of a different uganda. -- begin to jury in -- begin to dream of a different uganda. a liberated people who live in harmony with the rest of the community. >> i have spent nearly a week with richard and i have been impressed with their courage. i have seen problems and also signs of hope. maybe next year they will be able to take a march from the g -- from the beach to the center of

richard is wearing a robe from his home in eastern uganda.wise thought it would be to appreciate our cultures and different traditions, and that is why today everyone is dressed and looking like where they come from, and we are hoping this brings us closer to our families, traditions and cultures. >> this evening, everything is happening in secret. the hotel owner supports the gay and lesbian movement, so the atmosphere is relaxed, but how will it be tomorrow when they take to the streets to demand their rights? the group is meeting at the national theater. from here, they will go by bus. the mood is very different today from last night. the police have wind of their plans and the group is very nervous. but, the bus arrives, and everything continues as planned. only those with an armband are allowed to board for security reasons, but there is still no sign of richard and i am starting to feel worried. the man sitting next to me also looks tense. he has already been to prison because of his homosexuality. see how iy wanted to my it, and they t

prior to doing this project and i was really struck by what i saw when i arrived in northern uganda and i wanted to do something more and go back and so fortunately i have a lot of friends who who wanted to help and participate and i talked to a friend of mine who's a wonderful producer katie fox and she's my producing partner on this project and david acard who had been doing a theater program with at risk teens in los angeles with me for many years and they both agreed to come on board and we created this project we wanted to do something that would not only tell the stories and bring the stories to audiences worldwide but also where. we could put something back and not just take stories out so we really wanted to participate and do a theater program storytelling can be incredibly compelling incredibly communicative and incredibly healing what was your experience of watching what was your experience of their experience of these teenagers who were visiting in some cases some pretty horrific stuff well fortunately we had a child protection officers that were provided for us by inter

ultimatum risks undermining ongoing peace talks in uganda. a national strike for a living strike. a right to chicagosupporters, workers rallied outside locations of the donald's and whole foods. and mcdonald's employee spoke to the chicago tribune. we want the right to former union without threat of our jobs. we cannot support our job families. >> the strike continues with walkout that more than a dozen chicago stores today as well as in milwaukee. it follows earlier actions this week by fast food and retail workers in the same cities as well is in new york city. paid a rareama visit to capitol hill on wednesday for meeting with congressional democrats. obama sought to rally support for congress takes a five-week summer recess on issues including immigration reform, the implementation of obamacare, economic proposals, and a renewed budget showdown with republicans this fall. >> we had a very enthusiastic meeting with the president of the united states. he reiterated some of the message that has gone out across the country about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. seeing everything we do throu

>> the conservation farming unit has opened offices in malawi, uganda, kenya, and tanzania. this revolution in farming is already creating sustainable livelihoods for farmers in africa and is a working model for the world as it begins to adapt to climate change. >> here in the dramatic valleys of the baviaanskloof mountains in the eastern cape of south africa, climate change is a reality. the whole southern african region is warming up and drying out. according to the best scientific data, this trend will become much worse if nothing is done. >> over the last many years, there was a lot of changes which actually could pick up from environmental point of view, so a lot of erosion in the area as well as a drop in the ground water table. we used to plant vegetable seeds, but it's totally dried out now. we can do nothing with this land, and also from a farming point of view, we have less water available for irrigation. >> here, environmental destruction is compounding the effects of global climate change. like a green skin covering bones and muscle, spekboom thicket used to shel

early this morning, a plane landed from uganda carrying taurus who could hardly believe their luck. >> we thought we were going to be able to send him yesterday, and we could not believe it. they called us in the middle of the night and said, "the at the airport at 6:00 and you are on a plane." we are very happy to be here. we will be here for three weeks on safari. >> flights are being handled by the domestic terminal. passengers are also being processed in makeshift tents. the airport is east africa's biggest transport hubs and normally deals with some 16,000 passengers a day according to official figures. investigators are sifting through the remains of the international terminal. >> we are receiving assistance in the investigations from other agencies, international agencies . we want a full investigation on what happened yesterday. >> the government is keen not to waste any time with kenya's he tore his in season just getting under way. >> across the muslim world, festivities are being held to mark the end of the holy month of ramadan. >> celebrations bring together family and fr

have beena and uganda accused of providing covert support to the rebels, accusations they deny.rebels consist mainly of mutineers. they haveast years, had mixed fortunes. they briefly took control of goma. , leading tostalled this latest flareup. in the past week, she'll have landed on the city itself, killing and injuring civilians landed on the city itself, killing and injuring civilians. gabrgatehoe, bbc news, in nairobi. >> it was seen as the asian economic dream for two decades. according to the latest government figures, india possibly government -- economy has can do to slow down. -- continued to slow down. growth is going to read the down -- dramatically down. >> for years, emerging-market countries have been the great bright spot in the global economy. surging ahead while we struggle to grow at all. g-sevenup, the economies have grown by 1.4% since 2008. britain's economy is 3% smaller than it was then. in those same five years, emerging and developing countries have grown by 31%. china and india have grown even faster than that. at the loading bays of india's biggest p

they've raised just for $10, if you donate, you can send a five-pack of kite patches to a family in ugandaif you do give the $10 you will be one of the first people to receive the kite patches yourself, which is a very cool -- we've got great friends and he's a project lead for kite mosquito patch and chief marketing officer of ie crowd. tell us briefly how this thing works. >> we came up with a compound that are all nontoxic, capable of blocking mosquitos' ability to find humans. >> does this put up a shield around your entire body or if i wear it on my chest will i get bit on my ankles? >> as we expect now you will get covered with one kite patch all around your body from your ankles to your ears. >> how long until you believe this will be available in stores and available to people worldwide? >> right now we are interested in 12 months. this will be available in the u.s. and european markets, canada, south america. and ideally, well before we hope to have kite patch necessary places most burdened by malaria, yellow fever, west nile. we know that malaria, for example, kills over 660,000

early this morning, a plane landed from uganda carrying taurus who could hardly believe their luck. >> we thought we were going to be able to send him yesterday, and we could not believe it. they called us in the middle of the night and said, "the at the airport at 6:00 and you are on a plane." we are very happy to be here. we will be here for three weeks on safari. >> flights are being handled by the domestic terminal. passengers are also being processed in makeshift tents. the airport is east africa's biggest transport hubs and normally deals with some 16,000 passengers a day according to official figures. investigators are sifting through the remains of the international terminal. >> we are receiving assistance in the investigations from other agencies, international agencies . we want a full investigation on what happened yesterday. >> the government is keen not to waste any time with kenya's he tore his in season just getting under way. >> across the muslim world, festivities are being held to mark the end of the holy month of ramadan. >> celebrations bring together family and fr

behalf and really are proud we create peace projects, we're proud to say we funded their trips to uganda for art education is their main objective. in the period of this 6 to 7 months that we were operating sporadically again with abc permits through the mission statement, we had 0 complaints. we were told by captain moser and the rest at mission statement that we were exemplary in that regard and i loved using this quote, that we are exactly the kind of business that the mission station wants to see in the mission, so towards that, we are continuing with our community outreach programs, our community programs, we opened up our facility up on a weekly basis to several groups free of charge, non-profit groups, we've again throwing events, very successful events and we are just one step closer to bringing our dreams to fruition here. one -- zack had to remind me that we are the first benefit corporation, we are legitimate, federally recognized benefit corporation, bcorp, the first music venue in the u.s. or theatre in the u.s. that is a benefit corporation, zack is one of the founders of s

behalf and really are proud we create peace projects, we're proud to say we funded their trips to uganda for art education is their main objective. in the period of this 6 to 7 months that we were operating sporadically again with abc permits through the mission statement, we had 0 complaints. we were told by captain moser and the rest at mission statement that we were exemplary in that regard and i loved using this quote, that we are exactly the kind of business that the mission station wants to see in the mission, so towards that, we are continuing with our community outreach programs, our community programs, we opened up our facility up on a weekly basis to several groups free of charge, non-profit groups, we've again

reportedly killing at least one and injuring three others a shock waves also felt in several countries in uganda and the sichuan province is now the country's a mountainous areas are prone to such incidents just this april quake in sichuan killed more than one hundred ninety we'll bring you more on the story as we get it here on r.t. . our before we get to the kaiser report for an hour london's mayor made some pretty grandiose promises to provide a roof for the schools of homeless people strolling the capital streets about statistics suggest he's done little to follow through on the surface reports. the charity nightwatch head out on their nightly run distributing food to london. no one knows exactly how many people are homeless in the capital but one thing that's agreed upon and that's that the numbers are increasing it's gone up from thirty people to fifty sixty seventy. you can see a large number of people have gathered here to use night watches daily now nor all of the people who are here. but a number of them are when london mayor boris johnson came to office in two thousand and eight he pl

and connected world the revelation by rusbridger it came just a day after the detention of david uganda partner of the guardian journalist. glenn greenwald the journalist who had broken the story of snowden's leaks and the same materials miranda was detained under the u.k. still has a lot and was held in question for nine hours at heathrow airport it caused an outcry among politicians and journalists and even david anderson the independent reviewer of terrorism laws who demanded an explanation prompting the u.k. home office to go on the offensive the government and the police have it juicy to protect the public and on national security those who oppose this sort of action need to think about what's their condoning if they want to protect the public to tell the public what it is they're protecting them from a generalized statement about terrorism in general doesn't really do the trick you've got to be able to say well the information he's got would endangered the public for the following reasons you've got to have reasons for it no such reasons have been advanced we ran this new tension

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from arab world to morocco, to philippin philippines, to sudan, uganda, even in europe, where there areheavily muslim populations. in the book, i go into the ways of including attacks on churches in egypt in just the last few weeks, as much as 80 christian churches and other christian organizations have been attacked, torched, burned. christians are in hiding. including the continuic pope himself. that's happening all over the islamic world. it's not being mentioned. >> so, raymond, i know this isn't the most elegant way to ask this question, throughout the history, weren't the christians doing the persecuting, why have the tables turned? >> i appreciate what you're saying and what you're reflecting is basically the orthodox narrative of history. which unfortunately has nothing to do with reality. the arab world, were part of the century.n world in the seventh in fact, they made up half of what then the christian world. this has gone on for centuries and then they went into the ottoman empire came into turkey. went into the palkans and greece. the fact is, the people with who have perse

i will fight it in russia, i will fight it in uganda.s time for us to put our foot down and say we will not be the scapegoat of the world any longer. >> the other night, richard said he thought this was the beginning of a new phase in the gay rights movement. >> that's my feeling, as we're sitting here talking downtown queer nation new york is having a town hall meeting where we're just deciding what should our response be? what do we have the stomach for as an organization, as a community. what is it we want to take on? my feeling is, this is a moment as clear to me as stonewall was that we can say, here's the line in the sand. when you call us names, we're going to answer back. when you demonize us in your churches we're going to answer back, when politicians make up stuff, we're going to answer back. the thing that's more horrible about russia, putin says he's doing this to protect children. now everyone knows that 25 to 40% of all gay youth attempt suicide. the statistics go up when a law is passed against someone. there's something

seven years later he got an education you can't get in a classroom when he went to uganda to serve in the peace corps. >> one of the hardest things i came across you would run into children and speak with their parents and they were born with hiv and now there's just nothing that they can do about that. >> reporter: zachary tabb will be attending medical school at brown university. it was a rainy day and dark when his sister told him to leave her house. he packed everything he owned in a plastic bag. >> my whole life in a trash bag, you know? >> reporter: and emotionally that was the final straw. >> so like no one really cares about me. they just said, get out of my life. >> reporter: we turn now to the guard shack at mills college. he knew the woman who worked here but he didn't know she would rescue him. >> i saw him crying. crying like a baby. >> she walked in front of me and she said, here's my phone number. here's my address. and come and live with me. >> i call him my [ indiscernible ] don't tell me nothing, i'm going to bring a key to our house, he is ours now. >> reporter: and

our consulates a our embays is have been attacked all over the world at various time tanzania and uganda back in '98 and of course more recently. we have probably some nsa intel, some sigint, there is some sort of collaboration among these franchise gups. it may have something to do with the end of ramadan this coming week and a variety of other activies. you know, they smell some blood in the water perhaps, some weaknesses that we have demonstrated. and now, out of abundance of caution, as you indicate, neil, we are going to close things down. and i suspect, what you probably will not see, but is happening, is we're staging forward, in the european and african area of operations as well as central command. we have special operating forces ready to go to the aid of some of these embassies. you won't that out until something happens. neil: wish we had done that in benghazi but that is then, this is now. what is interesting about all the reports and you guys certainly know far more than i do you by see the name al qaeda popping up again and again and again. >> isn'that interesting. neil: i

she took a ship to south africa and then uganda when the time that it was not only difficult but dangerous for a black woman to be traveling in colonial africa. spent a number of months there and met with someone about that antiapartheid activist oracle conference in the free state in south africa. that began her internationalism, her emergence as a world citizen if you will and it reminds us all i think of a very rich tradition of black internationalism. the other thing, she also goes to the congo in 1946 after she writes a book and becomes quite a public activist and in congo she is followed by british intelligence. and my five follows her around belgium and the french congo worrying she is going to go into british colonies and write these rather -- and years later they were probably scared that she done at the time -- but to write this chronicle of her travels talking about the incendiary ideas she is promoting like africans being moved by their own kin in the words of one of agents. so she lived a very large life and really forged her own political identity and her identity as a black

and over to uganda. you had friends from mexico and brought their kids here for a better life.ely child. and she went in because her ankle hurt. she was having trouble breathing. instead of doing an x-ray because of the cost, the health center said you have a sprained ankle. she had a blood clot and she died. >> couldn't afford an mri obviously. >> stephanie: if that were you going into cedars-sinai -- >> i would have expected an mri or an x-ray. maybe that's white privilege. i don't know what that is but i would have expected to get it. i think that the doctors would have expected me to expect to get it and i had the healthcare coverage to get it. and it just -- i could be wrong about this but i feel like if she did that, where i grew up and had my healthcare, i wonder would she be dead as a 15-year-old little girl? i don't think so. >> stephanie: you'll be interested to know what the stunning steve king's latest thoughts are on -- speaking at his anti-immigration reform rally. there were three people there. just a guy videotaping. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ] virginia over the we

joyce has conducted field research in rwanda, uganda and egypt as was work in the field of organizationalvelopment for many committee-based nongovernmental organizations. focus on conflict transformation and mitigation. so with that i would like to turn it over to our panel, and we'll start with ali. >> thank you. first of all, i would like to thank freedom house for giving us this opportunity to speak to the activists in civil society, environment in washington, d.c. and it goes without saying i had to also thank my daughter for being an active encouragement, coming for here and to speak to you about libya, to speak to what might happen because really working for libya has essentially been the story of my life. even when i fled the country after being tortured and kicked out of university, ma i continued to work with activist, leaving activists, to combat and the regime and to create some kind of an opening an opportunity for a people in libya. and i would like to thank here, particular thank you for the national endowment for democra democracy, because they had been in the last 10 years