we s any midst o kandahar, the art of the u.s.-led offensive,he tiban are able to build ts tunnel cretly, overive months of effort. think there will be a whe serif estions. how did this hpen? who s bughthat's what the implicatnhat who was bre? what is t impcation? does this hurt the drawdown date >> do not thinso. it me at that general petraeu's recommendations. he is going to come upith a ries ofecomndations, an it will haveo reflect thmore obus operations from the talin and we thought. >> thank you. in sya, the crackdo again dissent ok a deadly tur at the the gernmt troop launched a majorperation with the anti-vernment protests began last month. the syrian gernment said the troops were invited in tount fo the extmist terrorist groups. internationalroups are cdemning be the violenc >> the syrianoverent made it clr it willolerateno dissent. extraornary sceness tanks rumbled down the stres, trying toeize the city back fm protestors the army med onion in foe, firing at demonsator these iges, which w cannot verify, were recorded on b

despite progress in kandahar, a suicide bomber killed the police chief of kandahar city and two of his officers last friday. on saturday a taliban agent in the afghan army killed five american soldiers at this training base. and yesterday a roadside bomb killed six afghan policemen in eastern afghanistan. as another taliban infiltrator wearing an afghan army uniform killed two people inside the ministry of defense in kabul. the upsurge in violence comes as the beginning of a promise withdrawal of u.s. forces looms in july. on friday president obama said the planned drawdown would go forward. >> i'm confident that the withdrawal will be significant. people will say this is... they will say this is a real progress of transition. this is not just a token gesture. >> suarez: meanwhile nato is scheduled to hand over responsibility for all security to afghan forces by 2014. just back from a reporting trip to afghanistan for the "washington post" is senior correspondent rajiv chandrasekaran. as the fighting season, what they call the fighting season, starts again, is it a weakened taliban tha

it's here where the jailbreak will be felt most, and the villages around kandahar. these soldiers spent a long summer fighting the taliban. some of them captured and now free again. with the fighting season about to start,, their enemy has just had its ranks replenished. >> now, there are just a few days to go until william and kate's big day. the preparations are in their final phase. nowhere more so than the bride's home village. we've been talking to the locals there. >> the bunting is already up in this part of berkshire, in honor of the girl who has made it to buckingham palace. >> it's good news for the nation, isn't it? >> i'm very excited. the nerves are getting closer and closer. the village butcher is one of the locals who have been invited to the abbey for the wedding. he's known the bride since she was a little girl. >> we still see a lot of kate, despite what she's taken on. maybe not so often. but she'll always put her hand up, wave when she's passing or when she's in the area. give us a smile. >> for the 1,500villers who haven't been ined, there will

tunnelled out of a maximum security prison in kandahar, the nation's second largest city. the tunnel was dug from the outside in. now the search is on. if we get information, we'll bring it to you in this news cast. >>> overnight, nato has scored some hits on moammar gadhafi's compound in tripoli. it's not known where gadhafi himself was at the time. the air strikes follow a bloody weekend in the rebel-held city of misrata. shelling from government forces killed at least 32 people. but the rebels now claim they have control of the city. >>> a passenger on a paris to rome flight led a weak attempt to hijack the jet and have it diverted to libya. he tried to attack a flight attendant with a nail clip person he was subdued and the plane landed as scheduled. >>> oil prices have hit $113 a barrel this morning. that will mean even higher gas prices back here at home.

el gobierno de kandahar dijo que la excavación del túnel era una nueva técnica, admitió que la cárcelta, es nuestra culpa y no volverá a suceder dijo. es una burla porque minutos después talibanes dijeron que habían sacado todos los internos, en un período de 35 meses, todo desde una casa cercana a las torres de vigilancia. el domingo por la noche un grupo de reos que sabían del plan, abrieron las puertas de las celdas y sin hacer un sólo disparo sacaron a los reos en grupo de 4 y 5. el grupo talibán dijo que llevo 4 horas y media sacar a los prisioneros del túnel, luego los trasladaron en vehículos a lugares seguros. >>> no debió pasar y tratamos de averiguar combcómo ocurrió y compensar el desastre, una búsqueda intensa este lunes logró dar con # pdos prófugos q lograron intentar irse y fueron muerto muertos. el mismo gobierno afgano no tiene idea de cuánta gente trabaja para su policía. lo que crea un riesgo de abuso de los fondos internacionales. desde el 2002 se destinaron unos 1600 millones de dólares para un programa de naciones unidas para el desarrollo y pagar salarios de pol

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they were not part of the kandahar shura. i recall in the state department our negotiations with the former foreign minister who was one of those interlocutors now, and when we tried to get him come and, sorry, the qatar shura who have come to some agreement on the yielding of osama bin laden. many of those pushing hard for it to clock him i believe are using the western concepts of political sentiment where what you do is you trade ministerial positions, a provincial appointment and constitutional revisions. the taliban have long indicated that sustain for the constitutional system and for the current leadership. they do not practice collision. andy and i submit they are true believers. at least the top leadership. therefore they have limited political ideological ambitions. and that these will, when they prevail, he demonstrated. but the taliban has always stressed from the very beginning that it's an islamic movement, that transcends ethnic divisions. by the late 1990s they had made the transformation from those simply wan

jim aceda, nbc news, kandahar. >> life in the u.s. army thousands of miles from home. we've had a tremendous response to jim maceda's reporting this week. because of that, he's live on the facebook page tonight, taking comments, answering questions from all of you about the people he met on the front lines in afghanistan. >>> up next here tonight, a high school student announces to her classmates she's pregnant, but that's not the stunner in her story. ji >>> big story out of washington state in the news tonight. it's about teenage pregnancy, and as we have reported here, teenage pregnancy has gone down a bit in recent years, but the birth rate for hispanic teenagers ages 15-17 is still nearly four times as high as the rate for white teenagers. that gave high school honor student gabby rodriguez a big idea for her senior project. her project has now exploded into a nation news story. our report from kate snow. >> reporter: it was last fall 17-year-old gabby rodriguez first surprised her teachers and classmates at her high school in washington with news she was expectin

the head is traveling to canada kandahar. the united kingdom has no involvement with infrastructure, build, or other support for the prison. we continue to support the development of the afghan prison sector. this is a serious offense which underlines the need to build a prison system in afghanistan to minimize the danger and damage to anyone, be they u.k. forces and personnel or anyone else. >> the valiant professionalism of our soldiers in afghanistan is distinguished in our proud military history. they deserve our gratitude. they also deserve our vigilance to protect them from avoidable risk. this is a disaster. many of those who escaped our -- the government has been accused of being on their faith and reliability and loyalty of the afghan police and army. this is the second major escape from kandahar. three soldiers were murdered by an afghan soldier. this time, the afghan police stood aside as united nations peacekeepers were lynched. the afghan security services has proved themselves, to a large extent, to be endemic t

over the weekend, nearly 500 taliban fighters escaped from a prison in kandahar, the largest in southern afghanistan. a hole in a cell floor led to a thousand-foot tunnel that took months to dig. today, a spokesman for afghan president hamid karzai called the escape a disaster. meanwhile, in syria, nearly 350 anti-government protesters have been killed in recent weeks. today, the white house repeated its demand that president bashar assad stop the slaughter. but today, assad took aim at the southern city where it began. said western journalists that has been barred from syria, barry peterson reports from london. >> reporter: as demonstrations escalate, so has the government's force. in dara, army tanks were used for the first time in this uprising against protesters. people in the city could only answer with rocks. this woman was in dara. "bodies on the ground," she says. "my family is dying." it's not just protesters under attack. human rights activists are being hunted down; among them, a lawyer once jailed and tortured by the regime. he's in hiding tonight, and we spoke with him by ph

the taliban militants who launched an attack on the police training center in the afghan city of kandahar an hour long gun battle also saw three suicide bombers explode a full scale of the casualties at this point is unknown kandahar has come with the heart of the war on terror in afghanistan good dozens killed in recent weeks. and in the ivory coast of forces are loyal to the internationally recognized election when i listen to what tara have laid siege to the incumbent leaders residents comes after attempts to drive by both from the presidential palace where he's been holed up u.n. and french troops continue to conduct as strikes on the military targets throughout every joint attention comes amid failed efforts to negotiate the departure of but both from the country and he claims he still has no intention of stepping down. now as political admits it can keep its economy afloat the eurozone is finding itself coughing up for a third. following a severe but unsuccessful austerity cuts this plan will get take on more debt the e.u. set alone and more than one hundred billion dollars that's h

this hour six children ten more wounded in an attack on a police training center afghan city of kandahar three suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the compound which was stormed by militants the taliban has claimed responsibility kandahar is seeing a mounting violence in the war on terror in afghanistan with dozens killed around the city in recent weeks. in ivory coast forces loyal to the internationally recognized election. to the incumbent leader's residence. to drive from the presidential. where he's been holed up in the country's largest city of abidjan france says that defiant politician has a less than a thousand troops at his disposal every two negotiated by bowser departure have so far failed as he still refuses to step down. as portugal admits it cannot keep its economy afloat the eurozone is finding itself coughing up yet a third bailout package following a severe but unsuccessful austerity cuts lisbon will now take on more debt and the e.u. set to loan it more than a hundred billion dollars tempers in the eurozone are still volatile over the bailouts of greece and irelan

this is a this is the second time since two thousand and eight i know in the last time i was in kandahar and aren't just i was raped under roof and suppose a prison and it was it was even there live again just a few of the guys the mission the. our neighborhood but but nobody was going to say this is a security threat most of the big only has been let down to get a job now for three months and months and months very mature. and i said a precious to do. all this that really i'd say see she said. go ahead. you know this is a good indication of just how badly incompetent things could be when we knew when he was one of the good the competent something i mean it's just ridiculous we've spent i'm not sure how many tens of millions of dollars that we've had a justice program with jill housman there's just one since two thousand and four we've had this we've seen i don't know how many hundreds of lawyers and prison guards they don't have to be called correctional specialists and police officers and and all these people are supposed to work with the ed kids. if you can't deliver a big if i mean b

who were were treated out of town yes good security forces are can form throw from herat to kandahar to ferry i mean they're all over the place looking for a specific list of people so i assume it was probably something organized even if they were agitators there i mean this crowd and i being really massive in mazar e sharif is a city and the north that's been known to be peaceful over the years and you don't find taliban there so is that a really bad sign to you that we saw you know go to the to the extent that it did on friday in mazar e sharif particularly. when you don't know that mobs are mobs and in this part of the read these mobs can get maybe very fast because they're going to afford to go the i think the reason we saw him was or was specifically because most or is the city and security forces here were not did not recognize the threat that this crowd imposed knew they had been we've given them with the we're as when they try to contain her the next day oh they were going to city so fast it was over within forty five minutes so i think you i think it was or was was because i

and it was the one time where farouk had me wear a burqa on a trip to kandahar. he was really embarrassed and ashamed to ask me to wear a burqa because he was so proud when he was a pashtun come he was so proud when his mother and his sisters got to take off their burkas after the taliban left. so to have to asked me to wear a burqa was a tough thing for him but it was june 2006 and we're driving to kandahar, and the situation was bad. so i said fine, farouk. taking up a burqa. he throws one at me and i put it on and the back of it, those of you who know afghanistan know how wrong this is. the front of it hit me about your and the back of hit me back here. so in other words, i was basically walking around wearing the equivalent of a miniskirt in kandahar. every elder i met said it's really great you were wearing that, you are trying to observe our culture, but it is very short. is that the south in kabul now? [laughter] so i think i'm in short i would just try, i would just try to wear what made people comfortable. but when we went to parties in kabul, i'm not go

but it was june of 2006, and we were driving to kandahar. and the situation was bad. so i said, fine, farooq. pick me up a birka. and he throws one at me, and i put it on. and the back of it -- those of you who know afghanistan is know how wrong this is -- the front of it hit me about here, and the back of it hit me back here. so, in other words, i was basically walking around wearing the equivalent of a miniskirt in kandahar. and every elder i met with said it's really great you're trying to observe our culture, but it's very short. [laughter] is that the style in kabul now? [laughter] so, i mean, i would just try to wear what made people comfortable. you know, we went to parties in kabul, i'm not going to pretend like i was wearing those outfits. i would wear them over what i would wear there, but then i would wear normal western clothes inside parties. all right, next question. yes, you in the pack. wait for the microphone -- you in the back. wait for the microphone. >> yeah, i'm just, i'm just wondering if you have any thoughts about the way "the chicago tribune"

>> well, then i will focus on stability and kandahar province would have been essentially.so, inadvertently, by designer action a little hard to tell, the u.s. government decides it wants to fully invested quite a lot of money in a province which frankly that represents more development aid in the province should ever received. >> who, with agency? >> usaid. >> awarded a 300 million-dollar contract suppose? >> actually i believe there was a cooperative agreement i could check on that. >> mckeithen $300 million through some mechanism to another organization and then what amount? >> essentially money comes into the system and who lack the ability to understand where where in the district which is the latest terminology now in afghanistan to focus these funds into and dissention hee-haw ticker performers, the kaput associations to work with was a you can see the pacific happening who had rather be in that group going back saying it's covered here who, let's go somewhere else, the ne dtc keep the district so many outputs to show part of the stabilization process. >> and, your s

. >>> los operativos para recapturar a 500 presos talibanes que se fugaron de la prisión de kandaharlas revueltas el 18 de marzo han muerto 350 civiles. pasamos con ilia calderón y un adelanto de noticiero univisión edición nocturna. >>> en nuestra edición nocturna, la legislatura estaría a punto de decidir si se une al grupo de estados que adoptaría leyes contra inmigrantes indocumentados como un puñado de legisladores cubanoamericanos pueden ser el factor determinante. y comienza una nueva era, los buses escolares que por décadas tienen el color amarillo y letras negras está a punto de cambiar. van a ver anuncios publicitarios en los autobuses. con esto y más en la edición nocturna. maría elena. >>> una pausa más y regresamos con los últimos delts de la boda real y los invitados latinos ya volvemos. ♪ con dinero y sin dinero [ todos ] ♪ yo hago siempre lo que quiero ♪ ♪ y mi palabra es la ley ♪ no tengo trono ni reina [ todos ] ♪ ni nadie que me comprenda ♪ pero sigo siendo el rey qué bonito es festejar con los amigos con una cerveza bien fría. [ locutor ] budweiser. el rey de las

demonstrators set cars and shops on fire in canada -- can kandahar. >> anger has turned into protests. the police shot into the crowd, killing nine, injuring 8. brutally, they prevented what happened yesterday. protesters overrung police in northern afghanistan, and murdering seven u.n. members. all this was sparked by terry jones, a fringe preacher with a tiny following, when he burned the koran. on night "nightline" he was unrepenalty tent. >> we do not feel responsible. we feel more that the muslims used that as an excuse. >> what's your message to someone like that? >> if he did look at me at this moment, i would tell him my three colleagues and died and the seven all together died were very good people. so you should be feeling guilty and should not do that. >> reporter: today, protest wasn't the only violence. two suicide bombers dressed in berk cas tried to storm a u.s. base in kabul. the people were injured. >> this market would usually be full but today it's empty. afghans are staying home and foreigners or on lockdown because the fear is the protests aren't over. abc news. k

. >> alan: in the second day of angry demonstrations, thousands filled kandahar city, sitting fire to shops and cars in an effort to control the large crowd, police killed nine protesters and injured more than 80 others. >>> rebels in libya say 13 of their fighters have been killed in a nato air strike aimed at their opponents. a rebel spokesman says the fighter wrs hit while trying to take back the oil city of brega. the air strikes were aimed at gadhafi's forces. the rebels called it an unfortunate accident and doesn't din million intheir -- diminish their support for the international campaign. nato is looking into the report. >>> another newspaper appears to be looking at a plan to charge money to read its content. the plan to start charging for content on sf gate.com. >> our first warm spring weekend. leigh glaser is coming up to tell us about that. >> mike: the giants in l.a. getting schooled, but the g-men did some huffing and puffing and blew their way into the win column with everyone contributing. >> alan: the hearst corporations considering charming for looking at their new

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more than 480 prisoners got away after taliban militants tunneled their way into the kandahar jail. nearly all were insurgents. clashes raged today along the border between thailand and cambodia. it was the deadliest fighting the region has seen in years. the two governments said at least 13 soldiers have died since friday. they're battling for control of disputed territory that holds the ruins of ancient temples. some 50,000 villagers have fled the border area to escape the conflict. in economic news, ford motor company posted its best first- quarter profit in 13 years. that, in turn, helped drive wall street higher today. the dow jones industrial average gained 115 points to close at 12,595. the nasdaq rose 21 points to close at 2,847. at the same time, a standard and poor's survey found home prices in most major cities have hit the lowest point since the housing bubble burst. more state governments are getting into pension trouble. the pew center on the states reported today 31 states face shortfalls in their public employee pensions. that's up from 22 in 2009. when the cost of r

in afghanistan after taliban insurgents dug a 1,000-foot tunnel underground into the main jail in kandaharcity. officials say about a under h of the escaped inmates are members of the taliban. the jail break occurred overnight. they believe it took insurgents more than five months to dig the tunnel and bypass checkpoint and major roads. the prison had just undergone security upgrades. >>> we have new details on coming woman gabrielle giffords' astonishing recovery. doctors cleared her to travel to florida on friday so she can watch her husband command the launch of the space shuttle. here is abc's david curly. >> it is what mark kelly hoped for. his wife will be there for liftoff this friday. >> she has been looking forward to this for a longtime. as nasa's -- one of nasa's biggest supporters in congress, she was really looking forward to having the opportunity to be there. >> giffords was shot at the head at point blank during a lone gunman at a public appearance in tucson in january. while she is medically cleared to travel right now, she will be uh p -- accompanied by staff from nasa ho

. >> reporter: today, thousands filled kandahar city, furious of the koran burning 8,000 miles away.he police shot into the crowd, killing nine, injuring 80. brutally, they pry vent -- prevent what happened yesterday, protesters and killing u.n. members. >> one man survived. this one, found beat 'and left in a ditch. earlier inside the compound, attackers put a gun to his head, killed his colleagues and said he had to prove he was muslim. he isn't, but he recited the core rap. >> he respected lahm -- islam. >> the protested were ignited after fringe pastor terry jones burned their koran. >> we do not feel responsible, no. >> what's your message to someone like that? >> if he did look at me, i would tell him my the colleagues who died were very good people, sow you she be feeling guilty. >> reporter: more than 0 20 people died in the protest, and officials fear the anger might get worse. >> alan: rebels in libya say 13 of their fighters have been killed in a nato air strike aimed at their opponents. a rebel spokesman says the fighters were hit trying to take back the oil city of brega

because osama bin laden was in kandahar and i was in jalalabad.hese cities are 30-hour drive apart. if i did, though i didn't, but even if i did, it doesn't mean i'm from al qaeda. >> reporter: he says he was in afghanistan from the mid '90s until 2003, teaching. and that he never went to any al qaeda training camps, though there are reports that place him in a camp. did you ever train in al qaeda camp in afghanistan? >> translator: no, i didn't. afghans know weapons and how to use them before osama bin laden was there. >> reporter: when he left afghanistan in 2003, he was arrested by pakistan, questioned, he says, by american interrogators for two months. and handed over to gadhafi, who threw him in prison. it's a murky story. but his message, and the message of many others who have fought americans in the past, is clear. >> translator: our opinion about the west and the americans has changed a lot. and the libyan people say, the u.s. is now fighting for people's human rights. >> reporter: but how long will the warm feelings forward america last

relatively stable area across the central island of a direct comparison with someone working in kandahar and helmand, the mercy corps and others who work in those more unstable environments but we have had a zero and fatalities of any sort and zero work related utilities and some people killed in a roadside robbery's but nothing to do with their affiliation or their work. >> do you think that has everything to do with the nature of how you're perceived? >> it has everything to do with the quality of our work because if we do bad work we can be as impartial as we want and then drive us out. it has to do with the way we work with the humble approach, the community driven approach and absorbing following the principles. >> affected a response from each of them and then i will stop. >> did you say before that from the previous round you got the conclusion ngos were doing all of this because i want to correct that my colleagues think if you're building a ring road against afghanistan the ira season the group to do it. clearly some of the things we do like having 98% the afghans has got to be

. >>> in afghanistan, violence over the burning of the koran by a pastor started a riot in kandahar, they attacked cars and shops. yesterday seven u.n. workers were killed during a protest in the northern part of that country. this morning, u.n. secretary-general condemned the violence. >> and this was an outrageous attack against a u.n. staff, which cannot be justified under any circumstances. and i condemn in the strongest of possible terms. >> the burning of islam's holy book last month was supervised by terry jones, the pastor of a small florida church. many people in afghanistan did not know about it, because most media outlets refused to give jones a platform. that is, until afghan president hamid karzai denounced the act four days later. >>> in libya, rebels are hoping to turn the tables against moammar gadhafi's forces once again this weekend. government troops pushed rebel fighters back about 100 miles this week. now anti-government forces are trying to fight in a more disciplined fashion. since yesterday, only former military officers and trained volunteers serving under th

these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. showing corporations to rule the day . see. the future. this is not a. war. everybody is sure. about the hardships to face. up to live a. real life stories from world. hope sources are not to finish prince's charge with inciting racial hatred also giving an interview to us at all at sea in which he slammed the man behind a string of deadly bombings in russia. nato air strikes have hit a rebel tank position in libya with up to fifty deaths reported a major could have to control the oil field is also center have been destroyed by the coalition according true motives of violence into question. portugal turns to the e.u. to drag it out of a financial black hole thrown into roles waves of anger among european taxpayers would have to put yet another but you know bill. with more news more evidence for in less than fifteen minutes from now meantime let's check out what's happening in the world of sports in the tosh. thanks bill this is lot of sports news on r.t.l. here is what's coming off in

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together to fight that war but it does require caution about building in officers from helmand and kandahar and other places where they would imagine that they're going to have trouble monitoring the loyalty of those groups. >> well, i don't think we have -- i mean, in terms of the northern alliance, i think a precondition in my view to having an eventual settlement in afghanistan -- it requires the building up of a political consensus amongst the afghan political class at the moment as to what -- what are the objectives important to the taliban? what would be the outcome? what would be the red light? we saw that. it is going to be much more difficult. so in this period, while perhaps a special envoy is trying to work out the mechanics and the structure, there should be an effort led by pakistan and afghanistan and led by ngos or a consensus. at the moment it does not exist and bill was alluding to it, we need to ensure that at one point the afghan government end the u.s. government speak with the same -- from the same crib sheet when they're addressing the importance of talking to the tali

nato allies as a result it was up to the united states marines to save their courageous british in kandahar and helmand province is now the european side of nato has demonstrated to the whole world that within one week they can accomplish two big time friendly fire air assault on the rebel forces the pentagon chief robert gates who has nothing to lose on his way to final retirement should admit it loud and clear the first lesson in regime ease that nato and without american brains bronze he's nothing but a dog and pony show especially when push comes to show whether in afghanistan believe. what else where. well as well as exclusive analysis of the military operation in libya we're offering exclusive video as well. people seemed pretty much of a rebel stronghold and. thousands gathered on friday turn one of victims of nature's warnings and these images from a video service that's the name implies there's no charge upon a link to the page which you see on the internet access to the presence of clips on the web site of course. it will be the longest and most ambitious on the sea pipeline in th

other stories making headlines across the globe nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the koran a u.s. based pastor dozens more were injured on friday a similar protest in mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people including seven workers at the local u.n. office. and gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace and ivory coast main city of abidjan is the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people reported dead in violence in the city of duplay this week fighters backing the un recognized leader alasania what taler are pressing the offensive against the incumbent president they are said to have seized a key port and the country's capital. up next we continue our russia closeup series at this time our team is looking for perfect mountain getaway. day three of our trip to the chelyabinsk region in the urals which are some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow i mean you're industrial hub it was closed off to foreigners as recently as the ninety's a day it's picturesque mountains a

some other stories making headlines across the globe nine people have been killed in the city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the koran by a u.s. base after dozens more were injured on friday a similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people including seven workers at a local u.n. office. and gunfire and explosions have been heard of the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of abidjan as the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people reported killed in violence in the city of juke way this week fighters backing the un or recognize leader hour a sign a what tara pressing the offensive against the incumbent president there is said to have seized the keyboard and the country's capital. next we continue our russia close up series and this time our team is looking for the perfect getaway. three of our trip to the chill you have been squeezing in the year old which is some seven hundred kilometers east of the russian capital a major industrial how it runs was. closed off to foreigners as recently as the ni

nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the koran in the u.s. dozens more were injured a violent demonstration follows an american pastor's burning of the muslim holy book last month on friday a similar protests in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to deaths of seven workers at the local u.n. office. and gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of the job as the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people have reported the been killed in violence in the city of do choir this week fighters backing the un recognized leader i will sign you are pressing the offensive against income the incumbent president there is said to have seized a key port and the country's capital. now we continue our russell close up series on our team is in the ural mountains to show you our relax and get away. we're in the city of in the southern europe also a major industrial holiday closed off to foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but today it's not all be

last month demonstrators in kandahar attacked cars and shops in a riot that left at least five people dead at the protests have also spread to the city of talal of god comes after fourteen people including u.n. staff were killed after similar to. an american southwest airlines has grounded near the eighty planes for inspection and canceled three hundred flights nationwide the move came out for a section of the fuselage ripped open on a boeing seven thirty seven during a flight on friday for it's going to merge into landing at a military base in arizona the jet with one hundred eighteen people on board was on route from phoenix to supplement when the cabin pressure suddenly dropped the pilot made a descent and none of the passengers were seriously injured. on the fiftieth anniversary year of the first manned flight into space russia was preparing to honor that epic achievement the crew set to blast off on board of science spacecraft on monday night on their mission to the stars says arcelor has more. well it's just a day before the launch of the so used twenty one to the international

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other stories making headlines across the globe nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the qur'an by a pastor in the us dozens more were injured on friday a similar protest in the city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of twelve people including seven workers at the local you when office. gunfire and explosions have been heard of the presidential palace in ivory coast main city of abidjan is the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people all supported killed in violence in the cities due to the way this week fighters backing the un recognized leader although sunday what are pressing the offensive against the incumbent president laurent gbagbo are said to have seized a key port and the country's capital. next we continue our russian close up series this time our team is looking for the perfect getaway. day three of our trip to the show you have been screened some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow a major industrial harbor was closed off to foreigners or recently as the ninety's but today its picturesqu

nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the koran by asked thirty laps dozens more were injured on friday a similar protests in the city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of seven workers at the local u.n. office. gunfire and explosions have been heard at the presidential palace in our main city of abidjan as the country's struggle for power heats up every eight hundred people have been reported killed in violence in the city of duke way this week fighters backing the un recognized leader on the side of your tahrir are pressing the offensive against the incumbent president they are said to have seized the key port and the country's capital. later today on our t.v. our documentary about sean sellers sentenced to death and executed in the u.s. at the age of sixteen our special report reveals his emotional trial and examines how those caught up in the case are still haunted by twelve years on. as you know song was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say the song so it should not be punished for his cr

nine people have been killed in the afghan city of kandahar during a protest over the burning of the qur'an by a pastor in the u.s. dozens more injured on friday a similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of seven locals a local u.n. office. gunfire and explosions have been heard of the presidential palace in ivory coast's main city of abidjan as the country's struggle for power heats up at least eight hundred people have been reported killed in the violence in the city as you quaid this week fighters backing the u.n. recognize lead and listen to what pressing the offensive against the incumbent president said to have seized a key port of the country's capital. we continue our russia close up series and this time our teams looking at a perfect man get away. and it is day three of our trip to the chill yabrud school region in the your rules which is some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow as you can see on the map there a major industrial how it is it was closed off to the foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but today it's pictur

killed and at least twelve others wounded in an attack on a police compound in the afghan city of kandahar insurgents drove an ambulance full of explosives into the station and decimated the load because it just had an hour long gun battle with a heavily armed attackers expect to be able to pick up the casualties the taliban would claim responsibility for the attack. now to a story beyond russian soyuz spacecraft successfully to the international space station two russians and american will spend five months there bringing the total oh yes yes crew to six the flight was dedicated to your government the first manned space ship just a week before the fiftieth anniversary of its initial reply but as of these tests are silly reports even today on the colonies legacy is this current generations to for their tree. after all spend most of their lives preparing for the possibility of going to space the russian cosmonaut for example takes about two hundred a year and that's out of this visit will pray they will have to go through all the hard work men and women put into their professions one of the