>> tonight on "wodfocus" -- > in indonesia suide bombers posing as guests strike at merica luxury hotels in the capital killing at least eight people and wounding more than 50. in hran, tensf thousads of protesters take to e streets today after cal from a seni cleric to release potical prisoners. in the middl of sumr, you mit notbe thinkg about flu season but inritain they are. and the wnings about the potential death toll from swine flu are sggering. anthen from turk, an ancient town lost more than 2,500 yea ago has been fou. beneath th sea, thanks to some israeli divers. 'll tell you how it happened

>> from the world's leading reporters ananalysts, here's what is happening om around the wod. his is "worldfocus." made possible, in part, bthe following nders -- gooevening. i'm mart savidge. they posed as gas at luxury hotel in jakarta, indonesia. the business of terrorism. the men bew themsves up this morni with bombs tt they had assembled in that om. one attking the marriott the other the nearby ritz-carlton that killed at least eight people and wound more than 50 as they broht terrorism back to theworld's most populist muslim nationor the first time in four years a at least eight americans were among the wounde some the victims were australia and in tonight "lead focus" we turn it our partner, australia's

abc. with jeff thompson of the network's "la line." ogram. >> reporr: this may be t man responsible for the tack on jakarta's ritz-carlton. captured here on closed circuit telesion entering the hotel restaurant at breakfast time with a backpack on hisvent to and weling a suitcase behind. a minute later the blas this is the scene then outside, workers and guests scrambling to safety. away from theecond attack of that morning. the fit was at the j.w. marriott hotel across the road. >> i hearda big explosion. i lked up, window. buiing shot een from the 17th floor and i looked out my window and on the left-hand side i saw thi big plume of smoke rising and there were ople walking out from the marriott at that age. walking wound. ople blood splatters a things like that. >> reporter: up to ne people are de and 55 injurs. the rst fears are hilled f

three australians >> have grave coerns for three auralians. following the terrorist mbings in jakarta earlier today. one of these australians an australian embassy official. these fires may be the subje ofurther change. >> reporter: 's believed that among tha number are senior austraan official craig singer and busineman nathan barretty. new zealand's also benouched byhe attack. >> jakta that has claimed the life of one new zealand. it is extremely sad news for new zealand. >> reporter: policbelieve that the attacksere coordinated and that meres with eyewitness accounts. the first blast was at e marriott at 7:40 a.m. and the second at the rits at 7:45 says this man. they were four foreigne i helped. one was on unconscious and the

rest habroken legs all burnt skin he says. police say men sing as guests used a room onhe 18thloorf the marriottotel as a command and control center where an unexplod dece was also foun indonesia's predent has hinted that se ofis political opponents could be involved >> translator: it iassumed that the attack tha happened this morning in jakarta was carried o by aerrorist group. so it is not kwn if they're from thsame network as previous attacks. >> reporter: no one has yet claimed responsibity. but iediate suscion has fll own indonesia's well-known terror outfit jaar islamia. swering tofutive terrorists mohammed - jeff thompson, "light line." in iran, tens o thousand of antigovernment protests tk to the streets of tehran oncegain today. they called onresident maoud ahmadinejad resign and met by poli and militiamen who fid tear gas.

one of e top coury's reigious leads himself voiced new doubts about the re-election. he said thos doubts are now consuming us. >>warning that the iranian republic faced a crises. ayatoll awaste node time on atck the gor its handling of the disputed presidential ection. >> translatorthe situation created by the electio results s been a biter on now all of us havelost. we all were losers day's addre by ras san ja has been long awaited. he head iran's powerful aembly of expertsnd is a y oppotion leader of mousavi. mousavi wasat today's prayer service. the iranian state media did no show his age. it was ft to an iranian student news agencyo release this pture. a if a departure from

norm anian television did not carry today's service live. is the middle et correspondent r "the los angeles times." he's been monitoring today's events from ba route until recently he was in tehran. >>e was he-on. he talkeabout justice and even therophet mohammed the respect of those he rul and making these ferences. and in the more political part of the friday prayer sermonhe discussed the issue of politil prisoners. he discussed thehuttering of newspapers. he talked abouthe importance of allowing t -- >> outside tehran university where the prayer srvice was held, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets. itas the biggest demonstration since those which took placen the daysmmediately follong e election. this grainy video said to of today's protest was posted on the website, youtube. >> is swed that is green movement despite some people's doubts remains a pontfoce.

it hasnot subsided. that there a huge number of people who are willing to sk life a limb and liberty by gong out into the seets. this must be very worrying fo th elders of the ismic establishment. >> in photos released by t associated press, members ofhe ardline beidgis militia. charged the crowd firing tear gas. one pho shows a protester tryintoick a canister away and at previous demotrations today there were injuries. another photo shows this m eeding from the head. now for moreon today's prosts and that address b former president rasan ja w tournexiting wished professor at the university o new york. he was born in iran and written veral books about that country. welcome back. >> thank you. >> it's been seral weeks n of cours since we've had this election and the rotests. where do tngs stand in an right now? >> well, the resentment sll

very much the but of course the cos of expressing it in the streets are heavy -- has oken bones. so i wld say the oppositons more tempted to gon other dictions. today o course some of it came out into thetreets but on the whole i would say the oppition to the elecons still remains there. of course it's notn a situation -- i's not an environme where a million people can come t to depstraight. >> why would the government allow mr. raphan jani to deliver the praye today when th must know that itwould draw the demonstrations? >> i think it's an attempt to tell the opposition that there is seone whin their lead that still saks for you. it's aay of channling the position into the replic. i don't thi it really wl suced because people ca see what it's doing because really

no concessions are beingade to th opposition. it's one thing tosay, ll, you have someone like rafsanji wholexpress your views in the power elite but it's anoth thing toctually share powr. and don't think of course t supreme ader and ahmadinejad re willing to share pors. >> it was n televisd. and usually these prayers are on a friday. why wa that? >> because they weren't sure what was going to happen. they weren't sur what rafsanja was going to say. whathey'll probably is take excers of tomorrow and televise that. >> and then we had the announcent yesterday of the head of the nuear proam in iran resigning or bng replaced. what do weake of that? >> that's very seous because means that are there changes being made in he nuclear ogram. until now the policy of the republic was that the nlear program was real directed towards civian use. that it was not a weaponized

use. and i thk some of the peop li running the program were sincere in that. if ahmadinej is going to run the nuclearprogram, w could see the danger that -- a weaponizatn will become much re important in it. >> ibra hip, tha you. the u.s. miliry inraq said toda three american ldiers were killed last night in an attack near the souther city of basra. happened as their base came under mortar or rocket fi. lastear iraqi forces with u.s. support drovshiite militias outf the area but the military say some extremisthave returned. the americans, you'll ecall, took over supporting iraq's military inhe basra area after the british ende theimission earlier this year. while the brith have left some of those who have aisted them

have not and they're fearg for eir lives. 're talking about iraqi interpters who worked ongside the british as they the america. whi more than 200 of them have been relocateto britain and many more have receivecash compensati about 25 others are suing the british govnment sang that they've been abandoned. we g more on the interpration from nadine baba of al jazeera english. >> reporter: al an iraqi who's livedin northern england since 08. for years he worked as a ierpreter for british troops in southern iraq. >> after 200it was like a bloody war we were shoby everything. stes. snipers. gunshotand everything. >> rerter: he says he's grateful to be allowed to ve in briin but without a job it's a struggle. he hop that he and others like hiwill soon be given compensatn. who is represenng 25 iraqis who were inrpreted in basra says britn bears a legal responsibility to them. >> a loof the army peopl that we'v been spking to who were

active the ground are actually very ciferous about the casend very supportive because they also feel that n enough was done toupport these very key workers for them >> reporr: one former interpreter now in hiding i iraq says he's terrified at militien will kill him. they call us ents and spies because we work with e occupation fors. i try to tell my bo that i need to lea iraq but he said such a procure had not been established y. >> repter: now britain has gone t asum to some iraqis who have worked with its tros. ose left behind often live i mortal danger. >> ion't know where they are now. who i have workedith. i know the people who got killed because you knowou can -- when you ask about th, they say, "oh, they've be assassined." and they work qui a lot unfortunely. >> reporr: iraqi's lawyers pe to reach an agreement wh the uk governmt. they can'they say they'll take

the case to the u.s supreme cour, al jazeera. >>as for the united states, the stateepartment told "worldfocus" today tt more than 800 iraqi translators o worked f american forces haven't issued visas to comeo the u.s. >> u. health number officials of the h1n1 swine fl ve surpassed 40,000 confirm and probable ces with 263 dths but they estimate that many more peop have been affected with the viru thnumber of h1n1 cases is growinin britain where 29 people have died from the swe flu and heth authorities are preparing for a wot-case scenario that if e-third of brtain's population becomes ck, deaths from the swine f next winter cld reach 65,000. we get mo in how britain is racing to open cl centers to counsel people abt the disease from juli rush of itn. >> reporter: e move to use the internet and to set up cl centers for staff who haven'

been medical trained, diaose swinflu wasn't meant until october. dela getting phone lines installed mnt it wasn't going to be ready. but numbers are risi so fast 2,000 erators will start work next week. the aim is to relief the prssure on gp surgeries and hospital a & d dartments but it does mean that antivir drugs will given out to anyone and it' be difficult to eck if they're genuinely ill or ha not livered the questions delerately just to get thr hands on the ce. even though there enough to go around. just over a we ago in england, only london and the west midlands were hot spots. swine flu had really yet to make itsark at all in york sre and th humber. and this jury hotspot. york shire --s the virus sprds it's becomi clearer childrenre theost affected. adults tentocquire degree ofmmunity as they get olde and densely poputed city areas

are where st are consulting doors with flu like symptoms. >> there' no doubt that viruses like flu, like crowd placs, they li to be able spread quickly from o person to anothe if you're buildi a bon fire yo want to put lots of sticks on them. that's sort of situatn we've got. >> reporr: the latest numbers its from government's flu surveillance teams sgest some 55,000 new cas in the last week alone. children uer 14 most ffected. and the nhs is plaing for a peak of upo 9% of the workforce of sick in t next month. planning ieverything. plafor the worst-case scenario nd you don't get caught out have kied and the nhs is planning for a worst case ofp to 60,000 deaths in this pandemic. double that of pt flu pandemics the rapid rse in infections is happening of coursbere any vaccine is availablend in spite of rent reports from the orld health organization tha ome vaccine manufacturers ar getting low yields inheir

production, the depament of healt insists the first batch of vaccine will be available at end of next plongt but they don't have i today. won't benough forveryone in the at-risk grps. the first meetingdecides who ge priority are happening now. and en the vaccines do arrive they'll go through aast track safety approvalprocess that uld take as little as five days. theovernment's still confident they will still have some milliodoses by the end of the ar enough for half the population. >> lian rush of itn. >> one of our "worldfocus" bloggers, nina haigian argues that global pandecs like t h1n1 virusave turned to national secury for the united states. y can read her blog and let her know if yoagree at worldfus.org/pivotalpower.

it is time f our friday rounssion of some of the we's top stories. we'll look aescalating war and increasing casuaies in afghanisn. with the murdeof a top human rights advocate in the russia we' look at human rights as part of the u. foreign policy commitment. has it been decreased? and as sretary of state hillary clinton begs a five- day tr to india we look at her policy speech had weeknd her role in s. foreign policy. joining us tonight we welcom back carla robns, deputy editial pagof the through york times and gidn roseditor emergency foreign affairs magaze. gideon, start th you. let's stt with afghanist. we're on the w now to perhaps e deadliest month for coalition forces. is it just the simple facthat we boosted the nuer of troops thereby we should expectore casuties as a result? >> well, it's notust the numberf troops it's also the rules of engagent and the strategy that they're ung. yo can have a lot of troops there and if they're notoing anything, if there hunkered

down in bases or bomng from 30,0 feet, you're not going to have any casualtie at least ofurs. so it's partly a function the new strategys well as the new number of troops. . >> you have to get the tops out there? >> you have to get t troops out ther and franklyt's not just our casualti that are important it's the local casualties d one of the asons we are engaging in a more dict way th the war and fighting it i a more hands-on y is precisely so we can reduce local civian fghan casualties and therefo make thear effort more sustainab and get the population on our side. >> we, what about the partners in this effort? great britain sufferedi think, it was eight casuales in the span o24 hours. you had that very dramic scene of the hearsegoing through towns. how ng can they sustain that in puic opinion? >> well, i think the brits are pretty dowdy. the brits are tough. and certainly there's been a grt deal of resistance from iraq after a while and they did finally do that but i think that the brits are committe think the frustrating thingf course is the rest ofato is t committed to it.

yo do have other troops there in less dangerous places because the rul of engement are so-- you know, let's n take casualties. let's not kill anyone. itaises very big question about the allnce and the long run. now does the united states he enough troops what it needs did and does president obam have the wi to put in a lot more troops? there's also qstion here domeically. >> and what do you thi the answer to at is, gideon? > i think the real question about whher the strategy is going to be working and shing results. my readg of history and of the science -- the sociascience literature onhis is if people can accept casualties when they tnk sothing is getting done and they get very upset t just with absute number of caalties but with casualties that seem to be exnded for no goodeason so the question is not just higher uptick of casualts but whether we're acally making progress. is the situation stabilizes? we don't qite know that yebut we'll that ia few months. >>lthough if there is perceived ogress in iraq i think that peop will be more tolerant owhat's going to in afghastan. people wilremember how bad things were in iraqnd perhaps

more tolerant and ao i think there's a feeling tt because afghanistan agait taliban and alaeda that this is the good war, the right war si think that there's also thatol ransor that at least for a while. move onto the issue of human right the murder of nattia -- she was a sunch reporter of human rights. she had supporters in chechnya. says a deep nvestigation. th they will find somebody he. ar we real supposed to believe russia when they say this. >> no >> anythi more that you wish to add? >> no it's horible. it's horrible. it's horrible for vestigators, it's horriblfor journalists. 's just a terrie, terrible thng and you know this vernment in ruia, they're just n knockg off journalis and human rigs right a left. >>so what should the obama administration d >> it's very interting because the "times" had an editorial on it this morning. >> gideonyou're roing.

>> the fac that it's a tragedy. a lot ohuman rights abowese inchechnya,ave been for many years of course and not much thathe united states can or frankly in my opinn should rt do on an actual policy vel. the differce between obama and bush on this is that bush basical talked a bigg game but didn't do anythin the obama admintration has ven dropped the talk. they'r very festiious of what they wi do to someone se. 'll not tortureow but happily ske the hand of people who do torture. >> wait a minute, i think that's a little exeme. i think as wmentioned when w were he on the anniversary of tiananmen, the ministration did hav a qite strong statement that came out. it is a challen to balance the fact thatthere's an enorus. a things that they want to get done with the ussians. it's a crupt and -- repressive government there. i don't think that theywon't lift a hand to comply. ihink it's a little hah. >> i don't tnk it's harsh at al and i'm not say that they're wrong doing that.

we mentioned tnanmen. we just had some sort of repl in an and what di the administratiodo? stay on e sidelines stay out of itand waited to see whoould win so they cod basically deal with wever won. that's a goodthing. that was the right thing do. >> do't think that's what happened. that is cold. these pple have ice in their veins andhat's what you need to run very successfuforeign policy. >> i'm not tryintodefend them but will say in iran they made a very cle decisions ashey have made as arcannist as it may sound and in honduras,hey didt want to broadcast story they did notwant to gi ahmadinejad a excuse. genel when icomes to china and russia they haveownrighted the huan rights. i thi they did it exactly right in iranecause they did n make it about the unid states. th made it about the oppositi. >> we're almosout of time. want to bring in sectary of state hillary rodham clion. she's begun her trip to ind, she's arrived. described as major forei policy spch in wek. gion, was it? >> you couldum it up as saying

that the obamadministration cpared to bush. jaw jaw is bett than war war. we'll be cooperative, multateral, new partnerships and so forth. t really i don'think that these speeches mean anything ite frankly and tell foreignerbetter to watch american foreign policy wi the tv with the sund turned off. watch what we do, not what we ay. you could essential ignore this speech but you could ignore it entirely and still see americ foreign policy play out and get a better reang by reding "the new york times" a watchi events a a play out. >> aot of pundits were focusing on more on whatnot wat she sid but where she' been. >> a wonderful plor game. ho's up? who's do? is she is a powerful? not a very powerful - she's been low-key no question about it and she's had very high-ofile voys there. a very elf-confident twom have richard holooke to run afghanistan and pistan and we'll only know in tim once the discipline comes out, how many position, strong posions that she's taking

behind the scenes. my money on hillary. >>e have no idea what going to behind the scenes anthe number of high-profle speeches are not an actual influence on foreign policy. >> i have to end it. carla robbins, gideonose, thank you th. finally tonight wewant to take you back in time 700 b.c. when sciensts believed a masse earthquake caused par an ancient side to fall into the aegean sea. marine archaeolist from israel ha begun to recer the remains of that port. hear about it fr our newest partner the israeli boadcasting authority. its report has been anslated from hebu by our israeli procer. >> reporter: off of the shores of the st turkis town, an ancient port used more than 2,500 years ago has been

discovered unil recently, its existence had onlyeen rumoredut then turkishesearchers decided to investate the matter. withhe help ofsraeli chaeologist to search for artacts hidden deepnder the ocean. >> translator: since we' experts and ocean excavations, port excavations they ked us to wk with them and teach them and that's what wedid. >> repoer: students from haifa university travele to the town. in murky conditions they discovered the arty facts. they are beautil, important, and ique. >> transtor: we fod vessels and uns. massive oneainers that sunk into the sea. they hadrrived at port fro the black sea fr greece. maybe even crus. >> reporter: the st important fi of all is thi anchor that was ud by one of the mercha ips. thiss probably the oldest anchor ever discovered. >> translator: we took it ta lab and they d a sortly after

700 b.c. this mes that we're dealing with an anchor that is at least 2,650 years old. >> reporter: xt month the researchers from hafa will fly to turkey for another roundf des at lehman tepe. perps joint projects like will this lead to warmer relationships between israel and turkey. >> a that's "worldfoc" for th friday evening and fothe we. if you missedny of our pgrams this week, you're in luck because thas why the web was there. you can watch them again at worldfocus.org. i'm martin savidge in new york. as always, we thank you fo watching and we' look for you bachere on sunday. in the meantime, have great weekend. "worldfocus" imade possible, part, by the followingunders -- "worldfocus" imade possible, part, by the -- caions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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