taylor faces 11 criminal counts and denied them all. today naomi campbell's evidence was also contradicted by this former french. carole white was for years her agent. she was also at the man to lead denver. she said she sought ms campbell and mr. taylor flirting with each other at dinner. >> he was leaning forward and they were laughing. and he was agreeing that there was a gift coming. >> she said that two men arrived at their guest house later that night. >> they came in and they sat down in the lounge, and they then took out a quite scruffy paper, and handed it to ms. campbell. and they said, you know, these are the diamonds. >> it was a dramatic and bizarre day, hollywood and the catwalk and snared in an african tragedy. naomi campbell is not on trial. this is simply to find out whether charles taylor was responsible for the atrocities that blighted an entire country for a decade. it is unclear that anything that happened under nelson mandela's roof that night announced to solid evidence. bbc news, in the hague. >> linking it charl

from charles taylor. we proved charles taylor was in possession of diamonds, which he denied. it suggests he brought those diamonds from liberia, which would define them as conflict diamonds. >> another inconvenience for naomi campbell -- at breakfast afterward, she told me of pharaoh there were from charles taylor. -- she told mia farrow they were from charles taylor. >> she told me it men had been representatives of representative charles taylor and they had given her a huge diamond. >> naomi campbell admits to being careful of taylor. >> he has killed thousands of people, supposedly. i do not want my family in danger in any way. >> the prosecution alleged that because of this fear naomi campbell is a liar -- is lying about who gave her the diamonds. >> is your account truthful? >> that is not correct. >> at this point, charles taylor picked defense team intervened. naomi campbell was appearing as a prosecution witness. the rules prevent the prosecution from giving their witness a tough time. the prosec

the secret currency with which taylor funded his reign of terror? brian ross investigates. >> i swear on the bible -- >> i swear on the bible -- >> reporter: on the stand at the war crimes trial today, naomi campbell appeared to be put out to be called as a witness. >> this is a big inkon veconven >> this is a big inkon veconven for me. >> reporter: campbell initially refused to cooperate in the trial, and appeared today only because of a subpoena from the court, forcing her testimony. >> are you a bit nervous? >> no, well, i really didn't want to be here, so i was made to be here, so, obviously i'm just, like, wanting to get this over with and get on with my life. >> reporter: for prosecutors, her testimony is seen as crucial in a case that goes back over a decade, involving hundreds of thousands of people killed or maimed in a bloody civil war that taylor is accused of fueling with what came to be called blood diamonds. as first reported by abc news, witnesses said campbell had boasted of receiving a packet of diamonds from taylor's representative

taylor smuggled diamonds to boost the war. in court, the actress mia farrow refuted testimony by naomi campbell. here is our report. >> what really happened at nelson men daily's charity dinner 13 years ago? some say that is proof that charles taylor was trading illegal diamonds for weapons. >> i solemnly swear on the bible, that i will speak the truth. >> mia, farrow said she saw naomi campbell at breakfast the next morning. mrs. cam seemed excited about a gift she had received in the night. >> she said that in the night she had been awakened. some men were knocking at the door, and they had been sent by charles taylor, and they were giving her -- they had given her a huge diamond. >> the whole truth. >> that flatly contradicts what naomi campbell told this court last thursday. she said two men had woken her and given her some small, dirty-looking stones. she didn't know what they were or who had sent them. >> did you ever learn who they were? >> no, i did not. >> you said they knocked at your door, and told you what some >>

. >> myself, charles taylor, mr. mandela. >> pointing to the photograph, she identified him next to her at a charity dinner hosted by nelson mandela. >> she said men knocked at her door. >> when i was sleeping, i had a knock at my door and i opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said a gift for you >> but naomi campbell didn't know who the men were or who sent the gift. >> do you recall why it is you didn't ask them why they were giving this pouch to you? >> i don't recall. i just took them. it's not about noral to get gifts. i get gifts at any hour of the time. it's quite normal for me to receive gifts. it was only the next morning she looked inside. >> i saw a few stones and they were very small, dirty-looking stones. over breakfast she told the story and someone else suggested she -- it must have come from charles taylor. >> and the judge asked -- >> i just assumed. i never heard of the country liberia before. i never heard of the term "blood dimetsdz." so i assumed it was. >> charles taylo

, she denied it. >> you flirted with charles taylor. that is a complete lie? >> i was with nelson mandela. my attention and focus was with him. >> after two hours, questioning was over. for naomi campbell, this may not be the and the story. next week, two other people who were at the dinner will give their evidence. their witness statements flatly contradict much of what the super model said today. bbc news, the hague. >> two years after georgia and russia went to war, there is little sign of reconciliation between the countries. people are believed to have died. south ossetia's border now runs through the back garden, making it harder for people living on both sides. tom reports. >> in the hot, dry fields of central character, it hit -- of central georgia, it is harvest time. memories are brought back. the work two years ago -- >> some of us can farm our land. some of my friends cannot. the fields are in south ossetia and it is too dangerous to get them. yes, we have relatives and friends there, but if we go, the south of sectionso --

charles taylor is accused of killing thousands of people. and today, as charlie d'agata shows us, campbell was questioned about diamonds she received from taylor. >> reporter: supermodel naomi campbell says she never wants to take the stand at the hague. >> because i really don't want anything to do with this and i care about the perception of my family. >> reporter: but the court subpoenaed her over a small packaged she received during a trip to south africa in 1997. >> small dirty stones. >> reporter: prosecutors say those stones were diamonds a gift from former liberian warlord charles taylor. >> i'm used to seeing diamonds shiny in a box. >> reporter: taylor is accused of trading weapons for blood diamonds from sierra leone rebels during the bloody civil war there. naomi campbell is on the stand here at the hague for almost two hours. she faced tough questioning by charles taylor's defense attorneys, who tried to tear holes in her testimony. >> it is pure speculation that these diamonds came from charles taylor. that's correct, isn't it?

one said it must have been charles taylor, potentially critical evidence against taylor, who denied ever dealing in diamonds. blood diamonds, a trade that despite every precaution continues today. as for that gift of stones or diamonds, a mystery, where are they now. campbell says she gave them immediately to jeremy ratcliff, then the head of nelson mandela's children's fund. he couldn't be found today, while the fund said today it never received them. stay tuned, martin fletcher, nbc news, london. >>> up next, we'll tell you about a place where making a difference for young men and women is a team sport. >>> in our "making a difference" report tonight, how a game is changing lives for young people who thought they'd never amount to much, but a special organization and teamwork is helping them move from the street to the field and achieve new goals. nbc's norah o'donnell in washington tonight shows us how that winning combination is making a difference. >> reporter: soccer is known the world over as a uniting force, but some also see it as a force for social change. ♪ ole, ole, ole, ol

, campbell received a gift from charles taylor. >> i had a knock at my door. two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, "a gift for you." >> she said they contained diamonds that resembled a " dirty little pebbles," but she did not know who gave her the stones. >> not know, i did not. it is not abnormal for me to get gift i get gives all the time, any hour of the night. >> naomi campbell is one of the last witnesses to testify at this trial. taylor has pled not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. >>> a polish court has ordered the extradition of an alleged israeli mossad agent. he will be tried in connection with the murder of a top hamas official at a dubai hotel in january. he is suspected of forging a german passport to help on of the men. 11 assassins used fake ids to travel to the by and check into the hotel in mumbai. -- travel to the mumbai hotel and check-in. >>> german media reports report that berlin has promised 4000 euros per family to the victims of an air strike in afghanistan. a german officer called in the air s

her testimony can help convict taylor of war crimes. he's accused of receiving diamonds from rebels in sierra leone. he allegedly sent campbell a diamond after a dinner party in south africa. actress mia farrow says campbell told her about it the very next day. mia farrow herself is expected to testify here at the hague next week and the actress says she's confident her version of events is accurate. in her words, you don't forget when a girlfriend tells you she was gwynn a huge diamond in the middle of the night. court observers say any proof the exchange took place could unravel charles taylor's defense. to say that he lied? >> to say he lied, because in his own testimony, he said he has never been in possession of diamonds. >> reporter: campbell will face intense questioning from taylor's defense team. they want to make sure the celebrity is not the star witness that brings taylor down. now, defense attorneys will want to pick naomi campbell's testimony apart. she herself says she didn't know where the diamonds came from so it may be

berian president, charles taylor. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting in the u.k. and around the world. is the oily tide turning? according to president obama, and and is in sight to the disaster in the gulf of mexico. new government figures show that three-quarters of the oil has either been captured, burnt off, evaporated, or broken down by nature. a senior member of the scientific team advising the white house has warned the impact on wildlife is likely to continue. james reynolds reports on an environmental crisis that became intensely political. >> the explosion in april left everyone with one question -- how bad is this going to be? at first, bp's chief executive insisted the environmental impact of the spill would end up being very modest. the oil kept coming. in june, president obama called this the worst environmental disaster america has ever faced. now the president has an update. it turns out that most of the oil in the sea has gone. >> the vast majority of the spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water. the long battle to stop the leak an

and it was representatives of president charles taylor. and that they had given her a huge diamond. >> we believe it's important because it shows his possession of rough diamonds, close in time bringing into sierra leone, the arms. >> reporter: campbell, reluctant to talk about the issue. she stormed away from this recent abc news interview. and rebuffed initial requests to testify, until the tribunal ordered her to appear, or face contempt of court charges. campbell's direct examination is expected to be brief. but it will give judges further insight into the affair, that has been causing so much media speculation. rob? vinita? >> sonia, thank you very much. >>> the first funeral has been held, following that deadly workplace shooting rampage in connecticut. and we are now hearing the frantic 911 calls from the beer distribution center where driver omar thornton opened fire yesterday, killing eight co-workers, and then himself. >> i'm in the back paper storage closet. >> okay. stay back there. we'll come to you. all right? >> thornton's g

they claim taylor used diamds to fund the beutel civil war. it may not have been campbell's first appearce inside a courtroom but she was a reluctant witness rebuffing initial requests to testify until the tribunal ordered here to appear or face contem of court charges. >> a bit inconnient for me. >> why did you not want -- >> because i really don't want anythingo do with this and i care about the protection of my family. and, as i said, on television before i didn't want to have anything to do with it. >> campbell's appearanc as a prosecution tness is unlikely to affect the course of the trial but that didn't stop a huge press turnout. the largest media presence so far in this year long trial. abc news, london. >> today whoopie goldberg hosted abc talk show "thview" respontdz -- responded to white house saladdy's claim that she hit her. >> okay? salahi appeared on "the view" yesterday. the show released a statement showing the vid proved sal lan hi's accusations are erroneous and coletely unfounded. things got heated after the taping. >> so i

maya farrow testified in the case against former liberian leader charles taylor. she says she witnessed super model naomi campbell flirting with taylor at a political dinner 13 years ago. it was held at president nelson mandela's palace. the following morning campbell showed off a large diamond that she said was a gift from taylor. >> in the night she had been awakened. some men were knocking at the door. and they had been sent by charles taylor and they were giving her -- they had given her a huge diamond. >> prosecutors hope farrow's testimony will link taylor to the blood diamond trade during the civil war in sierra leone. last week campbell testified she did not know the nature or the value of that diamond. >>> yes, your weight is a very important indicator of your overall health but equally important if not more so is the size of your waist. a new study finds people with larger waistlines are at greater risk of dying. we show you it's time to pull out the tape measure. >> reporter: gail tries to keep her weight in check. >> i exercise, weight lift, try to eat

they claim taylor used diamonds to fund the beutel civil war. it may not have been campbell's first appearance inside a courtroom but she was a reluctant witness rebuffing initial requests to testify until the tribunal ordered here to appear or face contempt of court charges. >> a bit inconvenient for me. >> why did you not want -- >> because i really don't want anything to do with this and i care about the protection of my family. and, as i said, on television before i didn't want to have anything to do with it. >> campbell's appearance as a prosecution witness is unlikely to affect the course of the trial but that didn't stop a huge press turnout. the largest media presence so far in this year long trial. abc news, london. >> today whoopie goldberg hosted abc talk show "the view" respontdz -- responded to white house saladdy's claim that she hit her. >> okay? salahi appeared on "the view" yesterday. the show released a statement showing the video proved sal lan hi's accusations are erroneous and completely unfounded. things got heated after th

it was representatives of president charles taylor. and that they had given her a huge diamond. >> reporter: campbell denied the allegations to abc news. >> since you received this diamond from charles -- >> i didn't receive a diamond and i'm not going to speak about that. thank you so much, good-bye. we're not answering those questions. >> reporter: under oath she told a story very similar to farrow's. >> i opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, a gift for you. i'm used to seeing diamonds. i'm used to seeing diamonds shiny, in a box. i saw a few stones. and they were very small, dirty-looking stones. >> reporter: helping prove, prosecutors say, taylor was in south africa with uncut stones, buying weapons. campbell claim claims she gave her diamonds to charity. she was just a little less combative. >> this is a big inconvenience for me. >> reporter: nick watt, abc news, london. >> while they have received money from her, the charity says they never got those diamonds. >>> here's a look at your weather now.

campbell told her that taylor sent her rough diamonds in 1997. farrow was challenging the super model's testimony that she didn't know who the gift was from, although she assumed it was from taylor. taylor's accused of receiving blood diamonds from rebels behind sierra leone's civil war. >>> parts of russia is being choked by smog. the smog stranded air travelers as firefighters tried to put out flames threatening a nuclear facility. >>> it's been quite a summer vacation for president obama's daughter. yesterday sasha and first lady michelle obama had lunch with spain's king and queen at the royal family's holiday retreat in the mediterranean. >>> one of the longest spacewalks ever failed to fix problems with the space station's cooling system. an ammonia leak erupted during the eight hour repair job. the sixth longest spacewalk. the next one won't be until wednesday at the earliest. >>> and oscar winning actress patricia neal has died of lung cancer. despite a life marked by tragedies, including suffering several strokes and the death of a young

some men were knocking at the door, and they had been sent by charles taylor, and they had given her a huge diamonds. >> at breakfast, i told ms. farrow and ms. white what happens, and one of them said, "obviously, that is charles taylor." >> other witnesses were called to find out what happened during the dinner to honor nelson mandela in south africa. others were present at the event. prosecutors hope to prove that the former liberian president, armed rebels fighting a civil war in sierra leone in exchange for illegally mining diamonds. the accord is expected to reach an agreement next year. experts believe that taylor could be equated due to a lack of evidence. >> germany has garnered its first gold medal of the european swimming championships in budapest in the 400 meter freestyle, but one took the gold by 0.85 meters. and finally, thailand has come up with an interesting solution to disposing of unwanted battle tanks. they are dumping them in the sea, with the full support of environmentalists. the resting or will help form and artificial reefs. -- itthe rusting -- the rusting a

today actress mia farrow testified while at that same party campbell told guests taylor sent her hge diamonds that she planned to give to charity. both contradict the british supermodel's stateme. last week she said she had been given several dirty looking small stones but didn't know who they were from or who sent them or what they were. >> ms. campbell, my children and i were already eating breakfast. and as i was it, she was quite excited and said, in effect, oh, my god, in the middle of the night last night i was awakened by knocking at the door and it was me sent by charles taylor and he sent me, as i recall, a huge diamond. >> taylor is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, included murder, rape and sexual enslavement. they claim taylor used blood diamonds to fund the brutal civil war. >> set to meet with top whi house officials to talk about the recovery from the gulf l spill. the meeting after b.p. succeed in stopping the leak by forcing cement down the top of the well. crews are drillin the last 100 feet of a relief well designed to seal it for good. the company put its firs

it's testimony prosecutors believe could help convict taylor of war crimes. taylor is accused of receiving diamonds from rebels in sierra leone in exchange for weapons during the country's bloody civil war. taylor allegedly sent campbell a diamond after a dinner party in south africa hosted by nelson mandela. actress mia farrow said campbell told her about it the next day. mia farrow is expected to testify next week. and the actress says she is confident her version of events is accurate. in her words, you don't forget when a girlfriend tells you she was given a huge diamond in the middle of the night. court observers say any proof the exchange took place could unravel charles taylor's defense. >> to say that he lied? >> to say that he lied because in his testimony as a witness in his own defense he said that he had never been in possession of diamonds. >> reporter: campbell will face intense questioning from taylor's defense attorneys. they want to make sure the celebrity is not the star witness that brings taylor down. charlie d'agata, cbs news, at the hagu

waiting for her in court, the indicted war criminal charles taylor. >> are you a bit nervous? >> no, well, i didn't really want to be here. this is someone that i read up on the internet that's killed thousands of people, supposedly. >> reporter: taylor is charged with fomenting a vicious west african war, trading weapons with rebels for so-called blood diamonds. today, campbell was in court partly due to what movie star mia farrow told abc's brian ross a couple of months ago. she said that after a dinner at nelson mandela's house in 1997, taylor gave the supermodel a diamond. >> you don't forget when a girlfriend tells you that she was given a huge diamond in the middle of the night. it was representatives of president charles taylor and they had given her a huge diamond. >> reporter: but campbell denied the allegations to abc news. >> you received a diamond from charles -- >> i did not receive a diamond, and i'm not going to speak about that. thank you so much. good-bye. we're not answering these questions. >> reporter: today, under oath, she told a story very similar to far

today actress mia farrow testified while at that same party campbell told guests taylor sent her huge diamonds that she planned to give to charity. both contradict the british supermodel's statement. last week she said she had been given several dirty looking small stones but didn't know who they were from or who sent them or what they were. >> ms. campbell, my children and i were already eating breakfast. and as i was it, she was quite excited and said, in effect, oh, my god, in the middle of the night or last night i was awakened by knocking at the door and it was men sent by charles taylor and he sent me, as i recall, a huge diamond. >> taylor is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, included murder, rape and sexual enslavement. they claim taylor used blood diamonds to fund the brutal civil war. >> set to meet with top white house officials to talk about the recovery from the gulf oil spill. the meeting after b.p. succeeded in stopping the leak by forcing cement down the top of the well. crews are drilling the last 100 feet of a relief well designed to seal it for good. the company

mia ferrell took to the stand against former african warlord charles taylor and contradicted testimony last week from supermodel naomi campbell. charlie d'agata shows us why these two famous women are playing such a critical role in the proceeding. >> i solemnly swear -- >> actress mia ferrell promised to tell the whole truth at the war crimes trial at the hague but her version is different than naomi campbell. campbell denied that she knowingly received blood diamonds from charles taylor but mia ferrell recalls how the model excitedly told her about the gift. >> i was excited last night by men knocking on the door and charles taylor's men sent me a huge diamond. >> she says she received dirty stones at a charity dinner south africa but testified she had no idea who sent them and what they were. >> they were dirty looking pebbles. they were not -- i don't know. not what i'm used to seeing diamonds, i'm used to seeing diamonds shiny and in a box. >> reporter: prosecutes say those pebbles were blood diamonds charles taylor smuggled to fund sierra leone's civil war and he says he never ow

prosecutors say those diamonds came from taylor. he is accused of receiving those so-called "blood diamonds" from rebels in sierra lee own in exchange for guns during the country's bloody civil war. campbell didn't want to testify, saying she is afraid of taylor. >> i really don't want anything to do with this and i care about the protection of my family. >> the judge threatened to put campbell in jail for seven years if she didn't testify. taylor denies all the allegations against him. >>> and we'll be right back. ,, "know the species, know the stain." lanolin-free coat, i know it's an alpaca. walks in here, looks says "hey look, it's a llama!" cleaning the stain like he would a llama stain. time he's wasting. ♪ call 1-800-steemer "meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento. he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs

farrow testified catch bell told her she received a large diamond from taylor. prosecutors are trying to prove taylor was paid in diamonds for arms used in a bloody civil war. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," stocks in asia had a mixed morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with that and more. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, emily. well, asian markets mostly edged didn't on news of the weak u.s. jobs report. japan's nikkei lost 0.75% while the hong sjeng was lower after a rally. today we get an assessment from the fed on the economy. most analysts expect a stimulus measure. last week, despite the disappointing jobs report on friday, the stocks made significant gains. for the week, the dow gained almost 2% while the nasdaq added 1.5%. >>> the housing market still hurting a report out this morning says the average value of the home in the u.s. is $182,500, that is down 3.2% from last year. values have now dropped 14 consecutive quarters. one bright spot, though, the percentage of homeowners who owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth fe

but was the gift actually from taylor who, in 2006, was arrested and charged with war crimes? a fellow guest that night, the actress mia farrow, thought so. >> what did you think? >> i assumed it was. >> why? >> i don't know. i don't know anything about charles taylor, never heard of him before, never heard of the country liberia before. i never heard of the term of blood diamonds before. so i just assumed that it was . >> the prosecution then posed the obvious question. >> where are these stones today? >> with. many ratcliffe. >> reporter: jeremy ratcliffe is the former head of nelson mandela's charity. many questions still remain. where exactly did these diamonds come from? are they still with jeremy radcliffe, the man she gave them to? but most importantly, are they the missing link between charles taylor and the funding of a civil war? it was certainly compelling theater, but the prosecution struggled to prove that taylor was behind the gift. and it may be another year before the court decides his face. >> holeman: in south africa, a spokesman for nelson man's l.a.'s chari

greg taylor says that's a start. >> what is it worth to miss your daughter's 10th birthday? you know, it's -- you couldn't have given me anything for missing that. >> reporter: steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >>> next, to the spiraling humanitarian crisis in pakistan. secretary of state hillary clinton will pledge more u.s. aid at a special session of the united nations tomorrow, and with 2 million pakistanis now homeless, that help cannot come fast enough. jim sciutto is in pakistan tonight, where even small patches of dry land are hard to find. >> reporter: this is 12-year-old nabi's new home -- a tent on the only dry land near his village, right in the middle of the highway. "life used to be good," he told us. with the flood waters still high and dry land scarce, he has many neighbors. as night fell, we met hayat, who lives under a tarp with his wife and four children. are these all of your kids? how many? >> one, two, three and four. >> reporter: four. did you think you would have to bring your family to live in the middle of the highway? "never," he said, "i had a go

we welcome back founder elaine taylor. >> high. >> how are you? >> it is not august without you. >> i know. it is not. >> last year you didn't do it. you said i know people don't have a ton of extra. you're back this year doing et cetera. is it safe? because it recession is still there. >> it is sketchy and who knows. people ask all the time. i have no expectations. we are going to raise whatever the people feel they can give. really, we're back, my biggest concern is to thank them for the 20 years of supporting us. >> you're 20 years old. the camp is text years old now. >> it is a 2010 anniversary and really a big goal of mine is to be sure that we acknowledge everybody ho has been a 20-year hero. >> how welded you do without that last year? >> it was tough. we did a lot of coins for campers all over the bay area, they put them in their stores and helped us do it, kids at school. some of the kids had a coin drive for us and we raised a ton of money that way. we had kids doing bake sales and help none made stands. we had all our programs and not c

taylor. she was forced to testify about blood diamonds taylor allegedly gave her. she resists for a long time and she told reporters, i didn't want to be here. this is a big inconvenience for me. which coincidentally is what the slave who dug up her diamonds said. she claimed she got a bag of dirty rogs s aey rocks in the middle of the night and claimed she didn't know where they were from. today, mia farrow testified that she had breakfast with campbell the next morning. she claimed she had gotten diamonds. >> it was mia farrow's chance to testify about a 1995 charity event. she was asked to recall a gift from taylor to supermodel naomi campbell. >> they had been sent from charles taylor. they had given her a huge diamond. >> she's very good with the cell phone, you know. let's be honest here if some guys wake you up in the middle of the night saying they work for a ruthless war lord and hand you a bag of diamonds and you don't know they're from the ruthless war lord, you're lying or you hav

taylor's family is eager to have him home. >> i'm happy. we're just waiting for the 48 hours or whenever so we can pick him up and bring him home. >> reporter: the judge said taylor's initial sentence falls outside the spirit of the three strikes law. l.a. county has eased up on giving nonviolent offenders like taylor a third felony strike. that wasn't the case when taylor received his third strike. >> they abuse this powerful tool through draconian sentences for very minor offenses, they will lose the three strikes law. >> reporter: two stanford law students petitioned the court to have taylor set free. >> this is what we wanted and hoped would turn out but we weren't sure that it would happen. >> reporter: the students are part of a group who are fighting to release other offenders like taylor. >> and there are somewhere around 4,000 other nonviolent third strikers currently serving their 25 to life sentences in california. >> reporter: many district attorneys in california are taking the same philosophy to the law that was applied to tay

taylor denies the allegations as nonsense. observers say if proven true it could unravel taylor's defense that he never possessed rough diamonds. campbell says he just tried to keep quiet about it. >> i don't want anything to do with this. i care about the protection of my family. >> reporter: naomi campbell said she only had the diamonds for a few hours before handing them over to a trusted friend associated nelson mandela. >> charlie d'agata. charlie, changes. >>> the daughter of rudy giuliani has been arrested for shoplifting. 20-year-old carolyn giuliani, a student at harvard, left a new york city police station yesterday afternoon. she was arrested after allegedly taking one of the hundred dollars of merchandise from a cosmetics store. >>> the senate is expected to pass a $26 billion jobs bill today after a vote yesterday that broke a republican filibuster. the bill was designed to help stage and avert layoffs of teachers and public service cutbacks. the house will be recalled from vacation to vote on that next week. >>>

taylor. here's mia far rope's account of the events. >> it was mia farrow's chance to testify about a 1997 charity event. she was asked to recall a gift from taylor to supermodel naomi campbell. >> they had been sent from charles taylor. and they were giving her -- they had given her a huge diamond. >> jimmy: well, that's -- she's very good with the cell phone, you know? [ applause ] so that's -- by the way, let's be honest here. if some guy's wake you up in the middle of the night, say they work for a ruthless war lord and hand you a bag of diamonds, and you don't know those diamonds are from the ruthless war lord, you're lying or you have the brain of a supermodel. this is pretty good. as you probably know, a new "step-up" movie came out this weekend. the first movie is the reason i got into show business. it was "step up," then "step up two, the streets." and then, "step up 3d" which is in 3d. julie chang sat down with one of the stars and inadvertently provided us with our unintentional j

. >> reporter: 2year-old katy taylor is running hard between her booming gluten free catering business a the new gluten free bakery she's about to open. >> cookies, brownies, tarts, pies. >> reporter: it' called >> i threw out so many cupcakes. it w hard to figure out what the blend needed to be. sometimes it would turn out too soft or sometimes too hard. >> reporter: she cse gluten free desserts and bread because of her mother's illss and the kids she met while a counselor at a cp in livermore. they suff with seal yack disease. their bodies can't tolerate gluten, a protein in cerin grains. here are some of the stories that broke katy's heart. >> if i have too much of the gluten, i could have kidney failure and stuff like that. >> i get really sick. >> what kind of sick? >> i'll be in the bathroom all night throwing up. >> i usually get really bad migrnes. >> they found out because i was breaking a few bones every year. >> i can'teat wheat, oats, barley or rye. so sometimes i'm at a birthd parties, i can't have the cake. >> on a gluten free diet, it changed my health. >> reporter: katy

charles taylor. we believe that is important because it shows his possession of the diamonds close in time to the bringing into sierra leone of arms and ammunition. >> today, sierra leone is on the mend, and more blood, but plenty of diamonds. doug out by hand by men who still remember what the stones did to their country. that is used to kill people, to buy ammunition, which generations and has caught. >> africa's mineral wealth has fueled plenty of confidence, but the issue has rarely ended up in court. now, though, the british civil model has a chance to play a small but perhaps significant role in detail in one specific link between diamonds and conflict. the sierra leone's victims, the child sends out one simple but vital message -- never again. >> it is very important, and this will solve -- serve to order people who want to do these things, the same thing tomorrow, they will say that they will be helped responsible for what they did. >> but just as alone is not enough. and i am living on the s

say taylor used blood diamonds to fund neighboring sierra leone's brutal civil war. >>. ers say a spinal fluid test may be 100% accurate if identifying patients displaying early semp tomorrows of alzheimer's disease, starting a decade smrks times more before people show symptoms. i that time, it's usually too late to treat them. they hope to ask them to volunteer to test drugs. study published in archives of neurology. >>> food your pets eat could be putting your children at risk. that is the finding of a report looking into a recent outbreak that sickened nearly 80 people. half were babies and toddlers. researchers think the children became infect bid touching dirty pet food dishes and putting hands in their moej mouths. >> if you wash your hands that, will be a good thing. if you wash your dog's dole bowle that will get rid of remaining salmon glel yachl you want to keep young children away from this that food so they're not touching that, then getting hands dirty. koit make them sick. >> this is additional flavoring is sprayed on, which may have caused contamination.

the stanford law project took on the case of greg taylor who was sentenced under the "three strikes" law. randy paige has the emotional celebration from los angeles. >> reporter: it is the day greg taylor and his family say they knew would come. the day he would step out into the summer sunshine as a free man after spending 13 years in prison. >> i'm glad to be out, i feel good, i'm glad to be around my family. >> reporter: he was convicted of robbery after breaking into a soup kitchen at st. joseph's catholic church in 1997. a priest later testified he was often given food and allowed to sleep at the church. taylor said he thought he was allowed to take the food but he was sentenced to 25 years to life under california's "three strikes" law because he had two robbery convictions on his record dating back to the 1980s. >> the criminal justice system realized this is knows the type of person that the "three strikes" law 25 to life was meant for so that's why the judge saw the wisdom of releasing him early. >> reporter: taylor's mother says she never lost hope. >> i didn't know when bu

i said to richard norton-taylor of the guardian, when i gave an interview to him, that at the time of 9/11, when i went to america the next day with sir richard dearlove and sir francis richards -- sorry, i'm deviating, but there is a point. >> that's fine. >> we flew back over new yor where fires we still burning, and i think we were all in separate ways reflecting on what this meant for our organizations and generally, and also on how the americans would react, and at that stage i have to say it did not occur to me that we would be going to war in iraq a year and a half later. but sometime between then and my writing that letter in march 2002 it must have become apparent that this was a possibility. so i think ibecame apparent much quicker than i remembered until i went back and reviewed the pape but i can't tell you specifically what triggered that. >> the letter refers to some things that the iraqis might try -- and, as you say, they are believed to have limited capabilities -- if there is an effort to topple the regime and it is suggested that what he could do, he would try only

patriots, falcons, taylor, nice tough run. tackle breaking run for taylor, 28-yard touchdown. the patriots beat the falcons 28-10. if you didn't know it was indy week, they reminded us all today. look at these cars. mario an dreada was on hand himself. so was a huge crowd. >> i knew if i was given the opportunity, with the right people and people believing in me, i knew it could be a big deal. i didn't think i knew what that was. there has been a lot of wonderful things that have come. >> all right. have a good night everybody. we will see you tomorrow.

in the hague she's alleged to have received diamonds from taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela back in one thousand nine hundred seventy campbell admitted to receiving what she described as a few quote dirty looking stones which she claimed she later gave to charity taylor's accused of selling diamonds to finance the civil war in sierra leone he denies the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. in south korea is firing artillery in a military drill near the spot where one of its warships sank five months ago the exercise is the largest sold conducted since the incident the naval drills it is a military provocation by the north for its part seoul blames its neighbor for the sinking of its warship pyongyang denies any involvement. jordanian society has become divided on the country's increasing westernisation while some are happy to eat burgers and read european style magazines others are reluctant to change their traditional values paulus leah takes a look at the ongoing cultural revolution. a men's magazine that shows off female flourish and leaves little to the ima