newe newest nation in the world and back at each other's throats again. if that war resume, it will be the largest war on the face of the earth. the stakes are high in terms of human life. we think unless there is a crisis diplomacy interjected now, the worst case scenario comes to pass. >> i want to say what we're really looking for talking about the united states needs to do what we do well in diplomacy. it that means getting china involve. i know everyone laughs when you say that because china doesn't ever want to get involved. this time, because oil is a big player here and china has a $20 begin infrastructure

it happened at the embassy of sudan. john henrehan was there on the story. he joins us with the latest. >> actor director george clooney has been an activist on conditions in sudan for years. his father, nick clooney has joined his son in trying to focus the world's attention on humanitarian needs. both clooneys were arrested by the u.s. secretary accurate service -- secret service. >> reporter: they complained that the government of the nation is using starvation to force certain populations to move away from their areas. george clooney blasted the regime of north sudan. >> the government to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children, stop raping them and stop starving them. that's all we ask. >> because what we know is that there are people who are in danger now. we will stand with them as long as they are in danger, my son and i stand with the sudanese. >> reporter: the two clooneys then joined 15 other demonstrators as they blocked the door of the sudan embassy. officers of the secret service pulled out the plastic handcuffs and start

south sudan ceded after a referendum, which 99% of the southerners decided to leave sudan. that is left behind, without the south, is at war in a number of places. this is the periphery along the western and southern border of sudan is on fire. and that's -- they are fighting this war and they are using tactics that are -- that are designed to clear people out of -- it's ethnic cleansing in the active war zones. so instead of fighting directly against the rebels, they go after the civilian supporters of those rebellians, the oldest trick in the book, drain the water to catch the fish. you drain the people and it's harder for the rebels to stay afloat. that's why we are seeing the terrible war crimes, occur repeatedly in sudan in the last 20 years. >> chris: what did you witness on the ground? what did you see happening to the people in the nuba mountains. >> once we got into the conflict zone, you can see, first of all, the remnants of -- of a fairly active war. there were dead bodies laying around. but as we got further north, where we showed up, there was villagers with s

and the sudan, south sudan, who has the oil, and north sudan who has the refineries, and north sudanl and not giving it back and buying weapons to hurt the south. so about six weeks ago, the south said, okay, we're done. and they shut off the oil. so china suddenly is getting no return on their money. that gives us a unique position as opposed to looking to them as humanitarians or to do the right thing, we can meet with china -- not we, but a high-level government official, could meet with china and say let's work on this together because we both, economically, would benefit by a resolution, a cross-border resolution. right now our gas prices go up, as the president said in his press conference, because when the chinese aren't getting their 6% from the sudan, they're getting it from somewhere else, and that raises the price for all of us. so it's something that's mutually beneficial. >> what do you think of this approach of branding bashir as a war criminal, of indicting him to the court? because i know you want to do the right thing, but you're also a pragmatist. >> i think the icc

he just returned from a trip to sudan. he was joined by congressman andrews, jim mcgovern, jim moran, also taken into custody. martin luther king iii and hundreds of protesters who have been down here. pretty write much all morning. they are demanding immediate action to top s-- stop sudan's use as a weapon. half a million people in sudan's newland mountains risk starvation because of the accusations against sthe sudanee president. he's blocking humanitarian aid and mood. here is what george clooney had to say just before his arrest. >> it takes the government to stop raping them and stop star offing them. that's all we ask. >> george clooney just produced a movie where he discusses these exact things. he was there in sudan and at one point in the movie his life was threatened by a bomb that they found there in sudan in the area where they were shooting that had not detonated yet but just proof of what the people in sudan are living with and living through right now. he's using his celebrity to bring attention to this caus

to visit sudan, you have to want to go there badly.ere. ann curry has now been there six times, and her reporting from there has helped expose the suffering inflicted by the sudanese government on african tribes and the people there. she first helped to direct the world's attention on the infamous darfur region. now the savagery is spreading to the nuba mountains where more than 300,000 people are on the run. ann is just back from her latest trip where she found that the nuba people have a fierce and unlikely ally, a young american man risking his life to bring their story to the world. you could call him the man who stayed. ♪ >> reporter: a woman in sudan's nuba mountains sings, there is no comfort in this world, and here where a war is raging, comfort is indeed hard to find. virtually cut off from humanitarian aid and media coverage, many nuba say they worry they will die in darkness. 30-year-old american ryan boyette refuses to let that happen. >> i am seeing it, i'm a witness to it. if i don't show it, then i have some sort of guil

and south sudan. who's committing genocide against whom? and why? >> well, it may be too soon to call it genocide. but what we do know is it's certainly war crimes and atrocities. but what it is is it's the same people. it's the same people who did it in darfur. it's president omar al bashir. it's harun, the defense minister, all three men charged with war crimes at the defense criminal court are the same people who are indiscriminately bombing innocent civilians all through the yuba mountains. and it's a campaign of fear and death and starvation that we've seen before. and rape, quite honestly. we have seen before in the beginnings of darfur. >> is it recognizable motive or tribalisim? >> you want the people to move off the land, it's good farming, they would like to sell some of that off. but a lot of it is there is a rebel, in-fighting, a war going on but they are not bombing where the war is going on they are bombing the people. they want the people to leave if the people leave the rebels will lea

and south sudan.g genocide against whom? and why? >> well, maybe too soon to call it genocidement we do know it is war crimes and atrocities. but what it is the same people. it's the same people who did it in darfur. it's the president, it's the defense minister. three men charged with war crimes at the international criminal court are the exact same people who are indiscriminantly bombing innocent civilians all through the mountains. and they are causing -- and it's a campaign of fear and death and starvation that we've seen before, and rape, honestly, that we've seen before in the beginnings of darfur. >> is there a recognizable motive? >> the motive is you want them to get out. you want them to get off the land. first of all, it's good farming and they would like it. they would like to sell that off. but a lot of it is there is a rebel, there is fighting going on. there is a war going onment but they're not bomb willing wheing war is going on. they're bombing the people. if the people leave, then t

and south sudan. so if that war resumes, then this will be by far the largest war on the face of the earth. so the stakes are very high in terms of human life. and so we think that unless there's that kind of crisis diplomacy that neated to be interjected now, the worst-case scenario could come to past. >> what we were really looking for, we were talking about what the united states needs to do that we do really well is diplomacy. that we have done. we know how to do that. that means getting china involved. china has a $20 billion infrastructure built in for oil. they take 6% of their oil from the sudan or their import. south sudan turned off the oil in a fight with the north, because they pump all their oil to the north, and then the north is keeping the money basically, so they shut it off. so that investment to china is no longer good, and they're not getting any money. so they are going out on the rest of the market like everybody to try and get that 6% made up, and it's costing them more money an

he cited that south sudan was able to have this referendum and separate from sudan. so there has been some progress made, but still a lot more progress needs to be made. there are problems in darfur, and much more needs to be done. but he believes they're making progress by drawing attention to this issue. he's certainly done a good job drawing attention to it this week, and he told me after that press conference, i said, are you going to stop? can we expect more? he said, we haven't stopped yet, so i think we can expect more. maybe not outside the sudanese embassy, but i think we can expect more. >> we have turned on a little bit of sound. his father is right next to him, nick clooney. let's take a listen. >> what we've been trying to achieve today is we're trying to bring attention to an ongoing emergency, one that's got about a six-week timetable before the rainy season starts and a lot of people are going to die from it. so our job right now is to try to bring attention to it. one of those ways was apparently getting arrested. i guess we're not allowed to hang ar

in a word, sudan.s drawing attention to the plight of those that divide the northern and southern sudan. alongside he was with democratic congressman jim moran. he's free and he joins us now. it's no inconsiderable thing for a congressman to be arrested. why did you do that? >> i knew it was the right thing to do. unless we were willing to stand up and speak out, there were very few people who would ever hear about this. in fact, i want to thank you, martin, for focusing on the subject today. i figured it would have a two or three day shelf life and that was because of george clooney. we don't kid ourselves, it was he that brought attention to this. we're trying to get bad guy to do a good thing. the bad guy is president bashir. i'm sure he's no relation to you. we want to law organizations to get food to as many as half a million people who otherwise may very well starve to death in the mountains. this is a big deal. we have no economic or particularly political interest. it's simply humanitarian. eno

into the killings and convince sudan's president to allow food and aid to reach every corner of his country. >>> daniel nottingham's cbs news washington. >>> from the weather center good evening everybody we have had i'll miss tormented has been powerful will tell you the areas that had the most rain into your weekend and we forecast as i with the news continues. so if you are ease to the bay bridge you're in the rain if your to the wester beginning to clear out now but take a look what's going on in the eastern portion of our bay area right there that 58680 corridor this is a heavy downpour and this is about the area where we did see some lightning strikes earlier this evening. 2 and 1/4 inches of rain in bed long and there you have that very impressive total at the airports and sandras day and over an inch in three- quarters in santa rosa we have an urban flood advisory in effect for most of the bay area accept for san francisco county as well as the north they otherwise industry has a flood advisory all the way until to 30 tomorrow your future passes in its scattered showers for

he said he just returned from a visit from the border between sudan and south sudan where he came under a rocket attack and saw a 9-year-old boy's hand blown off. he acknowledged it difficult to get people to focus on his cause. >> you can't have a constant drip everyday on television because no one would care there is not just donor fatigue there is misery fatigue and people get tired of it at some point. >> south sedan seceded last july it and sudan are fighting over oil located in south sedan but shipped through the pipelines in sudan. >>> mike nicco is very busy today. rain all the time. >> flight arrival delays getting longer at sfo, 3 1/2 hours. definitely use that flight tracker. bay bridge getting around difficult. i see light at the end of the tunnel. check out the forecast when we come back and we'll update you on the snow chances. >>> a dad's test goes wrong for one of america's most popular diaper makers. huggies pulling its new ad. >> prince harry considered one of the world's most eligible bachelors. why does he said true love is so hard for him to find? >>> it is not lett