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>>bbc world news is prested by kcet, los angeles. nding a possible by the freeman fountion of new yo. the john and catrine macarthur foundation, union ba, and " bright star," a new film by jane mpion. >> union bank ha put its financial rength to wk for a
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wide range of companies, from small busisses to major corporations. what can it do for you? >> he was a eamer. she waa realist. with every word he wrote, insped the romance that would live forever. >> i must warnou -- >>bright star," now playingn select cities. >> moscow welcomes the news fro washington. the united stateis sheing the anti-missile stem. suicide boer in afghanistan kills six italian soldiers and 10 civilians. anil trading company offers to pay damages in a ca related to
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trading -- to dumping toxic waste the ivory coast. welcomeo bbc news. coming up later, the manhunt for indonesia's's mostanted milint looks to be ov. he is killed and a plice raid. in new thnology to grab a magazine reade. advertising that move is. -- th mov. it w aays controversial, one of the bigst points of tsion beeen united states of -- and russia. obama has abandon a missile defense system in poland andhe ech republic. he says a redigned system will be cheaper and mo effective. russi's president medvedev has
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weomed the american change and is major americapolicy shift. >> it was aimed against a newly emerging that. birgit said there w a needor a different kind of shoe. the new president neede a new polic he promised a new system, designed to have maximum diplomatic impact. >> good morning,verybody. , he said t change of tactic beer protec america and europe. >> theest way toadvan our securitys deploying a missile defense system that best response to e threats thwe face and utilizes technology that is proven and cost- effective. >> the old plan was t base missiles at this air ba in poland along wita rada system the czech republic. thrussians were furious an
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fall plan was to turn the bse into a fward base that threatened them. they teaten to move missiles to the very border of eastern europe. the defense secretary from the sh adnistration at first remmended the original plan. now he's changed s plan -- his mind. >> i belie this ovides a bettercapability for our forces in euro, for our european allies, and for o homeland than the ogram i recmended three years ago. >> the pentagon says things have changed since then. iranians are not deloping a long-range missiles that could hit the uned states as quickly, but they are investing in shorter range misses barry denied the state h develope chnology that means that rar can be deplod.
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the repuican critics say this is a bad day for american security. >> i believe the conquences of this decisi may be, albeit unintentionally, ancourage for our lligerence on the part of the russians and a distit loss of confidence on the part of our friendand allie in a wd of the united stas. >> hitting the reset buttonith russia wasne of the obama administratio's first priorities. >> the russian president wt on tv toraise this responsib move. >> provides a better place for he relationship. the adnistration is trying to seek addional cooperati, sanctions. i do not think tt was in their calculation. do not blieve russias going to be supportive enhanced
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sanions agains iran. , this is what it is all about the fear is a clearprogram. >> our scial correspondent in washington has mo on e story. , th president says hishift will off greater defenses agait missilettacks, but there are plen of voices in waington who beg to differ, incling mike turner, a republican congressman. peaps the two biggest players we're looki at are russia and iran. obama says theres a different threat from iran. we have to change our weapons technology. >>here is no evidence the intelligence has shifted. today i wa speaking to representativesrom defense and the indicated it is not a diminished threat.
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anybody who watches the news says iran is progreing in, missile capability, and nuclear capability that would pose a terrible threat. , the focus should be on the short term and mormedium range missiles? >> not really. it is aalse choice. iran is pursug both. our goal should be to pursue defenses in mo areas. the plan he just scrapped was one that woulhave provided the united stat the defenses it needs bu also europehe medium ptection it deserves. >> you feel there no jtification for scrapping this. do you think is appeasing moscow? >> iis an odd strategy. the presiden is enteng into e start negotiations. ruia has made it clear they wanted this conceion. heas gotten nothing in concern. he wants russia to be more active in persuading iran from
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its particular prram. ther is no iication that iran will do that, and there's nothing that wld show it would be successful. >> what about theost? there wa criticismhat ts defee shield was unproven technologynd expensive? , there are tw components separate t plan moves the calendar ck toward siificantly. this system would have been available in 2013. this plan is available now in 20182020. his has been studied,nd there is a classifie rort that indicates that e plan he rapped was t most cost effective to provide protection for europe. i called onhe defse department to declassi the rert. since we know alady it h been rude, the plan heust scrapped was the most cost effectivone. >> this is gog to ke rumbling. we will keep you up date.
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>> six itali soldrs and 10 civilis have been killed by a suicide mber. in response, the italian prime minister says we are all convinced it ibest for everyone tleave afghanist soon. he said ialy would not take y unilateral decions. amid the latest violence and fra, hami karzai has said la month's poll was fair. >> it camwithoutwinarning. u close, its impact was deadly. a suicide bomber rammed his car, packed with expsives, between italian hicles in a onvoy, a tn wreaked havoc. but this isne of the most sensitivparts of the city. th amecan embassy is right down the road in that direction. t target was a movin targe a convoy of the italian
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vehicles. y can see from here that one vehicle inparticular took the full force of the blast. , these vehies also took e full impact. theivilians who died died re. theead alian soldiers lay aside theivehicles. one had been in the count for less than 24 hours. the shakesheir commitment to t war here. tonight the prime minisr questioned the value of international fors been here at a. >>e ar convinced that it is best for everye to get out soon >> he added italy would not widraw unilaterally. the italia have been part of theollection since th beginning in 2001. their withdrawal would be a blo to the clition.
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across kabul, afghastan, presiden karzai declared last month plus electi a victory, despitellegations of fraud. >> theesponse of the country was, hundreds of voters ca on election, but even people came there and voted. , but he d not yeteclare victory. a un.-backed investigatn has begun into massive frd. ttcould the night in first- round victory. thman who will make tt call is a canadian officl who is now re-exining hundreds of thousan of ballot papers. yo will make a jgment? >> once we cleared the colaints, yes. >> quite a respsibility? >> we do nothink about it. it i our responsibity. it is parof the electoral law
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their colaints to make sure at they are dealt with in a thoroh and ansparent matter. >> karzai knows thatisestern allies a dismayed and angere this raises the question, how long can coalition governments keep perading their own populations tt this sacrifice is worth it? >> the deputy commander of the african you peakeeping forces in malia has been killed a suicide attack in mogadishu. peacekeepers also died when boers packewith exploves drove in the main u.n compound. they have repeatedly attacked the peacekeepingorce. forcesn northern yemen reported that there are 80 people who have en killed on an air raid on a makeshift refugee ca.
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they targeted a n in the prince. many were disaced by at fighting when rebels entered the area. e bbc has learned that trafigura has fered to pay damas in a peak -- in a case related to toxic wae dumping in thevory coas a u.n. report said there ws strong evidencehat death and injuries reported in the area were related to the dumping. the company had persistently denied the waste was dangerous to human health. >> this landfill and ivory coast's biggest city is where hundre of peopl live a work. three years a petrochemical wae was dumped here. peopl were overwheed by a foul sme truck loads ofuitar quartet all over. tens of thousan of people ft sick. e waste had beebrought to
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west aica on board the ship. it had been generated by the trafura. thecompany has always insisted thwaste was not hazardous. th told bbtwo years ago and has not damaged yone. >> this material was not damangero. >> the compy hadirst tri off was the ste in amsterdam. the company is being prosecuted in the netherlands for misrepresenting th nature of the waste. grnpeace wants them to face further charges for shipng it to wesafrica. the report presented tthe united nions in geneva finds strongvidence that the reported deaths ad adverse health consequences are relad to the dumpingf the was from the rgo ship. trafigura might be settli the case, but thcompany still
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maintains itas not responsible for what happened. >> still to come, a rorton the u.s. military's apprched the counter inrgency in the wa against the taliban. a spwreck ought to contn radioactive waste has been found of thetalian coast. an infmant had told authorities the wreck is e of three ships helew up as part of a scheme to make money from the waste disposal iustry. if the cargo confirmed, the hunt will start for more sken ships. a boy wielding a ax has burst into a schooln southe germany, throwingetrol bombs at students. 10 were injured at on spock, germany. -- ansbach, germany. violce in the classroo these the scenes after a studt
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went on a rampage. 700 children we inside the school atthe time. some students said the attack me right out othe blue. >> w heard the alarm and had to leave thechool immediately. we thered in the yard. that's where we saw a teacr whose arm was coved in blood. >> once insidthe school complex, the aacker threw petr bombs and trd to get teachers and fellow students with an ax. police were ft with no optn but to on fire. >> becausee threatened to us his weapons against the police, fficers onedire. they iured him and then arrested h. > thi is now the send attack on a germ school in the last six months. in march, tim kretschmer shot people at s former school in when it did. he fed the building,
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shot three more people,nd then killed hself. for the authorits now, the task is to fd out what made a student with no crinal rord attackellow students and teachers. >> see t news unld. good to bbc.com to experience the expert reportg of bbc rld news online. click here to watch the 1-minute ne summary. you can read thelatest headline get the top stories from around the gle, and see the video report. discover morebout the suects that interes you and find out wha issues the world is talking about rit now. the bbc world news online good to bbc.com and watch the news unfd.
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>> latest hdlines, moscow is welcing washington's cision to shelve plans for an anti- missile system. a icide car bomr and afanistan killed six italian ldiers and 10 civilians. barack obama has played down talkor troops surging in afghanistan. he said there's a decision pending. a top command, stanley chrystal, has delivered a plea sessment of the wr and is urging a new apprch. > u.s. soldiers on foot patr. their new strategy talks about putting thefghan people first. it is not just about finding the
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enemy now. it is abo finding ankeeping friends. in the vlage, there is a warm wcome from a person. >> how are you? >> goo >> the know ait ofach other's nguage. this 24-year-old from america a bigob. he is one of the many ne faces in the countersurgency, and th is the point. it is safe to face. this meant lts the problems re -- the schools, t wells, but theyere prised them. >> it is never goodhen people promise them and notng goes through. >> this work s gone on for eight ars.
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now the nexgeneration is tching. this is h relationships are but here in afghan society. it always starts with wm rds and food issues, but ultimate the truth emerges. this is about building relationships d trust and pport. in this college, the is some wato go. theayas a good sta. the taliban is here to. it can exploitroken promises. ultimately, this mison needs afghan face. new security force is being recrted. the afghanublic protection force. it is a local militia meant to berawn from me in the community the project. its pilotein parts of this province here at ast security has imoved. the taliban warned lol people not to join this foe. these men came from another province. the need t work. >>- they need the work.
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>> 10f us are from oth provinces. these people do not joi because they are afraid of the talib. they say they ll kill you. we need the jobs. they told we would get 1300 afghanis, and were only getting 6000. it is a way to stay like that. >> everyone recognizes theeed for a new strategy. tre are new ideas, now they ed new results. >> indonesia'spresident descbed as a ctory the rerted deaths of noordin mohamed top, southeast asia's most wantedilitant. it is not the first time he's been claimed killed fingerprint idence confirms that. the repo now from jakarta. >> in a packed plice briefing
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in jakarta, the ad of e police force proudly announced that after yea of hunting they had finally gten their man. >> we have found entical points in the fingerprints when compared with our rords ofheperson we wanted to capture, we had identified him asoordin mohamed top. >>e is known athe most want man inoutheast asia. he i beeved to hve mastermind attacks on two luxury hotels in july. police have been looki for him for severa years,ut so far he has deluded the indonesiup's present says his debt along with te death of anothe milita in 2005 is a significant victory for the country.
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>> i amoping, i believe, that codeach a certain mass of areas that arehreatening indosia. >> thdeathf top is a huge coup for the anti-terror unit. his death is a big blow to t extremists who want to follow the al qaeda line ofaging war on unitedtates and its allies wherever and whenever ssible. >> analysts have also said that his death does nomean the end that teats have this care. other mbers of the network remain at large a are capable of crying out similar attacks. >> check out the spirit is a
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version of rannosaurus rex. it is almost identical to the king of dinosaurs, but this is almost 100 times smaer. it is believ to have lived rlier th tyrannosaurs recordhe remains were found in northeastern chin and smuggled out of the countr if you thought moving images on newspapers only exisd in a fictionalworlds, welcome to the future. a magazine in united ates is making a bus with its latest ad caaign. >> in a crowd adverting world, is harder and harder r companies ttheir products noce. could this be breakthrough? magazine ads that me. this is an experimental mpaign a tv network and a ft drink
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company. when you turn a page, the screen comes to life >> advertising is always looking or something new. >> t company that developed this says is usintechnology in a traditional setting >> all the things to g from digital, we now can deliver to you thugh a print medium. is a nice way to ve something fr the old wod and somethingrom the new. >> these are tt cuts of the technolo. a rechargeable ttery, a small peaker, and a seen theame size that yoget on a mobile one. get a msage like this, it costs an advertiser $20. that is per copy. this is far more than a mazine cost. people rember advertisements that move. on the streets of los angel, artest brought mixed results. >> the novelty ftor is cl,
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it catches o but every magazine does or every magazine has multiple ones, then able eventuallwear off. but smart, different, it pops. it is bulky. the ing would annoy me. , in the cong yrs, the screen should get thinner. some doubt it is a revution. ,i do not think it is gointo save print or hard print inny way, bu if you go on the internet, you can see phidias for advertisements a over the ple. -- you can see videos for advertisements l over the place. >> icould be -- there coulde uses, and this is a a e for a wedding album. the coany is pang for this trial and is unlikely to recoup
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itcost. the gimmick will be another wean for our attenon and our money. >>brieflya reminderf our top story obama announcede is shelving buh's plan for a miile defense plann europe. this a prect that has become irritant bween united states and russia. there wi be redesied defense systemhat will be chper and more effective. republicans disagr with that. thank you ry much for beg with us. >> funding a possible by the freeman foundaon of new york, still vermont and fat - and hulloo. the john and catherinemacarthur foundaon. and "ight star, a new film by jane campion.
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