. >>> today marks 27 years since the lockerbie scotland bombing.ervice for victims at arlington memorial cemetery. 270 people died when terrorists blew up pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. >>> before you head out on the holiday road trip. gas prices are way down. we have not seen prices like these since april of 2009 in d.c. you're paying an average of $2.20 a gallon. in maryland, it will cost you $2.01 a gallon to fill the tank. in virginia, you're paying less than $2 a gallon. gas is $1.83 a gallon on average. in west virginia, gas is $1.98. >>> you have just a few more days to do your holiday shopping. retail experts say 92% of people still have something to buy. that means big crowds at the stores now, also big discounts in person because it's pretty much too late to buy something onlin online. >> you're out of luck in terms of making it there in time. >> not only will you see lots and lots of people in the stores, experts are predicting more than 100 million people to head home for the holidays. prepare for plenty of traffic on the r

most, of course, americans. 11 on the ground in lockerbie. many of you will remember that libya was responsible for that. the nigerian who attempted to destroy, to detonate plastic explosives on the northwest slide. over detroit. of course, he was connected with al qaeda in the arabian and -- arabian peninsula. clearly, we have to remember many of the other victims, particularly in recent times all the way from paris to california to beirut, jerusalem, sinai, and so forth. now, one footnote for the moderator, i feel that i really am a jerusalem might. for 25 years i lived, studied, and worked in jerusalem. although my family came to palestine first in 1921, and again in the early 1930's, i grew up in the city of tel aviv, but i always considered myself a member of the population of jerusalem. on the academic level, i was involved in teaching at the university for some 25 years related to war and peace and terrorism. now, i would like to mention specifically in june of 1967 i had the great privilege and honor of opening the campus -- specifica

broke slowly over lockerbie. you could see what happens when a plane eight stories high, a football pitch wide falls from 30,000 feet. >> christmas has returned to albania after a communist band lasting with a 20 years. thousands went to midnight mass where there were anti-communist riots 10 days ago. this is "bbc world news." in a christmas message they had a think laquon church warned that christians in the middle east are threatened by what he called an islamic state apocalypse. adia's prime minister makes surprise trip to pakistan, the first visit in more than a decade. here in the k, queen elizabeth has used her annual christmas message to speak of their being hope for the future despite the world having confronted moments of darkness. she said she was looking forward to the coming year when she will turn 90 and the joy of sharing it with the youngest member there's -- members of her family. reporter: morning service. on a damp day that queen departed after the service leaving younger members to spend a few

since the scotland lougheed bombing. 270 people died when terrorists blew up pan am flight 93 over lockerbie. most passengers were americans. >>> a hoax caused an emergency landing in kenya. all passengers evacuated the plane safely. air france's ceo said the device contained cardboard, paper and kitchen material. >>> right now they're searching for as many as 91 missing people in china. it shows the moment a landslide hit extend chen. it's raining which makes it tough. they believe a pile of construction waste piled up against a hill may have triggered the landslide. >>> 4:34. we turn to decision 2016 where christmas week means heavy campaigning in the race for the white house, and there's new controversy. donald trump is calling hillary clinton a liar, this after she said isis was using video of his comments ominous limb and islam as a recruiting tool. tracie potts will be with us at 4:55 with more plus what's going on with other candidates. >> there will not be a gop debate at liberty university next month. that's because fox bez announced they would host a debate in south carolina. it ha

. >> the day broke slowly over lockerbie. you could see what happens when a plane eight stories high falls from 30,000 feet. >> christmas has returned to albania after a communist ban lasting 20 years. thousands went to midnight mass in the town, where there were anti-communist riots 10 days ago. news." is "bbc world as fighting continues in the key afghan town of sangin, the government says they killed a top taliban commander and dozens of ministers. at least 10 people have been killed and four more injured after a particularly dangerous storm hit the south and midwest of the united states. nigeria,dent of muhammadu buhari, has told the bbc that technically, the security forces have won the war against islamist group boko haram. he came to power in april on a pledge to defeat the group by the end of the year and says the militants could no longer nonconventional attacks and have been reduced to suicide bombings. but boko haram is reported to have killed more than 1000 people over the past 2 months. well, you canri: put it in

the air of mystery that still surrounds lockerbie and who authorize the bombing, was a just libya or libya and friends? it will never be resolved by this kind of criminal investigative process. it requires something much farther to the ground in a way, intelligence sources, people's recollections. and i can'ts: respond? [laughter] prof. wedgwood: route of time. [laughter] prof. douglas: i'll be extremely brief in the response. obviously there is a risk of acquittal, but i think when ruth is talking about the basic purposes of a criminal trial, deterrence, or taking people out of circulation, i think she is right. it imperfectly applies to these crimes of atrocity but i do think it overlooks the fact that these trials also have an expressive purpose. that is, they have a kind of symbolic expressive purpose, and i think that is a very critical thing that these trials performed. for example, you could even go back and look at the record of trials involving perpetrators of the holocaust, something that i have written a lot about. you'll find that many of the prosecutors associated with t

monday is the 27th anniversary of the lockerbie bombing.sday is the day the world's biggest lottery, the elgordo, is drawn in spain. wednesday is the day much of the arab world celebrates the birth of the prophet mohammed. thursday is the day provost leads midnight mass at the vatican. friday is christmas day. saturday is boxing day. and here is what's new for your weekend. "star wars episode 7" is released in theaters nationwide. >> the force, it's calling to you. >> just let it in. >> rose: chris brown releases a new album, "royalty." ♪ she only loves me because i put her down. ♪ and that's fine by me >> rose: tina fey and amy poehler return to "saturday night live" as host. >> we never think the same man is attractive and we will do it by playing a game you play at home, would you rather. >> rose: that's "charlie rose: the week" for this week. on behalf of all of us here, merry christmas and happy new year. thank you for watching. we'll see you after the holidays. >> 'twas the night before christmas, by clemet clark moore. 'twas the nigh

most, of course, americans. 11 on the ground in lockerbie. many of you will remember that libya was responsible for that. the nigerian who attempted to destroy, to detonate plastic explosives on the northwest slide. over detroit. of course, he was connected with --qaeda in the arabian and arabian peninsula. clearly, we have to remember many of the other victims, particularly in recent to beirut, jerusalem, sinai, and so forth. now, one footnote for the moderator, i feel that i really am a jerusalem might. for 25 years i lived, studied, and worked in jerusalem. although my family came to palestine first in 1921, and again in the early 1930's, i grew up in the city of tel aviv, but i always considered myself a member of the population of jerusalem. level, i wasic involved in teaching at the university for some 25 years related to war and peace and terrorism. mentionould like to specifically in june of 1967 i andthe great privilege --or of opening the campus specifically because we have some lawyers about law school. i had a group of about 30 th

you can see school lockerbie hind them . >>> they need to find out how he got in sandra morgan, a mother of the teens that go to this high school said in her >>> when i see security guards and the teachers that be out watching everybody and making sure everything is all right . >> reporter: county officials say this is certainly a very disturbing picture and this type of behave i don't remember will not be tolerated in our schools . >>> if you don't have on school close you can't get in. i'm just wondering how he got in. >>> this is a second day in a row a trespassor brought a weapon. candace lee brought a knife to another high school. police arrested her on wednesday. >>> i am concerned because i thought since doors was locked couldn't no one get in . >> reporter: the school was locked down for an hour as police investigated. three students in addition to the woman who was not a student were arrested wednesday morning . >>> the identities of the suspects has not been released. an investigation is now under way. >> anchor: authorities in new mexico are looking for a suspect in a million

there's a documentary that's appearing right now on "front line" about the lockerbie bombing. i'm not sure if any of you have -- the filmmaker is a very close friend of mine and his brother that was killed was a very dear friend of mine in college. and one thing that i thought was interesting about that was you basically had two persons who were tried in this extraordinary court. it was a scottish court in netherlands. and basically you have two people who look like, you know, two kind of nondescript individuals answering to this crime of mass atrocity and there does seem to be almost kind of an imbalance between the harm that's inflicted and these people in the dock. the other thing, of course, the limitation is when you're dealing with the criminal law, there's always the chance of an acquittal, that is, the criminal law is as one legal theorist once said, there's always an irredeuceable risk with the criminal trial and it's the risk of acquittal. for example, in this case of the two people that were prosecuted, one was acquitted. very quickly on the opportunities and the st

will speak at the memorial service. 270 people died when terrorists blew up pan am fight 93 over lockerbie. most of the victims were americans. >>> happening today, all drones are required to be registered with the faa. you have until february 19th to comply. for anyone who registered. the faa is waving the $5 fee until january 20th. it's now 6:32. the obama administration plans to extend endangered species protections. it also protects against what happened to cecil the lion. you'll remember him. the minnesota dentist shot him over zimbabwe. walter palmer had pleaded guilty. today's announcement will include an order to deny certain hunting permits to anyone who has been convicted or has pled guilty to violating federal or state wildlife laws. >> right now the u.s. postal service is working hard. today is the busiest day for the post office. molette greene is live with what you need to know if you have gifts to send today. you look busy, molette. lots of packages coming in and going out. they're working long shifts to get the holiday deliveries to your door step. here to talk more about t

. >>> today marks 27 years since the lockerbie scotland bombing. this afternoon there will be a memorial for the victims at arlington national cemetery. attorney general loretta lynch will speak at that funeral. 270 people died when the flight was blown up. most of the victims were americans. >>> at least six are being questioned about a fake bomb on an air france plaechblt it contained cardboard, pape e apa a kitchen timer. this is the fourth bomb hoax in three weeks. >> a celebration in montgomery county. george leventhal says none of the county's veteran's homeless will be homeless on christmas eve. right now they have homes or places for them. he'll detail what's next. >>> now to decision 2016 and the new controversy after this weekend's democratic debate. donald trump is calling hillary clinton a lie yar. she said on saturday they were using his comments as a recruiting tool. >>> there will not be a debate in west virginia next month. that's because fox news said they would host it in south carolina. a chief strategist said he's hoping to have

s wondered at what price for justice for the british victims of libyan crimes like the lockerbie bombingnd the murder of police constable fletcher in london. >> we didn't set any of these issues aside, but we did believe there was a huge prize in bringing them from position where they were sponsoring terrorism to a position where they were cooperating to fight against it and then secondly creating the circumstances in which they voluntarily gave up their chemical and nuclear weapons program. >> tony blair knows a thing or two about military intervention in foreign lands. >> i can tell you today obviously libya is a real security problem. it's a security problem actually for us, i think, here, but i don't think you can make the judgment as to whether it would be better if we intervened. you will have to say how would that play out if gadhafi tried to cling on to power and others tried to remove him. you can look at syria where we didn't intervein and say it's even worse. >>> a chinese top entrepreneur was under investigation which is a possible sign that china's anti corruption campaign i

. >> 27 years ago today a bomb brought down panam flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland, 270 people were killed that day including 189 americans. family members and government officials honored the victims arlington national cemetery. there was a moment of silence before the victim's names were read aloud. loretta lynch vowed to seek justice. >> there have been new developments in our investigation in just the last few months and we, along with our scottish counterparts will spare no effort to advance this case towards the conclusion that we have all awaited for far too long. >> only one man was ever convicted of that terror attack. he died of cancer in 2012. >> montgomery county is marking a significant milestone. today all of its homeless veterans are off the streets. earlier this year the county named 2015 the year of the veteran and they set out goal to find them a permanent home. it makes montgomery county the first counties and they've received a heartfelt thank you from those they've helped. ishmael meredith is one of them? i've been trying to keep work and i've been trying to sta

sponsored vicious terrorist attacks on american interests notably the downing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie gadhafi also perspective to push a pursuing a covert nuclear program that is successful with pose a grim threat to the united states. when a popular uprising occurs in the spring of 2011 it seems a no-brainer for this administration. america would come to the aid of the beleaguered rebels splash across the bay international press omission seems almost wanted to be executed with no real american sacrifice. indeed as a bomb in a stray shower and poses week quote lead from behind and the result would be the establishment of a liberal democracy in libya that would only require administrative steps such as mobilizing international support for a transitional government and bring up indication efforts. how profoundly wrong and pump foreign-policy u.s.. as it turns out rather than being an aspiring democrat that the obama administration and their allies wanted them to be the rebels were radical jihadis with limited interest in establishing a central society while it was at the time well-known

but he was also an open supporter of international terrorism, with links to the lockerbie bombers, thent groups. >> he kept libya under very, very tight wraps. he would disappear people. there was no freedom of any kind. massacres in prison. so he was a horrendous, horrible, brutal dictator. >> anyone who spoke out against him at all would be arrested immediately, sometimes tortured, sometimes killed. >> tracy shelton is a 34-year-old freelance journalist from australia who heads to libya to cover the conflict. >> it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom. but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. >> the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was a violence of another order altogether. we're not talking now mubarak's security forces. we're talking about mercenaries. we're talking about jets. we're talking about tanks. so with the libyan revolution, the idea of non-violence had to be laid to rest for the sake of libyans. >> the

blew up on pan am flight 103 on its way from london to new york. 11 victims were on the ground in lockerbiend. it's believed the bomb was hidden in a suitcase. libya eventually accepted responsibility for the bombing. >>> another air france jet liner diverted because of a terror threat. again it's turning out be a hoax. this time it was a fake bomb discovered by a passenger behind a bathroom mirror board the 777. the blaine on its way from paris to mauritius. passengers were just told there was a technical problem and evacuated when the jet landed in kenya. >> something wrong in the toilet. it could be like a bomb, something like that. >> perhaps it was a theft run looking to see if they can find weak spots in a security system. >> get this, the was made of cardboard, paper and a kitchen timer. this is the fourth bomb threat against air france since the paris attacks costing millions of dollars. >> now to the race for the presidency. donald trump firing back at democrats who made harsh attacks against him. trump also taking height from other gop candidates. it's your voice, your vote with d

. >> today marks 27 yoors sense the bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scott land.passengers on board were killed and people were also killed on the ground. the person who was convicted was released on compassionate grounds and he died three years later. >> fifa announced a ban this morning after finding blatter guilty in a payment deal. he said he still views himself as the president of fifa. chances for a white christmas aren't looking so good, particularly for those on the east coast. meteorologist bill karins has the details on what is a surprisingly warm winter for us here. >> shockingly warm will be the answer. wait till you see how warm it's going to get maybe through new year's eve. look at these clouds in the central pacific above hawaii, that's going to create epic amounts of rain. we could see 2st. higher elevations of the cascades and sierra are now picking up the snow. the ski resorts in the west, they're loving it. it will be one of the best forecasts for you. in the east, not the case. during the day today, high wind warnings in effect for the portlan

as far as moammar gadhafi is concerned, he is the man that killed those people over lockerbie, scotlandcafe in berlin and killed those marines, and you want to know why moammar gadhafi started cooperating on his nuclear program? because it got rid of saddam hussein. he got scared he would be next. that's why he started cooperating. we will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments t. government in saudi arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them t. government if jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. but anti-american dictators like assad who helped he's bomb la and helped get those ieds into iraq. if they go, i will not shed a tear. >> senator cruz. >> well, it's more than not shedding a tear. it's actively getting involved to topple a government. we keep hearing from president obama and hillary clinton and washington republicans, they're searching for mythical moderate rebels. it's like a perfect unikorns. the rebels ends up being jihadists. it's prime minister netanyahu, has said, israel doesn't have a dog in that fight. bec

as far as moe mar gaddafi, he is the man who killed the americans over lockerbie, scotland and killedated on the nuclear program? because we got rid of saddam hussein. we will is to work with less than ideal governments. the government in saudi arabia is not a democracy but we have to work with them. the government in jordan is not perfect but we have to work with them. but assad, who get ieds into iraq if they go, i will not shed a tear. >> senator cruz? >> it's more than not shedding a tear it's actively getting involved to topple a government and we keep hearing from president obama and hillary clinton and washington republicans that they are searching for myth call moderate rebels. it's like a purple unicorn. they don't exist. they end up being jihadists. and prime minister netanyahu has said -- at the same time, prime minister netanyahu doesn't want to see syria governed by isis and we need to focus on american interests nod -- everybody stand by for a moment. governor kasich go ahead. >> assad with aligned with iran and russia. we want to prevent iran being able to extend a shia

blew up on pan am flight 103 on its way from london to new york. 11st victims were on the ground in lockerbie, scotland. it believed the bomb was hidden in a suitcase. libya eventually accepted responsibility. >>> another air france jetliner has bn diverted because of a terror threat. again, it's turning out to be a home. this time, a fake bomb discovered by a passenger aboard it was on its way from paris. passengers were jusust told there was a technical problem and evacuated when the jet landed in kenya. >> something wrong, literally like a -- could be like a bomb, something like that. >> perhaps this was a test run for terrorists looking to see if they can find weak spots in a security system. >> get this -- the device was made of cardboard, paper, and a kitchen timer. no explosives. this is the fouourth bom threat against air france since the paris attacks, costing the airline millions of dollars. >>> now to the race for the presidency. donald trump firing back at the democrats who made some harsh attacks during saturday's debate. he took heat from other candidates. "your voice, your vote