buy land on the streets of balad world following sunday's presidential election r.t. cameramen filming the clashes were also injured. opposition wants to bring more people out on to the streets of the belorussian capital to protest what they believe is a fraudulent election. also this hour north korea the south military drill and the future of the border. thanks ends up. hajo in the korean peninsula we bring you the latest developments in that situation. and millions of migrants from poor central asian states see russia as a land of opportunity but for many the grass is not always greener. reexamined russia or if your price is off the old rules listing slopes in value the business news is in twenty minutes. warm welcome to you buy from our headquarters here in central moscow this is our team with me and he said now way it's two pm here in the russian capital one pm in minsk where police have cracked down on thousands of opposition supporters in the belorussian capital as they tried to storm government buildings in protest over the presidential election incumbent leade

i came to, i came to like working there and to be balad i worked there, but i didn't go there because i read a lot of spy novels and was attracted to it or because that's what i wanted for a career. i came because i needed a job. [laughter] >> host: susan hasler, where were you on 9/11 then? >> guest: i was in the front office of the analytical group of the counterterrorism center, and my office was right next to the office of the head of that group. and an analyst came running down the aisle of cubicles and said a plane hit the world trade center, and it looks bad. and after that all hell broke loose. of course, we were expecting something, especially since massoud had been assassinated two days earlier -- >> host: so you were not terribly surprised by that because of the assassination? >> guest: well, i mean, he was always a target, but what we were worried about was that we had indications that al-qaeda was planning a major attack, and the fact thattal maas pseudowas assassinated indicated to us that maybe something was up was he was the leader -- because he was the leader of the n

americans eve on has taken his second straight world cup victory by winning the super combined race at balad is there in france the limpid champion put together a great performance in the city and in the. short slalom run to win by just under half a second to austrians elizabeth gurgel and nicole first finish second and third i think time will that champion also since the overall a for me a ratio of germany the finishing fifth. to men i really think ted ligety has extended his domination in the world cup giant slalom by winning his third straight race to take the lead in the overall standings the american finishing fourteen hundredths of a second header frances green take out another french journalist and play to the podium. and finally politicians artists and former sports men have been attending a gala ceremony here in moscow to celebrate the chieftains of a charity called under the flag of good the organization raises money for children who need medical treatment by holding various sporting events and president medvedev eight a call for each expects. the sixth year of the sure to turn out

and balad air base which was north of baghdad, i don't know, 60 or 70 kilometers which sooner or rater-- which sooner than you could say saddam hussein's in captivity was handling aircraft on the scale of heir in -- o'hare in chicago and hiring civilian defense employees, special ops forces, the employees of private contractors and, of course, tons of troops and air force personnel. and all of this was nothing compared to the feat the pentagon accomplished in afghanistan where the u.s. military now claims -- and this is something, this is what a u.s. military spokesman told nick who writes for my site, tomdispatch.com -- they now claim to have built, again, from teeny outpost to gigantic air bases, 400 bases or so in afghanistan. they're actually not sure how many themselves, as far as i can tell. in a country without normal resources; fuel, building materials or much of anything else. just about all construction materials if those bases and the fuel to go with them had to be delivered over treacherous supply lines, and the estimate is that jutte getting one -- just getting one gallon

then traveling over to balad where our soldiers who were wounded pretty severely were all being preppedo take to germany. and to see what takes place with people -- as people were some pretty severe injuries were prepared, sometimes on basically a traveling intensive care unit, with doctors and nurses around them, and ike and i and our helicopter trip over there, and having our moments where you're lying on this litter, on the same helicopter that carries so message of our wounded soldiers, it gives you something to think about. and then traveling over to germany on this big c.17 for several hours. but now and then i would hear this voice coming from either above mother owe below me, wherever -- above me or below me, the voice of ike saying, well, what do you think about this? we certainly are learning something here. always just that little bit of humor. and putting that little bit of perspective on it, in otherwise a pretty stressful situation. not only what was happening to us but being around all these wounded and doctors and nurses doing so much. i'm sure ike has lots of variations

then traveling over to balad where our soldiers who were wounded pretty severely were all being prepped to take to germany. and to see what takes place with people -- as people were some pretty severe injuries were prepared, sometimes on basically a traveling intensive care unit, with doctors and nurses around them, and ike and i and our helicopter trip over there, and having our moments where you're lying on this litter, on the same helicopter that carries so message of our wounded soldiers, it gives you something to think about. and then traveling over to germany on this big c.17 for several hours. but now and then i would hear this voice coming from either above mother owe below me, wherever -- above me or below me, the voice of ike saying, well, what do you think about this? we certainly are learning something here. always just that little bit of humor. and putting that little bit of perspective on it, in otherwise a pretty stressful situation. not only what was happening to us but being around all these wounded and doctors and nurses doing so much. i'm sure ike has lots of variatio