the shia majority community here, which most of the people were from the shia community. if the report is highly critical and the words systematic abuse is used, it may help to play indicate the shia community. if it's not used, then i think we could find there will be more protests and more violence here. but even if the report is very critical, i think we're then going to have to see what the government does, what the king and says what actions are taken by the bahraini government to actually act upon the recommendations where the people are going to be punished and how senior the people in the government are that are going to be held responsible for these human rights abuses. >> this is a government report, rupert. are the people of bahrain saying that that is at least in itself a step in the right direction? >> yes, i think there's an acknowledgment, there's a feeling, even in the shia community, that this is a good thing, that this is an independent commission, these are very eminent people who are on this commission of inquiry from all over the world, including one

bahrain consist of two major sections, sunni and shia. we start talking about sunni, shia, hindu, christian, jewish -- this was never the case in bahrain. we are all bahrainis. we have to walk together to build a better bahrain, a better future for our people, to em power our people. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the president of yemen is said to be ready to sign a bill to relinquish power to his deputy. it will come after months of violent protests in yemen. mr. saleh has been in power for more than 30 years. he previously backed out of signing the deal three times. two leaders in khmer rouge in trial for genocide -- said the prosecution case relied on accounts from newspapers. the former foreign minister said he received a royal pardon, social not be on trial. researchers are warning that taking slightly too much day after day could lead to a fatal overdose. specialist in scotland say they've seen more than 150 cases of what they called staggere

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in a fact right now have in syria a proxy sunni shia sectarian war underway and i think king abdullah could really put a stop to it even though he may want. president bashar assad out there the ramifications of this continuing are far greater they could actually creep into saudi arabia itself this is clearly saudi arabia against iran using. syria as a as one of the battlegrounds and battle lines right now but i think. really needs to be much more assertive in trying to placate this and try to bring the sides together and and i think that turkey even though it's sunni as well really it has a major role to play in terms of. its no no problem foreign policy to bring sides together to bring this to a much more peaceful outcome. i think that we're going to be seen much more. chaos in the streets in that this this tends to not be the waters in terms of what the real issues are here and i think that this is really. a battleground for saudi arabia at this point to try and make to try to keep iran of the middle east because of the sunni shia problem you're also going to be seeing this by the w

operations were conducted against the i iranian, the shia militant groups. in addition to that high, maliki made it very clear to the iranians that this had to stop. we did go through a period where it did stop but we continue to have concerns that they will try to provide -- they will provide that kind of assistance as well, and we have made it very clear to iraq that the of to take whatever steps are necessary to

you had the conflict between sunni muslims and shia muslims. you had this killing. you had the events that followed in which a substantial part of the business district of the city was burned down. you had the mystery of who did that and then you had the obsession over real estate. how is the property going to be used now? who is going to benefit from this? conspiracy theories flying everywhere. politicians outrages at each other. rhetoric everywhere. it was an incredible day as well as a tragic day. it was a day that everyone in karachi that i met seemed to remember where they were that day, what they were doing. it was a momentous day among many momentous days. >> warner: as you were peeling back the layers of the onion it seemed you really revealed a city that is above all driven by the struggle for power and money rooted in the land, this very precious resource. >> yeah. we think about religious conflicts in pakistan especially. and we should because they're huge. but sometimes even the religious conflicts are about something else. a city like this at its heart

operations were conducted against the iranian or the shia militant groups. in addition to that commonality made very clear to the iranians that this had to stop. we did go through a program that it did stop, but we continued to have concerns that the armenians would try to provide that kind of assistance as well, and we have made it very clear to iraq and that they've got to take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that doesn't happen. the estimate of the vichy the answer. thank you mr. chairman. >> senator brown. >> thank you mr. secretary. i want to follow on a question senator lieberman asked. do you think it is important to have a military presence in iraq and you said we need to provide in support and assistance but do you or don't you think that we should have a military presence in iraq? >> i think that providing military presence that assists them with training, this them with the operations continuing to work against the terrorist groups is important but i have to stress to you, senator, that it can only happen if the iraqi agree that it should h

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mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi street starts here. our first reader will be

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because they think at this point, the kind of reform it will require to pacify the shia population would be reforms that the monarchy probably cannot accept. it will amount to the demise of the ruling family. let me stop here. >> thank you arena for giving very good context to what monarchies can do with their time and the challenges of reform from above. a country like a reign which is clearly missed the boat as it were. thank you for those detailed analyses of morocco and bahrain and i turn to our commentator, jon. >> thank you. is a pleasure to be a carnegie. thank you for some very provocative remarks and the draft paper i saw which helped structure them. i also want to commend carnegie for looking at this. i think we got lazy because the last time we had a fall of the monarchy in the middle east was more than 30 years ago. the last time we had a fall of the air of monarchy was more than 40 years ago and we all had a sense of the problems have been solved. the stability of monarchies have been solved in a think what we have seen in the region in the last year has caused us to reinves

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that is the safeguard of the rights of all, not only shia or sunni. >> you are saying the whole reform movement has been, when it is successful, able to heal or transform the sectarian divide its that have been used by regimes in the past. >> exactly. >> secretary albright? >> there are all kinds of comparisons to central and eastern europe after the fall of the wall. one of them, and i have maintained this is quite a different issue -- one of the things that was interesting -- the dissidents and marchers and various people in central and east europe wanted a lot of western attention. they saw that as a way of protection. the question i have is to what extent do you want to have -- this is not a western story. to what extent is it helpful and to what extent is it harmful, in terms of what should the international community be doing? >> i think it is important. people in the middle east and want western attention. libya is a clear example. in syria, when they went to hama, they let them in. they were hoping the people would attack him, and he was met with a branch of olives. we really n

government provoked unrest to achieve what it called dubious aims dictated by foreign masters but minority shias said casualties occurred when live security forces fired live ammunition at peaceful demonstrators. the region recently has seen sporadic shiia protests against the minority sunni monarch. shiias in saudi arabia have long complained that their religious activities and freedom to choose employment have been restricted. >>> about 150,000 people in japan are waiting to hear one simple thing from politicians and nuclear accidents -- it's safe to go home. they put the towns and villages surrounding fukushima daiichi power plant after the march 11th earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant. the damaged reactors are supposed to be put into cold shutdown by the end of the year. but there's no telling when or even if evacuees will be able to return home. this week on "nuclear watch," we find out how these displaced people are feeling about their future. and we're going to start with one man's story. here's nhk world's osamu takahashi. >> reporter: hiromichi sato is going home, although he's n

the area is home to a shia minority and has seen a number of protests recently. the interior ministry says gunmen were working for a foreign country, in a reference to iran. mike bushell is here. we can do with some cheery news. >> i could cheer you up, especially if you're a fan of american samoa. on a night when big guns like arsenal won, valencia winning, now we can add american samoa. it's the first time they've tasted victory in i think it's 31 games, since they were recognized by fifa. there they are celebrating. 31 games, this is back in 1994. they played 30 before that t. well, goals against is 229 goals for 12. they finally won a game against tonga. you have to remember, american samoa back in 2001 lost 31-0 to australia. at least they got victory. now their coaches are targetting another one on thursday. >> so it's talking of people who are serial winners. novak djokovic. >> you have to say, there's maybe something in this argument that the top players play too much. andy murray already dropping out of this tournament due to injury. novak djokovic is st

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in iraq are going to develop after that and right now iran has great authority and influence in the shia community well as you know rick cultist you've said that israel has gradually been losing a significant part of its influence its broke its connections with turkey and egypt we all heard what president sarkozy and obama said about the prime minister and moreover they're experiencing a local economic crisis what role do you see israel playing in the future. i believe the best role for israel is to have the kind of leader that it used to have historically like the prime minister who supported peace and who was killed was a leader who would find a compromise settlement with khalid steyn and syria it's important that i mention syria as this matter cannot be resolved with palestine alone you know could you do you believe that the fundamental problems of today's israel lie was that country's authorities. i certainly do it's also a matter of public opinion of course that the water can change the present out of spring for instance it's absolutely obvious to me that it broke out in tunisia and

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military forces in afghanistan after twenty fourteen has said a number of civilians killed a top of the shia rose fifteen percent soaring to. fifty two car pileup on a german autobahn has killed three people and injured many more the crash left dozens of cars in a time gold mess the weather was good at the time but also intermediately clear what triggered the accident it happened in grow to only support over that with. all the rainfall and failed flood control project so being blamed on toilets all month long floods science and technology minister also attributed the deluge to climate change the monsoon season weeks earlier than usual and has killed nearly six hundred people since september the country has been bitterly fought over for decades by india and pakistan and it's taking its toll on thousands of hindus who are being forced from their own land to stay behind place continued prosecution but they are determined to stick it out and encourage those who fled to return. to the story. on every corner in his neighborhood vickie ganju can see mosques women dressed in his jobs and men working

state appointed investigation claims bahrain used excessive force as it halted protests led by the shia majority in february and march this report is seen as a final attempt to bring bahrain's increasingly polarized sides together there is little indication of this happening any time soon. and you can. start. to cross out brains quagmire i'm joined by kate hudson in london she is the general secretary of the campaign for nuclear disarmament and birmingham we have peter ere he is a middle east consultant and in prague we cross to mitchell belfort he is the editor of the essential european journal of international and security studies at metropolitan university prague cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want kate i'd like to go to you first in london what do you think about this report a lot of people are calling it a whitewash while at the same time the regime in bahrain has good made a lot of violations or made against its own people. well i think it presents a number of very interesting issues obviously it's been widely reported here in britain that this i

sunnis, shias, kurds, others. as in any democracy, iraq deals with a range of competing agendas, but the solution to these challenges lie in the political, not the military realm. our diplomats continue to work with an assist the iraqis in bridging these remaining divides. in particular, the formation of the government and the appointment of defense and interior ministers, which still has not happened and should. the cooperation along the arab- curd divide in the north, resolving all of these issues will take time, but iraq's political leadership remains committed to doing so within the political process that has been established. the third key challenge is closing the gaps in iraq's exiled defense. iraqis will need assistance in this area, including logistics and air defense, and that will be an important focus for the office of security and cooperation. recent decision by the iraqis to purchase u.s. f-16s as part of a $7.5 billion foreign military sales program demonstrates iraq's commitment to build up its exte

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people dead twenty members of the security forces were charged over alleged abuses during the uprising shia muslims rallied against discrimination claim to suffer at the hands of the governing sunni majority the government responded with a brutal crackdown on demonstrators sealing off hospitals and beating medics who tended for the wounded to report comes days before an independent inquiry will release its findings. i saw the spacecraft has brought a cosmonaut from russia and two astronauts from the united states and japan safely back to earth the man of spent six months in orbit working on the international space station and will now have to slowly adapt to having their feedback on the ground and witnessed their return. after a descent from the international space station the soyuz module has safely touched down in the step in kazakhstan rescue teams have landed and taken out the three crew the come down in the module so until she put a color so they've all come over the mike fossum the clean up from the international space station six months conducting maintenance and experiments they als

want to build something better it's a small country they don't have divisions like in iraq of sunni shia and kurds and they have a lot of oil the oil could be a curse but i think in this case there is potential there is potential for libya to become something better something more democratic just what osceola our correspondents are reporting from tripoli saying that those speaking against the new transitional government to being persecuted of course we've heard about and we're talking about now those tensions in misrata and to go where we had these were part reprisals but why do you think the international community is is not really being kept informed on a much wider bases on the current tensions there is it something that the media and those who clearly that the western media is an issue that they want to brush under the carpet to say look this is been a successful revolution so far. well you know look there is definitely a trend to say we did the right thing meaning nato governments they want to say that this was a successful operation so there is a tendency to downplay the conflicts