>>nion bank has put its nancial strength to work for wide range of coanies, from sll businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> welcome to "bbc world news." the headlineshis hour -- the libyan jet over the lockerbie is to be releasedfrom a scottish prison. russia saying it willreinforce militaryases in abkhazia. georgia has called that a provocation. tie one sendg troops topeed rescue efforts after last week's deadly typon -- taiwan is sendingroops to speed up rescue efforts after last week's deadly typhoon coming up later, the mystery of arctic sea. the srch is on for the car ship that hagone missing. fair on liday afte weekend of mb attacks in the island o majorca, just how are tourists copi? hello to you. thebc understand that the byan man convicted of the 1988 lockerbie is to be released on a scottish pron on compassionate grounds. he h terminal prostate cancer. he has been rving a life sentence convicted of blowing up a pan airliner over the scottish town of lockerbie. al259 people on board were killed with 11 more on the grnd. has ways protested his innocence. he

and today payroll processoadp said the nion's businesses cut 371,000 jobs lasmonth the 18th straight month of declines as darn gersh reports, it's going toake a lot longer than 18 months to get things backo normal. >> reporter: the great recsion has torn through the amerin workrce at an alarming rate. 6.5 milliojobs lost so far. but economist heidi shierhz says the pain es even deeper. >> over those months of the recession, we shouldave added 2.3 miion jobs to keep up with population growth. sohen you sum those two together, 3 million we should have added, plus the 6 million we lost, we're 8.8 milon jobs in the hole. and we are still diggi. >> reporr: by the end of the year, shierholz figures th economy will bshort ten milliojobs. and the united states wot see robust jobrowth until the end ofext year. >> and that's when pple in the real economy will start to fl like, okay, we've enred recovery. >> reporter: so whenill we recover thjobs we've lost? just do the ma. the private adp forecast sws thu.s. economy lost 371,000 jobs last month. to keep upith population growth, economistsigure

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today, the united nions opens a five-day conference i geneva to consider how to adapt to and cope with the consequees of climate change. the u.n. secretary-geral is not there. ban ki-moon is traveng to the ctic as a guest of norway to witness e pact of ice masses on at the oceans we have thisreport from oslo. >> this is bond heooned -- ban ki-moon'sfst stop. the polar icecap. he did -- has decided go because sientists say this is an area that most at risk. he has made quite a changef top priority. says he has reportthat it is causedy human activity. >> sience is clear -- e impact israel. he time to act is now. >> he has acted bore. he traveled t antarica two ars ago. the mssage -- the result o global warming could be catastrophic. urgent ation is needed to verse that. and that is the poor will sfer the most. they live in coastal areas floode by a rising sea. in other rions affected b drought an fame brought on by risi temperatures. >> it is so decided. >> there is the glob treaty to cut carbon emissionsorged in kyo 12 years ago, but it has not had much effect i reversing the trend. now

>>nion bank has put its financial strength to workor a wide range of companies, from small busisses toajor corporations. wh can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc worldews." >> the lockerbie bomb or returns to libya on compassione ground victims of the pa am bombing and president obam express their deepisappointment. >> we have been in contactwith the scottish governmt indicating that we jectedo this, and we thght i was a mistake. >> millions of afghans ct their votes despite taliban attempts to wreck the elections. welcom to "bbcorld ns," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, ad elsewhere ound the glob i am mikmbley. ba in moscow. and lightni really does strike twice. usai bolt tak another record, this time in the 200 meter hello to you. the man convicted of t lockerbi bombing has received ecstatic welcome home in libya. abdelbaset aliohmet al-megrahi is facg ath from terminal cancer and wasfor that reason leased early from il by the scottish gornment. he issued a statement again declaring his innence and his since sympat for the unimaginable loss of the ictims' milies. 270 victims

jazeeraenglish plains what's going on >> reporte lifting off south kores attempt to becoming a space-age nion, itsirst rocket caring and observation satellite was ccessfully launched from site 500 kilometersouth of the capital seoul. built with russian know-how t narrow rocket a result of a $4 milliroject and brings more -- with its feuding neighbor, rth korea. south korea says the program is purely for scientific and peacef purposes designed to get the country into the lucrative satellite mart. the noh says the technology used for rkets cld easily be used to produc balltic missiles. the la -- in its ate is still brisking inthe afterburn if last rocket last april which ey claim was carrying a communication's satellite b in which the intnational communy say was the cover of a st of a tape oncdong ii missile. launched in u.s.sanctions. north rea's withdrawal from 6-party talks and n opened defiance it staged its second autoomic test. they cimed they were treated unfairly and say watching closely to watch the international reaction toouth korea's rocket launch. andven been ggestionings of a mili

morning president obama and the first lady will host a supreme reception for the newest member of the nion's high court, associate justice sotomayor will make her way to the white house for the first time since taking her oath of office over the weekend. she is the first latina supreme court justice. >> and a little later the president will award 16 americans the medal of freedom. the highest civilian honor. among them the late gay rights activist harvey milk. and sandra day o'connor. >> and the president's focus is still focused on health care reform. town hall meetings are being held across the country. >> and as abc's emily schmidt reports emotions are still running high on both ends of the aisle. >> you don't trust me? >> at town hall meetings across the country, it's leading to high blood pressure and -- >> i don't understand this rudeness. what is it? i honestly don't get it. do you all think you're persuading people when you shout out like that? >> and they are getting pushed and pushed back. from pennsylvania. >> one day god is going to stand before you and he is going to judge you.

i d't think we're ever going to live in a nion with phds or that's realistic.i don't think any country in t world has a citizenry that i fully scientific literal. some do better and some do worse. but you can have something slightly different than that. whichs you have a society that focused on science from a perspective of policy and what maers the future. what that means is that the leaders, the people we elect, you know, the elites, the people in the parts of the society, have got it on the radar and reale it is important. in the united states was like that for cold war reasons in the '50s and '60s. other countries, singapore, india, china, are like that now. so in those cntries, i'm not saying that everybody is going to get 100%, but i am saying that the decision making is proceeding on the basis of knowing that science is where it's at for their countr. and that we were once like that and we're notike that to the extent that i would say we should be now. >> yeah, what do you think about the popula mia or the science programs or tv. you have yourself like t

the nion that you can cut knife to six hundred biion dollars out of medicar and medica program and this think that you don' risk affeing access of groups of seniors is simply incorrt. that is a whole diffent story. whamost of the ways to get money quicklyhich is wh you want if you want to use that moey to expandnsurance corage for pple don't hav it are sure ways that congress wi score a realavings. hat means whacking rembursement. theye going to lori bursement. lori imbursemt for nursing homesor our me car they're goi to reduce the ount hospitals who have high readministration for certai bonuses. you want to be after me of these reforming the delivery system, you do in careful and slow ways but ju lacking imbursemenonly way to get quick savings up front whole different tter. >> repter: joe baker, what about that? this idea that reimbursemen would be cu >> they wll be in many instances, although it's not necessarily in eve instance a a cut, it's a sl down in the increa to payment that would be madeover future year. there's out $550 billion in cuts or savings in the medicre program. but t

student across washiton, long considered one of the worst schoolystems in the nion, are scoring higheron standardized tes. it's the result of an aggressive campaign now two yers old, when mayor fenty and his surprise pick run the school system former teacher an nonprofit leader michelle reed. >> a not the ku superintendent, this is ing to be m one and only suerintendent. so in that way ion't have to worrybout what's going to appen to my reputation o something like that. >> reporter:rom day one ree seemed unlikely leader for d.c.'s public hools. she had never been a school pncipal, let alone a superiendent. but heren washington d.c., which haseen seven surintendents in adecade, two yearsn office makes michelleee veteran, she's accomplished aot. she's closed3 schools, slashed her central office staff. pumped $0 million into school modernizaon, quadrupled spending on teacher traing, and replad about half of herchool principals. but is education improving? that's a difficult question. >> i think thejury is out. i think i takes aittle more than st scores to dece whetheor not the schools are

economic incentives that coulde put on the tab bys or europeans or combinations o even se of the arab nions. >> rose:hat arab government can make theost difference >> well, i mean, obviously t egyptis. >> rose: they ve more men under arms? >> they'rearger, they're obviously significant force in the arab world. saudis ver much key, king abdullah. >> rose: who had an initiative and it came from a surprising quarte you would think the most conservative but it's put itut there. >> ros basically said something ifou go back to '67 we'll recogniz.. every arab country will go backto the ab gornment? >> a i think it's more tha that. that'sort the short hand version. i've heard them talk about '67 with adjustmts so there's been a little bit of easing of the terms. and i thi my experience out there, they desperatelyant th resolved. >> rose:they" meanin everybody? >> by therab world, the muslim world. and i think syria is t other one. if you look at syria, saudi arabia, egt, those are the's and many smallerrab nations, too, that e veryctive. >> rose: is the presidt on the right track, do you think? fir

and that the nion that thiss a special country that has given us speal opportunity. and although you've noted differencein style, i don'think in the core whye chose a lifeof puic service. again, thiss his presidencynot mine, et cetera. but our frndship and our see of, as forme colleagues, i aa member of congress, him as a senat, but our frienhip is in that same sense what polits can do for people. and yeah, we ha different style. >>ose: how would you aracter eye the difference? >> well, but to the substance, i actually don't -- one thing thai would slightly disaee. you say i'm of the center, and he's o the left. i wld say both of us are about the future. >> rose: and it has no label. >> not ly doesn't it have any labebut it doesn't matterhich road you take to gethere. as long as it's about buildi a future tt is stronger and bett for the people that you serve. you asked a question about --. rose: how would you fine the differees in terms of persolity and tempment. because hi campaign had t famous slogn, no drama obam >> uh-huh. >> rose: you are infamous in this town f

. >> smi: there was a time when we, as a nion, did care enough demand action: four decades o when thecountry was rocke by a series ofnvironmental disasters. >> well, i rememr what it was ke before earth day. i remeer when the cuyahoga river burned wh flames that re eight stories high. i remember when... t santa barbara oil spill in 196 that closed virtuly all the beaches in southern californ. i member when they declared la erie dead. i remember that i uldn't swimóa# inhe hudson or the charles or the potomac when i w growing up. >> smithwe could see the llution, smell it, even touc it. the problem was in ouraces and the blic demand for action exploded on earth day. ( angry chanting ) >> in 1970, th accumulation of insults ove 20 million amicans out onto the street, 10% of ouropulation, the largest public demonstraon in american htory. >> tre was anger at the state of the worldat the state of your own backrd, whether ibe ntain range, whatever it wasr%%) you lated to as the environment. there s anger that we as a untry had let it go. anthere was a very much of a grassroots rebellion sayi

Ñione poll shows 50% of the american bibelots big government care.overnment care. ominous quality of life your measurements, mandates. your leaders know that their health care reform makes many of you feel sick. democrats in congress, who once lauded post partisan america, now say they have the votes, it will be their way or the highway. don't blame us, blame the republicans. senator harry reid may use a select parliamentary maneuver called reconciliation, which means just the opposite. even though the president's popularity has crashed faster than almost any american president and stands now at less than 50%. the confidence rate of americans stands only at 32%, "the new york times" cheered on the president yesterday. why? because you can't. do it for teddy. -- because yes, you can. if something is to be done, should it be done for you and me and your family and mine? the illusion of transparency that has marked their health care politics. we have catalogs a city ballet of destruction and deception. health insurers -- in the blue room, and then shake