tonight on "wldfocus" -- >> an election d landslide in japan. the par that has ruled that country for a half a century is ou what will it mn for the united ates? with casualties counting, the british prime mister visits afghanistan pledging to do more to save his fighting men from the ieds that are killing them. tonight from lya, new pictes of the frd lockerbie bombernd new questions about whether a business deal prompd his lease. and om south africa, another apoach in the fht against aids. can theseimple spts drills save chiren from a disease at kills huneds of thousands of their cntrymen every year? made possie in part by the llowing funders -- r support ha also been provided b the per j. peterson foundatn. dedicated to pomoting fiscal responsibility and adessing keeconomic challens facing america's future. good evening. i'm daljitdhaliwal. he may not exactly be the rack obama ofjapan, but the man expected to come the ountry's next prime minister is talki aboushaking things up a way th japan has rarely seen. hatoyami will bring more leral politics andovernmentfter hisarty swept to power in yesterday's prliamentary eltions. and the wathat japan do buness with the unitestates and othe pows is also goi change. becae japan is on of americs most important allies, we will talk abou all of this in depth tonigh but first, we want to show you how it played out and the way it looked on television. japas version of electn night from abc in stralia. >> the democrat party of japan charged to ctory. in seisc shift in japanese politics, the center left position has broken the nservative stranglehold on power ending dades of virtual e-party rule. >>ranslator: the people are very angry with the conservative ruling party. i thank the pple who suorted us. we n need to fight and work hard. >> hungry forchange, the japanese turned out in droves. 70% of eligible voters cast ballot. >> we needhange to break the current situation in japan, just li the united stas, we need chge. >> in tokyo, oly heavy rains from ayphoon stopped more people fromaking it to a lling booth. within minutes ofhe poll's closin it was clr that the oppositi had swept to power in alandslide. for the primminister taro o, the election p an e to an 11-month reign fnked by verbal gaffes and public paralysis. >> ifeel it was my fate to take this electn loss. i acce it. >> japan w hit by the perfect economic and polital stor >>people sufring unemploymen at a recd hi. sohat was a big fact. the otr factor was the opposition h become electable afr being quite symbolic througthe 19s. >> the son of aoreign minister and e grandson of a prime minier, yukio hatama comes from a political familyoften called the kennedys of japan. he's prising revotionary change including fe high scol education, a higher mimum wage and a $320 a month child care allowance. translator: we mustlisten to e people's needs and create government that responds to those needs. d to do that, we will n rely on bureaucrats. >> havingwept the once inncibleonservatives from power, yukio hayama must now promote their programs of chge. they iherit a country deep in the red. government debt alo wil soon grow to twicehe size of japan's $6 trillion economy. the demratic party h made many pomises to many people, including japan's farmers. theselections certainly gives the incoming government a strong mandate to tack the country's many probms. among them aapidly aging populati and record unemoyment. some more on yesterday' historic election andow it willffect japan's relations withhe united stes and beyond. we're joined by a man who followed the american/japanese relaonship closely. kenji kono is a washington bure chief at the japanese television network nhk and he joinus from washington. hello to you. let me start by asking you, the incoming prime minister go his ctorate inngineering at stanford university. so he obviouslynows a lot somethg about the united states. is there going tobe a ske-up of the stus quo when it comes to american/japase relations? >> i thk there will be i the end. you expectome kind of new dynamism betwn the two countries. but i don't think it will come ry soon. rst of all, the united stas andlso this new government th called the u.s./japan alliance the cornerstone for st asian peace d security. t the new democratic party in japan wted to have -called equal standing, equal relions. andhis phrase kind of pzzled the u.s. sie. and the democrac parties also want to have a review of certain u.s./jan military agreements. and this also makes some causes some troublemok the u.s.apanese exports. what doou think is behind hatoya in, a's plan to putn end to the refuellingf u.s. ship, supporting the war effort in afghanisn? >> well, hatoyama's party, they are against the iraq war, first of all and they a againstusing military powers to solve internationa afairs. an that's why they wanted to stop the legislation to contue the reflling of t u.s. warships in the iian oce the question is, they still want to work wi the united states to fight against extremism. so they ha to find another alternative somehow to show that u.s. is - i men, japan is wiing to work wi the obama administrati. >> do you thk that theyill also b lookg for another alternative when it comesto those u.s. bases in japan wre 50,000 american troopsre currtly stationed? >> m-hmm. ah. but their idea is to relocate one of theases out of okina. that's wre the u.s. bases are considated and concentrated. but the questions where they can move the bases to oneis accepted. so that's going to be th issue. so thisarty has right wingers and leftwingers. l different idea of people in terms of the national secuty monitors. so the question is how they can consolidate thr polici into internatnal security. >> and give us a sense of -- i an, hatoyama has this extraordinary mandate. how is he going to use it? for inance, the health of the japanese economy h a direct pact on our o economy in the ited states. whatind of changes do you think at he will have to make to stimulate th economy and, of course, create jobs? yeah, the econo has been the ggest issue for this campaign. hayama's party promised to increase the growth by nsumption, snding themoney social network and also raing minimum wes andiving something each famil and so forth. but the question ishere the money comes om. nobodyas the answer. they haven't answer the question yet. so this is goingo be the issue. >> kenji kona, thankou very much for joining us from waington, d.c. >>from south asia toight, a harsh prison sentence for a urnalist whose case was recently cited by prident ama. this was him in shackles after a judge sentenced him to 20 years afte violating sri lanka anti-terrorism lws all bcause his article accus the government of withlding food from ethnic tamil ars as a tool of r. > we want to devote a considerable amot of time again tonight to afghanistan where the country's ection mmission said today that present hamid karzai continues to hld a wideead over the former foreign minister abdullah abdull. with almost ha of the vote counted inhe presidential election, karzai has almost 46%, about 33% forabdullah. but the results ctinue to b cloudedyeports of fraud, which ha gone up substantially in recent ys. there are also increasing reports of violence against people who tried to vote. this man claimed that the taliban cutff his nose and ears. his docto spoke aboutt. >> translator:his is the victimf the political game which is going on here. he is e of many who have made it here to the hospital. there are my othershose fingers we cut off, ears were cut of before ections, a this parcular patient is the victim of this election. >> two more americans were killed inouthern afghistan today, the t coalition commder there delivered a ng-awaited assessment of the warffort to u.s.'s nato mitary leaders. although thereport has not been releed ublicly, general anley mcchrystal says the afghanistan siation iserious buthat succes is achievable. navalfficials said the united stat is likely to request even more troops for afghanian. and th is likely to b the case as wellor british forces who have visited in afghanistan this weekend by prime minister goon brown. manyways, the itish and americans fa similar challenges. as we hear from cis shippf itn. >> sin gordon brown w last in afganistanin april 54 british soldie have been killed trying to sere this country. the prime minister returned to the cam this weekendat a time when t electi result is still unclear. givinghetrongest hint yet he'sbout to send more british trps here at a critic time r the afghan campaign. it's been a bloody a very stly summer for the taliban, afr which the iversal suort for this mission back home has bun tofalter. the prime minist wants more afghan tros trained re quicy. and that means another surge in british troops isooking unavoidae. the target for 135,000 afghan soldiers has been brought forward to november next year. only when tho soldiers can provide the secity this country needs can britain chief of t defense aff even think about an exit stragy. that remains many years of >> i think we can get another 50,0 afghan army personnel trained over theext year. stepping tt up means that the afghans take me responsibility for their own affairs. they're backed up by partnering and mentoring a you can see behind u, what w're bringing into the field. >> amid the continuing accusations the govement is not doing enough to protect the men and women here, m. brown omised to stepup the fight to counter morehan anything else, th roadsi omb. >> ieds have been heavily use by the taliban. weave equipment to find them d are deali with them. they're a very indiscriminate weapon as ll. 80% that go off actually strike at the ahan population and bring misery to their lives not just ous. >> 200 specialists to spot and defuse the bbs areeing sent out is autn. d the crucialunnned surveiance drones will also have their flying hours incrsed. british commders are waiting for the report from stanley mcchrystal, the st seor u.s. general here, before deciding actly how many more me and women to commit toafghanistan. it begs the estion, if the 65,000 international tops are here cannot sure this country, will afew thousand reinforcements make much difference? ris shipp, itv news, afghanistan. > and joining us now is kan von hiple. she's a senior fellow with the internatiol security program at the cter for strategicnd internatnal studies in washgton, d.c. karen, you just got back fm helping monitor the election situation in afghanistan. how did the security siation affect thevote? >> it affected the vte in traordinary ways. firsof all just as monitors w were n able to visit mo parts of the country. i was withhe national decratic institute for internional affair delegation we were in only 19 of 34 provinces. we weren't able toonitor everywhere and w were sck to monitoring the places th were sa safe our observation ports will be skewed towards the favored part. >>here's a piecein "the waington post" today saying that in many provces almost no women turnedout, which seems to be a big step bawards of the presidential elections of fi yearago. what ca the afghan government do to combat islam fundamentalistttacks on women's rights? >> it wasn't just womenthat were being threatened. it was ordinary ghans were being threateed by the taliban. if you vote, if your finger i black du to the ink -- t permanenink that goes on to ur fingerhen you vote, we will chop off ur finger. the were threats and timidation. theyouldn't find women to man thepolling station, so they were talking about using old me or yng boy, which wsn't acceptable. we hrd up to 600 polling cents that were for wom weren't allowed to openat all. of course, the serity was a big factor, but i also thk that voter apathy wa another factor tt prevented many peoplerom going to the pols. people werfed up wh the corrupt governmt. th didn't think thingswere going change. many people thought karzai was going to win no tter what happen. >> let's talkabout general mcchrystal's assement, reportedly tt america and nato willeed to send mre oops. surising to you? >> itsn't surprising. we have a long way to go to make afghanistan safe, espially in the soh and the st. now, the problem i i don't think there's a lotof support here in washington for sendin additional troop. so it ist clear to me that mcchryst will actually k for more troops right away. he maysk for them in the next month. but at he may try to do instead is a lttle eative mathematics. maybe move some of e jobs that soldiers are doing,noncombat jobs, to conactors so hean bring in more fhting forces. that's what we really need, are additional fighting forces on thground. karen von hiple,in washington, d.c., tnk you very much foroining us. thank you. >>that brings to us ourew segment, how you see it. we would like to know you think no and u.s.orces can win in fghanistan? tells what you think by going to the how you see it section of our webte at worldfocus own org and we will report on some of what you had to say tomorrow. >> last week we asked you about another subjt dealing wth legal dgs. is mexico right in its approach in ending the procution of people caughwith small amounts ofmarijuana? almost all of you whoent in commentsaid that it was the right move. here's what oneiewer had to say. small me drug offenders have mpletely clogged the criminal justice system i the united states. wi xico's new stregy, mexicanlaw nforcement can focus their resources the big drug dealers. maybe the united states can learn something fm the new mexican strategy. other one of our viewers wrot the only way to remo the money from th drug trade is to legalize it. when that was done withcohol, the klings stopped. far too many livesave been lost needlesy and far too many criminals haveenriche themselvesn our stupidity. and o note om iraq tonit. the military there desperely needs fighterjets. has just 87 planes according to "the new york tim," mostly transport d reconnaissanc aircraft. bunow iraqi authorieshave loted 19 soviet-made mig jet fighters inserbia. it turns out that saddam hussein sent them there in the 1980s. seia says itwill ma two avaible immediaty. as f the others, mos have be stried for parts, abandod and are useless. the release of the lockerbie bomb continues to reverberate 11 days after abd basset al megrahwas freed fm a prin. theaper reports that jack raw had dropped h opposion to arisoner transfer agreemt with libya just wee before the o countries ratified a big o exoration deal. but was al grahi part of th prisonergreement? that's where it all gets a bit murky. >> was the on man convted of the lockerbie bombing and murder of 270 peopleeleased in return for 15illion poun of oil rights? tony blair visited colon khady to talk oil a th blket prison transfer agreement that could seel megri sent back to tripoli. t the bitish had pledged to the americans that he'd rve his sentencenscotland. the oil deal talled. it's now emerged that jack straw chandbritain's positionnd in a lettero ken mccaskill, the scottish stice secretary at the end of 2007 wrote -- the wide negotiations are reaching a crical stage and in a few the overwhelmg interests of the united kingdom, i have agreed that in ts itance, the prisoner trafer agreement should be inhe standar form and not ntion any individuals. six weeks lat libya ratified the oil agreement. meahi was now in theory eligibleo be transferr hom so does itmount to megrahi for oil? it is all acadic. a tminally ill megrahi was releed oncompassionate grounds, not under a prison transfer. but today a public inquiry was demaed. what didjack straw agreeto? >> i wouldnot have de a dea but i have no power to do adeal anto say to the libyas, ll, we'll do aurky deal withou on oil and we'll ge you a wink about the relee of mr. m megrahi. >> and what affectid it he onhe scots? apparently non >> he rejected transferri meahi and ke faithful the scotsh judicia system by releasing mr. merahi on compassiate grounds becse he wa suffering fm cancer. >> these photos of him looking gravely ill haly makes the politics of his rease any clearer. >> and here is something that we take largel for granted 234r is country. ridinghe bus in a major city. well, in south africa, a public bus system came in just yeerday to ohannesburg, the country's commercial cenr. the buses are condered a step for many commuters who have had to rely on unreguted van services. beyond comters, the buses will help people g around more easily next year during soccer's worlcup. and finally tonight, that brings us to another story about south afri and soccer andow youngsters a learning something in the plyground far more important thanow to improve thei skills in the game. these e life lessonand how to protehemselves against hiv and aids. a disease that kills sever hundred ousand people in south rica each year. the programs reported byv globo. it is translad and naated by our brazian producer. >> poor nehborhood in rt elizabeth, o of the citi hosting next year's world cup finals in south afca. the school amall play ground. th teachers arriv with little equipmt. a ball and a few cos. everything here hasmeaning. they explain the activity in one ofthe 11 official languages and the most commoin port elizabet each cone represents an obstacle brout on by hiv. r example, if someone learns he has the vus and esn't seek lp. in class, the studt must dribble around the cones if he touch one ofthem, heas to do push-ups. the lesson i if you don't take care of yourself, you can't steer clearf obstacles and there are consequences. there ar 450 kids as 6 through 14 playing and at the same time learning something important. they teach usot about hiv, ys this 13-year-old. and it'sroof thatife has made them ow up too soo they say, we souldn't go to bed with soone without a condom says this 13-ye-old. in the plaround, each activity holds new lesson. the teachers are soccer plays themselves andhey receive minil compensation for the classes. "i've seen people die fom aids. i've seen it in myamily. people don have any knowledge. they get sick and n't even go to a clinic" sayone of the teacrs. many of these kids are hiv positiver have someone at home wi aids. it's a taboosubject in south africa. the school and soccer helps to demystify the issue. "i know it's not goingo change things in e day, but our work one dayfter anher can then make a differee in the future" says thiteacher. the assroots project exists in ten countries, afra and the dominican republic in the caribbean. in ten countries hundreds of childr are becoming informed. quiet workhat brings hope to many comnities and brings smile and joys to all. as an aids specialist, it is written, this is the cue not through medicine but through educatio and that is"worldfocus"or this mday evening. you can findut much more glal news and perspective from checking out wodfocus.org. i'm daljit dhaliwal in n york. we hopeto see you bck here at the same ti tomorrow. ve a great evening. good night. "worldfocus" made possib in part by the llowing funders -- major suort has also bee provided by the peter j. peterson foundation. dicated to proting fiscal responbility and addressing key economichallenges facing america's future.
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