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[7:37]..." progress there's certainly an improvement in security. But I think that what General Petraeus says about the difference between military progress and long term sustainable political progress. About how there's not yet a light at the"...

[10:23]..." group the sons of Iraq this is a Sunni tribal group in Anbar Province that fought Al Qaeda there. And in in this case then that sense of betrayal was that it was the US military"...

[0:00]..." I'm running young -- here and now a critic of President Bush says the president has scored many malignant achievements what has and -- base of which means get to that first. John McCain's supporters senator Lindsey Graham reacted today to general Wesley Clark's statement that McCain's service in Vietnam does not qualify him for president."...

[0:42]..." of the new round of political mudslinging. That includes allegations break -- spray painted rather on cars in Florida that Barack Obama smokes crack. Then Smith the politico dot com is here bent many Democrats have"...

[1:16]..." right that a former editor of mother Jones magazine. Is calling for John McCain to release -- navy files he says that you know. We'll see that John McCain screwed up again and again only be forgiven because his father and grandfather were forced our generals. Others like Noam Chomsky in"...

[0:00]..." I'm running young it here and now and Gloucester Massachusetts has been in the news lately but a spike in teen pregnancies is just one of the many problems. In America's oldest fishing port as -- here today. But first today five years after the US led invasion Iraq began attended -- process to open its oil fields the world's third largest. International oil companies haven't done business in Iraq since Saddam Hussein came to power in the 1970s. The Bush Administration had promised that profits from the oil fields would pay for the war in Iraq and the country's reconstruction but. Those fields have been under performing today's New York Times reports that American officials have been advising Iraqis on the awarding of the contract that was supposed to be awarded today. Andrew"...

[4:51]..." It's in Ukraine reporter for the New York Times . Speaking to us from Moscow. And the city of Gloucester Massachusetts has been in the news lately you may have heard about a spike in teen pregnancies at the high school. -- was also the setting of the book and film a perfect storm based on the real tragedy of the sinking of the fishing boat the Andrea Gail in 1991. -- you may not know that TS Eliot Edward hopper and Winslow homer all lived in"...

[5:52]..." the fate of the Atlantic. And survival in Gloucester America's oldest fishing port and the most original town. And mark joins us from -- San Francisco welcome -- hero through those people outside of"...

[0:13]..." for Robin Young it's here now. And that is the sound of North Korea blowing up a sixty foot cooling tower at the sight of its main atomic reactor today. The demolition of the most prominent symbol of its plutonium production is Pyongyang attempt to show that it is serious about abandoning its nuclear weapons program . It comes a day after North Korea delivered documents outlining its nuclear capabilities. Which led the Bush Administration to ease sanctions and remove the country from the list of states that sponsor terror. Skeptics say today's made for TV demolition was little more than showmanship and North Korea has yet to come clean about its nuclear weapons program . For more all of this week turned to Dmitry says the stock reload the Pentagon and intelligence correspondent for the Financial Times he joins us now welcome Dmitry. -- first of all tell us how significant this tower was in terms of North Korea's ability to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons."...

[1:17]..." and you could so what's up and running fully this is the cooling tower that was very important. But aren't the north Koreans have been dismantling their nuclear facilities are -- which -- plutonium producing nuclear reactor. Over the last six months -- so the -- has become less important sort it was symbolic. And the fact that blew it up. On the other hand it was a big symbol for North Korea to take that step. Shows that they are taking one bigger step forward towards hopefully at some point moving back into international"...

[1:47]..." Now President Bush of course famously included North Korea as part of the so called axis of evil twenty months ago North Korea approved to the world that it was an atomic power by detonating a nuclear bomb. Now the Bush Administration is easing sanctions that doesn't really believe that that North Korea has changed its ways."...

[0:05]..." Court upheld americans' right to own guns for self defense. In -- highly anticipated ruling the High Court struck down the strictest gun control law in the nation. In a five to four decision the justices"...

[0:58]..." an individual's right to bear arms or the collective right. Justice Antonin scalia wrote the majority opinion how to be addressed the issue."...

[1:17]..." laws in effect at the time of the founding of our country. Scalia opted for an individual right to have a job. Leo probably however -- is you know in the albeit assert that it"...

[0:06]..." action to see a therapist. We'll hear about the difficulty in bringing mental health care to children in Sierra the only. But first the Supreme Court ruled today. That the death penalty cannot be applied to child rapists only two people in the US both in Louisiana are on death row for the rape of -- child. In a 54 decision the justices ruled that Louisiana violates the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. In another decision today the court gave a major victory to ExxonMobil cutting the amount of punitive damages in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. From two point five billion dollars to 500 million. The eldest in a scotus blog dot com this year and now Supreme Court watchers well Lyle let's start the death penalty decision in"...

[5:09]..." did make these kinds of decisions in line up between court. -- Aniston of scotus blog dot com thank you. And we'll -- he would run again tomorrow when the justices are expected to issue"...

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[0:06]..." on Iraq are in sharp disagreement over progress in the country. The defense department's quarterly assessment to congress says security political and economic trends in Iraq continue to be positive if -- Jaya. An Independent report"...

[0:43]..." up is about it and as the last of the five additional combat brigades heads home US troop levels in Iraq will fall to a 142000 by mid July. We're speaking with Dmitry safest popular pentagon and intelligence correspondent for the Financial Times. And Dmitri both reports are in agreement that violence -- drops significantly. But"...

[0:18]..." his party's headquarters this morning. Yesterday -- withdrew from the runoff presidential elections scheduled for this Friday. Saying it was no longer credible and that the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high. That announcement cleared the way for President Robert Mugabe -- to continue his 28 year -- although secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said today. And Zimbabwe's government would not be legitimate without fair elections for joining us from South Africa Scott -- of the Christian Science Monitor. And Scott don't know -- like Chiang -- is at the Dutch embassy."...

[1:27]..." Well tell us more about the so called former war veterans who make up Mugabe's support -- we know seized. The White owned farms by forced back in 2000 Mugabe was seen. As a freedom fighter and they now to their leading some of the attacks on the opposition you told us at one point that. These so called war veterans will likely to give up power or those farms. Is is that fueling their continued fight against the opposition."...

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