Jill McGivering

On the agenda: this morning’s Senate deal on health care reform; where U.S. and Pakistani relations are headed; when Guant-namo Bay might close; the end results of climate meetings in Copenhagen; and the president’s coming vacation in Hawaii.

For this week’s agenda, we look ahead to President Obama’s upcoming speech to school children across the country, the week on Wall Street after the long holiday weekend, and the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to another 18 months of house arrest after an American man swam out to her lakeside home in May. BBC Asia expert Jill McGivering tells The Takeaway about the sentence and the uninvited visitor.

Secretary of State Clinton urged North Korea to renounce nuclear weapons; North Korea responded by insulting Clinton and announcing that disarmament talks were dead. BBC’s Asia correspondent Jill McGivering joins The Takeaway to explain what’s at stake.

Taliban attacks today rocked two eastern cities in Afghanistan. The AP reports that 13 Taliban militants and Afghan security forces have died in the attacks. The Takeaway talks to Jill McGivering, a BBC reporter in London.