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the brish model as theay not to do it -- barack obama's proposed health-care reform. the president tries to recover. >> president barack obama and hifamily said it off for another town hl-style debate on heth care,but as america has wrestled with how to solve theroblems with its largely insurance-based system, public systs elsewre have been comg under fire. what we need to do is comep with a iquely united way of providg health care, s i am not in favor of a canadian system. i am n in favor of a british syste. i am n in favor of a french system. >>çç some have been les diplomatic. >> your heth care now has stoppe >>the strongest featu is of a government-runystem, even ough that is not rely what has en proposed -- your health care has sucked.

>> thekeep saying to not to the health plan because it does not do anything. >> who says that? >> o the news. >> ome have been feeding the frenzy for several month >> it hamade people iller. we spend money and get bad sults. the idea thatou're going down is road i almost extraordary. >> it w not just useless. was activelarmful. >> that ha embarrassed the lead, david cameron, who is in position be briin's next prime minister, undermining pport. >> theconservative party stands four square behind t nhs. we bac it. we argoing to expa it. > anger, too, from britis people inadrtently caught up. >> her mother suffed on a wait

ist. ate campaigns to improve the nhs and says she was duped into aparing. >> i coulnot believehat the work i dos bei allied with those views. >> çere are stark differencìc@+ between e two systems. in britain arnd 8% of t nation'sncome is spent on health. in america, it is almost double that, but while the british system provides hlth care for almost eveone by the state almost 45 million americans hav almost no insuran, and so, almost zero hlth care. in true, the amerin general distrust of stat support is so far fm the european view that the ill infmed comparisons being made are meaningless. bbc ns, washington. >> mo of the main news for you. idawson, there s a group

inspir by al qaeda that has been battling with the government of hamas, and shooting it out in a mose. -- igaza. our bbc middle east corrpondent gave this update >> therea around the mosque, which is und attack by hama has been declad a closed military zone by hamas, hundreds ofamas policemen and member of its military wing o firi rocket-propell grenades and heavy machine fire at the moue. side the mosque, it is thought there are aund two dozen suorters of that imam. ty are firing back. at lst one rpg has killed someone, and they say the death toll is rising, and even though this is a rong extremist group witn gaza, itç isç extremely well equipped. it has managed to keep up thing

for more thanour hours. >> thethat is our reporter there. the coast guard said earlier that e arcticea has been spotted around 400 nautical miles from the cape rde islands. thrussian on ice as those rerts are not true. -- thrussian envoy ys those reports are not tru prosecution for slder. the peon has alleged that some protesters were raped in dention. officials denied the rape allegations but at m there have beesome abuses. american senor jim web it is ading to burma. it has been five ds since the leading opposition figu of buma suu kyi was sentend to

ore arrests. theyphoon has kied least 500 peop. present ma ying-jeou is calling it the most severe dage to the island in many years. he says intertional assistance is required. they're trying toarry it earth diggers and to fix roads. we have is report. çç>> cloudy skies, a worrisome sign. the rainstill falls, making road to rebuildg and clearing difficult, not to mention the task of trying to spend more survivors. friday, a 52-ye ofireman was drowd b the strong current of floodwaters in a rescue mission in central taiwan. the typhoon hashanged the

lascape taiwan. ros have tumbled off. bridges tt used to stan have collapsed or are buried under 20 or 30 mete of debris. fallen tngs are everywhere. in a village of 300,this is all at is left. only two uses remain. st ofhe residents are buried under this avalahe. the task at hand was sonormous that the authorities not know where to begin. >> t even as rescus come to this grim conclusi, thpress ought toearch for more suivors elsewhere. --hey press on to search for more survivors. they are delering food, dicine, and supplieso hundreds opeople stranded. more than 40,000 soldiers have been mobilized, and many mre will be deployed over the weekend. they will search for more survivorsnd possibly more villages, which might al have en buried.

but r many anxiouselatives, there is lite chance of findg their ledne's allies as the death toll ris, the number und alive has not. their only comfo isçafaith,ç ad hope tt thisragedy does not occur again. bbc news, taiwan. >> ateast 600 children are now deal with a lead poisoning in the north of china. -- are nowll with lead poising. local officialsay they plan to relocate everyone livi near the contaminat site within the next two years. aqi journalistsave demonstrat in central bagad, calling for great media freedom and aend to state censorship. the iraqi government is brinng in new rules to conside baing some websites. there he been lauits against media worke. itain has impos direct rule

onhe turks andaicos islas in the caribbe, and there is evidence suggesting systematic corruption. the gornment and an elected ssembly of been suspended fr up to two years researcrs in boston in e u.s. -- for up to o years. resrchers in boston in the u.s. think they may have found something to stop tumors from growg. it is still some w off. we,seven countries, 11 days. it has been quite a rollercoaster. the u.s. secretary of state hillary clint completed her tour of africa today in cape verde. and ere w restored by her sband's secret mission north kea, and tn there w the presconference where she lost her legendary ". look back. -- her lendary cool. we lookç back. >>ç when hilly clinton stepped off the plane in capeerde, it

was 11 day seven countries. the first-ever amerin presidentith african roots, they watched her. it began ia very african style in kenya, the homelandf president obama's father, but here, as in my cases it places, the issue of cruption was topic. there wre remas that suggested that while the govement has done much, it is stilnot enough. >> we strongly support an encourage the gornment of nigea's efforts to increase transpancy, reduce corption, provide suppt for demoatic processes him in preparatio for the 2011 election. >>remarks from a long le of diploms. there was a willingness to go deep io the most intractle conflicts. in the east the democratic public of congo, victims of

rape. there was a prome to help with justice. is crime no matter who commits them they must be prosecuteand punished. that iparticularly important when those who commit su acts are in positionf authority, includinmembers of the congolese military. >> so pnty of stng words from the secretary oftate,ut no big chk that many think would have helped, but still, this trip is bing seen as a st of a conversation with ordinaryç afcansç which they ho mig yet pre productive. bbcews, nairobi. -- the str being seens start of a convsation. >> cenr, , h the world's richest soccer league is beating the recession. -- still to come. first, the u.s. cretary of state has told scland's juste secretary deliberate --

the manic invved in the bombing -- the man involved in the bombing -- he wl be releed next wee on compassionate grounds. >> like liquid fire pouring from the sky,hat is how one man describes the ne pan am flight 103 pnged to the ground. that was the bigge acts of terrorism in british history, the mass murder of 20070 pple. now, reports suggest thathe man convicted of its chestration may be freed. abdelbaset i al-megrahi may be releed. >> ty are appalled. h idea was to apply for compassionate rease, a the

appeal ds not have to be droppe for compaionately, so i am que taken aback by ts change. >> it comes mor than two çdecades afterç bomb tore the airplane apart in the skies over lockerbie. after years, libya agreed to lease two suspects for trial in april 1998. scottish court was convenedn the therlands,and in january 2001, two judg found merahi guiy. others, like jam,hose daughter wa kild,believes he should never have bn found guilty. the scottish governmtnsists theyave not put pressure on megrahi to drop hiappeal, but they thought it would help bring new information to life. it remains unsolved crime. bbc news. >> ok, and broken. >> see the nenfold.

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feared trapped in mote villagesfter the typhoon. less than oneeek beforethe presidenal elections in afghantan, the main caidate has spenthe day chasing votes. the current president had karzai is the front runner. he flew to a city to address thousands of sporters. his main challenger is a former foign minister, traled to the central province. he has been speaking to the bbc about halki would try to prove security. >> my first target would be thousands and thousands of peoe who have joined t taliban ranks, because of other grievaes. allf those who haveoined the taliban e not amongthose who would ke to destroy and take it ba to the old days. here are thousands of people who ha joined them because of injustice, because of couption, because of socio- economic circumsnces. >> the form minister.

-- the former foreign mister. millions of dollarseing poured into a new jusce system targeting narcotics. afghanistan produces most of the rld's opium. çose and counfernaotics have just h a shot. president karzai has pardon defied senior dr traffickers relad to a senior family -- has pardoned five senior drug traffickers. >> one of thmost dgerous jobs in afghanistan. here in kabul, thy are training to comt the drug mafia which pruces 90% of the drugs opium and heroin. profits are ud to buy of police, judges, and othe officials. the counternarcotics buthese are just one aspt of an enrely separateounter narcoticjudicial system that has been built up he afghistan. there are separate police,

prosutors, andudges, courts and prisons. all of it in a bid to get major dr traffickers off of the streets and into dention. this is just apractice drugs raid. in realife,ou would be during thsign -- sound of nfire. the ve traffickerwho have been pardoned by president karzai were wearing police uniforms d using a police r tohift more than 100 kilos of heroin. --ere wring police uniforms. onas from a powerful family. convicting such a trafficker,çç previously thought of as untouchable, was a new milestonef the system. he mn seenere was the goveor in kabuluntil he resignedo run president karza's electionampaign. there has beenr even from within thefghan government.

>> d.o.t. is guilty. --uilty is guilty >> possibly, hamid karzai thought that there were porful political groups and thata pardon was a political necessity. i hope to ask a spokesman about this controver, but despite repeated requests, noby has been available tspeak. a restaurant in kabul, and tonight, onv, this news of the pardon is hittin the afghan cal news headlines. it ishocking news. people are very shaken to find out that the president released these menallecause of deals in a campaign to get more votes. people a not happy. if the leader does this, what hope is there for ople who'd well? >>this may give presiden karzai the backi of a powerfu family, but if these rsults are

anythi to go by there is a çdangerç that the rdons may le so support on voting day. bbc news, kabul. >> pakistanis are celebrating against aackdropof economic hardship and ireased threats from a resurgent taliban. from the bbc, a report from ismabad. >> pakistan at 62, a nation in need opeace, security, and an economic mirac. the back streets, d they are wearof poverty, of rushing for water and electricity is on. this independence day es nothing to celebrate, to this man, in businessere for more than 3years. >> i have never en things so ba we sat idle all da with no customers. inflation is breaking everyon's back.

-- we sit id. >> but there is a sense of progre. ome fl safer on the street sie the governmt tookn the taliban earnest. >> it has mad a difference. there noenying that. >> she lost her brother-in-law to a scide bomber. she says pakistanis n now breathe easier. evenor your morale, you feelood. youç feel aif,ç yes, you are n control now. whether you arer are n, that is a serate issue. >> but that is t big unknown. have they been seriouy weakened? they believe the leader was killed last week and ward that al qda wants to choose his successor. >> they willefinitely try to put somebody who isnheir control d you can listen to them more, and, therefore, we

nderstand, because al qaedas very much present, and they wod like to installsomebody ofhe road. -of their ow >> but in downtown islamabad, the relers areut. a show ofope? perhs. anof resilience. as celebration. it keepsoming. for many pistanis, thisis a ra moment. for getting the blchett of the pastear and theangers of tomorrow. bbc news, slamabad. >> now, wheth you call it foball or soccer, the beautiful game loved by millio around the world, and on saturday, a new sean kicks off in the world's riest a leak. it has become a massive global busiss, $1.5 billion to be topped this year. there is thstoryç from o

>> it is a familia otball chant in an unfamiliar setting. the liverpool and some in th main stadium of singapore. -- the liverpool anthem. gonere the days that meant a summer off. nowp is a chance to cahn -- ca in on what is o of britn's best exports. ery sale mea a profit for liverpool and raises the profile of the english premier leue. >> some think is a european base. no, no, no. it is about 51 600 million that watch e game. is incrible numbers. >> -- it is about 50 or 600 million.

>> of the resul is that inrnational demand for television rightsfor premier footll has never been higher. despite the global ression, the english top class will be celeating record-breaking dealshen a new roundf contracts is signed laterhis year. tre is no doubt tt the english premier league has çbecomtheç global game, and international deals, will take its in compean 1 billion unds for the firstime this year. -- and international dealsill take its in compean to 1 billn pounds for the first time this year. -- wiltake its iome to billion unds. >> it iportant, and gwth is impornt, because we know that this is all we have wanted, re, betr players, and the fans eure that pressure.

>> premier leue club's caasco also targeting ose with no traditionalllegiance to football. chelsea madeore an 2 million unds for their tour of the united states. andt is not just the big ubs to benefit. one went to beiji. in ft, ery premier leue went abroad ts summer. mewhere in china, alsoelling the prier league bands with coaching sessions for local children. the sales pitch gro ever more sophiscated, if thproduct ever morpopular. -- more sophisticated, the oduct ever more popular. >> playg games. you're goingo get those kds of recepons. it is fantasc for the game d for the leue. >> fromç singapore tobaltimore when e season starts tomorrow, these fansill be watching heir heroes on television their ort ismore important

than ever as the preer league tries to be the obal recession. bbc news. -- tries to beat the obal receion. >> o final, you maywear a ping an su to a wedding, but when does an ping an where a wet suit -- ok, finally, u may wear a penguin suit to a wedding, b when does a pengnear a wet suit thank yofor watcng "bbc rld news." >>funding was made possible by the freeman foundationf new york, stowe, vermo, and honolulu. e newman's own foundati. the john d. and caerine t. macarthur foundation and union ba. and union ba. >> union bank s put its

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