it is all acadic. a tminally ill megrahi was releed oncompassionate grounds, not under a prison transfer. but today a public inquiry was demaed. what didjack straw agreeto? >> i wouldnot have de a dea but i have no power to do adeal anto say to the libyas, ll, we'll do aurky deal withou on oil and we'll ge you a wink about the relee of mr. m megrahi. >> and what affectid it he onhe scots? apparently non >> he rejected transferri meahi and ke faithful the scotsh judicia system by releasing mr. merahi on compassiate grounds becse he wa suffering fm cancer. >> these photos of him looking gravely ill haly makes the politics of his rease any clearer. >> and here is something that we take largel for granted 234r is country. ridinghe bus in a major city. well, in south africa, a public bus system came in just yeerday to ohannesburg, the country's commercial cenr. the buses are condered a step for many commuters who have had to rely on unreguted van services. beyond comters, the buses will help people g around

agreement put together by thwhite house, the state department and varus other back channel people, acadics, congressional officials d so forth. the deal was set befor the rmer president left the unit states to go to pyongyang. it was a kind of mission of respect to the nor korean leader, he wanted the images of a former president ther at his si and thegreement was that he would pick up... the presidt would pick up those journalists d take them back home, they wou be parned and that would end this irritant in u.s./north korn lations and would potentiallyallow the two des to move forward now with talks that might lead to progss on their nuclear programs. what i would add to that was thisas a high risk but potentially high-reward move on the partf two power players. one, of course, is preside obama but e other is esident bill cnton. therisn't another piece on the board th president obama could have deployed that match the power and just attention grabbing of bl clinton. it, of course, i about the security and relse of those two joualists but as glenn says, it's potentially much more. for rth