they were thought to be magicians. 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

linking east asia, south asia, east africa, and actually west africa as well. africa has lots of natural resources, it's got great agricultural potential, it's got a lot of poverty; it needs to start speeding up which it's doing, but there's a lot of fragility. one should understand also africa will definitely play a larger role in the world simply by the fact of demography; the share of africa in the world's total population and in the world's economy will grow and asia's first to recognise that in a serious way because there's lots of asian investment going into africa right now. that's what's giving africa a lift; i think africa could make a takeoff out ofpoverty. but when you talk about fragility of the natural environment you've got to rank africa wayup there; heat stress, drought vulnerability, loss of vital habitat. africa faces all of those challenges. >>and lastly, since we're in indonesia. you've written a paper; 'the curse of natural resources'. here we are in indonesia; a country full of natural resources. i think you're fairly bullish on indonesia,

>> reporter: in court prosecutors had admitted strauss-kahn's accuser a 32-year-old woman from west africa has made numerous, conflicts and false statements. starting with the claim she was gang raped and fleeing a brutal government when she applied for asylum in the u.s. in 2004. in a letter prosecutors wrote she stated that she fabricated the statement. in may after the ald attack at this luxury hotel, the woman had said she ran to the hallway and reported the crime to a supervisor. but prosecutors say she later admitted she proceeded to clean a nearby room and then returned to suite 2806, strauss-kahn's room and began to clean before she reported the incident to a supervisor. >> after the indictment against the defendant was filed, we continued as an office to investigate the case rigorously as we do and are onbly gaited to do. that investigation raised concerns about the complaining witness's credibility. >> reporter: sources close to the investigation say the woman called a suspected drug dealer after the incident to discuss how to profit from it. her attorney pleaded her case before

an immigrant from guinea in west africa. a 32-year-old widow and mother of a teenage daughter, who was working as a maid at the sofitel hotel. for a woman who cannot read or write it was, as she says, the best job she's ever had. >> i loved the job. i know that if i work there e can -- i can help myself and my daughter. we're going to have a good life with that job. i was very happy to have the job. >> reporter: that is, until may 14th. diallo says it was a typical afternoon. until she entered the $3,000-a-night suite where strauss-kahn was staying. >> so you went into 2806 not thinking anybody was there because of what the room service person told you. >> yeah, he told me nobody there. and i say, "housekeeping, hello," because the room is very big. i have to say it loud. i said like three times, "housekeeping, hello, is anyone in," three times, nobody say anything. >> reporter: expecting an empty room, diallo was shocked when she says strauss-kahn suddenly appeared, naked. >> i saw a naked man come to me. he come naked, i w

. >> reporter: in court, prosecutors had admitted strauss-kahn's accuser a 32-year-old from west africa has made numerous conflicting and false statements, starting with a claim she was gang raped and fleeing a brutal government when she applied for asylum in the u.s. in 2004. in a letter, prosecutors wrote, she stated that she fabricated the statement. and in may, after the alleged attack at this luxury hotel, the woman had said she ran into the hallway and reported the crime to a supervisor. but prosecutors say she later admitted she proceeded to clean a nearby room and then returned to suite 2806, strauss-kahn's room and began to clean, before she reported the incident to a supervisor. >> after the indictment against the defendant was filed, we continued as an office to investigate the case rigorously as we do, and are obligated to do. that investigation raised concerns about the complaining witness's credibility. >> reporter: sources close to the investigation say the woman called a suspected drug dealer after the incident to discuss how to profit from it. her attorney pleaded her c

. >> we have a story today from fred de sam lazaro about a woman in senegal, in west africa, a former peace corps volunteer, who is helping senegalese women abandon the painful, deeply traditional custom of female circumcision. the world health organization says three million girls a year are cut in this way, but molly melching and other aid workers have discovered how to persuade whole communities to give up their ancient practice. >> in recent years, thousands of rural communities in senegal have come to extraordinary public rallies. they call them declaratio. they're e d claired an end to a deeply rooted practice rarely discussed in public and commonly called female circumcision. >> never in my wildest dreams could i have imagined that i would be sitting here years later, 13 years later, saying that 4,792 communities in senegal had abandoned. in the beginning it was just unthought of, unbelievable, because it was so taboo. >> molly melching found a group called tostan, which means "breakthrough" in the local wolof language, in the early '90s. she had modest goals: to educate people

reporter: in court prosecutors admitted strauss-kahn's accuser, a 32-year-old woman from guinea, west africa, made numerous conflicting and false statements starting with a claim she was gang raped and fleeing a brutal government when she applied for asylum in the u.s. in 2004. in a letter prosecutors wrote, she stated she fabricated the statement. and in may, after the alleged attack at this luxury hotel, the woman had said she ran to the hallway and reported the crime to a supervisor. prosecutors say she later admitted she proceeded to clean a nearby room then returned to suite 2806, strauss-kahn's room and began to clean before she reported the incident to her supervisor. sources close to the investigation say the woman called a suspected drug dealer after the incident to discuss how to profit from it. her attorney pleaded her case before a crush of international media. >> it is a fact that the victim here made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean she's not a rape victim. >> reporter: he claims she was bruised, her stockings torn and there's forensic evidence of a sexual attack. >> prosec

a 32-year-old immigrant from guinea, west africa. in her first television interview, she painstakingly recounts the day she says she was sexually assaulted by dominique strauss-kahn -- the powerful man who, at the time, was the head of the international monetary fund. >> he comes to me, and grab my breasts. "no! you don't have to be sorry." i said, "stop! stop, i don't want to lose my job." >> reporter: nafi diallo, a hotel maid at the sofitel in new york city, stands by her story. that on a saturday in may, she had just entered what she thought was an empty room in the four-star hotel when a naked dominique strauss-kahn emerged from the bedroom and brutally assaulted her. >> he pushed me like this to the floor. i cannot move. i cannot move. i tried. >> reporter: when did you realize that he was one of the most powerful men in the world? >> i was watching in the news and then they say he is going to be the next president of france, then i say, "oh, my god." and i was crying. i say, "they are going to kill me. i'm going to die." >> re

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blindness, these elderly or middle-aged people who have been blind, and it left me with a bad taste for west africathis time, you go around, you just don't see that nearly to the same degree, because river blindness has been almost conquered. there's so many other diseases like that. you get a sense of, if you have a long enough time frame of dramatic change. >>> we're going to talk more about africa when we come back, and specifically the possibility of a war of huge international crisis with south sudan. will it happen? we'll come back. [ doug ] i got to figure this out. ♪ [ dr. ling ] i want to spend more time with my patients. [ jim ] i need to build a new app for the sales team in beijing. [ mrs. davis ] i need to make science as exciting as a video game. ♪ [ jim ] i need to push out a software upgrade. [ dr. ling ] review ms. cooper's history. [ doug ] i need to cut i.t. costs. [ mrs. davis ] i need to find a way to break through. [ jim ] i need to see my family while they're still awake. [ dr. ling ] see if the blood work is ready. [ doug ] i need to think about something else when i run. ♪

apparently lied when seeking asylum to come to this country from ginny in west africa. weeks ago, they were certain they had this guy, strauss-kahn, they were very confident about their case. now, they didn't object to the dropping of bail and real grave doubts about whether they will push forward? >> what's next? >> the next court date is july 18th. but strauss-kahn's attorneys are really pushing to try and have the charges dismissed well before that. a lot of this is going to be played out in the court of public opinion and the, for her part, the accuser says her attorney says that she is going to come forward now and make her case publicly. plea for justice. she's been in hiding for the past six weeks since this happened, but apparently, her attorney feels that's her best option is to present herself because her credibility is in tatters given these inconsistencies and fabrications she has made over the years. >> thanks so much, ron. >>> michele bachmann's busy in the hawk eye state this weekend. she spoke to voters in iowa city this morning kicking off a three-day b

he moved from beginy in west africa to new york city when he was 10.you came to the u.s.? >> better education. my mother thought that i'd have a better opportunity to just succeed in life. >> reporter: he had a hard time fitting in at school. he didn't speak english, kept to himself, and eventually started hanging with the wrong crowd. but then he found public color. >> i basically came here every day -- >> reporter: the nonprofit puts paintbrushes in the hands of stops brighten up schools, neighborhoods, and low-income areas across new york city. >> color has huge power. >> reporter: ruth andy shoeman founded color 15 years ago with the idea that color can positively affect attitudes and behaviors. >> the colors that we choose, they're bright. they brighten up a person's mood. >> everything -- like your whole perception of the place changes. >> when i finish a project, i look and say, wow, i really helped the community. >> i think society is letting kids get away with not caring. these kids, they'll become what we help them become. >> reporter: public

. >> she's from guinea in west africa and came to the u.s. in 2003 and applied for asylum.nager daughter and she's speaking out at a crucial time as prosecutors are struggling with the case. >> what do you want? >> i want justice. i want him to go to jail. i want him to know you cannot use your power when you do something like this. >> strauss-kahn's lawyer denied anything and said anything that happened was consensual. they say the witness lied on her asylum application. they say her lawyer and prosecutors will meet on wednesday. we have our mid east editor that interviewed her for three hours for the magazine's cover story. i talked with him and scene your legal analyst jeffrey toobin. chris, you interviewed here. was she believable when you talked with her? >> yeah. i thought she was very believable when she was talking about the incident itself, the alleged attempted rape and sexual assault. not only because she told that story consistently many, many times but also, because we know that almost all of the physical evidence or all of it supports her case. and, also, beca

>> it's juice from west africa.nd it's like hibiscus, hibiscus juice, slightly sweet, but not too sweet. >> reporter: despite the heat, public health officials say the mall will be ready. >> keep in mind that heat stress can kill. we've been fortunate on the mall to keep everybody safe. we have had incidents of heat stress. and we've got them taken care of. and we want to keep it that way. >> reporter: again, for the fireworks on monday night, and here on the national mall, no alcohol. and they'd also like to suggest no wind like this. if you're going to bring things to eat and create trash, maybe you should try picking up and taking it with you, or at least to a trash receptacle after the fireworks are over. back to you you guys. >> i love that. pack out your trash. and we're still reeling from the fact that the guy didn't know what country we fought our independence -- fought the gain our independence. we are stunned. >> the maris poll, 25% did not know. >> we're blown away. >> i hate to tell this, 40% didn't know

>> this is juice from west africa.s hibiscus juice, slightly sweet, but not too sweet. >> reporter: despite the heat, public health officials say the mall will be ready. >> keep in mind that heat stress can kill. we've been fortunate on the mall to keep everybody safe. we have had incidents of heat stress, and we've got them taken care of. and we want to keep it that way. >> reporter: again, the folk life festival is this holiday weekend, and then next weekend the big fireworks a about 9:20 monday night. and as usual, people are saying don't drive. all the streets there won't be any parking here. they're asking you to take metro or bike or walk for the fourth of july. tom sherwood on the national mall. back to you. >> can't wait to see you without that tie. our website has a complete list of independence day events, including parades and where you can see fireworks. and you can check out which personal fireworks are legal where you live. it's all on our home page. that's nbc washington.com. >>> we have the latest now o

. >> she's from guinea in west africa and came to the u.s. in 2003 and applied for asylum. she's speaking out at a crucial time as prosecutors are struggling with the case. >> what do you want? >> i want justice. i want him to go to jail. i want him to know you cannot use your power when you do something like this. >> strauss-kahn's lawyer denied anything and said anything that happened was consensual. they say the witness lied on her asylum application. as well as about some details after the attack. they say her lawyer and prosecutors will meet on wednesday. we have our mid east editor that interviewed her for three hours for the magazine's cover story. i talked with him and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. chris, you interviewed here. was she believable when you talked with her? >> yeah. i thought she was very believable when she was talking about the incident itself, the alleged attempted rape and sexual assault. not only because she told that story consistently many, many times but also, because we know that almost all of the physical evidence or all of it supports

this woman in west africa was reporting on rebel soldiers.gang raped her. the men were actually shot and killed right in front of her. >> warner: in other cases you found just the threat of sexual attack was used. >> in fact, in a number of countries i've spoken to women who say we're calling in to report... in ivoryç coastç, fr instance, her boss was in a stadium during an uprising. as she was reporting to him, they were reporting back and forth, a man came over, picked up the phone and told her she would be raped if she didn't get off the phone. the man continued to call her for ten days after that. i spoke to a person in egypt whose father received calls for two weeks saying she would be be raped if she kept blogging. >> warner: you found otherçç risky situations, dangerous ones, crowds or captivity. >> um-hum. when people talk about crowds, i mean, i think people think of groping, maybe it's just a little touching or grabbing. but the journalists i spoke to mostly foreign correspondents in this case, told me about having their crotchs

i'm from west africa, liberia, and i'm a middle school math teacher and i say that to say that. i've been in this country for about 20, 25 years. i went to school in baton rouge at an all-black experience and i'm very proud of experience and i did not read alex haley's account by malcolm x and been osmosis, but i would like to pose two points. one is i kind of quietly questioned the relevance of black nationalism after it was practiced in the 1960s, you know, is it still relevant to have all these attributes, you know, to be put out there? and if you've read manning's book, as a black african, the one universal truth that i can take from that book because, you know, i think you have a story that is not just, you know, an african-american story. so, you know, that universal truth. [inaudible] >> yeah. let's take this one first. >> okay. >> second question. >> all right. no. it's totally irrelevant. [laughter] >> no. here's the deal. right? they embrace at its best, at its best for me, what black nationalism is about is finding best practices, best cultural practices that we can u

some of those situations in west africa are very important. what i find interesting is that i find that even for example where the national defense university is or others, these topics are very interesting to them. what we can do on the development side, reflects a problem that used to route development, is that sometimes people operate in rather toddled categories. -- tunnelled. they still did not interconnect effectively. people do humanitarian and pullout. we need to figure out working with a fluke -- world food program how some of their sourcing issues and help was on the development side, even as they buy humanitarian goods. another area is nutrition and agriculture. you talk about agriculture, you know that you nutrition people in agriculture people are never the twain shall meet. a lot the effort is to try to interconnect the issues without getting bogged down in people's specialties. when i was in sudan, there is a lot of the use of oil man and others to employ people. it is also regarded as a form of corruption. it's interesting when

. >> this ever scorpion from west africa. emperor because they're docile. >> this emperor scorpion is a popular pet. >> this is a one a month old baby cordtoward thi tortoise. >> and a little bit of a time. three years, for years and he gets to this side is. three years, for years, >> what is great about a tortoise is that they aren't vegetarian. /+ >> and they are vegetarian. >> they are great it is great that they are vegetarian-----i recently went to the galapagos and remember seeing them. >> let us take a look at what we can see. take him up under the pelvis. and from behind. with one hand under his chest just like this. the >> this is a black throated from east africa. his name is hello. >> alamo eats rodents? >> he eats large rodents. his name is e faug -----his name is elmo and we sell them and people adopt them and we are going to try to get this guy,,,,just go for it? this is morr boots. a boa constrictor - but he will not likely strangle you. >> what are the price range for these reptiles. >> $90 for a baby boy cons

we go back and forth to west africa, as far as studying jazz and all music and incorporate it into our music. >> reporter: are you walking around? >> going to be in one spot. the culture stage at 1:20. >> reporter: how long is your set? >> our set is 25 minutes. >> reporter: you can almost walk around and do your business wherever you need to be. >> we are also supposed to be involved in the parade walking with the mayor and i believe the governor as well. >> reporter: gentlemen, take me out. it starts today at noon. tomorrow at noon, ends at 10:00 tonight, 9:00 tomorrow night, big acts on stage and best of all, for some people, it is free. >>> back to you guys. >> mike, you got to get some background singers like shaq, where the girls go mike. mike. mike. >> i'm a little nervous about that now that you mentioned it. don't give him too many ideas, he'll do it. >>> reporting live from the african-american festival. >>> in the studios, wjz has been taken over by animals. real and not so real this morning. >> look at that. amy is here to talk about moo at the zoo. you know what? >> wow. >

that she lied when she initially claimed that she had been gang raped by soldiers in her native west africathat there were lies regarding her application for asylum to live here in the united states that she didn't tell the truth about a phone call with a prison inmate who was convicted of drug trafficking or drug dealing, where she asked him for vice on whether she should go after dominique strauss-kahn. and she said she originally stayed in that hall way after the alleged attack, sexual attack. then she reversed herself and said she actually went on, or maybe they had evidence to clean another room and then going back in to call her hotel supervisor. there are several other reversals. eshe said it was because of year. >> describe the reaction inside the courthouse and outside. >> i think it's my fourth time here, the fourth hearing. you may remember last time, there was an organized demonstration of hotel maids, chamber maids here, yelling vocifero vociferously, shame on you as dominique strauss kahn entered. they were noticeably not here today. they're going to insist they had to go with

one of the most powerful men in france, but she says the attack was real and she is from guinea, west africat know him and thought his room was empty when she went into clean and told abc's robin roberts, he surprised her naked an pounced. >> i was like, i'm so sorry and i turn my head and, he come to me and grabbed my breast, no, you don't have to be sorry and i said, i don't want to look... and, yeah, stop, stop this, stop this, but he keep pushing me and pushing me, to the hallway, back to the hallway, keep pushing me and i was afraid. and i was so scared. >> reporter: she said she was forced to perform oral sex and he left quickly after and she was shaken and scared and cleaning the room, before telling supervisors and police she had been attacked and a "newsweek" journalist who spoke with her said she was vague on elements of her past but convincing on describing the assault. alisyn: what are dsk's lawyers saying about her story now. >> reporter: the defense attorneys released a statement blasting her and her lawyer, suggesting, quote, she is a first accuser in hirstory to hae a media c

and the attention in the spot light is shifted to his accuser, the 32-year-old housekeeper from west africa shes was raped and attacked in a hotel room. a harsh spotlight, every day new revelati revelations, negative revelations about her, her past and how she's changed her story, now thinking it's going to be very, very difficult for prosecutors to continue with this case. seems unlikely strauss-kahn will accept any clee deal or admit deal. chris? >> thanks, ron allen. >>> a scene right out of a movie. the officer was wearing a protective suit trying to open the passenger door of a parked car and you saw the bomb explode. closed circuit tv shows the bomb knocking the officer to the ground. then remarkably, he gets up and walks away, unhurt. the bombing was one of three attacks by suspected muslim militants on government officers in southern thailand on friday. >>> finally a first-time winner crowned champion at wimbledon. pes traa kvitova won her first grand slam beating maria sharapo sharapova. also kvitovas first major finals. coming up, the men's showdown. promising to about great one b

. >> reporter: today nafissatou diallo, a 32-year-old hotel maid and immigrant from guinea, west africa, is a very public figuring. she said dominique strauss-kahn, one of the most powerful men in the worm, former head of the international monetary fund sexually assaulted her. did you ever agree to haha sex with this man? >> no. never ever. i never see him before. i see him as a naked man. i see him attacking me like that. >> reporter: investigators initially believed her story. strauss-kahn was arrested. >> under american law these were extremely serious charges. based on the grand jury's determination that the evidence supports the commission of nonconsensual, forced sexual acts. >> reporter: but this morning there are continuing questions about diallo's now-public account that strays from her initial report. according to "the new york times" she told her rape counselor that he was violent during the attack but in her description now she says he was much more vocal. >> i was like, stop, stop, don't do this. when i say i don't want to lose my job, he says, no, you're not going to lose

lying to the grand jury and lying on application for as asylum on a previous rape in new guinea, west africa her credibility is no good. one of the reasons defense attorney ben bronfman said what we're dismissing eventual dismissal of all charges but not quite the end. >> we believed from the beginning that this case was not what it appeared to be and we are absolutely convinced that while today is a first giant step in the right direction, the next step will lead to a complete dismissal of the charges. >> reporter: the district attorney's office, in fact it was cy vans, district attorney, lead prosecutor here in manhattan on friday said no charges dismissed yet we still investigate this case as if a crime had been committed of the credibility of the key witness the accuser undermined by the fact she admits she lied to the grand jury. we're due back in court on july 1th. they're negotiating as we speak, jon. back to you. jon: i was on a grand jury once. you don't want to lie to a grand jury. that's for sure. adam shapiro thank you. patti ann: america's jobless rate is still painfully high. w

[applause] >> good evening, i'm from west africa liberia, and i'm a middle school math teacher, and isay that -- i've been in this country for 25 years, went to school in baton rouge, university, a an all black school, very proud of that experience. i did not read manning's account of malcolm, but i think being around the people -- [laughter] you know, i know a lot about it, but i'd like to pose two points. one is i kind of quietly questioned the relevance of black nationalism as it was practiced in the 60s. you know, is it still relevant to have all these attributes to be put out there, and if you've read mannings book of a black africa, that's the truth i can take from that book? you know, i think it has a story that's not just, you know, an after i can american story, what would be that truth that i can take from it? thank you. >> [inaudible] >> let's tackle this first though. >> okay. [laughter] >> no, black nationalism is totally relevant. [laughter] no, here's the deal -- >> in the interest of time. >> to be brief -- [laughter] at its best, to me what black national ism is about

beyond the left it's reaching the mainstream especially in the west in south africa and brazil and other countries and this is starting to look like south africa moment so they are really alarmed about this nonviolent peaceful type of resistance that they have not yet developed sufficient weapons to counter and that's a very strong comparison i bring in south africa into the picture here considering its history but your organization is campaigning for the economic cultural and academic boycott of israel how can you continue now that the new law makes your activities illegal. well if you're not sure that's not very accurate the law does not make our activities illegal just almost deliberately mises in a way that it allows institutions companies to do. other boycott activists who are supporting this as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look refugee rights continues palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle and with this global campaign of b.d.s. with the massive support w

i am from west africa, liberia and i am a middle school math teacher. i say that to say that i have been in this country for about 25 years. i went to school at baton rouge, southern university an all-black school, very proud of that experience and i did not read alex haley's account of malcolm x. i think just by osmosis and being around people -- i think i know a lot about it but i would like to pose to points. one is, i kind of widely question the relevance of black nationalism as to the 60s. is it still relevant to have all these attributes and to be put out there, and if you have read manning's book as a black african, what the universal truth that i can take from that book, because i think the story is not just an african-american story. so what would be the universal truth that i could take from it? thank you. [laughter] >> all right. it is totally irrelevant. [laughter] know, here is the deal. to be brief. at its best, at its best for me, what lack nationalism is about is finding best practices, best cultural practices that we can use to develop

. >> flying high over the atlantic ocean off the west coast of africa.conds away from this course correction burn as we watch over the shoulders of chris ferguson and doug hurley up on the flight deck of atlantis. you can see very clearly i can like jolt of those big orbiter maneuvering system engines. and courtesy of space station cameras, our first year of the shuttle atlantis. >> good burn, atlantis. >> copy. >> the sequential still video view of the international space station. >> atlantis, station on the big loop. we have you in site. >> excellent. we will be there soon. >> atlantis houston, you are go for the rpm. go to proceed inside 600 feet. >> houston station, atlantis, initiating rpm and three, two, one. mark. we copy. >> houston copy. step with that, commander chris ferguson now will begin the slow three-quarter of a degree per second rotational backflip. this again is about a nine minute maneuver. you will hear the photography call initiated when the orbiter is in the correct orientation of this procedure. the actual pitch maneuver will last

we are looking at other contributing countries from west africa to southern central, but again, we want to say that they are doing a tremendous job since the operation started the lost 200 troops and we are trying to do the best we can to provide the assistance and support that they need. as i said over the last four years, and this is for years we've given about $258 million compared to other operations. it's not a lot of money but we are trying to do the best we can to support the amazon as far as training, logistical support, and to give the capacity and the capability to protect their troops against the al-shabaab, the others are $85 million to the tfg to get them to and the capacity so that they can fight the war. ultimately the amazon troops can only do so much that this really has to be a fight at the war conducted and prosecuted by the somalis themselves and that's what i'm trying to do is give the support and the assistance >> on the piracy it is symptomatic of the instability within somalia. as the ambassador in djibouti we have the first cargo ship being hijacked and as if th

cut in his last six tournament he leads after the first day of the greenbrier classic in west virginia to south africa and has a one shot late after carving a six under par sixty four he hasn't been the same player since wrist surgery a couple of years ago i let down out of the blocks on thursday a group of five players are behind him including derek lamb lee who had a nice chippy and here. i. was at the r.h. open india seeing shaun allen's four major stars his eight under par sixty three gives him a two shot lead going into the second day last rawlins big guns british open champion down crockett six shots back and us open champion rory mcilroy seven off the pace of though he did produce the shot of the day yesterday saving on the fourteenth from the rough with a spectacular i ran the tree graeme mcdowell is nine shots back and public parenting ten of them in. the upcoming world today championships in paris is an important event paralympic hopefuls ahead of the london games and russia's bitter caldwell is hoping to accumulate enough points in order to travel next year but only cos would have caught up

africa. they're actually the founders of liberia on the west coast of africa, like sierra leone was founded by great britain in order to prev--provide a haven for former slaves that the british freed in--during the--the american revolution. the colonization society attracted a lot of attention as a possible solution to the problem of slavery in america, because the problem was twofold. it was not only the existence of this hideous and degrading institution, which was now being publicly exposed, but there was a problem of white america's disin--being disinclined to live in a biracial society. so the thought was, 'well, what if we repatriate free slaves, send them back to africa?' and indeed a couple of thousand do go back and form the nucleus of liberia. but it's--it's--it's a fantasy solution. the population of slavery is, you know, doubling every 20 years. c-span: some big names in history--henry clay and later on abraham lincoln--were for this idea? >> guest: yes, they were. it's... c-span: why do you think they were for it? >> guest: oh, clay, i can sort of understand. lincoln is more diffi

we're looking at other troop-contributing countries from west africa to southern and central, but again, we want to say that we commend the ugandans, they're doing a tremendous job and a lot of sacrifices. since the operation started, they've lost 200 troops, and we're trying to do the best we can to provide the assistance and support that they need. as i said, over the last four years, and this is four years we've given about $258 million compare today other operations, obviously, it's not a lot of money, but we're trying to do the best we can to support the amazon as far as training, logistical support and to give them the capacity and capability to protect their troops against theal-shabaab. ultimately, the amazon troops can only do so much. this really has to be a fight, a war conducted and executed, prosecuted by the somalis themselves. and that's what we're trying to do, is to give them the support and the assistance. um, right now just something on the piracy. you know, the piracy is symptomatic of the instability within somalia. when i was first ambassador, we saw the first carg

and when i think of hemingway as a child hearing about roosevelt's exploits not only in africa but in the american west, he was a boy who didn't just want to read stories. he wanted to do these things and write about them himself. >> the tour behind us is going to hemingway's study which is over our shoulder. there is the main house here and a separate house above it. how did he work? >> he loved tropical climates. there is no air conditioning -- in key west -- the comfort index here is something like 94 degrees in the summer. imagine an era without air-conditioning. he liked to get up early in the morning when it was cool. he had seen every sunrise of his life and over the carriage house here, the 0 original carriage house and he desperately needed quiet places to write. when he was living here colleen was here with two is -- children and five servants and a writer of some celebrity at that point after a farewell to arms came out and was made into a movie. he liked these early-morning hours. in the afternoons, devoted to fishing. >> what about drinking? >> drinking came in at lunch time. >> did he dri

from west europe, south america, north africa, faced with reless -- relentless adversaries, they haveonly innovators but people like admiral mullen. as they have grown, i have grown to respect him more and more. pioneered tactics, masters languages, deployed new technologies. they have taken on responsibilities once reserved only for colonels and generals. the responsibilities have extended far beyond the battlefield, politics, economics, development task. we were talking about -- i was talking with my good buddy about it i think just two days ago. it's astounding. it's astounding what you guys have trained these young women and -- young men and women to do. they not only have to be warriors, they have to be politics. when i was in afghanistan not too long ago i was up at the fab in the wall valley up in the mountains on the other side of the valley. and i'm talking to a young captain. and he's telling me the distinction between the tribes that are up there, they all were pashtun. he knew more about the culture than the professors could teach you about it. in the process of all of tha

spending the money the government spending in the west bank verses and does well i think you will see a real revolution in israel ok asses out of south africa thank you. well they be in the rebels have declared three days of mourning after their military commander and two of his aides were killed so far to eunice was gunned down hours after rebel authorities have reportedly arrested him over his family suspected ties to coded off his regime in this country in libya's foreign minister before he defected to the rebels a beginning of the revolution the national transitional council blames the killing on gadhafi supporters claim to have progressed to the head of the group responsible for consequences of them but both of them don't know how deep the commanders allege connections really ran that's according to one of the paras advisor to america's antiterrorism caucus. the consequences of his killing could be either short ramification or vast dramatic ations if indeed he was only an individual or even a high ranking official who had the relationship with the gadhafi regime then his killing will be the end of the. it's the other case is he and oth