from the region next year. catherine, you mentioned afghanistan. what is the fallout from the drone strike that apparently killed two women and a 2-year-old child? well, doug, the international coalition known as isaf acknowledging the incident saying it deeply regrets civilian casualties. general joseph dunnford reportedly called the afghan president hamid karzai last night to personally convey this message promising to investigate what happened. karzai warned the latest attack to undermine a long-term security agreement. catherine, we ll be watching that. thank you very much. more trouble today in egypt over the new law banning protests without a permit. police again used tear gas to break up hundreds of demonstrators. today many islamist protesters came out after friday prayers, but secular activists are also upset at the new regulation, and they re hitting the streets as well. iran s foreign minister says his country will not enter nuclear talks with archenemy israel.
isaf is committed to assuming all those are taken to prevent civilian casualties. the general in afghan called hamid karzai late last night to personally convey this message, and promising to investigate what happened and how an afghan child became collateral damage in this strike. based on his statements, though, karzai is digging in by saying the strike is another example of the u.s. military s disregard for afghan civilians and for his nation s sovereignty. well, what s the big picture here? well, right now you have the afghans not only pushing back against this agreement and also pushing back against specifically the u.s. drone campaign. which by context was dramatically scaled down in the last year. and you have similar opposition to the campaign in pakistan. with this final drawdown of troops in afghanistan next year, one analyst says there s real jeopardy when you look at this larger picture. as the u.s. begins to withdraw units out of
effectively have confirmed that they will not allow any attacks of any form of intimidation against those who belong to islamic groups. they also confirm they will not exclude anybody, any faction from political life here going forward. much more from us from cairo in the hours to come. for the moment back to john vause in the studio. thank you, becky. and we ll check some other news which is out there right now. we have this just in to cnn. the republican u.s. senator john mccain has arrived in kabul on an unannounced visit. we are hearing from isaf that the senator is expected to present some awards to servicemen there and he will in fact hold a press briefing within the hour. meantime, prosecutors in a florida courtroom hammered away at the credibility of accused killer george zimmerman. he is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of trayvon martin. the prosecution is expected to end its case soon, perhaps as soon as this friday.
correspondent chris lawrence and our international correspondent in kabul on breaking news four americans have been killed at bagram air base. let s start with you, chris. what have pentagon officials told you? this was supposed to be a day where u.s. officials were highlighting the fact they were stepping back from the front lines in afghanistan. instead, they re now trying to explain how at least two more american service members have been killed. sources are saying this was an indirect fire attack in eastern afghanistan. that suggests that it could be a mortar attack or rpg attack. we know at least two of the dead are u.s. service members. four casualties in all. jake? and raza, what are you hearing there? we just got off the phone with isaf officials. they re not revealing anything other than what chris just told us. they said it happened late last night. it s 3:00 in the morning right now. so we know it didn t happen within the past three hours.
yeah. [inhales] well, have a good one. you re a nice lady. one person is in custody with the connection with the killings of two american troops. it all happened in paktika province in southern afghanistan 67 . the attacker, who was killed, wore an afghan army uniform. today was a difficult day for isaf. we had two tragic incidents. an italian soldier in western afghanistan was also killed this weekend. some people are concerned by ongoing attacks as nato winds down its military presence in afghanistan. north and south korea are trying to bridge their differences at their first official talks in two years. it s the latest sign of improved relations between the two countries. on friday the north reconnected with the hot line with the south, and it s hoped that today s meeting will pave the