soon after, hundreds of angry han chinese took to the streets armed with weapons. a smashed shops and stores along into uighur -- they smashed shops and stores belonging to uighurs. we do not have that report, but we can go to shanghai and our correspondent. chris, how significant do you think is now that you have two communities on the street at the same time? >> i think what was going on today was that the han chinese were determined to show that they were able to defend themselves. they were taking back the streets, if you like. use of them with these wooden bats and iron bars. they marched in huge numbers. they confronted the police, but it was not the same kind of confrontation that we saw on sunday, which resulted in so many deaths. they tried to get between the two groups. on the one hand, the huge numbers of han chinese, and on the other hand, smaller numbers of the uighurs. according to reports, when police tried to create a barrier between the two groups, some in the han community were cheering on the police. it is a concern for the local authorities. the

uighur groups say that video placed on the internet show the man running for his life from the han chinese. they claim he is one of two killed after false rumors of uighur men attacking han women. what happens next is too disturbing to show. this evening, more paramilitary troops arrived in urumqi to restore the peace. but the two groups to share the city had never seen so far apart. >> which all begs the questions -- why are there different tensions between ethnic groups in china and has the chinese government become more open in its reporting of unrest? our security correspondent has this report. >> that the tensions and a place largely unknown to the rest of the world. uighurs and han chinese have been simmering for years. they uighurs , and has been occupied. >> the oppression has reached an unbearable level. they have and our language from school and transported growth in the countryside to the interior. they have arrested 15,000 people in the last two years and have no access to lawyers. >> more and more people in the world have witnessed the conspiracy of foreign forces to separate

the han chinese are a minority in this area. e state media it says that they're victims of violence. these are the pictures the chinese media wants the world to see. they branded the demonstrators as criminals. protests are not unusual in this country. these clashes are on a scale seldom seen. this footage appears to show the start of the demonstration. we cannot be sure where or when it was shot. the government is claiming separatist uighurs are stirring up trouble. >> forces from inside and outside china aggressively operate to attack the chinese communist party and government. they also arouse the people to carry out demonstrations. they severely undermined the unification of ethnic groups. >> more than 800 were injured in the clashes, according to the government. it is still not clear how many of those killed or hurt were protesters. outside of china, exiles had condemned the beijing assertion that the riots were to provoke turmoil inside the borders. >> the chinese government has adopted the method of labeling all ethnic dem

hundreds of thousands if not millions of han chinese into this region. >> yes. he policy is a longstanding policy. since the early '50s the chinese government has been steadily settling migrants. in recent years it's more driven by private entrepreneurship. this no explicit government encouragement but the government has been enabling the migration of private entrepreneurs into that part of the region. that, of course, has contributed to the ethnic tensions. >> woodruff: alim seytoff, when you say racism, what specifically are you talking about? >> i talk about because of the chinese government han chinese population to describe the uighurs, tibetans and other ethnic minorities as lazy, violent, barbaric and they don't want to develop. they don't want to live in peace. they are troublemakers. they are the problematic peoples in those areas. as a result we see high tension between the uighurs and chinese, between the tibetans and chinese, between the morningals and the chinese unfortunately. because of this, there is huge resentment on both sides. the chinese hate

of the few foreign journalists in the city of urumqi and he sent us this update. >> here on the han chinese side of town, people have welcomed the troops. these men are marching through with a banner thanking security forces for bringing peace. they're bringing supplies of fresh water and the troops have lined up along the streets here. you can see them on all sides, even if we turn around, you can see them at the end of the street. as they're walking past, the troops are thanking them and giving rounds of applause. just over there is the uighur neighborhood and it's an entirely different matter there. people say they don't feel safe and are worried about the security forces and the threat from vigilante groups of han chinese. >> china's foreign ministry says they have evidence that's four rio tinto employees under rest their did steal state secrets. one is an australian national. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines -- at the g eight meeting, president barack obama has -- at the g-8 meeting, barack obama has set a limit in a tender for a global warming. iraq has suffered its most d

the conflict is between the members of the uighur population and han chinese, the main chinese ethnicup, that has been resettled into the region over the years. we want to take you into that province tonight for the latest. melissa chan of al jazeera english is there. >> reporter: they don't know what's happened to all the men. the police just came, they tell us, and took them away during the night. part of the over thousand uighurs arrested by chinese authorities. we want them free. we want them free. we want them free. over and over again, they tell us, this is all they want. this woman shows us her husband's identification card. she has no idea where he is. its neighborhood clearly feeling the consequences of the rioting from sunday night. and suddenly the sadness took a more aggressive and violent tone. this government organized trip for foreign journalists, suddenly gone terribly off message. armed policewith guns and electric cattle prods. soldiers with shields and sticks moving in to contain the chaos. >> go, go, go, go, go. >> reporter: these are complicated ethnic tensions. c

is there, one of the few international journalists at the heart of the trouble. >> here on the han chinese side, people have welcomed the troops. they are what -- watching -- marching through with a there are thinking of forces. bringing supplies of fresh water. the troops are lining up along the street here. you can see them on all sides. even when you turn around you can see them at the end of the street. as they are walking past, the troops are thinking them and giving them rounds of applause. just over there, that is the weaker neighborhood. it is an entirely different matter. people still don't feel safe, they are wary about the security forces and were read about the threat from the vigilante groups of han chinese. >> one of the few international journalists able to monitor the situation. we will have a full business report in about 25 minutes. >> hello, george. we are talking about an extraordinary scandal involving real tinsel, a mining giant. what has happened -- rio tinto. since sunday, employees have been detained by the chinese. china says it has sufficient evidence of that the

that's to make sure that the uighurs don't get out and the han chinese don't get in. but in uighur neighborhoods, the presence gives little comfort. our lives are in danger, this woman said. we tried to talk more, but local police harassed us. across town, the han we spoke to blame uighurs exiled in the west for the violence. internationally, there are bad elements who want to split the motherland, this man said. tonight, officials are appealing to the residents to put down their weapons, but the hatred and distrust here simmers. clarissa ward, abc news, china. >>> back in this country, at dover air force base today, a solemn ceremony. caskets of seven aricans killed in action in afghanistan were returned home. admiral mike mullen is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and attended the ceremony. he's said to felt especially braun today, given the large number of remains coming home from a particularly deadly day. >>> and still ahead on "world news," new findings abbottout bottled water. what you're paying for and what you get. that will be our "closer look." >>>

they'd seen footage on the internet of uighur workers being bat to death by han chinese at a toy factory in central chinese. >> it's natural and spontaneous, the response of uighurs against -- the blooding, killing of uighurs. >> reporter: 2009 is the 6th anniversary corporation into china. the government calls it the peaceful liberation of shen jeong but many uighurs don't accept beijing's rule. with night fall the authorities had declared effective martial law. but evidence of a bitter day of struggle was eo be seen. stephen mcdonald, abc news, beijing. >>> now for more about all of this, we are joined tonight by andrew james nathan. he is a political science professor at columbia university, who has written extensively about china. good to have you back. >> thank you. >> i don't think many americans are aware of who the uighurs are, or how they fit into china overall. how did they come to view in china? >> well, the uighurs are 1 of 55 national minorities that the chinese recognizes. always lived in that part of the world, which is now shin jon of china. they live on the chinese side,

officials say 156 people died sunday in clashes involving the country's han chinese majority and the rity muslims who have taken to the streets in protest against their treatment. the clashes have continued and chinese mobs roaming the streets seeking revenge. today the government organized the press visit to one of the city's biggest hospitals where almost half the 800 injured have been treated. most of those we saw here were han chinese suffering from head and stab wounds. this woman left with a fractured skull. it was so sudden i didn't know what was happening she told me. they say the hospital here was overwhelmed on sunday, but won't give any detailed breakdown of how many of the injured were muslims and how many were han chinese. in the city's main muslim neighborhood, residents pointed to evidence that they were the victims. they came here to kill people, this man said. even before the violence, the city was largely segregated. now these poorer neighborhoods are sealed off by riot police. this shopkeeper was one of the few to open for business today, speaking cautiously, he tol

. >> hundreds of those protest the march in xinjiang on sunday, with the clash of forces of han chinese and you -- uighurs. after a curfew, officials say it's under control. there are forces to attack the chinese party and government. they severely undermine the unification of groups with chaos as a disaster. >> the western area of china has been a problem for years, wanting to break away from china. with the claim it was problem in a toy factory that caused the violence. >> joining me is chris hall, i imagine it's difficult to get information but is there anything more to tell us? >> the big question is who are these at least 140 people who lost their lives in the violence, who they were? were they rioters or demonstrators killed by the authorities as they tried to put it down. how many of them were ordinary chinese people perhaps targeted by the rioters. or other people just caught up in the violence. it's difficult at this stage to get an accurate picture. we have two very different pictures. the authorities saying it was orchestrated by the uighurs party. it's difficult to say which

han chinese who were passing by were attacked by the crowd. one woman fell to the crowd and was not spared. the government blames uighurs abroad for promoting the clash which started yesterday. >> translator: this is a typical incident of baiting, smashing and looting overrode by overseas' forces. it was premeditated, planned and organized. >> reporter: thousands of protesters had marched through the streets, calling for an investigation into an earlier incident. they'd seen footage on the internet of uighur workers being bat to death by han chinese at a toy factory in southern china. >> it's natural and spontaneous, the response of uighurs against -- the blooding, killing of uighurs. >> reporter: 2009 is the 60th anniversary of shin, xinjiang's liberation of china. the government calls it the peaceful liberation of xinjiang but many uighurs don't accept beijing's rule. and the authorities have warned that conflict could increase there this year. with nightfall, the authorities had declared effective martial law. but evidence of a bitter day o

so ethnic han chinese have every reason to fear. weekend's riots and murders were aimed at the chinese. this man tells us, riot police should have fired and killed more protesters. they were violent, he says. if the officer his used their weapons fewer ordinary citizens would have died. it is very clear some people were hellbent on destruction this weekend. we saw the remains of buildings and vehicles and we could still smell the burnt plastic and metal. there are few men i saw who started to throw rocks and stones just a while ago. but it looks like for the moment, things are under control once again. you have police on this side and on the far side of the road more police and you have the uighurs caught in between in this neighborhood. for the moment its ended in a standoff. but one partisan volic scene. no one could miss this moment similarity to the lone tankman from the tiananmen square massacre. one hobbling uighur woman against a phalnyk of soldiers. >> tune into our weekly radio show. it's our topic tonight. and you can list

local han chinese are now clearing from the streets. all around this area, the neighborhood has been sealed off. >> as urumqi heads for another night under curfew, vigilantes' have taken to the streets. the troops still have not brought peace to the city. >> the chinese police have detained a senior executive of the mining group rio tinto. he has been held and he is accused of spying and stealing state secrets. a company that supplies of third of the medical isotopes will be offline. people are scrambling to find a new isotopes which are used to make a diagnosis. kim jong-il appeared in a public event. he looked ill and gaunt. police in south korea and the nine states are investigating a series of cyber attacks on government websites. this is described as coordinated and sophisticated. >> all american knows for sure is that it has been attacked. it is a virtual attack that targeted u.s. web sites. he your at that the treasury, te public websites have come under enormous pressure. someone, somewhere, is trying to cause them to crash. >>

many of the people killed in the riding were han chinese. they hold to ththe uighurs responsible. the city is again under curfew. uighurs fear for their safety. >> the trial of the burmese opposition leader has resumed. it had been delayed for six weeks. she is charged with breaking the terms of her house arrest because of an american man who swam on invited to her lakeside home. -- uninvited to lakeside home. for the first time in 20 years, someone has been bored to death in the running of the bulls in pamplona. -- gored to death in the running of the bulls in pamplona. british forces are going through their worst week in modern time, there has been 10 deaths in the first nine days of july. british desk now total 1079. -- british deaths now total 179. >> in the skies, the plane carrying the bodies of britain's dead soldiers. the coffins were lifted gently and respectfully by comrades and they were taken to a chapel so their families could say a last farewell in private. then a public display of respect for the dead. people lining the streets to honor the fallen. for some, the gri

uighurs and han chinese he been simmering f years. th uighurs , and has been cupied. >> the oppression has reached an unbearable lel. thave and our lauage from school and tranorted growth in he countryside to the interi. they have arrested 15,000 people the last two years and have no accs to lawyers. >> more and more people in the worl have witnessed the conspiracy oforeign forces to separate cnese territory and thviolent nature of their behavior. >> in china, there are officiall55 ethnic minorities. the largest are in the inner mongolia, tibet, and of the uighurs in xinjiang province. but tse ofhe ones that get th most ethnic tent -- most -- the mos inteational atteion. last year, t chinese media said an attack i xinjiang province kild 16 policemen. hnic uighurs were bmed. separatist uighurs havebeen imprisoned in gantanamo bay. last summer, that erupted into violence. it s heavily reprsed with rtial law and journalists we kept out. there is intertional condemnati. this time,he authorities ar being surprisingly open. >> i think the c

don't feel safe and are worried about the security forces and the threat of vigilante groups of han chinese. >> of the foreign minister of china says it has sufficient evidence that four employees of rio tinto who are being detained stole state secrets. one of the man is an australian national. this is a bbc world news. the latest headlines this hour -- @ d g-8 meeting in italy, president obama says a historic consensus has been reached to ensure stopping global warming. not everyone is sure. the british press has a represent -- has a reputation for being the toughest in the world. the most irresponsible, some would say. how far you go to get a story? that's the big question in london. allegations surfaced that thousands of celebrities and politicians have had their self contact into illegally by private detectives working for a mass-selling sunday tabloid. we have this report. >> at the heart of this scandal is the allegations the and "news of the world" routinely listen to people's voice mail messages. there were leading politicians and the celebrities. until today, the scale is unclear.

in this uighur district, locals claim han chinese mobs stormed the neighborhood and attacked them. they're protecting themselves with almost anything they can lay their hands on, including rocks and axes. >> translator: they came to kill people. i was wounded. they came to our neighborhood looking for uighurs. they hit and chopped. >> reporter: at this han-owned car dealership, they are cleaning up after being firebombed. it's located in a uighur part of town and the manager is suspicious of his neighbors. >> translator: i can't believe there are bastards like this in our country. i can't describe my feelings. >> reporter: in the uighur neighborhood behind the dealership, life is also returning slowly to normal. this woman's son and two friends were arrested. >> translator: i don't know where my husband is. many people are missing here, and no one knows where they are. >> reporter: the future looks bleak for those convicted of murder during the riots. authorities have warned they'll be executed. with thousands of troops still on the streets here, both sides are talking peace for no

zhang quanxing, a han chinese, spent three days looking for his wife. "i searched for many days," he said. "i went to many hospitals, checked many lists, and i could not find her. yesterday, i went to the morgue." he learned that his wife was beaten to death during sunday's riot. tonight, the city is quiet, but the scars of this week's violence are still visible, and the wounds are deeply felt on both sides. clarissa ward, abc news, urumqi, china. >>> and still ahead on "world news," troubling allegations of racism. a suburban swim club under fire after black children were turned away. >>> new hope for millions managing diabetes. the technology that could change everything. it's "medicine on the cutting edge." >>> and the first daughters enjoying a front row seat to the world stage and making the most of their summer vacation. while i was building my friendships, my family, while i was building my life, my high cholesterol was contributing to plaque buildup in my arteries. that's why my doctor prescribed crestor. she said plaque buildup in arteries is a

the han chinese can't understand why the vighurs rioted against them and their businesses.man who arrived here four months ago to sell auto supplies this is the land of economic opportunity. it's easy to make money here he told me. to the han, china is bringing prosperity to its fastest growing region. this evening, the arrests continue. in a city tense but subdued, the two communities, more apart than ever. ian williams, nbc news, urumqi. >>> when "nightly news" returns this friday. making a difference. a unique golf course that is helping injured veterans get back into the game. helping injured veterans get back into the game. yes, we do. and we can say 700 miles on a single tank and epa estimated 41 mpg city and all the words stick because they're true. we speak the most fuel-efficient midsize sedan in america. we speak the all-new 2010 ford fusion hybrid. get in... and drive one. we speak the all-new discover a smoothieybrid. like no other! new activia smoothies. creamy, delicious, and above all, it contains bifidus regularis and is clinically proven to help regulate yo

in china is trying to stop the civil unrest between the ethnic weaker -- uighur minorities and han chinese. >>> prosecutors showed a key piece of evidence in the trial of william jefferson to the. they showed a video recorded by the fbi that showed him outside a hotel accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000. he is accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes. >>> a proposal that gained a lot of attention becomes what in d.c. >> alberto gonzalez has a new job lined up for the fall. >> temperatures are still in the upper 80's. p >>> you are watching abc7 news at 6:00. >>> a law recognizing sinn-sex marriages performed elsewhere is in effected in the district now. congress has 30 days to review it the bill. the bill became law today. this allows for the same miracle rights afforded heterosexual couples in d.c. >>> to the senate floor, today our frank was sworn into office -- al franken was sworn into office. after months of wrangling, the minnesota democrat was sworn in by joe biden. he becomes the 60th democratic senator. one of his first jobs will be to sit on the judiciary committee

tensions are rising again in the chinese neighborhood of chi, with bloody clashes between muslims and han chinesewe managed to film some of the unrest and the official response. he sent us this report. >> mosques were ordered to close, and the government expected trouble. with tensions running high, we were not taking any chances. muslims' demands justice. innocent men, they cry. >> there have been a group of men and women raising their voices in anger. so far, authorities have done nothing, but they are moving and to find control for the situation. >> they quickly surround a group. look closely. on the left, an officer runs in. next, his hands are held. another officer punches him repeatedly. at this time, we had to stop filming. police began rounding up journalists. there are more intense than ever. the have flooded across the country. the state media is full of pictures of their bloody bodies, many demanding retribution. shortly after this, they are under curfew. they fear for the safety and want to know what happened. we're in western china. >> after the election in iran, there is little sign

slim uighurs and han chinese. today chinese authorities deployed hundred of troops throughout the proncial capital. and imposed a curfew. the local cmmunist party leader is warning th those behind the clashes, whi have left 156 people dead, woulde executed. >>> andow to afghanistan, where the. american military offensive against the talib in hmand provinc ia week old. at offense's being carried out by 4,000 america troops and 400 afghansoldiers. andhat's prompted someworried comments from arican military fficialsn the field. one of them sa today, more afan soldiers are needed to help american troop win over afghan citizens. adding, we can't read these people. we're different. they're not going to tell us the truth. we'llever get to build and transition uess we have the ghan troops. >> well, the.s. continues to go after thealiban. just acros the border from ghanistan. in thepakistani tbal region nown as south wazistan, missilespparently filed from america drones killed at least 45 militants today. in a separe attack

in recent years, the government in beijing has been sending a lot of han chinese people to occupy and start businesses in this far west area. the muslim majority is chretiesg in that area. they're getting less advantageous jobs in their home area. when they travel to other parts of china, they are treated somewhat like slave labor, which is the original dispute. martha: han chinese have been sent into this area to sort of populate it because they're not crazy about the uighurs in that area. on top of that, a very difficult economic situation in china out. you have a lot of inflammation of tensions. >> absolutely. martha: as the united states looks at this, as president obama looks at this, what should the approach be? >> one, it is really time to step back, and the obama administration has really put climate change at the top of its agenda. secretary clinton and secretary geithner will be going to china to talk about climate change. as problems in north korea and iran are billing on, i do not think it is feasible at all to imagine pushing that kind of priority. the united states needs

most who died, where, in fact, han chinese. although uigur muslims did die. there has been haydns security situation, and those riots and neighborhoods have been sealed off -- heightened security. china has been going to africa for many years, building new railways and routes, and getting natural resources to fuel the economic boom. but chinese nationals have been targeted before. they have been kidnapped and threatened, but this seems like the first time that china and its people have received a direct threat from an al qaeda affiliate. >> let us catch up with the sports. the american league beat the national league for-3 in the all-star game tuesday night. that picture also tells the story because barack obama, the fourth president to throw a ceremonial first pitch. american league were 3-2 down of the fifth inning but tied it up, getting derrick jr. -- jeter to home plate. and here, a run would put the national league ahead. and the next inning, a triple, taking into third base. this is from adam jones -- there's the catch. for-3, it ends, for the american

the area is used to tension between muslims and han chinese, who rule much of china.e muslims have staged a long mill at that point in time bid for independence. the area's communist leaders are already blaming the unrest on separatists from outside the borders. anti-riot police are now patrolling, but the unrest might continue. authorities have already warned the city's death toll could rise. cbs news, beijing. >>> just ahead on the morning news, drinking coffee to fight alzheimer's disease. >>> plus it's no joke. a group of cops in michigan buy a doughnut shop. >>> first, though, katie couric has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> i'll be anchoring tonight from los angeles as the city sets the stage for michael jackson's memorial service. there's expected to be a huge outpouring of emotion as fans and celebrities from all over the world pay tribute. join me for full coverage from l.a. tonight only on the cbs evening news. a heart attack at 53. i had felt fine. but turns out... my cholesterol and other risk factors... increased my chance of a heart attack.

they say that were huntedown because theyre han chinese. >> it seemedlike it or in gups of re than 10. there is nohance to sa anything, they just came up and attack. en they saw a han person come alongthey started to attack when the bus came along, the started to attack as well. >> troops have been deployed acro the regi and a curfew is in pce. thetreets of the pital are deserted apart fm paramilitary gros, buthe government has gone even further. ina says is n back in corol. >> a me ofolitical cat and mouse is playingut in honduras. the exiled presiden determined to rurn, find mself in an airpne circling the airport. milita vehicles blocked the runway to stop them fm landing. he is no expected in washington to meet wh secretary of state, let clean. he had tdivert to -- secretary of state, hillary inton. he had todivert t nicaragua. >> supporrs ofhe president who see hias their potential savior will have be encouraged by his dramic arrival in an airplane over th capital sunday eveng. he vowed to continue his efforts to return tois homeland. >> i wanted t land. if the pilot had lded, i

officials say 156 people have died, as hundreds injured in clashes involving the country's han chineseand the uighurs, a muslim minority, native to china's xinjiang region. the two sides blame each other for the violence. the government organized a visit to one of the city's biggest hospitals where most of the injured we saw were han chinese. most with head and stab wounds. sustained, they say, in unprovoked attacks by uighur mobs. it was indiscriminate. they attacked anyone, this woman told me, as she tended to her husband, who sustained serious head wounds. though she's in a uighur neighborhood, residents claim they're the victims of han chinese, but also of brutal security force crackdowns. it's calmer today, a semblance of normal life returning to the streets here. but only under the watchful eye of thousands of riot police. for "today," ian williams, nbc news. >>> more infighting between house speaker nancy pelosi and her allies and the cia director. house democrats say leon panetta told them the cia misled congress repeatedly since 2001. the cia says panetta never said that. it c

while the violenchas subsided, the animosity beeen the muslim uigh population and han chinese hasot, as we hear from tom iggulden of abc stralia. >> reporter: china's paramilitary takeover is coplete. troops hav sealed offhe muslim uighur rea, butempers in the ty remain at boiling point. this uighur man was viciously beateby a group of chinese. he was able to stagger to his feet and was led away by a liceman. the crowd al turned on the camercrew, ary by what they say is bias forei coverage of thunrest. inthis uighur distri, locals aim han chise mobs stormed t neighborhood and attacked them. they're protting themselves with almo anything they can lay theirands on, including rocks and axes. >> translator: th came to ll people. i was wounded they cam to our neigorhood loking for uigrs. they hit and hopped. >> repoer: at this han-owned car dealership, ey are cleaning up after beng firebombed. it'socated in a uighur part of town and th manager is spicious of his ighbors. >> tralator: i can't believe there are bastards like this i our country. i can't describe my elings. >> reporter: in th

authorities now say more than 180 people were killed last week in rioting between uighurs and the han chinese. the country's majority ethnic group. >>> as american force begin to scale back in iraq, there is growing concern whether that country can hold itself together. especially in northern iraq, where ethnic tensions and violence are increasing. the kurdish region had is rich in oil and gas has taken a bold step toward greater autonomy, at least according to "the new york times." with little notice in almost no public debate, the paper reports, iraq's kurdish leaders are pushing ahead with a new constitution for their semiautonomous region. a step that has alarmed irqi and american officials who fear the move poses a new threat to the country's unity. it goes on to say that american diplomatic officials who have said that the potential with a confrontation with the kurds havers merged as a threat as worrisome to iraq's fate as the remnants of the insurgencies. >>> elsewhere in the middle east, israel's national security adviser saying that israel's willing to split the golden heights with

the state-run news agency announced 137 of the victims belonged to the han chinese majority. nearly all of the rest were muslim uighurs. the trouble erupted last sunday in northwestern china. since then, thousands of troops have flooded the region to enforce order. eight more british soldiers have been killed in action in afghanistan. the announcement today made 15 british fatalities in ten days. and prime minister brown warned there will be more violence and deaths in afghanistan. he said, "this is a very hard summer. it's not over." >> lehrer: and still to come on the newshour tonight: the sotomayor hearings; brooks and marcus; and missing stories. that follows the end of the economic summit in italy. jeffrey brown begins our coverage. >> reporter: president obama wrapped up a week of european travel with a final news conference at the g-8 summit in l'aquila, italy. mr. obama said the g-8 leaders are giving iran two months to start talking seriously about the country's nuclear program. >> we remain seriously concerned about the appalling events surrounding the presidential

it began when protests escalated with majority han chinese. the government says nearly 1700 people have been injured in the violence. state-run media says the riots have left 184 people dead, including 137 han and 46 uighurs. >>> it's the danger you face when you try to outrun a bull. two are hurt seriously. hospital officials say none of the injuries are life threatening. one of the runners was injured when a 1300-pound bull split from the pack, caught him, tossed him up then rolled him on the grand. a man was gored to death on friday. the first death since 1995. >>> police say they are making headway in the search for clues in the death of a couple with 16 children. they have found a van they were searching for, but it's who they've also found that may help crack this case. >>> florida police are questioning two people in the killing of a couple known for adopting special needs children. authorities have found the red van caught by surveillance cameras leaving the couple's home in florida on thursday. this birks the way, some of that surveill

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