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

. >> reporter: catherine's daughter, kate, a peace corps volunteer, was killed in west africa. >> kate was the heart of our family. and our lives have been shattered. >> reporter: in 2009, kate reported sexual assault to a local peace corps official who tipped off the suspect. >> within a few days, she was murdered. >> reporter: that official was fired, suspects are in custody. the most recent figures, 129 sexual assaults reported in 2008. about 1,000 attacks reported in the past ten years. >> the peace corps staff instructed us not to tell our families about the attacks. >> and this is the bridge in -- >> reporter: now in its 50th year, today, the peace corps has 8,600 volunteers in 77 countries promising to take action, director aaron williams said the peace corps regrets not doing a better job and is working with host countries to seek justice and protect volunteers. >> this type of thing of blaming the victim will not continue in the peace corps today. >> reporter: it's striking, these women say they still believe in the peace corps but they want congress to step in for better prot

fact, cbs news has learned that just four days ago, a peace corps volunteer reported a rape in west africa. katie. >> couric: jan crawford, jan, thank you. in indiana today, a federal judge refused to block a tough new antiabortion law. the law makes the statement the first in the nationwide cut off medicaid funding to planned parenthood, which provides abortions. nancy cordes reports, this is just the latest in a string of victories around the country for opponents of abortion rights. >> reporter: indiana's tough new law is yet another victory for antiabortion rights groups. take nebraska which set a new precedent last october, banning abortions after 20 weeks, earlier than any other state. idaho, oklahoma, and kansas quickly followed suit. >> these bills establish that kansas, in the heart of america, is a culture of life state and we're not going back. >> reporter: missouri's law, signed last august, requires doctors to warn women who want abortions that it might cause pain to the fetus. >> arizona's republican governor jan brewer has signed ten abortion bills, including one mandating t

the woman is a 32-year-old widow from west africa. today she gave a grand jury graphic details about the alleged assault. meanwhile police have collected d.n.a. samples from both the accused dominique strauses-kahn and from the carpet of the hotel room. they are pushing for his resignation. >> of course i can't comment on the case but he is obviously not in a position to do that. >> he has the personality and credibility to forge agreements, to persuade people to do some things they won't naturally be inclined to do. >> there was nothing about any aspect of this encounter remotely consensual. >> strauss-kahn made a second attempt for bail today saying he would surrender his passport and wear an ankle bracelet. a decision on that request is expected tomorrow. >>> well, a woman in vallejo is pleading for the safe return of her missing son. andrea johnson says her son james has not been seen since last saturday when he left to go to work. james johnson has a condition that requires him to take medication three times a day. and he has bee

behind closed doors, the 32- year-old widow from guinea, west africa, gave a grand jury graphic details of the alleged sexual assault by i.m.f. chief dominique strauss-kahn. >> her case is credible based upon her testimony alone. but there is other evidence. i'm not at liberty to discuss it. but let's just say that there is sufficient evidence in this case for the district attorney to seek an indictment. >> reporter: police reportedly have d.n.a. samples cut from a hotel room carpet. d.s.k. voluntary submitted to a d.n.a. test sunday. his defense team is likely to argue the sex was consensual, a contention that outrages both her attorneys and friends. >> there was nothing about any aspect of this encounter remotely consensual. >> she's a family person. she is-- you know, she's a hardworking lady. that's what she was there for. she's there work, doing her job. >> reporter: until now, strauss- kahn has been respected for the way he did his job at the i.m.f. >> what is the i.m.f. doing? trying to provide advice on behalf of the entire international community. >> he's the type of guy who ha

now we're learning this morning that the woman named in the case is a 32-year-old woman from west africa. >>> arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords will undergo another surgery today. doctors will replace a piece of her skull with a plastic implant. giffords was shot in the head while attending a rally in arizona. now giffords husband, mark kelly, is commanding the shuttle endeavour's final mission. we are looking at live pictures this morning sent in from nasa thanks to nasa. endeavour just docked at the international space station for its 16 day mission. the hatch there is supposed to be opened within the next hour. now the crew's path on this mission -- there's a nice shot from outside there with a docking to the space station, the crew's task is to attach a giant magnet to the station that looks for antimatter and dark energy. >>> a deadly outbreak of a virus found in horses. now there's concern about it reaching the bay area. the steps local stables are taking now. >>> and the new surveillance video out of san francisco that's prompting another investigation into police misconduc

are true but that's still what everybody believes, whether you get diagnosed in san francisco or west africa or south africa. so i think the involvement and the stepping-up of community organizations is still really needed. it's really critical in changing attitudes and supporting people who are at risk for acquiring hiv and for those who are living with this disease. >> all right. i want to thank you so much, dr. hare and you also for being with us, deon, tonight. >> thank you, belva. >> belva: that is all the time that we have tonight. visit kqed.org/thisweek. our newsletter and our podcast. and to share your thoughts about the program. we wish you a peaceful memorial day weekend. we'll be off next week for the holiday. i'm belva davis. good night.

> there are many african players in the world's top leagues now, but the vast majority are from west africa. could these boys be a new generation of east african stars? this hour from the football association has been out there many times. >> it was nonexistent. >> when i talk to the president of rwanda and affairs, he told me it stalled around 1994. as they had their first meeting to reconstitute the rwanda fair, there was no electricity, and they use headlights from their cars to hold the meeting. it is one of the most important things as a culture. after genocide, was how big a sports back up and running. >> they're headed to play offense a match against a u.s. team. the boys brought up in the english premier league, this is living the dream. >> rwanda is back, and here in the u.k., this is front-page news. -- for rwandans back home and here in the u.k., this is front- page news. >> everyone is here because they love football passionately. they are young. they are having fun. cannot really go wrong, can they? >> i spoke with the rwanda high commissioner with the u.k. and asked him what t

a lawyer for the hotel maid said his client is a 32 or year-old woman from new guinea, west africa. the woman accuses strauss, of sexually assaulting her when she entered what she thought was an empty penthouse suite in a luxury new york city hotel. >>anchor: the dow jones industrial average is rebounding slightly, down 60 points yesterday, at 21 right now with the better than expected earnings from target and delta. >>anchor: 70 2:00 a.m., we're back in a couple of minutes. we're going to take a live look from our mt. tam cam. " you can see the clouds in the distance, it will debris is sticking around as we wait for the storm system to move out. a few showers happening earlier this morning. we have a program notes to tell you about. dr. phil is moving to the 4:00 p.m. time slot. that change begins may 30th, we will be right back. >>anchor: the sharks are looking to bounce back tonight from the opening game loss that they had in the western conference final. the canucks in the opener 2-3 in the sunday final. there trailing in the series for the first time this postseason. they have

. >> i went to west africa. >> where were you in west africa? >> cameron, somalia, rwanda, burundi.here was a lot going on. it was a smaller theater. once the wall fell in east germany, all the money went north. there was less resources to go around. >> thank you for your great service. >> she was chairman of the school board and we want to get around this thing in franklin. >> this is better than i found it. >> that's all you can say in life. thank you for your good service. thank you, it is an honor to be with you. thank you for your great service. >> this is an air force academy graduate. >> you have all the branches represented here. >> it was nice. >> what year at the air force academy? .> i flew for 12 years an >> what did you fly? c-141? what was it called? it was the star left thelifter? i was a passenger a couple of times. you had the cockpit and a couple of bombs behind the cockpit. i occupy one or two of those banks. bunks. they face those out in favor of the c-17, pretty much. thank you for your service. how are you? good to be you. >> he is a board member and doing god'

. >> and she comes from west africa, correct, and she has a good employment record, correct?exactly, exactly. >> sonny, yesterday the defense seemed to suggest that the assault maybe never happened, he had an alibi. in court they imply that the sex did occur but that it was consensual. what do you make of that morphing of the defense strategy? >> this is a very fluid situation. in a case like this, anderson, where only two people were in the room, there are no other witnesses, the only two defenses is one, it's consensual, or two there's an alibi and it never happened. so it's not unusual for the defense strategy to be evolving and changing. >> deb, do we know anything about forensic evidence? in a case where there's just two people, that would believe important. do we know if there is forensic evidence? >> there is forensic evidence. one prosecutor said who's interesting is while the presence of semen, it doesn't show that there was a forced encounter of any kind. they will be presented to a grand jury. we're being told that the grand jury is going to be listening to this ca

france wants to have as much control as they can in west africa, obviously. they somehow conned the united nations into it. and of course our state department went along with it. well, what's happening right now is so inhumane, it just -- it's impossible for me. i wish i had the pictures that i showed before. the beautiful first lady

addition the insurgency in somalia and algeria has been rekindled and the insurgents spreading into west africa. similar insurgencies of varying but building vitality are underway in yemen, southern thailand, and the north caucuses. the major cities of hindu india have been attacked by islamist fighters and the islamist movement in western europe is growing and in britain, has driven the traditionally stoic security services to the point of public despair. as for the united states, bin laden long ago delineated al-qaeda's war aims for defeating america in three concise phrases. first, to take advantage of economic situations internationally to help bleed america to bankruptcy, second, to spread out u.s. and intelligence sources and flexibilities and third to strip away america's allies and to disrupt domestic political unity in america as much as possible. i will leave it to the audience to decide, using these three war aims, as a metric whether there's any reason for bin laden and al-qaeda to be discouraged about the progress they have made in the war they began in 1996. now, let me move to di

her lawyers say she's a 32-year- old woman from west africa. >>> 5:50 is the time. right now back to sal to check in on traffic at this hour. sal. >>> all right. right now traffic is doing okay on highway 4 westbound coming up to the grade. you can see bart is also moving through there. and bart's on time. moving along and taking a look at westbound bay bridge it's still light. and if you're driving on the nimitz freeway south so far not a big traffic jam at all. let's go to steve. >>> sal, thank you. let's go to live storm tracker 2. showing rain coming down out of the northwest. we're not done yet. we're not done yet. what about the next couple days? yes, we will see things calm down a little bit and warm up. but not that much warmer. looks like we'll still stay below average with temperatures back into the 70s. right now in the 40s and 50s. temperatures continue to be very cool because everything's coming down out of the northwest. this was a colder system. we're not done yet. there could still be some showers late morning or early afternoon but the trend is to s

her lawyers say she is a 32- year-old woman from west africa. >>> time now 6:55.ome items belonging to the unabomber will go on auction today. those items include a typewriter right there he reportedly typed much of his manifesto. also axes, various tools and several sunglasses believe it or not. he's serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. he set off 16 explosions that killed three people including two in sacramento. the proceeds from the auction will benefit the families of his victims. >>> well, there are now 12 people on board the international space station. shortly after 3:00 this morning the space shuttle endeavour docked at the station and two hours later shuttle commander mark kelly floated through the hatch to greet the residents. look at that. at the space station. there are now seven americans, three russians and two italians working side by side for the next 12 days. >>> way to go. well, the last three "american idol" contestants take the stage tonight after last week's shocking elimination. >> the person with the shot at the finale is

i'm currently serving in west africa in the peace corps and still love your cartoons.ion. the reason i read that is not to build myself up or the cartoons or whatever, the reason i read that is because these are the people that inspire me. they're the ones who make me ask and should make you want to ask, who am i? and what mark am i going to leave on this world? how will people know you were here? and not to be morbid on such a beautiful, happy day, but i like to think of it in terms of after we're all dead and gone, how will they know we were here and what will they think of us? did you leave the world a brilliant invention? a loving family? or a wilderness preserved? a great body of work or an outdoor education camp for kids? or a lifesaving medical breakthrough? or did you leave behind oil spills, mcmansions and mountaintop removing mining? but the choices aren't always that obvious between good and evil, or what i feel is good and evil, but now is the time to start making those choices and paying more attention to the direction you steer your life. you're in charge

in fact most of the hurricanes or tropical systems that did evolve either off the coast of west africat around the caribbean basin, most of those affected the yucatan peninsula, central america, also southern mexico and extreme southern texas. look at the major hurricanes that we saw in 2010. there were five. colorado state said we expected about four. a little bit off there. and for noaa, three to seven. a little bit more aggressive than colorado state. what we also get are the names for the hurricane season. i'm looking here and i don't see t.j. anywhere on this list. >> that's always good to stay off that list. >> exactly. >> those are names we have to look forward to. >> begins june 1st and goes for six months. >> all right. we've got enough problems. hopefully it will be quiet. karen maginnis, always good to have you with us. we'll check in with karen plenty throughout the morning. >>> i want you to stop and look at the tv screen. look at it for a second. that's not what i wanted to show you. hey, karen. there she goes. that's what i want to show you. you can't make this out that

. >> many sailing expeditions down africa's west coast. >> reporter: history and sciences are taught in english to kids as young as 1, and they are sucking up like a sponge. >> where's your nose? >> nose. >> how many noses do we have? >> reporter: hello. good morning. do you like speaking english? >> yes. >> reporter: yes? and why do you like speaking english? >> it is easy. easier than japanese. >> reporter: it's easier than japanese? >> yes. >> the young children have a special aptitude for learning a foreign language. and this aptitude declines as they grow older. why should you waste this critical opportunity for learning a foreign language? >> reporter: the monthly tuition of $1,000 is not a deterrent to these eager parents. as long as their children get an edge. but there may be a downside to early foreign language education. this 10-year-old returned to japan after living in london for four years. his mother is concerned about her son's ability to express himself in japanese. she believes the lack of exposure to his mother tongue is affecting his linguistic development. >> jap

the 32-year-old widow from west africa gave graphic details of the alleged sexual assault. >> the allegation is that there is not just sexual abuse but physical abuse. any kind of trace evidence that shows an association between the maid and the imf chief is going to be very important evidence. >> reporter: and defense attorneys are set to argue, a key argue in this case for them will be that if any sex did occur, it was consensual. >> michelle miller, thank you. >>> the faa says a mistake by an air traffic controller allowed two jets to come within 300 feet of each other only minutes after vice president joe biden's plan landed on monday. it happened at chicago's o'hare. an express flight was cleared for takeoff as a sky west flight was coming in for landing. the controller who ordered the takeoff says oh [ expletive ]. they asked what the expletive was at. the controller said, sorry. >>> congresswoman, gabrielle giffords, is recovering after surgeons placed a plastic implant on her skull. her husband, mark kelly, who is currently commanding the shuttle "endeavour" provided an update on his

that there's a massive amount of land a lot of places on this earth and a great part of it is in west africa, south africa, parts of east africa where if people would establish law, guaranteeing property rights, title to land, there wouldn't be governmental disincentives to growing food. there wouldn't be a cheap food policy. there would be a massive production of food stuff in this world. and in the united states we're going to continue to produce more. there's going to be four million more acres of corn brown this year than last -- grown this year than last year and there's even some odd things being done because the price of corn is $7. from "the des moines register," this headline from a northern small community of iowa, the whiten-moore golf club, the golf course is going to be plowed up and planted with corn. so there's some extreme measures being taken here to respond to the demand for food or fiber or fuel. and just remember agriculture in america has -- has the capability and the demonstrated capability to produce all. we don't grow food -- or we don't grow crops just for food. we'v

example is a couple of weeks before the main g-8 summit, they were looking at a drug- trafficking in west africamost experts do not really think that the g-8 is the right forum to deal with that sort of thing. there are various u.n. agencies that would be better placed to deal with something like that. host: president obama spoke about where the u.s. and the u.k. stand as the emerging political powers. take a look. >> international order has already been reshaped for a new century. countries like china, india, and brazil are growing by leaps and bounds. we should welcome this development. it has lifted hundreds of millions from poverty around the world and created a new market and opportunities for all nations. as this rapid change is taking place, it has become fashionable in some quarters to question whether the rise of these nations will accompany the decline of american and european influence around the world. perhaps the argument goes, these nations represented the future. it is time for our leadership to be gone. that argument is wrong. the time for our leadership is now. host: president o

the islamist insurgents seized have been read, with the islamic mujahideen spreading to west africa. similar insurgencies are under their weight in yemen, southern thailand, in the north caucasus. the islamic movement in western europe is growing. in britain, the traditional stilt security services are at the point of public despair. as for the united states, bin laden long ago delineated his intentions towards america. the purse is to take advantage of economic situations militarily and lead america into bankruptcy. the second is to spread out u.s. military and intelligence forces to sap their flexibility and exhaust their reserves. to disrupt america's allies and disrupt the unity of america as much as possible. i will leave it to america to decide whether there is any reason for al qaeda or bin laden to be discouraged about the progress the -- they made in the war that began in 1996. the best foreign policy advice for the obama administration, for any u.s. administration, has been heard by anybody that has flown on an airline. during the preflight safety briefing, each passenger i

floor of the senate i've talked about the problems that are taking place in a country in africa, west africa called cote d'ivoire. the fact we have a president named laurent bag pwoerbgs his wife simone. they were ruling, an election came a along, stolen from him by a man named alassane quattara. what i've done is tried to show -- i explained well before this all happened, before we got involved that france and the united nations and now our state department joining in with them, this is a picture in today's paper. this is one of quattara's death squads killing people in abidjan, which is the capital. we showed this picture and shows this is happening today. the reprisal attacks are being committed by forces loyal to the quattara of the cote d'ivoire. it also said the french and the u.n. along with quattara championed by the united nations during the deadly post election conflict has failed to condemn atrocities against real or perceived borders of out of ousd president gbagbo. there are the death squads of quattara. they are in there killing people. we don't know how many people they have m

it begins with testimony of a volunteer murdered in west africa. >> my name is lois puzey and i'm here in the nerve my daughter kate who was murdered when serving with the peace corps. and to urge congress to enact legislation so other families won't go for a similar tragedy. kate was a deeply compassionate, talented, upbeat person with a gift for understanding of this. she was twice elected student body president and graduated at the top of her class. she joined the peace corps serving in a royal village. she loved her time, build close ties to her village and was considered a model of volunteer. how would a model volunteered become a victim of murder? the man accused of killing her, below quote -- kate was told mr. bothell pressured students for sex and her concern escalated. in 2009 students and teachers, to actually rape two citizens and begged her to help. kate tried to do the right thing. since her village had no internet service and was 12 hours from the country off as she traveled to the nearest work station where she e-mail the peace corps country director asking for the syste

>> what we can tell you is that she's from guinea in west africa. she's been working at this hotel on the books for about two and a half books. her lawyer, this private lawyer, describes her as dignified, intelligent, not a woman that has an agenda. we ask if the housekeeper knew strauss-kahn and she said no. this is really turned her life upside down. afraid for her future. >> paul cowen, he said the private lawyer kind of made the mucking up of the whole thing because he's not representing her in this matter which is what we're talking about. what does the grand jury have to decide? what are the legal proceedings right now? >> it's a good point, which is that prosecutors, they have this case. they have this case. this private attorney who says he's stepping in to represent her interests, he's sort of looking forward to what may come afterwards. strauss-kahn, very well positioned. the grand jury has until friday on whether to vote to indict. the judge setting a later date. >> so i understand like people saying if she's going to go after a civil jud

religious woman, devout woman, and she has a teenage daughter and from a french speaking part of west africa. >> wow. you know there have been others asking about that flight risk, the questions about that flight risk, people saying look what happened with roman polanski. france and the u.s. don't have extradition agreements. >> not when it comes to sex crimes. again, this is a man who has so many resources behind him, he has millions of dollars and so he could have technically if he has nothing to keep him in france now, it seems his reputation is certainly not intact he could have gone anywhere and disappeared. >> there are those in france who see that perp walk, new york police department, nypd tradition and they're outraged by that. in france you are presumed innocent until proven guilty as the case here, but they say you would not see something like that of a public figure in france until convicted of a crime. they say the united states is cruelty. >> not even politicians. isn't it a crime to publish photos of people in handcuffs if they have not been -- >> in certain countries. i spoke

against peace corps volunteers with remarks from the mother of a volunteer who was murdered in west africa. a portion of this testimony from a house foreign affairs committee hearing is an hour and 45 minutes. >> the committee will come to order. after recognizing ourselves for our opening statement, all recognize each member of the committee for one minute for their opening remarks. we will then hear from our witnesses, and as to summarize your prepared statements in five minutes each, before we move to the question and answers with members under the 5 minute rule. without objection, the prepared statements for will be made part of the record, and members may have five days to insert statements and questions for the record, subject to the limitations and the rules. we apologize, as it looks like it is a sparsely-attended a hearing. we have the gop conference going on, the democratic caucus and about five different committees have been briefings and hearings as well. so, it will slowly build up. the chair now recognizes herself for seven minutes. march 1, 2011, march the 50th anniversary o

of views to change your state department and china's foreign ministry, the situation in north africa and west asian countries but we've said on many occasions that it is not possible for things like... for things in west asia and north african countries to take place in china. >> rose: it's interesting to be sitting here with secretary geithner because he understands mandarin. human rights will come up in this conversation. >> of course. as always. again, we have to recognize we come from different political transitions, traditions, at different political systems and as you heard the vice president and secretary of state say today and you heard the presidency in the past, we convey our concerns on these issues as you would expect us to do. but our part of these discussions are about the broader economic and financial challenges facing the global economy and we're doing a reasonable job of trying to make sure we find the right balance between china's interests and our interests. it's not perfect. we have our moments of tension. try to calm the tension where we can so we can make more progress

exchanged opinions it's no secret of course that russia and the west have very different approaches to how to deal with the situation in north africa and it certainly seems though some optimistic small steps between a full on the issues of a. douglas all the friends of a sort of the tree has kicked off with some fringe meetings of what's been said and what lies ahead for the leaders. well one of the statements that most stood out to me was about the european economy and about the euro it came from herman van rompuy who is of course the president of the european council and it's probably the strongest statement we've heard about to go in a long time i just want to quote him saying we will not let the euro fail we'll be trying to speak to analysts about what exactly that means throughout the day but it could be assumed that if back kind of strong statement can be made that it is very possible that the euro could fail and therefore european officials like we've been hearing throughout the day are going to do their very best to make sure that doesn't happen and of course again the situation in libya that is going to be one of the top p

positions on the council now several polls of the world from asia to africa and latin america have no voice whatsoever they already accuse the west of being overrepresented on the organization and even a u members themselves are up in arms france and britain say it will dilute their sovereignty one british m.p. says he will fight the decision here same session europol europol of agree to open an office in the libyan rebel stronghold of being goals he which would quote facilitate assistance to the rebels continue to keep the asians the european union is going for beyond its powers in interfering in the. work of other countries and far beyond its remit accorded to it by the un. don't push our europe correspondent there let's discuss these latest developments with peter clippings head of the brussels office of the europe think tank mr kept good evening from moscow at the moment there are only two e.u. members france and the u.k. which are permanent represented on the security council so this person doesn't this proposal makes sense than really so the rest of the union can have their say as well speak as one unified voice. you know i

the council now several large poles of the world from asia to africa and latin america have no voice whatsoever they already accuse the west of being overrepresented on the organization and even e.u. members themselves are up in arms france and britain say it will dilute their sovereignty one british m.p. says he will fight the decision here and same station your poll agreed to open an office in the libyan rebel stronghold of being goals the which would quote facilitate assistance to the rebels prompting i can. see the european union is going for beyond its powers in interfering in the work of other countries and far beyond its remit accorded to it by the un. so you are bush aware the wants to steal power not only from foreign countries but from its own members as well critics say next hour indeed we speak to a euro skeptic m.e.p. who claims the union is trying to take over control of financial policy from individual governments. for the first group but if you go behind the one particular risk the point is that there are some hidden measures that might lead to further harmonized initial offer of fiscal policy and tax polic

on the council now several parts of the world from asia to africa and latin america have no voice whatsoever and they already accuse the west still for being overrepresented on the organization and even e.u. members themselves are up in arms france and britain say it will dilute their sovereignty one british m.p. says he will fight the decision here same session europol your apology agreed to open an office in the libyan rebel stronghold of being goals the which would quote facilitate assistance to the rebels from communications the european union is going for beyond its powers in interfering in the work of other countries and far beyond its remit accorded to it by the un all right daniel made that day from brussels for us r.t. daniel that. well let's discuss these latest developments with european parliament member talked of charles tunick he's also a foreign affairs spokesman for the european conservatives and reform with screw tops tunick reddy thanks for being with us here on r.t. . only tear understand the e.u. represented permanently in the security council makes sense doesn't it they rule to be represented. no i mean

the council now several large parts of the world from asia to africa and latin america have no voice whatsoever and they already accuse the west of being overrepresented on vimeo organization and even e.u. members themselves are up in arms france and britain say it will dilute their sovereignty one british m.p. says he will fight the decision here same session europol you're a parliament agreed to open an office in the libyan rebel stronghold of being causey which would quote facilitate assistance to the rebels fronting ickes nations the european union is going for beyond its powers in interfering in the work of other countries and far beyond its remit accorded to it by the un here declared head of the brussels office of the open europe think tank told me he doesn't deserve a seat since he sees it on the un security council. this is just sort of a resolution by the european parliament without any direct effect it just shows how basically out of touch many people in the european parliament or with the real world it's not a good idea for the e.u. to be in the security council the un security council is meant to contain only thos