and complained the u.n. wasn't doing enough to attack the irregularities. >> he was head of the deputy afghan commission until he was fired support speak being out against widespread fraud in the afghan election. so how does he react to mr. karzai's allegations against the u.n. and against him? personally. >> well, when i first heard that this morning i thought this must be an april fool's joke. and nen i realized i don't have the kind of relationship with president karzai where he would want to pull in a kind of stunt. -- pull that kind of stunt. but it is an extraordinary allegation given that i was actually fired as you know, hit for wanting to prevent the fraud and to take tougher action. and anyhow, it's obviously absurd that a handful of u.n. staffers could organize a fraud in afghanistan at all. much less one that involved a million, maybe a million and a half phony ballots. but he also made a really striking admission here. he admitted that there was widespread fraud. and in effect he admitted that h

assessments to the u.n. system, the advocates of global governance have looked for ways to fund multilateral activities that did not depend on appropriations by national legislatures. particularly by the congress of the united states. almost exclusively, their concern was that congress of the united states not providing money. they have tried to find ways around to fund these international activities. we saw in the case an effort to use royalties from mining activities to fund the authority set up by the law of the sea treaty. we saw in copenhagen, numerous schemes for taxation to fund environmental activities under the various proposals that were being negotiated in copenhagen. we see even today proposals by prime minister gordon brown of the united kingdom for an international banking tax to set up a fund that would be used for future bank bailouts. the ideas come in a variety of different forms, all -- often very technical, often obscured in a larger efforts that mean they did not get a lot of attention.

the u.n. agencies will support the strengthening of haiti's institutions at the national and sub-national level and support for the government. , we will also support the full engagement of civil society in the recovery and the private sector and include the haitian diaspora. we believe that the inclusion of women at the decision making table is absolutely vital to lasting progress. we will be supporting short-term job creation, development of micro, a small, and medium sized enterprise, and the creation of that enabling environment which is needed for investors to come and help generate the growth over the long term. second, we will certainly support the spread of development across the country so that all haitians have a chance to benefit from this recovery. our support will be an education in training with cash and food for work programs and support for agricultural rehabilitation and production. as part of that overall effort, we will actively support the haitian government's commitment to

there are a lot of things that can be done outside the u.n. security careful. a lot of those measures that deal with transactions at banks, etc. have been helpful, but iran and shows no sign of either negotiating to the earth -- returning to the of negotiating table or halting is the enrichment program. off the chinese have shown a little bit more flexibility. up to now, they have taken eighth principled stand against sanctions, but we will have to see. if the security summit next week really does offer an opportunity to talk on the margins. this is what happens at major summits. i think the hope is had in prague we can bring russia and then china along. >> i do not think that we will see the sanctions on the energy sector and the oil and gas sector. by the the chinese and russians will not sign up for different reasons. it looks like we may have hope of restrictions in the banking sector. one of the positive things that i took note of about two weeks ago was the report that actually, the russians and chinese have made a marshal -- a demarhce with these iranian

and immediately through the u.n. into a state of disarray because the feeling was here we have the intrusion of a different sort of elements. with a justice element and it returned to derail whatever it is that we thought sort of inescapably bound up with the possibility of peace. and that is if you couldn't talk to these people because subsequently they were going to be indicted him how could you possibly arrive at peace? but what goldstone did was by contributing to this in effect he forced us to change and adapt to his reality and we had to do that. of course we couldn't escape the turmoil in the disaster that soon after that everything began to change. and i think likewise broadly speaking when you look at the international criminal court, is created no shortage of discomfort for many topical is because it's presenting itself as a check on the latitude of behavior that deviously was thought to be impossible by certain people surrounding the club and now i think it's quickly and circumscribed by the court. in term

they have that veto on the u.n. security council. kind of sanctions do you think the chinese would be willing to go along with? >> so far the chinese have not indicated they are willing to go along with any sanctions. they've said they will discuss sanctions which is a breakthrough. before what we saw with china in previous negotiations was that china was interested in diluting the sanctionswj as much as they could especially when harm or impact china's economic interests. i think we would see more of that now. given that china's economic interests are getting closer to being impacted by the types of sanctions that are being discussed. really want a unanimous vote at the u.n.. -- unanimity is important for all the world's powers to be speaking from one voice. at what cost? are watered down sanctions better than no sanctions at all? is there a way to get around the whole u.n. thing and actually take another route? >> well, i would argue that watered down sanctions are in fact counter productive and can do more harm than do. they tell

so the effort right now since iran has really refused to comply with u.n. security council resolutions and even the kind of olive branch offering in the fall to get back to the negotiating table, we're engaged in an effort to get another round of u.n. security council resolutions. and the issue is will china at best support if -- or a not so bad outcome would be if they just abstained. and how much will russia support a new round of sanctions. there are a lot of things that can be done outside of the u.n. security council. and a lot of those measures that deal with transactions at banks, et cetera, have been helpful. but iran shows no sign of either returning to the negotiating table or halting its enrichment program. and so i think we're in a slightly better position. the chinese have shown a little bit more flexibility. up until now they have been taking a principled stand against sanctions. but we'll have to see. this security summit next week really does offer an opportunity to talk on the margins. this is what happens at major summits. and so i think t

khan incident the u.n. security council passed resolution 1540. that was in 2004. 1540 represents the second sweeping nonstate-specific u.n. security council mandate. the and required all states to get their wmd houses in arrested as it related to threats, nuclear chemical biological weapons. more recently the obama administration spearheaded u.n. security council resolution 1887. which outlined a broad range of nuclear nonproliferation and security objectives. including 10 provisions related to mpt obligations as well as several focused on safeguards agreements and strengthening the iaea. and a handful of items related to 1540 and nuclear security-specific objectives. now, i turn to the ones that are u.s. or bilateral in their genesis. the proliferation initiative was started by president bush in 2003. and now includes 90 participating states that endorsed a statement of interdiction principles. in 2006, the u.s. and russia bilaterally launched the global initiative to combat nuclear terrorism. participation in this effort now numbers 76 countrie

the price to pay for china's support might be a watered-down u.n. resolution. individual countries can impose their own sanctions against iran. first, the discussions at the u.n. actually have to start. >> what is the opinion in beijing? is president obama making progress in getting them on board? >> there is no indication coming from the chinese side but he would not expect that. what is interesting is that he did place this hour-long conversation to the chinese president. he made the call while on air force one. what we understand, what has been released, is that what president obama spoke about was the need for the two sides to work together to ensure that iran meets its u.n. obligations. president obama is saying to china that it is important that you are on the side of the rest of the security council working to stop iran developing nuclear weapons. and that you are not left isolated. that might be gaining some traction. china does not want to be left out and isolated. if push comes to shove, they will be on board. >> the u.s. is taking a new approach to a

there are a lot of things that could be done outside the u.n. security council and a lot of those measures that deal with transactions at banks have been helpful but if they show no sign of either returning to the negotiation table or halting their enrichment program. i think we are in a slightly better position. the chinese have shown a bit more flexibility. until now, they have taken a principled stand against sanctions but we will have to see. this security summit next week offers an opportunity to talk on the margins which is what happens at major summits. the hope is there as well as this meeting in prague that we can bring first to russia and then china along. >> i do not think we are going to see sanctions on the energy sector. i am skeptical that we seek sanctions on arms exports to iran from both the russian and chinese. it looks like there is a decent likelihood of more restrictions on the banking sector in trying to restrict the access of some of the political leadership has to capital. one of the positive things that i took note of w

assessments to the u.n. governments have looked for ways to find multilateral activities that did not depend on appropriations by national legislators. and particularly by the congress of the united states. in fact, almost exclusively their concern was the congress of the united states, not providing money like turning on a spigot. so they are trying to find ways around that to fund these international activities. we saw in the case of a law of the sea treaty an effort to use royalties from undersea mining activities to fund the authority set up by the law by the law of the sea treaty. we site copenhagen numerous schemes for taxation of international transactions to fund environmental activity under the various proposals that were being negotiated at copenhagen. we see even today proposals by prime minister gordon brown of the united kingdom for international banking tax to set up a fund that would be used for future bank bailouts and financial crises. the idea comes in a variety of different forms, often ve

attorney- general -- with the u.n. secretary-general ban ki moon. >> excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentleman, i declare open the international donors conference towards a new future for haiti. it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you at the united nations  headquarts kdÑñrimportant event, which is d atgy mobilizing international support for thel needs ofc÷ haiti in an effort to lay the foundation for haiti's long-term recovery. brochurof the wreckage speaking] -- [speaking french] [speaking french] excellencies, four weeks, experts have been -- for weeks, experts have been assisting us with the disaster. in tandem, the prime minister along with the government has worked out a blueprint, a plan to guide haiti's recovery and could reconstruction. -- and reconstruction. he will present that vision in a moment, and i'm sure you will agree that it deserves our full and generous support. as a plan for action it is concrete, specific, and above all, ambitious. our goal is not just to rebuild. it is t

least a chance of getting past very few sanctions against the iranians that susan rice outlined at the u.n. this week. >> we heard the president say a minute ago as a cons website of this, the american people will be safer and the world will be more secure, colby. >> qun, president obama lev tated above the group and moved around the room to everybody. somebody would say he was just showing off. he gets credit for nothing in some quarters. it was an important first step. is the world safer? no, but the world is more cognizant of the problem we're facing. that's an important first step. he got a consensus on that issue. >> part of the follow-up was on tuesday the russians closed down a siberian reactor that had been producing weapons with levels of plutonium for the past 50 years. it is a fair step. is it a public relations move? yes. do a lot of politicians, political leaders hide their light under a bush el? this is what the president did. it is now on the agenda, it's there. according to u.s. people, the chinese are onboard as far as iran is going. >> better than we had now that we didn'

i believe in either country when milosevic and the serbs or else voting in the u.n. for the united action to protect them if we hadn't begun the expansion of nato for no good reason actually other than domestic politics in the united states, and that's why at the time i very much opposed the expansion of nato knowing that we had convinced gorbachev to allow east germany and united germany to stay in nato with the promise that nato would not move to the east. now that wasn't a legally binding promise but this was one of the things that convinced gorbachev to let germany unite and stay in nato with the understanding there would be no further expansion and when the clinton administration simply ignored it in fact the hearings on the hill if the we both went up to testify would not even ask for the documents that indicated the diplomacy earlier. so i do think that that was the area where we made a much more difficult for russia to cooperate and then to think of a military alliance could authorize action in serbia i think we wouldn't recognize that other military alliance

but by bypassing the u.n., bypassing the security council making it look to the russians as if we were simply moving in to control of this entire area which had been you might say the russian traditional area of influence was simply i think the wrong message and left me with a heritage that than when we get problems elsewhere they say the russian georgia you could intervene in the balkans, we can intervene elsewhere. the was the wrong message and i think it should have been handled differently. clinton had no ambition to engage in the nation building. he was not looking for an opportunity to have intervention in the balkans. that was very shortly after the fiasco in somalia and there was little appetite in the washington to engage in new actions which could bring the the united states and to military conflict. but in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the bosnian conflict, that solution was proved very difficult to identify and the russians were not terribly cooperative and then of course there was 7,000 muslim men massacred by the serbs and an enormous moral outrage but only in

the u.n. host a conference on relief efforts in haiti. then the afghanistan ambassador to the west. then a discussion with the national drug control policy director. >> this weekend, john dean is our guest. he is the author of 10 books including an updated edition of "blind ambition." >> president obama announced a proposal that would open new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling. under the proposal, some parts of the atlantic and gulf of mexico would be available for drilling for the first time ever. he also talked about new rules for fuel efficiency and unheard oil policy. -- and will policy. today, america and american families are still filling their cars with fuel from the desert half a world away. we still ride at the highs and lows of world oil prices. our children havare wondering ie will still have the same failed policies. we are not here to do what is easy. we are here to do what is right. to make the hard choices. to succeed where others have failed by cutting the dependence on f

ambassador to the u.n. before you were secretary of state. based on your high-level attendance at meetings like this, could something really unexpected happen either negatively or positively that had to be dealt with that nobody really came to talk about? >> sometimes what happens-- and this happens more at the u.n. where you have have not invited everybody and you run into somebody that you're actually not supposed to talk to-- but i do think that on the whole this kind of a meeting is pretty much pre-scripted as was said. what is interesting is that there are different levels of meetings. there's the kind of official meeting where the heads of state sit down in chairs and talk to each other. then there are various others that have been put into play that are called puliciized where there's very brief meetings but i do think it is always possible that something unexpected will happen. there's a lot of staff work that is going into this, a lot of looking at what contingencies are, the kind of "watch out for"s, but this seems to me a very, ver

they disarmed u u.n. staff. -- they disarmed u.n. staff. financial markets have been by fears of the state of decrease economy. -- greek economy. the greek government cost of borrowing has risen to a record level. a swarm of locusts hasn't faded a town in queensland, australia -- has invaded a town in queensland, australia. this is the biggest want to hit the region in 30 years. they have devastated the crops there. one of the most important music managers of the punk era, malcolm mclaren, has died. he was the former manager of the sex pistols. he was diagnosed with cancer sometime ago. a lot of people as a certain age will feel a certain warmth inside at the mention of malcolm mclaren. can you separate the image from the man? >> not really. all we ever knew of him was his image that he put across and successfully translated into parts of his life. british impact has had -- british culture has had a massive impact across the globe. hplonk was a big part of that. without malcolm mclaren, that might have never happened. -- punk was a big part

this follows a report by the u.n.'s iaea that iran has enriched uranium and is halfway to its goal of making bomb-grade fissile material. we know that iran's greatest weakness is its dependence on foreign gasoline. they have mishandled iran's economy since 1979 that this leading opec leading nation is depending on gasoline for 40% of its needs. i wrote a material -- an article trying to end gasoline sales. i want to thank chairman berman and ranking member ros-lehtinen for bringing this bill to the floor. in these partisan times now, when have 54 senators and congressmen agreed on anything? but they agree on cutting off iran's gasoline. but now without decisive bipartisan action soon, the security of our children and our allies may depend on the good behavior of a terrorist nation now armed with the most dangerous weapon. so as congress has been sleeping, i think we should wake up. we should finally sign this bipartisan bill. to congress, pass this legislation. to the president, sign it and then seal off iran's gasolin

the chinese said they would work with the u.s., but they have the power to veto a u.n. resolution and in the past they have used it to block tough moves against iran. catherine brown brown for cbs news at the white house. >> our coverage of the summit continues on our website wusa9.com. you can keep tabs on traffic there. you can also learn more about what world leaders are accomplishing at this meeting. >>> a minor earthquake shook parts of southwestern virginia this morning. the 2.5 magnitude trembler struck seven miles northwest of raven, virginia. there are no injuries or property damage reported. >>> today maryland governor ' oh maley will sign in to law the bills passed by the legislature. yesterday was the final day of session. the governor talked about what he thought was the biggest achievement. >> i was very elated to see the foreclosure bill go through so that every homeowner will have the ability to bring the mortgage companies to the table before they can be thrown out of their home. that one i'm very excited about. >> reporter: while the session ended at m

instead, he blamed top officials of the u.n. and the european union. >> ( translated ): this is the reality, brothers. for this reason today, i come here to talk to the members of the independent election commission about fraud in the presidential election and provincial election. no doubt, there was huge fraud. there was vast fraud. the fraud is not by the afghans. this fraud has been done by the foreigners. >> reporter: karzai singled out american peter galbraith-- a former u.n. official in afghanistan. he was fired last year in a dispute with his boss over how to deal with fraud allegations. in washington, state department spokesman p.j. crowley did not comment directly on the accusation. instead, he put the onus squarely back on the afghan leader. >> karzai has to step forward, lead his government, you know, in terms of convincing the international community and the afghan people that they are taking measurable steps to reduce corruption. >> reporter: the karzai claim threatened to add to friction with washington, at a time

scientists in bangladesh say the 2007 report from the u.n.'imate change panel that predicts a three-foot rise in sea levels, the flooding of much of the bangladesh coastline and 20 million refugees failed to consider the role played in countererring high water levels. the french press agency reports the study states 11 billion ton of sediment flows in bangladesh every year and that would keep most of the shoreline intact. the u.n. is defending the report. claiming a study can't refute one report. but they are criticizing overstating how much of the netherlands is below sea level. the u.s. farm bureau says the environmental protection agency should protect its own blog a little better. intern at the e.p.a. urged americans to give up meat. citing the environmental impact of the meat production. they called it disrespectful to farmer and it says what is written therm comes across as official agency position. the e.p.a. added a disclaimer at the end of the post saying her views do not reflect e.p.a. policy. >>> nevada republican senator enson is f

. >> and the u.n. and the west won a puppet government. >> the u.n. and the west want to see democracy, and he wants to keep a kleptocracy. but that is not why we are there, for karzai. we are there because of al qaeda and the taliban. those pose a direct threat to our own security, and that is why we are there, and because -- that does not mean we ignore the situation in afghanistan. we do have to build a government. but, as i is playing this thing against -- what karzai is playing this thing against both ways. he entertained ahmadinejad from iran earlier in the month. why? because he wants to ensure that he has a line open there. the u.s. cannot get bogged down with that. that is a big problem, if we get bogged down with karzai. >> and he did not get the indication that the white house he wanted. -- the invitation from the white house that he wanted. >> the biggest part of counterinsurgency is governance, meaning that if the locals do not trust the government, they will not be on your side, and if they're not, you will not in counterinsurgency. >> k

i think canada and there was a u.n. committee have come out with saying this is after five or six years of cruel and unusual punishment. and i found listed zimbabwe because i knew an opinion there. now that justice thomas all the opinions they may have to look to zimbabwe because i was getting so desperate. [laughter] and i agree that zimbabwe is not the human rights capital of the world. [laughter] but i knew the judge would rip now was a good judge. it was written quite a long time ago. alright, so i try to do a survey there and i'm trying to use the fact that other countries think that this is cruel and unusual as the degree of support for the claim that maybe it is cruel and unusual under our cause. so that i'm trying to get some argumentative mileage from it. and those on the other side, like justice thomas, said no, go not getting any way whatsoever from that because this is america. now you try to of that issue without in your own mind in getting involved with how you feel about the question of people staying on

his most recent posting was to afghanistan, where he was sent by u.n.ecretary-general ban ki-moon to monitor last year's presidential election. galbraith said he saw widespread voter fraud, most of it favoring president hamid karzai. when he spoke out about this, he was fired. now he is speaking out about other aspects of hamid karzai's administration. peter galbraith joins me now from belgium, norway. welcome. >> very good to be with you. >> most people would agree that it is crucial for the mission in afghanistan, for the nato mission, for the u.n. mission, to succeed in afghanistan, that we have a credible, local partner, that is the phrase often used. have you come to the conclusion, watching afghanistan up close, that hamid karzai is not the credible partner that we need? >> he is not. he's been in office since 2002. for that period his administration has been characterized by ineffectiveness and corruption. last august there were presidential elections. at least 1 million of karzai's 3 million votes were phony, possibly more. so many afghans now d

know, she was, that, you know, the united states was now going to elevate some of these issues at the u.n. you know, it's increasingly now going to be examined and engaged in multilateral human rights bodies. so it remains to be seen what multilateral finishing ora are. >> host: next question from aliya sternsteven. >> host: you said they're talking openly about some of the technologies that are acting as back doors for communications when a country like china shuts down the internet. can you be more specific about some of the software programs and systems that you're deploying? i understand some of this is classified information. it was in the news a lot, give us another example. >> guest: i'm not going to comment about any specific technology. the real purpose here is to give the citizens the freedom to connect. and so there are a variety of ways of doing that. you know, one is to invest in technologies, another is to invest in training. so a lot is to give resources to bloggers, to help people understand what they can do to protect themselves. in digital environment. we're not looking

. >> couric: almost on cue, a u.n. security detail arrived on the scene.ently there are a lot of women who are being sexually assaulted at night. can you all provide more security for these people at night? >> yes. yes, we are doing it and we making sure such things are not happening. >> couric: but are you here at night in any kind of sizable number? >> yes. >> couric: really? there was no security to protect this 21-year-old mother of a three-month-old baby. so 8:00 at night and you were going to use one of the latrines? >> ( translated ): yes. >> couric: and they approached you? >> ( translated ): while i was walking i heard them say "stop." and i heard them say again "stop." but i kept on walking and they put their hands on me. >> couric: and all three guys raped you? >> ( translated ): yes. >> couric: camp leaders have emerged to try to maintain some order and give residents a place to file complaints. but they say an accurate number for sexual assaults is hard to determine because.... >> ( translated ): they don't actually go and make a proper compla

those troops as you may recall were en route to somalia to support the u.n. mission there almost 8 years before the uss cole attack. al-qaeda has always had a foothold in yemen and it has always been a major concern for the united states. what i can say definitely is that the obama administration has been focused on yemen since day one. we've worked very closely and much more effectively with the yemeni authorities over the last several months and we're making genuine progress. we've engaged consistently and intensively with our yemeni counterparts to help build political will for our counterterrorism objectives. many of the administration's senior civilian and military officials including deputy national security advisor brennan, assistant secretary of state jeff feltman, general david petraeus and myself have visited yemen in recent months to discuss how we can jointly confront the threat of al-qaeda. and the result of this kind of engagement has been the most forceful actions and aggressive response that we have seen to aquap in many years. those actions i

a u.n.-backed panel found more than a million ballotss-- a third of the votes for him-- were fraudulent, raising questions about his legitimacy. and it all comes less than a week after president obama surprise visit to kabul. in public, the talk was of a brighter future for afghanistan. >> good governance, rule of law, anti-corruption efforts. >> reporter: in private, the president demanded a crackdown on corruption, a promise karzai has repeatedly failed to deliver on. one potent symbol of that fail injury this man. the notorious head of the local council in kandahar and the president's own brother. ahmed wall lead karzai is accuse of running kandahar as his own corrupt fiefdom and of delivering thousands of fraudulent votes for his brother which may be why, despite pressure from washington, he's still in office. now the president is trying to turn the tables on his accusers. >> ( translated ): there was fraud in the presidential and provincial election, it was committed by the foreigners.

i believe and either controlling milosevic and the serbs or else of voting in the u.n.or united action to protect them, if we had not begun expansion of nato for no good reason and to lay at the then domestic politics and united states and that's why at the time i very much opposed the expansion of nato now in that we had convinced gorbachev to allow east germany in a united germany to stay in nato with the promise that nato would not move to the east. now, that is not a legally binding promise, but this was one of the things that convince gorbachev to let germany unite and stay in nato with the understanding there would be no further expansion and when the clinton administration and simply ignored it, in fact, the hearings on the hill i think we both went up to testify would not have a you then asks for the documents that indicated in the diplomacy earlier. so i do think that that was the area when we made it much more difficult for russia to cooperate and then to think that a military alliance could authorize action in serbia time i think we wouldn't recognize that ot

maliki after august 19th called for the u.n. to look into its own assessment and we were very supportive of primm minister maliki's request to have somebody from the outside look at the august 19th attack >> the fellow behind you as the microphone and then you our next >> thank you very much. on iran -- my name is mohammed. [inaudible conversations] >> don't go any further. [laughter] >> why don't you have a seat right over here. >> a wonderful opportunity to read this question is for elliott and jeff feltman. approaching iran, negotiating with iran i hope that you gentlemen and the policy makers have come to understand that this regime is mother of all time deception and i hope that you have come to realize that you will not get anywhere. president obama, whoever gave him the advice to reach the regime and extend a hand to the clenched fist which is full of irony and blood and is even bloodier now after the june election or so-called election full of fraudulent. i hope by approaching them and extending a hand it gives them the

any foreign official who comes to the u.n.for official business is normally granted a visa. >> he is not normal though. he is not a normal guest. >> to your more precise question, as the iranian delegation, including its president, presented applications for embassy in bern, the answer is yes? >> have you granted? have you granted him a visa? >> this just happened this morning. >> so they haven't been granted yet? >> not to my knowledge. >> the conference begins on monday. >> yes it does. >> the last time i remember ahmadinejad being at the u.n. is two years. >> wasn't he there last fall? >> i don't think he showed up at. >> he was there last fall. >> i thought the big show was cut off the last year. if the iranians will have a delegation at the npt conference on monday, and if they choose to have the president lead the delegation that is their decision. >> can remove a little bit to the west of iran? what is your understanding right now of the alleged defect dough freeze in east jerusalem construction and as senator mitchel

have contributed some money or at least are proposing to contribute money to the implementation of u.n. security council resolution 1540 which is something that had been discussed and the u.s. is now putting some money behind and i would hope that other countries would do the same. two, couple other things. our agenda is going to focus on the 12th, which is probably not going to be a part of the summit. this whole question what do we do with highly-enriched uranium used in the civil sector? the administration's policy is focused on what is called minimization. it hasn't been defined what minimization is but we're very much focused on minimization and elimination. because as mat pointed out a lot of this material is in research reactors that aren't as well-secured. there are alternative fuels which are being developed and are already in exist tense where reactors could be converted. and i think getting heu out of the civil sector so it is just ultimately a military material and ultimately getting it out of the process entirely would be a very valuable, would very valuable. then the seco

also today, afghan president hamid karzai blamed officials from the u.n. and the european union for wide-spread fraud and last year's presidential election. the catholic church has come out swinging against allegations it tried to cover up crimes committed by priests against children. correspondent greg burke looks at the modern holy war from rome. >> reporter: the holiest week of the year on the christian calendar is a very intense one for po pope benedict xvi. he's under fire for mishandling two sex abuse cases, one when he was archdiocese in germany and the other was top aid to pope john paul ii at the vatican now. the church is firing back at the critics. american cardinal laveda, long-time aide to the pope and official is challenging reports in the "new york times." in an article, he accused the times of being unfair to the pope and getting the facts wrong, writing, "i asked the times to reconsider its attack mode about pope benedict xvi and give the world a more balanced view of the leader it can and should count onon. the 'times' is standing by the

when the u.n. sits down with the family and they do have caseworkers who are out trying to stop this and they say look we can give you $200 a month if you will take your daughter out of the trade and with the family says is $200 a month? i can make $200 a night with my daughter and that has been a problem. the syrian red crescent has opened some centers for trauma counseling but it's a problem nobody can quite get their hands on. part of the prostitution trade is of course fronted by syrians. there was a time it was russian women in this business, a rock and women, but the iraqi women have actually moved those girls out because they are cheaper. so in a way syria private business does benefit from these women and what country actually makes such a crackdown on prostitution? it happens all over the world. >> host: let's go back to the regional consequences of the crisis. you described in the book in may of 2008 in lebanon where hezbollah basically took over western favorite the largely sunni part of

it was the u.n.'ew we basically should simply support the afghans and support the karzai election commission whatever it did. so it's really a very bizarre accusation that really raises questions about karzai's mental stability. >> ambassador galbraith. david ignatius is here with me, from "washington post." i have a huge faith in you, david, to explain this mess over there. we have a government we're defending because we have to have somebody besides the taliban. let's be honest about it. we only care about one thing, we don't want enemies in that part of the world coming to us here. that's our interest. >> we don't want another 9/11. let me try to untangle a few of the threats here. we've been pushing karzai hard on corruption, other issues. he's been pushing back. he's been doing so at a very erratic way. over a week ago president obama went to see him and had what he thought was quite a good meeting. all flew home thinking, gosh, that went well. >> they did like it from the white house -- >> they

new sanctions against iran in weeks, imposed by the u.n. with russia and china on board. how likely is that? >> i think it is likely there there will be a fourth round of sanctions. will be -- the president said i'm not going to wait for months for a sanctions regime to be in place. there is one in place for three years. >> three sanctions. >> resolutions passed by the u.n. security council. this will be a fourth and it will be mild and not make a difference. the only things to stop the iranian nuclear program would be the success of the green movement in iran which the obama administration has done nothing to help and remains indifferent to and stand offish to, on the one hand, and military action on the other which the obama administration seems uninterested in doing and i'm afraid it's setting up a situation where israel feels it has to act. >> are you as pessimistic about the likelihood that if there are sanctions that they will do anything? >> stepping back because this is important there will be sanctions and i think that is really key. china is key to this. i was t

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another university has just done a model u.n. class in new york.it, the professor said there was a fascist that come to power. imagine this. fascist coming to power. what is the fascist doing? listen to bertha lewis. rounding up all the communists and the socialists so how does the u.n. stop this mad man? up on the slide presentation, the professor put a face on the mad man. guess whose face it was? mine. and finally, from brandice university. by the way, i believe he was economic advisor for woodrow wilson. look at this. nazi, interdisciplinary conference. what is it? the new right wing radicalism. transatlantic progressivism. a symposium that ties tea partiers into neo nazis. they can't be. transatlantic progressivism. these guys are not really interested, the tea party, in progressivism. small government. progressive, big. i have news for you. the only side bertha lewis, that can round people up and put them behind wire is the side in power. right now, there is only one group that has the power. that is you, bertha lewis, acorn, your friends in

this follows a report by the u.n.'s iaea that iran has enriched uranium and is halfway to its goal of making bomb-grade fissile material. we know that iran's greatest weakness is its dependence on foreign gasoline. they have mishandled iran's economy since 1979 that this leading opec leading nation is depending on gasoline for 40% of its needs. i wrote a material -- an article trying to end gasoline sales. i want to thank chairman berman and ranking member ros-lehtinen for bringing this bill to the floor. in these partisan times now, when have 54 senators and congressmen agreed on anything? but they agree on cutting off iran's gasoline. but now without decisive bipartisan action soon, the security of our children and our allies may depend on the good behavior of a terrorist nation now armed with the most dangerous weapon. so as congress has been sleeping, i think we should wake up. we should finally sign this bipartisan bill. to congress, pass this legislation. to the president, sign it and then seal off iran's gasolin

but in the weeks ahead, there is a u.n. meet and they're going to have those five permanent members sit down and discuss in earnest whether or not this is going to happen, those sanctions are going to happen with iran. we know china is going to be one of the members at the table. and so far they are not as defiant as they were before. somewhat more encouraging that they're willing to cooperate. but, still, there's a long way to go before they decide that, yes, that's what they are going to do. >> suzanne malveaux for us at the white house, thank you. >>> also coming up, we're going to be talking to david albright, former u.n. weapons inspector who has a new book out. he'll talk about how big of a threat and which nations could be at most risk. >>> also new, investigators are trying to determine what caused a navy training jet to crash 80 miles north of atlanta. three people onboard the jet were killed. one is still missing. no one on the ground was injured. the crash did spark a small wildfire. >>> overnight recovery crews

[inaudible] >> i think we are going to -- if there is no discernible progress on u.n. security council resolutions, we will of course consider other options and the question is which of the european allies will be most helpful there? the french are espousing their help but it will probably be the germans who are more helpful in the end. we continue on the same path we have been going down which is to look at this at every single level, not just the top level. >> did you want to add to that? >> going back to the reset, can you elaborate on what the recent suicide bombing means to that effort? >> for me, the suicide bombings , especially the ones that took place in moscow on the metro, is a reminder that russia is probably, if you look at the u.s., europe, and russia, prussia is probably the most vulnerable of those three countries to terrorist attack. and to the possibility of catastrophic terrorist attack. who ever carried out these bombings was a very powerful statement to undertake them close to the former kgb building and the institution which has primary responsibi

or to accuse the u.n. of fraud that he himself committed. now, there are reports in the palace that he uses drugs. hashish. i don't know the accuracy of that, but i have some confidence in the sources. >> let me ask you about our situation over there. we americans, we have fighting forces in the field over there who are in harm's way as we speak on post defending our interests over there. as you understand them, is it in our interest to continue to support the karzai government? >> that's not really the issue. what he said is offensive, but we're not in afghanistan to defend hamid karzai. but the larger problem is that in order for our strategy to work, which is a counterinsurgency strategy, we need to have a credible afghan partner and hamid karzai, who has been in office for eight years, eight years of corrupt and inefficient government, now in office by fraud, not illegitimate in the eyes of many around the world, is also behaving very strangely. clearly, it's not a credible partner and without that, the strategy is not going to work. the

but a former u.n. official also suggested karzai might have been using drugs.ubts about karzai's mental state. this is -- people don't talk about it openly, but it's there. >> reporter: karzai's government calls the drug claims a lie, but peter galbraith says the u.s. military's counterinsurgency strategy depends on a credible local partner. >> a man who is in office by virtue of fraud and who frankly is erratic as hamid karzai makes it difficult to accomplish your mission. >> without a doubt we need the strength of the mullahs, the strength of the outers and the strength of the people to secure the valley. >> reporter: is the international pol sicks play out, small teams of soldiers and marines are trying to build confidence in local afghan governments. >> the time for being scared has to be over. there's only one bad guy for every 100 good. >> reporter: but commanders admit weaning out corruption is essential to their job. >> if your local government is not working and they don't have some semblance of orderly or trust, you're going to be fighting an uphill b

the former u.n. envoy has said that perhaps president karzai has a taste for it himself. what is your explanation for why he is behaving like this? >> he is a crucial political figure. to the extent that we see real politics going on in afghanistan, president karzai will have a relationship with the international community but he also has to establish a relationship with his own people and the mix of tribes that are unique to afghanistan. we understand that. at the same time, we have stated clearly that we have concerns about the things he has said. president clinton talked to him late last week. the leaders will meet in washington and we will work through the concerns that he head. >> this will go ahead? >> i expect that he will. he said he does not want to be a puppet for the united states. we agree with that. we are trying to make sure that there is a government that works on behalf of its people. once we can achieve that, we can reduce our military presence. >> is there no sanction that the u.s. could bring to bear on this man? >> we want to help him. we have to work