in sri lanka, body go to mass graves before they are even identified. there is no time to find out who they are. all other the region, corpses lie in the wreckage of collapsed buildings and there are often no family members left to dig them out. officials say decaying corpses, contaminated water and pools of standing water that breed mosquitos pose threats of illnesses. >> there is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from diseases as we have from the tsunami. >> the clock is ticking. the situation on the coast of asia could get much worse before it gets better. >>> still cocome on second look, how bay area people helped the victims of the quake and tsunami. and another quake hit months after that deadly 2004 tsunami. ♪ [ engine revs, tires squeal ] [ male announcer ] since we began, mercedes-benz has pioneered many breakthroughs. ♪ breakthroughs in design... breakthroughs in safety... in engineering... and technology. and now our latest creation breaks one more barrier. introducing the cla. starting at $29,900. ♪ >>> welcome back to a sec

the united states sponsored resolution urged sri lanka to carry out credible investigations into killings and disappearances during its nearly 30 year civil war, especially in the brutal final stages of 2009. the sri lankan president, under pressure to address human rights abuses, has ordered an investigation into mass disappearances. many want to return to their own homeland, which they left during the three decade war, and resume a peaceful life without any military ruling. quick solomon was a fisherman until 1990, before he was displaced. according to the human rights commission, around 700 people disappeared between 2006 and 2009. onto bali would now. --bollywood. this duo has taken up the promotion of their film, said to be released on the 15th of november. >> bollywood actors are launching the first look of their upcoming romantic from a -- drama. the lead actors talk about the construct in the characterization. they said the plot of the story was very different and refreshing from other romantic dramas. >> i remember when i was being given the character description, you write a few

. >> today he has returned to the town in northern sri lanka and earns a living repairing bicycles.ing experienced the civil war first happened he says peace is important. hundreds of thousands like him want local leaders who can address their basic needs. >> housing is important electricity is important. if we have good water pumps, we will be able to consult shade st. thcultivate theland. >> voters can vote to choose 36 members to serve on the northern provincial council. centers in the north have been busy preparing for the poll. >> reporter: the voting system in provincial council elects is complicated especially for those unfamiliar with the process. people must choose a political party, and their top three candidates as well. >> we don't have proper, enough stuff. and secondly, this is the first time we are going to conduct northern province election -- provincial election. so people they don't know how to work, how to use their privileges and the voting pattern. >> reporter: the elects department has had to educate vote ores how to mark their ballots. despite the challenges t

sri lanka votes for the first regional assembly as it seeks to move on from its civil war. in german soccer, it is the battle of the brothers. it is the last day of campaigning ahead of germany's general election are the latest polls give chancellor angela merkel's alliance a secure lead. whether she will be able to form a coalition is open. that depends on how much support there is for the smaller parties. voters say they have not made their minds up. the vote is going down to the wire. helpersup of election gets to enjoy the limelight telling the enthusiastic crowd how good the campaign has been. christian democrats have had one message throughout. things are going well because angela merkel is in charge. she made the point herself one last time when she took to the stage. >> everyone can make up their own mind about who to vote for, but we can say in the last quarter years there has been progress. >> she made it clear that german conservatives should only vote for the cdu. >> give both votes to the christian democrats. give your first tier candidates that will represent

. >>> the first poll in northern sri lanka since the end of the civil war. >>> taiwan and the philippines battered by the strongest storm on the planet so far this year. >>> why families separated for decade business the korean war won't be reunited next week. >>> i'm doing more livestock now than i've done in a long time. >> and cowboys, cattle and criminal, how an illegal trade from the frontier days is making a come back in texas. >>> it's the seen as a gesture to help bring peace to pakistan. this than was the se conditioned second-in-command when he was arrested in 2010. what more do we know about this release? thraoetlet's go back live to our correspondent in islamabad. >> reporter: well, the pakistani foreign office made an announcement on friday that on dull's brother would be freed on saturday. normally the timings of the release are a closely guarded secret because of the security reasons. he is now a free man. he will be going to meet his family. there are un.com confirmed reports that the city will be in karachi. he has not appeared on any television network, not given any int

. >> sources in northern sri lanka are going to the polls since the first time of the end of the civil war. that's after a 26-year conflict. they began their armed struggle. the number of people killed during this 26-year civil war is estimated between 80 to 100,000. at the end of the 2008 the president launched a huge defensive on the north. report polling has a relaxed start. there's more activity at so. major stations. what people are coming out to do today is to have their day who they want to direct them through this next period of their political chapter in this area and also what they want. they're look for stability. they're looking for longer term growth of the area, opportunities whether that. economic, whether that be social and culture and effectively they're looking for leaders who can give them that sense of positivety moving forward. many people telling us we haven't forgotten what we've been through. we know the troubles we've faced and well aware of the challenges ahead of does but we need the right leaders to take us along the right path in this critical time in the n

. >> let's move to sri lanka where the main party won elections in the north. it's four years after the civil war pitting the government against the tamil tigers. >> after more than 25 years of civil war, a new era of politics dawned in sri lanka's north. the tamil national alliance won the majority of seats in the first provincial elections. >> people have spoken and it is up to the government to take stock of the matter because in democracy the government is interested in democracy, it is the people's will that matters. >> it was a long time coming, but finally people seized the opportunity to have their voices heard. they voted for political stability, opportunities for their children, the regeneration of their communities. >> trans-tran >> translation: i voted in the election. the government has done good things, the conflict is over. >> translation: we are happy. the process is over. we are looking forward to peaceful times. >> despite concerns that fear and memories of the area's violent past would keep tamil voters aways from the polling booth's, numbers

. >>> voters in northern sri lanka have gone to the polls the first time since the civil war, 26 year long conflict. the tamil tigers, began their struggling for their own country in the far north. the number of people killed in the 26 year civil war is estimated to be 80 to 100,000. at the end of 2008 the president launched a huge offensive on the north dwe defeating the south in 2009. >>> allen live from london with what the election means from the country long term. thank you very much allen for being on al jazeera how important are these elections are, when we know provincial governors have very little power and the government has centralized much of the government's powers? >> well, yes that's obuilt of a paradox. iit's extremely important, first time that the tamils have the chance to elect their own council, and there's some sense that perhaps having done so they will gain somewhat of a foothold and be able to challenge the central gof of government's policies a little bit. but the basics problem is you have a very hostile government in colombo which makes clear it doesn't want

and sri lanka is geostrategic location. the deepwater ports could be vital to the long-term financial and national security interests of the united states. you know, we want them on our side. some 50% of all container traffic, for example, and 70 percent of th0% ofthe world's es within site of sri lanka's coast. u.s. diplomatic efforts there have lagged and as a result i think our long-term and national and economic security interests are suffering. at a time when the united states pivoting or rebattling toward asia, we may be giving this island nation reason not to consider the united states a friend and strategic power. understandably, the united states policies towards sri lanka have focused on accountability for what happened during the last phases of the civil war as well as on steps toward political reconciliation and respect for human rights. while these aspects are very important and deserve of support, i also believe there is an opportunity to engage in a wider simultaneous approach that also takes into account eco

for the first time in decades, elections have been held for provincial council for northern sri lanka. 700,000 people were eligible to vote. the election is an important step towards reconciliation between the government and the tamil minority following a bloody civil war that ended four years ago. the italian coast guard has intercepted two boats carrying more than 400 syrian refugees. one woman reportedly died during the journey. the boats were escorted to sicily. an estimated 2 billion people have fled the conflict in syria, most to neighboring countries. and now to the buddhist league, where the has been plenty of action at the very top of the table. the league leaders traveled to nuremberg saturday and promptly dropped their first points of the season. marcel put art math ahead with a sumptuous free kick in the first half before an equalizer after the break. 1-1 was the final score. has drawn level at the -- munich has drawn level at the top of the league with an impressive 4-0 win. several players were on target for the bavarians. far,est of the results so one match day six, loo

but if you look at the picture of the city, the rates are worse than countries like albania and sri lanka. i mean that's surely not something you can be proud of. >> we're not, nor would we indicate that we're proud of our numbers. we're proud of the effort--we're proud of the effort that clevelanders are putting forth to begin to address those issues. >> that's good. >> thank you. >> can i just ask about the women who are falling outside the net? >> we've answered those. >> yeah, we did this. thank you. very much. >> after walking out of the interview, we were told that the official wasn't prepared for such specific questions. even though we'd been clear we wanted to speak about infant mortality throughout cleveland. >> well that was a surprising response to some pretty simple questions. and the interesting thing for me was, not only do the officials here in cleveland not seem to want to talk about the city wide rate of infant mortality, they also don't seem to know quite how bad those numbers are. >> back in the city's nicus, the sense of crisis is certainly being felt. every day, these

most of our visitors are from sri lanka and thailand. >> devotees line up to enter and pray in the inner sanctum. they spend hours meditating just outside, under the ancient bodhi tree, a direct descendent of the one under which buddhists believe siddharth gautama, the royal prince, also meditated as he embraced a life of asceticism and became enlightened. >> i also would like to do the meditation here to discover myself, for my soul. and i believe this is the best place to do the meditation. >> buddhists believe that this is a very powerful place and anything that you do here is magnified, so any wishes you make for other people, any good wishes, any practice that you do, it's increased. the power is increased. so for example you see people prostrating you know, going down, i've been doing this for a month and that's a purification practice and it gets rid of pride and they believe it's much stronger to do it here. >> the arrival of pilgrims is part of a decades-long revival effort by india's government, beginning in the 1950s when prime minister jawaharlal nehru wanted to use buddhism

this will be a discussion rolling in to sri lanka's democratic institution a significant move that manyon both sides will be able to debate and discuss. >> okay, we can go back now to our top story and join our correspond end outside of that shopping sent there in nairobi. which has been under siege in kenya's capital for almost 24 hours now. katherine there for us, what is the latest that you are hearing from there? >> reporter: it's been a really long night. and the gunmen and there are some women as well, have been holed up in this supermarket, that's still there. police and the military have surrounded this place. but it seems that the gunmen have the leverage because they are holding hostages who they been using as human shields we heard gunfire and we were told that it's still raging, this battle. but the police have been very careful not to have too much class cacollateral damage. >> i understand that your sister was in the shopping center yesterday. tell us what happened to her. >> reporter: yes, my sister was in the shopping center. she was with her children, she said that when

. >> people of sri lanka think she wrote it before she came here. so i menninged that.n she met me, she didn't say anything. >> she says that some of your ministers have been making falsehoods about her, including one of your brothers. >> you must remember. this is a democracy country. democracy is there. they can say anything. i have a cabinet of 58 people. so all of this [ inaudible ], you know, the muslim -- so we have all of these people in the cabinet, so they are all working together. i have to manage them. they hold their own political views, their own ideas about various things. so they express it. >> you can watch the full interview on "talk to al jazeera" at 0430 gmt on saturday. >>> looking ahead on the news hour from doha, [ inaudible ] is in court to face allegations of tax fraud. al jazeera america introducedç] ♪ >>> time to sit back and relax. it's sport. [ technical difficulties ] >> to 18 following a rather lengthy process in florence. they had been criticized for the sport's inability to control doping. he said . . . >>> wellings has covered the story

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but didn't chechen terrorists use women in attacks, even back sri lanka? weren't were a lot of suicide attacks there as well? >> it has been among operatives. i haven't seen it with al shabaab. i haven't really seen it with groups that are affiliated with al qaeda. they are happy to send women as suicide bombers but it's very unusual for them to play an operational role. that doesn't mean they can't be involved in financing the group or supporting it in some other way, but it would be very unusual. >> steve, you supervised the last investigation to the u.s. em bassey attack in nairobi. what does this entail? and is eight agents enough? >> agent -- eight agents is not enough. i supervised that attack in paur pakistan, just to be clear. you saw the size of that, the hole in the ground. you couldn't excavate it and get the information you need. you would need dozens and dozens of agents to go through that. you're going to call out the entire evidence response team. i mean, looking at that response team plus the mall, i would need a 100 agents. you want to loo

the tigers in sri lanka used a lot of suicide bombers and chechnyan terrorists. >> the hard core terrorists like al shabaab is exceptional, not at all common. they might recruit somebody to be a suicide attacker who's a female. we saw that in iraq pretty often. but to have somebody play a very active operational role, we haven't seen that except in the case as you pointed out in chechnya. >> has it been clear how the few somali americans who have gone over to work for al shabaab and eventually blown themselves up, four suicide attacks. i know the first suicide attack in america was with al shabaab in somalia. is it know how they were recruited? >> it's a pretty clear pitch. cedar rapids, iowa. dead end jobs, somebody comes along and says an ethiopian army has invaded our army, go over there. going to be shooting weapons. it appeals to the romantic side of people. religious struggle and pitch that is basically full of lies. because when they get over there, it's a lot less exciting than it appeared. but that's the pitch. >> we're going to leave it there. peter bergen, thank you. nima in nair

. >> counting has begun in the first ever provincial election in slow lan sri lanka's north. >> reporterusly optimistic voters made their way to polling stations in the north. which has been at the sends of a decades-long conflict. they are hopeful this will mark the start i've new air of political participation. >> we don't have electricity, there are no education facilities, our children study by lamp light. we are looking forward to receiving some benefits from this process. >> other parts of the country already have pr provincial governments fox, us this is the first time. my doubter and i are voting for the first time for our local government. >> reporter: people have been eager to vote. international and domestic observers fanned out across the area to monitor activities at polling stations. they say the smooth rung of this election is not just about the local people, but also the faith of the international community in their democratic inning in institutions. >> you cannot judge based on on the come today. you have to look at the preelection environment and what actually has happe

the tigers in sri lanka used a lot of suicide bombers and chechnyan terrorists. >> the hard core terrorists like al shabaab is exceptional, not at all common. they might recruit somebody to be a suicide attacker who's a female. we saw that in iraq pretty often. but to have somebody play a very active operational role, we haven't seen that except in the case as you pointed out in chechnya. >> has it been clear how the few somali americans who have gone over to work for al shabaab and eventually blown themselves up, four suicide attacks. i know the first suicide attack in america was with al shabaab in somalia. is it know how they were recruited? >> it's a pretty clear pitch. cedar rapids, iowa. dead end jobs, somebody comes along and says an ethiopian army has invaded our army, go over there. going to be shooting weapons. it appeals to the romantic side of people. religious struggle and pitch that is basically full of lies. because when they get over there, it's a lot less exciting than it appeared. but that's the pitch. >> we're going to leave it there. peter bergen, thank you. nima in nair

but didn't chechnyan terrorists use women in attacks even in i'm thinking back in sri lanka were there a lot of suicide attacks by women as well? >> that's a good point. there was a huge attack on a theater in moscow where women were amongst the operatives. i haven't seen it with al shabaab, the group that's responsible for the kenya attack. i haven't really seen it with groups that are affiliated with al qaeda. they're happy to send women as suicide bombers. but it's very unusual for them to actually be playing an operational role. now, that doesn't mean that they can't be involved in financing the group or supporting it in some other way. but it is quite -- it would be very unusual. >> steve, you supervised the last investigation into the u.s. embassy attack in nairobi. this team of eight agents on the ground in kenya right now, we're talking to them but we understand their focus right now is solely forensics. exactly what does that entail? is eight agents enough? >> well, eight agents isn't enough. i supervised the attack on the u.s. embassy attack on karachi, pakistan just to be cl

it was done in bangladesh, china, cambodia, indonesia, new guinea and sri lanka. most common reason, men gave for the violence was sexual entitlement followed by entertainment. and the wish to punish the woman. >> this is the main debate. and a little bit afraid. i don't know india well. but there are other countries in the same case. that this death penalty debate will change the public attention. now, we will be debating whether this is the right thing. and i think that the situation of women in this region, not necessarily only india. and the number of rapes, this is a real issue. but now, is it the real punishment -- well, only one case. >> so the case happened last december. has india changed since then do you think? do you think this has changed? >> absolutely not. there was a very high-profile case in mumbai which is a city that has a better track record than new dehli of photo journalist who was brutally gang raped in broad daylight. and you saw the defense lawyers saying that if there is no rape case, before this -- before this appeal, we won't appeal it.

we have internet tycoons who have a--a--a net worth that exceeds the gdp of sri lanka. we--we live in a society where a nurse works very hard to make a modest income and in which a--a star basketball player or singer makes $36 million a year. it brings--in some senses, i think, what this teaches us is that capitalism has won the economic debate, but it hasn't won the moral debate. it's defeated socialism and other schemes as a means of creating wealth, but whether or not capitalism assigns wealth in proportion with one's sort of moral desserts--is it rewarding you, in a sense, for a life well-lived? i mean, that remains open to question, and, in fact, the irony of capitalism is that it supplies rewards purely based on what the consumer wants. i mean, if i can do something strange like throwing a knife in the air and catching it in my teeth or walking on hot coals, to take sort of a home-grown example, whether that skill makes me rich depends on only one thing: do people want to pay to watch me do this? if they're willing to pay, it makes me successful. if they're not, i

tweeting about it to we've been getting pictures from all over the world, australia, china, iceland, sri lankaa. >> seoul, south korea. >> mexico. you name it, we've seen it. the troops in afghanistan. it's been awesome. >> i'm glad you mentioned that because we've got one of these from afghanistan as well. this one right there, there you see it. not only spreading coffee cups. this is from one girl -- one little girl who tweeted that picture of a group of soldiers with a sign that reads hashtag. how has all of this helped you in the grieving process? >> it makes us feel so much better. the first few days after she passed away so suddenly, we do what most parents do. we laid in our bed and cried and thought, how are we going to get through this, what are we going to do now? and i just looked at him one morning and i said, i can't do this anymore, i don't want to feel like this, i want to go and feel better. let's do something to feel better. and that's where our idea started. and when we went to starbucks and we just asked them to put the ajo on the cup just in hopes that someone might look he

nations to prevent and put a stop to larger scale humanitarian -- [no audio] at the end of the war in sri lanka, identified a systemic failure. member states did not provide the united nations with the support to meet the test they themselves had set in the system itself, unfortunately, did not adapt properly or deliver fully. anniversary year of the conference on human rights, we should renew our commitment to the united nations founding principles. i intend to help member states reach only consensus to prevent larger scale violations and i am implementing recommendations to upholdthat the un system its responsibilities under the charter. there will be little peace or enjoyment of human rights unless in warront a world awash . year so the promising adoption of the arms treaty finally regulating the international transport of conventional weapons. nuclear disarmament still lingers. it is plural liberating. -- it is proliferating. small arms continue to kill and maim. meanwhile, at a time of pressing human needs, spending on weapons remains absurdly high. let us get our priorities right and inve

. >>> the first poll in northern sri lanka since the end of the civil war. >>> taiwan and the philippines battered by the strongest storm on the planet so far this year. >>> why families separated for decade business