in tonight's lead focus jonathan miller of itn reports on the uproar. he filed his report late last night. >> reporter: the searing u.n. investigation pulls no punches and accuses both sides of committing actions amounting to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity, too. the 22-day offensive in gaza that israel called "operation cast lead" killed 1400 palestinians and 13 israelis. hamas rockets from gaza constituted indiscriminate and deliberate attacks on israeli civilians, the u.n. fact finding mission concluded. israel, accused of directing its military operation at the people of gaza, of the direct targeting and arbitrary killing of civilians, the wanton destruction of property. the former chief prosecutor from two u.n. criminal tribunals for the former yugoslavia and for rwanda led the four-man investigation mission. this afternoon in new york judge richard goldstone of south africa presented the findings of his 574-page report. >> there is strong evidence to establish that numerous serious violations of international law, both humanitarian

jonathan miller of indepdent television ns begins our lead story coverage.eporter: padang: an urban tectonic disaster ng waiting to hapn; a city of nearly a million, thrown to panic at a quarter past five local time this afterno. and who can blame them? they're just00 miles down the sumatran cst from the epicentre of the huge quakthat trigred the asian tsunami five years ago, killing 170,000 people in the prince of aceh. is 7.6 magnitude earthquake, alough 15 times smler than the huge aceh one,s still powerful, anit's only two yes since the last earthquakes here wch seismologistsold us tonight ould have served as a warning. initial pictes showed fires ging, emergency services unableo get to where they're needed. tonight, roads a cut, bridges are down, comms ardown and now it 1:00 a.m. and pitch black, wi no power. these pictur just in: people scrambng bare-handed in the rubb of collapsed buildings, grim faced. a sense that we'll only gin to get a more accurate picture me ylight, but indonesia'vice president told a late-night ws conference that the mbers kill

ricardo piment in milwauke jonathan gurwi san antonio, marjorie miller in los aeles, thank you all very much. >> thankou. lehrer: we have more about both afghanistan a the anniversary the 9-11 attacks on our web site newshour.pbs.org you can listen to a repoer's podcast abouthe war and president oba's popularity in europe and watch slide show of ages of the september 11th morial sites in new york, washington and pennsvania. >> lehr: in other news today, a coast ard training exercise in wasngton touched off a flurry of confusion as 9/1 anniversary services were taking place at the pentagon. newshour corresponnt kwame holman h this report. >> holman: four coast guard securityoats darted and dashed across theotomac river this morning, in a planned, but unannounced exercise both cnn and fox ns broadcast liveerial pictures of the boats on the river, and ported shots had en fired. cnn ported the coast guard had fired n rounds at a suspicious bo near the bridge president obama's motorcade crsed. the repos drew fbi agents to e scene and prompted the deral aviation administratio to order a brief

jonathan hoenig from capital pig asset management live right here on the couch usually in chicago. jay thomas radio talk show host and judi millerurnalist. all right, panel. we just heard from susan rice, the united states ambassador to the u.n. and she said that basically president obama will not sit down with either one of these leaders while he is there. judy miller, he said when he campaigned that he would meet with the iranian leader without preconditions. apparently that meeting is going to happen next week instead. >> i think it would be a little embarrassing to meet. perhaps they will pass each other on that escalator that you have been showing on the air. this is not the time for that kind of presentation. it would be very awkward at this point especially given moammar kadafi's receipt of the hero the slaughter of all the people on the panam flight. this is not the moment for that. what is he going to do is administer tough love. that is he is going to say if you are complaining about the united states being unilateralists? here we are willing to outstretch our hand. now this is what we want back. >> that's tough love?