japan first joined mine sweeping operations in the persian gulf in 1991 soon after the cease fire in the gulf war. it's believed japanese participation is aimed at securing waterways in the persian gulf that are crucial for japanese oil shipments. >>> next we go to our bureau in bangk bangkok. >>> the united nations is warning asian countries about a major bird flu alert. a mutant strain of the deadly virus has the potential to cause an outbreak if the region. the world health organization reported recently that a 6-year-old cambodian girl died from avian influenza. the agriculture organization issued a statement calling on the international community to increase surveillance and preparedness for a possible outbreak. experts are especially concerned because of a variant found in vietnam and china that seems to sidest sidestep vaccines. the disease has killed 531 people around the world since it was first detected in 2003 according to figures from the who. experts say five of the six countries where the virus is especially entrenched are in asia. the places most at risk are vietnam, i

japan first joined mine sweeping operations in the persian gulf in 1991 soon after the cease-fire in the gulf war. it is believed the participation is aimed at securing waterways crucial for japanese oil shipments in the persian gulf. >> hi there. time now for your weather update. across asia we're seeing a lot of clouds building over japan from the west and also this very large typhoon over the pacific that is slowly but surely approaching mainland japan. the typhoon maintained its strength packing winds of about 120 kilometers per hour gusts reaching 180. right now it's moving in a westerly direction but of course it is expected to veer to the north and then aim for mainland japan. it could make landfall early friday morning anywhere along the pacific coast in central and western portions of the country. it continues to be a very large storm system, bringing some fierce winds, torrential rains to the islands and we'll also start to feel the effects of the storms, strong winds, heavy, blustery winds will really impact central portions of the country starting tonight into your thursd

and i recount the story earlier in the book i recount the story of a persian queen who is described in no less than about four lines in herodotus and becomes one of the earliest descriptions of what might have been breast cancer. again, we don't have a word for cancer in this time. it's the description of the early history of the west focusing on greece. since a little bit of a message, about two or three lines that he describes his idea that the queen of persia developed a malignancy, a swelling in her breast, a mass in her breast and some people have translated it. and her response, intensely contemporary prose, her response was she was so ashamed of it that she hid herself in her shame. remember, 1950 and fannie calling of "the new york times." she hid herself in her shame and she would let anyone examine her breast. until a greek slave intervened and promises to cure her, and he does care. and he probably does so by performing one of the first recorded mastectomies or lumpectomy's of breast cancer. atossa is very grateful, and as a return favor she tells him she will persuade her h

she is a great persian. obviously the battle against apple, the couple makes a software and hardware for the eyes fun. they control is completely. they can create a phone that they want. google comes out with some good phone. >> motorola is headquartered in illinois. more than likely they will keep the motorola name comedies think? >> within kinnell, and delays motorola. would that make sense sun and athtc is a threat? whorf >> but if itunes is not a big deal, hands down go with an android. it is a better operating system and a lot of ways. if you are dependent on i tins, the call iphone makes more sense. record >> i'm sure dave will have more coming up this afternoon. let's get caught up on what is happening with whether and traffic. james fletcher, a lot more sunshine. hakka >> it looks great outside right now. here's a live look from the james lick freeway. not a cloud in the sky. blue skies and sunshine bathing the city. the temperature is beginning to rise. here is a live look out of walnut creek. very

soap for four days and we didn't know whether the the explosions of the charges were put out the persian mother through your mind when you don't really know when you can know lambden or even explode is it are you still mobilizing eat you not even you don't have time to fear that what goes through your mind at that point and well i think our our training has got us in a position and a mindset that do we look at things one one step at a time our minds are concentrated on what the next step is going to be what we have to do and we don't worry about you know failure. we'll worry about that if a failure occurs but not until that time so we're priest straight forward what we're doing and thinking about are you really say houston we have a problem the true story which seems to be. going around all the time never never die is that where the explosion occurred jack striker. first said. hey houston. we have a problem here. the capsule communicator came back and said say again please i then said he used to we have had a problem and that's his rules from the story about that of course where they mad

explosion all the way back there were certain prices that we had to overcome including brother the persians will put up because the pirate techniques to put out the parachutes have been cold so for four days and we did know where the the explosions of the charges were put out the persian mother through your mind when you don't really know what are you going to lend them or you can explode is it are you still mobile life that you eat you not even you don't have time to fear that or a book or through your mind at that point and while i think our our training has got us in a position and a mindset that do we really look at things went one step at a time our minds are concentrated on what the next step is going to be what we have to do we don't worry about failure we'll worry about that if a failure occurs but not until that time so we're priest straight forward what we're doing and thinking about our attackers could you really say houston we have a problem the true story which seems to be. going around all the time never never die is that where the explosion occurred jack's wife or first said.

and in that, let me go back again to a period immediately before the persian gulf war. the united states had frankly been extremely duplicitous in the war between iran and iraq. we are well aware that the iran-contra scam where the united states was selling military equipment to iran and using that money to purchase military equipment to be used by the contras in their war against the sandinistas in nicaragua. what is not so well-known but is truthful is what we were doing for iraq during the same time. iraq had a nascent nuclear program that had started in the early 1980s. it was going along at a modest pace. one of the problems was that there were important pieces of equipment, which they could most readily get from the united states, but which fell under a doctrine called the duel use prohibition. that is if a of a piece of equipment that might be useful in a medical context also could be used in a military context, it was not to be sold to iraq and the a list of other countries. beginning in the mid-80s, we essentially rescinded that policy as it related to iraq and

afghanistan is what is considered old persian of through asia that is part of the silk road that the british so intent on controlling it. twice. it is significant and that is what we wanted people to know and understand. not just a one clemson time but for centuries and remains exceptionally diverse and nine -- dynamic where soldiers are serving. >> >> there is a lot of four books. toward the end, it was intents. great job. >> thank you very much. it took a lot of hard work again. the biggest challenge is because of the security requirements what they actually did an accomplished it is nothing short of phenomenal. people buy it because they want to know what the soldiers are doing that was a very consistent question how much do they contribute? there relates directly to the units that we saw all are that you read about in the book or that we helped to build so they truly considered us almost afghans in brothers and would operate and execute like professional soldiers. that is what is missing in the national understanding of what is going on in afghanistan. >> in the battle in the vie

. >> more recent merger miss sanchez, he could still her body in his persian rug and use his jeep cherokee to dispose of her body. >> she went missing in july 2001 after leaving a bar with him. investigators say they have conclusively linked him to the murder after fibers from a pair of rugs in her home are found in the back of his jeep cherokee. >> an addition that the slipcovers on her couch and the persian rug was missing but nothing else was touched now her money or jewelry or anything else. >> her brother shot and killed him before killing himself and the d.a. says the case is now closed. >> there is no innocent explanation for those 27 fibers being in the back of his jeep cherokee. >> her body has never been found. >> san jose state university is dealing with a student housing shortage as the incoming freshman class is 4000 strong. that is 1300 more students than last year and they require that any freshman had graduated a from a high school 30 mi. away or four there must live on campus their first year to make sure that all those new freshmen have room, they have put some returning

area where weathering her opponent's best shots to prevail six three seven six has won six of the persian nine meetings but been touched since the seventy's. over in men's tennis two of the world's top three tennis players being dumped out of the masters tournament at the quarter final stage mardy fish were one of the best nights of his career defeating second round rafael nadal to reach the semifinals after overcoming a few early nervous fish settled into a nice groove against the spaniard the american taking the first set six three to set the tone for the match the twenty nine year old winning over seventy percent of his service points. your hand out of rhythm all evening long with the number seven fish taking man carter six three six for last year's runner up now moves into the last four where he faces two thousand and eight champion. this getting better cmon seeing off the frenchmen in straight sets murray cruising home six three six three the world number four has beaten see more than seven of the eight. roger federer's hope of three straight cincinatti titles is over the two thousan

broke out here at various times georgians roman turks and persians invaded this place but the mountains protected the local people we associate ourselves with the mountain with rather than with people related to the sea. the end of the pier fulcher stands on a mountain top beneath the mountain speedy ologists have discovered a vast cabin it attracts numerous tourists a tour of the cave begins with the tourists boarding an electric train locals jokingly refer to it as the abkhaz metro i there is some room there let's get in. the know the i phone cave is one of the world's largest its volume is about one million cubic metres tourists get to experience the or inspiring beauty of this underground kingdom gods lead them through several grottos but many who enter this cave have another motive other than just a tour of this mysterious world people suffering from asthma allergies come here to breathe in the medicinal effects of it's humid as the region you doubt to noon gas here i'm going to take you on a fascinating tour of the underground chambers of navi off on cape cod fish. tourists form a

. >> he concealed her body in a persian rug and used his jeep to dispose of the body. >> the d.a.points to what he calls scientific analysis of 27 rug fibers found in the jeep cherokee, coming from two rugs belong together murder victim. the testing in illinois took three years to complete. >> i just wish we could have gotten result s six months or a year sooner but science only works as fast as science does. it doesn't work on csi schedule. >> one sad twist in this case is that authorities arrested maurice in late 2004 but were forced to release him in 2007 when questions were raised about the original testing of the fibers. with the retesting, maurice nasmay will never face a jury. the victim's brother killed him, and then himself. police are hoping someone comes forward with information that reveals where janine's body can be found. >> the family is suffering and continues to suffer and will suffer without an answer. >> the district attorney vowed his office would work on this case until it was solved. now, evidence finally supports what the family always believed. >> justice didn't