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>> welcome to "newsday." >> making a direct appeal, chen guangcheng phones the u.s. congress from his hospital room. >> the safety of my mother, my brothers, and i really want to know what is going on with them. >> tens of thousands tried to escape the escalating violence in sudan. >> setting new light on osama bin laden, documents seized from his compound in pakistan. >> we are on the trail looking for space rock worth more than their weight in gold. >> it is 9:00 in singapore. >> it is 2:00 in london. broadcasting to be to viewers on pbs in america and around the

globe. >> an extraordinary scene, the u.s. congressional hearing his telephone conversation with a chinese human rights activist chen guangcheng in which he made an impassioned plea for u.s. help. he was speaking from his hospital bed in beijing. he claims the chinese authorities have broken the plans of the deal under which he it agreed to leave the u.s. embassy. the diplomatic standoff has overshot a visit to china by hillary clinton. his calls to congress were translated by the president of the human-rights china aid. >> he wants to come to the u.s. for as time of rest.

he has not had any rest in the past 10 years. i want to meet with secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. i also want to thank her face to face. >> i think he is a very desperate right now. he feels very unsafe and he feels threatened.

his wife and two children, they are confined in a hospital prison. the u.s. embassy officials were not able to get access to meet with him. embassy official told him over the phone that he was blocked outside and had to stand out of the hospital from morning until 5:00 in the afternoon. >> joining us on skype from washington is the president of the women's rights without a frontiers, the international coalition opposed to forced abortion and human trafficking in china. you are at the hearing, you heard the phone call. what was atmosphere like? it must have been incredible to hear from him. >> it was incredible. this is the fourth time i have testified before congress.

never have i ever experienced anything like this. it was -- i would call it a transcendent moment. everybody was giving their prepared remarks. and then all of a sudden, this call from the chen guangcheng. i have been advocating for his release since 2008. i have been doing it full time for two years. it was extremely emotional for me to hear him live, speaking to us directly, pleading with us to help him get out of china. >> what did he sound like? what was his mood? >> it was a long conversation. i would say at least 20 minutes. he went through a range of emotions. there were times when he was pleading and there were times when he had a little chuckle. he seemed very stable

emotionally. he had all of his wits about him. he was speaking clearly, and he understood the situation. he feels that he and his wife and family are in danger. they have no choice but to come to the united states for safety. >> do you think that is going to happen? he is saying that china has reneged on its promise to look after him to maintain his safety? does he have a chance to come to the united states? >> i think there is a little opening, a little crack with respect to the state department. they have softened up understand over the last couple of days. they are saying that even if he might have originally said he wanted to stay in china, now he says he wants to come to

america, and they are acknowledging that he has changed his position. my hope is that they will change his position. the fact that he is not in the embassy anymore complicates matters. but the united states, having botched the situation, there will be less repercussions from trying to get him out of the hospital and back into the embassy and into the united states than simply abandoning him at this juncture. >> good to talk to you. thank you very much. >> it was responding to a resolution from the un security council threatening sanctions against both countries unless the cross border violence and within 48 hours. violence between government troops and opposition fighters

have forced people from their homes. increasing the pressure on aid organizations to provide food, water, and shelter. most of the refugees are in camps across the border in south sudan. >> on a dirt track, a weary family. they have been walking for days. thousands more are coming, flint for their lives. why did you come here? >> hunter, too tired. -- huger, she says. this is what she is escaping from. danger overhead. in the mountains, the bombs are falling every day. did down, he says. the sudanese government is not only to try to crush an armed

rebellion, but bringing an entire population to its knees. hiding in caves from the circling plains, tens of thousands now live like this. it is too dangerous to go out to farms they cannot feed themselves. foreign aid is not allowed. communities are trying to leave, crossing the border into south sudan in growing numbers. there is another family just arriving now, joining the other end exhausted people. these people are being -- the military campaign is designed to terrorize and displaced civilians. long queues to register at this refugee camp. all have their it scars from the bombings. she tells me she had to leave behind to offer children, there were too young to make the journey. a bomb killed her husband.

with each passing week, the condition of those arriving gets worse. there is help for them here, but a growing fear for those left behind. what were you eaten? -- eating? >> we were just eating things from the trees. >> is it getting worse? >> every day. >> a dangerous journey, the cac is filling up fast. -- camp is filling up fast. >> at least 34 people have been killed in an attack on a market in northeastern nigeria. eyewitnesses say gunmen blocked the gates of the market,

attracting traders and capital -- cattle inside. and and started shooting and set the enclosure on fire. the attack was in revenge for a failed raid on the market on wednesday in which members of the gang of cattle thieves were caught and killed. there are claims in ads is that osama bin laden had been working on a plot to assassinate president obama. the evidence emerges from documents seized from his compound in pakistan and selectively published by the u.s. government. our security correspondent has more. >> the last days of osama bin laden, holed up in his compound in pakistan, before he was killed by u.s. navy commandos last year. we are getting a glimpse of the treasure trove of 6000 documents seized from the compound. president obama authorize that raid, the u.s. is reminding the world it family got its man.

the files revealed he tasked to groups with spotting the visits of president obama or general petraeus to afghanistan or pakistan. joe biden was not to be targeted. his plan was for him to become president because he thought he was incompetent. his thoughts on the al qaeda network are also revealed and the documents. the branch in iraq is out of control. >> he was on the run, but he was still very much in touch with his global terror empire. he was frustrated that his global terror empire was under more pressure than before and he was frustrated with this of ordinance, who did not seem to be able to learn any lessons from previous mistakes.

>> one of the declassified documents refers to british targets in afghanistan. even though we have the chance to attack the british, he said, we should not waste our efforts to do so, but concentrate on defeating america. what emerges is by the time he was killed a year ago, osama bin laden was struggling to remain in control of al qaeda. the organization had already fragmented. of should have sprung up independently in yemen. >> the group is still struggling to be relevant. there are new outfits that have emerged that have their own leadership, financing, resources. >> intelligence reports of located osama bin laden or promising. >> the administration to release these documents is significant.

president bush mentioned bin laden less and less. obama wants to remind people that this is part of this legacy. bin laden has a legacy, but it is fading now. the infamous bogeyman is no more. his organization is a shadow of what it once was. >> you are watching "newsday." >> why this little boy has an interesting visit to issue and oregon. -- a zoo in oregon. >> a quick look at some of the top stories from the world papers. chen guangcheng leads the "

international herald tribune." many conclusions have been drawn from the osama bin laden files. in his last days in charge, the world's most feared terrorist was paranoid and bureaucratic. hospitals ordering -- lamenting the end, the moscow times looks back at the much ridiculed car. >> the chinese dissident at the

center of a diplomatic standoff between beijing and washington has made an unexpected live appeal to the u.s. congress. " said don says it is fully committed to ending hostilities with its neighbor, but it warned that it would defend itself against aggression. chinese get more on the dissident at the center of a diplomatic standoff between beijing and washington. the managing director of china knowledge shares his view on how relations between the two countries have been affected. >> every year, you see some achievements. over two years, you see the chinese yuan rise. every year, it achieves something. the most crucial thing, they

cautious about the transition and october. there is a change of leadership, there will be a new president, new leaders. i think americans -- chen guangcheng wanted to stay in china. yesterday, he says he wants to go back to the u.s. >> you say the chinese have made some concessions in terms of changes with their currencies. what about political concessions? are they willing to make political concessions to the u.s., which is demanding more human rights? >> the chinese fear -- people

opposed chinese policy and government, that would not be well liked by the new leaders. it will create more problems in the future. this is a case that we have to resolve quickly and smoothly. >> the relationship between the u.s. and china is very important. we heard the chinese president warning that any worsening of relations could pose grave risks to the world. will it? >> every country in the world is at stake -- >> do you ever see relations getting that bad?

at least 12 people have been killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in the southern republic of pakistan. reports say two bombs went off about 50 minutes apart on a main road out of the capital city. there are frequent attacks on security forces by islamic militants based in pakistan. two journalists have been found dead in veracruz. gabriel huge and guillermo luna had been dumped in bags and a canal along with two other bodies. the deaths come days after another reporter was killed and the state. mexico is one of the most dangerous killings for journalists. argentina's parliament has given its final approval to the nationalization of the country's biggest oil company. the vote cleared the way for the president to sign the bill into

law. it has been strongly criticized by several countries, including spain. compensation has yet to be decided. >> officials on the falkland islands have criticized the argentine government for broadcasting a political advertisement filmed on the island without authorization. it features an argentine athlete training in the falkland islands, which argentina claims -- ahead of the london olympics in july. >> this advert aired on argentine tv is about an athlete's a nostalgic. he is a well-known argentine hockey player. he does is exercises outside, and uses the steps of a british war memorial before dashing

past. those on the island are not sure when the filming took place. the athlete says it took place in secret. it has entered -- angered the islanders. the slogan here is to compete on english soil, we train on argentine soil. this sentiment is in line with many comments from argentina's president. she views the 30-year anniversary of the falklands war to accused britain of colonialism. she wants her country's flag to fly above the island. the propaganda video has gone down well. >> i think is right. we are defending something that is ours. we know we are inferior, and we have to use what we have to get

something done. >> it is fabulous artistically. as an argentine, it brings the spirit out in you. >> the islanders are not amused. they say it was made without their permission in a cheap an underhand way. as if they do not exist. >> committee shall work across the skies of northern california last month, it sparked more than just passed some of amazement. treasure seekers looking for space rock. they are worth more than gold to the scientific community. even the tiniest peace can fetch $1,000 per gram. >> there is a strange new fever

running through the gold rush country. they are known as meteor zombies. head down, searching for a tiny bit of rock back and make them a fortune. with stardust and then there hills, the professional treasure hunters scrambled the moment they heard reports of a meteor strike in california. >> it is selling portend to science, it is very fragile, it will not -- it is so important to science, it is fragile, it will not survive very long. >> a woman walking her dog caught a picture of the media right. -- meterotie. it is quite difficult walking around here without looking to see if the fragments of the

meteor is hiding somewhere in the grass. they said there has not been as much excitement here in 150 years, since the first struck gold just over there. it was for the gold rush began. history is repeating itself. this time, with a gift from above. >> we call that flight oriented, where it held a stable position. >> this park ranger found dead and a smaller piece just outside her house. weighing in at over -- found it and a smaller piece is outside her house. weighing in at over 10 grams. >> they can see a piece of the meteorite. i would like to sell this as long as it is going to science. >> all sorts of people have been

finding fragments. and casting and at $1,000 a gram. this is his college fund. quite an incentive to keep eyes down looking for something spectacular. >> the former swiss fighter pilot took himself on an exclusive story of the rio the janeiro on thursday morning. using a specially built jets packed he lived for 11 minutes over the iconic skyline he soars over -- past sugarloaf mountain before pulling his parachute. he began developing this project in 1993. 2008, and he flew over the

english channel. now we end with what is developing into a bit of an incident -- instant sensation. footage of dangerous animals trying to eat toddlers to the security glass at a zoo. the main actors, a lioness trying to eat a little toddler on the other side of the class. a zebra-striped daisy broug outfit. he is not in the mood to play. >> you had been watching "newsday." >> much more on our website. for now, thank you for watching.

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