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Today's lead stories:
Judith Miller to Serve Jail Time
Protestors Break Through Steel Fence at G8
London to Host 2012 Olympic Games
Questions Over Baghdad Water Supply
Anti-Death Penalty Advocates Press Uganda's High Court
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon May Have Chance for More Jobs
FSRN Headlines
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Judith Miller to Serve Jail Time (4:03)
New York Times reporter Judith Miller is going to jail for
as much as 120 days for refusing to release the name of her
source, who outed a CIA official. This while another reporter
threatened with jail time, Time Magazine's Mathew Coopers,
agrees to testify to a grand jury about the source. Mitch
Jeserich has more from Washington.
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Protestors Break Through Steel Fence at G8
(2:18)
On his way to the G8 Summit in Scotland, George Bush addressed
a crowd in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Anders
Fogh Rasmussen. Reports estimated that anywhere from several
hundred to several thousand protestors met the president in
front of the US Embassy in Copenhagen. There, he touched on
issues including the Kyoto Protocol, criticism over the US
occupation of Iraq and Guantanamo prisoners. (BUSH AUDIO)
As G8 leaders arrived for the summit set to begin today, demonstrators
at the perimeters surrounding the meeting site broke through
the steel fence designed to keep them out. Pacifica's Daphne
Wysham was there.
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London to Host 2012 Olympic Games (3:04)
It's official: the city of London will be host to the 2012
Olympic games, smashing the hopes of Paris, as well as New
York and Moscow, two other hopeful host cities that had been
defeated in previous rounds. The International Olympic Committee's
announcement was met with glee from many Londoners, some of
whom were found celebrating today in the streets. But should
everyone in London have cause to celebrate? Joining us to
talk about the not-so-glamorous side of playing host to the
event is Dave Zirin, author of What's My Name Fool? Sports
and Resistance in the United States.
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Questions Over Baghdad Water Supply (4:16)
Egypt's top diplomat to Iraq, Ihab el-Sharif, may face death
at the hands of his kidnappers. According to an internet statement,
Al-Qaeda is threatening to kill el-Sharif for being a diplomat
in the Egyptian embassy in Israel, and allying with Christians
and Jews. Kidnappings and violence continue to escalate in
Iraq: envoys from both Pakistan and Bahrain were both shot
at on Tuesday; Pakistan withdrew its diplomat after the attack.
Meanwhile, many of Baghdad's residents continue to suffer
with little or no clean water and sporadic electricity services
while the summer heat reaches temperatures as high as 125
degrees Fahrenheit. Most reports indicate that a fire last
Friday at a power plant in the north of Baghdad caused the
shut down of the water supply for more than half of the city.
Iraqi and US officials blamed the fire on an insurgent attack,
but there are conflicting reports as to when the incident
took place and what exactly caused the disruption to occur.
Eric Klein has more.
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Anti-Death Penalty Advocates Press Uganda's High
Court (3:23)
Anti death penalty advocates in Uganda are set for another
round of legal battles over state executions. The Ugandan
government has filed an appeal against the Supreme Court ruling
that overturned the executions of 415 prisoners around the
country. But anti death penalty advocates are asking the high
court to scrap the death penalty all together. Joshua Kyalimpa
reports from the Ugandan capital, Kampala
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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon May Have Chance for
More Jobs (3:07)
Lebanon's Labor Minister proposed ground-breaking changes
to the country's labor laws this past June. If implemented,
the changes will allow hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
refugees residing in Lebanon to work in certain professions.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon do not currently have the
right to work in over 70 professions, which has resulted in
miserable social-economic conditions, that the UN has outlined
as even worse than those in the Occupied Territories. In Beirut,
Mohammed Shublaq and Stefan Christoff report.
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