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using children, that reminds me of saddam hussein when he used kids. >> okay.overnor, remember when saddam hussein patted that little kid on the top of his head. it was one of the most sickening sights in history because he was a killer. this is comparing the president to saddam hussein at one of his worst moment. do you think it will sell? >> number one, this guy is deranged and i do not believe it will sell. and number two, john cornyn is a rock red conservative. he is almost as conservative as it can get. where do you draw the line? where do you draw the line and say someone's conservative enough? you know, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. if stockman gets significant support, then it is maybe the death now of the republican party. they can't survive if they keep acting like this. what they've got to do is freeze this guy out. make sure he gets no money and make sure that john cornyn has a fairly easy route to winning the primary. if they don't, it's literally self-destructive. >> joan, why doesn't the democratic party seize upon the fact that the rep

it was covered with a hunk of styrofoam and saddam hussein was down in that hole.disoriented. what a story. i know it's going to be a movie, and who is going to play you? >> robert pattinson will be playing me in the movie, steve. >> that's fantastic. that is awesome. >> yeah. >> do we know when it's going to come out? >> they began filming this spring so i'm not in the hollywood world so i will wait and i have no idea when they'll actually hit the screen. >> well, you know what, he's got a lot of fans and you've got a lot of fans for what you all did ten years ago right now. eric maddox, today is a civilian interrogator for the department of defense. sir, thank you very much for your service and thanks for everything. good luck with the movie. >> thanks, buddy. have a good one. >> you as well. all right. great story. >>> all right. 19 minutes now after the top of the hour on this friday. some schools making the flu shot mandatory. is that a good idea? medical a team is going to separate fact from fiction coming up next. >>> and they promised transparency so why is

and really fascinating about saddam hussein's decoration were these weird sort of satisfied dough massstick paintings, but they're very kinky indeed. >> "fox files" tracked down the artest at her home in upstate new york. it was news to her that copies of her work ended up in saddam's baghdad townhouse. >> once you do a painting, heaven only knows where it's going to end up. he would probably identify with the heroic men. and he would love the sensuous women. >> hard to imagine amidst all the killing and repressing saddam had the time and state of mind to have this replica of the flintstone village bedrock built for his grandchildren. adolf hitler built his own retreat in the bavarian mountains, berghoff, his place to entertain and unwind with his nazi friends and mistress, eva braun, as seen in home movies. >> it's meant to be a sort of manly german hunting lodge sort of place. the truth is that the taste on show is very -- lots of dinky 19th century sets of china filigreed clocks. almost lady-like. >> during his 20 years as dictator of the philippines, ferdinand marcos is believed to

well, i wish there were more leaders out there stupid as saddam hussein but i'm concern there had may not be. because, you know, saddam hussein was obliging putting them in the tanks in the desert with the "hit me signs." there are not other leaders willing to do. i expect they are learned from the experience of saddam hussein who wound up getting kill forked the troubles. i suspect they have learned it's smarter to fight with a regular tactics. my concern is that's what we're going to see a lot more of in the future. and i'm worried that the army and mat -- marine corps. are in for a nasty surprise. i'm concerned they're going to forget the lessons they have learned. i would like do you stay in place for him to get out the door. he's got another appointment he's got get to. he's time sensitive with it i give you the final two minutes to wrap it up. leave us with closing. >> well, i would like to leave you, essentially, with where i started. which is by reminding you the way we think about unconventional warfare is missed up. it's the norm. not going away. adopting new ways to attack

capital and activists speaks was bit later tells us how it compares now to life of then under saddam hussein it's a bit later this. next big story that came out of the we could emerge that sweden is in all the n.s.a. spying game what's more it's accused of peeking through the kremlin is keyhole to swedish t.v. reported fresh legs made snowden that stock which fed intelligence from russia's leadership and also energy giants to the united states this is what the chief editor of the news program the broke the story told r.t. earlier about the findings we have revealed that. a very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and american counterpart n.s.a. and. according to the documents. f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. they're talking about unique intelligence they're talking about classic intelligence and they're also mentioning cables the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't

government in baghdad well since you brought up saddam hussein in iraq iran is much stronger internally a lot more unified than iraq was in case of a conflict it will not be a pushover and everyone understands that when the u.s. talks about a military option there is it really ready for another tough thing gates meant in the region is it even in the country's interest. well i don't think a war with iran would be in the interest of the united states at all. and i hope and pray there is no conflict between the two countries but i think you're somewhat mistaken when you say that iran is more unified if you take a look at iran the core center of iran is persian but there are baluch baluchistan in the sound system baluchistan there are secessionist movements there there are arabs in the southwest there are kurds up in the north east and there are zero three in the north made at the end of world war two stalin of russia in the red army was in that area and had to be forced out of there in a war between the united states and iran i think would be a disaster for the world a disaster for the wor

peace activist told us the situation is worse now for many than it was under former dictator saddam hussein. six months after the bombings in ninety one there with the electricity there with telephone again there was a fair distribution. russians people. of angry people who did die because there was no and not enough clean water and so on a lot of diseases caused by the sanctions imposed by the united states but there were basic services that people have to work and it's not like the situation now where after ten years. your patient eleven years know. that there are no basic services. still to come with me when it comes to crisis recovery islands' pretty hot stuff we hear a bit later how writing debt solve can really pay off even if it does mean rage in europe and also. may have you know that with almost one in five people across the e.u. under the threat of living in poverty those in the richest economies are aligned and that's really interesting report coming up about fifteen minutes time that in fact between now and then though the financial week in detail in our tease venture capital ca

shop across the capital and activist speaks to us and tells us how it compares to life under saddam hussein a bit later this. emerged this week that sweden is in on the n.s.a. spying game what's more it's accused of peeking through the kremlin this keyhole to swedish t.v. reported freshly made snowden the week that stockholm fed intelligence from russia's leadership and also from energy giants to the united states this is what the chief editor of the news program that broke the story told us earlier about the findings we have revealed that. the very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and their american counterpart n.s.a. and according to the documents. f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. that they're talking about unique intelligence they talk about classic intelligence and they also mentioning cables the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't give any comments bert. wh

and peace activist and says the situation's worse for many than it was under former dictator saddam hussein. six months after the bombings in ninety one there was electricity there was telephone again there was a fair distribution. russians so people didn't die of hunger people who did die because there was no no not enough clean water i'm sure on a lot of diseases called a sanctions imposed by the united states but there were basic services that people have to work and it's not a lot of a situation now where after ten years. your patient eleven years and. there are no basic services. international next though after the break xander boy could talk so does a spokes person about the role of commerce in kick starting the peace process with israel. next. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making a historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and so

perhaps the best example of this involves saddam hussein. in april 1990, the united states expelled an iraqi diplomat involved in a incident in the united states, and in light of this, an iraq versioning weapons program, u.s. newses and world report rendered saddam the world's most dangerous man. some of you may remember the cover. still, proponents of engagement refuse to give up. senator spector traveled twice to baghdad to meet saddam, and so impress the with the sincerity, he helped block military sanctions on iraq. there's an opportunity to pursue discussions with iraq, he said two mochtses later, and i think that it's not the right time to impose sanctions. less than two months after that, iraq invaded kuwait. only after several years did he acknowledge that saddam exploited him. they acknowledged that they transformed their 48 hour embassy sit-in back in is the 79 into a 444-day crisis once they read a boston globe article in which a carter national security staffer leaked that military operation to be taken off the table. now, they t

when saddam hussein was a man they thought was that saddam hussein was first captured, one of the questionsthis really saddam hussein or was this a decoy? welcome the dna had been extracted from his two sons earlier that year. in a dna profile was created from the suspected saddam hussein compared to his two sons and there was a match between the sons for a number of dna locations helping to prove that this was in fact saddam hussein. just last month, this article was published where the last victim of the boston strangler dna was identified on the victim who could be traced through a family member to albert, the man accused of being the boston strangler but was killed in prison before he was tried on the sturgis. and of course, we have a famous example, the world's most famous navy blue dress, the one on which a dna sample turned that he said she said case into a presidential impeachment. so dna evidence has served a very important role in a number of high-profile cases and in everyday crime as well and i will talk more about that. so, what are we actually talking about when we try to iden

peter york says the most flash of the class are the out and out dictators like the late saddam husseinyork has dedicated a book to them called dictator style. >> it's bling. it's over the top. it's designed to give off messages to their own populations which say i'm great. i'm invincible. i could eat you alive. >> not only do dictators control their people, but they spend their money, too. >> you've got to talk about the money. >> what matters to dictators are things that are glittery, big, sexuality that is outsized also. >> dr. keith ablo is a fox contributor. >> if you need to feel that flashy you might be dull inside. >> what are some of the characteristics? >> chand leers, mirrors and fake 18th century furniture, not real. >> which they could afford. >> because it looks old and it's not shiny enough. >> the shrine of shine is the monaco yacht show. recently we went there to check out the bling on board. plenty that sit for a dictator. >> the interiors are more opulent on the yachts than they are on the owner's houses. >> looking for a spot to park your super car -- >> we go up to

general and the 38th chief of he is best in known for a moment in the 2000 surge and capture of saddam hussein0 years ago. i am pleased to welcome general odierno. >> thank you. it is great to be here. >> take me back to that moment, and what that meant. >> at the time it was important. we had been looking for him for about six months. we started in june of 2003. we figured out early on that we were going about it the wrong way in the beginning. we have the cards and the faces on the cards. and we thought they were somehow related. we realize the award. it had a lot to do with family, worked with.e we started to put the puzzle together. we probably did 30-40 raids thinking we were close. finally, on december 13, we got him. we got a good lead. i remember getting a call that number one.red at the time it was important. we went in and toppled his regime. with him so out there, it was a question of what that would mean. it was important for us to capture, to make sure that he would never be able to come back . >> what did we learn from him? >> i'm not sure how much we learn. i think we learned ab

yes, saddam hussein was a dictator, but they had free education. iraq is a former shadow of itself now. i feel the american people need to know what state iraq is in and what we did to that country. >> what auspices were you under when you went to iraq? how did you get in? >> we were a group of women. we put out a call to people around the country saying, who would like to go? we did not know if we would get in or if the u.s. would bomb at the time. it was a scary time to go. we got a group of about 11 or 12 of us. we flew into jordan. we do not know if we would get into iraq. we drove across the desert. i'm jewish. we got to the border and a border guard took my passport and said, benjamin, is that jewish? i started shaking like a leaf. i thought, uh-oh. i'm in trouble. the tensions between iraq and israel were very high. a half hour i was waiting and waiting and he came back huffing and puffing and said, i brought my notebook. i have been studying hebrew. i was wondering if you could correct my grammar. that was the border guard. i asked, why are

eric, what did you think of the saddam hussein shaikh mohammed? >> so on the week that this video comes out, the earth recorded its coldest temperature by far, 135 degrees below zero. after that came out, the chicago bears played in negative nine degrees windchill. which is, if i remember right, back in the day of soldier field, the toilets used to freeze. and guess what, they still freeze 25 years later. 75% of the country is blanketed in below-normal temperatures right now. the problem is that greenpeace went with global warming again. remember two years ago when they realized it may not be warming, it may just be changing and they went with climate change? but they went with global warming. they kind of screwed up. if they had said the climate's changing, then maybe they had an argument. >> and they equate -- if i could pick up on that point -- they equate terrorism with global warming. what they are doing in terms of using that picture of the saddam hussein look-alike or the khalid shaikh mohammed mug shot, that's the equivalent for them. >> t

people suffered terribly under saddam hussein. people sufferer the -- sufferedder the write under saddam, under the taliban, people are suffering terribly today many syria. that's fact, right? saddam hussein was a brutal dictator. but we supported saddam hussein through all his worst atrocities, the u.s. government, american politicians, right? we gave him the means to develop and deploy chemical weapons. what he was put on trial for, we supported him through. we talk about liberating the women of afghanistan, and we are currently allied with one of the most oppressive goths in the world -- governments in the world, the saudi arabian government. so there's some contradictions that make us wonder or, okay, what are some of these politicians really doing? i'm talking both democrat and republican. the question and answer session we can talk more about those contradictions and how the war system can use a lot of those, a lot of that goodbe -- goodwill for its own purposes. third form of distance is mechanical distance. mechanical dista

soldiers liberated the invasion of baghdad by climbing up the statue of saddam hussein and covering hisonze mustache face with the stars and stripes, a gesture that was unfortunate as pr and in proper etiquette. [laughter] it was to spend the morning at the historic cyclic pearl harbor one tattooed on the american memory and the afternoon at another historic sites we have forgotten entirely about a groundswell of outrage over the invasion of iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of american ideals. the subtext of the dissent was this is not who we are. but none of you are standing where i was. it was hard to look at the palace tour guide when she talked about the american flag flying over the palace and not realizing that ever since 1898 from time to time, this is exactly who we are. and what's more, hawaii is just as peter roosevelt predicted crucial to the american empire's military presence in the pacific. pearl harbor is still the headquarters of the u.s. pacific command just as it was for all three of america's 20th century wars in the pacific with japan, north korea an

but since saddam hussein was toppled, that member has have, because -- has been cut in half, because many have left the country. christians have lived here for centuries. they are not part of the sunni- shiite conflict over power, but they have found themselves victims of attacks by sunni extremists, like those about qaeda, and subject of intimidation by militias. it has been too much for them. x egypt's former president -- >> egypt's former president mohamed morsi is now considered to be a member of a terrorist group. is the latest from the interim government following an attack on tuesday that killed 16. here is news from cairo. is what the egyptian cabinet statement said. yesterday,massacre which left 16 dead and more than they will declare the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization. the cause for this action has egyptiansgated among of all classes and sex for maybe two months ever since the office that was in support of the hominid morsi. it is no wonder that egyptians of this decision was a lot relief that could be sensed at once on social media, especially twitter. antigov

. >> in many ways it was a conscious reenactment of the toppling of the statute of saddam hussein. which was a little weird. the agreement was about europe and then it was everything about the president and his legitimacy. many people saw as a bit of a diversion. >> i have to tell you, i thought it was humorous. who cares about a statute of lenin? for the west, this is some moment. this is the west projecting. this is not the soviet union. the soviet union is long gone. >> toppling down of lenin is western media. postsoviet world, while for the ukrainians lenin is something from the past. of course there were some glorification when lenin fell down but definitely by the international media the story is overdone. >> but that's what happens when the global media parachute into a story in a country they know little about. perhaps the post-cold war narrative wasn't any part of an agenda but what one seize as context one already sees as context in an international history. time has moved on even though western journalists think they are back in ussr. >> yanukovych is president of ukrain

taught any lesson to the rest of the world with the invasion and occupation of iraq it was that saddam hussein was a fool for actually disarming because by disarming all he did was make it that much easier for the empire to come in and destroy the entire country so the lesson we teach to the world is that the best way to defend yourself is to get yourself a nuclear weapon and of course the biggest culprit of using nuclear weapons and producing nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction is my birth nation of the united states and i find it absolutely insane that we sit here and talk about iran's supposedly clean weapons program when you know the united states is producing every kind of weapon under the sun is spending more than every other military on the planet combined and it's involved in more war and more death and more suffering than every other nation combined and yet it's sitting there on a pedestal talking about other nations developing weapons of mass destruction it is insane that we even allow them to do this the first nation that needs to disarm without question is the united st

saddam hussein, she said. so, of course, saddam hue -- hussein was obsessed with stalin. and when he was an ally of the soviet union in the '60s and '70s, he said i want to see every single house of stalin's. so he is the only other person apart from me who has been round every one of stalin's houses and seen how he lived. >> host: simon sebag montefiore, what are your current and near-future projects? >> guest: well, i've got a novel coming out in september which is exciting. set, you know, in a family in russia. and it's really a book about lo. and it's based on a true story as well. but in history i'm researching now a history of the roam novembers, the whole dynasty from 1613 to 1917, all those czars ending up with nicholas and alexander and rasputin and all that. and i'm loving doing that. it's really exciting. and be, of course, it's a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. >> host: you also have another project coming out after that? >> guest: ah, the world. >> host: the history of the world. a biography? >> guest: yeah. i'm going to do a history of the w

we actually hire ld as a company the chief prosecutor of iraq after he had prosecuted saddam hussein. he was hired to go and meet with each of the families to handle the payments, the condolence payments under direction of the state d., and when some of those people sought medical care and the bullets were educate tracted, it was found they came from from an ak, not from a u.s. pep weapon. be -- u.s. weapon. and i just want to, you know, parallel that to an event you may not be aware of. october 3 in washington, d.c. this year, there was a 34-year-old woman driving her car, and she got into a bit of a traffic altercation outside of a federal building, and the secret service opened fire on her a lot. and eventually, she made it to capitol hill where she was gunned down, ander baby was in the back of the car. so that's -- she had no weapons, she had no car bomb, she was just a woman having a bad day driving. and no media outcry. she actually got a standing -- the security officials got a standing ovation in the house of representatives. so i can't even imagine the human cry that would h

when saddam hussein was first capture one of the questions was, was this really saddam or a decoy? d.n.a. had been extracted from his two sons earlier this year and that d.n.a. profile was created from the suspected saddam compared to his two sons and there was a match between the sons and saddam for a number of d.n.a. locations, helping to prove that that was in fact saddam hussein. just last month this article was published where the last victim of the boston strangler d.n.a. was identified on the victim who could be traced to a family member to albert desalvo, the man accused of being the boston strangler. but he was killed in prison before he was tried on those charge is. this famous example. may i have blue dress. the one on which a d.n.a. sample turned a he said/she said case into a presidential impeachment. d.n.a. evidence has sevenned a number of important roles in high profile cases and in every day crime as well. i will talk more about that. what are we looking at when we try to identify people from their d.n.a.? we use something called a short tandem repeat. i'm illustra

saddam hussein, she said. so, of course, saddam hue -- hussein was obsessed with stalin. and when he was an ally of the soviet union in the '60s and '70s, he said i want to see every single house of stalin's. so he is the only other person apart from me who has been round every one of stalin's houses and seen how he lived. >> host: simon sebag montefiore, what are your current and near-future projects? >> guest: well, i've got a novel coming out in september which is exciting. set, you know, in a family in russia. and it's really a book about lo. and it's based on a true story as well. but in history i'm researching now a history of the roam novembers, the whole dynasty from 1613 to 1917, all those czars ending up with nicholas and alexander and

the cambodia tribunal, we see duns prosecuting -- countries prosecuting their own leaders like saddam hussein, they're talking about prosecuting assad after the crisis -- >> judges in spain who want to prosecute george w. bush. >> but before world war ii, nobody even thought about that. so that was the paradigm shift. and then you had the major nuremberg trial, mini trials conducted by the occupying powers, then you had the u.n. pass a resolution that universeally endorsed the principles of nuremberg. and these are principles we all sort of are familiar with. one which we're talking about is that leaders can be held responsible. just because they're the president or the king doesn't mean they can escape liability anymore. other ones is you can't use to bead yens to orders defense. others are that there's universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes. that's why in spain they go after george bush, for example. and then one of them is that when you prosecute people in an international tribunal, you can use a principle that is similar to the united states' conspiracy or pinkerton rule

bush -- >> strategery. [ laughter ] >> reporter: -- to janet reno, to saddam hussein. >> monica, you call me anymore. [ laughter ] >> reporter: in his last season, he reportedly became the highest paid cast member. his salary $350,000. >> we're going streaking! >> reporter: before long, he went old school. >> yes. >> reporter: the movie was a hit, box office take $87 million worldwide. >> it's so good. >> reporter: this funny man became a leading man. there was "elf." >> santa! oh, my gosh! >> reporter: anchorman," "talladega night,s," "blades of glory," "stepbrothers," the animated hit "mega mind." and the "campaign." they haven't all been hits, and he was once named the most overpaid actor by "forbes." but tally it all up, movies will farrell has starred in have grossed almost $2 billion. >> massive amounts of money. >> reporter: and that's before "anchorman 2." >> why can't the news be fun? >> reporter: ron burgundy does product placement very well. dodge commercials helped push durango sales up almost 60% in october. >> it makes you feel pretty dumb. >> reporter: the fictional ch

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well, i wish there were more leaders out there stupid as saddam hussein but i'm concern there had may not be. because, you know, saddam hussein was obliging putting them in the tanks in the desert with the "hit me signs." there are not other leaders willing to do. i expect they are learned from the experience of saddam hussein who wound up getting kill forked the troubles. i suspect they have learned it's smarter to fight with a regular tactics. my concern is that's what we're going to see a lot more of in the future. and i'm worried that the army and mat -- marine corps. are in for a nasty surprise. i'm concerned they're going to forget the lessons they have learned. i would like do you stay in place for him to get out the door. he's got another appointment he's got get to. he's time sensitive with it i give you the final two minutes to wrap it up. leave us with closing. >> well, i would like to leave you, essentially, with where i started. which is by reminding you the way we think about unconventional warfare is missed up. it's the norm. not going away. adopting new ways to attack

he is best known for successfully implementing 2007 surge and for his units capture of saddam hussein exactly ten years ago, i am pleased to welcome general odierno to this table. >> thank you, it is great to be here. >> rose: take me back to that moment and what that meant. >> well, at the time, it was important. we had been really looking for him for about six months, you know, we had started in about june of 2003 and we had figured out early on that we were going about it wrong in the beginning. we were worried, we had the cards and you had the faces on the cards and we thought they were somehow related but we realized they weren't, what it was about is understanding who is trustful in the circle wise, it had a lot to do with family and people he grew up with and so, you know, working very closely with our special operations forces we started to put the puzzle together. we probably did 30, 40 raids thinking we were close, but finally, you know, on december 13th we got him and, you know, we thought we had a pretty good lead but i remember waiting and getting the call that in fact we

worshipers leaving a christmas service churches have been increasingly targeted since the fall of saddam hussein and the population of christians as hard in recent years to over nine thousand people in iraq have lost their lives in violence this past year. egypt's military backed government officially declared the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization the move could lead them to harsher punishment for members of the group and those financing it hundreds of brotherhood activists have been arrested after the ousting of president morsi in july egypt's officials have accused the group of being behind tuesday's deadly bomb attack and travel to the police h.q. in the city of man so. hundreds of opposition supporters have clashed with police in thailand as they try to enter a registration center for upcoming elections new polls were called for february after weeks of anti government protests demanding a prime minister step down but the country's main opposition party promised more protests and said it would boycott the elections which the ruling party is widely predicted to win. the next full new

worshipers were leaving a christmas service churches had been increasingly targeted since the fall of saddam hussein and the population of christians has halved in recent years over nine thousand people in iraq have lost their lives in violence in twenty thirteen. hundreds of opposition supporters have clashed with police in thailand as they try to enter a registration center for upcoming elections polls were called for february after weeks of anti-government protests demanding the prime minister step down country's main opposition party promised more protests and said it would boycott the elections which the ruling party is widely predicted to win. india has downgraded immunity for u.s. diplomats serving in the country meaning they have no protection committing serious offenses immunity for their relatives. has been revoked all together bringing the rules in line with those applying to indian officials in the u.s. these are the latest measures imposed by delhi in response to the arrest of its deputy consul general in new york for alleged visa fraud for her staff from more insight on this we're now

orders coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war. these are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. as of last month there have been forty four hundred eighty nine american military deaths just in iraq says george w. bush's war hawk cronies lied america into a war in march of two thousand and three call an entire political party a cult and out of in the best move politically john podesta is common some political were entirely accurate from taking away health care and food to failing to fight climate change or give unemployment and unemployed americans assistance republicans are effectively killing off the very people who have helped put them in positions of power if that doesn't scream called i don't know what that is and that's the way it is tonight thursday december nineteenth two thousand and thirteen and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. by the sea motions to. play your part of the musical. shoes tha

. >> it really reminded me of a video we saw of saddam hussein doing the same thing. having people plucked out of an audience. and people sitting there sweating and nobody daring to move or do anything. >> reporter: we also asked the secretary about robert levinson who disappeared in iran seven years ago. his family said he was working for the cia and the government has now abandoned him. >> to suggest that we've abandoned him or anybody has abandoned him is simply incorrect. the fact is that i have personally raised the issue not only at the highest level that i have been involved with but also through other intermediaries. >> reporter: secretary kerry says he thinks the iranian government could help in this situation and hopes the government will. david. >> thank you. and martha will have much more of the exclusive interview first thing in the morning on abc's this week. >>> and south africa, nelson mandela, his body returned to his childhood village on this eve of his funeral. and on this saturday, a moment of controversy when it seemed a major figure had been left

and peace activist adrian sense says the situation is worse than it was under former dictator saddam hussein six months after the bombings in ninety one there was electricity there was. russian people didn't die of hunger people did die because there was no. level of clean water and so on a lot of diseases goddess actions in both the united states but there were basic services that people have and it's not like the situation now where. you ration eleven years and. there are no basic services. the long arm of the law is reached the leaders of the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak in egypt three years ago but now standing trial under a new law banning unauthorized protests true as the details about that from cairo two leading secular activists. being charged with illegally protesting and for allegedly assaulting police officers in demonstrations last month and two men who were prominent voices in the january two thousand level revolution among the first to be trying to get defense related to egypt's new controversial protest it was in force by the government last month and bans all rallies