when theyre joining the milita, they know they're ing to ira and afghastan.l this is gng to do is give them equal oortunity. they'ras at risk as men are, that is alrdy happeng. >> bonnie: all rht we have t go from wom at twr women and chronological. more women than er are being rested for driving drunk. this doorgd new fb -- this accow fbi data, showing the number o women facing d.u. charges rose by 29% during a decade whe arrests of meneclined. men stildrink more than women and are four times moreikely to be arsted for drunken driving, but t gap is naowing. in 2007, morthan 150,000 women were arrested for drunk driving, and on averagewomen who have been drinking are involved in about 2,000 fal accidents each ye. just recently, a new york case ma national headlines aer mother-of-two dianschuler kill herself and sen other pele, including r own daughternd three nieces, in a wrong-way crash. topsy reports found she was both drunk and hh at the time of death. advocates fighting drunk driving say the pressurize owork and home are leading morwomen to act recklely,

. >>> and estonia, on a mber of the soviet bloc, nowart of natoit has joined the battle in afghastan. tonight, we look at that country's w role as american ally. >> from the world's leading reporters and analys, here's what's happeningrom around the world. this is "worldfocu" de possible in part by the following funders mar support has also been provided by the peter g. petersonoundation dedicated to promoting fiscal respoibility and addressing keyconomic challees facing america's future. od eveni, i'm martin sadge. >>> the wain afghanistan. d tonight we want to ta a deeper look at thatonflict there from several rspectives you might not havseen, even though president obama has ordered 21,000 aitional troops to afghanist, america's military commanders are now ying that may not be enough to fight eectively against the taliba sterday, the cirman of the joint chiefs sa the situation is serious. and it deterrating. that assessment came st days ter afghastan's presidential election, whic continues to generate widespread allegations of fraud and intimidation as votes are counted for american

demoats are the ones who id that afghastan is the good war, the wwar -- r it war, that w should at all the time to but how you fight war in a country that nev was a countr iraq was a winnable war. afghanistan is war that only at a minimum is winnae, meeting in keeping at te the talin and al qaeda. the idea of constructi a new democracy afghanistan,s we have alst successfully done in iraq, is out of the question. afghanistan neve was a country and is not going to be democracy. thinke have to redefine our als ricallyow, or we are going to be in there for 30, 40 years. >> we will not be there for 30, 40 years. the will of the american pple - atome point that becomes unsustainable without an achievablemission, defined mission. >> we wl have some force there for as long as the eye c see. >> may in kal. >>e is the mayor of kabul karzai i >> while on a reign policy, how do you think hilry clinton diin africa this week? >>the complexity of dealing with and a lot, nigeria -- angola, nigeria's about oil, democracy everyplace else, and was not just aid the visit. this is theomplexity of africa, t

heavy security in afghastan on the eve o palestinian -- on the eve of nationaelections. >>> the man in charge of meeting the challen, the american coander of nato forces, has told the bbc hislanning radil changes. our world affairs editor reports. >> speciaforces commander and now the man i chae of the faltering mpaign in afghantan. very much the thinking man's soldier, whos planning to change tngs. to change things in iraq by tracking down saddam husin d catching him, but afghanistan a far tougher proposition. >> t situation iserious an we need tourn the mmentum of the enemy. e afghan people did nolike the taliban it is not popur. we ne to correct some of th ways thawe operated in the past andhow t resolve that will take andmagination to operate smarter d do this right. >> he soon h a chance to show what he meant. we have come tthis town east of kul it has been bad trouble sp. > one of the things, arrting people witho good information. >> they have becomplaints. the y that made no arrests innocent people who then languied in jail without trial and sometimes for appareny indisiminate b

our road oning with afghastan your ranks only female governor. -- with afghanistan'snly female governor. the roads always art with good intentions. but oer roads to kabl has been inaugurated three times and are still not built. now theu.s. military, with more money and troops, is weighing in. the mon is all going tohe province >> iave hear that. what iell th eldersn the communities, talk aut having patits. pience. it is impornt for them to know that. this wl take time. >> they are making for lost time. we e on ouway to a second road opening,ttaching a li wi the u.s. military. closer to the border, more dangerst gets. the violence is spilling or from tubled neighbors. in recen month attacks have creased. the new zealand troops have stard driving aored humr vehicles. the taliban leer who calls himsf the sadow governor was arrested shortly after our visit. > ♪ >> to keep the pee, they nd more tn just roads ey also need help from their own government in kabul. but the president is hre, at least spirit. [unintelligible] >> very impressive. >> this is not quite right. >> yes, this is not e ri

which the aqi government i going to be able to sand on its own feet >> all right, wel, t's deep with afghastan first. the obama administraon has said tha it's goingo measure progress using what are clled metrics. first of all, whatre they? d what do you see as the most important metrics? >> the objective that president obama hasset out march 2009, after a strategy review that was conducted after comi into office, said that u.s. objectes in afghanistan shld be to counter rrorism and unter the insurgent that is being led by thetaliban. what that means is th afghan government has toe ab to control its own terriry. and at the moment, it doesn't. the southern part othe cuntry has largely been absent. international forces hve largely beenbsent from the south since theeginning of military operatis ere. and so that has been the real focus of militar efforts tre in the pas couple of months. >> what would you see as a satisfactory resulor end pint for thu.s. mission in afghantan? >> i think that t satisfactory end point is havin the aghan governme be able to control its own territory. i think tat at is

. >>> oncegain day, there was violence on the border of pakistan and afghastan. auicide bber struck a security chepoint in the khyber pass region, killingt let 18 border guds and woding dons re. happened at the main crossing r convoysoving nato supplie into afghanistan. the guards were gathering in front of their barracks aft sunset for a ml to end the day's fa durramadan, t muslim holy month. >>> in soueastasia, in malaysia, themuslims have been banned from attending a conct by the blac eyed peas. not because it objects tohe lyrics of the ameran pop grupp, butecause it is onsori the concert in that moh, guinness. the government hasbeen cracking down on alcohol consumption muslims there. this woman was sennced to a caning for drinkina beer at a rert hotel. although t authority dees laid theentence at the end of ramadan anhave agreed to reew the penalty. >>> d one more nte from asia tonight, taiwan announced toy that the dai lama will be allowed toisit that cntry to help ease the pain caused by a typhoon th killed an estimated 670 people eaier this month. taan's p

. >>> in afghastan, a sca in theapital of kabul day. ju over two weeks bfore that country's poid presidential election. officials said at least eit rocks slammed into the cityf daybreak, at least one of them heading from fire fom the embassy. three civilia reported wound theockets were fired t show that theovernment of president hamid kari cannot guarantee security in the capital. it was believed to be thefirst roet attack in the afghan capital in six mths. >>> in the cty of betehem on the westban an important meeting today about the future of theiddle east peace process and a poible palestinian state. r the first timenore than 20 yea, members of the ruling fatah partyled by paltinian president, mahmoud abb as >>> in the stheast australian city of mel brn today, hdreds of pice swept through 19 house, arresng four young men in wt they say was a plot to blow up a lae army base outside of sydney,he capital. the officials id the men we som alia an lebthese descent. porting from the "lateline" program of abc in ausalia. >> reporte across mbo

. >> and what'st ake beyond just which person wins afghastan's presidency? >> well, this is the second presidenal election. it trans- transitions are incredibly importa in emerging demracies and democratic transitions season so if this eltion can go off as fairly and fruitly as possible, itill mark a ver impoant step in the tnsition to democracy in afghanistan. >> and currently, the front-runner ? >> it's still carsaye. though his challengers a increasing their own support in the last few weeks. so it's anybody's guessight now. >> a before you go, i nt to ask you, wt's the status of the massive offensive that wa launche in the south in the helmand province? >> rht the americans and the brits have gone offensive bothdeclaring victory. but really what they need to do and they're very awa of it is to try to hd and build in those ars that have been cleared. and so develoment project, inastructure projects so that people feel safe,that they can return homeand start trying to hav some sort of nmalcy so that the taliban dot come back and take tse ars again like the

even thoswho resist occupation in iraq, afghastan and pestine are classified today as "terrorists".xcept in sudan, when som people take up arms, it's th vernment that's guilty. >> reporter: so there we no actionspecifically, though, which,n retrospect, you feel were mistakes? >> ( translated ): in any war, mistakes hpen on the ground. this is not t policy of the gornment. are a government that functions in aordance with the w. the security appatus functions in accordce with the law. whver intentionally breaks th law is held accountable it. >> narrato president al- bashir's decision to grant high-profilu.s. media inrview-- his first since he was dicted-- comes as the obama administratiois reassessing a comprensive range of punitivmeasures in placagainst his government. the u.s., which under the bh adminisation branded the crisisn darfur a genocide, now says theorst of the violence there has ended. major general scott gratiois president obama's scial envoy to sudan. >> thers a significant fference between what happen in 2004 and 2003which we characterize as genocideand what isappening

in southern afghastan, at least 41eople were killed when a string of fivear bombs exploded inandahar. the bbs went off simultaneously in the ceer of the city. more th 60 people were wounded. in the latest polical developments in afghanista the first preliminaryesults from st week's presidential election trickd in. with only 10% of the ballots tallied, psident hamid karzai has about 41% of the tes. his main allenger, abdullah abdullah, is close behinwith nearly 39%. if neithecandidate wins an outright majory, they'll be forced into a ruff. the taliban in pakistan confirmed for the first tim their leader is dead. two taliban commanders told e assocted press baitullah mahsud died on sundaof wounds suffered ia u.s. missile stke on august 5. padrkficials hadal said for weeksahsud was likely killed in that strike. th two taliban aides also confirmed an earlie aouncement that hakimullah mehsud now lds the pakistani taliban. in iraq, a group with linkso al qaeda claimedesponsibility forast week's deadly suicide truck bombings in badad. last wednesday the asts targed government buildings and k

military reported thre more americans were killedn southern afghastan. and a court in myanr sentenced opposition lder aung sanuu kyi to another 18 months under house arres on newshour.pbs.org, an line- nly feature tonight. hear what auto industry alyst george magliano thinks o chrolet's new hybrid electric car, the volt. g.m. claims it wl get over 200 miles to theallon. >> lehrer: d again, to our honor roll of american seice personnel lled in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as their dths are made official and phographs come available. herein silence, are 11 more. pr >> lehrerwe'll see you online, and again here tomorrow ening. i'm jim leer. thank you, a good night. major fundingor the newshour with jim lehrer is providedy: chevron. intel. supporting math and ience education r tomorrow's innotors. theational science foundation. supporting educati and research acrs all fields of ience and engineering. d with the ongoing support these institutio and foundations. an.. this progr was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastin and

. >> h clear llaborated wh elements of al qaeda in the peri after their retreat from afghastan acrs theborder after 01. >> may i st interrupt. was he involved, for instance, did this goup shelter al qaeda leaders. >they are accused of that by the government of the united states that why he had a $5 million reward on his head inddition to the%cx 6cj reward by the pakistani government it was fo his collaboration wi al qaeda. he also cilitated tactics against american soldiers across-the-board never afghanistan and he targeted western facilities in pakistan and byeeking to destabilize pakist he was judged by t united states government to be working against american intests for all thse reasons he was seen as an enemy of t united states. but his claborations with al qaeda i thin the ambassador said it well, were pecuar to his reon and to the relationship betwe his tribe and uzbeq and some oth arab elents of al qaeda. we're not clear, i' not clear anyway on how close he was to th senior leadership of alqaeda to osama bin lden and others. helearly could lab waited with some parts of the organ

while operation pthers claw has been trying to pu the taliban out of their stronghds in southern afghastan injured vilians have been floong here. >> we came to rwais in the last week of jul a month into the offensiv to see what life has been like for the people caught in the crosfire. this is thentensive care unit, the i.c.u., where the most critil patients are brought. they are mainly war woded. >> he is in from yesterday, from gunshot wound, from e of the districts of kandaharq it reporter: is it always this full? >> always d is full >> rerter: civilian casualties in afghanistan have come the major opational issue for british and us forces. soldiers have been order to show restrai if "there is even the slightest risk of a civian presence." but tell that to this man. on t night of july 16th hajj naimutalh says he and his family were asleep in eir home in shawilikodistrict, north of kandahar city, they re woken by a coation attack on his village. >> ( translated ): iwas 10 o'clock atight when i woke up and the helicopters were bombarding. so the ildren and my wife ran outside their rooms a

ars, that will introduce a new front and as we've already discussed, we've got enough fronts in afghastane're dealing with now, we don't need another front. and i'll just take a moment on that. this is particularly matters for the transatlantic allies because many of them have their forces@b world, take that as an invitation from me. we're starting to realize reality. for a few years we complaed while we were busy in iraq the allies wen't helping in afghanistan and ty should and could and that remains true but some are doing quite a bit, the british and canadians and dutch and dans among others. as bruce mentions the italians and germans and norwegians are in dangerous parts of the country and our allies have suffered a combined 500 fatalities in afghanistan. weeed to acknowledge tha contribution. it would be nice if they would do more. they probably won't. therefore i think the american debate about more nato resources will focus on the potential need for more american resources. 's unfortunate, but that's as much as we can do and have to do but at least we're realistic and we know that

course of distinguished career, gener rno has become extremely knowledgeable about the conflic in afghastan. he commanded over 20,000 u.s. coalition forces in afgnistan as part of operation enduring freedom for 19 mths, from 2003 to 2005. he previously served in combat is an infantry officer with the army ranger battalions in the panama and granada a agents. general barno holds an m.a. degree in tional secury studies from georgetown university and a b.s. degree from the u.s. military academy at west point. he is also a graduate of the u.s. army command and general staff college and the u.s. army war college. as director of the near east south asia centered general barno has traveled widely in the middle east region and has lectured at a variety of military institutions including harvard, yale, tufts and west point. he is a frequent consultant to agencies on counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism and the changing nature of conflict. with that, let me just turn to general barno to lead off. >> thanks jim and mao of much more importance to my wife, my and his son just got back from a year in afg