i sit there and i cry. >> reporter: i'm lynn sherr for "worldfocus" in monrovia, liberia. >>> finally tonight we're going to give you a minute to think about the conflict between palestinians and israelis in a way we think that might surprise you. it prompted a lot of us here to discuss it. and it might even prompt you to share your thoughts with us. an israeli cell phone company began broadcasting a new commercial this week, said at the so-called security wall. that's the wall that divides israel from the palestinian territory. designed to sell phones. but many palestinians see that wall as a hated symbol of occupation. so when the ad ran, it provoked some angry words about what some palestinians say is a one-sided picture. ♪ > a simple game? not here, and not for many people on the opposite side of this wall who are never seen and immediately demanded to be heard. >> dreadful from an israeli company to say palestinians like this. >> the cellcom phone company said it had no political agenda and wanted to show that "when people separated by religion, race and gender want to communicat

here again is lynn sherr's report on some of the women fighting back against sexual violence against women. >> reporter: like everything else in liberia today, the national police force is trying to rebuild. these are the latest recruits -- the new face of the nation resolved to enforce security. and the very newest faces are these, female recruits, now some 13% of the entire force. the goal is 20%. they are lured and encouraged by the top cop, beatrice muna brown. as the inspector general of the liberian national police, she is leading the fight against the country's worst crime problem, rape and sexual violence against women. during three waves of civil wars that killed nearly a quarter milon people and wasted liberia's homeland, wars fought, it is said, on the bodies of women, rape was used with appalling repetition as a weapon. where the fighting was fiercest, more than half the women experienced sexual violence. the war ended in 2003, but even now in peace, they say rape is the highest reported crime in the capital city monrovia. more than half of the cases involve girls 10 to 1

. >> reporter: i'm lynn sherr for "worldfocus" in liberia. >> for more on women fighting rape in liberia, including a web exclusive interview, go to worldfocus.org. >>> finally tonight, we go to australia, where there's a new warning of mass extinctions of plants and animals in the broad south pacific region known as oce oceana, unless there are major changes to protect the environment. the warning comes from scientists who have reviewed thousands of search studies in the region and insist the impact of humans is the cause. we get more on this from shane mcleod of abc in australia. >> reporter: going back through the fossil record, scientists are still uncertain about what caused the five or six mass extinctions in earth's history. e events like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. with the number of extinctions rising alarmingly in decades, scientists are worried. >> most biologists believe now we're into our sixth greatest extinction event, and it's really down to one species, and that's human. >> reporter: and oceana is no different. scientists have reviewed more than 24,000 conserva