years or four more years let's see what comes they had offered asylum ambassador to the universal peace federation talking to us from terror thank you. still have for you this hour israel's american arm twisting arm of the threatening tough. if we attempt to speak. here doing could be not just vilified they're going to be defeated washington valve's to stand by its increasingly combative ally despite israel's readiness to attack around. more of the world's main news now yemen's new president is vowing to pursue the al qaeda militants who killed more than a hundred soldiers on sunday suicide bombers detonated their explosives at two military posts outside the city of ginger bar in the. only yemeni army president harvey took office a week ago replacing the. ones ruled for thirty three years. the rallies been held outside the chinese embassy installed in protest over china's arrest our thousands of north korean defectors and its plans to repatriate human rights groups fear about the captured man will face torture and possible death if they're sent back north korean leader kim jong un has vowed to pun

the embassador for the universal peace federation told us that instead of threatening military action the us should never saw the chance to finish as reforms. but the regime is on the extreme a diplomatic pressure you know what could nationally and hopefully not you know any military crackdown by the americans or by the europeans or any nato alliance lay let's say members but i believe see there can be given a chance today to start to stop fire or to have a cease fire today between conflicting reports these are certainly frames has been really initiated by the president himself the new constitution and the vote turnout for it was a bit successful as to our as to myself actually as an analyst all as an independent analyst today i have witnessed a really important step an intermediary step ahead where syrians can can be independent alexy they were practically speaking and we hope that the governance of democracy will be given a chance inside syria but let us give the chance actually as europeans and as americans i'm mentioning this to them to give a chance to the president himself where

federal statistics do not include many cartel crimes. professor howard campbell of the university of texas in el paso says the issue is inflamed by election-year politics. >> democrats claiming everything is peaceful, quiet, no problem. republicans arguing that the situation on the border is out of control with spillover violence. >> reporter: campbell suggests the best way to get a straight answer on the border is to ask the people who live there. mark potter, nbc news, tucson, arizona. >>> still ahead as we continue for a friday night, george clooney under arrest. carted off to jail, capping off an eventful week. a lot of it focused attention overseas. >>> later, "the hunger games." >>> as we mentioned, george clooney had a full week. wednesday he testified before congress, then attended a state dinner at the white house. thursday he met with the president again. today he got arrested at the embassy of sudan during a planned protest against the conflict in darfur. nbc's andrea mitchell covered the protest and has never really believed in covering a story at arm's distance. today she got a whole lot closer than that. as she reports tonight, it's all an effort to do exactly what it did, focus atte

federal statistics do not include many cartel crimes. professor howard campbell of the university of texas in el paso says the issue is inflamed by election-year politics. >> democrats claiming everything is peaceful, quiet, no problem. republicans arguing that the situation on the border is out of control with spillover violence. >> reporter: campbell suggests the best way to get a straight answer on the border is to ask the people who live there. mark potter, nbc news, tucson, arizona. >>> still ahead as we continue for a friday night, george clooney under arrest. carted off to jail, capping off an eventful week. a lot of it focused attention overseas. >>> later, the hunger games. looking for a better place to put your cash? here's one you may not have thought of: fidelity. now you don't have to go to a bank to get the things you want from a bank. like no-fee atms -- all over the world. free checkwriting and mobile deposits. now, depositing a check is as easy as taking a picture. free online bill payments. a highly acclaimed credit card with 2% cash back into your fidelity account. open a fidelity cash management account today and discover another reason serious investors are choosing fidelity.

federal statistics do not include many cartel crimes. professor howard campbell of the university of texas in el paso says the issue is inflamed by election year politics. >> democrats claiming everything is peaceful, quiet, no problem, republicans arguing that the situation on the border is out of control with spillover violence. >> campbell suggests the best way to get a straight answer on the border is to ask the people who actually live there. for "today," mark potter, nbc news, tucson, arizona. >>> and now to the "desperate housewives" trial in los angeles, jurors in the nicollette sheridan wrongful termination case will try again to reach a verdict on monday. nbc's craig melvin has more now from los angeles. >> reporter: the cliff hanger continued as the jury is hopelessly deadlocked. >> unless we can get a vote one way or the other, we're not going to see a verdict in this case. >> reporter: nicollette sheridan claims her character was killed off because she claimed mark slapped her during rehearsal. he claims it was a light tap while he was directing her during a scene. she's suing. if jurors don't agree on a verdict monday, the judge says she'll declare a mistrial. she ordered both sides