the accident took place in western africa. >>> just in time for the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. there is word this morning that the government is about to officially link cancer to death around new york's ground zero. that link could be made as soon as tomorrow. and it means that rescue and recovery workers and those who live near ground zero could seek from the compensation fund. hundreds have died from cancer since 9/11. >>> and new yorkers are recovering from a weekend of wild weather stunned by two extremely rare tornadoes. the twisters touching down in brooklyn and queens on saturday just moments apart. they ripped apart roofs and tre trees winds topping 100 miles per hour. and new york's only had about 15 tornadoes since 1950. rare. extremely rare. >>> time to look at weather from across the country now. a much calmer day is on tap. we do have thunderstorms around orlando, tampa, and ft. lauderdale. another sweltering day in texas. heavy rains from new mexico and southern california and a chance of showers in the pacific northwest. >> 60s from seattle to portland. 90s fro

finished, but as you point out, al-qaeda has grown, become more sophisticated and dangerous in western africa and we still have al-qaeda in yemen and somalia to deal with, so if you're looking for a neat campaign narrative that says we solved this problem for you this flies in the face of that. but what's far more important than that is we need to learn the lessons of what went wrng to help protect other folks around and that's why i think congress will move towards an investigation to try to get to the bottom of this. >> senator corker's been on this show. he had described the the briefing he received as there wasn't one new piece of information. he was incredibly frustrated with it, but then he's come out and asked for more information. he wants every cable for example that ambassador stevens may have sent to the state department. the state department says hey, i know cnn is reporting there were warnings and that the ambassador was concerned about his safety and hit list, but if he was, nobody ever told us. >> it's not just a matter of placing blame for this incident. it really is, what wen

need going forward is a strategy to deal with these rump organizations in countries like yemen, western africaith the new type of al qaeda phenomenon. >> all right. roger, steve, i've got to leave it there. i would go on longer but my producers will get mad. >>> teachers in chicago hitting the picket lines after they failed to reach a contract agreement. it's chicago's first teacher's strike in nerl nearly 25 years. it's left nearly 400,000 kids out of school indefinitely. mayor emanuel is calling it unnecessary, avoidable and wrong. >> i am disappointed that we have come to this point given that even though all the other parties acknowledge how close we are because this is a strike of choice. and because of how close we are it is a strike that is unnecessary. >> joining me now from chicago is nbc's kevin tibbels. rahm emanuel, close advisor to the president, was just about to take up raising more money for the president's super pac. no time for that now. >> well, first off, chuck, i hope you can hear me. i'm having a heck of a time hearing you outside of the ray elementary school here in chic

after the reverend jesse jackson secured their release from a harrowing ordeal in foreign prison western africa, country of gambia. reverend jackson with me and two men he helped me. amadou janneh and tamsir jassey. welcome back to freedom. >> thank you. bill: i can imagine what the ordeal was like for you, it would not have been possible without all the accounts i read without you. >> let me say first. we want to thank kathleen foster on fox who went with us. bill: terrific producer. >> who got the story while others seemed to ignore the story. here is 90% muslim country where there is no anti-american rebellion. the u.s. embassy did its best to work with us as far as they could go but nine citizens have been killed last thursday night and 38 more were to go. when we heard that we immediately called the president's office in gambia and ask could we commie meet with him. that was granted. a, the result was we were able to get a moratorium, indefinite moratorium on killing the other 38. those who were expected to die now expected to live. those who were in prison now are home. so salvaging lives

is now spreading itself around the world developing man cans to extract natural resources in western africay are all over central, south america. until recently they were mostly they're just as extractors. they were taking the riches of those countries. the united states on the other hand has always been both any government away and the nongovernmental way. there when the need is great but if you look at haiti at all the agencies that respond. with other agencies as well. they came in from israel and central europe. i have been involved in something called international rescue committee which for a long longtime refugee organization founded originally by albert einstein to help refugees from central europe come to america during nazi germany. then it kicks are as of again as a hungarian revolt but it's been very active in southeast asia. now in the middle east, and we're all over africa with medical programs and resettlement programs come in getting visas for people who need to get here, highly professional staff that operates around the world. that's one of minis, doctors without borders i

all right back to today's breaking news story on the aggression against western diplomatic missions in north africa and the middle east reports say the british and german embassies in sudan have now also been attacked we will be joining our london correspondent sara for. and in the meantime it's time to talk business with dimitri and the markets seem to be booming today isn't that right that is absolutely correct that's on the latest moves coming from federal chairman ben bernanke he of course we're talking about a new wave of quantitative easing or q e three well it's been long anticipated for months now the markets have been talking that a new wave of government stimulus is absolutely needed for the markets but as data was coming out more or less positive from the u.s. markets this was not really the case to act but now that we have seen over the past couple of months we have seen especially on the jobs market a worsening of the situation the fed has decided to go ahead with its stimulus program it's going to be buying up not just bonds but basically all around assets and we're talking about sums

africa. general marshall makes clear the plan that had been devised and that the president approved which was 4 a.m. invasion of western europe in 1943 is finished for now. invaded north africa you are not going to be able to mount an invasion from britain in 1943. you have to put it off. before that, north africa campaign is even over, churchill is again pressing for fdr to approve the invasion of sicily and in italy. again, general marshall wanted them to be of like a pump pulling the manpower and material out of the theaters of the war the after the war the eminent military analysts wrote a book called the great mistakes of world war ii and he cites this italian campaign as one of the mistakes as he put all roads lead to rome and rome led nowhere. perhaps the most stunning strategic decision that fdr made occurred at the conference in 1943 when he said the end of the war against germany and of japan must end on unconditional surrender. he took this position because he had been on the scene in world war ii as the assistant secretary of the navy and was essentially a negotiated the armistice with a generation the germ

election campaign from from it and yeah so we have a difficult situation of western embassies around the middle east and northern africa and that is of course is something very difficult i don't think the situation will improve over the next months and we. are live from perth empress of course not imagine director of course on networks government and business consulting thank you for your time. responsibility for the video that's inflamed the arab world reportedly rests with los angeles filmmaker nakoula basseley nakoula a coptic christian american and convicted fraudster some of the actors claim all the insults to islam and the video were added later by the film's producers some american bloggers claim that a full movie might not even exist at all what is sure though is that the video has left us policy across the arab world facing a deadly blowback very important i explains. anger is rising rage is spreading and american flags are burning throughout the arab world this isn't exactly the type of relationship washington envisioned after barack obama became president i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning betwe

democracy in north africa, halted by the west, facing to radical anti-western groups that were once suppressed by the ubiquitous security forces. soon after last year's uprising in libya, we went to a newly liberated town, famous or notorious for sending an unusually high number of young muslims and to fight american forces in iraq. some former soldiers return to their own country last year, joining revolutionary militias, and keeping their weapons even after gaddafi was overthrown. s he says he knows the group' influenced but -- influenced by al-qaeda were behind the attack on the u.s. consulate. >> it is first hand information. it is direct information. they believe libya cannot be a hub for the conflict. but it should be used or utilize as a backyard for a logistic space for a bigger fatah, which is egypt or syria or maybe both of them. >> the americans cannot reverse the arabs bring. the question as how to respond to the dangers? -- the americans cannot reverse the arab spring? should it avoid treading too heavily in the region for fear of exacerbating the issue? or has it become, as some

the northern part of africa was looking for western-style targets. this very site had an ied attacked some months ago. the fact that there was whereabouts known of the senior u.s. person in the area, all of those factors lead me to conclude that it was an act of terror. it wasn't just having fun at the united states embassy -- it is that argument that doesn't bear fruit when you look at the facts. especially all the facts we have seen. megyn: suggesting this goes beyond outrage of the film? >> oh, absolutely. i believe that was just a convenient way. i will tell you this. and i don't believe that that attack had anything to do with the film. i think that what you are seeing now is that particular footage. it certainly doesn't have this kind of credibility here. overseas they are using hostilities -- al qaeda and others -- they are clearly using violence on western and u.s. targets. it is highly disruptive. this is starting to fan out across northern africa and the middle east and it is going to take solid u.s. leadership, paying attention to the prob

al qaeda in northern africa was seeking to attack western targets, we know at that very site there was an i.e.d. -- we know all those things happened prior to. it was a bit expedition airy. we were asking this ambassador to go to dangerous places and try to forge ahead a u.s. establishment there. we have to be careful. we asked them to do dangerous things knowing it was expedition airy. we're trying to make sure we didn't miss anything. we're going to ask these people. we do it all over the world, to do really dangerous things. we don't want to take unnecessary risks. but we clearly ask them to take what we argue is necessary risks. were they just ignoring all of the signs around them that caused this to happen? and candidly, erin, we just don't know for sure and for certain right today. >> senator feinstein, bob menendez have both been on the show, and both have been direct in answering the question. what's your reaction to that, though? i mean, it does seem -- arwa had reported she's been into the consulate, there wasn't even a safe room that had food or communications equipment in t

will surely continue to serve for decades to come as the leader of africa's second largest producing oil company and country and while western countries acknowledge concerns of the state of democracy in angola whose government is regarded one of the most corrupt on the planet neither the us or the e.u. spoke out against the lack of transparency in the elections in fact they can gradually get him on the victory could have something to do with the fact that the us is. or are both buyers of end goal an oil i mean there's a whole host of western companies that have a vested interest in goal in oil and not to mention diamonds in the region and god forbid the united states support the spread of true democracy if it goes against our own financial interests the fact is that english government is self-sufficient and if the u.s. were to voice any sort of opposition to the shady practices there of it would probably leave american oil and diamond companies easily replaced by china was growing influence in the region regardless it has been said that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely so if i were president sent

to think that this woman -- you can't go anywhere from the western world to this small village in africa. it was a mind-boggling revelatory, so that is how we started today and from there we interviewed three other members of the obama plan in the area around lake victoria. they were stories you can never get from anywhere else about obama's grandfather or younger obama. his father, barack obama senior. we watched and saw the grave site of his great-grandfather, the person for whom the name derives. a kind of amazing stuff all day. >> host: you spend a lot of time talking about the kind of situations in kenya. what importance does that to your book? >> guest: it explains a lot about barack obama, senior. and this book is more than just the biography. it's about the places that created him come the people created him starting to generations back and moving through to obama himself. his father in some ways represented the promise and the frustrations of africa and kenya and all the more personal level there's a brilliance in the full and some of the tentative it tribalism. the second large

it's really about the western player or glance at africa and how we sort of condescend, how even therd of well-intentioned policies that reparations from the land reparations humanitarian aid has an air of condescension is it the west needs africa to be a to our conscience in a way. this is something he's not really denouncing the intention. he's denouncing the air of superiority that comes with it. i was one of the things that's interesting about the book. he also think it's possible to understand africa. it's not a hegemonic. it's not one people, not a nation, not even several nations. the very ideas of nationstates and travel states in the up she think of at a lot of understandings that we have. so it's a book that doesn't rest easy with all our presumptions about what africa is an challenges each of them. to my mind is one of the most profound books. >> to know where he lives and will he be touring the u.s.? >> that is complicated. he has an unpublished address. he has a big security contingent q&a travels. in the meantime though he's had a lot of interest from nature's ink tanks

africa. their uprisings came in context of a long history of colonial rule and western influence, and they saw it not just as the end of the dictators who ruled for decad decades. this was also for example in the case of egypt ending western influence. they began with napoleon's invasion. this is an attempt to reclaim their future. all of these incidents that take place, whether with the film or with satanic verses, the very controversial novel happened in context of the tensions that go back a long way. there's not just one factor in all of this. it's the intersection of different causes that spark these protests. >> robin, i was hoping you could help us understand this sort of internal domestic dynamics going on in egypt. president morsi is obviously a member of the muslim brotherhood. there are two different factions. there's the muslim brotherhood and there's the solafus. kuk break down the distinctions and the differences in ideology between the two. >> the muslim brotherhood is 84 years ago. it renounced terrorism in 1969. it was, in fact, the largest opposition force in parliament with

africa. they have been looking because al qaeda core, they have said you have to attack western targets. in was an i.e.d. at this facility months ago. we know there is interest by al qaeda, strong interest, to attack western targets. we know that al qaeda cells in tunisia have been developing in libya, but we cannot say it al qaedaback but it has the hallmarks of an al qaeda-style event. >>chris: given there have been i.e.d. attack, there have been five terror attacks on the ground against western interests in benghazi and i understand hindsight is 20/20 but were we as prepared as we should given the history of violence in the region, and it was the 1th anniversary of 9/11, and the ambassador was at the not very fortified installation in benghazi, should there have been more security there? >>guest: that is going to be hard to assess. we need to walk to that conclusion. what we and diplomats to do, and remember, they are volunteers, it is an expeditionary exercise. it was important to have united states influence for a better outcome that leads to more peaceful events in the future. he g

an africa to cripple iran's economy and derail its nuclear ambitions seem to be failing us to iran post huge oil fields in the face of western sanctions. we can lease out of there or join us on she continues his legal tug of war with the u.k. as he holds up inside ecuador's london embassy has been there for several months with the south american country recently granting him political asylum. longden is still refusing to grant the whistleblower a free passage from the embassy threatening to arrest him once he steps foot outside sounds as lawyers also remain wary of his extradition to sweden saying his human rights will be put at risk they fear is stockholm would pass him over to the u.s. where he could face the death penalty if tried in charges of espionage for his role with wiki leaks the sounders lawyer baltazar garzon says his client did nothing more than express his freedom of speech. i do not think mr a stone as a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and shared it but much more surprised that there's been no investigation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports f

western targets. that was all across northern africa.have seen certain activities that certainly lead you to believe today that it is an al qaeda affiliated group. there are still some fuzzy details that i think we'll have resolved within the next few days to have a for sure and for certain. but clearly it has all the hallmark of an al qaeda-style event. >> was there any chatter as they say or any indication that something like this was about to happen at the u.s. consulate in benghazi? >> you know, we didn't get the warning you would hope to get in an event like this so we could have prevented the loss of life. and with a horrible tragedy for losing a u.s. ambassador mr. stevens. we think that we'll be able to go back and take a look. again, we're going to rescrub all of that. that's what unfortunately we'll need to do to make sure we didn't miss anything. but i don't believe so. i don't believe there was some smoking gun missed leading up to this. and there wasn't that kind of chatter that would lead you to believe that this event was

western intelligence agencies in order to . radicalized the any any sort of grassroots movement and give an excuse to intervene and to further divide and rule the north africa in the middle east to radicalize it you see that theme all across the region when when america british and israeli intelligence are involved so this i believe that we're seeing we the fruits of that right now political analyst for the u.k. a column current affairs website patrick having some thanks for your time here on r.t. if you're. and coming up in the program as epic efforts down the drain. we look at how president obama has been steadily building ties with our countries since he came to office only to see his efforts whirlwind in one fell swoop. u.s. state department stresses that it had nothing to do with the film but the statement was brought little consolation artist going to chicken reports on the origins of the controversial movie. the anger over this same type islamic film has been growing like a snowball so has the confusion over who made it at the beginning our colleagues at the a.p. news agency reached to the person who posted the video on you tube someone named sembler

africa. they have been looking because al-qaeda coree told them that you you need to start attacking westernargets so they have been looking for opportunities. there was an ied at this facility just months ago. there is some interest by al-qaeda, strong interest i should say to attack western targets. we know that al-qaeda cells in tunisia have been developing, in libya have been developing. we can't say for certain it was an al-qaeda event, it just has all of the hall marks, chris, of an al-qaeda style event. >> chris: given and you mentioned the fact there had been an ied attack at this consult ate. there have been five terror ail tacks on the ground against western interests in benghazi. i understand that hindsight is 20/20. were we as prepared as we should have been given the fact that there was a history of violence in the region and, yes, was the anniversary of 9/11 and, yes, the ambassador was at this not very fortified installation in benghazi. should there have been more security there? >> that one is hard to assess. i think we need to walk to that conclusion and not run. one of the

western world. and you know what we spend in africa? $400. that's all we spend on the education of a poor child.us if you're having a debate about aid. >> and yesterday you rang the bell, opening bell at wall street along with your wife, sara, to celebrate. >> yeah, the stock industry went up, i think. >> zoomed up, exactly. are entering into partnerships -- here you are ringing the bell right here. you can see immediately wall street explodes upward, upward! >> these kids loved to be there. they wanted to be stock brokers after at ac.d ty'reoio hat is adorable. >> good for you. >> gordon brown, thank you very much. >> hold on. we need to break down the league. who's it going to be? man city? man u? >> man city lost last night. manchester united. alex ferguson still the greatest manager in t world. >> he'smarkable. >>he c bn. they started not so well but they came back and he got von persie, player from arsenal, and he's been scoring all the goals. your team, liverpool, they'll come back probably in about two or three years' time. >> two or three years'time, but ey gre ge they're off to a slow s

and burned an effigy of president obama and around middle east and africa and security has been beefed up at a number of u.s. and western embassies around the region as a precaution, guys. dagen: rick, thank you for that reporting. connell: and nicole, the new york stock exchange, every few minutes. mcdonald's? >> mcdonald's, it's very interesting, shouldn't come as a surprise, but it always is a surprise when you start to see about a company raising its quarterly dividend. in this case, 10%, so, raising by seven cents to 77 cents a share, that's some good news for the shareholders. what's interesting, dagen and connell, for the shareholders, you've been a long-term shareholder, you know how mcdonald's works, since 1976 mcdonald's raised its dividend every single year since paying that first dividend back in 1976. that really shows, obviously, continued belief in the company's competence for the long-term growth and strength as a company. back to you. connell: all right, nicole. dagen: long lines outside of the apple flagship store, what did i say earlier? you need to find a 35-year-old virgin, there you go, and will it

africa. see libya sort of juts into the mediterranean at two different points, on the west side and on the east side. on the western side there, you see is tripoli. that is the capital of libya. but it is way over on the other peninsula on the right on the eastern part of the country where the city of benghazi is located. this place that christopher stevens, our ambassador who was just killed, the place he wrote about in 2008 in this cable that was uncovered by wikileaks, it's right there next to benghazi, the city of derna. in order to understand how it is we just had an ambassador murdered, it's worth knowing what the ambassador had to say about this flas place. it's interesting and seems to be connected. derna is famous in america for anything, it's for a bad reason. when they were flowing into iraq to martyr themselves trying to kill american troops in iraq, al qaeda documents seized by the u.s. army in iraq showed the little town of derna in libya sent more volunteers to die in iraq in 2006 and 2007 than any other place in the entire arab world. libya, per capita, as a country, sent more fighters to iraq than

western security firm. >>> in pakistan, two people were killed during an anti-american protest yesterday. demonstrators throughout the middle east and northern africa right now still very angry over that obscure anti-islam film proud in the u.s. and then uploaded to youtube. now, protesters and protests first broke out in egypt and libya late tuesday afternoon rumors spread that the united states was going to play that video on national television as a part of its 9/11 commemoration. >>> 6:06. rising anti-american violence is prompting the state department to pull its diplomats out of sudan and tunisia. u.s. citizens are also being urged to cancel travel plans to both countries. just last tuesday u.s. ambassador and bay area native chris stevens was killed alongside three other americans during an attack on the u.s. embassy in libya. libyan leaders say four arrests have been made since that attack and 50 people are wanting for questioning. >>> today marks one year since the occupy movement took hold on wall street. and then it spread from coast to coast. rallies are being planned across cities across the country, including a major gathering expecte