first, we have breaking news from new zealand. this is, according to police there, and according to the a.p. news agency, says the police have said there's been a second blast inside the new zealand mine where 29 workers are missing and that no one could have survived. the police superintendent, gary knolls, said the second explosion occurred on wednesday afternoon. potentially the explosion of methane gas that has been swirling inside the mine since the initial blast. we hope to bring you more background on the latest news about a second blast in that new zealand mine. that said, we'll go back to the first part of the program and the first news. in an interview with barbara walters of abc news, president obama gave his reaction to the north and south korean incident. >> isn't an attack on south korea an attack on the u.s.? >> south korea is our ally. it has been since the korean war, and we strongly affirm our commitment to defend south korea as part of that alliance. >> will we perhaps send warships or would you put u.s. troops o

the latest reports say no rescue mission is likely to start before saturday evening, new zealand time>> it turns out that rescue workers to help clear the rubble following the september 11 attacks on the world trade center have approved a settlement with the city of new york. they will receive over $625 million in compensation board being exposed to toxic dust. what of the biggest banks in ireland says they have seen a major decline in the size of deposits. allied irish banks says is deposits have fallen by $18 billion since january. that is 17% of the total. talks in dublin have spent -- how are people in ireland reacting to a possible bailout? >> if you are looking for a symbol of the irish economy, you do not need to look any further than this. it should be the new headquarters for the irish bank. work has stopped for some time. there is progress across town here in dublin. officials from the imf and the you are missed -- art league -- meeting with civil servants. the finance minister it said that there is no shame in this situation. the help minutes -- the health minister said thi

new zealand is in mourning. a second huge blast has extinguished all hopes for the 29-missing since friday. ireland announces plans for huge spending cuts with four years to help deal with the deficit. well, the age of austerity, empty coffers, welfare payments strapped, not only applying to europeans. the irish parliament has reconvened after nearly nine months of deadlock only to find that the country has run out of money. but now, with so many disillusioned with their politicians, a group of activists are taking the mp's to court. -- the other parliament has reconvened. >> about $60. for the past three months, she has received nothing at all. any time she goes to the benefits office, they turn her away. >> certainly, what have the politicians been doing here of the time? they have not changed our lives for the better. they should not be depriving us of this small amount of money. >> so what have the politicians been doing? well, the truth is, not an awful lot. the political factions squabble. the parliament b

new zealand mourns. five days after the first mine explosion, a second glass has left no export -- and no survivors -- wait a second blast has left no survivors. and ireland is looking at four years of further austerity. and they are protesting a plan that would raise some university fees in london. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast on pbs to our viewers in america and elsewhere around the world. i am mike embley. the journalists who have shined a light on some children in mumbai. bridget riley. hello. a national tragedy has unfolded in new zealand, a second explosion that has led police to say all 29 miners trapped inside since friday are now dead. most are from new zealand. others are from australia, africa, and scotland. prime minister john keyes says it could take months to recover. .-- john key says it could take months. >> hope, despair, and now grief. for five days, they prayed for a miracle. dangerous gases prevented rescuers from entering the mine. police say a sudden explosion shattered an

also on the program, an explosion in new zealand's biggest coal mine. 27 miners are missing. ♪ the popeosts a rare meeting of more than 100 cardinals. will there be a new response to the sex abuse scandal? it is 7:00 a.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in delhi and midday in london and lisbon where president obama is with other nato leaders for the start of the summit of the western military alliance. over to you. >> here in lisbon, some pretty fundamental issues. what is nato for and what are the threats to the -- in the 21st century? the 28 members are discussing a strategic concept. there will be lots of discussions, argument about european-wild -- european-wide missile defense. and you are also talking about afghanistan. for many years it has been tried as a litmus test. they will be looking at what america hopes -- we will be looking at what america hopes to get out of this summit, but first, this report. >> world leaders are gathering for what is being billed as one of the most crucial summit in nato's 61-year history. this cold war alliance wants to reinvigorate itself with a new decla

hopes fade for 29 men trapped in a new zealand-as the rescue effort continues -- in a new zealand mines the rescue effort continues. the prime minister agrees to a multi-billion euro the bailout, but rejects an immediate election. the battery powered car that has journeyed along the world's longest road. welcome. almost 350 people have been killed in a stampede in cambodia during a festival of the capital of phnom penh. they gathered for one of the most important celebrations of the year, and something caused the crowd to panic and that became a campaign. as people tried to flee across the bridge, hundreds of people were trampled on or fell across the water. biggest party's has become the sacity's greatest tragedy. at the end of this water festival, the crowd panicked. hundreds of people were crushed on the bridge linking the island to the city appeare. the limited rescue crews did what they could. many of the victims had been crushed by the weight of numbers on the bridge, but others have fallen or jump off in an attempt to escape. hundreds of thousands of people from all over cambodi

has the government of new zealand reached out to the u.s. or any other foreign government and asked for help at this point? >> certainly it's considering offers of international assistance from america and from australia. in fact, a party of men engineers arrived from australia to stand by to help if need be. rather depends how long this emergency goes on for, whether those extra people from overseas will be really required. at the moment, the focus apart from the pipe itself, which is about 40-kilometers from gray mount, the focus is on the town where all these relatives and friends are. and the mood among the people there is obviously growing increasingly anxious. some are demanding the rescue teams go in now. but the police say they just are not prepared to take that sort of risk. incidentally, the mining company has ferried some members of each family up to the mine in the past few hours so that they can talk direct to engineers and to rescuers about the possibility of the men folk being found alive and tell them exactly what's going on

andrews who is due to marry his new zealand fiancee next month. his colleague is 40 and from perth and migrated here two years ago to start a new life. a potentially catastrophic combination of toxic gas and searing heat has prevented rescue teams from searching for their colleagues. a police superintendent lee charges realistic about the prospect of finding the men alive. >> it's a very serious situation and the longer it goes on, hope fades and we have to be realistic. >> it is a draft mind, a deep tunnel drilled into the hillside. the trapped men are thought to be more than 2 kilometers inside. there are ventilation shafts providing fresh air and emergency supplies of oxygen are dotted throughout the seam. officials are calling a 160 meter hole into the body of the mine to assess the quality of air and at lower listening devices. more pictures have been released of some of the 29 miners. their ages are between 17 and 62. the youngest was on his first ever shift underground when the explosion tore through the coal mine on friday. in the last hour

this is one of new zealand's largest coal mines. on friday afternoon, it was suddenly rocked by a huge and seen explosion. a few lucky men managed to get out unscathed. dozens more are unaccounted for and still below the ground. >> employees that walked out rain the surface and said they thought there had been an explosion and the ground. there were some communications. we have not had further communications with those underground. >> it is a drift mind close to the surface. the 2 kilometer long tunnel drilled directly into the mountain to reach the scene. the ventilation shaft rises 100 meters to the top. some suggest faulty electric's in the ventilation system may have preceded the blast. the site is still too dangerous to properly investigate. >> they are working frantically on the mind. they're doing everything they can. it is a waiting game. they want to make sure it is safe to go down. >> the danger is the trapped gases that the rescue mission might ignite and cause another explosion. the hope is that any surviving miners have

pain continues, and the prime minister of new zealand's says it could be months before the bodies of the 29 killed miners are recovered. welcome to bbc news, brought to you by pbs in america and elsewhere around the globe. a stampede on monday in cambodia. a former republican leader in the u.s. house of representatives could face life in prison after being found guilty of money laundering. aid agencies say they are suffering a severe shortage of trained medical personnel and basic supplies in 80. they say they cannot open treatment centers fast enough. over 1400 people have died of cholera. a short while ago, the bbc's mark doyle got more. >> the cholera epidemic is effectively out of control. we had a humanitarian official essentials saying that she does not think that this cholera epidemic has peaked and will not until late december. she says that they expect on current projections that there will be some 400,000 cases of cholera in the next six months, which is twice as many as they were predicting before. now, of course, not all of those people will die from cholera, but based on

dozens are missing after a powerful blast rips through a new zealand coal mine. >>> and censuhe. veteran lawmaker charles rangel faces an embarrassing punishment rarely imposed on congress. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, november 19th, 2010. good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. >>> just days after completing a disappointing tour of asia, president obama is beginning another overseas trip. he's attending a nato summit in portugal where the war in afghanistan will top the agenda. whit johnson is in washington with more on this. good morning, whit. >> betty, good morning. there are about 140,000 nato troops serving in afghanistan. support for the war is slipping in many of those countries, but this summit will be an international show of solidarity. president obama and dozens of world leaders are expected to open today's nato summit with a way out of afghanistan. the military alliance is set to endorse a plan that would begin bringing home tens of thousands of troops early next year. by 2014, the goal is to hand over most of the security to af

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we are following breaking news from new zealand this morning, where an underground explosion may have buried as many as 30 coal miners. >> the blast tore through a mine on the west coast of new zealand's south island, not far from the site of the country's worst mining disaster, that killed 19 workers back in 1967. >> witnesses say the electricity in this mine went out shortly before the blast, which was powerful enough to literally blow one driver off his machine, deep into that mine tunnel. so far, five workers have managed to stumble to the surface. officials say as many as 30 more, though, are still missing. >> there is a specialist mine rescue team on-site. there are issues with making sure that the site is safe for rescue teams to go in. there's a lot of dust and possibly gas. so, they need to be checking for that. >> for now, officials say it is too early to know why the blast occurred. we will have much more on this developing story later on "good morning america." >>> it was an overnight flight for president obama who spends the next two days meeting with european allies in p

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i spoke to the new zealand prime minister, john key, this morning and i know that the thoughts of thehole house will be with the 29 miners who lost their lives and with their families -- particularly peter rodger from perth and malcolm campbell from st andrews. i know that our high commission and the consular officials are in touch with their families and doing everything to help at what must be an impossibly difficult time. the honorable gentleman has been a long-standing campaigner on the issue of tips and has done some excellent work on it. it is right that tips should be distributed to staff and should not be used to top up the minimum wage. they should not be diverted in any way. the law is very clear: tips must not be used to back up the minimum wage and enforcement officers should take action to ensure that that does not happen. the honorable gentleman should meet business, innovation and skills ministers and they can look at the important code of practice that was produced and ensure that the hospitality industry is meeting it. >> will my right honorable friend take steps to s

she has decided to leave and go to new zealand. >> it is doom and gloom all the time. everyone is saying it will not come down for a while. there is no jobs and i would like to settle somewhere else. >> the boom came to a shuddering halt. dublin -- in dublin, the unfinished headquarters. the governmenttepped in to save the bank after the property bubble burst. >> this is the fault of the irish. we did it ourselves and we did it by refusing to focus on the things that got us rich in the first place. we started thinking that wealth came from selling overpriced houses to each other. >> ireland is on the brink of bankruptcy. the tens of billions pumped in to prop up the banks and plunge the country into record debt. unemployment has ge up. the budget deficit is 32% of gdp. >> i just get sick of it. i know people who are like my dad's friends and my dad, they do not pick up a newspaper because it is too depressing. >> the bailout will give dublin some breathing room. it will be attached to conditions that the eu and imf will monitor the austerity program. financial experts

the new zealand mine, they're horizontal.ped min s ers are a mile and a half inside the mine. because they drill into the sound of the mountain, you can't see that because you can't see the full left of the side, they're a couple hundred feet below the surface. here's what the ceo of pike river mine said about the accident. >> we do have the advantage, we could walk into the mine, a deep shaft mine, the men and rescue teams could get in and out of the mine effectively. yes, they will work through the night and work until they're able to go throughout the mine and determine the extent of the incident and safety of all of our employees. >> pike river mine officials insist the rescue effort will not be as complicated as the one in chile. the new zealand mine is not a deep shafted mine. because of that they can get in and out effectively. joining us by phone to talk about this, the director of miner training at penn state university in university park, pennsylvania. mark, tell me, what -- compare this to what we saw in chile. how

and then to work to their strengths in the second half their shrum giving the new zealand forward line a testing forty minutes but it was a quick break that give the hosts their only try dylan hartley adjudged to have touched on here a couple penalties brought in two thousand and seven with a quarter of an hour to go but the fitness of the all blacks told in the end pulling off the gallant men in white twenty six to sixty i. crack in game moving car to three mile sauced really age wales it was just the minimum between the sides of the interval with the wall base in front and seniority david try it was a different story after the half time team talk was truly a blitzing wales for two tries to all but seal the clash after sixty five minutes this is the visitors second of the period i am alexander i richie rees who did this for a certain respectability ten minutes from time but by venice truly knew the wind was in the by twenty five sixteen the fans were out a surprisingly far from full blame stadium i ethiopian how league see has shown on numerous occasions recently he can go the distanc

and kiran read reid's effort showing off the whole array of new zealand talent on offer for seventy three after the break in and while they work to their strengths in the second half their scrum giving the new zealand forward line a testing forty minutes but it was a quick break that gave the host the only try to win partly a judge to touch down here a couple of police brought into the in seven with a quarter of an hour to go but the fitness of the all blacks in the end holding off the gallant men in white twenty six to sixty. cracking game over in cardiff meanwhile saw really age wales that was just the minimum between the sides at the interval with the wallabies in front thanks to an early david try it was a different story after the half time team talk is truly a blessing wales for two tries to all but seal the clash after sixty five minutes this is the visitors second of the half from ben alexander richie rees would give the scoreline some respectability ten minutes from time but by then a strictly knew the wind was in the bag twenty five sixteen how it would end up at a surprisingly

dozens of people trapped inside a mine in new zealand after a deadly explosion. toyota trying to run away from its problem why it's trying to get out of the lawsuits related to acceleration problems and what is happening today in court. first some big changes with whether including rain. >> there is a chance of rain for today also waking up to some fog of there. it is producing some drizzle as you step out the door. rain has not lived in yet we are actually dealing with fog. it is over the guilt golden gate bridge right now. 55 in san francisco, cooler in san rafael and santa rosa, overall we are warming it them we werwhere we were yesterday. what we are looking at is the star system that dropped out of the gulf of alaska heading south. right now you can see much of the bay area is consumed with cloud cover and showers to the north. that will move south of seoul for the later part of your day today we are expected to see widespread to showers through friday evening and saturday morning as well. the darker green through the livermore valley looking at heavier down

we were hearing earlier about the police in new zealand. planning for a possible loss of life. there has bhn gh news from china where 29 minors have been rescued there. they drained an estimated 4,000 meters of wat for make that rescue possible. >> joining me from beijing with the latest. >> there was large tears as these minors were coming out of the shaft. 29 in total. it almost didn't turn out that way, on sunday morning, a dozen or so of minors managed to escape. seven rescue wshgers were trap the when they went into the mine. all told, 2d minors have been pulled out. most of them were naked and then wrapped up in blankets. this is a good story for a country whose mining industry is the most dangerous in the world. 5 or 7 of rescuers got trapped themselves gives you some indication of perhaps how poorly prepared authorities are when it comes to these types of operations. more than 2500 minors were killed in accident last year. they are making improvements. if you look at the figures over the past ten years, the number of casualties has seen a dramatic increase. authorities w

also coming up, mixed feelings in that new zealand over of the fate of the missing miners -- optimism yet gloom that the men are trapped underground after four days. our children in afghanistan safer than in london and new york? that is the controversial verdict of nato that a top diplomat in kabul. it is 7:00 a.m. in washington, midday in london and in dublin well -- where after weeks of denials after the government there has been some anger at the economic rescue package to help save the irish economy. the deal is expected to include a loan of about 100 billion euro and is being fleshed out as we speak in talks between the irish government, european union and the imf. >> the irish government has finally bowed to pressure to take the begging bowl to europe. a lethal combination of recession and a banking crisis left the countries leaders with no choice but to accept the initial bailout terms. >> the banks will become significantly smaller than the past of they can gradually be brought to stand on their own two feet. the second tier would be a program to reduce the budget deficit. >>

now, these men in new zealand are about 300 feet below the surface. so, much different than the chilean mine. one hopeful sign, officials say, is that the roof of the mine has not collapsed. emergency crews are there, on the ground, ready to go, as soon as they get the go ahead. bianna, back to you. >> all right. miguel, thank you. one thing you can be somewhat hopeful for, like he said, it took 17 days before we finally found out that the chilean miners were okay. but it's a dangerous profession. >> we have reason to hope, because of chile. >>> ron? >> hi. >> i was hoping to see you this morning. >> welcome back, by the way. good morning. good morning, everyone. parts of the west are getting slammed by powerful winter-like storms today. up to two feet of snow fell in washington state. there was heavy rain and mountain snow, all the way from california into utah and montana. another storm, meanwhile, is moving into washington state and oregon, bringing even more snow and rain. and high winds, this time. winter warnings and watches have been posted in

50 days they've been a speck in the south pacific, a floating needle in a haystack of blue that new zealand's air force was unable to find. their families even held a memorial, fearing the ocean had claimed the trio for good. now, on that string of tiny islands in tokelau that they call home, they're saying the ocean gave back a miracle. >> oh, we're so happy. everyone is so happy. all of tokelau people are so happy that, oh, what a story. >> reporter: the three had set off back in october to find love, it's rumored. a girl on a neighboring island.

i spoke to new zealand prime minister john key this morning and our thoughts and with the whole house with the 29 miners who lost their lives. i know a high commission and the consular officials are in touch with their families and doing everything to help in what might be an impossibly difficult of time on the issue of tips, the honorable memory is a wonderful campaigner on this. it's right that tips should be distributed to staff. they should not be used to top out the minimum wage and they should not be diverted in any way. the law is very clear, tips musn't be used to back up the minimum wage and enforcement officers should take action to ensure that doesn't happen. and they should have a look of the code of practice that's produced and make sure that the hospitality industry is meeting this code of practice. >> will my right honorable friend will take steps to sort out the mess on the square and on the 29th. does he think reasonable that visitors from london to home and abroad should be faced with a no-go area surrounded by a campsite? >> i have to say i entirely agree with my ri