. >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad. mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi

>> he is currently the baghdad bureau chief. we see him here right before he went for his first tour. he was a media reporter who was really a bogus thing on the mobiles, covering the top level media stories. we see him earlier in the film reporting with andrew ross sorkin about the merger of comcast and universal. "the times" engage the necessary resources and spent the money to train him to report from the war zone and put him in the baghdad bureau, where there is a very extensive staff of translators and drivers and bodyguards and people in order to continue reporting on the war in iraq. >> where is he now? cracks right now he is back in baghdad. >> the documentary was paid for how? >> the documentary was paid for by blood, sweat, and tears. mike co-producer and i, kate novak, who is also my wife, we worked basically with deferred salaries, because we really believed in this project we raise money from friends and some other investors, just a handful of people who had also invested in our last movie. many of them are folks i

troops were killed in an attack in baghdad. joel brown has more. >> reporter: five american service members were killed in eastern baghdad this morning. security officials say rockets slammed into a joint u.s.-iraqi base where americans were working as advisers. it is the single largest loss of life for the u.s. military in iraq in the past two years. monday's blast was one of seven across iraq. west of baghdad in ramadi, the home of a police officer was destroyed by a bomb. at least four people were killed. and in tikrit saddam hussein's hometown, a suicide bomber detonated a car at a check point outside a government compound killing at least six. it was the second attack there in four days. u.s. combat operations ended in iraq last august but the 46,000 american troops who remain as advisers and trainers come under almost daily attacks in their barracks and when they move around the country. all american forces are scheduled to leave iraq by the end of the year. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> 29 americans have been kil

khadafi as they had saddam hussein and previously as a cover and pretexts saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise from the ninety thought but they demonize him now to give them cover for gender seize the oil subjugating the population the population does not benefit from their natural resources because at the disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states in the western powers the resources go outward to the foreign corporations that control them the population is a missile rated countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains them. here with aunty and still to come on the program as another fuel feud brewing in the middle east find out how egypt is a revolution looks set to trigger a gas shortage in israel. us offices are investigating the disappearance of nearly seven billion dollars sent by washington to fund the reconstruction of iraq

get the money bag political analyst rick young from the voice of russia radio station believes that baghdad has every right to demand the money. i would say they probably have some legal claim to that money and a legitimate claim to go to court the u.s. has already said that it took those the money from the oil but from those from the oil fields they've already taken that money they seized it in the sanctions against of hussein's iraq so the money is legitimately the iraqis the question is again if the u.s. government can't find the money they'll have to come up with it some way so my feeling is that they do have some claim to this money some legal claim and it's going to take some time to want to the courts whichever courts they choose to go through probably international courts to get this money back now the situation in iraq also leads our top world news stories for today an attack on a government compound at just north of baghdad has left at least nine dead and seventeen injured two car bombs went off outside the building during a weekly provincial council meeting in but at last cleared

some other stories from around the world and the time from the government compound just north of baghdad has left nine people dead and seventeen injured to come bombs went off outside the building during a weekly provincial council meeting in coober the blast cleared the way for a suicide bombers to enter the compound causing two further explosions. the japanese company has approved a plan to help the operator of the fukushima nuclear plant to pay billions of dollars in compensation to victims of the disaster tepco will now receive government subsidies as well as contributions from the private sector that funds been waiting for official approval to begin making payments to those affected that your pennies parliament has been critical to the way tepco has dealt with the crisis triggered by an earthquake and tsunami three months ago. the international monetary fund has a shortlist it took candidates to lead the board french finance minister christine legarde and mexican central baghdad chief augustan carstens world pointed out for the top position but have strong credentials but lagarde is

>> scott, this was a rocket attack on a compound in baghdad where u.s. forces were training iraqi police. the insurgents got lucky and scored a direct hit on the area where the americans live. but this is part of a trend of increasing attacks against u.s. forces which pentagon officials believe is the work of shiite militias who want to see all u.s. troops out of iraq by the end of this year. >> pelley: remind us how many u.s. forces remain in iraq and what's the plan for them? >> well, there are currently 48,000 u.s. troops in iraq. under an agreement signed at the end of the bush administration, they all have to be out by december 31 unless the iraqi government asks them to stay. defense secretary gates has offered to keep some troops there to help with things like intelligence and logistics, but so far the iraqi government has not accepted the offer and time is running out because the drawdown will begin in earnest at the end of july. >> pelley: thanks, david. now returning to the fight against cancer. two new studies report dramatic progress in treat

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officials believe our officials in baghdad are threatening legal action to reclaim the funds which come from the country's seize assets and oil sales. coming up one thrill seeking turns deadly with an unstoppable force of nature our special report coming up next. the cola peninsula in russia's north home to the q.b. need massive mountain range this is the cold and windy bolshoi's would pass the snow here is between one and a half and four meters deep avalanche safety specialists are probing the snow structure on one of the slopes. the top layer of snow drifts on a slope is unstable and skis could trigger an avalanche shift attention those of you who are keen to scull mountain peaks please be careful. some avalanches a wet others a dry it all depends on the snows composition the speed of avalanches varies between seventy and four hundred kilometers an hour man can do nothing in the face of tons of snow rushing down to such a velocity. and yet people do live in the mountains they study avalanches to be able to protect themselves from each year skiers and snowboarders tempt fate by taking

. >> because one reason is you know we're in baghdad. and that costs a lot of money.st behind those sites is not that great. >> right. >> if they are offering massages in baghdad it would be a whole different story. then we would be on equal ground. >> jon: i think i meant like why doesn't advertising, why isn't the rate more commensurate with the way that technology is -- >> because there is so much of it. with "the new york times" there's scarcity, tiffanies has been on page three for god knows, a sent ree. you know there are many web sites, many low cost ways to reach team. -- people. the on-line advertising is not as lucrative right now as advertising in the paper. >> jon: do you think the times will be able to be as agile, continue to do the type of reporting. because a lot of the sites, still rely on times reporting. it's not like the times reporting is not out there and disseminated everywhere. a lot of people just go that's really good. >> the times is the great straight line of america. everybody else gets to tell the jokes off what we do. >> jon: what? (laug

military base in southeastern baghdad.y says that the names of the service members are being withheld until families are notified and we'll bring you more details throughout the morning as we get them. >>> new this morning, jail time was apparently the reason a possible plea bargain for john edwards collapsed. a source telling cnn that talks broke down when prosecutors insisted edwards serve six months for allegedly violating federal campaign finance laws. edwards wanted the deal to have a minimal impact on his children. the former north carolina senator and presidential candidate has pleaded not guilty to using campaign funds to hide an extramarital affair. >>> florida governor republican rick scott is defending a new controversial law that will force people applying for welfare to submit to a drug test. he spoke to our t.j. holmes over the weekend. >> our tax payers are not interested in subsidizing drug addiction. it's no different than think about it if you go to apply a job they're not saying you use drugs. in that wo

baghdad, task order for static and movement security in basra and movement security at embassy kabul. to the maximum extent possible, we are repurchasing existing dod infrastructure property for each of our sites. we've let numerous as of these, contracts in iraq, the status of those efforts is outlined in my written testimony. on medical contract was awarded for iraq on may 15th. we are leveraging the dod resources and theater where the dod has superior capabilities. an example was all cap iv which is attested support mechanism. use on an interim basis is giving states the time to solicit it's on life support contract to be another example is the use of the defense logistics agency food and fuel contract. also for gmt we are supplementing their oversight with subject matter from dod and discussing a deploy contingency staff of the defense contract management agency to read diplomatic security is founded in a surge to devotee which provides a temporary increase in the polygraph operators, investigative assistance and interpreters. this will aid in more rapid betting life-support contr

west of baghdad in ramadi, the home of a police officer was destroyed by a bomb. at least four people were killed. and in tikrit, saddam hussein's hometown, a suicide bomber detonated a car at a checkpoint outside a government compound, killing at least six. it was the second attack there in four days. >>> u.s. combat operations end inned iraq last august but the 46,000 american troops who remain as advisers and trainers come almost daily attack in their barracks and when they move around the country. all american forces are scheduled to leave iraq by the end of the year. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> the u.s. deaths raised the total of american fatalities to 4459. 29 of those happened this year. >>> today, president and mrs. obama will host german chancellor angela merkel during a black-tie dinner at the white house. >> last night, the president and the merkel had an informal dinner at the 1789 restaurant. she's the first european leader to get this kind of treatment. aides say the visit was arranged to highlight the close working relationship between the

they were on their bases in eastern baghdad tonight. rocket attack came in, and according to the u.s. military, the five americans were killed. it's sheet militias in for iraq that want to give the impression they're winning the war. they want the last american soldier to leave iraq as a dead soldier so they can say they drove americans out. that's going to be a power battle. as they learn the missiles that like them so much, they're going to try to get them to leave the f fussal. >> while you're on home leave, we'll borrow you from time to time for this. >>> turning to politics, rick santorum entered the crowded race to the preflsh nomination today. he leveled some harsh attacks on president obama on economic and social issues. >>> sarah palin is defending her own version of the story of the famous ride of paul revere after least week giving a version to reporters that differs with history. this weekend, she insisted she got it right. >> part of the ride was to warn the british we were already there. you're not going to take american a

kahl, you mention one example of a recent occurrence and it happened to be the one we were in baghdad. >> i was there in iraq after the fall of saddam hussein but before we caught him. that was about 2003. i was there in 2007 toward the end of the surge and more recently about one or two weeks ago. today we were in baghdad was the day that the occurrence happened at kirkuk and we met with the general whose staff were some of the victims. that is evidence of the ongoing threats to this country. with that being the case and everything we know at this point, how realistic is it for us to be able to come under the existing plan, to pull that many troops out and basically transition from department of defense to state tax is the state department up to that test? is there any precedent for anything on this scale? what you think the committee should know about that? >> to is our assessment that the iraqi security forces have pretty good capabilities in terms of internal defense. we have spent billions of dollars and many years building up a very capable counter insurgency force as well as a

khadafi as they had saddam hussein and previously as a cover and pretext saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's saw a. but they demonize him now to give them cover or engender out of season the oil subjugating the population the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had to disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states and the western powers the resources go outward to the foreign corporations that control them the population is a missing rated countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains. israel's long established sanity agreement was it could soon go up in flames the original gas deal was set up by president mubarak but now post revolution cairo is demanding that the terms are renegotiated and as he's publicly reports israel's options are fast running out. israel cannot be choosy in p

khadafi as they had saddam hussein in previously as a cover and pretexts saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's but they demonize him now to give them cover for engender out of season three oil subjugating the population of copulation does not benefit from their natural resources because they had to disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states and the western powers the resources go outward to foreign corporations that control them the population is in this aerated countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains. former congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney is on a fact finding mission in libya she says she's spoken to people on the ground and found that nato could be bombing the country with radioactive substances. we have reports that depleted uranium is being used we know that there are the missi

embassy in baghdad would only confirm five u.s. personnel have been killed in an attack this morning. now local television reported that it may have been a rocket attack at a u.s. military base in baghdad. that is yet to be confirmed. thought to be the worst single attack in terms of casualties in at least two years. there are 47,000 u.s. servicemen still based in baghdad. mostly for training, not a security operation. the iraqi government is now working with the u.s. to decide whether that pullout planned by the end of the year will still go ahead. chris? >> cbs' charlie d'agata with an update for us. here's erica. >>> we want to look now at afghanistan. robert gates is meet with u.s. troops there as the obama administration is reportedly considering withdrawing more troops from afghanistan sooner than originally planned. cbs news correspondent mandy clark is in afghanistan with more. mandy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. its secretary gates final visit to afghanistan before he steps down. and yesterday when he faced the

people were killed during an attack on a government compound about fifty kilometers from the capital baghdad dozens more were injured as people gathered for a weekly provincial council meeting two car bombs cleared at the way for insurgents to storm the headquarters followed shortly by twin suicide blasts inside the building the attack mirrored an earlier al qaeda bombing in march which claimed fifty eight lives. in china migrant workers and security forces have clashed in a town northwest of hong kong reports say hundreds of protesters took part in a rally against police brutality several emergency vehicles were torched during the incident with police using tear gas to disperse the demonstration the rioting followed a days of growing unrest in the region. seven republican presidential candidates have gathered for the first debate of the two thousand and twelve campaign the hopefuls criticized president obama over his handling of the economy and health care reform as well as his policies in afghanistan and in libya however critics say the candidates are focused too much on attacking obama ra

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could offer as they had saddam hussein in previously as a cover and pretexts saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise of the ninety thought but they demonize him now to give them cover for agenda of seizing the orld subjugating of copulation the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had the disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states and the western powers the resources go outward into foreign corporations that control them the population is in this aerated countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of the imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains them. still to come here on r.t. there is a never fuel feud brewing in the middle east about how egypt's revolution looks set to trigger a gas shortage but where. in syria reports suggest that security forces are continuing their crackdown on the opposition president assad's troops are pushing rebel forc