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Today's lead stories:
Department of Homeland Security Declares Victory on Border
Security
Federal Police Break Through Barricades in Oaxaca
Protesters in New York City Support Oaxacan Teacher's Struggle
Gallaudet Students Celebrate Victory
Philippine Government to Arm Anti-Communist Paramilitary Groups
FCC Hearing on Media Consolidation Held in Oakland
FSRN Headlines
PAKISTAN MADRASSA BOMBING
Pakistani helicopter gunships today destroyed an Islamic school
purportedly used as an Al Qaeda-linked training camp near
the Afghan border, killing nearly 80 people. Masror Hausen
reportsd from Islamabad.
THOUSANDS OF WEAPONS MISSING IN IRAQ
The United States Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
now admits that thousands of sophisticated weapons earmarked
for Iraqi security forces are missing from the U.S. Department
of Defense and government officials say it is unlikely that
they will be recovered. The Pentagon cannot account for 14,030
weapons that include assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled
grenade launchers and semiautomatic pistols. Jerry Burke spent
two years in Iraq as a National Security Advisor to the Ministry
of Interior. He explains how the weapons could have gone missing.
(sound) In the very beginning when we were training police
at least, we would issue pistols to the graduates, some order
of say 10 or 20 percent of them never reported to work and
never returned their weapons. Others would report to work
and have their weapons taken by a senior officer who might
then sell it on the open market. Other cases were when stations
were attacked or overrun that weapons inside the stations
were taken including AK47’s and possibly some heavier
equivalent to 50 caliber machine guns.” It will be virtually
impossible to track down the missing arms since the Defense
Department registered the serial numbers of only 3% of the
weapons earmarked for Iraq.
LULA LANDSLIDE VICTORY
Fresh from a landslide re-election victory, Brazil's President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was set to begin talks today forge
a legislative agenda and a broad-based coalition in the Brazilian
Congress. Rosa Caldas reports on the election results from
Sao Paulo.
Despite all the government scandals lately, Luiz Inácio
"Lula” da Silva was reelected with almost 61 percent
of the popular vote. His opponent -- Geraldo Alckmin, garnered
just 39 percent. Lula justified his victory arguing, "This
is the victory of the Brazilian people and has satisfied me
as a politician". According to research, Lula had the
massive support of the poor and less developed people. He
will lead Brazil until 2010. Rosa Caldas in São Paulo,
Brazil, for Free Speech Radio News.
TWO GLOBAL WARMING REPORTS RELEASED
Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. climate treaty secretariat,
says that the industrialized world's emissions of greenhouse
gases are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol
to cap them and stave off global warming. Haider Risvi reports
from the UN.
UN reaserchers say during this period the Eastern and Central
European nations were mostly responsible for more than 4 per
cent increase. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
requires 35 industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse
emissions by an average of 5 per cent below 1990 levels by
2012. The report urges industrialized countries to invest
in sustainable development projects in developing countries
beside introducing further cuts at home. The United States,
the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is not a
party to the UN Convention on Climate Change.
And in Britain today, a senior British economist released
a report saying that if countries do nothing about climate
change, it will devastate the world economy on the scale of
the world wars and the Great Depression. Study author Sir
Nick Stern says it will take fundamental changes to the world's
economy to counter the threat from global warming. (sound)
“Managing a transition to low carbon economy cuts across
most areas of activity and multilaterism is crucial to success
– it cannot be left only to energy and environmental
ministers – important though they are. This is about
managing an international economic transition.” Stern
says acting now to cut greenhouse gas emissions would cost
about one percent of global Gross Domestic Product each year.
REPUBLICAN HUNTER ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTIAL BID
Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California announced today
that he's entering the upcoming presidential contest. (sound)
“As I finish my final two years as Chairman of the Armed
Services Committee and serve you, I am also going to be preparing
to run for President of the United States in 2008.”
Hunter would lose his Armed Services Committee Chairmanship
if Democrats take control of the House after the Nov. 7 election.
BERLUSCONI CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British
lawyer David Mills have been ordered to stand trial on corruption
charges. Milan magistrates had accused Berlusconi of paying
Mills -- the estranged husband of British Culture Secretary
Tessa Jowell -- a kickback of $600,000 for not revealing details
of Berlusconi's media empire when he testified in two court
cases. Both men have denied wrongdoing.
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Department of Homeland Security Declares Victory
on Border Security (4:07)
Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff told
reporters in Washington today increased border security operations
have met with success. But immigrant rights advocates say
Chertoff's policies have been devastating to immigrant communities.
FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.
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Federal Police Break Through Barricades in Oaxaca
(4:53)
Mexican federal police have moved into Oaxaca City to take
the city from residents who have been governing themselves
for the past 5 months. Although the move has been painted
by federal authorities as an effort to restore order the tens
of thousands of local residents who came of yesterday to impede
the advance of the police line would not agree. After police
broke through barricades with bulldozers, water cannons, and
armored personnel carriers - helicopters constantly circled
overhead for hours afterwards and the houses in some neighborhoods
were subjected to warantless search raids. Shannon Young reports
on this weekend's events.
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Protesters in New York City Support Oaxacan Teacher's
Struggle (2:00)
A couple hundred protesters demonstrated their support for
the Oaxacan teacher's union and social struggle unfolding
in Oaxaca City. Kat Aaron reports from New York.
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Gallaudet Students Celebrate Victory (1:47)
The renowned liberal arts university for the deaf in Washington
D.C., Gallaudet, was virtually brought to a standstill during
four weeks of protest to oust Jane Fernandez, president designate.
But today students are celebrating a victory. On Sunday, Galludet's
Board outsted Fernandez. Nan McCurdy has more from Washington
DC.
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Philippine Government to Arm Anti-Communist Paramilitary
Groups (3:40)
The Philippine government is preparing to arm paramilitary
forces. The government says those forces would fight against
the communist insurgency, terrorism and crime in the country.
The plan comes amid a spate of extra-judicial killings that
have been blamed on government security forces, raising concerns
of more violence. Girlie Linao Manila reports from Manilla.
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FCC Hearing on Media Consolidation Held in Oakland
(4:00)
The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing its controversial
rules on media ownership. Over the next several months the
FCC is inviting public comment on the rules governing how
many television and radio stations one company can own in
one market; the commission's limitations on owning a full-service
broadcast station and a newspaper in the same market; and
its regulations on radio and television station cross-ownership.
On Friday Evening there was a hearing in Oakland California
where the FCC's two democratic Comissioners heard the publics
concerns. Eric Klein reports.
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