frank palloone and joe barton going at each other, calling there s a monkey court. are these guys going after each other, scoring political points, are we learning anything about what went wrong here? reporter: i think it s a bit of both. they were talking about private circumstance monkey court business. in the big picture, you ve got 50-some odd companies who are contractors, only a few represented on the hill. one company, cgi, blames another company, qssi, for the big problem. qssi blames the federal government, the centers of medicare and medicaid services for putting in a late change that created a bottleneck. this is clearly a political issue. also very technical. and it s something a congressional committee, as a whole, isn t equipped to handle very well without a ton of staff to work on. so you get a lot of people veering off, asking policy questions to companies here to talk about a technology
effort of african migrants off the coast of italy. now, more than 200 people, they were pulled from the water almost two week ago. you see it there. at least 31 died. the overcrowded boat was carrying migrants trying to escape the poverty of north africa. there had been several recent sinkings in which hundreds had died. nigeria, pirates have kidnapped two americans from a u.s. oil supply vessel. this is in the gulf of guinea. straight to lagos nigeria. first what do we know about the attack and who was taken? reporter: well, here what happens we know. sometime early morning on wednesday, this u.s. vessel, owned by a louisiana-based company, was attacked by pirates. we don t know how many, details are sketchy. during or after the attack, two american sailors, the captain
months ago claiming he s the father of other 2-year-old daughter. last week the judge in charge of the case ruled in her favor. translator: when i met him, i wasn t a minor anymore. but i was still a young lady. i reacted like any young girl who is still growing up and developing. he approached me trying to be protective and paternal. like any other girl i never doubted his motives. reporter: at first she approached him for spiritual guidance, but over time, their relationship became romantic. when the baby was born, he baptized his daughter and became her godfather. the secret revealed when she filed the lawsuit. back then, she told per vuvian media they mutually agreed to keep the relationship and their daughter a secret for ever, but he also said he never took advantage of the woman who is 23
years younger than him. translator: i have never denied the girl is my daughter, he told a local television program this month. i never tried to sidestep my responsibility. what i had asked was time so we didn t have to rush things so we didn t creed a scandal. his former lover s attorney says he was vindictive. translator: if he originally denied paternity hee d avoid child support. something that worries me is that he appealed accusing my client of defamation. reporter: he has resigned as assistant bishop and the church is supporting the mother and her baby girl. cardinal, the archbishop of lima, asked him to assume his responsibility as a man and confirm that the vatican accepted his resignation. raphael joins us for the back story. there s a back story why she
supplies, but not everyone makes it through. atika shubert joins us live from london. it s even hard to watch what we ve just seen, to even understand what is going on here. but what is behind this? is this some sort of sick motive to terror a whole society, a particular group. what is going on? reporter: it s clear that the snipers are shooting at civilians, essentially to terrorize them. we don t know who is pulling the trigger who the snipers are or targeting anybody in particular. there does seem to be, as dr. nott said there, a kind of game. he had even heard reports that they some of the snipers were getting rewards like cigarettes for targets achieved, which united states a horrific and chilling thing to think about. it goes to show how far the civil war has descended into syria and the fact you have