Now, secretarygeneral of the united nations. President sf four travel. Not george bush, senior, but other living president s with president obama. I thought the New York Times article on travel, 16 hours on air force one, having them all on board, and they made it quite. It is at a soccer stadium. One of three public events. 90 thousandf people. It is not a holiday in south africa and train stations at the outskirts of johannesburg most people going to work as if it was a normal day. A lot of people showing up. We will bring the full comments of president obama in johannesburg when he speaks at the Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela. Lets look at stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. The mood continues. Higher and higher. We wonder if we will hit dial the dow a20,000 by the end of the year. A quiet economic week. The euro moves this after against the sterling after governor mark carney spoke in new york yesterday. Stronger euro. Nymex crude churns. Renting market moves. Koran moving
Jazeeras ali velshi joined by Al Jazeera Morgan radford who new Nelson Mandela on a personal level, ali . Yeah, you can hear the cheering at the end of moons comments and its more somber in there at moments, outside people are still streaming in and starting to become a trickle and morgan is here with me and morgan knows the family. Today is not the family event, the family funeral will be on sunday in the mandela home. But the family is here and this is the way for the rest of the world who really thinks of themselves in many ways as Nelson Mandelas family to celebrate. They call him father of the nation and we heard the youngest of the three young men born to mandelas only son and he spoke about the legacy his grandfather left and afterwards that cut the cameras to president obama and the entire stadium erupted and immediately after they sowed zuma and the stadium booed. This is a complication of the post mandela era. For all the problems in south africa citing and there are many and
The republic of south africa, jacob zuma, your excellencies, of state, your majestys and royal highnesses, and the Mandela Family, fellow South Africans, distinguished guests, compatriots and friends, from god, our creator and sustainer. Our heartfelt condolences to the Mandela Family. We owe you all a sincere debt of gratitude for sharing your husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather with us and with the world. Thank you. The book of ecclesiastes, eloquent flames, there is a time for everything and this season for activity under the sun, a time to be born and the time to die, a time to plant, and a time to up route, a time to wheat and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to mend, a time to be silent and the time to speak. Wed hour heads, you have given and you have taken away. Let us speak the name of the lord. At some time or another, each and every one of us have experienced grief board journeyed through the valley of the shadow of death. Death and so
Into a civil war. Because of the politics of Nelson Mandela, it called for healing and it pulled this country together so that when you look around today and see all fees faces coming together to say farewell to him, you know there is a lot more to do in south africa. They have come a long, long way. A lot of thanks to Nelson Mandela. As we listen to the music also, the list of speakers to follow include president obama, then followed by the president of brazil, the Vice President of china, the president of india and president raul castro of cuba and the keynotes which will be delivered by the president of south africa and as we watch this genuine musical appreciation. As we watch this musical event of what Nelson Mandela meant to south africa. Talk about the list of speakers. They were talking about chance encounters between president barack obama and cuban leader, castro and president karzai of afghanistan. How would they handle that . It is a very dicey situation. Are you going to b
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