they were thought to be magicians. 1725, oh molly in the west africa. the drums -- be ware of sea birds, be ware of men that steal up the river through the great forest. and into the savannah lands. the moans and groans, hundreds, thousands stolen, we rarely speak the taken, i will this time because you have asked. come back, back, back, far edge of memory. we recall them and they are black smith, by all accounts a master craftsman, worthy of praise, honored as a powerful magician. one who could speak the old names of the mother elements, earth, fire, water, wind. they would do as bidding, think. people sing praise songs. he was a gifted black smith. he is not remembered for that. he is best remembered for being a loving father. when his beloved wife died only after a year and embraced his newborn son, i will raise you myself. the elder women with argued against it saying you'll grow up wild without a gentle hand of a mother, a gentle hand to guide him. must divide by custom, take another wife or give the baby to a mother who is childless. how will you

. >> flying high over the atlantic ocean off the west coast of africa. onds away from this course correction burn as we watch over the shoulders of chris ferguson and doug hurley up on the flight deck of atlantis. you can see very clearly i can like jolt of those big orbiter maneuvering system engines. and courtesy of space station cameras, our first year of the shuttle atlantis. >> good burn, atlantis. >> copy. >> the sequential still video view of the international space station. >> atlantis, station on the big loop. we have you in site. >> excellent. we will be there soon. >> atlantis houston, you are go for the rpm. go to proceed inside 600 feet. >> houston station, atlantis, initiating rpm and three, two, one. mark. we copy. >> houston copy. step with that, commander chris ferguson now will begin the slow three-quarter of a degree per second rotational backflip. this again is about a nine minute maneuver. you will hear the photography call initiated when the orbiter is in the correct orientation of this procedure. the actual pitch maneuver will last

beyond the left it's reaching the mainstream especially in the west in south africa and brazil and other countries and this is starting to look like south africa moment so they are really alarmed about this nonviolent peaceful type of resistance that they have not yet developed sufficient weapons to counter and that's a very strong comparison i bring in south africa into the picture here considering its history but your organization is campaigning for the economic cultural and academic boycott of israel how can you continue now that the new law makes your activities illegal. well if you're not sure that's not very accurate the law does not make our activities illegal just almost deliberately mises in a way that it allows institutions companies to do. other boycott activists who are supporting this as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look refugee rights continues palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle and with this global campaign of b.d.s. with the massive support w

the american colonization society? >> guest: well, that's a group that forms to resettle free blacks in africa. they're actually the founders of liberia on the west coast of africa, like sierra leone was founded by great britain in order to prev--provide a haven for former slaves that the british freed in--during the--the american revolution. the colonization society attracted a lot of attention as a possible solution to the problem of slavery in america, because the problem was twofold. it was not only the existence of this hideous and degrading institution, which was now being publicly exposed, but there was a problem of white america's disin--being disinclined to live in a biracial society. so the thought was, 'well, what if we repatriate free slaves, send them back to africa?' and indeed a couple of thousand do go back and form the nucleus of liberia. but it's--it's--it's a fantasy solution. the population of slavery is, you know, doubling every 20 years. c-span: some big names in history--henry clay and later on abraham lincoln--were for this idea? >> guest: yes, they were. it's... c-span: why do you think they were for it? >> guest: oh, cla

fertilizers, irrigation, transport systems -- i was meeting yesterday with the president from west africa where the problem is not so much the production, but getting the goods to market. we estimate about half the production is lost on the way to market. investment in storage facilities. again, this does not have to be governmental. we have the private sector that is looking at the value chain and try to see how to produce -- how to improve the production depending on the country. in monetary terms, the bank was probably investing $4 billion a year in agriculture and now, all of a sudden, $6 billion to $8 billion a year. but, there is also, i think, the phenomenon about how we deal with some of the risk and uncertainty and the price volatility. what people saw in agricultural markets in 2007 and 20008, not only the increasing level, but the sharp changes in prices -- the first up on this -- and we have been working with p g 20 to come out with some ideas -- the government should not make it worse. when you have a potential shortage, when countries put on export bans, you have the crisis

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the facts of a case until they are all in. >> there will be no rush to judgment in this case. >> reporter: in court prosecutors had admitted strauss-kahn's accuser a 32-year-old woman from west africa has made numerous, conflicts and false statements. starting with the claim she was gang raped and fleeing a brutal government when she applied for asylum in the u.s. in 2004. in a letter prosecutors wrote she stated that she fabricated the statement. in may after the ald attack at this luxury hotel, the woman had said she ran to the hallway and reported the crime to a supervisor. but prosecutors say she later admitted she proceeded to clean a nearby room and then returned to suite 2806, strauss-kahn's room and began to clean before she reported the incident to a supervisor. >> after the indictment against the defendant was filed, we continued as an office to investigate the case rigorously as we do and are onbly gaited to do. that investigation raised concerns about the complaining witness's credibility. >> reporter: sources close to the investigation say the woman called a suspected drug dealer after the incident to discuss how to profit from it. her attorney pleaded her case before

the world. but no one has seen or heard from his accuser. until now. her name is nafi diallo. an immigrant from guinea in west africa. a 32-year-old widow and mother of a teenage daughter, who was working as a maid at the sofitel hotel. for a woman who cannot read or write it was, as she says, the best job she's ever had. >> i loved the job. i know that if i work there e can -- i can help myself and my daughter. we're going to have a good life with that job. i was very happy to have the job. >> reporter: that is, until may 14th. diallo says it was a typical afternoon. until she entered the $3,000-a-night suite where strauss-kahn was staying. >> so you went into 2806 not thinking anybody was there because of what the room service person told you. >> yeah, he told me nobody there. and i say, "housekeeping, hello," because the room is very big. i have to say it loud. i said like three times, "housekeeping, hello, is anyone in," three times, nobody say anything. >> reporter: expecting an empty room, diallo was shocked when she says strauss-kahn suddenly appeared, naked. >> i saw a naked man come to me. he come naked, i wa

africa, i backpacked across the continent. what i found was river blindness, these elderly or middle-aged people who have been blind, and it left me with a bad taste for westund, you just don't see that nearly to the same degree, because river blindness has been almost conquered. there's so many other diseases like that. you get a sense of, if you have a long enough time frame of dramatic change. >>> we're going to talk more about africa when we come back, and specifically the possibility of a war of huge international crisis with south sudan. will it happen? we'll come back. i'm looking to -- control your budget? yes. our "name your price" tool shows you a range of options. you pick a price that works for you. perfect. only one thing could make this better. both: '80s montage! ♪ progressive '80s montage ♪ he drops some boxes, but it's okay ♪ ♪ we keep dancing ♪ hey! it's that guy! ♪ progressive "name your price" tool, yeah! ♪ helping you save. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> the world has just welcomed a new country into its fold, a country called south sudan, the first new country that's been created in africa since 1993. what does the

the nice drink. what is that? >> this is juice from west africa. hibiscus juice, slightly sweet, but not too sweet. >> reporter: despite the heat, public health officials say the mall will be ready. >> keep in mind that heat stress can kill. we've been fortunate on the mall to keep everybody safe. we have had incidents of heat stress, and we've got them taken care of. and we want to keep it that way. >> reporter: again, the folk life festival is this holiday weekend, and then next weekend the big fireworks a about 9:20 monday night. and as usual, people are saying don't drive. all the streets there won't be any parking here. they're asking you to take metro or bike or walk for the fourth of july. tom sherwood on the national mall. back to you. >> can't wait to see you without that tie. our website has a complete list of independence day events, including parades and where you can see fireworks. and you can check out which personal fireworks are legal where you live. it's all on our home page. that's nbc washington.com. >>> we have the latest now on

number two, fertilizers, irrigation, transport systems, the roads -- i was meeting yesterday with president from west africa where the problem is not so much production but getting the goods to market kirit we estimate that half the production is lost on the way a market. bes doesn't have to governmental. we have a private sector that is looking at the value chain and trying to see how you can improve the interruption -- production and productivity depending on the country. in monetary terms, the bank was investing about $4 billion a year in agriculture. now it is close to $8 million a year, and we -- $8 billion a year and we coordinate some of the programs in this area. but there is also, i think, the phenomenon of how we deal with some of the risk and uncertainty in the system. and the price volatility. what people saw in agricultural markets in 2007 and 2008, not only increasing levels, but the sharp changes in prices, the first-ever on this -- and this is one of the issue that the world bank had been working with the french and german to come up with some ideas, the government's should not make it worse

africa, i backpacked across the continent. what i found was river blindness, these elderly or middle-aged people who have been blind, and it left me with a bad taste for westfrica. this time, you go around, you just don't see that nearly to the same degree, because river blindness has been almost conquered. there's so many other diseases like that. you get a sense of, if you have a long enough time frame of dramatic change. >>> we're going to talk more about africa when we come back, and specifically the possibility of a war of huge international crisis with south sudan. will it happen? we'll come back. [ doug ] i got to figure this out. ♪ [ dr. ling ] i want to spend more time with my patients. [ jim ] i need to build a new app for the sales team in beijing. [ mrs. davis ] i need to make science as exciting as a video game. ♪ [ jim ] i need to push out a software upgrade. [ dr. ling ] review ms. cooper's history. [ doug ] i need to cut i.t. costs. [ mrs. davis ] i need to find a way to break through. [ jim ] i need to see my family while they're still awake. [ dr. ling ] see if the blood work is ready. [ doug ] i need to think about something else when i

the same thing happenç to a west african journalist. i can't identify her by name. jean is one of the very few women who has ever put her name to her case. this woman in west africadn't want covered. they brutally gang raped her. the men were actually shot and killed right in front of her. >> warner: in other cases you found just the threat of sexual attack was used. >> in fact, in a number of countries i've spoken to women who say we're calling in to report... in ivoryç coastç, fr instance, her boss was in a stadium during an uprising. as she was reporting to him, they were reporting back and forth, a man came over, picked up the phone and told her she would be raped if she didn't get off the phone. the man continued to call her for ten days after that. i spoke to a person in egypt whose father received calls for two weeks saying she would be be raped if she kept blogging. >> warner: you found otherçç risky situations, dangerous ones, crowds or captivity. >> um-hum. when people talk about crowds, i mean, i think people think of groping, maybe it's just a little touching or grabbing. but the journalists i spoke to mostly foreign correspondents in this case, t

. >> she's from guinea in west africa and came to the u.s. in 2003 and applied for asylum.l time as prosecutors are struggling with the case. >> what do you want? >> i want justice. i want him to go to jail. i want him to know you cannot use your power when you do something like this. >> strauss-kahn's lawyer denied anything and said anything that happened was consensual. they say the witness lied on her asylum application. as well as about some details after the attack. they say her lawyer and prosecutors will meet on wednesday. we have our mid east editor that interviewed her for three hours for the magazine's cover story. i talked with him and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. chris, you interviewed here. was she believable when you talked with her? >> yeah. i thought she was very believable when she was talking about the incident itself, the alleged attempted rape and sexual assault. not only because she told that story consistently many, many times but also, because we know that almost all of the physical evidence or all of it supports her case. and, also, because w

. >> she's from guinea in west africa and came to the u.s. in 2003 and applied for asylum. she's speaking out at a crucial time as prosecutors are struggling with the case. >> what do you want? >> i want justice. i want him to go to jail. i want him to know you cannot use your power when you do something like this. >> strauss-kahn's lawyer denied anything and said anything that happened was consensual. they say the witness lied on her asylum application. as well as about some details after the attack. they say her lawyer and prosecutors will meet on wednesday. we have our mid east editor that interviewed her for three hours for the magazine's cover story. i talked with him and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. chris, you interviewed here. was she believable when you talked with her? >> yeah. i thought she was very believable when she was talking about the incident itself, the alleged attempted rape and sexual assault. not only because she told that story consistently many, many times but also, because we know that almost all of the physical evidence or all of it supports

west africa. in her first television interview, she painstakingly recounts the day she says she was sexually assaulted by dominique strauss-kahn -- the powerful man who, at the time, was the head of the international monetary fund. >> he comes to me, and grab my breasts. "no! you don't have to be sorry." i said, "stop! stop, i don't want to lose my job." >> reporter: nafi diallo, a hotel maid at the sofitel in new york city, stands by her story. that on a saturday in may, she had just entered what she thought was an empty room in the four-star hotel when a naked dominique strauss-kahn emerged from the bedroom and brutally assaulted her. >> he pushed me like this to the floor. i cannot move. i cannot move. i tried. >> reporter: when did you realize that he was one of the most powerful men in the world? >> i was watching in the news and then they say he is going to be the next president of france, then i say, "oh, my god." and i was crying. i say, "they are going to kill me. i'm going to die." >> reporter: investigators believed diallo's story and took strauss-kahn into custody. but as the investigation

the facts of a case until they're all in. >> there will be no rush to judgment in this case. >> reporter: in court, prosecutors had admitted strauss-kahn's accuser a 32-year-old from from west africa has made numerous conflicting and false statements, starting with being gang raped. in a letter, prosecutors wrote, she stated that she fabricated the statement. and in may, after the alleged attack at this luxury hotel, the woman had said she ran into the hallway and reported the crime to a supervisor. but prosecutors say she later admitted she proceeded to clean a nearby room and then returned to suite 2806, strasse kahn's room and began to clean before reporting the incident to a supervisor. >> after the indictment against the defendant was filed. we continued as an office to investigate the case rigorously as we do, and are obligated to do. that investigation raised concerns about the complaining witness's credibility. >> reporter: sources close to the investigation say the woman called a suspected drug dealer after the incident to discuss how to profit from it. her attorney pleaded her case before a crush of international media. >> it is a fact that the victim here made some mist

spending the money the government spending in the west bank verses and does well i think you will see a real revolution in israel ok asses out of south africa thank you. well they be in the rebels have declared three days of mourning after their military commander and two of his aides were killed so far to eunice was gunned down hours after rebel authorities have reportedly arrested him over his family suspected ties to coded off his regime in this country in libya's foreign minister before he defected to the rebels a beginning of the revolution the national transitional council blames the killing on gadhafi supporters claim to have progressed to the head of the group responsible for consequences of them but both of them don't know how deep the commanders allege connections really ran that's according to one of the paras advisor to america's antiterrorism caucus. the consequences of his killing could be either short ramification or vast dramatic ations if indeed he was only an individual or even a high ranking official who had the relationship with the gadhafi regime then his killing will be the end of the. it's the other case is he and oth

today from fred de sam lazaro about a woman in senegal, in west africa, a former peace corps volunteer, who is helping senegalese women abandon the painful, deeply traditional custom of female circumcision. the world health organization says three million girls a year are cut in this way, but molly melching and other aid workers have discovered how to persuade whole communities to give up their ancient practice. >> in recent years, thousands of rural communities in senegal have come to extraordinary public rallies. they call them declaratio. they're e d claired an end to a deeply rooted practice rarely discussed in public and commonly called female circumcision. >> never in my wildest dreams could i have imagined that i would be sitting here years later, 13 years later, saying that 4,792 communities in senegal had abandoned. in the beginning it was just unthought of, unbelievable, because it was so taboo. >> molly melching found a group called tostan, which means "breakthrough" in the local wolof language, in the early '90s. she had modest goals: to educate people about health and human rights, especially in rural areas and in lo

the facts of a case until they are all in. >> there will be no rush to judgment in this case. >> reporter: in court prosecutors admitted strauss-kahn's accuser, a 32-year-old woman from guinea, west africa, made numerous conflicting and false statements starting with a claim she was gang raped and fleeing a brutal government when she applied for asylum in the u.s. in 2004. in a letter prosecutors wrote, she stated she fabricated the statement. and in may, after the alleged attack at this luxury hotel, the woman had said she ran to the hallway and reported the crime to a supervisor. prosecutors say she later admitted she proceeded to clean a nearby room then returned to suite 2806, strauss-kahn's room and began to clean before she reported the incident to her supervisor. sources close to the investigation say the woman called a suspected drug dealer after the incident to discuss how to profit from it. her attorney pleaded her case before a crush of international media. >> it is a fact that the victim here made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean she's not a rape victim. >> reporter: he claims she was bruised, her stockings torn and there's forensic evidence of a sexual attack. >> prosec

date is july 16th and the attention in the spot light is shifted to his accuser, the 32-year-old housekeeper from west africa shes was raped and attacked in a hotel room. a harsh spotlight, every day new revelati revelations, negative revelations about her, her past and how she's changed her story, now thinking it's going to be very, very difficult for prosecutors to continue with this case. seems unlikely strauss-kahn will accept any clee deal or admit deal. chris? >> thanks, ron allen. >>> a scene right out of a movie. the officer was wearing a protective suit trying to open the passenger door of a parked car and you saw the bomb explode. closed circuit tv shows the bomb knocking the officer to the ground. then remarkably, he gets up and walks away, unhurt. the bombing was one of three attacks by suspected muslim militants on government officers in southern thailand on friday. >>> finally a first-time winner crowned champion at wimbledon. pes traa kvitova won her first grand slam beating maria sharapo sharapova. also kvitovas first major finals. coming up, the men's showdown. promising to about great one b

deals with the government's it finds in africa, including the governments that western powers propped up for many years. beck's i make no apologies for the westting out that china is doing what it is doing with the leadership class that may not reflect the wishes of the entire african public. >> would africa be better off if china did not invest there? i think that is the kind of hypocritical argument that if i were in chinese, i would find quite annoying. >> your obviously finding it annoying even though you are not chinese. [applause] >> kegan on the economic theme -- keeping on the economic theme -- i will have to separate these guys. [laughter] i am holding in my hand what many people considered to be the quintessential consumer success product of the last decade, the apple iphone. it will be interesting to see how many fellow iphone users there are out there in the audience tonight. you have one, put it up in the air. look at that. [applause] this is a fountain pen, ladies and gentlemen. >> this andino is manufactured in china by farrakhan -- by foxconn. the software that powers it was thought up by steve jobs and his team at apple. the

deals with the government's it finds in africa, including the governments that western powers propped up for many years. beck's i make no apologies for the westut that china is doing what it is doing with the leadership class that may not reflect the wishes of the entire african public. >> would africa be better off if china did not invest there? i think that is the kind of hypocritical argument that if i were in chinese, i would find quite annoying. >> your obviously finding it annoying even though you are not chinese. [applause] >> kegan on the economic theme -- keeping on the economic theme -- i will have to separate these guys. [laughter] i am holding in my hand what many people considered to be the quintessential consumer success product of the last decade, the apple iphone. it will be interesting to see how many fellow iphone users there are out there in the audience tonight. you have one, put it up in the air. look at that. [applause] this is a fountain pen, ladies and gentlemen. >> this andino is manufactured in china by farrakhan -- by foxconn. the software that powers it was thought up by steve jobs and his team at apple. the design

and when i think of hemingway as a child hearing about roosevelt's exploits not only in africa but in the american west, he was a boy who didn't just want to read stories. he wanted to do these things and write about them himself. >> the tour behind us is going to hemingway's study which is over our shoulder. there is the main house here and a separate house above it. how did he work? >> he loved tropical climates. there is no air conditioning -- in key west -- the comfort index here is something like 94 degrees in the summer. imagine an era without air-conditioning. he liked to get up early in the morning when it was cool. he had seen every sunrise of his life and over the carriage house here, the 0 original carriage house and he desperately needed quiet places to write. when he was living here colleen was here with two is -- children and five servants and a writer of some celebrity at that point after a farewell to arms came out and was made into a movie. he liked these early-morning hours. in the afternoons, devoted to fishing. >> what about drinking? >> drinking came in at lunch time. >> did he dri

the group is urban foley. we go back and forth to west africa, as far as studying jazz and all music and incorporate it into our music. >> reporter: are you walking around? >> going to be in one spot. the culture stage at 1:20. >> reporter: how long is your set? >> our set is 25 minutes. >> reporter: you can almost walk around and do your business wherever you need to be. >> we are also supposed to be involved in the parade walking with the mayor and i believe the governor as well. >> reporter: gentlemen, take me out. it starts today at noon. tomorrow at noon, ends at 10:00 tonight, 9:00 tomorrow night, big acts on stage and best of all, for some people, it is free. >>> back to you guys. >> mike, you got to get some background singers like shaq, where the girls go mike. mike. mike. >> i'm a little nervous about that now that you mentioned it. don't give him too many ideas, he'll do it. >>> reporting live from the african-american festival. >>> in the studios, wjz has been taken over by animals. real and not so real this morning. >> look at that. amy is here to talk about moo at the zoo. you know what? >> wow. >

the west side of the town. let me read this case in this book. this was malcolm -- malcolm x when he is on his sojourn through africa. he had just left the secretary's home, the leader of guinea. i will read this one paragraph. as malcolm saw a recognition of status talking about big house and liberation for route africa, reflected on how he changed in the last few months, quote, my mind is more at peace, my thoughts come strong and clear and easier to express myself. paradoxically he then added my mind is almost incapable of producing words and phrasess lately and it has worried me. what he appears to be saying is his african experiences greatly brought to his mind is limited to have -- vocabulary of black nationalism was insufficient to the challenges he clearly saw confronting african. he says he needs to create new theoretical tools and a different frame of reference beyond race. that paragraph says a lot. a lot of pieces to this, 100 page essays every other sentence. let's start with one. >> as manning -- that is non in part. [talking over each other] >> in other words i think manning is too ltd. in his reading

the government to give us this water today? >> reporter: what your drinking? you look so cool. and you got that white dress on and that nice drink. what is that? >> it's juice from west africa. d it's like hibiscus, hibiscus juice, slightly sweet, but not too sweet. >> reporter: despite the heat, public health officials say the mall will be ready. >> keep in mind that heat stress can kill. we've been fortunate on the mall to keep everybody safe. we have had incidents of heat stress. and we've got them taken care of. and we want to keep it that way. >> reporter: again, for the fireworks on monday night, and here on the national mall, no alcohol. and they'd also like to suggest no wind like this. if you're going to bring things to eat and create trash, maybe you should try picking up and taking it with you, or at least to a trash receptacle after the fireworks are over. back to you you guys. >> i love that. pack out your trash. and we're still reeling from the fact that the guy didn't know what country we fought our independence -- fought the gain our independence. we are stunned. >> the maris poll, 25% did not know. >> we're blown away. >> i hate to tell this, 40% didn't know

case maid at the soffit hotel aid mitted to lying to the grand jury and lying on application for as asylum on a previous rape in new guinea, west africa her credibility is no good. one of the reasons defense attorney ben bronfman said what we're dismissing eventual dismissal of all charges but not quite the end. >> we believed from the beginning that this case was not what it appeared to be and we are absolutely convinced that while today is a first giant step in the right direction, the next step will lead to a complete dismissal of the charges. >> reporter: the district attorney's office, in fact it was cy vans, district attorney, lead prosecutor here in manhattan on friday said no charges dismissed yet we still investigate this case as if a crime had been committed of the credibility of the key witness the accuser undermined by the fact she admits she lied to the grand jury. we're due back in court on july 1th. they're negotiating as we speak, jon. back to you. jon: i was on a grand jury once. you don't want to lie to a grand jury. that's for sure. adam shapiro thank you. patti ann: america's jobless rate is still painfully high. w

he moved from beginy in west africa to new york city when he was 10. what is thethe u.s.? >> better education. my mother thought that i'd have a better opportunity to just succeed in life. >> reporter: he had a hard time fitting in at school. he didn't speak english, kept to himself, and eventually started hanging with the wrong crowd. but then he found public color. >> i basically came here every day -- >> reporter: the nonprofit puts paintbrushes in the hands of stops brighten up schools, neighborhoods, and low-income areas across new york city. >> color has huge power. >> reporter: ruth andy shoeman founded color 15 years ago with the idea that color can positively affect attitudes and behaviors. >> the colors that we choose, they're bright. they brighten up a person's mood. >> everything -- like your whole perception of the place changes. >> when i finish a project, i look and say, wow, i really helped the community. >> i think society is letting kids get away with not caring. these kids, they'll become what we help them become. >> reporter: public color provi

trying to make money off one of the most powerful men in france, but she says the attack was real and she is from guinea, west africat know him and thought his room was empty when she went into clean and told abc's robin roberts, he surprised her naked an pounced. >> i was like, i'm so sorry and i turn my head and, he come to me and grabbed my breast, no, you don't have to be sorry and i said, i don't want to look... and, yeah, stop, stop this, stop this, but he keep pushing me and pushing me, to the hallway, back to the hallway, keep pushing me and i was afraid. and i was so scared. >> reporter: she said she was forced to perform oral sex and he left quickly after and she was shaken and scared and cleaning the room, before telling supervisors and police she had been attacked and a "newsweek" journalist who spoke with her said she was vague on elements of her past but convincing on describing the assault. alisyn: what are dsk's lawyers saying about her story now. >> reporter: the defense attorneys released a statement blasting her and her lawyer, suggesting, quote, she is a first accuser in hirstory to hae a media c

the incident that night and also inconsistencies about other aspects of her life. she's been linked to alleged drug dealers, money launderers. apparently lied when seeking asylum to come to this country from ginny in west africax weeks ago, they were certain they had this guy, strauss-kahn, they were very confident about their case. now, they didn't object to the dropping of bail and real grave doubts about whether they will push forward? >> what's next? >> the next court date is july 18th. but strauss-kahn's attorneys are really pushing to try and have the charges dismissed well before that. a lot of this is going to be played out in the court of public opinion and the, for her part, the accuser says her attorney says that she is going to come forward now and make her case publicly. plea for justice. she's been in hiding for the past six weeks since this happened, but apparently, her attorney feels that's her best option is to present herself because her credibility is in tatters given these inconsistencies and fabrications she has made over the years. >> thanks so much, ron. >>> michele bachmann's busy in the hawk eye state this weekend. she spoke to voters in iowa city this morning kicking off a three-day

deals with the government's it finds in africa, including the governments that western powers propped up for many years. beck's i make no apologies for the westting out that china is doing what it is doing with the leadership class that may not reflect the wishes of the entire african public. >> would africa be better off if china did not invest there? i think that is the kind of hypocritical argument that if i were in chinese, i would find quite annoying. >> your obviously finding it annoying even though you are not chinese. [applause] >> kegan on the economic theme -- keeping on the economic theme -- i will have to separate these guys. [laughter] i am holding in my hand what many people considered to be the quintessential consumer success product of the last decade, the apple iphone. it will be interesting to see how many fellow iphone users there are out there in the audience tonight. you have one, put it up in the air. look at that. [applause] this is a fountain pen, ladies and gentlemen. >> this andino is manufactured in china by farrakhan -- by foxconn. the software that powers it was thought up by steve jobs and his team at apple. the

said there were untruths in the star witness's accounts and statement, that she lied when she initially claimed that she had been gang raped by soldiers in her native west africathat there were lies regarding her application for asylum to live here in the united states that she didn't tell the truth about a phone call with a prison inmate who was convicted of drug trafficking or drug dealing, where she asked him for vice on whether she should go after dominique strauss-kahn. and she said she originally stayed in that hall way after the alleged attack, sexual attack. then she reversed herself and said she actually went on, or maybe they had evidence to clean another room and then going back in to call her hotel supervisor. there are several other reversals. eshe said it was because of year. >> describe the reaction inside the courthouse and outside. >> i think it's my fourth time here, the fourth hearing. you may remember last time, there was an organized demonstration of hotel maids, chamber maids here, yelling vocifero vociferously, shame on you as dominique strauss kahn entered. they were noticeably not here today. they're going to insist they had to go with

the west side of this town. this is malcolm maxon is on a soldier to africa. he just let the secretary's home.i'll read this one paragraph. as malcolm sacha process the recognition of status, talking about the big house, liberation liberation.africa. by my needs to be more keys in my bats come strong and clear and is easier to express myself. paradoxically then added my mind is always incapable of producing words and phrases lately and it's freed me come and go. the middle eastern african experiences that greatly broadened his mind, yet is vocabulary of nationalist to address challenges he so clearly thought confronting africa. malcolm sensed that he needed to create new theoretical tools and a different frame of reference beyond race. now one paragraph says a lot. a lot of pieces to days. 100 page essays may be every other second. but let's start with one. >> of course, i'm sure he would say if he was here, that's been on in part. so part of what -- [inaudible] right, so in other words, i think that manning is actually of little too limited in his reading of malcolm's worthlessness. certainly

africa. those which begin large areas of the middle east there are already two zones being created first of all it was decided to create a west african soon with ivory coast as its center which corresponds to the ancient myleene park which in fact explains the french intervention in ivory coast after that it was planned to obtain a considerable part of northern africa except egypt the latter being part of northern africa to represent another block in case old states are divided control would be spread first to morocco and if northern africa is revamped the conflict would have to be created not between shiites and sunnies as was attempted in the middle east but between arabs and the berbers this is where the real source of the bensimon guys e.e.'s if there are civilians dying in there yes. indeed starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account everything we used to see in a media lease is not transpiring in this region and this is just the beginning is there either a question of the rearrangement of this region and we are yet to see a series of wars for people

the west. >> terror and drought are turning out to be a toxic miss. five countries in eastern africa people affected by the drought in 60 years. but what people are concerned about is this red area in southern somalia and that's where starvation and malnutrition levels are hitting the famine level. fox news con confirm that 10 tons of food aid was airlifted into mogadishu. african union troops are doing battle with the died are linked al-shabab militia in that area:the that's what causing a lot of the problem. here what is we heard from deputy assistant secretary of state about this. >> it is the policy of the government of the united states to save lives. and we encourage al-shabab to take the steps necessary to tea lou humanitarian actors to save lives that are in such desperate peril. >> reporter: it's al-shabab's ban upon aid groups in the area that's forcing refugees on long deadly marches. but last week al-shabab said it would allow foreigners to come in. the youth said they will test that pledge. al-shabab on the one hand doesn't want to let go of that area and allow in intern

the truth. it's so hard for me. i don't -- i never want to be in public. >> reporter: today nafissatou diallo, a 32-year-old hotel maid and immigrant from guinea, west africa, is a very public figuring. she said dominique strauss-kahn, one of the most powerful men in the worm, former head of the international monetary fund sexually assaulted her. did you ever agree to haha sex with this man? >> no. never ever. i never see him before. i see him as a naked man. i see him attacking me like that. >> reporter: investigators initially believed her story. strauss-kahn was arrested. >> under american law these were extremely serious charges. based on the grand jury's determination that the evidence supports the commission of nonconsensual, forced sexual acts. >> reporter: but this morning there are continuing questions about diallo's now-public account that strays from her initial report. according to "the new york times" she told her rape counselor that he was violent during the attack but in her description now she says he was much more vocal. >> i was like, stop, stop, don't do this. when i say i don't want to lose my job, he says, no, you're not going to lose