plenty of other baghdad neighborhoods are just like this one. >> that is our report. thanks for watching. stay tuned for more news and information. >> of forecast for germany -- in the east, storms will cool temperatures down slightly. it will be overcast in many areas. only in the west will it be sunny. plenty of sunshine in the coming days with highs of up to 32 degrees celsius on tuesday. elsewhere in europe, temperatures in the british isles will hover around 22 celsius, but the heat wave will continue on the continent. here's a look of the forecast for selected cities around the world.

>>reporter: but issues still persist with the current baghdad regime, including disputes over territory and how to unblock the export of crude oil and pay oil companies. >>lee: in the oil and gas sector, they have one very big problem at the moment, and that is that the central government in baghdad regards the oil and gas contracts that have been signed in kurdistanas illegal. >>reporter: with an estimated 45 billion barrels of oil reserves and three to six trillion cubic metres of gas in the area, there's a huge amount riding on negotiations with the central government. the prime minister is hopeful: >>salih: we recently submitted a detailed proposal by which we would solve this issue of oil contracts, and the iraqi cabinet has endorsed those proposals by the krg , and we hope that we will be able to put that behind us. >>reporter: for some, it's a case of reconciling two completely different philosophies: >>garner: in the republic of iraq, everything is still thought of kind of like when saddam hussein ran it, everything was centralised, it was government controlled, and that's the w

between russia and the west was on show at a joint russian german summers in the city of yes here in baghdad president dmitry medvedev and chancellor angela merkel jokes about paul the psychic world cup octopus and burgers with barack obama but amid the smiles they got some business done to you with dozens of agreements signed and our correspondent daniel bushell is following this story. in the windy city of all you could get was very much a case of the madrid if and merkel i'm sure if you like is the su country's leaders were all smiles their personal strong relationship really highlights the country's two excellent relationship at the moment historically until it was greeted chatted with mr medvedev influence russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed off to perth but later promised it was not paul the octopus who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal over the world cup now there was talk of a trio of world leaders forward looking leaders barack obama to reach madrid if i glow merkel a transatlantic troika if you like moving the world forward on secur

and joining us from baghdad is jane araf of the christian science monitor. i talked with her a few hours ago. jane, hello. it's been almost four months since the voters went to the polls there any rack. why is it taking so long to form a government? >> well, that is the question. i guess the simple answer, judy s that there are too few posts and too many players. now what they are trying to do is put together a package where they would decide who would be prime minister, president and speaker all together. the problem is that everybody wants those positions obviously. and nobody is really willing to compromise. this really is seen not just putting together a government but actually a question of their very political survival. >> are the sticking points related to the sectarian groups, the shi'a, the sunni, the kurds or is it more than that? >> it is related to that in the sense. but more than that, a lot of the, so much of it is related to personality. the personality of the prime minister who has been prime minister for four years, and wants to hang on that

we have this from baghdad. >> the fire broke out late thursday night. it is thought to have started and in the hotel restaurant and burned for several hours before being brought under control. the charred remains of the building bear witness to the intensity of the blaze. local officials say some guests have died after throwing themselves out of windows on upper float -- upper floors. the fire killed a number of foreigners as well as local iraqis. the british embassy says it was investigating reports that you keys -- u.k. citizen was among the dead. they are treating it as an act of terrorism. >> today i set up an investigation committee to find out who is responsible for the incident. we will also check to make sure the safety procedures at the battelle were up to standard. >> this is the second city in iraq -- it is where insurgent attacks are practically nonexistent. gabriel gatehouse, bbc news, baghdad. >> the hollywood heartthrob george colony had a serious matter to attend to appear in the oscar-winning start appeared at a packed courtroom in mila

bomber attacked a group of sunni awakening council fighters who were waiting to get paid west of baghdad. officials say the bomber killed at least 45 of the anti-al qaeda fighters and wounded dozens more. and a suicide bomber struck in afghanistan today as well, one day ahead of an international conference to be attended by secretary of state clinton. mandy clark has the latest tonight from the afghan capital of kabul. >> reporter: kabul is getting ready. this week delegates from 44 nations will arrive here for an aid conference in, and the afghan president wants to show that he's in control. but the insurgents sent a message of their own. a suicide bomber killed at least two afghans and injured 20 on this busy street. the leader of the taliban ordered his followers to kill any afghan who works with foreigners. security is still the urgent need here, and increasingly it's the u.s. that is shouldering that responsibility, as secretary of state hillary clinton made clear today in an interview with cbs news. >> we have redoubled our efforts working with the afghans to improve and field a mu

now from andrew gilligan he's a journalist with britain's telegraph he also worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two thousand and three and even to you good to have you on the program to talk first about these two hundred detainees still being held by u.s. forces what we know about the man drew indeed they were likely to be and why haven't they been how did over do you think. well the problem is we don't know very much about them we know that some of them are high ranking members of the regime we we know the ministers inside arms government for instance some of them are held terry ram it down for instance is among those some of the some of the foreign diplomats some of the military commanders who fought the war but we really know very little and they are the last remaining if you like american black hole of detainees we know roughly who's held at guantanamo bay we know who's in custody in afghanistan we still don't know who these people are the u.s. of course has been involved in a number of deeply damaging scandals over prisoner abuse over the yea

. >> reporter: private first class bradley manning was stationed at a base 40 miles east of baghdad, an army intelligence analyst who, overtime, it's believed, became disillusioned with u.s. foreign policy, pouring through classified information and going online to find someone who would listen. he found a former computer hacker in sacramento, california, and allegedly asked him, if you had unprecedented access to classified networks, what would you do? but authorities believe the soldier had already done plenty. because in those online chats, he allegedly took credit for leaking this video, of a u.s. helicopter strike in baghdad to that whistleblower website wiki links, a strike that killed innocent civilians. in messages to that hacker, he also said he discovered "incredible, awful things that belonged in the public domain and not on some server stored in a dark room in washington, d.c. he allegedly also described how he downloaded the classified information. "i would come in with music on a cd labeled with something like 'lady gaga' and erase the music." recording intelligence on

they rely on their colleague in baghdad who they hired off craigslist.hey say it is safe, even though there has been a war going on there for seven years, since we are now just four months away from the promised end of u.s. combat operations. these guys say it's a great time to move in. >> we want to make sure that we all know what we are getting into. if we are careful about it, if you know what you are getting into, you can be -- it's perfectly safe to conduct real estate in most areas of baghdad. >> you don't need to worry about your safety but something you do need to keep an eye on is government corruption. there are only four countries in the world more corrupt than iraq, according to transparency international but if you can look past that and still interested, check out the website frc/iraq.com. >> and if you would like more information about that real estate website, want to check it out for yourself, you can get more details at ktvu.com. >>> in china, a huge oil pipeline explosion triggered a second pipeline blast sending flames 150 feet into t

spoke to andrew gilligan the journalist from britain's daily telegraph who worked as a reporter in baghdad when the us led invasion was launched in two thousand and three and he says the remaining prisoners are the last gasps in the us occupation. they are the last remaining if you like american black hole of detainees we know roughly who's held at guantanamo bay we know who's in custody in afghanistan and we still don't know who these people are conditions in very many of these shows are not very good conditions in american girls are actually better in some ways than in the wreckage and. the iraqis have not been particularly successful custodians of their own prisons one that they have amnesty international has published many critical reports on them. and of course detainee abuse is widespread in iraqi prison so i can't imagine that these detainees will be any better off actually under iraqi custody than american. so to come later in the program a blast from the past. the scenes of the old doc became so popular that alongside the usual memorabilia the special brand of cigarettes was creat

authorities will take control of around one thousand six hundred detainees at camp close to the capital baghdad america's slowly withdrawing from iraq with a final deadline set for december next year the u.s. will continue to hold two hundred detainees though some of which were members of saddam hussein's last government though the majority haven't been identified to talk about that they are supposed to andrew gilligan a journalist from britain's daily telegraph newspaper who incidentally worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two. he told me the remaining prisoners are the last in the u.s. occupation. they are the last remaining if you like american black hole detainees we know roughly who's held at guantanamo bay we know who's in custody in afghanistan and we still don't know who these people are conditions in very many of these jails and not a not very good relations in america are actually better in some ways than in the iraqi germs. the iraqis have not been particularly successful custodians of their own prisons one that they have amnesty internatio

now for those that are unaware pollution is a city in iraq forty three miles west of baghdad underwent not one but two heavy attacks by u.s. troops where the entire city was closed off and those u.s. troops use depleted uranium shells to pierce through targets a piece of weaponry left over from the cold war whose affects are only now as you see being analyzed and as this report says they obviously are devastated i am for some reason this why all this information the u.s. and the iraqi governments and the u.s. military especially remain silent so could this report finally change that or earlier i caught up with mina. chief editor of shark and i first asked her if she had been a fluid on to describe to us the devastation that she's seen not only there but all over iraq. so i've been in iraq when i was in from the it was just passing through to get into baghdad the effects have been severe we've heard from people everyone from doctors without borders who spoke extensively to journalists and briefed us to doctors that have been looking into this and you know ordinary iraqi citizens there a

with baghdad's politicians still fighting over forming a new government and american troops soon scheduledleave, a stable iraq seems to many christians like a dream. "for religion and ethics newsweekly," i'm kate seelye in iraq. >>> in other news, in haiti, pilgrims flock to the sacred water falls to celebrate the festival of our ladyóñ of mt. carmel. the annual event attracts christians and practitioners of voodoo who believe bathing in the water washes away sins and bad luck. this year they pray for a better future for their country that's still recovering from the earthquake six months ago. >>> desmond tutu announced he will retire from public life when he turns 79 years old. >> the time has now come to slow down, to seek maybe some tea with my beloved wife in the afternoon. tutu is the leader of south africa's campaign against racial segregation apartheid for which he won the nobel prize for peace. he also chaired the truth and reconciliation commission which heard testimony about the atrocities of apartheid. tutu said this week he's giving up conferences, travel and conventions and he

a car bomb to the north of baghdad has killed at least 11 people. the blast brought down a number of buildings in the area. bp's oil spill in the gulf of mexico could be halted within two weeks if a storm does not disrupt the work. a relief tunnel should finally reach the oil well by the weekend. the news comes as bp announces the sale of assets to meet a part of that cleanup bill. the energy correspondent for "the wall street journal" said bp has improved its financial position. >> they raised $7 billion from the sale to apache. that was a substantial chunk of cash. one month ago they had announced plans for $10 million in assets. >> in the figures and descriptions of we can get, how much smaller does bp have to get to survive? what does this say about the oil industry? >> actually, bp is going to be disposing of a lot of assets that are not the main focus of the company and not real broke barriers. bp has really focused in the last year on places like the gulf of mexico, angola, the deep water provinces that are producing a lot of high margin barr

disturbs me today i wish i could take that day back i give anything we went into an area near the baghdad stadium this came into our area and actually stopped about seventy five meters or front of my vehicle that tells you how far the vehicle came into our perimeter. and. which is we lit it up. we had three of the. victims in the right key that there were expiring rapidly we pulled them out of the car and we started doing it for a state i called a corpsman the corpsman came and got the three bodies and took them back to the patel you and surgeon corpsman came back dump the bodies on the side of the road and went over to the corpsman asked of us what we're doing how can you bring him back you need to get him out you need to get him back to an area where they can see a surgeon the corpsman there's nothing we can do for him so we're going to leave you know you can leave the bodies on the side of the road and i said yeah well you want to do stuff. so i want to have compatible up so they don't i'm on the side of the road and. know the guys brother you come running over to him and he just said

. >> start with a poem i read after i learned that the rate of valum prescriptions in baghdad sky rocketed after the u.s. entry into that space. the title of the poem and it is the words the probably roost which is bitter. biting, cutting, sharp. bitan. once, she was a fearest dark girl who's tongue skipped top of meeting. teeth, teeth top of mouth like double dutch with the word that ment her thoughts cutting circles through the day. no chance she'd be the one to trip and break rhythm. then she could sit all day on her porch memorizing the trees. she could be still. the birds, winged through leaves like they didn't know anyone could hurt them. once she believed steam curled off asphalt when summer rains stopped with a prophecy. she believed this looked the way she would feel after touching a man. her body clean. and black. and right. something beautiful and painless rising up. i was talking with a friend about that idea of leaving places. and leaving places behind the title of this poem is stolen directly from this conversation in which he said there is a particular state that he would ne

. >> a car bomb near the iraqi city north of baghdad has killed at least 11 people. many others were injured in that attack. the blast brought down a number of buildings in the area. a former prime minister in kosovo, facing a retrial for torture. witnesses were intimidated when [unintelligible] was acquitted in 2008. the events that -- events allegedly happened in 2008. deadbeat the oil spill in the gulf of mexico could be halted within two weeks if a storm does not stop the work. bp executives say that the relief, should reach the oil well, which has been leaking for three months, by the weekend. with assets in texas, canada, and egypt, meeting a part of the bill, the correspondence said that bp has improved its financial position. >> they raised $7 billion from this asset sale to apache. that that is a substantial chunk of cash. one month ago they announced plans to divest $10 billion in assets, they have taken a very big step towards achieving that. >> how much smaller does bp have to get to survive? what does this say about the oil industry? >> they will be not

something highly you know look like a baghdad to me. jerry has stopped into a track the interest of the american media he believes that his fame will help him find a way out of my. money i think there have been no somebody below for some people to have been in. the the. culture is that so much i'm going to this is a huge decision on your democracy does pakistan face the prospect of becoming a failed state the once claims it is an indispensable ally in its so-called war on terror. a whistleblower leaks thousands of military documents to the internet revealing major cover ups over the war in afghanistan. war veteran groups in the us are up in arms over what they say are broken government promises they claim the country they served has let them down and left many homeless. a decade of discovery it's ten years since the international space station became habitable when a russian module with a life support systems docked with it. because a report is up next max kaiser and co-host stacy herbert take their usual caustic look at the players and

baghdad. police officers. in the war we saw. dozens. crossing the border into. and it was only a matter of time before a car bomb started on. a. car bombing might have become a lebanese national custom but the lebanese never created the car bomb. like a lot of other things in the twentieth century car bombs are an american invention . by the one nine hundred twenty s. new york had become the financial center of world capitalism. but then in september one thousand twenty wall street was rocked by a massive explosion. it was the world's first car bomb. where we're walking right now is exactly where if you'd been standing here on september sixteenth one thousand nine hundred twenty you would have been hit by the bomb over here what was then the u.s. sub-treasury. and of course the stock exchange with the big flags on it there same buildings that would have been here most famously the morgan bank. and that really was and in some ways still is just the epicenter of american capitalism and government tell me what happened here at about twelve zero one away or strong w

something high that you know look like a baghdad to me. jerry has stopped into a track the interest of the american media he believes that his fame will help him find a way out of my. one day i think there have been no somebody. some people to have been. to. the end. every month we give you the future you understand how to get. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. washington investigates who is behind the biggest leak of classified documents in u.s. history while veterans of america say the country should focus on its questionable rules of engagement not to expose. the financial crisis so the government's doing little to help the many charities putting food on the table. and psychics would lose faith leaders and mystics may find themselves on the wrong side of the law as russia readies to clamp down on preying on the public. when i am here in the evening in london five in the afternoon in new york city right now you're watching us around the world tonight this is the news channel with me kevin owen fi

more than 50 iraqis were killed in attacks across baghdad today. 32 of them died in a suicide bombing. the victims were shi-ite pilgrims crossing a bridge to a shrine to commemorate a shi-ite saint. the attack came despite tight security. the u.s. toll in afghanistan rose again today as three more troops died in a roadside bombing in the south. that made 10 americans killed so far in july. also today, an airstrike mistakenly killed five afghan soldiers in the east. the afghan ministry of defense-- m.o.d.-- complained, and the international security assistance force-- i-saf--said a joint investigation was underway. >> ( translated ): we have started investigating the incident since this morning, we also condemn this action. unfortunately this is not the first time, it has happened many times, but we hope this will be the last time. >> we were obviously not absolutely clear whether there is afghan national security forces in the area, but this is as i said right now subject to a very detailed investigation jointly between the m.o.d. ministry of defence and isaf and i do clearly regret w

he was arrested in late may after leaking helicopter cockpit video from a 2007 baghdad fire fight. in the meantime, this latest leak dominated today's white house briefing. spokesman robert gibbs warned there will be fallout. >> whenever you have the potential for names and for operations and for programs to be out there in the public domain, that it, besides being against the law has the potential to be very harmful to those that are in our military, those that are cooperating with our military and those that are working to keep us safe. >> brown: also today pakistan's ambassador to the u.s. insisted his country is committed to fighting al qaeda and the taliban. he said the leaked information does not reflect the current situation. and a spokesman for afghan president karzai had this to say. >> by the fact that certain number, a huge number of documents were leaked, that was a shocking news. but so far the substance of this leaked documents were that the president's immediate reaction was that most of this is not new. most of this is what has been discussed in the past. >> brown:

authorities insist the accused man was due in court for retrial on thursday, but officials in baghdad cannot find them. an opposition politician has been found murdered several days after going missing. the democratic green party says he was found near his abandoned car. his head was almost severed from his body. britain's foreign secretary william hague on a visit to china has said the u.k. has longstanding human rights concerns about tibet and has raised them in his talks with the chinese. for two years, china has kept tibet largely closed to foreign journalists. but now a small group of reporters has been on a rare escorted visit. >> it starts at daybreak. this is to that felt most sacred temple. china's show of force is openly display, a message to the devout. watching from the rooftops, the chinese marksmen. little wonder some tibetans see china as an occupation. -- china as an occupation force. few journalists have been allowed to visit here since riots a few years ago. when you came down to this. these monks, defying chinese rule, shouting there is no freedom in tibet. one of t

the first attack have been nil baghdad killing 45 when do 40 s second bomber stormed ahead quarter ande militia fighters returned fires morning the attacker could then detonated the bomb. >> listed the 100 >> and dr. brook and she is a forensic specialist will also by the way used to work as a call girl. she's to block it about being a cultural it was an explosion of issue and it turned into a tv series we will talk to build dual appeared coming on kron 4 they were thrilled. she's a natural vibrato. oh. we started saving for this music camp in vermont. so i told them about some of the wells fargo online savings tools like my savings plan, which helps them set up and monitor a savings goal. until we found out that maybe her teacher uses certain terms a little bit loosely. rebecca is clearly very gifted. [ banker ] we decided to roll that money into ashley's college account. turns out there's seven gifted kids in ashley's class of nine. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. with you when it's time to save. ♪ that we share to help us stay close here at home and far away. [male announcer] to fin

earlier this year, wikileaks published this video of a deadly american helicopter attack in baghdad in 2007. 12 people were killed. including 2 journalists from rueter. three weeks ago, a u.s. soldier in iraq named bradley manning was charged with leaking the video. now some believe manning could have been the source of today's documents as well. but in keeping with wikileaks policy of protecting sources anonymity, asange refused to say. do you deny manning is the source of the material? >> we don't know who the source of the material is. if those allegations are true, then of course the man is a hero. >> reporter: wikileaks self-described heroic work extends to the broadest range of the ambitious and powerful. during the '08 presidential campaign wikileaks public blushed the contents of sarah palin's yahoo! account which appears to show she sent official messages on private e-mails to avoid disclosure laws. wikileaks even took on the secretive church of scientology, posting secret manuals online. what's the common thread here? >> the common thread is concealing information to prevent

international attention in april when it posted this classified helicopter cockpit video of a 2007 attack in baghdad. the clip apparently shows u.s. army helicopters firing on suspected insurgents. but among the dead were believed to be two journalists. the military has charged 22-year-old army specialist bradley manning with passing along the information. as for this latest leak, one u.s. official says it may take days to comb through all of the documents and figure out exactly how much damage has been done. and the site says the documents, quote, don't generally cover top-secret operations and they say they are delaying the release of 15,000 other documents until further review. betty, back to you. >> tara mergener joining us live in washington. thank you. >>> in afghanistan this morning, the u.s. military is hunting for two american servicemen. apparently ambushed by the taliban on friday. their shot at vehicle was found 80 miles south of kabul, far from where they were supposed to be. the military distributed leaflets offering a $25,000 reward for the men who are with the navy and were assigned

been charged with downloading this classified video of a helicopter gun ship killing civilians in baghdad. that video subsequently showed up on wikileaks. and there's more to come. wikileaks claims it's getting another 15,000 documents ready for release. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> a short walk from the pentagon is arlington national cemetery and the scandal there is growing this morning. arlington is the resting place for more than 300,000 americans. and a u.s. senator investigating the cemetery now says thousands of graves may be mislabeled. she calls it, quote, heartbreaking incompetence. >>> on "moneywatch," it was downhill for most stocks in asia this morning. alexis has the latest on that. >> reporter: we'll begin with the asian markets where stocks edged down today. the nikkei lost a fraction and the hang seng saw a late day rally. today wall street gets the latest on consumer confidence. on monday, better than expected news about home sales gave stocks a boost. in the end the dow gained almost 101 points, its third straight triple digit rally. the nasdaq added nearly

russia and germany wrap up their summit and the seizure of nicotine in baghdad but the leaders praise most who's ever improving relations with the west. in the last remaining detention center under american control in iraq is transferred to local authorities two hundred eighteen mates will name the u.s. provision of president obama's deadline for withdrawal from iraq is set for december next year. allen russia and the u.s. montana better of the first joint space flight and the storm called more relations that followed on this day thirty five years ago two spacecraft one solve it one american love to go and later talks in orbit and the opponent to see his mission. up next the mystery of a train loaded with the russian empire has gold reserves has disappeared almost a century ago the legend surrounding this story out alive to this day and it's the subject of our special report up next here on out he. rushes celebrated near deep sea submersibles covered quite a few secrets hidden under water. on one occasion the sides of expedition traces the so-called gold train which crew. into lake ba

of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening with looks like indiscriminate fire in a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were reported dead including two reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated and the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the u.s. military is ok with causing some quiet old damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in the eason mccord a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience he went s. words to say soldiers in his unit were ordered to kill civilians in certain circumstances mccord said the message they got from their commander was if someone in your line gets hit with an improvised explosive device three sixty rotational fire you kill everyone on the street. chastity bers served in the same unit as ethan