tonight on "wodfocus" -- a deadly day for americ troops in ghanistan. ll even more cualties occur once theroop surge is finally finished? > we will take to you a leading univeity in yemen where foreign students are apparently theargets ofal qaeda recruiting campaign. in o signature segment, w will look at the special challenges at the wheehair bound face in greece. >> a really dangerous ride with me. and people from around the world gather in las vegas to look at the latest hh-tech gaets, 3d is ming to your ling room soon. from the different perspectives of reports and analysts from around the glo, th is "worldfocus." major support has been provid by rosalind p. walteand the peter g. petersofoundation, dedicated to promong fiscal responsibility and addressin key economic challens facing america's future. and addition funding is provided by e following supporters -- good ening. welcome toworldfocus." i'm daljit dhaliwal in nework. for more than o weeks, the ited states has been focused on the terro threat fr yemen following t christmas day bombing aempt on a.s. tliner. but tonight, the war in afghanisn is back a the centerf the news,nd the news isot good. six no troops including three americans were killed today. making it the deadliest day for the exnding iernational force intwo months. a u.s. military spokesman said that the amecans died durng the patl in sohern afghanista as the u. troop sge ntinues in afghistan, the top american commander says he believes t larger force is tuing the tide again the taliban. buafghanistan is also becoming ineasinglydeadly. today'losses brought to a least te the number of.s. trps killed theresoar this year. anverage of almost one service memb each day. for more about t situation in afghanistan,e are joined once again tonight by the noted nationalecurity analyst anthony courtesman who is with the center for strategic and international studies. thank you ve much for joining us on the program. so today as we menoned was the deadliest day for nato tops in afghanisn in a two-moh peodful are we seei more casualties do you think beuse the mission is changing? >> it's no simply the mission. we arentensifying the leve of comb. you are attempting to secur populated areas,ot simy find the taliban in limed clashes. so what youe watchin is a differentype of tactical tivity, and at the same tim thtaliban has changed. it is now conducting wnter mpaigns. it doesn'tpause or cut back simply bec of the seaso. >> what doou expect then going forward? >> what we're watching is a fundamental shift toward population cent rick strate. what that real means is, the are about 42 major populated clusters i afghanistan. some are aeady sece. some are dominated by the taliba so you're going to see recus. not only in u.s. but nato fces and inhe aid efforts and the forts by the afghan governmen and forces. that will devop or the cour of the coming year. it wot be sudden and a lot of the changes will begin in the spring andsummer. but it wi be more intense fighting and the casualties u've referred to are inevitably going to rise befor they drop. >> there we reports the obama administration i unhappyith the peagon because the troop surge is takg longer than expect. how do you tnk thatthesurge is going? and do yo anticipate tt it will pay o in any kd of meaningfulway? wel, we'velready seen progress. where we have shifted tacts, whe we haven't just gone after the enemy and we've sought to protect the afgh people, where we've ven them lasting protecti, helped with governance a helped wth aid, reate stable areas. areas thetaliban can'tet back into. and we gradually pu them o of areaswhere they've had influence in the past. now whether we ca do this on a national bais, whether we can do it in the worst areas, in the border with pakistan that's not yet clear. if we're going to know or the coming year whether these tactics work, and whetherhis r is really winble. >>ome people have said in the past few weeks tat we're fighting the wrong war, thathe threat fomal qaeda is much eater in places like yemen a somaathan it is in afghantan. what do you think? do you agree? >> i don't aee at l. i think people areasically reacting to the headlines. we've been dealing with the that from al qaeda and radical vements in yeme for more tn a decade. it's bically been a problem evenefore thettack on the uss le. radil islam inside somalia is not dominated by al qda. the movement tied to al qaeda but it is certainly not an al qaedmovement. what we've knownever since 2001 is this a regional threat. it's not one country. and it's not one leader. so when people suddenly dcover yet agai that this is much more complex an one wr and one place, and then focus o the latest threat, they don't lp. >> oky. anthony courtesman, thank you for ining us. >> a pleasure. thank you. in yemen, thenited states is increasing counter terrori aid and trainingfter the suspected airlin bombers alleged ties. today the cleri warned te government agast allowing what he called foreign occupation. the cleric heads th university in yemen's capital where e boing suspect studied. had allegedlyssociated with the young nigeri. we have more on this tonight from itn's jonathan rugman who also reports on a contact wi the spect this fall work a memb of itn's vestigative team >> reporter:n a hillsi in the yemeni capital,,000 students a enrolled at a college which haearned the reputation a a favorite breeding grodor al qaeda. the university is a magnet r .oung muslims from e world the rector was once osama bin laden'sspiritual mentor. the cleric believed to have spired last year's shoing of 13 people at ft. ho in tes used to pray here. and it is belied that his allegestudent, e nigern charged wi attacking a plane over detit would pray here, too. the fbi aims that it wa here that umar farouk abdulmutaab joined al qaa. ey boaed that0 morelane bombers are being traid to take h place. channel 4 news can now real th a member of our investigative team me the nigerian nowharged with trying to bl up an american psenger jet. thmeeting took place here in men back in october when he wa allegedly training with al qaeda d panning his christmas day atck. e meeting with abdulmutallab took pla here at the juice bar in downtown. my colleague o met him said it was a btish muslim who introducedhem. >> came he to meet a brish muslim whos udying here in yemen, andhis british muslim introduced me to the nigeri guy. and i asked him a couple qutions abt h cntry. >>ow at the strike you? >> he strik me as a quiet man, a deut muslim who was wearing a normal islamic dres and he was covering his had and you couldn't tell at this is a guy wh would do sch a thi and i didn't know he would do these thgs. >> reporter:ast year, we ban investigating the rdicalization of foreignershere. though on the same street where we encountered the nigerian muslims from leon in france and new jerseyn the usaaid they were against al qaeda. th a witch hunt against the innocent anddevout had begun with students being taken away for questioning. nobody would talk on camera, no would the am in the apartment block which houses the nearest mosq. the imamtold us we're not allowed to film inside because he said it is wong to take photographs of human bodies which havesouls. there ar several brith and american students in the congregation here. it is just the kind of placehe western inteigence services are worried about. thepotential recruitg ground for jihad. one british muslim, a 19-year-old fr south london, d agree totalk. he denied any al qaeda activy in the msque andthough he claimed would not foow the nigean's example, he didn't sound entirely sure. >> you're not going to follow s footsteps. that's what t british officials will be wored about, isn't it? >> probably. but it is god's willf i'm going to follow in footstep i'm try my bes to stay awa what did he is ong i wouldn' like to assoate with him or do what he's doing. >> couldn't you be led astrayy some very radical people who thinkhat's not enough a you need to attack the west? >> you could you're not careful. it is god's wll but i' usuall with brothers who are on the trut and on the right hand advising. but what is most dngerous to associate with him. you cod get ainwashed and you never know what could happen. reporter: the britainnew other muslims from the u.k. studying islam in yen. though clrly there are many more. we met a 23-year-old fro north london, wored abo reprisals from funmental. is for talking out his refusal to grow a beard. i went to place some tme ago where they were practicing the lifestyle of the prophet, meaning weing what h wore and not aving the beard. th don't wear jeans i didn't believe the same beliefs as them even tugh what ey are wearing, i believe in its being right b i n't beeve it bein copulsory. >> reporr: though dress code is no way of spotng a possibl terrorist, al qaed is on th lookout for reign students studying a strict fm of islam, far from home. >> that was itn's jonathan rugman reporting from yemen. southern italy, calm has return after twodaysf riing between african immigrants on one side and local residents and police on th other. it happened in a town in an agcultural region where unemployment runsbout 20%. the writing began after two africans we shot wth pelt gun. migrts blame the attack on racism and authorities were also examing whether e local maa provoked the fighting. at least 50 people were injured. the miants work in farming and factory jobs that italians dn't want b there is deep resentment over their presence. severe wnter weather ntinued to be a problem as spaiand portugal were the latest to be hitby cold a snow. ese pictures are from r german rtner deutsch welle. there was a foot of snow in parts spain where schos were osed. temperates were below freezing. thcoldest temperatures wre in norway where in one llage, it was a record44 grees below zero. inhe middle st, there has been renewed violence between stipalestinian militant and gazatrip residents. three were killed by an air strike yesterday. the atta came after militants fired four mortars fromaza into souern israel. the israeli militar says there has been 15 such attacks this month. alst tunndouble the numbein cember. and t long border in egypt. two massive fences will be put up. israel's prime minister benjamin tanyahu said the decision to build is amed at presving rael's jewish character and keeping ou islamic militants and illega imigrants. >>also from egypt tonight, a fascinating story aut those who built e pyramid egypt dilayed a series of ney discovered tombs that belonged to people whoorked on theyramids revealing a zen skeletons, perctly preseed afte4,000 years. the tombs al contain jars that once contain beer andread fothe workers' afterlives. areologists say they provide new evidence that contrary to popular beief, the workers were not slas. one saying tha slaves would not have been buried with such ce. now to our signature story. tonight, our focus is disabled rights overseas. it has been 20 yearsince congress pasd the america with disabilits act guaranteeing disableamericans protection und the lawful tha is not always the case in other countrie during a reporting tripo eece last summer, correspoent lynn and megan thompson met a you woman who showed the how challenging life can be in a wheelchair in athens. oureport is by megan thompson. >> reporte it's monday in athens. thstart of the woreek for ana anmillions of others. but an's commute is a special challenge. >> as you can see, my pavement. >> reporter: greek sewalks are often toosmall for anna's wheelcir or they're blocd by parked cars an motor bikes. sometimes there iso ramp up. so for much ofhe ip,nna rides on the road withhe cars. >> a ally ngerous drive with me. careful behind you. >> reporter: it s an automobile accident that p anna in herheelchair ithe first place. sen years ago, as a 22-year-d dental stdent, she was a passeng in a car crash. an says heredical training told her something waserribly wrong. >> i don't know if anye is able t describe the feings back tn. because youjust have to surve. so you're notble to think straight and actnormal. no you justo have survive. reporter: anna's serdpinal rd left her legsnd body paralyzed. although s can move her arms, she lost the use of her fingers. witho hospital in greece to treat her injuries, an had to go to england for specialized care and rehabitation. whenhe returned, her lif was mpletely changed the most difficult part, actually. have to go back and reconstrtour life. you ve to recsider everything >> reporter: sti, anna is luck she has a family, theresources, and the spirit to achieve independence in a untry where life for people with disabilities c be full of challeng. there are thousandof disabled grk like anna. although greece has made progress, many say theystill face an array of problem. unployment, discrimination, poverty, and dficulty just getting around. >> you d't see tomany citizens gng around with wheel chairs because of the roads and the curbs. as you can see, there is no ramp opposite the p so i can use i i ve to on the road. my wheelair is a big one. you can'go inside cafes or puic services. thgs likethat. because there are too many stairs. >> reporter: bylaw, public buildings are supposed to be accessle. but anna sa at's not wh she usually finds. while the u.s. started adessing the needs of the disaed in the 1970s, and enacd the comprehensive ericans with disabilities act 20 years ago, greece h only ju started daling with the problemsts disabled citizen fa. >> it is the largest minority in the world and yet its one to which e is notecessarily born to but anyone could bome a member o that mirity. >> reporte dr. eleftheria rnidaki-aldous became a memb of that minority when an accident left her blind as a toddler. back then, dabled children re not allowed to go to disabl schools so her famy found a special schl for the blind in aths shelf wen on to earn her phd at johns hoins university. 2004, becamehe firs blind woman in the greek paliament. dr. bernidaki-aldous helped report on e disabities. part of a techateof improvement. laws wre ssed to ban workplace discrimination. improve access to public that budings and to ensu public education fo disabled ildren. at ts conference on disabilities, e deputy minist of health said it is an issue of justice and human rights that the governmt is committed to maki more change the 2004 olympics and paraolympics forced greece to make some impoant infrastructure provements. one ample, these grooves in thpavement to help guide the blind. another examp, making tourist attractions mo disability friendly. just in time for all t out of town guests. this elevator was installed at the parthenon. and we rode one some first time visitors. >>how are you doing? >> reporter: a harrowing ride but well worth itor this disabled greek who never could have gten up here before. by all accounts, the biggest boone to people with sabilities is th metro which was expand inhe 2002. it is some say one of the most accessible subways in the world. deed, ridi the subw is the easiest part o her trip. elevators deler her straight to the tacks and the train has doors reserved for e disabled. t back out on the streets thgs aren't quite so eay. >> okay. so we're gng to find the ramp. there is only one ramp in this huge place. and even thou i'm going to go on the left, theris no ra here. so have go on the right to find it. you still don't kw wheret . it is really naow. i don't thini can go there. >> reporter: but annahasn't let these obstacles get in her way. afr the accident endedher plans to be a ntist, she switched to commucations and is now the editor-in-chieff disability now. gree's leading magazine for people with disilities. there islso a website, news it'sletters, communi events and a levision showhat all share the goal of empowment. their messe, educa yourse. be fleble and find t right tools to ngotiate a society that is still tryingto fire out how to aommodate you. >> disability is the motherf ery discovy. it makes you think big, you know. >> reporter: for "worldfoc," i'm megan thompson in athens, greece. tomorrow night we wishow yoa new hh-tech device being tested in greece that hes the blind to get around. we also want to know what y think about th opic. w a question tonight is, you think enou is being done helphesabled? ll us what you think by goi to t how you see it second quarr of our website at worldfocus.org. finay toght, if you have just purased a new flatcreen high definition tevision, hold on. it is about to become outdated. that is the word from the annual consumer electronics show in las vegas which ended this wkend after introducing som 20,000 cutting ed products. while the ent is heavily covered in this coury, it is also a big story overseas. we want to show you how benjamin cohen of our britis partner itn told the story, as looked into the future. >> reporter: las ves. the ultimate city of sin. the entertainmentapital of the worl and for one wee a year, every year, it dulges of fantasies of the future. 100,000 the biggest vers and shakers in the world of technology are inside these ittering palaces of hotels and conventi centers, gambng on which of the 10,0ew products beinlaunched this weekill lp define the decade to come. the csumer electronic show is the biggest in the world ery conceivable gadget is on display fromuge televisions, virtual rlity driving, t phones that still work underwer, andven a personal drone that feeds live vide back to the iphone. but there are some serious trends that point the y to our dital future. 3d tv finall brings it to min stream a all of r technology mediums will seemily converge into one. whetr it is search engines becoming mobiles or tvs becoming video phones. 20 years ago we thought we would be flying around in jet packs. but 2010 has come and while there is no jet pack, thanks to intern and television convergence, a quietight in front of the tevision is no excuse for not seeing your friend many new tvs will have skype cames in front of tm and it is now found on many mobile phones. >>n a world where your mobile device i a pc in your pocket, communicions is just one application thatuns on that device. communations can flow like war from your pc to your fl panel tv to yourobile pho. >> repter: nearly every new television going on saleill be le to connect directly to the internet. say social networks like twitter will be fully integrated into everything we view. >> othe left we have what we call a feed. similar to what you see in facebook and twitter. >> this is at your friends haveeen watching. >> it is uff that they'v recommended on faceboo and twitter and i can jumright in and soheasterly not only what they've been waching. so therecommend i watch this individu yoerk i can jump right in. if i like it as well, weake sy to share and i can give to it my frids or recommendo it my friends on facebook and twitter. >> reporter: the other big buzz is 3d tv. every major manufacturer nounced whole families of 3d tvs. many costg little more than the regular hd set. the only downside ithat in most cases,you still have to wear the ridiculous glasses. >> you see the litt infrared receiver onour glass. >> reporter: it is including espn and sky will begin3d progra within monts. >> the worlds in 3d. being able to replicatehat ewing experience in 3d has significant valu >>eporter: what is so significanabout this year's tech fest i that across the entireindustry, both 3d tv and nverged media ha been adopted and will therefo beco the bedrock of our digil lives. ke the one-ardbandit of las vegas, will we simply end up shackled to mache? at's all for w. a remder that youan find more news and perspectivet worldfocus.org. i'm dait dhaliwal in new york. from me and the rest of the team, thank you for joining . and goodbye. -- caions by vitac -- 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