who has lost a son, or a father who has lost a son, or an afghan or an iraqi who has lost a brother in a bombing -- i don't know. it breaks my heart to even think about it. the fact that the president is saying the tide of war is receding and we are moving toward more limited counter terrorist reggies, to me, is a victory of common sense. tavis: do you think the average american understands the huge amount of afghan life that has been lost in these 10 years? if they did understand, do you think they would care? >> no. i think it is difficult to empathize with your neighbor, let alone someone of a different skin color 8,000 miles away. the afghans -- is this funny thing. on the one hand, they are supposed to be our ally. on the other, they are demonized regularly in terms of the television. fair enough -- of the taliban. fair enough. i think it is very difficult to make people care about the natives in another country. call it like it is. counterinsurgency is making a kids behave the way we want them to. -- making nativist behave the way we want them to. my job as a writer is to enga

nearly every man has won. tribal conflicts often boil over into violent confrontations with fatal consequences. yemen's vast desert sun also become a haven for al-qaeda. membership in the militant group is growing here. a southern separatist movement is boycotting the elections and has threatened attacks during voting. there is only one candidate in this election, so the outcome is clear. but it remains to be seen what yemen's new president can do about his country's entrenched problems. >> well, we're very happy to be joined by eight in middle east expert in the studio to talk about yemen and its future -- to be joined by a middle east expert. this is a brokered deal, this presidential vote. is it the beginning of a government representative democracy in yemen? >> well, perhaps, because there are a true in elections planned within two years. at least the current government will be a little bit more representative than the last one. the big problem though is that members of the old elite, of the saleh family,

certain allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop

the other candidate, rick santorum has 13%. what congressman ron paul has 7%. both remain in the race. mitt romney declared himself victorious in his speech to his supporters in tampa. >> you know, three years ago this week a nearly a elected president obama faced the american people. he said, if i cannot attend this economy a round in three years i will be looking at a 110 position. we are here to collect. -- a one-term position. we are here to collect. [applause] it has been 35 months of unemployment above 8%. more americans have lost their jobs than under the administration of any other president in history. in the last 10 days, i met with a father who was terrified that this would be the last night his family would be able to sleep in the only home his son has none. i have met seniors who thought these would be the best years of their life. they are worried about had to make ends meet. i met under the doors -- the bang -- entrepeuneurs who are saying the american dream disappear. the president said, let's remember how we got here. we remember how we got her

certain l i's to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course the syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world that don't want the entire world to be done many did by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran. they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though they're great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can relieve their population in spite of the fact that the visions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanction the iranian people believe that they have as they do the rig

allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop nucl

said or you say you have violated it has meant it has many violations the question of violations is not making the bomb the question of violations is its safeguards agreement the whole point of the. dangerous things. only if you would if you were absolutely transparent and open and a iran has not been well iran's and if you may go back to gilbert if i go back to gilbert in brussels iran's nuclear program is the most inspected program in the history of the i.a.e.a. what do you think about all of this here gilbert if i can say with you in brussels i mean is this it there's a drumbeat to worry respective of what the i.e.e.e. i i e a has to say about anything because most people say the last report was just a recycled one of the one before go ahead. but i think this is the fourth off the mark the issue has moved on the issue of relations with iran has moved on considerably from the strictly strict starting point of its nuclear ambitions. know what were side issues have become the central issue that is the economic warfare being being entered into against the iran be ratcheting up sanctions

allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world that don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers that presidential elections have any say in what's going on in and what's going to happen with iran in terms of washington. i think the presidential elections in the united states definitely play a role in u.s. policy towards iran that by the way has been the case ever since the iranian revolution iran has factored into american politics in this case the republican candidates are sort of baiting obama and suggesti

in tunis here like it has in egypt and then one has to deal with it i mean i regard these groups as the slum equivalents of christian democracy socially conservative organizations but perfectly happy to follow the latest economic trends. which dominate western do deals with the united states but you make the muslim brotherhood sound fairly benign really do you think that christian minorities and other minorities have something to fear from that well i mean there is always within moderate islamist parties a current which feeling that they can't really offer people what they want which is a decent standard of living which is a social safety net to work then divert attention by targeting minorities the brotherhood has done it in relation to the copts in egypt and it's not impossible that they're sort of peers in syria will do the same so that is not a good thing to all but you know we have to wait and see if this is what the majority of the people want then unfortunately it will happen sooner or later tara kelley thank you very much thank. you. culture is the same of jargon but you lov

allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop nuclea

certain lies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop

none the less, he has a lot of question that is he still has to answer. some of those he addressed in a conversation with reporters earlier today, acknowledging some mistakes saying that he is going to have to be a lot better to try to stay on message. you try to have that happen again tonight. but i think one thing that was noticeable, as he has said throughout the course of this campaign, michigan, the state where he was born and raised is personal. and he stuck around a little bit longer than usual, chris, shaking hands, lingering here. really savoring this win, recognizing its significance for him. but he still heads to ohio. he's got to go to north dakota. he's going to the state of washington. he's got a busy seven days ahead. and what we're talk about next tuesday is just as important as what we're talking about tonight. >> let's go right now for more on the upcoming contest, next week to howard feinman both msnbc and nbc analysts. it seems to me, howard, that you've got mitt romney in virginia. you've got newt starting with probably georgia. tell

this woman has a ph.d. in economics and was fired because of her association with the protest movement. >> my husband came home for lunch and he left and he was ambushed and kidnapped from the car parked and he was gone for 10 months. i have a very little access to him and he was beaten up. >> with the anniversary coming on february 14th, it is possible that tension bubbles to the surface once more. there is a lot of anger in the poor districts of bahrain. >> back on the line from baltimore. tell us what you know about the situation? seven days of continual bombardment by syrian government forces. >> this is utterly direct. there has been a marked escalation of this crisis in the week since the russians and the chinese vetoed a draft resolution. this would have signaled some kind of international consensus on what to do about the crisis. the syrian security forces have mounted a major assault on the city of homs which has been the center of resistance. 400 people have been killed. one of the features of thi

anyone who has followed the practices that pg&e has a engaged in i think has reason to be concerned. this is about giving consumers and ratepayers the choice. that is one of the integral pieces and components of community choice aggregation. that is why the board and mayors in the past have been supportive of it, and i hope that's support continues out of room to hundred. i just want to make that note, and i will keep you informed of those conversations. colleagues, any other comments or questions? this is an information item, so madam clerk, if you could please call item 6. >> would you like to continue that matter -- commissioner campos: yes, if we could continue that item to the call of the chair. we continue that item to the call of the chair without objection. >> item 6, study on the voting process, including rent joyce voting joycerank choice -- including rank choice voting for local offices in the city and county. commissioner campos: this is an item requested we put on the agenda as an information item that may perhaps turned into an action item. lafco conducts studies on a n

." >> irian activist -- say a house bill has been hit. artillery fire has resumed. reports that helicopters and tanks are being used. >> it sounded like mortars at the beginning. >> hello and welcome to gmt. i am george alagiah, with a world of news and opinion. also in the program -- a united front. bitter palestinian rivals agreed to set up a joint government. bosnia's heaviest snowfall ever. we will have the latest as thousands across europe to grapple with transport disruption and power cuts. >> it is midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, and 2:00 in the afternoon in the syrian city of homs, the scene of escalating violence between government forces and the opposition movement. the bombardment of the city by forces loyal to president bashar al-assad resumed at dawn on monday with the rebel activists say in a field hospital has been hit after the failure of efforts to reach a resolution at the u.n. and when did before the russian foreign minister is due in damascus. in a moment, a full report on the situation. first, this from our correspondent, paul wood, w

no institution that has not profit institution that has religious principles that we violated has to pay for or directly offer the services but women have access to the kinds of care they are entitled to. we think that is the right approach. >> chris: let's turn to the budget. you officially release it tomorrow but you we already know the broad outlines and let's go through them. cut the deficitly more than $3 trillion. half comes from spending cuts. half, more than $1.5 trillion from new taxes on corporations and the wealthy. to entitlements.al changes here is how congressman paul ryan describes it. >> seems as if the president is doing little more than class envy and the status quo which is the greatest threat it our health security and retirement security and natural security and economic security. >> chris: question, isn't this the same plan the president proposed in september that congress has already rejected? >> this. >> well, this is a plan similar. we put out a detailed plan for $4 trillion not $3 trillion the deficit reduction because it is built on the trillion dollars of

it has been an interesting day in terms of what has been said. >> that is right. the human rights chief has accused the security council of the emboldening the syrian government. they said the recent failure of the security council to pass a resolution on syria had encouraged authorities to attack a city. of a middle east editor reports from cairo. >> -- our middle east editor reports from cairo. >> more evidence of the chilean. the greater the anger among those who want to stop it and cannot. the regime continues to exist. at the u.n. in new york, a diplomacy stalled in the security council after russia and china vetoed a resolution by the arab league asking assad to step down. >> the failure of the security council appears to have emboldened the ceiling government to launch an all-out assault in an effort -- the seeming government to launch an all-out assault in an effort to crush the opposition. >> we are said for those losses. >> here in cairo, the arab league asked the security council to send a peacekeeping mission to syria. they do not seem to have thought

the government in south korea has been cautious. a new deal could create the right conditions in return. getting a broad agreement is the easy part. there have been bigger deals than this on the peninsula. the outcome on this one is still not clear. >> for more on the significance of today's announcement, i am joined by david albright who previously worked with the international atomic energy agency who is currently the president of the institute for science and international community. is this a big step? >> this was long in the making. it was really wired before the death of kim jong il. people are happy that this has happened now. >> the new leadership is committed to at least negotiations. >> that is a big relief to know that is the direction they want to go. the deal includes shutting down a uranium enrichment plant and allowing iaea monitors into that plant for the first time. in that sense, that is the most important part of the steel, was to get north korea to agree to shut down this plant. -- that is the most important part

there has been a certain amount of change. there has been a change in syria, tunisia, egypt. in egypt, mubarak had been removed but the system is still there. we have seen major protests in yemen that have produced some change. of course, there were major protests in bahrain that were met with tremendous repression and of course syria is a part of that. the arab spring or the arab uprising has achieved a tremendous amount. the removal of dictators in tunisia, libya, egypt. it is a question of time. >> revolution is one thing but what comes next? this will be a question for syria as well. >> yes, there is no question about that. some states are having an easier time. tunisia, where the military has been removed from the political scene and they're working out what the democratic politics will look like. in egypt, the situation is much more difficult because the military is still there. in libya, the situation is different because of the lack of political institutions that are viable and beginning from scratch. very outcomes, different degrees of difficulty, but overall there i

she has committed no crime. she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. she is the victim of cruel she is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance but i

no one has ever suggested that. to begin to try to defend proposition 8 on the grounds that it's really directed at polygamy at this stage of the debate just shows desperation. that's not what the proposition was about. it was clearly targeted at gay and lesbian marriage. that's what all the advertisements were about. that's what all the publications were about. and that's what the court held was simply unconstitutional. and they held it because the evidence was absolutely uncontradicted that this did not help proceed creation. it didn't help different-sex marriage. there was no justification for this. as the court said, in order to believe that this served a rational purpose of procreation you would have to believe that people are going to procreate more if you don't have gay marriage. and they said that's simply not plausible. there's no evidence of that and no one suggested that. >> ifill: what about this rational basis test which the court applied in this case in which they said a version of what mr. boies just

all qaida has indorse the rebels fighting in syria under president assad syria has been a secular state some analysts argue that one of the reasons why al qaeda supports the violent uprising in syria is that in a less secular be environment it's easier to recruit new terrorists if the government holds you'll be looking forward to just a very long period of complete disintegration and they will be able to attract more and more fanatical recruits look at the civil war in iraq in two thousand and six and seven it was absolutely appalling the calls to arm fighting groups in syria sound even more alarming given the u.s. history of arming radicals afghanistan one example that it was a placing itself in alliance with the mujahideen including osama bin laden and these people who now of course it is lately been deploring as fanatical fanatical enemies that the united states said these these alliances. totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of grounds. but despite the hawks outcry the obama administration is taking a more cautious stance with regards to syria we don't think

>> it has been among the heaviest bombardments baba amr has undergone. the from the live extremely rare getting from there, it would shell after shell, -- the life stream -- the live stream we were getting from there, it was show after show. the events of the day, to put it in some context, let's look at this report. >> but armond went on relentlessly. hundreds of shells and rockets slammed into baba amr, which has been under siege for more than two weeks. several hundred rebels fighters from the free syrian army are entrenched here. many civilians are also trapped. some of them are paying the price. at the improvised field hospitals, doctors are struggling to save the lives of the wounded, including this baby hit by shrapnel from an exploding rockets. activists said some buildings were reduced to rubble by the intensity of the shelling. tanks and armored vehicles were on the move in the district immediately adjacent to baba amr, but it's not clear if it was the big ground offensive the government has been threatening. human rights groups say such an att

>> i think he has put a lot of attention on it, and the outcome has been constructive. these are areas -- these are issues which need long-term management, and the most important item to be managed is america's relationship with china, and it hasn't come to blows, although there have been tensions and that's a positive. >> do you think china will be trusted as the dominant power in asia? if you look at the last year where china made these pushes in the south china sea, japan, with that episode with the ship, it seemed like it provoked a very strong backlash in asia. >> well, every super power or big country has to be looked on with a certain careful respect by others not quite so huge. even the united states. but the united states after years in the pacific since the war is still welcomed and still considered benign. that's really a good example for the chinese to seek to emulate. >> what keeps you up at night? >> well, i think asia will move. there will be ups and downs. we will be affected by europe. if europe goes bump in the night. if it doesn't, well, there's a cer

sides of the rebel and also what with the with the recent announcement by the head of al qaida who has said called on all arab muslims and muslims worldwide to support syrian rebels those claims from the syrian opposition may not be untrue moskos very persistent in continuing to press for the fact that it's that it's up to syrians themselves in order for the series themselves must be able to solve the current crisis of course the support of the arab league in its endeavors to try and stop the bloodshed in the country however russia's envoy to the united nations. did to say even in an interview to our teeth that perhaps the arab league isn't quite is effective at the moment as it should be as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain dollars or sort of quarters in the city is that door to door he was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and escalate there is also washington which increasingly which increasingly mak

he has a chronic condition. he has a political anemia. he has a hard time exciting people. he doesn't know how to touch the buttons for conservatives, and when he tries too hard he looks inauthentic. santorum is not an ideal candidate. >> not at all. >> he has an acute condition, i think, which is kind of a culture war fever. he seems to enjoy those debates, culture war debates a little too much. it scares people. people don't like aggressors in the culture war. it's hard, though, for romney to exploit that. it's hard to come in and criticize his social onservative can views in the republican primary. >> woodruff: you mean during this period. >> this period. he can do it through proxies. he can raise questions about his electability. but of course barack obama won't have any problems attacking the views on contraception or women's rights issues or gay rights issues. it creates a dynamic i think if i were barack obama i would want to face santorum, but it's hard for romney to make those attacks about electability. >> one of the things about santor that has gone uninoid, judy

mario has the ability to connect. he has that kind of personality, soft, knowledgeable, and he has the ability to connect the community. and he has been the president of the latino business network. those people are transforming the business in the mission. they have educated -- i have attended some of the training, and they have educated the community, the business owners have to open a business, how to get a permit, all it takes to be successful in small business. what i love about that -- he has worked so hard to get jobs for communities of color. this transgendered community, also kids released from jail. if they get educated, hopefully they do not have to go back. mario has done a lot of work with the merchants association. they are working together to restore the community in the mission, and i think it is important to have that representation. please consider mario and the other latinos and all the people who are running, too. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. in an operating manager fo

>> el presidente barack obama ha hecho un trabajo que no ha quedado del todo bien con la gente la reforma a la salud no ha quedado bien el presidente solo no podrá hacer todo ya que el congreso esta formado por esos dos partidos que boicotean lo que quiere hacerel contrario y tenemos que trabajar para que el presidente pueda firmar la legislaciones del congreso >> entonces es falta de voluntad del presidente o impedimento del congreso ? >> la dos cosas porque a parte republicana ha estado boicoteando pero también el presidente pudo hacer valer su influencia y excluyo la reforma migratoria por eso queremos que la gente sepa que el poder esta en los votantes los ciudadanos influiran para tener la reforma como en el caso de inmigración, igual para la educación, para el trabajo >> ahora cuál es el papel de las organizaciones comunitarias >> todas las organizaciones tenemos que hacer un trabajo de concientizar a la población hablar para que llegue esa legislacion además pedirle a la gente que se registre para que pueda votar en las elecciones y hacer cambios que esperamos llamen al núm

but the world has changed. particularly with the advent of the internet, the volume of mail that the post office is asked to carry and deliver has diminished greatly. and obviously in recent years, the post office like every other economic entity has been affected by the economic recession that we've been in and in some sense are still fighting our way out of. so the status quo is not going to work. and, therefore, senator collins, senator carper, senator brown and i work together very hard across party lines without regard to party lines to see if we can come up to a solution to this problem that will change the postal service so that it could survive the 21st century and go on in a healthy way to the 22nd century. i think we've got a substantial proposal to make to you today that authorizes changes in the postal service that really will cut costs by reducing the work force by reforming some of the benefit plans of the employees of the postal service and by consolidating the services that the post office offer

certain allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develo

the president insists that he has not broken any laws. all right, let's go to our political correspondent terry martin. this is a huge announcement. what has prompted prosecutors to go to parliament and ask for the president to be stripped of his protection? >> as you mentioned, the allegations that christian wulff had been involved in, all sorts of dubious dealings, while he was state premier in lower saxony have been at around for awhile. people are just wondering what is with those allegations. the public prosecutor cannot even begin a preliminary investigation into any of these allegations you mentioned, that christian wulff took a home loan that perhaps he should not have taken at a very low interest rate, that he accepted free vacations. the public prosecutor cannot look into those as long as he enjoys the community that is attached to his office. they cannot even begin a preliminary investigation. they cannot look at records. all that is happening right now is that the public prosecutor has decided that these allegations are suffic

wells fargo has said it share under the deal has already been accounted for. the settlement also protect these financial institutions from civil lawsuits brought by state and federal officials, although they could face criminal action. still, critics say this amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist for the banks. >> for more on the significance of today's deal, i am joined by dean baker, co-director for the center of policy and economic research. thank you for joining us. $25 billion does sound like a lot of money, but will it be enough to kick start the housing market and get it moving again? >> no, it really does not address the fundamental issues in the market. it will provide some early to home owners facing the loss of their home. we have roughly 12 million bucks. i to provide some help, but it is not a game changer. we are in the basic situation. >> what about the broader economy, bearing in mind that the collapse triggered the crisis? >> we probably will not see the effect. the housing market is still selling. there's a lot of areas where the bu

next is brutal at all because it has a spark. the founders were very clear about this it wasn't for honey that we have the second amendment they fear they fear big government and that is why the people should be armed it doesn't mean that we're agitating for the use of these arms but it always holds government in check we can't continue expanding the domestic and title and system so the time will come hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared but the most important thing that we do is to understand the importance of defending liberty so that we can preserve the greatness of this country i thank you very much. the rest of the world has figured out that they can do something about gun violence other countries have taken steps to license guns to register guns require training i'm not saying all those are things that should be done here necessarily but there are things that we can do. since we don't think bad guys should have guns we should do background checks and find out if those wh

there has always been a driving force who has been there when we asked for help. mr. gray did a wonderful job. of course it was for the money, and not the pride. carol was always there, always pushing, always making things work. but most of all, some of the gentlemen that deserve a big round of applause more than anybody else is art shanks, training -- that is his thing. he has done an outstanding job. he has young men and women working throughout the sfpuc project. you have brian thomas, who has stepped to the plate every time we have asked him to. he has never step backwards. alonzo emery, another gentleman. a guy from arizona state. [laughter] he stepped forward. it goes on and on and on and on. with these ladies and gentlemen -- james bryant is another. he stepped forward. the main thing is, to me, more than anybody else -- more than anything else, i am proud we found jobs for young men and women. we trained them. but to me, they are not jobs. they are a career. [applause] and to me, that is one of the most important things you can ever do to help your brothers an

institute of peace who has written extensively on iran. there is this back-and-forth going on, was this diplomatic theatre? who was the audience? >> there was two different audiences. one was the domestic audience. part of this is about jump starting the iranian nationalism and a very important juncture. this is a way of saying that we will produce something, get out and vote for us. to the international community, which is with the real message was, it is a sense that we are presently. you cannot intimidated us-you cannot intimidate us. we will be defined. a lot of things that they have done our ted and we just for peaceful nuclear energy and fall. what is legal for iran under the nonproliferation treaty. >> there is an election coming up. this announcement that they are expanding their enrichment facility, where i think you have been. is that more concerning? >> i have been in the research reactor. a lot of questions have remained from getting back to 2003 about what iran has been trying to do it because they have not complied with unite

has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it so that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on average in greece pensions of being part of finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures and the problems caused by the euro what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro. and coming your way later in the program in a sense lost in afghanistan find out why the latest here strike has left afghanistan present and damning foreign troops. and separated spouses why israel is stopping sounds and the palestinians from currently living with israeli families. c

has already bought a license for possible posits in the far east. the winds of change is coming to the global economy a new report by saxo bank says the crisis will reach a peak the share of a major changes in the structure of the financial system in the opinion of the bank further state intervention only finds diminishing returns with europe unable to solve the debt crisis sachs a bank predicts european stock markets will dive twenty five percent the euro zone will show zero growth this year with the global g.d.p. to increase just three percent the author of the report seen jacobsen explains why it's a part in the current situation in my opinion my personally i have fifty percent in cash twenty percent in gold and then i have thirty percent in corporate bonds and that is divided into two currency parts one with fifty percent in dollars and one fifty percent in. terms of whether as a class i like i like bonds because bond in itself is a put on a good team or a good word you see the stock market goes down the bond goes up the one place in the market

he has been a maverick at times always been about that. he has been a maverick at times. o he has a point, this has gotten personal and the underlying fact that is going to continue giving the party problems, i think, is the majority of the party isn't yet sold on mitt romney, still isn't sold on mitt romney and until the party accepts him as a nominee or rejects him in favor of somebody else there is going to be this uncertainty this continuing rancor and the party's prospects are going to look somewhat dimmer. >> howard, i want you to come in here after you hear romney not willing to go as low as the other candidates, wouldn't play to their erogenous zones. here is rush talking about that today. romney said he wasn't willing to light his hair on fire for the base. here's rush on that. >> so romney's not willing to say incendiary things, quote, about owe bam in to excite the base. well, what does he say? nice guy, just in over his head. what does this tell you that romney thinks of the base? that it takes incendiary comments to turn you on. and all you want is somebody b

the director of the honduran prison system has been suspended, as has the governor after more than 350 prison inmates remember confirmed dead. will grant has this report. >> 24 hours on from the fire, and the dead are still being brought out. more than 350 inmates lost their lives in the blaze in one of the worst-ever prison fires in latin america. this says the grim scene which has been unfolding for hours here. body bag after body bag loaded on to trucks to be taken to the morgue. and yet, just a few hundred meters outside the burnt-out prison, the loved ones are waiting desperately for more news. >> the prison system in honduras is one of the worst in the world. many believe that an event of this magnitude is always waiting to happen. but that is of little comfort to these people. >> i think not many survived, and i didn't find his name in the list of survivors. i expect a miracle from god that he's not dead. >> but as well as grieving, the family's also angry. they say the authorities did not do enough to save their loved ones, and once the fire was out, they accused them of withho

he also has a very favorable schedule he's you know like a football team that has a bunch of patsies waiting in front of them he's got nevada which he did very well and four years ago that has a high mormon population that we would expect him to win and he's looking at michigan this month which is a state that his father was governor of and he's got the organization to do well in some of these caucus states ron paul obviously will target the caucus states and try to do well in those but you know as the other guests have said anything can happen this year the last thing you want to do is go out and try to predict this but mitt certainly has a lot of momentum heading into these february contests katrina for your political to. run the conservative enough for you. no absolutely not i don't even consider romney a conservative i consider him a moderate slash liberal who is running as a conservative which many tea party people have experienced in two thousand and ten and here's the problem that romney is going to face that he's never even grass any of the grassroots movement out there he ha

security council to pass a resolution crazy a joint peacekeeping force for syria damascus has already rejected the proposal which also includes calls for more international support for the opposition intended to pile third afresh on the regime. syria will probably see un peacekeepers arrive in the country in order to try and the arab league meeting in cairo on sunday took them about eleven hours to come up with a decisive response to the situation in a country which has seen a lot of bloodshed over the past eleven months the arab league has asked for tightening sanctions which have already been imposed on syria they aborted the observers program which was halted in january of this year bridling said the country has been escalating the opposition says hundreds of people are being killed on a weekly basis of the same time the authorities saying that around two thousand syrian military officers have been killed since the unrest have begun also you have the mounting pressure from washington from the white house who have put together a sort of a coalition of the so-called friends of syria

i want to thank everyone who has a working on this. -- who has been working on this. supervisor avalos: reliance on one part means the recommendations are made in other parts of the reports that have been issued, will be embraced and that is a sign we're moving in the right direction. i hope that is the spirit in which the alliance is provided. i do have a question procedurally in terms of moving forward with this item. i have not seen the mou that was discussed by the organizing committee. i know that a lot of information has been provided by them in the last there so and we appreciate that. it would be helpful for us to have an in-depth discussion about what is in the mou and whether or not that is sufficient to address of the concerns that have been raised. it is important for us to not conflict to issues. on one hand, i agree with what supervisor farrell had said in terms of the work that has been done by mcklellan. i am appreciative of that work. i do not think anything that has been said it be taken in any way to question that. we should be very grateful. to me,

the video that has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and uprisings all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets it why should he has done very little even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraq war when actually that's not the truth the truth is iraqi government did not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason they didn't want some unity is because of what they saw in the cables in the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered in the corruption by the u.s. government and that was some of the international news for you in brief this hour with yasi world upside by israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip of left one civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a god. the israeli army confirmed the bombings saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. malaysia has deported a young saudi blogger who's wanted in his home country for his rem

lies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be done many did by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were so were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran. they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other cowers including russia and china by the way even though their great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can relieve their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develo

has just released a one hundred ninety page file on the late apple c.e.o. steve jobs this is a portion of it it's focused on a background check the interviews with jobs and others in march and april of ninety ninety one when jobs being considered for presidential appointment by president george h.w. bush. so some of the things in jobs file use a lot of drugs l.s.d. parents he was also manipulative manipulative excuse me several individuals question mr jobs honesty saying that he will trust the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals and apparently he also abandoned his baby mama i just i'm really confused i thought all of this was already available knowledge i did not feel as though i learned anything from the f.b.i. which really makes me question how good of a job they're doing why don't they like you when i'm no dirt where's the dirt the observation i agree that i was not that surprised by the contents but it's one hundred ninety one pages i thought it was a very in-depth they talk to a ton of people which makes me think every other govern

leaves that israel has certain capabilities where it has it or not i think this is a. positive card in the hands of israel as far as the most scientists concerned would you define if coming to a mission as preventing war weakening iraq in the case that war does happen i think that it is the mission of the mossad to do everything in. its capability to make a. threat which has been posed to israel dormant what capabilities does the mossad have when it comes to iran where here again i don't think that it would be useful for me to list the whole list of capabilities i think these are the capabilities which every intelligence organization has i think it's important to say that we have been involved in what we call a clandestine war for quite some time with iran and what's interesting about this war is of course that both sides have more or less preferred that the details of this war the details of various events be not exposed to the public since you retired from the side you have been meeting with the reagans is there a genuine interest among some yway indians and some isr