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globe. andutrageous act ledy an obscure anti-islami preach has produced a terrible resu. what may prove to bthe deadliest attack eve u.n rsonl iafghanistan. st suer, rry jones esideds the musm hol book e kon was burn at s ti chuh. video has pduced any reaction. humphrey of sle repts on the deadly outbrk ofiolence. -- humrey hawsley. it beg afr fray praye, protesters angrybout the burning of the iran marched on the u.n. headquarrs. theyhanteddeath to the.s. and death to iael. fowhile,t welately

peaceful. th vionce broke o afgha police fired into t air, but that did n stop things. it is thoughto bthe wor assaults on n. iafghanistan. afghan police said twof the victims we be headedby t attacks. >> the ficewere badly damad anour colleags -- it is a difficult suati for us. our rstriority i to secure the fety of our colleagues wh are still there and toook after the bies d thought th the families of tho who we los >> we had a peaceful ptest we wen t t u.n. coound to disarmhe guards by taking eiruns ay stood there

would be no vience, but they still firedn us and woued our peopleevenilling some. >> this had been one the safest cities in afghanist, escang the worst of the insurgency. this level of brutality h shown antwestern sentiment. bc ns. >> our north american editor markarde joins me in the studio to discuss the breakp. ma, th incident o the ran burningotal passed me by. this isometngha went noticed. >> i think it pass evebody bynd ihink that is partf the point. this wld,he amerin mea anbritish media didot pick up ont. thlast time this was an news, when it was connted to the run-up to the annirsarof 91andthe ilding of the islamic cmunity center ve

near te site of 91. thathad vast media attention on it. itnded wit the career annot being burned, ptly cause the amican authoriti were so rried about. robe gat actually paded with ter jones, the past, not to do this, because it would be pting american lives at risk >> he did preside over the rning. we are not showing the video it is vy inflammatory. we s no ason tohow i you he to ask the question -- why on earth? what were they thinkg? i think they tnk it prov their point. deedterry jones issued a statement sayg it proves that islam is a relign of violence. iave heard inrvie with him, the n wh actually did rnett, andhey are sying ey want t prove islamoes eactn this way and it is aboututting the karan on trial. an argument th t karan is

not just -- witth koran is that it says us is not the son of god, and that is their fundamental objeion it hink they reveln the blicy. >> this ha been picked up in other countries asell >> y, there have been demonstrations th have not, as fa as i know, turnediolent there we demonstrationin pakistan. pele can see thisn youtube. th is how it went around the world. >> what is the reacti today? >> psident obama has issued a carefully-worded satement. he cdemn this and ithe stronges ssible terms. he sen his condolences to th relatives. and he ress the importance of call -- calm and urges all parts to resolve dferees peacully. he ds no mention the kan

buing such, and he does not go down that ph. i think - they obviouslyant this to e down and not to be noticed. but it iout ere now. >> , ma mardell. thank y very much. in ivory coast, there are fes gunbattle tonighand internatnal lls for the incumbent presidt laent gbag to cedepowe sinc st november, e disputed esidtial ecti, laurent gbagboasefus to allow the iernationally- recognized winner, alaane ottara,o take powe now the standoff h beme a deadly military e. we have theates >> across ivor coa, th shooti haseen incessant for a night in the day. redentsay ty are terried.

it looks andound incrsing like the final showdown between manho has fuseto cede power sin november's presidentl poll and the man theorld says was rightfully elected to take or. apparent wit onlyis most yal rces left to protect m now, launt gbagbo stl apprs t be holding out french troops from port statiod iivor coast have been patrolling the stets. around 500oreiers are said to have soughtefug in a french military camp it is thviolt conclusion of the standoff tha ban fr mont agohen alassane attara was widy recogzed ashe winner of the pridenal election. urent gbagbolaimedhat maive fraud had takenlace in the north and refused to step down. thheadn various attempts to negotiate a solion and a transfer of power, but they have all failed. >>he situation changed wn

the rcesupporting alassane ouattara lauhed swift offensive that sth word to ve mitary pressure to laurent gbagbo instead. there were fears that ivo coas the world's biggest cocoa proder, cou see second civi war in a deca. as the fightingcontued day, the powe struggle was ting rather diffent turn with some of launt gbao's top mitary officers are grant. one hiseadi aides sd he wa ready to enter io a dialog >> i ink will see alassane atta in power,erha eve in days. the question is at comes next? alassaneuatta is no ang. at the internation comnity thinks ty caput all the pes for ivory coa andne man, thi they are sly mistaken. >> it is potentially the start of the new faith for t underlying tsion i ivory

coast. governments in the region know thatheir urgent aealsor laurt gbbo to step down an for civilia to rotted manot eugh. bbc news. >> confusingime there in ivo coast. in libya, rebelorcen the ground say they will aepta cease-fire is colol gaddafi withdraws. it beganp thgovernment has declined, but it h sent an envoy to london to talk with brish ficials. ty did make it clear that gaddafi must go. yet our diplomatic correspdent has all the details. >>olol gaddafind h regime haveeen under bombdmenfor twoeeksow. the libyaneade has bn wkene but not defeated. some ns o h aides lkin to t brish governnt raises more queionshan answers.

the reigoffice will n say what was discued, cept that britain has stressedadda must g >> pele serving i the skies ovibya -- >> andhe prime minister speaking in wales stressed what d be achved b briin's armed forces. >> i think we should make it clear that by aing rapidly with ourlliewe prevented and massiveacrifice and benazi ofnnoct people -- in benghazi of innont pple. >> it is two week since britain joined the btle for libya. so of the most advanced eapoy in the west was dropd fromhe air. theesul--etween0% and 25% o gaddafi's forces destroyed. it seemed toto the ballo and in favor othe bels. -- it seemed to p thealance

fav of the rebel the americ asssment -- adopng troops ill ve 10 mes e rebel-- gaddi troo still tt caot be rebel fire power. thunit ates is unable to commit to an unending war. in whingn, the msage tt amera nes to draw bk from what many see as europe's fight. >> the last thi this country needs is another eerpre and nation-building, and beg, this is an area where one o the asons we reacted was because of the urgency that our allies felt. e brish, e frenchthe itians >> th uted nations hed diplacy cou break the violent stalete iliby e u.n. speal envoy bengha is ere to meet rebel leads. there are talks -- there are tas in tripoliith lonel

ddaf's reme. the implications a cle -- a ceasefire andecive polical chge. buteliving thalook increangly difficult. bc ns. >> as forces loyal to colonel gaddafi batt to ld grnd th have won back from the rebels, no reports in air sike may have kled seven civilians, including children n brown has been tking to the lyan doctor who treate the injured. >> theebels at been in retre all week. they tried toegroupnd d vance ce more again colel gaddafi's forces and the to of bga. the rebelnow ey are outgunne buthey are determined to rein a the territory lost in theast w days there have bee more no air strikes. so f in e cflict, a coalion pils have flown hundds of ssio. commders sy they see no

evidence that therare a civian deas as a result. we are tol tt as many as ven were killed in an r stri the day before yterd, threof tm gir from the same family. it is opposed it haenednd a villageea brega. the doctor told me tt the gaddafi milita convoy was in the village when itasit fm the r. there was a trailer laden with munition. >> there w too much munition. so, [untelligible] itas deployed everywhere. around5 civians out and kill. >> t last coue of day there haseen heavyfighting in e area abounds brega, and we uldnot reach the village still verified ther.'s claims.

nato has novidee to ubsttiate it. the rebels wantoreoalition ai strik lik thene that destyed this nk. they say en if there are cilian casualties, tt is a price worth paying. bbcewsand libya. >> and other developments throughout the region, more signs of the popularprotts that continue to ragehroughout tharab world. >> heavy gunfi and in syria today after a demonsttionn damaus. at least three peoe rported killy security frces, while hundreds fled during a day o masse protests. today's vlence brings the death toll to me tn 60 since the protes beg two weeks ago. and in yemen, hundreds of thounds of people packed the square in the capitol and marched thrghout the cntry demanding esidt seh

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