no, they do not have enough forces in mogadishu. the role at the moment does not seem to be offensive, where they would fight islamists. it seems like everybody is more concerned with containing them, rather than finding a political solution. that can undermine the islamists. >> there was a solution? >> the peace process, the accord was reached for the transitional government to make it work. that has crumbled completely, forgotten and moved on from. more or less basically collapsing, from when the people were very happy to see this new government being led. there was hope that he would bring the sides together and have a legitimate government. but this kind of transitional government, not for lack of competence and honesty of dealing with the problems at hand. >> whoever it might be, how do you resolve that? do you hand over to this government the weaponry, the hardware to form a real police force? or is that going to create more problems? will it become more than a flaky institution? >> what the international community has been do

. >> the united nations refugee agency this week reported a huge -- from us about -- from mogadishu. there was severe fighting between the government and insurgent spirit clashes forced them to withdraw from the city, the first time in 17 years. bolivian government destroyed what was believed to be the country is -- country's largest cocaine processing plant in bolivia. last year it stop the operation with america's war on drop and expelled a drug enforcement agents. human sperm credit from stem cell spirit british scientists say they have done it. not everyone is convinced. >> this video shows sperm the overgrown not in man, and a dish. created from a braddocks stem cells frozen in this tank. scientists say they harvest of the number of chromosomes, the essential element in creating sperm. finally, they grew heads and tails. it all took six weeks. the aim is to study the growing problem of male infertility. the average sperm count was 120 million per milliliter in the 1950's. now it is just 60 million. nearly 50 percent of couples seeking fertility treatment have problems with sperm

nations refugee agency is reporting a huge exodus for more than 200,000 people from the somali capital mogadishu between the government and islamist insurgents has escalated so fiercely, clashes have forced medical charities to withdraw from the north of the city for the first time in 17 years. they have closed children's hospitals and health clinics. the iraqi government has banned organized visits by school children to the grave of the country's former leader, saddam hussein. some iraqi schools had taken students to visit the site. rationing has been proposed in india's most heavily populated city for the first time in living memory. the 20 million residents of mumbai, reduced by 30%, caps may run dry if a full monsoon does not arrive soon. >> time to bury the antagonism of the cold war, that was the message from president obama to moscow today. he offered a mixed assessment of vladimir putin. he called him tough, shrewd, and pragmatic. he made it clear that on some issues he does not expect a meeting of minds anytime soon. >> president obama began his second day here with a drive outside of m

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in the capital, mogadishu, two french security advisers were kidnapped by about ten gunmen. it happened at a hotel where the gunmen first disarmed the guards. and then knocked on the door on the room where the advisers were staying and then abducted them. the frenchmen or a mission to train somalia force. the hotel manager said that they had registered at journalists. >>> as we mentioned yesterday, african union peacekeepers got involved over the weekend in the fighting between somalian government forces and islamic militants close to the presidential palace. today, uganda, whose troops make up part of that peacekeeping force, asked for a change in its mandates so that the troops can engage in battle. a spokesman said, right now we're engaged in peace kaiping where there is no peace. >>> the former president of liberia testified at his war crimes' trial today. charles taylor said the case against him was built on lies and misinformation. prosecutors say taylor led an armed rebels to gain control of neighboring sierra leone in the civil war in that country from 1991 to 2002.

it happened in the capital of mogadishu. alternate insurgents were treated, some of them were still firing at troops today. killed dozens of people. and wounded about 150. and for the first time troops from the african union peacekeeping force intervened to support these somalian forces. >>> president obama was in a far more stabile part of africa this weekend. ghana. this was the scene when first visited a castle on a coast from which slaves were once shipped to the new world. the outpouring was described as -- >> joining us for more built president's trip and the state of u.s./african relations is yaw nyarko. professor of economics and director of africa house at new york university. welcome. >> thank you. >> you were in ghana when the president was there. >> that's right. >> what was the mood? what was the anticipation like? >> well, everybody was excited that he was coming. there were these billboards with ghana's president next to obama all over the city and people were very, very excited. very, very proud of obama. eve

the current governme of somalia is cdered to control only a few blocks ofhe capital city of mogadishud even that tenuous hold on wer is said to be slipping. beforeur president left for ghana at a press conrence in italy present obama made a mae crack about sarah palin's understanding of africa. >> i wanto be very careful. afri is a continent, not a country. >> and congratulations, america. we have a president who both knows that to be trud knows it's not aort of joke. continennot country. on the western side of the continent you have t american president spking to a decrically elected parliament. on the eastern side of the contint you have an al qaeda-affiliated trorist organization cse to running things after 18 ars of no real governmeme at al gathered togeth f f2 grams of whwhole grain goodne. it'shat kes triscuit wowoh everbite. triscuit. weavave someonder. >>> the biggest poliliti s sto of the s sumr r about to begin. bigger than ththe sisignffair, bier than the sanford affairir. bigger than the palin n shk k resignation.n. althe legislation we donon know the fate of. it is the bi

>> fighting between rebels and government forces in somalia forced 200,000 out of their homes in mogadishu. both using explosives to further their aims. insurgented reportedly as using people as human shields. they have been trying to topple the transitional government there since may. shade of problems in the past. >>> the obama administration is subtly shifting its language on two americans held by north korea, the two journalists were arrested back in march sentenced to 12 years hard labor last month. secretary of state hillary clinton appears to be softening the u.s. position on their release. >> the two journalists and their families have expressed great remorse for this incident and i think everyone is very sorry that it happened. what we hope for now is that these two young women would be granted amnesty through the north korean system and be allowed to return home to their families as soon as possible. >> we will keep abreast of awful those developments. right now let's go back to ghana where the limos have just pulled up there. we believe that president obama is about to re-emerge

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>>> elsewhere in the world, new fighting in somalia today, heavy fire north of the capital city, mogadishu. islamic insurgents are battling their way toward the presidential palace. dozens of people have been killed. african union peacekeepers have finally intervened to support the government forces for the first time. the united nations says civilians are being targeted in all of this, women and children suffering the most. >>> and back here in the states, senate confirmation hearings begin tomorrow for supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor. president obama nominated her to fill the seat of retiring justice dave vi individual souter and the talk ever since a 55-year-old new yorker, puerto rican decent. graduated from yale and worked as an assistant district attorney in new york for five years. she has been a federal judge since 1992 and on the u.s. circuit court of appeals since '98. over the past few days, the debate over judge sotomayor has been heating up a great deal. president obama called her this morning answered wish herd good luck as it all starts off. cnn's kate bolduan has a pr

from one of those two cities, this agent says they make their way to mogadishu on a somalia carrier.f the big fears is if they can go this way, what is to keep any of these young men after being in doctrine nated from coming back here? >> the bureau cannot rule out the possibility that these young men, when they are trained in somalia, could come back and conduct a terrorist attack on u.s. soil. many have u.s. pass ports. >> i am anxious to get your thoughts as squun womeone who w intimately involved in battling terrorists. >> that's how the london attack took plays on july 7, 2005. coincidentally, i happened to be there half a block away. i got involved with all the information. they were english citizens, citizens of the u.k. since they had gone to pakistan or afghanistan for training and then came back. it was easy for them to come back. >> in many ways, the attackers you dealt with on 9/11, were people who were sent here in seemingly benign form traveling. >> what they did in the u.k. was, they just added i know this is a bad word but they added to their profile. so, all of the s