that's happened with ivf and different elements of ivf. >> pafascinating stuff. appreciate it. president obama at the g-8 summit. a prime minister that would make bill clinton or john edwards blush. >>> cnn brings in hundreds of new feedings every day, reports from all around the globe. but we pick only one, the best one, to be the nightly breakout story. tonight, it's a sex scandal tall january style. cnn's atika shubert has the story of italian prime minister berlusconi. >> reporter: paying for prostitutes, absolutely not, pictured here with his grandson. i have never paid a woman, he said in the interview. i never understood what the satisfaction is when you are missing the pleasure of conquest. another day, another scandal, for italy's embattled prime minister. it all started when his wife of 19 years, veronica lario filed for divorce last month, accusing him of consorting with minors. allegations that made news far beyond italy's borders. then came spain's newspaper, publishing pictures of nearly nude women, allegedly attending a party at one of berlusconi's sardinian home

in romania, ivf is only allowed in clinics where the eggs are freely donated. a criminal investigation is under way. >> they have succeeded in bringing women from all over the country who offered their eggs after medical treatment, which was dangerous. >> in total, 25 people are under investigation, including two israeli doctors. >> ceremonies have been held in germany to march the 61st anniversary of a failed attempt of officers to try to kill hitler. the plot was hatched by one man and his associates. winston churchill and complained he had been sold a pub when he understood -- when he learned his underground corridors were not on paris. -- were not bunkers. this is on display in the cabinet. this is "bbc world news" -- the headlines. enough about the main. time to reach for mars. says so astronauts from the first landing 40 years ago. shoring up ties with the world's biggest democracy -- and those responsible for the 9/11 attacks are hiding in pakistan. m ccourt -- frank mccourt we did for late july for fame and fortune. he completed his memoirs, " angela's

in spain, there are no absolute age limits for ivf,but most clinics will refuse to treat women over 50. she said she uld look for younger man to help ok for her childr, but tre is no word fr her family about who will now look after the twin >>a brief remderf ou main news for you. all passenrs, 168, had died on a caspian airlight. it was mostly armenind iraniapassengers. is dficult to obtain placement parts for these kinds of plas. thank you foeing with us. you can gt more anyte you want on bbc.com. >> "bbc rld news" was presented by kcet, los angel. >> funding for this presentaon was made possie by the freeman undation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolu, the newman's o foundation, and the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation macarthur foundation

ivf, the treatment in california with the octuplets, a lot of different thing.erybody will demand their version covered. we're looking at choices here. >> bonnie: i want to let melinda into this conversation. >> well for starters i feel the way you do about the government supporting and funding abortion. but even if i didn't, i really care about health care reform. i want it to pass. and it will not if we inject this into it. i mean that's the bottom line. >> and bonnie, i was just going to make the point. california has one of the richest benefits packages associated with its health care. so if you want to look at what's driving cost in california, it wasn't the octuplets, it was the mandates that are in month most health -- most health packages. >> bonnie: what's driving emergency rooms 84 of them to close in california and similar problems in texas and florida, is immigration. >> using the word mandates, the federal government is not going to say the only way to get this public plan is to have abortion in it. i mean you're setting up some straw men here just

. >> to me, ivf means i.v. forget about it.aura: joining us from california is the director of the stanford center for medical ethics. david, this is a stunning issue when you think about it. for years, people have just come to accept the efficacy of and legitimacy of in vitro fertilization, and it is largely unregulated in the united states. if this happens with a woman receiving fertility treatments in an alley clinic in 2005 when she was in her late 60's, lying about her age, goes back to europe and dies and the baby is left alone. it >> one of the big challenges is on the one hand, many people believe that the right of parents to make a decision and have children without interference without any kind of regulation is a fundamental freedom. the fact has been as a result of that, technology has led to some abuses. we have had a quadrupling of the multiple birth rate between 1971 and the late 1990's. that is starting to get better. but there are a lot of problems. we have seen this situation, women having children older and ol

including ivf and surrogacy and so forth. so it isn't so simple anymore.e scale. but i think she's easily bumped off that position for all of the reasons janine suggested. and her performance in the past week or so, the f-bomb on television. >> as the paparazzi were trying to -- >> you think that's going to harm her? >> i think it doesn't help. >> in presenting her custody debate? >> i think it doesn't help. because if you can't restrain. you know the world is watching you, trying to figure out whether you would be a good mommy and you can't restrain yourself from using the "f" word. the other thing that's really significant is her indecisiveness. last thursday in the morning she said, i'm filing for custody. by the evening, she hadn't made up her mind. what's a judge to make of a mother who isn't sure she wants to raise her own children? >> what about her own words? i mean the interview that we saw where she said i have chosen not to be called mommy. michael jackson really was, from the minute these children were born, the caretaker of these children. how