we use internet. we use phone when we can. we get to meetac f to face when we can.ac we use everything we can to keep the movement on, to keep thean people aware of what's going on in thecith erties. because it is very important thing to encourage the people around the country that they are not alone and they are... and other cities are continuing moving and going on. >> brown: what's driving the protest now? what's the goal at this point? >> their freedom. democratic regime. a regime where we have our dignity and we have our freedom. for more than 40 years, we live without freedom and democracy. kind of besides that, the killing which wa crafted by the authority against its own oppe last month makeeoplope believe that it's impossle for this regime toanch ge it from inside, to tchry to make any rlea change, anreal reforms which led at the end temocraic regime. so there are continuing... so they are continuing until they get complete freedom. razan zaitouneh in damascus, thank you so much for talking to us. >> thank you. >> war

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these are often dual-use areas that are used for accommodation but also used for command-and-control for the armed forces that are killing and terrorizing the population. >> warner: now the british are also sending in special forces as trainers. are they there yet? and what are they actually going to be doing with the rebel forces? >> well, they're not trainers. they're advisors. they're there to advise in very limited circumstances on organizational capability, on communications, and on logistics, basically how the opposition forces can get better use out of what they've already got rather than training them. the reason for that is that we feel that that keeps us safely within the confines of u.n. resolution 1973. >> warner: so the nato advisors aren't doing anything to assist them in training themselves on basic discipline, basic fighting tactics and strategy, the things that at least journalists have been in on the ground with them, say, they really lack. >> we're not there to take a side. a side of one group in the population against the regime. our job is to take the side of the

could you explain them to us? >> absolutely, if you pay $25, $30, $40 for a bag and it doesn't make it to the destination, you get your money back. that's not the case today. when you go on your web site at home to buy a ticket, we want to make sure all the costs are disclosed: taxes, pillow fee, blanket fee, food fees. they're all there. fill nail will be a long list there on the web site. >> there will be a long list because airlines are charging more for all of these so-called things we've taken for granted. that's number two. number three, if you're on an international flight and are on the tarmac for four hours you go back to the terminal. we implemented that with domestic flights. it's worked very well. we have decreased dramatically tarmac delays as a result of that. if you go to the ticket counter with your ticket, who's ever there at the airline says oh, by the way, we overbooked this flight and you've been bumped, the airlines have to repay you the amount of money that you paid for the ticket plus an add

it changed us. it made us one nation. i think the memory issue that professor medford talks about is very important because if you look at the physical losses by the white south not just in terms of property but also in terms of human life, that's part of the picture that is still handed down in many families today. in a little state like south carolina, over 30% of the eligible white male population died in the war. that's twice the figure that the european nations lost in world war i where they supposedly all lost a generation. >> woodruff: drew faust, you've written about the human suffering. your book, this republic of suffering, we know about it. how do you see the legacy? >> an important part of the legacy-- and i would just like to reinforce what others were talking about was the importance of slavery and race. another dimension of the legacy is the way in which the civil war is an important moment in the history of warfare. it's often called the first modern and the last old- fashioned war because it involved a le

none of them would give us single names. of who is dead. >> weiwei put out a call to action on his blog. he got an overwhelming response. he gave cameras to volunteers to film in sichuan as they began what he called a citizens investigation into the earthquake deaths. volunteers, young and old, began hounding local officials for the children's names. then more volunteers posted the names online. >> the act of organizing people into a community in china is in itself a very risky thing to do. he has dedicated himself to doing exactly that. that puts him into very small community of people. >> in the end weiwei's team published more than 5,000 names including the names of almost all of the students. the project drew international attention. it also provoked the government's internet censors who are now paying more attention to weiwei's blog. >> maybe 20, 30 articles have been taken down by internet police or by different authorities. i don't know what it's going to do. >> reporter: that's exactly what the government did in may

sherry rehman, thank you for joining us. what's life been like for you these last three or four months as these two other figures, voices of moderation, were asagsinated? >> oh, it's been difficult, to say the least. it's been dramatically different from the way we lived before in pakistan. we campaigned openly, went amongst all crowd, like all politicians tend to. but after these two assass narkz we've all had to kind of reel back and withdraw behind closed doors for a while, one, to take stock, and, two, to figure out how we are anything to approach this kind of changed security environment, at least for myself. >> warner: the interior minister told parliament that he and you were the next targets. did you feel the crosshairs? >> yes, certainly, i felt i was in the crosshairs of a much larger political game. this was not really about religion or extremism. this was about politics, which i felt that the religious right played very adroitly, and to tip the bbs of political forces against a fairly noncontroversial-- what coul

if that means we're giving our political adversaries a political weapon to use against us, which by the way they will have to distort to use it, shame on them. we owe it to the country to give them an honest debate. >> brown: democrats were quick to criticize ryan's proposal. they argued it cuts in all the wrong places. the top democrat on the house budget committee, chris van hallen of maryland. >> to govern is to choose. we believe that their plan will weaken america in the long run. it is not courageous to protect the most powerful interests and the very wealthy at the expense of critical investments in our country. yet that is what they do going forward. >> brown: this debate and its detail and scope is likely to define the political battle lines for months to come. >> woodruff: i sat down with house budget committee chairman paul ryan this afternoon in his office on capitol hill. representative paul ryan, chairman of the house budget committee, thank you very much for talking with us. >> great to be with you, judy. thanks for having me. >> woodruff: you saw your plan would cut more

joining us are dr. thomas insole, director of the national institute of mental health which directs federal funding for autism research. catherine lord, professor of psychology, pediatrics and psychiatry at the university of michigan; eileen leonard, a lawyer and executive director of the new york center for autism, a private advocacy group; john shestick a hollywood producer and the co-founder of a former advocacy group cure autism now. two of these are parents of children of autism. as we said at the beginning of this series i am the grandfather of a child with autism. doctor, the committee that you chair, the inter-agency coordinating committee that sets priorities for autism research, in its latest report describes the rising prevalence as a national health emergency. what is the public health community doing to meet something you describe as an emergency? >> well, one of the things that this committee has been able to do is to raise awareness. for many people autism is still very much in the shadow

it reminded us of who we are and of our history. and that loyalty, has been sorely tested by the events of the last 30 years. you about i think there was a feeling that today might be the turning point that everybody has been helping for-- hoping for. >> warner: today comes at a time of budget austerity, painful cuts and many politicians, even the prime minister said he hoped today would be a moment of, i think he said joy and light relief at a painful time. was there a sense of that? >> well, it's true. it's true there is a lot of pain being inflicted by this austerity cut. the government declared across-the-board a 20% cut if government expenditures over the next four years. put another way it means rolling the british economy back five or six years. so in london you don't feel this quite as strongly as dow in the provinces. but there's no doubt that there would have been a lot of people out there today who found in the days events one day of relief from all of that. there was some on the left wing, a complaint about the cost of t

for joining us. today we have been hearing horror stories about the potential of a shutdown. 800,000 employees furloughed and the i.r.s. payments held up. do you know... what can you tell us about whether there's going to be a shutdown tomorrow? >> well, it's all up in the air still, what you have is the tea party wing of the republican party in the house has taken over. they are pushing speaker boehner whatever direction they want and they have taken the position that they want 100% their way or they're going to shut down the government. they don't want any compromises even if it means that we would be able to keep the government going and that's where we are right now. we're all hoping cooler heads will prevail and that we can get this behind souse we can move on the a major discussion about the whole budget rather than vo cusing on this very narrow piece of the pie. >> ifill: congressman, your district has a lot of federal employees living there and a lot of them are telling pollster this is week

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roper of birmingham, alabama, thanks so much for joining us. and all our best to you. >> lehrer: still to come on the "newshour": the president's new national security team; recovering from the shooting and maternal and infant mortality in nigeria. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: at least 15 people were killed in a powerful explosion in morocco today. the government said it was a terrorist bombing. the lunchtime blast in marrakech ripped through a cafe in the city's main square, a favorite spot for foreign tourists. the force of the explosion tore the facade off the restaurant. state t.v. reported at least ten of the dead were foreigners. 20 other people were wounded. north korean leader kim jong il now wants direct talks with south korea. that word came today from former president jimmy carter, after a three-day visit to pyongyang. he did not meet with kim, but was given a message from the north korean leader. >> chairman and general secretary kim jong il sent word that he is willing and the people of nort

it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment. and then i think on the other side the music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change because it has had such a difficult time adjust to go the digital age. >> brown: you're known for these interesting books. and different styles all the time. where do you start? in this case w it starting with as you say a yen to write about music? >> a couple of things. i was interested in writing about time and about music but actually what started it was standing in a hotel bathroom washing my hands looking down and seeing a wallet lying in plain view. and i have been robbed a number of times. i've had my wallet stolen in all kinds of situations. i thought that poor woman. someone might take her wallet. and i thought but i'm the only person here. it led to a fictional leaps where i thought who is the woman that would take that wallet and why. >> brown: that's w the novel starts. >> i started with that and started with that moment and went. in the course of writing the first

he joins us from capitol hill. well, todd, where do things stand now, what is the latest on the possibility of a shutdown? >> well, the possibility of a shutdown is still very, very real. although, you know, deadlines do have a way of consolidating things around here. every leader and every member of congress knows that. as kwame's report said, we started the day with a lot of heated rhetoric, frankly every day for the last four or five days started with heated rhetoric and at night you tend to get more serious. but i should say that as the microphone speeches from senator reid and speaker boehner do get heated, the floor speecheses are a bit heated, the talk goes on in earnest. they're on substance. right now it's being characterized by members and by their staff as this. a deal on a number to cut right around 38 billion dollars to cut right away, immediately in this fiscal year 2011. and then there's also the issue of title 10. title 10 is women's health funding that funds a lot of women's health clinics. but the

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we thank you both for being with us. ammar abdul-hamid, you have been talking to people on the ground today what is the latest you're hearing and about why they are continuing? >> well, basically there were 3r0 protests everywhere and everyone was expecting violence. because the kind of security preparations that took place yesterday were very clear that the army was deployed. some other provinces in damascus and it was very clear that it involved heavy security presences, involved, so the intentions were clear that the protestors have a lot of reasons to push forward. the reality is bashar as ad gave-- assad gave too few concessions. the protestors gave in this it was no longer legitimate even before he lifted the state of emergency. the kind confi crackdown in the first few days of the evolution, the fact that it took them ten years to even enact the first concession, wanted ten years ago,-- in everybody's eyes so it was clear the process would continue. >> woodruff: it is almost as if they feel emboldened by what assa

so the city clerk came to us. eventually she said, well, you can have these documents in ten days which they were entitled to under the public records act. but really it should have taken them about ten minutes to give us that stuff. once again, you know, that sort of raised our hackls and raised our radar. when we asked for a copy of this document that had had us fill out, they charged us $1 for it. i was threatening to sue them if we didn't get the documents within ten days. ultimately they did. >> warner: ruben, how did this go on for so long, do you think, without anyone noticing? i mean were they kind of taking advantage of a town whose residents didn't have a lot of political clout or sophistication and it wasn't a local newspaper looking into it? >> well, you know, the city of bell is made up of 90% latinos and 53% are foreign born. there is certainly that little part of understanding how government works. and i also think that the engagement wasn't there. a lot of residents weren't going to their council m

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these people tried to kill us! >> reporter: down at the dockside, we caught up to the chosen few who made it but there will be other boats in coming days. >> sreenivasan: in yemen today, security forces opened fire on a huge crowd in the capital, sanaa. a doctor at the scene reported 12 protesters were killed. an estimated 100,000 people had rallied, demanding the ouster of long-time president ali abdullah saleh. the protest came even though yemeni opposition leaders have agreed to a plan for saleh to give up power. the palestinians have reached initial agreement on uniting their rival governments. officials of fatah in the west bank and hamas in gaza announced the plan today. it calls for forming a single, caretaker government until new elections can be held a year from now. israel again rejected any government that includes hamas, which opposes the existence of a jewish state. officials across the middle of the united states reported at least 11 more deaths today, after the latest wave of severe weather. severe t

blamed improper use of medicines and the use of antibiotics in livestock. it also said a new drug- resistant gene is widely circulating in india and southwest asia and could quickly spread worldwide. portugal has formally submitted its request for a financial bailout from the european union. it is the third euro-zone country, after greece and ireland, to ask for such aid. portugal has struggled to tackle rising debts amid a political crisis. the government was dissolved last month after parliament rejected austerity measures. on wall street today, stocks fell sharply after initial reports of the latest aftershock in japan. they recovered most of the losses as the day progressed. the dow jones industrial average finished with a loss of 17 points to close at 12,409. the nasdaq fell three points to close at 2,796. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: for all the talk recently over the united states being involved in three conflicts abroad at the same time, it's been largely overlooked that another country is equally engage