tonight on "worldfocu -- sayin thelobal economic situatn remains uncertain. world leader gather in italy to talk abouthat to d next, as thedo, we show you how thing are only gtting worse in much of europe. > new images, evading north korea leader kim jonil surface as hiscountry's being accused of being behind a cyberattack that's overwhelmed impoant governmentebsites in south korea and the u.s. argeina's in the middl of the winter and in the mile of a medical emergency. the h1 virus' now killed more people ere than in any other southmerican country. tonight we go for a look. a t we travel to western kenya, as our continuing series "view from africa loo at the battle to take that connent's three biggest killers. from the world's ading

rerters and analysts, here's what's happeng from around the world. this is "worldfocu" ade possible, in part, by th following funder-- good eving. i'm martin vidge. we begin tonhtwith the g-8 summit the annual gatheringf the world' largest economies and while many expected the glbal economic crisis to dominate tay's talk if italy, the big news office aifferent front. the lears agreed to s a target. miting the world's average temperature from sing more than two degrees celsius, that's about 31/2 degrees fahrenheit. they also set a goal for industrialized nations to rduce greenhouseasses by 80% by the ye 2050. despite the focus on climate change the gbal recessi remains a big concern for e g-8 leaders. and today they agreed to keep pressing ahead with effortto stimule ecomies. so how are the european countries goin about it?

oupartner, deutsche welle, has tha as our "lead focus" tonight. >> reporter: fer hours on the jobor reduced paynd in germanyundreds of thousas of emplees have been put on short time. tting off mass redundaies for now. gerny's economy's forecast to shrink by 6% this ar. export-driv indusies. such as ngineering. the obal recession has slashed demd for product made in rmany. german ports declined by 29% inapril, 2009. comred wh the same month a year ago, the worst decline in post-war history. the country's leaderseacted witan unprecedent economic stimulus packe. ans to have costn extra $50 billion eur into the enomy by10. >> translator: we'll succd in making gerny stronger than it was befor it enter the crisis.

>> rerter: the plan cludes state aid fr fincially stricken companies, investment in ecation and transport, as well as direct efforts to encourage consumers to spe money. such as the sche of offering individuals a bonus for rapping their old c and buying a new one. th plans are costly for the public urse, and some expts doubt they'lhave the desired affe in the long run. >> tralator: the economic stimulus pns in their present form, of cours cannot provide a direct boosto exports. ey will if at a possible provide aoost to constructio and iestment and consumption. but those two sectors aren't the weakest partsofgermany's econo. >> reporter: nertheless, economis do expect a slht upswing in thcoming year. in spain, abandod building sites he come to symbol ietz the downturn. a isis in the ountry's pperty market has aggravated the effectsof a g recessi. spain's construction indusy was a maynetay of the country's econy. but hundredsof tousands of

ilding workers have been let go as a result, unemploymen have exploded to 17.4% of t work rce in two years. a recrd for a eu contry. madrid also has a smulus package aimed at fix-starting the economy. thepanish plan includes a public building program to aid the construction industry. but the intention is th the package shld also hlp put the rest of spain's ecomy on a firmooting. >> translator: in theong term, we hav to make sure the package encourages strong growth i spain. that will hapn if the stulus prram, not only encourages hou building but also invests in infrastructurefor example. reporter: in the short te, however, the outlook is bleak. forecasts say spain'sconomy will continue shrinking. in latviaass protests the ecomy is forecas to

contractp to 15%. t country is on the verge of bankruptcy. its foreign debt hav more than tr since2007. and now standst 30.4% of gdp. but instead of stimulus program latvia's government has had to make drastic cuts. with the aim o avoid o flation and secung further ternational credit, the latvian governmen has cut back public spenng by almost 40%. schos and hospitals are being closed. andtate employeesade redundant. poverty's on the rise and purchasing power is falling. >> translator: in the srt term, that'sound toake the risis worse, but you have to se the positive aspects w can expect againsthat. for example, t government wll not have to spend s much servicingts national debt. >> reporter: but for now,the economy is t toontinue its

downward slide. nd lvians have to expect things to get worse bere they get better. >> that report from deutsche welle. >>so, what a likely to be the hot topics of discussion for the g-8 summi for some insig we've invited back john auths. investment edor of "the finaial times." >>good to be here. >> we heard how a number nations in europe, basicall are trying t deal with teir econic downturn. some of them are resulting the stimulus programs, othersre making budget cuts. the europe countries, though, have be criticized that they still have notone enough. why is that? >> ithink, pticularly in the case of rmany, it's because they entered the crisis ina different way in the case of germany, house ices there actually fell slightly during t worst years of the housing bubb here in the states. consumers wen't overextended were here.ted inhe way that and so there isn't the same ned for an aressive stmulus. thether thing you've got to remember, parcularly in t ce of germany, that they have cuural aversion to inflaon for very god

storical reasons, whic is much -- goes mu deeper than does in oth countries. they really don' want to ri a turn to higher inflation >> help to lead tthe nazi party. exactly. >> there seems to be a sensen this g- as we t started, that they're sort of going to lesso learned. like premature for at. but still, wat sort of new regations are we likely to see out this? >> well, discussing, though not gointo see anything concrete this early. whether the dollarhould continue as th reserve crency for the international forgn exchangeystem or wheth there is a way of moving to a mo broad rrency basket. there's a lot of nse about that before the summit. that's the kind of thing that will take many years to deal with. i think if there's a prtical measure tt people are discussing at moment it' probabl the oil marks, oil is obviously an internaonal commodity it gets. so there' no point ay one nation trying to deal with this problem on i own. there's been exception volatility in oiover the la two yrs, which has made it ery much harder for

policymars, and you probay ill see attempts work out, whether we ne more regulati in the o market. how that suld work 18,avoid that becoming couerproductive. >>hina's leader had to leave and go back and deal withhe mestic emergencies in china. >> yeah. >> at impact is that gng to ve? >> it connues to make the summit that much lessimportant thant apeared to be before. you know th central dialogue, the central duality in the wod economy the moment is between the u.s. and china. the mostmportant people in china are not availab there, that continues to reduce the chances that something truly sstantial wi happen. if you looking athe capital markets, that this summit isn going to decide of anything of great importanc >> back to germany, some have suggesd not fully acknowledged he existence of gern banks. >> i think that there is certain some rson to argue for that. the gean baks right two years

ago wh the credit crisis started turnethat, ovexpanded into -- intohat we now call t toxic assets at were -- thatame ouof u.s. and -- but i don think it's just germany. i think that there are issues around, quite a lot of western countries about ether the bking crisis is behd us and in the way thatpeople have been lulled io believing in the last few months. > john authers, thanyou very much. good to see you agn. >> thank you >>from north korea tonigh a rare publi appearance by the leader of at country, kim jong-il. the ailin 67-year-o dictato appeared at a memorial servi marking the 15th aiversary of the ath of hisfather. t founder othe north korean state. > other north koreans pai their respes by placing flowerand bowing before a huge statuof the late leader.

theorth keans are being plicated in a cyberattck. ring the july 4th holiday weekend,he attack, at least temporarilybrought down several major american and soth korean websites. this from south korean intelligence officials other sou korean officis, thouh, expreh the north koreans cod carry out such an attack. now let talk more about this cyberattack. and for that, we are jined tonightrom washingn by keith epstein. he is investigator reporter or "businessweek" whe specialty is cber security. good to you havback. >> good toe here. >> how c we be sure that the north koreans are the ones behind these cybertacks? is. >> well, we can't know for sure, at least n fom the evidence thus so far presented that we have. the sout koreans, of course, blame pyongyang. the south koreans bla pygyang for a lot of things. we'll needee some idence. >> andow cncerned should we be that some of the websites tt were hit, i understand, include the u.s.reasury department, the secret svice, federalrade commission, and

the transportationdepartment. they were all down, at least one time or another, during the july 4tholiday weekend. >> the truth is, martin, not very. these attacks appearo have een, barring some psentation new evidence, e old-style pranksterish, so-cled denl of servic attacks. in which can, in which e perpetrars, usually hackers, often in the pa teenagers, targetertain sysms and flood them. flood them with flood these sitewith so much traffic that the sitesan't temporarly functn. >> so this was. >> temporarily. trying to interfere wh the department of transportation, maybe trying to harm air traffic in so way? no, and that's theind of thing at really rries security experts, serity computer perts are worried about interference with systems, command and control systems, with financial data, with you know, with the actual funconing or secrets that a coany or a government might have >> well,ou mentioned financial data. there we, i erstand,ome prominent financi sites that were strk.

whic ones, i would li to now, and also wt would the consequences ssibly of those ttacks? >> accorng to the associated s and some oer reports, nasdaq and the nework stock exchan were among the sites that re targets of attacks. but agn, most businesses and inany government agencies e -- have grown pretty adept over the yea. fend these this off. and bically shut down traffic from what th detect ther quily is a b neighboood in effect. >> could this be some rt of prcursor? that somne is testingnd may come back with a more devastating kinof cyber stri? >> well, the ting that really worries cyber security professionals on an entirely differenlevel. we're reiring th obama admistration, for instance, right now is working on a cybersecurity itiative that involves a national security agey. itinvolves at&t testing a sophisticated syst called instein. a way of motoring traffic internatnally and what comes into your count, and tryi to

detect ear what exactly what's ppening. whether meone is trying to pulsomething out again or run your system, in effect -- affect the operationsithin your site of te. >> ith epstein, we have to leave it there. thank you very much. >> thank you, martin. rom north korea we tke you to nghboring cina and t the wester province of jen chang. where chinese officls are ying to reste calm. slim uighurs and han chinese. today chinese authorities deployed hundred of troops throughout the proncial capital. and imposed a curfew. the local cmmunist party leader is warning th those behind the clashes, whi have left 156 people dead, woulde executed. andow to afghanistan, where the. american military offensive against the talib in hmand provinc ia week old. at offense's being carried out by 4,000 america troops and 400 afghansoldiers. andhat's prompted someworried comments from arican military fficialsn the field. one of them sa today, more afan soldiers are needed to

help american troop win over afghan citizens. adding, we can't read these people. we're different. they're not going to tell us the truth. we'llever get to build and transition uess we have the ghan troops. >> well, the.s. continues to go after thealiban. just acros the border from ghanistan. in thepakistani tbal region nown as south wazistan, missilespparently filed from america drones killed at least 45 militants today. in a separe attack today in the swat valley of pakistan, the paktani military claimed to have wounded a top taliban commander. wounded man baluna fi owla and his supporte have believed to have burned schools fogirls and beheadivals asart of a chain to impose exeme version of sharia lawthere. and still more ws tonight about the war on ismic militants. it comes saudi aria, where accordingo a justice military spesman 2300 members of suspected al qaeda ve been covicted during the fir knn terror trials in that country. one of the militants was

sentenced to death al qae's, of course, also active in afca. and in the northwestern african country of ma, al qaeda militantand government troops have been battling f the past several days. toda al qaeda claimed to have killed 28 government solers. the governmt says dozens died during the recent fighng, but insists st of those killed were members of al qaeda there's some interesting medical news out of britain tonight. researchers out of new cassel universi claimed to have create human sperm from embryonic sm cells. the leader othe resear group says how spm develops and how to help treat f fertile men. are in his ords, a long way from being authentic. and another medical story

we' been trackin is the global outbre of the h1n1 flu virus as we reported ts week, the disease is spreading throughout the southern hemispherwhere it is now winter. as capurner of al jazeera english report, aentinas bee particularly hard hit. >> reporter: e disease has hit argentina har with so far, it's the worstit country in south america d the third-worst in t world. behind only e u.s. and mexo. the psada spital is the min health the buenos aires and are fild with flu patients. this is where argentina's frst fality occurred a monthgo. a three--monthld baby girl. since then they've been nine flu deths in this hospital ane and theealth minister pdicts th number of infectio could reach 100,000 nationwe. >> tnslator: my husband was admitted last ght. i came to see hw he's doing. they told me it's colicated. heas eumonia. he's in isation. >> reporr: the argtin gornment has just announced new measures to t to stop the

spread of h1n1, including closing theaters and schls and blic workersto take time of the media aso showing advertisg on how to prevent the outbreak. >> translator: ion't know if it's a lack of information, but i don't think thearning serve any purpose. you can take care of youelf at home, but what if you're at work? anhing you touch, whknows if yo'll get it. whathey're telling us doesn't hel >> reporter: crics say, authorities are suggling to cope with the diseasend are worried only some will have access to treatment. > translator: we don't need anther example of unfairnessof argentinian healtsystem. the onl ones who g it are the ones w buy it first or get it through adoctofriend or thrgh some public official they know. >> reporter: arntina now ranks highly more than the 114 countrs anxiously awaiti for a vaccine against n1, a disease the world heal orgization now calls unstoppable. cap turner, al jazee. and now tohe tird

instatment 6 our series this week in which we call"view from africa." tonight, new efforts to fight disease there. urgingongress to spend $60 billion er the next six years. president obama calledor an integrated approah. fight aids butat the same time combat oer preventible seases that kill millions of people every ye. longtime cnn correspondent ry strieker who now call himself a citizen correspondent traveled to western kenya. where he discovered a health project taking th very approach. >> reporter: iteemed like a rnival, huge crds gatherng for a good te. ♪ by appearans, you woul't knowhis is a serius public helth project inwesternkenya. and thatll these people, tanding in lines and waiting for hours, were here to t protection from malaria and diahea teen have themslves

tested for hiv infection. >>hat mak this project unique is it's tually using the needs for health preventio in malaria and indiarrhea. but using thats a way of encouraging peopl to comeor wt would be testd. andthe biggest problem with hiv control today is the need to acally get peopleto kow theye hiv status. reporter: kenya's goal is to test 80% of its population for h by 2010. buthe current fire less than 20%. >> our aim is to make sure that 80 ofhe mmunity, are not hivstatus. >> porter: but convincg eople to be tested is a major challenge anywhe especially in small communities where anyone who is even suspted of testing positive for hiv can be stigmatized, shunned by famy and neighbors. many prefer not r stat.

>> this is, when i know my status, whahappens to my life? what hapns to my career? what happens to my famy? >> reporter: at's why this week-long prevention monstration project isseen as huge breakthrough. the crowds hre herd of kenyans living with hiv testifying how they manage thir illness and live rmal lives by taking antiretroviral drugs provid b thegovernnt. how h infection is noonger a sentencef death. and by the tousands here, they volunered to be tested for hiv. >> her they're actually within their community, with their neighrs, with other people within thr community being tested openly. >> reporter: the conce for this project is combining multiple disease control interventions into on integrat campaign that reaches thousandsf people at one time. justy swing u everyone ts a care pack with a free

inseicide treated bed t to protect ainst malari ahigh-tech ter purifier caed life straw to break e cycle of chronic diarrhea and a supply of condoms. and then confidenti hiv testing and counseling. the ssse manufacturer of these bed nets and water fters donate the the products nd underwrote the expenses of th campaign as in much of the country and across africa, malar and water-reled diseases are the primary killers iwestern kenya. and for victims of hiv with impaid immune systems, chric diarrheas a leading cause of death. th's why proper use of insecticide treated bed nets and water pewifyier has t potential to reduce dehs. in this demonration over a period of seven days, at0 sitesin aarea nar cacomaiga,

more than 50,000 care packs were given to individualsand families. nearly 47000 testedor hiv. among those, 2,016 tested positive for the virus. abouf the total. and in the month ahead, if all of the bed nets and water pure if iiers ar operly used there should be dramatic improvements here in blic health, from a cpaign that could be a model for others in afca. >> that was gary strier reporting fromestern kenya. finallytonight, we wanted to share an excerpt of t latest installnt of the pb series "de angpem" it' called "heart of jeannine." after a 12-year-old palestini boy was kille by israeli soldiers who mistakenly believed

his toy gun was real. the boy's father decided donate his son's organs to severaleriously ill children, including an iseli drugtsnd israe beddo wen and a son an orthodox jewish family a then set o to visit all of them. >> good ening, apalestinian bies in ramam hospital and hisarents decide to donate his organs. six isrlis will receiv the heart, kidneys, lungs and liver of little ahmed. >translator: among the repients a 12-year-old druse girl who received aed's heart

>> onef ahmed's kieys went to a5-year-old bedwin boyamed mohammed cadwa. [ speaking in native tong ] >> ahmed's other kidney wento 3-yearld orthodox jewish gir lebinson. >> iwas just after the dlysis. the doctorold me to cme into the ofce and she hadomething tell me. she said we have a kidney. i looked at her.

iouldn't believe it. i just started crying. she ran to get me glass of water. on cloud ine, you know? >> the filies had rushed to the hospital when it became known that organs had beco available for eir children. [ speaking inative tongue ]

>>heck your loc television listings for "wide angle heart ofjeannine"and see that onlineat pbs.org/wideangle. and that's it for us "worldfocus" for this wednday night. a reminder to visit our website, that's worldfocus.org, where you canfind last night's blog talk radio show about t ongoin unrest in western china. i'm marn savidge in new yor asalways, we thank you very much for joining us. we'll look f you back ler again tomorrow and anytime on the web. until then,ave a great night. "worldfocus" isade possible in rt by the follow funders -- -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com