mighty finland. a nation a little smaller than montana with a population of 5.4 million people has consistently scored in one of the top two spots on the program for international assessment, or pisa, in reading, math, and science every year for the past decade. after so many years of consistent and excellent results, finland has become home to one of the best school systems in the world. so what are the finns doing in the classrooms that we are not? i'm going to find out by teaching there. first stop, beautiful kirkkojarven. sorry. how are you? great to meet you. >> welcome. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> so this is a comprehensive school from 6 years to 16 years. >> this looks like nothing like any school i ever went to. this is amazing looking. >> thank you. >> the finns do something a little differently. instead of focusing a little differently on testing, performance, and fundamentals like we, they take a balanced approach to education. how long are the kids in school? what time do they

mighty finland. a nation a little smaller than montana with a population of 5.4 million people has consistently scored in one of the top two spots on the program for international assessment, or pisa in reading, math, and science every year for the past decade. after so many years of consistent and excellent results, finland has become home to one of the best school systems in the world. so what are the fins doing in the classrooms that we are not? i'm going to find out by teaching there. first stop, beautiful kirkojarven. sorry. how are you? great to meet you. >> welcome. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> so this is a comprehensive school from six years to 16 years. >> this looks like nothing like any school i ever went to. this is amazing looking. >> thank you. >> the fins do something a little differently. instead of focusing a little differently on testing, performance, and fundamentals like we, they take a balanced approach to education. how long are the kids in school? what time do they co

mighty finland. a nation a little smaller than montana with a population of 5.4 million people has consistently scored in one of the top two spots on the program for international assessment, or pisa, in reading, math, and science every year for the past decade. after so many years of consistent and excellent results, finland has become home to one of the best school systems in the world. so what are the finns doing in the classrooms that we are not? i'm going to find out by teaching there. first stop, beautiful kirkkojarven. sorry. >> hi, morgan. >> how are you? great to meet you. >> welcome. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> so this is a comprehensive school from 6 years to 16 years. >> this looks like nothing like any school i ever went to. this is amazing looking. >> thank you. >> the finns do something a little differently. instead of focusing a little differently on testing, performance, and fundamentals like we, they take a balanced approach to education. how long are the kids in school?

. >> although unusual several nations including spain austria and finland said the rules are the same the nsa leaker must apply in person no exception the reporter who broke that controversy spoke to fox and friends. >> it is understood once he came forward against the government he would become the most wand man on earth and would be hunted down by the world'smost powerful state. >> today his father releases an open letter to his son calling him the modern-day paul revere and the u.s. intelligence officials insist to knight the damage from the leaker is it began and lasting. lori: think you so much. journey back to egypt and president morsi defiant stand we're joined by katie mcfarland and also john bolton. i remember after mubarak was ousted you said to me this will happen again we will see another uprising because morsi and his administration is too focused on the muslim brotherhood and religion but not to revive the economy and here we are. >> if it is all about the economy. pele a standing in lines for hours to get transportation fuelnd food the economy has outlined at least unde

petersburg, 300 kilometers before we reach the border of finland. he rides at the head of the convoy. five hours later we reached helsinki. allweather is great and we enjoyed the baltic sea air. the way to germany we have 24 hours to get to know each other better. be bikers,they may but they want to do something meaningful and not just drive around. our grandfathers' drove tanks and we are riding motorcycles. but he said his grandfather was in a german concentration camp, is for him.s trip they invite me to join them for supper in their cabin. >> every ship has an official dining room and this is where the party is that. >> many of the bikers are travelling to germany for personal reasons. memories of world war ii are still alive in most families. >> i was an only child, he tells us. my father was a young man when he fought in the war. his worst experience was after a german tank attack. my father survived on -- unlike his comrades. he had to crawl over their dead bodies. germany was the last resting face -- last resting place for his comrades. we a

wet and gusty across finland and west everyone parts of russia. scattered across the british aisles but temperatures are quite milesisles but temperature miles not like last week, however the heat is still hanging on. in lisbon 32 degrees a abundance of sunshine on monday. here is the extended forecast. >>> just a reminder of our lead stories this hour. hundreds of thousands of egyptians have flooded into the streets of cairo on the first anniversary of president morecy's anicaraginauguration d that he resign, and his supporters vow to support him. >>> protesters marched on the presidential palace on sunday from seven locations in the capital, cairo. they have now surrounded the compound. they accuse morsi of worsening the country's security. officials from the muslim brotherhood party said their cairo headquarters came under attack. they said scores of protest are fired shotguns and threw pet trol bombs. three people were left dead. 253 egyptians were injuried a i cross the country on sunday. >>> asean member c cntries and china agreed to create

many of these troops come from europe, france, italy, germany, finland, and with this decision by the european union, many of the people that you see on the street are going to be possible suspects, possible terrorists. how are they going to deal with it? how are they going to be dealing with these troops now? they are labeled as terrorists in their eyes. it is a very sensitive issue. today we heard from the european union ambassador. she tried to assure the lebanese that and the lebanese government would be dealt with [no audio] [applause] >> we had a problem there, but interesting comments coming out of lebanon as a result of the european union decision. we're taking a break at this point, but coming up later on in thegram, intrigue ruling party. the, a rousing welcome on first international trip of the pope, but it is not all cheers in brazil. stories, when we come back. >> hello, again. a reminder of the aljazeera headlines, since people were killed during demonstrations by supporters of muhamed morsi overnight. three people were killed in confrontations around cairo on monday. th

. >>> a view from the world,world, flying high over new finland. two astronauts getting a view o the world from outside of theirr office, the international space station. >> we're getting the jumpers and i'm putting them behind my mini workstation. >> american, astronaut helping to do some long overdue work. italian astronaut helping outlp when the veteran space walker ran into issues with a stubborn bolt. >> take it out of motor.moto >> on their laundry list of chores, collecting sciencescienc experiments, removing a bad camera and performing cable work, laying the foundation for a new russian laboratorylabora arriving at the end of the year. nasa's mission control, guiding on the 5th space walk of its career.care making history with his debut, becoming first italian astronauu to ever complete a space walk. ahead of the mission, four othet members of space crew assisted the astronaut from the inside, including the american woman inn space. >> as we get more and more women selling iexsellingsexcelling ini think it will make the exploration experien

we should learn from other countries like finland or sweden. it works there. >> for many german voters, balancing a career with a family is a major challenge. a new vision for families and education could give the parties a boost in the election campaign. >> change of pace now. the african union says it will readmit egypt after democratic elections have taken place. the chairwoman made that comment here in berlin after a meeting with chancellor angela merkel. >> the regional group expelled egypt after last week's military intervention that toppled resident mohamed morsi. >> african union officials are currently in berlin for trade talks, but the situation in egypt is overshadowing the meeting. the chancellor says egypt needs to restore democracy as soon as possible. the au says that would clear the path for reentry into the union. >> as soon as egypt comes back and has a leadership that is elected for their constitutional process, then they will come back to the eu. >> merkel says the muslim brotherhood must be included in the search for a poli

up towards the north we've got rain across scandinavia coming into finland and then towards the south as well you'll have these pop-up thunderstorms that come with all of that heat building up in the day. some of those could be a little bit on the severe side, too. i'll leave you with your temperatures for europe and also your extended forecast. >>> i'm gene otani in tokyo. i'm going to leave you with the sight of flowers that harold the arrival of summer. residents are feasting their eyes on 60,000 sunflowers in full bloom. they saw buds start to open in late june, the sunflowers blossomed when the rainy season dried up and the heat of summer began. visitors can take in this breathtaking sight until mid july. >>> it's lunchtime on a nice sunny day. i bet a lot of you would eat outside for a change. but in japan, the catered bento that is eaten in the office is quite popular. take a look at these guys enjoying their catered lunch. did owe know that this bento holds a huge share in the world of lunches. it's grown to be a 575 billion yen market. >> they deliver here. my lunch break is

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we should learn from other countries like finland or sweden. it works there. >> for many german voters, balancing a career with a family is a major challenge. a new vision for families and education could give the parties a boost in the election campaign. >> change of pace now. the african union says it will readmit egypt after democratic elections have taken place. the chairwoman made that comment here in berlin after a meeting with chancellor angela merkel. >> the regional group expelled egypt after last week's military intervention that toppled resident mohamed morsi. >> african union officials are currently in berlin for trade talks, but the situation in egypt is overshadowing the meeting. the chancellor says egypt needs to restore democracy as soon as possible. the au says that would clear the path for reentry into the union. >> as soon as egypt comes back and has a leadership that is elected for their constitutional process, then they will come back to the eu. >> merkel says the muslim brotherhood must be included in the search for a poli

. >> reporter: 45 women representing the united states of america played two weeks of football in finland. vying for gold in the women's world championships. >> it was the most amazing experience i ever had. i'm about to jump out of my seat and slide through the roof right now. >> reporter: running back donna wilkinson plays professional football for the d.c. divas and was one of three divas on team u.s.s. sporting reld, white and blue, they took part in one of the most lopsided performances ever on america's birthday. >> that was the game on the 4th of july we really felt like we're representing our country. the u.s.a. meant so much more to us on that day. there's 45 women that came together that did something to represent the country, did something that no one else has ever done before. we broke men's and women's u.s.a. football in scoring and defensive records. >> reporter: the final 107-7. 107-7. the offense scored every three point two plays. they won gold by defeating canada 64-0. this is the second world championship game. team u.s.a. won gold in 2010 as well. wilkinson says she ho

it comes to us from finland. the annual wife-carrying competition. >> 40 couples vie for the competition, mostly using the tried and true astonian method, which involves wrapping the woman's legs around the man's head. the winners were a finish couple picking up their fourth. >> astonian. i'm more of a caveman. >> i don't want to say it's a bad idea. but not a good idea. >> why? just why? >> the girls have to wear helmets. and they're facing the guy's butt. so, i think that in and after itself -- >> a view of the butt. >> i think so. >> a view of the butt. >> i think so. >>> and we'll be right back. ien. e are a few reasons to choose university of phoenix. our average class size is only 14 students. our financial tools help you make smart choices about how to pay for school. our faculty have, on average, over 16 years of field experience. we'll help you build a personal career plan. we build programs based on what employers are looking for. our football team is always undefeated. and leading companies are interes

team usa inviting joe pavelski on the ice and antti niemi was irn vited to try out for team finland. >>> the nhl recently released next year's schedule. the sharks will be on the road a lot. san francisco traveling almost 58,000 miles next season, more than any other team. we did a little math for you. that's more than twice around the world with a few thousand spare miles. >> that's going to be some tired legs. >> it's also 16,000 more than the average league. our boy also be on the road. >> yes, this year get the stanley cup back here, guys. >>> 4:55. let's dhek with mike to see what's happening on the roads. >> a little rain. be careful. we haven't had rain for a while. as we have been telling you, that makes the oil rise up extra slick with the light rain. watching oakland right now. no problems reported as far as on or off ramps. you have overnight road work for 880 around 23rd. both directions will see some of that. only one or two lanes at most. that's going on until about 5:30. we'll look at another live look. this is from the bay bridge emeryville camera, looking across the

i know hearing here on r t that finland says that it did receive an asylum request from snowden but it cannot accepted as such an asylum request must be made from within the country president barack obama is in a state of damage control after the latest bunch of damning revelations from edward snowden suggesting washington has been spying on its easy you allies obama said this is how things are usually done when it comes to big politics and european states are doing exactly the same thing and even the u.n. chief is trying to distance himself and the entire international body. this report . united nations secretary general ban ki moon is urging nations to protect the integrity of diplomatic missions on their soil the u.n. chief's comments come amid allegations that the u.s. has been spying on the european union and other allies over port by german weekly der spiegel says that the national security agency bogged it the e.u.'s mission in washington d.c. and also popped into its computer system to be able to access e-mails and other internal documents the e.u. delegation at the united nati

now the days of harsh copyright regulation could soon be gone for good in finland as you can learn right now by logging on to our website all the finnish farmlands will malo law called the common sense in copyright act which was completely drawn out by the public more on the breakthrough legislation at ardsley dot com. and just another click away online these replica gummy heels look quite real but can shoot at that however was no argument for security staff at a new york airport who banned them from being taken on board. now a number of leading companies and german industry have accused the chancellor of following policies toward russia there are damaging the nation's business interests giants like tons siemens and volkswagen were among one hundred eighty companies and the unions lobbying for their interest in eastern europe the group believes merkel's government is not paying enough attention to its relations with russia and wants to see a new strategy to prevent relations cooling and further here that are closer ties between the markets of russia and the european union with business l

some deep sea exploration he went down sixty meters in a minute submarine to the bottom of the gulf of finland putin was looking at the wreckage of the russian frigate or leg sunk in eighty six to nine after colliding with another vessel and it's not the first time he's explored the depths he's been to the bottom of leg by undersea or was of. after next is privacy a thing on the bast so he call investigates the international big brother syndrome . or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are empty and this piece of paper i have one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we're in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans a sense of the government is out there to buy likes oh what a fantastic use of tax dollars but wait

for protection brazil won't respond finland hasn't process the request france said asylum is a non issue germany and poland said his argument isn't strong enough to be granted asylum india flat out said no and snowden withdrew his request from russia after president vladimir putin said he had to stop leaking documents in order to be considered now to the best of our knowledge bolivia and venezuela are the only countries to offer the former n.s.a. contractor a ray of hope meanwhile no information is coming out from china cuba or nicaragua in terms of the request or the government response to them for the latest on the edward snowden international plight and venezuela's reaction to a plea to his plea i was joined earlier by r.t. correspondent igor pitts going off i asked him what he know about these asylum beds well snowden was sent requested twenty one countries this time and have already officially given the red lights including brazil and india and eight e.u. member states including spain and germany and they're saying that under their rules all political asylum applicants have to be on

that he must be present on that country soil in order to ask for protection brazil won't respond to finland hasn't processed the request france says asylum is a non issue germany and poland said his argument isn't strong enough to be granted asylum india flat out said no and snowden would drew his request from russia after president vladimir putin said he had to stop leaking documents in order to be considered now to the best of our knowledge bolivia and venezuela are the only countries to offer the former n.s.a. contractor zero ray of hope meanwhile no information is coming out from china cuba or nicaragua in terms of requests or government responses for the latest on edward snowden's international plight and venice wales reaction to his plea i was joined earlier by our to correspondent igor piskun off and i asked him what we know about these asylum. well snowden has sent requests to around twenty one countries this time and have already officially given the red light including brazil and india and eight e.u. member states including spain and germany and they're saying that under their rul

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well the days of harsh copyright regulation could soon be gone for good in finland as you can learn right now by a logging onto our website of the finnish parliament will all all call the common sense and copyright act which was completely drawn up by the public more on the breakthrough legislation at r.t. dot com. and just another click away online these replica gun heels look quite real but can't shoot that or whatever it was no argument for security staff at a new york air board who banned them from being taken on board. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're. on our reporters with. the. one number of leading companies in german industry have accused the chancellor of following policies towards russia that are damaging the nation's business interests well giants like lufthansa siemens volkswagen were among the one hundred eighty companies and unions lobbying for their interests in eastern europe and the group believes merkel's government is not paying enough attention to its relations with russia and wants to see a new strategy to prevent relations cooling and furthe

said that he must be president in the country soil in order to ask for protection brazil won't respond finland hasn't processed the request for and said asylum is a non issue germany and poland said his argument isn't strong enough to be granted asylum india flat out said no and snowden withdrew his requests from russia after president vladimir putin said he was to stop leaking documents now so the best of our knowledge bolivia and venezuela are the only countries that offer the former n.s.a. contractor any ray of hope meanwhile there's no information coming out from china cuba or nicaragua in terms of these government responses so as i had mentioned sam austria was one of the countries that said that he has to be on austrian soil in order to get any kind of request through for asylum so if he was in fact on that plane could that be a huge difference in this edward snowden case well it could be only on austrian soil no. you know i don't know i don't move all issues really willing to go to austria is not a member of nato there might not be as much pressure on austria from the united states when

> tomorrow afternoon skies were clear faster once again and we will have warmer conditions expected finland appeared >> will have more whether we come back. >> the department of defense has to work with another colleague of the best snowden leak. >> snowdon is still trying to get asylum in russia appeared >> as look at traffic start with the bay bridge toll plaza and you could see the own a little bit as it comes into the city. stay with us will be back on kron 4 news. >> look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. you w

that is why so many countries are declining, austria, biz ill, finland, ireland, norway. poland, spe even ecuador. they close their doors because it sure as hell beating cutting the nose of its economic face. they are cutting off snowden. iisit sure beats cutting off ed even russia is feeling the stage, because vladimir putin is pulling in his horns, ed can stay here, but he has to quit releasing damaging intelligence. itit is crocodile tears of suddn concern. like a world of countries who hate us, have recognized they would be in deep doo-doowithout us. the best of some of our enemies can offer ed a maybe, from cue cuba we'll see, from china we'll see, from venezuela we'll see. you know when i was a kid, and my dad said we'll see, that generally men, no, no way. you see, that is where we're going, countries world over who are thinking this over, that is why they are disinviting ed, they now dread ed. because they like our dollars more than ed. that does not mean that ed is not a hero to many of the countries "wall street journal" steve moore said, it means american consu

eastern former president jimmy carter will be joined by the former president of finland for discussion on the israeli- palestinian conflict. the carnegie endowment for international peace is hosting this discussion following the news on friday that palestinian officials had reached a tentative agreement for stop -- for stalled peace talks. like the day on c-span 2. was raised as a mother was raised, the same kind of wife and hostess. the home, the children, the entertaining with style. that was her heritage and she did it again in the white house right after her administration, during the johnson years, the whole world erupted like volcanoes. women who went to work and got the forces and had equal rights. we had flower children, free love, free sex. it was safe for the young and i missed all that. but the whole world changed. it became a whole new concept of women and i think that today mrs. clinton represents the new woman. >> as we continue our conversation on first ladies, patricia baldrige, reporters, and others closest recent presidential wives talked about the role of the first l

. >> reporter: 45 women representing the united states of america played two weeks of football in finland. vying for gold in the women's world championship. >> it was the most amazing experience i ever had. i'm about to jump out of my seat and fly through the roof right now. >> reporter: running back donna wilkinson plays professional football for the d.c. divas. sporting red, white and blue they took part in one of the most lopsided performances ever. >> that was a game on the 4th of july we felt like we were representing our country. the u.s.a. meant so much more to us on that day. there's 45 women that came together that did something to represent the country, did something that no one else has ever done before. we broke defensive records. >> reporter: the final 107-7. 107-7. the offense scored every three-point two play. they won gold by defeating canada 64-0. this is the second world championship game. team u.s.a. won gold in 2010 as well. wilkinson says she hopes these games are precursors to something better for women. >> who love football, who want to play as a little girl, who th

seven nations, including spain, norway, finland, austria and ireland saying the nasa leaker must apply for asylum on person on their territory and there are no exceptions, shep. >> shepard: catherine, the director of national intelligence james clapper got caught telling untruth to congress and now that he is caught is he apologizing. >> the nation's intelligence chief heading off criticism he mislead congress over his testimony in march. >> does the nsa collect any type of date that at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not witnessingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect but not witnessingly. and in a letter to the senate intelligence committee chair woman dianne feinstein clapper writes my response was clearly erroneous for which i apologize given clapper's public apology it's not clear whether disciplinary action could still be pursued by the committee or by senator why den who asked that question, shep. >> shepard: all right, catherine, thanks. >> you are welcome. >> shepard: more angry action from the e

. >> the russian president telling reporters today in finland that the u.s. is intimidating other countries and snowden last seen at the news conference at the moscow airport friday can't get to latin america even if he wants to. to stay in russia means the leaks must stop. >> as soon as he has an opportunity to move elsewhere, he will certainly do so. he knows the terms of granting political asylum. judging from latest statement. is he changing his position. but the situation is not completely clear yet. >> the russian president insisting today that snowden was not encouraged or invited to moscow, shep. >> there is talk now, catherine, of cutting off some the nsa's cash is that real or just bluster? >> well, it certainly is an interesting development. and there would have to be a lot of sort of technical arrangements for that to happen on the hill. but one republican congressman is calling on his colleagues to make their move this week because the defense department's budget, which includes the nsa's money is up for approval guilty tweeting, we can defund ns

all of these tactics and arrests are showing up in spain, austria, finland, france, the u.k. so to wrap this up and to leave a bit of time for question and answer i think we need to dispel this rhetoric of the terrorism apparatus only being used against criminals. what we're seeing is if you are effective enough, organized and bold and ambitious enough and are actually threatening corporate profits, criminal activity is redefined. that really is a theme throughout all the presentations you just heard. to me, though, that's incredibly inspiring. i focus on some pretty dark, depressing, horrible stuff as my, i guess, chosen area of work and it's not the most uplifting work but this gives me a whole lot of work because you have a group of people that have a couple hundred dollars worth of course video and audio equipment that are rattling the industry to their core. we all have this. some of the biggest industries on the planet are terrified of this, of using this to take photo and video documentation. they are also terrified not only about using that but about sharing it easily

let's look at laundry list of countries saying they are not going to give him sialoma austria, brazil, finland india ireland and norway, poland, spain, and switzerland. that doesn't include the countries that he has actually applied for who just haven't responded yet. >> what's incredible is russia was going to give him asylum. he didn't agree with the terms. putin said you are no longer allowed to release anything else about the u.s. government. he said no, i'm not going to take it, which is so balancey. >> what's the point if he is not willing to stand that ground. cenk: absolutely. now look, the media here says two things. they say first of all he's a coward, he ran away, martin luther king didn't run to china. they didn't. >> he wasn't tortured like bradley manning was tortured. he could be charged and found guilty facing the death penalty. >> ok, bringing up martin luther kings and rosa parks, i don't know if people who are defending snowden is doing that. i think people going after snowden are evoking martin luther king and rosa parks. i figure say no, he's not but don't bring him up if

in all 50 states with about 7,000 expert teachers and is being modeled in countries like singapore, finland, scotland, and panama. and moir says it's working. >> it's a great idea and it's super successful. i mean look it's hard to measure teacher effectiveness but let me talk a little bit about the retention side of the equation. we're easily upping retention by 20% in the districts that we're working in. in 24 of the largest urban districts i mean retention is up significantly. >> reporter: and for teachers like abby miller while this year has tested her resolve she says the mentoring has helped her retain the grit that got her into teaching in the first place. >> right now i see myself still teaching. there is a reason that i decided to come into teaching, you know it's tough, there are days where i come home and throw my arms and say i'm done, i'm not doing it anymore, but those are in the rarity and there are more days when i come home and say i helped this kid learn this today. >> reporter: using a grant from the u.s. department of education the new teacher center plans to expand in c

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. >> temperatures have been fairly cool in finland. definitely a plus for this particular competition. >> talking about wife carrying of course. 20-year tradition. 40 pairs of competitors show off their individual methods. the most popular called the estonian, wrapping a woman's legs around thman's head and hanging upside down behind them. >> the winners a finnish couple, with last names we can't pronounce. we won't try. the world championship. >> clearly the estonian. seems to be the way to go. >> notice they are wearing helmets. that's the smart way to go. >> has ducis done the estonian. not quite like that. >> wow, look at them go. oh, how does she? that was a face plant. >> wrestling move. the lock, what do they call that, leg lock? >> she doesn't look very help. >> yeah, right. >> man gets all the glory. she is bouncing around. >> no wonder it hasn't reached the u.s. yet. >> you are right. don't think that will a craze. >> one of the co-hosts of the view calling it quits today. >> expensive brand of makeup, compared to the cheaper

i don't i don't fault if you want to pick a european example or works try to norway denmark sweden finland any other countries that still control their own what about they're doing just fine thank you very much oh you blame all of europe's woes on the year old nicely most of you know is not on their own not in a mobile social where welfare programs absolutely absolutely that's a disagreement that we need every day ok nice to measure your fate and your dogs will. be on the left that's. when the obama's back to the phones all but mr miller. for tonight's politically correct that i'm taking on congressman steve king in a recent interview with newsmax king made some pretty outrageous claims about undocumented immigrants in america check it out. we have to do something about the eleven million and some of them are valedictorians all my answer to that is and then by the way their parents brought them in it wasn't their fault it's true in some cases but they aren't all valedictorians they were all brought in by their parents for everyone who's a valedictorian there's another hundred out there tha

populace that's like you know and a hundred economy that works america would look more like canada or finland or denmark or norway or sweden or switzerland or germany or france and you know things work out fairly well when you do lynn in southfield california haviland what's up. we've been here all the time but i have a question for you sure why are you in the liberal. to the right wing and conservative when in fact fear action and it came from a friend of mine ok lynn thanks for the call. i don't like to use the word fascist so much to describe them because most people most americans are not particularly well educated about political language the fact of the matter is that fascism was a word that was invented in the early one nine hundred thirty s. by by mussolini and actually followed by the name of giovanni gentile probably invented the word he wrote the italian encyclopedias entry about it over mosul in his name and he described fascism as the merger of corporations and the state the merger of corporate state interests and you know that's historically been the definition of fascism the pr

prostitution is the oldest profession i walk around a lot of these everywhere is the way arts of denmark finland norway sweden i've done it you don't find the kind of poverty you have in the united states because they as a people have said you know the right to housing the right to. food the right to clothing the right to health care are basic human rights and we're not going to feel the same. ball ball of affluence and there's not a problem with other nations and you also have to be more a more i'm not going to say as a crowd of young people saying in polls that their aspirations and hopes for the future or a limited because of the big foot of government and how much it takes from their parents instead of just let them go hungry. now are left to me twinkies ok first of all you even describe with this i'm go we will explore the food stamp use that we have a hunger problem it says to me the problem may be unsolvable but you will always really simple way back reaganomics you're back in the reagan tax cuts bring back your jobs. where you battle that's great back our jobs overseas stop these conserv

i'm not sure, but over in finland customers can pay for their purchases using face recognition. you just nod or blink and then you pay. the software does the rest so you don't have to carry your credit cards and don't even need cash. i don't know. kind of creeps me out a little bit. what do you think, simon? >> i think face recognition is one of the major technologies moving forward. from being able to see people on surveillance video and cross-reference it to their facebook page it will be huge but i'm not sure it would be time for payment. i could put a bob mask on and he would have to foot the bill. >> that's a scary thought. >> this may shock you, sue, i don't have a big problem with this and i'll tell you why. it's a better solution than what we have now to confirm people's identity. by the way, one of the reasons iwatch and wearable watches will become such a big thing is the biometrics component of it. it gives a way of identifying who i am by biometrics, and that also could be used as a way to identify who you are. >> why can't you use your fingerprint. >> you can use th

you communicate with on your mobile phone peterson joins us now live from the disclosed location in finland peter hello there nice to see a smile on your face this system must be working well and tell us exactly how it does work what have you come up with here i can only hear it like every other word you're saying but i basically what we're going to do is we want to make an application that makes people safe again and have a totally anonymous and private life again oh ok so does it work it's a nice idea but does it work i can't hear anything sorry i hope your system works better than our skype call tonight peter i think we're going to have to come back to you just a second alaska one more question just in case i don't know and i know you said it's a bit of a dodgy line just now does your system works. i don't think it while the system works i was doesn't will come back to middle bit later wrote the catch it was paid to them should have got a better lie right. especially planned say breaking the set host abby martin speaks to the man credited with being the first edits agent to blow the whis

president martti ahtisaari of finland and lakhdar brahimi, the u.n. envoy to syria. president ahtisaari also is a nobel laureate and, hopefully, dr. bra him will be a future -- bra brahimi will be a future nobel laureate. [laughter] the chosen focus for this meeting is the israeli/palestine conflict. this event, actually, could not have been more opportune given secretary kerry's announcement friday that bilateral talks will resume in washington shortly. the elders' delegation is visiting washington at the start of the planned engagement over the coming year or so with the p5 members to explore how they can be helpful. from washington they will go directly to london for meetings with foreign minister hague, and at a later date they plan to visit moscow. visits to beijing and paris will then follow. today they had talks with secretary kerry and susan rice mainly on the middle east, and while, you know, they are not in a position to tell us what they, what they told them exactly, we will be hearing from them about matters regarding the peace process and what needs to b

the neighbors were from the ukraine, finland, from all over. this is very much part of the detroit story as much as it is the american story. chicago, building coalitions. immigration and integration happens in local communities. when i started at the white house before i became the director of domestic policy council, it means i managed the white house relationship with governors and mayors across the country. in that role i worked closely with local leaders as they struggled to recover from that recession. many of them from both political parties understood and understand the role they play in helping them grow the local economy and get through difficult economic times. i can tell you that president obama understands this as well. the president developed a view that immigration reform was not just the right thing to do, it was an economic imperative. ago bipartisan immigration reform bill that passed, it was a significant -- there will be a significant cost to our country if congress fails to act. let me just give you a few of the highlights.