elizabeth palmer and alan pizzey are there. u.s. troops may soon be out of iraq but not everyone supports president obama's timeline. wyatt andrews reports on the end game debate. mitt romney says he'll win over republicans in iowa, despite being a no-show at tonight's gathering of christian conservatives. and helping hands-- cynthia bowers shows us how a circle of friends is curbing poverty in this country, one family at a time. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> good evening, everyone. libya's interim leaders are moving to put the war-torn country back together. a declaration of liberation is expected tomorrow. today, acting prime minister resigned clearing the way for an interim government and elections. elizabeth palmer is in tripoli with the latest. >> reporter: in announcing his resignation, he set an ambitious deadline for elections. >> the first election should be within a period of eight months, maximum. >> reporter: before jabril left office he went to a shopping center in the

allen pizzey and elizabeth palmer are there. wyatt andrews on america's largest private employer cutting health care benefits. whose will be next? and steve hartman with a doctor who's healing what ails a great american city. >> anything else you need tonight? >> just a hug. (laughter) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the day has come. on day 3,139 of the war in iraq, president obama announced it's over. american troops will be home by the end of the year. the war began as a hunt for weapons of mass destruction which were never found. then the u.s. found it in the middle of a civil war, caught between two branches of islam. on this historic day, we have reports from david martin and norah o'donnell. first david, who's at fort bragg, north carolina. >> reporter: good evening, scott. fort bragg is the home of the 82nd airborne which currently has 3,500 troops in iraq. they'll all be home for the holidays, because today the president pulled the plug on negotiatio

elizabeth palmer is following the protests overseas for us. we begin here with cbs's bigad shaban in new york's financial district. he has a look at the demonstrations there and across the u.s. >> reporter: here this morning, protesters right now are talking about what is going to happen next. protesters still sleeping, readying for the next day. throughout the movement they say they have raised nearly $300,000 from their website and visitors here at this park. >> occupy wall street! >> occupy wall street! >> reporter: the occupy wall street movement. >> what democracy looks like. >> reporter: now 31 days and counting is tens of thousands of protesters strong. >> occupy the entire world! >> reporter: the chants over the weekend heard across the country. but not without clashes with police. >> this is what it looks like. >> reporter: in chicago about 175 people were arrested saturday after refusing to leave a city park when it closed. 92 were arrested in new york over the weekend. as demonstrators filled times square and surrounded this citiban

elizabeth palmer is following the protests overseas for us. we begin, though here with new york's financial district where it all began. a look this morning at the dozens of demonstrations there and across the u.s. >> the movement is certainly gaining voices and dollars. protesters here just a few blocks away from wall street say they have raised nearly $300,000 from their website and visitors. and throughout the u.s., momentum is growing despite hundreds of arrests over the weekend. >> occupy wall street! >> occupy wall street! >> reporter: the occupy wall street movement, now 31 days and counting, is tens of thousands of protesters strong. the chants over the weekend heard across the country. but not without clashes with police. in chicago about 175 people were arrested saturday after refusing to leave a city park when it closed. 92 were arrested in new york over the weekend as demonstrators filled times square and surrounded the citibank branch. >> we are the 99%! >> protesters call themselves the 99%, frustrated over economic inequality an

cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer is in the libyan capital in tripoli and good morning to you, elizabeth. >> reporter: good morning. we have just heard in the last few moments that libya's interim prime minister says he will step down effective today. it is something he said he would do once the country was fully liberated. the death of gadhafi has allowed the transitional national council to declare that that is the case. in fact, they are going to have a formal ceremony to mark that tomorrow in benghazi. and elections are slated for some time next summer but to get from there to here will be daunting. first start, the country is a wash in weapons. they fought bravely, if chaotically to overthrow gadhafi but working as libya's interim force and some act like gangs above the law. they won't want to give that up without a fight, especially to civilian politicians they might not agree with. in libya's favor it has a population that is committed to delivering a modern muslim democracy. thank god gadhafi was captured and killed. god willing, we will begin a new era of freedom after

elizabeth palmer there was to try to make sense of the mayhem. >> reporter: rocks rained down on riot police guarding greece's parliament. inside, lawmakers were working to approve one more round of deep spending cuts. outside, a small group of young men went on the attack. and the police fought back with stun grenades and tear gas. all around, tens of thousands of protesters joined in today's general strike. doctors, teachers, construction and transport workers, all of them hurting from the last round of salary cut and tax hikes last june. this family is typical. an accountant and father of three whose government salary was slashed. >> my problem is that i have already lost in this year from january to now 32% of my wage. >> reporter: he's not alone. after new cuts, the average greek family will lose $7,700 in income this year. >> we have to take from the money that we have put aside, which now do not exist anymore. we spent all of that. >> reporter: but in spite of today's furious backlash, greece's government says it must push through yet another round of punishing austerity measur

elizabeth palmer tells us that one of the new government's big problems is winding down the army that rose to defeat qaddafi. >> reporter: libya's deputy interior minister had a blunt message for this roomful of sunni to-be ex-rebel fighters. "the war is over," he tells them. "it's time to move on." to help, the new government is promising jobs, housing and even free college education to those who turn in their guns. the offer seemed to go down well, but on the outskirts of tripoli, commander khaled says he needs something else. "a psychologist," he say, "to help me come to terms with the atrocities i saw." khaled trained as an oil engineer. he and thousands of young men joined the anti-qaddafi forces six months ago and found themselves fighting a brutal war totally unprepared. were this fight, did you know how to use one of these? >> no, no, no, no. >> reporter: having risked his life far free libya, khaled says he's not handing over these weapons until he's convinced the government is stable and working towards democracy. if and when that time comes, he could deliver, along with the

we asked elizabeth palmer in tripoli to look at what comes next. >> reporter: a day after qaddafi's death, the roads leading to tripoli's central square were jammed with jubilant citizens heading down to join the party, frankly delighted that qaddafi's dead no matter who killed him. >> we don't care if he was executed? he deserved that. >> i think it's the perfect way. >> reporter: this is a night to celebrate the end of months of bloodshed and fighting. people know there is a pen potentially dangerous political power struggle ahead but right now they don't want to think about it. their country's been run since february by the interim transitional national council, an unlikely coalition of academics, businessmen, and even in the case of its chairman a former qaddafi justice minister, mustafa abdel jalil. the regime may be gone now says gene cretz, the ambassador to libya, but it's left a toxic legacy. >> we're aware there were a lot of different risks, many created by qaddafi. he became master of divide and conquer for these last 42 years. so there's no doubt that the t.n.c. is inherit ag

elizabeth palmer looks back at the violent end of moammar qaddafi and more.ut first the headlines for this sunday morning the 23rd of october, 2011. we begin with libya which today is officially celebrating its independence day and where people are still lining up in a shopping center in the city of mizrata to view the bloody body of qaddafi. the chief medical examiner announced the cause of his death as a gunshot wound to the head. the new government said qaddafi was caught in the shootout. the american embassy in kenya is warning of a possible terrorist attack in that african nation. the warning doesn't say who might carry out the attack but says the likely targets might be places where foreigners congregate. a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck in eastern turkey this morning. several buildings have collapsed in and around the city of van. at this hour the number of dead or injureded is unknown. european leaders meet in brussels today working to come up with a formula to stabilize greece's deteriorating finances. private banks are being asked to accept huge lo

cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer is in tripoli, libya, this morning with the latest. liz, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. well, a few more details may emerge with amateur video available this morning presumably taken by one of the rebele rebel fighters who was on the scene with the captors. we warn you it it contains graphic images. the violent death of a violent dictator. gadhafi final moments face-to-face with his captors pleading with his life. the end came outside of his birth place of sirte and he was shot by revolutionary forces who broke their promise to keep him alive to face trial but soon seem to regret. libya's prime minister was unusually evasive when he described what had happened. he was injured with a bullet to the head, he said. the coroner wasn't able to determine whether the bullet came from the rebels or gadhafi's own forces. gadhafi's personal weapon was a golden pistol. the rebel fighters say they took it from him and yesterday, they paraded it through sirte as a trophy. gadhafi loed now lies nearby in misrata that suffered such dam

cbs elizabeth palmer has more from athens. >> reporter: good morning. behind me, you'll probably be able to see the greek parliament and it's surrounded by tens of thousands of people who are on strike. they come from all walks of life. everybody from doctors and dentists and teachers to transportation workers. they want to surround the parliament to stop the politicians getting to work to pass a new round of spending cuts. they would lay off 30,000 civil servants and they would decrease pensions. now, this may look like groundhog day day. similar protests in july for the first round of spending cuts but they weren't deep enough and greece is still in danger of defaulting on its debt but the workers are angry. so far, it's been peaceful but the mood is tense and the hundreds of police deployed here are clearly braced for trouble. >> cbs' elizabeth palmer in athens for us, thank you. >>> federal health officials report 25 deaths in a dozen states blamed on listeria contamination and colorado kant plop deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in this count

allen pizzey and elizabeth palmer are there.ndrews on america's largest private employer cutting health care benefits. whose will be next? and steve hartman with a doctor who's healing what ails a great american city. >> anything else you need tonight? >> just a hug. (laughter) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer joins us from london with more on what the u.s. military says is behind the alleged plot. good morning. >> reporter: the quds force, about 15,000 member strong s a overseas branch of the elite revolutionian iranian guard. iran's regular military is proud to stride its stuff but in displays like this you won't see the secretive quds force what is led by this man and he answers to none other than iran's supreme leader eye tolly khomeini. one of his forces main machine is spoupport groups outside of take ran. >> they are no longer talking about activities in their own influence but taking it into the united states as well. >> reporter: the u.s. has fought the quds force before in iraq where she was supporting sh ericia militants. in iran, the american assassination allegations were immediately dismissed on state media and by politicians as baseless. those who study the mercury world of iranian state sponsored terrorism say these allegations, if true, really represent a departure for the quds force. first of all, they are relatively cl

cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer is in tripoli with the latest.od morning. first of all, libyans are finally turning their attention to really practical things like getting the garbage collected and getting the oil back online after the extraordinary euphoria that came with the official declaration of national liberation. sunday was libya's victory bash. and the whole country was invited from benghazi where the uprising began to the capital tripoli. the interim leader called for tolerance and reassured this devoutly muslim population that libya's new laws would be rooted in islam. while the ruling government put on a united show in public, behind the scenes, there are disputes over what to do with gadhafi's body. it's back on grisly display for a third day in the old meat locker in misrata. the u.n. and several countries including the u.s. want an investigation to determine whether he was executed. yesterday, a local fighting unit held a press conference with gadhafi's boots, golden gun, assault rifle, and satellite phone as props. they declared t

cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer is in london this morning with details. hey, liz. good morning. >> good morning, jeff. >>> after so many year misses and false starts, the european leaders were under tremendous pressure to come up this time with a really convincing deal. and they did it. but european leaders and their top financial advisers were hammering out details long past the deadline. it was after midnight when they finally emerged with a hard one deal that follows a lot of political sniping and even violence. there were riots in rome and athens after demonstrations by workers whose standard of living is bound to take a hit and even a fist fight in the italian parliament. but today in the early morning house, finally an amounsment that would calm world financial markets. >> we have at the end of the day a comprehensive plan which included all of the ingredients. >> reporter: the ingredients are a vast trillion dollar bailout fund for european companies borrowing on international markets and agreement to strengthen fragile european banks with new agreements. th

elizabeth palmer is in tripoli with more. liz, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.e circumstances of colonel gadhafi's death and specifically they want to know whether he was executed. there is new video out this morning and i should warn you, it does contain some graphic images but it shows clearly he was a live when he was captured. now how did he die? the government says it doesn't know and it certainly isn't naming anybody who pulled the trigger. it is, however, being very public about displaying the body. it's lying in a morgue in misrata in the city in the middle of the country on a bloodied mattress. as you can probably see, the spectators can't take their eyes off of it. this is something they really thought they would never see. according to islamic ritual, the body should be buried today but that is not going to happen. the government perhaps worried that a grave could turn into some kind of shrine or perhaps a rallying point for some sort of insurrection down the on road. the country is ready to turn the page and the clock will start to tick for elections

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