the people of tehran is not hostile to the fights. clearly the leadership is. recently with the advent of the uprising and the thought that that's beginning to take hold, what opportunities does that present for the iranian people to maybe prevent some type of military action, having to take place to prevent nuclear proliferation. proliferation. >> but i want to tell you my opinion about it. iran has about 50% and i know it is, but not-- there are a 30% unemployment. the young people are up in arms, dissatisfaction and a good look inside what's happening he's a table dictator and the pictures, i think they started without us encouraging them. the revolt came from the depth of their own culture from the feeling of their own people that a courageous man-- let's stand on the other side clearly without creating an impression of the world to call them to anything. it's their own call. they're ashamed testify such terrible persons ahead of their nation so i think-- because they carry with them a culture of their own, they tear own understanding and it's interesting t

., russia, britain, france, germany are trying to persuade tehran to return to negotiations over its nuclear program. china relies on iran for much of its energy and traditionally opposes sanctions, but it did go along with three earlier sanctions resolutions. barbara, how significant does this deal to you? >> the significance of this really is that this is the first substantive discussions that we understand have happen in many months amongst the six powers that deal with concerns about iran's nuclear program. the statement came out from a meeting january 16, but after that, there has not really been. americans have been circulating proposals for tougher sanctions and i've gotten responses from britain, germany, from france. they have gotten indications separately from russia that they might go along with sanctions, but only as a very last resort, but china has not responded to those proposals. they have been saying quite clearly that they felt this was not the time for sanctions, but what has happened now is china has rejoined the talks. we understand there was some substantive dis

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. >> reporter: 71-year-old raiza tagati has been held in tehran's notorious evin prison for two years. now his american lawyer reveals secret talks. >> we are negotiating terms. my job really is to talk to the government to see what will it take? what do they want? >> reporter: in april 2008 reza took one of his frequent trips to todayen ran to see family and friends. according to his lawyer, an acquaintance asked him to carry $200 to an iranian who needed money. he agreed. iranian authorities arrested him on suspicion of anti-regime activity. >> it's not clear what the accusations are at this time. the investigation, after two years, is still ongoing. >> reporter: two years later the lawyer says he's not been charged with a crime. cases of other americans held like three hikers who allegedly strayed over the iranian border have been highly publicized but tehgavi's family kept silent. >> blind faith, not knowing it would take this long and unsure of how things work. >> reporter: the iranian who whom he gave the $200 was arrested and convicted of involvement of a terrorist group that b

it is a different thing, and an extremist government in tehran gets nuclear weapons, and i wouldn't want to predict what israel might or might not do. but, i can certainly see their concerns and i think their concerns will grow. yes, sir. >> this is -- relates a little bit to the answer you just gave, some apologists for iran seem to think the concept of mutual assured destruction which restrained the soviets might restrain iran and i'm skeptical of that and i wanted to get your take, and, secondarily, whether you think that appearing crazy enough to use nuclear weapons is an intentional tactic for the iranians? >> well, i... the psychologist in my family is my daughter. so i'm going to leave off the second one of those, because i don't know. i think it is a very dangerous form of preemptive capitulation to assume we can deal with iran through what is called extended deterrents. there have been some hints in the administration, particularly a statement by secretary clinton, last april, that this might be the direction in which the administration at that time any way was headed towards sa

. >> the state department today revised its figure on the number of hostages held in tehran from 49 to 50. >> reporter: gadhafi. kermit. >> you're looking very well street indeed. >> i tried to wear my more dapper stuff to look as good as you. >> five seconds. four, three, two -- >> reporter: and epic anchor. epic questions. >> did you have an affair with miss rice? >> reporter: epic hair. >> that is, i'm not bald, and yes, for what it's worth that is my own hair up there. >> reporter: live from everest. >> for the first time, a live television picture of mt. everest. >> reporter: live with jim and tammy faye. >> i do like to shop, but i am a bargain hunter. >> reporter: living proof of middle east tensions. >> we need a symbolic divider between our israeli guests on the one hand and our palestinian guests on the other. >> reporter: next ten years, the three ms. mandela -- >> i shoulknow better about this matter, mr. koppel, than you. >> reporter: madonna -- >> i thought that once again i was going to be able to bend the rules a little bit. >> reporter: and morrie, before he made tuesd

. >> the state department today revised its figure on the number of hostages held in tehran from 49 to 50. >> reporter: gadhafi. kermit. >> you're looking very well street indeed. >> i tried to wear my more dapper stuff to look as good as you. >> five seconds. four, three, two -- >> reporter: and epic anchor. epic questions. >> did you have an affair with miss rice? >> reporter: epic hair. >> that is, i'm not bald, and yes, for what it's worth that is my own hair up there. >> reporter: live from everest. >> for the first time, a live television picture of mt. everest. >> reporter: live with jim and tammy faye. >> i do like to shop, but i am a bargain hunter. >> reporter: living proof of middle east tensions. >> we need a symbolic divider between our israeli guests on the one hand and our palestinian guests on the other. >> reporter: next ten years, the three ms. mandela -- >> i should know better about this matter, mr. koppel, than you. >> reporter: madonna -- >> i thought that once again i was going to be able to bend the rules a little bit. >> reporter: and morrie, before he made tue

we have worked very hard to reach out to pteron and find ways in which we could -- to reach out to tehran and find ways to reach out to them. that had asked for, could we help them modernize their control room at the reactor and we said we would be happy to talk about it, as an example. lots of efforts have been made, both in the nuclear context, but more broadly, in terms of the e- 3 +3 that resulted in the geneva meeting, to get some positive iranian -- have refused to engage in combat into the process. we're left to having -- we're left to draw the inevitable conclusion, that this is a country bound and determined not to live up to its requirements as a signatory of the non- proliferation treaty. >> if some people might say there is deadlocked and it's not getting any better. how do we get out? >> what we need to do, in the context of our two track policy, that is not to the u.s. policy but it is shared by the other permanent under -- part of members of the european security council and germany, is to pit off of the engagement track on to the pressure track. it does not mean engagement

if you were a reformer in tehran, what would you be hoping the united states would do, and do we need to send some signals has to the limits of what can be expected of us, as we try to give some sort of moral support, burden of proof we were also try to be realistic about what we can do to help these people who are striving for freedom and democracy? >> well, as you suggested, senator, with preexpect, i think that's -- respect, i think that's one for the state davenport and the folks who pull together all the different strands of this technology, because i think talking about one element of this without talking about the other in a comprehensive approach could be misleading. >> all right. well, thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator wicker. senator mckaskel. >> thank you, mr. chairman. following up on some of the sanction stuff orrin iran. the iran's sanctions act was passed 14 years ago and we've never enforced it, and recently, there has been some haifa tension given to this and -- attention given to this hand one example, large example is one of a south korean eng

i was born in a city in iran when i grew up in the capital city of tehran and of there for a while that was what changed my life. i went to a french catholic school despite my up cream day shipping because of the revolution it was closed after the first year we were moved around too different schools and my friends were spread all over and light four wind changed and being a teenager then with the war it teaches you a lot of things. i remember the first time the revolution i did not know what it meant. i had no concept i was never a round against to see the guns it was a learning experience for a teenager growing up. but getting ready for graduation they thought maybe it was a good idea to come to the united states and start life over. many iranians probably went through the same thing and decided to leave everything behind and start a new life and especially their children have a chance to have a better life. there is stuff that talking about going to school are becoming an engineer or miti my husband which is a big part of my life and you will see the ideal that many things that happe

and then after that i want to ask you about the dissonance in tehran. but if you would answer the first part of it, i would appreciate it. >> senator, over the course of the last year, the effort has focused on the diplomatic track. all the countries of the world have given iran ample opportunity to discuss the issues that are out there and to try to resolve them. and, of course, that has not happened. >> totally unsuccessful? >> and that has led to what the president and others, secretary of state, have termed the pressure track. and that is the effort now with the u.n. security council and other countries and other organizations as well, the e.u. is involved in this. countries do it as single actors and so forth in a variety of different ways everything from, you know, in the u.s. side, treasury designations and a host of financial and trade restrictions and so forth. and that is now about to ramp up needless to say. that's what the increased pressure will result from. with respect to what this has done in the past, indeed, some of these actions have

i do not think been start treating would affect the calculation in tehran or north korea to give up their nuclear programs. in terms of trying to press and putting more impediments in the way of other states to follow the course of iran and north korea. it does seem when you look over the last 40 years, it tends to have a positive impact on a broader relationship. going back to a year ago, one of the goals of the administration's approach in terms of trying to find a solution, was the desire to build the more positive relationship in which it could secure russian assistance on afghanistan and iran. for the new start treaty, one test has to be -- doesn't allow the nine states to maintain an effective nuclear deterrent. president obama -- you need to have an effective nuclear deterrent. based on what we have seen so far, which have not seen the text of it. but i think the answer will be yes. 1550 warheads is a formidable nuclear force. i think it's going to be sufficient to give us confidence that we will be able to deter the range of potential adversaries out there. i think it is true when

central command, revealed that tehran is letting al qaeda leaders travel freely between pakistan and afghanistan, effectively using its territory as a safe haven while permitting them to hold meetings to plan terrorist attacks against american targets. taliban leaders also have recently been boasting that they have received significant training and resourcing from iran in their fight against nato and the afghan government. a fact that has now also been confirmed, i understand, by general petraeus. and, of course, we shouldn't forget that the army come the second largest insurgent group in afghanistan today has its main bases across the border in iran. these diverse groups with their differing goals of strategies share a common characteristic. they are trained and equipped above all for warfare fought from within the civilian population. in conflicts in lebanon, iraq, and in towns and villages in southern afghanistan, the civilian population come are routinely exploited in deliberate and fragrant violation of international laws and reasonable norms of civilized behavior. and in gaza l

friends like many of the men and women today venturing physical safety and lives on the streets of tehran. policies ago against the natural course of affairs warning enemies and freezing out allies are destined to fail. socrates reminds us a dog knows well enough to distinguish friends and enemies so should our policy establishment but also analyst researchers and journalists. the u.s. is a strong horse and in fact, it is the strong course not the only on account of our military might or the protectiveness of our economy it is a great misconception held not only in the region but by many here in the u.s. but it is possible to distinguish between the values a culture holds the year and what the side reproduces and those things that they will catch up with maternity blue tooth, satellite tv, and make the modern world so attractive that the young arabs will do anything for a ticket into this with -- sweepstakes. dat is in dire as that gave rise to the technological ingenuity economic dynamism weather information technology for military hardware or pop culture. we sell short not only arabs fo

the assessment is the regime in tehran has previously conducted research and development in this area of biological weapons and continues seeking dual use technologies that could be used for biological weapons, so germ warfare is a major concern and with iran you have to be worried about the threat of the regime giving the material to terrorists because they, of course, are sponsors of terrorism. trace: mike emanuel live for us in d.c., thanks. >>> the cia report mike was just telling us about is also saying iran is still working on building a nuclear weapon, despite technical setbacks and international resistance. how should the u.s. respond? you decide. log on to foxnews.com, and simply click on the "you decide" link to weigh in on this issue. and you can see how other people are voting by clicking on this view results tab, and of course, top headlines and breaking news, 24/7, foxnews.com. >>> mass transit systems across the country are now stepping up security following the moscow subway bombings. the deadly terror attack in russia prompting u.s. police departments and homeland sec

like many of the men and women today venturing their physical safety, their lives on the streets of tehran. policies that two against the natch -- go against the natural course of affairs, warming to enemies and freezing out allies, are destined to fail. socrates reminds us that a dog knows well enough to distinguish friends from enemies, so showshed our policy establishment including policymakers, analysts, researchers and journalists. moreover, such notions go against the american grain. the u.s. is a strong horse, in fact, it is the strong horse not merely on account of our military might or the productiveness of our economy. indeed, it is one of the great miscongress senses -- misconceptions held not only in the region, but here in the u.s. that it's impossible to distinguish between the values that a culture holds dear and the goods that such a society produces and so are those that believe technology will help the arabs catch up to mod everybodity -- modernity. they make the modern world so attractive that young arabs will give anything for a ticket in the globalization sweepstakes.

they worked with us in offering iran a deal on the tehran research reactor for its medical research needs. they have-- they have been working with us in this process, and now as we switch to sanctions, we are working with them towards a u.n. security council resolution. will we have differences? yes. but we are seeing more partnership from them on iran than we have in the past. >> rose: when you look at the obama administration, in which you serve, is there a doctrine? is there emerging an attitude about the world we live in that can be defined? >> i would say there's a vision, and it's articulated in national security strategy that we're about to publish. so i'm not going to -- >> you're not going to give me a hint? >> again, i think it has to do with restoring and revitalizing american leadership and building the kind of international order that we've been talking about. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> rose: it's a pleasure to you have here. >> it's a pleasure to talk with you. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at w

sanctions on tehran. and that is very important. because china was the power to veto those sanctions. >> the chinese know that it's not in their interest to have a nuclear arms race in the middle east. and we're confident that we're going to be able to work with them to move forward on meaningful pressure on iran. >> shepard: just yesterday, president obama said he would like to see new sanctions in place in just a matter of weeks. our mike emanuel is on the top story at the bottom of the hour tonight live at the pentagon. mike, where do things stand tonight? >> well, shep, we got an update from secretary of state hillary clinton just moments ago. let's take a listen. >> there will be a great deal of further consultation, not only among the p-5 plus 1 but other members of the security council and other member nations during the next weeks. >> let me translate a little diplomats p-5 plus one is the u.s., britain, russia, china and france and germany gets mixed in for good measure. they are expected to take up sanctions talk next week

the holiday marks the arrival of spring and the beginning of the iranian calendar and tension over tehran's nuclear ambitions the president says the offer of diplomatic dialogue still stands. >> president barack obama: the international community, the u.s. acknowledges your right to peaceful nuclear energy. we in sus only that you adhere to the same responsibilities that apply to other nations. we're familiar with your grievances from the past and we have our own as well. but we are prepared to move forward. we know what you are against, now, tell us what you are for. >> three american hikers held in iran, say they were allowed their first phone call home this past week, and the three have been held on charges of spying since july. all three accidentally wandered into iranian territory while hiking in iraq, the u.s. called for their immediate release. >> communities in the midwest, hope floodgates hold against the rising waters of the red river, past peter doocy is live in moorehead, minnesota. >> reporter: they are doing what they can to protect people and property from the red river. more

hard intel intercept showing he was in constant communication with iranian intelligence officials in tehran. in fact, they even suspected one of the top inc guys, who was part of that u.s. information-funded program to provide intelligence was, in fact, an iranian agent. and raising the specter, whether some of that intelligence that the u.s. used was, in fact, iranian disinformation. >> or whether or not the administration, previous administration was willing to ignore those iranian ties because they wanted to use them against saddam hussein. >> exactly. and it fell on deaf ears, the warnings that the cia tried to sound about ahmed chalabi through all those years, the bush administration never wanted to listen to. >> fascinating stuff. the election is sunday. we'll be doing more on that as we lead up to the election. declassified is the blog. >>> up next, mississippi governor haley barbour, chairman of the governors association and he says that governors should have been invited to last week's bipartisan summit on health care. barbour eyeing a white house bid in 2012? we'll find out what h

of creating instability there, while gates said tehran is appealing to both kabul and the taliban. >> lehrer: then, the terrorist charges against the american woman who calls herself jihad jane. >> ifill: the administration escalates its criticism of the health insurance industry. >> over the last year, we've seen tens of millions of dollars by the insurance industry spent on ads and lobbyists to help kill health reform. >> lehrer: we'll have a debate between the insurance industry and one of its leading critics. >> ifill: ray suarez looks at the challenges facing haiti's government, as its president visits washington. >> lehrer: jeffrey brown reports on climate science under fire. >> ifill: and kwame holman reports on the hundreds of world war two pots-- all of them women-- honored at the capitol today. >> we were never in there for the glory. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: y >> every business day, bank of america lends nearly $3 billion to individuals, institutions, schools, organizations and businesses i

that could go to iran through china or the other countries that have a good relationship with tehran. >> i suppose after the election took place nine months ago there was an expectation of the so-called twitter revolution in iran would topple the government and change iran. obviously that is not occurring and we have seen the limits of internet activism in iran. can you give us your view of what impact this had and continues to have in inspiring those who question the current government? >> i think it was not the internet, god knows how many more people would have been killed on the streets of tehran and other cities. it is really important that people could dominate the event after the election. it was very significant. >> i think ms. wong made that point as well. i would like to ask you, you heard or saw the instruction hereof google and china and the reference to tianamen square and your company announced change in terms of censorship in china. can you me what your time table is to accomplish that? if you turn your mike on. >> thank you, senator. it's a very fair question. let me t

shia dimension, and this is particularly -- particularly dangerous because of the sponsorship from tehran. for 30 years, iran has been identified as the major state sponsor of terrorism in the world. it was iran that created hezbollah common-law -- hezbollah, the terrorist group in lebanon, and by -- before 9- 11, hezbollah had killed more americans than all other terrorist groups combine. iran sponsors shia extremism from as far away as yemen, but iran is also the major supporter of the sunni terrorist group, and iran is in fact at war with america because they are killing our soldiers in iraq's and afghanistan. these are the facts. like sunni extremism, this iranian shia extremism is anti- democratic and anti-western. the basic premise is that the supreme leader of rules by divine right. a senior iranian cleric has said, accepting his slump is not compatible -- a excepting his lawn is not compatible with democracy, -- accepting islam is not compatible with democracy very good -- with democracy. radical extremist islam resembles in many ways the 20th century totalitarian creeds like not

. >> the state department today reviced its figure on the number of hostages held in tehran from 49 to 50. >> reporter: gadhafi. kermit. >> you're looking very wall street indeed if iay say so. >> i tried to wear my more dapper stuff to look as good as you. >> stand by, check. >> reporter: an epic anchor. epic questions. >> did you have anything to say? >> reporter: epic hair. >> that is, i'm not bald, and yes, for what it's worth, that is my own hair up there. >> reporter: live from everest. >> for the first time, a live television picture of mt. everest. >> reporter: live with jim and tammy faye. >> i do like to shop but i am a bargain hunter. >> reporter: living oof of middle east tensions. >> we need a symbolic divider between our israeli guests on the one hand and our palestinian guests on the other. >> reporter: next ten years. the three ms. mandela. >> i should know better than you. >> reporter: madonna. >> i thought that once again i was going to be able to bend the rules a little bit. >> reporter: and morrie before he made tuesdays famous. >> be kind to yourself. you didn't cr

. >> the state department today reviced its figure on the number of hostages held in tehran from 49 to 50. >> reporter: gadhafi. kermit. >> you're looking very wall street indeed if i may say so. >> i tried to wear my more dapper stuff to look as good as you. >> stand by, check. >> reporter: an epic anchor. epic questions. >> did you have anything to say? >> reporter: epic hair. >> that is, i'm not bald, and yes, for what it's worth, that is my own hair up there. >> reporter: live from everest. >> for the first time, a live television picture of mt. everest. >> reporter: live with jim and tammy faye. >> i do like to shop but i am a bargain hunter. >> reporter: living proof of middle east tensions. >> we need a symbolic divider between our israeli guests on the one hand and our palestinian guests on the other. >> reporter: next ten years. the three ms. mandela. >> i should know better than you. >> reporter: madonna. >> i thought that once again i was going to be able to bend the rules a little bit. >> reporter: and morrie before he made tuesdays famous. >> be kind to yourself. you didn'

nicholas sarkozy said he thought he could get all of europe on board for tougher sanctions against tehran but the question has been what moscow and beijing would sign up for. late last week moscow and beijing said they were stripping out some of the toughest aspects of proposed new sanctions so the question is as we get reports that moscow and beijing are on board for new sanctions precisely what is in them? do they have any teeth in them? that's something we'll be working in the hours ahead as we try to determine exactly what the russians and ci chinese are on board for megyn. megyn: adding to that mike as you're speak of it a reuters report hits the wire saying six world powers including russia and china did agree on wednesday to start drawing up new sanctions on iran over its nuclear program. that would be very significant, would it not mike? those two russia and china have been the holdouts all along. >> reporter: absolutely and i asked secretary gates here at the pentagon last week about the idea of whether russia and china were stripping out the toughest part and he said important t

that could go to iran through china or the other countries that have a good relationship with tehran. >> i suppose after the election took place nine months ago there was an expectation of the so-called twitter revolution in iran would topple the government and change iran. obviously that is not occurring and we have seen the limits of internet activism in iran. can you give us your view of what impact this had and continues to have in inspiring those who question the current government? >> i think it was not the internet, god knows how many more people would have been killed on the streets of tehran and other cities. it is really important that people could dominate the event after the election. it was very significant. >> i think ms. wong made that point as well. i would like to ask you, you heard or saw the instruction hereof google and china and the reference to tianamen square and your company announced change in terms of censorship in china. can you me what your time table is to accomplish that? if you turn your mike on. >> thank you, senator. it's a very fair question. let me t

the tweeting in tehran last fall, last winter, made a huge difference. we're seeing that today. we can make a difference. even in countries like china. >> i know they went in there saying, okay, we think by providing information at least some, it's good. but what if inadvertently they enable the chinese government to find dissidents because they hacked into their system and helped locate people. >> in the long term you've got to be willing to take some losses, some casualties bluntly in order to succeed. >> wow. >> you've got to be willing to take on that government and be willing to make a difference. >> wow, that is a pretty tough position to take. i don't know how i feel about that. i'm going to think about that more. let's talk more about haiti. a big wireless provider in haiti. >> we are. >> you founded western wireless who did work in rural areas. i suppose that gives you some advantage in haiti. how's it going there? >> haiti has been devastated. it's been horrible. but the wireless businesses that have been providing services have gotten people out of the rubble. we're t

matthew, with the iaea meeting in vienna for the next four days, how concerned are they regarding tehran's nuclear program? >> well, it seems that the iaea, the u.n.'s nuke war watchdog is very concerned about the possibility that iran is in their words, currently working on plans for a nuclear war head. they haven't presented any evidence for this specifically, any new evidence that is, but they have cited repeated refuses by iran to answer questions regarding the nature of its nuclear program and the new director general of the iaea, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog amano spoke very clearly of the need. for the islamic republic to open up its nuclear sites to greater inspection and cooperate more fully. listen to what he had to say. >> the agency continues and there is comprehensive safeguards agreement with iran to verify that nondiversion of declared nuclear materials in iran but we cannot confirm that all nuclear material in iran is in peaceful activities because iran has not provide the agency with the necessary cooperation. >> well, iran for its part denying that it has any kind of secre

officers to iranian-americans including in los angeles and seeing what relatives they have back in tehran or iran who might be willing to come and this may be one of the fruits from that operation run by the cia. they're very happy about it although they officially declined to comment. >> brian, thanks very much. >> gentlemen, we move to the fallout from the republican national committee's questionable expense accounts. some are calling for the chairman to step down after one rnc staffer submitted expenses from a visit to a strip club. claire shipman has been following the story and has the new details for us from washington. good morning, claire. >> reporte good morning, robin. as we reported on tuesday, word of those expenses is causing turmoil in the republican party. but so far no republican leaders are calling for steele to resign. clearly afraid that would create even more upheaval now that the party doesn't need. embattled rnc chairman michael steele is moving fast ♪ one day after it was revealed that the republican national committee approved nearly $2,000 in expenses at this we

since the presence was discovered by western intelligence, the tehran regime consistently says this group is confined to their homes and unable to operate. last week, on the foreign affairs committee, general petraus reveal that iran is letting al qaeda leaders travel freely between pakistan and afghanistan, effectively using the territory as a safe haven while permitting them to hold the meetings to plan terrorist attacks against americans. taliban leaders have recently been boasting that they have received significant training and resources from iran in their fight against nato and the afghan government. the fact that has also been confirmed by general david pretorietraeus. the second-largest group has its main bases across the border in iran. the first groups with differing goals and strategies share a common characteristic. they are trained and equipped for warfare fought from within the civilian population. in a complex of several countries and in towns and villages, the civilian population are routinely exploited in violation of international laws and reasonable norms. and in gaza l

fears that tehran may be secretly working on developing nuclear weapons. a strongly worded in station -- a statement says europe supports new u.n. security council actions if iran continues its nuclear defiance. greece has announced a new austerity plan aimed at saving $6.5 billion. theús measures includeo/ a boosn the sales tax from 19% to hy21% and a cut in salary and bonuses for civil service workers. nog to the international monetarynog fund to seek help. qzkgreece is already receiving m at advice on how to deal with the crisis. european union officialsen oppoe an i.m.f. bailout. those are some of the latest headlines on cspan radio. =0z>> our congressional cover ty includes a hearing looking at the national security budget for fiscal year 2011. that is live at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cspan 3. yesterday, defense secretary ñ wantse pentagon review of the ban on openly gay militaryop[ service members wrapped up by december 1 of this year. the military personnel subcommittee in the house looks at the issue today. that is live at 2:30 p.m. eastern on cspan

haass summer a woman was shot on the seets of tehran during protests during the iranian elections. no film crew witnessed her death. no reporter was there to cover her story. but a bystander with a cell phone captured it on video. that video was posted on youtube, and it was watched by literally tens of millions of people around the world. despite the government crackdown on communications, nada's tragic death became a galvanizing force for international outrage. this is the essence of expression online. unexpected, unpredictable but capable of capturing the minds and hearts of millions of people around the world. it is for this reason that growing restrictions of speech online demand a commitment from companies, civil societies and governments together to protect internet freedom. i'd like to make three points. first censor ship is a problem not isolated to one country or one region. as secretary clinton recently expressed, the impact on human rights in the global marketplace is profound. at google we've experienced this firsthand. in the last few years more than 25 different gove

haass summer a woman was shot on the streets of tehran during protests during the iranian elections. no film crew witnessed her death. no reporter was there to cover her story. but a bystander with a cell phone captured it on video. that video was posted on youtube, and it was watched by literally tens of millions of people around the world. despite the government crackdown on communications, nada's tragic death became a galvanizing force for international outrage. this is the essence of expression online. unexpected, unpredictable but capable of capturing the minds and hearts of millions of people around the world. it is for this reason that growing restrictions of speech online demand a commitment from companies, civil societies and governments together to protect internet freedom. i'd like to make three points. first censor ship is a problem not isolated to one country or one region. as secretary clinton recently expressed, the impact on human rights in the global marketplace is profound. at google we've experienced this firsthand. in the last few years more than 25 different gove

in fact i think the people in places like tehran and pyongyang say let's ramp up our production efforts to get the capability even more quickly. but it's not just this particular bilateral treaty the administration has made it clear it wants to resume within their view is progress toward in bidding for the united states in a web multilateral treaties that i think could construct america's strategic options in the years ahead to seek once again ratification of the comprehensive test ban treaty defeated in the senate during the clinton administration to resume the negotiations over a fissile material cut off treaty and a treaty to prevent what they call the arms race and outer space and a variety of other treaties like the land mines convention that were opposed by the united states when they were negotiated because they constructed us in areas the were vital to our strategic interest and in the case the lands mind treaty on the korean peninsula. i was always happy during the negotiation of a land mine treaty that finland also opposed the treaty. and you say finland, what does that have t

shia dimension, and this is particularly -- particularly dangerous because of the sponsorship from tehran. for 30 years, iran has been identified as the major state sponsor of terrorism in the world. it was iran that created hezbollah common-law -- hezbollah, the terrorist group in lebanon, and by -- before 9- 11, hezbollah had iran today sponsors shia extremists as far away as yemen, but iran's support for terrorism is ecumenical because iran is also the major supporter of hamas, and iran is in fact at war with america, because they are killing our soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. these are the facts. like sunni extremists some, this geranium -- iranian shia extremism regiois similar. a senior iranian cleric, one of president ahmadinejad's clerical mentors has said, "of accepting is lomb is not compatible with democracy -- and accepting islam is not compatible with democracy." they felt nothing but contempt for the idea of a free election in their country. radical extremist is lomlam resembles totalitarianism decrees like nazism and communism. -- like nazism and communism. the revolutio

national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> last year in tehran, a protester was shot. the video was captured by a woman with a cell phone. it was posted on youtube and watched around the world. this tragic death became a galvanizing force for international outreach. this is the essence of expression on line -- and expected, unpredictable, but capable of capturing the minds and hearts of millions of people around the world. it is for this reason that the growing restrictions on speech on line demand a commitment from countries, civil society, and governments to protect internet freedom. i would like to make three points today. internet censorship is a global threat to human rights and economic opportunity. the growing problem is not isolated to one country or one region. as secretary clinton recently expressed, the impact on human rights and the global marketplace is profound. at google, we have experienced this firsthand. in the last two years, more than 25 services -- 25 governments have blocked services like youtube and blogger. youtube had bee

if you are the regime in tehran, if you are mahmoud ahmadinejad working your way toward nuclear capacity to fulfill your dream of wiping israel off the face of the map what conclusion do you draw from an american president who keeps saying i keep saying i want to negotiate with you? the conclusion as you have got no difficulty at all. in the face of this policy, the president of france, nicolas sarkozy, has been heard to say several times why is obama so weak backs when the president of france criticizes an american president-- [applause] you know we are in trouble. even where the president takes decisions that i think are sensible, as in the case of increasing our troop levels in afghanistan and as in recognizing that we need more pakistani involvement in the struggle against the taliban, not only to defeat them in afghanistan but to make sure the taliban don't take over pakistan with its substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons, even when he announces that policy as he did at west point he couples it decouples it in the same speech with the promise that he is going to begin withdrawing a