Urgent intervention overseen by the police’s top brass is necessary to deal with the spate of killings in Nelson Mandela Bay’s Walmer township. So brazen are those behind the suspected hit murders that people were shot in broad daylight in one of the Walmer’s busiest roads a week ago.
A string of suspected hit murders, bogus police and the closure of a police station in one of Gqeberha’s most violent and dangerous policing precincts has left residents of Walmer Township living in fear.
future. another element is that these clashes began yesterday when the police were trying to clear a fairly small number of people out of tahrir square. they used fairly excessive force yesterday. one man was killed in cairo. more than a thousand wounded. and this is really sparked more outrage because, of course, egyptians overthrew hosni mubarak s regime because they felt the police had too much power, was too brutal, arbitrarily tortured and detained people and so this is really a reaction to that. they don t want to see the same sort of regime coming back and staying yet again. other stories we re following this hour, this is the man poised to be spain s next prime minister, mario rahoi leads the party. a short time ago, his socialist opponent conceded today s national election. spain is the third country this month to change governments largely because of europe s economic crisis. a massive crowd today in damascus, syria, thousands of people loyal to president bashir
lisa, what happens now? right. a couple of things happen. first of all we ll get the official announcement as you re talking about, saying that may come tomorrow, discussions under way. as the super committee fails that would trigger across the board cuts of 8 to 9% to most every government agency and those would not go into effect another year. a lot of speculation to whether congress will pull that back. but let s get back to sort of where we are right at this moment. behind the scenes, we have many, several sources republican and democrats, telling us they re planning for the end. but what s interesting, it ted, i want listeners and viewers to pay close attention here, publicly members of the super committee aren t saying that yet. they still have a date day to work out a deal. sounds like they don t want to admit they basically have stopped talking. let s play some sound from the sunday talk shows and listen closely to kind of double messages here. first from a democrat
southern desert. fighters had been chasing the younger gadhafi for more than two weeks to the capital of libya right now, tripoli. what can you tell us about how this all unfolded? reporter: well, we re hearing from senior military officials among the revolutionary fighters who are telling us that the capture took place after a stake out, an 18 day stake out deep in the southern deserts of libya. we understand that is where saif gadhafi was hiding and they tell us they believe he was trying to make his way to neighboring niger. now after 18 days of this stake-out they finally moved in on a convoy at about 2:00 p.m. local time and after a gun battle that took place for about two hours they say that saif and members of his entourage surrendered to the revolutionary force and after that he was taken to the western mountain city where the fighters captured him came from where he s being held now in an undisclosed location. what s the overall reaction from ordinary people in t