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>> good morning. the feds take action gives a new terror threat. i am jon scott. >> and i am marthello. there are calls for security concerns about direct flights to the united states in fear that al qaeda could be developing new bombs that could slip past screening. >> greg palcot is live own this. >> reporter: the airports here in london and across europe are on high alert amid to terror alerts. one of the main air gateways to the use is heathrow and they have stepped up the security. they are...

Prayer on sunday. a memorial at a huge soccer stadium on tuesday. and buried the following sunday in his home village. in attendance will be president obama and first lady michelle obama. former president george bush and laura and former president clinton and hillary. clinton sat down today and recalled mandelas long years in prison. >> i said, tell me how this changed you. how did you give up 27 of the best years of your life and come out a better than than you went in. he said i realized they ...

Nelson mandela died. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palcot has the story. >> reporter: they lit candles and laid flowers in front of his house in johannesburg. the people of south africa mourned and celebrated the father of their country, 95-year-old nelson mandela. >> the world today is lesser without him. >> reporter: the first black president of south africa was praised by the current holder of the office. >> we will always love madiba for teaching us, to overcome hatred and anger ...

That we are waiting for that possible u.s. military strike to reconfigure what is happening on the ground, to make the end result a little bit more favorable to the assad regime, greta. >> greg, thank you. and were about to show you a graphic video published by "the new york times" today. in it a group of syrian rebels are executing government soldiers at gunpoint. the videos edited so you wont see any gunfire, but you will hear the shot. "the new york times" said the video was smuggled out of s...

That we are waiting for that possible u.s. military strike to reconfigure what is happening on the ground, to make the end result a little bit more favorable to the assad regime, greta. >> greg, thank you. and were about to show you a graphic video published by "the new york times" today. in it a group of syrian rebels are executing government soldiers at gunpoint. the videos edited so you wont see any gunfire, but you will hear the shot. "the new york times" said the video was smuggled out of s...

Problems youre having is that president obama waited so long presumably that president assad could scurry away and hide assets we want to hit and even use civilians as human shields, is that part of what youre saying? >> absolutely. that is certainly part of the problem i have. i was very clear even when i said i would support the president he had to act swiftly and it had to be meaningful and it had to be direct. if im assad, im taking my sarin gas and other chemicals and moving them to schools...

Militants, a large number of drone strikes, intelligence sharing and strange forces. that crackdown and the high public profile of the united states playing a role in that crackdown could have resulted in the killing. alisyn: greg palcot thank you so much for that update. phrap. bill: we have new information revealed in the solyndra canned skal, the solar panel company that declared bankruptcy two years after getting a government loan leaving taxpayers on the hook for more h-pb hal more than hal...

Community to further isolate north korea. following its unsuccessful attempt to put a satellite into orbit and noted the country is not good at launching missiles. greg palcot is in pyongyang with the story of with a went wrong. >> it was the launch that wasnt, a controversial rocket lifted off friday morning north korea time and broke up in the yellow sea 100 miles off the coast. it was so bad, the north north s admitted it failed to make orbit. speculation centered on the guidance system. the ...

Greg palcot and his cameraman olaf wiig severely beaten and hospitalized today? why was abc news correspondent christiane ammanpour harassed ad jostled on the streets? why was her camera crews car attacked? why was cbss katie couric surrounded and overwhelmed in the streets? why was the bbcs ian pannell accosted by a group of men while he was reporting? why was his fellow bbc reporter rupert wingfield-hayes stopped and taken into custody by police for several hours before he was released? why we...

It. >> exactly. mood tonight from tripoli, from what we hear is quiet. libyan officials apparently heeding the warnings of london to keep it down, to not make a replay of last years triumphal return of al-megrahi and as for his condition, our sister network skynews here is reporting that their sources are saying that he has been on chemo in libya. he has been taken off and he might have weeks, days to live? but weve heard that before, harris and other people are saying months and maybe years. li...