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tonight on worldfocus hpened cary is declared the winner of the afan presidential election ater his only rival withdrawsrom the race. how will the news aect president ama s decision about whether to send re troops there? secretarof state hillary clinton does whasome are calling an about-faceabout israel s settlement policy. the palestians expres outrage. as the 20nniversary of the fal of the warnears, germany celebrateshe world s leaders who mad it happen. and a man who dug secret tunnels and lped hundreds to eedom in the west. we will returno the phippines for our signature segment. tonit, how they see us. om the world s leading reporters and analystshere s what s hpening from around the world. this is wldfocus. major suppt has been provided by rosalind p. walter, a the per g. peterson foundation, dedicated to promoting fisca responbility and addressing key economic challenges fang america s future. and ditional funding is ovided by the following supporters hello and od evening. i m daljit dhaliwa we begin tonight with the latest chapr in the unfolding story of afghanistan. prident hamid rzai is going to see a second term. th became official today after his rival withdraw from a runoff due to te place this coming weekend. at is far from certain is whethe karzai can become the effective leader tthe united stat hopes for and needs in afghanistan. can he rid the country of corruption? can he raise an army capable one day of taking overrom the united stes? these a all key questions as prident obama plans the next phase of u.s. involvemenin afghanistan. in our lead focus, the afan election a bend, we start in kabul with al zeera english o found the issue of fraud remas an undercurrent. reporter: just a dayfter dr. abdullah s withdwal from the race, hamid karzai is declared winner of afghistan s presidenal election. translato we decla mr. hamid karzai who gothe majority votes in theirst und, and who is the only candidate in the second round, be declared presint of afghanistan. reporter: the chairmaof the country s p electoral body, thendependent election commsion, said consens had be reached among his commissioners based on theaw ierests of the afan people. internatnal reaction was l by united tions secretary ban ki-moon in kul on an unannounced visit. i sincereope that with this decisi, president karzai will be able to form a government as soon as possible. reporter: theiec s decision came after sunday s announcent by dr.abdullah abdullah that he was pullg out of the second und against mr. karz. dr. abdullahaid little had been done to avo repeat of the fraud thatarred august first round. but the spd with which victory has been conferred o mr. karzai and by the very commission dr. abdullah h freqntly accused prkarzai bias will raise concerns about how opposition supporters will react . abdulh told ajazeera on sunday he was cnfident they would accepthe outcome our supporter wiemain calm, ensure utmost sense of responsibility. ey ve proved themselves in the past fiveonths in a situatio that the environment was at mt unfair. reporter:he commission stl speaking to the media here moments after the decision was announced b the iec, the iec insisting it is theonlybody authorized under the law to take such a decision. and one commissionerust told me this commison iseady to accept critici from opponents mr. karzai. it insists it has never been bied. it is mo than two months since votes were first koub cast august the 20. now at the end of t period dominatedby the ugly expose of large scale fraud, victory for hamid karzai. it is farrom a perfect result, but a result, netheless. jonah hall al jazeera, kabul. in neighboring kistan, two more terror attacks today brought the toll in a month of violence to at ast 300. at least 35 people re killed in a suicidettack on a bankn rawalpindi not far from the pital islamabad and near lahore as many as15 were wounded in another suicide attack on a policetation. eporter: it was aay when the pensioncame into the ban hundredsere waiting outside to pick up their monthly check. translator: i wasitting outside the hol and all of a sudden there was an plosion.the. aan was lyingn the streets dead. a taxi driv s neck hadeen sliced open by debris. reporter:thers worry, iting for news of loved ones. translator: daughrs, mothers, siste come hre to collect their pension, because many pple are handicapped and can t come. sohey send tir wives and sters stead. tnslator: my mother came here to collt her psion this morninand she hasn t beenhome since. reporter: altugh the blast ok place inhe bus coercial district, the are a lot of military targs within the ar. as you cansee, t army have corded o of the roads into the blast site. th is suppose to be sece and the army s heed quaers is just few miles down t roa it strucoutside a busyhotel. itas a suicide bomber on a tor bike. rawalpindi has been under high alert for weeks but in rect dayshe local government id it wouldpen schools that have been shut for security reasons. with this blast, mos sools remain now shut. as amlances rails to the hospital ferryg the many dead and inred, quesons are now bein asked asto how a bomb blast could hitthis garrison count just weeks after hostage-takers managed to get in th army heauarters in a sie that lasted 24 urs. estions thatakistanis want the ansr to. some more on day s delopments in pakistan and in afghanistan, we joined by a bernard scartz feow here and former ahani official. go to see you again. thanks for joing us. sothing that was lost in today s news about the bombings in pakistan wa the announcent by the uted nations, that i was goingto be stoing its developmt along the dangerous borders betwn pakistan and afghanistan. how this going to affect the avere pakistan citizen? of courset is not surprising butunfortunat especially for the ordiny people in the border aas who lack access to hospitals, to schools, thelack access to emergency suort. unitedations was providin so it will hit t ordinary people pretty seriously. let s move on to ghanistan, th decisiono name president had karzai the victor in the presidential election. qutions of legitimacy obviouy have been raised. do you think that it s going to complicate the nato mission in afghanistan? i willot complice if karzai will have some arrangent with abdullah dullah and if he wil involve all the players and if he ll distance himself from the drug dealers, including his brother. he will do something re abou eradicating corrupti. but if he s not going to go in theserections andot take these steps then things will become more difficult for him. do you thin that abdullah abdullah is going to offered a position? he has denied that there sany kind of power-broking al going on right now. if kari were to offer him something, what coulhe offer him? i think he can offer him two things. one, vice presidey. or hcan o that i will be head of thetate two years or 2 1/2 yearsnd you be the president for the remaining 2 1/2 years. but i think there sme arrangement behind the would give the governnt more legitimacy given the fact that if a second poll had gone ead, the voter turnout may have beelower, there re legations of fraud which marr the first election. what exactly would abdullagain from his? i think they shod be thankful to abdulla abdullah could have asd his supporters to create a big problem for karzai. so krzai will be mh better f ife llo-opt abdull abdullah at thisime for the use of the people of afghantan. ay. hassan abbasthank you very much. thank you. > in rocco today,ecretary of sta hillary clinton tried to clarify commes that e ma thiseekend on israel west bank settlement pocy, marks that dr strong arab criticism. she said thathile israel is moving in theight direction b offering t scale back sme settlement construction, it falls far short of american expectations that was decidly different from wh she sa on saturday when sheraed the israeli offer tocale back, caing it an unprecedented gture. sheaid then that continuing settlement construction should nohold up a resumption o pee talks. but a palestinian ofcial strongly dagreed. resuming peace negotiations alongside, in pallel to the continty of the israeli settlement expansion practic and policies woul doom the peace negotiions of failure, simply becse the peace negotiatns are supposed to be about ending the occupation, ile the settlement expansion is about consoliting that occupaon. for moren clton s mments and the contversy that they ve called, we re ined by one of our regulars, daniel levy, a former adver to the israe government a now co-director of the mide east task for of the new america foundation. weome back to the program, daniel. thank you. what you make of hillary clinton s comments? agaffe o do they signal a change in policy. where there s consistencys the administtion wants to see negotiations resume, get beyd settlementand don t wa to escalate the settlemt issue with the israelis. however, what we hear in israe with the secretary standingext to the israeli primeinister was someing of a new language. and theanguage the sretary of statealked ba whenhe s in morocco. there she sa it was unprecedented, there was progress, but this wast enough and fell sht of arican expectatns. those qualifiers we t heard jerusalem. i thi that sent the diplomatic world and arab world in a tizzy talkg about the rest of he world,he arabworld, she called o palestinians to resume negotiions with israel, even if israel refuses to accept a permanent freezen settlements. y would the palestinianso th? why would theyake up negotiations again? well, fit of all, the secretary andisraeli prime minister are right in sing this is a newprecondition. this hasn t ben a precondition for negottions the past. however, on the pestinian side, i think what th d say is, first of all, there was a clause in osloerehould no cnges thataffect the perment status isses on the grnd, and settlements do atlantic reality on e ground. i tnk they d say even if it was w maybe it was a miste for years to allow settlements to expand while negoations were taking plce. the arab side, in t lestinians absence of a stlement freeze and in the absee of an clear planr timable for netiations, there s vry little sense that st resuming netiations will get you anywherether than to weaen the pastinian leadship politically. ut do they show a tin ear for palestiniapolitics wl, i something of a rurring theme. we saw i on the issue of there s a report of what was donen gaza. this was done for the u.n. there was ntinuing pressuren the pme minister. now they re doing that again. i think unfortunaly there s something ofn inabity to really read, unlike on the israeli sie, what th politics are on the lestinian side. there s something a dismissive approach to that. where do you think that this issue leaves america s desire to pu forward on the peace proces what kind of progressre we kely to make in the short to medium turn? i tink it leaves a suation inhich there s a recognion that t administration engaged early. there s an apreciation this is seen as a prrity. there s an appreciaon ofhe cairo speech. but thers also a gathering sense of what is goin on in the last fewmonths. and i think many people inthe world are waing to see this commitment to tw states transled into a and just to say forget settlements, t s get back to negotiations doesn t strike most peopl as being a particularly promising or encouraging pl. danl levy, thank you very mu. thank you. we also want to knowhat you think about this subject so our question tonight is, is the united stes even hand or does it favor on side over the othewhen it comes toisrael s settlement policy? tell us what you think by gog to t how you see it secon of r website at wodfocus.org. e more noterom israel tonight. er the weekend, the authoritiethere said thathey had arrested a jewish-american exemist suspected of carryi out series of hate crimes. jack title originay from florida isescribed as an ultra orthodox jewishest bank settle letter. authorities said weighs bend the killing of two abornes and the targeting of jewish peace tivist. a police spokman described him as, quote, a jewish terrorist. his lawyer told israeli television that tiooi tooi e is mentally distued. nexmonday is theth anversary of one of the greatest milestones of the late th centur the fll of the berlin wall, which led to the coapse of communism in europe threformer lears who helped shape thi momtous event gaered in the german capital overhe weekend to mk the anniversy. former presidenteorge herbert waer bush, former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and former german chancellor helmut kohl. he reflected on the past,he rst president bush spoke of the hopeor the future. that future generations might look backo the moment whe momef tim when mannd really got iright. when we ro above the recriminations ofhe past and broke a chain ofuman discontent and resolved our affairnot with rles but with ason. it worthemembering that the berlin wall was erected in 1961 and alst as soon as it went up, people started lking for ways to cro from the mmunist east berlin side to west berlin. hundreds d so through a series ofecret makeshi tunnels constrted over more than 20 years. some with enances hidden in houses o the easterside. one of the heroes of thateffort washasso herhel, whoug severaltunnels, at times working withis bare hands. in all, he helped 300 pele escape over e years. in suth america this weeken they marked an anversary involving someuch older remains. e sacred city ofaral in ru was discoved 15 yearsago. d work continues on the excavation of the site. at 5,000 years old, it is consider the oldest known civization in the americas and thrived at the time as the egyptian and mesotamian civilizatio vilizations. its ramids, unlike tse of egypt funconed as temples inead of tombs. onother item that caught ou attention tod from china. some in beijing thought it was a little weird when theylooked outside yesterday orning. it had bn warm and sunny the day befe. andven though the temperature plunged during the nit, the city is almost always drier at this te of year. ll, it turns outhat ina s weathern office was at work agn seedin clouds to create some much-needed precipation. the earliest beijingsnow in 21 year ly tonig, our signature story, the first of two reports this week on t philippines. toght, thecomplicated relationship betwe the philippineand the united ates. if filipinos are often conflied in how they view this country, snderstandable gin their history. the pill fins was, after all, an erican clony from1898o 1946. we sent rldfocus speci correspondent mark litke to ta a look how t rationship endus, for better and worse. reporter: it s been said that 0 years as a colony of spain gave filipinos their devout catholicism. 50 years as an ameran colony gave them a bit of hollyod. pop entertainme, fast food, flashy cars, a vy entrepreneurial spirit, and passion for basketball. ba alley games rightp to the philippine professional complete wh impoed american players for adde muscle, they lo this game. justsk the american bassador. that s her, cheering on her favorite teams in manila. i knew we shar things in common, a common legacy. i justever expected peoe to be able to quote to me what lebron jes scored last night before knew it. it s just amazing. reporter: christy kenny is t what the philiines have come to expct from a u.s. ambassador. sharrived here witha common touch, a very informal style that appeals tmost filipinos. you canet that in washington. so many filipinos live in the uned stas. so many americs live, work, ha been through here, are married to filipinos. soe knowach oth well. reporter: so well, she doesn t fret about the frequent anti-american demonrations over varus u.s. policies here, becae, she says, presters are almost always politend respectful. e way filipinos vew america does seem to be a love/hate relationship at times. america was a colonizer. th s hated. americans foht and died to libete the philippis in world war ii. that s loved. the.s. once supported filipino diator hated. then supported peoplpower revolution loved. we got an earful riding in the taxi of edgardo alonzo, who quick to criticize so americs for acting like this was still thei colony. do you thi some americans look down on filipino ell, yes. yes, y. reporter: but thene was just as qick with his praise. we haveigh regardo the americans cause of what they have done during the world war ii. reporter: there is no betr symbol of the unique historil relatiship between filipinos and aricans than this solemn place, the vast american cemetery rightn the hrtof the philippi capital.among the american servicemen who dd in the pacific in world warii, nely 17,000 are buried here. d six decad on, it s filipino workers earning $7 a day who stilllean and polish e headstones. yet itook the me six decad for the us. to finally agree to pension paymentsor lipino verans who fought alongside american forces agnst the japanese. it s an historical sght that many filipinos tak persolly, especiallyhose who ve emigted to the u.s. or who want to. given the portunity, how many of youwould go work ithe united stateas nurses? every year, as many as 20,000 filipino nurses seek out health care jobs in the.s. the st joseph s nursi school is filled with hopeful and ey re blunt abouthe reasons bter pay. most of the nurses the are ven high salaries tha they are re in the philippines. reporter: almost 20times higher, in fac filipino nurses are also in dend for both tir medil and pelekills. th re very proud of that. i just want other people in oth parts of the world that filipino nurses are really oe of the besteople in the world, because we rely show that we care abo oths. reporter: b they re also aware that filipinos also take the jobs that many americs don t wan especially in service iustries. jobs often viewed as second class. do you feel filipinos, even professional filipin such as nurses are still looked dwn uponn the united stat? s, i believe that. in our histy, that whe you are white, you are much superior than when you are dark kinned. mea there s still we all w know that. reporter: tha old love/hate thinggain raising itshe, even among this count s best and brightest. but if the is one trait that allows filipin to weather these ctradictoryeelings ward america, it s their aming sense of humor. filino comicived for years in the u.s. heees lot of humor and pathos in filipino views toward america. like, yeah,e hate america, we hat americ imperialism but at the same time, economy i so d here we want to move there and start a newlife. reporter: sitting outside a manila starbucks, he said there s sill a view tview amera as a promised land, to want the pat on the back. like a filipino aist makes it in the u.s. it a vlidation that, ye, you re good. rorter: he says he even fes a little tt way while watching philippin boxing sensation, manny pacquiano, one of the best in history. lk about filipino bragging righ. look atur guy. he made it. d he beat youruys or the other foreigners. soike take us seriously. reporter: to many filinos, he indd has become a symbol of this nation s achievements an growing self confidence, a nation of talent, resilie, industrious andndependent people. yes, filipino cture does still reflect ose 300 years under spanish rule and 50 yes der th american, buto be it. this is who they are, and they are proud of it. for worldfocus, i m mark litke in manila, the philippes. > and that is worldfocus for this monday. t don t forget, you can fi a lot more inteational perspective on our website wo d worldfoc.o worlocus.org. while ere drop us a line about the program. for me and t rest of the teamere in new york, good-bye. major support for worldfocus h been provided by rosalind p. walter and th peter g. petern foundation, dedicated to pmoting fiscal responbility and addressing key economichallenges 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