but lord malik brown says somalia and pakistan prevent a greater threat. interestingly, just ahead of the prime minister's press conference, he's issued a clarification, saying they're without doubts sufficient resources for current british military operations in afghanistan. >>> prime minister gordon brown also weighed in today. saying that british forces do have enough helicopters for the current mission andta more are on the way. >>> the war in afghanistan is growing on every front. and there are some concerns in that part of the world that it could spill over into neighboring central asian countries with predominantly muslim populations. one of those countries is kyrgyzstan where the u.s. has an important base. as we hear now in this report from deutsche welle the kyrgyzs are debating a military presence there. >> reporter: waiting for the next flights to afghanistan, the manas air base in northern kyrgyzstan is a vital link in the supply chain providing u.s. forces in afghanistan with fuel, hardware and additional troops. but all of this costs money,

the invention of malik brownwho leavehis post at the end of this week. criticized the governme for failing to supply eugh troops, equipment o vehicles. the chief dissenttaff have made simar asseions. >> the mo that you can increase your tactical flexibility by moving people by helicopr then the more uncertain, more unpredictable your movements come to the enemy. >> pple like the prime minister the secretary of state, the defense, the genera now in their hearts of what we've got in afghantan is not advoce to meet the needs. what they're trying to do isut on -- at least some of them are putting on apublic face that there is enough equipmentthere. >>eporter: the government's always said that fiting t taliban inafghanistan is essential to preventg teorism in ritain. but lo malik brwn says somalia and pakista prevent a greater threat intestingly, just ahead of the primeminister's press conferenc he's issued a clarificatio sayinghey're without doubts suffient resoces for current british military operations in afghanistan. >>> prime minister goron brown also we

and what are we to make of lord malik's statements in the newspaper when he said would definitely doot have enough helicopters and then completely retract that statement? >> you have to look at what people are saying on the ground about this? -- on the ground about this. i'm satisfied that the operation has resources and needs to be successful. i think the fact that it is making progress at the moment and yielding results already shows that is the case. i am confident that we will bring this operation to a successful outcome. if i may say so, i would draw your attention to the air commander, the chief of staff for the army, navy, and they're forced joint helicopter command. he said only a day or two ago, we have got more helicopters than the canadians, the dutch and the us trillion's put together up there. of course, what we've got less than the americans to -- and the australians put together out there. of course, we got less than the americans, but you would expect this. this is a pretty phenomenal and helicopter effort. and then major lieutenant- colonel richardson said there was

. >> reporter: michael malik says teamed up with nasa to get the most up-to-date data. you can look at the moon's terrain, see where the apollos landed, watch videos of space walks, even see the impact other nations have had on the moon. >> ones you learn everything there is no know -- once you learn everything there is to know about the moon you can move on to mars. >> reporter: buzz aldrin hopes this map will encourage the country to plan a trip and go. >> the moon to mars is the most strategic place i can think of because from there we can control robots in real time. >> and unlike the trip to the moon or mars, it is free to use google earth moon and mars. we've got instructions on how to download the program and more moon facts on our website, wusa9.com. >>> can you follow up that? >> you and i are too young to remember that. >> of course. >> you say that with a straight face. >> that's right. you know, ran into john howard, used to play basketball here in chicago. >> very nice guy. go to my blog and see it, that's all i'm saying. here's my forecast, first. >> and t

troops and meet with iraqi leaders, including the president and prime minister al malik. vice president bike and headed to the same week as u.s. troops handed over security in cities and urban areas to the iraqi's. also from the ap, the new unemployment numbers are sending stocks sharply lower today. the u.s. jobless rate hit a 26 year high of 9.5%. president obama says he is still deeply concerned about the continuing loss of jobs across the country. the president will speak this afternoon. in the white house rose garden about jobs. we will have that live at 2:20 eastern time on c-span. >> coming up here on c-span2, a look at how pakistanis view al qaeda, the taliban and the u.s. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations may be? i have no idea. >> government. >> c-span gets its funding to taxes. >> maybe, i don't know. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. a private business initiative. no government mandate. no government money. >> according to a new opinion poll, most pakistanis view al qaeda

>> my name is malik and i'm 12 years old and this is my documentary. >> are you doing the video journal thing? >> this is a clip from someone for journey for change. next, let's zoom in for a second. you can see a lot of young people, each was given a camera. journey for change that was organized by activists. well, cnn gave some of them cameras and they took them with them on their trips to south africa and visit the united nations and washington and very interesting to see their stories and couple other things i want to show you here. cnn.com/black cnn.com/blackinamerica tracing michelle obama's slave roots. what you can do is see about her ancestry. this right here, a former slave house in which some of her ancestors live. she has roots there. this is believed the first lady's great, great-grandfather lived in one of these slave homes. very interesting. also, some other lighter stories. like this one apcelebration and story about black hair. this is about a white family that adopted a girl and what it signifies on a broader level culturally speaking and discussion about that. whether

. ♪ here we go here we go here we go ♪ >> my name's malik and i'm 12 years old and this is my documentary> there you go. he's saying it's a ryano. they are seeing it. really amazing things you can hear from them down there. a lot from other kids as well. i need one more and we can get going, here's another one. >> josh, we have to go now. the president is in the rose garden talking about health care reform. >> talking about a very important vote that just took place in congress. long before i took this office, i argued that meeting our greatest challenges would require not only changing policies in washington, but changing the way we do business in washington. i also promised that part of that change would be eliminating waste and inefficiency in our defense projects. reform that will better protect our nation, better protect our troops, and save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. as commander in chief, i will do whatever it takes to defend the american people. which is why we've increased our funding for our military and why we will always give our men and women in uniform the equipm