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a spokeswoman for the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs is on the phone for us from port-au-prince. ma'am, thank you for being here. do we know the source yet of this cholera outbreak? >> no, frankly, the source is not our primary concern. it's managing this very serious outbreak. >> we know now the number is up to 194. can you imagine what it's going to be like if we don't get this under control? what are we looking at here? >> well, i think we're looking at possibly a crisis that's going to last several weeks. we don't believe we're at the peak of the epidemic yet. this is an extreme situation. the most important thing is to do our best to contain it. part of the problem here is haiti -- the last cases in 1960. there's very little resistance and little expertise in the medical profession that know how to handle this. one of the most important things right now is patience and isolation of those suspected. we've got two units going occupy in the hospital. >> and how many places by how many physi

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in richmond, da lin >> and a failed attack on a u.n. office in afghanistan. have details and a live look outside. this time come , the and keep bridge with rain increasing today and tomorrow. we will be right back. >> wikileaks will publish 15,000 more documents about the gulf war. 20,000 already published. in the meantime, the western afghanistan today, a suicide bomber blew up the entrance to a u.s. office. russian forces, and the u.s. kobe detectorattackerst that could know you and officials were harmed. >> and we are taking a look at the video from the organization's first official meeting in october 0.4, 1945. and october 24th it is one the u.n. headquarters usually merits it's a free. this time, it is on sundays of the celebration was moved to friday. >> still had an kron 4 news this weekend a outbreak of cholera in haiti is fear of spreads and other areas. >> and a live look at walnut creek. your full forecast, with rainfall, coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> 7:45, the approach, and you can see the pavement still a little bit and damp. with rainfall expected on /o

. >> but first the headlines, while you were sleeping reports of an attack at a u.n. office in afghanistan, blowing up the entrance allowing three other men wearing bombs to rush inside. fortunately, no u.n. staff members were harmed. it is not clear if guards from afghanistan were injured. the biggest leak of secret information in american history has happened. wikileaks released 400,000 documents on the iraq war and now it is said there is another 15,000 to release on afghanistan. the pentagon says that the website is putting u.s. troops in danger. these could then take the 400,000 plus the nearly 70,000 documents that came out in july with regard to afghanistan and then go through the half million document stockpile to look for patterns of behavior, how we respond in the wake of an i.e.d. attack. >> more than 100 analysts have combed through the documents to minimize the damage to troops on the field. a terrifying scene at the factory in cleveland. the gunman takes the life of his ex-girlfriend and stepson. he shot his ex-girlfriend in the park lot and stole her i.d. card

u.n. ambassador for the u.s. office on drugs and trafficking. the odt. julia, explain this to me, when we hear slavery, we're thinking about 1860 and abraham? >> slavery is more prevalent now than ever in our history. i define slavery as one person that will completely exploits another person. trafficking is the act of enslaving someone. >> it occurs everywhere? >> there are two countries it hasn't been found in, greenland and iceland. yes, this is absolutely everywhere. >> how did you get involved? >> i got involved -- i was invited by the u.n. to become a goodwill ambassador, they were generous and allowed me to spend a good year going around the world meeting with victims, going to find success stories, really. people who found great solutions and were working on those. i stayed involved because of meeting the victims and hearing their stories. >> mira sorvino, how did you get involved? >> i was originally amnesty international ambassador for several years. under that canopy of abuse to women was the subject of human trafficking, and right as we were

u.n. peace keepers to face a military prosecutor in the capital. >> one of these armed groups are held responsible by many for the massacre that occurred. they offered to hand over one of the senior officerswho would have been the leader in the rapes that occurred where 300-plus women were raped. >> that lies 30 kilometers from a u.n. peace keepers base. it became a site of a gang-rape. doctors who visited the victims of the attack said the rebels had come in peace and only began raping after being given food by the villagers. among them are women the u.n. says will identify the colonel as one of those responsible. >> this operation is important in the sense it will send a very strong signal that their action will not continue unpunished. >> the u.n. mission in the country admits it did not do enough to prevent the attacks. though they have 20,000 peace keepers in the region, they are spread too thinly. the u.n. mission sees the arrest of the colonel as just one step in their goal of ending systemic rape in war. >> in a bbc global debate, china's tom man said the devaluation of the yawn would not happen rapidly. michelle reports. >> as the global recovery moves forward, it seems as if it

office. moscow rising sun with a major oil pipeline to china opening the floodgates with russia's largest trading partner. plus u.n. figures show despite a fifty percent drop in afghan opium production traffickers are still raking in the cash heroin prices soar. today's top stories and a look back at the week that was this is the weekly here on r.t.i. matricide good to have you with us moscow's long serving mayor was shown the door by the president this week dimitri medvedev said he lost confidence in the o.t. luzhkov who'd worked eighteen years as the capital's chief luzhkov leads by a controversial legacy loved by some hated by others as artie's murray if the notion explains. that he's so i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust in the. once deprived of power the phone support to the top was hard to come by a challenge it's obvious the professional relations between the president and moscow men had worsened meanwhile the man is subordinate to the president and not the other way around to certain steps should have been taken to return the situation ba

office. moscow eyes a rising sun in the east with a major oil pipeline to china opening the floodgates with russia's largest trading partner. and u.n. figures show that despite a fifty per cent drop in at gannett opium production traffickers breaking patches heroin prices soared. four am in the russian capital we're taking a look at today's top stories and a look back at the week that was here on our team. good to have you with us moscow's long serving there was shown the door by the president this week dimitri medvedev said he'd lost confidence in. who'd had worked eighteen years as the capital's chief by a controversial legacy loved by some hated by others as artie's murray if an ocean explains. so i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust him yuri luzhkov. wants to project power the phone support to the top was hard to come by social and it's all because the professional relations between the presidents of moscow had worsened meanwhile the man is subordinate to the president the not the other way round so certain steps should have been taken to return the situation ba

bombers have attacked so united nations office in western afghanistan a man drove his car packed with explosives into the gates and three others stormed the compound no u.n. staff had been harmed but three afghan guards were injured the taliban's claimed responsibility for a cholera outbreak in haiti's left nearly two hundred dead and another two thousand infected doctors are warning too but the infection could continue to spread specially to areas with limited access to clean water but also saying that neighboring dominican republic should be alert to the risk officials fear the outbreak could reach the one and a half million people living in camps of the january's massive earthquake destroyed . assault she powers forward with its a limpid preparations the massive construction works also revealed the russian city's ancient past archaeology is to hailing the discovery of an eighth century temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games he's done is polaski picks up the story. it could be a scene. from an indiana jones movie archaeologists try to solve the secrets left behind by architects of an eight century temple thes

bombers have attacked the united nations office in western afghanistan a man drove his car packed with explosives into the gates and three other stormed the compound no u.n. staff had been harmed but three guards working at the site were injured the taliban have claimed responsibility. moral views in brief quake hit haitians are battling to stem a cholera epidemic now that's killed almost two hundred. and for more than two thousand others they have news that they've been diagnosed with the disease while experts fear the scope of the break is set to continue to grow doctors warn that conditions are right for cholera to strike in areas with limited access to clean water medics also say the neighboring dominican republic should now be on alert to the risk the deadly outbreak stand in the ongoing affects of january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand. at least thirteen young people have been shot dead and fifteen wounded in an attack on a house party in mexico it's the second such massacre in less than a week the violent border city of ciudad qualities last sunday government stormed to killing seven at a party and two more in anothe

have attacked the united nations office in western afghanistan a month drove his partner to their explosives into the gates there and three other stormed the compound no u.n. staff had been harmed but there are no reports on whether afghan guards were injured the taliban. claimed responsibility and. placate patients are battling to stem a cholera epidemic that's killed almost two hundred people more than two thousand others have been diagnosed with the disease while the experts say the scope of the right will continue to grow doctors more that conditions are ripe for common to strike in areas with limited access to clean water medics also say the neighboring dominican republic should be alert to the risk to the deadly outbreaks down to the ongoing effect of january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand. of the certain people have been shot dead and fifteen wounded in an attack on a house party in mexico it's the second such massacre in the in less than a week in the violent border city of c.e.o. . last sunday government stormed two homes killing seven at a party and two more at another house nearby. assad she powers forward with it

u.n. security council has been pushing tehran to negotiate. >>> another year, another massive deficit. the congressional budget office trillion dollars. i guess a little good news is that about $125 billion off the 2009 deficit. >>> the drugstore chain cvs will pay a record $75 million fine for failing to control its sales of cold medicines that can be used to make methamphetamines. prosecutors say cvs became the largest supplier of meth lab ingredients in southern california. >>> new york city police arrested an 11 suspect on a vicious anti-gay attack. they're all members of the street gang called latin kings goonies. eight have been arraigned on hate crime charges. >>> a burglary suspect in oregon really pulled out all the stops to evade capture. he made a getaway camouflage suit. it's out of moss. it looks clever, right? but apparently not effective. a police canine unit caught up to gregory liascos in the end. he was trying to hideout in the woods. he was a walking mosiman. >> exactly. what will be next? >> i don't know. >>> we talk about tea party supported candidates and the wild ads and words we hear from a fr

office in afghanistan today. the attack did not result in the deaths of any u.n. employees was launched in herat in the western part of the country where the taliban and other insurge agents are usually less active. afghans responded killing at least one of the militants. >>> continuing to campaign for vulnerable democrats, president obama arrives in minute hint later this afternoon. yesterday the president was in nevada where he campaigned for harry reid. who is locked in a tight race with tea party favorite angle. caroline shively has more on the close race. >> reporter: president obama was on stage last night leading the cheers for the senate majority leader. reid's opponent is thanking the president today. angle's campaign says the president's visit to nevada helped them raise $200,000 friday in online donations alone. they call it the first stimulus package of your administration that actually worked. unfortunately, you arrived in las vegas on the day with it was announced the city has 15% unemployment. the only person you have helped in nevada is sharron ang

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office and incumbents. mary kay henry talks about the union's money role in the elections and efforts to get voters to the polls. richard barrett, coordinator of the u.n al qaeda monitoring commission talks about whether the taliban is in talks about ending the war in afghanistan. that is live on "washington journal." journal."

officer and president a global intelligence and security firm. mike, great to have you on. this is very interesting to hear that the west is in there and they are getting information because clearly, u.ns have done nothing to stop their nuclear ambitions. is espionage the only option left? >> i think it's the most efficient and potentially likely tool we've got to try to prevent them from reaching their capability, desired nuclear weapons program. the u.n. somewhat less than efficient and you look at the sanctions. the sanctions have had some bite to them but ultimately they are not going to change their position because the chinese and russians refuse to play ball. they are working on their own agendas. the military action, frankly it's very difficult and politically it's unpalateable. so we have a very covert but less than covert but aggressive intelligence collection program teamed up with some capability, some non-military aggressive effort to try to slow down for stop their efforts to create nuclear program i think it's our best option. >> julie: what do you make their claims that a scientist was kidnapped by u.s. agents and returned home. they are saying that he was actually wil

international development which the front office doesn't fall in terms of conflict stabilization and the like in the course that is perfectly within the rules set on the u.ncommitments. which are internationally policed, so we can't fudge then. it's reasonable to count that expenditure towards that target, but the very large bulk of this will be delivered to the government which has a substantial increase. i suggest it that these parties fully make sure that th relevant ages now well spent on the poorest people and avoiding conflict prevention. >> train route poetry. >> to resend the lasgovernment failed to hold the spending review is because they follow their responsibilities then. they're still running to buy from them out in the cuts were seen are no more than the butchers bill for 13 years of legacy in ways. [shouting] >> well, i completely agree with my honorable old friend. and it is striking that in all the responses, everything we've heard from today from the front legislative party in the back bench, not a single proposal but how to reduce the eficit details have been allowed to grow. >> what will they take to get them onto the train? >> well, wh

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