because as i say, this could be the beginning of an incremental creep by northern sudan onto south sudan. and if we don't stand up against that, then it will just happen in chunks. they will move onto the territory and what they want is the oil, let's be honest. in which case, god help us all and god help the people of south sudan who have enough on their plate anyway as it is because it's instantly going to become one of the world's poorest countries in july when it gets independence if not the poorest country in the world. and it has massive problems, not least that most of the educated people in south sudan were either killed or fled, and they now live in the west. and just as in bosnia, there's very little reason for them to return. so there's a lack of capacity in south sudan. if this isn't an incremental move by the khartoum government -- [audio difficulty] if it is all about repopulating abyei because there's been a majority or arab population joining north, where does that then lead it? it leaves the south sudanese absolutely furious. it leaves an awful lot of people who sacrific

basically, sudan, in 1956 was part of the british empire. the british drew a border that was 700 different tribes together. now surely this was never going to go terribly well. as is typical of the colonial powers, they chose one group of people, one ethnic group to do their bidding to try and control everybody else. that was the people who self-identify as arabs who live in khartoum and along the nile. since then it has been a story of the hegemony of the ethnic groups that define themselves as arab along the nile against everybody else. it is the story of marginalization. it is also a story of climate change because the sahara along here is moving south, in some places as much as 20 miles a year and other places as much as three miles a year. this is having an extraordinary domino effect and a lot of the ethnic groups who are living here, mainly self identified arab, having to move and they're moving onto land occupied by people who self identified as black african. now you are going to get bored of me saying people self-identify but here'

today on world world new fighting in southern sudan. is dictator omar bashir carrying out ethnic cleansing? how christian churches are helping refugees cope with their loss and one man's mission to fight disease-carrying mosquitos. how his invention is saving lives worldwide. war ethnic cleansing and looming humanitarian crisis in sudan. hello everyone, i am wendy griffith. george thomas is on assignment. on the north region in sudan, dictator is waging war. >> cathedral was burned and church of christ was burned as well. and my house was firednd chaplin skipped through a window and arrested some times later and tortured. my people have scattered, my staff scattered all over. really very terrible. >> that is bishop of the episcopal church of sudan. church and home destroyed and flock scattered. happening in the town of kadubly, an oil-rich area of sudan. ground troops attacked the city. dozens dead and 60,000 fled homes. the north wants to grab the oil and destroy the religious and ethnic populations there. >> arabs dominanting the powe

sudan's u.n. envoy insisted the peace keeping resolution can only set the stage for a longer lasting agreement. >> the troops, their presence there is interim. it's temporary. it's not a final or permanent. this resolution is not a substitute to the final settlement which we hope people will work very soon. >> warner: any settlement also has to divide the oil revenues in africa's third largest oil producer. most of that resource lies in newly minted south sudan while the north has most of the country's pipelines and refining capacity. i spoke about all this yesterday with the u.s. special envoy for sudan, princeton lyman on the overlook at the state department. thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> warner: the south is due to gain its independence on july 9, less than two weeks from now. now we've seen conflict erupting, bloody conflict in these two other regions. is the basic timetable for the south achieving independence still on track? >> the south will definitely declare independenc

there is a humanitarian crisis in sudan. tens of thousands flee as the government continues their strikes along the north-south border. warning of a financial meltdown in the u.s. the central bank chairman says the country's borrowing limits must be raised. and as part of our season why taiwan's increasing prosperity comes at a price as we talk exclusively to the president. >> during the course of economicic development the gap in income will widen and no country in the world has a narrowing gap. >> it is 9:00 a.m. here in singapore. temporary is 2:00 a.m. here in london. this is newsday. the u.n. accused sudan government of carrying out a bombing campaign near the north-south border. tens of thousands have fled their homes and urged the government to let them in to help victims of the fighting. the south is due to become independent next month. >> homeless and helpless, these are some of the tens of thousands people displaced by the latest fighting in sudan. they have taken shelter outside the local united nations headquart

sudan's u.n. envoy insisted the peace keeping resolution can only set the stage for a longer lasting agreement. >> the troops, their presence there is interim. it's temporary. it's not a final or permanent. this resolution is not a substitute to the final settlement which we hope people will work very soon. >> warner: any settlement also has to divide the oil revenues in africa's third largest oil producer. most of that resource lies in newly minted south sudan while the north has most of the country's pipelines and refining capacity. i spoke about all this yesterday with the u.s. special envoy for sudan, princeton lyman on the overlook at the state department. thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> warner: the south is due to gain its independence on july 9, less than two weeks from now. now we've seen cflict erupting, bloody conflict in these two other regions. is the basic timetable for the south achieving independence still on track? >> the south will definitely declare independence

jane ferguson for cnn, south sudan. >>> there are reports that north and south sudan could be closing in on a deal over abyu. they are both conditionally agreeing to withdraw forces. amnesty national deputy manager for affect. thanks for being with us. is there a deal or no deal? >> it's been reported that there is an agreement between the north and the south. to have a demilitaryized. >> just explain to people what the big deal is about. why is it so important? >> it is important because it is the major oil producing area in sudan. it is therefore disputeded by both sides with the south wanting to control abyu. but also because much of the oil in the country is routed through the north. so it is a critical part of sudan. >> how high are the stakes if they can't get over the stumbling block? >> it is absolutely critical. they have over the civil war there was conflict. the conflict as we have currently seen. and if there is no agreement then we may see a return of civil war. amnesty international is saying all parties must stop clashes and must ensure they do have have civilians. >> t

relationship even after southern sudan achieves independence next month. hu jintao met omar al bashir wednesday. the official chinese xinhua news agency said hu would keep his friendly policies toward sudan in place despite the change in the african nation's domestic affairs. hu pledged continued cooperation in resource development and agricultural assistance saying he backs investment in sudan by top rated chinese businesses. there has been global concern over china's invitation to bashir who is wanted for genocide in darfur. in january, people in southern sudan voted in a referendum and overwhelmingly chose to separate from the north. the south will declare independence on july 9th. observers say china aims to maintain its rights to oil and other resources in sudan by reaffirming ties to its current government andorging a relationship with the newly independent south. >>> time to check on some of the stories we've gathered from broadcasters around asia. we begin with this item sent by ddi india. the prime ministers of india and new zealand met in new del

all this is less than a month before south sudan family becomes a new nation. they have been meeting with other african politicians in ethiopia. if they cannot come up with a solution to their differences, trouble lies ahead. >> i think this is not surprising. the issues that are being dealt with for now in ethiopia went undecided in the last 12 months prior to the referendum. >> if that does happen, south sudan will be a nation not one of peace, but of war. >> the chairman of the u.s. federal reserve warned republican members of congress to vote in favor of lifting the current limits. if it is not reached by early august, the united states could start defaulting on its obligations >> president obama has already warned that unless the debt ceiling is lifted, there is a threat of another global financial crisis. then bernanke says that america 's creditworthiness is at stake. unless the government -- to fund the deficit, the government borrows money. but the the government can only borrow so much money before it has to go to congress and get approval to borrow m

and they think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly sudan sudan splits in half and they're finding they very rapidly having to make friends with the the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that the western governments because it's interesting going back to a point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know that the people are often rather silly exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian tigers put together are still much smaller proportion of what germany germany's foreign direct inve

and they think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly sudan saddam splits in half and they're finding they very rapidly having to make friends with the the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that the western government videos it's interesting going back to point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert b. that it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know people are often rather sort exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian tigers put together are still much smaller proportion of what germany germany's foreign direct investmen

and they think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly sudan saddam splits in half and they're finding they're very rapidly having to make friends with the the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that that western government because it's interesting to me going back to point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert because it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know the people are often rather sort exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian tigers put together are still much smaller proportion of what germany germany's foreign d

bashir in sudan and i think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly sudan saddam splits in half and they're finding them very rapidly having to make friends with the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that the western governments because it's interesting going back to point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert because it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know this the people are often rather silly exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian tigers put together are still much smaller proportion of what germany germany's foreign di

varias provincias de la sudÁn se unirÍan al nuevo país. los ataques ocurren en las provincias que el norte y el sur se disputan. >> en afganistan un un carro bomba causÓ la muerte de 35 personas y la destrucciÓn del pabellÓn de maternidad. el atentado que dejÓ 50 heridos fue provocado por un atacante suicida. en el este del paÍs. los talifanes negaron su responsabilidad en el hecho. >> un grupo de militantes suicidas atacÓ una estación de policÍas. dispararon hacia la estaciÓn minutos antes de algunos de.. de que algunos de ellos hicieron estallar explosivos. segÚn el reporte diez fallecieron en el hecho. ninguno asumiÓ responsabilidad. pero thmente sugieren que se parece a otros atentados cometidos por los talibanes que aseguran que habrÍa represalia por la miurte de osama bin laden. >> el senador republicana visitÓ la plaza en la capital egipcia, protestas que obligaron la salida, un viajo aliado de estados unidos. estuvo con un grupo de industriales y dijo que se sentÍa contento estar en la plaza donde se gestÓ una revolu

and others or their sudan we share at one site some appeared in the south on the other and there's a potential war right here with the chinese involved in a lot of these countries you never know how hard the americans are willing to push when it comes to fix it could you end up there just like we have been on in that region in sudan in the past of course everything is of the tape. not like this administration really think that it needs a legal justification for anything but i'm just curious does this fall under that authorization of the use of military force that they passed after nine eleven. was sadly you're absolutely right it's exactly what it says in part of this is the ability to use these drones to go where it is we believe we might be threatened we've extends to the point where we're actually going after american citizens and what i've talked about this in the past was a lark if this is american citizen or the americans u.s. government has unilaterally decided if you're going to go in and try to kill it american citizen without actually having any due process whatsoever they

sudan's president comes after a day that must be a successful visit. that is about to become independent. the visit remains controversial. he is wanted for genocide in the international public court. china is not a member of the court. running a spell is mackey mcdonald, the research analyst at the center for chinese studies. thank you for joining us. how controversial was this for china? >> good morning. controversy is more centered in western countries. that is less of an issue in china. the policy of non-interference has stayed with a standout -- with it. in terms of the interest of china has in the sudan, this would be in the bilateral relations. they would not too easily parish with the international security around president bashir. >> in the chinese energy sector, we think there are some attached to these investments by the chinese such as stopping the violence and going back to the negotiating table? >> i think his visit can be very firmly part of foreign policy. i think that china and genuinely wants a policy of non confrontation. they can exe

they say that it could derail the succession of southern sudan in july. european and imf officials said greece will be undergoing a month-long inspection. that there were already encouraging signs of a notable pickup in exports, but that further austerity measures would be introduced. still to come, we are going to peru, going to the wire in the presidential elections. headed to the polls this sunday. he was the doctor that helped to spur the right-to-die debate. friday, jack kevorkian passed away at the age of 86. >> detractors called him dr. death. a qualified physician who helped to end lives using a homemade contraptions. >> the patient decides which one. >> he set up the drugs, the patient activated the lethal injection. always on videotape to make sure they were acting of their own free will. >> i will continue to assist humans to alleviate their agony and interminable suffering. if it means they have to kill themselves, yes. >> the medical establishment was a guest. prosecutors tried in vain to have him convicted of murder. in 1998, jack kevorkian

. >> with some time in sudan, yes. >> rose: tell me about that. why did you want to go to africa? >> well, i had a... i wasn't quite sure what i wanted to do when i graduated college, which is not unusual. i won a fellowship, sothing called a microrockefeller fellowship which was set up by the son michael, governor rockefeller's son, who had been lost in new guinea and the one requirement is you spend a year in a distinctly non-western culture. and they gave me just enough money toet there and get home. not enough to hole up in a local intercontinental hotel. i wasnterested in being some place in africa. i'd never traveled outside the united states before so i wrote everybody who i knew who knew somebody in africa and i got one reply from this fellow on a project in sudan. he said "come. i'm not sure what you'll do but come over." >> rose: take a tangent for a second from me. tell me... your very good friend is president of the united states. what do you think his experience is? because i just had abook here, a woman who wrote about about his mother. what do you think his experien

both between north sudan and south sudan and darfur. so china is increasingly a moreositive actor, supporting the comprehensive peace agreement, engaging withhe pareses to try to bring themo the tableo incrsingly we're able to partner china on that. on iran china is part of the groups that's putting pressure on iran and worki with us to see whether diplomatic solution can be achieved. on north korea too, the chinese supported our efforts in the securit council to imposeew sanctions on north kor. and ha made very clear through the diplomacy that they expect north korea to avoid the provocations and to come back to the table. so there is a lot of positive cooperation there. we want more. we're engaging with the chinese. we have a unique broad based engagement there beginning with eight meetings between president clinton and president hu but also our new strategic and economic dialogue, chaired by secretary clinton and secretary quitener-- geithner bring hundreds of officials from all of the agencies i both governments to explore the full

then there is the example from sudan. from what i understand, the government set up a fake facebook protest in sudan, and then they arrested everybody who showed up. >> they used as bait for everyone who came out. in syria, we heard that people were arrested and had their facebook passwords and demanded. in morocco a few years ago, a young man was arrested for creating a fake profile of one of the princes. to this day, no one knows how the authorities found out it was him. did facebook turn over that information? there have been cases over the years of social media companies -- i don't want to say turning on their users because sometimes they are forced to comply with local laws. at the same time, they don't necessarily have our best interest at heart. we have to remember these are private companies, they don't know you anything. -- they don't owe you anything. >> when you put something on facebook, your privacy goes way down. i would not opposed anything on facebook where twitter that you do not want the media, your wife

president bush, the fact that people can watch television and watch the genocide that's happened in sudan and sit back and do nothing as a nation, we are the greatest nation on earth. we have the greatest democracy in the world. how could you look at the women in iraq or afghanistan or iran who are raped as a tool of war, who are not allowed to be he cade. who are forced to dress in clothing that you can't see anything of them because they are second rate citizens? nowhere do we have a democracy that is safe when you can demoralize half your population. >> you still center to make the intellectual leap for relieving the situation of misery or as the case in the sudan, split government and so forth. relieving it through war. and -- that's a terrific ladder to get up, to see war as relieving that rather than compounding it, because you're going to make -- you're going to probably make more enemies on all sides. >> it is -- >> and look militaristic. [everyone talking at once] there are other ways to attack the problem that are far more efficient than fleeing into the war bag! >> there are so

. >>> violence also escalated in a border region between northern and southern sudan. the fighting occurred in an area in the north where most of the population remains loyal to the south. the united nations said northern troops were attacking ethnic minorities, many of whom are christian. archbishop of canterbury rowan williams and president obama both urged an end to the violence. south sudan is poised to become an independent nation next month. >>> on capitol hill, republican congressman peter king convened a second hearing on muslim extremism in the united states. the topic was islamic radicalization in prisons. while one witness testified that this is a growing problem, especially among muslim converts, another reported that the risk of terrorism originating from muslim prisoners is small. several islamic groups criticized the hearing, saying it is unfair to investigate a group of americans solely because of their religion. >>> the nation's roman catholic bishops gathered in seattle this week for their annual spring meeting. a key part of the agenda was reviewing

for instance, in sudan where i am coming from, people there in the north of the sudan with sudan in the arab country in the north probably you might see no problem people teach arabic. but maybe in the other parts of the sudan, you know, you wouldn't -- you don't see that. even in other countries, even in egypt, for instance, you know, the conflicts must not be consistent of arab by arabs. so i think these are -- these are made mistakes. but these particular discussions i believe came in the right time. it's time that is where the arab is actually going through major changes. and i think coming up with a definition and the cognition for this particular to encompass all of this is very good. here in the united states, i think, you know, the abc initiated of reaching out to other arab countries and particularly sudan for the community and i think we can see the point when helping other people and i can give you one example. because of this newly started relationship of reaching out to the people who are from the arab world, from sudan, somalia, from the arab league and not included, you k

president bush, the fact that people can watch television and watch the genocide that's happened in sudan and sit back and do nothing as a nation, we are the greatest nation on earth. we have the greatest democracy in the world. how could you look at the women in iraq or afghanistan or iran who are raped as a tool of war, who are not allowed to be he cade. who are forced to dress in clothing that you can't see anything of them because they are second rate citizens? nowhere do we have a democracy that is safe when you can demoralize half your population. >> you still center to make the tellectual leap for relieving the situation of misery or as the case in the sudan, split government and so forth. relieving it through war. and -- that's a terrific ladder to get up, to see war as relieving that rather than compounding it, because you're going to make -- you're going to probably make more enemies on all sides. >> it is -- >> and look militaristic. [everyone talking at once] there are other ways to attack the problem that are far more efficient than fleeing into the war bag! >> there are some

think that they've they've they've got something sewn up like they will back a dictator like year in sudan and they think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly civil saddam splits in half and they're finding they very rapidly having to make friends with the the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that that western government because it's interesting going back to point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert because it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know people are often rather sort exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian ti

in sudan rival forces have agreed to withdraw from its border ahead of southern independence next week the agreement problems separate deals to end the fighting in two border areas which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee. the two are still to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth after separation the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. for its journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men had been held hostage by the taliban a brother said to be in good health and good spirits the reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . now almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation were just placed. their homeland four thousand mess he exiled by the stalin regime are scattered around the globe and even today are not made welcome in their ancestral land are dismissing a que

think that they've they've they've got something sewn up like they will back a dictator like year in sudan and i think that will give them. permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly splits in half and they're finding they very rapidly having to make friends with the the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kind of problems that that western government because it's interesting going back to a point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert b. that it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know people are often rather sort of exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian tigers put to

we were sudan's the south sudan was because. it was. something. and it was also a problem we've got a grim a function and it's taliban target by five hundred metres claims a shit scheme prosecutors alleged it was revenge for the roadside bomb which killed another polish soldier earlier in the day experts say it's unlikely anything could go so catastrophic the wrong this is not logical the operator of the more could not make such a serious error such a large distance question is did they decide to fire themselves or did they receive this command from above but there is no doubt they were shooting at the village nearby. to defend this small group the commanders of the attack and three should be the one standing trial activists while the conflict continues civilian deaths from nato bombing or inevitable will only rise you know the longer the war goes the song the war situation is so the answer is i think quite simple to withdraw troops from afghanistan as a beginning of any process of the opposition of this country because their troops western troops

a rival forces in the sudan have mutually agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which forced some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil well will be divided once the separation takes place in the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits with a t.v. reporter and his cameraman who were taken along with their afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while they were filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the nineteen eighties. and next we talked to british union leader mark who says public sector workers won't stop until they achieve their goals. thank. you. today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the thirti

seems with civil society in african countries today then china has been you can see that of course in sudan you can also see that when the chinese were trying to export weapons into zimbabwe and civil society and workers in angola in south africa refused to offload those weapons going into zimbabwe and so it is there is a sense to which the west is more aligned with. the democratic forces in africa ok robert if i could go to you i'm not sure that that's that's really that's really you could allow him to get away with that i mean just look at the downfall of mubarak and ben ali in egypt in tunis in respectively i mean those people who were funded to the hilt by the western governments these were despotic regimes with with a strong military and they have been overthrown not by civil society not by these these these new new missionaries of development the ngos but rather by a mass uprising and it hasn't been confined only to egypt and tunisia we've had libya we've had got ball and been in brooklyn a far so swaziland ethiopia uganda and so on even in south africa the recent south african police

seems with civil society in african countries today then china has been you can see that of course in sudan you can also see that when the chinese were trying to export weapons into zimbabwe and civil society and workers in angola in south africa refused to offload those weapons going into zimbabwe and so it is there is a sense to which the west is more aligned with the democratic forces in africa ok robert if i could go you know i'm not sure that that's not really that's really you could i wanted to get away with that i mean just look at the downfall of mubarak and ben ali in egypt in tunis. respectively i mean those people who were funded to the hilt by the western governments these were despotic regimes with with a strong military and they have been overthrown not by civil society not by these these these new new missionaries of development the ngos but rather by a mass uprising and it hasn't been confined only to egypt in tunis here we've had libya we've had got ball and been in brooklyn a far so swaziland ethiopia uganda and so on even in south africa the recent south african police re

speaker, given the sensitive timeline for change in sudan, what commitments can the secretary of state give to people there particularly -- >> mr. speaker, together with the other prime ministers from norway and the united states i visited south and north sudan recently. the situation is extremely tense at the moment and we want to approach these negotiations in a spirit of good will and compromise and that is the way to reach the birth of a new state on july the 9th and the full completion of the comprehensive peace agreement. >> order. questions to the prime minister. jackie doyle price. >> here, here. >> number 1, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to the following brave servicemen who died in afghanistan since we last met. kevin fortuna and martin lamb from first battalion the rifles. marine samuel alexander and lance corporal martin gill from 42 commander royal marines and corporal mike pike from the fourth battalion the royal regiment of the scotland. all of them were dedicated professionals serving our country.

rebel forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from the border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth after the separation takes place the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his cameramen were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french national since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation were displaced from their homeland four hundred thousand mis he turks were exiled by the stalin regime and scattered around the globe even today they feel unwelcome in their ancestra

forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from the border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows separate deals to end fighting in two border areas which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides are still to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth and for separation the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits because the reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine filming in remote mountains it's the longest caesar of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . secretary of defense robert gates has announced his retirement after almost five years in the job but with three ongoing wars involving america his replacement former cia director and the out of panetta is expected to make dramatic changes to

ahead of sudan's independence next month. pretty frightening, but look at this. this is video from earlier this week, sudanese warplanes dropped bombs. at least 100,000 people have fled areas where northern troops have taken control. to libya now. libya's complaining about another target chosen by nato. the government session an air strike friday hit a university in tripoli. nato denies the charge. the only targets on friday were military vehicle storage facilities. the alliance has admitted to strikes on friday. >>> former congressman anthony weiner, in trouble. heckled during his resignation speech over his sexting scandal. have lenaamericans always been intolerant of scandal? we're going to ask dr. wendy walsh next. >>> when it comes down to it, what kids learn at home is just as important as what they learn in school. that was true in the case of chris gardner, whose best selling book was made into a hit movie. our christine romans has his story in tonight's edition of "smart is the new rich". >> don't ever let somebody t

rival forces in sudan have mutually agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee or the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation takes place the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen the long wilds of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in a good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his camera bag were taken along with their afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine when filming in remote mountains well it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the 1980's. the russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in russia is illegal the writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church have been ruled extremist and anti social. is outside the scientology he

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the chinese think that they've got something sewn up like they will back a dictator like basheer in sudan and i think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenly some violence and arms splits in half and they're finding they very rapidly having to make friends with the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that that western government because it's interesting to me going back to point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert that it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed and what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know people are often rather silly exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all t

the plume, which you can see is extending towards sudan, disrupted airline schedules. the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton cut short her visit to ethiopia to make sure she didn't get stranded there. meanwhile, in australia and new zealand airlines are still trying to clear a backlog of passengers caused by an ash cloud from a volcano in chile. jennifer delgado has more on that. jen? >>> that was certainly a big disruption and for today travelers will still need to check ahead. the volcano is still erupting which means we will see the potential for more of that ash to be pushed over towards the east of chile. there is the site of the volume kay know that has been erupting. we are still dealing with the ash so with the winds coming in it's going to continue to push that ash over to the east. as i show you on the satellite imagery you can see how it spread over to areas including buenos aires yesterday and that's why we had those delays. so when you're dealing with volcanic ash like this, really just can't get too upset because it's all up to mother nature. winds will conti

much of the trouble is along the border with northern sudan. in the latest fighting, the north's army shelled a town today in the disputed area. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: there's another kind of stirring going on in the arab world on behalf of women in saudi arabia who are forbidden to drive a car. this may not look like radical activity, but in saudi arabia today, women got behind the wheel in a drive for new freedoms. videos posted on youtube showed several women driving in riyadh and other cities, in direct violation of a religious ban in the conservative muslim kingdom. >> ( translated ): this is what we want to do. we do not want to count on other drivers. i need to go to my work, and if i need anything, i can drive myself. i think the community is ready to accept us and welcome us as drivers. >> woodruff: for weeks, activists, using social networking, had urged saudi women with international driving licenses to turn out for today's "women-2-drive" effort. the protest was sparked last month

rebel forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting for some one hundred seventy thousand people to free the two sides still have to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth after the separation takes place the region has seen more than two decades of civil war that's claimed over two million lives. in france journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men had been held hostage by the taliban are said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his camera man were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine welcoming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation purchased place from their homeland four hundred thousand miss he should turks were exiled by the stalin regime and scattered around the globe even today they feel unwelcome in their ancest