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Brother of Bombing Suspect Arrested in Italy; Uzbekistan Gives U.S. Six Months to Vacate Air Base

Aired July 31, 2005 - 09:00   ET

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BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Washington has gotten an eviction notice, in effect, from a central Asian military base that has played a big role in the war on terror. Uzbekistan says the U.S. will have to end its use of a key airfield in the next six months. The base has been used for missions in and out of neighboring Afghanistan.
Now the U.S. had previously criticized Uzbekistan for its human rights record.

Iran says unless a European Union group meets a Monday deadline to submit a proposal it will restart nuclear activities. A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry says that won't include the enrichment of uranium. Negotiators for three European nations are working on that proposal, which is aimed at resolving the impasse over Iran's nuclear program.

Well, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery are getting an extra day in space. NASA has extended the current mission by one day. The shuttle will now return to earth on Monday, August 8th. NASA says that will give astronauts more time to transfer supplies and work on the international space station.

Well, good morning everybody on this last Sunday in July, gone. July is just about over. Welcome. I'm Betty Nguyen.

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Tony Harris. Thank you for joining us. Here's what's coming up. You've seen them floating in outer space now hear directly from the astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery. Our space correspondent Miles O'Brien will talk to them.

And the famine crisis in Niger, whatever can be done should be done fast to keep thousands from dying. We'll talk to the director of Care USA.

And the chief of the Army Reserve calls it a call to duty serving one's country, but with recruitment levels low why are fewer people heeding that call?

NGUYEN: Our top story right now. Italian authorities are learning more about the failed London bombings after questioning a suspect jailed in Rome. Here's the latest update.

A second brother of the would-be bomber was arrested today in Northern Italy. He faces charges of destroying documents. Now Italian media are reporting that the Rome suspect told authorities the bombing attempt was inspired by the deadly transit system attacks on July 7th. And he reportedly said the bombers were motivated by anger over Britain's role in the Iraq war.

CNN's Jennifer Eccleston is following this investigation from Rome. She joins us now with the latest.

Jennifer.

JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Betty. Well, sources close to the investigation of Hussain Osman, as you mentioned the suspected July 21st London bomber who was arrested here in Rome on Friday, the sources tell Italian media that while he was under interrogation he did confess to carrying a bomb on the London Tube but claimed that it was meant to be an attention grabbing strike and not meant to kill anyone.

Now Osman, who the Italians says goes by another name which is Hamdi Issac, denied having any links to those July 7th Tube attacks which killed 56 people including the four bombers, and he said he has no links to al Qaeda.

Now the suspect is alleged to have told investigators that the ring leader of the failed July 21st attacks was Muktar Said Ibrahim and he's in custody in London right now, and that they also organized the bombings from a gym in central London. And he said that the motivation for the attacks was indeed anger over the war in Iraq. Now the Italian media also reporting that Osman said he received the backpack with the bombs and instructions about where to detonate them a day before the attack. That would be July 20th.

Now his court appointed lawyer said her client doesn't consider himself a terrorist and he is likely to reject calls by Britain for his extradition. If this is true, this could delay his return to the UK by up to two months.

Also, as you mentioned earlier, police announce that they've arrested another brother of Osman in northern Italy in the town of Bretia (ph) on charges of destroying evidence. And as you mentioned, another brother was arrested with Osman on Friday in Rome, but he is held on charges of carrying false documents.

Betty.

NGUYEN: A lot of names here. Jennifer, you also mentioned the suspected ring leader. What about the person who may have funded this attack, this attempted attack? What's the investigation on that person?

ECCLESTON: Well, of course those investigations, the primary aspect of that investigation is taking place in the United Kingdom, but I suspect also here in Italy to see if there were any links to those who may have inspired the attacks, those who may have funded. As you mentioned, these four bombers to go out and at least attempt that attack on the London Tube despite what Osman said that they did not have an intention to kill there was definitely intention there to cause harm and to create a scene. So, of course the investigation as to whether - who is exactly funding this, who is inspiring, the task is ongoing not only in the United Kingdom but we presume here in Italy as there is a great deal of international cooperation, a great deal of cooperation between the Italian authorities and the British as to trying to establish the root cause and to get more facts, more information on these attacks that took place on the 21st of July and also on the attacks that took place on July 7th, which was so deadly.

Betty.

NGUYEN: Yes, we saw that Italian cooperation yesterday with all the searches that were going on there in Italy.

Jennifer, thank you.

Tony.

HARRIS: NASA has pushed back next Sunday's scheduled return of the space shuttle Discovery. NASA says the one day extension is not directly linked to the safety concerns arising from the launch, instead the delay will allow the shuttle crew to perform more chores aboard the international space station. Those tasks take on greater importance since all future shuttle flights are now grounded. NASA says there's no evidence of major damage caused by the piece of insulating foam that peeled off during Tuesday's launch. A similar mishap doomed the space shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated upon reentry two and a half years ago.

Just minutes ago CNN space correspondent Miles O'Brien spoke to members of the shuttle and space station crews. We'll hear their comments in about a half hour from now on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.

For one California astronomer the meaning of one word will make a world of difference. Michael Brown says he and a team of NASA funded researchers have found the 10th planet in the solar system. It is the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun. But the scientific community must make it official by determining that the body meets a formal definition of planet. For now the official name of this planet...

NGUYEN: If you call it a name.

HARRIS: ...if you want to call it that, turns out to be 2003Ub313. But it doesn't have that -- it's not catchy. Doesn't have that swing in it.

NGUYEN: There's no punch to it at all.

HARRIS: None.

NGUYEN: No.

HARRIS: So what would you name a new plant? E-mail us your thoughts at weekends@cnn.com and we'll read some of your ideas a little later this hour. In this morning's Soldier's Story the state of the U.S. military, specifically the Army Reserve. The number of Reserve and National Guard troops on domestic and overseas missions is now down and meeting recruitment goals is proving very difficult. Also some suggest, morale among troops is low.

Earlier this year the chief of the Army Reserve claimed troops under his command were rapidly becoming a broken force. I spoke with him recently and asked him about those comments he made in a memo.

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LT. GEN. JAMES HELMLY, CHIEF OF ARMY RESERVE: I certainly have to stand by the memorandum. I frankly wrote it. The staff did not. I signed it. The memorandum was intended to be retained within my chain of command. It was intended not to sound alarmist but to betray my best professional judgment as to the status of the Army Reserve.

As for today, what has occurred today is that the Army leadership has taken up most of those issues. Some are resolved. Some are pending with the Department of Defense. And then I think the Congress has really been forthcoming with a great deal of energy and focus on recruiting, retention, benefits, entitlements and now -- I would call that modernizing them for the members of the various Reserve components.

So overall, I'm pleased with the progress we've made since then.

HARRIS: Helping with morale?

HELMLY: Absolutely it does.

HARRIS: I have to ask you, the deployments are longer, more frequent, it's a general question, but generally speaking how have the efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq affected families, Reservists' families?

HELMLY: First of all, I would tell you that certainly almost no one, family members included, are all excited about am ember going into harms way. That occurs in our active component, regular components of all the various services. It's tough on families. Reserve component families have a unique challenge in that they're not familiar with the benefits network of the various armed services and the sort of bureaucracy that administers and controls those.

Achieving that familiarity is a special challenge for us because they're not familiar and experienced and second because they're too graphically disbursed. And so bringing them in and providing them and informing them, educating them, coaching them is a special challenge. It is a special challenge worth doing.

HARRIS: General, are you going to meet your yearly recruiting goals?

HELMLY: I believe that for the Army Reserve part of USURA (ph) that they will come in somewhere between 95 and 100 percent of our annual goal. I need to -- and I need to hasten to add before I left for Iraq and Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago I testified to the House Armed Services Committee about recruiting and retention and I noted to them that I felt deeply and strongly we needed to focus more intently on the strategic picture in recruiting and retention two to five years out. And while I'm knowledgeable we measure ourselves on monthly goals and annual goals I think frankly June as an example was a good month. But I don't like to declare success on one month's performance.

HARRIS: General, we can't thank you enough for rising to and meting the challenges out there in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thank you very much for taking time to talk to us this Sunday morning.

HELMLY: Our soldiers do the heavy lifting and I am just proud to be an American soldier and be one of their band of brothers and sisters in defense of our nation.

HARRIS: General, thank you.

HELMLY: Thank you.

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HARRIS: According to a report in the "New York Times" Reserve and National Guard members make up about 35 percent of the troops in Iraq, a share that is expected to drop to about 30 percent by next year.

Now an update on a controversial American soldier. He served in Iraq, but defied orders by deciding not to go back for another tour. Sergeant Kevin Benderman will begin a 15 month prison sentence for refusing to return to war in January. Benderman will also receive a dishonorable discharge and see his rank reduced to private. The 40- year-old was acquitted on the more serious charge of desertion. Benderman says after serving his first tour in Iraq he turned against the war because of what he saw there.

NGUYEN: Well, it's a Web site popular with more than three million users. Don't feel too bad if you've never heard of it. You might just be too old. Oh, yes we'll...

HARRIS: Is that possible?

NGUYEN: We'll explain.

HARRIS: And also coming up, the rains are still falling in flood ravaged India this morning and the death toll, as you might expect, is growing.

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NGUYEN: Just a few minutes ago, CNN's Miles O'Brien talked live with the crew of space shuttle Discovery now docked at the international space station. You will hear what the astronauts had to say about their mission and getting home safely right here on CNN SUNDAY MORNING 9:30 eastern. BRAD HUFFINES, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I'm meteorologist Brad Huffines. You're looking live at downtown Chicago, sunshine. It's going to be hot today, temperatures near 90. What about the rest of your forecast for your weekend? We'll talk about that, giving you the long story. That means the marathon in San Francisco. We'll tell you what the weather is there as well coming in just a few minutes on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.

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HARRIS: Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery are getting ready for another space walk tomorrow. They will also get to spend an extra day in space NASA says. That will give them more time to transfer supplies and work on the international space station. The crew will now return on August 8th.

Authorities in Rome have arrested a second brother of a suspect being held in the botched London bombings of July 21st. The brother is accused of tampering with evidence. Meanwhile Italian media report that the would-be bomber says anger over Britain's role in the Iraq war motivated the attack.

The Uzbekistan government says the U.S. will have to leave a key military base used in the war on terror. The base is used for missions in and out of neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. had previously criticized Uzbekistan for its human rights record.

NGUYEN: Well there is a lot more making news around the world this morning. Time to check out some of those stories.

HARRIS: The U.S. suffers more casualties in Iraq, and western India is getting drenched yet again. For the details let's head over there to the international desk and Anand Naidoo.

Anand, good morning.

ANAND NAIDOO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Betty, Tony, thanks and good morning from me. Here's what we're watching at the international desk this morning. We've had reports in the last hour that four U.S. soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Not many details at this stage. That information coming form the Third Infantry Division. The blast also damaged a vehicle. That attack taking place near the international airport. That is a notorious part of Baghdad where insurgents have been very active.

There was also a car bombing about 40 miles south of Baghdad. The device was set off by remote control. Five people were killed in that blast and 10 wounded, two of them Iraqi policemen.

Now onto India, and if there was one thing the Indian city of Mumbai can do without it's more rain. But after record breaking rainfall this past week it's coming down again and water levels are rising. At least 1,000 people have already been killed, most of them in landslides. Water supplies and electricity have been disrupted. Some trains services are suspended and the airport is shut down.

Tony.

HARRIS: A woman in Ireland who is carrying the pub tab for her whole city today...

NGUYEN: And why is that?

HARRIS: ...and for the next year. Isn't that right Anand?

NAIDOO: Some Irish -- at least one pair of Irish eyes that are smiling this morning, Tony. Talk about the luck of the Irish. There's an Irish many who may have one huge hangover this morning, but don't worry about that she's earned it. Delores McNamara has scooped one of Europe's biggest lottery prizes almost $140 million. Now when the draw as made she was in the pub. Where else would any good self respecting Irish person be? When her numbers came up she burst out crying. But as you say, Tony, I suspect she bought a round of Guinness before she burst out crying.

NGUYEN: Yes, one maybe two. McNamara, huh? I think we're related to her. Don't you think so?

NAIDOO: Right, right.

HARRIS: I am now.

NGUYEN: I think we're all related to her in some distant way.

NAIDOO: Nice try.

NGUYEN: Hopefully. Thanks, Anand.

NAIDOO: Thank you.

HARRIS: Well, it is a Web site that already has more than three million users and it's growing by the thousands every month. But if you're in your mid 20s or older there's a good chance you've never heard of Facebook. We'll tell you why.

NGUYEN: But first a CNN extra. A record number of beach house warnings was issued across the U.S. last year about 85 percent of them due to sewage contamination or high storm run off. Now Texas had the biggest increase in warnings. The city of Los Angeles, where water quality is monitored regularly, was named a beach buddy while Los Angeles County with 44 cities was in that it was named a beach bum. The county does not monitor water pollution.

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NGUYEN: An online Facebook is the latest range on college campuses today. Students can post their pictures and other information about themselves and they can get in touch with friends on other campuses all across the country. More now from CNN's Kathleen Hays.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was going crazy on Facebook when it first came out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It kind of had a domino effect and then everyone started to use it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It sort of creates its own world that you get sucked into it.

KATHLEEN HAYS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Never heard of Facebook? Not surprising if you're over the age of 25. The Facebook is an online social network designed exclusively for college students. It's free of charge and to join all you need is a dot-edu e-mail address, something only students or recent college grads have. People who join say it can be addictive, using it for everything from organizing study groups with classmates to hitting on cute girls or cute guys, even keeping up with birthdays.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On the first page that pops up it will tell you like different peoples birthdays coming up in the next two weeks. And that to me, is by far the best feature.

HAYS: It's no wonder Facebook fits college students needs so well. College students invented it. Three Harvard undergrads launched the Facebook just a year and a half ago. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says they wanted to update the traditional freshman year Facebook by putting it on line and then linking universities across the country in a cyber community where everyone feels secure.

MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO, FACEBOOK: It's the feeling that you get from it that it's a closed network. So if you're on the Harvard Facebook on any school's Facebook you're in a gated community.

HAYS (on-camera): Facebook helps give a new definition to the concept of friends, from a person you've just met at a party to an old childhood pal at a different school. One you're listed as someone's friend you're connected to their friends too. It gives six degrees of separation a whole new meaning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You search for someone you haven't talked to in years or like somehow their name comes up and you go oh, let me look them up on Facebook.

HAYS: Mark and his colleagues have found just the right code to crack the college student market. Last September Facebook was on 30 college campuses and had 150,000 users. By June it had spread to over 888 schools and more than three million users.

ZUCKERMAN: It just becomes another one of these things that people do on a day to day basis that's really a part of their life as opposed to just a product that they use. So, I mean it's like checking you e-mail. People always have EM open on their computers and they're using it to chat with their friends. It's like the Facebook window is always open.

HAYS: Kathleen Hays, CNN New York.

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HARRIS: The Facebook, the Facebook. Alright we told you earlier about the discovery of what astronomers say is the 10th planet in the Solar System. It is the most distant object, look at this, every detected orbiting the sun, but the scientific community has to come together, has to hold a conclave. We get some white smoke...

NGUYEN: Or black smoke depending on what they decide, right?

HARRIS: ...and that's the ultimate determination of whether or not it is a planet, OK.

NGUYEN: Well, you know, Brad Huffines is here and he knows weather, but he also has a connection to outer space, right?

HUFFINES: Well, the guy that discovered that apparently was born and went to high school in Huntsville, Alabama where I'm the chief meteorologist as the CNN affiliate there.

HARRIS: Oh.

HUFFINES: Went to Grisom (ph) High School.

HARRIS: Connection.

NGUYEN: Six degrees of Brad Huffines right here.

HUFFINES: That's right.

HARRIS: Here's the thing. All of this leads to our e-mail question, which is if you had an opportunity to name this planet, right now it's 2003. It looks like the code on the back of your blender or something.

NGUYEN: Right, a UPC code.

HARRIS: Yes, 2003UB313. What would you name it? What would you name it if you had that opportunity? Send us along your e-mails, weekends@cnn.com.

HUFFINES: IB313, UB313.

NGUYEN: Whatever. Hey, back here on earth there are a lot of people really right now sweating it out in California.

HARRIS: In San Francisco.

NGUYEN: Yes, during that rain.

HUFFINES: Why do you run 26 plus miles?

HARRIS: Because it's there and you can.

HUFFINES: Exactly, the marathon (inaudible) of the marathon for the first time in eight years is running across the Golden Gage Bridge today. HARRIS: That's right.

NGUYEN: And how's the weather there? Is it perfect running weather?

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HARRIS: Well, about an hour ago CNN's Miles O'Brien talked with the space shuttle Discovery astronauts. How did they feel about having to spend an extra day in space? Find out coming up on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.

NGUYEN: Plus help is on the way to one of the poorest nations in Africa, but is it too little too late? You're watching CNN SUNDAY MORNING.

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NGUYEN: Take a look at this. The face of famine in Niger, ahead we will tell you how you can help those in such desperate need.

Welcome back everybody, I'm Betty Nguyen.

HARRIS: And I'm Tony Harris. That story coming up shortly, first here's what's happening in the news.

Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery will spend an extra day in space. NASA says that will give them time to help clean out the International Space Station and transfer supplies. The crew is now set to return August 8. NASA determined yesterday the shuttle is safe to fly home.

The Uzbekistan government says the U.S. will have to leave a key military base used in the war on terror. The base is used for missions in and out of neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. had previously criticized Uzbekistan for its human rights record.

The suspect arrested in Rome in connection with the failed London bombings is talking. Italian media reporter told authorities the ringleader of the botched attacks is already in custody in London and he reportedly said anger over the war in Iraq motivated the attacks. A second brother of the Rome suspect has been arrested.

A former Soviet republic is evicting the U.S. from an air base that's played a big war on the role on terror. Uzbekistan says Washington has six months to vacate the K2 Airfield which was a hub for mission ion in and out of neighboring Afghanistan. Earlier this month, Russia and China led the calls for U.S. withdrawal from the central Asian country. Let's go now to the White House and CNN's Elaine Quijano with the latest on the story.

Elaine, good morning.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Tony. That's right, there are less than a thousand U.S. troops at that base in Uzbekistan, but as you pointed out, it is located in a very prime spot to help the U.S. as it carries out operations in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.

Now, the forces there are mostly involved in refueling and cargo supply, but a State Department official confirms the Uzbek government sent a diplomatic note recently to the U.S. embassy in Tashkent to end the agreement for use of the K2 or Karshi-Khanabad air base.

Now, the forces have 180 days to leave and while it is a blow to the U.S. military, one official says the U.S. was not at all surprised by this move, they'd been expecting this and had moved some operations out of Uzbekistan ahead of the actual decision. The official also saying that K2 is not helpful, but not essential.

Now, this news comes against a backdrop of tensions between the U.S. and Uzbekistan and illustrates some of the complexities the Bush administration is facing in carrying out the war on terror. As the president has promoted freedom and democracy, the U.S. has at the same time criticized Uzbekistan's human rights record even as the administration has relied on Uzbekistan's cooperation with the use of the airfield. Specifically, was there great concern in May when Uzbek government forces fired on civilians after anti-government protests, according to human rights, monitors and more recently reports about a dispute over what to do with refugees. Now, though, planning is underway to withdraw the rest of the U.S. troops and equipment from Uzbekistan to comply with that eviction -- Tony.

HARRIS: So Elaine, what are the other options for the U.S. military now?

QUIJANO: Well certainly, there are other countries in the central Asian region which the U.S. can look to and in fact, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited the region recently. He did not make Uzbekistan one of his stop, but two other countries, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, two critical countries now more important than ever. The U.S. Receiving assurances, according to Secretary Rumsfeld, that it can continue to use the bases there -- Tony.

HARRIS: White House correspondent, Elaine Quijano. Elaine, thank you.

And stay tuned to CNN day and night about reliable news about your security.

NGUYEN: Though it is a familiar story, it is just as disturbing every time you hear it, a famine crisis in Africa, thousands dying with thousands of others trying to save them. Currently the focus is on Niger where more than a million could die if they do not receive food and if they don't get it fast. Aid is pouring in from many nations, but how much and how soon? My next guest is the director of the emergency group CARE, Ahu -- Ahu Adoji, did I say it right?

AHUMA ADODOADJI, DIRECTOR, CARE: Ahuma.

NGUYEN: Ahuma.

ADODOADJI: Adodoadji. NGUYEN: And we appreciate you being with us today. Now first of all, we see the pictures, but tell us, how bad is the situation in Niger?

ADODOADJI: It's just quite bad. Currently our estimate is that 2.5 million, roughly, are those who have challenges of food and security, but of those about 874,000 face a critical need and another 800,000 face a moderate need and about 150,000 children are exposed to potential starvation conditions if we don't move rapidly to help.

NGUYEN: What is causing this? Is it the drought? Is it the lack of food? What are all of the combinations that play into this?

ADODOADJI: I think it's a combination of several factors. First of all, Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world and has got problems of chronic poverty and the lack of resources to address that on a sustained basis. It's a contributing factor. The recent locust infestation, plus the drought, all of those come in together have created this problem. And also it's been anticipated by the fact that in spite of warning bells from the humanitarian community, the response from the donor community was, at best, very slow and unfortunately within the U.S., our government has cut down on resources to emergency food and care. Now the agencies are urging our government to put more resources into emergency food, but also to put resources into the long-term food programs which address you on the underlying causes of poverty so that we can increase the food security within Niger.

NGUYEN: You bring up such a good point here. You have over 20 years experience in relief operations. You probably know these statistics first hand, but let me just read them to you, 81 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty. That is less than a dollar a day, 41 percent are without access to drinking water. The life expectancy at birth is just 45 percent. With all of these cries for help out there, why is it that the world isn't responding as rapidly? Because when the U.N. put out this cry for help it was only going to cost about a dollar per person to give them the food necessary to put them back on their feet. Because it went unanswered, it's now cost $80 per person. Why is the world so slow to help?

ADODOADJI: It's unfortunate that we tend to wait for the TV images before we respond and we, in the humanitarian community, are saying that that's the wrong way to address the situation. That...

NGUYEN: So you're saying people, unless they see dying babies on television are really not prompted to do something about this?

ADODOADJI: Unfortunately, that appears to be the case, but our government who know the situation, we've been present with the U.S. government and the congress, that are saying, based upon our experience in the ground, we know if you put more resources into addressing the underlying causes of food and security, you in fact help to avert the situation developing to such crisis situations.

NGUYEN: So is the aid starting to come in? Give us an update on what is happening right now. ADODOADJI: The aid is beginning to come in. The food pipeline -- when we say, the food pipeline, we mean food in stock, food on the market, and food on the way is quite challenging. It is not fully there yet, but there is enough to purchase some food and move to address the situation quickly. In fact, CARE works in most of the areas seriously affected and already we've set up several centers in some of the critical areas. We've already purchased food from the market to address those and we also are expecting resources from the World Food Program, from the U.S. government to address the current crisis.

NGUYEN: Now, that is the current crisis...

ADODOADJI: Yes.

NGUYEN: But, quickly Ahuma, what about the long-term issues here? How can they sustain themselves?

ADODOADJI: Well, CARE already has had programs in the country which has been addressing some of the nutritional issues from a long- term basis. We're involved in microfinance, we're involved in sort of improving the nutritional practices of communities and so on. Those are some of the strategies to address the problem long-term and we continue to need resources to address it. So we say the global community should respond to Niger, both immediate and immediate short term to address the emergency, but on the long term to provide resource, significant resources to address the long term needs. That's what solved the problem.

NGUYEN: That's critical -- just as critical.

ADODOADJI: Yes.

NGUYEN: Ahuma Adodoadji.

ADODOADJI: You got it.

NGUYEN: I got it. CARE International. Thank you so much.

ADODOADJI: You're welcome, Betty.

NGUYEN: So how can you help? You can start by logging on to this Web site, right here on your screen, www.planusa.org -- Tony.

HARRIS: Astronauts on the shuttle Discovery get an extra day of work. We'll find out why. CNN's Miles O'Brien talks to the Discovery crew, next.

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ANNOUNCER: This is CNN, watched by more Americans than any other news channel. Now, back to CNN SUNDAY MORNING with Betty Nguyen and Tony Harris.

NGUYEN: Time to check out some of the stop stories if you're just waking up with us. NASA extends shuttle Discovery's mission to the space station by one day to Monday, August 8. Astronauts are now busy offloading tons of supplies and they are experimenting with repair techniques.

His lawyer says the suspect in the failed July 21 bombing in London may fight extradition from Italy. Hussein Osman was arrested in Rome on Friday. Two of his brothers have also been arrested in Italy.

Washington gets an eviction notice in effect from Uzbekistan to vacate an airfield within the next six months. The base has been used for missions in and out of neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. has criticized Uzbekistan for the human rights record.

HARRIS: Sunday is not a day of arrest for the shuttle Discovery crew. The astronauts are offloading tons of supplies to the space station and unloading tons of trash and prepping for a second spacewalk. Miles O'Brien talked to the crew 220 miles out in space just a short while ago and he joins us now live from New York.

And Miles, I know there is a lot of work going to, but for these astronauts this is what they live for, isn't it?

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I suspect, Tony. Amid all of that work, they're catching a glimpse out the window every now and again, wouldn't you think? You know?

HARRIS: I would think so.

O'BRIEN: Yeah. I think so. It's a busy time up there and the mission has gone well. Of course, there is a lot of back story to it. During the launch they lost the huge piece of foam off of the external fuel tank and that has raised all kind of questions about the shuttle program. It's kind of a -- been a rollercoaster ride over the past two and a half years since Columbia. The mission itself has been a rollercoaster ride. I asked assorted members of the crew, Eileen Collins, the commander among them, what they thought about that.

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EILEEN COLLINS, COMMANDER, DISCOVERY: Well, Miles we hear you loud and clear, welcome aboard the space station.

O'BRIEN: It was a day of euphoria and then the bad news about that falling piece of foam. What's it been like because you've had a successful mission once you got orbit, but in the back of your minds you know you have that problem to deal with when you get back on the ground.

COLLINS: The launch was fantastic, it was very smooth and it was -- you know, from onboard the shuttle, the Discovery shuttle system worked fantastic. Once we got on orbit, we did here from the ground that that piece of foam had fallen off the tank and we were very, very surprised to hear that. We were disappointed because we didn't think that we were going to lose foam from the area. We didn't even decide to do any work on that area prior to this flight. So, we all feel that this needs to be fixed before the shuttle flies again. O'BRIEN: John Phillips, I'm curious how important that extra day of shuttle dock time means to you. What sorts of things will you scavenge out of the shuttle?

JOHN PHILLIPS, ASTRONAUT: Well, we don't really scavenge much out of the shuttle, Miles, except a little food and some paper for the printer, just kind of consumable things like that. We're also going to scavenge a bunch of lights from the multipurpose logistics module, Raphael. And we're looking forward to having these -- the guys stay with us, for one thing, just because it's good company and it's nice to have nine people up here instead of two, but there's also a lot of work they can do to help us get ahead on, sort of, the post-shuttle squaring away of our lab.

O'BRIEN: And what's your feeling on how realistic an on-orbit repair will be for tiles or reinforced carbon -- carbon, the heat shield in general?

PHILLIPS: It comes down to two things. One is the material properties of the material that you're actually applying to the damage and the other is the kind of stabilization that you can give to the crewman who's putting it on. We were trying out, at least the material properties, yesterday, for a couple of experimental techniques.

O'BRIEN: Is it your sense -- does your gut tell you, you're good to go to re-entry?

COLLINS: Well, I think as of right now, we have done all of the inspection unless the ground asks us to do more. We're just waiting for then -- for it to be analyzed and the tiles have been cleared. We're still waiting for the wing (INAUDIBLE) to be clear and we're still waiting on an answer on the (INAUDIBLE), but I believe the depth fillers are within -- are similar to what we have seen on some previous flights. So it's definitely not a big concern to me right now. What we looked at during the inspection, up here yesterday, looked pretty good us to through the camera lenses.

O'BRIEN: Eileen Collins, Steve Robinson, John Phillips, and Soichi Noguchi. Sorry we didn't get to you, Soichi. Thanks for your time and continued good luck on your mission.

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O'BRIEN: Tony, it never ceases to amaze me how we can have a chat with them as they circle the planet 17,500 an hour, 220 miles above us, but there you have it -- Tony.

HARRIS: Wow, that's amazing. I have to ask you, you know, none of us are particularly concerned, perhaps, if this chunk of foam from the external fuel tank doesn't come flying off, about -- we're not concerned that much about re-entry, but I'm wondering about what you're hearing from your contacts, extensive as they are at mission control in Houston about their concern about re-entry.

O'BRIEN: Well, I think -- I don't think we need worry about the re-entry on Discovery. I think what we've seen so far is relatively minor damage -- damage that the shuttle has returned with time and time again. They're going to spend a little more time, you know, going over the imagery just to make double sure, but the real -- the real concern is and what has a lot of people very -- quite frankly, depressed in Houston and also in NASA is the fact that they have to go back to the drawing board on this tank and what that means to the shuttle program is it's going to, you know, the idea is to retire it by 2010 and this will eat away at some of the flights they can fly to the space station.

HARRIS: OK, Miles.

Miles, I've got tell you something, Betty's been working on something all morning and wants your intake on.

NGUYEN: I've been working on this.

HARRIS: Yeah.

NGUYEN: Sure I'll play along Miles, and we want you to play along as well. Our e-mail question today, you know that planet or they think it may be a planet, this 2003-U-B-313, whatever that is, if it is a planet, what would you call it? What would you name it Miles O'Brien, our space guy?

HARRIS: I didn't know that's where you were going with it. OK.

O'BRIEN: Besides O'Brien?

NGUYEN: I knew that was coming.

O'BRIEN: No. Gosh, what's the matter with 2003-U-B whatever? Well here's the thing. You know the pneumonic, right? "My very educated mother just ordered us nine pizzas."

HARRIS: Right.

NGUYEN: OK.

O'BRIEN: Right? So I got to come up with one that still works. I was thinking we should do Athenus and that would be "my very educated mother just ordered us a pizzas with anchovies."

NGUYEN: Ah, you had to add anchovies there.

O'BRIEN: Right?

NGUYEN: Very good. Very good, Miles.

O'BRIEN: Or we could just call it "Anchovies."

NGUYEN: Planet anchovy. Anchovy. There you go. You heard it here first. Miles, thank you.

HARRIS: And for more on the shuttle and other stories on space visit our continually updated Web site. That address is CNN.com/space.

NGUYEN: OK.

I want to get this just in to you right now. We are learning there has been a development in the terror investigation in London, possibly some arrests. Let's go right now to CNN's Jim Boulden with the very latest on that in London. He's joining us by phone.

Jim, what have you learned?

JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He Betty. Yes, Scotland Yard, the London police have learned they've made six further arrests this morning, those arrests were in the county of Sussex, which is south of London. These six arrests come, obviously, just days after the major arrests when all five suspected bombers, or attempted bombers, from the July 21 failed bombings were taken into custody, four, of course, in London and one in Italy.

It's no surprise, really, that further arrests are coming about especially because whatever they're learning in the houses where these men were held up or if any of the men are starting to speak. The police are continuing to wind their net.

Now, Scotland Yard just tells us there were no armed officers who were at these two locations where these six arrests happened this morning which leads us to believe that these people might have maybe just been someone who harbored some of these men or knew that some of these men were on the run or where they were. So, we're not hearing anything significant about these arrests, particularly the idea that there may be a mastermind or master bomber somewhere. It does not look like these arrests, this morning, are connected in that way. However, they still holding 11 people under the terrorism (INAUDIBLE), 11 people being held in London. These six people, though, are added to that 11, but so far they've also arrested a further 17 people who have been released. So you can see how the police are holding a number of people, but also a number of people they take in and they let go -- Betty.

NGUYEN: Seems like they are leaving no stone unturned. Thank you, Jim, for that update.

HARRIS: Is it or is it not a new planet? That's an issue for astronomers to debate. Our task this morning is to give it a name. What would you call a new 10th planet? Our e-mail question and your responses when we come back.

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HARRIS: Here's the e-mail question this morning, all morning long. What would you name a 10th planet? There's debate going on right about whether that -- can you see circled there -- that's a planet, fact a planet. E-mails pouring in all morning long, this from J.W. who writes, "I think they should name it 'Hope.' Name it 'Hope' because we need some now."

NGUYEN: Private Rosario at the Pennsylvania National Guard says, "The new planet should be named 'Liberty' so we never forget the ideals that modern, civilized nations should strive for."

And Gregory from New Jersey says, "No question it's 'Apollo.' It keeps with the Roman god names and honors the space program missions of the 1960s."

We appreciate you sending in these really creative names.

HARRIS: Yes, they are good. Let's get a final check of weather now from Brad Huffines in for Rob Marciano this weekend in the CNN Weather Center -- Brad.

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NGUYEN: Thank you Brad.

HARRIS: Yeah, think you.

News agencies are reporting new arrests in southern England.

NGUYEN: We will have the latest on the London bombings investigation at 11:00 Eastern, but "On the Story" is next.

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