then, in 1998, his fans invited him to tour south africa. he and his three daughters had no idea limos would be waiting for them at the airport. regan is his youngest daughter. >> regan rodriguez: i only assumed the limousines were for some dignitary or celebrity, someone that we should stay out of the way of. but instead, they were for my father. ( cheers and applause ) >> simon: regan said she expected 20, maybe 30 people to show up at his concert. there were 5,000. and when rodriguez stepped out onto the stage, they wouldn't let him start singing, not for ten minutes. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ >> regan rodriguez: for them to see him, when they thought he had died, it was like they had a chance to see some type of resurrection. ( cheers and applause ) >> rodriguez: thanks for keeping me alive. >> simon: the beatles and the stones had played to crazed houses, too. but to these people, rodriguez was like lazarus-- he had risen from the dead. the concert wasn't just a success, it was a miracle. >> regan rodriguez: looking out in the cro

so terrorism in africa is not just a threat to the u.s. it is to for instance, too. now, the kind of strategy that i will stress, though, is, i think it has to be rooted in democracy and social justice and good governance inside those every african country. that will then take away the grieveances and the things that will attract and create terrorists. if there are foreign terrorists coming around, there are different ways of dealing with them. but it has to be rooted in democracy because if we focus on foreign terrorism and know what is happening inside countries, it is really dangerous for two years. some of us were worried about the lack of focus and the move back from mali. the strategy rooted in democracy as a way of fighting the big threats of terrorism across africa. >> i would say a few things, of course i see things through the prism of rule of law and institutions as i noted were very weak. i would say to encourage a dialogue of all -- in which all malians can be a part, because the focus on those tribes who have taken up arms which are a tinny minority, th

lori: 100 million investments in africa. >> in africa, 1 billion people living there. the population of africa will double within the next 25 years. that is an important goal. africa has 60% of the world reserves in land. only 20% of the land is farmed. with the higher crop, that is financially viable. lori: the higher crop prices that former are receiving are actually using it for capital upgrades. >> yes. we already own, we call it, demo farm. it has about 30 people. we farm 250 acres. we basically invite customers to explain to them how modernized farming works. lori: because of the drought conditions, because of the overall economic challenges, the fiscal cliff, we have to talk about that, do you find that farmers are cutting back? >> it is just the opposite. they try to be more advanced in technology. you can do more intelligent farming. also in the case of bad weather conditions. lori: what is the greatest in farming equipment? >> it has everything you would like to have. you could not go to new york and park it and do your business shopping because it goes 40 mi

now, going back to west africa for a moment. something that i learned about that i think being especially important was this. i wanted to know what were the experiences of self organization that the people on the amistad had? what were their models of self organization? what kinds of organization had they known in their native society? it turns out it was especially important. it was something called the porro society, an all-male secret society. there is an equivalent for women that is very prominent among the mendi but also prominent among the tempeh, all of the groups of southern sierra leone have their own society and what the society does his fundamental to the way in which those societies operate. the porro society trained warriors. the porro society creates social discipline and the porro society deals with witchcraft. the porro society declares war. they actually have a word or two words for the goal of the porro society and the way that it operates. his goal was to create literally one word meaning -- everybody agrees o

africa south america and europe are all represented here the largest room is reserved for the. move and finally here is the russia room. the room of mother russia here are some famous russian symbols such as the kremlin . the first man in space. of course the russian troika and the russian birch tree all the wonders of the motherland. and thankfully it also happened to be right next to the ball you are welcome thank you dario. and some. much needed. when i got to work on dinner idema told me that this place really is a dream come true the project is the result of a childhood fantasy when i was young i used to dig out small passages as i grew older the past just grew larger that's how a child's dream materialized the structure has been a run for four years i'm glad to know that this has given people some of the moments. full time that i said goodbye to and added to my scandinavian theme drew were always in for a bit of a surprise. ok i see what they mean now about a hotel with a difference but. it's been such a long day for a joke. at least a good slide back into the sea. he . w

of course the traditional habitat of the ostrich is africa these birds can also survive in the north especially considering the temperatures drop during the night in africa so they can live in different places as long as they have enough food. to eat. i think they are getting a bit hungry so what they want is to give them a snack for my code gets torn to ribbons. there might not be too much grass for them to nibble on round here but these ostrich is don't lack for vitamins and i was about to serve them a favorite cabbage and carrot combination of. that oh well what i've got this is like. it's going straight for the bucket especially this picture over here boys and girls. all. think you madame and miss your dinner was just satisfaction. there are a few nice leftovers on the ground if you would like. you might not expect to find a thriving ostrich farm in moments. but people have been surviving on here in the cold for almost two thousand years. or and alexander live across the tundra on the outskirts of moments they're part of the sami people the most northern indigenous people in euro

to see what region she is descended, from one area in africa? >> it is not as precise as one would like. in fact the family, the white descendants actually know the history, they know they are irish-americans and deshields were all shields at one point and the dna certainly suggest west africa but that is a very common thing. beyond that i couldn't be precise unfortunately. >> anyone else? this is your big chance. [inaudible] >> the question was how did i do this dna testing. you don't knock on the door of the white house and ask the first lady for her dna. i knew dolphus shields was her great great-grandfather. the research suggested the other's son was likely the father, she was living next to him in 1870. she continued to have biracial children after the war and so i tracked down dolphus's descendants and descendants of the shield family and there was a match. >> i'm curious in reference to you reference the civil war as one of the important events word their ancestors who possibly fought on both sides of the battle and what legacy has been l

their case defended by john quincy adamss resulted in their release and return to africa. this is a little over an hour. >> greetings, everyone. greetings. good to see you here. thank you for coming out. i'd like to begin with very warm thanks to brian. brian, where are you? there he is back there. brian, has done a lot to make this happen. also thanks to anna for the generous introduction, and i'd say we should also give a round of applause to the staff of this museum, which keeps america's maritime heritage alive. [applause] >> now, i'm very happy to have a chance to talk with you this evening about a part of that maritime heritage which is not always included in america's history of the seas. i want to talk to you about this book that i've written, "the amistad bee bellon" and i want to remind everybody what happened in that story. just led me summarize what happened. the year is 1839. and this slave schooner, amistad, which in spanish means, "friendship" kind of a cruel name for a slave ship, i think. contains 53 enslaved africans, 49 men, four children, including thre

africa command is scheduled to speak at george washington university. and he will most certainly get questions whether the military could have done more during the benghazi attacks on 9/11. judge, back to you. >> the questions about susan rice don't end there. in 1998, rice was assistant secretary of state for african affairs when the u.s. embassy, as i said, in both nairobi and kenya were bombed by al qaeda, killing 12 americans and just like benghazi, additional security can requests had been made before the attacks and were denied. with me now edith barkley, white house relatives were in the attack. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> our con dole lenses to you for the lost of your brother and your father. i understand your father was counsel general at the embassy and your brother was in conditioning and was an intern serving at the embassy. >> correct. >> in the 14 years since this has happened, edith, you have fought for the families of diplomats and hoped that the department of state would be able to provide more protectio

while in africa the minister pointed to his fears that the bird would become too great. that is what kept a wary going for so long pouring money into africa all well writing it $100 million check to fund construction of the new children's hospital of chicago where she continues to donate, there was no hint of shuttering the village clinics just 12 months ago only passion to continue the mission of care with plans to build a new maternity ward. one of the primary things on my agenda is that we have to sustain this, we cannot be here, do this and then disappear. she told me today that she hopes the improved government institution in kenya as well as other programs including the president's emergency plan for aids relief and u.s. aid will pick up where she has left a lasting legacy. >> thursday could be one of the more interesting weather days. thunderstorms, then snow then 50 degree temperatures to 50 mi. per hour gusts. i would like to say happy holidays to my friends and family in illinois, my wife jennifer and my two sons i love you and miss you guys mary christmas. mer

economic situation is patchy bangui like a lot of these capital cities major cities in africa is growing fast and population economically grew two percent last year which is not bad. and but the rest of the country with it's appalling communications the agricultural situation now going to have to export much. calling into a situation of subsistence agriculture. that's where the discontent seems to be coming from and it's also a country where there is there is a lot of local loyalty to the big town as it spread across the country it's not very difficult to stir up dissidents if that's what you want to do. ok one is independent journalist thank you for your thoughts today here in r.t. . well as twenty twelve draws to a close we continue to look at the events that shaped it today on these teams recall the launch of it in the sun just across exclusively on r.t. you can expound they gave voice to prominent figures shunned by the mainstream media when he was still under house arrest in london. it was right on the new year's eve when i went to london to see june to discuss the news so. i am tru

there was a link with africa. did i get that right? >> i did not get the thing with africa. >> i thought that when we see -- >> yes, yes, 1985. the first corset dress, i did a collection. collections were big. it was a mix of difficulty. and the lingerie. one part was the lingerie. i did it i think in 1981. i came out with the collection in 1982. of course, i was inspired by my grandmother. but something else. musical. i saw a musical in new york. something like about the life of fellini. they made a movie of it -- only a few years ago, which was not so good, but the play was excellent. it was broadway. there was one scene where all the women were preparing themselves for the show. all in corset, like satin, salmon color. and i was fascinated with it. i enjoyed the show, but i was only thinking about that, i must say. after that, there was the corset of my grandmother, and at that i have to do it, but it will be a dress. i did attend different dresses. long, shorter, even like a gym suit. i didn't like my souvenir of the one of my gran

las mandíbulas más fuertes de África en acción. y el equipo está donde una patada puede matarte.

the winner will oversee the current oil boom, one of africa's fastest-growing economies. soccer fans are no doubt eagerly awaiting the next european football championship in 2016. hundreds of thousands of fans will flock to get a firsthand look at the action. >> in the year 2020, that will not be so easy. that is because european soccer's governing body has decided that the games will take place in cities across the continent. >> they say the decision to split the play across europe is to celebrate the competition's 60th anniversary. >> european football fans can look forward to a party that spans the continent. the idea came from and 1980's football legend. he first proposed a multi-city championship at the end of euro 2012. now, the body's executive board has agreed. >> the main point is we need to give more cities, more countries the possibility to host a celebration, european championship, to the whole of europe. >> it is not yet clear which countries will host the matches. the bidding process is set to start early next year. cities in 13 countries are said to be in t

africa's president has pledged to end poverty in his country. jacob zuma was speaking on the final day of the ruling party conference. what will it take to bridge the economic gap? >> she and her friends say they are struggling to look after children. their patience is running at all. -- their patience is running out. >> but the leader is not listening. always come to the people to promise you'll get a house, electricity. but nothing. >> half an hour away, anc leader jacob zuma makes more promises. economic transformation and a better life for all africans. >> the government will therefore transform the structure of the economy through a industrialization, broadbased economic empowerment, addressing the basic needs of our people, for women and youth, as well as strengthening and expanding the role of the state. >> but there will be no radical shift in policy. naturalization is not happening. instead, there is greater taxation on the mining community. officials also promised to mix the mistakes -- to fix the mistakes of the past. wasb zuma's admi

. >> south africa pose a former leader nelson mandela has been discharged from hospital. these are the latest pictures. the 94-year-old was in the hospital almost three weeks from a lung infection but will continue treatment and home. now this reports from johannesburg. >> the news that former president nelson mandela has been discharged from hospital will be very welcome news in south africa, where he is adored by millions of people. beloved by millions more people around the world as a global icahn, the country's first black president, a man who sacrificed much in his life, spending 27 years in prison, much of it on robin island, for his part in trying to bring about an end to the apartheid government here. >> former u.s. president george h. w. bush is in hospital intensive care. the 88-year-old has a fever. his spokesman says that he is still alert and talking to his doctors but he has been battling bronchitis' more than a month. president obama has cut short his christmas holiday and is on his way back to washington for the fiscal cliff talks. without a deal, budget c

exporting more goods to africa will help create jobs here. every $1 billion in exports supports over 5,000 jobs. i believe we can increase exports from the united states to africa by 200% in real dollars over the next ten years, and we can't wait any longer. if there are some who say africa is so backward and so far behind, what is it in the united states they can afford to buy if they even wanted to, that is old thinking. let me give you some new reality. in the past ten years six of the world's fastest-growing economies are in sub-saharan africa. and in the next five years, sub-saharan africa will boast seven of the top fastest-growing economies in the world. the number of africans with access to the internet has increased over the last ten years fourfold to 27%, from 1998 to today the number of mobile phones on the continent have grown from four million to 500 million. and 78% of africa's rural population has access to clean water. these are signs of a growing middle class. china sees it. we have to see it. china is insinuating itself into

and wishes are send in all over north america and europe and africa and really we have got wishes coming in from almost every country in the world now. and people are just expressing, all kinds of amazing hopes and dreams for the future of the world which is really encouraging for us. we create the tree as a symbol of the global unity and hope. and we are going to continue to add wishes to the tree all through the month of december. so we would love for you to go to our website which is rainbow fund.org and it is free and we will printout your wish on a piece of paper and fold it into a crane and put it up on the tree. now, i want to thank, some key people who helped with this year's tree. first i want to start off with our core team, our core creative team and that consists of karin kai and linda mihara and thank you they have been working on the tree for seven years. >> and this year we have the help of dozens of volunteers and i want to particularly acknowledge the university of berkeley alfa, fi omega service community and volunteers from one brick. aid for good, the san francisco ch

in north africa and will most certainlily get questions about whether the m military could hae done moreon about the benghazi attacks on 9/11. judge, back you to. >> all right. >>> the questions about susan rice don't end there. in 1998 rice was assistant secretary of state for african affairs when the u.s. embassies were bombed. just like benghazi, additional security requests were made before the attacks and were denied. with me now is edith bartley whose father and brother were both killed in the 1998 embassy attack.th edith, thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> thank you fo for having me. >> our condolences to you for the loss of your brother and your father. i understand that your father was counsel general at the embassy, and your brother was in college at the time and was an intern serving at the embassy. >>g correct. >> in the 14 years since this has happened, edith, you have fought for the families of diplomats and hope that the department of state would be able to provide more protection for these diplomats. has anything happened as a result of your fight?

same scenario we were seeing the sonority all about suppose the protection of civilians in northern africa or libya in particular and how that became a prelude to regime change in tripoli now we're being told that turkey needs patriot missiles for defensive purposes not least to protect civilians and i think it's fair to infer that this is the prelude to another attempt at regime change this time in damascus but if turkish civilians are being caught up in this doesn't have a right to protect itself therefore look at this plan and implement patriot missiles . the problem is turkey is not entering the situation with clean hands turkey on the one hand is helping to supply the rebels who are attacking damascus and damascus understandably is shooting back and then turkey claims that it needs defensive weaponry to protect civilians and now if turkey were to stand down from supplying the rebels perhaps they would not have the problem of protecting civilians on their side of the border the russian says the deployment of the missiles will only escalate the conflict nato says it will d.

of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was what was going on in africa. >> (speaking spanish). >> and from some of the sounds they used to play that we almost lost all of them we still have some that he remembers. >> (speaking spanish). >> for instance -- >> (speaking spanish). >> this means "attention be alert. something is going to happen". >> (speaking spanish). >> wake up. wake up. >> wake up, wake up. (speaking spanish). >> and this are some of the drumming patterns that have been rescued by the cultural association. >> (speaking spanish). >> the african and review itse s size. >> (speaking spanish). >> to the actual size that he has. >> (speaking spanish). >> the reason why this drum was reduced in its size it was the intention of hiding it from the dominant class so they will not be oppressed by playing it. >> (speaking spanish) (drums)

do you do what's necessary to remain competetive to take advantage of these new markets in asia and africa and the americas or do you basically surrender to decline? and i think that requires very tough choices about the time and energy and education systems and welfare systems and being not prepared to tolerate poor performance. >> rose: and rick stengel, managing editor of "time" magazine talking about "time" magazine's person of the year. >> i always like to feel the person who wins person of the year it's both backward looking in terms of the year past and forward looking in terms of what that person will do in the next year and beyond and obama is a perfect example of that. the next america is the america of today. which is why in effect he's person of the year. because he's the architect of this new america and i actually think it's a great thing because it's a more tolerant america, a more diverse america. >> rose: osborne and stengel. next. caioning spoored by roseommunications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: george osborne is here. he is britain's

researcher in the africa division of the human rights watch. and then independent policy researcher. and vice president of lobbying network for peace. testifying via web cast. i look forward to hearing the testimony of all our witnesses on these two panels and will turn to the senator for his opening remarks. >> thank you, chairman coons and i commend you on calling this hearing on what is a very important and pressing issue in the area in west africa where you and i traveled about a year-and-a-half ago in the area and there's a lot of fledging democracies. we ended up with free democratic elections and a transition of power out of a very difficult situation. and our interests here today is to explore ways which the united states can be of help to bring about free and fair elections in 2013 in return all mali back to a democratically represented country as it has been until the last 20 years until the march in the north which caused the coup and the current problems. the united states has played a significant role in africa in many areas where

she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa

>> an appreciation, recognition of his historical role around the world, not just in south africa. i think for them they want people to use that as a touchstone for what south africa has accomplished and remind people of how far they've come and the road they didn't take which would have been a road of civil war. they've been very, very successful. i know supreme problems with jacob zuma, but i think what they all want to do is touch base and connect with something that is universally approved of and that was nelson mandela's time in that office. >> rose: if someone came to you and said you knew mr. mandela and you would say yes, yes, very well. and they said tell me about him. where would you start? >> you know, i would start with his courage and the notion that he wasn't naturally brave. he would constantly say to me when he was telling me anecdotes about his days on the land and his time in prison he would say "man, i was so scared." and i thought to myself nelson mandela is telling me that he was scared and i sometimes say really? and he'd say well, it would be illogical not to

imagine if north korea was africa. if there was a north korean government in africa we would bomb them. we would go on a humanitarian mission to remove that government. >>- q. i are you sure? >> i am telling you. >> most of the time we like to ignore africa. >> there would be an outcry for the u.n to get involved if there were black africans being treated the way -- >> i get your point. >> there would be world outcry. >> i get his point. >> i made a really good point. >> you did, but i am trying to move on. so they claim they launched the weather satellite that is now barreling out of control and headed toward canada or wherever. should we take them at their word that this is a weather satellite? >> because they never tried to deceive us in the past? it is clear they are trying to work toward a nuke clear weapon here. a nuclear weapon. it is another step closer. if they are sending up the red flag this is something we should be paying attention to, i would rather listen to them than random skeptics that would say it is

and the north africa region and also in pakistan the intelligence community did not see the arab spring calming. in the koreas mrs smith's about the situations and countries like egypt and syria for instance and i think in part this results from a heavy focus by the intelligence community overall on that what's called signal signals intelligence that is these very very sophisticated intercept systems to the detriment of the traditional human intelligence and i think now what we see in washington is a general acceptance of the fact that you can't do that the system is out of balance that they have to have much better human intelligence gathered on the ground to be able to interpret what they've gotten from signals and this is an effort to to address that problem but it also means continuously but wounding budget for intelligence. it's maybe inside of me but it's been revealed to us now relies on a run south that's when it comes to the treatment of its soldiers despite american sanctions imposed on terror ronde they've planted in past patches the nets in from the islamic republic to trim

since joining the service i spent almost my entire career in middle east and africa. one of the things that impressed me were people old enough to have lived and traveled in the united states when we had closer relations. those days are back. we had 1,700 libyans apply for fullbright grants to study in the united states this year, more than any other country in the world. we know that libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. there are many courageous libyans who bear the scars of that battle. we are happy we have been able to treat some of your war wounded at u.s. hospitals. we look forward to building partnerships between american and libyan hospitals to help return libya's healthcare system to the extraordinary standards of excellence it once enjoyed. over my shoulder here you can see the u.s. capitol building. in that building 535 elected representatives from every corner of america come together to debate the issues of the day. they are men and women from every religious, ethnic and family background. i look forward to watching libya develop e