these new set of avows has blocked the flow of oil. -- valves has blocked the flow of oil. this structure had been burning out of control and the well was flowing freely. since then, there has been an unprecedented effort to stop the leak. the greatest concentration of resources ever seen. time after time, the efforts to stop the oil failed. soon the slick reached the shore. it was a nightmare long dreaded on this coast line. images of pelicans struggling for the sludge flashed around the world. this was quickly being described as america's worst environmental disaster. for bp, it was a nightmare as well. the chief executive attorney was in the firing line. he had become eight figure. >> and nobody wants this thing over more than i do. >> the leak has threatened the standing of president obama. he has been challenged to show his administration is on top of the crisis. he has repeatedly visited the gulf coast. today he gave his reaction to the news. >> i think it is a positive sign. we are still in the testing phase. i will have more to say about it tomorrow. >> what has bee

the news has come that another soldier has turned his guns on his trainers. this raises fear that the taliban may be infiltrating. bringing british troops home depends on stopping the taliban. this was the scene for u.k. forces last summer, this year the fighting is just as hard. the casualties are also graves. -- are also just as grave. >> the afghan president, hamid karzai, says that he would like the forces to charge up security by it the end of this year and across the country by 2014. is that feasible? we have been to a training camp to find out. >> training hard to fight of their own battle. this is the afghan national army at a new complex built with british money. they have been drilled by coalition sponsors, part of the accelerated drive towards a transition of handing the security over to afghan forces. >> as a soldier in this country's national army, i am saying that this war is here because of the evil intentions of the enemy. we are getting this training to help us to feed the insurgents. >> this is what they are up against. -- we are getting thi

says it has plugged the oil well in the gulf of mexico but the controversy continues the crisis has forced b.p.'s chief executive to quit causing billions of dollars in losses and the slick itself has yet to be fully removed from the ocean but as now heated debate over just how badly the spill will affect the environment some scientists believe the aftermath will be felt for decades while others say the oil is already rapidly dispersed michael grunwald from time magazine says the problem is being exaggerated. just about everybody has called this the worst environmental disaster the u.s. has ever faced and i went down to louisiana last week. assuming that they were right there just doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence for that one of the scientists say to you this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient so we don't know what we don't know and the long term impacts are certainly impossible to know right now but there's now much evidence that environmental catastrophes you know the media has an obvious interest in kind of hyping these things to drive ratings and certain politicians are using it

been the least of the articles later national and to terror community has confirmed it has been carried out by militants all other public or private in the book already saying that all the people being involved in this attack those who carried it out and the economics of this attack have all been identified although officially no name has yet been given so far all the russian media has already suggested that amir abdul ought to be behind this attack this man is known as the leader all worked out in a boat carrying militants he became number one in the republic just a while ago and since then no the number of deadly incidents in the republicans well as in the region as a whole has increased dramatically and analysts say that now with a smile and is trying to gain some popularity and to get some respect from. the most likely the main message the main goal of this particular recent attack on the plunging debatable car was to attract their attention and to show to demonstrate how powerful is here and to demonstrate to strengthen his position as the leader of the militants in the republic wi

the british foreign secretary william hague has called for the release of the lockerbie -- has called the release of the lockerbie bomber, al-megrahi, as mistake. he was suffering from cancer and only expected to live another three months. he is still alive. the u.s. has pressed for an investigation into the decision to free him and into allegations that bp lobby for his release. from washington, james reynolds reports. >> here is the problem facing britain and america. al-megrahi is free and not yet dead. the scottish government released him a year ago because the -- doctors said he had three months to live. 11 months have gone by, and he is still alive. al-megrahi is the only man convicted of the bombing of pan am flight 103. 270 people were killed when it exploded over the town of lockerbie. he was jailed for life. which is why his release last year and third so many in britain in america, despite -- angered so many in britain and america. scottish authorities decided to allow him to go home to die in libya. now hillary clinton has spoken to william hague about the growing concern.

the motion has approved. ok. why don't we mover to items 54-56. >> the board of supervisors have agreed to sit as a committee of the whole for items 54-56. there are public hearings to consider amendments to the proposed charter amendment to aend in charter and the city and county of san francisco, to provide for split appointments for the municipal transportation agency. >> we need to consider the amendments that were made at the last meeting to the two different versions of this m.t.a. chatter amendment that is being debated. let me ask if there are any members of the public that wish to speak to the issues of the specific amendments to this proposed chart amendment. please step up. >> i'm not sure if i'm understanding it correctly but peter straws, former manager, service planning. if this goes ahead with the ballot, i want to commend the board for going ahead with this. i think it really does a number of things correctly and i want to just address two of these. first, with respect to funding. transit funding

across the world so what i say has to be important it has to be helpful has to be unless i'm just an agent for destruction then i probably need to be with the rest of the spas and. blow up stuff. that no general still thank you very much for sitting down tank you is been a pleasure and thank you. coming into the future. just receive schemes from a cinema and landed in your living room shot on special and says stream streets are stereo display the life glass is no problem just shows the three d. function. here on. the central. plains some to spain to the caspian region of the wilderness and the great outdoors is a form of the french. now wattie goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing where history finds a new life in its paintings and where american citizens can find a new. welcome to the. russian club so. in some petersburg multis available in hotels a story of a little ambassador. to kowtow to triple the soto the true spoto golden. stone. in a sea of colors even this. cool. to watch in argentina two thirty in the morning here in moscow and the top stories

he has failed. i think this is inappropriate system of governance for a multiethnic society such as afghanistan. i think he has not been able to also come up with any offer for the taliban to be... to negotiate over. he wants to negotiate but he hasn't said what he is going to offer them to negotiate for or over. and he needs to articulate what that might be. i think through decentralization government structure in afghanistan which would be far more appropriate for the country, taliban might have an incentive to negotiate with the government, that is, to be able to run their own local communities. in areas where they have support. >> lehrer: mr. dobbins, do you see the same thing that this goes back to just the way it's governed as much as the way... as much as karzai, the way he does it? >> i think the problems the professor outlined are certainly serious problems. i to think they have to be kept in some perspective. there is a serious problem of corruption in the country. on the other hand, this

how life has and has not changed for those with disabilities. find that on the rundown. you can find links to the afghan field reports published by wikileaks. and we take a closer look at a library of congress copyright ruling that may make it easier for iphone users to jailbreak their devices and download new software and apps. on art beat, jeff talks to lisa cholodenko, writer and director of the new nontraditional family comedy, "the kids are alright." all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at intelligence gathering since 9/11. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsore

has probably only. been from the prison normally if you work in this building there's no police but since he is there we hear this all the day police all the people in town are talking about. and now all the people don't want him to be here because there is a school next door and there's a kindergarten. mr rate should still be in prison and the germans policy of preventive detention is designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into failing of course there's a danger to convict could stay in preventive detention for the rest of his life but to avoid the situation we have frequent specialists to assess their condition and paedophile camp. thomas brookman opposes preventive detention that's because he wants longer sentences in th

said the ministry spokesman rather has said that . confirmed russia's willingness to jointly with the western partners. realize just the ration of projects here in afghanistan the restoration of social facilities facilities of industrial facilities also recently russia has said it's willing to sell over twenty am i seventeen helicopters to nature meant for the afghan army no those helicopters were designed especially to fly over the mountains so as the country's chief of staff has said himself they would be perfect for the afghan army russia has also said that it's willing to give some of them for free in order to help the country and each of them costs from between thirteen and fifteen million u.s. dollars and that of course will also be very much needed here in afghanistan once the two troops start leaving the country out of one hundred thousand people that die because of drugs coming from afghanistan annually and more than a third of them dies in russia and together with the the e.u. russia consumes about fifty percent of the drugs

that has been a tremendous victory that the grassroots has realized. i does want to thank phyllis for the opportunity she has given me to work with some of these candidates and to encourage you all that all of your participation, whether it is calling members of congress are getting involved in the campaigns, it is making a difference at every level. please help us continue, and please keep fighting. [applause] >> we will take two questions. but i just want to mention one thing. one of her jobs is to go to all these coalition meetings, because we do believe in cooperating with other conservative organizations. but wouldn't you say that eagle forum is interested in the working in a greater variety of issues than practically any other conservative organization? >> absolutely, and i would encourage everyone to sign up for our e-mail alerts and to read phyllis' column. she just wrote an excellent column about the artificial divide between social and fiscal conservatives. that is one of the issues we have always had a holistic approach to conservatism. if y

a nuclear state has you know has a proper air force i don't think there's any way the u.s. could be looking to take the war into pakistan what they can do and in fact what they have been doing with the help of the indians is continue to destabilize pakistan through through afghanistan which which has been the case for the past year or so whether you look at fatah or you look at the sun i think the only thing left to do for the us now is this has this probably will end and up like you know we had there they should really packing up the bags and you know looking for an exit. son needs to do right now it's to work with china work with the regional powers such as iran with saudi arabia and in trying to come up with. you know preparing itself for afghanistan which is you know after us basically and you know how they're going to pick up the pieces and make it work then well you're close to my heart because that's been my theme for a very long time now if i go back to washington. again there are people are saying that you know the root of all of this problem the safe havens the mo

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no one has achieved as much as he has. >> formal one has a new star. the mclaren drive-in's have been stacking up -- drivers have been stacking up victories. shoe marketer is trailing behind the leaders that he is out of the run for this year's title. -- schumacher is trailing behind the leaders. he is looking to take a head of the pack again next season. >> we spoke to donner and we asked him how long that he thought schumacher would be able to compete and if he had a future in formula one? >> well, he is not known for being a patient presents. he is very determined. he has come back and done quite well. however, the environment which he ended up in had dramatically changed to the days when he was successful in formula one. nowadays, you have a key rebel drivers in a a fantastic car and they are all quick enough to beat him. -- you have two red bull drivers. michael is up against a lot of other drivers, not just his teammates. >> there has been a lot of changes to for the one recently. have they made the sport more exciting? >> i don't think that the

graham has dropped out.ut kerrey and lieberman are working on is a much more narrow version of the bill which would make the supply to electric power plants only. host: what are the chances that this would get done before this part of the term and before the senators go home for the august recess? guest: in the senate, they want to get some form of energy built on the floor by the break. some of this would relate to the gulf of oil -- gulf of mexico oil spill so there is toughening of energy standards for oil rigs and increasing liability limits. those are things they will put in there. then there is a suite of other things that steer clear of these greenhouse gas limits but would still fall under the general heading of clean energy provisions and energy-saving provisions, things that incentivize, wind, solar, alternative transportation fuels, to try and dial back the use on oil. all that looks like it will show up in some form. what is less clear is whether there is anything approaching 60 votes for a clima

>> he has very limited authority. congress gave him the ability to go back and look and look at the payments that were inconsistent with the public interest. he didn't designate any of these as being inconsistent in part because there were no rules applying at that time. so the banks were making huge payouts but they were allowed to. secondly a lot of these firms, most of the big one, goldman, j.p. morgan, morgan stanley they paid back the t.a.r.p. funds so he has little leverage to say give us the money back because they'll say back to him, we already did. >> a lot of the banks that did pay back the t.a.r.p. money, some of them made presentpy -- pretty clear they were doing it to avoid the pay strictures. >> oh, yeah, they made no bones about it. the banks immediately contacted treasury and said we want out. i mean, some of the banks couldn't get out, b & a and citi, they had problems and they had to stay in. but some of the others couldn't live under the strictures. >> now ken feinberg didn't name any particular nam

he has fact checkers, he has me. i grill him over and over again about the methodology in the database come out wanting to make sure it would be bulletproof, as we say, to make sure that every point in the database has two public documentsources 28. we don't show you, but that was our -- has two public document sources did it to we don't show you, but that was our standard. hopefully, people will see his bio and see that yes, he is not a usual journalist, but we are confident of his abilities and contributions to this. host: shelton, pennsylvania, democrats' line. caller: thank you, steve, and thank you, dana, a very, very much for all of your hard work and investigative reporting on this very i opening topic. -- very eye-opening topic, as well as the walter reed issue and so many of the pieces that you have written. here is my biggest concern regarding this article, though. well, let me promise my comment -- let me preface my comment by saying that the internet has made this -- i would say it has been 50% beneficial

[applause] the issue of access has been that which has led almost all the work that i have done in myife. access for my patients, which i have been privileged to have the opportunity to serve, access for our community, from which we have been able to develop a program that has brought what i hope will be quality care in a culturally competent manner before they even thought about such standards, and access on the national level. it continues to be part of my passion. it sounds like i should be retiring, and i am going to bring this to my membership. it is really time to do that, but i really do want to thank the physicians of our community who particularly had understood the need to not only serve our patients, but because we have a unique opportunity to speak on behalf of chinese and asian health issues to over 20 years ago actually believe that not only should we then develop systems to do that, but we need to seek it out on not only our local, but a national level, and they have allowed me and our colleagues opportunities to do that. once again, that is the heritage part. we are lo

we know that employment has been weak. and one reason why is that companies, when they meet their sales targets are doing it by making their workers more productive rather than hiring more. the other thing especially true today with companies like caterpillar and ups is the strong sales are not in the u.s. you but if places like china and india. the bottom line is the market is doing well but that is not necessarily a great sign for the economy. over the last month, even though we had a good day today t only kind of like takes us back to where we were, you know, a few weeks ago. it's basically one step forward, one step back. the market overall is telling us that it a sluggish outlook for the u.s. economy. >> lehrer: and so when the market goes up like that, it's always a mistake to read that as anything other than the fact that the market went up today, is that right. >> that's right. that the sellers had less convictions than the buyers today. you kind of have to watch the trends over time. i mean, the encouraging thing

what has happened now is just rumors. we don't know anything more. >> as the people of this small village come to grips with the news, police said they could still find more bodies. >> alarm is growing within the united nations. the west african country has been described as a catastrophe. the world food program has doubled aid operations to feed millions. the problem of food shortages has grown dramatically since the last targets, just a year ago. the greek government has used an emergency measure of order to put a truck drivers back to work after a strike. they were ordered to return to the job or face arrest. authorities say such a move was justified and no one has the right to paralyze the country. still ahead, rickshaws, ruins, and rehabilitation. can former prisoners pedal their way back into normal society? there has been a national day of mourning in pakistan, following the country's workers -- worst ever air disaster. all one header be to people on board the aircraft died -- 152 people died. >> rescuers worked fr

it has gotten worse.r muslim population has remained very different from the muslim population of the united kingdom. they remain far better integrated, far more successful socioeconomically, far less isolated, far more involved in u.s. politics, are less concerned with overseas politics. we have some warning signs in some communities. the community challenge -- and i want to stress that the vast majority of small-americans are absolutely the most wonderful, -- somali -- americans are absolutely the most wonderful, hard-working americans you could imagine. i cannot stress that enough. there is a volley -- there is a very small subsection of the population which tends to be isolated, not as social anomaly -- socioeconomically advantaged. many of those somalian-americans have returned to fight in somalia. that is problematic. let me rephrase that -- i am sorry i said it that way. small segments of that community are worrisome to the community is part of the solution. -- are worrisome. the community is part

for a long time collagen has been primarily associated with. a maverick scientists from the end of the last century go on and work on rockets the region was dropped big crater astronautics but what is good transportation links to the capital that with a population of just over a million people the region has definitely room to grow today colloquies want to rush those hotspots for foreign investment we met some of the exports managers working here to find out home. they do that business and cope with every day lives here. renate may be afraid of horses but she's not afraid of horse power every day she handles one hundred forty and her husband harold drives just as many the two work of the full tree and were among the first expanse to settle down in color. the only brazilian calder everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil of course i get this cheery people talk about football and bailey so it's always positive maybe in such a big city like moscow you are just one more in a crowd and here you stand out especially as a foreigner we are talking as

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it has been really a mess. he has been extremely difficult to work with. it looks like maybe there is one person causing the problems, and it is not. i hope this can be resolved, thank you. president peterson: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, we will move into rebuttal. ms. wuerfel, you have three minutes. >> thank you. the plans call to have a complete replacement of all of the roofing materials. by definition, the rafter tales -- tails are going to go. and the plans have not been seen after the adjustments were made. the history of the relationship started to become an unpleasant, shall we say, when there were changes in the plan by changing architects. we had agreed to in the meeting in 2006, by the time we came back in 2007 for the meeting, there was a brand new set of plans of "this is where we're going to go." when we tried to continue to work through our issues, there was no way to have this done because the owner did not want to talk about it. we would like to resolve these issues. the reason there are some of complaints i

that has already been met. that's why i said in my statement while often there are setbacks and discouragements you shouldn't listen to the bad news. sometimes there is good news that we ought to be able to comment and recognize as a part of the balance here and presenting what is going. but, of course, quality is important. that is important with some of the training that is ongoing and the embedded partnering that is at the heart of the forces over the coming months and years. he quite rightly pointed to the low level of army in south pastun people. that is a long running problem as he knows and not easily solved as part one day of a wider political settlement in support across afghanistan for the basis of governance and authority. and so that is not something that can be solved overnight. but the buildup of the afghan national army is so far one of the success stories taking place in afghanistan. on the question ofegional cooperation, yes, we have been, of course, discussing that at the conference and raised

across the world so what i say has to be important it has to be helpful has to be unless i'm just an agent for destruction and then i probably need to be with the rest of the spies and and a bios on a blow up stuff. that no general still thank you very much for sitting dank you there's been a pleasure and honor thank you. for sure is that so much for you to be sitting on the mark westfield bombing is probably mending fences with israel actually is enough to restart what is called the peace process. the state has provided citizens with. child so full. of self. uplifted chaps i'll tell you had a problem like. mum when the government since trying to. run my flux. right sucks. up out of the killin and dramatic. like something that has been to the chassis and region of the wilderness and the great outdoors is a form of adventure. now wattie goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing where history finds a new life in its maintenance and where american citizens can find a new welcome to the. russian close up. blood from moscow this. t.v. twenty four hours a day top

the elbow has bothered him for much of the year.s a recurrence of the injury that sidelined him for all of the 2009 season. >>> last year of training camp was not a picnic for tom cable. he was accused of physical assault, had to fine his starting quarterback for being overweight and lost his number one receiver to injury. in cable's mind, you can only go up, right? the head coach expects nothing less. his first order of business naming campbell the starting quarterback. he expects nothing but success from his new qb and the rest of the team. in fact, the raiders are brimming with confidence on the eve of their first full team orkthtouf camp. because they believe this season will, in fact, be different. >> i know we're going to be a good team. and i'm not afraid to say that. and we're going to go after the afc west. i'm not afraid to say that. i believe that's what we're going to do. it's not anybody -- if they picked somebody for it already, that's too bad. it doesn't work like that. you've got to play the games. >>> still ahead, a

for a minute has the reason to deny it. which is why delegations are here in washington following a report issued by lawmakers scientists and doctors calling on the u.s. government to own up to its agent orange legacy in vietnam today also people then me government records show nearly ninety five percent of all u.s. agent orange related aid is committed to efforts to contain and remove dioxin contamination we asked the justice for all the victims those fighting for justice in the case of vietnamese agent orange victims want the physical and psychological damages to be acknowledged if they at say they have to pay to come to state for maimie and so people. not only is it now but also in taking it to state and also to the country that a career like to assure a news event. the dark legacy left behind by the us in vietnam is one with millions of human faces their struggle three decades in the making will not end with money from the u.s. government but it could ease the pain the u.s. has been ignoring scented dumped a month sent

first amendment law has been good. it has not been in different.nd do you think we could pass a statute that says that every religious organization has to admit all comers regardless of their religious beliefs? would that be constitutional? you have to say yes. i don't believe that you believe that, frankly. >> i apologize for calling richard conservative. i did not need to apply a label to that. we have already talked about how it is focused on law school in this case in the context of a public forum. >> walter, unless you have a quick word -- >> all comers policy are not3 when you have seminars, it is, and that professorr have to admit to everyone or have a lottery. even if you have a student- organized seminar -- if you want to do a seminar in feminist theory, you cannot limit it to women. at most schools. this is part of the university's own decision to say we will sponsor some groups but only if they are open to all of our students. >> can we and by some audience? [laughter] . . >> all students were paying, including students who chose to >> a

we have seen more progress on the ground and that has been abolished that it -- and that has been acknowledged that it has moved more quickly than people expected. there are tensions and issues there that have to be resolved, but our two countries are working ccoperatively together to deal with these issues. the quartet has been very helpful as well. we believe there is a way to make sure that the people of the paza strip are able to prosper economically while israel is able to maintain its legitimate security needs in not allowing missiles and weapons to get tt hamas. we discussed the issue of iran. we pointed out that as a consequence of some hard work internationally, we have instituted through the un security council the toughest sanntions ever directed at an iranian government. in addition, last week i signed our own set of sanctions coming out of the united states congress, as robust as any we have ever say. other countries are following suit. we intend to continue to put pressure on iran to meet its international obligations and to seize the kinds of provocative behavior that has made i

there has to be a relationship there. it has to be open, transparent.you have to communicate to be successful. my job as the national incident commander as to and gender unity of effort, not only from the peak but across the government and all levels of government vertically going down -- not only from bp but from across the government and all levels of government really going down. if i won briefings and slides, i get them. if i need to call bob dudley in the middle of the night, i will. i did that this morning. >> the system you're planning with the four vessels and up to 80,000 barrels a day of capacity, that was planned to be up by mid july, but with other weather delays, is it fair to say that would not be up by mid july, which is next week? >> that is dependent on relieving the current contain a cap, and putting another one on. what has been delayed is the third production platform, the helix producer that allows it to get to 50,000 barrels per day. . . >> i have a question of following up on kristen's quest impetuion. you said earlier that it nee

>> he has been vindicated and stays out of jail. those that have attacked him in this city should look out, conrad is back. >> for now he has been told that he must stay in the united states or forfeit bail. >> you are watching "bbc world news." rare access to secret kurdish guerrilla camp in iraq. telling the bbc that they could be willing. british astronomers say that they observe the biggest start detected anywhere in the universe, more than 250 times the mass of our son. >> in a galaxy far away is a giant sun. 300 times larger than our own. 10 million times brighter. it sounds like the start of a science-fiction story, but they have discovered a star that is so large and hot it would burn any plan that are routed to chris. -- around it to a crisp. >> this one is 320 times the size, which is unusual. it has given an entirely new view of how sons are formed. >> devours is the large meeting largest in our solar system -- >> our son is the largest in our solar system, this one is 143 times that size. it used to be even larger. our o

that success has been that there has been a continuing annual effort to install trees and make sure they're taking care of. that needs to be extended to the golf courses and the other parks and squares. i believe there is a master plan and design question for each of the properties that needs to be addressed, but we really need to put the same attention to the parks and squares and golf courses at golden gate park has received. finally, we need to find ways to expand the palin. when i have talked about native and non-native plants, we're making sure we have large canopy trees, that we read place large canopy with large canopy, that there will always be a large tree component to the park's, and then there are other opportunities for other demonstrations and other examples of trees and shrubs that can be used in the system. so that is my summary. with that, i'll take any questions. again, i cannot thank you and the department of. karen tells me is just their job, but it really is denny, and karen and kelly cornell for their willingness and eagerness to help me through these questions. thank y

it has not improved. nor have the executives of the united airlines given us any indication that they would like any synergies that they hope to get from a combined flight attendant work ffrce are very happen unless here is a change in attitude. >> thank you. mr. roach i know you were shaking your head immediately when i started asking questions. bargaining relationships on both carriers. we ave met separately and ww have both asked a lot of questions. thee do not have answers. they have been willing to meet and they continue to say they will give us the answers. our coocerns are about pensions. we worked very hard during tte bankruptcy to maintain pensions. we worked very hard to maintain a single employer plan. there is a lot oo work. thereeis a lot of work and try to go through the process. they have not started, and said they have thought about it but do not have answers. we are concerned about the regional partner. what happens to them. we are concerred aboot thh overall business plan. this is not to

that is what it has been.heir unemployment stance shows the senate is to fall of multimillionaires who have no sensitivity towards with the working class is going for. host: the vote is expected around 2:30 p.m. eastern. if you tune in to c-span2, you will likely hear arguments from democrats and republicans why they are either supporting or not supporting this. obama urges congress to end the stalemate on benefits. they said unemployment americans -- unemployed americans started your companies that -- than in any time in the past 24 years. indianapolis on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning, laura. i have been a registered republican voters. i have been unemployed for one year. i have lost my extended benefits. i am getting ready to lose my apartment. i am a very hard worker. i have been working for over 25 years. we rightfully deserve to get these benefits extended. i have been researching, laura. if you look at the website for the national unemployment project, you will see all of t

each side has claimed innocence. each side has blamed the other. it is a game of diplomatic tennis that is worthy of wimbledon. but it is not worthy on behalf of the lives and the families who still have to deal with this terrorist act and the consequences of their lost loved ones in their lives. >> senator menendez. the former u.n. chief weapons inspector says that the bush administration invaded iraq because it was high on the idea of military action after 9/11 and thought it could get away with it. it described the british as prisoners on the train. he questioned the judgment of george bush and tony blair, but not their good faith. he said they should have realized that their intelligence sources were pour. >> it was the swedish lawyer and diplomat who were sent to the investigation. he shuffled from meeting to meeting, caught between saddam hussain's evasion and president bush's impatience. the executive chairman of the united nations monitoring and inspection committee told the inquiry that, at the time, he believed that iraq did have wmd's. >

catalonia has just one functioning bullring. it stages 15 fights a year, compared with nearly 1,000 across spain as a whole. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and to pakistan, where an airliner crashed today killing all 152 people on board, including two americans. the tragedy momentarily shifted the focus from new tensions created by the leak of afghan war documents. "newshour" correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: it was the worst air disaster ever in pakistan. the airblue plane went down in the hills overlooking islamabad and scattered wreckage and passengers' bodies across the rugged area. >> we did not find any intact bodies. we found pieces under the wreckage. we put the body parts in bags. the recovery operation has almost been completed. >> reporter: officials of the airline said the airbus a321 was no more than eight years old and did not appear to have any mechanical problems. >> maintenance was done regularly, like i said, there was nothing wrong technically

in all of the 76 years, social security has never missed a payment. it has never bounced a check. you don't have to get up in the morning and look on the financial pages of the newspaper to see whether your retirement fund is intact or whether it's bottomed out or has dropped out of sight. as you have to do if your retirement fund is in the hands of the fence benefit guarantee corporation, corporation -- pension benefit guarantee corporation, or corporation that you worked for that went into bankruptcy, and the assets were invested by the company for which you work in the marketplace and suddenly those assets lost value. enormous value. some people have seen their retirement funds lose 50%, 60% of their value because investments they were made proved unsound. or vulnerable sound to begin with but vulnerable to this worldwide recession that we have experienced. and indeed the railroad retirement fund it siff has lost $9 billion -- itself has lost $9 billion because of the recession. let's not have this haphazard careless, thoughtless rhetoric that we have heard in this chamber in 1

that has been a serious problem that has not been addressed. host: on to twitter -- is wal-mart a factor in the way we consumed things as well? guest: absolutely and proponents of free trade will tell you that while we import a lot, that is a benefit to consumers. the fact that a bottle -- a moderate income families in the united states can clothe and feed its family and buy goods, you know, televisions and furniture and apparel i wal- mart and live a comfortable life because of that lower cost of the availability of goods is one of the benefits of free trade. in fact, we are spending less to buy a shirt and more to buy a computer probably then every other society. right now, you do not have a choice because so many products are made in china. host: if you follow such issues, sam gilston is the publisher of the washington care of and trade letter. who is this design for? guest: mostly international executives of companies, attorneys that work on international trade issues, policy makers in the trade field. host: and on your web site is there in

and it has more from london. it doesn't really come as a huge surprise but it is more additional information that we the public now have about exactly what's going on in afghanistan these ninety thousand documents relate to the beginning of two thousand and four and the end of two thousand and nine detailing. bits of the afghan conflict that we previously had no idea about of course during the entire war more than three hundred twenty bush is treated been killed and more than a thousand american troops there's a lot in these documents about the toll that the war has taken on afghan civilians there one hundred forty four separate incidents details in these files all of those deaths come from controversial as afghan governments already complained about but some of them come from just troops shooting and killing random posters by most serious cyclists just to protect themselves. from the fear of potential suicide bombers and altogether in need of. help from one hundred ninety five civilians having been killed in one

the community has continued to grow and change. everyone has really embraced that. we liked that sort of diversity here. >> now, let's meet the president of the dogpatch neighborhood association. she will tell us about life in dogpatch, a clean neighborhood on the eastern edge of potrero hill, and we will learn how the residents convinced the city to a vigil -- to designate the area a historic district. >> dogpatch and the health and cottages are the historic houses in the area. those were built for the union ironwork. this really is one of the most original live-work neighborhoods in san francisco. because of this mix of housing and industrial, they need to sit in terms of scale and mass and height for the neighborhood. during the whole dot-com boom, we saw many move into the neighborhood. we found ourselves in combat before the planning commission for one project after another, and that was actually an impetus for the community to try to become a historic district. >> the process took our community approximately four years. we made presentations before pretty much

it has not just in the budget committee that has been involved in the process. it has been all of us the past couple of weeks. you are taking a chance on many difficult decisions before us. this is a $6.5 billion budget. that is about $100 million less than last year's budget. we have a shrinking budget and we have a shrinking work force as reflected by the budget. we just closed a $483 million budget deficit that includes labor -- labor givebacks, service reductions. on the public health side, the mayor's budget that came to us on june 1 included cuts to mental health and cuts in aid services. there were dramatic cuts that affected children, youth, and families. there were cuts to its senior services. because the budget included the privatisation of civil service positions including custodian services as well as jail health services which were privatized by a private contractor. it is the highest public health service as we could have in our jail system. after last year's budget deficit, which started half a billion dollars, this year's deficit, that was half a

item number 57. >> 5 item has already been called. -- the item has already been called. >> will you read that again? >> certainly. item 57, the charter amendment second draft to authorize split appointment to the municipal transportation agency board of directors by the mayor and the board of supervisors. supervisor campos: thank you very much. this is an item i am proud to be co offering -- code-offering -- coauthoring with a number of my colleagues. we held extensive hearings of the rules committee and heard a lot of testimony from a number of people, but let me say this. if one thing is clear about the testimony, it is that there are many people who ride muni on a daily basis who are not happy with the service of the system as it currently is three dead -- currently is. the fact is reform of our system is something that has to happen, and those who might be opposed to this item in my view of our people who have to be satisfied with the state of affairs, but if you believe it needs to be reformed, i would respectfully ask you support this item. our transportation system is in need of r

teresa gara has the latest from the chief. >> good morning. today the chief wanted to ensure that the communy gets their message, that the police department has heard them. what what he is doing, he has redesigned assigents to do three top assignments, gangs, drugs and guns. and they are did you say cussing the status of safety. number of homici is down bu preventing crime rather than responding the aftermath is harder. with the layoff of 80 officers. days before the layoffs, many office were involved in what the chief is calling a successful operation dealing with crowd control and looting after the involuntary manslaughter verdict in the bart officer shooting case. in order to, the chief says he has to prioritize the work first. >> we're not trying to punish theommunity or threaten the community. that is not it at all. we're following their directions and find better ways to allow community to report so we can be more efficient in prioritizing. community wants to deal with violent crim, guns, gangs and drugs. >> to deal with lower level crim

he has had to cut his own budget. this is what he has done. she has cut $575 million over the last three years. the system today is 30% smaller than it was when he was sworn in as president five years ago. 23% of the cuts came from administration. i can attest as someone who loves the system and understands the value of education in a new economy that he has not harmed teaching and learning. he has simply done things that really in lieu of destroying our academic core. -- he has simply done things differently in lieu of destroying our academic core. we have laughed and said this is painful. he has gone forward in lots of critical storms and has endured the criticism. he will do that as the co-chair of this committee. he has figured out a different way to incentivize teachers compensation, for the professors, the work force. she has developed in a paradox around health care. he understand in our state, one of the fastest-growing states in america, that he cannot rely on the old way, the bricks and mortar to educate the people. as a result, he h

a team has begun exploring in has -- in has discovered a quarter of kenya's butterflies. our correspondent joins them in a mountain range of northern kenya. >> he knows this man range as well as any creature here. he has been coming here since he was a child, learning about the value of the forests to life itself. he is searching for a special treat, one with barkeep will boil -- a special tree, one with bark he will boil and give to a sick villager. this is the first comprehensive scientific survey of the mountains in northern kenya, and the researchers are digging deeper. this is what makes the matthews range so special. i am not just talking about the view. this is what scientists call us got island, tropical mountains surrounded by a red -- arid lowlands. scientists are only now starting to find out what is up here. >> with such a long time of seclusion, they expect to learn much about evolution in one of the last pristine patches of non force in east africa. today, they found a vampire bats, the furthest from because they have ever been seen. this shows how undisturb