Unarmed Teen Killed; Pakistan In Peril?
COLLINS: O.J. Simpson back in court. Testimony could send the football great to trial on armed robbery charges. A hearing underway next hour in the</s>CNN NEWSROOM. ANNOUNCER: Live in the CNN NEWSROOM, Heidi Collins.</s>COLLINS: You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Heidi Collins. Tony Harris is off today. Word of a deadly blast in the Philippines this morning. It happened outside parliament in the capital. This video just in to CNN now. It's reported the driver of a lawmaker was killed in the explosion. Nine people were injured, including three our lawmakers. Police have cordoned off the area. An investigation, is, of course, underway. We will keep you updated on the story. Also, Pakistan, a key U.S. ally and armed with nuclear weapons. Today, though, its fragile democracy may face greater peril. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is under arrest and on the attack today. She called for Pakistan's president to resign in a phone call to CNN. Pervez Musharraf has placed Bhutto under house arrest. Police have also rounded up thousands of her supporters. Bhutto says her party will likely boycott the upcoming elections. CNN's Karl Penhaul is in Pakistan and has the story.</s>KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Islamabad is a city swathed in barbed wire. Pakistan's now in its second week under de facto martial law. The riot shields are ready, but today, at least, there's been no fresh clashes between protesters and police at the barricades. "Today, it's all been quiet, thank goodness," he says. General Pervez Musharraf has promised general elections in early January, but he's giving no guarantee on lifting emergency rule.</s>PRES. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTAN: I do understand that emergency is to be lifted, but I cannot give a day for it.</s>PENHAUL: The president says his emergency crackdown is designed to stem Islamic militant attacks, but in practice, it's spelled arrest for thousands of moderate. Opposition politician Benazir Bhutto's house in Islamabad is ringed by security forces and concertina wire. And this is the scene at ousted Supreme Court chief Iftikhar Chaudhry's home, he's under house arrest. Despite calm in the capital Monday, opposition to emergency rule runs deep. (on camera): At this time of day, this city market should be bustling but many shoppers seem to be staying away, apparently unsure of President Musharraf's next move. (voice-over): Baker Mohammed Abassi says trade has dwindled at the tea shop where he works. He doesn't believe free and fair elections will be possible if emergency law remains enforced. The rules ban political rallies and any sign of protest against Mr. Musharraf. "It's going to be difficult. People who believe in democracy won't accept this election as legitimate," he says. Up the street, Baqar Qureshi says he's too busy trying to scrape a living to go out and protest. Emergency rule has dented business and he says he can scarcely earn $3 a day. "Rich people can protest and go home safe and sound, but it's the poor people who get killed in the streets," he says. Like many Pakistanis, he's lost patience, not just with Musharraf, but all politicians. "Political leaders always make promises, but they come and rob the country and leave," he says. Others still back the president in the fight against militant violence. Butcher Shebhaz Khan hopes he can vote in January elections, but concedes Mr. Musharraf has broken political promises before. "If he goes back on his word, what can we do? He is the government," he says. A government that for now, is silencing anybody's word but its own, with riot cops and barbed wire. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Islamabad.</s>COLLINS: I want to get to London now and tell you about the story we are just learning about. According to the Associated Press, they have learned from British veterinary authorities about a case of potentially lethal H5N1, you know that to be bird flu. In fact, they are also saying that this is the same type of bird flu, the same strain, I should say, found in Asia. Apparently, they found it on a farm in eastern England. So, we'll keep you updated on that. According to Associated Press, once again, a case of bird flu has been found in eastern England. We will follow it for you. New York police tangled in a shooting controversy in Brooklyn this morning. This was the scene after police shot an unarmed 18- year-old 20 times. New York's deputy police commissioner tells CNN the young man's mom called 911 to report a domestic dispute and the operator heard the teen say in the background, he had a gun. Commissioner Paul Brown also said the teen came out of his building with an object under his shirt. It turned out to be a black hairbrush.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He shot him for no reason. No gun or nothing, no drugs or nothing. They shot him -- it was not serious, it wasn't.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: I thought you said that he did have a gun.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He had a gun, but when they shot him, he did not have the gun on him. He did not have the gun on him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He dropped his brush and then when he dropped his brush, they started letting shots open.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: It was after he dropped the brush ...</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After he dropped the brush, they started shooting him with a gun nine or ten times. And then after they shot him up and all that, they put their knee in his back, handcuffed him and dragged him to the car.</s>COLLINS: CNN's Alina Cho is following the story for us. We'll update you with new information just as soon as we get it. It's a virtual world, but there are some real life concerns. 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