yes i'm not sure that's true quite now after all the yemeni army and yemeni government is fire fighting al qaida down in the south and we have used drones we have a common enemy and fortunately they've made themselves a better target by concentrating down there with the u.s. has done quite a bit the american ambassador along with his european union colleagues especially the german have tried very hard it's a tough situation it's difficult the president is kind of a difficult target you think you have a commitment and it's gone but we understand that. even if he was helpful to us in some regards in the past is is fundamentally gone and there has to be a new regime but it's going to take a collective effort by a lot of people and the g.c.c. in the end i would hope would come through with some substantial economic assistance to help the country there are a lot of different factions on the contrary and they're not united fortunately there's the vice president i think everybody hopes will now be able to play a more more useful role and we hope fairly soon with luck that you might get an agre

it will be key to whether it is the yemeni forces or u.s.at carried out this attack, if true. it is really important to know that u.s. special forces have been in and out of yemen for some time. we know there was a contingent there recently working on training and counterterrorism assistance, if you will, with the yemenis. we don't know if the u.s. troops were involved, but there were u.s. troops there recently. multiple military sources have told us that. as you said, one of the key things about awlaki is his involvement with al qaeda in yemen. they in recent years have proved to be the one terrorist group that essentially could reach out and touch inside the united states through the underwear bomber incident, the times square incident, whether it was inspired by al awlaki or carried out at his orders, still it was this extraordinary influence that he carried in recent years with these very small attack attempts, but yet attack attempts that could reach out and touch inside the united states for one of the few times since 9/11 when these i

>> you have the yemeni security services. they're distracted with their own sort of internal strife and chaos. but there's been, i am told by both sides, that the counterterrorism cooperation the last three months is the best it has ever been and there has been a real change of information. that also included i suspect, regional partners. >> now, is there any video? do you have pictures of what happened? you know, we talked so much about this in the case of osama bin laden. which by the way, authorities were much more forthcoming with information than they have been this time. >> i'll say this. if there are videos or pictures, we will never see them. if it was in fact as has been reported, a drone strike, typically, there is a, it's a grainy black and white sort of video, but there will be very precise video that help them assure themselves just before the button got pushed that they were locked on to the right target and got the order probably from the cia director. >> i have to push you just a little bit on this issue of an

. >> the second day of deadly violence in the yemeni capital. the street battle is bringing to an end what is effectively a political stalemate lasted for months. the protesters have been trying to extend the area where they have been camping in thousands, demanding that these long time yemeni ruler, president saleh, leave office for good.

we're told by the yemeni embassy in washington, d.c. that the operation that killed anwar al awlaki was killed out in a province of yemen about 140 kilometers from the capital, from sanaa. interesting, because anwar alky was believed to be in another province that's known to be a stronghold for militants, and al qaeda and an says-of-a also, trying to target and kill al awlaki and -- [ inaudible ]. >> all right. we're having technical difficulties, because, obviously, it's difficult to have somebody from istanbul. let's head to washington. >>> we're talking about waking up to news to nor key al qaeda death, but we still don't know a lot about how anwar al awlaki died. what do we know now, dan lothian? >> reporter: as reported, in fact, anwar al awlaki is in fact dead. what we're still waiting to find out is the u.s., and what role the u.s. might have played in his death. the haas been very active in that region over the last few years with u.s. drone attacks and there were at least a couple of other reports post some of those drone attac

/yemeni government operation. do you have a sense at all about how much involvement the yemeni's actually had? we do know the drone was a cia drone. that's what we're told. what was the yemeni part. >> that remains to be seen. they may have provided some assistance on the ground in understanding where his hideout was. that would be something that would be tough for the u.s. to figure out, pretty -- a little easier for the yemeni forces to figure out. they understand the ground, they understand the tribal structure on the ground in yemen and where awlaki may have been hiding out. to track him and then be able to call in a drone with that kind of firepower, with that kind of precision targeting, with jets over head ready to drop bombs if it came to that. that's the kind of sophisticated coordination technology communications and intelligence that i think we will assume by all accounts from every source we've talked to. it's that heavy lifting that was done by the u.s. intelligence community and the u.s. military. >>

he'd taken a yemeni police delegation on a tour of elaine's and other hotspots. was working them, trying to get unfettered access to al quso and what he knew. but then he was told he wouldn't be allowed to return to yemen. ambassador bodine denied his visa. >> i mean, john was not rational on the topic of ambassador barbara bodine. i mean, "livid" would be putting it mildly. i mean, one can't forget that... that john was... he was very american, but he was also very irish. >> interviewer: and that means? >> that means when he got hot, he got hot. and he was hot; there's no question about it. i think he felt that... that she was on the wrong side. >> narrator: ambassador bodine would not grant frontline's request for an interview. she was quoted in the "new yorker" magazine: "the idea that john or his people or the fbi were somehow barred from doing their job is insulting to the us government, which was working on al qaeda before john ever showed up. this is all my embassy did for ten months." for weeks, the ambassador had been making the case against o'neill, eve

/yemeni citizen. even if we captured him for you, we could not extradite him under our constitution. he would not even give us access. he was a teacher at a university and we knew when we shared with him that he was ralicalizing people we were afraid would ultimately be deployed to attack the united states. >> a tremendous coup this morning. fran, we'll talk a lot more throughout the morning, as well. you know, the death of this terror leader is making headlines worldwide. our zain verjee is following that for us in london. what exactly is the international reaction you start to comb through it all this morning, zain? >> hi, kyra. good morning. let's look at the guardian here in the uk is saying. this is the headline it has. "anwar al awlaki's death is a blow to al qaeda, but his message is still alive." it says, "though his own importance within al qaeda can be exaggerated, the demise of the american-yemeni will nonetheless have significant consequences." "assassinated cleric awlaki a charismatic." h

and really caught on as a kind of plus possible resource for considered profits for both local yemeni power holders stakeholders and the outside world banking world. and this is taking the form usually in the micro finance thinking. there's particularly successful banks as far as investors are concerned in this operation called blank was given a reward last year for distributing over sixty thousand loans in yemen. for of course what micro finance is famous for starting up small businesses etc cetera but what's turned out is that many of the clients of this bank are not either paying back these loans or cannot pay back these let me put you off right after a second and get into this micro financing for a second because we all know that micro five adults heralded as the solution for third world development famously they went in bangladesh where clients of grameen bank and they had a green bank yeah yanis want to nobel prize peace prize but now it seems as though it's a trojan horse that it's actually just a way to use debt at least it is many times before to create debt slavery situation

intelligence community and the yemeni government.t it is a missile off a u.s. piloted unmanned drone that killed awlaki and three others. suzanne? >> barbara, explain to us the significance here. because we also heard president obama not only praising u.s. intelligence but he also praised yemeni officials, as well. what is the importance of the united states and yemen working together here to -- for this particular strike in getting this terrorist? >> well, look, you know, yemen has been a safe haven, if you will, for al qaeda in that country now for some time. maybe two years ago that then general paetraeus, now cia director, was pointing them for a major safe haven for al qaeda and now al qaeda in that country was becoming a serious -- very serious threat. in fact, of course, as we have talked about all day now, it is al qaeda in yemen that's been able to stage attacks, reach out and touch inside the united states, with the underwear bomber situation, as well as other inspired attacks. so that's the importance of al qaeda in yemen.

corporation from the yemenis. in fact, the likes of al qaeda in yemen somewhat reckless lately because the yemeni forces so aggressive in attacking elements of al qaeda there in yemen that they probably let down their guard which allowed the u.s. to track anwar al awlaki and pinpoint him to be able to kill him today. >> the very latest on the breaking news this morning, jim miklaszewski, thank you as always. >> okay, richard. >> now more perspective on this. how big of a catch is this, secretary? >> well, as jim miklaszewski said, it's very big in terms of this individual being one of the most important and most inspirational. and having moved from the inspirational to the operational made him a significant threat but i think we should not be misled by this. the fact we killed him and assuming that's the case and confirmed, others will come forward. this is not a war such where you have an end. it will not be an end to terrorism as long as you have desperate poverty in some countries, radical religious inspiration

and their yemeni president ali abdullah saleh has returned to the countries three months after surviving an assassin. nation of tam meanwhile the death toll from five days of clashes between pro and anti-government forces has reached one hundred people on thursday fighting rages with heavy explosions and gunfire across the capital sana'a protester set fire to a house worth he believed snipers that had killed two people were high a crackdown and to regime protests was renewed on sunday this comes despite reports the vice president is considering a transfer of power something that's been a key demand from demonstrators and the situation in the country will be up for debate later today in crossed up. asks his pal gas if foreign intervention could solve the crisis there. the yemenis do have the power to settle accounts with the seller to take the ship and that's the principle here is the people who do the fighting through the running of the country afterwards we've seen it and it's one hundred first airborne or u.s. a.f. all the aria all the french air force they get to control the country a

the yemeni president to return it to his country months after surviving an assassination attempt on the fears of more violence as five days of fighting between pro and anti regime forces leave doesn't. also fears of a double global recession intensify in the wake of thursday's huge markets plunge the nobody all the way from asia to debt the euro. and as the u.s. expands its network of drone bases in east africa to target al qaeda critics highlight the civilian cost of the unmanned planes have had on pakistan. twenty four hour news live from moscow this is our with me. building among palestinians ahead of a formal request for you when recognition expected to be submitted shortly here by just being accompanied by trouble with clashes erupting at one of the checkpoints of the palestinian israeli border. at the scene of the rest. tensions are running high here on the kalandia checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah the police behind me are firing at the palestinian youths that have moved further down the road the situation here is really changed is a photographer just in front of me that'

taken into consideration so considering that saudi arabia doesn't want anybody to intervene in the yemeni internal affairs. considering also that rain is an important ally to the united states but sea is also and contrary to interests of saudi arabia is attached in this context we can see that with the ongoing serious situation in syria we also the violence is there are going on in syria it seems that some countries i would include the united states but also france and the u.k. and so on want to build a pressure further pressure on the syrian regime when you all do you talk and when you talk about western powers are building the pressure on the syrian regime let's address the issue now that if the violence in yemen continues what measures from the international community do you expect that we heard the british prime minister david cameron saying just about twenty four hours ago the united nations that the intervention in libya could serve as a template for other forms of intervention could a libyan style military intervention be on the cards nothing yemen well i think that on the shore. i

the yemeni president's return to his country months after surviving an assassination attempt from fears of more violence as five days of fighting between pro and anti regime forces leaves dozens dead. also fears of a double dip recession intensify in the wake of thursday's markets plunge that spirit no one from europe to the u.s. for stocks heading for the worst weekly losses in three years. why does the u.s. expand his network of drones bases in east africa to target al qaida critics highlight the civilian costs that the unmanned planes have had on pakistan. hello very warm welcome to you watching our team from moscow with me kev you know it's now eight pm here in our top story for you tonight palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has just submitted the paid for united nations recognition for full statehood to the u.n. secretary general and he's about to address the general assembly as the showdown in new york unfolds let's go to new york so we are taking the fortnight they bring us the latest so there are no rev of the big zen what happens now. the bit is in kevin the palestinian president

also the yemeni president's returning to his country months after surviving an assassination attempt from peers over more violence survived days of fighting between pro and anti regime forces leaves dozens of people. also fears of a double global recession intensify the wake of thursday's huge markets plunge that spared no one all the way from asia to britain europe. and as the u.s. expands its network of drone bases in east africa to target al qaida. civilian cars the unmanned planes are out on pakistan. it is just moments after six pm here in moscow this is our with me the recent shake anticipation is building among palestinians ahead of a formal request for u.n. recognition expected to be submitted just a little bit later on friday first despite a u.s. promise to veto it and reports that the security council won't hold the vote on the issue for quite some time meantime clashes have erupted at one of the checkpoints the palestinian israeli border artist. is at the scene of the unrest. but tensions are running high here on the kalandia checkpoint between him and ramallah the police

and in other news the yemeni president's return to his country months after surviving the nation attempt problems fears of more violence is five days of fighting between pro and anti regime forces leave dozens dead. also fears of a double dip global recession intensify in the wake of thursday's markets plunge and spared no one from the debt ridden europe to the u.s. stocks heading for the worst weekly losses in three years. and as the u.s. expands its network of drone bases in east africa to target al-qaeda critics highlight the civilian cost of the unmanned planes have had on pakistan we report for you. hello and welcome your chin r.t. for moscow with me kevin zero in this hour it's now nine pm on our top story tonight as mahmoud abbas has been addressing the u.n. general assembly tensions continue to be i only. palestinian israeli border marti's paul asli is live for us at one of the search for interesting the this afternoon addressing and seeing what's happening men of color what is the situation on the borders as the u.n. showdown unfolds. well the situation here on the israeli pales

if you ask the vast majority of yemenis a question, who do you think is sibigger threat to the world, i asked to take issue at something robin said. if you look at the connection between the alleged ft. hood shooter who was not prosecuted, the e-mails did not give an indication he praised after the fact. what investigators said that reviewed those is they were having a religious discussion. it may have been a radical discussion, but to leap from that to being operational as so many are doing is irresponsible. we have the president playing judge, jury, and executioner. that should be the premier issue we are discussing. >> some are suggesting that president obama had more foreign policy successes under his watch than any other president in the last 20 years and yet this morning we are hearing former ambassador to the un john bolton attempting to play down the president's success. you are an objective expert. me, do you agree that the obama administration has been effective? >> when you look at the administration, either in the so-called war on terrorism, we are dealing with extremism.

he returned to the country. >> rose: he's an american citizen. >> a dual citizen, yemeni and u.s. and then there is a peculiar set of circumstances because by this time the government was after him for visa fraud. the fbi arranged that he not be held or arrested for that. he was allowed to leave the country again. a fox reporter named catherine-- looked at this. therwas another yemeni naked mukda abdullah who was clearly involved in helping the hijackers, also was in our custody. denied having any knowlge about this but as we recount in our report there is suspicious stuff about this. and when we tried to question him, he was deported by the u.s. government for reasons that puzzled us at the time. we can't, i'm simply saying in our commission report we couldn't prove there was a support network. what we could prove was that there were some odd and puzzling circumstances, especially surrounding group of people mainly yemenies. and we laid out in the report, here's what we know, here is what he don't know. and this needs more work. and those puzzles that we identified in '04 to us r

. >> the second day of deadly violence in the yemeni capital.he street battle is bringing to an end what is effectively a political stalemate lasted for months. the protesters have been trying to extend the area where they have been camping in thousands, demanding that these long time yemeni ruler, president saleh, leave office for good. and in this new confrontation between the demonstrators and the security forces, many more casualties today hastily remove to hospitals and makeshift clinics. it has forced yemen and fears of a greater escalation of the deadlock continues back into the international arena. >> we call on the government to end attacks against civilians and civilian targets. in full compliance with yemen's obligations under international human rights law. >> the government's will investigate and hold accountable all those responsible for these attacks. it is unfortunate that those events yesterday occurred at a time while some solutions for the political crisis started to appear. >> saleh greater than left for treatment in saudi ar

so it hasn't been confirmed yet, but the yemeni officials do seem to be saying that. >> tell us a bit more about it, because he is a man who president obama himself gave the authority for the c.i.a. to chase down. >> which is significant, because this is someone who was born in the u.s., a u.s. citizen, but who has become one of the most influential figures in al qaeda after the osama bin laden, who is now, of course, dead,. al-awlaki is really significant because he's a radicalizer. he's been able to reach out, particularly to those acceptable to radicalization in the united states, brings an, and other countries, through his use of the media, through his use of sermons, his ability to speak english fluently. he's been very effective at inspiring people to fight for al qaeda, linked to far fort hood shooting in the united states, linked to the printer cartridge plot, which targeted the u.s. particularly. but also, a number of other issues, the so-called underpants bomber. all of these plots came out of yemen in the last few years, and yemen has been seen as one of the most dangerous

to talk to the world's other main news right now at seventeen minutes past the hour here in moscow yemeni warplanes reportedly bombed a mosque in the south that was thought to be occupied by islamic militants killing at least thirty it follows the deaths of seventeen extremists in yemeni strikes in the region the insurgents were linked to al qaida and took over the city of april amid the ongoing government demonstrations and political crisis in the country. the corruption trial of former president jacques chirac has resumed but the judge says the frail statesman won't have to turn a seventy eight year old is charged with embezzlement while mayor of paris and paying party members for nonexistent jobs. he's suffering memory lapses because of his failing health is the first french president to face trial since the second world war could get ten years in jail if convicted. and its main opposition party the former rebel movement which is now the ruling party in the newly independent south sudan police arrested members and seized property claiming the s.p.l. and party is illegal decades of civi

now some of the other main news stories that right now are the yemeni who played forty of the bombs on mosque in the south that was thought to be occupied by islamic militants killing at least thirty acknowledged the killing of seventeen extremists in yemeni air strikes in the region is surgeons willing. to go over this is your job i have a problem with the ongoing anti-government demonstrations and political crisis in the country. the march delayed trial of former french president jacques resuming with judges deciding whether the frail seventy eight year old is well enough to face court he's charged with. the mayor of paris and paying party members the knowledge as to jobs the long serving its leaders the first friend president to go on trial since the war he faces ten years jail if convicted. downs bandits and main opposition party the former rebel movement which is now the ruling party in the new year depend the. police arrested members and seized property claiming in the s.p.l. a party is illegal decades of civil war saw the country split into interim by tensions remain in disputed

toll from five days of violence now to one hundred that's as the country's president returned to the yemeni capital three months after surviving an assassination attempt. programs continue that next moscow team takes you to the ancient russian sound of reborn from because some mediæval sights and sounds the next year on our t.v. . hello good to see you again and welcome on this week's episode the must go out scene are in the back or of the largest and most people towns of the leningrad region and russia also owned by sweden and then finland today it still for says they create that evil look of an old and european town so join me as we travel back in time and see what cultural attractions are off to get here the moscow team took an overnight train from that encrypts the station known as be prepared to finish the script for some time is located around eight hundred kilometers from the russian capital. looking around to see the area's medieval houses some in value condition but others will call on the couple's lanes and witness the wonderful cock town cathedrals and various architecture the me

or the r e a f l the french air force they get to control the country afterwards the yemenis themselves likely chick from the local traditions whatever the political differences amongst them they're the people who get the flu the liberating and they're the people who got to run their country afterwards. all right we're up to date and let's now get more on the economic slump that has hit markets across the globe business news next with marina. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. global economic uncertainty has pushed the russian markets syllables of since two thousand and seven but this may not be the end of the slog as investors are waiting for a clear on our policy response in the us and europe or from more or less i'm now joined by ben our sensor in chief at a business in europe thank you so much for joining us i want to ask you how much does the market performance right now reminds you of two thousand and eight well partly because it's a very bad sell off entirely and so much as i don't see the panic i think is more a flight quality of safe haven such as people think exists be

five days of violence reaching one hundred and that's one of the country's president returns to be yemeni capital three months after surviving an assassination. those are the headlines around r.t. but do stick around next it's the moscow out taking all of us to the town although it's a picture perfect town with views right from the middle ages it's time to get medieval here on its. allowed to see you again i welcome on this week's episode the must go out scene are in the back of the largest and most people towns of the leningrad region and russia once owned by sweden and then finland today it still poseurs the great medieval look of a northern european town so join me as we travel back in time and see what cultural attractions are off to get here the most crowd scene took an overnight train from the negro city station known as the free by the finish this quaint christian town is located around eight hundred kilometers from the russian capital. looking around the sea there is medieval houses some invite you condition but others walk along the cobbled lanes and witness the wonderful clock t

ok before about some of the world's opium a nice and brief this hour and a yemeni warpaint has reportedly found in the south that was thought to be ok by islamic militants killing it. people acknowledged the killing of seventeen extremists in yemeni air strikes in the region the insurgents were linked to al qaida over the city of job in april and may be ongoing anti-government demonstrations and political crisis in the country. remarks delayed trial of former french president jacques chirac is resuming with jobs is deciding whether the frail seventy eight year old is well enough to face cause he's charged with the mayor of the mayor of paris and paying party members the non-existent jobs for the long serving ex leader is the first french president to go on trial since the second world war he faces ten years in jail if convicted. rescue is in japan are searching for those still missing after a powerful typhoon that left at least twenty five people dead the storm caused massive floods and landslides as well as leveling roads and homes well thousands of people are still stranded with many re

or the aria or the french air force they get to control the country afterwards it's the yemenis themselves like the egyptians like the tunisians whatever the political differences amongst them they're the people who get through the liberating and then people who get to run their country afterwards. but if you stay with us here on the way to moscow now team take you to the city of a border kids in russia's north western area it's a medieval town still very much alive in the twenty first century and the journey to this alternative reality begins shortly that's right after the business with a very. business here on r.t. global economic uncertainty has pushed the russian markets to levels of two thousand and ten but this may not be the end of the song as investors are waiting for a clearer policy response in the u.s. and europe correspondent. p.r.c.'s in central moscow hello igor it's the very middle of the trading day now is the word of the investors as gloomy as the weather or has a change perhaps. well as the weather but perhaps not as gloomy as yesterday yesterday we saw record falls falls

doesn't want anybody to intervene in yemeni internal affairs considering also that rain is an important ally to the united states but see is also and contrary to which interests the saudi arabia is at that stage in this context we can see that. the ongoing situation in syria was also the violence is that are going on in syria it seems that some countries i would include the united states but also france and the u.k. and so on one to build a pressure further pressure on the syrian regime. if you are following this story would probably also be interested know that yemen is also the subject of the latest crosstalk coming up on this channel full program coming your way of just now is time no p.t. will be here is a quick taster of what's in store. let me just confirm contrast libya and yemen yes we would like to see and not fly zone but we don't want any aircraft to be actually in the in the air hitting people or he did you know some sports in the ground simply wrong and it was. a key principle here is the people who do the fighting get that through the running of the country afterwards we'v

the yemenis do have the power to settle accounts with a solid dictatorship and the key principle here is the people who do the fighting get to do the running of the country out of the woods we've seen it going again if it's one hundred first airborne or u.s. a.f. all the aria the french air force they get the control country afterwards if the yemenis themselves like the egyptians like the tunisians whatever the political differences amongst them they are the people who get through the liberating and they're the people who get to run their country afterwards. if you stay with us across the uk you're an r.t. in about ten minutes time but for now though it's the business with america. hello and welcome to business here on our global economic uncertainty has pushed the russian markets to levels of two thousand and ten but this may not be the end of the slump last and that's why waiting for a clearer policy response in the us and in europe correspondent either that or defend an r.t.s. in central moscow for us hello to either wall can you tell us what's the latest on the russian markets. we