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The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:44:11 +0000

Today on The World: US troops make their way through southern Afghanistan on day two of a major military operation aimed at clearing out the Taliban and winning over locals; an anti-gay backlash in Senegal, and the government is leading the way; and a bride and groom separated by visa problems and thousands of miles go ahead with wedding day plans – thanks to the internet.
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US progress in Afghanistan

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:40:41 +0000

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a Washington Post correspondent embedded with the Marines, for the latest on the US operation launched yesterday in southern Afghanistan.
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The British in Afghanistan

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:34:40 +0000

The deaths of two British soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this week has sparked debate about Britain’s role in the war. The World’s Laura Lynch reports from London.
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MARCO WERMAN: British troops have been fighting in Helmand province for four years. In the current operation, 3000 British troops are trying to extend their control beyond the boundaries of the province’s capital. There have been no casualties reported so far, but Britain is mourning the deaths of two soldiers killed earlier this week before the operation started. One was the most senior British officer to die in combat since the Falklands War. The other was an 18-year-old enlisted man. The World’s Laura Lynch reports from London, where the deaths have highlighted the debate about the country’s role in Afghanistan.

LAURA LYNCH: Returning soldiers marching through the streets of Exodar and South Eastern England were returning heroes to the throngs of people welcoming them home today. No debate here about the value of the military or its mission in Afghanistan, but everyone is also acutely aware of the cost.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marine Damien Jonathan Davies, Commando Logistic Regiment, Royal Marines. Sergeant John Henry Manuel, 45 Commando Royal Marines.

LAURA LYNCH: At a special service of remembrance in the city’s cathedral, an officer reads a role call of the soldiers who have died on Afghan soil, 171 in all. Two more names were added just yesterday. Trooper Joshua Hammond, and Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thornaloe of the First Battalion Welsh Guards died when a roadside bomb blew up their vehicle. Prince Charles, the Colonel and Chief of the regiment for more than three decades was in attendance to honor the men.

PRINCE CHARLES: It’s a wonderful family, really, the regiment, and so everybody knows everybody. And having been involved for 34 years, I start to see, you know, the sons and the grandsons of people I’d first met 34 years ago, coming into the regiment. So, would imagine the shock and horror that has affected the whole of the regimental families being quite traumatic.

LAURA LYNCH: Britain has 9000 troops in Afghanistan, far fewer than the US does. But Prime Minster Gordon Brown insists British troops are more than pulling their weight.

GORDON BROWN: We are making a contributions, the sharing of the burdens is important around the world, and we will work with other countries to make sure that the Afghan elections go off fairly, and that there is a proper elected in democratic government. Which is what was never there years ago, has been possible as a result of the overthrow of the Taliban, and we must maintain and support that democracy.

LAURA LYNCH: Despite Brown’s boosterism, there’s an active debate about the country’s role in Afghanistan. Retired army colonel, Bob Stewart has heard some politicians and other officials question whether the mission is worth it, especially given the growing number of soldiers being killed or injured. Stewart says the war can be won, but only if the government pours more resources into the campaign.

BOB STEWART: The military believe we can win, provided we put the right resources and are constant in our determination to achieve the mission, which fundamentally is to make Afghanistan safer for its people, and safe for us so the Taliban don’t attack us, either Europe of the United States again.

LAURA LYNCH: There’s another reason why military leaders are so determined to carry on. The ghosts of Iraq haunt them, says Stewart, ghosts of a mission that was flawed to the point of failure.

BOB STEWART: Military officers, particularly senior military officers are a little ashamed about that, because, you know, we’re not used to, we’re not used to that sort of thing. Normally we’re used to success, and people saying how well we’ve done. It comes as pretty difficult, something hard to suck on when people suggest, actually, you didn’t do too well, you British.

LAURA LYNCH: In that sense, Afghanistan is Britain’s shot at redemption. Stewart believes the influx of US troops can only help achieve that goal.

BOB STEWART: Thank got for the Yanks, thank you Americans.

LAURA LYNCH: Even with US troops at their side, as long as British soldiers continue to die, the dispute over their mission in Afghanistan will carry on. For The World, I’m Laura Lynch, in London.

Afghan pastime

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:30:13 +0000

The World’s Aaron Schachter tells us about the Afghan sport of kawk fighting. It’s a favorite Friday pastime for many Afghans in Kabul.
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US stance on political crisis in Honduras

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:26:24 +0000

The Obama Administration has condemned this week’s coup in Honduras. That puts the US in the unusual position of siding with traditional foes Venezuela and Cuba. The World’s Katy Clark reports.
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MARCO WERMAN: I’m Marco Werman, this is The World. It’s a waiting game in Honduras, people in the capital Tegucigalpa appear to be waiting for the next step in the leadership crisis that’s rocked the Central American nation. Last Sunday their President, Manuel Zelaya was deposed in a military coup and kicked out of the country. The US has joined much of the world in condemning his ouster, that’s left Washington in an unusual position, sitting with Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, on the issue. The World’s Katy Clark has the story.

KATY CLARK: It’s not often the president’s of the United States and Venezuela agree, here’s Barack Obama.

BARACK OBAMA: President Zelaya was democratically elected, he had not yet completed his term. We believe that the coup was not legal, and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras.

KATY CLARK: Using slightly more colorful language, Hugo Chavez also denounced events this week in Honduras.

HUGE CHAVEZ: [SPEAKS IN SPANISH]

KATY CLARK: The Venezuelan leader called it a Trogdlodyte Coup D’etat, and urged Honduran soldiers to use restraint against unarmed citizens. Never mind that Chavez himself threatened military action of his ambassador in Honduras was harmed. The Interim Government of Honduras has indicated it would consider early elections there if that would satisfy the international community. But the end of the political stand off remains far from certain. Michael Shifter is with the Inter American Dialogue, a Washington think-tank. He cautions that the apparent agreement that President Zelaya ought to be restored to power may be more superficial than appears.

MICHAEL SHIFTER: The are some differences for the motivation for why the United States came to the position that it did, and why countries like Venezuela and Bolivia, Ecuador have also condemned what happened. For those countries, they are governments identify of the left. Zelaya became an ally of them, so there is a kind of a political support there, which is different, I think, from the US’s point of view, which is trying to stake out a position in support of the rule of law democratic principles, which were clearly violated in this case.

KATY CLARK: Previous US presidents haven’t always taken this position. Most recently, when Hugo Chavez was temporarily ousted in a coup in 2002, the Bush Administration kept quiet.

LARRY BIRNS: The United States is clearly aiming for a new trajectory in its regional policy.

KATY CLARK: Larry Birns is director of the council on Hemispheric Affairs.

LARRY BIRNS: This provides a high visibility opportunity, for the United States to take a leadership position in establishing firmly that no extra constitutional overturn of a government by the country’s military will be tolerated by the Inter American community. That’s a good thing, to take place.

KATY CLARK: The message being the US might not like the person in power, but the democratic process must prevail. Jennifer McCoy of the Carter Center calls the political stand off in Honduras the result of democracy’s growing pains in parts of Latin America.

JENNIFER MCCOY: That could be the silver lining or part of the explanation for the crisis.

KATY CLARK: The crisis may come to a head soon. Honduras’s ousted president has vowed to return this weekend. For The World, this is Katy Clark.

Mid-term elections in Mexico

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:23:39 +0000

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a high approval rating in his country, but his party isn’t expected to do well in this weekend’s midterm elections. The World’s Lorne Matalon reports.
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MARCO WERMAN: Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon isn’t suffering similar political woes. Calderon has some of the highest approval ratings in modern Mexican history, but he’s unable to transfer them to his political party, the National Action Party, or PAN. It’s expected to lose seats in Sunday’s midterm elections. The World’s Lorne Matalon has the story.

LORNE MATALON: Yes it can be done. Chant members of the Opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, it’s Spanish acronym is PRI. The party’s Boyd by public poling, indicating it’s about to take away significant numbers of congressional seats from Felipe Calderon’s ruling PAN. Polling indicates PRI is running five to six percentage points ahead of PAN. The same polling shows Calderon’s personal approval rate at 65 percent, principley for his willingness to confront Mexico’s drug cartels, and their grip on the country.

FEDERICO ESTEVEZ: Every day we wake to a new announcement of somebody captured somewhere or other, tied to the Seta’s or to the other this or that cartel.

LORNE MATALON: But political scientist, Federico Estevez high personal ratings for Calderon, generated by confronting the drug gangs won’t translate into electoral gains. He says pre his regaining support, among Mexicans fed up with the severe recession, massive layoffs, and the human costs of the drug war. Close to 11 thousand people killed since Calderon took office. More than, Estevez says, Mexicans don’t think Calderon’s round ups of allegedly cartel connected officials have begun to sever the links between criminals and politicians.

FEDERICO ESTEVEZ: The level of comfort in the relationship between politicians and drug lords, organized crime, are just simply too high. I think that’s a very common perception in the country.

LORNE MATALON: Calderon acknowledges as much, without name PRI directly, he suggests it wants to return to an era when it alternately ignored or protected the cartels. “Leading,” says Calderon, “to today’s violence.”

FELIPE CALDERON: [SPEAKS IN SPANISH]

LORNE MATALON: Calderon says, “We can’t close our eyes to this harsh reality of the cartel threat.” And he needs congress to support him. PRI has done so but half-heartedly. It’s watered down legislation aimed at clamping down on the cartels, seizing their member’s assets or freezing their bank accounts. PRI says it’s defending State’s rights against the power grab by the Federal Government. Most States are headed by PRI governors. Analysts and public polling’s suggest, many Mexicans are nostalgic for a more peaceful Mexico, as it was under 71 years of PRI rule. While ignoring PRI’s history of corruption, financial scandals, and human rights abuses, including the killings of protesting students in 1968 and 1971. Political analyst, Victor Hugo Michel.

VICTOR HUGO MICHEL: They don’t remember what the PRI was, they don’t remember the massacre of 1968 or the massacre of 1971, or the financial collapse in 1982, or ’86, or ’88, or ’94, or ’95, so history no longer counts. That is a problem PAN is facing.

LORNE MATALON: Calderon pledged his would be the administration that puts people back to work. It hasn’t. Oil production is now at a 20 year low, and tax evasion remains endemic. Depriving the Federal Government of sorely needed revenue. Former foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda says predictions of the ruling party losing, mirror past mid-term results.

JORGE CASTANEDA: It’s very typical again, of recent Mexican political history, both with Sedio (PH), with Fox, and with Calderon. They can be personally very popular, as all three were most of their terms, and yet not be able to transfer their popularity to the candidate.

LORENZO MEYER: There is a sense that we don’t have a future, that we don’t know where the country is heading.

LORNE MATALON: That’s Lorenzo Meyer, one of Mexico’s greatest political historians. He says that the predicted takes place, a loss for Calderon’s PAN, with PRI regaining dominance in congress. Mexico’s two leading parties will spend the last three years of the Calderon Administration trying to make the other look weak, positioning themselves for presidential elections in 2012.

LORENZO MEYER: We are in the midst of political crisis. The opposition on the government are neutralizing each other, key policies that we need to implement are not being implemented because there’s lack of consensus, and part of the opposition is own willing to consider the present government as a legitimate one.

LORNE MATALON: And Sunday’s election is not likely to end the standoff. For The World, I’m Lorne Matalon, in Mexico City.

West African crackdown on homosexuals

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:20:21 +0000

Correspondent Jori Lewis reports on how gay men in Senegal have become targets of violence and a government crackdown.
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MARCO WERMAN: I’m Marco Werman, this is The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston. Yesterday we reported on a major victory for gay rights activists in India, the high court in New Delhi rule that a colonial era law criminalizing homosexual acts is unconstitutional. The news comes as gay rights campaigners in the US are also celebrating success; six American States have now legalized same-sex marriage. But in some parts of the world, being gay is growing more difficult. Consider the West African nation of Senegal. Gay men there have become targets of violence and a government crackdown. Earlier this year, nine gay men were imprisoned in Senegal, their jailing generated huge controversy, and so did their recent release. Jori Lewis reports from Senegal’s capital, Dakar.

JORI LEWIS: The Senegalese press called the SICAP-Mbao homosexuals. So name for the district where the police picked them up. Prosecutors charged the men with violating a rarely enforced law against homosexual acts. A judge sentenced them to eight years in prison. In April though, a Senegalese appellate court overturned the ruling. The court said the prosecution lacked conclusive proof, but the ordeal wasn’t over for the men. An angry mom tried to hunt them down. Daouda Diouf directs a public health organization called Inexante. He says the people took to the streets in a small town, where the men were reportedly hiding.

DAOUDA DIOUF: Fortunately for them, they were not there. I mean, it shows the level of hostility we can have in the community against this. This is a very sensitive issue in context Senegal.

JORI LEWIS: Senegal’s Prime Minister, Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye, recently called on the Senegalese people to fight against, what he calls, the plague of homosexuality. And Islamic groups have spoken out in the media.

[TV SOUND CLIP]

JORI LEWIS: This is Adama Seck, he’s an Imam from Dakar speaking to a local television station.

[TV SOUND CLIP]

JORI LEWIS: He says he condemned the release of the gay men. He said, homosexuality roams countered to Islam. So public opinion about gay men is not very positive in this Muslim country. Example, I met a guy named Ngary Diongue in small city on the coast. He told me that, “No, no, no, there are definitely no gay men in his town.” Then I asked him how people in his town would react to a gay man? We’d beat him to death, he told me. Not that long ago, Senegal wasn’t like this, at least that’s what Pape Mbaye says. He’s a singer, a dancer, and a local celebrity from Dakar. He says, three or four years ago he lived life as an openly gay man.

PAPE MBAYE: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] Everyone knew that there were gay people, but it didn’t bother anyone. Before, we had peace, we moved around everywhere, we did everything we wanted to do. We worked, we didn’t bother anyone.

JORI LEWIS: And Mbaye says that most of the gay people he knew lived discreetly, not drawing attention to their homosexuality, but certainly not hiding it. Of course, it was never easy to be a gay man in Senegal, discrimination was common, but homosexuals were tolerated, says Professor Cheikh Ibrahima Niang. He’s an anthropologist in Dakar, who studies sexuality in public health. Niang says, a lot of programs were created in the last decade to help gay men, like programs to prevent and treat diseases like HIV.

SE IBRAHIM NIANG: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] We worked hard to train doctors that we call friendly doctors. We train them to receive gay people without prejudice, and we were extremely productive in terms of this commitment to homosexuals.

JORI LEWIS: Niang says, despite religious pressure, there’s traditionally been a place in Senegalese society for gay men. In the local Wolof language, they’re called gor-jigeen, or man-woman.

SE IBRAHIM NIANG: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] You can go to southern region of Senegal, where they plan an important social role with women leaders. You have homosexuals there that no one can bother, and everyone knows that they are gay.

JORI LEWIS: The current militant backlash against gay men started last year. It can be traced to a secret gay wedding. Someone took photos, and a magazine published them. They showed a group of black men dressed in white, and they were feeing each other cake. Poppen Bai was in those gay wedding photos.

PAPE MBAYE: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] They saw that and the Muslims were appalled, because of that we had problems, they wanted to kill me.

JORI LEWIS: There was a sense that gay people were overstepping their bounds, that they were gay and proud, and that wasn’t okay. Conservative Imams spoke out against this gay menace and their weekly radio and TV shows. Protestors held anti gay rallies. A report on Senegal’s Wal Fadjri TV showed people chanting and throwing rocks in front of Dakar’s grand mosque.

[SOUND CLIP OF PROTESTORS]

JORI LEWIS: Pape Mbaye was so threatened, he received asylum in the US. I met him at his modest shared apartment in Harlem, where he still sings and dances for the New York Senegalese community. In a lot of ways, he lives a life almost identical to the one he left behind. But the Dakar he left behind, is not the Dakar he once knew. One night I hung out in Dakar with Ndack Diop, she’s an anthropology doctoral student who’s been working the gay population. We went to a dibiterie, where they serve roasted meat with a side of piment to late night diners. She tells me this used to be a favorite hang out for the gay men in the community.

NDACK DIOP: Why do they go inside? Because they know that’s the place it is for them.

[SOUND CLIP OF A PHIL COLLINS SONG]

JORI LEWIS: There’s a secret back room with a big dance floor, they’re playing Phil Collins.

NDACK DIOP: [SPEAKS IN FRENCH]

JORI LEWIS: She tells me, there used to be lots of gay men here, now there are just a few, staring at a flickering screen.

NDACK DIOP: [TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH] “The men are being careful,” she says, “and they’re right to be.” I met a former college student, lets call him Karim. He said that the situation for known gay men is still dangerous. Karim was studying at the University in Dakar, when some of his fellow classmates learned he was gay.

KARIM: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] They attacked me twice. You see, with a knife they stopped me. It’s been one year since I left the University, I don’t dare go there because I am afraid that someone will kill me. I stay in my house, I don’t do anything, I don’t have any work.

JORI LEWIS: And many leaders in the gay community are trying to leave the country. Leaders like an activist I’ll call Mustafa. He has a gay organization in Dakar. Mustafa told me a story, about a gay colleague who died last year in Pikine, a suburb of Dakar.

MUSTAFA: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] When he died, people from the neighborhood mobilize. They took his body and said, that the body would never be buried in the Pikine cemetery. Why? Because he is a homosexual. They took the body out and drag it in the street.

JORI LEWIS: Mustafa says that many gay men will hide the best way they know how. They’ll get married, and pretend to have a straight life. That worries public health advocates. The gay male population in Senegal has an HIV rate that far exceeds the rate of the general population. Infected men may infect their wives, and contribute to the spread of the virus. Professor Niang told me over and over that what’s happening now, the speeches, the violence in the streets, the desecration of gay bodies, and of course, the prosecution of gay men in the courts, none of that is at all normal. So why now? He says the answer, at least as far as that law against homosexual acts is concerned, may be more about poverty and votes than morals and values.

SE IBRAHIM NIANG: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] There he is, a new religious and fundamentalist rhetoric that is growing. It has decided on violence against homosexuals, maybe the government wanted to satisfy this rhetoric, maybe. Maybe they are trying to do it for political reasons.

JORI LEWIS: And, to provide people worried about a bad economy, disease, and corruption, with someone to blame. I emailed and called the Dakar based Islamic group, Jamra, to ask about its stance on homosexuality, but never received a response. The gay rights activist, Mustafa, says he wants to get out of here before he becomes someone’s bouc emissaire, their scapegoat.

MUSTAFA: [TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH] I can’t continue to hide, hide, hide. And I can’t let individuals with bad intentions kill me either. It would be better if I could find a place where I could live in peace, and to people understand that even if they lives is difficult, it is unto homosexual who have made it that way.

JORI LEWIS: Some activists hope they’ll eventually be able to repeal the law that put the SICAP-Mbao homosexuals in prison, but that will take an action by parliament. And at the moment, no legislator has come forward in defense of Senegal’s gay men. For The World, I’m Jori Lewis, Dakar.

Skyping the wedding

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:12:18 +0000

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with a man in Denver who’s exchanging wedding vows tomorrow with a woman in China. Joe Sinisi and Liu Shu had planned their wedding in Denver, complete with 158 guests. But the bride got held up when her visa was delayed. Still, the wedding will go on, thanks to the internet software Skype.
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MARCO WERMAN: Planning a wedding can be stressful, there’s family, flowers, and food to arrange, but what if you add immigration to the mix. That’s what tripped up Joe Sinisi [PH] and Liu Shu [PH], he’s a US citizen, she’s Chinese. They were actually married last October in China, and they planned to celebrate with a big July 4th wedding reception in Denver. Everything’s ready except one thing, Shu won’t be there. Her Visa hasn’t come through, but the wedding will still go on tomorrow. 158 guests will watch in Denver as Joe and Shu recite their vows via a video link. Shu will be on Skype at an Internet cafe, in Changchun, China. We spoke to Shu on the phone earlier today, and Joe joined us from Denver. Joe says they never expected the Visa process to take this long.

JOE SINISI: All the information out there is it should take about six months, so I thought, alright, lets plan our wedding eight months out, that should be alright. So I filed all the forms early November and there it sat for about six months, and I began to get concerned. And after several inquiries and a lot of sweating it out, homeland security did grant their permission to give her an immigrant visa in mid May. And, we’re at the point now where all the documents they need are at our US consulate in Guangzhou, and they could call Shu in any day, have a final interview, and give her the Visa, just, they have not, despite numerous inquiries.

MARCO WERMAN: When did you realize this wedding was gonna happen without Shu?

JOE SINISI: It came realistic this week, and it was far too late to call off the wedding, so we decided Skype was be a way we’ll do our vows. And it’s gonna be festive, but of course, you know, there’s a definite sadness that the bride is not here.

MARCO WERMAN: I guess the only consolation is that Shu could have opted not to show up on her own, instead it’s some other forces that are working against you.

JOE SINISI: Certainly better than getting jilted at the alter. [BOTH LAUGH] At least I’ll see her lovely face via Skype.

MARCO WERMAN: Nevertheless, it’s been incredibly stressful. Shu, how are you coping with all of this.

LIU SHU: I don’t know, I feel really sad about that because I’m far away from my husband, and I just worried.

MARCO WERMAN: So, Joe, you and the 158 guests will be in Chinese restaurant in Denver. Shu, where will you be in Changchun?

LIU SHU: I will be inter cafe.

MARCO WERMAN: And will you have any friends or family next to you while you are exchanging vows with Joe?

LIU SHU: No, actually I will celebrate with my family, but only in the home.

MARCO WERMAN: How long are you gonna stay on the Skype connection with Joe after the vows?

LIU SHU: Maybe another hour, two hours. I wanna see how they are celebrate and just try to enjoy.

MARCO WERMAN: Right. Are you going to get dressed up? Are you going to wear a wedding dress to the Internet cafe?

LIU SHU: I think I’m not to wear the wedding dress because I feel this not really like a wedding day for me.

MARCO WERMAN: Yeah.

JOE SINISI: The internet cafe’s in China are public places where it’s usually inhabited by chain smoking video game players that are there 24 hours a day, so it’s not the most romantic location. [LAUGHS]

MARCO WERMAN: Yeah, you don’t want to put the wedding dress into mothballs after sitting in a smoky Internet cafe for a couple dozen years, do you?

LIU SHU: No.

JOE SINISI: 14 hours later than Denver, so it’d be the morning for her. Our Saturday night will be her morning, Sunday morning.

MARCO WERMAN: Joe, when will you get to see your wife next, do you know?

JOE SINISI: That is entirely up to the vicissitudes of the department of State. It could be next week, it could be thanksgiving, there’s no rhyme or reason, and you’re not allowed to ask why. And I’m just one of tens or hundreds of thousands of people. There’s a lot of people like Shu and I that are married and for no good reason are just waiting indefinite amounts of time.

MARCO WERMAN: Well, we wish you the best of luck tomorrow, and in the future, Joe and Shu. Joe Sinisi, director of marketing and sales at Access China Tours in Denver. Liu Shu works for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Their ceremonial wedding vows will take place tomorrow, via Skype. The best of luck to both of you.

JOE SINISI: Thank you Marco.

LIU SHU: Thank you very much, and please help us.

JOE SINISI: Shu, are you still there?

LIU SHU: Yes, I’m still there. I just waiting for Joe say bye-bye.

JOE SINISI: I’m very sad but thank you for doing this, maybe this will help us so we can be together sooner.

LIU SHU: Yeah, I hope so.

JOE SINISI: Okay, go on, go to sleep, I know it’s after midnight.

LIU SHU: Yeah. Bye.

JOE SINISI: Zai Jian.

MARCO WERMAN: And you can see photos from Joe and Shu’s wedding reception in China at theworld.org

Geo Quiz

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:59 +0000

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The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:02 +0000

Today’s answer is the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
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Global Hit: Femi Kuti

The World — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:05:22 +0000

Anchor Marco Werman interviews Nigerian afrobeat musician Femi Kuti, son of the late pioneer of the genre Fela Kuti, and gets him to answer the questions he himself poses on his new CD about progress in Africa.
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