the last u.s. combat brigade pulls out of iraq two weeks ahead of leaving behind a month's contingent to train security forces and protect the people. it's fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living creatures to survive space travel making history and paving the way for a future exploration. chief inspectors to pull off russia a visit to examine its bid to host one of the next world cups leaving officials optimistic about the country's chances. turn are stopping terrorists and stemming the flow of drugs that's what the leaders of afghanistan and pakistan together with russia agreed upon at a summit in sochi middle east expert james denselow thinks there's a chance that afghanistan could become a source of corporation between russia and the u.s. . i think russia is strengthening strengthening its presence in the world in the last few years and i think it's interesting that afghanistan a country which for ten years during the one nine hundred eighty s. was a source of co

the u.s. to withdraw the last of its troops from iraq by the end of this year. at the defense conference in baghdad, the general warned the iraqi military might not be ready to assume full control for another decade. washington says it is on target to and combat operations by september and to remove all troops by the end of 2011. in afghanistan, several thousand prostrated -- several thousand protested the deaths of three men killed by u.s. troops in a nighttime raid. they shouted, "death to america," and blocked a road. the victims were suspected insurgents. the u.n. estimates that 300 civilians have been killed in afghanistan by u.s. forces this year. we will be taking a look at the challenges faced by german and international troops in afghanistan later in the show. poland has extradited a suspected mossad agent to germany. he is accused of assassinating a top hamas official in the united arab emirates earlier this year. this man allegedly provided a passport to one of the assassins. the ta

the u.s. . but perhaps the most interesting aspect of it is the development of a regional diplomacy which does not depend on the united states i think it's time that we began to look forward to a day when the united states will not in fact be present on the ground in afghanistan and countries in the region will have to make their own arrangements to deal with whatever comes after the american presence three other countries are absolutely essential namely china india of course and iran and the problem is that sort of deep distrust between pakistan and india and to a lesser extent between india and china makes return of the great arrangements over afghanistan extremely difficult in the past and to a degree even today these countries have often played proxy wars against each other including in afghanistan over the past thirty years or so there has been only one force only one force in afghanistan which has ever been able to control the heroin trade and that is the taliban for their own reasons in

u.s. president barack obama was out taking a victory lap on iraq today he was talking about the end of america's combat mission in the country which is that for the end of this month a promise he made obama gave a speech in atlanta georgia and to sum up the message in one hundred forty characters let's take a look at what he tweeted today he said quote as a candidate a presidential candidate pledged to bring to you walk iraq war to a responsible and that's exactly what we're doing as promised on schedule and quote now but this is this focus on iraq to distract from the waning support and the deteriorating security situation in afghanistan perhaps is obama trying to change the narrative of a war in iraq that was entered into under a false pretense at the cost of more than seven hundred billion dollars and counting and more than four thousand u.s. lives which for iraqis has meant the death of more than one hundred thousand iraqis and the displacement of two million well here to talk about is

u.s. haul sales and to record temperatures that's all in the kaiser report only here on alt. max kaiser and welcome to the kaiser report controversy swirling a room the world dirty corrupt bankers but dirty crow grading agencies duty and corrupt economists who fail to see the big picture as we do on this show we give it to you wrong we give it to you straight we give it to you real let's go to states or overseas here or do some of the real stuff max i have a lot of real stuff first a real beef with you but i deposit a fifty euro note that you gave me into my bank account yesterday yeah and the whole machine shut down yeah guards came to me and said it was a counterfeit fifty euro note yet now that's the fifty euro note that you gave me ok you're hanging the money you're passing bad bills well speaking of bad bills this is indirectly in my first headline max china's gold demand surge is twenty six percent in q two w g c w g c is the world gold council and they report china's gold demand in

but china cut 3% of its u.s. treasury holdings as it worked for a second straight month to diversify its massive portfolio of international debt. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: the markets tread water. the dow fell a point, while the nasdaq gained eight and the s&p 500 was up a fraction. trading volume started the week light. under 800 million shares traded on the big board. nasdaq volume came in at 1.6 billion. with the home buyer tax credit now a memory, homebuilders aren't feeling so hot about their prospects. in june, the national association of home builders' monthly sentiment index fell to its lowest level in more than a year. the fed said banks began easing lending standards for small businesses during the second quarter, the first time that's happened in four years. but the data show easing of standards is happening mostly at the nation's biggest banks. and, general motors appears to be ready to start its much- anticipated initial public offering. reuters says g.m. has finishe

u.s. military files. sordid details of politicians i don't think we need to know but information that's in the public. should know everything. indiscriminate shooting by u.s. soldiers and civilians is nothing unusual that's the view of veterans you spoke to they regret their actions. desperately trying to intercept thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals which are floating towards russia severe floods washed the drums into a river on wednesday. in office in russia's far east looking into unconfirmed reports that some barrels already leaking poisonous contents. base either just around fifty years ago the water in the arm or was so clean it was possible to drink it straight from the river obviously over the years the situation has changed but the ecology here is now under threat of becoming even worse chinese authorities now say that they've managed to extract several thousand barrels which had been washed into the river last wednesday as a result of the biggest flood china has exper

this week the u.s. added thirty seven billion dollars to its war budget off the congress approved further funding for the afghan troops image capitol hill was unmoved by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which published ninety thousand classified documents detailing civilian deaths at the hands of nato personnel the pentagon is investigating the source of the leaks and one soldier has been charged with releasing online a classified video of a military operation white house has requested we can leaks to stop posting top secret documents to the founder and editor in chief of the website julian assange says they've tried to cooperate with the white house but have had no response but we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back between thousand reports for for the period because they had this sort of classification that suggested maybe they contain that sort of material we approached the white house to austin for assistance in reviewing material before we published

the u.s.s. often. around the same time defense units hold massive training exercises. cruise around constantly. in the defense force during the exercises he heard rumors about defense units getting ready to go to a far away country to take part in. it before was sent to vietnam we get strict orders not to tell anybody we're going to distant places. what that place was. the defense missile system was to be tested for the first time in history in vietnam in military conditions. had a crew. i know this launches down to the last little. i felt it all over and checked it thousands of times. the first soviet rocket specialists came to viet nam in april one nine hundred sixty five here they were officially called military advisors they organized a crash course training the vietnamese to. a team's did their work. and. the vietnamese were generally not very tall rather short actually. it was hard for them to load the rocket launcher around. so when one of us was enough to load two or three vietnamese h

seven u.s. troops were killed in roadside bomb attacks in southern afghanistan today. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we get analysis of the latest violence and the charges of corruption within the karzai government. >> woodruff: then we have the first of a week of stories from margaret warner in baghdad. tonight she reports on iraqis taking over as u.s. forces draw down. >> especially as control of it, they are my partners, they protect me. they have for the last months. i trust them implicitly. >> suarez: kate zernike of the "new york times" and david von drehle of "time" magazine assess the glenn beck phenomenon and the tea party movement after the weekend rally in washington. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown finds out what this year's emmy awards say about the business of entertainment television. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... thi

occupation of redefine the u.s. withdraws its last combat troops from iraq ahead of president obama's deadline but critics say nothing will change in the country. and the troop pioneers it's a fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living creatures to survive space travel paving the way for future exploration. broadcasting live from central moscow this is our t.v. the top story this hour pharmaceutical companies are accused of using people in india as guinea pigs to test new drugs without their consent human rights groups say even those people on tests who are alerted to possible dangers are not told the full story meanwhile india's health ministry says the number of deaths linked to clinical trials has risen this year alone more people have died than in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight combined archies charan singh investigates. india government run hospitals provide treatment to the poor but there are increasingly aims that being made in guinea pigs in drug trials for we

the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> it's a reliable system. it's a resilient system and it is tied in, in all areas. >> reporter: but after the levees failed, a federal judge blamed the corps for mismanaging the patc patchwork barrier systm that collapsed for creating the disaster. but it's not just the corps now rebuilding reputations. take mike brown, who found infamie in a presidential atta boy. >> brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. >> if you watch that tape again, you'll see my wince. >> reporter: this mike brown the former fema director. >> i was asking for things, telling them what we needed. >> reporter: brown said all government agencies involved in katrina's second disaster, the response, learned a great deal from katrina. the question from ken dorsey and so many other people here whether those agencies learned enough. could katrina happen again here? >> no doubt in my mind. i believe it could. >> reporter: just because not enough has been done. >> not enough has been done. >> re

he said the u.s. marines in the south of afghanistan are likely to remain for a few years. >> the u.s. has more than 90,000 troops in afghanistan. president obama has promised to start bringing them home in july, 2011, in effect a beginning of the end of the war. now, the head of the u.s. marine corps has speculated bluntly about the effect of the president's deadline on the taliban. >> in some ways, we think right now it's probably giving our enemy sustenance. we think that he may be saying to himself, in fact, we've intercepted communications that say, hey, we only have to hold out for so long. let me give you a different thought. if you accept what i offered earlier as true that marines will be there after 2011, ok, after the middle of 2011, what's the enemy going to say then? what is he going to say to his foot troops where you've got leadership outside the country trying to direct operations within because it's too dangerous for them to be there and the foot troops have been believing what they'r

the u.s. is reportedly close to setting up a defense shield in europe against a possible attack from iran pentagon officials say a deal may soon be reached with. a key element of the defense system. to help combat crime among its ethnic minority which is seen as failing to integrate into society. but critics say it's just another example of discrimination . and star from america's small screen is conquering the hearts of millions with other famous for guess trying to ride the wave of popularity take a look at snooki from m.t.b.f. reality show jersey shore. celebrity letter. or knees in just under fifty minutes time next it's the sports news with kate. in there. alone welcome to the sports news here from out in moscow and here are the top stories. on the rise champion's rubin go second in the past and i was scared i'm survey also i went in the russian premier league. while sunday thrill is filling grab my last gasp drawer gets man stand i did on the cos it smashed six cars aston villa in the en

because u.s. economy of course is shrinking what else what else tell us more well just to put this into context because this is gold you've been telling everybody is the way to protect from fake currency and fake currency is the total gold demand according to the world gold council last year was up thirty six percent to one thousand and fifty tons but in the u.s. as we're talking about it's also been a record year u.s. home sales and record july slump. this is existing home sales and it was a twenty seven percent slump in july home sales which has intensified fears of a u.s. double dip recession according to the article this notion that there's somehow a double dip that it wasn't a continuous collapse you know that that's false isn't it you see we hit peak credit in two thousand and seven we hit peak asset inflation in two thousand and seven and it's been unwinding sense then when obama came into office he threw some money in there threw some more currency into the bonfire and it created in two th

you mentioned changes in the u.s. policy regarding latin america how would you define those changes and how would you assess the u.s. role in the politics of latin american countries. i believe the situation in latin america makes the u.s. dialogue different from what it was before the bush era but u.s. policy hasn't been modified i'd say that we need a new dialogue based on objective reality of latin america and china died and to boggo president obama said he wanted our relations to be based on mutual respect and so on but how can anyone explain u.s. involvement in the cohen whom duras just a few months later and how can we explain the fact that the us was fighting to recognize the under him government the only thing we see is that the us has in chief. changed in its essence the world is changing the us is and this isn't a problem just for latin america but rather for the entire world this country has military and economic power and at the same time it's not changing its expansionary and imperialist policy and really

well staying in the u.s. now in newark mayor michael bloomberg says plans to build a mosque just two blocks from the nine eleven site show you their commitment to american values with what he told guests in on the ramadan dinner attended by muslim community leaders some new york. divided over the project with some play may be driven by politicians hoping it's again an upcoming election. if there had to be a dirty word this summer that word would arguably be mosque or. mosque we have an island we have the united states. really going to be is a monument to the nineteen hijackers if close to this right it would absolutely be a monument to the forty and nineteen extremists the iceberg there is a great industry beach behind the destruction of western civilization here in the u.s. the whole country is bickering over the development of an islamic cultural center two blocks from ground zero zero you're ready dueling demonstrations in lower manhattan opponents against supporters. with midterm elections approaching in

has to cut military spending what happens to the u.s. then well the u.s. empire is going to have to shrink but it's going to have to be a managed shrink you know these things don't happen they do happen dramatically overnight sometimes but usually it's something that happens progressively such as with the british are so what you'll see is the u.s. will pursue its withdrawal from iraq which president obama said he was going to do today and from afghanistan and from other parts of the world and let other big powers take over that spatial see india merge in the south continent china in asia as it has been brazil and south america and russia and germany and europe so you'll see these other powers start to move forward the u.s. will learn or lose a little bit of its of its empire and chunk by chunk but they'll be stronger at home and that will allow them to move forward on a stronger basis and i think that's what's really facing the u.s. right now that's how it all starts greggory why we appreciate your insight on the possibility of a lost decade for the u.s. t

the u.s. is imposing more sanctions on iran drawing up a new expanded blacklist of groups suspected of terrorist slings it follows recent comments by america's top military officer that they're refusing to rule out using all of force of around its uranium enrichment to round last ounce in response saying military action would lead to the u.s. suffering a defeat worse than those in iraq and afghanistan. more from new york. well the united states treasury department did announce additional sanctions against twenty one iranian entities entities that u.s. officials say and accuse of aiding groups such as hezbollah hamas and the taliban now these u.s. sanctions are targeting iranian companies in the banking insurance investment mining and engineering sector americans or u.s. companies are now in a bid from doing any business from those entities that are now being sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department and all of this is coming just a few days after the u.s. joint chiefs of staff michael mullen

i mean the just hottest websites use that story as proof that the u.s. is indeed fighting this holy war against them and that's not just bad press that's actually putting lives at risk but are these events more common than we think is there a culture of christian beliefs in the military that's becoming more prevalent and perhaps even putting more pressure on troops will join me to discuss it is afghanistan veteran jake to live barito jake thanks so much for being here you know i have to ask you this is just one story here but how commonplace are are these events maybe not even mass baptisms but just the prevalence of religion within the military. well you there's an old phrase it says there's no atheists in foxholes there are for many years christianity has been a huge part of the u.s. military in fact the uniform code of military justice is modeled after many christian beliefs for instance you can be kicked out of the army if you commit adultery you can be kicked out of the out of the army if you participate sodomy of course if you're gay you'll get kic

the u.s. flag is often seen side by side with the vietnamese flag on the facades of joint ventures college undergraduates domes to modern pulp music near a monument to soviet leader lenin. but one thing remains the same. is guarded around the clock by the soldiers of the vietnamese army the the army .

and punch to stardom as the u.s. and braces new cultural symbols in the face of outrageous reality stars some americans fear it's trashing the contras image abroad the latest craze is a pint sized girl known as snooki part of a controversial show for trying to tell you know americans vacationing on the jersey shore. and now that exclusive interview with the nicaraguan president daniel ortega he speaks to our t. about washington's policies and how they are affecting latin america. they get up and says comandante thank you for joining us today so we got to time honda you wrote it will tell you as an isolated incident. possibly or come say useful here. i believe that our nations cannot remain calm the endure school was a blow for all latin american countries which just a few weeks prior to that had a meeting with president obama in china died in two boggo the latter proclaimed the beginning of nuclear lesions more like the american that coup meant the fight against intentional express concern about how to bargo not just

the u.s. state of arizona has enforced new illegal immigration legislation but the most disputed parts of the bill were struck out just before it was enacted it means immigrants will be safe from random police checks which some claim profiling but those against the bill say it's a bittersweet victory as the fate of illegals in the united states remains precarious. i don't think. it was it is. doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great as the owner of guy one of my god everybody was so excited for a day and. a hero he was. that's because just one day before the law was to be enacted i. think that harshest provisions i'm here celebrating with the community and our victory. were to be moved a celebration over one hundred a long hot days in the making. i know the love there how much that celebrate and i mean it's not a number assigned immigration law they've been here every single day five am. break but it wasn't always a lock down but some of the most controversial me

the u.s. secretary of state says israel and the palestinians have agreed to resume peace talks for the first time in almost two years they aim to reach an agreement which would lead to two sovereign states gyptian president and jordan's king will also attend the session due to the critical role in the peace effort and president barack obama will hold one on one meetings with each of the leaders beginning early next month in. the u.k. government deserves libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the lockerbie bomber guy he was freed by scottish authorities on compassionate grounds suffering from terminal cancer the hero's welcome he received on his return was condemned by the u.s. and u.k. the foreign office says similar scenes would be insensitive to the relatives of the two hundred seventy people killed when the pan am flight exploded above lockerbie in one nine hundred eighty eight. b.p. has rejected claims it's withholding data needed for a probe into the gulf of mexico

light some people are saying but here's a headline about the u.s. u.s. is bankrupt and we don't even know if this is laurence kotlikoff boston university he's an economist and he points to a fiscal gap of two hundred two trillion dollars if you put everything on the balance sheet that's a big number well it's fifteen times more than the official debt and the discrepancy between the official debt and the actual net debt. it reflects what economists call the labeling problem what is a labeling problem well is when congress labels most of its liabilities unofficial in order to keep them off the books and into the future so the question is as laurence kotlikoff was asked by bloomberg presenter but is that to say that they are effectively lying to us. yeah they're effectively long tours there's no question about it yes governments are lying to you. wow what a revelation well how can you tell they're lying to us well take a look at this other video from america and its third world america tens of thousands of americans outside of atlanta georgia fight to get a

giving up his u.s. citizenship has made it his mission to oppose u.s. military action wherever he can he was on board one of the gaza bound aid ships raided by israeli may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel but ken o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't born out of hatred you know i realized at a certain point it citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the charms of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations and. taxes those taxes are being used to commit mass murder i don't agree to that a lot of people misinterpret renounce your citizenship or hate america and that's absolutely not the case at all i have a deep love for the american people and i wish that the ideal of america became a reality until that dream becomes a reality and all those like him will be staying away from the land of the free and the home of the brave. britain's first coalition government since nine hundred forty five is marking one hundred days in office since e

are the u.s. soldiers really hanging back and the iraqis are running it which is what they say is happening or is it do they depend on the americans more? we will, of course, look at the daily life of iraqis. i mean, what has seven years of occupation meant for the iraqis? do they feel safer? what is baghdad like today in terms of sectarian violence and strife? as you know, attacks have gone up. what about the fact that they're all sweltering with no electricity three or four hours a day. we'll look at that. we want to look at other special areas, for instance, u.s. reconstruction. what has that really wrought? there have been all kinds of stories about that not really coming to fruition as we hoped it would. i also want to take a look at the status of women in iraq. >> sreenivasan: you've had reports now from around the world and iraq and afghanistan seem to be so crucial to how people perceive america's foreign policy. really the implications are fairly significant. >> warner: that's an excellen

no matter what life throws at them it's like we're going to get through this and if the u.s. is willing to partner with us and help us then hopefully they'll stay they'll stay true to their word so they're hopeful whereas when i talk to some of the. old day you know they look at it as oh here's the country they kidnapped or at last president in over there's a country who's been involved in supporting you know brutal dictatorships for decades really you're here to help i'm going to ask about this firing one of. the ten suspects that pled guilty to being are an unregistered agent of a foreign country is. journalist vicky pelaez who had to be expelled from the united states the day of the cheap but guilty she was flown to rush out and then from what reported and confirmed by her attorney she thought relocating to her native home to perro you're from her or your family in peru how do you think she's going to be received there well from what my family tells me it was a lot bigger news there than it was here specifically because she was peruvian why latin america has always felt as

here in moscow the u.s. says its combat mission in iraq will come to its official end within the hour vice president joe biden is in baghdad overseeing it with all american combat troops having already left the country. and washington says that this means the end of the seven year long war that killed over four thousand u.s. troops however about fifty thousand will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces u.s. troops will no longer be allowed to go on combat missions unless requested and accompanied by iraqi forces but many analysts say baghdad doesn't control the country which remains split some plagued by insurgent violence last week alone dozens of iraqi citizens died in a wave of terror attacks well john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation says the war in iraq is far from over. there's no real withdrawal at all on the contrary fifty thousand troops are going to remain in iraq so what we're dealing with here is a political package it's an administrativ

mile by the u.s. government using him of international arms trafficking and specifically selling and delivering weapons to known terrorist organizations he was taken down in the thai capital by a joint sting operation by the u.s. and thai authorities or so that the board has always maintained his innocence his family and his lawyers many analysts actually believe that one of the main reasons that the man is being persecuted by the united states authorities is because of his long term contracts with the pentagon itself of course of george bush in two thousand and four that president or have voted with the united states government to from having any kind of contract with that and his companies but despite that request despite the order by the president the pentagon actually extended his contract to two thousand and six so for two years the pentagon operated with it the bill and his companies basically outside of the law many analysts now believe that because of the information that he possesses somethin

the u.s. is bankrupt and we don't even know it those are the words coming from boston university professor of economics laurence kotlikoff now according to the professor a simple examination of the i.m.s. annual review of u.s. economic policy will lead anybody with a calculator to understand that are due is inevitable that in order to close our fiscal gap the us needs to immediately and permanently double taxes and cut cut cut quite frankly speaking i want to know why we had to hear the following from laurence kotlikoff and not from our own government you know the people like tim geithner who just wrote an op ed in titled welcome to the recovery or earlier i caught up with her from the young turks in our l.a. studio and i asked him just that. right well of course we don't want it we don't hear from our own government because those are guys that want don't want you to know republicans and democrats they've got to deal should tell people what we've been doing otherwise they are fine and get quit

i get frequent calls from the u.s. journalists asking what the u.s. should do in the current situation and whether they should withdraw their troops next july i usually respond with a question of my own but is there an alternative there is not there is no alternative to the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops the longer the forces of u.s. and nato forces stay in afghanistan the more they will destabilize the region it's evident that the presence of any foreign troops nato u.s. or soviet troops will only inspired terrorism in afghanistan you cannot depict the country as a den of terrorism or its people as terrorists by default this is not true there is a faction of people within the rebel movement that use terror methods some of these people do indeed have links to al-qaeda in no way does this mean that any afghan or any armed afghan is a terrorist the us is facing a philosophical problem they spent nine years there by december two thousand and ten the length of their military presence will match that of the soviet contingent now over this period they h

u.s. park police distributed nears that showed photos of the dog that resemble's the suspecs pitbull. they asked anyone who knew of the owner to come forward, and two people did. those tips led the people to a suspect who is a 33-year-old local man. that man stabbed an american bull dog multiple times on thursday atpot fort funston, after the dog's owner asked if the pi bull was neutered, which he wasn't. >> he lost his spleen and other orns damaged. but he is strong and well-cared for dog who gets lots of exercise so he has good chance of full recovery. >> reporter: the u.s. park police s the u.s. attorney's office is trying to figure out what charges are appropriate in this case. they say the suspect has an attorney, d an arrest could come as early as tomorr. live in san francisco, abc-7 news. >> dan: after a summer of cool temperatur, we'll trade fog formog tomorrow. the bay area air quality management district is predicting up healthy air and calling for the first "spare the air" of th

shares bounced back in the u.s. on friday after the release of better than expected u.s. growth figures, annualised gdp at 1.6%. but higher unemployment and a weak housing market are casting a shadow on the economy and the u.s. federal reserve has vowed to step in with additional measures if necessary. >> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke did not let the figures dampen his spirits at the meeting of the world's central bankers in jackson hole. he remains convinced the u.s. economy is recovering. but he stressed the fed will take any necessary steps to prevent a slide back into recession. after a drawn-out and steep fall in output, the u.s. economy began picking up again in mid 2009, but early this year the recovery lost steam. annual gdp growth stands at 1.6%. that is because federal stimulus programs introduced during the global financial crisis are coming to an end. widespread unemployment and problems on the real-estate market are also keeping the brakes on growth. >> britain's economy grew at its fastest pace in nine years in the second quarter. the office for nati

the former u.s. diplomat and antiwar activists believes the military justice system is stacked against victims. tattling on someone else in your unit even though that person is committed a criminal act on you or gets out of the unit. has been messing around with someone else and look at sergeant so and so he's being accused of rape and he's got a wife and two kids and we can't sacrifice his career because of this unmarried single night thousand year old woman that claims that he raped her you know. and not the army's own only problem in the background and sign and suzanne says and sweep in iraq in two thousand and four i'm up a sarah remembers will the night before who depart show. as it is there in times day because i remember her being when all three of them were asleep and i thought this may be the last time i ever have all three of my kids sleeping in the same room. soon after arriving in iraq then nineteen year old suzanne started calling her mother to tell her about problems within her platoon

running out of time former u.s. ambassador john bolton says that if israel is to attack iran's nuclear plant and share it's got just three days left to do it because any military strike after the facility goes live later this week would risk a radioactive catastrophe. taking matters into their own hands afghanistan's president wants to stop private security companies operating in the country prompting fears that nato troops will struggle to cope without them. and dropping visas for football fans and a new state of the art stadium built from scratch there the key selling points to a visiting afifa delegation in russia's bid to host the soccer world cup in eight or twelve years time. broadcasting live from moscow this is our team now look at your top stories at least thirty people have been injured in a car bomb explosion outside a cafe in russia's southern city of pisa gorski the explosion equivalent to thirty kilos of t.n.t. came just hours after another terror attack in russia's north caucuses on tuesday morning. r

cranking up the pressure the u.s. imposes more new sanctions against iran over its nuclear program and to weaken the warning that military action remains an option but which russia says is not allowed by commenting on this and its. civil rights groups of a zero accused a government of racism say that north specifically aimed to hinder the lives of the minority three. there's the headlines now let's go back to our washington studios. ok anyone with a pulls and an eye on either the immigration debate going on in arizona or mainstream cable news has by now heard this from the notorious maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio he's saying the mexican drug cartels have a one million dollars bounty on his head there he is the only problem is this federal law enforcement officials i've spoken to say if sheriff arpaio had a hit on his head from the drug cartels he wouldn't be walking around in broad daylight as he's doing today because he'd be dead with his head chopped off and a note on his chest somewhere in the desert here's the

here in the u.s. media capital millions of messages flood the streets but only one advertisement rolling through new york city is provoking emotional reaction. i think he added. this ad has been slapped on twenty six buses in the big apple on the left a plane crashing into the north tower on nine eleven on the right the proposed mosque slated to rise two blocks from ground zero the red tex ask why there this is the latest offensive delivered by critics opposing the development of an islamic center two blocks from ground zero this woman pam geller reportedly paid eight thousand dollars for the bus ads no i'm not trying to spread islam to spread openness and you know what we are hoping to pander and criticism and. freedom in a country founded on religious freedom sixty three percent of americans the development of an islamic cultural center so close to sacred ground. people with. three thousand new yorkers and. more than one hundred of those victims were muslim americans. people. are an exclusive tour o

treasury department and all of this is coming just a few days after the u.s. joint chiefs of staff michael mullen said that the option to strike iran a plan to strike iran is still on the table and it's an option that's ultimately up to u.s. president barack obama that subject it come up at the united nations when i ambassador vitaly churkin the russian representative to the united nations held a press conference as russia assumes the presidency of the security. council now why the issue of potential strike did come up with discussing iran and the mounting sanctions that have been placed on iran by the international community ambassador churkin also noted that all of the u.n. resolutions that include sanctions against iran do not include any text that allow the use of force to be used against iran under any circumstances let's take a listen when we discuss iranian nuclear issue and we will not resolutions on this matter as you remember we have very clear language in it as aleutian in the last resolution even clearer in three previous resolutions. it has nothin

one of the ways in which the u.s. will continue to support the forces will be to support these combined security measures. let me talk a little bit about the drawdown strategy and transition strategy. we have heard talk about the 50,000 k reduction. is it is telling that the general is comfortable with this transition. by the time he changes command at the end of this month he will be around 55 months. no was in a better place to judge the prospects for stability and the general. he feels comfortable about it. i came into the administration in the first week of february. i was one of the first staff level folks to come in. i was brought in by my boss to work on the strategic review that culminated in the stree president's speech. we tried to put a date on the calendar that seemed reasonable for our production to substantially reduce a robust force. and then leave it up to the general on how to shape the contour of the dowdrawdown. that allowed him to have a modest drawdown in 2009. and then to accelerate the drawdown.

there are 50,000 u.s. troops that are remaining in iraq, albeit it in a support role rather in a leading combat role. but that's enormous capability. the real bottom line in iraq, i think is that it is-- despite all of its challenges-- it is a much, much more hopeful place than it was in january and february of 2007 when the surge was launched, and when there were 50 dead bodies in baghdad every 24 hours. there is going to be violence in iraq, there still are al qaeda in iraq, there are other extremist elements. there are residual militia elements but the 700,000 iraqi security forces on the ground there generally can deal with this, with some assistance from the united states. >> couric: i'll be back with more from afghanistan later in the broadcast. right now, harry smith in new york has the rest of today's news. >> smith: all right, katie. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," the latest on the massive egg recall. and which brand may be tainted. the news helped send stock glart line for unemployment

as u.s. combat troops pulling out of iraq some question whether iraq is are able to control the country themselves where the number of private contractors in iraq soaring and the honest the the situation and get worse lawyer ethical in just says anything after withdrawal the u.s. will continue to exit controversial influence over the country. these are dirty wars that the united states tried to cover up at one point and now have somewhat institutionalized which is why we see these these increases in funding for private contractors i mean another exposé the washington post it just a few weeks ago was on this massive expansion of the u.s. intelligence community and all of the private contractors that are now conducting intelligence operations and this is what we're seeing you know we're seeing now state authorized selective assassinations i mean it was a policy created during the bush administration but it's a policy that's been and continue and reinforced during the obama administration so it

when the u.s. troops moved out of the city's purchase security agreement last june, we stepped in in some ways to cover the security needs. some people say, how are we going to do security without the presence of u.s. troops? as of last june, per the security agreement, u.s. forces cease to operate except in cooperation with iraqis in cities, towns, and localities. that meant more dramatic changes for us as we went around. instead of the signs on the backs of armored vehicles bedsteads day back 50 feet or risk the danger to your life, came up that said this convoy is traveling in accordance with the agreement with the civilian authorities of iraq. this is a change that shows how civilians can operate within the confines of the iraqi system and an agreement that shows us working with the iraqis in coordination. been doing orave around the country since 2005. we have come down to 16, but there's still a vibrant and important contract and location that works with the local authorities. i talked about