vodafone will be providing the retail services. and we're going to help with some state-of-the-art low-maintenance cell phone towers that we'll be putting out in the eastern drc to facilitate additional communication so that community prediction committees can then get in touch with either u.n. forces, either with their own government forces or with other villages. >> thank you. deputy assistant secretary? >> senator koonce, on the issue of the growing a.u. role, i think we can only express our optimism at this point that ther increasing their role going from declaring the lra a terrorist organization at the end of last year to now the designation of an envoy, the gradual mobilizing of forces to bring to bear. i think a parallel is interesting to consider when you look at somalia in the first instance. the neighbors are the one who feel the impact and act first. but then over time the full force of the a.u. is brought to bear, as we've seen with the amazon mission. i think we could envision that that is a possibility for the counte

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and vodafone agrees to buy c & w worldwide for $1.9 billion. >> let's get a check on the markets which we've been right around this area here with the market -- >> i'm not sure it's the deal news as much as the earnings in europe. >> the market is not impressed by the deal news. we would opensharply lower this morning, more than 111 points. rick santelli standing by at the cme in chicago. rick, what has them troubled down there in the pits? let's see if we can solve their problems. >> well, there's no problems in life, there are only issues. when you say the market is opening down ignoring deals, i'm not watching the deals as closely as everybody at that desk but i like the statement to give us an idea about how to look at the market in general. for all we know, the stock market would have been three times or two times as much. we just don't know. it's the same as all the discussion you've been having earlier i've been getting boat loads of e-mail on, whether you saved the kcountry from a depression or not. it's simple this morning. could you look at exports regarding the u.s. and say

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