the interior ministry has just issued a statement saying that any demonstrations are illegal. everyone already knows that, of course, but the interior ministry has added, rather ominously, that it will take any measures necessary to deal with public uproar. >> it is not clear if these are live rounds or plastic bullets. this could be teargas or a stun grenade. all of this marks an escalation of the protests in the shi'ite east. the capital is next. bbc news, saudi arabia. >> in yemen, protests have led to a series of political reforms. addressing thousands of supporters, the opposition was invited to join a new unity government. police, firefighters and soldiers have joined an operation to help earthquake victims in southwest china. more than 20 people died and 200 where injured. the quake struck at lunchtime on a thursday. a man is recovering in a hospital after being bitten by a crocodile. another fisherman intervened, allowing him to escape. today, the dalai lama is giving upon politics. he will begin a formal process of stepping down. he says the move will be for the long

interior ministry has just issued a statement saying that any demonstrations are illegal. everyone already knows that, of course. but the interior ministry has added rather ominously that it will take all measures necessary to deal with what it calls public disorder. shots were heard tonight. it's not clear if they were live rounds or plastic bullets. there were some injuries. this could be tear gas or a stun grenade. all this does mark an escalation, though there have been protests in the shiite east before. everyone now is waiting to see if the capital is next. >> there is more analysis in the situation in saudi arabia on the "bbc news" website. also you'll find there a timeline of the events taking place in labia on thursday. to libya and colonel gaddafi's forces, they're trying to regain libya, but we've been speaking to some of its residents. >> this is where mohammed's son was playing and was picked up by the security forces and taken to prison three times, accused of being an islammist. he also blames the security forces for shooting dead one of his sons. how do you

but note that for all intents and purposes all of the files of the interior ministry have been burned. there have been fires in the interior ministry and in local state security offices all over the country. and the reason we know about the interior ministry is it's a block and a half away from our downtown campus. and so we are constantly having to reroute our puss because there's a fire at -- buses because there's a fire at the interior ministry. the upshot, however, is there has clearly been an effort on probably a number of parties' parts to destroy evidence. now -- and some of the tahrir protesters did put out some of those fires and try and get some of that evidence and so forth. but it's interesting, it's not even clear altogether who's been lighting the fires because there are disaffected police who were fired and went back in and started some of the fires, and then there are probably security people in the employ of the interior ministry who are destroying evidence. that's what many of the protesters think. in any event, this is part of one of those transitions questions, the

but note that for all intensive purposes of the finals of the interior ministry have been burned.s been five years in the interior ministry and in the local state security offices all over the country and the reason we know about the interior ministry is it is a block and a half away from our downtown campus and so we are constantly having to reroute our buses and so forth because there is a failure at the interior ministry. the upshot however is there is clearly an effort on a number of parties parts to destroy evidence. and some of the protesters did put out the fires and try to get some of that evidence and so forth but it's interesting it's not even clear altogether who has been lighting the fire because there are disaffected police who went back in and started some of the fires and there are probably security people in the interior ministry destroying evidence. that is what many of the protesters think. in any even, this is part of the one of the transition questions. the extent to which you have a capacity for documenting the truth and reconciliation and so forth and so on -

everyone already knows that, of course, but the interior ministry has added rather ominously that it will take all measures necessary to deal with what it calls public disorder. shots were heard tonight. it's not clear if they were live rounds or plastic bullets. there were some injuries. this could be tear gas or a stun grenade. all this does mark an escalation that there have been protests in the shiite east before. everyone is waiting if the capital ri hard is next. paul wood, bbc news, in saudi arabia. >> a professor of islamic and middle eastern studies at wayne state university in michigan in the united states. he is in our central london studio. professor, is it true that the saudi government says that it's unislamic to hold protests? >> no, clearly not. this is a religion that was forced on political dissent to innovate against tyranny, injustice, the social inequities of the arabian peninsula in the early part of the seventh century. so in order to go ahead now and say that this is some kind of an unlawful, sinful activity shows a kind of cynical cross legitimatization relat

probably security people and the employee of the interior ministry who are destroying evidence. that is what many of the protesters think. in any event, this is part of one of those transitions questions. the extent to which you have a capacity for documenting a truth and reconciliation and so forth and so on. part of the point of burning all of that evidence is making it harder to do that. so, it may be that going forward you have a much more transparent era cravaack ordinary if you will kind of administrative apparatus that it is not clear that kind of administrative apparatus will be able to recoup the past. and the question of the past and who should be brought to justice is in fact a very complicated murky one. so i think as they say, that particular case may have been lost in the fires. other ones like that may have been lost in the fires. but we will never know. there was some recuperation of some of this material and some of it had been shredded and we were kind of facetiously talking about the fact that has happened in the aftermath of the iranian revolution there were

. >> fire has broken out in egyptian interior ministry building in cairo. thick smoke was seen rising from the building shortly after thousand of policemen protested to demand better working conditions. the flames also spread to another building in the ministry complex. >> radiation is still leaking from japan's fukushima nuclear plant, but scientists say they're unsure exactly where it's coming from. 12 days on, just over 9,000 people are known to have been killed by the earthquake and tsunami. at least 13,000, though, are still missing. 16 miles from the fukushima plant, many of the people have left and some may never return. >> a week ago, the streets were busy with traffic. now the lights still change, but no cars come. this is what it looks like inside the contamination zone. tens of thousands have fled, but many elderly can't or won't. in an old house, they find an old couple. the phone call is from their daughter. she wants them to leave. we're fine, he says. we have plenty of food. your mother is sleeping all the time, and we still have plenty of sak

t interior ministry will now be headed by the parliamentary leader of bavaria's christian social uniontheir fears of inflation in europe. here is more. >> this news to many people by surprise. the european central bank shook financial markets thursday by signaling an interest rate hike, which could come as soon as next month. that is much earlier than markets expected. the ecb is responding to increasing inflationary pressures on commodities markets. >> the ecb has kept the base rate at 1% for now, but the bank president gives a pretty clear signals that a hike is on the horizon. the bank is worried by rising inflation, fueled by spiraling prices for fuel and commodities. >> we are mentioning that we're in a posture of strong vigilance. and my understanding of the position of the governing is in line with such assessments that we did in the past. an increase of interest rates in the next meeting is possible. >> the market is also awash with cheap money. but that is also proline prices, keeping inflation down is the central bank's number one priority. but it is currently running at 2.4%

but for all intents and purposes, all the files of the interior ministry had been burned. there have been fires in the interior ministry and local state security offices all over the country. the reason we know about the interior ministry is that it is a block and a half away from our downtown campus. we are constantly having to reroute our buses because of a fires at the interior ministry. the upshot is that there has clearly been an effort from a number of parties to destroy evidence. some of the tahrir protesters put out some of those fires and tried to get evidence and so forth. it is not even clear altogether who has been lighting fires, because there are disaffected police who have been fired and went back in and started some of the fires, and there are probably security people in the employ of the interior ministry who are destroying evidence. that is what many of the protesters think. in any event, this is part of one of those transition questions, the extent to which you have capacity for documenting a truth-and- reconciliation, so forth and so on. part of the poi

a fire swept through egypt's interior ministries police protested outside demanding higher salaries and better working conditions the demonstrators have been accused of starting a place that something they deny hundreds of people gathered at the site which is close to tahrir square the heart of the recent gyptian unrest the mass demonstrations that toppled former president hosni mubarak were followed by several labor protests. tensions growing in the yemeni capital sanaa as opposition and pro-government troops are deployed in the city president saleh vowed not to pass power to military commanders who recently defected to the pro-democracy movement the country's leader of thirty two years has promised to leave office by the end of the year he waited then he who attempt could lead to civil war. i'll be back with a recap of our top news stories in ten minutes right now they discuss the rise of islamophobia in the u.s. with award winning journalist in beirut named one of the world's top one hundred intellectuals by the foreign policy magazine. your latest book is taming the gods of religion

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but note that all the files of the interior ministry had been burned.here have been fires in the interior ministry and in the local state and security offices across the country, and the reason we know it is the interior ministry is that it is a plaque and a half away from our downtown campus. -- a block and a half away from our downtown campus. the upshot is that there has clearly been an effort on a number of parties -- parts to destroy evidence. some of the tahrir protesters did put out some of those buyers ended try to get some of that evidence and so forth. but it is not clear altogether who has been letting the fires, because there are disaffected police who were fired and went back in and started the fires, and there are probably security people in the employ of the interior ministry who were destroying evidence. that is what many of the protesters think. in any event, this is part of one of those transitions questions, the extent to which you have a capacity for documenting a truth and reconciliation and so forth and so on. part of a point of a

as they demonstrated outside the interior ministry, a fire broke out on the upper floors and a security official accused them of starting it. in yemen's capital, protestors again demanded that the president step down. today he promised to leave at the end of the year but they want him out now. when he does leave, the u.s. will lose a major ally in the fight against al qaeda. and in syria, the governor of a southern province was fired today after security forces killed seven antigovernment protestors over the weekend. meanwhile, in this country, there's been some confusion and a lot of debate about u.s. goals in libya. some questioning whether we should even be there. more on that from wyatt andrews. >> reporter: after scores of cruise missile and bombing attacks, the president still calls the u.s. mission in libya humanitarian with the goal of stopping qaddafi from attacking his own people. >> not only was he carrying out murders of civilians but he threatened more. >> reporter: that's also what the u.n. authorized: all necessary measures to protect libyan civilians. however, the real g

leading the fight against gadhafi is a man who worked with him for decades, head of his feared interior ministry, general abdul fattah younis. in that role his job was to enforce loyalty to gadhafi. younis told us a few weeks ago he stepped down because gadhafi had gone too far killing protesters. then there are the rebels political leaders. what do they want? you understand that there is a lot of apprehension in the united states. the government feels like they don't know you very well. "we really do understand american fears," he said, assuring us they want democracy with political parties, a new constitution and elections. still there is a lot of skepticism. >> there is cause for concern i think. we don't know who we're dealing with. quite simply only time will tell. >> reporter: what about gadhafi's claims that the rebels have terrorists and fundamentalists in their ranks? >> colonel gadhafi likes to play on western fears of islamic militancy and claim that somehow this movement is being led by jihadists or people linked to al qaeda. there's no real truth in that. >> reporter: as these rebel

verdict saying that workplace abuse is all too often ignored when a fire swept through egypt's interior ministry as police protested outside demanding higher salaries and better working conditions the demonstrators have been accused of starting the blaze which they deny hundreds of people gathered at the site which close to tahrir square the heart of the recent gyptian and west mass demonstrations that toppled former president hosni mubarak followed by several labor protests. in ukraine is launched a criminal investigation of a former president leonid kuchma as a potential link to the murder of an outspoken opposition journalist eleven years ago suspected of abusing his power and giving orders which led to the crime not is a legacy he says the details now from the ukrainian capital kiev. but it's hard to say whether this will all go against the country's former president because this story has been dragging on for more than a decade since two thousand to like remind two of us that a very well known opposition journalist the went missing in the year two thousand he was found a month later in one

seven floors of the interior ministry are on fire.were inside the building, possibly still are. people are fleeing as we speak. this fire started 45 minutes ago, you can see flames coming out of their roof. there is word this building could possibly collapse. that is a threatening situation appeare police officers were protesting outside for better working conditions. i will keep you updated on the story live from the newsroom. >> darya: thank you, in libya since explosions, gunfire around the capital. the explosion seemed becoming near a compound belonging to gaddafi. they say they targeted the building to wipe out the ability to command in control troops. the three day assault has been successful. take a look at this new video. it appears to be a video that just surfaced on www.youtube.com, it was taken, cnn has not been able to verify. were not sure where it is or if it's legitimate. is on you to bring out. >> mark: new developments said of the japan workers have reconnected power lines, it is a significant step and try and bring p

. >>> in news of the world tonight, in egypt the top floors of the interior ministry in downtown cairo burned today as police rallied for higher pay. protesters started the fire. but demonstrators denied that and accused security officials inside of burning files to get rid of evidence of police abuses under former president mubarak. >>> in the gaza strip, palestinian officials say militants missed their target today. instead of killing a wanted man, they hit a family. >>> and in paris, a 200-year- old theater was badly damaged by fire today. the elysee was originally a dance hall. part of them were designed by eiffel. the cause appears to be accidental. >>> we're continuing to follow that report of a threat at sfo. we have a crew that just arrived at the scene. they are gathering information and we'll have a live report. >>> how a crash >>> in berkeley tonight, tens of thousands of people are happy to have their power back on. a major power outage today left 27,000 customers without electricity and forced a closure of the north berkeley and downtown b.a.r.t. stations. the outage began

all of the files of the interior ministry have been burned, for all intents and purposes. there have been fires in the interior ministry and in local state security offices all over the country. the reason we know about the interior ministry is that it is a block away from our downtown campus. we are constantly having to reroute are buses because there is a fire at the interior ministry. the upshot is that there has been a clear effort on the part of a number of parties to destroy evidence. some of the tahrir square protesters did put out some of those fires and tried to get some of that evidence and so forth. it is not even clear altogether who has been lighting the fires because there are disaffected police who were fired and went back in and started some of the fires. there are security people in the employee of the interior ministry who are starting fires. that is what some of the protesters think. this is part of one of those transition questions. the extent to which you have a capacity for documenting truth and reconciliation and so forth and so on. the point of burn

. >>> in news of the world tonight, in egypt the top floors of the interior ministry in downtown cairo burned today as police rallied for higher pay. protesters started the fire. but demonstrators denied that and accused security officials inside of burning files to get rid of evidence of police abuses under former president mubarak. >>> in the gaza strip, palestinian officials say militants missed their target today. instead of killing a wanted man, they hit a family. >>> and in paris, a 200-year- old theater was badly damaged by fire today. the elysee was originally a dance hall. part of them were designed by eiffel. the cause appears to be accidental. >>> we're continuing to follow that report of a threat at sfo. we have a crew that just arrived at the scene. they are gathering information and we'll have a live report. >>> how a crash of job applicants crashed a web system. >>> and we'll be back with the complete forecast in about five minutes. >>> in berkeley tonight, tens of thousands of people are happy to have their power back on. a major power outage today left 27,000 customers

head of his feared interior ministry, general abdul fatah younis. in that role, his job was to enforce loyalty to gadhafi. he told us he stepped down because gadhafi had gone too far, killing protesters. then, there are the rebel political leaders. what do they want? you understand there's a lot of apprehension in the united states. the government feels like they don't know you very well. we really do understand american fears, he said. assuring us, they want democracy, with political parties, a new constitution and elections. as these rebels march on in their quest to oust gadhafi, little denying that the u.s. has thrown its significant military weight, behind a disjointed group they're still getting to know. alex marquardt, abc news, benghazi, in eastern libya. >>> four "new york times" journalists have been released from captivity in libya. wondering safely across the border in tunisia, the four begin to describe the frightening details of their capture, including threats of decapitation. the only woman, lynsey addario, recalled one man repeatedl

>>catherine: huge fire swept through egypt's interior ministry building today. those flames climb to the top floor. thousands of police officers have been demonstrating an outside demanding higher pay. they deny setting the fire. if they accuse those inside a burning files to get rid of evidence of police abuse. catholic officials in cuba have and as the government is finally going to release the last of its political prisoners. if those prisoners have been held since 2003 in a crackdown on dissent. this will clear cuban jails of the last 75 intellectuals, opposition leaders and activist accused of crimes including treason. rain problems apparently caused the shockingly early death of the famous little polar bear in berlin zoo. he had been a huge crowd favorite, a big moneymaker for the zoo. an autopsy shows significant changes to the animal's brain, although the zoo did not offer any details. prince william k. littleton are going to use the same carriage on their wedding day that i and the controls used back in 1981. this is a century old carriage trend with re

the interior ministry will now be headed by the parliamentary leader of bavaria's christian social uniontheir fears of inflation in europe. here is more. >> this news to many people by surprise. the european central bank shook financial markets thursday by signaling an interest rate hike, which could come as soon as next month. that is much earlier than markets expected. the ecb is responding to increasing inflationary pressures on commodities markets. >> the ecb has kept the base rate at 1% for now, but the bank president gives a pretty clear signals that a hike is on the horizon. the bank is worried by rising inflation, fueled by spiraling prices for fuel and commodities. >> we are mentioning that we're in a posture of strong vigilance. and my understanding of the position of the governing is in line with such assessments that we did in the past. an increase of interest rates in the next meeting is possible. >> the market is also awash with cheap money. but that is also proline prices, keeping inflation down is the central bank's number one priority. but it is currently running at 2.4%

in egypt, a fire raged through the interior ministry building. flames could be seen rising from the top floors of the complex in central cairo. an egyptian security official said police protesting for higher pay had started the blaze. protesters denied the charge. instead, they claimed the fire started as ministry workers burned files to destroy evidence of human rights abuses. wall street cooled off today after a three-day rally. the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 18 points to close at 12,018. the nasdaq fell eight points to close at 2683. and the price of oil closed just short of $105 a barrel in new york amid concerns over libya and other oil states. a federal judge in new york has thrown out the google books settlement. he ruled today that google's plans to profit from creating a universal digital library would "simply go too far." the settlement between the company and u.s. authors and publishers totaled $125 million. rival companies, consumer groups, and others opposed it. google has already scanned more than 15 million books for

leading the fight against gadhafi is a man who worked with him for decades, head of his feared interior ministryn because gadhafi had gone too far, killing protesters. then there are the rebels' political leaders. what do they want? you understand there is a lot of apprehension in the united states. the government feels like they don't know you very well. "we really do understand american fears," he said, assuring us they want democracy with political parties, a new constitution and elections. still there is a lot of skepticism. >> there is cause for concern. we don't know who we're dealing with yet. quite simply only time will tell. >> reporter: what about gadhafi's claims that the rebels have terrorists and islamic fundamentalists in their ranks? >> colonel gadhafi likes to play on western fears of islamic militancy and claim that somehow this movement is being led by jihadists or people linked to al qaeda. there's no real truth in that. >> reporter: as these rebels march on in their quest to oust gadhafi, there's little denying that the u.s. has thrown its significant military weight behind a

within the region and one thing that is important that is happening is regional cooperation so interior ministries are meeting among all the countries of western balkans. police authorities meeting. the criminal syndicates, the corruption is too big for most small countries which have limited capacity themselves. here is the case where cooperation with the support of the united states and the you can make a difference and here's the place where they have shown real leadership of bringing together the others or convening and working level people, judges and prosecutors to take hold of this. the weakest case of albania and montenegro and bosnia could use the support of countries that are further along than what we have been talking about. >> very recently we had the opinion that criminals are cooperating much better than states. now it is completely different. we have special agreement among countries in the region to prosecute organized crime, especially mafia, very significant and relatively good cooperation cooperating with prosecuting war crimes. is a miracle after all we had. i think the rule o

. >> you make a direct appeal to the interior ministry.o you have any inkling that they may be ready to move on this driving issue? >> there are no signs, but sometimes they will open the subject and let people talk. you hear about this and read about it. i do not know what is their plan. we have no idea if they are going to do it. but they have opened the subject again. it starts to open cases like this. >> so many people in this audience and around the world want to know what can be done to help women wherever it might be. what do you think, sussan, the united states should do? we had the state department who is keen on women's rights. people are looking at the situation in these countries. can the outside world do anything that is actually helpful to the went inside iran -- to the women inside iran. >> 50 of our members had been arrested even though it is a peaceful campaign. grandmothers, mothers, young women, and even men. we have a lot of solidarity from organizations, especially based in the waist -- in the west. human rights organi

announce the ministry of justice the ministry of interior and the prime minister's office all of which came together with a plan to and for our priority if you have to businessmen was arrested what could be called a ransom was put on the table fuchs was there informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived georgian human rights activists blame a broken system that is cracked at the very top but is a national soccer she really does not want an independent court system the prosecutor's office dominates the law and the police are the main power and political pressure instrument in the country is true that this is something food says us more years are more than aware of the odds of his succeeding in georgia are very very slim and point zero one percent so it's a good warning to businessmen who are thinking of investing in georgia that they should think twice and that they should be were making their legal battle not about winning but warning others not to tango with tbilisi and he said now why r.t. my scamp. well to some other inter

involved in the rebuilding of the new iraqi army that had been disputed by paul bremmer on the ministry of interior side we were involved in rebuilding creating from nothing the iraqi national police also disbanded by paul bremer but as far as money going into things like infrastructure view electrical power grid and all that the u.s. army corps of engineers gulf region district was over there during the initial stages of the conflict and then the the u.s. government through the coalition military was involved in much of the additional ongoing work and today there is room for a lot of a lot of firms that are going over there to american firms and other foreign countries to go over there and rebuild the country but it's not organized it's just a mess it's a hodgepodge and the people are suffering there's just not electricity there's not running water there's not sewage it's a real mess and much of it was created by our own vision of zero three and i hate to sound so critical but it really is true i think there's nothing wrong with being critical right if we if we invaded the country that we then sho

he has gone to the ministry of interior which has purview for it.aving said that, we have not yet detected any appreciable reduction in the production or importation -- infiltration into afghanistan of ammonium nitrate. there have been enormous seizures, colossal, i think there was one the other day of 10,000 pounds found of ammonium nitrate. but there is still a substantial amount getting through. this then comes to the whole issue of improving detection at the borders, and then also this so-called defense in depth concept because a fair amount of is infiltrated through some of the borders as well. >> we very much appreciate your focus on this and the whole gamut of this, every piece of the chain from someone even training an individual, then constructing it, financing it, doing the reconnaissance, planting it and so forth, the whole -- there is no civil bullet as we say that can take out ieds. there is a civsilver pathway an you have to attack the silver pathway on it and the whole variety of issues on attacking that pathway have been very importa

. >> you make a direct appeal to the interior ministry.o you have any inkling that they may be ready to move on this driving issue? >> there are no signs, but sometimes they will open the subject and let people talk. you hear about this and read about it. i do not know what is their plan. we have no idea if they are going to do it. but they have opened the subject again. it starts to open cases like this. >> so many people in this audience and around the world want to know what can be done to help women wherever it might be. what do you think, sussan, the united states should do? we had the state department who is keen on women's rights. people are looking at the situation in these countries. can the outside world do anything that is actually helpful to the went inside iran -- to the women inside iran. >> 50 of our members had been arrested even though it is a peaceful campaign. grandmothers, mothers, young women, and even men. we have a lot of solidarity from organizations, especially based in the waist -- in the west. human rights organi