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Today's lead stories:
Iranian Protests
Update from Washington
Ousting Governor Davis?
Womens’ Rights in Iraq
Immigrant Rights
Iranian Protests (4:05)
In Tehran, for the past six nights in a row, Iranian students
have taken to the streets to protest against the present government,
demanding more civil freedoms. The United States again has
endorsed anti-government protests in Iran, after Tehran accused
Washington of meddling in its domestic affairs. Pejmun Hagigi
has more.
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Update from Washington (3:44)
The Supreme Court ruled today by a six-to-three vote today,
to limit the government's ability to force criminal defendants
to take anti-psychotic medicine that will make them competent
to stand trial. In another vote of seven-to-two, the court
ruled that the right to free speech does not trump Congress’
goal of limiting what it called the "corrosive"
effects of corporate money in politics. Josh Chaffin Reports
from the Supreme Court.
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Ousting Governor Davis? (4:20)
Conservative activists in California claim they are on the
verge of a revolution by ousting current Governor GRAY DAVIS.
They say they have gathered over half of the million signatures
necessary to allow voters to decide weather or not to end
Davis’s term 3 years early. A recent poll suggests Davis
has the lowest approval rating in State history. But women’s
rights groups oppose the recall. They say the recalls backers
– including a California Republica, Congressman Darrell
Issa, who has put over half a million dollars to the effort
– are intent to follow a national trend of respecting
a woman’s right to an abortion. Mitch Jeserich reports
from Sacramento.
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Womens’ Rights in Iraq (4:19)
In an embarrassing twist for the US and UK governments,
this weekend, Biological experts working for the British Government
have concluded that two trailers found in northern Iraq did
not make germs for biological warfare, but gas for balloons.
Adnan Pachachi, a former Iraqi foreign minister who returned
to Iraq last month after more than 30 years of exile, criticized
the US military on Saturday for its increasingly aggressive
operations in Iraq, stating that they should be suspended
until the interim Iraqi government is formed. Meanwhile women’s
groups in Iraq are showing concern that religious and political
groups who have organized into a political force in Iraq may
infringe on women’s rights should it get in power. Fariba
Nawa reports.
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Immigrant Rights (3:07)
In Houston today, a woman suspected of leading the immigrant-smuggling
ring, which made national headlines, when 19 immigrants were
found dead and abandoned in the back of a commercial truck
was arrested. Since the tragedy, immigrants rights organizations
have stepped up the call to protect immigrants. On Saturday,
a coalition of labor, religious, community and immigrants
rights organizations kicked off Houston’s mobilization
plans for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride - part of a national
effort to build widespread support for reforms to current
immigration laws. Shannon young files this report from Houston,
Texas.
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