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in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help vers navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of these you can answer with "i totally agree" up to "i totally disagree." >> reporter: darko's primary targets are young voters. almost 80,000 of them are now eligible for the first time, an entire generation that has come of age in the years following this country's brutal ethnic war. >> i am 18 years old. i am going to vote this year and i am going to elect because i want a new country. >> reporter: at the dosta event, we met alen, born the year the war started and orphaned when his parents' car hit a land mine. corruption and education are his issues. >> i go to the high school. our education is very expensive. we need a lot of money f
in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help vers navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of these you can...
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in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help voters navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of these you can answer with "i totally agree" up to "i totally disagree." >> reporter: darko's primary targets are young voters. almost 80,000 of them are now eligible for the first time, an entire generation that has come of age in the years following this country's brutal ethnic war. >> i am 18 years old. i am going to vote this year and i am going to elect because i want a new country. >> reporter: at the dosta event, we met alen, born the year the war started and orphaned when his parents' car hit a land mine. corruption and education are his issues. >> i go to the high school. our education is very expensive. we need a lot of money
in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help voters navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of these you...
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in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help vers navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of tse you can answer with "i totally agree" up to "i totally disagree." >> reporter: darko's primary targets are young voters. almost 80,000 of them are now eligible for the first time, an entire generation that has come of age in the years following this country's brutal ethnic war. >> i am 18 years old. i am going to vote this year and i am going to elect because i want a new country. >> reporter: at the dosta event, we met alen, born the year the war started and orphaned when his parents' car hit a land mine. corruption and education are his issues. >> i go to the high school. our education is very expensive. we need a lot of money for
in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help vers navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of tse you can...
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in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help voters navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of these you can answer with "i totally agree" up to "i totally disagree." >> reporter: darko's primary targets are young voters. almost 80,000 of them are now eligible for the first time, an entire generation that has come of age in the years following this country's brutal ethnic war. >> i am 18 years old. i am going to vote this year and i am going to elect because i want a new country. >> reporter: at the dosta event, we met alen, born the year the war started and orphaned when his parents' car hit a land mine. corruption and education are his issues. >> i go to the high school our education is very expensive. we need a lot of money
in the country's capital, sarajevo, the activist group dosta, which means "enough," is trying to help voters navigate the forest of candidates and get them engaged with the issues. voter apathy is a major problem here. >> so this is the vote meter two. >> reporter: dosta's coordinator, darko brkan, shows me how his vote meter works. >> you've got 48 questions on different issues-- for instance, health care, employment, social politics. and we have all of these you...
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forces joining the ninety's ethnic conflict on the side of a muslim population and bombing the capital sarajevo before more of clinton's visit to the balkans we're now joined from washington by. thank you for being with us this hour why do serbs oppose integration so much. well it's the issue of the war was fought over in the first place back in one thousand nine hundred two it was the attempt by the muslim leadership to create a strong central government it was the muslims who are not an outright majority in the country would be dominant and this is the issue that the war was fought over the inability of the three communities to actually have some sort of power sharing arrangement that they could trust each other each other and the muslims had pushed through the independence proposal unilaterally and had basically neglected the serbs and croats shove them off it aside and said this is this is our country now and the serbs and croats would have none of it and we had three and a half years of open warfare with a hundred thousand people dead and this is a very very significant issue in bosnia and
forces joining the ninety's ethnic conflict on the side of a muslim population and bombing the capital sarajevo before more of clinton's visit to the balkans we're now joined from washington by. thank you for being with us this hour why do serbs oppose integration so much. well it's the issue of the war was fought over in the first place back in one thousand nine hundred two it was the attempt by the muslim leadership to create a strong central government it was the muslims who are not an...
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today in sarajevo, she met with the bosnian presidency. she held a town hall meeting with students and members of civil society. while she was in sarajevo, she dedicated a street where the new embassy compound is scheduled to open soon in honor of ambassador robert frazier who died outside of sarajevo in 1995. his widow and children attended the ceremony. in belgrade, she met with the president and the prime minister as well as the foreign ministers and defense minister. she will also meet with a civil society. over the weekend, there was a successful parliamentary election in kyrgyzstan. we congratulate the people of this country. they demonstrated that they are committed to selecting their government through peaceful and democratic means. the u.s. in close coordination with international partners to part number of efforts to discourage fraud, inform voters about issues and political parties. it will be crucial for leaders to come together to form a new government and then to began the hard work of forming an inclusive society. following
today in sarajevo, she met with the bosnian presidency. she held a town hall meeting with students and members of civil society. while she was in sarajevo, she dedicated a street where the new embassy compound is scheduled to open soon in honor of ambassador robert frazier who died outside of sarajevo in 1995. his widow and children attended the ceremony. in belgrade, she met with the president and the prime minister as well as the foreign ministers and defense minister. she will also meet with...
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but this is sarajevo, the cap capital, a nation still more identified by its civil war that ended 15 years ago. the women arrived here in high spirits but with a mission. >> this is important to me because i am one of the sick women. i just had chemotherapy. this is the second time that i've had cancer. first in my breast and now in my bones. here you feel a lot. do not give up the fight for life. but there is some hope. you can win against the disease. >> reporter: this is the new frontier in the fight against breast cancer. one the world health organization reports 70% of global cancer deaths are now occurring in the low and middle income countries. >> you are not alone. you are with your sisters both in the united states and across the world. >> reporter: nancy macgregor is here representing coman. >> what is different here is this is newer for them. it is very similar to when the foundation was started 30 years ago but when the race was new, people were a little timid. yes, they come and you see them start to proudly wear the shirts, to begin to dance to the music. they are findi
but this is sarajevo, the cap capital, a nation still more identified by its civil war that ended 15 years ago. the women arrived here in high spirits but with a mission. >> this is important to me because i am one of the sick women. i just had chemotherapy. this is the second time that i've had cancer. first in my breast and now in my bones. here you feel a lot. do not give up the fight for life. but there is some hope. you can win against the disease. >> reporter: this is the new...
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there are not two sides to the stories in sarajevo or rwanda. whenever someone calls you buy your first name -- let me tell you what really happened, chances are he is lying. it the want to make sure your not being lied to, do animal stories. [laughter] [applause] i had done elephants, lions, jaguars, bulls, polar bears, birds of paradise, sharks, and a tuneup. i believe everything they told me. you cannot imagine how refreshing it is to report on animals. it was in 1839 that an english author wrote "the pen is mightier than the sword. that just means to say he had never been in the middle east. if you have been there and there is a war going on, please do not wander across the border into kuwait. i did once. it did not turn out good. if you ever since that your time is running out, listen to the stories in saudi arabia. whatever time you have left will seem like forever. [laughter] lastly, try not to make small mistakes. if you are going to blow a story, blow it big. it was not that many years ago i was the first reporter to learn that goldman
there are not two sides to the stories in sarajevo or rwanda. whenever someone calls you buy your first name -- let me tell you what really happened, chances are he is lying. it the want to make sure your not being lied to, do animal stories. [laughter] [applause] i had done elephants, lions, jaguars, bulls, polar bears, birds of paradise, sharks, and a tuneup. i believe everything they told me. you cannot imagine how refreshing it is to report on animals. it was in 1839 that an english author...
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[laughter] the first time i met christiane, it was sarajevo. i'm going to tell this question -- tell the story right now. i came out of a gaggle with the president, and suddenly there's this table in the back. she appears on top of the table with her camera and says, this is the question that everyone backs off. >> you use to answer the questions. [laughter] >> i still do. didn't you say that the taliban are more sophisticated now than when they blew up villages. >> in media terms, sure. they have not changed their tactics, the brutality. judith they have in their ied i's, which are the weapons of te moment, very difficult to counter. for all of us looking from afar and listening to various statements that come out of this administration, especially the chairman of the joint chiefs, who feels cautiously optimistic and he mentioned several areas. looking from afar, it is difficult to get a real idea of what is happening on the ground. would you say that you are breaking the backs of the taliban? is the military after breaking the backs of the ta
[laughter] the first time i met christiane, it was sarajevo. i'm going to tell this question -- tell the story right now. i came out of a gaggle with the president, and suddenly there's this table in the back. she appears on top of the table with her camera and says, this is the question that everyone backs off. >> you use to answer the questions. [laughter] >> i still do. didn't you say that the taliban are more sophisticated now than when they blew up villages. >> in media...
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speaking at the bosnian capital of sarajevo, secretary clinton told a university student they should put to their leaders to embrace a truly multi ethnic society and pledged continued u.s. support towards that goal. earlier, the secretary urged the country's leadership to mickey yu membership a priority. a more on politics as the 2010 elections near. representative peter defazio, an oregon democrat, says he may vote for someone other than nancy pelosi as speaker if his party keeps a narrow majority. his remarks were first public stock in the oregon news review and politico reports that the representative said any time you suffer big losses in business or politics, you need to step back and ask if you need to make changes. republican strategist karl rove, speaking earlier on "good morning america" is denying his party gets campaign donations from foreign sources and accuses president obama of "being hypocritical" in suggesting such a link. he went on to say that the gop doesn't accept donations from overseas, noting it would be illegal. he accused the president of demanding republican
speaking at the bosnian capital of sarajevo, secretary clinton told a university student they should put to their leaders to embrace a truly multi ethnic society and pledged continued u.s. support towards that goal. earlier, the secretary urged the country's leadership to mickey yu membership a priority. a more on politics as the 2010 elections near. representative peter defazio, an oregon democrat, says he may vote for someone other than nancy pelosi as speaker if his party keeps a narrow...
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her message in sarajevo and belgrade has been the same. you have to overcome historic divisions. there are opportunities that present themselves in terms of integration and membership within the european union, integration and membership down the road with nato. there are responsibilities that they have to take now, 100 steps to add these existing divisions within the respective societies, moving to dialogue that in the case of serbia and kosovo, can ultimately, hopefully, lead to mutual recognition. we were successful working with the international community about 15 years ago, ending the conflict in the balkans. but we have not yet seen as much movement as we need to see in terms of the end of tensions within those societies in those respective countries. she was there to remind them that there are tremendous opportunities available. we have a keen and significant interest in the complete integration throughout europe. but there are steps that bosnia herzegovina and kosovo need to take if they are to take advantage of these opportunities. >> end of one of the party is is less c
her message in sarajevo and belgrade has been the same. you have to overcome historic divisions. there are opportunities that present themselves in terms of integration and membership within the european union, integration and membership down the road with nato. there are responsibilities that they have to take now, 100 steps to add these existing divisions within the respective societies, moving to dialogue that in the case of serbia and kosovo, can ultimately, hopefully, lead to mutual...