clton tried to persuade mr.kiminto international talks? the u.s. is giving nothingway, but the is a sense of expectation washington. there are channels to begin a ossible dialogue. this is certainly humanitarian event, but it hasmplications, it has ripples, if you will, in other area of policy. > kim jong-il h been dogged by illness tonight, he looks a lite stronr and more in contr. but the pressure of new n. sanctions and, i am told, fresh ressure from china my be forcing him to be engaged with the united states. at this momen it may be more than a human story. noh korea may be ready to make anotr attempt at comingn fromthe cold. bbc news , washington. >> the journalis have been weomed by the secretary of state hillarylinton. she isn nya where she strongly criticized the government's faile to prosecute those responsible for the vlence that followedhe 2007 electn. ficials in northwestern pakistan say the wif of a taliban leader h been lled in a suspected american missile attack. i drone that attackhe relative of baitullah mehsud near the afghan bor

mes" that the former president was eager to do this when aed. >> knowing bill clton, i wod expect him to be eager. it wld be a way toelp out his wife, help out this admistration, and show that he a playe rose: it's also the notion that when the trantion was taking pce and she was under consideration, the question came up, wl, what will the present do with the former president? clearly they found very good thing to do with him. >> rose: you know, the is a certain irony here, of course, in that15 years ago aost to this month bill clinton turned to another former esident-- jimmy carter-- who met with anher north korean leader who was just weeks away from dying, kim ill song, and that helped create the spark that led to an reement that froze nort korea's nuclearprogram through a numberf years. now, tt former president, jimmy carter was considered by the then clint administration to have gone a little bitoff the resertion and so far you uld see that this former prident appearance tohave pled the script perfectly. >> as glenn pointed out, madeleine albright was the last high-ranking officl

predent bill clton andorth korea's kim jong-il. reportsay two jaile amican joualists have been freed. australian policeelief they have foileda major terrost pl. fouruspects acce of links with somali extremist. >> a won goes ontrial accused of dressing indi ently. she wore trours in a restaunt. welcome to "bbc world news broadcast to our viewers on pbs in ameri and around the gle. coming up late whatind of policingo you call this? a new human rights report says too many of india place are abusive and filing at thei job. hollywood actss takes send moo on e rd. >> cinema is for everybody and everhere. we are knowing how few opportunits there are for people realize how incredibly wise cinema is. >> hello. a secretive come nist ate with nucar ambitis which has be playing fast and lse th the rest of the wld. today they have been pying ho to bilclinton, the most senior visitor in a dade. he metnorth korean leader, kim jong-il and secured a rdon for the journalist aested. we have this report from waington. >> bill inton arrived in north ko

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>> well, bill clton certainly di fit the bill in fact he was the bill that wasresented by the north koreans as e one person that theyould like to see ce there anday would release the two jrnalists. >> the named him? he w the one? >> exaly, he was the o that they chosen a wasnotn the there the list thatbama sent to them as suggestions so the estion is, who is really in arge now? i mean, the nor reans still want dialogue only wh the united stes. they do not want the six-power talk, the unit states, even afr bill's sit there they still want e -- uld that include china of cose and the north koreans don't want to see th. we'll ha to see th as it evolves but -- an also it's very interesting- it will intesting dostically to see how north korea and the kis, if you will, t father and son, ultimaly work all of this out. >> i's all about family this week. >> iis. father and son d husband and wif nikhil, at did america have to give to get these journalists back. >> didn'have a lot to give. they certainly gave concessions, if you wi, when you think of the fact that kim jong-il s got a big propaganda hit

in nairi at a coference of afrin leaders, secretary of state hillary clton told reporters, she was exced by the news. nonetheless, she reiterated america's hard line regding north korea's nuclear program. >> they have a choice. they can continue to follow a path that is filled with provocative actio, or they can decide toenew thr discussions. >>n south korea, reactn to thnews of the releasef lee and ling was noticeably subdued. north korea currently detained several hundd south koreans. so of whom accidentally styed into north koran teitory. others thought to prisoners from the war of the1950s. >> caller:ar from being encouraged by the fact that these americans were let go, i think th south korea's posion might be, whyo they let these americans go? ying nothing about us? leaving usut in theold as usual. resing to talk to us. refusing to let ou people -- refusing to let our people go. and so i thi that this might actually be a soce of concern, if not angerongst people in south koa. >> for mo on this, we turn oncegain toharles armstrong, professor of korea studies and directorf the story f

. >> look this --ill clton and al gore, palsgain. the unpleasantness o the 2000 campaign aarently forgotten. the two women wk for al gore's current tv neork. we havnot hear mh from bill clinton since his wife became cretary of state. but look what he pulled f this week. utized his network of siness and pitical interests and food in both. to secure the release of these captured -- and flew to noh korea to securehe release of his capture jonalists. wh youmake of it, charles? >> lk, i commend the president, t it is not his doing. stuff like this isired complete in advance. was the white hou negotiating thugh i think it was that the swedes, and was that kim jong il wanted to have the highesraing american outse of the administratn in a oto opo show thate is not a vegetable, and tha he is actuallycted. if you are in a cntry like that, in whh all power is wit one man d they worry about the stroke you ha, and they worry if you are all the, showing up with president clint and speakingnd having a dinner with him is extremely importan he wanted

. >>> on tonight'sblogwatch," we found a letter to clton on what she wou see in congo from laura, an erican researcher who s traveled frequently to congo. you will meet little gir o've been gang raped by soldiers a who can no longer talk or feed themsves. you'll see mothers and their children who live a kind of poverty th does not compare with wt you see in kenya or soh africa or ghana orny of the places you've previous visited in theontinent. remind youelf that this is the no in eastern congo. wh has happened to the few people you'll meetn auick tour a not expecting, indeed, the only differee between th and the 5 million congolese we've di since 1998 is that soone is helping them. these are people whoave seen the worst things that human beings c do to one another. you wi not be the same after hearing their stories. >>> that's a descripon, but we now want tshow you what it's like in congo for some of ose affected by xual violence in that country. nar weturn to a "signature story" tt we first bught to you lateast year with michael cavanah, who traveled tcongo for "worldcus" with the h

, look, he ys the republicans have made a calculated decision to de me a victory st as hey did wth clton in the 1990's. you can hear n their voice ho th have basically come to the idea that tey're going to ave to shove throh what they wnt. the caucus are complicatein their own way. gwen: we have so many qestions fromur viewers. i'll start with tis general on for you naftali. what are the top reasonsfor the increasing costs of hlth care and how do th plans from obama in cgress address them? this is fro wes in illinois. >> i mean, obviously, ther is an array of thngs that are going into this and an rray of different theories. one of the b reasons th eryone talks about is te inceive system that we have set up right nowncourages doctors and paties to get as much hlth care and as many procedures apossible rather than focusing othe ones that might be for eective. it isn't an incentive for that one of the things that lawmake on both sides are wrstling this -- and you're seeing ths right now specifically with the nate finance cmittee that met last night, x members of hat committee, they're tryg

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a lot other emerging marketsn developingcountries, they to medicine that was pscribed to th by the clton years, by bo rin darry sommers and implemented very respoible licy and this year mexico uffering a result, many ways of financial contagion that emanated here in t united states that traveed from north to south as owe pitivessed to in the '90s whereou had the bloup in argeina and turkey and mexico. so, for mexican middle class peop whose living standads are being severely h, gdp i mexi last quarte fell 10%. now that's largely resul also of the swine fluoming on top . this but there a feeling that we play by the american rules but now the u.s.asn't abided by its own prescription, that it gave us, it didn't balance the project. now notlaying fair inerms of its own obligations unr the nafta whethere're talking about the tcking issue or the uy american. >>eporter: denise, just in ur last mite i wouldn't ask you about the flu,e brought it up a few time is that exale , well, moment of cooperion where things seem to have workedut alreadyn terms of exchange of information and action response?

today secretary clton spoke of he ongoing struggle of the u. and its allies against the that of terror around the globe. >> i appreciate greatly t commitment of the kenya government partner with us and other nations a people around the world agast the continuing threat of terrosm which respects no bounries, no race, ethnicity, rigion, but >> warr: then secretary clinton turned her focus to somalithe place e u. believes w poses the greatest terror threat in all of su saharan africa. she met with t country's interim president sheisharif shk ahmed at the u.s. embassy in nairobi, and pledged additional s. support includinmilitary a for his governme's battle against islamic militants. >> we belie that his goverent is the best he 've add in quite some ti for a return to stabilityndhe possibility of progress in somalia. >> warne somalia has been wracked by violence among warring factis for more than o decades. but in recent yearsthe trouble's be fueled by an indigenous group of islast militants, kno as al shabaab. is believed to be loosely linked to a

weeks ago, the o women lks with their families id the north koreans have told us if you send bill cltonhey will grant us amnesty. geral jones apoached bill clintoon this, and he wanted to make sure that this would for real. they worked the channelsgain, tried to ma absolutel sure this wasn't a trap, that they were going get bill clinton thereand the humiliate him. once they determined tt, the way was clear. they went to great pains, however, of the independence that the u.s. did not se the plane, a wealthy donor-- sglun why didn't we hear from paum on this or ybody in e administration untilfter the dea was done? there was an arm's length here? >> warner: bcause of what secretary clinton said,hey want to be absolutel sure that t world knew, north koreans knew, that our partes in knew. has been a spring d summer of procative actions by the north koans on th nlear front, auclear device tested. the u.n. has decred tougher sanctions on them. they wanted to kep that track sarate. though the state partment a the n.s.c.briefed president clinton athe home hehares with secretary clinton here in w

personally convinced that all or part of that message was one of the messages that i belie president clton and his team transmitted to pyongyang. that thepath that they ar on is not theight path. there is anoth way to this relationship and iope the north reans were listening carefully to tha message. >> rose: and then joe scarborough, co-host of m nbc's "morng joe" autho of the new ok on what the g.o.p.eeds to do to regain ominence. >> so pple electthe agent o chge, barack obama,, in 2008. what they've seen in 2009 has been a traditional liberal democratic approach and s i thinkhere's some anger out there listen, it's not overwhelming, ctainly not lik it was th bill clintonin 1994 but cerinedly warning sns are ere for the obama administration. >> ros finally, author colson whitehead. his new novel is "sag haor." they're teenagers and there's a small spanof time with they get wiser but i'm t sure it's a coming of ag novel. it draw miss my personal experienceyou could call it little more autobiographical. but for i'll call it a novel and leave it at that. >> rose: the fed american journalist

bill clton did not want to george bush 4 -- he wantsed make sure -- >> and we an electorat have the same instinc we ect jimmy carter because he is the anti-next on. elect this incredible --. >> rose:ecause he was the an-carter. >> and barack ama because he is the antiush so iis a duet betweenthe electorate andhese presidents. >> rose: what do you tnk about clintos trip to noh korea. >> good usof billlinton and i am deeply fascinated, endilessly fascinated wi north kor and if, indeed, king jom il made some ecial request transmied through theseomen that he held prison to get bill clinton, y know, if you wrote that in a screenplay t would be a little unbelievable. >> rose: that in fac he actual, that they, in fact, even though th crossed the border, whatever they did >> yeah. >> ros grabbed, got the attention of t north koreans ey saw it asn opportunity and ll use thespeople as a pawn and a hoage and will get bil clinton he so we can somehow speak tohe new administration >> sak to the new administrati. >> rose: that the machiavelln strategy maybe they were erating on. >> or maybe a narrower

. >> but it had to be bill clton? couldn't be al gore, couldn't be somebody else? >> they specified bill clinton. and so, the president said, well ooshgs let's see if former president clinton would be willing to do this. >> so, there were no reservations in your mind or the president's mind? >> i think the president from day one gave us the task of trying to get those girls back. and that was -- that really was job number one. and we thought that -- and president clinton, former president clinton said he would be -- he would take this on in a private way and that's exactly what happened. >> the north koreans say things all the time and they don't live up to their agreement. how did you test that, in fact, he wouldn't come back empty-handed? >> well, you know, ultimately, regardless of all of the backwards and forwards on this -- and we did have -- we do have channels to talk to the north koreans. we received a personal assurance of the leader that they would grant their term, "special amnesty," and that if former president clinton came to north korea that he would

the internationalists who run the administration, folks like larry summers, ron kirk, hillary clton,hy geithner, gary locke, they understand this. the silence in the white house has left a vacuum and congress like nature abhors a vacuum. a week ago the chamber joined with five other leading business groups in calling for the president to make the case for a leading -- a forward-leaning trade agenda including in his promised speech. we wrote, quote, the united states cannot standstill in the international economics sphere. we need to revitalize our export and international trade leadership. by moving forward on multilateral, regional and bilateral marketing opening opportunities. second, clear the decks. pass the ftas. if you want to build a growth-oriented international economic policy focusing on asia as the administration has said that it wants to do, korea and the fta with korea is the place to start. if you want to have any kind of engagement with the moderate governments of south amica, economic, political or otherwise, then columbia and the fta with columbia is the place to sta