at 10:00 a.m., traffic was brisk in the ritzy al assad neighborhood. a new furniture store opened here four months ago. this sales clerk's family left iraq because of the violence and returned a year ago. do you think iraq is ready to stand on its own two feet? >> no, i don't. my opinion, we need u.s. troops. >> reporter: across the street, a new chrysler dealership is opened. how is business? >> it's very good. >> reporter: it's very good? >> yes. >> reporter: business is up 200% this year. the reason, the manager said, security has improved. this is haifa street. a few years ago, it was called the most dangerous street in the world. it was al qaeda's headquarters in baghdad. there were car bombings here almost every day. snipers in these buildings. now, a degree of normal life has returned. the last time i was here in 2006, i was shot at. >> go, go, go, go, go. >> reporter: snipers have just apparently started firing in this area. at 2:00 p.m. just a few blocks from haifa street, we linked up with an old friend, mohammed al rubai, a baghdad councilma

given it to a newspaper and it would depend on the person he probably was attracted to science because assad had had previously used that material about an american helicopter gunships shooting firing in an ambush in iraq and. and some civilians were killed in that incident and maybe he felt that our size would help him more. it looks like what's what's incredible about this is that the military who are who are now saying which is putting informants danger which he may have done the times and the guardian and we. were very careful to speak to take out the names of four of them probably in the original documents there are a name for the military are incredible. to have with this stuff on almost virtually on line within their own system apparently the all of this could have come from one soldier who obtains. when i was in vietnam the names have been on and form it would be would be it would be very carefully guarded you not many people would be able to get at that kind of material military seems to have gotten very careless again because of the electronic age i mean you put this thing all in w

for example years continues africa to arm georgia and the regime of me feels that this really shows assadthat if the united states wasn't sounding robin to georgia they were a bit south as to chair in two thousand and eight it would have happened he also mentioned use continues to have plans see that it's missile defense system in europe as another store in the system so to speak at moscow's side but at the same time he mansion that personally speaking if you thought that brock obama's. first sincere ingenue but at the same time keep these said that the white house was not doing what it preaches for many years political parties and political opposition in russia have been accusing largely or putin off stifling political freedoms and denying about the right to gather peacefully both in moscow and in hotter russian c.d.'s but to me it wouldn't brushed off these criticisms saying. everybody is free to i gather as long as they have sanctions from the local authorities he did sidestep the fact that it was extremely difficult for political opposition to gather any sort of authority station from

and seven but that iran had some financial difficulties failing to pay some parts of the bill that assad presented it with so the date had to be bought as a party to officials here at the us of the this is the final launch date of august the twenty fourth iran's first nuclear power plant will begin producing peaceful nuclear energy according to the officials that we've spoken to at the russian state nuclear agency at our stop them they say that the sanctions currently enforced against iran by the united nations security council do not actually the effect of the pushchair power plant project they did that the bush era power but it's not been rooted in those sanctions of course moscow backed the last bout of sanctions against the islamic republic of iran that has dampened relations somewhat between moscow and tehran but the russian the nuclear state testing nuclear agency says that it is working very closely with the arabian side it is the work very closely with the international nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency to make sure that every step of the way of the process

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the allegations were without basis and that they had previously been warned to expect dirty tricks assad was in sweden last week where he announced the whistleblower site will publish a final batch of secret documents on the war in afghanistan. australia is heading for a hung parliament in the tightest general election in the country for more than forty years with more than seventy five percent of the votes in favor of the ruling labor party nor the opposition coalition appears likely to get enough votes to win outright prime minister julia guillard says it could be days before result is known but still hopes to form the next government opposition leader tony abbott said it's clear the ruling party had lost both its majority and the legitimacy of. a rare world war two era dive bomber has seen the light of day after spending sixty five years of the bottom of a california reservoir two anglers spotted the outline of the curtis helldiver on their sonar fish finder the plane crashed in one thousand nine hundred five with both the pilot and done her ejecting and swimming to shore it will now

mr assad mohammad marandi professor of politics at the university thanks very much indeed for being here with us in the program and they were you know this is their. moscow says it will seek to bring victor book back to his country the thai court's decision to allow the extradition of a suspect arms dealer to the u.s. is seen by russia as political and made under pressure a thai appeals court delivered the final verdict after a lower court had rejected washington's extradition bit now but will be sent to the u.s. within three months he was arrested more than two years ago in bangkok in an elaborate operation led by u.s. agents washington once on charges of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels which he denies can goodman publisher and author says boat is being extradited because he pose a direct threat to american business in africa. back in the ninety's when everybody left africa because of all the civil war problems going on the american interest also left victor but it was one of the only people that was brave enough. to go into that country and after a number of years he h

wiki leaks which this week released a huge deal say of documents relating to the afghan war which mr assad's describes as detailing the every day squalor war judy and that's also like you very much for talking to r.t. now you've had a wide range of responses to this publication ranging from praise right down to criticism is that what you were expecting you know we knew this was serious material it covers a six year period of war ninety two thousand reports and almost every incident serious incident of the three i wasn't able to give them with the times and locations number of people killed except for. so we knew that it's a. great importance as a historical document and as a primary resource to be used for the investigations and we also know from those sorts of cases that we've dealt with previously that we always get pushed back whenever we review abuse by some of what i was ation we always get that organization or its friends pushing back to try and steer the message away from the allegations that have been raised and one of the main criticisms has been leveled at you is that you have publ

find out why the russian prime minister assad of the roads in russia's far east all the details coming up later program. and a string of violent attacks and hispanic immigrants in new york has prompted fears of a new wave of racial hatred the victims say they have been targeted by african-americans who want to clear mexican immigrants from the er neighborhoods arches lauren was to reports on how frustrations are boiling over in the big apple. the united states has always been a country of immigrants but they're not always welcome we've seen mexicans targeted in the western state of arizona which passed a tough law targeting undocumented immigrants there's many many people that come to this country and they go through the proper channels to do the proper thing and and the people that don't do that they're broken the law despite a backlash. now we're seeing more signs this sentiment is making ripples across the country far from the mexican border in one area of new york city. there has been a string of a dozen attacks on hispanic residents in recent months they like were helio. infidel y

president assad has expressed similar sentiments to me. i hold strongly to that belief now having been involved in some time in that region. we believe it can be done within a year. >> but it is not a deadline. >> one more. >> about nine months to get to the point where these guys sat down to talk to each other. at what point during this process is the u.s. willing to put its own ideas on the table to put this process forward? >> one of the subjects to be discussed in the meeting on september 1 and second and also in preparatory meetings that have been occurring on a regular basis and will continue will be the timing and location of subsequent meetings. we expect some of those meetings to occur in the region. with respect to the timing and the nature, how long it took to get here, i do not think one is a necessary determinant of the other. i liken it to the first time i owned a house and had it painted. it took the painters seemingly forever to prime the building and the walls. i kept asking myself, when are they going to start painting? w

assad very ably led up the issues -- the controversy surrounding the park 51 center in lower manhattan has sparked a national debate on many issues beyond just that. many questions have come to the national conversation. what is the role of osama bin laden, who are muslim-americans? some of the tougher ones have begun to surface, including the role of terrorism and -- as their relationship to terrorism and islam? our muslims inherently violent? these questions for us in the magazine article two weeks ago. and more questions related to the role of women in islam. what used to be on the fringe in chat rooms on the internet has come to the mainstream conversation, where somehow muslims are accused of not being loyal as americans, and may have inherent conflicts in their faith. so, we thought we would assemble a panel of experts to take on some of these myths, and a challenge them, and should live on some issues. i thought i would introduce the panel will each speak for between 10 to 15 minutes, and we'll get to question and answer. i want to remind folks since are live, if you could turn