the members of this team are all veterans of the wars in afghanistan and iraq and all are amputees. >> they went over to iraq or afghanistan and suffered a severe injury and that injury resulted in an amputation. they didn't know if they were going to live, walk or more or less play asport, but now that they've gone through extension -- a sport, but now that they've gone through extensive rehabilitation, they want more and more. you can see the reputations they're taking out there. that's not enough. they want even more of. >> reporter: the team is comprised of 15 vets most of whom played softball or basketball at a high level before being wounded. they travel to different cities, play two to three games, pack it up and do it somewhere else. last september they played at nationals park and will play there again april 3rd. their opponents, always an able bodied team, but it's often the wounded warrior team that steals the show. do you always win? >> we don't always win. we have a winning record, but we have won, dave, because they're living life. they survived of. >> reporter: but they've done more. they've thri

for joining us. >>> since 9/11, about 2.4 million american personnel have been deployed to iraq, afghanistan or both as of august 30, 2011. more than 1.3 million have returned to either the national guard, reserves or left the military altogether. the unemployment rate for iraq and afghanistan veterans has fallen over the last year from 15.2% to 9.1%, but still exceeds the national average of 8.3% of americans nationwide. >>> tom tarantino, iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. he's the senior legislative associate. how does your organization differ from others that help iraq and afghanistan vets get jobs? >> right, so we are the first and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit, advocacy ordinary. we are a younger population. we define community a little bit differently so we have to redefine how we deliver services to veterans of iraq and afghanistan. primarily because there are so few of us. we are looking at 2.4 million americans who have served in iraq and afghanistan. less than 1% of the population. the traditional models don't really work. we are online. we understand community differently wh

they are against another war in a volatile region, not wanting another iraq or afghanistan. >> barack obama hopes that his warning will have hit home, because the last thing he needs is a messy conflict in a difficult region in an election year. >> russian police have arrested hundreds of people who were taking part in protests in moscow, in st. petersburg against the election of vladimir putin for president. he had 64% of the votes but people observing say that this was unfair. others say this was an open contest. we have this report from moscow. >> the government promised there would be no crack down tonight. but when some people refused to leave pushkin square, the police moved in in force. in the scrum is alexey navalny, the emerging leader of the protests. otherwise, it had passed off peacefully. moscow was the only place that did not give putin 50% or more of the vote. these people are flexing their political muscle. >> this is just the beginning. this year is going to be very hot. before his arrest, i asked alexey navalny if people would get tired of demonstrating. >> this is n

. >>> since 9/11, about 2.4 million american personnel have been deployed to iraq or afghanistan or both. during that time 1.3 million have returned to either the national guard, reserves, or left the military altogether. the unemployment rate for iraq and afghanistan veterans has fallen over the last year from 15.2% to 9.1%. but still exceeds the national average of 8.3% of americans nationwide. >> the house veterans affairs last year to examine the availability of health services for veterans suffering from mental trauma. during the first part of the hearing, members heard from an iraq war veteran who testify head spent his disability check on, quote, booze and strip clubs. marine combat veteran daniel hanson said that he may have received help earlier for post-traumatic stress disorder if his disability pay had been contingent on his getting treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. his testimony is about 1:10. >> thank you to our witnesses who are in attendance.orni is entitled, mental health, bridging the gap between care and compensation for veterans. on may 10th the united states cour

of the two million plus troops, who have been deployed to afghanistan or iraq, some 411,000 have beeneployed three or more times. six years ago, in 2006, congressman dated the pentagon to study the impact on the mental health of our soldiers, the 14-member panel of experts half military and half civilian record that almost 40% of iraq and afghanistan combat veterans suffer "daunting and growing" mental health problems. the main cause, post-traumatic stress disorder, or ptsd and brain injuries due to the concussive impact of improvised explosive devices! >> that number of victims needs to be 17 rather than 16. massacres. is sergeant bales a victim of pdsd, post-traumatic stress disorder? repeated combat deployment. causing it. eleanor? >> i think there's a lot of investigation to be done about his state of mind. but it is one of the drawbacks of the all-volunteer army, that these repeated deployments have become essential, and there are psychological problems that arise out of that. ned that l health professionals people are going to look at the returning veterans as a ticking time bom

there's no question in my mind that when you go to the war zone time and time again whether it's iraq or afghanistanstion in my mind that it impacts individuals. >> to secretary said he disagreed with politicians want to accelerate the pace of withdrawal from afghanistan. >> facing foreclosure, kiet do shows us what unfolded one armed sheriffs deputies showed up. >> in the small town of alamo goes out the last few desperate minutes for frans gorske. the bank has foreclosed in the sheriffs deputies are on their way to evict him so he's barricaded himself inside the mattress and food and water. this is frans gorske's last stand. >> they forced the economy to tank and now they are going to take my home. this doesn't make sense. >> he was able to survive up savings for a while, but the money ran out and he stopped making house payments two years ago. he's been trying to get wells fargo to modify his home ever since. >> we were in the loan modification process for the better part of the year and i have and they kept saying they would help that they had no intention of helping us. >> wells fargo said they

tavis: and we hear a lot about ptsd, and they end up having flashbacks about when they were in iraq or afghanistan. you tell a story about flashbacks while you were there. >> i wrote a book, and i tried to give the reader a sense of what was going through my mind at some of the most trying times of my life, and my mind would drift in these extraordinary, horrific combat situations to home, and i think that is how i anchored myself to reality. that is how i maintain my sanity by a during myself to what was ordinary, going to a baseball game or watching my cousin open christmas presents, or imagining whether this assisted would end up with me being killed and an army unit -- whether this would end up with me being killed. a whole bo is laced with what is happening now in combat and what i was thinking that led me to make decisions in specific instances, because i think that introspection helps americans understand what their lawyers go through for them, and for me i think there is a social component to posttraumatic stress. i think the war years joined up to serve their country, to protect -- warrio

>> again i don't know anybody who wants to go back for multiple deployments to iraq or afghanistan. know every single one of us who went on a multiple deployment was, in fact, concerned at a certain point in time. but that's why we serve. >> from a pragmatic standpoint, something about professional health officials, to do what we can do now. to sort of push the knowledge that we do have right now. i mean, should we be doing more with what we know, and if we're not doing that, are we simply pushing our soldiers too far, expecting too much from them without the support tools to give them? >> you know, the military services are the only people that i know that provide some kind of screening before a person deploys, while they're deployed and when they come back. given all that, if the tools were more accurate, i would think we would have a better handle on think, but the tools just aren't that accurate and that's the issue we have today. >> i applaud your work. obviously, this is a great interest's mine and also being able to screen people to have a xpa comparison to that individual to

they do not want another iraq or afghanistan. president obama hopes his warnings of the danger of bluster and the loose talk of war -- the last thing he needs is a messy conflict in a difficult region in an election year. bbc news, washington. >> 65 people have been killed after tropical storms struck the indian island -- indian ocean island of met a girl a scar -- madagascar. the storm has now hit mozambique, where at least one person has been killed. live from singapore in london -- and london. still to come, a record turnout in india pose a regional election. -- india's regional election. >> let's take a brief look at the stories making headlines. obama reassures netanyahu. the u.s. president is trying to seize tensions between iran and israel, but as america will use all means to stop iran developing nuclear weapons. spain is on a collision course with the european commission. it comes after the prime minister said the government could fail to meet deficit targets and instead set his own goals. premier wing ching bow -- premi

moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being deployed to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. i think it be enough to say the experience. of going to cut down a lot of thought. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states is both a transpacific and a transatlantic power but we couldn't project that power without the men and women who serve here in japan as we look at the region it is at peace but we have threats like what we hear every day from north korea. and the security mission is essential to continuing to under gird america's leadership and being prepared for the kind of challenges we face but also to seize the opportunities for a better future. in two thousand and nine after years of local protests u.s. secretary of state clinton signed an agreement with the japanese government to move the eight thousand troops stationed in the for ten days to the island of guam a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on

numbers, i guess maybe at the height of some of the deployments that we're actually going into, iraq or afghanistan? >> yes, ma'am. we see a lot of returnees from iraq and afghanistan. i mean, we are a combat season force now. and frankly, we welcome the combat experience over there as we work with our rok counterparts because that just helps strengthen our capabilities. >> have you been able to strengthen any of your providers in the medical, mental health areas in order to accommodate some of the needs of returning soldiers? >> yes, ma'am. i have placed a lot of emphasis on that. particularly in regard to any type of ptsd to make sure that, one, we have the capabilities there to treat our service members. we destigmatize that, and we are very active with our chaplains' support programs to make sure we're quickly dealing with any service member that may have a problem. >> because in their case, they are really not able to go out on to the economy, essentially, when it comes to service providers? >> right. >> is that correct? i mean, they really have to stay in the family. >> the medical community

. >> when you go to the war zone time and time again, whether iraq or afghanistan, there's no question in my mind that it impacts on individuals. >> do you think it's time to change the policy on >> i've always thought that shorter deployments make better sense. you know that you're not going to be there that long. you'll be able to get back to your family. >> the pentagon has not released the identity of the american soldier who allegedly shot the afghan civilians. but we know he served three tours in iraq before serving in afghanistan. >> the next big state primary for republican presidential hopefuls is illinois on tuesday. mitt romney is spending nearly a million dollars in tv ads there. romney was the easy winner in hawaii's caucus on tuesday. he heads to puerto rico tomorrow to campaign for sunday's primary there. rick santorum arrived in puerto rico yesterday hoping to duplicate his big wins in alabama and mississippi. santorum spoke at a town hall meeting. 20 delegates are up for grabs but puerto ricans cannot vote in the fall election. >>> it was a parting shot heard around th

. >>> well over 1,000 veterans have come home from iraq or afghanistan missing arms or legs and thisrim parade, this flaring need, well it's been driving a revolution in medicine. many vets still struggle with old-fashioned prosthetics. but there is new technology out there that offers hope of less pain and more natural movement. in fact i paid a visit to one designer who is leading the way, he's also got a daunting story of his own. >> my name is hugh herr. i'm a professor at m.i.t. we develop robots that attach to the body that help people move again. >> here at his playground in the famous media lab hugh herr designs prosthetic limbs with amazing capabilities. in rehab medicine, no one has done more to bring the future to the here and now. as you can see, hugh has a personal stake in this work. back when he was a kid, all he wanted to do was climb mountains. >> by the age of 12, 13, i was considered a child prodigy in climbing. was climbing walls that had never been climbed before. >> but then at age 17 -- >> in 1982 i was mountain climbing. climbing, and we got struck by a tremen

the regular american doesn't really know what they're seeing over there in iraq or afghanistan. >> we've gone through together about five deployments. i've seen a lot of sadness and a lot of heartbreak for families. it's so hard for everybody to know the sacrifices that are made not only by the men and women on the front lines but the families at home. >> we've got to go this way first. >> reporter: something as simple as play becomes an or deal for vets with ptsd. when each couple runs this time, they insist nothing will stop their race to raise cash and our awareness that not alone is helping several thousand veterans. >> it also provides confidentiality that maybe they don't want the statement being out that they're having problems. they get the best of both worlds. they get to be helped and not have it be public knowledge. >> wusa is the home of the rock 'n' roll u.s.a. marathon. both myself and mike will host our live coverage of the race saturday morning from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. so please tune in and watch if you're not out there running in the race. >> every single year mor

there's no question in my mind that when you go to the war zone time and time again, whether it's iraq or afghanistan there's no question in my mind that it impacts on individuals. >> reporter: do you think it's time to change the policy on multiple tours? >> well, i've always thought shorter deployments make better sense. you know that you're not going to be there that long, you'll be able to get back to your family >> reporter: panetta says he disagrees with some administration officials who now want to accelerate the pace of the withdrawal. he insisted the war effort is succeeding and called the last 15 months a turning point. >> i think because of those that have paid the price for this war we owe it to them to stick to this mission and get it finished. >> reporter: as for the strained relationship between american and afghan troops, panetta said there are no guarantees, but for now cooperation is holding. chip reid, cbs news, kabul, afghanistan. >> pelley: the war in afghanistan dominated talks at the white house today between the president and british prime minister david cameron. they told rep

country complications could arise out of this move do you worry that libya is going to follow the iraq or afghanistan at picture first of all it's not pingers it was a group of people in the eastern part of the country when you talk about as you're talking about to set leave more than one million people you know what this was a demonstration of a group of people which is probably something of the three thousand. who are listening. this does not represent the eastern reason. he served reason and. no less than one million eight hundred thousand people. so there was no different on them there carried out so we can tell with that people want for their lives more not plus there were used to institutions just days later you know protesting the whole of this rupert federalism which means. is that religion is not live in libya people are still clinched and the unity of the country. considered what took place is an outcry it's a fear of being marginalized again because they've been marginalized for forty two years by the whole and you know libya's branch of the muslim brotherhood they've established our own p

over a million people in three to four million refugees the refugees in the world are now from iraq or afghanistan and we've ruled there is for structure trillions of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure to the natural environment. as you know your appearance or your ocean want every woman giving birth as the same first question is it normal any we have just really natural untreated. you're watching r.t. now afghan officials have now denying rather findings by human rights groups that point it took wide spread torture in the country's prisons and the claims also stated that some of the detainees subjected to abuse were handed over by america despite a ban on transfers adopted last summer these allegations come just weeks after several atrocities were committed by u.s. soldiers in that country artie's guy nature can has more. every year international forces detained thousands of afghans and a good number of those are transferred to afghan interrogators now the report by the afghan independent human rights commission and a new york based open society foundations were feels that what awaits the

and they threw off those occupiers will be through you know much like you know the people in iraq or afghanistan are trying to get rid of us i think . we are not to the best of my knowledge right now occupied by a foreign nation we are occupied by us our government has nothing to do with whether you're occupied or not so. energy flows from god what people most people don't understand including people in the alleged sovereignty movement they don't understand that this is a spiritual concept this is not simply politics this is spiritual it's based on the idea what was i do think different alfredsson what would you make you different than from today's you know if a government if right now in the u.s. government recognition there's a case called chisholm versus georgia seven hundred ninety three the supreme court this is four years after the constitution was adopted seventeen years after the declaration of independence and i'm looking at it and i'm reading from it right now and it says in part they're talking about the situation in england and europe how it compared to it to a particular case and th

speculating that syria is steadily turning into a terrorist hub similar to that of what happened in iraq or afghanistan those those fears are could be truthful it's possible unfortunately because the insurgents in syria are interested in an escalation of sectarian violence because otherwise they did not. managed to achieve their goals so far and they don't have. some kind of stronghold or libyan rebels in the. capital so. there is an interest in turning. syria into a big chaos well it is such a mix here you've got certain accusations coming from the opposition accusations coming from the government all sorts of speculation about international forces at work in syria but we do know that syria's exiled opposition the syrian national council sitting very comfortably in turkey at the moment blames the regime for the recent terror attacks in damascus and aleppo if that's the case why would the government bomb its own people and security buildings i. think that doesn't sound very plausible because. this that i'm going to. increase of sectarian violence in syria is not so much in the interest of. more in the

killed over a million people in creative four million refugees refugees in the world or now from iraq or afghanistan and we've ruled their infrastructure trillions of dollars worth of damage to the infrastructure to the natural environment. as you know the answer then hiroshima everyone in given birth and asked the same first question is it normal only we have to strongly that chantry. and watching are a lot from moscow an afghan it human rights report indicates that torture in the countries prisons is widespread and detainees handed over by america are subjected to abuse u.s. officials said they are looking into the allegations which come just weeks after several atrocities were committed by american soldiers in the country all the details now to what he's got a touch of. every year international forces detained thousands of afghans and a good number of those are transferred to afghan interrogators now the report by the afghan independent human rights commission and a new york based open society foundations were feels that what awaits the detainees after being transferred is often torture and denia

over a million people in created four million refugees the refugees in the world are now from iraq or afghanistan we've ruined their infrastructure trillions of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure to the natural environment. as you know higher to answer than hiroshima everyone in giving birth asks the same first question is it normal any we have to destroy they're trying to treat. human rights groups are pointing to a wide spread torture in the countries prisons the claims also state that some of the detainees are subjected to abuse were handed over by america despite a ban on transfers adopted last summer these allegations which afghan officials deny comes just weeks after several atrocities were committed by u.s. soldiers in the country with details on this as our teams got a check at. every year international forces detained thousands of afghans and a good number of those are transferred to afghan interrogators now the report by the afghan independent human rights commission and a new york based open society foundations were deals that were awaits the detainees after being transferred is

battlefield the situation is very difficult for media organizations to operate in places like yemen iraq or afghanistan without relying very heavily on locals so this was an effort to to silence affected really major press organizations and i have to ask i mean because if we look at cases of american reporters being imprisoned i brought for example that two american journalists for current who were north korea there's also the case of our planet that every who is that detained in iran for a for a quite a while that's a huge media story here in the u.s. out why do you think these cases especially the yemen case how that really got not attention. well i haven't up to this point i mean i think you know jeremy scahill has written a really fabulous piece on this that's just appeared in the nation and the stirring up some attention to it but in general you're right and in general i think it tracks the white house in official government reporting so i think we have a lot of people in the media here who are really reluctant ever to cross the administration on its characterization of the situation and you know

if you start interacting with let's say rebels right or an opposition doubtless start funding much like the increase of troops in afghanistan the iraq war it's not something i supported now or there's a big bad habit basic military officers you don't fight your last war there's a lot of anxiety of whether or not these airstrikes could work clearly could offer was going to bring her down. i think with the you. soldier had done what the. libyan insurgents did because he would have been a huge issue in the been tried. we have no idea what happened in that case so i think because you're concealing i think i think there's there's a lot of concerns always about being trained as militaries who we train a lot of the people we trained in gaza against the libyan government or people who fought us in iraq so you know look you're on one side one day and other side the other i think there is some real long term dynamics in libya that are solid b. has it in for people to think this is over it's worked out for the administration purposes so far but we've destabilize a lot of subsaharan africa and governments could offer you the best of heavily in

a million people and created four million refugees after refugees in the world or now from iraq or afghanistan we ruined their infrastructure trillions of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure to the natural environment. as you know higher cancer than hiroshima every woman giving birth has the same first question is it normal any we have destroyed that country and to see gratitude rather than to be insisting on paying reparations is just reprehensible and finally david our a lot of people talking today about an executive order issued by president barack obama on friday basically giving the white house absolute control over all the country's national resource that natural resources and in the case of a natural disaster or during a time of war now the president used the defense production act of one nine hundred fifty and some people in the mainstream media today are saying add this is peacetime martial law and then other people saying you know this is an old law all the time what do you make of us. well how it will be used will depend on what congress has to say for itself you'll recall bac

the military who's in afghanistan right now feels for that you know everyone who's been in iraq or afghanistan has worked with civilians everyone knows that not everybody is against. yes it's an experience that we've all had it is a difficult battlefield there's a lot of people shooting at you i think you're garcia's personal story yes the press is going to look into this it's never the story's going to end it's a game changer for the war obviously with the president. the president karzai as opinion that u.s. troops in to be out of the villages is this tremendous implications or tactical strategy on the ground in regards to counterinsurgency so. as this plays out we'll find out more information but i certainly think everyone does care i do think you bring up a very valid point there that the american press is more obsessed with him than individuals who are killed i'm not quite sure that's the case for the people who are on the ground because they know the implications when the korans were burned american forces on the ground in afghanistan paid with their lives so people that are on the ground

this latino republican from this swing state may helper cry have no idea if they can pick out iraq or afghanistan on a map. we were all through the campaign when is the moment we can get ahead on this race? we thought john would do all right to but there are huge moments in a campaign. we knew obama would give a great speech at the convention and john would do his best we were trying to figure out how do come out of the republican convention and in this situation and not down 20 points to keep the race competitive? we decided to take a risk that was through the prism of a political risk. she may make mistakes or say things in error. we looked closely at the rollout of dan quayle and tried to prevent them. but it was a decision made trying to win the campaign. >> my a decision and to participate in the book when they say it is our story they talked to many, many people to save the word to out of money but for me when a presidential campaign end you immediately go to the university of pennsylvania yugo to harvard university and all kinds of books underwritten as a part of history. i talk to the aut

rogue soldier or he stands as one of the only people seriously that brings you to the wars in iraq or afghanistan but you were right earlier when he said that this is not necessarily symptomatic because seargent bill's probably acted on it but there are a lot of things with the but it will be like the united states and other countries and this is a good opportunity for us to think about what we ask them to do and the price that it may actually cost us in the world i think you're right i think there's a lot of different kind of directions we could take this and certainly one direction is the fact that a lot of times these soldiers these men and women come back from for more number one two or three in the case of robert bales of this is his fourth deployment they come back and they're they're not given the time they need they're not given the diagnosis that's correct in terms of the p.t.s.d. that they're experiencing i talked to several question you know about how you know why you think that that goes so under-diagnosed and why these people are sent back to the battlefield time and time again. well