a short illness at the age of eighty. i m joined now in the studio by our correspondent doc my vitek and she s been he is africa correspondent for many years and dagmar i understand that you actually met kofi anon on several occasion well the thing like. i mean every time when he entered the room it was really a feeling of this is the u.n. entering the room the space he had an aura he had a presence of real prisons and yet this big men the top diplomat from the u.n. he was really short and he was humble. sometimes he was a bit of a technocrat when when i asked him something he d get really difficult about it so no straightforward answers but i suppose that comes with the job a bit when you re together what s a signature to be able to do something at all but he was warm and he was modest all right well he served two terms as the un s top diplomat but he actually did much
enough explosives to blow up a bus. also they had a timer. of even greater concern though, two of them had been practicing flying light aircraft and could have glided into a crowded target. authorities believe they were headed some where else within europe, possibly france. the man who has tried to bring peace to syria is giving up. former u.n. chief kofi anon, negotiated for six months while syria descended into civil war. pointing the fingers at factions inside the country and key outside countries that failed to compromise. meanwhile, the syrian people are caught in the middle. iran delivered medical equipment and 15 ambulances through the syrian government. the united states promised $12 million in humanitarian aid as well. through groups such as international red cross. testimony resumes near chicago in the drew peterson murder case after the judge refused to declare a mistrial.
business. the american people are probably more polarized than any time since i ve been here. as a result we see that polarization reflected here in the halls of congress. this is a moment of disappointment that i cannot conceal. reporter: legislation, national security experts call critical from protecting america. stuck in the senate because of partisan differences but that s just one stalled bill on a countless list of others from food stamp to drought relief. legislation left on the table that really affects people s jobs and lives. to be fair, congress did get some important things done like extending federal aid for student loans and sanctioning iran. it s not just our imagination, it has been far less productive than in the past. take a look at this. so far this 112th congress has enacted 151 laws. that s fewer than half the 385 laws enacted in the last congress and a lot fewer than the 460 laws enacted before that. a key reason this congress is less productive,
breaking down the july jobs report this hour. i want to get to t employers added 163,000 jobs in july, much better than the 95,000 that economist also predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%. the latest political spin as president clinton and mitt romney weigh in on this report. go beyond the numbers to find out what the report says about the state of our economy. we are also going to see how wall street is reacting. president obama and mitt romney did not waste any time giving their take on the jobs report. romney is on the campaign trail r he is in vegas. president obama had a meeting with middle class families at the white house. romney points to the 42 moments with unemployment above 8%. he said the jobs report is more proof that the president s policies are failed. well, we continue to have 23 million americans out of work or have stopped working for look or underemployed and see job numbers bounce around month to month to month butno question that we now have 42
tonight, we have breaking news. cnn confirms the identity of the man accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians in a house to house shooting spree last weekend. 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bails, an 11-year veteran. let s get to chris lawrence at the pentagon. what can you tell us? well, i can tell you he s originally from the midwest and he was living in ohio until about 2001. after 9/11, that s when he joined the army. he s been based out at joint based lewis mcchord for the majority if not all of his military career. did about three combat tours in iraq. this was his first in afghanistan and as his lawyer has pointed out to cnn earlier today, apparently, he did not ever think he woul get a fourth deployment. a fourth caught him by surprise. get a combat veteran. we know he s been decorated for his service having served three tours in iraq already, but apparently from his lawyer we re learning, that he did not expect to be deployed for this fourth deployment to afghan