it shows wafa ramdani in sousse in front of the tourist authority. she'd poured gasoline over herself and planned to set herself alight. at the last minute she was prevented from doing so. wafa: i wanted to kill myself, because i was at my wits' end. no one helped us. so i poured petrol over myself. we no longer have a future. reporter: while wafa's husband is grateful she is still with him, but their desperation remains. tunisia was hit by three serious attacks in the past year. whalid's and karim's prospects are not positive. that's the terrorists' perverse logic, with only a few targeted attacks, they can inflict maximum damage on an entire country. whalid: why on earth did this terrorist come to destroy our lives? we can no longer pay our rent , or send our children to school. he's made our lives miserable. reporter: socio-economic problems create fertile ground for terrorist recruitment. youth unemployment in tunisia is at forty percent, and the figures are similar in egypt and jordan. europe, too, is seeing high unemployment especially in the s

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[applause] >> thank you very much, wafa. next we will have the deputy chief of information from tunisia. >> good morning, everybody. start by thinking professor yonah alexander and the atomic institute for policy studies for this opportunity to potomac institute -- to talk to you about this topic which as everybody agrees is a global issue. that is affecting all the world and every single day, unfortunately we are having proof of that, that no country is safe from this threat. i chose not to overload this presentation which will be brief with facts and figures and stuff like that, because all this is available to everybody on the internet, on the news in the media as well. i chose just to have an over cry of the tunisian experience in that regard, and where we are coming from and where we are now. we would like to go actually along with, obviously, in our context, regional context in the global context of the world in general, along with our partners, the french and the like. just a few words on the tunisian background. tuni