majority ies shia. the population accuse sz the government from blocking them from key business, political and military jobs. protesters want to topple the regime. in yemen, antigovernment protesters took to the streets. >> we want the government to step down. >> like in egypt and tenesia, protesters are angry about poverty and corruption. the street is demanding more. similar scenes playing out in libya. activists using social networking sites to rally start against peter khudi. he has been in power since 1969. a growing number of libyans are calling for their leader to go. 14 people have reportedly died in several cities. hundreds of young palastinians called for unity. islamist group, the rival dates back to early 1990s. now inspired by antigovernment protest taking place around the middle east, palastinians are calling for 2 groups to come together. >> this man joins uz from leb anon, christian and author of the book coming revolution, is this something snels>> >> in each one of these countries you

minister were seriously come he realized al qaeda has been taking care of by the americans and shia militias, but i have a competition for power, shia militiamen who were unruly, clashing with security forces in a turn on them too to surprise even the americans. in march of 2008, maliki declared operations. angrily he targeted neighborhoods in basra, baghdad and elsewhere. his guys were actually losing. americans are 24 notices of operations came to his rescue with snipers, there's an save the iraqi army because you had hundreds of iraqis lechers and police standing down, not really wanting to fight their army brethren. even though the americans are the ones who ended up crashing the mahdi army, he was perceived as a victory for maliki and the first i was sunnis and iraqis may not have loved maliki, but they professionally accepted he had reduced violence in the wasn't sectarian, a real shift in the way sunnis began to be a maliki. suddenly he was perceived as purely sectarian, but he was perceived as having devastated the mahdi army and they still haven't recovered from that. the decision was pret

any threat so sooner or later the car time will come to all of that i would not overplay their shia sunnis you grieve it had all it's an issue sixty one percent of iraq is a shia and inclusive you have add abyssinia down so they below course have an open border that's what they want they want to be to get there just like the kurds want to be together so that i many things that have to be shaped in the middle east and all of it is coming up one after the other go ahead errol go ahead jump in what about can israel live in peaceful coexistence with a democratic arab north africa and beyond ok if that is to come to some loathly and here is why if you notice democratic societies worry about the internal problems that you have look at iraq the only arab country in the middle east which talks you hear in the wind which of street the. it's the word hope that people feel a sense of inclusion that they have a chance of making something of themselves and they don't have to cal tell to some bureaucrat or or or or some autocratic tyrant or something like that is iraq in democratic societies worry about

i am in front of the main shia mosque where thousands of people are gathering to hear the sermon this morning. and earlier in the day i had gone to the funeral where three of the protesters killed yesterday were buried. and then, tens of thousands of people showed up and followed a procession through this very impoverished town, and paid homage to these three people. it was a very emotional ceremony and many said the emotions they felt were one of sorrow for the dead, and one of rage that they were shot, and they plan to show up tomorrow, saturday, in a brand-new demonstration against the government. >> all right. toula, in the meantime, the u.s. navy's fifth fleet is based in bahrain. how does that figure into all of this? >> well, the u.s. navy is based here. the navy is keeping a very low profile, which is traditionally the case with any military unit. but certainly, it's an aspect of the story that is very important for the u.s. >> all right, cbs radio's toula vlahou in bahrain today. thank you, toula. >>> government crackdowns elsewhere in the arab world have done little to quiet

. >> is shia bit miss chi vows. >> that i didn't pick up on, she was compliant. >> reporter: for peter a different story. even though there was not much space the 70-pound sheep skidded away from his rescuers multiple times. >> it was mainly, it was just afraid, it would try to get away and the best thing you could do was just try to tackle it. and i think he did. >> we were lucky to get him in a corner where we komen him into the corner and lean on him and keep him pinned down. >> he seemed a bit disoriented after the ordeal. he had a cut on his nose but seemed all right. after all, he did leave in a cadillac escalade. >> he has an appetite. he can have all the alfalfa he wants. >> reporter: while he left, sparkles can't go home quite yet. they need to make sure that she didn't hurt peter pan in any way. but they said looking at the evidence it seemed it was just a chase. in richmond, grace lee cbs5. >>> dreams on hold for dozens of college-bound students, the mistake that now has many have of them uncertain about their future. >>> no need to cover up. the new body scanner that is not

a change in the shia will leave an entirely different one. sometimes i even forget that i'm in prison was pretty much. as soon as the performance is over the women actors will change their fancy costumes for prison uniform they will again look like all the inmates in the new rascals and friendly floors are still in store for. today's come back to the teaser about to come to a man everyone returns to their samples in the evening lives up to her promise of sending a letter to her husband in the men's prison. there's a letter for you thanks a lot. every word in his last is important to me. they were last year at. this. morning thing is that she loves me. misses me and hasn't forgotten about me. easy him to talk about that. he says love and fear to help him survive prison life. will move this one for once. but all these together. we're going to hear you. three. the theater creates a different reality. the fantasy heroes rather than criminals. this is cathy and nastia and. i can't tell one woman from another i'm really at a loss of that wait a minute nicholai

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i would agree with you that look the fact is. matter is that the eastern province of saudi arabia are overwhelmingly shiite where the oil is is shia eat and these provinces were stolen by the one who run that country in nineteen zero two these people don't want to live in one stand they don't want to live in saudi arabia that's why i am an arguing if there was a free government in iran it would be a natural hour by the forces of freedom for to the united states the west i know the westerners hated by the other speaker here i love the west bank god because we stand for those for you think the people in the greater middle east love the west for what it's done over the last four decades harold. do you think the people in central a user love the russians or the people and try to. change the subject for just all change the subject to against what must really is me and millions of probably people from central asia come to russia to work come on harold get clued in here ok and you throw them out of moscow is what you do they're coming every single day heroin being why you changing the subject why do you have always exactly the same thing

the fact is that they knew i had lived in beirut, written about the shia, the religious sect that dominates in iran and it is also the largest sect in lebanon and made them think maybe i was serious about this. c-span: where did you get your interest in the first place? guest: oh, everything in my life has been an accident. i started as a foreign correspondent, years and years ago, 20 years ago, and was first in africa and loved it, and then moved to europe and discovered that it was a nice place to live but it wasn't much of a story, and so moved to the middle east. and one could not live in beirut in the early 1980s without understanding the shiites, and understanding the shiites always led you back to iran. and because i'd been there, in and out of there before, i decided to go back. c-span: in the introduction of your book, you say, "to the memory of a thoughtful law professor who advised his students, as well as his children, to approach all problems 'by standing on top of the world and looking down'and who was so much more than my father." what's that all about? guest: my father alway

shia take over. this army is out. and so that's why you saw, i think, this incredible outpouring of violence, which only got called off by the king. now, whether they turn this on and turn it off periodically, you know, that could undercut the way they do the negotiations. >> schieffer: if the king was out and... what would happen? what would happen to u.s. interests there? would the fifth fleet have to leave? would they be ordered out? >> it's hard to know how this would work out. of course, the fifth fleet is an enormous employer there. the biggest concern is saudi arabia, their next door neighbor. so far you have not seen this happen in saudi arabia. remember, it's the saudis who called in to president obama during egyptian crisis and said, "let president mubarak do whatever he needs to do, including shooting people on the streets," because losing the region would be just too difficult. in bahrain, they've got even stronger interests because it's right across the causeway. you have to think that their advice to the bahraini king is the same. s

twenty years so sure already regrets the decision to flee i think all those reports by al jazeera and all the arab language channels calls shia panic among the people in new bodies attack an entry probably there is no shooting yes there could easily go to say my friends all the young people all supported gaddafi hospitals are working as usual as all the people open today everything conscience people want to leave as they can yes but the country awash with firearms the current law and violence increasingly looks like a calm before the storm that's why tripoli airport is now be easier than ever a country scrambling to pull their citizens out oh my god our faces. on to proudly cell phone being issued negotiator and it shows even in the way the evacuation of foreign nationals is being carried out over the past week the government before servicing planes at the tripoli airport has more than tripled to more than eight thousand dollars per plane considering that ex-pats used to make about twenty percent of the country's labor force but privately beer is proving to be a very good source of cash with less than two thousand of its resi

so you see the shia it triples the reward and ask about dead or alive is now worth five million dollars absolute i said about. the authorities refine and perfect their electronic surveillance escobar is one of the first to own a cell phone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position and. they're going to go on one day an american technician who was up in the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the exact timing place he was sizing. they on day. it's in mountainous difficult terrain. we organized a helicopter operation in the up and of secrecy. for just a short while later we hear someone warning him on the radio saying. they know where you also go they're on their way here by the time we arrived he'd gone. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor who keeps the head of a cartel informed the instant the police are about to swoop. the colonel quickly ferrets i'm out here to. inform i was a young police exhilarating it was known as a skilled wood carver. little figures of police move you kno

shia killed their leader rafiq hariri. many are convinced. just look at the street, there are already changes. >> i know that justice is very important but at the same time if justice is to lead is to lead to bloodshed, what is the use of justice, tell me. >> reporter: walid jumblatt, the legendary leader of lebanon's druze community, has become the swing vote in local politics. his own father was assassinated in 1977, and he was once a strong supporter of the tribunal. but he now fears lebanon will become collateral damage to u.s. interests in the region. >> they are decided to use the tribunal for their own political purposes. destabilizing lebanon for them is nothing. they just want to drag the hezbollah into a sectarian warfare inside lebanon. this is why i said it is time to finish of this tribunal. >> they make these allegations that the tribunal is a u.s. israeli tool just as they've engaged in any number of other criticisms, attempting to undermine the tribunal process and there is no real legitimacy to those allegations that they make. >> reporter: maura connelly is the united states ambas

shia killed their leader rafiq hariri. many are convinced. just look at the street, there are already changes. >> i know that justice is very important but at the same time if justice is to lead is to lead to bloodshed, what is the use of justice, tell me. id jatt,shed, what is the use of low-level operatives, somewhere did this. in that case it would be fairly easy to go over it. on the other hand if the indictments are very convincing and very solid and indict high figures in hezbollah, it could be a very, very decisive and dangerous moment. >> reporter: lebanon, still fragile from decades of civil war, now waits to see if an international search for justice will finally help end its political violence, or plunge the country further into chaos. >> woodruff: kira kay's story is part of our partnership with the bureau for international reporting. >> lehrer: finally tonight, a novelist tells a very personal story. jeffrey brown has our conversation. >> brown: in february, 2008, 77-year-old raymond smith was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. a week later, he died of a secondary infection, leav

sunni's in that country and by elevating the shia into positions of power and excluding the sunni's and excluded and disenfranchising we sparked a civil war that i think has reparations still to this day throughout the middle east i know plenty of iraqis work with plenty iraqis daily both my deployments to iraq it's been about told twenty months there and while they do have a freer government while saddam hussein was a tyrant it was a brutal government. i think most iraqis would prefer to have that than to have the violence and the chaos and the insanity that has marked daily life in iraq since two thousand and three when i understand that so we have time for role this link between moscow and washington thanks very much indeed matthew hoh from the center for international policy joining us here live in auti thank you. more just ahead this hour space fashion courtesy of a renowned former agent who spy scandal made headlines around the world. unlike chapman it's not a mission to get the russian space industry to look fabulous all the cosmic details are a little later on the program. but first police have raided the offices of russia's richest woma

stand and put them under severe scene and the shia wars and new white phosphorus on them because they have chosen a government that you do not approve of and i didn't tell me she doesn't generally are getting a little too far with gentlemen we're getting a little topic here so you can i stay with c.n.n. so i will light gentlemen to stay with ramsey really the issue here if we speed up to the present ok is it the the israelis and the americans and their allies are terrified that the egyptians will break the blockade of gaza if they have a government of their own people to have their own family lives they decide they don't want to enforce this illegal blockade of gaza that's what israel is first and foremost afraid of at this moment there's a you know what the new government and your government cannot if you could just let me ask you this question and you go on your government might in fact break the siege of gaza in fact the siege of gaza. that is and is a violation of international law and various international bodies have asked and demanded the break of that siege however our focus right now should not be with us worrying about the future c

that is -- an iraq that is a success because they feel an affinity for the shia arabs who make up a majority of the population. i think that there are other people in iran who probably would like to see much more iranian influence over iraq and would hold iraq's success hostage to additional iranian influence. and sorting out that is one of our challenges. >> one last question. we have spent about $20 billion to develop iraqi security forces and increased ministerial capacity. overall we spent about $58 billion in reconstruction in iraq, including the building of infrastructure, establishment of political and social institutions and a whole host of other things. now i understand the iraqis have a sense of their own budget crisis, but certainly with the challenges that we are having here at home, at some point one would presume that the shift of where we are spending our resources will go to the iraqis funded by, let's say, increasing oil revenue. how long do you anticipate the united states needs to be engaged in this civilian mission at the currently planned support level? and how accurate are the current estim

that is -- an iraq that is a success because they feel an affinity for the shia arabs who make up a majority of the population. i think that there are other people in iran who probably would like to see much more iranian influence over iraq and would hold iraq's success hostage to additional iranian influence. and sorting out that is one of our challenges. >> one last question. we have spent about $20 billion to develop iraqi securityforces and increased ministerial capacity. overall we spent about $58 billion in reconstruction in iraq, including the building of infrastructure, establishmentf political and social institutions and a whole host of other things. now i understand the iraqis have a sense of their own budget crisis, but certainly with the challenges that we are having here at home, at some point one would presume that the shift of where we are spending our resources will go to the iraqis funded by, let's say, increasing oil revenue. how long do you anticipate the united states needs to be engaged in this civilian mission at the currently planned support level? and how accurate are the current estimate

shia consider it an outrage that some of our colleagues want to repeal -- i consider it an outrage that some of our colleagues want to repeal a law that's improved the lives of millions of americans. the push to repeal health care reform, i think, is the worst kind of hypocrisy coming from this place and at the other end of the capitol. here we're 100. the other side has 435 people. there are those who have voted not to have this health care reform in the first place. and now those who are jumping on the opportunity to repeal a law that is designed to help people health, to help kids grow healthfully, to help families be able to maintain a degree of functioning when illness strikes their family, to provide services that increase longevity to our people and i, for one, speak well for that effort. it's so hypocritical to me because the senators who are advocating repeal have access to the best health plan in our country. they get to walk down the hall here, there's a clinic, half a dozen doctors, competent, skilled people. there are health care aides who work there, professionals. and all