welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> and i'm michael holmes. and welcome to our viewers both here in the united states and right around the world. >> so we are beginning in washington. anticipation of course building outside the u.s. supreme court right now. inside lawyers should be wrapping up a second day of arguments over same sex marriage. at issue is a federal law that defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman. >> what it does is prevent same sex partners though from receiving federal benefits. we're going to take you live to the high court for the latest development and the social and legal showdown as it plays out. syrian opposition has opened its first embassy in qatar. earlier this week the arab league formally recognized the

group as the sole representative of syria. now, this is a move to diminish the power of president bashar al assad's government. arab league will also allow its members to supply syrian opposition forces with weapons. >> now, russia which gives damascus military and political support perhaps blasted that decision. to pakistan the killing of a teacher causing more outrage over attacks aimed at keeping girls out of school. this teacher was shot on her way to an all girls school in pakistan's north western tribal district. >> her death has led to a petition demanding more government protection for girls and teachers. and as you might know, this case bringing back the memories of the assassination attempt just last year against that 14-year-old girl malala yousufzai, she was a champion of girls education. >> let's begin in north korea where leaders are threatening south korea with words and actions again. >> today, the north announced

that it is cutting off a key communication line with south korea. it is a hotline that both these countries use to monitor traffic to a shared industrial complex. >> yeah, the north also delivering a new warning to south korea's leader telling her to "watch her tongue when talking about pyongyang." this is just the latest in a series of attacks some directed squarely at the united states. >> we're following this from all angles. matthew chance is on the phone in the south korean island of -- matthew, let's start with you. you shall certainly in a place where there is a lot of concern about what is taking place. tell us why this is so dangerous that you have a key hotline, a communications line, that has now been severed. >> well, i think it's significant in a sense that there aren't that many channels

of communication that exist between north and south korea, particularly between their militaries. but this is a cold nation line essentially to oversee the transfer of south korean citizens into an area that's an industrial complex where south korean businesses set up factories and use mainly north korean workers in fact. so it may have an impact on them. but apart from that the movement itself won't have any wider implications i expect. but if you take it within the context of the broad spectrum of actions and threats that have been coming out of north korea particularly over the past couple of weeks, then it looks much more significant and it really underlines, you know, just how tense the situation has become on the korean peninsula. >> let's bring in jim walsh now, a security expert who's actually been to north korea. north korean dictator, kim

jong-un warning releasing video showing imagined attacks on washington and seoul declared that the armistice that halted the korean war was invalid. pretty extreme stuff even by north korean standards and in a pretty short period of time. what's your take on this? do you think he is calling the shots? >> well, there's some debate about that, michael. there are some people who think he's in charge. other folks think maybe his uncle's in charge. it's impossible to know. i think you put it exactly right. both in terms of the extremeness of the statements and the pace of the statements, they've certainly increased these last couple of months. and as you said by standards of north korean rhetoric chrks are pretty bad. they say pretty intense things. if i take any comfort in this, and i don't, the comfort i take is that most of these provocations have not been north korea directly poking south korea. it's a missile test or it's a

statement or they're not going to honor an agreement. there hasn't been any direct confrontation. i think that's good. but what worries me and we heard a north korean official say this today, this may be the dumbest thing i've heard all year, it's only march, but it may be the dumbest thing. he was quoted today as saying "war could break out any moment so there's no need for military-to-military communication." actually, it's the opposite. if there is a chance of war, not by design but by accident, the two sides need to be communicating so that something small does not grow into something big. >> matthew, i want to bring you back into the conversation here because jim brings up a really good point. and that is what is the prospect here of war? i mean, you have the south korean president calling on the north this week to abandon its nuclear ambitions and then you've got the north that's responding saying watch your tongue, you're not going to tell us what to do. >> yeah. well, i think the prospects of a confrontation between north korea and south korea in some kind of minor way is a lot more

credible than the idea of north korea carrying out a preemptive nuclear strike against the united states. obviously that's something its threatened, but of course it has an actual track record of attacking south korea as recently as 2010 on this island where i'm speaking to you from right now. four south koreans were killed in an unexpected, unannounced artillery barrage of the small fishing community here which caused absolute outrage in south korea and around the world. but i think there's another problem as well which is a lot of these threats that we're seeing coming out of north korea at the moment, they're coinciding with sort of genuine insecurity that north korea has. at the moment there's a massive u.s./south korean military exercise that's been going underway and will continue until the end of april. 40,000 troops involved from both

sides, from both of those allies. and it seems b-52 bomber flights make passes over the korean peninsula over south korea, not north korea. but all of that has really angered north korea. and it's really made it very suspicious as well. we know these are war games. we know these are military exercises, but you get the sense that north korea really does suspect that they could be used as a front for an invasion of north korea by the united states and south korea. it is a hermit kingdom. it is cut off from the rest of the world. it does have a very strong sense of paranoia. and it's always in the past in the decades upped the ante, upped the rhetoric when it came to times of military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. and it's doing just the same now, but it's doing them in a much more intensive way. >> jim, finish up with you. of course we had the u.s. announcing the agreement with south korea to firm up plans in case north korea does follow through on its threats.

really sort of putting the u.s. in a position of responding even to the smallest action that might take place. a lot of people don't understand the geography there. seoul to the dmz, that ain't far. >> no, it isn't. and the deal is if there was a war, say there was a full blown war, north korea would lose. they would lose even if they simply fought south korea and the u.s. wasn't going to be in it, and the u.s. will be in it. but the problem is they will lose. but in going down those 10,000 artillery pieces near the border will take a piece of seoul with them. they don't want to start a war they're going to lose. and we don't want to start a war that would cause chaos on the peninsula and have our troops in danger. the u.s. mission is to reassure our ally, south korea, and tell them we've got their back. and try to promote stability. the nature of that agreement you referred to this week very

unclear. not a lot written about it. not a lot publicized about what obliges the two sides to do. matthew talking about that shelling, that island shelling where he is now reporting from, south korea made a series of changes in its military doctrine after that in response to that. a more forward leaning doctrine. no more we're going to strike you back three times harder, those sorts of things. so we're having the pace of provocations happening faster, we have new leadership in all these countries. so i don't think there's going to be war on purpose, but i do worry about an incident escalating. and that sort of is where the stage is set. >> somebody with an itchy trigger finger getting out of hand. jim, thanks. we're also following an important story here in the united states. the supreme court now wrapping up a second day of hearings. everybody paying close attention. today of course the focus is on a federal law that denies benefits to same sex couples. >> the law is known as the

defense of marriage act or doma as it's become known and applies to federal taxes, social security, pensions, other sorts of benefits. >> shannon travis is outside the supreme court. i know there's a lot of anticipation and excitement both sides really a lot of people as they wait for them to wrap up the arguments for and against same sex marriage. give us a sense of the mood of who's out there and what are they anticipating? >> yeah. there's a lot of anticipation right now for anybody who's streaming out of those front doors, suzanne. we've been seeing a few people. but right now as we wait, fire and brimstone just a few feet behind me is a cloud of protesters. they are pro-same sex marriage, basically speaker after speaker coming out railing in favor of same sex marriage. obviously today we're seeing protesters, but not as many as yesterday. yesterday, suzanne, we had both sides of the street out in front of the supreme court lined with people. not as much today. and another thing we noticed

there are opponents of same sex marriage out here protesting, but certainly not as many. they seem to be outnumbered by those that are in favor of, suzanne. >> all right. shannon, we're going to get back to you in a little bit once they come out of the supreme court for those arguments. we also want to note as well what could be the biggest case of these two. you've got two former rivals teaming up to take on same sex marriage fight to the supreme court. and our own gloria borger got exclusive access to this power team as they prepared their case. that is the special "the marriage warriors, showdown at the supreme court." it is saturday night 7:30 eastern on cnn. pretty cool. >> that will be worth watching. here's more of what we're working on this hour for "around the world." simple living, that seems to be the motto of this new pope. >> yeah. he's actually giving up the vatican's penthouse apartment with more than a dozen rooms, views of rome for simple two bedroom flat. >> exactly. he's not living large, that's

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welcome back everyone to "around the world." a strong earthquake shaking taiwan today causing buildings to sway and as you see there, crack. >> so far no reports of major damage or deaths from this magnitude 6.1 quake. in eastern china a bus driver is being called a hero after he helped his passengers survive a horrifying accident. all of it captured on surveillance video. >> take a look at this. the driver approaching another accident scene when that, a light pole, crashes through the windshield. he ducks just in time, stops the bus. as soon as he gets out from under the pole he gets to work helping passengers get out safely. >> that is unbelievable. so the driver's spleen was ruptured, but he's expected to be okay. he managed to stop the bus and

get all those passengers out. unbelievable. >> what a hero. pope francis rapidly becoming known as the people's pope. >> yeah. he takes the bus, as we reported here. he pays his own bills. stops for newspapers and he wears shoes that are from mexico. >> his old shoes. so he's breaking quite a bit of tradition. doesn't even stop there. the vatican announced today that the pope will not move into the papal apartment for now. we are joined by senior vatican analyst john allen. john, this is pretty cool. i mean, right? he's in an apartment and he's not going to move to the big palatial place. he's going to stay in a two-bedroom apartment, is that right? >> that is right. the first thing we should say this is not some grand scheme hatched by pr advisors about how to get the world to fall in love with you. this is the man's personality. when he was the arch bishop in argentina, he refused to live in the fairly lavish archbishop's

residence and stayed in a spartan apartment around the corner. so spartan that the story goes he had to leave his stove on over the weekend to keep the place warm because the building turned off the heat over the weekend. but listen, there are a couple of strategic dimensions to this that are worth unpacking. one, pope francis wants to be a pope of the poor. and i think he understands that you can't preach concern for the poor to the world if you are perceived yourself as living in opulence. the other thing is that this decision to live at the hotel rather than the palace means he's going to continue to be in regular contact with a whole river of people that wash through rome because that's where people coming to visit the vatican stay. so i also think this is a way of fighting being placed in a bubble and making sure that he doesn't become isolated. >> yeah. which was a fear, wasn't it, that this was a man who needs to effect change and he can't do that with the old guard surrounding him. sounds like a strategic move as

you say. many of us know this is a holy week, easter weekend coming up. normally the pope would celebrate holy thursday mass at the vatican, but he's chosen to do this differently as well. >> yeah, that's right. pope francis is going to be visiting a youth prison where juvenile offenders are housed in rome. it's about a couple of miles away from the vatican. i don't think, michael and suzanne, he's going to be taking the bus to that particular appointment because it would mean the thousands of romans suddenly can't get on a bus. but he'll be driven. he's going to do the holy thursday liturgy there that includes this moment based upon the example of christ and gospel of washing the feet of people around him. he's going to wash the feet of 12 young offenders, both men and women, as a symbol once again of the church's concern for the poor, the forgotten, the marginalized in the world. all about to set a new tone for the papacy.

it's tone setting exercises go it's been magnificent. but remember once holy week is over then he has to navigate the hard transition from style to substance. the hard work of actually making choices about governance and there in many ways it's a whole new ball game. >> finally, john, do you think it will make a big difference in the terms of the church itself? it will change behavior the way people see the role of the church in serving the poor? the fact he'll be an example of someone who lives in this kind of humble way of being. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, one thing that is absolutely crystal clear about the catholic system is that people tend to take their cues from the pope in ways large and small. so i think this is going to sort of fire the imaginations of catholics around the world about how to in their own way of life demonstrate greater simplicity and greater concern for the poor. but even in very small ways, michael and suzanne. i can tell you i was in a restaurant in rome last week and bumped into a very veteran

vatican cardinal, a guy who's been around since the dawn of time who usually likes to go around in his ecclesiastical finding, but he was wearing a set of clothes and i asked him what was up with that, he said, hey, under pope francis simple is the new chic. so that's where we are. >> good example there. i understand now we're getting oral arguments out of the supreme court wrapping up there today. it's just finished this of course the defense of marriage act or doma defining marriage between a man and woman. i want to go to our legal analy analyst je analyst jeffrey toobin. let's go to joe first though. >> the first thing i thought of when i listened to these arguments is that the court appears to be moving toward an out if it wants it on procedural grounds to not fully hit this case. that's the first thing.

the second thing, as to the merits of the case, there was a lot of discussion here about the question of why the united states congress passed the defense of marriage act in 1996 whether it was trying to create some type of uniformity in the federal scheme on marriage or if there was something else afoot namely moral disapproval of homosexuality. the court spent a lot of time on that. i found it fascinating. once again it appears this is going to be a hard case for this court to decide, do you agree, joe? >> they are obviously very deeply split. but i think doma's in trouble and i think it's in trouble because anthony kennedy was repeatedly concerned that the defense of marriage act violates states rights. anthony kennedy as we all know the swing vote on this court is

someone who is concerned about gay rights although he said very little, i think nothing about the issue of whether the defense of marriage act violated gay people's constitutional rights. he was clearly very concerned that the defense of marriage act was invading the province of the state to define marriage. that's a state function, usually. and that would certainly be suggesting that he was going to strike down the law. and certainly the other liberals, the four democratic appointees looked like they were going to vote to strike it down. >> one other thing i wanted to throw in and i like your opinion too, justices scalia, ali do as well as chief justice robert all asked a lot of questions about whether if the reverse were in effect -- in other words, if the congress passed a law that said same sex marriage was okay for

all the states, would there still be a constitutional problem? >> right. >> and the attorneys wouldn't bite. it appeared to me they didn't want to go there perhaps because there are 41 states that ban same sex marriage. and it would create a huge political problem. >> right. i mean that struck me as sort of an interesting hypothetical but ultimately sort of irrelevant to the issues going on. it is certainly true that the procedural part of the case -- what's odd about this case is that the plaintiff edith windsor who had to pay a large amount of tax because the internal revenue service doesn't recognize her marriage and the federal government -- whoa. hello. >> are you okay? >> wow. >> an umbrella for one of the light stands. that happens from time to time. it's happened to both of us out there. >> i find i'm thinking more clearly now. >> i was going to say, jeff, for

our international viewers, can you outline that? i think people don't understand the basics here of what this is about. >> right. okay. we'll sort of take a step back. nine states in the united states recognize same sex marriage. the defense of marriage act is a law by congress that applies in the whole country. and the defense of marriage act says that the federal government will not recognize those marriages for any purpose under federal law in terms of going to pay to file joint tax returns or social security survivors benefits or burial in veterans cemeteries. the question in this case is by failing to recognize, refusing to recognize those states -- those same sex marriages in those states, does that violate the rights of those people in those same sex marriages? and that was what the argument was about today. >> and in the case before the

court this was about a couple who were married and one partner died, right? >> right. edith windsor is 80 some years old. she's from new york state. her spouse died. and she was stuck with a bill for estate taxes of something like $363,000 or so. so she basically said she wanted her money back and ended up going to court. and that's the genesis of the case. but it's not just state taxes, it's 1,000 or so different benefits that you get as a result of marriage that are -- effect people in states where they have same sex marriage. and the question of course is whether those people ought to be able to get those benefits or not. >> if i could just have one point here, the reason this case is unusual from a procedural point of view is that she's suing and saying i want my money back. the federal government is saying, you're right, you should get your money back.

doma is unconstitutional and the justices are saying why are we dealing with this case when the two main parties agree with each other? why is this a lawsuit at all? and that was a hard question for the lawyers to answer. >> and also important to say the last thing is, and you know this suzanne, a small group of members of congress brought suit because the justice department wouldn't pursue this. the court spent a whole lot of time here questioning whether that group of members of congress had the standings to do that. and that is the procedural grounds that the court could at least consider if they wanted to find an out and not reach the merit. >> sure. we're going to talk more about this. we have to take a quick break. i am very curious because i know edith windsor herself was inside that building, that she had an opportunity to speak. i'm very curious as to how the justices responded to her and her very personal story because ultimately it's about the law, but it's about many, many couples and families who are going to be impacted by that decision they make there inside

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welcome back. killing the most wanted terrorist in the world, navy s.e.a.l.s. of course carrying out that mission against osama bin laden two years ago. >> but not all the s.e.a.l.s. who came face-to-face with bin laden that night are giving the same account of the shooting, specifically who fired the shots that took down osama bin laden. brian todd explains. >> they spent about 40 minutes on the ground, but it was what happened in a crucial few seconds that's now in dispute among the navy s.e.a.l.s. who killed osama bin laden. recently a former s.e.a.l.s. identifying himself only as the shooter told "esquire" magazine he was the man who fired the kill shots. this animation lays out his description to "esquire." three s.e.a.l.s. move to the third floor of the compound in abbottabad, afghanistan. the shooter moves into a bedroom. by his account there's a gun within bin laden's reach. as he tells phil bronstein, he

fires three rounds. >> he shot him once in the forehead and another time in the forehead he was going down and a third time in the forehead when he was at the foot of his bed obviously probably already dead. >> but another s.e.a.l.s. who part of s.e.a.l.s. team 6 which executed the raid now tells cnn national security analyst peter bergen this. >> it was not the shooter described in that article who killed bin laden, it was in fact the point man who fired the shot at osama bin laden and hit him in the head. >> this animation shows that version. the s.e.a.l.s. tells him three men up the stairs. fire after bin laden is peering out the door. that's the first shot that hits him. he's greatly wounded. the point man bundle the two women to the side. >> one come in and the shooter finish bin laden on the floor.

>> that's consistent with the author bis net. here's what he told cbs's "60 minutes". >> after osama bin laden is wounded, he's still moving, you shot him twice? >> a handful. >> a handful of times and the s.e.a.l.s. in the stack behind you also shot osama bin laden. and at that point his body was still? >> yes. >> why should we believe the s.e.a.l.s. who spoke to you and not the guy who spoke to "esquire" who was also right there? >> you know, i did a little bit of digging around with president former s.e.a.l.s. team 6 members they found bisonet to be more credible. >> john mcguire who served ten years as a s.e.a.l.s. says this. >> it is possible that someone not sure who got the target. i find it unlikely. doi think that the guy wlo did make the shot, you'll never know because he's going to take it to his grave. >> indeed, current and former

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businesses as well. >> soldiers rush to the scene. a report of shots fired was issued and there's no time to waste. upon arriving they learn one of their own is on the ground seriously wounded. one of the attackers is dead and three others have been shot. >> translator: they didn't even say a word. just pulled their weapons and started shooting our soldiers. >> he's in charge of an army unit patrolling the streets here in northwestern honduras. for the second year in a row the city of 700,000 is the world's murder capital, an average of more than three people are killed here every day. >> translator: san pedro sula had 1290 homicides in total. >> the number of violent deafs in san pedro sula is 170 per

100,000 residents. that puts the murder rate of the second largest city in honduras at the top of the list of the deadliest cities followed by acapulco with almost 143 and kara kacaracas just 119. five u.s. cities are on the list including new orleans, but the study does not include cities in the middle east. here's san pedro sula's problem. mexi mexico's offensive and the u.s.'s active deportation of criminal immigrants are pushing the problem south. they've ended in honduras where like most central american countries law enforcement has few resources to fight them. back in san pedro sula businesses are complaining. the title of world's murder capital is hurting the bottom line and also undeserved. >> translator: all of the crimes that happen in northern honduras are what is happening here. what we businessmen are doing an

accurate count of where crimes or violent deaths happen. >> have not included murders occurred outside even when bodies are taken to the same morgue. honduras authorities launched operate lightning. hot spots saturated with police and soldiers. >> translator: there's more security now, says this woman. and that gives us peace. but so far it seems the measures taken have had little impact on the murder rate. >> and rafael joins us now to talk about this. i suppose you can't really compare to somewhere like syria where you've got a war going on. so those aren't included in this list, right? >> well, as they say the devil is in the details. the methodology is very specific. they're only including cities that have over 300,000 people and also they're not taking into account certain military operations. the other thing is that they're only -- >> rafael, we have to interrupt you there. unfortunately we've been waiting to hear from edith windsor

speaking outside the supreme court. let's go there. >> -- we've lived together for 40 years. we were engaged with a circle diamond pin because i wouldn't wear a ring because i was still in the closet. i am today an out lesbian, okay, who just sued the united states of america. which is kind of overwhelming for me. when my beautiful sparkling wife died four years ago, i was overcome with grief. within a month i was hospitalized with a heart attack. and that's kind of common. it's usually looked at as broken hard syndrome. in the midst of my grief i realized that the federal government was treating us as strangers. and i paid a humongous estate tax. and it meant selling a lot of stuff to do it. and it went easy. i live on a fixed income. and it wasn't easy. many people ask me why get married? i was 77, she was 75. okay. maybe we were older than that at

that point. but the fact is that everybody treated it different. turns out marriage is different. okay. and i've asked a number of long range couples -- gay couples who they got married. i've asked them, you know, was it different the next morning and the answer is always yes. it's a huge difference. when our marriage appeared in "new york times," we heard from literally hundreds of people. little play mates and schoolmates and colleagues and friends and relatives all congratulating us and sending love because we were married. so it's a magic word for anybody who doesn't understand why we wanted and why we needed, okay, it is magic. i guess the only other thing we

did win in the lower courts. today is like a spectacular event for me. i mean, a lifetime kind of event. and i know that the spirit of my late spouse is right here watching and listening and would be very proud and happy of where we've come to. thank you all. i felt very serious. i'm halfway deaf, but i heard things also. i heard every word and i really paid attention. >> how do you think it went in there? >> i can't hear you now. >> how do you think it went? >> i'm not hearing. oh, okay. i think it was great. i think it went beautifully. i thought the justices were

gentle, if that's the word i want. they asked all the right questions, i didn't feel any hostility or any sense of inferiority. i mean, i felt we were all very respected. and i think it's going to be good. >> edith windsor there. >> 83 years old. >> adorable. >> she had heart -- broken heart syndrome after her partner died. 77 years old when they got married. >> how could they resist her? >> she was inside the supreme court when she heard those arguments. said it wasn't hostile. >> what an experience she's gone through. that's at the heart of this case that $350,000 she had to pay in estate taxes that a heterosexual

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welcome back. in pakistan today outrage after a teacher was shot and killed on her way to an all girls school where she worked. the latest attack aimed at keeping girls from getting educated. >> the teacher's death has led to a petition demanding more government protection for girls and teachers. the case brought back memories of course of the assassination attempt last year against malala

yousufzai. she was a young champion of girls education. >> nic robertson is in islamabad. fill us in on what happened and the investigation. arrests have been made, but do they know anymore about who was behind this? >> well, michael, you know what, the more we learn about this right now the more tragic it becomes. 41 years old, she'd been a teacher for 24 years. she decided to take her young son to school with her. and her son told us what happened. they'd just got off the bus near the school. they were walking towards the school and he said a motorbike approached from behind, two taliban on it. one of them he said without warning, without saying anything just fired three shots at them. and he said that first shot he felt his mother's blood hit him and she fell down. he said she was shot in the head. they fired three shots again and then said they were going to fire at him. he ran away and came back a little bit later when the

taliban had gone. he found his mother dying in front of him. something a young child should never see. this young boy one can only imagine how that's going to affect him in the coming days and weeks, michael. but the police say that they have arrested 18 people. there have been no claim of responsibility. this is directly in line with what the taliban have been doing trying to intimidate young girls from going to school and teachers from teaching them, michael. >> and, nic, i mean it sounds so similar to what we heard before. malala, that schoolgirl shot in the head, she was also targeted by the taliban. she is trying to do something. there really is this worldwide movement to at least call attention to this problem here. she's asked the u.n. for some sort of help. is there anything that is happening to protect these young girl who is are just trying to get an education? >> well, what she's doing here signing this petition that the u.n. has, she is the first person to sign it and it puts pressure on pakistan's

president. and the petition says that the president should provide safety and security for girls and their teachers who want their rights to be able to go to school. i sat down earlier on today with pakistan's first ever female foreign minister, she's just out of office. and i asked her if the government was really doing enough to help these young gi s girls. >> any group, which is violent, which uses violence as means to prove their strength or their gender, what i feel the government was to do very well was complete ideological for these people to exist. so said the fact that the american troops in afghanistan or pakistan is assisting the international community in any way it's no reason for anyone to be attacking our schools. and these people are not religious groups. these are just criminal

elements. >> so what the government says they actually think they're shrinking this sort of area that the taliban can operate in. the teacher's husband told us that actually it's the teachers on the run. she was at another school with other teachers in the same tribal region and they were forced to flee that school because militants came around. it was too unsafe. their government moved them to the school where she was shot today. and he said, look, the government's not providing any security for the teachers. it's just not good enough, michael. >> just amazing that more isn't being done to protect them. nic, thanks so much. nic robertson there in islamabad. coming up next hour, financial expert suze orman, if you're looking to save up, ask her about, tweet me your questions. she'll answer some in the next hour. go ahead and tweet. plus, it is like a scene out

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