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Afghanistan. Votes are cast in afghanistan. Well watch it in the weeks ahead. Two decades ago humanity showed its worst nearly a Million People were butchered in rwanda. Cut down by machetes as a country turned on itself. Vigils and memories to honour all that was lost. A frame of remembrance is travelling over the country. 20 years ago today a plane with the president in it was shot down. Im here to ask god to keep me well, thank him and to ask that the genocide never happens again. There has b...

central problem has emerged with his afghan strategy -- its called hamid karzai. experts and policymakers agree to the key to a successful strategy in afghanistan is having a credible local partner. our local partner is karzai and relations between him and the obama administration are bad. the administration has privately and at times publicly criticized him for corruption, vote rigging and general ineffectiveness. it threatened to withdraw a white house invitation to him and even now ...

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. its the kind of news weve waited a long time to hear. two industries hit hard by the recession are finally showing signs of rebounding. today the government reported construction spending rose by .8% in september, powered by the largest jump in home building in more than six years. and ford has made a u-turn, announcing today that it earned a third quarter profit of nearly a...

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captioning sponsoreby macneil/lehreproductions >> brown: od evening. im ffrey brown. on the newour this tuesday, our lead story-- the next sts for ghanistan and the u.s. aftepresident karzai agrees to a runoff election. gwen ifill has our covage. then, after e other news of e day, ray suarez gets the test on new suicide bombings in pakistancapital; spencer michels reporton the tenure battle for berkeley law professor whdrafted legal inions for the bush administration on rture. >> acade...

>> brown: good evening. im jeffrey brown. on the newshour this tuesday, our lead story-- the next steps for afghanistan and the u.s. after president karzai agrees to a runoff election. gwen ifill has our coverage. then, after the other news of the day, ray suarez gets the latest on new suicide bombings in pakistans capital; spencer michels reports on the tenure battle for a berkeley law professor who drafted legal opinions for the bush administration on torture. >> academic freedom mea...

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everyone. the presidents vacation in the sun was interrupted today by a cloud of bad economic news and a forecast of more to come. from both the white house and the non-partisan congressional budget office. heres some of it: they project the deficit for this year alone will hit a record high as the government spends $1.6 trillion more than it takes in. unemployment, now 9.4%, is expected to continue rising to 10% before starting to decline slowly next year. and the white house expects ...