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APEC Summit Wraps Up; Intelligence Reform Bill Shelved

Aired November 21, 2004 - 08:00   ET

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RUDI BAKHTIAR, CNN ANCHOR: And the next hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING begins right now.
From the CNN Center in Atlanta this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. It is November 21st, 8 a.m. at CNN headquarters here in Atlanta, 5 a.m. out on the West Coast. Good morning I'm Rudi Bakhtiar, in today for Betty Nguyen.

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Tony Harris. Thank you for being with us. Now in the news. The two day Asia Pacific Summit wraps up later today in Santiago, Chile. Minutes ago leaders posed for the annual class photo.

North Korea's nuclear weapons program was high on the agenda of the 21 APEC leaders. In the streets outside the APEC meeting thousands angrily protested capitalism and the Iraq war. Elections in Iraq will happen on January 30th. According to the national election commission, voters will chose Iraq's national assembly, a Kurdish national assembly and 18 provincial governing counsels.

A commuter plane crashes seconds after take off in northern China killing 55 people. Police and firefighters broke the ice on a lake where the plane went down to recover the bodies. The government says all 53 people on board and two on the ground were killed.

BAKHTIAR: Coming up this hour, President Bush promoted it, several victims families pushed for it but now the 9/11 intelligence reform bill is on the shelf. We're going to tell you what happened as Congress failed to pass the measure.

And ...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: To keep alive his laws and closed hearts and closed minds to define our (UNINTELLIGIBLE) laws.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BAKHTIAR: Open hearts and open doors, fed up with what they see as restrictive parts of their faith some Muslims are urging followers of Islam to be more open. We're going to tell you about that movement.

And the players through their punches. Now the NBA lands its blows after the melee in Michigan the league is reading them the riot act and we're going to tell you all about the basketball brawl fallout.

HARRIS: More now on our top story. President Bush and other leaders wrap up the annual Asia Pacific Summit in Chile's capital. This morning Bush talked with Mexican counterpart Vicente Fox. The topic immigration. Our Lucia Newman is in Santiago with the latest.

Good morning, Lucia.

LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Tony. Well consensus is the name of the game here at APEC where leaders from the Asian Pacific nations will represent. More than half of the global economy have been meeting here in Santiago.

And to illustrate that consensus just a short while ago the 21 amigos as they're being called now posed for their group photo wearing an elaborate Chilean poncho or chomanto (ph) as it's called. In fact, it took Chilean weavers four months to hand make each single one of these.

Now earlier President George Bush met with his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox, as you mentioned and of course immigration was the main topic of discussion. Mexico has been upset. It believes that Washington has been dragging its feet on measures to make it easier for Mexican workers to go to the United States and to work their legally. Let's hear what President Bush had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I made it very clear my position that we need to make sure that where there's a willing worker and a willing employer that that job ought to be filled legally in cases where Americans will not fill that job.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NEWMAN: Now for the next few hours the 21 APEC leaders will focus most of their attention on trade and on security, on the need to take stronger anti-terror measures on land, air and sea, Tony.

HARRIS: Lucia, are we going to see that final declaration at some point today, and what is likely to be in it?

NEWMAN: Well, yes, it is expected to come out before the day is out. Earlier this afternoon, at least local time, we're about two hours ahead of you eastern time, it will focus of course on trade, but also the commitment of many of the Asian countries towards a nuclear free Korean peninsula for example.

That was mentioned by President Bush in his opening speech yesterday. The need for all the countries to take stronger measures to combat terrorism and of course to flexibilize -- make more flexible their free trade agreements.

In fact one of the main points here, Tony, has been to take the first timid steps toward a free trade zone between the Asian Pacific countries. And that would be huge if it could get underway. Tony.

HARRIS: It would be. Lucia Newman in Santiago, Chile this morning. Lucia thank you very much.

BAKHTIAR: Intelligence reforms designed to better fight terrorism are still not nailed down. The lame duck Congress failing to pass a reform bill yesterday, mainly because of opposition from House conservatives. Some say provisions in the bill just don't do the job.

President Bush fought for the passage. Lawmakers say they're going to keep on trying.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. DENNIS HASTERT, (R-IL), HOUSE SPEAKER: We're going to keep working on this bill. We will not adjourn Saturday. We will ask negotiators to keep working. We'll ask the president to get involved personally in this issue and we'll get a bill that will reform our intelligence agency as it protects our war fighters and people on the ground.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BAKHTIAR: Congress...

SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, (D) CONNECTICUT: This is not a victory of partisanship, this frustration and delay. It's a victory for, I'd have to call kind of ideological policy rigidity in the face of a national security threat that we are dealing with.

And I say not partisan because the president of the United States wants this bill. Has been involved in calling on some of the very people who are blocking it today to help him pass the bill.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BAKHTIAR: Congress did approve a massive $388 billion spending bill and lawmakers are embarrassed by a provision that actually managed to get into that bill. It allows certain members of Congress to look at the tax return of any American.

Republican Senate leaders are calling it a mistake. Lawmakers agreed not to send the legislation to the president for his signature until the clause is repealed.

HARRIS: And here's the latest Iraq situation report. U.S. and German officials agree to forgive 80 percent of Iraq's foreign debt. It's an effort to stabilize Iraq quickly. International creditors are expected to approve the deal soon.

Wounded civilians from the assault on Falluja have been evacuated to Baghdad for treatment. They were trapped inside Falluja during the past four days of military operations. A Polish woman abducted in Iraq reappears yesterday in Poland. She offered few details on how she was freed but said her captors treated her well.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TERESA BORCZ KHALIFA, RELEASED HOSTAGE (through translator): To be frank I don't know how it happened because all the time I was blindfolded with a black scarf and was dressed in a female Muslim dress and could not see anything beyond that attire.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Khalifa was abducted from her apartment in Baghdad last month. Now to find out more about this story including reaction go to our Web site at cnn.com.

BAKHTIAR: In news from across America, lines of soldiers, lines of support in Georgia. Some 15,000 gathering in Columbus for the God bless Ft. Benning festival, honoring troops form the Army base there.

It was timed to counteract the annual School of the Americas protest at Ft. Benning today. The institute trained soldiers and others from Latin America. Demonstrators are claiming it -- graduates are involved in various human rights abuses in the 1980s and that the school supports U.S. foreign policy unfavorable to Latin America.

Also this morning, the Transportation Security Administration is asking, why was a person on the U.S. no fly list allowed to fly? A Washington bound Air France flight out of Paris was diverted to Bangor, Maine yesterday. U.S. customers agents detaining the passenger on the no fly list and the passenger's traveling companion.

And at LAX airport in Los Angeles, policing he police. The city's mayor and others are calling for an investigation after a local news channel airs hidden video of several officers leaving their posts for long hours ignoring emergency radio calls and even using their patrol cars to pick up their kids from school.

The airport's top policeman say, he's looking into the matter.

HARRIS: Well Rudy, speaking of disturbing scenes caught on videotape, after the basketball game turned sparring match at the Pistons/ Pacers game Friday, the NBA is meting out justice. Four players have been suspended indefinitely for their part in the brawl. From Indiana Ron Artest, Steven Jackson, Jermaine O'Neil, and from Detroit Ben Wallace.

Now many players are demanding just what's allowed from fired up fans in the stands. Here's CNN's Steve Obermyer.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RICK CARLISLE, INDIANA PACERS HEAD COACH: A hard fought game by two top teams was marred by the fact that at the end a lot of mistakes were made by a lot of people without question.

STEVE OBERMYER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What started out as just a hard foul turned dangerous the moment Ron Artest left the court to attack a fan in the stands. The dreadful display of disorder forced officials to the game with 45 seconds left on the clock.

BEN WALLACE, DETROIT PISTONS CENTER: The fans stay off the floor, we've got to stay out the stands. The moment you go into the stands you know you're really, you know, crossing the line. You're in their territory, so to speak. So there's never a need to run up into the stands.

OBERMYER: One fan crossed that territory by throwing a beer on Artest. What NBA players are not forced to answer is what amount of provocation, if any, justifies action.

ALONZO MOURNING, NEW JERSEY METS CENTER: Yes he was wrong for doing it. But was the fan -- did the fan have any right to do that? No, not at all. The fan -- no fan has the right to throw anything from the stands to hit any player on the court.

RICHARD JEFFERSON, NEW JERSEY METS FORWARD: You can throw whatever you want at people not believing that they're going to come do it. But in the end: would a 5-9 person really throw something if you were just on the street. Would a 5-9 person throw something at a 6-5, 240 pound individual? No, unless you believe that oh, I can't be touched.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: The Indiana Pacers have released a statement saying, "The league is reviewing the entire incident and we recognize that responsibility for Friday's night's actions can be shared by many. It is up to all of us to make sure that a situation such as this doesn't happen again."

And that brings us to our e-mail question of the day. Should criminal charges be filed against the players and fans involved in Friday's Pistons, Pacers brawl. Just e-mail us at wam@cnn.com.

BAKHTIAR: When old faces off against the new. Coming up in our Faces of Faith segment progress, Muslims speak out for change.

HARRIS: And later, your tour of the revamped Museum of Modern Art in New York City. People waiting in line for hours to sneak a peek. But you, you get to take a tour right from your home.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And if you've been putting off getting outside and maybe cleaning up the yard, raking the leaves, some part of the country will see some soggy weather.

HARRIS: Is this the Jo-Jo (ph) Girl?

MARCIANO: It's Jo-Jo. OK. See you later.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) HARRIS: There you see the White House in Washington, D.C. And I think we're going to see the Jefferson Memorial. I may have misidentified the memorial last hour. I think I said it was the Lincoln Memorial.

BAKHTIAR: No one can see it.

HARRIS: You can't see it's shrouded in...

BAKHTIAR: It's clearing up a little now, but back then it was just a little dome at the top.

HARRIS: Yes. And for all of those of you who are headed to the annual craft show in Washington's Convention Center it's billed as one of the top craft shows in the world, enjoy.

BAKHTIAR: Let's head over to Rob Marciano and see what's the weather is going to be like for those craft goers and everybody else.

Rob.

(WEATHER REPORT)

HARRIS: A check of today's top stories this Sunday morning. The Asia Pacific Summit comes to an end today. This morning President Bush talked immigration reform with Mexican leader Vicente Fox. Mr. Bush has also been calling on North Korea and Iran to scrap their nuclear ambitions.

January 30th election day in Iraq. Iraqi officials have settled on that date to hold nationwide elections. ON the ballot, choosing a national assembly that will draft a permanent constitution.

And in Northern China workers had to recover bodies from a frozen lake this morning. More than 50 people were killed when a commuter jet crashed into that lake just seconds after takeoff. No work yet on the cause.

BAKHTIAR: After two and a half long years and ore than $400 million New York City is finally modern again. Our Alina Cho explains.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the gardens to the galleries to the building itself, the newly constructed Museum of Modern Art or MOMA as it's called is getting rave reviews.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your first impression?

UNIDENTIFIED: Spectacular.

CHO: Visitors will appreciate the Warholes, Van Goghs and Picassos. Less noticeable, subtle architecture that doesn't compete with the art, oak floors that are easy on the feet and floating walls that don't touch either the floor or the ceiling, a trick that puts the focus on the paintings. Masterpieces like this Monet mural.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a show stopping piece and it should be showcased, and it is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's so beautiful. It rarely has been showed laid out flat like this, and I felt well, let's really see it.

CHO: Curator John Elderfield says the new MOMA is the new authority on contemporary art.

JOHN ELDERFIELD, MOMA CURATOR: It actually has the same function with regard to modern art with the Louvre in Paris with regard to the art of the past. This is the place where people come to learn about this tradition.

CHO: The museum's director is Glenn Lowry.

GLENN LOWRY, MOMA DIRECTOR: After September 11th, there was a real fear about whether or not .we could complete the building because suddenly it was a very different climate. That the building was built as beautifully as well as it was. for us has been nothing short of miraculous.

CHO: New York needs the new MOMA. City officials say post 9/11 international tourism is still down 20 percent.

CHRISTINE NICHOLAS, NEW YORK CITY AND COMPANY: What we're hoping from the new MOMA is that it will yield more choice, especially those from overseas.

CHO: Like these woman from Venice.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now it's incredible here. It's so beautiful.

CHO: If the early reviews are any guide, the MOMA will be good for New York, good for tourism even better for those who love art.

Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BAKHTIAR: Welcome back everyone. It is shaping up to be a clash of cultures in the Muslim community. A more progressive movement is taking shape and taking on some of Islams more conservative ideals. CNN's Kathleen Koch found one example of this culture clash in a West Virginia town.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Single mother Asra Nomani is preparing the post Ramadan celebration away from her mosque in Morgantown West Virginia. The Muslim writer may be banned from there because she refused to enter the back door entry separately upstairs with the other women.

Nomani months earlier had made a pilgrimage to Mecca.

ASRA NOMANI, PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM: There were no back doors. There were no separate. So when I was faced with that in my mosque in Morgantown I knew that this wasn't necessary.

KOCH: Nomani is part of a fledgling progressive movement gaining support among some American Muslims. A Web site muslimwakeup.com showcases its issues, a broader role for women, gay rights, more tolerance.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Our issues have to be out there.

KOCH: In New York this week advocates founded the first national organization devoted to liberal Muslim goals.

AHMED NASSEF, DIR. PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM UNION: This is an attempt to begin to give a voice to what we believe are really millions of people around the country that have had enough. Have had enough of the ultra conservatism that prevails in many Muslim institutions, that feel really disaffected and unwanted.

KOCH: One issue says Muslim writer is that many who regularly attend Mosques in the U.S. are immigrants with a more conservative view of Islam.

OMID SAFI, EDITOR, "PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM": There's a level of cultural fluidity of gender norms that people come to expect in society that right now do not in fact exist at the Mosque places.

KOCH: The Mosque in Morgantown says it is progressive Muslims like Nomani who are out of touch.

HAZEN BATA, LOCAL MUSLIM LEADER: Issues like men and women praying side by side and gay rights are not going to be accepted by mainstream Islam any time soon and maybe never.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There are many avenues for flexibility in many matters, but there are certain areas that have a bedrock ideology and you cannot really circumvent.

KOCH: But Nomani says particularly after 9/11 moderates must keep pushing for change.

NOMANI: We can't allow closed doors and closed hearts and closed minds to define our Muslim laws.

KOCH: Kathleen Koch, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: Now last Sunday's Faces of Faith looked at the challenges facing the Catholics church as its bishops prepare to meet for their annual conference in Washington, D.C. Here's the follow-up.

The bishops voted for wide ranging initiative to promote marriage. The author of the plan says it's not aimed at the same sex marriage debate, but that it's designed to tackle the struggles of getting and staying married.

They also voted to join what's become the largest Christian organization in the United States. It will be the first time Catholics and Evangelical Christians join together in an ecumenical organization. And finally, the bishops continued their support for audits of every U.S. diocese.. The goal to find out whether they've begun mandatory safeguards for children and concrete plans to safeguard against clergy sex abuse.

It is a holiday treat you won't want to miss next SUNDAY MORNING.

HARRIS: Acclaimed jazz pioneer Najee joins us live to help bring in the holiday season. That's on live performance. Najee here on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.

BAKHTIAR: And we just had to show you this. A little bit of a role reversal for President Bush. Take a look. The president coming to the aid of one of his secret service agents after the man was restrained by Chilean security guards. The president pulling the U.S. agent from a crowd before attending an official dinner. How's that? A little bit of a role reversal.

HARRIS: And once again let's us get you to the e-mail question and remind you to send e=-mails to us at wam@cnn.com and here's the question. Should criminal charges be filed against the players and the fans involved in Friday's fracas between the Pistons and the Pacers once again?

Now let's read an e-mail. We've got a moment here. These players should be terminated for every playing in the NBA again. They should be removed from the basketball court and stand in front of a criminal court. As a former law enforcement officer I would have arrested and charged most if not all of the players with a serious crime. And that is from Sean Michael from Florida. We appreciate that. Thank you Sean Michael.

BAKHTIAR: Coming up a life with multiples straight ahead on "HOUSE CALL" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, crowded house.

I'm Rudi Bakhtiar. We're going to see you again at the top of the hour.

HARRIS: And I'm Tony Harris. "HOUSE CALL" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta is coming up.

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Aired November 21, 2004 - 08:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RUDI BAKHTIAR, CNN ANCHOR: And the next hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING begins right now.
From the CNN Center in Atlanta this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. It is November 21st, 8 a.m. at CNN headquarters here in Atlanta, 5 a.m. out on the West Coast. Good morning I'm Rudi Bakhtiar, in today for Betty Nguyen.

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Tony Harris. Thank you for being with us. Now in the news. The two day Asia Pacific Summit wraps up later today in Santiago, Chile. Minutes ago leaders posed for the annual class photo.

North Korea's nuclear weapons program was high on the agenda of the 21 APEC leaders. In the streets outside the APEC meeting thousands angrily protested capitalism and the Iraq war. Elections in Iraq will happen on January 30th. According to the national election commission, voters will chose Iraq's national assembly, a Kurdish national assembly and 18 provincial governing counsels.

A commuter plane crashes seconds after take off in northern China killing 55 people. Police and firefighters broke the ice on a lake where the plane went down to recover the bodies. The government says all 53 people on board and two on the ground were killed.

BAKHTIAR: Coming up this hour, President Bush promoted it, several victims families pushed for it but now the 9/11 intelligence reform bill is on the shelf. We're going to tell you what happened as Congress failed to pass the measure.

And ...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: To keep alive his laws and closed hearts and closed minds to define our (UNINTELLIGIBLE) laws.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BAKHTIAR: Open hearts and open doors, fed up with what they see as restrictive parts of their faith some Muslims are urging followers of Islam to be more open. We're going to tell you about that movement.

And the players through their punches. Now the NBA lands its blows after the melee in Michigan the league is reading them the riot act and we're going to tell you all about the basketball brawl fallout.

HARRIS: More now on our top story. President Bush and other leaders wrap up the annual Asia Pacific Summit in Chile's capital. This morning Bush talked with Mexican counterpart Vicente Fox. The topic immigration. Our Lucia Newman is in Santiago with the latest.

Good morning, Lucia.

LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Tony. Well consensus is the name of the game here at APEC where leaders from the Asian Pacific nations will represent. More than half of the global economy have been meeting here in Santiago.

And to illustrate that consensus just a short while ago the 21 amigos as they're being called now posed for their group photo wearing an elaborate Chilean poncho or chomanto (ph) as it's called. In fact, it took Chilean weavers four months to hand make each single one of these.

Now earlier President George Bush met with his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox, as you mentioned and of course immigration was the main topic of discussion. Mexico has been upset. It believes that Washington has been dragging its feet on measures to make it easier for Mexican workers to go to the United States and to work their legally. Let's hear what President Bush had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I made it very clear my position that we need to make sure that where there's a willing worker and a willing employer that that job ought to be filled legally in cases where Americans will not fill that job.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NEWMAN: Now for the next few hours the 21 APEC leaders will focus most of their attention on trade and on security, on the need to take stronger anti-terror measures on land, air and sea, Tony.

HARRIS: Lucia, are we going to see that final declaration at some point today, and what is likely to be in it?

NEWMAN: Well, yes, it is expected to come out before the day is out. Earlier this afternoon, at least local time, we're about two hours ahead of you eastern time, it will focus of course on trade, but also the commitment of many of the Asian countries towards a nuclear free Korean peninsula for example.

That was mentioned by President Bush in his opening speech yesterday. The need for all the countries to take stronger measures to combat terrorism and of course to flexibilize -- make more flexible their free trade agreements.

In fact one of the main points here, Tony, has been to take the first timid steps toward a free trade zone between the Asian Pacific countries. And that would be huge if it could get underway. Tony.

HARRIS: It would be. Lucia Newman in Santiago, Chile this morning. Lucia thank you very much.

BAKHTIAR: Intelligence reforms designed to better fight terrorism are still not nailed down. The lame duck Congress failing to pass a reform bill yesterday, mainly because of opposition from House conservatives. Some say provisions in the bill just don't do the job.

President Bush fought for the passage. Lawmakers say they're going to keep on trying.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. DENNIS HASTERT, (R-IL), HOUSE SPEAKER: We're going to keep working on this bill. We will not adjourn Saturday. We will ask negotiators to keep working. We'll ask the president to get involved personally in this issue and we'll get a bill that will reform our intelligence agency as it protects our war fighters and people on the ground.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BAKHTIAR: Congress...

SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, (D) CONNECTICUT: This is not a victory of partisanship, this frustration and delay. It's a victory for, I'd have to call kind of ideological policy rigidity in the face of a national security threat that we are dealing with.

And I say not partisan because the president of the United States wants this bill. Has been involved in calling on some of the very people who are blocking it today to help him pass the bill.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BAKHTIAR: Congress did approve a massive $388 billion spending bill and lawmakers are embarrassed by a provision that actually managed to get into that bill. It allows certain members of Congress to look at the tax return of any American.

Republican Senate leaders are calling it a mistake. Lawmakers agreed not to send the legislation to the president for his signature until the clause is repealed.

HARRIS: And here's the latest Iraq situation report. U.S. and German officials agree to forgive 80 percent of Iraq's foreign debt. It's an effort to stabilize Iraq quickly. International creditors are expected to approve the deal soon.

Wounded civilians from the assault on Falluja have been evacuated to Baghdad for treatment. They were trapped inside Falluja during the past four days of military operations. A Polish woman abducted in Iraq reappears yesterday in Poland. She offered few details on how she was freed but said her captors treated her well.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TERESA BORCZ KHALIFA, RELEASED HOSTAGE (through translator): To be frank I don't know how it happened because all the time I was blindfolded with a black scarf and was dressed in a female Muslim dress and could not see anything beyond that attire.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Khalifa was abducted from her apartment in Baghdad last month. Now to find out more about this story including reaction go to our Web site at cnn.com.

BAKHTIAR: In news from across America, lines of soldiers, lines of support in Georgia. Some 15,000 gathering in Columbus for the God bless Ft. Benning festival, honoring troops form the Army base there.

It was timed to counteract the annual School of the Americas protest at Ft. Benning today. The institute trained soldiers and others from Latin America. Demonstrators are claiming it -- graduates are involved in various human rights abuses in the 1980s and that the school supports U.S. foreign policy unfavorable to Latin America.

Also this morning, the Transportation Security Administration is asking, why was a person on the U.S. no fly list allowed to fly? A Washington bound Air France flight out of Paris was diverted to Bangor, Maine yesterday. U.S. customers agents detaining the passenger on the no fly list and the passenger's traveling companion.

And at LAX airport in Los Angeles, policing he police. The city's mayor and others are calling for an investigation after a local news channel airs hidden video of several officers leaving their posts for long hours ignoring emergency radio calls and even using their patrol cars to pick up their kids from school.

The airport's top policeman say, he's looking into the matter.

HARRIS: Well Rudy, speaking of disturbing scenes caught on videotape, after the basketball game turned sparring match at the Pistons/ Pacers game Friday, the NBA is meting out justice. Four players have been suspended indefinitely for their part in the brawl. From Indiana Ron Artest, Steven Jackson, Jermaine O'Neil, and from Detroit Ben Wallace.

Now many players are demanding just what's allowed from fired up fans in the stands. Here's CNN's Steve Obermyer.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RICK CARLISLE, INDIANA PACERS HEAD COACH: A hard fought game by two top teams was marred by the fact that at the end a lot of mistakes were made by a lot of people without question.

STEVE OBERMYER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What started out as just a hard foul turned dangerous the moment Ron Artest left the court to attack a fan in the stands. The dreadful display of disorder forced officials to the game with 45 seconds left on the clock.

BEN WALLACE, DETROIT PISTONS CENTER: The fans stay off the floor, we've got to stay out the stands. The moment you go into the stands you know you're really, you know, crossing the line. You're in their territory, so to speak. So there's never a need to run up into the stands.

OBERMYER: One fan crossed that territory by throwing a beer on Artest. What NBA players are not forced to answer is what amount of provocation, if any, justifies action.

ALONZO MOURNING, NEW JERSEY METS CENTER: Yes he was wrong for doing it. But was the fan -- did the fan have any right to do that? No, not at all. The fan -- no fan has the right to throw anything from the stands to hit any player on the court.

RICHARD JEFFERSON, NEW JERSEY METS FORWARD: You can throw whatever you want at people not believing that they're going to come do it. But in the end: would a 5-9 person really throw something if you were just on the street. Would a 5-9 person throw something at a 6-5, 240 pound individual? No, unless you believe that oh, I can't be touched.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: The Indiana Pacers have released a statement saying, "The league is reviewing the entire incident and we recognize that responsibility for Friday's night's actions can be shared by many. It is up to all of us to make sure that a situation such as this doesn't happen again."

And that brings us to our e-mail question of the day. Should criminal charges be filed against the players and fans involved in Friday's Pistons, Pacers brawl. Just e-mail us at wam@cnn.com.

BAKHTIAR: When old faces off against the new. Coming up in our Faces of Faith segment progress, Muslims speak out for change.

HARRIS: And later, your tour of the revamped Museum of Modern Art in New York City. People waiting in line for hours to sneak a peek. But you, you get to take a tour right from your home.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And if you've been putting off getting outside and maybe cleaning up the yard, raking the leaves, some part of the country will see some soggy weather.

HARRIS: Is this the Jo-Jo (ph) Girl?

MARCIANO: It's Jo-Jo. OK. See you later.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) HARRIS: There you see the White House in Washington, D.C. And I think we're going to see the Jefferson Memorial. I may have misidentified the memorial last hour. I think I said it was the Lincoln Memorial.

BAKHTIAR: No one can see it.

HARRIS: You can't see it's shrouded in...

BAKHTIAR: It's clearing up a little now, but back then it was just a little dome at the top.

HARRIS: Yes. And for all of those of you who are headed to the annual craft show in Washington's Convention Center it's billed as one of the top craft shows in the world, enjoy.

BAKHTIAR: Let's head over to Rob Marciano and see what's the weather is going to be like for those craft goers and everybody else.

Rob.

(WEATHER REPORT)

HARRIS: A check of today's top stories this Sunday morning. The Asia Pacific Summit comes to an end today. This morning President Bush talked immigration reform with Mexican leader Vicente Fox. Mr. Bush has also been calling on North Korea and Iran to scrap their nuclear ambitions.

January 30th election day in Iraq. Iraqi officials have settled on that date to hold nationwide elections. ON the ballot, choosing a national assembly that will draft a permanent constitution.

And in Northern China workers had to recover bodies from a frozen lake this morning. More than 50 people were killed when a commuter jet crashed into that lake just seconds after takeoff. No work yet on the cause.

BAKHTIAR: After two and a half long years and ore than $400 million New York City is finally modern again. Our Alina Cho explains.

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ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the gardens to the galleries to the building itself, the newly constructed Museum of Modern Art or MOMA as it's called is getting rave reviews.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your first impression?

UNIDENTIFIED: Spectacular.

CHO: Visitors will appreciate the Warholes, Van Goghs and Picassos. Less noticeable, subtle architecture that doesn't compete with the art, oak floors that are easy on the feet and floating walls that don't touch either the floor or the ceiling, a trick that puts the focus on the paintings. Masterpieces like this Monet mural.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a show stopping piece and it should be showcased, and it is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's so beautiful. It rarely has been showed laid out flat like this, and I felt well, let's really see it.

CHO: Curator John Elderfield says the new MOMA is the new authority on contemporary art.

JOHN ELDERFIELD, MOMA CURATOR: It actually has the same function with regard to modern art with the Louvre in Paris with regard to the art of the past. This is the place where people come to learn about this tradition.

CHO: The museum's director is Glenn Lowry.

GLENN LOWRY, MOMA DIRECTOR: After September 11th, there was a real fear about whether or not .we could complete the building because suddenly it was a very different climate. That the building was built as beautifully as well as it was. for us has been nothing short of miraculous.

CHO: New York needs the new MOMA. City officials say post 9/11 international tourism is still down 20 percent.

CHRISTINE NICHOLAS, NEW YORK CITY AND COMPANY: What we're hoping from the new MOMA is that it will yield more choice, especially those from overseas.

CHO: Like these woman from Venice.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now it's incredible here. It's so beautiful.

CHO: If the early reviews are any guide, the MOMA will be good for New York, good for tourism even better for those who love art.

Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

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BAKHTIAR: Welcome back everyone. It is shaping up to be a clash of cultures in the Muslim community. A more progressive movement is taking shape and taking on some of Islams more conservative ideals. CNN's Kathleen Koch found one example of this culture clash in a West Virginia town.

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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Single mother Asra Nomani is preparing the post Ramadan celebration away from her mosque in Morgantown West Virginia. The Muslim writer may be banned from there because she refused to enter the back door entry separately upstairs with the other women.

Nomani months earlier had made a pilgrimage to Mecca.

ASRA NOMANI, PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM: There were no back doors. There were no separate. So when I was faced with that in my mosque in Morgantown I knew that this wasn't necessary.

KOCH: Nomani is part of a fledgling progressive movement gaining support among some American Muslims. A Web site muslimwakeup.com showcases its issues, a broader role for women, gay rights, more tolerance.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Our issues have to be out there.

KOCH: In New York this week advocates founded the first national organization devoted to liberal Muslim goals.

AHMED NASSEF, DIR. PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM UNION: This is an attempt to begin to give a voice to what we believe are really millions of people around the country that have had enough. Have had enough of the ultra conservatism that prevails in many Muslim institutions, that feel really disaffected and unwanted.

KOCH: One issue says Muslim writer is that many who regularly attend Mosques in the U.S. are immigrants with a more conservative view of Islam.

OMID SAFI, EDITOR, "PROGRESSIVE MUSLIM": There's a level of cultural fluidity of gender norms that people come to expect in society that right now do not in fact exist at the Mosque places.

KOCH: The Mosque in Morgantown says it is progressive Muslims like Nomani who are out of touch.

HAZEN BATA, LOCAL MUSLIM LEADER: Issues like men and women praying side by side and gay rights are not going to be accepted by mainstream Islam any time soon and maybe never.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There are many avenues for flexibility in many matters, but there are certain areas that have a bedrock ideology and you cannot really circumvent.

KOCH: But Nomani says particularly after 9/11 moderates must keep pushing for change.

NOMANI: We can't allow closed doors and closed hearts and closed minds to define our Muslim laws.

KOCH: Kathleen Koch, CNN, Washington.

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HARRIS: Now last Sunday's Faces of Faith looked at the challenges facing the Catholics church as its bishops prepare to meet for their annual conference in Washington, D.C. Here's the follow-up.

The bishops voted for wide ranging initiative to promote marriage. The author of the plan says it's not aimed at the same sex marriage debate, but that it's designed to tackle the struggles of getting and staying married.

They also voted to join what's become the largest Christian organization in the United States. It will be the first time Catholics and Evangelical Christians join together in an ecumenical organization. And finally, the bishops continued their support for audits of every U.S. diocese.. The goal to find out whether they've begun mandatory safeguards for children and concrete plans to safeguard against clergy sex abuse.

It is a holiday treat you won't want to miss next SUNDAY MORNING.

HARRIS: Acclaimed jazz pioneer Najee joins us live to help bring in the holiday season. That's on live performance. Najee here on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.

BAKHTIAR: And we just had to show you this. A little bit of a role reversal for President Bush. Take a look. The president coming to the aid of one of his secret service agents after the man was restrained by Chilean security guards. The president pulling the U.S. agent from a crowd before attending an official dinner. How's that? A little bit of a role reversal.

HARRIS: And once again let's us get you to the e-mail question and remind you to send e=-mails to us at wam@cnn.com and here's the question. Should criminal charges be filed against the players and the fans involved in Friday's fracas between the Pistons and the Pacers once again?

Now let's read an e-mail. We've got a moment here. These players should be terminated for every playing in the NBA again. They should be removed from the basketball court and stand in front of a criminal court. As a former law enforcement officer I would have arrested and charged most if not all of the players with a serious crime. And that is from Sean Michael from Florida. We appreciate that. Thank you Sean Michael.

BAKHTIAR: Coming up a life with multiples straight ahead on "HOUSE CALL" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, crowded house.

I'm Rudi Bakhtiar. We're going to see you again at the top of the hour.

HARRIS: And I'm Tony Harris. "HOUSE CALL" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta is coming up.

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