afghanistan, president obama is poised to announce his plan for the war torn country. it's a decision mired in controversy. >> far from washington, the reality on the ground. we take you to the town nato forces left and the taliban took over. is it a sign of things to come? >> hello. 5:00 a.m. in washington, 1:30 p.m. in kabul, i'm anita rajpal.

>> i'm zain verjee. you're watching "world one" live from london. greece takes a step towards swallowing a bitter pill. the prime minister wins his vote of confidence. can he get lawmakers to support painful cuts. hundreds of people take to the streets of belfast in the second straight night of sectarian violence. john galiano takes center stage. but for all the wrong reasons. the darling of the fashion world goes on trial for racism. ten years after u.s. forces went into afghanistan, president barack obama will today announce he's pulling thousands of troops out of the country. a source in the u.s. congress tells cnn 30,000 soldiers will be withdrawn by the end of 2012 out of a current strength of about 100,000. it starts with 10,000 troops going home over the next six months. the u.s. is committed to keeping a fighting force in afghanistan until 2014.

after that security will be handed over to the afghans. cnn's nick peyton walsh is in the country. he joins us live from bagram air base. nick? >> reporter: absolutely. what we're about to see is a report from a remote part of the border with pakistan, an area called newer stan. this is a small village surrounded by valleys. nato used to have a fairly strong presence here, outposts securing the area. a few years ago pulled back. that left the afghans in control. since late march of this year, the talibans have moved in and taken over this village. the report you're about to see is sinister for some people because it shows their flag flying above the local administration there and them suggesting they are the law in that part of afghanistan, potentially shocking for the future of this country. in this quiet village near the

pakistani border, one of nato's fears is realized, the local government building of a district in waygal, above it flies a new flag, the white banner of the taliban. there is no god by ala and mohammed is its mess en jer. but the real message is simple, we, the taliban, are back in power here. to the men who call themselves the new administration, they showed a local cameraman cnn commissioned a vision of afghanistan back in the taliban's hands. now they're the local council, the local law. it's like nato was never even here. >> translator: the mow ha gentleman dean are in charge of this area and the people's problems are solved under sharia law. the tribe has welcomed us, bring us their problems and we deal with them. they understand implementing

sharia is one of their duties. >> reporter: they say they captured the area in late march. a local official now in kabul confirmed to cnn this is a government building and the area is still held by the insurgency. this hilly stretch along the border is under increasing taliban influence since nato withdrew here, these valleys are becoming a safe haven for militants and their hard-line law. >> translator: smoking is forbidden here, and our religious department will punish those who shave and who intoxicate themselves. schools and hospitals are open under sharia law. >> reporter: they're also eager to display a softer, almost enlightened side saying they're letting this bridge be rebuilt. they're keen to show themselves mingling among welcoming locals. >> we don't have any security problems here says one trader. we don't fear thieves like we did before.

another says business now is not as good as we had before, but we're fine with the taliban. >> reporter: it's not clear how genuine these smiles are, but this small taliban thiefdom has opened up while nato's surge is at full strength, leaving many wondering what they'll do as nato starts to leave. >> the taliban has taken over in this town. is this a sign of things to come or a sign of nato's worst fears? >> reporter: well, i think we should point out nato's reaction to images like this. they're very clear that talib taliban's role is fleeting. they consider things like the video you've just seen which the cameraman we commissioned to go and see, they consider it part of the taliban propaganda

network. we're hearing from officials this part is held by the taliban. it appears this was taken off afghan security forces over a period at some point in this march. that raises the question exactly the readiness of afghan security forces to hold sensitive areas like that. there's not much significant importance here, but it is on the border with pakistan. there are concerns similar safe havens could emerge and exactly what nato came here to try to prevent. >> nick paton walsh, thank you very much. has nato achieved its goals in afghanistan? yes and no. one of the main goals for entering the country was to hunt down osama bin laden and cripple his terror network almost ten years after the 9/11 attacks. the u.s. did succeed in finding and killing the al qaeda leader. as for his terror network, it no longer has safe havens or

training camps in afghanistan. but insurgency continues to be a problem in the south. when it comes to the security situation -- let's try that -- in the country. hopefully it will come up at some point. as troops pull out, its responsibilities pull out. the government promised to recruit and train them for this day. the army and police have hit their number targets. many are concerned the recruits aren't up to the job just yet. another major concern for the administration is drugs. nato forces have waged a war on drugs in afghanistan, destroying poppy fields and offering farmers incentives to switch to other crops. in spite of that, opium production has risen dramatically and it is peaking in 2007 when it covered almost 200,000 hectors. nearly all of that is in the least secure provinces in the south and the west. now, when it comes to the other developments within the country, the toppling of the taliban was supposed to improve the lives of

ordinary afghans in developing women's rights. there has been progress there, school enrollment increase friday around a million in 2001, all boys, to two million, including girls. more than a quarter of the seats in the lower house of parliament are reserved for girls. greece has bitterly opposed budget cuts with leaders insisting there's no way to avoid government bankruptcy. the government won a vote of confidence in a late-night session of parliament. that paves the way for prime minister george pop droe to put his radical program before lawmakers next week, knowing he should va the numbers to get it approved. the significance of the confidence vote wasn't lost on the protesters. they had been fighting the consults. they were angry. these were the scenes outside parliament when the result came out. in just over a week from now, the measures could go into law in exchange for a second bailout

from the european union and the international monetary fund. the european finance minister said -- we're following developments from athens. diana, what is greece's next move? >> reporter: zain, there's a big difference between winning a vote of confidence in the new cabinet and winning the vote of the entire parliament on this new austerity program, there have already been some members of george papandreou's party who said i will back this new government. whether i put my name so this package of extremely unpopular austerity measures is another question. this vote this time next week is critical, they've made it contingent on -- they've said they will only give extra money

to greece if greece manages to get this austerity package through. they basically want to see that greece is prepared to put through these reforms that it desperately needs. now, the eu, the president of the european commission jose manuel bar rosa and also the new finance minister and george papandreou last night were trying to couch this austerity program in terms ocht growth. they were suggesting this is the solution for the country, that we shouldn't consider it simply as a matter of cuts which, of course, all the protesters out there do. but there is still a great deal of anger about the prospect of having to endure further cuts because that is what it amounts to. there's going to be another 20% of jobs gone in the public sector. there are going to be further wages cut in the public sector. there's going to be this $70 billion privatization plan which the government promised to start on this time last year and which they haven't started on at all which really goes against

socialist principles in the first place. it will be very hard to achieve, especially when foreign investors looking at greece right now aren't very sure they want to invest. zain? >> diana, just explain to people what is it like for the average greek person living there today? >> reporter: well, it's a lot more difficult than it was a couple years ago. they've already had a year of austerity which means they've had their wages cut, had their pensions cut, taxes on everything from food to household materials have gone up. value added tax at 23% on some items. they're considering bringing food up to 23% also. so you've felt sort of cuts on every level on your live. many people unemployed. the official unemployment rate is 16%. amongst the youth that's 40%. you really are in a country that is at the moment at a deep

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to the streets in a second night of sectarian rioting after a long period of decreasing tensions between catholics and protestants, a resurgence of intercommunity violence in recent months. mexican authorities say police have captured a top drug king den. mendez-vargas goes by the nickname "the monkey." the mexican government offered a $2.5 million reward for any information leading to his arrest. a massive cloud of volcanic ash reeked havoc in the southern hemisphere for days. it appears the cloud may be thinning, but not all good news for stranded air travelers. sky news australia's jema van ness. last time we spoke there was nearly no one at the airport behind you. is that a different story today? >> it certainly is. we had the airlines resume their services about five hours ago here in sydney. our other major airport in

australia, melbourne, it was back online a few hours before that. that's certainly hoping to clear the backlog. they think it will be the end of the week before the bag lock is entirely cleared. that was certainly good news and welcome news today for passengers. the bad news is for anybody wanting to travel to tasmania, the island state and also new zealand, the ash cloud is still affecting the aerospaces there. it certainly will be affected into tomorrow, possibly even 48 hours. so the ash cloud chaos hasn't gone away. was this possibly an overreaction, grounding all the flights? because a lot of international flights were still coming in and out. i guess hindsight obviously is a wonderful thing. for the passengers, they have obviously been disappointed by this, frustrated by it. really taking it in stride and happy to get on flights today and at least try to start getting to where they need to be

going. >> i'm wondering, gemma if airlines will take an independent review. when we saw this happening in the northern hemisphere, certain airlines such as virgin they were angry about the way government said we'll shut down airports. is that what you think is going to happen there where you are? >> they certainly will have questions and reviews. this has been a cautious interview. each individual airline assessing it on their own. that's where we got discrepancies as to one airline said it would be safe to resume at this time. another saying something else entirely. certainly amongst many things will be examined in the wake of this. it's one sort of situation, as they say, a once-in-20-year event. we had the ash cloud come around a second time. we're told if it comes around a

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fashion designer john galliano is going on trial in france today for allegedly making anti-semitic comments. in one incident his alleged insults were caught on camera in a paris cafe. he was fired from his job as creative director of dee or in march. he faces up to six months in prison. cnn correspondent jim bitter man is in paris an joins us now. has the trial started? what can we expect today. >> reporter: about four hours from now we think the trial is going to start. i think it's going to be a fairly short hearing, probably take four or five hours. then judges will adjourn and probably come back within a few weeks' time. it seems to be a pretty clear-cut case. there's three different witnesses that say he made these anti-semitic and racist remarks in a bar. his contention and his lawyer's contention is he was under the influence of both alcohol and drugs at the time and he's been

in rehab since then hoping i think to mitigate any kind of sentence. like you say, he could be put in jail for up to six months and fined up to 22,500 euro for his remarks he made back in february and october of last year. zain? >> jim bittermann from paris. joining us vanessa friedman for the fashion times. you've met galliano. is he racist? >> not that i told you. i saw no indications of it. does that mean behind closed doors in his house he hasn't said the sort of things he's accused of saying? i have no idea. >> many people questioning whether or not the fact that he started to lose the plot a while back, partly because of the fact of the pressures within the industry. there is this constant pressure to deliver collection after collection, season after season, that the demands are a lot more than they ever used to be for a

luxury fashion house like dior. do you believe that may have contributed to this? >> performance anxiety is certainly a factor in the industry, but it's not something that john was the only person subjected to. so the fact that he imploded the way he did i think can't be blamed solely on what's happening with fashion. >> what was your reaction when you first saw this? >> i was surprised. i was sad. i was interested in seeing how dior was going to handle it. >> do you think they handled it the right way? >> i think they handled it very well. acted quickly, decisively. they did what they had to do which was separate themselves from john. and the speech at the end of the dio show where he made the point that the focus was on them and the work was about them, was both very tactful and very heartfelt. >> what do you think the impact has been on the house of dior? >> it's terrible. inside the house it's a very,

very traumatic event because john was clearly someone who was crucial to the brand, crucial to the work innings of the company. there are very personal relapgs ships involved. i think people felt betrayed and sad and worried about their company. in terms of the outside world, aside from the bad press which you don't really want, it doesn't actually appear to have hurt the performance of the brand that much. their first quarter revenues were up 17.5%. >> is it because dior was there before galliano and will be there after galliano. even if there's negative press by the creative head, it wouldn't be affected in terms of sales? >> i think dior does exist as a brand in its own right. i also think there's a tendency in the fashion world to get overexcited about what designers do. sometimes they can exaggerate the importance of a designer to the consumer worm. there are a lot of people out

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hello. this is "world one," i'm anita rajpal. >> i'm zain verjee. u.s. ppt barack obama will announce the pullout of tens of thousands of troops. a source is telling cnn 30,000 u.s. personnel will be withdrawn by the end of next year, an estimated 70,000 troops will remain until 2014 when full responsibility for security in the country will be turned over to afghan forces. you can catch president obama's speech here on cnn at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. police clashed with hundreds of rioters in eastern belfast on tuesday in a second straight night of sectarian violence. police used water cannon on the crowd as demonstrators threw

petrol bombs. the rioters gathered on streets separating catholic and protestant neighborhoods. the greek government won a vote of confidence in parliament. paves the way for prime minister george papandreou to put his radical program before lawmakers next week. the measures need to be in place before the eu and imf grant athens a sect bailout. what is the right number? that's the question facing u.s. president barack obama as he prepares to repeal how many troops will be pulled out of afghanistan. it is a really difficult choice which is dividing opinion as brianna keilar reports. >> reporter: zain, the president is being pulled from two directions here. on one side, liberal members of his own party and even conservatives citing a war-weary public, the cost of the war in afghanistan and also recent successes against al qaeda saying those factors justify a significant drawdown of troops. on the other hand, you have the president's own military

commanders who are concerned that bringing home too many troops could cause a setback in the war. president obama will tell the nation how many troops he's withdrawing from afghanistan, making good on this promise he made in december of 2009. >> these additional american and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of afghanistan in july of 2011. >> reporter: no matter what obama announces, he'll face criticism. the pentagon has been pushing for a slow withdrawal, just three to 5,000 support troops out this year, a proposal supported by john mccain, the top republican on the senate armed services committee. >> modest withdraw, maintaining our ability to go through another fighting season and then withdraw is what i'd like to see the president say. >> reporter: some in the president's own party like carl levin, the chairman of the arm services committee want a

speedier drawdown, he wants at least 15,000 troops gone by the end of 2011. some democrats want all u.s. troops gone within a year. their calls have become louder since the killing of osama bin laden, something the white house has been touting ahead of the president's announcement. >> the successful mission against osama bin laden highlights the broader success that we have had in going after members of al qaeda in the afghanistan, pakistan region. >> reporter: privately a congressional source tells cnn the president has chosen the middle ground. members of congress have been told he'll bring 10,000 troops home by the end of this year, with the remaining 20,000 of the so-called surge troops leaving by the end of 2012. asked about the differing opinions on the drawdown, white house press secretary jay carney was definitive. >> he is in charge of this process and he makes the decisions. this decision will be the commander in chief's. >> reporter: a full day before the president gives his

announcement, this was sent to him by members of congress, 57 of them, liberal democrats but also some conservatives calling for a sizable reduction in troops from afghanistan. 10,000 by the end of this year, 30,000 by the end of 2012 will not be enough for these lawmakers, zain. >> brianna keilar reporting. the u.s. first lady michelle obama has visited south africa. in the 1980s and 1990s, the township was the center of the battle against apartheid. one day after meeting the former president nelson mandela, mrs. obama visited soweto's historic church and spoke to young women about the ties between south africa and the united states. >> that is why my husband's administration is not simply focused on extending a helping hand to africa, but focusing on partnering with africans who will shape their future by

combating corruption and building strong democratic institutions, by growing new crops, caring for the sick. and more than ever before, we will be looking to all of you, our young people, to lead the way. forget two bailouts, greece might need three or even four. that's according to one british politician. alice center darling was the economy minister for three years in the government of gordon brown. he was part of the talks leading up to the first greek bailout. he joins us now. thank you very much for being was. is it really an option to perhaps opt out of helping greece? >> i don't think it is. the point i was making is that, if you look at the record over the last year, the euro zone has acted often too late and often in a way that just isn't going to work. and what i'm saying is that they

really now do need to decide how they're going to help greece resolve its problems and at the same time ensure that -- not only can it rebuild, but it can also repay the loans that it's taking on as well as pay down its debt. my point is that on the present performance that simply isn't going to happen. we'll get another payment made in the summer, but as things stand, greece is going to keep coming back again and again because it's fundamental problems are not being resolved. >> therein lies the question, if the fundamental problems are not being resolved and the problems are intrinsic within greece, isn't perhaps letting it go into default, wouldn't that be perhaps the more rational and even radical response in answer to this, to let it go into defaulted and start from the bottom-up. otherwise, bailing it out is a rather band-aid solution, is it not? >> let me put it this way. if greece were to default, the idea that you could contain that

to greece alone i think is fanciful. very shortly the markets would start asking questions about ireland, portugal, maybe spain, maybe italy. it's a bit like saying let's let lehman's go bust again and see what happens. we know what happens. if you get yourselves into a situation where there's a default, that leads to banks getting into difficulties. you could move from an acute situation in greece spreading to an acute crisis in large parts of europe. i think that would be an extremely foolish thing to do because it probably wouldn't stop in europe. it would have a feedback to american banks and so on. you have to understand a lot of european banks in france and germany, for example, are very exposed to greece. if greece defaults, it's them that will be hit. then france and germany will have to do something about them. it wouldn't just stop in those countries. i think the far better thing to do is face up to the fact that, yes, greece has got to make changes. it's got to make huge structural reforms within that country, but just as any other large currency

zone like america, for example. it recognizes the stronger parts help the weaker states. so in europe the stronger states have got to help the weaker states make the changes they need. otherwise, we're simply going to lurch from crisis to crisis. that's where we are at the moment. >> greece's own deputy prime minister said last year, quote, we ate the money together. he was blaming the people and the politicians for ruining the economy and for having not managed it properly. does this not then signify or highlight the intrinsically flawed nature of this sij currency? >> i think there's two issues there. one is that you are right that greece has a long history of problems, of reforms that were never made or never seen drew, statistics that people found to be incredible, changes that weren't made. they can't get off the hook whatever happens. they're going to have to deal with that. if you have a single currency and you have in this case 17 different member states with different fiscal policies,

sometimes very different political cultures, it's very difficult to bring them together when you've got such dif very generals between countries like germany at one end of the scale and greece at the other end. the only way you can possibly make that work is if you're prepared to recognize that if you have a single currency, it has consequences which, as i say, is the stronger parts need to help the weaker parts, and perhaps look at ways to reduce the cost of borrowing in the weaker parts which the stronger economies can help. if you persist in pretending that it doesn't matter what's going on in the weaker end of these economies, sooner or later the whole thing will come apart. i think that's what the euro zone members have to face up to. >> are you glad then that perhaps britain is not part of the euro currency? >> well, yes. the labor cabinet in 2003 decided not to recommend that we joined. i don't have any problem with the principal of the single currency. it's the practicalities of the single currency, trying to match

up the politics and the economics in a rather different place. that's why we chose to stay out of it. frankly, i can't see britain joining the euro any time soon. i don't think anyone would argue for that at the moment. >> alistair darling, thank you so much. this is "world one," live from london. a crisis of a different kind. a lone emperor penguin washed up on the shores of new zealand. >> how did it get there? that riddle is ahead on "world one." >> in tennis, i don't vac djokovic was playing for the first time hins his long winning streak ended. >> a sports update with petra is just ahead. [ male announcer ] look at this, bridgestone is using natural rubber, researching ways to enhance its quality and performance,

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welcome back. you're watching "world one." here are some of the stories we're talking ability today.

all that glitters may, in fact, be gold. that's clear for one new yorker. rafi has become a real life gold digger. armed with plastic cup and tweezers, he crawls through the streets of new york looking for precious metals and gemstones, he says he earns more than $500 a week. he finds anything from watches to chains and jewels themselves. from something found to something lost. look at this lonely guy. this penguin is an emperor penguin creating a bit of a flutter in new zealand. it took a wrong turn from antarctica and now ended up on a beach in new zealand's north ireland, about 3,000 kilometers or so from home. poor guy. wildlife experts are saying it may have lost its bearings while hunting for food. they say the penguin needs to head back down south soon if it's going to survive. listen up to this. there's a social networking site that says it is exclusive, it's

only for beautiful people, has actually kicked out 30,000 members because they weren't hot enough. the so-called shrek virus hit the people allowing people to evade the site's strict vetting process. they were banished after being voted out by existing members who said they were too ugly. a help line has been set up so they can -- that they can help them come to terms with that bad piece of news. i don't know who gets to vet all this. >> a help line? >> who is beautiful or not. >> i've been told i'm not pretty enough? is that what they said. >> basically. how are you supposed to know if you're posting the right picture. >> i can think someone sbutful. someone else can think differently. >> i think beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. >> that's always the case. >> so many places i could go with that. >> as we segue over to petra. >> don't worry, you're very beautiful.

>> in the eye of the beer holder? >> you have breaking news. >> i do have breaking news in the world of football, just happened. i can tell you that chelsea have confirmed andre veal boij as the new manager. the club has released a statement in the last few minutes. this is what they said. chelsea football club is delighted to announce that he will be the club's new manager. they go on to reveal that he has signed a three-year contract and will start work immediately. let me give you some more background on the portuguese coach. he's only 33 years old and won every single title that he could win at fc pour that last season. his release clause was triggered by $21.5 million payment made on tuesday. the appointment has just been confirmed that he will become the youngest ever coach in the premier league. as i was mentioned villas boss

is following in the food steps of his mentor who moved to chelsea back in 2004. more on this appointment in "world sports" on the top of the hour. we focus our attention on wimbledon and day two which was tuesday. the men's second ranked player on the planet was in action on center court and he was a winner. no doubt about that. we have have novak djokovic beating his opponent, jeremy shardee in straight sets. he improved his season record to 42-1. novak djokovic was impressive on center court as he registered an easy win, particularly consistent on the day, committing only six unforced errors as he moved into the next round. it was a match that lasted just an hour and 20 minutes. roger federer was also a winner on tuesday. as far as wednesday is concerned, rafael nadal will be

on center court for the second match on the day. also in action, andy murray will be on court one, roddick will be in the night match on center court. tomas berdych also playing today. two-time defending women's champion serena williams played her first grand slam match in a year. she teared up after winning in the first match on center court on tuesday. two foot operations and emergency surgery to remove blood clots in her lunges kept serena out of action for nearly a year. after all that, it was amazing the fact that she was back at wimbledon. serena, of course, doesn't come to lose. she extended her winning streak in all first round matches in majors to 43. she won in three sets and afterwards broke down in tears. she said following the match, i usually don't cry, but it's been so hard, i never dreamed i would be here.

venus will be in action today weather permitting because it looks pretty grim outside. she takes on 40-year-old japanese player, center court not a problem now because they've got a roof. all the other courts out there, looking again like a beautiful june sunny london day. no. it's looking horrible. >> we think the new chelsea manager could be part of that website, the beautiful people website. >> you wouldn't veto him? >> no, not at all. that's just my two cents. >> it's a valid opinion. >> thank you very much. all right. has already been a historically damaging monsoon season in parts of central and eastern china. all the attention is going to the south where we are seeing tropical storms. other meteorologist pedram

javaheri has the story. >> whether you get it from the monsoon season or tropical storms. the south china see, around the gaun dang province, this is him ma that will make landfall, heavy rainfall from across victoria harbor out towards portions of sang jong. this will be a rain maker and working east of the philippines, yet another storm miss sem in place. just before you think you'll see conditions improve and dry up, you get lined up a couple of storm systems and the concern, of course, heavy rainfall in the foreseeable future one more time. the rainfall totals we think about eight, ten centimeters, about three to four inches around hang congress. the dark red color contours up to 25 centimeters. that's ten inches of rainfall in the 24-hour period in an area that is a high populated region. a lot of concerns there, a lot of air traffic issues, if you're

traveling across southeastern asia. keep that in mind. similar stories in the midwestern united states. severe storms in the past 24 hours. would you believe this? the color purple here indicating 450 severe wind reports in the past 24 hours. we know some 300,000 people around chicago and its suburbs are out of power as we speak, and the travel delays, the forecast for the next day on wednesday, even across new york city, up to two hours. pack in a lot of patience if you're traveling around chicago a possibility of longer delays in the next few hours after the afternoon wears on across much of the midwestern united states. this is going to be an active weather pattern one more time. we think severe storms possible to the east and isolated tornadoes as well out there. zain and monita will be back in "world one" in a few minutes. ...or something small? ...something old? ...or something new?

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welcome back this is "world one" live from london. >> coming up on 6:00 a.m. in new york, 7:00 p.m. in tokyo. a newspaper photographer has been shot in the leg in a second night of violence between protestants and catholics in the streets of belfast, northern ireland. up to 700 rioters were throwing petrol bombs, bricks. senior international correspondent dan rivers is in northern ireland who joins us now live with the latest.

dan. >> reporter: that's right, monita, another evening of terrible violence in east belfast in the short strand area. this is a long-standing flash point between mainly protestant and catholic communities. last night there was a sort of another worrying development where a press photographer was shot in the leg. he is now in a stable condition. he's from the press association here in the uk. that followed two other shootings on monday, again two men shot in the leg as well. the police have been very candid about who they say was responsible initially for this violence. they're blaming it firmly with the loyalist paramilitary groups, the volunteer force in belfast which they say several hundred men, some of them masked were on the street. then sort of proceeded to attack homes of residents and they were

shooting at both sides after that. they say six shots on monday from one side and five from the other side. with perhaps up to 700 people on the streets. not quite clear what sparked the violence last night or if it was just retaliatory. it's terrible images for northern ireland as rory mcelroy, the golfer is coming back and people are celebrating in other parts of the city in east belfast, a very different scene indeed. >> thank you so much for that, dan rivers reporting from northern ireland. that's it from the team here on "world one. i'm zain verjee. >> i'm monita rajpal. thank you for watching cnn. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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