other brother, kurds to the north, to the south, brothers the arabs.n nineveh, wes are stuck in the middle, between a rock and hard place. >> reporter: this lawyer says given all the pressures his community faces, christians see no future for themselves in iraq. >> every at 3:00 a.m., christian single men want to leave the country if they get the chance. yes. in general. if now, if not, for example, if the united states administration declares that we are ready to give visa, u.s. visa to go to united states for christians in iraq, i think -- i think at least 80% of what we have left of our population would leave the country to the united states. >> reporter: and what will that mean for the christian community? >> we are excluded. we are being killed every day. >> reporter: what will that mean for the number of christians in iraq? will there be any christians left? >> no, of course. the population is rapidly decreasing. >> reporter: he adds that the disappearance of iraq's christians would not be unprecedented. he points to neighboring turkey where a on

bart, caltrain and golden gate are currently accepting golden -- clipper kurds. with that, the seven agencies represent over 90% of bay area transit rider ship. that provides a great opportunity for interoperability and convenience to the customer. the clipper card has been accused of being complex. part of that is our willingness to extend the willing fare structure that transit agencies have. as we brought these transit agencies on, we except that their products at discount. all told, the clipper card except for thousand unique their combinations, so it is a powerful card. it can be seen as complex but the argument can be as easily made that it is easy to use. lastly, i want to talk about what is happening with overall usage. the former name of the program was the translate card. that was in play for a number of years. this year, 2010, we relaunched not only a new car but a new name, the clipper card name. since then we have had a remarkable natural growth of people moving over to the clipper card. we are averaging a 10% growth per week of the number of transac

step of the city report by the mayor he writes that " a model city is a coherent, cohesive city, a kurd in a vibrant economy, or its citizenry is healthy, well-educated, well-trained, well-informed, incapable of effective interactions with the civic, economic, social, and cultural institutions of our community. ".it outlines his

the first one was with the kurds. because the kurds really did suffer a great deal in their rebellion. and the advantage they had over the shia, who had rebelled first, was that the international press could come in over the borders of turkey and iran and really see what was happening. and so there was a great public outcry that the united states had to do something to protect these kurdish refugees. so that was the first no-fly zone. then later, subsequently, when saddam hussein appeared to be moving back south, that then we set up a similar no-fly zone over the south. and so that means that there is a band across the center of iraq that is under -- is not under the no-fly zone. and what's been going on is that saddam hussein challenges those no-fly zones all the time by sending missiles against these planes that are patrolling them. and then we come in, and we bomb these installations. so this tit-for-tat has been going on for the last decade. c-span: what would happen if we stop buying their oil? >> guest: probably

dominated heavily by kurds have been remarkably successful recently they've cut terror attacks by over fifty percent in the past few months these guys are very good they are very good and they're very good at intelligence and develop gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the other sort of verge growth he's not worried about but others mainly the cities non kurds are here in the downtown area if i would urge characters that are used to their own historic claim of the kirkuk is a unique city in iraq the two melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile actually tensions the two thousand and nine field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that without strong unfair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw all of them this will in terms of security when the u.s. leaves there will be no independent security force right now the security's from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the u.s.

my question has to do with regarding the saddam hussein invading the kurds. it was a result of our initially supporting the kurds to uprise against saddam hussein. and as a result of that, we we - therefore, next thing we abandoned the kurds. and saddam hussein game on and punished him for that. so, you have to admit the fact that we encouraged the kurds to revolt against saddam. and they did. and when he had an opportunity to punish them, that's what happened. that's what happened. >> guest: yeah, well, first i would argue with anybody's right to gas women with their little babies as a result of any foreign policy mandate or any foreign policy position that was taken by those persons. but actually, the kurds inhabit, and have for time and memorial, the northern part of iraq. and so they haven't -- they haven't tried to overthrow saddam hussein. what they have done is tried to hold on to their position in northern iraq. at the edges at places like kurdcouth. you have the friction. you have saddam move in and he displaced kurdish people and moved in arab famil

under the agreement announced on thursday, president talibani, who is a kurd, and prime minister maliki, who is a shia, will rematain their posts. former prime minister alawi will head a council on national strategic policy that will be created to prevent the prime minister from using excessive power. after the deal was struck the parliament opened thursday night and officially named talibani president. it also called on maliki to form the new government. >>> cholera has claimed the lives of more than 700 people in haiti. health care workers are struggling to contain the spread of the disease which started in the northern part of the country and reached the capital port-au-prince this week. patients have packed hospitals in northern haiti. this hospital now only treats cholera patients, many of them children. >> japan's self-defense forces engaged in the reconstruction of haiti are taking preventive measures from cholera sprending among themselves in port-au-prince. >> on wednesday, the troops began cleaning and sanitizing all vehicles used in their mission. the team members also disinf

caller: saddam was slain invading the kurds, it was a result of our initial is supporting the kurds,that, we abandoned the kurds and saddam was slain punished them for that. you have to admit that we encouraged the kurds' revolt against saddam was sane and they did. when he had an opportunity to punish them, look what happened. guest: i would argue with anybody's right to gas women with babies as a result of any foreign policy mandate or any foreign policy position that was taken. actually, the kurds for time immemorial, the northern part of iraq, have inhabited the area. they have tried to hold on to their position in northern iraq. in places like turkel where you have an arab population and the kurdish population, you have the friction and you have said, kirkuk areas the curric and the displaced families. now there is disputes. you have a kurdish family with a deed to a piece of land and it comes down to my father's for centuries. and then you have an arrow that's as i got this deed from those of, government a couple years ago, so we have to work those disputes out. rab then you ha

and current president, jalal talibani, a kurd, retains his office as well. allawi will head a new council overseeing national security, which could be used by sunnis as a check on maliki's power. tensions between the two men were clear today. they initially sat together in parliament. but later, allawi and 57 sunnis walked out. they wanted an immediate vote to stop purging former followers of saddam hussein. the u.s. had pushed for a strong role for sunnis in the new government, fearing they might slide back into insurgency otherwise. instead, maliki's new governing coalition includes a shi-ite bloc led by radical shi-ite cleric moktada al-sadr. that union was brokered by the government of iran, which has long advocated an iraqi government dominated by shi-ite religious parties. even so, in washington, anthony blinken-- national security adviser to vice president biden- - called the agreement a big step forward for iraq and a bad result for those whose agenda is more sectarianism and violence. indeed, u.s. officials now hope for a slow return to stability, a

caller: saddam was slain invading the kurds, it was a result of our initial is supporting the kurds, the uprising against saddam hussein's. as a result of that, we abandoned the kurds and saddam was slain punished them for that. you have to admit that we encouraged the kurds' revolt against saddam was sane and they did. when he had an opportunity to punish them, look what happened. guest: i would argue with anybody's right to gas women with babies as a result of any foreign policy mandate or any foreign policy position that was taken. actually, the kurds for time immemorial, the northern part of iraq, have inhabited the area. they have tried to hold on to their position in northern iraq. in places like turkel where you have an arab population and the kurdish population, you have the friction and you have said, kirkuk areas the curric and the displaced families. now there is disputes. you have a kurdish family with a deed to a piece of land and it comes down to my father's for centuries. and then you have an arrow that's as i got this deed from those of, government a couple years ago,

today, we have over 83 million kurds in the market today. -- cards in the market today.are making everything more quick and convenient for our consumers. mastercard is thrilled to be part of this " were groundbreaking technology. what better place to launch than here in san francisco, the greatest city in the state. with that, i will turn the podium back over to the mayor and we are going to take a mastercard paypass card and charge away. [applause] >> hold a card right here for a moment. now it is charging. now i get to go home. >> nothing else? >> tap and go. safe and secure. >> unbelievable. an extraordinary moment. >> give me a sense, how much will this cost? >> i do not know what the policies here will be, but typically, about $2 a day. >> no requirements on the card? are you going to turn it may for just $2? >> no, we do not. >> i have driven his car for over two years and i have yet to go to a gas station. >> welcome to culture wire. the arabs don't possible has bringing you the best of the arab film to the bay area. this year's festival is no exception. consider

that jacket tomorrow morning as you head out the door. 42 napa, 43 santa rosa, 48 redwood city, 44, kurdsof chile all around even in san francisco 50 degrees. in the afternoon things will be they still cooler than what we saw today but sunny and temperatures a little bit above average for this time a year. 67 santa rosa, 63, upper 60s inland, 60 degrees on the market have been bay, 70 in san jose. the cooling trend continues for the week and rain back in the forecast by this weekend. 3:00 on friday a chance for a light sprinkles in the north bay chips is increasing to the 11:00 hour friday night and it will stationary for most of friday into early saturday. the rain picks up to the northeast of the bay area and again saturday mostly shall read not much impressed of rainfall totals expected but the rain will be off and ofon. shell is back in the forecast friday night to will be off and on the rain through the weekend it will be cool, windy a different forecast for what was out there last weekend so enjoy the nice weather while we still have it. >> justin, on been killed in a wood chipper a

will be able to take off as we head into the afternoon it will be pretty nice out there tomorrow. 64, kurds63 said rosa, 62. our here is a look at your 7 day around the bay around the bay fog expected in the north bay tomorrow same thing on friday notice that temperatures warming up into the mid to upper 60s for the next couple of days. it will warm up into the weekend and that warmer drier air will build and carried it will '70s expected by sunday and monday and will cool slightly heading into next week but will have a nice ball what they're sticking with us. >> back live now to the martine as a body area at the scene of the to zero or five very were sheltered place order has been issued its a health advisory for people living in the area and this black cloud is the reason why. it on the phone with us steve with the contra costa has not unit. give us an update what's happening out. apparently things are not improving because the shelter please order was issued. >> yes we elevated the level to level 3 which means we're asking people downwind in north concord to shelter in place which means

step of the city report by the mayor he writes that " a model city is a coherent, cohesive city, a kurd in a vibrant economy, or its citizenry is healthy, well-educated, well-trained, well-informed, incapable of effective interactions with the civic, economic, social, and cultural institutions of our community. ".it outlines his accomplishments over the past four years. he will be replaced as mayor in january by city councilwoman jean kwan carried now look outside at traffic on wednesday its our camera in walnut creek the 680-24 split the headlights' are northbound and traffic is moving quite slowly in both directions there. much more news ahead and rob black has a look at your money when we come back. the black widow spider's severe bite can cause coma and even death. the african black mamba can kill a man with one bite. but there's an even deadlier predator you can't really love me. i know about gayle. i don't know what you're talking about. if you just tell me what happened... [ ding ] [ man ] 35th and archer. next stop hamilton. [ brakes hiss ] ♪ [ male announcer ] u-verse brings yo

instituted an issuance fee on these cards intended primarily to recover costs on the ticket and the kurds the use of the full clipper card so that over the life of the program the agency was not expending a tremendous amount of funds to purchase limited use tickets that would be only for a handful of trips. in the recent budget date budgeted approximately $2 million in revenue recovery directly through the cubic contract at 30 cents per ticket. since then they have suspended the feet. october 1, easing the transition process for the customers. we are currently soliciting bids from other vendors for subsequent ticket orders and ticket costs in the range of 69 cents per card. about 50% of the cost we have been paying to a contract. we are also evaluating options to currently close the budget gap caused by the fis suspension. >> can you tell us if you think this be will be proposed again? >> we believe that if we can get strong enough competition on these cards, and the card prices are continually coming down. but they do not level out, finding the cards at 16 cents per card now, one year fr

we're willing to assist the always seeing these actions as we have been cooperating with the kurds authorities in stabilizing their situation and restoring order there. briefly discuss the different summit the nato summit has just taken place if i'm not mistaken back in summer you say and i quote. position. there is no consensus among nato members regarding cooperation with the c.s.t. oh they obviously prefer bilateral contacts from a viewpoint on which their political goals unquote. the summit took place it was a success as we heard and russia participated in it is your position changed or has it remained the same. nothing actually happened regarding the interaction between nato and the c.s.t. zero firstly the summit adopted meters new strategic concept secondly the summit to place without russia's participation russia participated. exactly you participated in the russian agent summit which had its own agenda indeed many political analysts are saying that the summit was successful indeed a new strategic concept was adopted nato and russia agreed that russia should be more involved in supporti

deadlock, there appears to be a deal for a power sharing government there with shiite, sunnis and kurds, and nuri al malaki remaining in the job at prime minister. our own richard engel told us from overseas today this is a big deal because iraq has been inching toward a new civil war, many fear. still, things got off to a rocky start. only three hours into the new session of parliament, a major political bloc got up and walked out. we'll keep our eyes on it. >>> in pakistan, a massive car bomb destroyed most of a police compound in karachi, killing at least 18, injuring over 100. pakistani taliban says it detonated the bomb. >>> back here at home, this is veterans day. the 92nd anniversary of the end of fighting in world war i. ♪ [ "taps" being played ] >> members of the u.s. marine corps and vice president joe biden were part of a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns at arlington national cemetery. and in new york city, seemed like all 23 million veterans were in attendance, along sparkling fifth avenue. the largest of many of the parades around the nation today. it was

but the kurds have had a lot more influence in negotiations with the main parties in iraq.may be that because of this, any deal that is hammered out might benefit them sooner than what might have otherwise happened. >> germany's federal aviation agency has carried out a series of raids at airports across the country in order to identify vulnerabilities in security. it is after one of two possible bombs and to infer addresses in the united states was routed through cologne airport. the german government wants tighter controls over cargo deliveries and authorities and inspecting all cargo companies operating in germany over the coming weeks. in a fine working group melt -- will make proposals on how to handle freight from countries with unknowns security standards. we have been talking about the year all week. >> renown, it is all about ireland. is arlen on the brink? investors are unloading irish bonds in droves, a strong signal that little confidence that ireland will be able to pay its debt. on thursday, the yield for irish bonds and shot up to 9%. analysts say dublin will

carried out a joint operation in afghanistan to destroy a drug lab at the same time as far as i know kurds in karzai said and i quote the first is a patient of the russian federal drug control services and the operation in afghanistan was a violation of the country's sovereignty one quote he was not happy about being warned how can you explain to us. as a matter of fact last week president karzai had a telephone conversation with our president during we reaffirmed the need to destroy in a quarter century in the records it so happened that he had not been informed in time that the operation was going to start although the operation had been prepared a long time ago with three states involved it should not start another close to this time from russian foreign minister lavrov. was exclusively restricted to providing information to help locate go aboard three heroin and morphine were manufactured so two points at once the first lover of confirmed we had not while a bit of a guest on sovereignty and then where did the information come from is it your job to acquire such information and i did ye

, who died in 1996, is best known for his life-size human cultures, while the photographer gregory kurds and has made a name for himself with images of american homes and neighborhoods. the combination offers a serial take on the american dream. >> the exhibition does not open until saturday, but it looks as if visitors have already begun arriving. that populate this basis if they were real museumgoers. baffling lifelike, these cultures could almost have originated from these pictures. photographs. the works are connected by the bleak, that is on it, and by the emptiness of life. >> what you notice right away is that the people are sitting very still, and through this expressive sense of inner emptiness. at first glance, it is pretty eery. because you do not know what they are doing there or what has happened to them. >> like here, a dining room, dinner on the table. who are they waiting for? it wouldn't have an. inside, a young mother and her newborn -- a wooden cabin. they draw the viewer into the daily despondency of american life. it is easy to imagine her in having this neighborhood

tension inside the european country russia doesn't have this problem you have a strong unity in your kurds or even issue of. people but it's a long it's a long time. we've you are minorities let's talk about america a little bit what do you think is america's mission and why it's major strategic enemies for example america tried to keep the leadership on the world but no it's not bush. because of china china race is something very difficult to accept for the u.s. and they would try to contain tried to compete with china especially in the pacific ocean where we live probably we live tension between the two major players china and the us but in the long term view i'm confident about the relationship between russia europe on the us i think in the long term we have the same interest we will have to deal with two major problems in the future china on islam islamic world and the reason why i'm confident about the future between between the u.s. and russia so you don't see china as part of this unity america here of pressure plus china no i i think no we are in the kind of multipolar eighty but i

kurdistan get the green light green government and then going investigation on objections from the kurds president. and debate is raging in germany a t.v. show which he's a secret filming techniques to expose internet paedophiles and. news from russia and iran the while this isn't see with me you national thanks for joining us president obama says he hopes the senate will approve the new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia by the end of the yeah there assurance comes after russia norway has raised concerns that the outcome of the u.s. and the ten elections might affect its ratification we have negotiated with the russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms this is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support this is not a traditionally democratic or republican issue but rather. a issue of american national security and i am hopeful that we can get that done and send a strong signal to russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenal. this statement comes after russia's state dream of soaring affairs are amazing it was called it's a recommen

assertive undermining the developing economies is certainly a serious three we need to agree on when the kurds need to broach in the field to a new age risk for the global system as a whole and for in particular markets a threat that so for the nature of it's not a danger we should just find a way to do business through keeping although for a leader in the global financial system global economy is not just to benefit it's also considered substantive building and i think it's time type has come in the united states want to share this burden with other countries do you think a possibility of a trade war between the united states and china is possible as some experts are warning the two countries are so much interconnected in your. actions that may lead to a major trade war. can worsen the situation in each. of the congress so most likely they will find a compromise let's speak of europe european countries have had to tighten their belts which has led to massive protests do you think there are measures are adequate and to what extent they can belt right now is the responsible policy. domestically

if russia had sent forces to kurdistan then it's invading kurdistan if it doesn't send voris is the kurds then it's ignoring kurdistan russia is in a lose lose situation always when it comes to these situations or even if i can go to you what. does the european mean as we go through this this last war in afghanistan i mean this isn't just going to be a wake up call and say and nato can't do these kind of operations anymore and just go back to article five self-defense and just scale it down it's really really expensive and just do that and maybe humanitarian operations in africa or haiti or something like that would that be better served that way you know more of a police force thing for humanitarian aid because the alliance is just absolutely humiliated itself and it really needed to do something right and it totally did everything wrong what do you think you are. locus yes well absolutely as far as afghanistan indeed even as far as iraq are concerned i am completely with you those were horrific not tactical but strategic mistakes for which the united states and unfortunately also nato w

movement are believed planned attacks from the three properties he was violent clashes between ethnic kurdsand whose backs the situation there remain. and nato has announced its plans to pull most of the one hundred fifty thousand coalition troops out of afghanistan within four years but some believe afghan forces may not be ready to defend the country by then or he discussed that with afghan foreign minister dr zalmai rassoul that interview coming up next. afghan foreign minister thank you very much for being with us today our pleasure as a foreign minister when soviet forces withdrew from afghanistan you had been publishing air resistance journal for eighteen years what did you and your compatriots expect for your country's future back then as usual afghanistan wanted to be free independent and sovereign country to be friendly with its neighbors good region and have his own destinies or her and get something good you want it and that's something that afghans always will how would you describe the state of your nation as of today afghan people have been at war for the last thirty years sin

but meanwhile, there is a deal with the kurds in the shape of mr. talabani. he wouldn't mind me saying that. they will have the presidency, the shiites in the shape of mr. maliki will have the prime minister's job and the sunnis in the shape of one of mr. allawi's allies would have the speakership of parliament. that's the basic deal. whether it will work, we'll have to wait and see. it's like any national unity government, it could be a government of national paralysis. that we'll have to wait and see. >> very briefly, you've got parliament which will be gathering shortly. do you see this as a rubber stamp, jim? >> once a deal has been struck, it will be almost a formality for it to be acted out in parliament. they will elect their own speaker and his two deputies. after that, theoretically they could take a month to elect a new president, but i suspect it might be done straight away because everybody has agreed on mr. talabani. he theoretically has 15 days to nominate a new prime minister, while they do that straightaway too because it's all been agreed. so

london among tens of thousands of students protesting government plans to slash education spending the kurds could see university fees rebel in an attempt to reduce the country's massive budget deficit prime minister david cameron said the violence was unacceptable the classes which involved missiles being fired at police led to over thirty arrests and left several wounded james prior and to europe campaigners says the cuts are a result of blowing the budget on the e.u. . we're sending forty eight million pounds a day forty eight million pounds a day to the i mean that's a huge amount of money i mean you know our cases are going if we pull out or at least have a referendum on saying of pulling out would be saving that sort of money we can you know we can look at all sorts of other you know savings and all these vicious cuts that you know that cameron and clegg are bringing in the rich talk that you know this is an organization that hasn't had these accounts altered for fourteen years i think if i'm right from saying they've just rejected the latest round of. you know accounts i mean you know

most people that i know i would say 99% of the kurds don't think it is true. the iraqi minority groups also increase the iraqi nationalism. so focus groups conducted among the christians to be the leading minorities echo those with them on minority iraqi. they want to be treated like iraqis, not mine doherty some don't want minority rights but what iraqi writes. they want a better life for themselves and better representation in the national government. i will conclude by saying that -- and a lot of history and a lot of it is negative over the last seven years, but the invasion of iraq, the great idea led to less suffering but once it happened, the idea that to turn iraq into a normal country i think as christine said, a country that is integrated in the rest of the world where people have a reasonable expectation of a better life is our responsibility and can can happen in the political dilemma area and it happens the u.n. actually works on both of those areas along with other organizations and be of great material to work with and i'm heartened and i think t

prime minister for another term under the new deal which includes parties from the shia sunni and kurd most times we go see ations been ongoing since election should march failed to produce a decisive result it's hoped the deal will help stabilize the country's fragile security situation. millions of people across europe are marking armistice day paying tribute to the victims of all conflicts since the first world war these are pictures of the two minute silence held in london to remember those who gave their lives for their country moral services will also be held on remembrance sunday. you'll feel four and a half. thousands stranded holidaymakers in mexico is coming to an end as the powerless cruise liner finally makes it to port the carnival splendor is no doctor after being towed to shore by several tug boats became stranded off mexico's pacific coast after an engine room fire cut power supplies passengers and crew spent four days living on water and sandwiches which were airlifted to their stricken ship on what should have been a luxury riviera crew. rusher is set to double up on