any future action in north waziristan is likely to be limited and selective. bbc news, momand. >> and in other news from around the world the lawyer representing the former bosnian serb commander rad co-mladic says he's in a prison hospital at the war crimes tribunal in the haig. he said he was treated for cancer two years ago while he was on the run. he was treated for lymphoma in 2009 in a belgrade hospital. an american couple who kidnapped a schoolgirl and held her can'tive for nearly two decades -- captive for nearly two decades has been sentenced to life in prison. jaycee dugard was abducted in 1990 by philip garrido and his wife, nancy. china denied any responsibility for cyber attacks on the personal email accounts of senior american officials. the u.s. government says it's investigating the allegations which relate to g-mail accounts hosted by google. the attacks were reported by the company yesterday and along with claims that they originated in eastern china. power security correspondent has the report. -- our security correspondent has the report. >

the military has left the haqqani network almost untouched in the tribal area of north waziristan. us military sources told frontline the pakistanis are unwilling to take them on. >> there are hundreds of groups operating in that area. you know, we have to mobilize resources, maybe cool down the other places, stabilize other places, and then sort of get the forces together and then go for it. so that is not an issue. >> smith: for more than five years, the united states has been pressing the pakistanis to launch an offensive in north waziristan. in the meantime, the cia has taken matters into its own hands. remotely piloted drones have fired more than 200 hellfire missiles and bombs at targets in the tribal areas. officially, the cia does not speak about the drone war, but an agent who once ran the campaign agreed to talk to frontline. >> the calculus is really a very simple one: it's trying to kill people before they kill you. it's as simple as that. now, it may have the knock-on and potentially intended effect- - you hope-- of discouraging further militancy. when people see other

we understand that he normally operates in a region just north of there, north waziristan.e strike took place in south waziristan. there are some media reports here in pakistan that indicate that he only recently moved into that area of the missile strike, a very short period of time, before that drone actually attacked. we haven't confirmed that here. there are many reports here that indicate he only got to the area a short time before the missiles were fired. there is an important point that i should just mention, t.j. as i say, we had some reports that he was among the victims there, particularly from his own militant group. pakistani officials, including the pakistani intelligence service, has not yet confirmed this. they say they're still waiting to see his body or hear from their own sources on the ground that this is, in fact, true. it's a point worth noting because it was suspected in the past, in fact more than that, it was declared back in september of 2009, that united states drones had, in fact, this man a month later, that proved not to be the case. he was a hi

what is provoking this, but it looks like a lot of these militants are flooding in now from north waziristanwhich is where most of them were based into south waziristan. maybe that is a reflection of the missile strikes that have taken place recently. maybe it is a reflection of their fear that the pakistanis are going to launch an operation there. but they're on the move. they are moving. and we're getting them right now on the missile strikes. >> we got to go, but did this come from the intelligence that was gleaned from the osama bin laden compound? >> it is impossible to know for sure. but i -- it is a month between those two strikes, it is a coincidence. it certainly would indicate you would have to look in that direction and we don't really know for sure, though. >> a question that wants to be answered. evan coleman, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>> sarah palin is sticking to her guns about her version of paul revere's ride but is apologizing for one thing. we'll tell you what that is. >>> the dangers of the popular bounce homes, another one gets swept away by the winds

so for a simple, in host province down to the southeast of kabul which borders north waziristan there is quite a substantial afghan defensive element has published the new the mountains there is another line of defense and there's another line of defense at the southern end of the two provinces of kabul to greater kabul province area and then within a couple afghan security forces are in the lead conducting all operations and as the lead elements including some absolutely superb special operations forces which indeed we do seek to support the and to enable intelligence tools and assets which conduct the operations on their own% to arrest warrants issued by afghan authorities. so, again more difficult without question i'm not sure that i will say not doable. >> thank you. thank you very much, senator snowe. senator wyden? >> thank you. general, let me join my colleague and express my gratitude for your service. i also think that what is especially important in the director's position is that senators get the real story. they get somebody who's going to be a straight shooter and i'm con

i am from north waziristan.i don't know where to start, but we arab-americans are proud of what we are. we are proud of the american system that gave us the opportunity, which is life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. so this is great. this is to direct their ansara. we came here we were given the opportunity. so we put that aside. now let's take the other side. this life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, which is the american motto does not apply to a lot of people. the usaid is the more field that really so does the air people to live under the mubarak's and the salÉ and so on. so essentially, i wish people would revolt, not only against the people, but against those building the road here and allow the mubarak to skip over his people over the last 30 years. i resumed this site, so i think the revolution really should have multifaceted. one of them is to change regimes to become independent. the other world is undergoing and realistic and domination. they really cannot change much. what is happening on the middle

i am from north waziristan.i don't know where to start, but we arab-americans are proud of what we are. we are proud of the american system that gave us the opportunity, which is life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. so this is grat. this is to direct their ansara. we came here we were given the opportunity. so we put that aside. now let's take the other side. this life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, which is the american motto does not apply to a lot of people. the usaid is the more field that really so does the air people to live under the mubarak's and the salÉ and so on. so essentially, i wish people would revolt, not only against the people, but against those building the road here and allow the mubarak to skip over his people over the last 30 years. i resumed this site, so i think the revolution really should have multifaceted. one of them is to change regimes to become independe. the other world is undergoing and realistic and domination. they really cannot change much. what is happening onhe middle east

for example, in host province down to the southeast of kabul which borders north waziristan, there isuite a substantial afghan establishment there. there is another line of defense and another line of defense just at the southern end of the two provinces south of kabul and the greater kabul province area and within kabul, afghan security forces are in the lead conducting all operations as the lead elements including some absolutely suburb special operations forces which indeed we do seek to support and enable with certain indeed intelligence tools and assets. but which conduct the operations on their own pursuant to arrest warrants issued by afghan authorities. so again, more difficult without question, i'm not sure, though, that i would say not doable. >> thank you. thank you very much, senator snowe. senator wyden? >> thank you, general chair. let me join my colleague in expressing my gratitude for your service. i think what sls important in the director position is we get the straight story. i'm convinced you will be a straight shooter. i appreciate that. i brought with me a new is

taken by satellite of to ied factories , one of them a girls' school which is the main city in north waziristanone in the north they believed was run by the haqqani network which is one of the afghan groups based in pakistan, and then the other they said was run by people affiliated directly with al qaeda. they also gave them a further graphs of information about various weapons. it was in the first time the had given them photographs in a number of meetings over the years the americans have said look, you keep saying you can't find haqqani which they do, they maintain that the haqqani spends more than half his time in afghanistan, and that the americans certainly have a lot of soldiers and why can't they find them and how do they expect the pakistanis to find them if they can't find them to have on a number of occasions americans given the pakistanis photographs of what they have said is the haqqani network and a madrassa where there also is a pakistani military installation. and get to the pakistanis haven't done anything about it. within days of this meeting that they had in islamabad, furth

waziristan. one was a compound where a top al qaeda leader was killed in another attack three days earlier. another was along the border of north and south waziristan. at least four people were killed in that strike. >>> 5:07. defense secretary robert gates is in afghanistan visiting u.s. troops just days before he retir retires. he got emotional thanking men and women for their service. he said the u.s. will withdraw combat troops slowly and responsibly. he is retiring at the end of the month. he has served as secretary of defense four and a half years. >>> today marks the anniversary of d-day. 67 years ago today, allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy, france to free nazi-occupied europe. general dwight eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day, the largest military amphibious mission in history. the operation was a success but hundreds of brave men lost their lives in the battle to free europe. >>> 5:07 is our time. the scandal ahead has the royal newlywed couple changing their plans for their trip to the u.s. >>> why the cost of suits is about to sky rocket. >>> beautiful start to the week. weather and traffic on the 1s

instead are their lap were with us in the war on extremism, particularly against teixeira in north waziristan against lec and what initiatives you think we can or should be taking to engage detailing this and helping realize strategic calculus in pakistan. >> thank you, senator. i would imagine that my colleagues from legislative affairs would say if you're not the nominee for pakistan be careful. but it was the ambassador for pakistan's and it is an important question. the pakistanis of course has been engaged against militants on their soil and they have lasted very large number of forces fighting. so it's not like they're not doing anything. but it's lashkar-e-taiba, haqqani network, the shura as you know persists. just in recent weeks since the death of bin laden, of course we've had a number of senior visitors who have engaged the pakistanis, including the chairman as well as secretary clinton, admiral molin and merkerson. and they have made some statements that it's clearly going to be important for them to follow through on them. with respect to india, i am pleased to see from my past

the missile hit a vehicle driving along the border between north and south waziristan. >>> robert gates thanking troops in pakistan for their service to their country, as he continues his retirement tour. gates visited service members in afghanistan's heldman province u.s. the u.s. will withdraw combat troops slowly and responsibly. he served as secretary of defense for 4 1/2 years. >>> the test results are back and show sprouts from an organic farm did not cause the e. coli outbreak in germany. officials will head back to the farm now to run some morest tests. officials are trying to track the source that killed 22 and sickened more than 2,200 people. the organic farm in northern germany shut down as a precaution. >>> and tom is back with us, after having a week off. missed you, tom. >> thank you. good to be back. we've got the heat beginning to bill. it's going to back like it was midweek last week. yeah, here it comes again. but right now, though, a pleasant day is under way. enjoy. there are a few puffy clouds floating in a blue sky. live picture from the sky watcher camera. that's

headlines for you there have been turned deadly attack north west pakistan one hundred militants clash with soldiers at a security checkpoint in waziristan killing eight soldiers it's not twelve insurgents were also killed it was followed by a car bomb blast in peshawar which killed four people including a child this region is home to several insurgent groups connected to multiple attacks across the border in afghanistan. japan's fukushima nuclear plant suffered temporary power costs of two of its reactors it affected their central control rooms and briefly meant radiation that could be collected the city's operator says the blackout did not affect the operation to cool the reactors and is investigating what caused the outages. germany admits that his response to the deadly e. coli outbreak wasn't good enough blaming a fractured public health structure for poor coordination twenty six people have so far died from the mutant strain and thousands of others have been infected the number of new cases is declining but it's still not known where the outbreak began russia banned imports of fresh produce from the e.u. as a precaution and says it