it is individuals. >> thank you very much for joining us from nairobi. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. police and greece have used tear gas at nationwide protests. we have live pictures from athens. this is the scene in the center of the greek capital. the action is disrupting transport. rubbish was set on fire outside a luxury hotel. they also threw projectiles. during the union backed a demonstration, police were there. this is hours after parliament approved the bill cutting salaries, months after those in the civil sector also have their wages cut. austerity measures are also expected today in spain, france, and belgium. this has been especially tense in athens. of course, that was the start of the euro crisis. that is why the austerity measures have been so severe there. factories were closed. hospital and transport services were also affected. it is certainly having a big impact, as you can see. it is a busy center -- the center of the greek capital. off the coast of an australian island, dozens

we spoke to a journalisk who has been following this story for us from nairobi.they were there to deliver an ultimatum and we ask what their efforts could realistically achieved >> well, this is not the first time that they traveled to convince gbagbo to step down. three weeks ago, it was the former president of south africa. those past talks are negotiations. efforts to find a compromise did not have any concrete results. today, this is the president of -- the three presidents who came to put on pressure. the west african union does not exclude a military option. this does not frighten gbagbo but must fghten the generals. >> and radical islamic sect in nigeria has claimed responsibility for the christmas eve bombings and attacks on churches in the country that left at least 86 people dead. in statements on the group's website, they said that they carry out the attacks. police said the bombings and the subsequent clashes between armed muslim and christian groups killed 80 people and wounded more than 100. six others died when two churches in northeastern nigeria

when i hear people use the word multicultural, i think back to my schooling in nairobi where all of us came from different cultures, and we were all searching for better life and economic progress. but to move from a to b, from country to country, from language to language, from hemisphere to hemisphere seemed just so much more, so much more easier and so much more -- let's say we took it more for granted than my grandmother's generation. and then i come of age in the information age. so rapid modernization that i think generations like my mother and my grandmother somehow got a taste of it but didn't grow up in this. i, i'm not just a child of globalization, but i'm also a child that is intellectually comes of age after 1989. after the fall of the soviet union. >> why was that the case? how did that impact your life directly? >> it impacted it directly if we accept huntington's thesis that there is a clash of civilizations and that there is a clash between the west and islam in the sense that i was born into the muslim civilization as defined by huntington and lived it and breathed it, was comm