and others. 60% of the combined force was afghan for some of the operations in the kandahar.an you tell us a little bit more about how well they are fighting and how well their leadership is coming along? also how well their ethnic balance is working because some people are concerned about intentions as well. >> the ethnic balance is easy. almost mirrors the country in terms of percentages. it is about 42% the army and the challenges that there are insufficient boston's rather part of the country that trouble to the east. that actually have had a very active recruiting campaign to try and fill that gap. they have done reasonably well. there have been getting hundred per month from the southern provinces which is a considerable increase. it also reflects, frankly, the fact that security has approved it to the point that in certain districts that young man can raise their hand, join the military, and not end up with their family dead, kidnapped, or intimidated. that is positive as well. with respect to the government, the senior missed -- ministers, by and large, are very impre

these were significant safe havens in the case of kandahar city.gain, the well well spring of the taliban movement and right on the doorstep of the second largest city in afghanistan. indeed, there was a period in early 2009 i remember the intelligence telling me they thought kabul was the way it was like in the civil war. these are very important accomplishments. in the increase of afghan security forces and the advent of the afghan local police program, now also enable us to prevent other safe havens in much less populated areas from springing up as well and that is certainly one of our objectives. >> i appreciate that answer. let me go to another matter that you both talked about. we're on a path now to transition control of security to the afghan security forces by the end of 2014. but both of you have testified today about the importance of the signaling and enduring commitment to the security of afghanistan. and i couldn't agree more. i wonder if both of you would describe -- i know there's some discussions going on now seriously between the

he was one of five accused of the killings in kandahar province and a conspiracy to plant weapons on the dead to make it appear they were an enemy combatants. photographs were published of soldiers posing with a severed head. the prime minister jose socrates has resigned. the turmoil is bound to spark another round of speculation on whether a default on that debt could happen next. >> it was a step too far for portugals minority government. another said of sweeping austerity measures designed to reduce the public deficit drastically. and a final appeal from the finance minister. >> they cannot be just any measures. to overcome our problems, it demands a clear and ambitious objectives. we need to reduce the expenditures and reduce public debt. we need reform which will allow more accessibility and create a model which adapts to the global economy and which facilitate growth. deposition said no. the government was unseated. from the prime minister, a swift and angry response. he told the country he handed in his resignation. portugal is heading for early elections and immense pressure

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soldiers accused of the killings in ken doll province -- in kandahar province. on monday, there were pictures of soldiers posing with a severed head. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said they will act wisely after the first attack on a bus in jerusalem in seven years. one person was killed, more than 30 others injured, after the explosion at a crowded bus stop. there is much concern about another cycle of retaliation. our correspondent has this report. >> chaos and confusion and a central area this afternoon. traveling on a bus had been considered safe again, after the bombings of the early 2000's. people had almost forgotten when a bomb in the middle of the city sounds and looks like. this was a target, a bus full of commuters and shoppers. police are now pretty sure this was not a suicide bombing, and they are looking for someone who left the device just by the office there. it exploded and caused many injuries on the no. 74 bus. we now know at least one person has been killed. jerusalem has seen nothing like this for many years. as for ridzik w

and we came to her own in one nine hundred sixty seven we didn't occupy a foreign city of kandahar and came back to the first george city in the land of israel like you look at the faces of those you know those jews who were killed thank god by god was surely close to mask. and there were some there claims starts we are a continuation to the jewish community lived here was deported from your brain. and that's not the truth. of course there are some people who come from families who live there that agree with the system but there are lots of people who come from the jewish community who have grown who are against you know fundamentally against the settlement of a fundamentally against the idea that six hundred fifty people can you know have all their rights in the back of one hundred fifty thousand people. usually in jerusalem days a week and a lot of people come. out other people visitors from jerusalem from outside and one of the you know biggest fears of the idea of his that's some of the enslaver will step down here you know one of the houses and obvious then we'll just slot everyon

afghan and coalition surge forces are recapturing momentum in key terrain areas such as kandahar and hellmund. afghan security forces are improving in quality faster than planned. afghan local police initiative is empowering communities across the country to provide their own security from the bottom up, but kabul does so from the top down. the cumulative effect is that we are turning around the war in afghanistan, but as general petraeus sayand will emphasize this progress remains fragile and reversible. the sustainability of our gains will be tested during the fighting season ahead. we should all be very clear before the fact that violence will go up in the months ahead and we will surely encounter setbacks in some places. we need to be exceedingly cautious about withdrawal of u.s. forces this july as the president has called for. we should be mindful that perhaps the wisest course of action in july may be to reinvest troops from more secure to less secure parts of afghanistan where additional forces could have decisive impact. we should not rush the failure and cultivate strategic

isaf and afghantroopers have, for example, cleared such critical areas as the districts west of kandahar city that were the birthplace of the taliban movement, as well as important districts of helmand province, areas of the security bubble and locations in the nor where the taliban increased presence in recent years. one result of such operations has been a four-fold increase in recent months in the number of weapons and explosive cashes turned in and found. another the gradual development of local governance in local revival of the growing security bubbles. marge a, one time hub of the drug industry held election for community council march 1st, during which 75% of registered voters cast a ballot. and as a result of improvements in the security situation there, markets that once sold weapons, explosives, illegal narcotics, feature over 1500 shops selling food, clothes, and household goods. we have positioned more forces as well to in ter dikt the flow of fighters and explosives from insurgent places in pakistan, and we will do further work with afghan partners to establish as much of a

you have to have the helium, and you need to clear the space around kandahar airport of mines, and thenthe gravel down and bring in the workers and have the housing for the workers who do the work, and then you have to have the housing for the people who bring in the housing to do the work and so forth, and everything is like that, and we're able to do that, and the reports coming back from isolateed fob's and cops with these stats is remarkable. they look down the word at the market and can surveil the road and can look around the perimeter and see if somebody is approaching the perimeter. it's really just extraordinary. we are putting on those and other surveillance aircraft now, not as a replacement for the full motion video, but a soda straw view you see from the highway, helicopters, highway traffic helicopters on your morning television, that kind of thing, replacing them with wide angle sensors that take a continuous high pixel density, high frame rate photograph of everything beneath the aerostat. now, we can't look at all that data. you don't want to look at it all the time, bu

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those scenes just a few days ago no troops killed because i was cousin in another night raid in kandahar and that follows just recently nato admitting it killed nine children in a similar raid and just before that another sixty five civilians afghan officials alleged were killed an investigation is under way there the spokesman for the afghan president clarified that because i meant that civilian deaths should stop but this is being seen as a highly critical and embarrassing moment for nato the u.n. says that almost two hundred civilians were killed by loot so you know afghanistan last year alone yes what is the empire going to be on. relations with nato now do you think that could be fourteen pullout date made me brought forward. absolutely that's what's being discussed here in brussels at the moment nato faces an increasing barrel of criticism not only from its own allies but in afghanistan as well the mood of the population are already highly uncertain merica is turning toxic it wants civilian deaths to stop the population says that the attack should come on the borders where they bel

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these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. can. follow in a welcome across town peter lavelle decision time what endgame looms for the conflict in libya what are the ultimate aims of the u.s. and its allies what is best for people on the ground in libya and are we dealing with a shovel who. can. discuss the cut off points of the coalition effort in libya i'm joined by horace campbell in syracuse he's a professor of african-american studies and political science at syracuse university in london we go to justin crump he is the c.e.o. it's a building an international risk assessment company and in new york we have eight greenwald he is the associate editor of commentary and another member of our crosstalk team yelling the hunger all right gentlemen this is prostate that means you can jump in anytime you want just if i can go to you first as we sit down at this virtual table right now nato still hasn't decided how this effort in libya is going to proceed that means the americans are still kind of left hanging in the lead right now even

violence is once again flared up to these are the images the world in seeing from the streets of kandahar. operations are all. the things. the kids. it's. just so. it's. really you delete something instancing the answer from the east so the future. all right welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser we're here in beirut lebanon to get a taste of freedom as it sweeps the region freedom fighters are everywhere all across north africa the middle east and even madison wisconsin it's a global insurrection against the banker occupation with its own tunes and songs like. this new hit from. gadhafi stays here and welcome back to the kaiser report oh max first let's play a little clip from this viral hit remakes of moammar gadhafi he's brilliant speech to the nation there we go. that's a fantastic sweeping the globe the population the youth the arab youth the thing they love so much about gadhafi speech is that they for forty years have known he's a totally bonkers and st jude but the west has prance around the world stage at various i.m.f. and those sort of meetings the west gave him legitimacy so

these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. showing operations room today. this is the arty news journal from moscow the u.n. security council is to hold a closed door meeting in a few hours time to discuss the situation in libya it was called a request of russia is going to keep your plan as the latest from washington d.c. . the fears are that the coalition forces could be going beyond the u.n. authorized no fly zone measures and russia has called a security council meeting behind closed doors to once again weigh in on the situation and to look at the results of the intervention there are lots of questions on the table as to the limits of the intervention really and now for the coalition forces which is sharm could be the question that everybody is asking here is could the officer target now the pentagon says no in fact the defense secretary robert gates said targeting gadhafi goes beyond you are you guys you should not be here and the u.s. is are meant to stick to the resolution but the thing is that the wording of the resolu

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and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. trying to look for asians rule today. we know how evil the enemy is and we have to confront it so who exactly is that enemy all according to the chairman of the house homeland security committee that enemy would be american muslims so is congressman peter king and joseph mccarthy. as a survivor of congressman king into office while many of them were muslims themselves so what do they have to say about their representation now. with great concern in our community and we need somebody to voice their concerns and it turns out representative king may not be alone in his opinion for take you to a region in the united kingdom where a hotbed of tikrit is brewing. and who would you choose to promote democracy world why would it be an impeach john she was recently sued for sexual harassment doubtful so why does the u.s. government have a criminal making huge democratic decision abroad. is wednesday march ninth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out there watching our team. well h

in fact, if you look at the record and my statements on jar ri and districts west of kandahar, you'll see that we were very cautious in our projections of the rate of progress there and, frankly, ultimately we did actually state that we had actually done it a little bit faster than we had anticipated. this is hard government work. it is tough fighting in very, very difficult conditions. almost like the hedge rows of normandy in certain respects in some of these districts. and, again, i would submit that on my watch as the commander that i have been very, very circumspect in projections about what it is that we will do and in explaining what we have done and that there are a lot of caveats and that what we have tried to do is be as forthright as we possibly could. >> nevertheless, these gains are fragile -- >> and that's my statement as well. >> that's why i think you stated here today is we have sort of a fork in the road where those who see this fragility supporting continued investment in those who seeing that fragility wonder similar my how much longer can we hue to this strategy?

and where i needed is an kandahar do i want to consider the better test for to performance not in kandahar? no, i am probably -- in fact what i need to do is create the responsibieep up with these in f ndahar and i will do it thereo regardless ofstan standards? >> i need to be able to meet whatever the threshold requirement is for theement i specification. specification and i need to work with the company to ensure that they can meet that specification. >> are those guidelines written out? >> well, the requirement is laid out in each individual contract for, this is what the clothing needs to meet. this is what the boot needs to meet. this is what the concrete -- whatever the product is that we're buying, at last specification that we expect to be met. >> of course. >> and then working with the company to meet it. >> that's the part i'm asking you about. working with the company because presumably if past performance isn't what you want it to be but you want to work with the company, have you laid out rules so that people know how to work with the company? you're trying to do something dif

yesterday. 27-year-old staff sergeant eric true blood was killed when he was attacked by an ide in kandahare. >> the district attorney has called on the f.b.i. and the u.s. attorney's office to conduct an investigation. d.a. george gascon it's because new information has come to light and the district attorney's office doesn't have the resources the public defenders. they released surveillance video of several undercover officers claiming they broke the law in several drug and robbery cases. nearly 60 days have been thrown out as a result. >> people spent hours in lane outside bay area apple stores to get the first new ipad 2. this the line in emeryville which stretched for several blocks. there was a huge line in apple store in san francisco. new ipad is thinner, lighter and faster with two cameras. they did not take pre-orders so anyone that wants to buy one will have to wait in line. people waiting for delivery, they will begin to sell them online early this morning. >> let's go back and talk to spencer christian. she using our technology to track the tsunami advisory in the wake of this

francisco police misconduct case and who illed when enemy force as tacked his unit with a bomb in kandahar provence. he was based in germany. >> san francisco's district attorney called on the fbi and u.s. attorney's office to conduct a police misconduct investigation of his department. the d.a.told that department-rather. telling reporters its because new information has come to light. the case is complex and the district attorney doesn't have resources. the public defender recently released surveillance video of several under cover police officers claiming it shows police broke the law in dealing with several drug and robbery cases in san francisco residential hotels. nearly 60 cases have been thrown out as a result. gascone served as police chief until recently being appointed d.a.. >> and people spend hours in line and the new ip wad -- ipad has two cameras and apple did not take preorders for the ipad 2. anyone who wants one will have to wait in line along with everyone else. for people willing to wait apple did begin selling the device online this morning. >> as we continue tonight b

the victims were driving in kandahar province in southern afghanistan on saturday when their vehicle hit the bomb. the taliban recently increased attacks on civilians there. >>> and finally, in bismarck, north dakota, the national guard had to be called in to rescue hundreds of people stranded in a blizzard. about 800 motorists were trapped in vehicles by huge snowstorm in whiteout conditions. two highways were closed by the snow. the weather here has been so nice, i keep forgetting that it's still winter out there. elsewhere. >> it is, ron. thank you. >>> speaking of weather, we want to turn to stephanie roberts from our tampa affiliate, wfts. good morning to you, stephanie. >> good morning. and speaking of winter we are looking at another storm system moving into the northwest part of the country and we'll see heavy rain, mountain snow and gusty winds from seattle to portland even into northern california. it looks like the worst weather we a will stay north of san francisco. but numerous watches and warnings have been issued already for that part of the country. winds being the bi

as i said, the story in kandahar have unfolded much more detail than i'm able to provide here. it's a significant defeat for them. and this they're very frustrated by those. of their leaders are gone. and their senior leaders, i'm absolutely convinced, and know this, that their senior leaders are in pakistan and they do not enter on to the field of battle. they are telling them to go back and do more and do it better. and there's huge frustration in the middle ranks about those kind of orders from them becaue they believe their senior leaders don't get it. they don't understand what's been happening to them. so yes, there is some fracture. that's not leading yet to a defeat or to an abandonment to their goals or objectives, but i think as the spring and summer campaign unfolds and we're sitting on the grounding that they're trying to take back. remember what i said. and we've taken away a lot of their logistical infrastructure. they will kill some policemen successfully and some government officials and every once in a while they'll have an episodic catastrophic attack at the h