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The green light to drill for oil. [ theme ] right now in the democratic republic of congo Government Troops are shelling the last strong hold of m23 rebels, the fighting is close to the border of rwanda. Our reporter has been with the soldiers as they prepare for the final assault. Theyve been fighting hard for days, and they are getting ready to fight again. They are congolese troops and have taken a stripping of towns back from the m23 rebels. They hold one town on the edge of the border. These congolese tanks are getting ready to move into position for what the army says is a final push aga...

Delhi. Plus another Senior Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested in egypt. This picture is said to show esam elarian when he was taken from a house in a cairo suburb wednesday morning. Hed been in hiding since the coup in july, which ousted former leader mohamed morsi. Esam elarian was a deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhoods political party. We speak to Dominique Kane who joins us from cairo. What do you know of the circumstances of the arrest, and what is the significance . What we understand is in the early hours of the morning the police went to a house in new cairo suburbs ...

Way back to france. Also. Im in the ecuadorian amazon where the government has gisent the green light to drill for oil. The u. N. Says the long drawn out battle between Government Troops and rebels in the democratic republic of congo is drawing to a close. Congolese soldiers are launching an assault to retake the last town held by armed fighters known as the m23 rebels. A bit of background. The m23 are a group of tute si fighters who defected from the government. The conflicts forced 800,000 people to flee their homes. The push by the congolese troops has been largely successful because they a...

My shoulder and any president that puts his hand on your shoulder gets your attention. Reagan was one of those historic figures. He said look it took us half a century to get into this mess. I have been the first seven years. Maybe you guys will have to do the heavy lifting on your own later. This is particularly special to me because so many people in this room have been a part of the process of my writing the book. I mean, everybody. Im looking around and seeing people who counseled me through the book proposal writing process and encouraged me when i thought i could never get it done, frien...

I majored in history in journalism, a double major in college and i took american studies for my masters degree. My summer jobs i worked for the National Parks service. I spent one summer at harpers ferry. Spent another some at the Stonewall Jackson house in lexington virginia but ive always been fascinated by history. I also like to write about history. Of course, the other thing is that in my research, im a music lover, too. When i found references in that respect a particular song or an instrument i would make note of that as well. I feel as i said earlier that music is great time machine. ...