and is this a future heavyweight champion russian night vet can takes on the nigerian prince in his quest for a shot at a title. first let's go straight to the russian prime a league where it seems ladies any just can't be beaten and alexander because you can't stop scoring need some pittsburgh side in the two little victory this afternoon over nine man car to go twenty two games in the business is hard to me. sent off for a second yellow just before half time and shortly after the restart got their needs first of the afternoon things got even worse when the tally for doherty was red carded overall man should wrap things up with death penalty in a win puts them nine points clear of second place ruby just kicked off against f.c. rostov there and there is one other result from earlier mid table battle between tom and andy. now after little poor sales to new owners new england sports ventures there is speculations any strike at exam because you called could be a target for the anfield the reds scouts watched in school russians three two win away to ireland last week and are keeping tabs on t

the biggest nigerian rebel group issued a bomb warning today. >> threats of bomb attacks and explosionsthree of them sounded through the capital as nigeria celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. earlier in the day, and militant group known as the movement for the emancipation for the niger delta sent a warning about an attack, telling people to keep away from the independence celebration. for years, the armed group has been in violent confrontation with the government and oil greatercompanies, demanding a share of oil resources. but today, it was an act of terror. there have been fatalities. there are too many to count at this point. there are a number of injuries as well. there is a lot of confusion. people are waiting to find out what happened. despite the rambling chaos, celebrations went on with president goodluck jonathan handing out medals. it has started out as a day of jubilation and a show of how not -- how far nigeria has come. suddenly, a swift and brutal reminder of the harsh realities and challenges this country still faces. >> the president of ecuador has said he

and is this a future heavyweight champion russian knight vegan takes on the nigerian prince and his quest for a shot at the title. first let's go straight to the russian premier league where the top two teams uneaten rubin are in action this afternoon looking to continue the one hundred percent record to twenty two matches in the rough against carnaby's no nail with half an hour to go on the first six points behind have not long kicked off against that is also a goal of one result earlier though the mid table battle between tom and ended two . well last night spot at moscow kept up their hopes of finishing in the top three with a three nil home win over a lanyard out he broke the deadlock the striker first three bang midway through the first half. and with half time looming alex got spotted second with a powerful wrong range free kick. a misery came the way that this is seen after the restart the line is given of shocking people because you call for the gnome go. i don't mind you are still at least some pride of his own eleven minutes from time a late penalty spot that because you call sa

the biggest nigerian rebel group issued a bomb warning today. >> threats of bomb attacks and then explosionsree of them sounded through the capital as nigeria celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. earlier in the day, a militant group known as the movement for the emancipation of the niger delta told people to keep away from the celebration. there have been confrontations with the government and oil companies, demanding a greater share in the region's oil wells. but today, it was an act of terror. >> we have been to some of the hospitals. there are many to dallas. there are a number of injuries. people are waiting to find out exactly what happened. despite the rambling chaos, celebrations went on with president good luck johnson. it had started out as a day of jubilation and a show of how nigeria has,. but suddenly, a swift and brutal reminder of the harsh reality and challenges this country still faces. >> the president of ecuador has said he will punish the police officers who staged what he called a failed coup attempt. he has given a tv address, saying there will be no forgivin

the biggest nigerian rebel group had issued a bomb warning. we have a report now. >> threats of bomb attacks and then explosions. three of them sounding to the capital as nigeria celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. earlier in the day, and militant group known as the movement for the emancipation of the niger delta sent a warning for an attack and warning people to keep away from the independence celebration. for years, they have been in violent confrontation with the government and oil companies demanding a greater share of the region's oil wealth, kidnapping workers, and loin up installations. today, an act of terror. -- and blowing up installations. there is a lot of confusion. people waiting to see what happened. >> despite the rambling chaos, celebrations went on with the president handing out medals to various euros oblivious to the bloodletting a short distance away. -- to various heroes oblivious to the bloodletting a short distance away. this is a sign ofçó the problem still going on in this country. >> the pakistani leade

the nigerian prince and his quest for a shot at a title. let's go straight to the russian premier league where it seems leaders any just can't be beaten alexander of can't stop scoring this in petersburg side getting a two no victory over nine to go twenty games and be in the visitors had dimitri been called sent off for a second yellow just before half time he was unhappy and shortly after the restart as you call. first picking up the rebound persian gulf the central speculation he could be a target for liverpool in the next transfer window the things got even worse when the tally for duty was red carded it was a second yellow offense for him to a bit harsh perhaps one should have called wrap things up with a penalty after this challenge. so that when keeps them six points clear of second place through been over thirty martins got the winner and there she won victory over f.c. rostov the neat incidentally have two games in hand on the mid table battle between tom and. to. well in england match tonight a three way to go only to share the po

two explosions were held in the nigerian capital where a celebration is being led to mark the country's 50th anniversary of independence from london. more later on right here on gmt. china has launched the second lunar probe to rival the united states and russia. china says it will pave the way for an eventual and manned landing. flawed and dangerous and an insult to history, there has been a furious reaction from the rwandan government before the official publication of a long- awaited un report to allegations of human rights violations in the neighboring democratic republic of condo. -- of congo. mark doyle reports. >> up to 1 million were killed in days. it rivals the holocaust of the jews in world war ii. the rest of the world looked away. it was led by a brilliant rebel general, now described by his enemies as a ruthless politician. chasing their hutu enemies, the government of tiny rwanda came to dominate events in their much larger neighbor, congo. it says rwandan soldiers with condoleezza allies attacked hutu civilians as much with co ngolese allies, attacked hutu civilians. it

and this is a future heavyweight champion russian i prevent the nigerian prince in his quest for a shot at the title. stop the russian premier league day where it seems ladies any just can't be beaten and alexandra kirk of can't stop scoring this in pages big side getting a victory over nine man to get twenty games unbeaten the visitors had to call sent off for a second yellow just before half time he was unhappy and shortly after the restart you called first picking up the rebound then since if it is ten of this season because you caught the central speculation he could be a target for liverpool in the next transpo window things got even worse when vitali thought he was red carded a second yellow offense to him i then roman surekha of wrap things up with the penalty following this challenge i call the wing keeps the six points clear of second place through be with me martins got the winner and that she won victory over f.c. ross stubbs and eight incidentally have two games in hand while the mid table battle between tom and sutton ended two. well in england leaders chelsea could only ma

russian has tailed fourteen opponents in one thousand ballots making him so blind opponent for the nigerian take it or zero who's been out of the ring for the last couple of years that may not seem to make him the strongest matchup out there for prevent skin but he is hungry or very inventive about the life and i'm blessed to have the support. of mcinnes the want of the public and it was my and on. the condition of the stuff last so this is a good day because there for me but thinks that. if the russian knight drops the african prince on saturday it won't be considered a major victory but a loss will create a nigerian sensation and probably center of it going into a pro boxing it bits and then your kid shirt his mind is obviously one hundred percent on saturday's fight but the mischances to fight whatever klitschko will haunt him until he steps in the ring with the ukrainian chant. i think i'll need a year to restore my top form i thought i was going to meet klitschko soon but i didn't for various reasons so i don't want to plan anything ahead but i do want to meet klitschko in the ring and

and this is a future heavyweight champion russian knight prevent the nigerian prince in his quest for a shot at the title. but let's start with the russian premier league where it seems leaders any just can't be beaten alexander of can't stop scoring at least in petersburg start getting a two no victory over nine part again twenty games unbeaten this is how dimitri brutal called sent off for a second yellow just before half time he wasn't happy and shortly after the restart because you called got zinni first picking up the rebound from tenth of the season could be called the center of speculation could be a target for liverpool in the next transfer window where things got even worse that carwin vitali to do it he was red carded a second yellow offense seems a bit harsh i. should have called wrap things up with a penalty after this challenge when put the nine points clear second place it would be. called a victory. i. mean there. i mean martins got the winner in their two one victory as an eight instead we have two games in hand for the mid table battle between tom and ended. in leader

the african prince on saturday it's long be considered a major victory but a loss will create a nigerian sensation and probably center of it going into a pro boxing it bits and then your kid shirt his mind is obviously one hundred percent on saturday's fight but the missed chances to fight. will haunt him until he steps in the ring with the ukrainian champ. i think i'll need a year to restore my top form i thought i was going to meet klitschko soon but i didn't for various reasons so i don't want to plan anything ahead but i. do want to meet klitschko in the ring and i'm looking forward to it. the victims management have already announced their wish list if their fighter triumphs this weekend the expansion scheduled for october thirtieth with a possible contender in china to whatever from new zealand whoever he is the russian knight can use all the punching practice he can get if he is to realize his dream two years ago alexander prophetically became the number one contender for the world title held by blood even a klitschko however that fight is yet to take place the result of it he has

. >>> in detroit there will be a hearing for a nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a plan wearingxplosives in his underwear. >>> rescue of 33 miners in the u.s. >>> today marks the anniversary of another dra matic rescue. on this day years ago baby jessica fell into a mine and was rescued 58 hours later. >>> right here at nbc studios a huge night for the show "30 rock." for the first time it will be live airing from studio 8h, home of "saturday night live." >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. live coverage from the chilean mine following the miraculous rescue of all 33 trapped miners. and matt lauer talks to d.c. public schools chancellor michelle wie about her decision to step down. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop

tested positive for the new substance methley lexan the mean the nigerian is now provisionally suspended pending the result of her b. sample which is a australian sally pearson had actually crossed the line first and not event it was controversial disqualified for a false start. on a final. in the men's one hundred and ten metres hurdles also tested positive for the same drug on tuesday. thought is a romp feel free to get further reports plenty more besides on our website r.t. dot com forward slash sports for now it's bye bye. hungry for the full story we've got it for us ten the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us for technology update on our g. nature and discover its museum. with the wild under. test yourself and become free and. see what nature can give you cannot see. in india she's available in hotels. beach hotel. resort and spa. full seasons hotel. said oh come. on tell you a

the show will address the biggest issues facing young nigerian kids, aids, malaria, gender, equality and religious differences. >>> we could be saying trump 2012. the billionaire is making it known he would like america to hire him as president of the united states. this is not the first time he's said this. he's been flirting with the idea for two decades. he suggested running on the republican ticket back in 1998. >>> this justin beeber is 16 years old, approaching 1 billion views on youtube. it appears teen girls will do anything to get in touch with their heartthrob. justin beeber is quickly learning that. this justin was living 20 years for the justin bieber of stardom. he changed his number, put it in his wife's name. but the teen girls got ahold of that number, too, and put it on their fan web site. he would get 50 messages in two hours. >> it's just a little hard to sleep at night when the phone is ringing constantly. >> now bieber even got kicked off of facebook for having a fake name, also kicked off of another social network named ping. but that finally got resolved. >>> i

nigerian officials are considering putting some weapons on display in a museum. security in the capital has tightened since the bomb blast last month killed 12 people. the french parliament has approved the government's controversial plan to raise the retirement age. for weeks, france has been rocked by large scale, often violent strikes, affecting transport and to supply. there are signs the strikes are easing and the march is losing momentum. there is a sense now that president sarkozy may be winning a struggle that has seen off many a french politician. >> it is the boat the unions had sought to stop, a bill they despise and the end of a debate which almost brought this country to a standstill. today, the controversial pension reform bill was given the final step of approval by france's lower house, clearing the last major hurdle before nicolas sarkozy signed into law. the president and supporters will view this as a major victory. it was a reform docked by previous generations. the unions will proceed tomorrow, but these are the final skirmishes in a battle l

fighting to brother vladimir after he recorded knock at number fifteen the russian night floored nigerian take a look at the end of the fifth round and their batting lost a region on saturday evening that was the fifteenth kayo in twenty bouts four of it can use as a showdown with klitschko is his goal. in tennis world number four andy murray has crowned a sizzling waiting shanghai with straightforward win over roger federer and a ticket for the season finale in london the scot having got to sell to reach the final and needed less than an hour and a half to once again beat federer six three six to the second title of the year that's after also prevailing in the decider of the toronto masters two months ago by winning in shanghai laurie also became the fourth man to twenty five year ending torment in london next month. on emotion g.p. it's been a dream weekend for casey stoner as the australian won his home grand prix for a fourth straight time just a day off to turning twenty five having won the race for the past three years that you can see why the single goal for this one on saturday wh

select which nations host the twenty eight dean twenty twenty two world cups on the summer second nigerian adamu was reportedly film telling reporters in london that pretended to be american businessmen but he wanted eight hundred thousand dollars to build for artificial football fields while take to morey who is also a fee for vice president wanted two point three million to fund an academy in new zealand. from spain portugal neverland's belgium are competing to stage twenty five and. the oh you know society and those societies full of that and these days it is you. and nobody who can give a. good read have to fight for apparently behind the fire for respect and specially you have to find that the people in charge a fee for they behave as they should do and these days is not the case then we have to you could be. wayne rooney has stressed its concerns over a month chest united's weekend squad not money that's behind his decision to seek a move away from old trafford their twenty four year old issuing a strongly worded statement just hours before his side's champions league win over . roon

enough to ignite a storm of controversy over the organization nigerian almost adama was filmed telling reporters in london that he wanted eight hundred thousand dollars to build for artificial soccer fields well. tomorrow he was also a fee for vice president and the president all the o'shane a regional call federation wanted to point three million to follow a new zealand people has provisionally suspended both of them while the investigation continues. to boxing now and shannon briggs talked to the media on wednesday quelling rumors regarding the stand all of the injuries he sustained in his defeat and the hands of gold briggs was beaten by a ukrainian incentive days w.b.c. in hamburg. i look forward to fighting not suppose that i live for the coming back to six week first of all and as you can see i looked really great you know i'm ugly but i'm funny so. the nice change you know i'm ugly but i'm funny so on the other things about me i'm looking for the coming back and although klitschko going to fight i think that i'm showing the people that i'm a true champion and he visited me he i

back in one thousand nine hundred six hillary clinton did and she visited bosnia for the first time nigerian that are a democratic primary campaign then in two thousand and eight she said she had to land under sniper fire but t.v. footage that we saw showed that she was greeted peacefully enough at the airport what was the wisdom do you think behind those comments she made. to be honest i mean she she got the year wrong and there certainly was no ping and there was fire but that ended with the date cord which the us themselves implemented around. this time in fact in one thousand nine hundred ninety five when she was there you quite correctly say during nine hundred ninety six so there was absolutely no sniping at that time hillary clinton pretended to have been in bosnia a year later well she was wrong i think she just wanted to say she was courageous she was you know entering a region still at war and. some requirements of the united states to interfere and impose some of its will close a bit against us but the last question takes me back almost to the first of all i asked just today we ha

select which nations host the twenty eighteen twenty twenty two world cups on december the second nigerian adamu was reportedly film telling reporters in london who had pretended to be american businessmen that he wanted eight hundred thousand dollars to build four artificial football fields well to hasten temari who is also a vice president wanted two point three million to fund an academy in new zealand russian spain portugal another one and belgium are competing to stage the twenty eighth dean at st. wayne rooney house stressed his concerns over manchester united to weaken squad not money that was behind his decision to seek a move away from old trafford the twenty four year old issuing a strongly worded statement just hours before his side's champions league win over versus or really making it clear he will not be seeing out the remaining twenty months remaining on his contract his main concern he ses is the club's unwillingness to make investments in the squad inevitably the world's wealthiest teams manchester city chelsea ryall madrid have already been linked with the. no multiple te

fighting to close brother vladimir after he recorded knock at number fifteen the russian knight floored nigerian tech take a route at the end of the fifth round in their bat in the moscow region on saturday evening that was the fifteenth tayo in twenty bats will have it can you says showdown is to go this is gold. in tennis world number four andy murray has crowned a sizzling week in shanghai with a straightforward win over roger federer and a ticket for the season finale in london the scot having struck to set our reach to the final and got off to a quick start against federer breaking serve in the first game i the swiss did stay in the match but his attempts to break back were filed by and inspired murray the briton saved all six great points he faced also converting four out of the eight created i doubt the first set six three was one of those breaks and he went into the second with confidence to spare trying back at federer the most everything the former world number one had of his sleeve mari narrowly lost the challenge of great point in the fourth game but went on to take it anyway and sti

you don't have a government but i can honestly say i don't have a government that can run the on a nigerian through my question thank you that's what i do but they have the government is now supposedly negotiating with this taliban and we act like nothing to do with it ok we're out of time unfortunately but i thank you. so to come on the show tonight why is defense spending ever on the table and why are we constantly in a state of war it's the washington war machine the think tanks and it runs our policy. well how does that make the troops feel when their wives are treated like toys or diver these are in just one. cluster is the same of you i can tell you that your father's in the market there's the taliban bad guys the so-called on terror as it failed to make failing to date on terror there's only increased violence around the world. hungry for the full story we've got it for us has the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. these days our politicians like to pretend that cutting the deficit is their top priority believe what they try to tell their constituents

take the case of nigerian christmas day bomber.e was beaming his information in 2005, five years before. >> shannon: bring the pam in to talk about the terror alert. eric holder saying we look at a lot of sources. dr. farris says often we wait too long in situations that we see the christmas day attempted bomber. what do you make of the alert? too much, too it will? some say it's so vague you can't do anything with it. >> i won't second guess the government. if they think the alert will help, that's the right thing to do. sometimes you don't get the plot early. it's better to get it late than not at all. we have strikes in pakistan and eight muslims were killed in waziristan. it's amazing, nine years later the same mosque that changed its name in hamburg in germany, they were recruit iing, the terrorists recruiting muslims at the mosque. killed a bunch of them in waziristan. better to get someone to look at the german law and see if we shouldn't close down the mosques used for terror recruiting. that would be an early stage to get

the 24-year-old nigerian didn't think it was necessary. he's accused of trying to use explosive hidden inside of his under wear to blow up a plane. >>> a federal judge in florida will hear key parts of a health care overhaul. the lawsuit was filed by 20 state attorneys general. they object that everyone must purchase health insurance. it's expected the case could end up at the sue preach court. >>> we're now hearing about taxpayer funded travel by speaker of the house nancy pelosi. according to new documents uncovered by judicial watch. pelosi and members of our family and staff took 85 tax paid trips on military aircraft between march of 2009 and june 2010. judicial watch calls pelosi use abusive. >>> time to talk traffic. get you to where you need to go. what is happening in livermore? >> we have a traffic accident. there is something in the roadway a large rock, some sort of debris. and several cars have been running into it getsing flat tires and swerve into the center divider or having to pull off on to the shoulder. just be aware of

in south africa, for example, i was -- i went undercover tore infiltrate a nigerian human trafficking syndicate. these were people who were initially trafficking in crack/cocaine, but the risk for prosecution was very high for that. the risk for trafficking in 15-year-old girls was negligible. >> why? >> because police in south africa are -- don't enforce the laws against human trafficking. there is no standalone law against human trafficking in south africa. these are volatile commodities, but they're not commodities that are inexpensive. >> the u.s. office -- the office you work with, estimates that 12.3 million people are enslaved around the world. and that's a low estimate, right? >> that's a low estimate, yes. >> how does it work? how do they get someone in the united states to be a slave, what do they do? >> well, i think people -- either it is somebody who is an internal trafficking victim, a story very much untold. there's a profile on sex trafficking, kids who are vulnerable, runaway use, hook up with a boyfriend. average age to become a prostitute in the u.s. is 13. there's

. >>> today a nigerian man chaed with trying to blow up a plane in detroit is scheduled to be in courtl be in court for a status hearing and the judge says she may set a date for a trial to begin. duringhe last court hearing in september he told the court he wanted to fire his attorneys and represent himself. the judgeranted his request and appointed stand-by councsel for him. he's accused of trying to set a bomb off hidden in his underwear on a plane in detroit last year. >>> homeland security officials are showing off new technology. this scanner can detect whether a passenger is carrying a liquid explosive. magnets are used to determine a liquid's chemical makeup and it can tell then if it is something dangerous ev if it is in a metal container. wow. >>> 5:49 right now. as we take a live look outside over the city, the lincoln memorial there in the distance you can see flashing lights. i think that may be the movie shoot wrapping up thismorning. some of those lights any way. >> i thought they were twinkling stars. >> they are close to the ground. 55 degrees here in upper northwt was

he is a nigerian who is charged with trying to use a weaponof mass destruction to blow up an airline. that flight was from the northwest airlines flight from amsterdam to detroit. they say he tried to set off explosives that were hidden in his underwear. the next hearing is scheduled for january. >>> the military hearing of the accused shooter in the attack at ft. hood, texas, continued today. a soldier testified that he saw the defendant, major nadal hasan with two weapons including one that had a laser sight on it. he is an army psychiatrist. he has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in those shootings last year. the military court is beingeld to determine whether majorasan should stand trial. >> there's new fog informing b the failed rescue of an aid worker in afghan. her name was linda norgre. she was kidnapped by the taliban in september. she was kill on friday when u.s. special operations forces tried to rescue her. the guardian newspaper is a u.k. reported yesterday, that she separated from her taliban guards. authorities initially believed she was killed when a

it was the very same branch that was responsible for the christmas day bombing attempt where the nigerianfocus and very much a concern. the united states has had repeated visits. john brennan, the counterterrorism adviser was just there. high level of concern about yemen. >> all right. thank you. >>> 2010 shaping up to be one of the most expensive election years, and billionaire republican meg whitman is doing her share. she's spent $140 million, that includes money she paid from her own pocket. by comparison her opponent former governor jerry brown has spent about $10 million this year. the "daily beast" has come up with a unique way to come up with outcomes of the elections, twitter, facebook and even blogging which candidate is getting the most buzz. how does it work? >> well, everybody's got polls, right? what we do is scrape the internet to find the sentiment, who's blogging, who's commenting, and who's tweeting so we can measure the candidates so we can figure out not only whether it's positive or negative but how much it is. it helps us predict it. >> let's go through nevada first.