now to other news from around the world a string of roadside bombings in shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the death toll to at least sixty people since wednesday and extended a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting shiite muslim areas killed at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to a shrine in a city north of baghdad although there was no immediate com a claim of response i should say responsibility such attacks are a tactic of sunni insurgents seeking to undermine the shiite led government. safe gadhafi the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi has appeared in court in libya for the first time since his capture more than a year ago he is facing charges of handing secret data to an international criminal court lawyer putting the country's security in danger the trial is thought to be linked to a deal with the i.c.c. that wants him extradited to the hague to face trial for war crimes meanwhile former french president nicolas sarkozy is denying claims by say that he received millions of eu

in pakistan, hunter is of shiite -- hundreds of shiite muslims have met asking to boost security against a terrorist threat. extremist sunny group has x -- claimed -- sunni group has claimed responsibility for a bombing. karzai and obama met on friday. troops will move into a support role in the next few months. >> u.s. troops are still in charge of security in many parts of afghanistan. president obama said they are handing over authority to afghan forces in stages. he also said the process would be accelerated and soon u.s. troops would be stepping back from their active roles. >> let me say it as plainly as i can. starting this spring, our troops will have a different mission -- training, advising, assisting afghan forces. it will be an historic moment. >> the u.s. and its nato allies plan to pull all troops out of afghanistan by 2014. the two countries must reach an agreement for immunity for u.s. troops. karzai said that was a delicate question. >> the issue of immunity of -- is of specific importance to the united states. i can go to the afghan people and argue for immunity for u.s

. >> the leaders in pakistan and facing allegations they've failed to protect shiite muslims up for a bomb attack killed dozens of people. human rights campaign say their inaction was a publicity in the bombing of their calling for help to keep them safe. >> this is where more than 80 people died and 100 wounded. this was a club popular with the community here. there were two blasts. a suicide bomber set off the first explosion. then the security, rescuers, journalists, there were all killed by a second bomb. the suny muslim groups as that since the suicide bomber or remotely detonated a car bomb. >> this is extreme cruelty. nothing could be more cruel. muslims and bombing another. look at what they have dawn's where city. >> members of a paramilitary force were also targeted. there were reporting an independent state. in the pakistan northwest, worshipers were targeted as they waited to hear from their religious leader. so many attacks across the country with so many killed and injured have shown them just how sick -- insecure they are. >> this is terrorism aimed at stabilizing and p

wounded eighty one were killed in the twin explosion at a billiard hall in the bullock a stand a shiite muslims dominated area while at least twenty one people died in the northwestern city of mingora where a blast struck crowds gathering for a speech by religious leader there were eleven more deaths at a marketplace in the east of the country pakistan has seen similar attacks in recent months amid a rise in as almost insurgency and six terror in violence. the un has called for swift deployment of an international force in mali after militants claimed significant advances in the country's central region france will also be considering a request for help from mali's president today security council earlier approved a plan to deploy three thousand african troops there they were not expected to arrive until september there are fears that the region could become a stronghold for al qaida linked militants some european leaders are concerned that the region may also be used as a springboard for attacks on the continent. two people have been wounded at a california high school after a student turned a

most of the dead were shiite muslims killed in a billiards hall.ack was followed by a car bomb minutes later. ford plans to hire 2200 salaried workers in the u.s. it marks one of the largest land increases for the country and more than a decade and will help build on the 8100 combined hourly and salary jobs that were added in the u.s. last year. those are your headlines. back to melissa and lori. lori: we like to receive that good news. thank you so much. the s&p is hovering near a five-year high. let's not forget the economy is not going gangbusters. could inflation we are its ugly head? jeff, i know that you manage money for high net worth clients and, i suppose, what we want to know is if you can help us become one of them? >> now is a crucial time. we are about to enter mediocrity and low expectations for earnings. there is volatility. the market will have to determine the direction. there is always the possibility if you are even relatively negative on the market to find opportunity. opportunity is available in every market. lori: the trade ga

al-qaeda gunmen killed a police hand and his brother north of baghdad and a car bomb killed two shiite muslimson a pilgrimage to karbala. the government is promising tighter security for those traveling this week. >>> al-jazeera is buying an american cable chaner. the arab news channel is available on some tvs but the deal with current tv gives it a chance to broadcast to more of the country. >>> check this out. you may have a harder time finding 75-watt light bulbs. they are joining the list of incandescent bulbs being phased out for more energy efficient light bulbs. and 40 and 06-watt bulbs will be phased out by -- and 60-watt bulbs will be phased out by 2014. >>> less than a month after the school shooting in connecticut, survivors returned to class today. >> first, aid delayed. there is a crucial issue for the congress today. we are back in a moment with the details.  . >>> welcome back to fox 5 morning news. this is a live look outside right now. it is even cooler than it was yesterday. ate source tells me it is even cooler than it was yesterday. we have got informatio

the official tells barbara starr the weapons were believed to be headed for shiite muslim insurgentsin yemen. gregory johnson, a scholar at princeton, tells us the yemeni government claims iran has been supplying the insurgents with weapons for years. the united states has only recently believed them. >>> apple is releasing a new ipad. it doubles the tablet's current maximum capacity. 128 gigabites. that means you can store 100 dvd quality movies or 30,000 songs. i don't even use apps. the only other thing that changes is the price which starts at $799 for wifi only. it is set for release february 5th but editor in chief of "laptop" magazine tells us the timing is curious, given they are releasing their latest tablet on the 9th. apple is trying to steal a little of their thunder. >>> we are learning more about the fire in which 234 people were killed in brazil. a santa maria police department inspectors says fireworks used by the band that night were intended for outdoor use and accuses the band of intentionally purchasing the fireworks because they were cheaper than those for indoor

hostility between persians and arabs remains high, as does the internal conflict between sunni and shiite muslims. that has gone on since the founding of islam. >> it was a big part of your opening argument, the case for stopping you ran from -- to allow the nonproliferation, go deeper on that. why do you think this particular region is so important? with china, with russia, with india and pakistan, in particular with north korea. >> the geopolitical conditions are radically different. back to the stable cold war deterrence and the bilateral relationship between the to establish world powers -- the us and the soviet union. first of all, the nostalgia is slightly overdone. anybody who lived through october 1962 knows how close we came, within hours of nuclear war between the united states and the soviet union. even that great example of how we can live with this indefinitely. inherently, it is unstable. once the soviets have 10,000 weapons in the us also does, there is no alternative. we are now in a situation which is that iran has not, and we can avoid that. avoid a cuban missile crisis. it shou

they say sunni muslims of being marginalized by the shiite-led authorities. >> french troops entered a town 600 kilometers north of mali's capital. islamist fighters pulled back as the forces advanced. weeks since france sent forces to its former colony to block an offensive from al qaeda islamists. military action has been successful so far, but people in the region are facing a humanitarian crisis as thousands flee the violence. >> the european union has pleaded with both sides to give aid organizations easy access to the conflict zone, warning that millions of people are facing food shortages. >> hundreds of thousands have fled their homes since the fighting started a year ago. many have fled abroad. some 200,000 have moved to other parts of the country. the eu says aid agencies are facing major problems in trying to help the people affected in the north. >> i appeal to all those involved in the conflict to do all they can to insure that organizations provide the humanitarian assistance to people on the ground -- so people on the ground faces few obstacles as possible and that per

christians as antioc today, most of the people there are sunni muslims and alawites, about equally divided. alawites are an offshoot of shiite islam. president assad of syria is an alawite. the fear in antakya is that if assad is overthrown, his opponents will target all alawites, everywhere. >> turkey is predominantly muslim but residents of the southern hatay region like to tout its rich, historic, religious mosaic. christ's apostles, peter and paul, spent time in hatay's main city antakya, the biblical antioch, which is often called the cradle of christianity. >> antakya is a city of tolerance. we have tolerance for every different culture and religion. >> we have been living in antakya with arabs, with sunnis, with armenian people, with kurdish people all together. >> but beneath the appearance of business as usual, there's deep anxiety here as events unfold a few miles across the border in syria. in furniture shops and truck repair shops, business has actually been terrible since the syrian conflict began. >> of course there was a friendship. there were organic ties between antakya and syria. people were coming and goin

in the city of quetta in balochistan in a glass at a market in a shiite dominated area into an explosion at a billiard homes a sunni muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility for that attack while at least twenty one people died in the northwestern city of england with a blast rocked house gathering for speech by religious leader pakistan has seen similar attacks in recent months amid a rise in islam its urgency and sectarian violence. the un has called for swift deployment of an international force in mali after militants claimed significant advances government troops have launched a come to offensive to try and retake the town of goma french president of france all on meanwhile says paris is also ready to help the country hold rebel advances the security council earlier approved a plan to deploy three thoughtful ellie approved a plan but they were not expected to arrive until september there are fears that the region could become a stronghold for al qaeda linked militants be used as a springboard for attacks on europe. she people have been wounded at a california high school after a student turned a weapon on hi

shiite majority as they claim responsibility. >> this is extreme cruelty. they're bombing and other muslim. what can be worse? look at what they have done to our city. >> earlier, and other deadly explosion through the commercial district. they're claiming responsibility for the attack. and some say the local government has lost control. >> the chief of staff should send in troops and oust the provincial government. we do not want this anymore. to many families are being destroyed. >> quetta is the capital of this province and it has been the center of conflict for decades and also a flashpoint for sectarian violence. >> voters have been going to the polls in the czech republic to directly elect a president for the first time. nine candidates are competing. >> unsurprisingly, the front- runners include two former prime ministers, but an unlikely candid is livening up the race. social media campaign has catapulted him into third raise in the polls. >> composer and painter vladimir franz wants to become the next president of the czech republic. he is running as an independent. the unforgettable phrase of a prot

after friday prayers thousands of sunni muslims have rallied in iraqi cities against the shiite leadership sectarian and rest as a ruptured in recent weeks with sunnis enraged by what they see as the second class treatment the focus of appears to be towards the prime minister who was elected after the u.s. toppled saddam hussein nouri al maliki's critics say he's a new dictator in the making. the tourist hacker group anonymous has petitioned the white house to recognize the temporary crippling of web sites as a legal form of protest known as d.d. o. s. attacks bombarding sites until they seize up for a short while could become comparable to street rallies if the so-called activists get their way international human rights lawyer stanley cohen told us that such actions are a form of free speech which should not be repressed. when barack obama gets on the television and begs his followers and when politicians implore their followers to get on the switchboard to shut him down to send a message to support a position it's considered free speech the da says essentially nothing different than wha

after friday prayers thousands of sunni muslims have rallied in iraqi cities against the shiite leadership in unrest as ruptured in recent weeks with sunnis enraged by what they see is this second class treatment the focus of frustration appears to be towards the prime minister who was elected after the u.s. toppled saddam hussein critics say he's a new dictator in the make up. secrets from our planet's prehistoric past could now be uncovered soon after russian research has managed to retrieve ancient ice from antarctica is because subglacial lake wasn't easy to get hold of though they had to drill down over three kilometers to get to lake stock which had been sealed up for some twenty million years tom barton told my colleague to buy more say it's not just any old frozen lake. not all ice is the same we consistent pictures here from last year in february when the first breakthrough was made down below this huge thick ice sheet to what's called a sub lake there and some samples were taken here we go this is the the water taken out then. it was found then they hoped that they could sample t

shiite majority as they claim responsibility. >> this is extreme cruelty. they're bombing and other muslim. what can be worse? look at what they have done to our city. >> earlier, and other deadly explosion through the commercial district. they're claiming responsibility for the attack. and some say the local government has lost control. >> the chief of staff should send in troops and oust the provincial government. we do not want this anymore. to many families are being destroyed. >> quetta is the capital of this province and it has been the center of conflict for decades and also a flashpoint for sectarian violence. >> voters have been going to the polls in the czech republic to directly elect a president for the first time. nine candidates are competing. >> unsurprisingly, the front- runners include two former prime ministers, but an unlikely candid is livening up the race. social media campaign has catapulted him into third raise in the polls. >> composer and painter vladimir franz wants to become the next president of the czech republic. he is running as an independent. the unforgettable phrase of a prot

in the city of quetta in pakistan in a blast in a market in a shiite dominated area and twenty explosion at a billiard hall a sunni muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility for that attack while at least twenty one people died in the northwestern city of the gore were blast struck crowds gathering for a speech by religious leader pakistan a scene similar attacks in recent months amid a rise in islam insurgency and sectarian violence. one last call for a swift deployment of an international force in mali after militants claim significant advances in the country's central rim region france will also be considering a request for help from mali's president today security council earlier approved a plan to deploy three thousand african troops there but they were not expected to arrive until september there are fears that the region could become a stronghold for al qaeda linked militants some european leaders are concerned that the region may also be used as a springboard for attacks on the continent. people have been wounded at a california high school after a student turned a weapon on his classmate dramatic to pers

shiite conflicts in the region? second part, was there any attempt to point out to the muslim tribes and nations that we did go into bosnia to defend muslims? >> host: mr. gordon? >> guest: well, i think the caller makes a number of interesting appointments. one, you know, there's, i mean, i'm a journalist, not an advocate for the american government, but there is a criticism that the united states by the military operations and in different countries somehow oppress muslims, but if you look the the record in the bosnia conflict in the 1990s, basically, the united states led a nato intervention to protect the muslims against bosnia muslims against serbia aggression, and then in afghanistan, one could argue that the toppling of the taliban in 2001, and i was there for that too, was a benefit for the afghan people, certainly for the women of that society, didn't like being ruled by medieval cult, and then, and then the, in terms of iraq, you know, overthrowing the united states -- the united states did overthrow a dictator based on maybe its misreading of intelligence and wmd, but it empowered the shia majority allow

the shiite leaders are protesting over a lack of security in the country and three days of mourning were declared following the attacks among the deadliest carried out by sunni extremists shia muslims are a minority in pakistan and have been the target of a recent surge in violence. overnight riding has again hit the city of belfast in northern ireland a bus was torched in police used rubber bullets and water cannons trying to spur the crowds at least four officers were injured in the clash moralists block dozens of roads during rush hour causing traffic disruption throwing missiles and petrol bombs tension has been boiling for more than a month after the city council decided to fly the union flag in front of city hall for only eighteen days in the year you can closing manufacturers are calling on the prime minister and cabinet to buy british they say the industry needs a boost amid growing tension between firms selling real u.k. made clothes and those just using the union jack as a label but as our laura smith now reports from london it appears hard to find an outfit not made overseas. it's got the british flag on it but all these clothes made in britain a quick look at the label

muslim cleric gathered in the capital amid heavy security. they called for an end to government inefficiency and corruption. to the south, there were funerals for many of the 86 shiites killed in last week's bombings in quetta. thousands of shiites had refused to bury the dead until the provincial government was dismissed. syrian women now cite rape as a primary reason for fleeing their war-torn country. that's according to a new report by the international rescue committee. it says women report being sexually assaulted and raped, often in public and in front of family members. the i.r.c. gathered the data by interviewing more than 240 women in refugee camps in jordan and lebanon. the u.n. has registered more than 600,000 syrian refugees. in china, the people of beijing suffered through another day of severe smog, and for the first time government officials openly acknowledged the problem. the pollution was at its worst over the weekend, keeping beijing's skyscrapers enveloped in a gray haze. residents young and old wore masks to shield themselves from the pollutants. the smog is expected to linger through tomorrow. leading cabinet ministers in france insisted today