we do not want this war to come again but we have suffered enough and we are sri lankans, as sri lankaneople we do not want these terrorists to come back. that is the very reason that sri lanka appointed this very, very prestigious commission. >> suarez: you can watch all of the documentary "killing fields" on channel four's web site. and for more on the international response to the allegations of mass killings, we go to mark schneider, the senior vice president of the international crisis group. he is in charge of advocacy with the u.s. government and international organizations. mark schneider, does the information that the i.c.g. has support channel 4's documentary? >> it does, indeed. we issued a report a year ago that, in fact, found the tens of thousands of civilians that had been killed in the final months of the war and specifically as the documentary indicated most of them had come into these areas that the government promised were going to be safe. so-called no-fire zones. in fact, the government really turned them into free-fire zones in which they shelled hospitals, food ce

or there's a muslim human rights worker who was abducted in central sri lanka last year.a senior advisor to the president shows me with pride a new book about him in the tamil language. he says the head of state cares very much about any disappeared persons and that the police are doing their best. >> we had the mission working, taking his own force. but they find him out, nobody knows. nobody knows. he does not know. the people do not know. >> those were little comfort for so many families, like this family, still waiting, traumatized, and not knowing whether to grieve. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> bbc world news was presented by kcet los

this factory is filled mostly with women of mostly sri lankan origin because the company doesn't want to pager again ians who would likely ask for higher wages and safer working conditions and these sri lankan women have to work thirteen hours a day seven days a week for sixty one cents an hour their passports are taken away and they're forced to live in cramped dorm rooms that don't have heat or hot water and they are infested with bedbugs but that's not even the worst of it they are also routinely subject to sexual violence they rounded up on a weekly basis and forced to have sex with managers of the factory in a nearby hotel if they refuse then they're beaten and raped and deported back to sri lanka where they become outcasts in a culture that values virginity in order to be eligible for marriage on a daily basis women are selected by the male managers for rape within the factory those who become pregnant are forced deported back to sri lanka usually after being violently beaten and their lives are literally destroyed in every sense of the word . take a look at this interview with

lenses use three credit station three in-store chargers sri. sri. sri. sri led. all in video for your media draw against the stream media oh don carty dot com. please. welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle right before we were to the break roland we were talking about how the euro is. how some people think it is collapsing in europe expression of your own voiding greece but what are the implications internationally i mean the chinese are very very unhappy about is the united states is just about to end its quantitative easing its part to how do the i don't all three of these fit together and i don't think it was really interesting we were talking about the weaknesses in the in the euro but actually the euro has been strengthening against the u.s. dollar and you've got to ask yourself you know why a country or want redefine what is it actually i think because it's it's a competition is a right to both of between the dollar and the. they both say i have to fight to the bottom and they both have a lot of very deep structural issues the u.s. is dealing with th

like many tamil hindus, he fled a civil war in his own country of sri lanka. in -- the 1980's saw over 40,000 tamils move to germany. it is thanks to his tireless efforts that the temple was built nine years ago, with the help of hindus all over europe. and it did not take him long to find and architect peter. and -- an architect, either. >> they did not know any architects, so they did -- they chose one at random in the yellow pages. and it was me. it was that easy. later, i asked the priest what led him to meet and he said it was nothing to do with him. it was the gods. >> there also the reason why once a year, a devout hindus from all over europe gathered here for the temple festival. many of them are exiled tamils. this family came from the netherlands. >> it means a lot to us, also, in terms of home. i do not know how to explain it, but it reminds us of home. everyone needs up here and prays together. it is very nice. >> for angel and her family is the most important day of the year. they come here to honor the gods and ask for special favors. all of the

you can have a look at some of the remarkable images that sky watchers and parts of europe, africa, sri asia, have been observing. -- central asia, have been observing. this occurs when the earth casts a shadow over the moon. >> a rare and beautiful side, a lunar eclipse. the mood turned orange by the earth's shadow. this was the view in moscow. around the world, move gazers are out in force. they're watching in lebanon as the eclipse began. this is not happening everyday. i am glad that we had the chance to watch tonight. >> cairo's tahrir square, not long ago home to demonstrators. now it is full of amateur astronomers. >> being here is great because of the revolution in because of the clips. this is really beautiful. >> farther south, others were gazing at the heavens and they were excited by what they saw. >> it was beautiful but you can see that this is tinted red. this is very rare. >> this was the longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade. those lucky enough to see it, this is the moment they won't forget. >> astronomers say they have discovered evidence of the earliest black h

. >>> sri lankan president mahindra rajapaksa inaugurated the country's tallest transmission tower on monday. it will connect northern parts of the nation with the south. the tower will be used to transmit digital radio and television signals to the entire northern province. tamil rebels destroyed a similar tower in 1990 during the long fight for an independent state. they wanted to cut communication with the singhalese majority in the south. the ministry of mass media and information began the construction of the tower in august 2009 and spent about $4 million to complete the project. >>> a traditional dragon boat festival has been held in the maluo river in the central chinese province of hunan. 12 teams competed on monday in the event, which is held to remember a patriotic poet who drowned in the river 2,200 years ago. the race is a modern version of an ancient ritual of fishermen, who searched the river for the poet's body and scattered rice balls to prevent fish from eating it. as the water level in the river has dropped due to drought, organizers of the event dredged the river a

. >>> a week-long celebration has kicked off in sri lanka to mark the 2,350th anniversary of the introduction of buddhism to the country from india. the main events of the full moon day will take place in the central city of the ancient capital of the island nation. they include chanting of sutras and illumination of the main temples. the authorities have deployed hundreds of busses and started special train services to transport hundreds of thousands of people to the site. about 3 million people are expected to participate. >>> hello there. welcome to your weather update. we'll take a look at east asia first of all. looking at changeable weather for japan today. there will be spells of sunshine in between those clouds but looking quite showery up in the north for hokkaido. also one or two showers could affect central areas including tokyo as well. further south for the amami islands getting close to that seasonal rain band. here going to see hefty showers and at the tail end of this system we continue to see some torrential rains occur in central and southern china, this low pressure system

you know i will not say right now that georgia is a post soviet country it was interesting i was in sri interest i was unfortunate souls and five. thousand. and eight even in spite of the war right now it's a typical soviet style country. in georgia right now it's a real no bullshit. we all signs of soviet regime violation of elementary constitutional norms. while ation of elementary human rights control of media. police which is just doing everything our despite of our legal obligations if it's coming from from political decisions towards a typical soviet country we are every person who we think least regime is an enemy of that country i remember in soviet time even when i was small. not afterwards during that period but before i read it in the books but every person who was criticizing soviet regime was. supporters or agent of. secret agent of imperioli right now in georgia is the same you can change the word imperialism with russia and every person who is criticizing saakashvili and his the regime all of them just beginning from a very serious place we are agents of russia kremlin we

strategy which consists of let's you know pakistan eventually in sri lanka. but this is interesting it's great spectrum dublin and spent a girl but it's different it's got back the chinese joe it's already been going around rome. yes. there so we're considering the fact that maybe seven real general in the pentagon and it's you said that they're strangelove ideas paper we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed for your time pepe escobar asia times correspondent joining us live on his webcam from thailand thank you thank you. well we're staying in thailand now because the case of a russian man the u.s. accuses of being an international arms dealer will be heard in a huge new york court on thursday well victor boots been awaiting trial since his arrest over three years ago in thailand as artie's more important are reports his detention raises many questions over the legality of the case. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt victor boot was secretly and swiftly extradited to the u.s. seven months ago and this may be where he stays in

and what the government has said, along with other governments is that the sri langan government needs to be investigated. >> was the prime minister aware of the shambles which is the eurasian natural resources corporation. i would expect him to give explicit comment and specific comment on that but does he agree on behalf of million patient holders and small shareholders across the country that standards -- high standards of corporate governance in the city of london is absolutely critical of the role of the supporting of it? >> i'm aware of this monday and the honorable gentleman makes an important point and we want companies to come to london and to focus on the markets and it's one of the attractions in britain that we're an open global economy but when those companies come we do have rules of corporate governance that is, therefore, a reason and they need to

. >> there are leaders that are living in sri lanka and other parts of india and all over the world.it is a phenomal place. it is close and felt. and the school's closure will come in three weeks . adrocates for the deaf filed a suit against the cnn website. >> and the navy in the east >> time warner has been slapped with a class action lawsuit claiming that the network discriminates against deaf and hard of hearing. the complaintt is that cnn failed to provide captioning on the videos on the website. >> i feel that i will be more informed if a lot of the videos were captioned so i could see the candidates speak. >> cnn said they have not yet been served for the lawsuit and has no comment. >> a massive exercise under way. the navy and concord will team up to recycle 340 railroad box cars once used to move weapons and ammunition in the base. they believe that they will get 10,000 tons of steal in the box cars. >> they are looking to recycle as much as possible. using everything but the oink. we plan to do that. >> by recycling the rail card versus paying for the removal and disposal w

short lives their disfigured children will have most will die before their twentieth birthday priya sri there are two carola india. for the moment twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital is next with the latest business news. hello and very welcome to your business update world prices have stabilized after dropping almost five percent on thursday but once on the back of a surprise announcement by the international energy agency that sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserve it's only the first time in history a house sanction the release of reserves move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently involved in civil meanwhile some opec members warn of possible countermeasures to prop up the oil price christine to ground zero from standard and poor's explains why she thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken the unusual action. i think it's three things one it is trying to ensure that when the northern hemisphere is going to the driving season they will be enough supply now a lot of the opec member countries have said their recent als

i'll take it why only given sri the fullness of my kidney so max. again this is what we're saying people are baffled why the economy is collapsing it's being taken by the too big to fail they've run off with the economy but they're too big to chase too big to shoot it looks pretty much too big to fail there is they made a movie version of the book and they made. paulson was played by bill hurt. hurt who i know he hangs on paris a lot and he told me personally he was ashamed to do this movie but now with a leisure a new york times of course gives a glossy spin on this movie sorkin there their little pimp writer i she brought up yeah who wrote the book who glorifies these pimps and he himself is this for a commission model for the new york times so they write this ridiculous treatise meanwhile a book movie like inside job the pews away the layers of the onion and the master through our people what. good people. go. through all of that fringe media max baucus original you'd already only the mainstream media tells you what you don't need to know is good

i was in sri. i was ashamed that i had been murdered i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my arm i got my legs i'm alive. in the mine. i am what i want to be out of knowledge of fortune. and i'll believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but now i'm most older on the other side and i think i'm just not good. if. i'm. serbia's injury to the new faces more conditions following the arrest of the bosnian serb army general previously seen as key to joining the club rock on law each will make his first appearance in front of the international tribunal in the hague later today. a major fire at an ammunition depo in central russia turns a surprise red by setting off a chain reaction of artillery shell explosions injuring around thirty thousand people. thank you can burst turn into an apple of discord between germany and spain after millions of euros in revenues last fall in false accusations the spanish that is the was the root of the deadly european eco lie i'll

i think it's a sri it's a three sixty think obviously there's a bit on an agenda set and in the sense that once two or three r.'s become tremendously successful in a particular paradigm a whole group was pushing a particular parallel a whole generation of young people start to push someone but molly became a big i am in the seventies you know a whole generation of young people in britain turn off the ferry and you know you know why english kids that were asked to share and see it wasn't just the african caribbean fingo that's what was most strongly represented in his impact was across the board you know who are the superstar is of a particular time all whatever this it was doesn't represent is where people move towards all it takes is for two or three people to become superstars pushing a particular agenda talking about a particular thing and then a whole generation of young people think well the only way to be successful is to do that and so they push towards that and so because it becomes almost a self-fulfilling prophecy it was a political music doesn't sell within music question i

i think it's a sri it's a three sixty's thing what we see does it doesn't dominate the agenda. and in the sense that once two or three hours become tremendously successful in a particular paradigm the whole group also pushing a particular parallel a whole generation of young people start to push someone but hollywood came and big i am in the seventies you know a whole generation of young people in britain turned rusted very you know you know why english kids that were australians it wasn't just the african caribbean fingo that's what was most strongly represented his impact was across the board now whoever the superstar is of a particular time or whatever the superstars represent is where people move towards so all it takes is for two or three people to become superstars pushing a particular agenda talking about particular thing and then a whole generation of young people think well the only way to be successful is to do that and so they push towards that and so because it becomes almost a self interests it was a political news doesn't so within all music question in the domina

we actually have sri and many other famous places. >> would you say writenow project halo and the institute, the two projects are most excited right now? >> is a couple couple of little internet games, but the brain and a.i., those two things alone you could spend many lifetimes trying to figure out ways to accelerate -- accelerate progress. i'm excited to be involved in those areas than looking out for other areas and other things. any philanthropy -- philanthropy is a wonderful thing to be involved in tubule to give back. if you signatures of success, i think you should give back. >> you pledge last july, right? >> i was intended to give the majority of my assets to philanthropy and bill called me up and said would you join? cheesesteak and i'm been very, very tough problems in global how, malaria, education. those are huge problems. if you're doing your philanthropy coming have to say, what appeals to me? where can i make a difference in terms of the solutions of this problem? so i'm really focused on the brain right now. >> i'm going to have questions from the audience. >> yeah, the pac

. >> there are leaders living in sri lanka and other parts of india and all over the world.eople in africae, you know, just out of this little environment here. just a tremendous place. >> reporter: the closure will have a ripple enext in scotts valley where bethany students spent their money or held part-time jobs. >> any time an institution like that so close? our neighborhood closes it will definitely be felt. >> generally good customers? >> yes. >> reporter: the school's official closure will come in three weeks when the university's board will take a final vote in front of concerned alumni. in scotts valley, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> last night we told you about a group of hackers who breached the website of the u.s. senate. tonight the same group created problems with the cia public websites. the cia most guarded secrets are safe. they did not breach any classified data. >>> now, to the hunt for osama bin laden part two. you remember that his body was buried in the arabian ocean. a california hunter of ship wrecks does not want it to say there. using what he contend

we have worked on an sri and many other places to forward that work. >> would you say that right now projects a low, those are two projects that you are most excited about. >> i have a couple of little engine that things. but the blame and a eye, those two things alone you could spend many lifetimes trying to figure out ways to accelerate our progress. i am excited to be involved in those areas and i'm looking out for other areas and things. you know, any philanthropy. philosophy is a wonderful thing. the will to give back. if he has signature success it is incumbent upon you to give back. >> and you placed. >> i always intended to give the majority of my assets to philanthropy. he has taken on some very, very tough problems with global health and education. those are huge problems. but i think if you're doing your own philanthropy, what appeals to me, working at make a difference in terms of the solution of the problem. i am focused on the brain right now. >> i'm going to ask some questions from the audience. >> nearly a billion dollars in investment and philosophy in that area. who

we're working on r&d and labs and bought sri. as a matter of fact, what i'm doing now, i work for the university of south florida. i'm heading of the innovation. our job is to try to put r&d companies and championships together. important to do. so we did that in general. we also worked on the downtown, anybody that went to downtown, st. pete, 20 years ago, and 15 years ago would see john avlon. he's got a -- walked with us during the whole process. and you'll see it's a remarkable different place that it was. sidewalk cafes, cultural amenities. very focused on the cultural. we set out to be number one on the cultural state of florida. everybody kind of snickered. last year "american living" magazine ranked us the number one city in america for under 5,000. because of the new daley museum and expansion of the fine arts, florida orchestra, lots of things. we brought a grand prix to st. petersburg. the indianapolis 500 is still the best race in the country. even tony george has has the honda grand prix in st. petersburg is second t

. >> and that is exactly what he does in his new sri. mr.l. not just the phallis shaped terminal that concerns him but also surrounding street names. >> what do you suppose this street name is that runs right down the center? you guessed it. that's pena boulevard. >> sorry. all right. actually i did not guess that. i was hoping for urethra boulevard. pena is named for fedrico pena, the former mayor of denver. but anyway, that's just one street. not like there's others. >> i guess you could call this the pubic hair area. what do you suppose the name of this street is right here? this is the hairy b. combes parkway. >> harry b. combes was an aviator and a writer. who cares? it doesn't matter. >> this street right here? this is shady grove street. i guess that's because that's where the sun don't shine. >> the sun don't -- i think he's getting his anatomical references confused now. >> if they ever cut the flow of traffic on this little screen, leading down to pena boulevard, i bet they will call that a vasectomy. >> that is a fallacy. say what

i'm from sri lanka as well, and the genocide is near and dear to my heart in looking at around the world. i just my question to you is we were on a white house call last week where we talked about abia and talking about ways in which the u.s. is trying to put international pressure, of course, on the khartoum government as it relates to the ongoing conflict, and i guess my question to you, i mean, you touched on it a little bit, what should a country like the u.s. especially be doing currently to make sure that the cpa is realized, to be sure the issues surrounding darfur and abia comes to a resolution? there's a number of issues, you know, leading up to july 9th that don't look like they're going to be resolved, and so what -- what are the types of, you know, whether it's attention or decreased tensions, what are the ways in which we directly affect the khartoum government in the ways of which you said that we should that will actually motivate i them to act and feel the pain i suppose? >> are there other questions that we can take? maybe one more. >> hi -- [inaudible] i was wondering -

[inaudible] i am from sri lanka as well, so the issues surrounding the genocide are very near and dear to my heart, also in looking around the world. i guess of what the white house called last week where they made a special envoy and talking about ways in which we put international pressure as it relates to the ongoing conflict. i guess my question to you that he touched on the little goodies which should we be doing currently to make sure the issues surrounding darfur were actually come to a resolution. there are a number who don't look like they are going at all. so whether it's sanctioned, increase sanctions which will directly affect the khartoum government, it will actually motivate them. >> are there other questions? >> hi, my name is kendra. i am just wondering -- [inaudible] what does it mean to them -- [inaudible] >> i'd like to do with that one first because we actually had a team and are for the day that it was announced that bashir was being indicted. and jubilation. absolute jubilation. they knew that the sudanese government would kick out huge numbers of humanitarian and

and what the government has said, along with other governments is that the sri langan government needs to be investigated. >> was the prime minister aware of the shambles which is the eurasian natural resources corporation. i would expect him to give explicit comment and specific comment on that but does he agree on behalf of million patient holders and small shareholders across the country that standards -- high standards of corporate governance in the city of london is absolutely critical of the role of the supporting of it? >> i'm aware of this monday and the honorable gentleman makes an important point and we want companies to come to london and to focus on the markets and it's one of the attractions in britain that we're an open global economy but when those companies come we do have rules of corporate governance that is, therefore, a reason and they need to obey those rules and i'm sure my friend the chancellor will be addressing this not only in his speech tonight but also in the papers that we'll be publishing in subsequent days. >> thank you. does the -- mr. speaker, does the

richard holbrooke told me that phrase, time to put afghanistan and pakistan and india, bangladesh, srilanka back into south asia bureau. it is time to break them out a sitcom and pacific command and deal with this part of the world holistically come and think about it as integrated part and only when you start thinking about it as an integrated part are you likely to develop policies that will work in dealing with it. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you bruce antoni for that rosy assessment. bruce, i want to start with you. is there any way that folks involved in india and islamabad could have not known that bin laden was there? >> that is in my view the 64 million-dollar question of this year. there are only two possibilities. and just to make sure we have a strategic things here, the villa that mr. bin laden was living in since probably 2006 is less than a mile from their military academy. at the end of, the beginning of april this year, chief of army staff ion he gave a speech at the kabul military academy in which he said that has been broken. i have this vision in my head

you can sri along the peninsula here, the northern tip we could continue with the low clouds right over the embarcadero, perhaps areas around sausalito. by noontime or so, most of us dealing with mostly sunny skies, but it's right there along the edge it could easily stick right there along the afternoon, and then be back with us for the evening hours. your satellite view, sort of a zonal flow going on, just a week trough passing overhead. that will dip our temperatures just a little bit, keep the onshore sea breeze blowing so in the afternoon, when the winds pick up just a little bit, could be a little cool in some spots. and generally our temperatures below average for this time of year and cooler than what we saw yesterday. so for today, a.m. clouds, cooler conditions, by sunday a slightly warmer pattern will set up for sunday, monday. today we're going to be from 5 to 10 degrees below average. 75 expected in napa for the afternoon. 72 in vallejo. 79 in concord. so for the first weekend of summer, it really doesn't feel look it. some of you may appreciate that. 66 in hayward. 67 in o

it is time to put afghanistan, pakistan, india, bangladesh, sri lanka, and nepal back into the south asia bureau. break them out of pacific command and deal with this part of the world as integrated. only when you start thinking about it as integrated are you likely to develop policies that will work. thank you very much. >> thank you for that rosy assessment. i want to start with you. is there any way that hindi and islamabad could not have known? >> that is in my view the $64 million question of this year parian there are only two -- of this year. there are only 2 we will possibilities. the bill on mr. been london was living in since probably -- the house mr. boehner on -- the house mr. osama bin laden was living in since probably 2006 is down the road from a military academy. the chief of staff gave a speech at the academy in which he said the back of the militancy has been broken. i have this vision in my head of osama bin laden standing on the roof, listening as he was saying that. they are that close. in that environment, there are only two possibilities. they were either cluel

phyllis moves to the frust sri lanka to take care of her three grandsons. being a good citizen, knowing our laws and speaking the language will help those young boys grow up to be strong citizens themselves. immigrant whors integrated into society go on to become entrepreneurs and job creators. whether they come on family or employment visas, through the asylum or refugee programs or other smaller immigration programs, legal permanent residents come to this country with the dream of becoming u.s. citizens and giving back to their adopted home. in the last two fiscal years, congress has directly appropriated $11 million for integration grant bus this bill doesn't provide direct appropriations. instead, it pulls the funds out of the examination fees account. and it foes a step further, prohibiting direct funding for grants. but i think we should provide direct appropriations for these grants because it should be a national priority. beth sides agree that legal immigrants who want to become part of society and learn our laws and language should be able to beco

in august 2010, eight 180 foot carrier crossed the pacific with a sri lankan migrants. the coast guard enabled tactical commanders to closely monitor the case, prepare contingency plans, and position response forces. this vessel was of particular concern because the smugglers include members of the -- of a terrorist group. we monitor the vessel, especially as it approached u.s. territory. we leveraged our capabilities with our law enforcement counterparts. we may boarding team is aware of the positions and the responses they might encounter. we assessed the potential threat posed by the crew and passengers. at any time, this could have turned into a major search and rescue case where a significant interdiction is dead. the vessel was intercepted by the canadian forces. we provided effective, timely, and usable intelligence to make sure we were ready to take action. this example highlights our maritime expertise and allows us to leave our law enforcement to identify potential threats and to work towards a positive solution to protect our nation. the coast guard screens s