if you look what might happen on late night telesion. yeah. i mean they seem thave maximized their sadvantages here across the board. they seem to perhaps be contuing to do so because first they did this ry dangerous expement of putting leno on at 10:00 th didn't work. en the idea is, okay, let's try to make that go away and put him back on at 130 where he was at number one. however it sounds like there gog to make that an experime as well because it will be leno in a halfour time slot which is going tbe totally different rhythm, in structure, than leno is used to doing. it might take him a ng time to get going on that. i think the's a sense in which they're not going back to theay things were. they're going to yetnother experint which could be just as dangerous. part of it is mply the math. th have got a surplus of programming on late nit. they've got three starand they've got two hour-long time slots. as opposed to their othe major problem which is ty have no programming replace 10:00 monday tough friday th, which i suspect they are now scra

jonathon rugman independent telesion news reports from the couny's capital.: it's a long way from here to deoit, but it was in saas sprawling streets that a plot to blow up a paenger jet on chrtmas day may well have be planned. yemen, ancesal homeland of osama bin ladehimself, is once again on al qaedas fro line. and the big burly man wi the balding pate and benefent smile knows alabout it. for nasser al-bai alias "abu jandal" is the forr bodyguard to osama bin len himself. a martyr he says, a man toe loved. nasser al-bahri biladens formerodyguard i have ofn said i love osa bin laden more than my father. we shared manyxperiences and heefends the islamic nation. he doesn't like killg. >> reporter:r. al bahri was e of many yemenis serving alonide bin laden in the afghan mountains in thlate 1990s, wheree earned the nickname, the kill. out after jail time inemen, he now rks here as a business consultant. but he's still pud of the leg wod the al qaeda leader often bandaged up for him. and though he's retired om jid, his sympathy for the latest generation is hd to

it's being carried by s and all of theajor commercial telesion networks. now, the other ns of the day. here's hari sreenivasain our newsroom. >> sreenivan: vice president e biden has arrived in baghda hoping to ease a disputthat threatens plans for march elections in iraq. itenters on blacklisting more than 500andidates for suected links to saddam hussein's regime. sui muslims were dominant der saddam, and they s the purge is too broad. biden fl in this evening for a two-day visit. buan iraqi spokesman warned obody can interfere in iraqi affairs, biden oothers." britain today raisedts terror threat level from "subantial" tosevere". that'she second highest level on the british scale the country's home sectary provided no tails on what prompted the chang instead, he said an tack is "highly likely", but tre's no indication that one is imminent. airports across dia went on high alert today oword militants linked to al qda might hijack pnes. there were more armeguards outside aiorts, and passengers had to go through extra serity screenings once inside. in addit

we have a report narrated lindsey hilsum oindependent telesion news. >> tee suicidear bombs in baghdad today. all targetedt hotels where foreigne stay. the bombers di't get right inde. bustill managed to kill mo than 30 people and injure 70 others. reporter: neighboring houses are were bln apart. fireghters helping suivors to safety. as iraq heads tords electionin early march, such attacks are eected to coinue or inease. the americans y the perpetrators are probablal qaeda in iraq, largely sunni grp supported by some members osaddam hussein'now banned ba'ath rty. today one of the most notorious ba'athists, beer knn as chemical ali was hanged. a judge read the sentence week ago. >> thanks be to god, he responded. it was his fourth deat senten for genocide and crimes against humanit iraqi ar video was used as evidencen court. here he seen presiding over the abuse oshi'a prisers captured during the upsing in 1991 which follow the invasion of kuwait. he gainehis nick name after commandi the chemic gas attack on t kurdish town i1988 during the iran-iraq war. unsurprisingly ithat town today,

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