unrest. and what tipped it over in the past days? money and power. i know that is a big surprise. but the serving president pilfered 6 billion in oil rev revenue. and now they have taken over the norther part of south sudan and declared the territory. and the problem is, these two contending forces are tribally based. they have been in their throats for centuries. and the fear is that there is a civil war and a mini rwanda. that would be terrible. thank you for the update. thank you. there is new trouble for
do we know what is happening and whether or not americans are trapped in south sudan. americans are not trapped. they are u.s. citizens in the embassy and 46 troops on the ground guarding the embassy. but everyone who wanted to leave south sudan is out of south sud an. but the problem is, this compulsion the administration to come to the rescowed of failed states, we saw in serria and libya and looks as if this country may be devolving in a bloody inner country civil war. and the impulse to intervene and hopefully other nations in the remmion will irpt voen and this palace coup will intervene and it will not turn in an actual deployment. it doesn t sound like based on
we are looking very closely today at a part of the world where the united nations is afraid all out civil war will break out at any time. this is the youngest nation in the world. we re talking about south sudan, just two years independent from its neighbor sudan. but in just the past week, hundreds of people have died across the country, armed rebels, government troops are fighting them. there is an ethnic aspect to all of this. there are people getting caught up in between. now the united states and many other countries pulled their citizens out of south sudan over the weekend and u.n. bases there are now flooded today with people who can t go home because of the violence. president obama says he might take further action to to support the american people and interests in south sudan. now, he said that after three u.s. military airplanes were fired on while trying to get people to safety. four u.s. troops were actually
a building. the plane was prepared for take off to london. the aircraft was removed to a remote location as the cause of the accident is under investigation. we are happy to report that none of the 180 people on board were injured. a military megz to rescue american people out of south sudan end happen with four solid yers injured. south sud an is on the verge of an all out civil war. in a letter to congress, president obama said our troops may have to go in again. as i monitor the situation in south sudan, i may take further support to secower american personnel and embassy and property in south sudan. we ll get a update from our general scales. thank you for being here.
the statement it is not a humanitarian effort but only to secower american citizens that are all out by now. and the property in the embassy, do you feel differently? we said that in the early days of syria and we almost went to war with syria the administration has a strong affinitty to south sud an. we virtually made the state and pumped hundreds of millions of dollars to it and the administration s credibility. and so far it has been a palace coup turns in a tribal- based civil war and then the impulse to do something other than to protect u.s. property and interest could escalate to a deployment. i certainly hope it doesn t happen. this area is a hot bed of