new hub for drug cartels the new york times reports the american counter-narcotics assistance for west africa totaled about fifty million dollars over the past two years and according to the state department that's destined to increase and now the u.s. has reportedly started training an elite group of counter narcotics police in ghana and all this is happening as gone as going through a transition of power a similar unit also planned in kenya the team will reportedly use a training model that's similar to the programs used in central america and mexico and another one of these elite training forces is planned in nigeria it's hoped the officers can combat the latin america drug cartels that are allegedly using africa to smuggle cocaine and to europe now all of this is happening as critics argue that the war on drugs is a downright failure they say the war is costly and largely ineffective and is just

and to meet the demand we have to go into you know very deep waters like of rubber seal of shore west africa now east africa gulf of mexico this oil is not cheap to produce so that's the rationale behind that assertion the easy or oil is being found now we need to look for more challenging and more costly oil and that's another reason why we can't predict. oil prices or the long term continues to well when we speak about these new here is the new areas we need new technology is because because they in the shoe is exploring new frontiers and they need new machinery new technologies know how so and so forth are these technologies available are they there already are all we still need to invent something new to to think of something new is actually a bit of both. in many areas especially in the water. what is happening is that previous technologies are being adjusted to meet the conditions of these new areas like we go for much higher pressures and temperatures so what the industry is doing is to adapt or just to specify equipment and. blinds pumps to those new conditions so for that we already

we are importing less and less crude from west africa, by sometime in 2013 on current trends the gulf coast will import no crude from west africa in what used to be 2.5 million barrels a day of imports will be more or less order of magnitude 300,000 barrels a day all going to east coast refineries, and this is already a challenge for angola and nigeria, among the opec producers. by the time a few years roll by and there are a couple of pipelines that bring canadian crude currently selling at $50 a barrel down to the u.s. gulf coast, it would probably mean that the u.s. needs to import no oil from venezuela, no oil from saudi arabia, no oil from iraq, and that also poses problems, because the quality of that crude specifically is attractive in u.s. gulf coast upgrading refineries and there aren't many outlets for that crude oil. there will be very specific plain inflicted on particular oil exporters, even without energy independence and even without a flood of oil coming out of the new production. >> adam, i don't want to misquote you but if i remember correctly, you've been cited rece

terms of antiterrorism and anti narcotics right now the american counter narcotics assistance for west africa totaled about fifty million dollars for the past two years according to the state department an amount that's only destined to increase and now the u.s. has reportedly started training an elite group of counter narcotics police and dawna this is all happening as gone i was going through a transition of power the country's president died unexpectedly on tuesday after complaining of chest pains a similar unit is also planned in nigeria the west africa cooperative see security initiative or reportedly use a training model that's similar to the programs used in central america and mexico in these fifteen african countries and another one of these elite training forces is planned in kenya is hoped the officers can combat the latin american drug cartels that are allegedly using africa to smuggle cocaine to europe now all of this is happening as critics argue that the war on drugs isn't slowing down and it's just a downright failure they say that the answer narcotic initiative is costly and

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

for example, the packaging materials in west africa until 1978 was described as really harmless without side ffects. many of these people are the dread. wudfd bdi h ses therchen have been born to women who talk it. it's also a question about whether thalidomideihmn they have all these violations in the developing world. in the developing world, women are told to take to his ipecac at the drug store and buy them. in many countries, contraception is end th hf s tahes thyca some lived where they are legal. so these are people who are not able to protect th selves and yet this is what the researchers is carried out. oigonwy ththtmighbe a more logical place because huguenin can protect themselves. the wise research carried out in developing worlds? as you can see, the developing world is not the market for thip e bls -- not the problem is, but the decision has been a financial one. the article showed the pharmaceutical companies conduct one in three trials in developing world and i was more than a year ago. canncpei trialsbecaushe faster trials, very important for fda approval othese trials

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

west africa will join fairly soon. we are speaking about a method of two years or so for that to be in place. and for a common market to be offered to the usa. >> does it help that president obama is the president of the united states right now with the relationship? >> ironically, there is a very favorable reaction even to president bush because he really kept the issue of the african growth under table. but that relationship has multiplied with the emotional pull that comes from somebody who can trace his rich to africa, in kenya. for the united states, that has been a wonderful thing because it does not have to take billions of u.s. dollars to insure south africa, to put down terror that could emerge in africa. i think there is a nice and secure atmosphere. the u.s. can be thankful for it. >> we are down to the last 30 seconds. what one thing -- like folks were listening to us to take away from our conversation? >> among the export products that south africa has, the most important one is those that relate to the li

we have story from fred de sam lazaro today about the country of niger, in west africa. it is suffering yet another famine, but at the same time, it is working with others to help learn how to grow enough food for itself so it will not have to ask for help in the future. >> at 8:00 a.m. each day, the weigh-in begins at a regional health center. babies are weighed and the girth of their arms is also measured, a color-coded proxy for malnutrition. there's still the odd green, or normal. children in the yellow zone are most common. in a few weeks many more will fall, like amina, into the red. more tests followed to assess her condition before amina was transferred to the emergency feeding center 10 miles away. it's near capacity, and the medical supervisor expects they'll begin pitching expansion tents much earlier this year. >> translator: in may, our admissions were up more than 10% from 2011, and that usually means our june and july will be really bad. the peak is usually in august. >> ironically, the frequency, the very routineness of such crises could contain the damag

is that of a country in west africa. >> more than 4 million people around the world are currently hiv positive. >>> d.c. has the highest rate of hiv infection among big cities here in the u.s. so this morning is your chance to get questions answered about aids and hiv. we have a panel of medical experts that will take your calls from 7:00 to 10:00 this morning. number is right there on your screen. it is 202-895-3307. >>> dozens of workers gathered in silver spring to protest minimum wage and poor benefits. they held signs and chanted outside burlington coat factory at city place mall. several minimum wage workers from businesses in the area owned by bain capital told their stories of reduced hours and pay cuts under the company's ownership. >> i get paid $7.50 for 15 years. never get raises, anything. i am here right now. the minimum wage has got to be at least $11 or $10 because we deserve. >> the nonprofit our d.c. organized today's protest. >>> a massive beef recall to tell you about. coming up next, we'll tell you if you should be worried about beef in your freezer. >> a warning

is that of a country in west africa. >> more than 34 million people around the world are currently hiv positive. >>> new york mayor michael bloomberg defending his proposal to limit the sizes of soda and other sugary drinks a day before public hearings. bloomberg was joined by a group of doctors today. he said the city's transfat ban also met similar protests but worked to help make the city healthier. >> just refused to stand on the sidelines while millions of our fellow new yorkers struggle with the health implications of being overweight or obese. sugary drinks is not the only one, but it is certainly one of the factors. >>. >>> several popular car models are being investigated for safety issues and bad news for airline passengers tonight, shawn yancy with your fox 5 top five. >> we begin tonight with flying the friendly skies and how it will cost you more. no. 5, united airlines hiked fares by $10 round trip and delta, u.s. airways and jetblue followed suit. southwest and airtran only upped prices on flights of at least 500 miles. >> no. 4, poverty in america is getting worse. expe

and nato intervention is not the solution the solution has to be found in mali itself within west africa itself among the people. does some other news from around the world including rising violence and trouble to leave where at least fifty seven people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in tribal clashes and the last three days in the country's south according to local sources the fighting rose between two and as wide tribesmen the last reportedly supported by the so-called leaders showed brigade deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups a common as the country's to the water where the weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. people have been killed and about three million are facing the power cards after the devastating storms plowed through the media plant a coastal region the situation has worsened by an abnormal hate wave causing people to seek refuge in buildings with a backup power supply emergencies were declared in several states officials calling it one of the most widespread power

and nato intervention is not the solution the solution has to be found in mali itself within west africa itself among the people. hundred are some other news from around the world including rising violence in troubled levy or where least fifty seven people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in tribal clashes in the last three days in the country south according to local sources the fighting rose between two and is why tribes men the latter reportedly supported by the so-called libya should brigade deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups are common and the country is still awash with weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. hama to morsi has been sworn in as the huge option president after taking their official oath of office and he's the country's first ever elected leader and the first civilian head of state says the toppling of hosni mubarak which was followed by more than a nationwide and razzed the country remains a party controlled by the army which has also declared itself the main l

and nato intervention is not the solution the solution has to be found in mali itself within west africa itself among the people. the aftereffects of libya's revolution and nato intervention are still being felt in the country at least forty seven people are dead and more than one hundred injured after three days of tribal clashes in the country south according to local sources the fighting is between two and tribesmen with the latter reportedly supported by the so-called levy a few brigade has been deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups are common as the country is still wash with weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. millions along the east coast of the u.s. are without power after violent storms pounded the region at least thirteen people were killed by falling trees that destroyed homes and cars could take generating companies up to a week to restore electricity to those affected the storms came after a record high temperatures scorched the area forcing thousands to pack into buildings with backup

she said the west nile virus, clearly associated with africa. africans are over there. oh the bugs are going to be eaten home food. it is totally devoid of phobia. you need to focus on what is important. race is insane. >> i have no idea. >> it was the most stupid tweet tweet -- stupid comment from a woman who participate in the most stupid sport in the olympics. let's expel the triple jump, please. >> really, the greeks have laughed at anybody. you need to bail out from all of this? >> the moral to this story is nothing good comes from twitter, but the ultra moral is nothing good comes from twitter plus jocks. how many athletes when they get on have no idea what they are doing and what they are saying and where it goes. if i was running a company, and i had an employee that said something really stupid -- >> would you stop it with that? it was meed yolker. every time somebody sees something that is considered racist, all of the people that don't agree, they say that wasn't racist. it wasn't stupid. it was a reasonable joke. it was a perfectly okay joke. >> wouldn't you

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chevron said it will leave a deep water drilling project off of the coast of west africa.t is expected to cost two billionn. chevron stock went up. >>> and fans attending the olympics are asked to avoid sending. it is interfering with the mara thon runners. it prompted the contractor to call the 2012 games the app's olympic. they are enjoying it on mobile devices than television screens. >> you will see other applications around the lim - olympics. and the apps around the content. >> the app store and google play are filled with download and media company apps with little of everything . team apps focused on one sport. behind all three kinds is a company in mountain view . accelerator. >> jeff haney's company developed titanium and also governments and businesses quickly get in the game. future champ, personal app of boxer jose ram ramm. -- ramirez. and that is the official app of team usa swimming. fritrial results. 2012 games provides a description and history of every sport and every participating country and top medal sports . medals tally. the early app business was d

there were a man from west africa. >> i think they have the power to start change. >> hiv-positive man from philadelphia. >> i worked with aids patience for 12 years. women are the ones who get the biggest burden. >> groups converged on lafayette square across from the white house. they came from the west, the north. their message -- weekend and aids. >> let this represent our hope and dreams of ending aids. they moved through the crowd collecting objects for their civil disobedience wrapped in red ribbons. they then took across the street and began tying to the white house fence. the vast majority of the protesters left at police demands but 13 chose to stay and chant and be arrested for blocking a sidewalk. >> authorities took down the ribbons quickly. the protesters were taken to the police and anacostia station to be processed and have a future court appearance. as for president obama, he did not get their message in person because he is on the west coast. >> the international aids conference continues here in d.c. through friday. >> a mother had a dangerous run in with a train tod

countries all across the globe that have to deal with our electronic waste, in india and china and west africa, there disassembling are electronic waste. more waste will be created by a decision like this. >> even if you do not care about the environment and just like apple products, here's something they point out. if the company is gluing the battery into the products, the chronicle will only last as long as the battery. and one more note, we tried to contact apple but did not get a comment but they told the wall street journal that " there design direction is not compatible people with the standards ". >> well, the bay area is heating up, on the first day of what is expected to be a small heat wave, temperatures hit triple digits in parts of the east bay. roberta gonzales in the weather center with today's highs. >> a classic summertime weather pattern. within 40 mi. from half moon bay all the way into livermore we had a good 40 degree temperature span and the same story in pacifica. fairfield also topping off at the triple digit. 92 degrees in san rafael. san jose 10 degrees above normal.

like washington, d.c., a beautiful city but the rest of infection here is that of a country in west africa. >> reporter: the saying goes, wherever people are marginalized, hiv thrives. >> it gets worse. as we cross the oceans in either direction, the access becomes further and further limited. the numbers of drugs that are available are further and further limited. >> reporter: the charitable foundation headed by billionaire bill gates is trying to change that. >> the ultimate tool will be a vaccine and scientists are making great progress. >> but there is still not a cure. >> reporter: chris bland is 48 and he was diagnosed with the aids virus in 1958. >> we also do advocacy and we do public policy. >> land now works with the black aids institute based in los angeles. >> it is a much higher quality of life. people now, if someone is under 25 and diagnosed, they can live at least 50 years. when i found out in 85, i didn't think i'd live to be 25. >> sherry says she has been hiv positive for almost 20 years. >> to me, even more important than that is i'm about to celebrate my 50th birthday

is that of a country in west africa. >> reporter: the saying goes wherever people are marginalized hiv thrives. >> it gets worse. as we cross the ocean either direction, the access becomes further and further limited. the numbers of drugs that are available are further and further limited. >> reporter: and yet the charitable foundation headed by billionaire bill gates is trying to change that. >> the ultimate tool will be a vaccine and scientists are making great progress. >> but there's still not a cure. >> reporter: chris bland is 48, says he was diagnosed in 1985. >> we also do advocacy and public policy. >> reporter: bland now works with the black aids institute based in los angeles. >> it's a much higher quality of life. there was a study today that op 25 and diagnosed they can leave at least 50 years. when i found out in 85, i was 21. i didn't think i'd live to be 25. >> reporter: sherry has been hiv positive almost 20 years. >> to me even more important than that is i'm about to celebrate my 50th birthday in ago. certainly when i was diagnosed in 1993 with hiv at age 30, i never

for an agent or quote, call 800-my-coverage >>> we have a developing story from west africa tonight. john adam mills died suddenly today. the cause of death is not known at this point. ghana has long been looked at as the model of democracy. >>> a family is mourning the loss of a young girl after their house exploded. it happened just after 6:00 this morning in wilson, new york. about 30 miles north of buffalo. the girl has been identified as sarah johnson. she died on the scene. her parents and two siblings were found outside. they have serious injuries. crews still aren't sure what caused the explosion. but say the home did use propane tanks. >>> a roman catholic monsignor is the first church official ever to be convicted for covering up sex abuse claims against priests. monsignor william lynn was sentenced to three to six years in prison today. prosecutors say he covered up the sex abuse of children for more than a decade. >>> to the rest of the world, what the we call soccer is known as football. and coming is a big soccer match. when the players set foot on the stadium, they'll

in west africa.heard that they don't talk to women, they don't shake women hands, so what about women rights in this area? we don't know what's going to happen. >> some women here said they separate the women and the men. they don't want the women going out in the street. they must cover their heads. things like that. >> -- single women, they force them to get married. this is really new -- >> 100 lashes? >> yes, lashes, yeah. >> obviously the funding here is really important and people are saying there's money coming from al qaeda-linked groups, and that it's also coming from things like kidnapping and from drug trafficking. what have you heard about that? >> what i heard, this is really a worldwide network. because the connection with arab countries. they might be receiving help from other countries. we don't know what role algeria's playing actually. because when you see the border of mali, you do not have any border with -- even people who think this is a consequence of war in libya, there is no

but there's no question that there are affiliates in yemen, somalia, and west africa are on the marchey pose a potential threat to the homeland. likewise, we're concerned about lone wolves. the aurora colorado, not far from here, incident that happened haas week, could easily have been a terror attack by a lone wolf or a terrorist. so the threat picture is more complicated now than at any time in a long time and so there's a lot of work to be done. >> are you surprised that the number two al qaeda leader, ayman al zawahiri, still out there, roaming around someplace? >> it's a big area and he's gone to ground, cut off all communications. but al qaeda in that part of the world, along the border between pakistan and afghanistan is under enormous pressure, and i don't think it will be too long before eventually he gets detected or sold out by one of his colleagues for reward moneys. >> it's unusual. this is the first time admiral mccraven has really spoken out about any of this, publicly, on television, since the death of bin laden. were you surprised that he was willing to come here to t

the west africa corporative --su despite widespread criticism for the cause. the u.s. war on drugs has seen an earlier expansion in central america. most recently, dea agents have been under scrutiny for being involved in at least three fatal killings in honduras. the online whistleblower wikileaks has announced it has hired the trouble is in spanish judge garzÓn to have the legal team representing the site and its founder, julian assange. the recently met at the ecuadorian embassy in london, where assange has sought political asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. garzÓn is down for taking an international human-rights cases with actions including ordering the arrest of former chilean dictator and a jets, 1998, indicting osama bin laden for 9/11, and probing the abuse of u.s. prisoners of guantanamo bay. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the world's largest international aids

it can spread beyond the western -- west africa. it can have some repercussions in europe.ve some repercussions in other parts of the middle east and potentially the united states. it's very alarming. the big problem also is now they can -- they're setting up camps. they'll be some training. they also have weapons from gadhafi's arsenal. still, to today, we don't have a very good handle on precisely what they have in their capabilities. it can be anything from surface to air missiles to more sophisticated weapons. >>> "outfront" next, a major development in an international murder case that brought down a rising star in the chinese communist party. >>> and chick-fil-a being told it's not welcome in some cities because of the fast food's company's stance on gay marriage. we'll tell you the stance and ask the question, whether you like what a company has to say or not, does a city or a mayor have the power to ban a company? [music] see life in the best light. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to b

. >> woodruff: next: a looming famine in west africa and one country's move to address chronic food shortagesr story is part of the "food for nine billion" series, a multimedia project that explores the challenges of feeding a growing world in a time of social and environmental change. it's a "newshour" partnership with the center for investigative reporting, homelands productions and american public media's "marketplace." special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports from niger, one of eight drought-stricken countries where relief officials say millions of people are at risk of starvation. >> reporter: at 8:00 a.m. each day, the weigh in begins at the health center near madarounfa, a town near niger's remote southern border with nigeria. babies are weighed and the girth of their arms also measured; a color-coded proxy for malnutrition and famine. there was still an occasional green, or normal, on this day. children in the yellow zone were more common but in a few weeks many more will fall, like amina, into the red tests followed to assess her condition before amina was transferred to the