they told the local population you have to do your duty to take out assad's forces. you have to open the door to rebels or we will launch an attack and engage the assad forces. they did not specifically say they see the local community as enemies, but they may be caught in the crossfire. christians are vulnerable, 10% of the population. they have been seen as neutral in the conflict. we heard the u.n. warned about the possibility of this conflict has become sectarian. a lot of danger. a lot of danger especially in this mixed area. christians and aloites have been moving further south. >> coming up, we will tell you why more south african youngsters are taking a skateboarding. and also, and luring russians to sunny spain. there is a real temperature contrast for us in europe. in the east, it is bitterly cold. in the west, it is milder. we're seeing a talk temperatures of around 11 or 12. the air is trying to push east on monday. we will see things turned slightly warmer. there is an intense area of what weather. it is piling up over the u.k.. that is why we have the fl

for their part, the local population is aware that their futures depend on the forests remaining intact. over the past 50 years, ethiopia has lost almost all its forest. the cloud forest of kafa is often called the green lung of ethiopia. its loss would have a devastating impact on the climate -- and be the final straw for a country long plagued by drought. >> and now we head to bulgaria to take a look around the home of the well known writer, poet and journalist rumen leonidov. the 59-year old has opened his home to us -- so we get to look around his private museum. >> hello from the bulgarian capital sofia. my name is rumen leonidov and i am a writer. welcome! this is my home. this here is the living room. this is vivi my girlfriend, and the mother of our two children. she's making a salad. today is our 35th wedding anniversary. my living room is a bit like an art gallery. there's a lot here about my great-grandfather. he died fighting for the liberation of bulgaria at the age of 27. many of my friends are artists and they like to paint portraits of me. who knows why. i have 5 or 6 po

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women aren't allowed the local population of muslim population has no on the site and how the mosque itself is governed this kind of islam related controversy is not new in europe the two thousand and nine constitutional amendment banned the construction of new minarets in switzerland the idea for a ban was proposed by a nationalist so we speak olds party and were supported by the majority of the country's population at a referendum. post soviet moscow has seen huge inflow of muslim migrants coming to russia's capital from the former republics of the u.s.s.r. celebrations of corben by ram one of the major islamic holy day sees hundreds of thousands muslims praying on the streets of moscow since there is limited space in the prayer halls of the russian capital at the same time there's growth and xenophobic feeling in the country and movember moscow so are they going ash now is to rally their witnesses claiming twenty thousand police abated. when that figure down to six thousand. over the last two decades the been lots of clashes including cultural clashes leaving europe in the west in

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but historically that kind of a prop by the united states is often led to alienating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to check in. with britain that prepare. going to pull its troops out of afghanistan the u.k. is counting its losses in more ways than one more than four hundred british soldiers have been killed in the war which so far cost the government a staggering seventeen billion pounds and as artie's explains the sum is raising a few eyebrows especially with austerity cuts being felt at home. seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that that's been the cost of the so far eleven year war in afghanistan now it was a very field at the same time as a clearer timetable was announced for troop withdrawal from the region but it's those seventeen billion pounds that are being spent that have been spent on for the war on top of the existing defense budget which means the estimates for the final price tag for the afghan

historically that kind of a prop by the united states has often led to alienating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to. line for just. a couple of stories we reported about the number of deaths from car accidents that may be on the decline in the u.s. but that is no cause for complacency as we were starting research suggesting american citizens will soon be more likely to lose their lives in shootings that. only increase. the breathing a sigh of relief that my calendar is prediction of the end of the world thankfully didn't come to fruition many around the globe are still bracing themselves for the last probably one in ten people are worried about it. more stories in a. day gerri. is britain appearing to pull its troops out of afghanistan the u.k.'s counting its losses in more ways than one more than four hundred british soldiers have been killed in a war which has so far cost the government a staggering seventeen billion pounds and that i

but historically that kind of a prop by the united states is often led to alienating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to check in. online feuds not reporting the number of deaths from car accidents may be on the decline in the us says good news but i also think there's no cause for complacency that. the american system likely to lose a few things the most. about it which. is on the increase also so the previous not release of course the big story today the mayan calendar is prediction that was the end of the world thankfully didn't come to fruition many around the globe those still bracing themselves for armageddon seems one in ten people said about that next to us he don't call them blind. more stories and apocalypse that. is britain preparing to pull its troops out of afghanistan the u.k. is counting its losses in more ways than one more than four hundred british soldiers have been killed in a war that so far as well seeing the cost to the

but historically that kind of a prop by the united states is often led to alienating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to check in. with the top news stories of. denied dozens of people have been injured in clashes in egypt's second largest city soundarya police fired tear gas at opposing crowds as protesters demonstrated for and against president morsi the violence comes as egypt prepares for a second round of voting on the controversial draft constitution but show jewels for tomorrow saturday it's already divided the country of course opponents of the document say it will lead to an islamist state we're following that closely of the next twenty four forty eight hours for you. a u.s. staff sergeant who was caught on camera urinating on dead taliban fighters in afghanistan has been demoted and fined five hundred dollars joseph chamblin was also found guilty of dereliction of duty by failing to report misconduct by junior marines an initial pu

alternative way to provide security at the local level with the villages, communities, whereby we have been providing some arms and training to the local population there so that they can provide their own security. obviously, the karzai government has been opposed to that. are there any opportunities for any alternative strategies, given the nature of the in theese government any d drc, mr. affleck? >> i will yield to an expert fellow panelist year, but one of the -- the basic issue, and one that will go a long way and that i alluded to earlier, climbing some influence to president -- are applying some influence to president kabila so that payment is made to his troops. if there was one stroke of automatically improve people's lives, that would do it. that would take a wholesale step towards improving the security sector. the talk about the security sector as it is this kind of a mammoth thing. if you had paid soldiers who had an incentive to fight, he would not have had a major capital overrun and taken over by 1200 guys. that shows you the greed to which the federal government is unable to exert control, even the smallest amount of control in

chemical weapons, which are meant for -- meant for israel, but they can also be used against the local population. >> you talk about syria, talk about how you've been covering this and i shouldn't say covering, were involved for many decades and when i think about this, i think back to 1982 and hama and i think i heard you say last night you were there. to let everyone know this is when bashar al assad's father, thousands of people were killed, roads were flattened, is this the kind of thing where you could see bashar al assad come in and do similarly as a father did and obliterate a tremendous chunk of the population? >> look, i was in hama right afterwards. it was a smoking city, ruins. there was 1982, february, 30,000 people at least were killed in artillery shellings and it wasn't -- don't look at assad as a mad man. those were all alowite officers that did the shelling. the only way they thought they could counter this was flatten the third largest city, which is what they did. you to see it to see the devastation and what these people do to protect themselves. >> would bashar al assad be wi

that would probably not have gone over too well with the local population. what i did do is include them. for example, we would participate in the governor's weekly security conference, and i'd make myself available and so would the afghan commanders to q&as in the hallway. we did a couple of press conferences with them. and you have to. as a commander on the ground, you have to embrace that. that's, i think, maybe directly answering that part of the question. secondly, my personal opinion on media overall is i embrace it. not for reasons you might think. it's so not so i'll be on c-span tonight. it's particularly the united states citizens have a right to know what their soldiers, sons and daughters are doing over there, and they need to see what's happening. i think that's sack row santa. i do. there are limits to operational security, as you know, i'm sure, in your field. but that's number one. number two, i had a particular awakening when i had an embedded national media reporter from abc news who went with us on several missions. and in one of these mis

now, as you may be aware, the aging and disability population has been recognized actually at the local and state levels for quite some time now. so the mechanisms for providing support that facility community living have been really brought together into local and state agencies such as the san francisco departments the of aging and adult services that serves those populations since the year 2000. yet, at the federal level, policy developments from a community outreach, and program implementation related to aging and disability services across the nation [unintelligible] across the department of health and human services until now. the obama administration, as well as secretary sebelius, have long been committed to promoting community living and finding new means to help ensure that we support the seniors and people with disabilities and making sure the committee is accessible. approximately three years ago, our nation commemorating the 10th anniversary of the homestead decision. in this time, president obama launched the community living initiative on june 22, does a 9 to reaffirm the

the local saw as natural sultanas takes over. the drying out of the lake. of the world's biggest populations of small things. just four hundred animals here protected. it's a place of peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals have been dug around here to cultivate the locals taps broad grassy plains this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species of the animals here. so i guess antelopes just some forty years ago there were more than two million. living in asia. in the world now people brought the species to the brink of extinction this region has been full thousands of years but now in a relatively short space of time it's vibrant diversity of creatures sweat and farms by men. and. years of. destruction with. what could have been just ruins. saying a great sacrifice. by human just a. reminder of courage and selflessness. beauty is in. the news continues now finally there are signs of progress in talks between iran and the un atomic agency off to months of standstill a recent mission to tehran has given rise to expectations that inspectors could be allowed access to iran's nuclear pro

the local saw as natural sultanas takes over. the drying out of the lake. of the world's biggest populations of small strings. there are four hundred animals here protected. it's a place of peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals have been dug around here to cultivate the locals taps broad grassy plains may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species as the animals here. so i guess antelopes just some forty years ago there were more than two million. living in asia nowhere else in the world but now people brought the species to the brink of extinction. this region has been reaching life for thousands of years but now we know relatively short space of time it's vibrant diversity of creatures is second on all fronts by man and nature itself. since childhood for the americas always stood out from his peers he hates losing and has never missed a single training session he came first in everything swimming ballroom dancing or chess at the age of sixteen started to lift weights four years later he took on the bronze medal in weightlifting from the london paralympics. coming in third place at th

so we had this huge thing where we have the local municipality who is trying to support their population in whatever way they can, but they are running out of resources. it's december, it's cold, they are wondering what they're going to do. so the next lesson i took away from this is when you're looking at recovery, you have to be seamless. that's the take away here. now obviously we're not at war with any part of our population. we might yell at each other, we might have debates, we might have some civil protests and what not but at the end of the day we're all americans and we all come together. there, not so

so we had this huge thing where we have the local municipality who is trying to support their population in whatever way they can, but they are running out of resources. it's december, it's cold, they are wondering what they're going to do. so the next lesson i took away from this is when you're looking at recovery, you have to be seamless. that's the take away here. now obviously we're not at war with any part of our population. we might yell at each other, we might have debates, we might have some civil protests and what not but at the end of the day we're all americans and we all come together. there, not so much. so the take away here is we got to be seamless, which redoubled my belief in our recovery planning. we have to be able to do this quickly. we have to support people where they are. we have to have shelter in place. we have to be able to distribute what people need and we have to partner with the community to make that happen and that's what we've been working on. that's one of the biggest takeaways there. now about first responders. i come from this world and we have our riv

bahrain fact is that these protesters are being supported by the local shia community which make up to seventy percent of this country's population. the ruling elite are sunni muslims and this may look like a sectarian war but the authorities firmly reject their actions are religiously motivated there is a radical movement in the opposition party they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government they seek a secretary in theocracy and that is unacceptable so all because i feel out of desperation they know that they don't have the support of the rest of the population of bahrain they have turned to these violent means the protests are gathering momentum and allegations of torture in prisons are leading to serious international pressure being put on. so bahrain's rulers find themselves in a tough position they want dialogue with the dissenters but the question is whether they will be satisfied with what the king has to offer a legacy or shift key r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. well moving on to syria now moscow claims there is no evidence that the government in damas