in january, people in southern sudan voted in a referendum and overwhelmingly chose to separate from the north. the south will declare independence on july 9th. observers say china aims to maintain its rights to oil and other resources in sudan by reaffirming ties to its current government andorging a relationship with the newly independent south. >>> time to check on some of the stories we've gathered from broadcasters around asia. we begin with this item sent by ddi india. the prime ministers of india and new zealand met in new delhi tuesday to discuss ways to boost bilateral trade and enhance ties in education and science and defense sectors. manmohan singh and john key agreed to conclude a free trade agreement by 2012. and they agreed to strengthen ties in assuring the safety and combatting piracy. bilateral trade has more than tripled over the past six years from $190 million to $620 million. >>> china's largest braille library for the visually impaired was inaugurated in beijing on tuesday. located downtown, the china braille library houses 250,000 volumes and 660,000 tapes and

today on world world new fighting in southern sudan. is dictator omar bashir carrying out ethnic cleansing? how christian churches are helping refugees cope with their loss and one man's mission to fight disease-carrying mosquitos. how his invention is saving lives worldwide. war ethnic cleansing and looming humanitarian crisis in sudan. hello everyone, i am wendy griffith. george thomas is on assignment. on the north region in sudan, dictator is waging war. >> cathedral was burned and church of christ was burned as well. and my house was firednd chaplin skipped through a window and arrested some times later and tortured. my people have scattered, my staff scattered all over. really very terrible. >> that is bishop of the episcopal church of sudan. church and home destroyed and flock scattered. happening in the town of kadubly, an oil-rich area of sudan. ground troops attacked the city. dozens dead and 60,000 fled homes. the north wants to grab the oil and destroy the religious and ethnic populations there. >> arabs dominanting the powe

. >>> checking international headlines, renewed violence in southern sudan, the u.n.ys the situation has deteriorated in the past ten days, more than 150,000 people have fled the violence and clashes over land, oil and power. this comes just weeks before southern sudan celebrates its independence from the north. >>> and five inmates are coming to the defense of amanda knox. she's the american college student serving a 26-year sentence in italy for killing her roommate. so far convicted murderer and a mob boss have testified that another prisoner told them knox had nothing to do with the murder. >>> in india, check out one of the newest locations on the planet. residents of shrevenagr changed the name of the city to snapdeal.com. the e-commerce company installed 15 hand pumps in the village. >>> crushing debt, public outrage and now a new tactic to buy greece some time as it tries to fend off a looming financial disaster. the greek prime minister reshuffled his cabinet yesterday. greece needs to push through more budget cuts to secure a second bailout from the imf and

. >>> checking international headlines now, renewed violence in southern sudan, the u.n. says the situation has deteriorated in the past ten days. more than 150,000 people have fled the violence in clashes over land, oil and power. this comes just weeks before southern sudan celebrates its independence from the north. >>> recovery efforts at japan's crippled nuclear plant hit another snag today. the power company that runs the fukushima daiichi plant temporarily halted operation of a new cleanup system. radiation readings in the water were too high. >>> ash from chile's explosive volcano is disrupting commercial flights again. the ash cloud is drifting between 25 and 30,000 feet in the atmosphere, which is prime air space for passenger jets. canceled flights in australia and new zealand left thousands of travelers stranded. >>> on to italy now, an american college student convicted of murder is pinning her hopes for freedom on a motley crue of criminals. amanda knox has long insisted she didn't kill her british roommate years ago. now, some notorious italian criminals are

they say that it could derail the succession of southern sudan in july. european and imf officials said greece will be undergoing a month-long inspection. that there were already encouraging signs of a notable pickup in exports, but that further austerity measures would be introduced. still to come, we are going to peru, going to the wire in the presidential elections. headed to the polls this sunday. he was the doctor that helped to spur the right-to-die debate. friday, jack kevorkian passed away at the age of 86. >> detractors called him dr. death. a qualified physician who helped to end lives using a homemade contraptions. >> the patient decides which one. >> he set up the drugs, the patient activated the lethal injection. always on videotape to make sure they were acting of their own free will. >> i will continue to assist humans to alleviate their agony and interminable suffering. if it means they have to kill themselves, yes. >> the medical establishment was a guest. prosecutors tried in vain to have him convicted of murder. in 1998, jack kevorkian

. >>> violence also escalated in a border region between northern and southern sudan. the fighting occurred in an area in the north where most of the population remains loyal to the south. the united nations said northern troops were attacking ethnic minorities, many of whom are christian. archbishop of canterbury rowan williams and president obama both urged an end to the violence. south sudan is poised to become an independent nation next month. >>> on capitol hill, republican congressman peter king convened a second hearing on muslim extremism in the united states. the topic was islamic radicalization in prisons. while one witness testified that this is a growing problem, especially among muslim converts, another reported that the risk of terrorism originating from muslim prisoners is small. several islamic groups criticized the hearing, saying it is unfair to investigate a group of americans solely because of their religion. >>> the nation's roman catholic bishops gathered in seattle this week for their annual spring meeting. a key part of the agenda was reviewing

. >>> and violence escalating in sudan, ahead of southern sudan independence next month.. this is video actually from earlier this week. sudanese war planes dropped several bombs near united nations camp. people in southern sudan voted to become an independent country, that will happen july 9th. border disputes caused mass exodus. 100,000 have fled areas where northern troops have taken control. there may be movement on the diplomatic front, but still it is a desperate situation for a lot of people there. >>> meanwhile, back here, congressman gabrielle giffords is back home in tucson, arizona this morning for the first time since she was shot there back in january. giffords and her husband, astronaut mark kelly, spending the weekend there with family. giffords as you know was shot in the head during a meet and greet with constituents in a supermarket parking lot in january. was just released from houston area hospital earlier this week. her husband releasing a statement saying we have been dreaming of this trip for some time. gabby misses tucson very much and her doctors

appealed today for $200 million immediately in relief for southern sudan. the south is three weeks away from gaining independence, but continued violence has displaced at least half a million people. much of the trouble is along the border with northern sudan. in the latest fighting, the north's army shelled a town today in the disputed area. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: there's another kind of stirring going on in the arab world on behalf of women in saudi arabia who are forbidden to drive a car. this may not look like radical activity, but in saudi arabia today, women got behind the wheel in a drive for new freedoms. videos posted on youtube showed several women driving in riyadh and other cities, in direct violation of a religious ban in the conservative muslim kingdom. >> ( translated ): this is what we want to do. we do not want to count on other drivers. i need to go to my work, and if i need anything, i can drive myself. i think the community is ready to accept us and welcome us as drivers. >> woodruff: f

and a taped message sent direct ly to the leaders of southern and northern sudan, president barack obamaor an end to air strikes and what he called campaigns of intimidation. that message comes during a rise in violence between northern and southern sudanese forces. the two regions voted earlier this year to split into two independent countries. >>> and in just the last half hour the international olympic committee said libya will not be given any tickets to the 2012 london games until the situation in libya becomes clearer. earlier organizers admitted a few hundred passes had been given to libya's national olympic committee headed by mohammed gadhafi, the son of the libyan leader. >> my mom will be upset that i called you a nerd. >> no, it's fine. i am. that's it from the team here on "world one." i'm zain verjee and i love angry bird. >> i don't know what you're talk ing about. thanks for watching. >>> the divide widens between the u.s. and pakistan. sourceses telling cnn that the pakistani government has arrested five cia informants who helped the u.s. find bin ladosa laden. a live re

our largest emergency food aid program, including darfur in southern sudan, afghanistan, haiti, and thope. u.s. food aid not overwhelm -- ethiopia. u.s. food aid not only helps people survive, it supports u.s. security interests. it promotes good will especially in libya, afghanistan, and pakistan. our emergency and humanitarian food aid sends the clear message to desperate people in need that the american people care. the gosar amendment sends the off sit message. the american people don't care, go ahead and starve. we need to support food for peace. we need to oppose that amendment but we also need to he o pose amendments that gut essential food and nutrition programs for poor people not only here in the united states but around the world. this notion that somehow that when we support programs like food for peace that it's just helping a bunch of foreigners overseas. it's just wrong-headed. it is american farmers that produce much of the food that goes to support the hungry around the world. it is american farmers that are so much -- that are so important in our battle against terrorism

on them and i've seen them in camps and i suffer with the people now in the southern sudan, my colleague donald payne and a former colleague from west palm beach were together at a refugee camp and previous to that in kenya. i've seen our food aid around the world reduce the kind of antiamerican extremism that often festers in these regions and manifests itself into conflicts that we wind up having to go and fight about. the reality, mr. speaker, is food aid is critical to our national security. and the spending that we do to preempt our prevent conflict means the less money that we have to spend later fighting them. we are doing a disservice to our service men and women by cutting programs that reduce the risk of war while adding billions to programs that create ever more powerful methods to wage war. at the same time we need to recognize that the increase of amounts we spend on the military means the less money we have here at home to a-- address our pressing domestic concerns. all of us heard the president of the united states last night speak to this issue that while it may appear an

rebel forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from the border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth after the separation takes place the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his cameramen were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french national since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation were displaced from their homeland four hundred thousand mis he turks were exiled by the stalin regime and scattered around the globe even today they feel unwelcome in their ancestra

a rival forces in the sudan have mutually agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which forced some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil well will be divided once the separation takes place in the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits with a t.v. reporter and his cameraman who were taken along with their afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while they were filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the nineteen eighties. and next we talked to british union leader mark who says public sector workers won't stop until they achieve their goals. thank. you. today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the thirtie

rival forces in sudan have mutually agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee or the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation takes place the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen the long wilds of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in a good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his camera bag were taken along with their afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine when filming in remote mountains well it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the 1980's. the russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in russia is illegal the writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church have been ruled extremist and anti social. is outside the scientology he

a rival forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which forced some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee or the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation takes place the region has seen a more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen along parts of captivity in afghanistan the man had been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits of the t.v. reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and live while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the right eighty's. all in around five minutes the latest in our series of reports on life in the former soviet republics the first meeting years here with business update. thanks to say hello and welcome to business artie castro bell russa's as

rival forces in sudan have mutually agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which forced one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation takes place so the region is see more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his cameramen were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . now which officials have ordered a probe into fresh clashes between police and. tester's in cairo hundreds of people were injured as more riots were up the country activists are angry with the interim government saying there have bee

forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from the border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows separate deals to end fighting in two border areas which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides are still to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth and for separation the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits because the reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine filming in remote mountains it's the longest caesar of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . secretary of defense robert gates has announced his retirement after almost five years in the job but with three ongoing wars involving america his replacement former cia director and the out of panetta is expected to make dramatic changes to

in sudan at least eleven people died after a militia group allegedly tied to the northern government charter southern town. tens of thousands of refugees displaced by the fighting so that officials say the attacks are part of a plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the south before the area gains . independence next month both sides ended more than two decades of civil war in two thousand and five that claimed more than two million lives. fifteen people were killed in a nato airstrike on civilian sites according to libyan state television or than twenty others were reportedly hurt by the attack in the eastern town of breda the t.v. reported did not specify exactly when the assault happened the alliance has rejected the allegation saying that it only strikes legitimate military targets. and in syria some twenty people including two children were killed when security forces reportedly opened fire on demonstrators with a warning and a new wave of protests thousands took to the streets of several cities calling on president bashar al assad to step down after four decades of his family's rule i

in may sudan's khartoum government sent forces into an area claimed by both sides. this month in the state of southern coredafon thousands of northern troops moved into the mountains to attack tribesmen. more than 70,000 civilians have fled the region to escape the fighting. the u.n.'s deputy high commissioner for human rights spoke monday in khartoum after traveling through sudan. >> what might become of the border area. (inaudible) >> warner: when they'll be able to return will be a tough tall given allegations of wanton killings there committed by the troops of sudanese president bashir. he is already under international indictment for alleged war crimes in car fewer. yesterday the u.n. security council voted to send 4200 ethiopian peacekeepers after both sides agreed to remove their troops. sudan's u.n. envoy insisted the peace keeping resolution can only set the stage for a longer lasting agreement. >> the troops, their presence there is interim. it's temporary. it's not a final or permanent. this resolution is not a substitute to the final settlement which we hope people will work very soon. >>

southern independence next week you agree what follows two separate deals to end the fighting which force of one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation takes place in the region has seen a more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen the last months of captivity in afghanistan the men who have been held hostage by the taliban are said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his cameraman were taken along with their afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in one thousand agents. now a russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in russia is illegal or the writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church have been ruled extremist and anti social party sarah for of this outside the scientology have quarters in moscow. scientology here in russia and indeed in many countries around the world has proved controversial lots of debate about whether

southern sedan is set to gain independence on july 9th. it's part of a peace deal in which 2 million people died. but a u.n. human rights commissioner said when she visited sudannessed clashes on the border area between visited -- and she visited one town that is what the scene of total destruction. >>> this is a live picture of east palo alto. we're watching as you are watching right now. police raid is happening as we speak. a lot of police officers out there. these are pictures you will only see here on 2. the police are targeting suspected gang members in this raid. the raid is tied to the tragic death of a three-month-old in east palo alto earlier this month. you can see definitely officers. this raid has been underway for about an hour and a half. this is the fourth location that police officers have hit so far. now, claudine wong is out there on the scene. claudine will be back with us with a live report in about 15 minutes coming up -- coming up at 8:00. >>> also happening right now, the casey anthony murder trial underway in florida. we're back in their courtroom live pictures. this is the judge meeting with the lawyers in the case at the bench. now,