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>> tonight on "worldfoc" -- >> deadly ilestones. x british soldiers killedin afgnistan in a singleday. the ring deatholl raising new questns back home. and then w concerns for american troopsn the frontline. going ome, convoys of wary roph geese are bginning the journey back to pakistan's swat valley. twists of ate. fleeing to malaysia. they thought theyscaped the tyranny o a military regime.

instead, some tse people were rounded up by ahorities and so into forc labor. and all of theworld's a stage. the most fous train in the world becomes rolling theater. tonight, we catch the show on the orient exess, all aboard. om the world's leading reportersnd analysts, this is what is happening fr around the world. thiss "worldfocus." made poib, in part, by the following funders >> good evening. i'martin savidge. we begin tonht with the war in afghanistan, and a look apt the two ma western military forces inthat country. that's the united states and great britain. the toll of that war on btish troo 8,000 of them in afghanisn has suddenly become a big issue at home. that's becausehe death toll is soari. 15 briti soldie have been lled so far this mont eight of themn just o

one 20-hour period this week. in tonight's"lead focu we're going to dr on several of our partners to bring you the latest on that war. srting with james blake of britain's itn, who filed ts report earlietoday. >> porter: this afternoon at camp bason in the heart of helnd province, the brish army's hoing a memoria serve for theight soiers who diedin this space of just 24 hours last week. st were victims of improvised bombs. casualties duringhis new offensive against the taliban called "operation panter's claw." this morning the foreign cretary has respond to several clms overhe weekend that the uk mission in afghanistan porly equipped. the people who were killed friday inngian, five british sodiers, five british soiers, they were on foot patrol. foot paol in thecentral part of the mission thatwe have. we are not going to be ab to do our mission infghanistan throh tanks andhrough licopters alone.

helicopters, as you said,re important for trapoergt people around. but in the end, the gat danger thatour troopsace is on the ground. >> reporter: this luncime, t defense secretary fes estions and the commts and theonservatives are likely grill him on thehortage of helicopters. it is andal, in partilar, that they still lac enoug helicopters to move ound in southern afghanistan. the government must deal wh that issues a matter of exeme emergency but it wod not be on our national intere to sce back britain's commitment tobuilding a better and more stabile world, whichn the long ru willctually help make it less lily thate'll ned to send our forc in the future to places like ghanistan to protec our curity hereat home. >> reporter:f the six british soldierwho died on friy, three were just 1 years old. rifleman willi oldridge, o of the yog nest helmand province. rifleman james ackhouse and rifleman joseph murphy -- all

victi of a multip bomb attack near sangean. >> there f there is scandal in afghanistan, it isn't la of oots or lack of helicopters over there. there is lack of hlicopters it's that young men are sack fiegs our livesecause our politicians, the leadersf the western operation in afghastan, can't get their act together. >>eporter: and yet, publi supporfor the war in afghanistan seems stabile. an icm poll for the guaian stat that supports grown 15% since 2006. butantiw prosters say the poll shows thatost people in brtain want th troops out by christmas. and emerge this lunchtime that the prime minisr has already requested various nato allies that they provide aitional helicopters for coalition rces to use in afanistan. >> that s jes blake of itn. f the united states,the war's becomingmore dangerous a deadly as well. with 21,000 additial troops moving into afghantan, the u.s. eects 6 8,000

there by year's end. 105 americans haveeen killed, including one that was kille in anttack yestery. tonight we'reot a look atow that wars being fought from th perspective of one army ompany fightg the talib in kunar province in northeast afghanistan. clayton swisher of al jazeera english is with em. >> reporter: aeri reonnaissance, their freed to roamraws the most of infantry units but especiallyharlie company 2. the terrain out herealong the afghan border with pakistan would be impennetrable withou them. using sophisticated survelance equipment, the queueilla licopters give eyes and ears to soldiers operating on the ground. helping themmake sense of the bigger piure. >> that is kindf our border ght now between us and what t enemy holds. these guys are kindf caught in the middle of it. we try to ma sure that the

civilians don felt blunt of combatperations. >> whyre we here? >> right now, i men, mobily's a hard problem, but i an everyone talks about the decisive terrain. esn't mean sitting o a ploft land. thiss our desive terrain. th enemy can sit in the woodline all at they want, slowong as the people who are working wi us. we're winni and they're not. reporter: what the lieunant said was not the eire story. he knows tt up until may, the army had a full-time oupost just beyond that rid ridge ne, two kometer away. that was until the taliban took it over. a coalition soldier provid al jazeera with this exclusive footage. these are theinal moments o the americanoutposts knn as rrio lie. as the taliban overranheir positis, the soldiers cled in a so-called brokenarrow

mission. arequest for friendly aircraft to bomb and destroy their own position. the army obliged, butt's not been without repercussions. three soldier died an investigation into how it happen continues. sice losing baio e, these soldiers face new restrictions from top army brass. ftatrols in the villages in groups of no le than 16 and ackup must include another 16 waitingn combat vehicles waiting at all tim. >>levation 2 >> reporter: oldiers are also bannedrom leaving the base on patrol forore than 12 hours. that doesn'teave long to patrol most 250 kilometers of borderountry in dirt roads, letalone wint heartings d minds of the afan people. it's dfinitely not engh time to stay and fightthe taliban. clayton swisher, al jazeera, kunar province, afghantan. acros the border today, at least ni people werekilled in

an explosion in purchar provinc in central pakistan the explosion dtroyed a house used asa religious seminary for childrennd seven childen were said to be mth dead. police said the owner of the house had been accued of recruiting fighters to btle stern troops in afghistan. and they said, there w evidence that was a meeting point fo militants. hundreds of pakistanis began retuing to their homes today in the swat valley uer a governme repatriationprogram. at is thearea in the nthwest part of pakistan, where the mility fought an intense battle in th last few months to driv out the talin. thunited nations estimates that 2 millio people were forced fm their homes by that fighting. but we hear inhisxt report freutsche welle, no all are ear to returnust yet. >> reporter: most of the displaced have beentaying with mily or frends, but nearly 300,000 are in intent cps set upy the government. some are now pack their belongings and returning me. >> translator: we are gratef

to the governnt for all of the facilities they laid ont this camp. we are very gratef that they're sending home nownd want peace in pastan. eace is our main priority now. >> reporterthe pakistani army launched its offensive in april, after milants took over a district jt 100 kilometers from the capital islamabad. the government is n providing serity for t convoys of refugees returning hme amid concernabout attacks. the taliban are still a formidable power, and many refugees ar reluctant to leave. >> translator: i'm scaredf going if i go bk and there's another clash, then i' have to co back again. anything can happen ere. >> reporter: aide workers say the refuge will need help when they return home, as most their crops having destroyed. many areikely to stay in the camps now to see how th security situatn develops. >> that reportrom deutsce welle. iraq has increased security some christian areas of that

country, after a series of attacks aimed at the christian minority. the car bomb exploded near a hurch in baghdad yesterday, as worshipers lt sunday mass killing at least four civians and injuring18. hree more churches were also attked in baghdad. wounding eight others. >> as you may have heard this weekend, the cia cancailed secret counterterrorism proam last month. a programreated by the agcy ght yearsgo after the seember 11th attacks. "t new york times" first reported thiseekend that on rders from vice president dick cheney, congre was kept in the dark about the program, which never becameully operatnal. here's how that storyas covered yesterday by britain's itn and its correspondts sal gould. >> rorter: dick cheney also said that toeep america safe the administration would needto work ithe shows. toay "the new york times" seems to have shone lght on those da corners. sourcetelling the paper th the former vice prident implemente secret

countertrori opetion. and instructed it be hiddefrom congress. >> welcome >> reporter: leo panate today meeting leers in philippines have run the cia for the obama administrationince february. butit wa't apparently until june at he learned of this vert operation. within 24 hours, we're tol he'd canceled the programnd toldcongress. u.s. law requires the cia to keep congss briefed on it actities, but the law is biguously worded and open to interpretations. the relationship beeen these tw bodies fought at bt, particularly er the obama adnistration and its legacy. >> i know that i'veeen lied o. this is ctainly one example of an vestigation, i hope, tt will havento the cia persistently lyg to the congss over a number of years. >> i want to start wh some breaking news is morng. the front story in "theew york times," that forme vice

president dick cheney ke congress the dark. his orders -- >> rerter: mr. cheney hasn't respded to the accusaon, but fellow republicans sa they're not jumng to anyconclusions. >> first of all, i would like to know the facts of the case before there shou be "an investigation. how long did the director of the cianow about ts program and when did he terminate it? and all o these things are going to - are probably ging be heavily discussed the weeks ahe. >> reporter:ut whatay never discussed, at least not pulicly, is the exact nature of this secret program. the soces coming clea about the operation's existence refusing t soft mystery. simply saying, it has nothing with the flash pots of redition and interrogation. >> sally gouldfrom itn. the "the wall seet journal" to plan to killor capture al qaeda operatives.

a south korean tv news channel reported today tt the leader of northkorea, kim jong-il, has pancatic cancer this follows an aparance by kim last week. he was loing thin and walkg with a slightmp. today'seport by ytn television sai that kim was diagnosedith hat cancer around the sam time that he suffered a stroke last summer. and sai that he's expecd to live no mo than five years. from southeast asia tonight we're going d look at an issue that is underrepted, the problemf human trafficking. 're going to ta you to maysia, where some immigration officialhave been accused of involvement in selling refugees from myanmar, and also known as burma, to zbangs i thailand. the attorney geral's office in malsia say ten immigrati officers are being invesgated afterthe stte department plac malaysia on the list of its wor's worstuman traff offende lastmonth. independent journalist.

where she reportedn the plig of the burmese refugees. >> reporter: each yea thousands of burme escape hum rights abuses in their count by fleeg through the jungle through thaand and contuing onto malays. once ther many head to the capital city of kuala lmbar to work on constction sites or restaants or as domeic workers. the pay is misable and so are the ving conditions. often as my as30 refugees live in one om, sharing a single toilet. the sena foreign relations committee estimates that there are 90,000 rmese refugees living inmalaysia. many of them do nothave work permits and livin fear of arrest. what's wse, as you'll see laer, following arests, large numbers ofhem have actually been sold by malaysian officia to human traffickers. the arrests are conducted in raids li these by the raila. anrmed vigilante citizen group. earlier this year i witnessed a

raila raid. in camera i tried to conceal. i took th shaky cture in whch the raila a identified by their yellow barayes. there are also police officers in a patty wagon trade hau off of the refugees. one of t policeman caugh me taking pictures. oka okay. leave thpictures? buthy do i have to delete? people are being loaded into cages on the trucks. theytick their hands thrgh the holes and shout last-minute messages to theirfriends. i naged to take this final picture as the raila truck took e refugees to jail. their ordeal often gets wrse becse of official corruption. after several mohs in detention, many rugees have been sold by malaysian immigration officials to human traffickers in thland. this is exactly what happened to a.a.hao in 2007. she old that e heard malaysian immigrationfficials talking to traffickers as they

brought her to the border toe sold >> translator: ty were talking tohe phone. "yes,yes, 55 of them. six of them are women. th, knew they were taking us to the broder to sellus. when we reache the other side the men were very b guns. they already h the lst with how many people, exactly as the immigration offial had told them on the phone. they say to us, "you beng to us. we bght you from malaysian mmigration for 500 each and now we need to make our moneyback plus rofit. so whoever has friends and family to pay for th, call them now >> reporr: fortunate, a.a. choo had family who uld pay the ransom an she was rurned to queue alalumpar whe today she workeds as a disasher but manso lucky. they are sold as force laboro prostitution rings, factories and fishing boats. >> karen zusman rerting from malaysia. more o this tonight we are join by a specia list on the problem of human trafficking.

elaine pierson deputy director of the asiaivision of human rights watc welcome. >> thank you. >> what is the crrent situation when it comes to the status of migran coming from myanr? >> ll, now what we're seeing is that -- actlly since the u.s. foreign relationsommittee relsed their report, documentg the trafficking that we just saw at the time malaysian border,hat we're seeing is th there's not so many eportations of burmese refugees tthe border area. now that the deportaons have stopped. however, the raid -- >> why doou think tt ? beuse of -- >> because of e pressure from the u.s. government onboth the malaysians and on the thai officials and what we' seeing, however is that e raids continue. at they continue to apprehen undocumend workers. they continue to apprehend burmese refugs and these refuge and migrants are being sent detention camps, which are now completelyovercrowd. there are concens that some of e refugees are dying bause the conditions are so bad.

they lackccess toood food, cle water supply, and ere are also repts of mistreatment in the detention camps by guds and also by oer detainees. now thealaysians don't coider that these people are refugees, do the >> no, this one the problems. that under laysian law they don't distinguishetween illegal miants,refugees, and asylum-seekers. so they haven't actuly signed onto the u.n. refugees convention, whh would provide some kind of framewo to protect these people o are fleeing, conditions of persecuti. >> since they e fleng, wt ey consider they're fleeing from, then? well, they conder a loof the people to be economic migra >> iother words, looking for betr jobs, tter livelihood? >> exactly. and they do notseehat they have any real responsibility to take care of people from otr countrie so this is a problem. >> how severe, would you say, the probm is when it comes to human traffickng asia? i think what you see within asia is tha particularly wit

the recent sort of economic crsis, are there increasig numbe of people who are desperateo move tother countries in searchof better economic opportunities. and because it's not a lot of leal opportunities for people to migrate, people d up, you kno being subjecte to traffickers touman smugglers and they tendo go to countries ke thailand and malaysia, which are comparatively wealthier, and whi -- where there is a re ned for most gold workers,articularly in certainsectors. >>we mentionedheressure that the united states has brought to bare when it comes to malays. do youhink that the u.s. should be dog more and if so, what? >> really is justhe first step. the u.s. should be putting pressure on countries t put pressure on burmese gentle rales. we shoulremember at end the day, the people are fleeing persution in burm because burma's leaders, you know, reuse to really -- >> make the siation better at home. >> to stop the abus from which they're fleeing so we would ask

to be putting more presse on burmese to st these abus and also on thealaysian authorities. pressure from the u.s.from other untries, where we really see thathese investigations and pores chions of those involved in the trafficking really ad to any real-ale efforts to stop the traicking from happening. >> elaine pearson, thank y very much. >> thank you. >> you can find much moren human traffickingalaysia incding an hour-long documenty from refugees in myanmar. you wi find all of that an more at worldfos.org. we turn nowo africa, where ere was a big battlen somalia this weeke between goverent troops and islamic militants. it happened in the capital of modishu. alternate insurgents were treated, some ofhem were still

firing at troops today. killed dozensof people. and wounded about 150. and for he first timeroops from the african union peacekeeping rce intvened to supporthese somalian forces. president oba was in aar more stale part of africa this weekend. ghana. this was the scne when first visited a castle acoast from which slaves were once shippe to the new worl the outpouring wasescribed as -- >> joining us for more built president's ip and the state of u.s./african retions is yaw nyarko. professor of economics a director of africa hous at new york university. welcome. >> thank you. >> you were in ghana when the president wasthere. >> that's right. >> what was themo? what was the aicipation like? well,verybody was excited that he was coming. there were these billboards with ghana's president next t obama all over the city a people re very, very cited. very, very prd of obama.

everybody h this empathy wth the united states now because of obama. it was vy exciting. very exciting >> why ghana? why do you thinthat that countrwas elected? >> wel for a variety of reasons. the first of course that ghana just finied a razor-thin very close elections. i mean the winner won by y kn a percentage the vote. half of a percent or something. andt was a very goodelection. very, ry peaceful. and so it's somethi for all of africa, beuse africa typically, you only he the bad news, the war, the famine, et ceera. re is a democratic country, they've gone throu re-electionno crisis. the economy is also doi very, very well right now. and finally, i think there's an otional atchment to ana. ghana w the first black african country to get ndependence. and in the '50s, late 0s, early '60s, marn luther king, aobama said in his speech, went to ghana, witnesng the

birth of a w nation. so it's a big deal. ana is special in africa. >> are there also reports of significant new oil dcoveries in ghana and i wonder that had anythi to do with the president's visit. >> no, i don't tnk so. i think the oils good for ghana. it's vitally needed resources. don't think it's going to be earth-shatteng, the discovers are good. there great. but it's not in massive amounts, okay? so, no, i don't thk that factored into it. >> in his message, the esident sort of had a tough love knd of message that heave toafrica. how do you think that was received? >> well, i think, among many, it was received very, ve well. africans, we all knowthat we have toget our own house i order. many people understand that africa can only be built by africans. if here's going to be develment, africans have to that. d people underand that. i don't tnk people were waiting for obamao come with

ou know, tons of money or something li that. no. they appreciated their message. >> yaw nyarko, tha you very much f sharing your story with us. >> thankou. nally tonight, wetake you for a ride on a train. it's a variatn of the famed orie express. wi the goal of creating greater undersnding of the cultural differences along the way. the trns been traveling through six countries-- from tkey, germany, stopping in each to pick upctors from local theatergroups, who had then offeed perfornces in many language deutsche welle shows what it's all aut. >> reporter: it called the orient express and it roling theater. its journey began wherehose of its famous namesake once end

in turkey. and along the way a theatrical experiment invery country. different audiens. a train carage on the stage an sixnsembles acting i six languages. it's an attempt of telling w stories idifferent countries. ey deal with national identity and europe wi migration and transform ati transformation the theatrical jrney shows houtcontint is still divid by national borders. the equipment ha to go through lengthy cuom's checks. officials ase, the orient express also sho it can brea down barriers. >> translator: it's possile to avel by ain from ancora to stuck hart and to ptner all along the route it's a wonderf ing. hat's unification made tangible.

reporter: stuckhart is the fal sfopt ple will be performeto local audiences for e next ten days and it mit not be the last journey. already pls are bng made travel om west to east nt year. >> deutsche well on the orient express. th's "worldfocus" for a monda evening. don't forget to tun in tomorrow night for our online radio show. we will be loking at the political crisi in honduras. how latin american media have been covering th story. you can submit your questions ahead of time andhen listen in at worldfoc.org. i'martin savidge in new york. thank you for joing us. we hope toee you back here tomorrow and loofor you anytime on the b. until then, ve a great night. "worldfus" is made possle, in part, by the following funders -- "worldfus" is made

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