Updates from Kabul, Kandahar, Islamabad, Istanbul, and Baghdad

Early Sunday morning, CNN had the International feed running on Domestic in order to cover President Obama's speech in Prague. Ralitsa Vassileva spoke with Atia Abawi in Kabul and Reza Sayah in Islamabad for their reactions to the speech.

First, Atia discusses the likely reaction to the President's pledge to wrap up "loose nukes":

In the second part, Reza discusses the portion of the speech addressed to Iran:

This morning, Reza Aslan spoke to Kiran Chetry from Istanbul, as the President spoke in Ankara. They had some serious audio problems during the transmission, but it's always worth listening to Reza even if you can only hear every other word:

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Meanwhile, Barbara Starr is currently in Afghanistan and on Friday had a report on The Situation Room about the spike in violence there:

And this morning Kiran introduced an interview that Barbara did over the weekend with General James Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps as he visited the bases amidst concerns of a new wave of violence from the Taliban:

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Frederik Pleitgin is back in Baghdad, and Don Lemon introduced a piece Frederik did about the targeting of gays in Iraq, where at least six gay men have been murdered in the past ten days:

This morning, Frederik spoke with Betty Nguyen about a number of car bombs that went off in Baghdad today:

Tony Harris also spoke with Frederik about the importance of Turkey to the US military forces in Iraq, especially to the planned withdrawal:

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Don't forget about Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with Vice-President Biden during Tuesday's program.

Have a good week!

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