the american who was snatched from his home in pakistan back in august. he begs president obama, make a deal with the terrorists or they will kill me. cnn s reza sayah is in pakistan. what is the latest? reporter: eight months we weren t sure about warren weinstein s condition but when you look at this video, it looks like he is in relatively good condition. he speaks coherently and he doesn t seem to have any visible injuries. now, we should note that we don t know when this video was shot, where it was shot, so it s impossible for us to verify that he is okay today. but, you know, based on the video, he seems okay and u.s. investigators and pakistani investigators have something to work with in this investigation. as far as al qaeda go, kidnapping a 70-year-old man? come on! reporter: west look the world of islamist militants and murky and shadowy. difficult to glean much from this video and impossible to verify who has weinstein. the video was spotted on al qaeda web
a track worker found dead in a barn at the world famous track. new clues and new questions as we are expecting to hear from police this morning. and middle class talkback. today we kick off a series built around you. your concerns. your issues. your questions to the candidates. today, we connect you to them and get answers. newsroom starts right now. this morning, we begin with a man s desperate plea for president obama to save his life on a videotaped just replease by al qaeda we hear from 70-year-old warren weinstein, the american who was snatched from his home in pakistan back in august. he begs president obama, make a deal with the terrorists or they will kill me. cnn s reza sayah is in pakistan. what is the latest? reporter: eight months we weren t sure about warren weinstein s condition but when you look at this video, it looks like he is in relatively good condition. he speaks coherently and he doesn t seem to have any visible injuries. now, we should note that w
this bailout will solve portugal s financing problems but the country still faces a daunting challenge ahead with competition and weak growth. this bailout really is just the start, monita. emily rubin in london. thank you. the burning of a koran in the u.s., dozens of people have been killed in violent protests, including seven united nations employees. the protest s organizers says he wants the florida pastor who burned the holy book to be sent to an islamic country to face what he calls justice. the protest organizer has told cnn that the demonstrators were calling death to america, death to obama. for more on this we re joined by cnn in kabul. hi, nick. tell bus today and what happened. reporter: well, today i think comparatively, peaceful protests, about 500, 00 people
nato was trying to curtail. nato has three months that it starts withdrawing or putting back u.s. troops in areas of the country. they were handing parts of the country back to afghans. instead we have a large outpouring of afghan anger, resentment of the nato population boring over into rage. they are putting the two acts together, really over the next few months or so what nato will have to hope that this anger dies down and goes away. it s not helping at all with bringing this country back towards afghan control. zain? nick patton walsh reporting. thanks a lot, nick. libya says a british air strike has hit an oil field in the east of the country. libya s deputy foreign minister says a major pipeline was damaged on the saria oil field.