. >> warr: "guardian" newspaper comnist jonathan freedland says british pubc opinion shiftedramaticallyagainst the war th year after the current missioin helmand province advertised as peacekeeping turned bloody. nearly 240 british sdiers have been kled, a far higher per- capita death rate than u. forces. >> thahad been presented to britain being a deployment that would happen without,n the words the defense cretary at the time, without shot being fired this would be a r with no human st. the simple fact at changed the debate in britain i thinon afghanistan waa matter of blood d lives lost. >> warr: a memorial in this quiet park in reing stands as a symbol of imperial btain's willingnesto fight and die overas in centuries past. it honora british force that fought an erwhelming afghan army 130 years ago near kandar and st some 300 men. >> warr: so the weight of britn's disastrous earlier wars in afghanistan hangheavy here. the question is:o the british people have the stomach fo another afgh campaign that will carve more nameon memorials ke this one? prime minister gordon own - who's sen

. >> warr: now for the other news of thday, here is hari sreenivasan in o newsroom. sreenivasan: a passenger allegedly tried to bloup a deltairlines flight as it landed in detroit. happened as the airbus 330 was coming in from amsrdam, the nethernds. a nior counterterrorism official quoted as sing the suspect tried to s off a bomb but it failed. itial reports said passenger set off firecracrs before being subdued. there were minor injurs reported. police in kistan say they plan to charge five american musls th violating their antiterro laws. the men were taken to a mastrate today after being detained earlier thimonth. theyllegedly had maps of a pakistani air force base and power plantsplus emails linking them to militants. the pakistan case cod hamper efforts to return e men to the u.s.o face charges of aiding a terrorist group. a christmaeve bus crash in the andes mountas of peru killed at least 42 pele, most farmers and merchants on the way home from t holidays. the bus plunged 250 feet inta ravine. thperu accidents often blamed on poorly maintaed mountain roads an

. >> warr: lynn sweet, chicago sun times. thk you so much. >> thank you >>rown: and we move on to copenhagen, wherray suarez is coring the climate summit this week. only a feways remain, and there are still very bigivides betweericher and poorer countries; andetween china, the largest greenhouse gas poller, and the u.s., which was the biggest until rently. ray gins with this report. >> suarez: a chine special representive to the climate talks committed china greenhouse gas reducti but rejectany efforts like those demanded by the united stes to check china's compliance. and warned against using trade as a weapon, sugsted by congress's climate change bill passed in sepmber. >> we opposehe actions of any country that sets up n trade baiers under the cuse of protecting the planet. >> suarez: and yu id he's keenly aware, as arehe other negotiators th time is ruing out for an agreement. t he said the industrialized countrie long-term, heavy users of fossil fuels, an't even facing up to their responsibilitiesow. he switched to engli