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additional funding for frontlineexpanded broadcast season is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> smith: for six months, frontline investigated a secret war against insurgents operating from inside pakistan. a year ago, i traveled across afghanistan and up to the border of pakistan, together with frontline correspondent stephen grey. beyond this checkpoint, the campaign against the taliban and al qaeda is led by u.s. intelligence. here, the cia is funding, arming, and running secret afghan militia, who guard the border, gather intelligence, and launch kill raids against the militants. >> they're called "counter-terrorism pursuit teams," and they are groups of afghans very well paid, apparently pretty well trained, with guns, and they operate at the direction of the cia. these are direct-action, you know, go-to-the-ball kind of groups. they're not standing around and guarding checkpoints and, you know, street corners. they're going after people. >> smith: here, in the province of khost, the cia unit is known as the khost protection force, or kpf. they are based in afghanistan,

additional funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> navai: i began my investigation in the capital, damascus, in september. traveling with my producer, who speaks arabic, we entered the country posing as tourists. careful, the cops. before my trip, i'd spent weeks arranging access to opposition leaders inside syria. i'd been given a local cell number to call. after using a code word, i was told to go to a location where my underground contact would be waiting. the plan was to travel ten miles from damascus to the town of douma, into the midst of the uprising. my contact was a young businessman. like other opposition activists, he uses an alias. his is abu khaled. abu khaled is meeting with another activist now to see if the roads are safe and they can get us in. abu khaled's also told us that, at a funeral of a protester today, seven people were shot. he said protests were happening along the road to douma and he'd take me to see them. but there were army checkpoints everywhere. abu khaled used a network of lookouts to f

major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the nation's military will have to make do with fewer soldiers and marines and wait longer for some next-generation weapons. that was the upshot today as defense department leaders laid out their plans for major savings. >> left, right, left. >> brown: as army drill sergeants work to get their soldiers in shape. pentagon leaders are working to get the military's budget in shape-- cutting nearly $490 billion dollars over the next 10 years-- a figure mandated by congress. >> we had to achieve savings that would meet the requirement congress gave us. that is tough , real and something that will cause some pain but at same time we recognize defense has to play

. >>> bill and melinda gates foundation will give $750 million to the global fund to fight aids, tb andalaria. >>> the coast guard had their hands full. up next the risky rest you they performed-- rescue they performed within a 24 hour time period. >>> police in modesto had a hard time arresting this person. >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> i am corinne redman. the four remaining gop candidates fired off on each other. i will tell you who came up on top. >>> and it's quarterback versus owner in indianapolis. find out what irsay said about peyton's comments. >>> lucy, show me what you got. >> pretty good. we have plenty of this coming up in a minute. >> i can't wait to see more of that. good morning. i am sherrie johnson in for charley crowson. let's start with meteorologist lynette charles and what is it one of the mornings where you talk aboutpea soup with the fog can be -- talk about pea soup with the fog. >> the fog is as thick

relinquished his last full-time position with microsoft, turning his attention to the bill and melinda gatesworld's largest philanthropic organization, which he cochairs with his wife. the couple now has three children. their second daughter, phoebe, was born in 2002. gates remains involved with microsoft as its nonexecutive chairman and largest shareholder. well, that's this edition of 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. thank you for joining us. captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . call her. ok. [ cellphone rings ] hey. you haven't left yet. no. i'm boarding now... what's up? um...would you mind doing it again? last time. [ engine turns over ] oooohhhh...sweet. [ male announcer ] the chevy cruze with the mychevrolet app. the remote control car is finally here. well now she's just, playing with us. oh. [ horn honks ] this new at&t 4g lte is fast. hey. did you guys hear... ...that mary got engaged? that's so 42 seconds ago. thanks for the flowers guys. [ both ] you're welcome. oooh are you guys signing up for the free massage? [ both ] so 32 seconds a

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. >>> the bill and melinda gates foundation is giving $750 million to the global fund to fight aids,laria. the microsoft co-founder made that announcement at the world economic foundation. >>> take a look at this. the earth like you've never seen it before. this high definition photo just released by nasa was taken aboard a new generation of satellites launched to observe our planet. >>> all right. we're just about ten hours from tonight's republican presidential debate on cnn. the last one before florida's primary on tuesday. it's looking like a two-man fight between gingrich and romney for that top spot. things have been getting pretty heated between the two of them on the campaign trail. cnn's political editor paul steinhauser live in jacksonville. let's talk about why this debate is so important. it could truly be a game changer, paul. >> reporter: kyra, all cycle along we've seen these debates have an outsized influence on the cycle, on the polls, the results. no doubt tonight could be the same. this is a last showdown. the last time they'll be on the same stage before tuesday's

outside government is more concerned or spending more money to fix education than the bill and melinda gates in total, its bankroll, $5 billion worth of initiatives for students and schools. i visited bill gates at his foundation's new headquarters in seattle to talk about his latest plans. if you were the secretary of education, i'd say you are even more powerful than the secretary of education. suppose you could change something about the structure of american education, the system. what would it be? >> if i was in charge of a school district, it'd be about hiring the best teachers. and how do you get them to learn from each other and how do you make sure you're bringing the really good ones in? so the basic research about great teaching, that's now become our biggest investment. >> it's okay. it's good. >> it could be a very smart investment. one study says that if students had a top teacher for four years straight, the achievement gap between blacks and whites would disappear. >> page 68. if you have your notes -- >> the gates foundation has launched a massive effort to figure out how am

he has transferred his massive fortune to a private-sector charity, the scbil melinda gates foundatione he doesn't trust the government with his money. why should any of us. >> he is more than willing to pay a higher tax rate i. do it. do it now. >> if you want to run on wealthy people paying lower taxes -- >> how about -- [overlapping dialogue] >> let's run on everyone paying lower taxes. limited[overlapping dialogue] >> everyone pays taxes, no class warfare. that's a message of unity, not division. >> if they are not serious about paying down the deficit, the big issue out there, you are rob from this kids of the future because it feels good now not to do anything about it. and they want to demonize the republican it's. >> bernhard, that's not the case. the republicans turned down a $4 trillion deal, getting 90% of what they want because they refused to raise taxes one damn peppi on the wealthy. >> those are people who invest in the economy, those are people -- >> at the end of this year, the taxes are going back to the 39% marginal rate because you durn turned down a much better dea

we really put the challenge out there and bill and melinda gates in october of 2007 said we can't eliminatemalaria. as a result of many of these business ideas built on top of traditional aid and partnership over $5 billion in the last five years. we covered seven hundred million people with three hundred fifty million bed that is. and the partnership is predicting a zero death from malaria by 2015. that really is the story. we are now working at the un with the millennium development goals seeing if we can extrapolate that strategy and learn from malaria to the prevention of transmission of hiv, readers in -- reducing mortality by two quarters by 2015 and reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015 and creating cost cutting strategic objective of 1 million community health workers in africa by 2015. my wonderful partners and staff that work with me on malaria are working on a much broader goal encompassing all of these. >> can i ask you a question. when you talk about zero death. edison point there are a references in the book to the theoretical effect that you could actually eradicate

nejor funding for the pbs wshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the u.s. military faced a new firestorm of criticism today over stunning scenes of american troops and enemy dead in afghanistan. they raced across the internet and around the world, trigring condemnations and ingaesestrtions. a single still photo captured the damning image-- purportedly showing four u.s. marines urinating on three bodies. the video-- too graphic to airs. here-- was posted on youtube. the posting said the bodies were taliban fighters, trd e thoops belonged to a scout sniper team th 3rd battalion, 2nd marine division out of camp lejeune in north carolina. that unit was deployed to afghanistan last year but returned to the united states in septe

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: there were grave new developments today in iran's war of wills with the west, and with the u.s. in particular. one involved the regime's nuclear program; the other, an american condemned to death. margaret warner has our report. >> warner: amid cries of "death to america" today the iranian supreme leader was defiant at a tehran rally. he proclaimed his nation would not give up its nuclear program, despite the economic damage done by international sanctions. >> the strong decision of the sacred islamic republic is based on not being diverted from the path it has adopted, not sur surrendering and resisting against bullying and extreme demands of super powers. >> wa

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major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president obama today denied the application for a hotly debated oil pipeline project. the keystone pipeline would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands of canada to refineries in port arthur, texas. hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: the president had postponed consideration of a permit last summer, citing environmental concerns. but republicans demanded a decision, as part of december's deal on extending the payroll tax cut. in a statement today, mr. obama said he would not support the pipeline now because in his words: but house speaker john boehner criticized the decision, saying: juliet eilperin has been covering this story for the