for their part people in the region, not just in kabul or islamabad, but in beijing, moscow, delhi and tehran wonder about america's long-term intentions and objectives. they want to know if we will walk away again as we did in 1989 after the soviets withdrew from afghanistan. today i want to answer some of those questions and talk in more detail about a new phase of our diplomatic efforts on afghanistan. i will be clear right at the start about a few key elements; our adversary, our goal and our strategy. first, our adversary. despite heavy losses, the al-qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 retain dangerous capabilities. they continue to plot large-scale, catastrophic international attacks and to support and inspire regional affiliates. the united states and our allies remain their principle targets. before 2001 al-qaeda was protected in be taliban-controlled afghanistan. al-qaeda and the taliban along with various associated groups still maintain an alliance based largely in the border region between afghanistan and pakistan. and the taliban continue to wage a brutal insurgency

embassy in islamabad. the exact nature of his work and why he was in lahore remains unclear. this week, in washington, leading congressional republicans upped the stakes, suggesting billions of dollars of aid to pakistan could be at risk, if davis is not released. and there was talk that a state visit by president asif ali zardari to washington at the end of march may also be in jeopardy. anti-american sentiment in pakistan has further complicated matters. it's especially intense in punjab province, where lahore is the capital. >> ( translated ): the american citizen who killed three pakistanis, he tried to take the law into his own hands. he should be punished very severely. >> ( translated ): the american who killed the three innocent pakistanis, he should be punished, and he should be hanged. why did he commit this crime, and why was he carrying the weapons here? would any pakistani be allowed to carry a weapon in the u.s.a.?" >> reporter: adding to the tensions, on sunday, the widow of one of the men allegedly killed by davis committed suicide. she reportedly said she fea

public demonstrations and any further protests and we're going to have to leave it there live from islamabad middle east expert but up mikhail thank you very much . thank you. art it's a look at some other world news now making headlines this hour and an italian judge is given the go ahead for the trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi he's facing . charges that he paid for sex with a significant number of young women including a seventeen year old girl and he used his influence to cover it up a scone he has strongly denied the allegations you know faces three years in prison if found guilty of paying minors for sex and from six to twelve years for abuse of power the trial is scheduled to begin in early april and will be heard by a panel of three judges all of them being women. a narcotics trafficking submarine has been discovered by a storage unit in colombia it's believed the vessel is able to travel from colombia to the coast of mexico the submarine was found in a river in the state of about four hundred kilometers south. west of the capital bogota authorities did find weapons nearby b

whether we live in kabul or islamabad or washington, we need to share a common vision for the future. a vision of a stable, independent afghanistan rid of insurgency and proxy conflicts fought by neighboring states. a vision of the region free from al qaeda. have we have underscored from the beginning, pakistan plays a pivotal role. it is a nuclear-on the nation of nearly 170 million people with deep ties and strong interests in afghanistan. it was with pakistan that the united states and other countries supported the afghan people in their fight against the soviet occupation in the 1980's. and pakistan continues to host thousands of refugees from the current conflict. unfortunately, the historic distrust between pakistan and afghanistan remains a major cause of regional instability and those don't surf -- and does not serve the long-term interest of the people of either country. pakistan has legitimate concerns that should be understood and addressed by the afghan government under any reconciliation process, with steps that provide transparency and reassurance. but pakistan also has

we talked about 60 miles from islamabad. look at the estimation of the judges when all of their options were expended. look at the political crisis. they have tried everything they could and tell they found out they were in the minority and then think started pulling back. so pakistan may look like going beyond the precipice a number of times. will we still allow at the space to go through the motions and get on the other hand? or is there a demand that this country is too important and we can't take this risk? this is the question we have to answer. with the pakistani military sit back and watch all the politicking going on for a wild? will the pakistani business elite be okay with populist economic decisions until the politicians come to some consensus and will washington and other countries up by the benefactors continue to support pakistan? can jonah convince people on the heels that we still need to continue supporting pakistan which i think we do despite the fact that the returns are not forthcoming? these are the ques

aid could be cut -- islamabad knows u.s. aid could be cut. >> japan has suspended its annual will haunt. activists have made it unsafe -- japan has suspended its annual whale hunt. >> the standoff has been taking place between japanese whalers intent on carrying out their hunt antique environmentalist's determined to stop them. the sea shepherd group has pursued the flight towards the southern tip of south america. >> the mother ship of the willing fleet has been -6- hear the safety of the fleet we have suspended the operations. we find the harassment extremely regrettable. activists are being confronting the japanese fleet for years. one of their boats collapsed -- collided with a boat and sank. the captain was brought to tokyo to face trial. he was given a suspended sentence and allowed to go home. whales have been protected from hunting for a quarter of a century. japan has continued, saying it needs to kill whales to research their impact on fish stock. much of the meat is sold and ends up in supermarkets or restaurant d

since the standoff in islamabad in 2007, these channels have been increasingly willing and offering to broadcast the views of radical extremist organizations. there's been much mention of the aftermath of the assassination and many in pakistan are beginning to blame the media for promoting some of that support for the assassin. clerics who supported his actions were given air time, they were interviewed extensively, both before and after the event. and you also see the media sort of in an effort to boost ratings, engaging populist sentiment, fanning anti-americanism, spreading conspiracy theories and exacerbating these fields of external enemies. i can also imagine in case some of the scenarios bill touched on black swan with either the u.s. or india we can certainly expect the media to disseminate -- >> and one final point i make we should acknowledge the changing nature of pakistani politics. i think as we debated -- military dictatorship or whether civilian governance is finally going to have a bit of a chance given that the army does not for once have a government in waiting and al

what are taliban from pakistan going to do when they walk down the streets of islamabad?hat's not very helpful. the fourth, the military seeing islamist party and military party as a multiplier. only to a point. we've seen in the last couple of years, the military establishment recognizes these groups are useful, but only in a limited way. to this, i would say the much more interesting question for us to bat around has to do with state incentives for supporting islamic politics or for supporting islamist militancy. even my nationalist pakistani friends will admit the government of pakistan has a long and glorious history of doing this. and there's debate over to what extent the pakistan has rolled back some of it's support for various islamist groups. this depends on what bill was talk about with the threat perception of the region. i think there's also a level of momentum or pass dependence that comes with supporting these kind of militant groups. but all of this is to say, religious radicalism is not simply organic to pakistan, or pakistani society. it's been supported

the president needs to get out of islamabad. talk to opposition parties, he needs to connect with the pakistani people. the secret service is going to say, are you out of your mind? they've told me that many times before. thankfully, i won't have to answer the question this time, but he's going to have to use this opportunity to send all kind of messages about where the united states is. the second point is about our diplomacy, and i think here we have two challenges ahead. what i call the small diplomatic challenge is in afghanistan. if general petraeus is right, and we value to hope that he is right, that we have now halted the momentum of the taliban, then the process of trying to find a political process in afghanistan is in front of us. the logic of the president's policy in afghanistan and since the begins was changes on the battle begin to open the door to changes in the frill sphere. pakistan has to be part of that process. if it is true as i believe it is true that if you want to talk to the shorea, the bet way to get t

for their part, people in the region, not just in kabul or islamabad, but in beijing, moscow, delhi, and tehran, wonder about america's long-term intentions and objectives. they want to know if we will walk away again, as we did in 1989 after the soviets withdrew from afghanistan. today, i want to answer some of those questions and talk in more detail about a new phase of our diplomatic efforts on afghanistan. i will be clear right at the start about a few key elements. our adversaries, our goals, and our strategy. first, our adversary. despite heavy losses, the al qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and retain it dangerous capabilities. they continue to plot large scale, a catastrophic, international attacks and to support and inspire regional affiliates. united states and our allies remain their principal targets. before 2001, al qaeda was protected in taliban-controlled afghanistan. al qaeda and the taliban, along with various associated groups, still maintain an alliance based largely in the border region between afghanistan and pakistan. and the taliban continue to wage a b

nick schifrin in islamabad with the details. >> reporter: good morning, rob. good morning, vinita.e of these events by the u.s. is very simple. one of their officials was threatened by two men with a gun. he open fire and kills them in self-defense. he has diplomatic immunity so he can't be put on trial in pakistan, nor can he be held in a jail inside pakistan. and his detention is, quote, illegal. the version of events as told to us by four pakistani officials is anything but simple. now, this version is denied by the u.s. state department. but these pakistani officials say the two men who raymond davis killed that day were working for pakistan's intelligence services. and that they were following davis because they thought he was spying. now, these pakistani officials say davis made calls into waziristan, along the afghan border with taliban, a safe haven. the only thing the u.s. will say is that davis is being held illegally and needs to be released now. the pressure on pakistan by the u.s. to release davis is immense. the white house has threatened to close the u.s. consulates

i am in baghdad and kabul and islamabad and others that we have challenges in. that doesn't mean that those countries and allies aren't critically important because they are and the relationships are important. but what i have seen, the merging of these two teams in these wars -- in these wars have changed us. they have changed how we think. they have changed how career path certainly the military have been and are going to be. and i think and hope that they would certainly have that kind of impact in the foreign service world as well. i had the great pleasure of rejoining up just a few minutes with ann patterson and i have watched ann in pakistan. and it's another country which presents an exceptional number of challenges to say the least. but i can remember in the long march a couple of years ago the impact that she had and the state department and diplomacy had in resolving a hugely critical, it time sensitive situation at that time. i see cameron munter is here and is certainly jumped into the challenges that are there. where is bill brownfield? not here. bu

for their part, people in the region -- not just in kabul or is islamabad, but in beijing and moscow,objectives. they want to know if we will walk away again, as we did in 1989 after the soviets withdrew from afghanistan. today i want to answer some of those questions and talk in more detail about a new phase of our diplomatic efforts in afghanistan. i will be clear right at the start about a few key elements: our adversary, our goal and our strategy. first, our adversary. despite heavy losses, the al qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 retain dangerous capabilities. they continue to plot large scale catastrophic international attacks and to support and inspire regional affiliate's. the united states and our allies remain their principal target. before 2001, al qaeda was protected in taliban kunkel afghanistan. al qaeda and taliban, along with the various associated groups, still maintain an alliance, based largely in the border region between afghanistan and pakistan. and the taliban continue to wage a brutal insurgency against the government in kabul and an effort to regain con

this has become a point of contention between washington and islamabad. u.s.icials have threatened to withhold billions of dollars in aid to get mr. davis freed. we will learn more today about the 2001 anthrax attacks when the national research council releases its report on the science the fbi used in its investigation of the attacks that killed five people. the fbi sought the independent review because of skepticism about its findings that the late army researcher bruce ivins acted alone in sending the deadly powder in the mail. the fbi concluded that the parent material of the anthrax spores used in 2001 came from a single flask in his laboratory at fort detrick, maryland. the news conference will be available later today on our website, c-span.org. those are some of the latest headline on cspan radio. >> when i was sworn in as president, i pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term. the budget i am proposing today meets that >> pledge> president obama sent a $3.70 trillion budget which would reduce the budget by over one trip dollars tri

he was assigned to the embassy in islamabad. he has immunity. we call for his release. >> if he has immunity, that would mean he is not a contractor, right? contractors are not eligible for immunity? >> i do not know if that is correct. >> like black water and i rock, they were subject to prosecution. -- like a blackwater in iraq, they were subject to prosecution. >> he has diplomatic immunity. >> you said you have reports that suspended all context with pakistan, have you suspended any? have you not had at meetings or have you let pakistan is no that certain people or officials will not be able to meet with pakistani officials? >> again, if you have a specific question, i will be happy to answer. >> did you tell pakistani he would not be able to meet with them? >> he did not show up. he chose not telecom -- >> prior to his decision not to come to munich, did you let him know that the secretary would not be available to meet with the foreign minister? >> let me take it from back to front. there was a meeting in munich. >> yes. >> the foreign min

islamabad, i'm sorry. what would you say to that?ink that the united states -- the world and the united states do pay -- i fear will pay potentially an extraordinary price for the realities of the north korean and the pakistani nuclear weapons programs. because the world i believe is made in the states. and allowing certain things to happen does not mean we should basically now base our foreign policy on repeating mistakes. i don't believe they ought to be if you will positive precedent. we ought to learn from these. because again the risk that nuclear north korea and pakistan to the world i would argue is extraordinary. why should we want to add to it? why have to begin working against the problem. >> okay. in turkey -- >> ask the questions, richard. we should have both of you together at dinner, i'm sure. quickly, i have questions please. from that scenario that i heard now, i would assume there should be consideration within that framework of military action against pakistan and north korea. because it is extraordinarily dangerous

. -- islamabad, i'm sorry. what would you say to that? >> the world and united states and i fear will pay potentially an extraordinary price for the realities of the north korean and pakistani nuclear programs because the world has made mistakes. in allow on certain things to happen does not mean that we should base our foreign policy on repeating mistakes. i don't believe they should be positive precedents. the risk of a nuclear north korea and nuclear pakistan is extraordinary. why should we want to add to it? we have to work against this problem. >> from turkey? you hadld have both of dinner together. >> from that scenario, i would assume that there should be consideration within that framework of military action against pakistan and north korea. because it is extraordinarily dangerous situation there. i don't see any talk of that. there should not be talk of that. >> in the case of north korea there was active consideration by the united states. people like me were involved in the debate and there were moments where military force sho

am in baghdad and kabul and is, by and others that we have challenges in -- baghdad and kabul and islamabad and others that we have challenges in. the relationships are critically important. but i've seen the merging of these two teams in these wars, and these wars have changed us. they've changed how we think accommodate changed how career paths, certainly in the military, at an are going to be. i hope that they would certainly have that kind of impact in the foreign service world as well. i have great pleasure of rejoining up just a few minutes with it and patterson -- anne patterson. i have watched anne in pakistan, a country with an exceptional number of challenges. i remember the attack that she had -- and had -- the impact that she had an state department diplomacy had in resolving a critical, time-sensitive situation. cameron is here and as certainly jump to the challenges that are there. not here? i think the challenges -- the evolution over time -- having come from venezuela, going to colombia, and you look where colombia is, a wonderful example, and some of our most difficult mili

>> i think i would direct you to either the pakistani government or our embassy in islamabad on that question. >> is the president aware of it? >> the president is aware of a lot of things. >> the report today that the president expressed "disappointment" to dni clapper on intelligence and analysis on egypt. >> i think i answered broadly about the president's view on intelligence that he has gotten. i also think it is largely safe to assume that i am not going to get into conversations that may or may not have happened in the president's daily briefing. just in general, are we supporting these protesters in cairo? how do you characterize -- >> as i did the first day of this, we support the aspirations of those in cairo, alexandria in countries throughout the world to see governments respect their basic rights. the right to assemble, the right to speak freely, the right to associate. in this instance, we have seen the right to freely communicate over the internet through social networking tools cut off. and our government, as it has in this instance and as it will in countries through