now fighting in iraq this exceeds the previous high watermark of one hundred sixty one thousand troops in january of two thousand and five after iraqi elections made an additional one hundred eighty thousand contractors are working for the u s government in iraq bringing the total size of u s forces in iraq to over three hundred forty thousand troops and mercenaries the nonprofit group jess foreign policy says the number of iraqis killed since the start of the u s invasion will soon top one million the group's estimate is a rough date of a scientific study conducted by researchers at johns hopkins university last year which concluded that six hundred and one thousand iraqi deaths were attributed to the invasion as of july two thousand and six meanwhile the new york times reports the number of private contractors killed in iraq recently topped one thousand prayers has announced an iraqi journalist working for the press agency has been missing for more than a week  agency large celebrations are being held in beijing today one year countdown to the start of the two thousand and eight olympics in china china is coming under criticism from an amnesty international for not keeping its human rights promises and press freedom preparation for olympic games jameses said there is continued abuse against proud of the olympic games but if that pride is staying with human rights violations that's bad for china there will be participating in those games tha czech jackie rogue president of the international olympic committee said game cannot be expected to resolve all the issues facing china he said we are not a government we are not the we believe that the games are going to move ahead the gender social rights and human rights as far as possible the games are going to be a force for good the games are not a panacea china is also criticize its treatment of journalists on monday reporters without borders stage and an authorised protest in beijing against the continued detention of approximately one hundred journalists cyber dissidents and free speech activists committee of project journalist said in fact on the ground at local levels chinese journalists are under tremendous pressure they're subject to violent attack they're subject to oppression while we rely central government might have a better intention to do this we feel they should be able to control and pressure the local officials and bring them to justice when they attack journalists working and doing their jobs at a local  level financial time times is reporting a congressional committee is investigating whether the internet company yahoo intentionally misled congress over its role in exposing the identity of a chinese journalist who was sent to prison for ten years she tell its arrested after posting material on a website about a government crackdown on media and democracy the washington post reports the bush administration is close to sealing a major multi year deal to combat drug cartels in mexico would be the biggest u s anti narcotic separator broad since the five billion plan colombia program under the plan u s mexico would provide mexico with taping telephone taping equipment radar to attract traffickers shipments by air aircraft to transport mexican anti drug teams and training carry out by the u s military a mentally disabled u s citizen who was wrongly deported to mexico in may has been found serving a four month jail sentence for trespassing when he was deported to tijuana on a support immigration charge he was deported despite telling officers he was born in los angeles and live in a nearby town with his mother for the past three months members of his family have searched shelters jails and hospitals until i want to track him down to the united nations world meteorological organization as we warned that record breaking weather streams have been recorded in almost every continent this year with low poll land temperatures reaching their highest levels since records monsoons have killed more than five hundred people and displaced more than ten million others in the middle east the first documented cycle in there radiancy was reported in june and in china heavy rains affected more than thirteen million people england and wales had their way to smain june since records began in seventeen sixty six resulting in extensive flooding and more than six billion dollars in damage germany's and in utah researchers are still trying to reach six coal miners trapped underground fishel said it would take at least two more days to reach the three of the trapped miners are mexican citizens no other details about the men have been released robert murray of marine engineering corp said i don't know if these miners are alive or dead only lord knows that if they are dead the shock of the collapse was caused by an earthquake government seismologists say no earthquake occurred and that it was the collapse of a mine that caused a seismic event during the same press conference robert m the coal industry and criticized congress for consolidating legislation to control global warming in new york a judge has ordered the police department to release hundreds of pages of documents related to police surveillance protesters ahead of the two thousand and four national republican national convention the paper included raw intelligence reports collected by undercover police officers alarm poses a penalty on anybody involved in a crime were murder occurred in foster's case he was driving a car eleven years ago with three passengers one the passengers left the car foster had no idea shooting was going to take place according to supporters of foster texas is the only state where you can be factually innocent of murder and still be sent to death the washington post is reporting u s lawmakers and activists have intensified their appeals for the release of a key western sudan rebel leader named james j moss was the humanitarian the creation of lasting peace in sudan american actors mia farrow has offered to go to prison herself in sudan in exchange for the release of j most farrow says i don't know what the government  billion dollars in military aid over the next decade this package represents a twenty five percent increase over the current u s annual military aid to israel is true always all already the largest recipient of u s military aid the activist group is urging congress to reject the proposal and to cut off military aid for israel's lation a u s arms export control and the us foreign assistance act recent state department report found that israel may have violated the u s arms export control by indiscriminately dropping cluster bombs that we manufactured in civilian areas in lebanon during last year and in new york hundreds gathered in the bronx on monday to thank you and the venezuelan oil company for donating three point three million dollars to nine grassroots balcony an apartment in order to enter it he appeared to be intoxicated police arrested and booked him on suspicion of violating probation and the seven p m city have responded to  police took a report assaulted in the parking lot of talk o bell police took a report tuesday at three twenty five am on the one hundred block of sutton way the caller reported that there was a woman claiming that she didn't on highway forty nine and nine forty a m a caller and i don't marilyn east of sun reported there were two large rocks in the roadway in nevada county sheriff's office on monday at ten sixteen a m a caller from the two thousand block of oak drive reported that his neighbors regularly blows an air horn in the morning and eleven twenty three am a caller from eagle lakes road reported it sometime between saturday and monday road reported finding a weapon in a conference room at four forty five pm a caller from the fifteen thousand block of north bloomfield road reported a projector had been stolen it was stolen between ten thirty pm sunday and nine intoxicated and then was yelling in the parking lot being belligerent police arrested and booked suspicious of being under the influence purchasing controlled substances on tuesday at twelve eighteen am a caller from the twelve thousand block of big blue road reported their purse was stolen our report was taken at one twenty nine a m caller from the thirteen thousand walk of thoroughbred loop full of juveniles who were yelling obscenities driving up and down the road for thirty minutes c h p was said by multiple drivers leaving a party the town of washington on tuesday for plantation and about a county this summer linked to a mexican drug trafficking group to sleaze really brings the total number of outdoor marijuana plants generally what we're seeing in northern and central california this is a significant increase in marijuana cultivation on public officers gathered three thousand six hundred thirty two plants from the side off of omega road near washington street resident nikki stephens yelled from her car on the side of washington road after the aircraft lifted off from a command post at a nearby turnout i resent that they're growing we and that the money that they're making is not being spent in this area she said it's really based on evidence located at the site including graffiti implicating mexican organized crime irrigation and farming techniques law enforcement declared grow was overseen by mexican drug trafficking organization there was trees in monday's second garden at a county sheriff lieutenant bill evans said it said sorry no thirteen it's a mexican mafia tortillas in food packaging with labels in spanish were also lo organizations which are connected to organized drug trafficking he said the number thirteen is related to the letter the third letter of the alphabet which can stand for the woods officers looked for suspects for a while but gave up the search to focus on eradicating the guard and joining operation consisted of officers from california's campaign against marijuana growing county sheriff's office the grass valley police department city police department united states for service california state parks and california fish and game organizations overseeing the park farms busted in nevada county have been referred to as cartels by some law enforcement term that organized crime families in mexico i can't say we have specific information these operations are specific cartels overseas taylor oversees d e or peroration said i do not have information or a lot of people supervising the growing are perhaps of mexican descent who hire mexican nationals legally in any instances he doesn't have that what he does i don't know smuggling drugs across the border has become more difficult with the increased border patrol so many option operations have moved north of the border taylor said also various factions of the mexican government make their farmers forced into work through threats of violence he said middleman it's often station near the gardens to address any issue that may come up with farmers tending to grow and said who can be days in the united states or mexico depending on what organization is overseeing the operation and the gays news and he passed a resolution to tax residence thirteen hundred eighty five dollars a year for twenty years residence live who treated water in the area samantha hill many residents have been waiting over twenty years for them to address the local issues from already developed areas that accounting aidid board is planning to serve nine thousand residents of a development not yet built board members are often every quarter and tell by a concerned citizen groups who questions often underhanded tactics of directors at the meetings at this time we'd like to thank the union you've been at truckee sun tribute you know because th county area we will soon be having weekend on and see t v channel leavening you can always find our daily broadcast at our website at w