hala aldosari, thank you very much. michele dunne, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> lehrer: next, a fight among government, labor and business over the location of a manufacturing plant. margaret warner has our story. >> warner: the fight is over a case brought by the government's national labor relations board, or nlrb, an independent agency where democrats currently hold the majority. at issue-- a just-opened $750 million boeing factory in south carolina, where the company plans to build some of its 787 dreamliner passenger jets. the new light-weight planes are already being built at boeing's main factory complex in the seattle area. but after a series of union strikes in washington state, the company decided to open its second 787 assembly line in north charleston, south carolina, a "right-to-work" state. in april, the nlrb charged boeing with illegally retain any idea why they didn't just go to congress before they did this? or was it-- it couldn't have been an oversight. >> no, no, it wasn't an oversight. but i do

our hala gorani, who is in syria for us. hala, we appreciate you.o much. >>> and at 36 minutes past the hour now, we do need to pass along some sad news about one of our family members here at cnn. sports fans, as well, will take this as sad news. nick charles has died. he was cnn's first sports anchor, and he along with his co-anchor, fred hickman, were fixtures on "sports tonight" for nearly two decades. charles died of bladder cancer this morning at the age of 64. the president of cnn worldwide, jim walton, put out this statement saying, "as a journalist and sports personality, nick charles helped put cnn on the map in its early days. he brought intelligence, style, and heart to his work, qualities that translated to our company and inspired those of us who were fortunate to work alongside him. his passing is a loss to cnn, the sports world, and to the fans and friends everywhere who were with him to the end of his extraordinary life. like them, our thoughts today are of nick and with his family." ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] thanks to advanced natur

back to you for how in london charles. >> hala, thank you very much, hala gorani joining us live from the syrian capital damascus. >>> as they say, no pain no gain. that may be true when it comes to getting into shape financially and physically. in greece they say they've suffered enough. a 48-hour strike is coming up to protest new taxes. the measures the eu and imf are demanding. without the funds greece faces default potentially within weeks. on monday greece's prime minister urged lawmakers to vote for the austerity plan. >> translator: i'm not asking you to listen to outside pressures. i'm asking you to listen to your soul, your inner patriotic conscience. >> meanwhile france has come out with a plan to help greece specifically the french president nicolas sarkozy commercial banks agreed to offer 30-year loans once greece's current debt comes due. it may run into trouble for several reasons, first the involvement of the european financial stability fund is unlikely to please germany, where chancellor angela merkel rejected proposals involving that fund from german banks, the same

hala says there could be dissent in the military. we now watch refugees flee into turkey, the turkish government being critical of the assad regime. so many of these questions and countries in the middle of dramatic change in the region, are we seeing a tipping point emerge perhaps? >> john, i think we are. you have to expect, not only is u.s. intelligence trying to gather information about what's going on inside syria, a difficult and hostile environment for u.s. services, but they're working with intelligence allies around the world, especially i suspect israel. th so i expect that the u.s. intelligence services are working with our allies. remember, back in libya, there are tipping points here. in libya, when the gadhafi government there started using air power to shoot at unarmed civilians, that's when the international community galvanized. we've seen the torture and murder of the 13-year-old boy several weeks ago and today this sort of activity, as it continues, will galvanize the international community. it will be interesting

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the concert was a plash back to the kinks and the who and tv shows like hala blue. ladies and gentlemen. the high strung. [music] >> hope you enjoyed this look back at some of the entertaining guests that graced the stage of the main library. you can watch more highlights from main stage on you tube and new episodes on sfg. org. watch for more readings, speakers and performances during the next year. we leave you with a bonus performance from the high strung. and a thank you to everybody that made the last season possible.

hala gorani is joining us and has reported extensively from the middle east. what do we know about this incident? >> well, what we know about the city is it's a city in the '80s had its own sort of insurgency and revolt against the government that was crushed. in the very early '80s. so this is a city that has a long memory. there's several theories as to what happened. 120 security personnel killed, this suggests a level of organization. is it possible, for instance, that some of the dem mon straighters and the protesters have armed themselveses? that's what some are saying. is it possible that there was a split within security forces and that one side of the security forces decided they would not shoot on protesters, the other side fought against them and there was some sort of violence that led to 100, 120 possibly security forces killed. >> if there's a crack in bashar al assad's security forces whether the police or military, that would be huge. >> it would be huge. it is huge if it happens in only one city and the question is, if that's what happened, wi

here is hala gorani in her first walk through in months. >> reporter: this young man, he just came out and he said he doesn't want any trouble. the country is with bashar. you're seeing a small group of pro government demonstrators, their expressing their support for the regime. and his name is bashar, ironically. this young man is saying people are paying money from outside in order to ferment this unrest. >> our reporter hala gorani was among a group that supports president bashar assad there. since march, more than 1600 people have died, most of them anti-government protesters. that number is according to a human rights group. >>> cnn has been shining a spotlight on modern day slavery this week. oscar winning actress mira sorvino is also a u.n. goodwill ambassador, fighting human trafficking. she talks about her work now in "impact your world." >> a lot of what i've learned about human trafficking has been through direct conversations with victims. i've interviewed many, many victims in several different countries and different situations and different age ranges. almost all of the

hala gorani and arwa damon, thank you. >> and isha is back with us with a news bulletin. >> hi there, afghan government says a militant group based in pakistan is to blame for yesterday's deadly attack on a kabul hotel. the siege was left 12 victims including all nine attackers dead was believed to be carried out by the hakani network thought to be linked to al qaeda >>> officials say the attack will not stop the planned withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan starting in july and scheduled to end in 2014. >>> it could be a crucial legal victory for amanda knox in her bid to overturn her conviction for the murder of her british roommate in italy. court-appointed experts told an italian court that dna evidence used to convict the american college student and her co-defendant was contaminated. >>> bank of america is paying $8.5 billion to settle claims from angry investors over mortgage securities gone sour. those investors include big financial firms like black rock, pimco and met life. bank of america also says it will post a second quarter net loss of up to $9.1 billion. >>> and a

of terror suspects captured in iraq was declassified twenty eight year old pakistani about not to hala is one of the victims of this deal he was seized by british soldiers in iraq in two thousand and four as a suspected insurgent and a secretly sent to a u.s. detention camp in afghanistan it's a process dubbed extraordinary rendition the man's lawyers are calling on the u.k. to help free him as a person wants to detaining or thorough. from the reprieve a charity who's fighting for rahmatullah his release told r.t. that britain's friendship with america blinds it to the truth there are hundreds of prisoners in background but what makes you know special is that you know it was actually picked up by the united kingdom in iraq in february two thousand and four the u.k. and the united states in march in april there were discussions between the u.s. and u.k. because the u.s. wanted to send to the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even the grave broke making it absolutely clear to anyone who had any doubt what was happening to prisoners in u.s. detention the u.k. says that

hala gorani inside damascus for cnn. glad she finally got there.la gorani, thank you. >>> there are new fears homegrown terror could be on the rise here in the united states in the wake of just two new cases this week targeting the u.s. military. how safe is the united states? stand by for that. >>> and casey anthony breaking down in another day of dramatic testimony in the murder trial of her daughter. up next, we'll go live to the courthouse for the latest. sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and how can you talk to me about fiber while you are eating a candy bar? you enjoy that. i am. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. st: uld switching to geico reon car insurance?more host: is the pen mightier than the sword? ninja 2: ow vogeico. 15 minutes uld save you 15% or more on car insurance. >>> another day of tears and dramatic testimony in the casey anthony murder trial. cnn's david mattingly is standing by at the courthouse

." >> cnn's hala gorani among those helping us cover the syria story.'s with us here in washington tonight. when you see this, another case, what more do we know about this particular story and the allegation that the regime is not only brutalizing its own people but including children in that? >> well, according to one human rights group, 77 children have died since the beginning of the uprising as a result of violence, according to the amnesty international report that was out recently, inflicted by government forces on peaceful protesters. that's almost 10% of the total of deaths reported in the country. what we know about this young boy, 15 years old, tamir al sahri, from the same village at hamza al khatib. that's the 13-year-old who became such an icon for anti-regime demonstrators. we don't know if the two knew each other, but according to activists in syria and outside of syria monitoring this story as well they went out on the same day, april 29th, in daraa in southern syria. >> let's assume for this part of the conversation that this is the re

joining me from hala wood, johnny gill.ok, jg and the bc kids. she also played aunt vivon the fresh prince of bellaire. you grew up in the jacksons generation. what was it like to see a black pop group so so big time when there were civil rights issues. >> for me growing up in a high school in a little town where there was probably ten black kids, it was monumentis, it was like nothing you had ever seen. it gave you a hope you could make it from a small town. i had five brothers, so we all grabbed our coca-cola bottles and our glasses and acted like jackson 5. >> and johnny gill, you were a product of the jackson 5 generation. and i heard you say as a kid watching the jookson 5 special was like watching an event, why? >> the whole family would gather around, and we were in awe. as kids, we didn't really believe they were real. >> egypt, i want to ask you as somebody else who got to follow the jacksons as you were growing up, how do you think they impacted america culturally. >> we were in the middle of the civil rights move

hala gorani is in the capital city live for me in dumascus.en in the time you've been there and touch on deadly clashes that have been reported. what happened. we can't hear her. we can't hear her. we're going to stand by and hopefully we can get her microphone turned on. meantime, i see her over my shoulder, candy crowley standing by, good thing she is, with the latest news off the political ticker. >> little bit easier to talk from washington, d.c., than from syria. listen, a couple things on the ticker. most of them having to do with 2012. there is a meeting this week of latino elected and appointed leaders. it's in texas. for the third year in a row, the president was invited. for the third year in the row, he declined. that has caused hurt feelings among that group who say not only has he not delivered on his promise of immigration reform, but think symbolically it would have been important for the president to show up. the white house said, listen, the president can't go everywhere. it's a scheduling problem. his efforts on behalf of all

hala gorani is joining us, reported ex-steps civil from the middle east. hala, it seems like every day the story gets more intense and more dire. >> yeah. and now we are seeing refugees cross over into turkey. the question is how many thousands of refugees, if it gets to that, will turkey accept on its side of the border? we remember during the gulf war, for instance, so many tens of thousands crossing into the border, but this is really taking it to another level, plus that north western town is where people are really worried about a crackdown, they industrial that collective memory of what happened in that part of the country several decades ago. they really are concerned that the military is moving in and they have to flee. >> the international news media, cnn included, we can't get n they won't let us get into syria. you have tried, been there on several occasions what do they say? why wouldn't they let reporters go into syria go to damascus and see what's going on? >> we don't get a no thank you, you can't come in we don't get an answer. we apply, we

thank you so much, hala. amazing reporting from there. >>> new this morning the former head of the irish mob in boston, real life guy from "the departed" will be back in court this afternoon. court filings show james whitey bulger has been chatty. he admitted to the fbi he made several trips to vegas to play the slots during his 16 years on the lamb and one of the most wanted men in the country bragged he traveled to tijuana to get his medication and came back using fake i.d.s. that's gutsy. he is facing charges in 19 mob related murders. >>> in syria and now to yemen, cnn exclusive live from yemen, a country in chaos and a leader still missing in action. it's 37 minutes past the hour. (rambling phone conversation) when an investment lacks discipline, it's never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. >>> yemen i

i think we have to be on guard against this effort by the syrian regime. >> hala, i wonder if you haveuestion you want to ask. >> yes. what i think is interesting fuad is this is a charm offensive, definitely an attempt to control the message, but you have opponents of the regime who are willing, you have hussein, michelle kilo, these are prominent opponents who spent years in jail. and they're saying they're at least willing to try to work within the frame work of this authoritarian regime. my question is, do you think that they're being naive? >> well, i think that's a tough one. one wouldn't want to second guess people like this, and you are on the scene. you have always been my guide to whether it's egypt or libya. so i won't -- i mean, i think we have to be on guard against second guessing people who have been involved in this uneven struggle, if you will, with the syrian tyranny. but there is a split, there's no doubt. a split between the internal opposition that's in syria under the rule of this regime, and the external opposition that's called into question the wisdom of dealin

the conflict between the afghans and how they want to see or handle the transition and then that's hala been fighting and saying you know we're we're still here and we're not going anywhere a lot more conflict no matter what rhetoric we're coming out of it i want to thank you for your insight they used in on the ground there that was patricia de janeiro senior fellow at the world policy institute now a report has been released chronicling the political strategies of prize and private prison companies right here in the u.s. working to make money through harsh policies and longer sentences now government spending on corrections has soared since one thousand nine hundred seventy by seventy two percent that is up seventy four billion dollars and the private prison industry has a rate ten tremendous profits joining me now for more from our l.a. studios and it has bearing of the young turks to talk about what's behind all of this thanks so much for being with there it's nice it's nice to see you now in this report you the author's note that while the toll. a number of people in prison has inc

hala gorani in washington.man anthony weener to resign. he is now responding. you will hear his two reasons for why he will not quit. >>> dana bash is on capitol hill and you were reporting on anthony weiner, his colleagues forcing him to step aside. what are you hearing today and is it working? >> there is no evidence he is going any where in fact, he is saying he is staying put. i'm told from a source that had he a private conversation with one of his colleagues from new york yes said one of the reasons is because his wife wants him to stay in congress. he also said in this private phone conversation that he has seep and cited polling data showing a imagine jurority of new yorkers want him to stay and the were he is not going and the sources describe anthony weiner as very dug in on the idea of resigning from congress this had phone call i'm describing came as a series of calls we have been reporting on he has been making the past several dies reporters and colleagues and to friends really saying that he is s

hala gorani, we've missed you. to be back. >> we know the president of syria, bashir al assad, went on television again today and apparently hasn't much changed his stance. might we ever hear any kind of solid specific concessions from him? >> well, for those hoping that his tone was going to change today, it was his third speech. and what's interesting, brooke, is that president ben ali of tunisia, who was today sentenced in absentia, to 35 years in prison, and president mubarak, both gave three speeches before they were ultimately forced out of power. the expectation with syria is very different. there's no expectation that in the immediate future bashir al assad is going to be forced from power. however, it did, according to analysts, according to those who have listened very carefully to his first two speeches, he appeared a little more nervous. he appeared more serious, no joke cracking, as he had in the first speech. he blamed the unrest, however, once again, on sab tours. he called for a national dialogue. h

. >> and let's turn to yemen, if we can, hala, because the country seems to be in chaos.dent is in saudi arabia, and we know he is being treated after the attack on his compound, but we don't know whether or not he is coming back. >> well, we don't. we are hearing, again, sar ri g i ing accounts of whether the president is coming back, and we hear from the vice president that he will be back in a few days. but we hear from others that he is being treated for shrapnel wounds, and that it will be several weeks before he is ready to go. and then those who say that saudi arabia who brokered a peace deal which is holding on the brink of civil war, and they will not going because they are happy with the vice president taking over the country, so it is a wait and see situation in a chaotic country, randi. >> and we know that the u.s. is waiting and watching, because i mean, there is a major concern there, because yemen has been the ally really, a key ally in the fight against al qaeda. >> right. the government with the small portion of the territory that it still controls in yem

. >> so hala, for those who say the regime must go, what is the next test?ther to start a conversation. what is the next test to see if there is true openness, true dialogue or this is a propaganda ploy? >> well, it's also an interesting question. what do opponents to the regime who don't want dialogue, what do they do? what options do they have? their options are to go out and protest or outside of the country, some of the activists who say they represent the demonstrators on the streets is for them to continue to protest. what kind of impact can they have? how much can they weaken this regime by the force of their presence on the streets of syria when the crackdown continues? so the big question for syria is how does the transition happen? can it possibly happen gradually? or as the opponents to the regime who don't want dialogue, must it happen in the dramatic fashion the way we saw in egypt? one of the lessons we have learned from today's opposition meeting is that at best this opposition is divided. we have on the one hand those who want to work within

. >> thank you, and to discuss this further, cnn's hala gorani who has reported extensively from thents assad referred to the international courts. how likely is that? >> very unlikely. two permanent members of the security council, russia and china, have already said they would not support a resolution condemning syria for its crackdown on protesters. and by extension, we can read into that, they would not support either any referral to the international criminal court. bashar assad's referral to that court. you have a division here among international members of the u.n. security council and you have a division when it comes to china and russia. on the one hand. and europe on the other. that wants this type of resolution voted on at the u.n. security council. it wouldn't be the same type of resolution we saw for libya. for instance, authorizing the use of force. but it is an effort to further isolate syria diplomatically but it doesn't look like that effort will pay off for the europeans. >> unicef and human rights watch have said kids have been targeted in syria. how is hamza's ho

. >> hala gorani in damascus for us, thank you. >>> thousands of people have taken to the streets inuts by the government. our diana is joining us on the phone now from athens. diana, describe the scene and where are you? >> reporter: we were down in the protests but one of the protesters attacked my cameraman and his camera so we came up to the balcony. the last couple of hours now, there there has been a constant wave of rigoting between protesters dressed in black and anarchists and riot police using stun grenades to create a huge noise and firing tear gas at the protesters who have been pulling up marble and pits of pavement to throw at police. this has been going on for a while now. it is the first of two days of general strikes here in athens where people have come out on to the streets to protest this a austerity package debated in the parliament right now and angry with furnl cuts to mayor wages and pension and tax hikes but there is definitely a distinction that needs to be drawn between this sort of hard-core as i say on the front lines of this violence against police and r

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