the last meal of yasser arafat. so i said, er, i know nothing about the last meal of yasser arafat because i was not there.... september 25 the percy military hospital french detectives search the building where arafat died, focusing on the labs that had tested him. >> what astonished me the most, you remember when you came, we met in paris and i gave you the official letter of percy hospital? they are incapable to give us any kind of blood or urine samples because they have been destroyed... >> but they were not all destroyed. and french police discover some during the search. >> they got biological samples of his body, and its more than 100 biological samples... >> despite the revelation, the cells that remain are not enough for radiological tests. exhumation remains their only option, and for that, they will have to go to ramallah. >> it's october 25, 2012. nearly 4 months has passed since our documentary aired, where the swiss scientists said that the exhumation of yasser arafat must take place as rapidly as pos

e cluesive on the death of yasser arafat. new findings and reactions from his widow. >> for million of americans, delay is not an option. >> kathleen sebelius on capitol hill, why they have to move forward. >>> and pushing the peace process, john kerry talking with both sides. we begin with an al jazeera exclusive on the death of yasser arafat. swiss scientists proving what many suspected, arafat was poison. they found pulonium, the allegations triggered the effort to have his body exhumed last year. >> first they found unnormally high amounts of polonium 10 in his clothes then found a high level of the substance in his bones. the scientists say their data clearly favors the poisoning of palestinian's historic leader with up to 83% confidence. the arafat family received the result it's from their lawyer along with an analysis along with professor of forensic analyst david barclay. >> this is beyond any doubt if my opinion that it was polonium that killed yasser arafat. >> for wife and daughter it was proof. >> it was if they

perhaps then we will learn once and for all not just who killed yasser arafat but who. >> yasser arafat let the palestinian liberation organization for decades. israel and many western countries viewed him as a terrorist, the u.s. refusing to have any official ties with arafat for decades. in 1993 the plo recognized israel and the palestinian leader shook hand with the israel's prime minister on the white house lawn. his relationship with israel and the u.s. was never smooth especially after the second palestinian uprising that began in the year 2000. by the time he died israel again saw him as a terrorist, and the u.s. scaled back its contacts with arafat. >>> secretary of state john kerry is visiting israel and the west bank. it is his latest attempt to revive the negotiations there. both sides say the other is to blame for the current state of talks or non-talks. john kerry said that he was optimistic that tensions could be overcome. >> i hope we will continue in the good faith that brought the parties together in the first place. this can be achieved with good faith, with a serious

evidence that yasser arafat was poisoned. also coming up, john kerry's mission to israel and the west bank. and we'll look at the vicious drawing war in mexico. >> for nearly nine years there has been suspicions of foul play in yasser arafat's death, that mystery has been partially solved. swift scientists say that the leader was poisoned with polonium. we have this al jazeera exclusive. >> first they found high amounts of polonium 210 in yasser arafat's clothes. then they found high rates in his bones. this one page report after the exhumation of arafat's body last november. they favor polonium poisoning with 83% confidence. the arafat family received the results from their lawyer along with an analysis from forensic scientists david barclay. >> if i were a jury, this is stone cold certain. there is no doubt that that it was polonium that caused the death of yasser arafat. >> when we received the results, it was just like he just died. i will not stop. me and my daughter will go to call courts in all over the world to punish

. >> yasser arafat found data d f. the plo and it's off shoots launched military actions and including bombings and shoot". shootings. one staged the kid napping and murder at the munich olympic games. >> over the last 20 years he slowly gave away to bi dip low . together they have edg emtraffid weathereemtraffic andembarkedto. they shook hands on the white house lawn in 1993. but promising a new era for the fotwo peoples after a decade of conflict. they were to remove troops from the west bank and the gaza strip for the for them to beself gove. soon soon after h after he retua for the first time in 23 years. it became clear a half centrery of war and mis mirsz mistrust we easy to o over come. each side blamed the other for not following through with the accord. another inf infatatda. israel laid siege to the compound. by 2003 they shrou vowed to remd from power. there he fell ill. 13 days later he died at the age of 75. >> all right. ari worked in the state department as an advisor on middle east afairs. he is now at

arafat, but who. >> let's talk about the widow of yasser arafat. let me ask you first of all, in his final days in paris did he have any idea that he had been poisoned? >> no, he looked very sad. he was speechless. connot talk about he had--he began to lose consciousness a little bit. but he was looking at me with very teary eyes, trying to do something, there is something wrong with me. i couldn't understand this from his tears. he had teary eyes, trying to explain to me. we were doing all our best to find if there is any poison, but no point ha poison had been fou. >> did he at all in the last few years of his life he had a lot of enemies, as well, did he not? did he believe that someone was trying to kill him at that point, if not that he had been poisoned. >> all his life he has been subjected to death threats, and hhe escaped maybe 20 death threats in his life. it was dangers the last three years because becaus every day, shelling was bombing him every day. but if you see that, they could not kill him. nobody could kill him. they killed him co

we'll talk to him a little bit later. >> the widow of yasser arafat joins us. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, david. >> you've been briefed on the results of the investigation, what is your reaction? >> you know, it was a very, very strong shock. i mean that i'm mourning my husband again now. i'm full of anger. this is crime, this is assassination of a leader elected by his people. this is a policy assassination, and you can't imagine how my daughter and myself are in very sad situation. >> who do you suspect did this? >> you know, i have no right to suspect because all the cause is in the hands of the judiciary in france now. but i don't know about countries that have nuclear reactors to find this substance of polonium which is rare, and to kill him with it. but the problem that--who gave him this poison? who administered it, and who gave the go ahead to hut it in his tea, coffee or food? it is very terrible feeling to be deceived. >> how did your husband yasser arafat describe those final few weeks when he got six in 2004, what did he say about what h

arafat did yasser not die because of ill health. three, yassir arafat not die a natural death. the language being used by the palestinians is more direct and much more accusatory. how far did they take their level of accusation? >> toward the end of the news theerence, they addressed subject of who might be responsible. they only came up with one name. it is not important for me to say that yasser arafat died because of loaning them or because of another cause. the elements i have at my disposal because -- -- died of numberm or because of a cause. the elements at my disposal say that israel killed yasser arafat. out with aas come statement saying they did not kill yasser arafat. the foreignng from ministry. they say the palestinians need to stop leveling these accusations. enough is enough. >> thank you for joining us from ramallah. now we go to a round up of other news. the french government says it is by standard & poor's decision to downgrade its credit rating. says it is acting because of the country's inability to enact reforms. this latest downgrade puts it two notches be

where does it leave the search to find who and what killed yasser arafat? >> there is a french criminal inquiry taking place at the moment but i think what the events of today show and we don't know what the french are saying but what the events of today show is that the death of yasser arafat is in politicsen intrigue and perhaps conspiracy because they have not been able to separate the two events and certainly the palestinian authority appear to play a political game and working out when and where to bring the results out. >> reporter: why were the russians brought? >> a mystery and were brought in at the last moment by the palestinian authority after al jazeera worked closely with scientists and first indications that mr. arafat had been poisoned and seen they would work with the palestinian authority in some kind of way which would be separate from the french and the swiss investigators. so it's been a mystery from the start actually. >> reporter: all right, phil reese thanks for joining us and remind everyone we will be live in about 20 minutes to get

yasser ai arafat may have been murdered. the forme former palestinian ler was most certainly murdered. >> and preparations for the next dangerous step of fixing japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant. ♪ >> be al jazeera has uncovered evidence that armed forces in the central african republic are committing atrocities againstselfians. againstcivi civilians of the conditions have deteriorated and the human rights investigating say newses thousands of people may have been killed. two of her children were murdered in front of her. >> she was shot in the back. she says she hasn't got the strength to look after the three children that survived. ail she can think about is that at the innight terrible night. >> everyone was sleeping accept me. they shined the torch in the hut and sprayed bullets. i shouted i have a baby in my hands anhands and why you are sg and they stopped shooting. >> the 16-year-old girl was also there that night. she lost the lower part of her leg. and this woman was shot in the back. the hospital says 18 p

the level in yasser arafat is about 900. that is either 18 or 36 times the average, depending on the literature. >> what's more, the soil around his body absorbed his decaying flesh and organs. that soil measured at least 18 times higher than earth not visibly stained. the report rules out any outside contamination. on a sale of confidence one through six, six being strongly can have. data supports poisoning at level five. these results confirm a theory of polonium poisoning. the same swiss scientists found blood and urine stains were contaminated with polonium 210 including in its purest form. they examined clothing he wore in his final days. this latest test was on his flesh and bones. buried since his death in 2000 fore, the samples were gathered when his body was unearthed in november last year. three teams took 20 samples each. aljazeera released the swiss team's results. a russian team also carried out tests. their results have not yet been made public. there was a team in france. the french results remain a secret, bu

--yasser arafat possum or yasser arafat's widow said it was murder. the report has been called unreliable. which is it? arehe scientists themselves extremely cautious about their findings. they're coming out only saying that they moderately support a colony him poisoning as the .ause of yasser arafat's death his remains were exhumed last year here in ramallah. and it was up to 20 times higher than expected levels of polonium 210. what made it very clear that after eight years in the ground, the samples were not as good as they would have wanted. really, they cannot be conclusive. >> how sensitive is this to the region? time when theya are trying to get he's talks restarted. there are indications that they may have put some fresh momentum into them. the circumstances of yasser arafat's death during the uprising were very mysterious. israel has consistently denied any involvement in his death and they have come out with further statements from the foreign ministry this evening saying that the results of the tests were not reliable science. a bomb attack

--yasser arafat possum or yasser arafat's widow said it was murder. the report has been called unreliable. which is it? arehe scientists themselves extremely cautious about their findings. they're coming out only saying that they moderately support a colony him poisoning as the .ause of yasser arafat's death his remains were exhumed last year here in ramallah. and it was up to 20 times higher than expected levels of polonium 210. what made it very clear that after eight years in the ground, the samples were not as good as they would have wanted. really, they cannot be conclusive. >> how sensitive is this to the region? time when theya are trying to get he's talks restarted. there are indications that they may have put some fresh momentum into them. the circumstances of yasser arafat's death during the uprising were very mysterious. israel has consistently denied any involvement in his death and they have come out with further statements from the foreign ministry this evening saying that the results of the tests were not reliable science. a bomb attack

they said that yasser arafat must be disappeared. he must be killed. and this proves that israel is to blame for his martyrdom. for more on this, let's cross over to our correspondent in jerusalem. there, at thec palestinian presidential palace. they made it clear that israel is the only suspect. thatactly, and they say also as a way to brush off rumors that the late leaders palestinian entourage may have been involved. the head of the palestinian commission investigating the circumstances of the death of yasser arafat did not give any concrete evidence to back his claim, and that is why he refers to israel as a suspect, not a culprit. and he added that the investigation, the palestinian investigation into the matter is not quite finish. remember, what the swiss medical experts have been saying at this point is that the possibility of the late palestinian leader having been poisoned could not be entirely confirmed, nor could it be completely ruled out. and one reason why there is such a high degree of uncertainty is because the autopsy was conducted ei

who killed yasser arafat. there is an international probe after the scientists say he was almost certainly poisoned. >> odevidence of a massacre of e government is accused of killing civilians in the afte african republic. >> they rat raid the offices ofe broadcaster. and we have lift off. >> and going where no olympic torch has ever gone 3w-6. 3w-6 -- before. the sochi olympic flame blasts into space. details later in the program. ♪ of >> well it appears as they are demanding an international investigation after new evidence shows that their former leader yasser arafat was almost certainly pois poisoned of. >> the swiss scientists found pulonium 210, 18 tile 18 18 timr than normal. he was exhumed last year. >> first they found high amounts bleof blewflplunomiom poising p. they received the information from their lawyer. if i was a judge and jury this is stone stone cold certain. it was pe pulonium that caused e death of yasser arafat. >> for widow an daughter it's 100% proof. >> when they came with the resu

towould you have an idea as why murder yasser arafat? at the time of his death, he was in his mid-70's. it was not a well man -- he was not a well man. >> mandela is 19 years old. arafat -- 75 is not old ford nowadays. -- is not old for nowadays. he wanted to make peace for people in the middle east. this old man, who would sometimes speak about age. he wanted to do peace with the other si. >> what is the next up for you? >> me and my daughter are for all of the legal aspects. it might take some time. we are doubting a lot of murders. i want to say something. did notple would say have the same kind of polonium as the russian spy. he was given a huge dose of ohlone him that made all of his polonium thatf made all of his hair go down. >> thank you very much indeed for your comments. it is an important day for you. arafat talking to us about the scientific findings. we are going to get the forensic report and switzerland. we are expecting a news conference in the course of the next half hour and we will bring that to you live here on gmt. i

they say finding out who killed yasser arafat is a national and moral responsibility. two reports determined that arafat didn't die from disease or old age. >> reporter: >> translator: this is the crime of the 21st century. we will not save an effort and no obstacle will stop us at arriving at the facts. the basis, ladies and gentlemen, is to find out who stands before the assassination of yasser arafat. and who has the technical and scientific resources for that. we say that israel is the only one to be accused. >> of course you heard that the palestinians say that israel is the only suspect, something that israel has repeatedly denied. >> let me say this as simply and clearly as i can. israel did not kill arafat, period. it's as simple as that. we have nothing to do with that. and the palestinians should stop levelling all of these baseless allocations. >> joining us now is the man what spearheaded the investigation into arfats death. both teams say that he died of unnatural causes, if you like, but unlike the swiss team, the russians say their results are inconclusi

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the crime of the century, that's what the palestinians say who say yasser arafat was murdered. >>> and typhoon haiyan batters the philippines. >>> i'm nike spicer in the ukraine where the country is racing to develop its own gas sup place after twice being left out in the cold by russia. >>> we begin in geneva where attempts continue to end the stand off over iran's nuclear program. now the meeting is in its second day. but the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is warning, there isn't a deal on the table yet. >> i want to emphasize there is not an agreement at this point in time. but the p5 is working hard, and i look forward to the meetings that i will be having very shortly with -- with lady kathy ashton, and with my fellow ministers in the p5 and also i will be meeting with minister zarif. we hope to try to narrow the differences but i don't think anybody should mistake that there are some important gaps that have to be closed. so thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> we have correspondent covering all angles of this story. first let's first go to geneva where james bays is repo

so, who did kill yasser arafat? , most palestinians don't have any doubt at all. they blame israel. it is true that he was loathed by most israelis. out that byf points the time he started to get really ill, yasser arafat was completely finished as a political force. this report has done is to add to the accusations. still no final smoking gun. john simpson, bbc news. >> the mystery deepens. you are watching "bbc world news america," still to come. inside of fukushima's reactor number four. we get rare access. this is a difficult and very dangerous process for removing nuclear fuel that is about to get underway. less than a week after its leader was killed, pakistani taliban have chosen a new head. mullah fazlullah is a hard-line commander whose men planned the attack on the teenager malala yousafzai. >> this is a man apparently now in control of the pakistan taliban and. mullah fazlullah is regarded as being even more brutal than his predecessor. one of his more recent targets was this army general. he was visiting troops along the pakistan-afghan border in september. he and two ot

arafat's death was the result of poisoning. the scientists said they can't tell where the polonium came from, but note it is not common. >> you [ inaudible ] close to you, and it's difficult to imagine that [ inaudible ] arfat himself could be present in the room where [ inaudible ] at that time. >> here is more on the palestinian action. >> plo officials have said they want to demand an international independent credible investigation into to the death of arfat after the publishings in the swiss medical report. we understand there was a meeting on thursday to discuss the finings of the swiss report, but we also know we're not expected to here anything or a public statement made by the authority until the head deleases and announces the results of the swiss report as well as a russian report that was submitted to the palestinian authority, and that will happen on friday morning we understand here, where these findings will be made public. now for the palestinian people, the results of this report, the -- almost conclusionive ev

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>> was yasser arafat poisoned to death? an al jazeera commissioned study found shocking information on the plo leaders' demise. what does it mean and who are the suspects. >> the n.f.l. has been taken to task for bullying. rookie hazing has been going on for decades. when i does it cross the line tt right abuse. >> what does is it like to be part of the sketch ings. >> hello i'm antonio mora. >> a swiss study commissioned by al jazeera has found strong evidence that palestinian lead areaser arafat had been poisoned with a rare element pulonium 210. the study supports the theory that the pew loa pulonium poisoning caused arafat's death. >> first they found high amounts of pulonium 210 in arafat's clothesand now they have found the substance in his bones. the swiss scientists prepared this 1 108 page report. >> the data conofficials buy loa confirms puloniu poisoning. >> if i was a judge and jury this is absolutely stone cold certain. um, this is beyond any doubl don my pun that i opinion that was m that caused the death of y

arafat. i think we have her to talk to now just as the press conference begins to get underway. tell us about what is expected from this press conference? we have swiss results already. russian results as well? two different investigations? >> reporter: correct, jonah. now we are expecting any time soon the head of the investigative committee to announce the conclusions of the investigative committee here in the pal spi pal palestinian ters after receiving results of the swiss report as well as the russian report and now i than we can listen in to the conference. >> i think we have lost picture there. let's see if we can go to the press conference. we seem to have lost the press conference as well. i am sorry, we have lost the press conference. can you pick up again where you were? >> reporter: of course. we are expecting any time now to hear the results and the conclusions of the palestinian authority after studying two reports, the swiss one that you mentioned which provided evidence conclu

but what killed yasser arafat may have finally been answered -- radiation poisoning. a team of swiss scientists who exhumed his body say that their findings say it was the result of poisoning. >> they found values that far exceed the average environmental levels by 18 to 36 times. >> reporter: and this will become a sacred site now. a shrine for palestinians going on decades into the future. >> reporter: just before his death in 2004, arafat fell mysteriously ill, bow sieged in his west bank headquarters by the israeli military he was flown to france where he ultimately died. no autopsy was ever performed. last year an investigation by al jazeera led to answers. she now believes her husband was murdered. >> shocking, shocking crime. to get rid of the great leader. >> reporter: but if it was murder, who did it? how it got into his body is a question palestinians now want answered. >> what we need is proof that israeli occupation is responsible, that the israeli government has killed him as a result of an official decision. >> reporter: israel considered him a terrorist

so, who did kill yasser arafat? , most palestinians don't have any doubt at all. they blame israel. it is true that he was loathed by most israelis. out that byf points the time he started to get really ill, yasser arafat was completely finished as a political force. this report has done is to add to the accusations. still no final smoking gun. john simpson, bbc news. >> the mystery deepens. you are watching "bbc world news america," still to come. inside of fukushima's reactor number four. we get rare access. this is a difficult and very dangerous process for removing nuclear fuel that is about to get underway. less than a week after its leader was killed, pakistani taliban have chosen a new head. mullah fazlullah is a hard-line commander whose men planned the attack on the teenager malala yousafzai. >> this is a man apparently now in control of the pakistan taliban and. mullah fazlullah is regarded as being even more brutal than his predecessor. one of his more recent targets was this army general. he was visiting troops along the pakistan-afghan border in september. he and two ot

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evidence that yasser arafat was poisoned. also coming up, john kerry's mission to israel and the west bank. and we'll look at the vicious drawing war in mexico. >> for nearly nine years there has been suspicions of foul play in yasser arafat's death, that mystery has been partially

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the normal yasser arafat's body was it in the year ago after his widow asked for a post-mortem to be carried. elsewhere greek workers have held a twenty four asked reich over the money saving measures enforced by international lenders flights have been delayed in hospitals and schools affected by the stoppage representatives of the financial troika are in athens to talk over whether to release more money to the government the general secretary secretary of one major greek union says the penny pinching has to stop we want to send a message to the government and to the troika that it is enough with this kind of austerity policy this for policy for. already for three years they promise that it will be a development in the country that we should be a growth but you said of these we see poverty growing up we see unemployment people and when we don't see any result in the numbers in the us and the statistics in the figures of public debt in the public deficit. now the troops and some of the finest some forms of military hardware back on moscow's red square at the moment this parade marks t

the former palestinian leader yasser arafat died of poisoning france is open american pro and a palestinian authority says there's only one suspect cctv response to the fleet brings us to latex. i love this the us announced in switzerland was no surprise officials and locals here have suspected poisoning all along. and they believe the accusatory finger points to israel calling it a crime of the twenty first century a panel of palestinian authority officials echoed what swiss investigators already concluded a bomb on them you would be set up the mess. obama did not die of cold feet. it did not die because of disease the cute guy and actual birthday signed former plo chairman and palestinian authority president became ill in two thousand for one into a coma and died. the cause of his death was disputed three years until last november when at the behest of his widow arafat's body was in silk and samples of his remains were tested in swiss russian and french class for traces of poison. this weeks with scientists announced they found levels of a rare radioactive isotope polonium two ten eightee

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test results show that former palestinian leader yasser arafat's could have been killed by poisoning the swiss forensics team that examined his body says it found levels of a radioactive substance polonium that were eight hundred times higher than normal yasser arafat's body was exuma a year ago after his widow asked for a post-mortem to be carried out. next abby martin pulls apart the key failings of the obama presidency in breaking sat. illegal immigration is a hot topic everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i would occur just on vacation got into a taxi driver by a former migrant worker who used to make a living in moscow he told me that he really worked hard driving unloading trucks after five years he came back home and bought a house yes from the cellar that russians can't even survive on he was able to buy a house employers and russian america say that locals don't want to work are demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future one compared to a local who can't even make

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the amount in yasser arafat is 900 mfg and that is 18 or 30 tiles the average depen depending on the li literature. the soil around his bones bones sed 18 times high ir. on a scale t of confidence. the data support poison being at level five. these results conif i recall a theory of pulonium poisoning first put forward last year and then the same skin tis found that arafat's blood was contaminated with the pe pew pulonium 210 of the. >> the latest test was on arafat's flesh and bones baueryd in l ramallah since 2004. three teens have taken three teams have taken the tests. >> there was a team in frank. - france. the french results remain see yet. secret. and the question is whether the palestinian authorities shift 9 case to the national criminal court. perhaps mrs. arafat and her daughter will see suspects come to try and learn once an for usual what killed arafat and not just who. arafat led the palestinian liberation declaration for decades. he was viewed as a terrorist by israel and western nations. the u.s. had behind the scenes contact with the plo. arafat shook hands with the

it's believed former palestinian leader yasser arafat was pois poisoned. his widow is calling it political assassination. she says results from a swiss forensic teams found her husband was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive ploen yum. an investigation was launched last year after traces of that ploen yum were found on his personal belongings. a french forensic team is still conducting its investigation. ms. arafat says she doesn't know who may have killed her husband but said he had a lot of enemies. >> one of the first sky scrapers in san francisco has a new anticipate. winston churchill conducted one of the first transatlantic phone calls there. today, congresswoman nancy pelosi and ed lee welcomed its latest tenant. >> certainly there's no better place to test a model of community than san francisco. >> san francisco was a key player in yelp's origin story. we built an amazing community of reviewers here that made us realize that yelp might just work. >> major enno vagss started last year with about $100 new mexico pumped into the building. >>>

staying in the region, palestinians in the west bank marked the anniversary of their leader yasser arafat. they continue to speculate that radioactive pannonia traces were found on his -- reactive to tony plutonium traces were found on his clothing. they have an interest in doing so. we blame israel, they have all the answers in that. but we refrain from pinpointing our fingers at israel for the time being the kids we want to complete the investigation -- because we want to complete the investigation. >> for the first time, the french president was in the amnesty ceremony here in paris. the ceremony commemorates the founding of the armistice between world war i allies and germany. 1.4 million french soldiers were killed during that war. on this day, millions elsewhere on of those killed in the line of duty. avoidedrench president hackleheckles. tribute, the president spoke with family members of world war i soldiers. with the president's approval moreg at an all-time low, than 70 were arrested calling for his resignation. >> several dozen individuals linked to the far right did not want t

the theory that yasser arafat was poisoned. now, immediately arafat's widow calling this evidence of a real crime, that there was a political assassination that took place with the death of yasser arafat back in 2004. but the scientists themselves have said there's plenty of room for doubt in this, saying there's all sorts of problems with the samples over many years that expired between the death of arafat and when they collected the samples and still plenty of room for doubt about what was the actual cause of death, carol. >> so where does this go from here? >> reporter: well, the palestinians, they want a full international criminal inquiry. for them, this is the smoking gun that they've been looking for. you ask any palestinian out here in the west bank, and they'll say, look, we believe yasser arafat was killed, and we believe israel is the party responsible for the killing. israel, of course, has create gorical categoricallien didded any involvement, and they've done so since this report came out. the palestinians say loo

concluded study has former palestinian president yasser arafat may have been poisoned to death. the team of swiss scientists who examined his remains say their findings moderately support poisoning as the cause of death. on tuesday, arafat's widow called for an investigation where he fell ill one month before dying in 2004. speaking to al jazeera, forensic scientist david barkley says he believes arafat was poisoned. >> if i was a judge and jury, this is absolutely stone cold certain, this is beyond any doubt in my opinion that it was polonium that cause the death of yasser arafat. >> the polonium found in arafat's body must've come from a nuclear reactor according to berkeley. israel has denied responsibility for the debt. other experts have questioned the poisoning theory, saying arafat show symptoms inconsistent with radioactive exposure. the pakistani government has reportedly acknowledged errors in his recent downgrading of civilian casualties from u.s. drones. shortly after prime minister nawaz sharif returned from a u.s. visit last month, the pakistani government reported

after talks in israel, today he is in ramallah where he lay a wreath on the tomb of yasser arafat. he also met with president mahmoud abbas in an attempt to restart the peace process. he called for a full halt to settlement building. peace,rder to bring france calls for the complete and definitive end to settlements because they threatened the two state solution. i say this to the israelis as a friend and i say it here to the palestinians. they must also make efforts to deal with difficult problems. >> to get more analysis on the french president's visit, let's bring in roger from ramallah. what effect will the french president's visit have on peace negotiations, if any? they will not have peace negotiations to speak of. the palestinians are disappointed in general. they are disappointed in their own leadership. they do not recognize any role model in the political sphere. they are even more disappointed with leaders abroad to give them good advice and then do not stay long enough to see it is carried out. peace negotiations have been overshadowed by other talks on iran's nuclear p

. >>> was palestinian leader, yasser arafat actually murdered? his widow says he was poisoned. the leader felt ill before his death in 2004 but no autopsy was performed. last november a team of swiss scientists exhumed his body and now say findings support poisoning. as a cause of death. mrs. arafat did not accuse any specific country or person, but the widow did acknowledge her husband had many enemies and she says he was the victim of a shocking crime. >> we are so angry. it's a political crime. it's a political assassination of a great leader. >>> nfl great tony dorsett confirming he's been diagnosed with a condition linked to dementia. the 59-year-old dallas cowboys hall of famer says the news hit him like a ton of bricks. three other former players have been diagnosed. including leonard marshall. >>> president obama is finding himself playing defense on the affordable care act. this morning he is back in washington after a trip to texas. it is the largest state refusing to participate in the health care law. he got an earful from both sides. tracie potts joins us with the