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Today's lead stories:
The Bush Spectacular
No Food, Buy Guns: Report From Iraq
Bhopal Victims Sued By Dow
More Zapatista Displacements
Bush Meets Australian PM, Howard
The Bush Spectacular (5:43)
As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced yesterday
that U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan had moved from major combat
operations to a "period of stability and reconstruction,"
President Bush last night declared the end of major combat
in Iraq in a highly choreographed Presidential address to
the nation. Nadja Middleton reports.
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No Food, Buy Guns: Report From Iraq (3:03)
UNICEF said today that thousands of Iraqi children will
die unless they are made top priority in the chaotic post-war
situation. This as international aid agencies today appealed
for the UN to be given a key role in the rebuilding of Iraq.
Oxfam, Islamic Relief, and Caritas, among others issued a
statement today saying the UN must play a role in doing what
the US and British have so far failed to do, stop the spread
of disease and hunger across the country. And as Aaron Glantz
reports from Faluja, Iraq, while Iraqi's are organizing to
bring stability, the devastation to their land has left them
with little resources to rebuild.
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Bhopal Victims Sued By Dow (3:24)
Yesterday survivors of the world’s worst industrial
tragedy from Bhopal, India, launched a worldwide relay hunger
strike from New York to expose the falsehoods they say Dow
Chemical propagates. In June 2002, the relay hunger strike
for justice in Bhopal went on for nearly two months with more
than 1500 people joining worldwide. The disaster occurred
some 19 years ago and since then the victims say they have
received nothing - compensation nor justice. And as Binu Alex
reports from the disaster site in Bhopal, what victims have
instead received is a legal notice from Dow Chemical suing
the victims for thousands of dollars.
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More Zapatista Displacements (3:55)
For the second time in two weeks the Lacandon Indians have
led an incursion backed by the Mexican military and two federal
environmental agencies into Zapatista support base communities
situated within the ever tense Montes Azules Nature Reserve
in Chiapas. The latest incursion has spurred the state government
to solicit the intervention of the independent Fray Bartolome
de las Casas Human Rights center in hopes of diffusing the
explosive situation. The human rights center will announce
its decision sometime today. Tim Russo brings us the latest
from southern Mexico.
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Bush Meets Australian PM, Howard (2:38)
Today Australia's Prime Minister met with President Bush
at his Texas ranch. He's the first foreign head-of-state to
visit the Texas White House since the Crawford Peace House
opened its doors. And in Austin, Texas, people are gearing
up for a Showdown. Stefan Wray has more.
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