[01:09.11]The US state department says the CIA’s former station chief in Milan,
[01:13.46]who was convicted by an Italian court for his alleged role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim cleric, is on his way back to the United States from Panama.
[01:22.11]Robert Seldon Lady was one of 23 Americans sentenced for their part in the extraordinary rendition of Hassan Nasr,
[01:29.46]who was kidnapped and taken to Egypt where he says he was tortured.
[01:32.57]President Obama says the United States needs to do some soul-searching a week after the acquittal of George Zimmerman who shot dead an unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
[01:43.23]Jurors decided he was acting in self-defence.
[01:46.16]The case has led to a nationwide discussion about race and self-defence laws in the US.
[01:51.14]At a news conference, Mr Obama said he himself could have been Trayvon Martin 35 years ago and there were good reasons why there was a lot of pain in the black community.
[02:01.33]"I think it’s important to recognise that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and history that doesn’t go away.”
[02:14.18]Mr Obama also said it raised questions about racial profiling.
[02:18.19]"If a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.”