a british company called captive media has recently installed these into a southeastern london pub.>> oh. >> above the urinals. >> you control it with your stream? >> you are exactly right, gayle. >> no way. >> you control these games with your pee. >> some are calling these toy-lets. one is a skiing game where as you pee to the left this thing moves to the left, and you need to hit these penguins on the way down. >> the length of the game really depends on how much beer you've had? >> well -- >> i could see something like this really catching on. >> too bad i can't play it. >> captive media wants to create a similar game for use in the women's rest room. how that's going to work i have no idea. they don't want to leave the ladies out. could be coming to a men's room near you. >> i'm trying to get the high score. >>> that wraps up this edition of "right this minute." so glad you joined us and we'll see you next time.

jessica buchanan had spent 92 days in captivity. along with a 60-year-old danish aid worker, poul fistles. president obama gave approval for a daring rescue for the same team that killed bin laden, s.e.a.l. team 6. vice president biden told abc news, that the president had seen intelligence reports, indicating buchanan's health was deteriorating. and her life, possibly in danger, due to an undisclosed condition. >> jessica's health was, in a word, was failing. and they concluded they should go at this time. >> reporter: details of the operation are still secret. but we know something how s.e.a.l. teams save lives. >> in a hostage rescue mission, it's only a successful operation if they can make sure they're able to use violence against their enemies while making sure that a hostage, like jessica, is able to be pulled off the target completely safe. >> reporter: by 1:40 a.m. somali time, 5:40 p.m. in washington, as the president prepared for the state of the union, the s.e.a.l. team was aboard a specially equipped c-130, moving rapid

with the help of counselors, talking about the terror of captivity, so she can heal. but hopefully remembering that it wasn't just the navy s.e.a.l.s that saved her, she is a survivor. for "nightline," i'm martha raddatz, in washington. >> with the sheer will to survive. >>> just ahead, president obama talks to diane sawyer about his reaction to the news of the latest daring rescue. and why it hit so close to home. [ hermann ] there's always something that's going to have to be done by a certain date. you always have homework, okay? i don't have homework today. it's what's right here is what is most important to me. it's beautiful. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] red lobster's four course seafood feast is back. get soup, salad, cheddar bay biscuits, dessert and choose one of 7 entrees. four courses for only $15. offer ends soon. i'm jody gonzalez, red lobster manager and i sea food differently. a deep, throbbing, persistent ache. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia, thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm

we mad it to a armored carrier and ambulance and adding insult to injury we were held captive by the egyptian security for another day. mubarack fell and we survived and egyptians and others tasted a new freedom and later this year, we had a chance to go back. i met with the fellow who helped us out on that apartment. >> thank you very much. >> thank you from all of us for saving our lives.

the hope is that these pandas, which were born in captivity, can eventually be introduced into the wild. >> it is a long-term project, to say the least. the experts claim the project won't reach its goals for 50 years. that's a long timeline. >> good to see he's doing some goodwill in his retirement. >> yeah. good for him. more "world news now" when we

it captivated this the world. >> it was this big huge small story that got bigger and bigger and it was because news med where-- media put the story out there tom were caw was apparently a sucker for these stories. >> stephen: three whales are trapped in the icy-- the ic ice-- in should really be a movie. now what-- (cheers and applause) now and this was huge, right, like international-- governments got involved. >> the amazing thing is my character who is a greenpeace advocates fights and fights and fights and goes to the government level to get these ice barge breakers from the national guard to break through. and then the oil companies see there is an opportunity for them to like look better

the former captives talking to psychologists about their time as hostages.n essential period of mental decompression. >> i know it's probably taking a toll on her. if i know her and her strength, then, she'll be okay. >> reporter: her fellow aid workers said the 32-year-old never was seriously ill. her captors made that up to speed up a ransom payment. but it backfired, leading to the raid that rescued her. buchanan's husband is on his way to italy to see her. having gone through three months of hell, he wrote on his facebook page, my wonderful, fantastic wife, jess, is now safe. words cannot express the joy and relief we are feeling. experts say you can free the body more quickly than you can free the mind. and so, these days of rest and evaluation are critical to a healthy transition back to their lives. david? >>> and to a rescue of a different kind this evening. this one in australia, and dramatic moments when protesters mobbed the prime minister. riot police had to create a human shield to lead her to safety after hundreds of protesters swarmed her. the

. >> three months in captivity. an american aid worker rescued by navy seals in somalia is expected to be reunited with her family soon. anna matranga reports for wjz. talking about the process to help her deal with her trauma. >> this is where american aid worker jessica buchanan is undergoing a process the u.s. military calls phase 2 reintegration. doctors are treating the 32- year-old, helping her transition back to a life of freedom. it was early wednesday when the same navy seals who killed osama bin laden, parachuted into somalia, where pirates were holding buchanan. the seals killed all nine captors and rescued buchanan and her danish colleague, paul fisted, after six months in captist. today, their families issued a statement saying, we are grateful for all of the efforts that have been put into getting them safely back to us and for the fact that a very difficult chapter in our lives is over. buchanan is reported to have suffered kidney problems captivity. the ohio native will also have to overcome the trau

. -- scientists captivated. >> solar flare up is essentially about the brush of radiation. the blast brushes across the top of the planet causing electrical problems and disrupting satellite and radio transmissions for planes flying over the north pole. >> gps is not quite as accurate as it would normally be. if you are expecting to fly in an airplane, your flight will be going that way and you will get late getting there. this is the largest solar storms since 2003. the cloud is made of protons, electrons and particles and it's coming towards earth at about 4 million miles per hour. so far the technological impact has been minimal but the visual impact was -- well, take able too. >> the spectacular show, also known as the northern lights, illuminating the night sky. and tonight they might be seen as far south as michigan, montana or maine or even further south. and in the galaxy not so far away, elizabeth cook, cbs fired. >> i think wal-mart is taking over the world to be honest. >> wal-mart made the threat to the cities that no one could refuse and it worked. >> how airli

where are the captives we should draw? we have nothing. so in the night, before the british and english colonials were to surrender, the natives gather and they were prepared early the next morning when the british and colonials filed out. and they were attacked and set upon. and 100 to 200 were killed, some women and children, too. mostly men, of course. others were captured. about 400 were captured because then they could be sold and ransomed. they would be worth a money. the natives were drawn into the commercial economy of colonial north america. they were not separate from it. they were dependent on it in w and montcalm and the french intervene and managed to save a few hundred british and british colonial lives. but their intervention was -- historians will argue how wholehearted it was or how effective it was and whether -- it wasn't clearly enough to stop what happened. and yet perhaps it prevented things from being even worse and more horrible. so to the natives, they felt betrayed in this instance by the french. the french had no

since being separated during that first two weeks of captivity in 2003, wendy has not seen either ofe to my mother, i asked her if they had received any news of my two friends. she told me that sue's mother had died without ever having heard from her daughter. no one knows the fate of ana either. her parents are still in honduras hoping she'll appear one day. >> translator: it's hard, i'll tell you honestly. whenever i see a young girl, i'm reminded of my daughter. it's difficult. it's hard. >> i've seen people treat livestock better than these people treat their girls. >> translator: he took me over to some clients who were drinking and said, look, fresh meat from el salvador. >>> look closely. on the outskirts of houston and you'll find an abundance of un assuming bars known as cantinas. most look like regular nightclubs offering little more than cloud music and cold beer. makeshift food stands bustle outside for customers working off a long night of drinking. but those that know will tell you that hinds this public facade are hidden passageways and tiny rooms where girls, many of

after months of captivity. today, their family issued a statement saying, we are grateful for all of the efforts that have been put into getting them safely back to us. and for the fact that a very difficult chapter in our lives is over. but the next chapter will have its challenges. buchanan is reported to have suffered kidney problems during captivity. the ohio native will also have to overcome the trauma she experienced. bob simon from cbs's "60 minutes ," was held captive during the gulf war and freed after 40 days in iraqi prisons. >> your head is in a million places. and none of them are good. and you shouldn't get back to real life right away. because you have no idea what's been going on with you. >> reporter: buchanan is free to leave italy, whenever she wants. and she'll fly back to the u.s. in air military -- a military aircraft. but for now, she's staying put. her family is happy she's one step closer to home. in italy, anna matranga, wjz eyewitness news. >> she was working in an area of somalia tha

buchanan is reported to have suffered kidney problems during captivity. the ohio native will also have to overcome the trauma she experienced. bob simon from cbs's 60 minutes was held captive during the gulf war and freed after 40 days in iraqi prisons. >> your head is in a million places. and none of them are good. and you shouldn't get back to real life right away because you have no idea what's been going on with you. >> reporter: buchanan is free to leave italy whenever she wants. and she'll fly back to the u.s. in a military aircraft. but for now, she's staying put. her father has plans to visit, happy she's one step closer to home. in milan, italy, anna matranga, wjz eyewitness news. >> buchanan was working for the danish refugee council in a region of somalia that is not easily accessible for most aid organizations. >>> a nice end of the week. take a look at this. a beautiful scene. oh, my goodness. it is out on the chesapeake bay. that is spectacular. now, just a few clouds hanging around the area for most of the afternoon. bob has a look at what

. >>> for three days men held 16-year-old shauna captive in this house, in what appeared to be a quiet suburban street in florida. >> there was, like, curtains all over the windows so it was really dark in there. there were no tvs, no dressers, no nothing. just a bed. that was all that was in the bedroom was just a bed. >> what neighboring residents didn't know is hour after hour behind darkened windows, men were paying cash to forcibly rape a high school junior who had been kidnapped and drugged. >> when i woke up, i was pretty much just laying there completely naked, no blankets, no pillows, no clothes and i was bleeding really bad from where they had raped me. >> shauna says she lost count of the number of men but what became very clear was that her high school classmate, kathy, was no friend and that shauna had been lured to the house to make money for the man kathy claimed was her father. after receiving a frantic phone call from her daughter, shauna's mother lisa called police. she says they told her not to worry and tried to convince her shauna had run away. >> he's like, "oh, t

. >> a family goes through a terrifying ordeal, and held captive in their home for hours. >> baltimore city hosting restaurant week beginning on friday. friday. we will taste get america's favorite coffee for america's favorite single-cup brewer. try all five delicious varieties, only at dunkin' donuts restaurants. america runs on dunkin'. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. how long is the rain going to stick around? >> off and on through tonight. most of it is south of baltimore right now. the rain chances will increase as we had through the day today. some of the rain could be heavy today. otherwise, a breezy and mild. we will make it up to 52 today. we will check the forecast in just a few minutes. >> a family is talking about a terrifying ordeal. they say three men broke into their home and held them captive for hours. >> kim dacey has more. >> the family is still in shock but they wanted to speak out to help catch t

for katia, it's now been five weeks in captivity, and all communication with her traffickers has gone dead. trafficking victims often disappear without a trace. what little we know about what katia may be enduring is pieced together from those who manage to escape. today, 23-year-old tania is seeing her family for the first time since she was trafficked to the underground brothels of turkey. >> ( translated ): before this, i hadn't encountered much evil in my life. i couldn't believe places like that actually exist in this world. i thought i'd find at least one kind person or that one of those pimps would set me free. >> narrator: when tania left home six months earlier, she told her daughter that she was going to work abroad to make desperately needed money. the idea came from a woman in town who knew her family was struggling. it's common for the first person in the trafficking chain to know the victim personally. >> ( translated ): anyone who works with people has to understand their psychology. you have to know how to lure someone in. they don't even have money for basic food. so

back is through movement politics it's not going to happen through the political parties they're captive of all this money right now politicians democratic and republican a republican would love to not have to spend thirty to seventy percent of every one of their working days on the phone asking for money they'd love it but they are so captive of these of the of these organizations that they need us to create a nationwide movement that will push them to say money is property not speech corporations are corporations not people we need a national movement just just like back when in the in the seventy's sixty's and seventy's when when in just less than six months we passed a constitutional amendment to allow eighteen year olds to vote we need another one to say that's it corporations are not people go to move to amend for more information. coming up president obama delivers his state of the union address tonight will likely try to instill a positive spin but what does our state of the union really look like for the average american will ask our panel. if. there are those who desperately ne

they only heard them in captivity, because they've always been captive dolphins, and to be able to imitateinds of questions about theirmental abilities and what they're doing, what thierp trying to say, i guess. >> yeah, because think about it this way. they get lots of noises at the park, tourists coming in, the exotic birds, they've got all kinds of noises. they pulled out the whale noises, to basically calm them at night. it's almost like when somebody hums a little bit or sings a song when they're stressed out, it's kind of like they just pick the whale noises out, same as we humans do with the cds and it's comfortable and makes them feel a lot better. jon: it's fascinating stuff. and even people who had not -- who are not familiar with these vocalizations listen to recordings of these songs and they said yeah, you know, something like 90, 96 percent of these people said if sounds -- it sounds like those dolphins are imitating the whales, so there's pretty good scientific research behind this project. >> think of it this way, jon. if you take a child and teach him a second language, it

what often happens in somalia is one group will take captives but they will sell the captives on to aup better able to extract ransom, better connected or better able to hold on to the prisoners. >> brown: all right. peter pham and tom bowman, thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": state of the union rhetoric and reality; economic promises and pitfalls; medical prevention comes to the telenovela and a year into the egyptian uprising. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: syrian government forces launched a new assault overnight, in a key central region. the opposition said the military stormed districts around hama. at least seven people were killed there and elsewhere. amateur video showed military tanks patrolling hama. activists said shells had exploded throughout the night, and communications were cut off. meanwhile, the russian foreign minister insisted again that moscow will block any u.n. sanctions against its longtime ally. >> ( translated ): we cannot support the proposal

the former captives talking to psychologists about their time as hostages.g a toll on her. if i know her and her strength, that she'll be okay. >> reporter: her fellow aid workers say the 32-year-old never was seriously ill. her captors made that up to speed up a ransom payment. but it backfired, leading to the raid that rescued her. buchanan's husband, having gone through three months of hell, he wrote on his facebook page, "my wonderful fantastic wife, jess, is now safe. words cannot express the joy and relief we are feeling." experts say you can free the body more quickly than you can free the mind. and so these days of rest and evaluation are critical for a healthy transition back to their lives. kelly cobiella, abc news, at sigonella naval base, sicily. >> happy for that family. and we now know that daring rescue took place in the hours before president obama gave his state of the union address tuesday night. he revealed nothing about it, though, in his speech. but when he arrived in the house chamber, of course, as we've seen this week, he greeted secr

>> i've never, ever captivated anybody like i've captivated these people.love it. i love it. it took me coming to prison to realize how much i enjoy doing this. >> while demetrius jefferson finds solace in music to drown out the deafening noise, across the tier, angel rodriguez begins his day painting a mural that represents a personal transformation. >> i'm trying to get spiritual now. god has a plan for you, whatever. that's how i'm seeing it now. might be some reality to it. might not be, i don't know. >> start with the hearts because that represents me for my girl. and the hearts coming over the bars, like she'll be with me throughout this time. right now, it's the grim reaper, that's overall what's running this earth. you can see it if you look around you, death, death and then deception, trickery, how we do each other wrong. that's what that represents. hourglasses represent the world's going to change. it's biblical stuff. people out there will see i believe in god also and maybe give the youngsters a different perspective. i've been in the lockup no

after three months in captivity jessica buchanan is now safe at u.s. military base in africa waiting to be reunited with her family. tuesday after the state of the union, president obama called the canon's father to inform him that his daughter had been rescued from somali pirates by the elite seal team six specialists that killed osama bin laden. in the dead of night the team stormed the pirates tied out, facing a barrage of and gunfire, they took down nine hostage-takers, saving buchanan and her danish colleague. her family is relieved. >> she said i feel safe for the first time in 93 days. the man that risk their lives, i cannot say enough. i am really appreciate itive. >> president obama ordered the mission after intelligence reports indicated jessica's health was deteriorating. reporting live in the west washington, tahman bradley, abc 7. >> an airport to meet and greet between president obama and arizona governor jan brewer turned ugly yesterday. the president agreed to the governor on the tarmac and then reportedly criticized a passage in her bo

she was one of two rescued after being captive for three months. her family and friends supported this work in this dangerous part of the world. efrem graham has the story. >> reporter: the 32-year-old woman was working with this aid group. she attended valley forge christian college outside philadelphia. she felt the call to africa after student teaching in nairobi. >> she could hardly talk about africa without tears in her eyes. >> her brother, stephen said she understood the risks. >> a local tried to get at them and all this information that shouldn't been and they were susceptible. >> pirates kidnapped her in october. the prayers were answered when navy seals swooped in for the rescue. >> they are so overwhelmed she is all right. >> knowing she is safe is a weight off all of our shoulders and answer to our prayers. >> she would continue to pray for them and try to bring them to the lord rather than leave. i am sure if anything, her faith sustained her. >> she loves kids. she just loves to help people. that is the reason she was over there just

you get back to us as to whether the railroads in montana and north dakota and oklahoma, are those captive railroads? i don't know whether they are or not. do you understand the term? >> we will have to get an answer back to you. >> i am asking if for the record if you would get back to us on that, whether or not these are captive railroads. can you also respond to the editorial that was in the investment business daily that on november 16, in which the editorial board there is trying to -- suggesting that there could be a link between the railroad systems and this decision, especially given that it is a political decision. we all know that. anyone who posts on this until after the election is already crying out this is a political decision. since they are linking get to two major individuals, global figures, i would like to understand your response back to that, or perhaps even the person that made the ultimate decision to cancel this project, because it was not based on the time frame, we understand that. i think the american public is going to come to understand that. if you would get b

officials said they were held captive for three months at gunpoint. they say the united states will not tolerate the abduction of our people. >>> thousands were captured at the square and marking the first anniversary that ousted president hosni mubarak from power. there are reports of tension in the square and you can see a lot of people are gathered and some activists are unhappy about the slow pace of reform. >>> 4:45 is the time fall out continues for the riders scandal. he has been ordered to work more closely. he said jordan must consult with the monitor when promoting or dispromoting officers. the officers were never convicted of any crimes. >>> the san jose city council is working towards ending its pension. they voted to notify the state pension system that they will terminate the pension system, meanwhile lawmakers are working to reduce retirement benefits and pension benefits have more than tripled in ten years. >>> police dogs are going to be brought in to sniff atrocious on campus. the pleasanton police department will provide the dogs at

captive was abducted on saturday. his captors said today he's being moved frequently to discourage a new raid. one pirate said, "if they try again, we will all die together." in syria, government forces stormed a town just outside damascus, and fighting raged with army defectors. it happened in douma, a flashpoint suburb of the capital. troops went house to house, and activists said at least 200 people were detained. in downtown damascus, only ten miles away, thousands of pro-government backers flooded the streets in a show of support for president, bashar al-assad. democrats in the u.s. senate have blocked a republican effort to bar president obama from raising the nation's debt limit. the vote today was largely along party lines. the national debt currently stands at $15.2 trillion. the increase would raise it by another $1.2 trillion. the house voted against the increase last week. on wall street, stocks fell as lagging home sales undercut an early rally. the dow jones industrial average lost 22 points to close at

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instead, they are held captive by bedowin tribes. we managed to speak with bedowins who claimed to know very little about the people smuggler among their ranks. >> where do you want to go? what's your goal? >> i want to go. >> why? >> because i want to work and help my family. they are suffering a lot in sudan. i give organ. >> reporter: with the bed doe wins keeping a close eye, these men claim they were being treated well. other bed doe win leaders admit that many afrikaans who are held captive here are tortured and slafd. many of the women raped and some even murdered. the bed doe wins insist only a small minority of their peers commit such crimes. the claims go even further. he heads the new generation foundation for human rights. he says some of the refugees even have organs removed while still alive which are then sold on the black organ markets. >> after they take whatever they like or the doctor takes it from the body, they take the body and take it away to the desert. >> reporter: we took the photos of bodies which were coll