Corruption scandals and the failing economy in venezuela. \and france over the french president s plan to give his wife a former role as first lady. 200,000 people have signed a petition against the move, saying it is too american. To todayst straight top story out of kenya, where the two main political dynasties are facing off in the president ial election. The current president , the son of the countrys founding president is running against former political present is running. The vote today is overshadowed over fears of violence. The disputed election 10 years by two followed months of fighting the left 12 people dead. For more on this situation, lets bring in julia in nairobi. How is the voting going so far today . People at this polling station in nairobi and elsewhere have been waiting in long lines after the Electoral Commission here said they went to Great Lengths to cut down on wait times. That includes an expansion of polling stations across the country. They are frustrated.
Political prop is. So i think the Faith Based Community is finding its voice. We have also three usaid given a 6 million grant to the south Sudan Council of churches to work on communitybased reconciliation offers. So we are engaging the Faith Based Community. I think of the many meetings that ive had with religious leaders in south sudan after the outbreak of fighting in december 2013th, they showed a lot of frustration and have turned a ear to them. I think they are beginning now to find their voice in unison and it may become harder going forward. The opposition people refused to get out of the vehicles and they sped off and the soldiers fired at those vehicles. The opposition Security Officials in the vehicles fired back and killed i believe five government soldiers right in that very vinty. So it was a very intense environment. There were a lot more soldiers out on the street after that incident. And our cars came along, and they were, it wasnt a formal check point. It was a lot o
This is the cbs morning news for friday, february 27th 2000156789 2015. Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. The knifewielding executioner who carried out the murder of hostages held by the terror group. Former isis captives nicknamed him jihadi john but now we know the identity of the masked terrorist. Don champion tell uss who he is and what some of those victimized by him are saying. Don, good morning. Good morning, lauren. His name is Mohammed Emwazi born and raised in london. He was on intelligence radar for more than five years but for a family of one of the ones he killed nouchbne of that matters. In all fairness discovering who he is might be important to some people but it should not be important to me. Reporter the parents of journalist james foley who was executed by isis laws august have learned the identity of their sons curl. What does that do . Isis is still doing its thing. Its a very narrow approach. The only thing ill be happy with is when isis is de
Captioning funded by cbs this this is the cbs morning news for friday, february 27th, 2015. Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. To millions of people he has become the symbol of isis the knifewielding executioner who carried out the murder of hostages held by the terror group. Former isis captives nicknamed him jihadi john, but now we know the identity of the masked terrorist. Don champion tells us who he is and what some of those victimized by him are saying. Don, good morning. Good morning, lauren. His name is Mohammed Emwazi. The 27yearold was born and raised in london. He was on intelligence radar for more than five years, but for a family of one of the ones he killed, none of that matters. In all fairness discovering who he is might be important to some people but it should be not important to me. Reporter the parents of journalist james foley who was executed by isis last august have learned the identity of their sons killer. They say capturing or killing Moham
Americans support for anticolonialism in africa during the early cold war. She looks at the politics of south africa and the role of the naacp. Her book is bourgeois radicals the naacp and the struggle for colonial liberation, 1941 to 1960. The Wilson Center and the National History center cohosted this 80 minute event. A few years ago, my brother sent me a youtube clip from the macarthur Award Winning author c hamamanda adichie. She explains as a young girl has used to write these stories about girls who are blind eating apples in the snow, and then there were more blondes, and more. And her mother said, child, do you know youre in nigeria . And she said well yes, but all of the book that she read had blondes eating apples and playing in the snow. Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message is that there are these stories that we hear over and over and ov