we work all over uganda.ss i have always, the at least ten years anyway, viewed east africa almost as a second home to me because of how much i changed as an individual in my time in sudan and darfur and it made such an impact on me. so right here, we're standing over the top of the beginnings of the nile river here in uganda. and it's a little weird to be here because this is the most mighty river in the world. yet the biggest need, the mightiest need for water is also right here in the same country. right now there's about one in three wells in uganda that are broken, they're not working. it's really expensive to drill a brand-new well. but for a fraction of the cost, we can go back and redrill them. and we can go back and teach the locals how to maintain that well. >> this school had a well put in quite a few years ago, but it's been broken for some time now. >> this i met gilbert back in 2007. and he's been helping us with our water projects a all over uganda, including well rehabilitation. >> you were a

bison in uganda is as simple as it gets. with grass roofs made by hand with plastered mud. once the sun goes down, that's it. there's no more light. it's time for bed. the sun comes up and you have to, where am i going to get my water for the day? today, gilbert and i are bringing a filter to a small village in uganda to a family here. these things are not light, that's for sure. the filter is basically a water filter. it's a big old thing that holds sand and gravel. you can take dirty water, pour it in the top. out of the nozzle. >> all right, this looks good. >> hi, how are you? >> your name is doc? >> yeah. nice to meet you. sarah. nice to meet you. >> come here. >> has she been having stomach problems from the water? >> we tried to -- we don't know. what's going on. >> all right. you haven't been able to get the medicine. >> yeah. >> oh, man. when i first got into this work, it was confusing to me like how is it that water is killing so many people. after doing digging and research, i found that it's basically the amoeba

of uganda. i think 97% of the people of uganda want this law and they got it. but it's all fueled by the churches in uganda. >> i want to get to that in a moment. but how do they justify this? >> they justify this, they say that gay people recruit children. so they equate homosexuality with being a pedophile, with is absurd and ridiculous but that is their justification. >> a parliamentarian named david bahadi said that parliament showed courage. let's see what they say? >> i want to protect our marriages to defend our culture and to defend future of our children. >> matthew, why this kind of ignorance? i understand different cultures have different beliefs but that they would be saying something like this? >> to the accident that there is a culture war in the united states that certain evangelicals have lost. like the family that have felt that they have lost their turf in the united states, so they exported. they found a new mission from god, to take their very homophobic views, very antigay v

it's what we could do, it's the filters we had on hand here in uganda. we're able to do right now and let's go back and mobilize and reach every single family in these camps. >> safe journey. >>> i have two sons, beatty who's 5 years old and justin who's 3 years old. and my wife's name is amber and she has been such a huge encouragement for me. >> mommy. . >> we always do breakfast, we always try to spend as much time as we can as a family. >> what do i have here? what do i have here? >> absolutely love wine to water, but i have known since i have been married to amber and my kids, they are my world. father, thank you for all your blessings, amen. who wants biscuits and gravy. >> something as simple as breakfast together on saturday morning. just those simple things, i feel like i'm the happiest man in the world. >> you washington guys want to go on an airplane? you want to go with daddy on the next trip? >> a lot times i feel like i'm a single mom. and it gets lonely, but i know it's worth it because that's what makes a difference in the world. >> i'm w

that's frank from uganda. you. >>> now wrapping for relief . . . ♪ >> how one fedoring teen uses range to find his voice. >>> and bad news for laker's star kobe bryant. jo will tell you why after the break. (vo) al jazeera america >>> time for all of the sports news. here is jo. >> thank you. >>> liverpool have con fimmed that lewis suarez has signed a new long-term contract with the club. suarez was banned for the first six games of the season after biting an opponent. but he is now the league's top scorer with 17 goals. >>> in a statement released on the clubs website, suarez says i believe i can achieve the ambitions of winning trophies. my aim is to help get us there as quickly as possible. without doubt the backing i have received from the liverpool fans has influenced by decision. i am so proud to represent them. >>> one football fan was so desperate to make sure that suarez stay in liverpool, that he tricked him into signing a fake contract. >>> spain beat third division [ inaudible ] in an unconvincing

uganda's lgbt community. -- entrenches discrimination towards uganda's lgbt community. twitter account will focus on the day-to-day life of a french soldier fighting with u.s. troops during the second world war. the anniversary of the d-day landing will be commemorated on the sixth of june next year. it is based on the experience of an actual soldier and will update readers with preparations on the longest day and the battle of normandy. what happens in an internet minute? this info graphic was produced by manufacturer intel and chose that in 30 seconds, 50 hours of video are uploaded to youtube, 2 million searches are carried out one millionnd 100,000 are post -- messages are posted to twitter. this opening of the museum wasn't enough. he has now launched his own social network. used against the world over to connect. includingin prizes signed shirts and tickets to see him in action. it has become an annual tradition for the american website jibjab. they have released their "all dancing" year in review. it t

forces sent in from rwanda and uganda where are which are two of our major bases of u.s. military operations on the continent ethiopia being a third job already being another. let's talk with regard to genocide in central africa seems like the last time major western attention was paid to she was a documentary about the ugandan warlord joseph coney what is this a legitimate campaign or was it manufactured. the whole coney thing is needs to be understood in order to understand that you have to go back to eating i mean and israel brought e.d.m. mean to power but nobody understands that any i mean died lived a happy life in saudi arabia i mean nobody understands that so you go back and study the history of uganda and what really happened then you find out that there was this woman named alice aquinas who founded the holy spirit movement in one thousand nine hundred six and then along comes this guy you wearing most of the name who turns out to be the president again today after some twenty six years and seventy has committed massive atrocities in uganda in rwanda in congo in

forces sent in from rwanda and uganda where are we which are two of our major bases of u.s. military operations on the continent. being a third job or to be in another. let's talk with regard to genocide in central africa seems like the last time major western attention was paid to dish it was a documentary about the ugandan warlord joseph coney what is this a legitimate campaign or was it manufactured. the whole coney's thing is need to be understood in order to understand that you have to go back to eating i mean and israel brought e.d.f. mean to power but nobody understands that any i mean died lived a happy life in saudi arabia i mean nobody understands that so you go back and study the history of uganda and what really happened then you find out that there was this woman named alice look when a founded the holy spirit movement in one thousand nine hundred six and then along comes this guy you wearing most of the name who turns out to be the president again today after some twenty six years and seventy has committed massive atrocities in uganda in rwanda in congo in suda

backed forces sent in from rwanda and uganda where are which are two of our major bases of u.s. military operations on the continent ethiopia being a third job already being another. let's talk with regard to genocide in central africa seems like the last time major western attention was paid to dish it was a documentary about the ugandan warlord joseph coney what is this a legitimate campaign or was it manufactured. the whole kone thing is need to be understood in order to understand that you have to go back to eating i mean and israel brought media mean to power but nobody understands that edi i mean died lived a happy life in saudi arabia i mean nobody understands that so you go back and study the history of uganda and what really happened then you find out that there was this woman named alice aquinas who founded the holy spirit movement in one thousand nine hundred six and then along comes this guy you wearing most of the name who turns out to be the president again today after some twenty six years and seventy has committed massive atrocities in uganda in rwanda in congo i

forces sent in from rwanda and uganda where are we which are two of our major bases of u.s. military operations on the continent. being a third job or to be in another. let's talk with regard to genocide in central africa seems like the last time major western attention was paid to dish it was a documentary about the ugandan warlord joseph coney what is this a legitimate campaign or was it manufactured. the whole kone thing is need to be understood you know to understand that you have to go back to eating i mean and israel broady i mean to power but nobody understands that e.d. i mean died lived a happy life in saudi arabia i mean nobody understands that so you go back and study the history of uganda and what really happened then you find out that there was this woman named alice look when a well founded the holy spirit movement in one thousand nine hundred six and then along comes this guy you wearing most of d.n.a. who turns out to be the president again today after some twenty six years and seventy has committed massive atrocities in uganda in rwanda in congo in sudan and

. >> children tens of thousands abducted in the civil war in uganda. how are these mothers, fathers and children coping? >>> one state in myanmar, seemed to be looked on heroin. we'll finder out why. the cricket career of jack callas comes to an end. looks like he bowed out with a win, we'll give you the details. >>> another sporting great. the formula 1 michael schumacher fighting for his life. more in the news center. >> doctors treating him in france are refusing to predict an outcome for the motor racing champion saying he's on a life-threatening injury. >> he's one of the greatest formula 1 drivers of all time. but michael schumacher is known to be an experienced skier. he fell and hit his head on a rock. he'd been wearing a helmet. within ten minutes the 44-year-old was air lifted off the piece before being transferred to the university hospital in gre grenoabl foran operation. his condition listed as critical and his surgeons indicating he had suffered a bleed on the brain. >> it is too early to say what the prognosis will be. i think seeing the

others weighed in, essentially telling uganda, do not do this to your own people. this will change your standing among nations if you do it, but they just did it and now that the parliament has passed the law, uganda's president has to decide whether he is going to in both uganda and russia, it is obviously domestic politics and home grown prejudice that is mostly driving this new aggressively antigay legislation in those countries. but for us, watching this happen from here, from here in the united states, we should note that in both of these instances, in both the case of the russian so-called propaganda law and uganda's kill the gays bill, in both of those cases, it was american evangelical antigay activists who visited both those countries and met with members of parliament in both those countries in official capacities to encourage them and advise them that they ought to pass those law, so it's an interesting dynamic. on the one hand, there's hillary clinton in 2011 giving her blockbuster speech on gay rights as human rights. not just as hillary clinton, but a

fears of violence rising in uganda.his is after the parliament there passed a bill that could lead to people being sent to prison for life. just for being gay. plus this. ♪ ing >> russian president vladimir putin pardoning those critical of him. is it a change of heart or a pr move before the sochi olympics? ♪ here comes santa claus >> we're tracking big red today. if you've been naughty, well, you have a lot. it's too late. no hope for you. santa is on the way. he's loaded up with the presents and cold probably. >> we're tracking his movements up ahead. >> i'm tech sergeant jordan and the gate stationed in turkey. and this is my lovely wife mallory. during this holiday season, we especially had remember jesus who gave us life and our families who add value to our lives. >> we miss you, family in arkansas and we love you. we wish we were with you this christmas. >> i love you guys. we miss you. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief wi

uganda and congo are right next to each other, but uganda has almost no gold production of its own. in 2007, uganda produced about $500 worth. but in the same year, it exported $75 million in gold. almost all of that is coming from the war zone. >> how much? >> maximum... >> we took a hidden camera into a trader called jit. we offered gold for sale, and we were clear it came from congo. >> he bought our gold. and we got a hold of internal ugandan records that list 228 international shipments by jit and many others. u.n. investigators say most of it is gold from congo relabeled as a product of uganda. after kampala, it heads to refiners in dubai and then out into the world. no one can say how much of the world market is fed by congo gold. the best estimates are around 1%, so it's not likely any particular watch or wedding ring contributed to rape or murder. but we wondered how a consumer would know. matt runci represents retailers as head of the trade groups jewelers of america and the responsible jewelry council. does your certification mean, for example, the gold didn't come from c

he's one of thousands in northern uganda whose children went missing in civil war. christopher says things got easier when he joined a counseling group for people with missing relatives organized by the red cross. here several groups have come together to hold a memorial ceremony. for most of the children abduc abducted, there is simply no record. there is no comprehensive list of names or numbers. many are poor and there are no photos or memorabilia. it's estimated 12,000 went missing and never came back. realistically very few of those 12,000 are going to come home. many here have begun to come to terms with that and gun the process of moving forward. they take turns to say the names of those who never came home. the memories are painful. >> the grief of not knowing what happened to a person who is in your family a son or daughter, is something that who don't live it is very difficult to understand. now they have somebody that understands them, and went through the same and together they can find a way forward. [♪ singing ] >> most of these people never buried or

a dignified burial for the victim's of uganda's civil war. >> hello again. these are the top stories this hour on al jazeera. in iraq the shia muslim-led government cleared sunni protest camps in ramadi. 10 were killed when security forces raided the anti--government sit in. 10 mps resigned from parliament in protest. >> security is being increased in russia in the rup -- run up to the winter olympics. after attacks in volgograd killed 30 people. >> palestinians are welcomed home after being freed from israeli gaol. they are the scan batch released in the hope they it will start talks between palestines and israelis. >> we have a report on how this affects people. >> this woman has been waiting for this moment for 21 years. nobody could stand between her and adnap, he's been released from an israeli prison. the first person he hugged was his mother. >> we asked how she felt. >> translation: my heart is trembling. >> 10 miles away bella remembers the day her life changed forever. she was wearing this dress. >> i give the life for the terrorist. >> in 1992 bel

>> well, according to the president of uganda he says former vice president doesn't come forward and accept talks with the government they will put together their armies and defeat him. this is having hard talks with the president of south sudan. what we know now is that the government in east africa particularly ethopia, uganda are on a footing because they share a very long borders with south sudan and they fear that if the conflict here spills over the borders of this country it could effect their stability. they are still thrown their weight behind the government of the president. but what they have not been saying is there is no clear timetable for the talks and not announced a venue. we know for example there is a mediation committee which includes the general, the kenya general who negotiated the comprehensive peace argument which resulted in the referendum that saw south sudan separate from the rest of sudan but we don't know about venue and don't know anything. the officials of the government here of south sudan have no timetable or anything to show where the talks will be h

let's hear from malcolm who has been speaking to a uganda journalist. >> we are outside of uganda's sportstadium. it was built in 1997 and it was named after nelson mandela. mandela visited uganda on several occasions, the first time was in 1990, just months after he had been released from prison. this man worked as a journalist in uganda for many years. >> it was euphoric. it was every single person in the country could tell that there was something in the country that had never been there before, that was nelson mandela. >> what in your view was nelson mandela's legacy? >> that person who had any other means of survival could fight the racism in this country, spend 27 years in prison and come back and not revenge on the people that emprisoned him, that i think for me that [ inaudible ] should not happen if we follow the legacy of what nelson mandela stood for. >> about half of the current population wasn't even born when nelson mandela was in power, but his ideas, visions and legacy live on. >> nicholas is in the capitol where people also revere mandela. >> this is one of the main arteri

some articlely soldiers innocently the last game of this camp in uganda. they completed training, graduate and are about to go home and fight insurgency. they queue for one of their last meals. first lieutenant hamad was born in 1991. the government was overthrown, plunging the country into turmoil. he grew up as warlords. he said he joined the government forces is fight, bringing stability. >> translation: if i did not volunteer, who would do it. i'm somali. i should fight for my government, people and family. i hope one day it can be better than it is now. >> he is one of 4,000 omarticlies trained by soldiers from the european union. trainers and soldiers alike say it hasn't been easy. now it's over. laughs and smiles. they were brought here, a hotbed for pilots. >> the european union has an interest. because it is an area that has substantial trade with europe and the stab illisation is part of thaul that process. >> at the parade ground the graduation ceremony we gins. the e.u. provided the soldiers. diplomats and generals from all those involved agree

. >> a plane was coming from uganda trying to land at juba gnat. it was going to evacuate people drop the airport back to uganda. as it tried to land, it crashed. government officials have rushed to the airport to investigate. the airport has been shut down until the source of the crash can be found. government officials are telling people not to panic. understandably, they are, it's been a tense few days. there are rom mothers and speculation that it has perhaps been shut down. the government is telling people to stay calm until it investigates to find out why the plane crashed. people are trying to get food. those in the u.n. compound are still too afraid to go home. the big concern is the fighting going on. they are hearing that things are getting worse, the army has sent in reinforcements and people are concerned that the violence will spread elsewhere in the country. >> jousted egyptian president mohamed morsi could face the death penalty as he stands trial on charges connected to the deaths of protestors while in office. the egyptian military

now to uganda where a strict anti-gale bill awaits the president's signature.w law that cleared the u dan dan parliament december 20th, gay u dannians could face life in prison. human rights groups are calling on the from ez to reets toe that bill. it has members of the gay community there in fear fur their lives. here is arwa damon. after talking to a number of people who are afraid to show their faces in public. >> i got so much involved with god praying so hard to like change me. >> malcolm still pray buzz now knows who he is. transgender, foreign female but identifying as male. in a nation that is deeply conservative, religiously, and rabidly homophobic. >> physically, it's -- it's painful because it has been mostly done by my family. >> reporter: male relatives including, he says, by his own brothers. >> they need to teach me like how to behave like a woman. they raped me. i was around 17. >> reporter: and you had no one to protect you, no one who you could talk to. >> just blaming me. that experience made me hate my family. it made me leave them and i sta

we are preparing for alarge field testing in uganda.really exciteabout this. 6.7 million hours of the patch, with real people, one of three districts we'll be testing them, all of which have exceptionally high mal malaria rates, as well as mosquito born diseases. >> ceo amra albana is responsible for this technology in order to get to people who need it most. >> it's very difficult to take new technologies and furnish them into tangible products that were ready for the marketplace. we are excited about it and the promise for the technology but we also knew we had a long way to actually get it ready. in the last 60 years, we haven't really had any break through in technologies that could help in mosquito-borne diseeses diseases. three and a half years ago we had the potential of saving many, many, many lives around the world. >> this one is definitely getting a lot of attention and so for that reason a lot of entomologists we've been kind of talking about it and we are a bit skeptical but also hopeful. testing it in the lab is quite diff

. >> in neighbouring uganda two decades of a civil war has killed hundreds thousands of people. during that time a man by the name of joseph koni led a violent campaign, abducting thousands of children, forcing them to fight. the conflict ended in 2006, but many are struggling to move on. >> this pair of boots is all that remained of this man's son, who was abducted by rebels of the lord rebels army in 1997 at the age of 12 years old. they were notorious for abducting people. christopher is trying to combat what is probably true. >> if my child is alive, come back. if you come back, i be very grateful. now i don't think. >> christopher's wife was so upset at the loss of their only child, that she killed herself. now he lives alone with only his chickens for company. he says he's waiting for god to take him away. he's one of thousands that went missing during the civil war. christopher said things were easier when he joined a counselling group organised by the red cross. here, several groups have come together to hold a memorial ceremony. for most of the children abducted, there'

uganda is demanding that the rebel leader in south sudan accept a crees fire. it's the latest call to stop sectarian violence that killed 1,000 people in the last month. >> we are in the town of mohl okayal back in government hands. some of the images in the report may be disturbing. >> recent fighting turned this bustling place into a ghost town. apart from government soldiers, the town is almost deserted. this is the man in charge for now. he is a commander of the government forces who control it. . the fighting was a continuation of the school that started in juba. up to three days later, when they begin loot k, they recaptured the town from him. >> bodies are still in the streets, eerie reminders of the battles that took place. dozens of bodies are buried in a mass grave. certainly hundreds of people lost their lives. some of the town's residence told us that the rebels set up a base outside of town. >> have you heard gunfire? we have full control. we will defend it and are pursuing the rebels. >> the town center was the worst hit of. >> this is the main ma

there is an epidemic of child rape in uganda. ah, but it is the right kind of rate.said, you do have the cameras running. you just said that raping a baby girl is the right kind of rape? if i left that interview as the light had been sucked out of me. it would have been bad enough for anybody. ng you had been interviewi him, you would have left her trembling. time to comet some down, but the professional side of you would say, man, we got that on film. but i was alone, and i was miserable, and there were many things wrong with me, and because i was traveling so much i'd taken a load of sleeping pills with me because i was traveling thousand miles by train and i sat down and i was overcome. this -- >> dealing with manic depression? >> this feeling of absolutely no future. as if there was no future, no purpose,@-- that kind of, what point feeling? there was just no point in being alive. both my parents are living, my brother and sister. my nephews are living in afghanistan. many pills took as as i could and washed it down with as much vodka as i could which was 2/3 of

he's one of thousands in northern uganda whose children went missing during the civil war. christopher says things got easier when he joined a counseling group for people with missing relatives organized by the red cross. here several groups have come together to hold a memorial ceremony. for most of the children abducted by the lra there's simply no record. there's no comprehensive list of names or numbers, and many people are poor so very few have family photos or any other kind of memorabilia. the red cross estimates about 12,000 went missing and never came back. the lra are now small in number and scattered across neighbors couldn't -- countries so few of the 12,000 will come home. people have gathered here today to try to come to terms with that and begin the process of moving forward. they take turns to say the names of those that never came home. the memories are painful. >> the agony of not knowing of what happened with a person that is in your family normally, a son or a daughter, is something that for those month don't live it, it's very difficult to understand. n

. >>> an estimated 100,000 people were killed curing uganda's long civil war.human remains are only now being laid to rest. malcolm webb reports. >> reporter: patrick's mother was shot dead by rebels nearly ten years ago, now he is going to dig up her grave and their her body to their ancestral home. friends and family with her to help. she was killed when rebels attacked a camp for the displaced, and massacred people living there. >> they were [ inaudible ] and revenge was brought on the civilians. >> reporter: the survivors fled. those that can collect the bodies have to bury them elsewhere. the rebels attacked from this direction, running into the camp and shooting up people. in total about 50 people were killed and there is a memorial here that lists their names. after that the area was deemed unsafe, everyone moves to another camp up the road, and they had to take the dead with them. people here believe the spirits of the dead can affect the living. the goat's blood is thought to cleanse any curses. the ritual gives the family peace of mind. the war left n

she raised enough money to pay the tuition for the girl in uganda and many others, as well. these are photos of some of the girls mary grace's handiwork has helped to educate. >> and i started going into retail stores, and now i'm selling in eight different states, and so it's grown a lot. >> hi, sweetie. >> hi! how are you? >> good. how are you? >> good. thanks. all right. >> bring me some goodies? >> yep. here's some new bows. >> great. >> yeah. let's just open this up. >> oh, look at that. it's like spring in a bag. >> [ laughs ] >> don't you love it? >> so, why did you decide to carry mary grace's hair accessories? >> i was walking down the street for the sidewalk sale one day, and i came across her display and her bows, and i had to have them. i totally fell in love with them. i love the concept. i love the color combinations. i love the fact of what she was doing benefited so many other people, and it was just -- it was the perfect fit for our store. they're incredibly popular. people love it. what do we say? you look fabulous, sweetheart. >> so, what do you think abou

uganda sent in troops. i hoped they'd send in the president.he president should come in and intervene, rather than the troops. what will they do. >> diplomatic pressure. >> exactly, we have a lot at stake. time is running ou. >> thank you for coming on set and explaining it for us. >> now, to spending 10 years in russian gaols, mikhail khordorkovsky arrived in germany. he was pardoned by vladimir putin in a move that surprised mean. vladimir putin's opponents are questioning the timing of the release. >> 24 hours ago he was a prisoner in a russian penal colony. on friday a free man, on german soil, greeted by the former germans chancellor. the pardon of vladimir putin was signed in the morning. an hour later mikhail khordorkovsky left the prison where he spent almost the last 10 years and flew to berlin and had this message for those a supported him during the 10 years in gaol: >> he was sent to the penal colony in 2003. his imprisonment was a symbol of what critics here and overseas ais the kremlin's abuse of the judiciary. he was named as a p

he was trying to bring about a bill in which actors -- within uganda would receive the death penalty. and he was talking to me about how if -- i said, sir, in the street, no, i said well that would be the death penalty, no but you would go to prison for a very long time, i said. >> rose: so you looked in the face of evil? >> yes and the thing that really made it was i said even aside, you can use all of the old arguments against homosexuality that they try to promote it or choose it, who would choose it in a country like uganda, you can't for heaven's sake, and even if what you are saying is true there is an epidemic at the moment in uh banda, thanks to conversion to fun fundamentalist christianity there are no longer condoms as health against hiv, they are actually told they spread it, which is such a wick lie it is unbelievable. i said, so there is, in the book of mormon addressed it, this idea that if you rape or have sex with a virgin, it will cure your aids and so there are these monstrous acts of rape against young girls, girls as young as frankly babies, and i said to him and i

about 700 foreign nationals were moved to uganda. tribal differences between the president and former vice president are driving the conflict. the violence escalated when the president dissolved his party, reshuffling the government making it a one-party state, making it almost impossible for anyone else to be elected. >> as the violence in north and central south sudan escalates, thousands are trying to escape the fighting. government soldiers have lost control of the unity state to rebels, and are battling to recapture bor in jonglei state. >> a lot of people are now in the u.n. compound in bor town. the whole town is vacated completely. it is only these rebel soldiers who move about in the town. all the bodies have not been collected. we don't know how far, what is the number. dead up to now. the town is under the control of the rebels. >> the rebels are loyal to former vice president salva kiir. riek machar is accused of plotting the coup. he de nice this, but speaking to al jazeera's david foster he says he is ready to run the c

. >>> and the bill that would criminallize homosexuality in uganda, and how just knowing someone whogay might land people behind bars. >>> and in sports, find out why this man has been kicking off an argument with his employers. >>> the former russian oil tycoon, mikhail khodorkovsky is enjoying his first days of freedom. >> thank you. khodorkovsky was freed after spending more than ten years in jail. he issued a statement thanking all of those who supported him during his imprisonment. and a special thanks to the german governor who was instrumental in his release. >> reporter: 24 hours ago he was a prisoner, on friday he was a free man on foreign soil. >>> the pardon of president vladimir putin was signed in the morning. an hour later, mikhail khodorkovsky left the prison and blue to berlin and had this message for those who had supported him. >> he was sent to the penile colony in 2003. khodorkovsky was named as prisoner of conscious by amnesty international. he was one the richest man in russia. business company was broken up and sold off mostly to state oil company after his arr

all noncritical staff members taken to uganda to scope ongoing violence.rebel fighters have been trying to overthrow the government claiming ethnic discrimination. 100,000 are in ukraine's capital protesting for the fifth weekend in a row. few showed up but leader are encouraging people to push through the holidays. they are angry that the president backed out of a trade beel with

it was registered there when it came to tax revenues that he was answering to the mayor never to uganda be met with before they depended on him and that was the only reason why he even imagine it only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband's murder but i just like how to keep a consensus and clear his conscience. while on trial for the murder of pair of legs going with already serving twenty years in prison for the attempted murder of former holocaust visor all good cause dinner after quitting her post with you cos she went on to work as the head of p.r. for the mayor of moscow it was then that a bomb was placed in her moscow apartment fortunately it detonated while no one was home. sees the holocaust these comments about political prisoners as self-serving. how to craft a hostage of his own party he can't act differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing and he will automatically become responsible i think now he fears that the next super to get in you may start talking and what the third ucas case could potentially be is a further investigation

uganda is a conservative country in the sixty outlets he is punishable by a dome jail terms. parliament has been considering a bill for years that could allow the death penalty. the second time was six two acts. eye. european problem such a big step in promoting the civil rights of the roma community. it goes in through a new resolution that its member states to mo to help the minority group integrate into society. we'll be in season and short of treatment in europe with prawns fried some police putting bows in two thousand and ten. it puts us at the time. this resolution seeks to end such policies. i asked abt certain what's going on the resolution is to teach the kids that we have a major problem with the robot they are a people the size of the population of sweden and i have no home. and unless we integrate successfully we will continue to have major social intelligence. the resolution is non binding which technically means the agreement comes and won't be enforced by us or maybe many peaks of us got within his call to the states will actually change their behavior you see

the marines were deployed to nearby uganda. so far almost 400 americans have been evacuated after violence broke out in the region. let's bring ing inpentagon correspondent barb barb star to talk more about this. barbara, what are you hearing? are these marines in uganda on call for more american evacuations? does it seem like they might go into south sudan or is this very much a just in case? >> i think on call probably hits the mark, brianna. they have moved the 50 marines as close as they can to south sudan so if there also a request, an order from the state department to evacuate americans,ed that be the trigger. then the marines would go in. they can do two things there. they can evacuate americans and at the same time, they can provide additional security and reinforcement for the u.s. embassy in south sudan. right now, nothing else has happened. everything is just sort of status quo for those marines. but there's very much a specter here of wanting to be ready, part of the hangover, the shadow, if you will, of what happe

the uganda president visited today for talks.r of information said a group known as the white army is no longer planning what he called a vicious military confrontation. the militia is made up of 25,000 young people loyal to the countries foamer vice president. the government accuses the former vice president of attempting a coup. hundreds have been killed and 180,000 displaced as a result of the fighting since mid december he will. >> in neighboring uganda, nearly two decades of a civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. a man by the name of joseph kony led a violent armed campaign, abducting children and forcing them to fight. the conflict ended in 2006, but as aljazeera reports, many are still struggling to move on. >> this pair of boots is all that remains of a son abducted in 1997 when he was just 12. the rebels abducted children and mutilated people. the man is trying to accept what's probably true. >> if my child is alive, come back. let's see you coming back. that would be very, very great. but now, i don't think

my dad was making the african queen in uganda. and nobody went on location in those days. everything was done in the studio. it is an unusual thing for a big studio to allawi film directed totake an a-list cast -- allow a film director to take an a-list cast down there. was tabled to the township where a barefoot runner ran for three days through the jungle and finally arrived at my father's location. my father read the telegram and put it in his pocket. what does it say? it's a girl, her name is angelica. tavis: when you heard that story, how did you process that? your father getting the cable and just putting it in his pocket. a master of was understatement and you like to drive people crazy. everyone was saying, what has happened ? it was typical of my father to prolonged attention a little bit. have beenuspect you asked the question of how you found your own voice in the shadow of john houston. yourhere is a story about father directing you in something that you didn't really want to be in. there are a lot of people i imagine who would love the opportunity to get a leg

give uganda about half a million dollars a year? maybe the gay and lesbian community ought to focus on that. gays have been told not to show at the olympics in russia by macho man himself big bad vlad putin. personally, i don't give a damn what you do in your bedroom, who you do it with, how often you do it. that's between you, your partner and god. think having been schooled in the constitution and rendering legal decisions on the constitution that phil robertson has a right to say whatever he thinks. as far as i'm concerned, the thought police should get the duck out of here. now, i must confess. i have never watched "duck dynasty" although my mother loves it. what do i know? what i do know is that phil is self-described red neck who often quotes from the bible has the right to his view of the world. especially if it's based on the bible. and if it's considered blasphemous for phil to repeat directly from the greatest book on earth and that he should be censored for those beliefs, when's next? will we stop publishing the bible bec

it's a non critical staff deployed in gitmo will move to neighboring uganda civilian personnel in the state of john wayne have been relocated to the capital twenty thousand people and sovereignty of the un facilities. this is the plan to reinforce the peacekeeping presence and john blake and other parts of the country to protect them. the un has retained a peacekeeping mission in south sudan since the country's independenc from sudan in two thousand and eleven japan and fifty nine other nations are contributing to t efft of seventy six under military law enforcement personnel have been deployed in various parts of the country along with twenty five hundred civilian staff and volunteers south korean lawmakers have given insight into what may have led to the downfall of the top figure in north korea they disclosed an intelligence report that concludes time suntec was executed because he disobeyed his nephews. in a few leader k jong won. keep london he couldn't cut the meat. we believe that kim had ordered them to address conflicts of interest and abuse of power by his skates. jang refus