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and a canadian soldieras killed in afgnistan. that made july the deadliest month for international oops thre since the war began eight years ago. newshour.pbs.org, two onlin only features tonht on china's economy: an update on its recovery wi a growth rate of nearly in the last quarter; and on our business sk, paul solman talks to economist mon johnson about chins investment in u.streasury bonds and other assets.
and a canadian soldieras killed in afgnistan. that made july the deadliest month for international oops thre since the war began eight years ago. newshour.pbs.org, two onlin only features tonht on china's economy: an update on its recovery wi a growth rate of nearly in the last quarter; and on our business sk, paul solman talks to economist mon johnson about chins investment in u.streasury bonds and other assets.
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british forces in afgnistan are gog thrgh one of their worst weeks in comt in modern times. eight more ha been killed in separate incidents. several daths now number 184 more than in the iraqconflict. they're dangerouy undercooked, d the pri minister has warned of a heart summer ahead >> in the skies, makinthe dead's final journey he. >> ♪ >> the coffins of fiveoldiers to retur today taken respectfully by comres, going to t chapel. then came a public displ of respect. the town is silenced to honor e call that they will do again in t coming weeks. for some, grief was overwhelming. the bells tolled forhe dead. an t rifles were killing in a sile incident. his life w lost again to an ied. now, more servicemen have died in afghistan than did in iaq. >>t is tough going, because th taliban have rightly identied this is their ground. they lose their, they le everywhe, and they're throwing everythinghey have into it. but they a losing. the commandersre clear abo that. but it is gng to take time, and it doeinvolve casualties. >> operation panther pasquale is taking its toll on bh side
british forces in afgnistan are gog thrgh one of their worst weeks in comt in modern times. eight more ha been killed in separate incidents. several daths now number 184 more than in the iraqconflict. they're dangerouy undercooked, d the pri minister has warned of a heart summer ahead >> in the skies, makinthe dead's final journey he. >> ♪ >> the coffins of fiveoldiers to retur today taken respectfully by comres, going to t chapel. then came a public displ of respect. the...
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the ise of civilian caalties caused by 4 is this is one of the reasons for change of adership in afgnistan -- caused by u.s.orces is one of the reasons for ange. meanwhil this week, it emerged that the tiban had issued a new code of conduct,hich calls for minimum of cilian casualties bbc news, kabul. >> the u.s. presidenbarack obam says today's latest econic figures are an important sign that th u.s.s headed inan important direion. it sho th the economy contracted inhe second quarter by the equivalent of 1% per ar. analysts had been expecting a much bigger fall. the obama administration says thr actions over the last six months helped to put the brakes on t recession. the prime minter of spain has attended theuneral service fo two service members lled. security forcehave been on maximum alert to prevent further attacks by eta on this the 50th anniversary ofheir founding. the ace shuttle endeavour has since returned to earthafter a successful work at the international space stion. they had delays and technical problems. the sen astronauts successfully touched down athe kennedyspace center i
the ise of civilian caalties caused by 4 is this is one of the reasons for change of adership in afgnistan -- caused by u.s.orces is one of the reasons for ange. meanwhil this week, it emerged that the tiban had issued a new code of conduct,hich calls for minimum of cilian casualties bbc news, kabul. >> the u.s. presidenbarack obam says today's latest econic figures are an important sign that th u.s.s headed inan important direion. it sho th the economy contracted inhe second quarter by...
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enhance the tactics of the tionalfghan army, police, and so they can secure the situation a ensure afgnistan does n go back to being big crublend a green ground for terrorism as it was in 2001. >> but the pressure on the government is mounting. > in the u.k., a video of a british soldier screaming abuse at distressed, whoid iraqi isoners hasbeen shown to a publ inquiry. if this is the first day of th hearing investigating the death of a hotel receptionist who was detaine in 2003. e inquiry will spotlight the so cled conditioning technies used on other detainees. weave this report. >> incrimating evidence fell by one of the soldiers emselves. corpor donaldayne sh and swears at the detnees. ey are forced to maintn painful potions and one says he was urinated on and scalded with water from a radiator. the inquy ll hear that the corporal conducd what he called thecreams and groans of his victims. the man says what was it the man was 26 years old, t father ofwo and a hotel reptionist. an inocent man, asphyxiated and left with 93 separate in this -- 93 separate injuries. >> we needo find out who w
enhance the tactics of the tionalfghan army, police, and so they can secure the situation a ensure afgnistan does n go back to being big crublend a green ground for terrorism as it was in 2001. >> but the pressure on the government is mounting. > in the u.k., a video of a british soldier screaming abuse at distressed, whoid iraqi isoners hasbeen shown to a publ inquiry. if this is the first day of th hearing investigating the death of a hotel receptionist who was detaine in 2003. e...
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. >> rorter: 18 britishsoldiers have died in afgnistan since the beginning of thi month. 15 of them were killed either by expsions or ieds. seve british sodiers have died in operaonanther claw. brow says that should he been forewarned abouthe likelihood about the sudden rising casualties stemming fr this offensive. dispos bomb expert who died on mond in helmand. e 28-yr-old from the royal logistic corps is describe by his commanding officer as unbelievably courageous. his we says she has not ju lost a husband but a best frnd. appear not only a war in afghanistan but also a bate between the britis army and downingstreet. the invention of malik brownwho leavehis post at the end of this week. criticized the governme for failing to supply eugh troops, equipment o vehicles. the chief dissenttaff have made simar asseions. >> the mo that you can increase your tactical flexibility by moving people by helicopr then the more uncertain, more unpredictable your movements come to the enemy. >> pple like the prime minister the secretary of state, the defense, the genera now in their hearts of what we'
. >> rorter: 18 britishsoldiers have died in afgnistan since the beginning of thi month. 15 of them were killed either by expsions or ieds. seve british sodiers have died in operaonanther claw. brow says that should he been forewarned abouthe likelihood about the sudden rising casualties stemming fr this offensive. dispos bomb expert who died on mond in helmand. e 28-yr-old from the royal logistic corps is describe by his commanding officer as unbelievably courageous. his we says she has...
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for here in the fir five years aer it, the taliban were first driven outf afgnistan. bacally, all the resources nt ito iraq. many of the euroans trad this asostconflict reonstruction. they didn't take the taliban seriously. even today, some can't use the word "war." they have to use the word "conflict" for polital reasons. if you put the resources in that, by itself, will ma a tremendous differee. if yo takeeveloping afghan forcesreally serisly and the plans are there and the traers have the capability, that makes a major difference. and ifyou can clean up the problems with the karzai government and within the international aid efrt that would provide a vry strong inntive to afghs to reje the talannd support e goverent. >> well, iant to bring up, you meng saiin your report that one of the geat challenges facing the u. and no is the ghan government. why is the government a chlenge? >> partf the reason is, it simply lackscapabili. we created a sysm that s extremely centralized to try to make e warlords weaker. in fact what we did was mak karzai and otherso dependen on r
for here in the fir five years aer it, the taliban were first driven outf afgnistan. bacally, all the resources nt ito iraq. many of the euroans trad this asostconflict reonstruction. they didn't take the taliban seriously. even today, some can't use the word "war." they have to use the word "conflict" for polital reasons. if you put the resources in that, by itself, will ma a tremendous differee. if yo takeeveloping afghan forcesreally serisly and the plans are there and...
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. >>> for more on afgnistan, you can watch dan rather's port "t rd on imam beeb" on the cable networkdet. >>>n russia, at leas20 people have been kille another ne injured in a crash betwe a bus and a gasolin nker. the accident hppened in the sohern russia city o rosdonovan. footage t scene shows reue worrs removing the injured. officialbelieve the tanker truck veered into the bus. >>> any issue of traffic deat in rssia is a seous o. theecent rert by t organition where economic cooperation and developmt named russi as the wot in traffic fatalities among 30 countries surveyed. as our partn abc australia reports,ussian officials are hoping that a graphic new ad campaign will mak a ifference. >> repter: evgeni uck is retning to the road in moscow where his close friend nilai wa killed in 2007 the 22-year-old was racing another r,pparently reachi speedsf up to 160 kileters an hour when it all went horriblwrong. >> he didn't see the pked car. he crashed into i it'sxactly he. >> reporter: the car he'deen racing so crashed and its two occupants died as wellp. those thre killed in just one acc
. >>> for more on afgnistan, you can watch dan rather's port "t rd on imam beeb" on the cable networkdet. >>>n russia, at leas20 people have been kille another ne injured in a crash betwe a bus and a gasolin nker. the accident hppened in the sohern russia city o rosdonovan. footage t scene shows reue worrs removing the injured. officialbelieve the tanker truck veered into the bus. >>> any issue of traffic deat in rssia is a seous o. theecent rert by t...
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it's part of theirules of gjment in afgnistan. findingnd arresting terrorists and actively enforcing peace are explicitlyrohib the by tse rules. military experts a critical of ths. >> translor: limitingourself to just reacting puts youat an immediate disadvantage. you have an opponent who doe not have anrganized army and does n respect any roles of combat. another reason wh we're not allowed to ca it a war. reporter: a video posteon a gean army blog sows the difference in approachcompared tou.s. forces. asuspected taliban nit is dealt with even before it reaches the army be in question. t sometimes people are wrongly identifd as enemy combatants. the americans say theye chnged their strategy for eir n big push against the taliban but rman commanders are lookingor a way to increase their effectiveness whout enngering civilians. on the se day that funeral ceremonies were held fo three soldiers killed in uduz the u.s. increased german troops in ghanistan. all a ar that the run-up to the parliament elections in germany ineptember the
it's part of theirules of gjment in afgnistan. findingnd arresting terrorists and actively enforcing peace are explicitlyrohib the by tse rules. military experts a critical of ths. >> translor: limitingourself to just reacting puts youat an immediate disadvantage. you have an opponent who doe not have anrganized army and does n respect any roles of combat. another reason wh we're not allowed to ca it a war. reporter: a video posteon a gean army blog sows the difference in approachcompared...
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. >> if you ok at afgnistan, there's a lot of rson to be pessimisti to be very sober minded when lking at it, but the other hand, i think a properly resrced strategy especial one that builds capacity within the afghan government h a chance of suess. but this is the 11th hour. athis point,e can't do anything in afghanista that does not build capacity the afghan... in the afghan government andn its institutions. ment. >> rose: we continue this evening with the "new york times" youngest and newest columnist , he was ross douthat. >> the biggestong-term problem for the republican party right now is tha all of the demographics that 's strongest in are shrunking an it'sot just it's strongest amo white, the white pulation i this ringing. it'strongest amongwhite christians the white christian population is shrinking it's strgest among white christian married couples. the number of americans who are married habeen steadily shrinking foreveral decades the two-parent family isin decline. across all of tho categoryt republican party is in trouble and one ofhe big questionfacing the party is whe do
. >> if you ok at afgnistan, there's a lot of rson to be pessimisti to be very sober minded when lking at it, but the other hand, i think a properly resrced strategy especial one that builds capacity within the afghan government h a chance of suess. but this is the 11th hour. athis point,e can't do anything in afghanista that does not build capacity the afghan... in the afghan government andn its institutions. ment. >> rose: we continue this evening with the "new york...
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the armed forces ve suffered heavy losses in afgnistan. 1 service menand women ve died since operationsegan in 2001, buwith th operation now ove it's hope that at last for thepresent, the hope is behind thm. fi jenny wivell of it. >>> in afica, a wave of violence continue in nigeria. security forces hunted for memberof aislamic sect in a nthern town after storming the grp's mosque and headquarters last night. the group sd more than 100 members of the sectere killed and then lte today itaid the leader of e sect had been arrested. the human right group charg that secuty forc have also beenilling innocent vilians over thlast four da as they cracked down on the group, which wants to expand islac law. >>> spain was hit by another bombing today, the second in as many da. it hapned on the island majorca and is being blamed on the basque separatist group et. two police oicers were killed in today's bombing, which targeted the car. planes and ships were blocked for atime fromeaving the reso island as police hunted for the suspects. yesterday, you wi remember in northern spain, a car bomb destroyed a
the armed forces ve suffered heavy losses in afgnistan. 1 service menand women ve died since operationsegan in 2001, buwith th operation now ove it's hope that at last for thepresent, the hope is behind thm. fi jenny wivell of it. >>> in afica, a wave of violence continue in nigeria. security forces hunted for memberof aislamic sect in a nthern town after storming the grp's mosque and headquarters last night. the group sd more than 100 members of the sectere killed and then lte today...
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x british soldiers killedin afgnistan in a singleday. the ring deatholl raising new questns back home. >>> and then w concerns for american troopsn the frontline. going ome, convoys of wary roph geese are bginning the journey back to pakistan's swat valley. twists of ate. fleeing to malaysia. they thought theyscaped the tyranny o a military regime. instead, some tse people were rounded up by ahorities and so into forc labor. >>> and all of theworld's a stage. the most fous train in the world becomes rolling theater. tonight, we catch the show on the orient exess, all aboard. >>> om the world's leading reportersnd analysts, this is what is happening fr around the world. thiss "worldfocus." made poib, in part, by the following funders >> good evening. i'martin savidge. we begin tonht with the war in afghanistan, and a look apt the two ma western military forces inthat country. that's the united states and great britain. the toll of that war on btish troo 8,000 of them in afghanisn has suddenly become a big issue at home. that's becausehe d
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of the contemporar era, and this is whether you're talking abt the united states in iraq, nato in afgnistan, israel in sthern lebanon the laws of laarfare are ing to allow you t do a lot of things. u can.. proportionnalty will allow you to do a lot of things. but you may be technically correct and operationally ineffective and operationally stupid. other words, you can do a lot that, while lal and wle permitted by the lawsf land warfe will nonheless make youoperationally ineffective on th batefield. and the use overwlming foe is one of those things. general crystal will be the first people toell you that if droppingombs on compounds t taliban has sght refuge in if that will help win the war, okay let's dot because these thin are permitted under the l of land warfare if these compounds are being used by foreign fighte, by fighters as staging areas or fightin positions. but if you...f by dropping bombs on compounds you're also killing cilians, in this vironment you're going to reer yourself operational ineffeive pretty quick by dointhat. and what we're talking about is the cultural change not
of the contemporar era, and this is whether you're talking abt the united states in iraq, nato in afgnistan, israel in sthern lebanon the laws of laarfare are ing to allow you t do a lot of things. u can.. proportionnalty will allow you to do a lot of things. but you may be technically correct and operationally ineffective and operationally stupid. other words, you can do a lot that, while lal and wle permitted by the lawsf land warfe will nonheless make youoperationally ineffective on th...
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and a canadian soldieras killed in afgnistan.made july the deadliest month for international oops thre since the war began eight years ago. newshour.pbs.org, two onlin only features tonht on china's economy: an update on its recovery wi a growth rate of nearly in the last quarter; and on our business sk, paul solman talks to economist mon johnson about chins investment in u.streasury bonds and other assets. and again, to our nor roll of amecan service personnel killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as eir deaths are made official a photographs become available here, in silence, are n more. tht last photograph was captai kafele h. sims. when we reported his deh last month, we mistaken ran a photograph someone else. we regret e error. we'll see yoonline, and again here torrow evening with mark shields and david brks, among other i'm jim lehrer. thank yound good night. major funding forhe newshour witjim lehrer is provided by: chevron. intel. supporting math anscience educati for tomorrow's nnovators. the william
and a canadian soldieras killed in afgnistan.made july the deadliest month for international oops thre since the war began eight years ago. newshour.pbs.org, two onlin only features tonht on china's economy: an update on its recovery wi a growth rate of nearly in the last quarter; and on our business sk, paul solman talks to economist mon johnson about chins investment in u.streasury bonds and other assets. and again, to our nor roll of amecan service personnel killed in the iraq and...
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out working together to build, yo know, a more modern society as psident dvedev describes it in afgnistannd preside obama as yomay know di talk aout prhaps the ruians can help in training the afghan army or police. so bottom line is the russians ha gonefrom being obstacl atimes as they were earlier thisear when they persuaded another former republic to clo its air base to the u.s. in the region and n are seeing themselvess coop rative parers in the afghanistan effort. >> woodruff: but quickly there are still some sticking points betweethe two leaders on other issues? >> absolutely. and i think that that was conveyed by their tone. they talked out wanting to cooperaten a lot of things. they ao talked about the fact at they still have mar differences. president obama mentioned georgia in particular. and they have aged to disagree and to coinue discussing that. so i would s that tonewise too it was telling that though president obama said hecertainly trusted esident medvedev to gotiate and stick to his agreents, there was none the gushiness, therwas no loong into anye's souland deciding tey
out working together to build, yo know, a more modern society as psident dvedev describes it in afgnistannd preside obama as yomay know di talk aout prhaps the ruians can help in training the afghan army or police. so bottom line is the russians ha gonefrom being obstacl atimes as they were earlier thisear when they persuaded another former republic to clo its air base to the u.s. in the region and n are seeing themselvess coop rative parers in the afghanistan effort. >> woodruff: but...
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. >> ifill: i it is true that july as the bloodies months for the british wars in afgnistan in sevenyars, what do you sayo the itish ople who clearly are losing their enusiasm? >> we say tha this missi is in brita's national securi inerest. nearly threeuarters of the terrorism pls that havepl been eitr taken place or foiled against the u. k. hve their liks into thead land betwen afghantan and pakistan. and our clear mission there is help afghans provide the ecurity to live in their own cotry. at the momt they can't do that their own that'shy ritish and other coalition forces a there. and i think tha we also are to show theritish people but also aricans and others around the rld that there i aolitical strategy aled tohe military strategy that's taking pce in the way that your correspdent have desibed. >> ifill you want you t talk about that some mre, because tt's what the whole topic o your speech yesterday at no. what do yo say o political strate that soundsdifferent ears, sods le there's horse tradi. wh you say differently. >> i mea three things above all. they to the heart of how
. >> ifill: i it is true that july as the bloodies months for the british wars in afgnistan in sevenyars, what do you sayo the itish ople who clearly are losing their enusiasm? >> we say tha this missi is in brita's national securi inerest. nearly threeuarters of the terrorism pls that havepl been eitr taken place or foiled against the u. k. hve their liks into thead land betwen afghantan and pakistan. and our clear mission there is help afghans provide the ecurity to live in their...
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in afgnistan the u.s. military announced three more u. soldiers ve died in combat.o were killed in a mb attack in theouth. a ird died in fighting in the eastern part of t country. 38 amercans have been killed in afghanistan this mon, the most since e war began. the political crisis in nduras escalated day as the ousted esident manuel zelaya re- entered the country. venezuelan television shed him at thborder crossing between nicaragua and hondura despite the presence o governmentoldiers, he took a few steps onto the hondura side. in shington, secretary of state clinton rongly criticizedelaya's action. >> president zeya's effort to rch the border is reckless, >> it does not contrute to the broad efforts to restore democrat and constitutional der in the hoduras crisis. so urge preside zal aa and all other parties to reaffirm their commitment to a netiated peaceful solution to t integrity of enduring docracy. >> lehrer: clinton saidoth sides needo avoid provocatns. s. treasury secretary geithn defended plans day for a new agcy to oversee consumer financial products. e c
in afgnistan the u.s. military announced three more u. soldiers ve died in combat.o were killed in a mb attack in theouth. a ird died in fighting in the eastern part of t country. 38 amercans have been killed in afghanistan this mon, the most since e war began. the political crisis in nduras escalated day as the ousted esident manuel zelaya re- entered the country. venezuelan television shed him at thborder crossing between nicaragua and hondura despite the presence o governmentoldiers, he took...