kohn should know. he retired last fall after 40 years at the fed, leaving his job as vice chairman shortly before the central bank began its $600 billion bond-buying program known as quantitative easing. >> they must feel that they are not getting their story across, they are not answering the questions that people have about those asset purchases. so this is another opportunity to explain what they are doing and answer the questions more directly. >> reporter: in his first post- meeting news conference, fed chairman ben bernanke is expected to repeat arguments he's made before. buying assets in bulk is an effective way to boost the economy when traditional short- term interest rates are already near zero. and with unemployment high and inflation still relatively low, fed officials argue that policy makes sense. but critics see the public outreach differently. columbia professor charles calomiris argues the fed launched its bond-buying program in response to political pressure to do something about the

one of the men, kohn shows me how local policeman arrested him and hung him by his thumbs. >> they took me to the station and tortured me. they hung me on the wall for 3 hours. >> he can hardly hide the pain. christianity was unheard of among some tribes. today they make up vietnam's fastest growing church. he practiced idol worship. when he got sick he couldn't find relief. >> in march last year i was sick. i didn't have enough money. i asked one of the christians to pray for me. god healed me. since that time people hate me because i don't do the sacrifice anymore. >> he destroyed the idols with angered many and brutally beaten by the mries. police. he is equipping himself to teach and preach the salvation. these men discover being persecuted for following jesus is nothing new. peter has been arrested for going out, he takes his persecution in stride. >> the government says there is freedom of religion. there is a lot of persecution among christians and other tribes. i have freedom because it doesn't matter. i will do what i am called to do. >> i ask them why they are so persecuted wh

in libya let's get some comment on it cross to berkeley california we're joined there by journalist kohn hell of a cold time spent on the program speciated know the u.s. to noise doesn't using to peace geranium in libya and yet we just heard war veterans in that report there claim that there is evidence showing his use by coalition forces in airstrikes what extent do you think these accusations are true then tonight oh not certain if they're true for instance the eight chan which is low level standard attack plane that in ny state uses a only a c one thirty which is the large large airplane that fires twenty five millimeter and thirty million. initially those are all depleted uranium ammunition i mean you know they don't make non depleted uranium addition for those of course they're using depleted uranium the other thing is if you look at some of the damages in the tanks you'll notice that there is like a single hole in the tank that is a classic entrance point for depleted uranium munitions quickly a thirty millimeter shell you know for non-scientists you know you have a you're a new me

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