. >> it is a good chance for us as christians to reach out to them. many chances to take blankets and food and establish a caring presence in the midst of the tragedy. >> kim joseph is the son of missionary parents. he lives in japan and says. >> in a situation like this when people lose their lives, people need a place to go to where there is spiritual help and care. the church has a long history in 1597 there was a massive earthquake and the city of killtoe became christian overnight because of the tremendous response by the christians. >> charlene israel, cbn news. >> dr. michael or says while the church makes up less than 1 percent of the japanese population, it is a strong community of action. >> the closest parallel we can draw is during the koeb earthquake in 1995. during that time we saw churches mobilized to serve surrounding community. it was an opportunity to practically share the love of christ with those who is world had crumbled to the ground. i believe actually the church's response in 1995 contribute d to some degree of spiritual renew

tonight, christiane amanpour flies over the devastation for a first-hand look. she's here with us in japan, as well. christiane? >> reporter: david, this morning, japan is on high nuclear alert. as the government races to cool down two nuclear reactors. and the government is also racing to save lives. it has doubled its rescue operation from 50,000 personnel to 100,000. with search and rescue operations now under way in many parts of the earthquake/tsunami zone, we wonder how much of the country is effected by this kind of chaos and destruction. the helicopter's taking on fuel and we're going up to the sendai earthquake zone. japan is not a massive country, but part of that sendai area is quite remote. some of the roads have been damaged. there are mountains in the greater area around there, and that's hampering not just assessment, but also relief and the delivery of supplies. on the hour-long ride to the city of sendai, near the epicenter, little evidence of the earthquake. much of the countryside appears unscathed. but as the chopper turns to the coast, the full extent of the devastation re

christian organizations on the frontline of relief efforts. >> tried to bring others against us. >>; a surprising source of christian persecution inside the holy land and the faith is buildingamong believers there >>: >>: earthquake, as a nominee, nuclear crisis, japanese people struggle to overcomemultiple disasters, i am george thomas welcome to this weeks edition of christian world news. more than 500,000 japanese are homeless and many are struggling to survive with no power and no heat in freezing winter weather and relief work is hampered by the nuclear crisis and people are hoarding food and gas and travel is becoming more hazardous as the risk of nuclear contamination increases in some age groups are at work in the region including cbn's operation blessing. >>: we have made it this far as this town, we are on the coast of the oadi prefecture and operation blessing has been able to deliver supplies for the second day in a row we are in a huge editorial where most of the residents have fled; there are about 1000 people in here the homes of been destroyed and those of the homes we see a liberated and washed out operation blessing has brought bags and bags of rice they are really happy this is the first rise but i

use mormonism in "the book of mormon" to talk about religion in general. to anybody's religion to an outsider, it's just as goofy. i don't think either of us think mormonism is any goofier than hinduism or christianityter: is that almost the point, that it's about religion itself? not necessarily mormonism? >> i grew up loving musicals and all issues about religion, what we're trying to say come up, but really it's, let's put on a good show, let's make a really classic musical. ♪ i'm so lonely ♪ so lonely >> reporter: music, after all, has been as much a part of parker and stone's work. in "team america world police" and "south park" and elsewhere, as has the other point of the show. finding humor in the offensive. there was "cannibal the musical." ♪ they were nominated for an academy award for a song from the "south park" movie. ♪ you might remember their outfits from that night in 1999. who won the oscar that year? >> phil collins. >> for? ♪ i'll be in your heart ♪ you'll be in my heart >> whatever, doesn't matter. >> phil collins? >> i was like, phil collins is going to come and try to do a broadway show right when we are, he's going to win the tony over us. >> reporter: he's your nemesis? >> wel

us and around the world. as part of that effort, several prominent christian leaders launched a new ad campaign asking "what would jesus cut?" joining me with more on this is kevin eckstrom, editor of religion news service. kevin, there's been a huge mobilization it seems from many quarters of the religious community on these budget issues. >> right, and you're seeing it from both the left and the right. from the left, the more progressive side, you see traditional lobbying to keep programs like home heating assistance and school lunches and aid for, you know, women and children, sort of your bread and butter domestic issues. on the right, you're seeing a lot of action to try to protect the international development assistance, money to buy mosquito nets to prevent malaria and to fight aids in africa, food for the hungry and refugees, and things like that. so you've got various groups lobbying for various issues, each hoping that their preferred pot makes the cut. >> and a lot of those folks, both on the left and the right, are using moral language and scriptural language, saying you know the bible urges people t

against terrorism or insurgency be boiled down to one thing to put a christian a these low intensity conflict as long as possible and the us for perch eight and expand a unique opportunity for the whole profiteers in the united states and in afghanistan to squeeze a bigger bang from their bucks invested by the american taxpayers in afghanistan. a quick update now on some other world news a car bomb has killed her if you will i'm going to dozens in pakistan's third largest city a glass ripped through. the road probably liberal arts of pakistan of syria much violence by a group of qaida and taliban militants eastern city has rarely been a target of the past. america's discovery shuttle is on its last journey back to earth after undocking from the international space station it's making one orbit of a planet with a crew taking the opportunity to take some souvenir snapshots but veteran spaceship wouldn't return marking the end of the thirty year shuttle program discovery will then had to be its retirement home at the smithsonian institute museum. thousands of egyptian christians have protested in cairo demanding an end to rel

as. their christian. camp is iran and also. countries such as egypt. i don't have. the situation room find a solution. it's. got it so they can look at us or not and he is making headlines around the world. released fifteen people have been shot dead in syria after police going attack on anti-government protesters in the city. who witnesses say security forces also shot at warners attending the funerals of those killed at a mosque overnight in spite of the wave of recent protests in the region demonstrators are calling for reform and more political freedom rest in the city the police arrested and students whose great country government slogan is on city. water his prime minister is a socrates has resigned of the country's no makers rejected and stereotype budget five opposition parties voted against the nation's spending cuts and tax rises a defeat is now lacking to trigger a bailout similar to the one greece public about her want more. european union says it has been targeted by serious cyber attacks on the commission and external action service in brussels. comes ahead of a crucial summit in the interest structure of them on. strategy

the pope also uses his book to speak out against religiously motivated violence aimed at christians and touches on other topical issues as well like the staying power of the world's dictators, asking whether the biggest dictators can rule because of what the pope calls ideological lies. pope benedict says jesus himself was not a revolutionary but used the power of love to heal. it's a message he hopes will now be transmitted through the power of his writing. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in rome. >> this is bbc news. the headlines, colonel gaddafi's forces have been making further advances as they attempt to crush the rebel uprising in libya. his son threatens a new bigger military onslaught. internationally, there is much diplomatic talk but no agreement on what to do next. france has officially recognized libya's rebels. in the eastern city of ben gazi, civilians are getting used to life no longer under colonel gaddafi's control. it was one of the first cities to fall. it has become effectively the headquarters of anti-gaddafi forces. our correspondent is there and has visited one wealthy family who is supporting the rebel

us with was . i. guess everything has a school. this is the summer we will gain perspective on why this crisis. as socialists and christians the state. says. that's what i call silence or not it's not heading in one place this is something that knows no borders. down the road the real key to meeting of heads of un agencies turns into a crisis summit as the world hopes the cost of. how. many cases have come to be my traditional patient coming from hunger pains. me. because he's central plateau and vegetable struggling because he's going. to light. dozens of missing should be arrested by spot spicy food prices. the song rest they took one song beats him severely breaking both his legs my son called war call speak now my son is dying thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. for me and biofuels have been accused of causing the food shortages that lead traitor mattick increase in price it's. unpredictable droughts have destroyed rice and wheat crops while a big part of the u.s. corn harvest is turned into fuel for cars and not for people. a classic fieri of supply and demand offers a limited explanation as to why

. >> mark: thank you, joining us now is george scott with california office of emergency services. the emergency management agency. can you hear as christian mark >> caller: i am here with you. >> darya: i would love you the halberdiers out people may be waking up maybe they have not seen the devastation and they're thinking ono. the you don't expect anything like that here? >> caller: no not nearly the level of japan. we are being cautious this is an event that we cannot take lightly the we're not expecting anything major. if you talk to eventuate, get out, don't hang out around, don't watch the waves roll in there as an actor aviation order in place for reasons. i encourage folks to listen to their officials. >> mark: their expecting a wave around 7:30 a.m. with up to one of your biggest concerns? >> caller: yes. their history considering their position on the coastline they have been affected by tsunamis as recently as 2006. we are always pay attention there. where there positioned we're expecting the higher levels of waves. >> mark: have you done the reverse 911 or you leaving it up to local officials? >> caller: reno we're in touch wi

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as woman lounging on a sofa. >> the head designer at this french fashion house, christian dior, this costs 600 euros, but these items are much more expensive. she useslassic stones and fine metals in unconventional ways. >> i love the world of children. i think that many of my creations remind women of their childhood, and this touches them. i want my jewelry to be a toy for them. a valuable toy. >> she discovered her passion for jewelry while still a little girl. at the tender age of 5, she created her first trinket. >> i had fake, brightly-colored plastic jewelry. and i loved i. it was almost like i was obsessed with finding real gems to match the colors of the fake jewels. >> despite having no professional training, she was hired by which a nel's costume jewelry division. >> at the time i was working with a friend and helped karl lagerfeld and i had seen him a few times, because my you thinkal worked for him. when he saw me, he asked me if i wanted to work with him. >> karl lagerfeld looks back fondly at their creative time together. >> she is a very special personality. as a child. we worked together for 15 years. personally, i didn't have time

christians. who threw stones on teeth. fixed for. fifty. fifty ft ft. as my name is daniel smith this is joining uson the we're here to make a short presentation about the wiki leaks project. the first. in the fourth grade a through get information out about the real world. coming to him war on syria i'm going after. the secrecy of the because i'm going to be a democracy. if i ever put any sources in danger you would hunt me down and kill you. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all james bond. than all the actual information. thank you. the whole bit will around the wall. be. headlines from odyssey this hour a second explosion called the rock japan's fukushima atomic power plant escalating fears of a nuclear meltdown and emergency alerts also been declared in another facility in the northeast today but radiation levels have risen dramatically of a thirteen hundred people have now been confirmed dead in the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami but the actual number could top ten thousand food fuel and water and running low on some

as well. >> this comes to us courtesy of the grass roots news international. >> here in sendai over 100 volunteers gather waiting to unload 4 large trucks of aid material. supplies sent by samaritan's purse a christian organization out of north carolina, usa. >> we have a warehouse in charlotte, basic supplies usually needed everywhere at times like this. we started loading a 747 at the time getting it ready to come over here. these folks have been waiting along time. people haven't had food. they are still waiting, still eager to help. >> finally the trucks arrive, willing hands unload 92 tons of supplies, food, diapers, blankets, fuel cans, bars of soap and hygiene kits as well as other supplies. this is not just a group of emergency responders, young, old, and either foreigners are pitching in. >> we have water, food, everything we need. so fortunate. now i want to help other people. >> for me i want to support them. i think i am not a victim. i am a supporter in sendai. >> samaritan's purse will donate more if needed. here in sendai it is great to see both communities coming together to see practical aid delivered to those in need. >> that was josh hands worth. to learn how you can partner in ja

your insight and giving us a bit more detail christopher sirens from international christian university in tokyo thank you thank you all do stay with r.t. throughout the day as we keep you abreast of all the latest developments in japan. well let's now go to a libya the arab league has backed at the idea of a no fly zone over the country after an emergency summit of member states agreeing to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction suggested by the u.k. and france because r.t. spotlessly are reports the actual situation there in libya is far from the way it's being presented. there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close only nowadays people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have fled the country but the argument that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow have been several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadha

use of icons in the liturgy. thursday is st. patrick's day, come member rating the popular 5th cent tray patron st. of ireland. and as we noted earlier, eastern and western christians are observing the lenten period of reflection and repentance. many western christians began lent with the special ash wednesday service where they received ashes on their foreheads or the top of their heads as a symbol of pen tans and immortality. >>> lent is a sombe me b it's often preceded with celebration, sometimes excess, witness mardi gras and carnival. american churches borrows the tradition of pancake day. at washington's national cathedral, they held a traditional pancake race. >> praise god from whom all -- >> in england, this is pancake day, and the pancake races are somewhat legendary. they date to the 15th century. people were encouraged, going into lent, to use up all of the sweet and fattening things in their pantries and so pancakes was a way to use up butter, eggs, flour and sugar. and the races, legend has it, that a woman was cooking her pancakes on her stove top when she heard the noon day church bells ringing and realized she was late for church. so she grabbed he

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us? how seriously can we take this news that there has been some type of explosion at that plant? >> as christianes still partial. we're not getting consistent, reliable information from the tokyo electric power company that owns and operates the plant. but we are getting reports, this is just crossing the wires, that local officials at fukushima say that the reactor ceiling has collapsed. this is a report from reuters, saying the ceiling has collapsed. if this is true, then this would lead to a core meltdown. what that means is that the tens of tons of nuclear reactor fuel in that building would no longer be cooled, would no longer have water around them. they would fuse. they would heat to very high temperatures. 2,000 degrees or higher. and would be spewing radioactivity into the surrounding area. don't know if it's gotten that far yet. but this is not good news. if the containment structure has, indeed, collapsed, that would mean a complete exposure of the core to the outside air, loss of the coolant and a meltdown. >> all right. joe, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate this. obvio

system to ensure that taxpayer money is not being used to pay for abortions. as a christian, i am adamantly opposed to the practice of abortion, and i am especially opposed to the american taxpayer being forced to pay for it. this is why last month i voted with 239 of my colleagues to stop subsidizing planned parenthood's radical abortion agenda with taxpayer money. in 2009 alone, planned parenthood reported that the organization performed over 332,000 abortions nationwide. and in the next two years will require each, each and every one of its 87 affiliates to have at least one abortion clinic. the vast majority of my constituents do not want their hard-earned money paying for abortions. and as their elected representative, i will continue fighting to protect unborn children and taxpayers from the scourge of abortion. and congresswoman schmidt, i have here a chart that i'd like to make sure people watching can see. this is from a poll in december, 2009. it's a little hard to read it down here but it was a poll that asked women -- do you support or oppose allowing abortions t

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religion teaches us to do and so the point of the treaty of tripoli look is we don't have the skill of the greatest not islam as that you need hostility toward the infidel that's christians and jews but a christian nation base it does not and you're suggesting then that congressman keith ellison a muslim a sitting u.s. representative should have no free speech rights no. i'm not sorry i'm not the first amendment prohibits the free exercise of religion or islam i'm saying it doesn't deal with the oh so now the issue then is a matter of courtesy and it's a matter for states to decide as i said of my past where i think even under. i understand you're saying and i think you said very well thanks for dropping by tonight ok you can argue that any time. distorting the intent of our founding fathers is nothing new republicans do it all the time to wreak havoc on the middle class but doing it to spread hate and fear about an entire religion i have a problem with that i think it's inexcusable but ells what else would you expect from the american family association organizations being deemed a hate group by the southern poverty law center. coming up inside staley take the republica

christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. >> host: don't see it as useful, not even for the prisoners? >> guest: not even for anybody. >> host: why's that? >> guest: because, because if organized religion was in any way the peacemaker there wouldn't be all these religious wars going on in the world. >> host: now, you say in your family there was religion. >> guest: yeah. >> host: by the way, what happened to your brother? now, your brother went on to harvard, became the superintendent of boston schools, so he's quite successful. he department stammer. >> guest: no, he didn't stammer. i was the only one in the family that did stammer. >> host: but more people know you than know your brother. >> guest: well, that's true. my brother passed away about 20 years ago, unfortunately, but, yeah. >> >> host: so for you the bottom line is just enough, you've made it. >> guest: just enough. >> host: what you said to man tell la, or mandela said to you, we made it. >> guest: we were just enough. >> host: at 74, that's what's in your heart? >> guest: yes. see, this book, "the eye of t

christianity, in christian iconography, the use of the body, the use of fluids in the representation. is that something you were drawing from? is that part of it? well, i remember, as a kid, going to the met when i was 12 and 13 years old and seeing some--what i thought were pretty wild images by hieronymus bosch that dealt with christianity and religion. and so i--yeah, you know, i've never thought that my stuff was so outrageous. (paulson) now there had to be people who sincerely were offended by what you did. do you think they misunderstood your work? or is there simply a lack of respect for creativity? uh, absolutely. there--there are many people who misunderstood the work. but the worst were the ones who purposely misinterpreted the work for their own agenda, you know. they had their own axe to grind, and so it had nothing to do with the work. and--but you know, there were good christians who-- you know, who sent me letters in the beginning expressing their concern and, you know, dismay. and i responded to them and, you know, letting them know that i was not anti-christian. i was not an anti-christian bigot and that i, in fact, felt like a christian myself. (a

as his heartland. david? >> alan little again with us from tripoli. alan, thank you. >>> and you heard colonel gadhafi there calling into libyan tv. tonight, his son, and closest adviser, saif gadhafi, has talked with abc's christiane amanpo amanpour. it's an abc worldwide exclusive. saif is also in tripoli, and we begin here with his reaction to the offensive. >> we were surprised that, you know, the americans and the british and the french attacked libya. attacked five cities. terrorized people, children and women were so afraid. president obama, we thought he was a good man and a friend. he is bombing libya. >> reporter: will colonel gadhafi step down? will he step aside? >> step aside, why? i mean, to step -- again, there's a big misunderstanding. the whole country is united against the armed militia and the terrorists. the americans and other countries, you are supporting the terrorists and the militia. that's it. >> saif gadhafi tonight. in an abc news exclusive. >>> so, has the offensive changed the picture on the ground in eastern libya for the rebels? tonight, in some places, celebration. though, in others, gadhafi's army still on the attack. alex marquardt is in eastern libya tonight. >> reporter: good ev

christian. he said, our father, we are beginning to understand at last that the things that are wrong with our world are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. thou has made us after thine image and our hearts can find no rest until they rest in me. we are two cystian -- too christian really to enjoy sinning and too fond of sinning to really enjoy christianity. most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do, our trouble is that we do not want to do it. but help is our only hope. make us want to do what is right and give us the ability to do it. in the name of christ, our lord, amen. peter marshall. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from illinois, mr. jackson, is recognized for 30 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. jackson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i've recently given several special order speeches about my view of the constitution and making my argument for why i think it should be amended to include certain basic rights that the american people currently lack, suc

i understand, christiane, that the japanese prime minister came out and said the situation may not be as bad as feared. can you fill us dan this is where it's difficult. there are so many conflicting reports, and they change from hour to hour. we've been here four hours now, since we landed about the time of the explosion and initial reports where there were leakages of radioactive material in that steam and vapor that was escaping. 8 times normal outside. 1,000 times inside. then the last couple hours the prime minister has been on, including his spokesman as well on television, saying, in fact, radiation is coming down. then, yet another conflicting report from a electrical company, which is saying, according to their measurements, radiation is still high and going up. so it is incredibly difficult to know exactly what is going on from our vantage point and that, confusion, is what is adding to frankly the fear factor here about what is going to be the potential fallout from this on top of that huge earthquake that struck more than 24 hours ago now. >> as you said, it's incredibly confusings. to throw one more monke

sisters in defense of their dignity and rights, just as we will come and expect their reciprocity and solidarity with us and the rights of christians and other religious groups. religious values and commitments are assets to the common good, not sources of division or conflict. we know with particular sadness that muslim americans, with whom we have had a positive dialogue over decades, have had their loyalties and the least questioned publicly. this compels us to reach out in solidarity and support of their dignity and rights as americans. we worry about the rhetoric and dialogue that -- their very loyalty as americans and traditions and values are being threatened. we remain firmly committed to the defense of religious for all, not just for catholics. our commitment is to the dignity of each and every human person. at the same time, we recognize that not every charge of wrongdoing against people or groups within the religious community oamounts to religious discrimination. at this particular moment in our nation's history, we're greece -- we face a real threat to our national-security from one type of terrorism that has its origi

public school and not be vaccinated, you used to need a religious exemption, so, you know, a christian scientist could get a religious exemption. i could not go in as a reformed jew and say, oh, it's against my religion to get vaccinated, but now with a philosophical seemings, excuse me, all you need to do is say i don't believe in vaccines, and then you can go to school. your children can go to school without being vaccinated, and so there are now pockets around the country where there are communities with incredibly low vaccination rates, 60%-70%, which is much, much lower than needed to keep a given infectious disease out of that area, and so one thing that i hear a lot when i talk about this is, well, isn't it true that the overall vaccination rate in the country is still around 90% which is high, and for many diseases is a high enough level to essentially keep it from spreading across the country as a whole. well, yes, that's true, but that's a little bit like saying to someone without a job, well, the overall unemployment rate is 90% in the country, and so that should be fine. in those communities in which it's 60% or 80%, it's up credibly ea

as he has vowed? "this week" host christiane amanpour recently interviewed the man president reagan once called the mad dog of the middle east. christiane joins us. we understand you just got off the phone with his son, saif. what is gadhafi's strategy right now? >> well, i just asked him precisely those questions, will he leave? will he step aside? he said -- saif, his son, said, no, he won't, and he keeps saying that they are just fighting to protect the people of benghazi. that's their -- that's their -- that's their statement. i also asked him, would they carry out threats of retaliation, and saif said, no, that is not our target. bianna? >> christiane, spreading outside of libya, is there a growing sense that america's reputation in the region could take another hit given that they're intervening in libya now, but if you look at bahrain, and yemen, two strategically important countries to the u.s. are experiencing increased bloodshed among their own civilian population and could this perpetuate accusations of hypocrisy on the u.s.' side for not intervening? >> well there certainly are questions as to the logic of all this. if one intervenes

christian who is watching that for us tonight. >> let me start by shoying the current position of the jet stream and let's talk about how useful the jet stream is as tool and weather forecasting. narrow band in powerful wind. steering current for the weather system and jet stream can be forceful with winds up to 300 miles per hour and much mild we are winds down to 100 miles per hour so that could cause moisture or weather system may take couple days or 3 or 4 days to move the distance of 5500 miles from japan all the way to the california coast. it would be virtually impossible for anyone to say how long would it take radioactive particle to travel that distance in the jet stream because scientist seem to be inconclusive in the approximately and japanese authorities are saying there is no large release of radioactive particle. only hope it is tru true. we'll keep watching for you. thanks dan. >> later on in the hour. one expert says radiation could spread across the pacific. he says it comes down to the worst case scenario for japan nuclear crisis. >> the core in several reactor get so hot they fuse into a molten mass that burst through the canem

christian faith. i take him at his word. i have no reason not to. for us to continue to dwell on that, to me, is missing the point. i've no disagreement with president obama as a human being. in fact, i'll go so far to say one of the things i respect very much is the role model that he has served as a husband and a father, and i think he has been an exemplary husband to his wife and an extraordinary father to his daughters. frankly, america needs a good role model like that, and how can i on one hand argue for the primacy of the american family and not recognize that in his own personal lifestyle he has given us an excellent example of a person who has his priorities straight in marking out time for his wife and raising his daughters in a disciplinary environment in which he recognizes that he, the parent, is responsible for the or atmosphere in which they are raised? in and i commend him and salute him for that. i further mention that as a child growing up in the deep south, one who saw the evils of segregation and the horrors of racism, it did, in fact, give me cause to celebrate that in my own lifetime i saw an african-american elected to the presidency.

as anybody can tell, he doesn't have the munitions to effectively use that. i think the military risk posed by this is relatively small. >> reporter: on abc's "this week," with christiane amanpour, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said, the remaining amount of the chemical was being closely monitored. >> mustard gas, stockpiled. is that a problem? >> very closely monitored. i haven't seen it as a problem thus far. >> reporter: still, scored by americans have been billed by bold acts of libyan terrorism, over the years. pan am flight 103, in 1988, blown up over scotland. 189 americans dead. two years earlier, an attack on a german disco, popular with american servicemen. two u.s. servicemen dead. a former senior official, says gadhafi may have the motive, but not the means to attack again. >> i think from what we've seen in the past, he's got intent. but the second piece is capability. he's been out of this business for a long time. whether he's retained that capability is an open question. whether he can resuscitate it is a bigger question. >> reporter: in fact, the key to any gadhafi-ordered attack would be his network of intelligence officers with embassies

as the rights of christians, jews and even nonbelievers. of course, the first amendment protects not just the free exercise of religion, but also freedom of speech. that all of us, especially those of us in public life, have a responsibility choose our words carefully. we must condemn anti-muslim bigotry and make it clear that we won't tolerate religious discrimination in our communities. we can protect our nation and still protect the fundamental freedoms of our bill of rights. i would like to acknowledge senator leahy, i will let him -- senator graham come if you will proceed and i will let senator leahy, the chairman, make a statement. >> thank you, senator durbin. this is hearing that we need to have, quite frankly. these are difficult issues. what does it mean to practice religion in america? if it means that i have to stand up for your right to pursue your religion, because if i don't stand up for your right you won't stand up for my. the part of freedom of religion and speech means we can disagree. people can say one thing i've learned about freedom of speech, you can go to the funeral of an american serviceman who's been killed in action and say awful t

using drones, also ground attack planes all from the air. >>> meanwhile, the gadhafi government is sounding as defiant as ever about the military threat from the u.s. and its allies. christianeiding from whom? >> reporter: well, as you know, the united nations has taken a resolution that would potentially involve air strikes against your father's air defenses and various military placements. >> we are in our country with our people, and we are not afraid. >> reporter: what is your father's reaction, your reaction, to this resolution that's just been taken? >> first of all, it was unfair because, as you know, as you know, from the beginning we told everybody that there were no air strikes against civilians. >> defiant for sure. >>> meanwhile, celebrations literally erupted in rebel-held parts of libya after the u.n. vote. residents in the city of tobruk set off fireworks when they heard the news. families climbed to the rooftops and men and boys shot off rifles into the air. >>> and, of course, you can stay with abc news throughout the morning and day as we monitor the growing tension in libya today. we'll have live updates on not only "america this morning" but also later on

us in the studio. we're going to begin with the anchor of "this week," christiane amanpour. christiane, i know you spoke to gadhafi's son overnight. what are you hearing about this latest move? >> they're very defiant, assual. customary gadhafi bravado. saying it's not going to happen. it's not going to change. but it seems that the u.s. is trying to do a last-ditch effort to prevent a slaughter in benghazi. and saif gadhafi said, don't bomb us. it was very strange. listen to what he said. >> we want, even americans, to help us get rid of the remnants of those people and have a peaceful country. we want you to help us 20, you know, middle east democracy. more freedom. being peaceful. but not to threaten us with air strikes. we will not be afraid. >> and he said whatever happens is not going to cause his father to leave office. >> but i couldn't help but when we were listening with george. if you're waking up this morning and you hear that his father is considering shooting down passenger planes. american passenger planes. is he serious about that? >> well, the defense minister made that threat. and they did do lockerbie. they've taken admission for it. they do do that. clearly, one of the things that h