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>>> hello, everyone, i'm christiane amanpour and welcome to our program. today, we are taking the pulse of president obama's efforts to improve relations with the islamic world. and to secure the peace in some of the most troubled places. we'll examine the future of iraq one month after elections that have yet to produce a clear winner. we asked former prime minister alawi who leads by just two votes about democracy about new violence and about the withdrawal of u.s. troops. and then we turn to another place where the u.s. is also heavily invested, and that's sudan. will next week's election there unravel a peace deal that was brokered by the bush administration? we'll speak with a representative of the southern sudan government and a former bush administration official concerned that sudanese president omar al bashir, for all the talk of elections, could lead the country back to war. >> what i fear though is that bashir is not honorable, he goes back on his word and so the low-intensity conflict that we see today will in fact, escalate to a full-blown war