the president held his first meeting with the new french president, francois hollande this morning in advance of their camp david summit. meeting this weekend. ahead, of course, of the nato summit meeting on monday in chicago. hollande promised in his campaign to get french troops out of afghanistan and he s recommitted to that today. a top issue for the leaders as they also grapple with economic turmoil in europe. we agreed that even as we transition out of a combat phase in afghanistan that it s important that we sustain our commitment to helping afghans build security and continue down the path of development. with me now is the new york times pentagon correspondent
in afghanistan and worked and written about the women of afghanistan and are preparing to go to the nato summit meeting. we re clearly going to see an accelerated withdrawal timetable for combat forces from afghanistan. what are we going to leave behind in terms of the women and their rights and opportunities? you know, i think it is such an open question right now. women have really been talking about this among themselves. and women leaders have been speaking up. but they still get shutout of so many conversations. so it s going to be up to the international community i think to help amplify their voices. i did a piece recently for foreign affairs about how we ve all been talking about the importance of human rights. whether we back that up with financial support for people fighting for them and education support, i think remains very much an open question. and i wanted to ask you about the piece you wrote i guess linked of pegged to mother s day about single moms and your own mo
welcome back to first look. i m lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. in one of the most shocking and gruesome acts seen in mexico s ongoing drug wars, 49 mutilated bodies were found dumped on the highway a little over an hour s drive from the texas border yesterday. the dead are thought to be victims of an escalating battle between two rival cartels. in afghanistan, a top peace negotiator was shot and killed on his way to work in kabul. the taliban denied involvement in the killing of arsala rahmani just a week before a key nato summit meeting in chicago where afghanistan will be a major topic. in southern yemen, 42 people have been killed in fighting between the army and al qaeda militants. the militants used warplanes and heavy artillery in the battle,
and it s gotten much tougher. now they re on record saying he s got to go, and once you say that as president of the united states, your credibility is on the line. and now we have along with all of the sort of atrocities going on, brutality, the way he s mowing people down, as you say, this puts the president in a very tough spot. there are powerful arguments, as you know, against american intervention. bob gates has said, you know, basically, look, we re overextended military already. bob gates has been saying in the past, we don t have enough money in the till to pay for all the military actions. we ought to start cutting that down not the preside down. the president cnn saying if you get in, how do you get out. on the other hand he s part a coalition that s been stemming for gadhafi that said gadhafi must go. i say it s time to act. it s time the u.s. should not do this unilaterally. but at the nato summit meeting with defense ministers thursday, he needs to come out of that
jindal. he has a great book about his life of his career. meanwhile, now are the headlines. the obama administration is reportedly developing a plan for all u.s. and nato forces to be out of afghanistan by 2014. officials start transferring security duties from u.s. troops to afghan forces over the next two years. the official blueprint will be presented at a nato summit meeting later this week much that s a huge summit. he s been missing for five months. the search resumed. searching the water near portland. that s about five miles from school from his stepmom says he dropped him off. his father is now divorcing her. a british couple held hostage by somali pirates for more than a year are waking up to their first day of freedom and it tastes great. paul and rachel chandler say they were beaten and caged like animals during their time in captivity. they are glad the ordeal is