a correspondent in beijing reports. >> the chinese embassy in algeria has issued a warning. chinese internationals should be extra vigilant. it says is especially calling on organizations and personnel to raise the security awareness and strengthened security measures. this heightened alert follows alarming news from a security consultant who says anne al- qaeda-affiliated groups as they would target china following the death of muslims. of course, those who died were chinese, although a number of muslims did die. it was a significant security operation following the riots in uighur neighborhoods. china of course has a considerable number of people and interests in africa. it has been building new railways, roads and using natural resources to fuel its economic boom. a significant chinese interest in africa. but the chinese public have been kidnapped and threatened before. this is across china. they have seen i direct threat from al-qaeda. -- a direct threat from al- qaeda. >> the latest headlines for you. relatives are grieving for the 168 people killed in iran. hillary cli

beijing responded by warning citizens in algeria against possible attacks. our correspondent in beijing has more. >> the chinese embassy in algeria issued a warning. warning chinese nationals to be extra vigilant. it is especially calling on chinese-funded organization and personnel to raise security awareness and strengthen security measures. this heightened alert follows a warning from a london-based security consultant who says it has intercepted chatter from an al qaeda affiliated group that said it was going to target chinese nationals following the unrest in denying -- and rest in xinjiang. most who died, where, in fact, han chinese. although uigur muslims did die. there has been haydns security situation, and those riots and neighborhoods have been sealed off -- heightened security. china has been going to africa for many years, building new railways and routes, and getting natural resources to fuel the economic boom. but chinese nationals have been targeted before. they have been kidnapped and threatened, but this seems like the first time that china

it was not algeria that were to be the voice of the arabs. it happen that there was vacuum, this trust between the public and governments. and people who areooking for something to symbolically represent them, maybe they come to algeria as the voice of, you know, independent of government that really could do something. so the vacuum led to the status that al-jazeera is enjoying as the entity who is coherent. people who watch the headlines, and that may lead to certain priorities as well in their minds, understand the region. but we have never really introduced ourselves as players within the region. we want to act only as journalists thank you. >> sorry? [inaudible] >> we have many officials in the white house, and we hope very soon to see some. >> i will be blogging about it later in the week. this gentleman right here in the microphone, please. >> i am a political analyst. in the arab american community, and american muslim community. short comment, any question. i am here is the press on your hand to say you are filling a void, a needed v

president obama and the summiteers are meeting with eight african nations from egypt to ethiopia and algeria and south africa. the g8 nations plan to contribute $15 billion over the next three years to boost agriculture and ease the contine continent's ongoing food crisis. mr. obama is heading to the african nation of ghana today as the last stop on his foreign trip. before leaving italy, the president will meet with pope benedict xvi from the vatican. joining us now is papal expert father thomas williams. >> good morning, michelle. >> father, what do we expect the pope and the president to talk about during their time together? >> they'll have about a half hour together. i think boast men have already expressed in past days different ideas they have they'd like to bring up with the other. president obama has spoken about the environment. he's spoken about the situation in the middle east. they'll both want to speak about poverty, the economic crisis, and all the points of conversion they have. the open undoubtedly is interested in these things but will bring up issues of ger divergence, esp

it was not algeria that were to be the voice of the arabs. it happen that there was vacuum, this trust between the public and governments. and people who are looking for something to symbolically represent them, maybe they come to algeria as the voice of, you know, independent of government that really could do something. so the vacuum led to the status that al-jazeera is enjoying as the entity who is coherent. people who watch the headlines, and that may lead to certain priorities as well in their minds, understand the region. but we have never really introduced ourselves as players within the region. we want to act only as journalists thank you. >> sorry? [inaudible] >> we have many officials in the white house, and we hope very soon to see some. >> i will be blogging about it later in the week. this gentleman right here in the microphone, please. >> i am a political analyst. in the arab american community, and american muslim community. short comment, any question. i am here is the press on your hand to say you are filling a void, a needed

those planes are operated already by algeria, belarus, china, ethiopia, india, indonesia, malaysia, mexico, russia, ukraine, venezuela and vietnam. the mig-29 is a more air to ground capability, russian-build aircraft very sophisticated and that operates includes algeria, armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, bulgaria, cuba, hungary, iran, malaysia, north korea, peru, poland, russia, serbia, sudan, syria, ukraine, and yemen. again, widespread globally that air to ground capability and air-to-air capability. today, there is a fifth generation being developed that will be highly competitive with the f-22 and the f-35. that fighter is currently being developed by russia and china. to challenge the f-22 and the f-35 so that gives you a sense of where we are today. these are very sophisticated aircraft operating today. the surface-to-air missiles are very sophisticated. and in countries today they can take out, in fact, our existing technology in many areas. and of course the fifth generation is what we're talking about being ready for the midpart of this century. our air superiority what gone unnotice

it was not algeria that were to be the voice of the arabs. it happen that there was vacuum, this trust between the public and governments. and people who are looking for something to symbolically represent them, maybe they come to algeria as the voice of, you know, independent of government that really could do something. so the vacuum led to the status that al-jazeera is enjoying as the entity who is coherent. people who watch the headlines, and that may lead to certain priorities as well in their minds, understand the region. but we have never really introduced ourselves as players within the region. we want to act only as journalists thank you. >> sorry? [inaudible] >> we have many officials in the white house, and we hope very soon to see some. >> i will be blogging about it later in the week. this gentleman right here in the microphone, please. >> i am a political analyst. in the arab american community, and american muslim community. short comment, any question. i am here is the press on your hand to say you are filling a void, a needed

would say the left has been hard on robert mcnamara's, anybody who had third opinions in the time of algeria's. if your view about the vietnam war was that it was a horrible disaster for this country, ending in dishonor, your view of robert mcnamara, even though he may have done good things at the world bank, cannot be that great. if you supported the vietnam war and you believed that if only robert mcnamara and kissinger and nixon -- let us not forget lyndon johnson was the person who escalated the vietnam war, but the war went on longer under kissinger and nixon than it did under johnson -- so if you were opposed to the vietnam war, you cannot think well of mcnamara, but if you were somebody who believes the vietnam war, for instance the right today believes the use of the vietnam war to argue against or in iraq is a terrible thing, and so you can see in all the commentary on mcnamara from both the right and the left, you can see mcnamara was a cold war figure, whatever he did if later on. he was the chief architect of the vietnam war. the chief policy architect. just as dick cheney and wolf

secretary of state who also had a crucial role in foreign policy in the 1970s and they're talking about algeriag story of the 19

recently, i was actually in algeria last week -- this week actually for the pan african african altard i was looking at c-span international which has a program called african voices. and in it they were interviewing a dg. and she says interestedly speaking casualty about things that occupied her that she was concerned about the idea that marriage is not set up for the benefit of woman, and indeed can be dangerous to woman, but that women are conditioned to behave and suffer the price. she is speaking casually, but her sense of any relationship to the kinds of work that people like ama ata aidoo would have already put forward. she says also in that discussion that her recent work tries to confront the hypocrisy of denying that same-sex relationships existed -- exist in africa. so what i wonder, put forward personal is the question of ama as the letter as a form of the. and it is my contention that her generation are able, are now able to put these issues casually on the table while writers like ama ata aidoo had already set the table itself. i'm using this domestic metaphor deliberate

, for example, the british who fought in northern ireland or the french from their perspective in algeria when we, as americans, wage counterinsurgency campaigns, we tend to do it as third parties. that is on behalf of a host nation. and there's an assumption in our doctrine that our interests are going to align with the interests of the host nation government. there are two things worth stressing here. the first is that the reality of waging counterinsurgency campaigns as a third party is that you can set the conditions for political successbut it's not the traditional format where you are using force to achieve a political end and it's pretty concrete. in counterinsurgency, you can only set the conditions for success, but ultimately true political success depends upon the host nation either reforming itself or arriving at some sort of reconciliation process. in counterinsurgencies. >> rose: that's nation building. >> well, it may be nation building or it may be striking there could be a reconciliation process or there could be building up institutions, but i think a safe assumption assu

obama is from, and other powers like algeria because it has a history of democratic government. russ? >> bill plante, thank you very much. >>> bailed out insurance giant aig wants approval for a new round of bonuses. "the washington post" says aig doesn't need a government okay, but it fears outrage if it pays out some $450 million in promiseded bonuses. >>> and in pamplona, spain, this morning, a spanish man was gored to death at the annual running of the bulls. a bull separated from the herd and charged. nine others were injured. this is the first fatality at the event in some 14 years. >>> it is now 7:09. here's chris. >> russ, thank you. there is major news coming out of the summit on swine flu, or h1n1 virus. when the new fall season, flu season comes, you're going to want to be ready this time around. our dr. jennifer ashton is here. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> the next wave they're thinking is the fall. the government says the vaccine should hopefully be ready. do we think they're going to be ready with a vaccine in time? >> we do, and they are taking steps t

the index closed down % yesterday after the real estate giant announced it had closed operations in algeria, which they had basically agreed to develop about $20 billion worth of projects back in march 2008. this has come to a close due to a lack of progress which they say is beyond the company's control. today, even though the index climbed in early trading, it's again in the red with the gfm down almost 2%. in terms of other news, m&a activity in the middle east has registered an 86% drop during the first half of the year compared to the first half of 2008. this is according to merger markets with a service provider. in a recent report, they were basically saying that the total value of deals up until june 23rd stood at .2 billion u.s. dollars compared to 8.6 billion u.s. dollars in the same period last year. also, she showed some figures coming out of the first quarter saying that just 12 deals worth $600 million were concluded compared to 25 deals worth $7 billion u.s. dollars in the first quarter of 2008. back to you. >> nadine, thank you very much, nadine hawa, cnbc mumbai. >>> the re

lost the w in vietnam, algeria, a prolonged zuc japanese lost their role.n of the war brought to them. have learned in recent yea being the only superpower doesn't mean we can do anything in the world that we ha to accommodate. the russians los an empire and they don't like it. but they have to accommodate toyota. i think we have to try to manage it in such afashion that it's not rubbed in. itoesn't make them feel worse or mke them overreact. but at the same time they caot try toundo it, becae uning it will proce new conflicts, new tensions, new veryangerous situations. >> can you tell me along those lines what is thecurrent state in i haven't heard this, and rhaps a dealas been struck. obviously were going to be putting some military equipnt in poland. can you tell us e status of that right now? >> well, e agreement bween the ited states and poland is bad on this missi defense shield the united states and president sh decided to deploy in poland andhe czech republic. thpoles asart of that deal got some commitments fromhe united stes regarding occasional st

it is not a secret that algeria was funded by government. and on this day, by choice i would say that we are not very keen on commercializing al-jazeera, especially news channel. why? advertising in the region is controlled by governments. . . they have benefited from al-jazeera because it hosted al-jazeera and they also host al-jazeera to the world because it made it on international and regional scene. but it does not al-jazeera took a line to be the spokesperson of the qatar reform politics. if it was not true, it would never be accepted by the arab audience. because many other areas in the region were established with billions of dollars much more than what qatar spent on al-jazeera. because they always continue to be the mouth of certain groups. >> i'm a u.n. consultant. and those who lived and worked in the middle east for 10 years. and as such i have a special knowledge a affection for the arab people. >> thank you. >> i'm a member -- well, i've been a follower and admirer of al-jazeera ever since you people began. because having live

support of the resolution today which honors the osce mediterranean partners of morocco, tunisia, and algeria and i want to extend gratitude to alcee hastings for his ground breaking work with each of the partners. he now serves as special representative on mediterranean affairs and is trying to bring the helsinki process, the three baskets of the helsinki final act which emphasize economic issue, human rights issues and security issues and to bring that good, positive process that has worked wonders over the years in election reform, mr. hastings has observed, how many is it now, alcee? 11 different elections overseas as usually -- usually as the head of the delegation and we're trying to inculcate those kinds of values and to say to our partner, learn from the helsinki process, it works, it's yielded tremendous results and processed in the area of human rights. i want to again thank him for his work and the resolution. i'd also like to welcome the president of the parliamentary assembly as well as lynn marcer, the immediate past president of the parliamentary assembly, our good friend from

other colleagues to recognize the contributions of a unique partnerpship of the osce which engages algeria, egypt, israel, jordan, morocco, and tunisia in supporting security and stability in the mediterranean region. i truly like to thank my friends on the committee on foreign affairs, especially chairman howard berman and ranking member elian yab ros-lehtinen, and subcommittee chairs, gary ackerman, robert wexler, donald payne, bill delahunt, and mr. faleomavaega. as well as ranking members chris smith and dana rohrabacher, who all supported this resolution and demonstrated the pivotal political importance of positive partnerships with north africa and the middle east. mr. speaker, it's also my pleasure to welcome representatives of these states to washington, d.c., for the commission on security and cooperation in europe's mediterranean partners. as i speak, a reception is ongoing being hosted by the speaker of the house for these members who are here for this seminar. i thank our speaker as well. high level delegation from all over the mediterranean partner countries are participating