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>> dubois: tonight, departure from china. blind dissident chen guangcheng is rushed out of beijing for the yiewt. elaine quijano is tracking the story. the blooming of the facebook economy. rebecca jarvis shows us how other companies are expanding the social network one app at a time. millennial voters on the fence. will the young turn out for president obama as they did four years ago. terrell brown sounds them out. and diamond jubilee as the british begin to mark queen elizabeth's 60-yearlong rein. charlie d'agata has some of the pomp and circumstance. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> dubois: good evening. i'm cube cube. the blind chinese dissident chen
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guangcheng has landed at newark airport just outside new york city. his depart infrastructure beijing marked a sudden end to a diplomatic stalemate and an apparent positive turn in u.s.-china developments. elaine quijano joins us from new york. >> reporter: after a 12-hour flight from beijing, chen guangcheng is now on american soil. his arrival here marks end of nearly a month of uncertainty and a high-profile test for u.s.-china relations. just before noon in beijing today, the blind activist was told to pack his bags with his wife and two children. chen did not know until his arrival at the airport that they were headed to the united states. ken lieberthal is with the brookings institute. >> the u.s. and china, at least in this instance, were able to work together for an outcome satisfactory to tho both sides and mr. chen. >> reporter: the case focused international attention on the
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thorny issue of human right rign china. chen air, self-taught lawyer, had been imprisoned four years for speaking out against china's one-child policy and advocating for the rural poor. most recently, chen was under house arrest, where he alleges he and his family were subject to beatings. visitors were turned away. guards monitored his every movement. but last month, under the cover of darkness, chen eluded the guards and escaped with the help of other activists, he traveled 300 miles to beijing where dissidents secretly transferred chen from a van to a u.s. government car, all without being detect the by chinese surveillance. chen was given sanctuary inside the american embassy, touching off a diplomat standoff. after tense negotiations, chinese officials agreed to let chen live free of persecution, but chen had second thoughts. after another round of talks, he was allowed to pursue his
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longtime goal-- studying law at new york university. analysts say the chen case demonstrates that even on delicate issues, beijing and washington can work together. >> over the long run, our relationship with china and how well it's managed will be one of the most consequential things we do in the world. and i think the way we handled this case is at least at a modest level, good news. >> reporter: tonight, mr. chep will head here to new york city, where he and his family are expected to meet with reporters. meanwhile, officials at new york university say he will study there as a fellow at its law school. >> dubois: elaine quijano tonight, thank you. while the white house said it welcomes today's move came as president obama was hosting the g-8 summit of world leaders at camp david. from there it's on to the nato summit tomorrow in chicago. senior white house correspondent bill client is already there tonight. bill, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, maurice. the president's second round of summitry is with the leaders of the natoar liance.
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and the most pressing question on the agenda is the long war in afghanistan. >> tomorrow we begin our nato summit in my home town of chicago where we'll discuss our plans to responsibly end the war in afghanistan. >> reporter: the bhig question elect how fast the expuz its allies can get their troops out of afghanistan without seeing that nation collapse after a 10-year investment of allied blood and treasure. francois hollande told the president friday he's standing by his campaign promise to pull french troops out of afghanistan by the end of this year. the u.s. had hoped that all the allies would remain until 2014. there's also a shortfall in the international funding to build and train more afghan forces. and there's also the issue of help from pakistan. for the past six months, pakistan has closed its borders with afghanistan, effectively blocking a vital supply line to u.s. forces. the blockade was retaliation for
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a friendly fire incident in which the u.s. accidentally killed 24 pakistani soldiers. the u.s. has not yet formally apologized. pakistan's ambassador to the u.s., sherry raymond. >> even if this is for friendly fire, 24 soldiers in a battlefield where we've lost over 6,000 over 10 years is-- is a death toll that does merit a serious apology. >> reporter: raymond says pakistan's security is directly tied to what happens in afghanistan. >> whatever security transition that isaf and nato and the united states is able to effect in afghanistan, we want to assist in that project. we want to assist in it because we think that it is in our joint interests to see a stable, sovereign and prosperous afghanistan. >> reporter: and tonight, there is a sign of progress. sources tell cbs news that the border between pakistan anding afghanistan is expected to
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reopen shortly for supplies for the force forces in afghanistan. it will be as soon as pricing is negotiated and there will be an apology for the friendly fire incident but not from president obama. and not coincidentally, pakistan's president has been invited here to the nato summit. maurice. >> dubois: bill plante in chicago tonight thank you. in afghanistan today a suicide bomber brew himself upon at a police checkpoint. the attack in khost killed at least 13 people, including six children. ask it's not just violence that plagues afghanistan. as alan pizzey in kabul reports tonight, a culture of corruption could cost afghans their future. >> reporter: making a living in afghanistan is a backbreaking struggle. poor infrastructure, a lack of resources, illiteracy, and above all, end corruption bright the economy. when foreign troops move out, it
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is feared corruption will get worse. speaking out against corruption has forced the head of the chamber of commerce to work across the street. >> if we don't stop the corruption, corruption will stop us. >> reporter: more than $140 billion has been spent on reconstruction and aid projects in the past 10 years. the u.s. military's afghan-first policy means using local suppliers whenever possible. the trucking industry may be the biggest losers when the americans leave. ing afghanistan's largest freight forwarding company is run by a woman. she took over the family business when her husband died 16 years ago. she's created more than 400 new jobs. at one point, she fled to pakistan to escape possible taliban reprisals. "if they had found any documents," she says "i wouldn't be here today." she says corruption is as big an enemy to business as the taliban.
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"approximately 40% of our income goes to corruption," she says, adding that nothing happens until you pay a bribe. tomorrow's summit will focus on how to provide for afghanistan in security terms. those whatthose trying to build afghanistan's economy hope the military won't take it with them when they leave. >> dubois: now to wall street and what's been the worst week for the dow for the year. the big board losing 451 points as investors worried that europe's financial problems would spread here. the dow has fallen 12 of the last 13 days, and it is now at its lowest level since january. even the buzz over facebook's trading debut seemed to fizzle. with more than 900 million users facebook is already a business success story and add rebecca jarvis reports, it's a launching pad for start-ups trying to cash
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in on its success jiermt of. >> awrpt david hymen is so confident in facebook's book here's staking a business plan on it. >> fay faeb has become the key cornerstone to our market asking business plan. >> reporter: he found mog, an online music company that gives members access to more than 15 million songs. >> a good analogy is netflix. you pay a flat monthly fee, and it's all you can eat. >> reporter: but the online music market is crowded and he needed to grow his company quickly so mog teamed up with facebook that created an app, a free version. >> when you use mog, it populates on your facebook page. >> reporter: mog's membership increased 10-fold. >> reporter: brett taylor is facebook's chief technology
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officer. >> you're two guys in a garage. no one knows your name. how do you get people to discover your business? that's really the fundamental value facebook proitds and that's why it's so significant for so many industries. >> reporter: facebook also gets a huge benefit as sheryl sandberg chief operating officer explained, apps has helped her company evolve beyond photos and status updates. >> we want everyone to bring their friends along when they listen to music, or bring their friends along when they read articles or bring their friends along when they watch videos. but we do not produce music or articles or videos. rather, we put technology out there that other companies can integrate with. >> reporter: since january, more than 3,000 apps have launched on facebook. everyone app gives facebook a better sense for what makes users tick. >> facebook believes and we agree the music listen to is a huge reflection of who you are. >> reporter: that clearer picture of what and who influences you translates into more targeted advertising.
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>> dubois: in baltimore today, it was a come-from-behind finish at the 137th running of the preakness. i'll have another just had another. the ken ducky derby winner overtook bodiemeister to capture the second jewel of the triple crown. queen elizabeth ii is marking an historic milestone-- 60 years on the british throne. only queen victoria reign longer and at 86, the to. >> beloved, hat-clad monarch has a lot to celebrate. >> reporter: you'd be forgiving for thinking the british never stop doing this pomp and packagery thing. but this military parade today outside windsor castle is just the beginning of celebrations for queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee. that's 60 years on the throne. if you could say something to the queen what would you say?
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>> i'd say to her, well done, mom. we love you. are you absolutely the bee's knees. >> reporter: the man they called union jack has hardly miss a chance to see and even meet her magistry. >> she's really a nice person to meet. >> reporter: sadly, jack missed the cut on this most exclusive of gaghtertion when the queen, joined by prince william and his wife, catherine, hosted jubilee lurch for dozens of fellow monarchs. but the queen faced protests for dining with dictators by inviting people like the king of bahrain, who's cracking down hard while his people struggle for democracy. and the king of swaziland, who is accused of living in luxury while his people struggle to survive. but such detail do little to take the sheen off preparations for the jolly jubilee. there's the specially designed
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cake, and bakeries are churning out cookies and chocolates. this fly-pass with 78 aircraft involved is just beginning of two weeks of events culminates in a pageant down the river thames and a concert in the backyard of buck will ham palace. >> even if you sit out for hours upon hours, for that split second, it's worth it. >> reporter: and it doesn't look as if the queen is getting sick of the excitement, either. charlie d'agata, cbs news, windsor, england. >> dubois: and that is the cbs evening news. later on cbs "48 hours mystery. of the i'm maurice dubois, cbs news in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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