. >> still to come on the program, west africa's pandemic. >> william and kate back in the public eye. there has been more government -- anti-government protests. after more than three decades -- >> the arabs spring has turned to summer and now autumn. president saleh remains in office. protesters are back on the streets on thursday under the watchful eye of soldiers to switch to the opposition, repeated their calls for the president to step down. >> we support the legitimacy of the revolution and to bring down the corrupt regime. >> we took to the street to the capital in order to try the president to shed the blood of our brothers. >> the president refuses to go after more than three decades in office. in june, he left for saudi arabia after being injured. many thought he had left for good. this coincided with an upsurge in the fighting between his supporters and opponents. he is now facing multiple challenges. demonstrators, local tribes, and militants. his top soldiers have deserted him and yet he hangs on. the international community is trying to organize a peaceful transition bu

there have already been more attacks off west africa this year than took place in the whole of 2010. but the waters are now rated by insurers as being as dangerous for shipping as the somali coast. west african pirates are adopting a different technique to their somali counterparts, where the somalis generally take the crew hostage and hold them for ransom, but the pirates here are much more interested in stealing the cargo. and that increased risk of robbery at sea is, according to ship owners, scaring business away. >> some shipping companies have refused to come to west africa. those will come. they take special premium, and this in turn affects the goods and services in west africa. >> for confidence to be restored and to return, west africa's high seas must be purged of the pirate threat. >> how often have you cursed the postman for delivering mail to the wrong address? well, if you live in kabul, you might be a little more forgiving. >> kabul's central post office, but from here on, this story becomes much more complicated. >> some of them are really -- it stays behind, so these

look at a map of africa that shows the prevalence of malaria, you'll see that it is present in west africa but not in south africa and see that there is sickle cell anemia in other countries where there is a high prevalence of malaria. india. even some countries in southern europe so it is not a black disease at all. it can affect anyone whose anest is corors came from malaria-present regions. in greece, the rate would be much higher. tavis: what disturbs you most? i'm sure there is a long list -- if we had the time you could offer me a list of things, but what troubles you most about the way this federal invention is being played out politicalfully the era of obama because if if race is a political construct and not a genetic construct, there must be things concerning you about the way it is playing itself out as we speak. >> exactly. now you got on the the heart of my book, which is the politics of this. i argue there is a new racial politics that is emerging that treats race as a -- as a biological category instead of a political category at the very time that we are being told america

he has merrill's all over the world, including in gonna and west africa. there is an avid skateboarder and designer. thank you for your work in our district, and ethan is also a contributor to the project. i just want to say thank you so much for your work. we'll be showcasing many of these artists in my office today after the board meeting, and thank you so much for your work. if any of you want to have a few words with us, please come forward to the microphone. [applause] >> well, hello, everybody. my name is gabriel. i just want to thank you, john, for giving us this opportunity today and to get some acknowledgement from the community and also citywide. i also wanted to thank the office of economic work force development for providing the funding to be able to do a lot of these murals and the action group also for imploringly for one year and basically giving me artistic freedom to put this project together and contact and work with all of these great people. thank you also for being here today. that is about it. supervisor avalos: i does want to add. i

long time and i think everybody would agree quite a bad actor in fomenting terrible civil wars and west africa in making trouble in chad in the lockerbie bombing and he's just really been quite an irresponsible fella but it's true that. the security council language often is a bit fake that the degree of coercion that's necessary whether it's something like kosovo or libya is always unfathomable at the beginning of the campaign wars like peace or is always wanted more difficult than you expected to be but i do think that as and i think they cover did have it right that what's often at fault is the way the political system is organized i do think that there are changes one should make i do think that regional groups shouldn't vote as blocs the way they do because they like chicago clubhouses manage to coerce their members because all good things come from your original group so it's not an ideal masi and situation of reflection it's a very political system the politics could do some reform that's the politics of it i mean and it's you know i don't think anyone on the panel here is going to defe

finance minister alexei kudrin who says in order to tackle the economic crisis countries in the west africa deal with what provoked it in the first place out of control consumerism use thoughts and more in the interview coming up in about twenty minutes here's a preview. just because of the styles for the king yes because the western countries are vital has become somewhat outdated as huge consumption and little investments and savings have provoked this crisis at this point most western countries are not ready to reduce their consumption and preserve the pre-crisis development. this is not enough to merit from crisis and their consumption is not substantiate it really cannot get results and consumption is pulling in a debt so western countries have this issue and they're trying to resolve it and printing money which only delays the solution we can't you know predict will be economic point of view if this printing of money and supporting an artificial demand will help kick start the engine of the western economy so far this has not yet happened after all with the federal reserve system. now

the country is also the producer of about 14 percent of west africa's cocoa output. unfortunately, some analysts attribute smuggling flows as part of the success story. but the main reasons behind the healthy increase are new farming techniques and good weather. and the number is guaranteed to go nowhere but up. daniel choy, arirang news. the 13th iaaf world championships came to a close sunday evening... and officials in daegu handed over the flag to moscow, the next host in 2013. our song ji-sun recaps the 9 days of the world's biggest track and field event. it was none other than the world's fastest man, usain bolt of jamaica and his team that finally set a new world record on the last day of the iaaf world championships held in daegu. the jamaicans beat their own world record by 6-hundredths of a second in the last race of the championships crossing the line in 37 -point-0-4 seconds in the men's 4-by-100 meter relay. english "i kept on looking at the clock and i kept on saying, 'i can do this, i can do it' so i ran through the line. it was exciting to see the wor

the alleged victim, nafi diallo, an immigrant from west africa, broke her silence in an interview with abc's robin roberts. she maintains strauss-kahn attacked her. >> he come to me and grab my breast. no, you don't have to be sorry. i say, i say stop, i don't want to lose my job. >> reporter: but new york prosecutors found inconsistencies in her story and dropped all criminal charges against strauss-kahn last month. tonight, her lawyer insisted she will be proceeding with a civil suit against him. >> but we are going to pursue that case aggressively. we're going to use all of our resources here at the firm to hold mr. strauss-kahn accountable. >> reporter: outside the tv studio in paris tonight, a small demonstration, by women noting that strauss-kahn is now facing allegations of sexual assault in france, after a writer came forward, insisting he tried to rape her eight years ago. he would only say those claims are imaginary. it was a carefully crafted attempt to rehabilitate his image. but he concedes that his life is photographer changed. tonight, he acknowledged that he had planned

one that said we have all been and continue to be deeply concerned about child labor issues in west africa. reaching every one of the million of farmers there is a difficult task and we continue to be committed to achieving a permanent solution. next, cadbury is works with other to support the protocol and then both of those two companies as well as others have been roofing to the u.s. -- excuse me, referring us to the international cocoa initiative. this is a joint group of companies that actually signed up to this particular deal and then archer daniels midland say the signatories to it would provide a skwoipts statement. we'll keep our eyes peeled for it but gives you information about the chocolate. >> okay. you know, we are now going to give you more details on that explosion that we've been hearing about in the turkish capital ankara. let's speak to someone in istanbul. tell us more about what you know happened in ankara. >> this was right in the center of the turkish capitol near the local district's mayor's oftice. we know a mini bus blew up. it took several cars with it. and we al

the alleged victim, diallo, an immigrant from west africa, broke her silence in an interview with abc'smaintains strauss-kahn attacked her. >> he come to me and grab my breasts. no! he don't have to be sorry. i said stop. i don't want to lose my job. >> reporter: but new york prosecutors found inconsistencies in her story and dropped all criminal charges against strauss-kahn last month. her lawyer insisted she will be proceeding with a civil suit against him. >> but we are going to pursue that case aggressively. we're going to use all of the resources of our firm to hold mr. strauss-kahn accountable. >> reporter: outside this tv studio in paris, a small demonstration by women noting strauss-kahn is now facing allegations of sexual assault in france after a writer came forward insisting he tried to rape her eight years ago. he would only say those claims are imaginary. it was a carefully crafted attempt to rehabilitate his image, but strauss-kahn concedes his life is forever changed. in the interview, he acknowledged he had planned to run for president of france next year, and he was the

great omar al the verify executive director of west asia north africa forum thank you very much for taking time to speak to us here at the global policy forum in europe will we will be here throughout the day bringing you the latest expertise and analysis as leaders and of course the best experts gather here to discuss the most pressing issues. in our teens and use in our way of life for us in your arsenal of all thanks for that report. hope for a better country but not as part of the united kingdom there's a strong sense of national identity in wales that has helped fuel calls for him to achieve independence following similar calls for the north and scotland was artie's more and it reports the debate continues to rage over whether welsh ambitions are driven by economic sense or emotion welcome to wales policy of the u.k. and a proud nation with its own language and customs and the latest voice to call for independence plights comrie which means the potency of wales has always all acute the country could be better off without the u.k. and it seems increasing numbers are starting to see the

i was the executive director of west asia north africa forum thank you very much for being with us. let's start with syria just because we're hearing a lot about what's happening there what do you think first of all is the way to go is it sanctions and how much do you think that's going to be debated here in europe . i don't think you can take syria out of context i think what we're seeing is as it's called the spring or the out of the way of awakening it's a regional phenomenon it's happening in the arab world and therefore what's happening in syria is not this thing detracts from what's happening in the region what's happening in the region is that as opposed to sort of reform which is taking place and has taken place for the last six months or so it's thought that goes through all you know as we all know in tunisia went on to egypt yemen and syria and that's part of the same happening why do we have such different reactions from the west nato per se to each country if it's all part of the same revolution or say well the way the world is reacting is probably different tests to. wh

that was a new libyan leadership africa face of its colonial past that the real fear of the west is the africa unite and is able to break free from this colonial grip it has been in for hundreds of you and who was the leading force behind united was libya and gadhafi is ruled so nato won a government that will this unite africa that will rule north africa away from a southern neighbors so it's in its very important nato but it is a racist one but will not continue with this libyan project of uniting africa is a misnomer state but this uprising been characterized by race as well this is. a way north and solar. more opinions first hand reports and the timeline of the libyan revolution just one click away at r.t. dot com and for the latest updates on the story check out our twitter feed and facebook profile. is. the leaders of france and germany have declared a greece as future allies with the euro their comments come as the second bailout for athens considered to be its last chance to avoid a disaster as the fault hangs in the balance this time lines and a full scale recession have left l

middle east little alice down glazebrook told me that was the new africa may face ackles of its colonial past. the real fear of the west is that africa unites and is able to break free from this colonial grip it has been in for hundreds of you and who was the leading cause of crimes uniting was libya and gadhafi is rule so nato want a government that will this unite africa that will rule north africa away from it so the neighbors so it's in it's very important nato but because of is a racist one but will not continue with this libyan project of uniting so there is no mistake at this hour as you've been characterized by racist won't. tear away nor and solar. more opinions first hand reports and a timeline of the libyan revolution just one click away at r.t. dot com and for the latest updates on the story check out our twitter facebook profile. the leaders of france and germany have declared that greece's future lies with the euro they are a common scam as a second bailout for athens considered to be its last chance to avoid disastrous default hangs in the balance miss deadlines and a full scale recession have a left a l

that with a new libyan leadership africa may face backhoes of its colonial past it a real fear of the west is the africa unites and is able to break free from this colonial grip that has been in the hundreds of years and who was leading force behind unite you know it was libya under gadhafi has ruled so nato want to go home and that will disunite africa that will rule north africa away and the southern neighbors so it's very important for nato but the government is a racist one it will not continue with this libyan project if you nineteen or so there is no mistake if they start as you've been characterized by race is going on this is. there a way north and south in a. more opinions first hand reports on the timeline of the libyan revolution just one click away at r.t. dot com and for the latest updates on this story checking our tower a twitter feed and facebook profile. is. the leaders of france and germany have declared that greece's future alliance with the euro their comments come as the second bailout for athens considered to be its last chance to avoid a disastrous default writings i

we know that the ministers of ofance and the governor's west africa and central africa got together, and we know that that connection, that debate, and the measures taken at that conference have led to, i believe, and greater stability, anchoring between those two zones. if we look at the trend of the euro over time, it has, of course, varied when the hero was launched. it was at 1.16 to the dollar. it was at 1.45. these are variations that could be explained by a number of reasons -- attitude, there is different factors, probably not so much the fundamentals, but the fact is these are variations that have happened, and will certainly, of course, reflect situations of the local economy. but, certainly, i think the west african and central african countries getting together has created stability, and positive results. thank you. >> yes, sir? no. behind you. sorry. with the glasses. you have been waiting. thank you. >> my name is martin. i'm from the urgent time newspaper. thank you for law and me to make this question. -- for allowing me to make this question. a couple of weeks ago, j

the risk that weapons politically conventional weapons already spreading around west or south towards into a black africa and of course over to egypt and also the israelis complain that weapons seem to be coming from libyan stockpiles. for the garza strip so whatever the so-called humanitarian purpose of the libyan operation the long term consequences for humanity could be i'm afraid so extremely negative professor mark on the lecture in modern history also university thanks for being with us live here on r.t. thank you. well in libya the national transitional council has given everyone in the proceed to proceed half a stronghold of bani walid two days to leave or face a full scale attack the whereabouts of kind of a death himself remain unknown and steven rambam who heads an international investigative agency says it's just a matter of time before he's found. khadafi is a nut but he's a very clever and hook and he's a nut that's managed to survive for forty five years and i'm sure he took note of osama bin laden was captured and i'm sure he took note of saddam hussein was captured and i'm sure he was av

the fact is both in pakistan and yemen, north africa and lone wolves in the west there is a risk. but taking out al qaeda operatives in this strike have definitely weakened them deeper and worse than they have seen before. >> let's talk about an issue that was raised in some quarters today in particular by the aclu and that's the issue of due process. this was, after all, an american citizen targeted for killing specifically by the u.s. government. how does the administration justify this on legal grounds? >> well, first of all, it's obviously an important question. targeting american citizens anywhere is a very serious issue. ultimately an individual regardless of whether they are an american citizen or not takes up arms and is plotting terrorist attacks against the west it becomes an issue of self-defense. due process is very different because anwar al-awlaki was plotting in yemen against the united states. >> was this something the united states looked at before they put him on the target list? >> the administration debated quite deeply everyone who was going to be targeted for

same thing with, when it was decided after pearl harbor to, um, mount an invasion of north africa from the westthe british were pushing rommel from the east, and we were going to land in morocco, and marshall tasked eisenhower with the, with the design of those plans. so eisenhower came to the presidency not only a great diplomat-general, but someone with, who knew a lot about the way washington worked and who'd been dealing with global issues for a dozen years by then. he not only was the great diplomat-general of world war ii, he had held together the grand coalition of the second world war, the allied coalition. after the war he was the army chief of staff, he presided over the desegregation of the army that professor moy talked about a few minute ago. he, and he took leave of absence as president of columbia university to be the first military commander of nato in paris because at the time it was recognized if there was one american we can send to europe who personifies the american commitment to nato, to the freedom of western europe, to america's continued responsibility in the world, it

china is greatly concerned about the turbulence in west asia and north africa. we stand for the principle of noninterference, we support countries in the region in independently handling their internal affairs, and we respect the aspirations of the people in the region. we hope that the parties concerned in the countries of the region will resolve their differences through political dialogue and specifically restore stability and order in their respective countries. libya has now entered into a critical transitional stage from war and turmoil to national reconstruction. china respects the choice of the libyan people and recognizes the national transitional council as the governing authorities of libya and the representative of its people. we hope that under ntc's leadership the parties will set in motion an inclusive ross of political transition, maintain ethnic harmony and national unity, restore stability as soon as possible and begin economic reconstruction. china supports the united nations in playing a leading role in libya's postconflict reconstruction and

relations with africa said he was concerned about the growing terrorist hold in africa everywhere from nigeria across the west, libya. so a lot of concern that africa, itself, may be becoming the highest. >>> the highest military decoration and today the president awards the medal of honor to a u.s. marine. dakota myers saved the lives of two dozen comrades and braved withering gunfire to try to cover the bodies of four marines that died in the 2009 shootout. he'll accept sh medal of honor, the men he call his brothers. >> every single day i think about what happened and how i'll carry on my life and honor those guys and i think what it does, it gives you an extra, it gives you an edge to everyone else because, you know, it's not just me, you know, i'm not just going around for myself now, i'm doing it for other people. once you have that instilled in you, it's not, it gives you an extra edge. if i can't look down and have a reason to push on, i have four reasons on my wrist. that's why i keep their names on my wrist. >> he met with the president over a beer yesterday on the patio. the 23-year-old kentucky na

west side. block. the. craven cottage. ok let's move to the rugby world cup where africa have gotten off to a winning start in new zealand but only just the springboks beating wales by the minimum of margins in their pool d. fixture the boks getting off to a flyer in wellington from steyn pummeling his. for a try early as the third minute. that's dogood well she didn't left up deter them too much going in at the break ten six. after good work from the boot of this man james hoop and warren gatland man from p c's the initiative in the second half to be followed so touching to get world sixteen and lead but south africa aren't world champions for nothing francoise who guard slicing through your three sided second try on sixty five minutes the box seven being sixteen up on how it would finish after he missed penalties minutes after that south africa when it's a stand off their. australia showed why they are second favorites for the tournament before the bettering it by twenty six points wallabies fly half quade cooper starting things off with a nineteenth minute penalty. for them becoming one of four different history in pearce

west but not. independence and he has loads of oil and he sits in the strategic northern africa name the country libya then you get nato intervention if you have a country in the middle east that israel you know has a russian military base in it if they really name the country syria you're next so this is this is how it works you could pencil did agree of independence of the dictator if you're one of our bastards but if you buster that we can rely on that was not the case with khadafi. and if everything is geared towards the pentagon's full spectrum dominance doctrine this means the pentagon wants to control what they call the arc of instability from north africa going through the middle east and central asia so expect major interventions you know r.t. is that down with russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin to get his take on the u.s. role in syria and what is possibly ahead i want to play a little piece of that interview for you and have you respond because well what some critics are swearing to us though this is not their intention to use military force incidentally we have to remind them that

africa. and they believe dropped into the ocean somewhere west of australia. they don't know where.re still waiting for more information. >> well, i guess that is the big question. it fell somewhere. that we know. but nasa's been tracking this for weeks now, a week and a half. with all of this technology, how come we don't know exactly where it hit? >> reporter: it's interesting. they don't actually have eyes on the satellite all the time. as it's going around the earth, they see when only as it makes passes over certain ground stations. once it begins to drop, they first realize it when they stop seeing it up above. and they wait for eyewitnesses down below. and so far, they haven't had a lot of that. >> and what happened to the debris? the pieces of debris? there's estimated some 26 pieces that fell. what do we know about that? >> reporter: you know, it's interesting. there's some reports unconfirmed on twitter from alberta and canada. people were seeing something drop. it may have started to go down there. but now, we believe it's more likely it's in the water near australia. but

africa. international community will have to. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and over it the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic sanctions and if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is. a new numerously and on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have. meanwhile no cordial welcome away from iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and his visit to new york city have a massive billboard has appeared in times square claiming iran'

a dictator that it's been relatively friendly to the west but not to independence and he has loads of oil and he sits in the strategic northern africa then the country libya then you get nato intervention if you have a country in the middle east that opals with israel and has a russian military base in the mediterranean name the country syria your next so this is this is how it works it depends on the degree of independence of the dictator if it's one of our bastards but if it's a bastard that we can rely on that was not the case with gaddafi and if everything is geared towards the pentagon's full spectrum dominance this means the pentagon wants to control what they call the arc of instability from north africa going through the middle east to central asia so expect major interventions you know archie sat down with russian ambassador to the u.n. to tally churkin to get his take on the u.s. role in syria and what is possibly ahead i want to play a little piece of that interview for you and how do you respond to all of what some critics. gloss this is not their intention to use military force well incidentally we have to remind them t

at the same time, we're not talking about how the west for example, -- [inaudible] in africa, or ignoringviolence by reins while saudi enter it. so my question is isn't the bigger topic you're clinical warfare? and sort of the elephant in the realm? and why is it that on the one hand we applaud gadhafi's failure, and on the other hand we forgot that he was supporting the african union troops in somalia who are fighting against al-shabaab? >> i'm not entirely sure we can get to the bottom of all these very global questions today. maybe jarrett, maybe you can -- [laughter] you can tell us something about how the recent events in libya were perceived on the jihadists front. that would be interesting. >> yeah. i mean, i think they are confused, right, because there's been a lot of al qaeda messaging figure two very prominent libyan senior members of al qaeda, one who was just killed, the other one, and it been quiet for a while and then libya started -- a blitzkrieg with videos, with statements and it was all the be all the time. so why came out and said that he is a new ground zero for us. a

west now with robert malley. he worked in the national security council in the clinton white house, and is now program director for the middle east and north africa at the international crisis group. welcome to you. >> when you listen to secretary clinton there and you think about how the u.s. and west-- and the west can help libya now, what are the main considerations? >>ic the first consideration is what's happening in libya today, what are the main challenges. and then you work backyards and see can the international community help. number one is to make sure the country remains together-- in other words you don't have convictiones, you don't have a witch-hunt, you don't have part of the country that feels the other part is taking revenge and that is something we have experienced in iraq, and the international community could encourage the new leaders to be as inclusive as possible and giving as possible. >> brown: when you say "the new leaders" part one is determining to who we are dealing with. >> that's the other question. the west and u.s. has recognized the transitional national council as the legitimatate representative but that begs the