i think you said that it's possible the there were the extension beyond the current in the of the program, so what kind of things to you look at to decide where to go from here? >> welcome the first of all, as we noted in our statements and our commentary, we are reviewing the program on a regular basis. we want to make sure it is working as intended and it's not having any adverse side effects. to answer your question more generally, the approach is more or less the same as we always used. how we make decisions about the federal fund rate? what we do is our best to create an outlook for the economy. to say where are things going, where output going, where is inflation going, and we ask ourselves given the level of the monetary compensation we have now is the economy on a trajectory that will give the best possible outcome in the medium term. if not, if inflation looks to below or the deflation is there or the output is low and unemployment is too high the would be a situation that requires stimulus. vice versa it becomes increasing problem of the economy is growing quickly that would be

the was the difficulty. the other problem here is that what sir jeremy greene stock described as the straw paradox which is this, but -- secure initially called the straw paradox. >> [inaudible] [laughter] speed anyway, it is a pretty straightforward point and latest had to it, which is that we wanted to resolve it peacefully. the only way we could resolve the matter peacefully was through compliance. the leeway to get compliance was through the threat of military action, i mean the real threat. and indeed that paradox was actually i think may be inadvertently brought up by the president chirac in that interview he gave on the tenth of march, 2003, where he says before he says we are going to veto -- he says there has been some evidence in compliance, but he thinks it is almost certainly because of the troops sitting outside of saddam hussein's door. that for sure was true. >> you told us last year began to feel more optimistic about the prospect of iraq collaborating with unmovic inspectors and early 2003.

well, the answer is the demihood, the nazis. how did the nazis come to make common cause with the arabs? the answer is oil. there were never -- there were never any countries in the middle east. they were all created by british petroleum and angelo, and by other oil imperillistic states in the west for the soul purpose of getting the oil prior to this there were just tribes. as a result of this, this bringing in of the west with the mesopotamians, as a result of this, it made the people of mesopotamia feel that they were being invaded. and guest what, they were being invaded. they were invaded by british petroleum, persia oil. i've written the second book about this which is coming out next month. the original way i got into the farhud was by documenting the oil in the middle east. the question is where did the jews fit into this? in 1933 -- excuse me, let me go back. in 1919, the jews were given a homelandened the declaration through the league of nations. i don't want you to think this was strictly a british enterprise. the sa

the framework the u.s. applies to this conflict these people very uncertain as to the likely course of events. this is feeding a range of conflict reducing behavior's deepening the political discourse, more looting forms of corruption, reliance on local defense imperatives and all kinds of other actions that the parties domestically are taking to the conflict. so that is on the foreign forces u.s. side. in terms of government weakness there are a huge range of issues that come up here. there is an interesting focus that for me was quite different from the way i had thought about corruption and government weakness previously. there is a general sense that the concentration of power in the afghan system currently is related to the problem of nepotism and unfair appointments. people focus on that much more than necessarily the theft of money for different kinds of problems in getting predictable institutions and speak a lot about the representation of various groups in state structure. this is not a new issue,

the administration should take the opportunity to correct the vision of the administration and the middle east. it is not only going to affect egypt. it will affect the whole region. the administration should take a stand with the egyptian people and show that we support what we're talking about, democracy on the whole region. otherwise, it will haunt us. it is only because of the stand that we are taking with individuals, not with the whole country. host: the final months of my current term will be used to carry out the necessary steps for the peaceful transfer of power. as we look at the scene live in cairo, this taped message sent out by the egyptian president. we have not yet heard from administration officials. the white house briefing was originally scheduled for early afternoon. it was delayed in part because of the situation in egypt. we do expect to hear from robert gibbs. the briefing room is relatively empty at this hour. there was a briefing held earlier today. next is ronald, joining us from virginia. good afternoon. caller: my opinion is that i think america should really in

until the second intifada, the political class in israel believed the source of the conflict was the and readiness of the arab people to recognize the existence of a jewish state in the middle east. the intifada changed this. the been -- rabin is the man who expresses this change, and realizes the core of the problem between israel and the arab people is the israeli- palestinian issue. in the last month, it reverts to the previous perception. not everybody is talking about the danger of israel in the middle east, everybody losing its friends. if you have a friend, it is only a matter of time. they say it is the unwillingness of the arabs to accept israel as a fact in the middle with -- middle east. fourth is the ascendance of the religious element in the conflict. you have a tension between western civilization and eastern civilization. you have a conflict between 2 you on national liberation movements. and you always had the religious element. but israeli leaders and the arabs were capable in the past to contain the religious elements. in the last several years, and particularly the

cut the budget for the cure for the funding for the nmple i.h. mr. markey: you're having it both ways no cure and you're then going to cut the money for these families in the medicare and medicaid budget. you shouldn't do this. the nmple i.h., the national -- they're the national institutes of hope. research is medicine's field of dreams from which we harvest the findings that give hope to millions of families in our country. you are cutting this budget and not gives us an opportunity to make an amendment which we'll be able to put the funding into the n.i.h. budget. that's a very bad moral decision which you are making. you're sending false hope to people that you're actually solving the problem by cutting the n.i.h. budget but all of those people who are going to have alzheimer's, and it's a demographic certainty are going to cost $1 trillion a year by 2050. you are doing nothing about that right now. by the way you won't have the courage to tell people, you're not going to take care of them in nursing homes because that demographic will be so

in each case, we are guided by the principles and by the fact that the unrest, the demonstration by the people of these countries and their desire for greater political -- greater access to the political system and greater freedom, fuller rights, we support those aspirations of those people. we're not dictating outcomes. we are not telling the people of any country who their leaders should or should not be. that is up for the people of libya and egypt to decide. >> >> it is it fair to call this policy ad hoc, or ad-lib? >> there was a very clear set of principles that? the -- that guides the policy. when you talk about what guides the policy arena, the ones that are not that hot are the ones that are guided by a broad set of principles, and not situation-specific or country- specific, which is not to say how we handle, react, or act proactively with regard to the country, is different, because we are looking for positive outcomes. >> you guys have a policy if this were to happen in jordan, saudi arabia -- you have plans for all of these different countries? >> i am not sure what you mea

beginning the the date on the cr. a couple of my pa colleagues have juxtaposed. one of the major ones speaks to the issue that i think was mr. herger raised interest in a budget that gets people back to work, and that is the kind of the antithesis of what the cr does give in their early analysis that that would cost about 800,000 jobs. so if you juxtapose what is happening today in the cr and the president's budget, specifically things such as the bill america bond which were so successful. i know the sacramento airport used those, they generated will hundred 50 jobs and probably every district across the country can see something similar. i would like to hear how you deal with that because that is certainly a job creator, the job killer in the cr. also on energy issues, i noticed the president's budget extends the 1603 treasury grant program which is so important for the renewable energy and the section 48 c proficient, the manufacturing of tax credits which is important to keeping those jobs here in america, and i'd

the was the difficulty. theother problem her is that what sir jeremy greene stock described as the straw paradox which is this, but -- secure initially called the straw paradox. >> [inaudible] [laughter] speed anyway, it is a pretty straightforward point and latest had to it, which is that we wanted to resolve it peacefully. the only way we could resolve the matter peacefully was through ompliance. the leeway to get compliance was through the threat of military action, i mean the real threat. and indeed that paradox was actually i think may be inadvertently brought up by the president chirac in that interview he gave on the tenth of march, 2003, where he says before he says we are going to veto -- he says there has been some evidence in compliance, but he thinks it is almost certainly because of the troops sitting outse of saddam hussein's door. that for sure was true. >> you told us last year began to feel more optimistic about the prospect of iraq collaborating with unmovic inspectors and early 2003. famou

is the yearning for the people on the street. and that is the way we will judge our relationship going forward. i think we are -- i don't think we want to be naÏve, but we are hopeful that what we have seen is a strong sense that there is element of civil society of the people that congressman royce talk about that can form a strong, stable democratic government. >> i know my time is running. i just want to share another situation with my friend from new york, the fact that 350 million people in the area of community press on the fax that these two countries, saudi arabia and egypt -- if these countries falter, just as likely to be some serious problems coming out of this. i urge them to the fact that one of the main issues that always seems to come into the equation when we talk about the middle east is the will. my sense is that we've spent almost a trillion dollars to get rid of saddam hussein and expenditures and energy and resource lists. and yet when it came time to divvy up the portions, some 30 major oil companies that c

of the murder you know to issue the the new let's say the hebrew between the new space between the i mean in internet in the in the printed version it's a very interesting it's very challenging question and of course definitely it's very interesting you know for the russian press because you know if you look at the russian internet you know it's it's basically the same as in the u.k. i mean they're just coping a lot of things but if you have a global look at the press of the u.k. i would like to say that the get. adequate picture was going on in the world and on the national level too and what impact do you think british press coverage has on you carrying out your duties its ambassador well for me it's very important because. definitely in bus the should read very carefully the newspapers because the first official information second you have commands and the third this is you know you just can't live with. the u.k. still harbors people sought under the russian legal system people that they sell ski. advice recently mocked. the subject of the knowledge of claims ever made me u.k. com

in taking the islands in the pacific ocean the past of the soviet union after the second world war and have been part of the russian federation ever since then we could make a very paid and historic first visit to the curdles and november his defense minister also went there just last week for a member says that a get out for off a short trip to the japanese criticisms that moscow wants only friendly relations with. the expressions used by the japanese officials are far from diplomatic and in great contrast with the polite and friendly tone of the meeting between president veered of and prime minister naoto kan and you can. i don't know perhaps it's due to the so-called northern territory's day that's been celebrated in japan today at the same time as we have said repeatedly we are still willing to closely cooperate with the japanese in carrying out specific projects lose regions of russia. ok a quick check now on some other world news this hour a tie vote is all battling for a fourth successive day over a disputed border area the conflict is centered around a temple internationally re

the problem goes back to wood row wilson. the bible said the borrowr is slaf to the lender. america is moving towards socialism. they are trying to wreck the country by design. if they raise the debt, it will be another nail in the coffin in our society. as we are hearing this morning, they will sit down with government owe firms. they'll have more at the bottom of the hour. joe is joining us from virginia. the question is how deep should budget cuts go? >> i think the budget cut ought to go real deep. how many times have you seen the budget take a pay cut? i have dealt with a lot of different things before. grants. there is a lot of grant money being wasted for side walks, sank waries, stuff like that. you could cut a job and that's what i was wandering doug has this point saying to an earlier call caller good morning. what is your comment. we went to war for 120 years to buy goods and service for our shoeld yours something about that don't sound right. >> the deficit we are facing this year is projected in the overall debt in excess of trillions. you can get that informati

the crime of the evil side the evil side which was also the loser of the conflict in the end the military might of nato and the united states prevailed over the losers and europe and the united states we're on the winning side and it was in the interest of the winning side to find out a lot about crimes from the losing side from the side they stood up against after the. intervention and the de facto creation of an independent kosovo state and nato and protectorate as we saw it in the last years before independence well the sings we're so father to return to the problems it was almost impossible because this would have resulted it's certainly not a round of war the permanent administration of course as a colony or as a protector it was not feasible as well so in the end there was no other way than granting independence which was to my feeling not right because it was against international rules against the law of the peoples as we know it with r.t. live from moscow and police have raided the offices of russia's richest woman yelena but when the wife of moscow's form a man who was sacked by

the success we have is to the table to him. he has the ability. they can bring people together to find common sense solutions. >> i'm going to do something i do not normally do. i will open this up and ask you to ask a few questions. what i would like to do is bring everybody in the audience up to speed on where we are. what were the marching orders that you got president obama when you said that this commission? >> this is the numbers guy. he only answers questions. i think the president knew who he was kidding when he brought us. he knew we were. they will give you the support needs. it is not sustainable. he understands that we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. you all come forward with the recommendation. we will get behind them. that was good enough for me once i found that he would be my cochair. >> i said if we do this, i do not what rahm emanuel running me off a cliff. i was convinced that the health care bill has to be on the table. nothing can be off the table. he said that was fair enough. we had a meeting. he said h

self-consciously mimicking the ways of the west, and so if the west had been turned, the united states in particular, turned its back on japan and said we will treat you know better than we treat the chinese, this would have alienated the japanese. .. >> roosevelt did them a good turn because be the war with russia would have continued, japan -- a far smaller power than russia -- eventually would have been ground down. so the japanese leaders wanted to blame the outcome on the americans, but still have the americans negotiate an end. so it's -- one has to be careful in describing the degree to which the japanese were actually insulted by all this and how much this was done for domestic political consumption. anyway, roosevelt definitely did not want to antagonize the japanese because as roosevelt discovered, roosevelt was one of the strong advocates of annexation of the philippines. and in 1898 and 1899 that seemed like a really good idea. but what roosevelt did not sufficiently appreciate was that the american people were, and i might even say are, essentially anti-imperialist at hear

the lights flashing the crowd waiting anxiously and the refs making the call upstairs to the video referee down on the ice it looked like a near miss off the pipe but slower tv's equipment was needed for a closer look goal no goal whether any off and said players in the crease after careful review to replay confirm the call and the number was state with no goal surrender. this until it was that was the several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on the road and very often fans in teams management questioned the ruling saying it was biased since last year we decided to stop this practice and introduce the position of video referee it up with the stuff is reasonable under the course of the light in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it was. before or after the clock runs out so we asked the developers to display the time of the screen a puppet so that the video referee could decide we had five or six such moments last season and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call the public show the teams look if you don't believe us we can al

"the new york times" is one of the best in the world. we are delighted to welcome our guests to the national press cologne. -- national press club. has been a reporter since 1970. he has been bureau chief for the soviet union and south africa. he won a pulitzer prize for his coverage of the soviet union and has also been a columnist and managing director. gene has been with the paper since 1990, although he did take seven years of to be the manager for the "l.a. times." he, too, has won the pulitzer prize for reagan -- cliff surprise. i have called your newspaper -- he has won the pulitzer prize. i have called your newspaper a miracle triggered he worked in new york, which is the headquarters of "the new york times." how many people work for "the new york times" hamas awareness actual journalists are a little more than a 1100 -- how many people work for "the new york times"? >> i shall journalists are a little more than 1100. >> of the 1100, how many are actually reporters who cover stories? >> roughly 400. >> on a normal day, when you g

on the health care issue on the -- on the floor of the senate. but one of the most important parts of this debate has been the overall cost either savings or lost if this legislation is repealed. and, of course, the highly regarded congressional budget office has determined that there would be an overall increase of health care in america if the bill were repealed. and i think it's very important for us to recognize the valuable work that the congressional budget office does. they are really one of the most important parts of the decisions that we make on legislation. but i think it's also very important to point out that the congressional budget office makes decisions directly related to the input and the parameters and the details of legislation and how they're sent. the congressional budget office most appropriately does not decide on policy. they are simply there as a budget office. so what i'm saying is, garbage in, garbage out. if you are given certain data base to make judgments of cost on, then, of course, you are going to come out with b

with moved it from the precincts of the journalism school to the grand room in the library. this event evolves -- involves plants lining up in a way. we were called and it just so happens that we were able to procure the panelists services not only of bill keller but also allen alan rusbridger. all of them will be further introduced in a minute. this is a subject that is completely obsessive interest to people interested in journalism and foreign policy and national security. this has been what is sure to be a memorable evening. i have one small logistical notes. courtesy of "the new york times," there is a room behind here. there is free food and drinks after this event. for anybody who cares to come. our moderator tonight is emily bell, who is still in a first year -- wanted to say hi to them if they are out there. thank you for what you have done to help make events like this possible. emily, come on up. ok. fair enough. sit down the takeover. i will go sit down. thanks again, everybody, for coming. [applause] >> thank you very much, indeed for that introduction. this is

i let the union because of the way the union held me back -- left the union because the way the union held back and did not advance me personally. i was a union official, i was a steward, a shop steward and at that time -- now, that was back in michigan and back in the 1980's, and the union environment was different then. all we did was spend 90% of our time protecting the people who did not want to work and thought that they were owed everything and did not have to work for it. host: mike, democrat. you are on. caller: thank you for accepting my call. i would think the republican governor, they just want to be union busters. i don't think they want to balance the budget. if they did, they would repeal the bush tax breaks for the rich. host: allentown, pennsylvania. james is a republican. you are up next. caller: hi, susan? can it happen and where -- pennsylvania? yes. has happened before? yes. there was a popular book in the -- that came out last year, about 100 years ago unions and big business were actually fighting to the death in the streets. there was "a los angeles times" build

all the way down into the ground below the basement. they emptied the house by bringing all the parts into the shops and out the window -- shafts and out the window openings. they dug down and they had paid taxes -- pick axes. they were going to chop the door wide -- a door wider. he said, stop, you cannot do that. he said, take them apart. that is exactly what they did they took them down to just metal. they had a driveway under the wall. the house was literally an empty vessel. >> filling in the empty shell of the mansion, truman built the white house for the future, fortifying the insides with steel instead of what print -- wood, while his quality preserves his historic interiors to what they had been in the past. what we see today, he makes a change that impacted an important part of white house ceremony thereafter. he shows off the newly built white house in the first ever televised tour of the mansion in 1952. beginning the program by coming down the brand new grand staircase that he designed. >> the grand stair was changed becaus

look for the line on the right hand side of the page. we have videos of some of the moments. >>> downed wires forced muni to shut down a railway line tonight. they said it stopped service on its line shortly before 6:00 tonight when 150 feet of wire fell to the ground. nobody was hurt. they aren't saying what caused the wires to collapse. they have set up a bus bridge between judith and 22nd. we just checked the website about 20 minutes ago and service had still not been restored. >> passengers boarded bart trains for the first time today at the new west dublin pleasanton station located at interstate 580 and 680 in dublin. the first train pulled out of the station this morning and will serve riders. >> in the 90's we are building it, this was supposed to be a stop. we had no money for it. we put in all the plumbing, all the things in case the money came in. >> money came in and ground broke four years ago. it's the first to be built in between two existing stations. >>> bart investigators haven't said how several pieces of metal ended u

from the moment the u.s.-led invasion of iraq began. moreover, this is not a fixable situation. because a potentially -- the cause a potential iraq regime ambivalent towards israel exists only in the minds of pro-israel u.s. citizens, these are the men and women who at the day's end our israel's most lethal enemies. the cost of the unqualified u.s. support for israel long has been measured only in dollars and political capital. and as such has been largely ignored by americans and ignored to washington's wasteful. but we are now in a situation where the cost of support for israel is or soon will be measured in the lives of american parents children. that cost i think will quickly become obvious, abhorrent, and utterly unacceptable to those parents. fourth, finally, and i think most importantly, the u.s. government and its european allies must stop trying to spread democracy abroad by military, financial, humanitarian or political intervention. no young american man or woman should die for the insane goal of g

the shot of the peninsula of through the 10:00 a.m. hour, into mountain view picking up heavier rain. then spotty showers through the afternoon into the evening. it looks as though it may linger around in through tomorrow. the current temperatures '40's, 50's. into the afternoon warming up into the 50s. 50 novato, napa, san rafael. the east bay could be warmer getting up to 55 mid-50s also south of the peninsula. 7 day around the bay shows more rain on the way. don't put the umbrella for the rain coat away. saturday, sunday slight chance of showers continuing to go into next work week. george? >> george: a developing hot spot on 280 extension, what you are looking at is the caltrans truck that is parked in the lanes of to 80 northbound leading towards san francisco. they're trying to replace a sign that was damaged early morning accident. it forced the closure of a connecting ramp onto interstate 280. because of the placement of the closure a lot of people will be forced onto to 80 southbound. surprisingly it has not backed up the traf

the infrastructure across the length of the country isn't on the cheek. universal service will be a large part of the solution to read it may not be the whole solution. i also look for final action to we started down the road on this already realizing setting up and running of the reverse options for the proposals in term and long term that we played here for the connect america fund. modernizing our low-income support mechanism to support brand must also be a top priority in the federal state recommendations and identify key issues in the life line programs and i anticipate action soon on certainly made impressive progress toward making sure the rate is able to fulfil its maximum potential going forward. e-rate is going to deliver equally amazing results in the years ahead. finally, it is imperative that and i welcome randy's comments on that. you heard me speak many times before about this so i won't belabor it here believe the telecommunications act of 1996 envisioned a will laugh implementing the statute that has not yet been achieved. maybe we can ac

all of the politicians at the state level, the local level and the national level, they say that in the jobs president, jobs governor, jobs mayor, etc.. but if we want to be able to ask d answer the question of what we can do to make sure that jobs will grow in new hampshire or minnesota or our country, we should ask the people that provide the jobs. that is an important perspective. we need to listen to people that know what they are doing. this depends on asking the question correct please -- correctly. besides your fate, in addition to your famil wt brings you the most joy in your life? what brings you the most meaning? there is a series of things that people worry about or hope for that might be getting their health insurance premiums paid or how they would get a son or daughter to college or they might be worried about a simple thing like how they might get a half a tank of gas in their car so they can get to the next job interview or maybe they are worried about a home repair that is critical, particularly this time of year when it is cold. what you will see is that it all depends

the lease, and that the building is in the same condition at the end of the 15- year lease or 20 years that it is upon the completion of the capital improvement project, and that is very significant for the department facing $1.7 million in deferred capital needs. in addition, the least he will be setting up a dedicated personal property funds -- the lacey -- the leasee will be setting up a dedicated personal property fund. while the city does not directly benefit from that expenditure, the reality is that as the boats have become worn, we have seen a decrease in revenue, and this will prevent a similar situation from occurring towards the end of this lease. when we look at projected rents, we see a year one projection of $200,000 to the apartment, which as the general manager said is over a 33% increase in the five- year average for the last five years. again, we see projections for the next five years would average approximately $213,000, ranging from $200,000 in year one up to $225,000 in year five. again, that is a significant increase. that is 42% over the last five years. if we c

after the after president of the left the country two people were killed in the tunisian town of kef when police opened fire on protesters around one thousand were demanding the resignation of the local police chief who they claim abused a woman from the local community many in the country remain distrustful of police who they blame for carrying out their repressive policy of president ben ali who was ousted last month. and the indian navy has seized more than twenty pirates and rescued two dozen hostages from a hijacked thai fishing boat. it happened off the southwestern coast of india they will now all be taken to mumbai and handed over to authorities pirates mainly from somalia. in the indian ocean in recent years and three vessels were reportedly captured just last year. thirty five homes have been destroyed and hundreds of others evacuated as fires rage in western australia the blazes were found by a massive cycler that struck the east of the country on friday cyclonic also exacerbated the flooding that continues to affect the eastern region they've been the country's worst in d

you know the media is the right hand of the ruling class it is the voice of the ruling class in this particular country of which we would say less than ten percent own ninety percent of the wealth and resources so this arm this propaganda arm of the ruling class does represent corporation it does represent government if there can be government because the so-called democracy is run by dollars you know it is the political campaigns where they spend millions upon millions of dollars i mean almost if you think about it wastefully so it is the ruling class interest that the media represents in the name of the corporations in america being going to the biggest corporations when one of your songs you say the democrats and the republicans are two sides of the same coin does that mean. you state that obama is just a continuation of george bush obama. representing capitalism being just a continuation of george bush isn't understood. you have a system which was built of the slave of african people to reverse the birth of this economy it gave birth to not only what's happening here domestically

the are the examples. and saudi arabia and iran are the only other examples we have of regimes which have sought to implement this sort of program that exists on the egyptian muslim brotherhood's website. i often say, what is their definition of insanity? repeating the same action and expecting a different result. i would expect egypt to go in that directionalthough in a milder form. the eight territories show seven characteristics. most of them do. first, muslim voices other than those of the islamists have been silenced. secondly, religious and ethnic minorities are persecuted. women are subjugated. the society tends to be less free than it was before, not that any of these societies were marvelous before hand. the all suffer widespread violence and most of them have engaged in war. finally, the regimes have not moderated while in power. i believe this should give us great caution. we fear about what might happen within egypt and outside of it, if the brotherhood has real power. one of our goals should t

the wall wasn't the proper height at the time? >> reporter: the zoo faced a small fine the exhibit has since been are designed with higher walls. >> it's amazing to me that a lot of people were very quick to blame the teens that were there instead of facing up and saying you know what that tiger shouldn't have gotten out. >> reporter: the zoo settled out of court with the family for a undisclosed amount. ken pritchett. >> a body pulled today from a patterson canal matches a man suspected in kidnapping a 4- year-old on january 18th. rodriguez was the ex-boyfriend of the mother. the second body was found today by a water authority employee. a witness saw the two drive into the canal less than an hour after the kidnapping. 9 body of the little boy was found february 1st. today the mother had a message for rodriguez's family. >> i wanted to let his mom know that i feel her pain because i know what it's like to loose a son. >> a positive identification of the body is still pending. an autopsy is scheduled for tuesday. >> the man wanted

the old days the way egypt was run if the head of the party said that you could take it to the bank. so it just showed also this kind of total confusion in the ruling elite. and the final reason i would say that, as was explained to me, the revolution has moved outside tahrir square. it's one,-- i'm sure you've already reported this, that you've had labor strikes and demonstrations in other cities. but also in these companies and in what's called syndicates, which are sort of like unions, if you're a journalist, a doctor, a dentist or a lawyer you have to belong this to thing and there are always party guys who run them. and apparently today at the press since cat there was a revolt internally and they wouldn't even let the head of it come into the building and then tom fried man, our "new york times" colleague, was at a press conference at the journalists club and he said it was almost as if the head of the syndicate there was hiding under his desk. and there were similar movements, i talked to some young doctors today. so there was a sense among people even in the government that t

up the side on the on to the t.v.'s following yesterday's losses after investors dropped the stock due to uncertainty over the upcoming s.p.o. price. to other news the london stock exchange and canada's t.n.x. group which owns the toronto stock exchange are to merge or share deal the new exchange is set to become the largest platform for trading mining companies at a time of surging commodity prices with a combined six point seven hundred listings it will also be the world's largest exchange by numbers of companies it's just the latest in the way of consolidation sweeping the globe exchanges here in russia the my six and r.t.s. have announced plans to march as well. it's all we have for you at the moment but you can always find most stories just log on to our website r.t. dot com let us. stop going. back to. the rally will sell lots of beer lol. they will wear uniforms that will damage is the black man million but very little damning the wife. and they are the key to our problem our own right.

but they do not talk about the bike for the baby. -- the rights for the baby. those of the things that trouble me. i am discouraged to hear these things. what are you going to do? i continue to go to church. i am a practicing catholic. i put my faith in christ. these things to worry me because i in human and i will worry even though i believe in god. host: our republican line is next. are you there? [unintelligible] one more time. we're going to move on. radcliff, texas. caller: thank you for taking my call. i agree with the previous caller saying that it is not about black-and-white, it is about the united states of america. we need to get together. wait that, come together. you know what i'm saying? i am proud to say that i m american. i think obama is doing a great job. host: as far as the amendments are concerned, 583 proposed according to the "washington post" and others. 153 of those were considered on the house of the floor and at the end of the day 67 ended up being adopted by house of representatives. one of the amendment by representative broun, 246 a

all we ask is for the opportunity for the people to have the choice on the ballot as to if they want to double the cuts or not double them. i think that's a very fair proposition. >> when jerry brown was governor in the 70's his state of the state speeches rangesserred from ten minutes to about 20. no word on how long tonight's speech will go but we will know shortly. he. >>> and we will continue our coverage on the website. you can catch -- watch clips of the governor's speech when it is over. >> after the city laid off dozens of police officers the mayor of oakland announced this afternoon they are going to rehire some of them. paul chambers live with more on that and of course the big question lingering about the department's leadership. >> reporter: several issues, one the radio problem officers had when they couldn't talk to each other seems to be fixed. two additional officers added to the force but will the top cop remain? in what appeared to be a united front the mayor, police chief and members of the council held a press conference to talk about how they plan to work togethe

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the official. from the. video. of you one. time a wave of illegal immigration is threatening to drown europe as uprising is in north africa and the middle east. a lot of tell you the shores. of the world's debating a multi-billion dollar democracy package for the region hit by revolts but many argue crippling cuts mean the money is desperately needed elsewhere. and in other news ukraine's h.i.v. positive patients accuse the health ministry of banking on their illness as corruption and mismanagement mean the sick are a left without essential drugs. and business the shop prize in the oil dries due to the end rests in the middle east has raised fears that the global recovery might be stopped in its tracks some experts say the fear is overplayed especially since oil supplies are still moving rose from the bring you more than twenty minutes. welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow nine am here in marina joshie now europe is facing an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration after libya's thread into alleged re

the most of the. one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage. napalm boy chemicals that whether it's. mammals or it's the burning oil fields or rock or destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for purposes of scope on the geneva conventions nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect. against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions one has taken exception to that. wealthy british style held some. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at financial headlines tune into. the headlines see protests flare violence is expected again in egypt. a strong push president mubarak from power and while the u.s. calls for a smooth transition of power. many point to the hypocrisy which decades long backin

the beauty of federalism is in the fact that the government does not tell the gap -- tell the states have to manage their own affairs. the burden of federalism is that, when one state or all 50 states are in a crisis, we must work together to solve them for the good of the country. since 1990, state and local government spending has increased roughly 70% faster than inflation. the vast majority of the states now find themselves in its fiscal straitjacket caused primarily by the looming burden of paying out billions of dollars in lucrative public sector union pensions and health care benefits that come at the expense of taxpayers. for the last three years, funding from the stimulus at has amassed the severity of the state fiscal challenges. in fact, there was $140 billion in transfers from the federal government's to the -- from the federal government to the states commend including stimulus. states know said that the money would -- that more money would help them through the current rough patch. the reality, however, is that the money states received from the stimulus has, in many wa

at the beginning the middle and the end of history. but you roussillon in one nine hundred forty eight was an armed camp. jewish areas protected by checkpoints and rifle bearing guards. the only way through was to disguise the bomb vehicles as a british military convoy. and the men driving those trucks were six british army deserters. you should tell me about the two british jews are under siege weren't any of the us treasury knew who were quick to go once that worst of them sent us to the mat against the steel can and i think they were not just so good there was a big in them up british soldiers who were working with him and. they were against the british policy keith lie through people from then and there placed them with other people thank those american who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry its nazi back home a nest of. parking the truck bombs close to two hotels being used as barracks by jewish fighters the desert or shot a security guard. and then fled. i don't you and that's it it's a fuse or exp

by supporting the uprisings in the arab world the u.s. only gives the appearance of change the american double standards in the middle east are so breathtaking that. one doesn't really know what to say in the case of egypt and as in the case of the other countries the interest of the united states is to present the appearance of change while maintaining political control that is what the americans are about revolution serves to legitimize a continuation of the status quo effectively you may remember in the great novel and film the leopard there's the famous saying everything must change so that everything stays the same and that's really the motto of the americans in these situations they're trying to keep a lid on the situation in the middle east they're trying to legitimize new versions of the old regime but of course that's not to say that there are new social pressures autonomous social pressures themselves there are of course considerable pressures pressures in these countries. well foreigners living and working in libya are leaving

the it inspired and inflamed the opportunity for change. and the second is the voice, the vehicle. and this is where elbaradei stands. it could be elbaradei, it could be noor that will carry this... or drive this vehicle to achieve at agenda that had gathered consensus. >> i just wanted to introduce one idea into this. this is what really struck me reporting over the past week here is that, you know, not only are we facing an historic moment in egypt, there's also a sense of a revolutionary moment. i think we've seen a degree of mobilization going on in just a minute that in some ways i think is unprecedented. the self-defense committees set up in neighborhoods, and mobilizations in people on the streets. it's spontaneous, unexpected and remarkable when you talk to activists how much they feel that event have outpaced them. and i think it's going to be a question moving forward. there are these figures out there, there are some movements that have tried to tap into this popular discontent. but basically this uprising has so far outpaced any notion of opposition that it's going to b

that is the way the 1974 budget act that dictates the process. i cannot tell you what our budget will be because they have written it yet. -- we have not written it yet. >> there are some that talk -- some democrats that talk about the possibility of some significant deficit-reduction package. do you think those comments provide opportunities for bipartisanship? how they blend with what the president -- how do they blend with what the president has said with a margin steny hoyer is one -- what the president has said? >> steny hoyer is one example, but as democrats did not have their voices heard in the submission of this budget. this budget is a hunting -- punting budget. it does not address the drivers of our debt. because for more spending, which they call investment, and a lot of new taxes. $8.7 trillion in new spending? $13 trillion added to the debt? we're. -- we are goingto spend $46 trillion of the next 10 years? this is not an austere budget. this is not getting the budget under control, keeping taxes low, and growing economies. these dem

the rear of the building is stepped down the hill to give visual relief to the neighbors in the rear. it also provides great outdoor space for tenants. the design is a clean, classical look with a level of detail that does not call attention to itself. it blends with the neighborhood. the placement of the stairs and elevators are not arbitrary. besides being a great design, this project will create jobs that are desperately needed in the city. please allow this project to proceed. >> good evening. i support the project. a lot of people have not seen the whole papers of the project. i suggest for them to go back and look at them. there is something beautiful coming out to them. president olague: thank you. >> could inning, commissioners. my name is sandy denuto. i am a disabled person. i am limited in the buildings i can live in because there is no elevator access. i am happy they are taking into consideration ada regulations and that i would not be excluded from being able to enjoy the roof access the other tenants would because i am not able to use steps anymore. an elevator is becom

and now we see that it was the start treaty that started the reset process also on the table at the munich security forum was another initiative backed by moscow the building of a unified anti missile defense system which includes russia the united states and the european union all sharing the responsibility for the safety of the other according to you i would offer maintaining a balance is essential for everyone security and he stressed this is a unique chance to work together. in agreement to discuss the possibility of a joint anti missile shield doesn't automatically mean russia is ready to join the program which is being drafted without its participation was the idea of take it or leave it doesn't work here if we don't work together she will have to compensate like it or not an emerging imbalance. getting rid of old cliches and dividing one that's the message was by most here in germany a country which learned from bitter experience what being divided is all about. a lot remains to be done to irreversibly overcome the accumulated historical clichés phobias. suspicions countries need t

the profit is lomb said the eink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. so these are savings that to me as a muslim scholar inspired me to the sense of having to do something. and on this journey, i can say, and i know c-span is covering this, but i found nothing but french shipping and warmth and will come from america. this is what i found. my wife, who is now a realtor working here in washington, my son who is a film maker found exactly the same friendship and the same warmth from the people of america. yet, there is a problem. we cannot avoid that. there is a problem in the u.s. and u.s. relations with the muslim world. let's look at why islam is so important for americans to understand, and understand correctly in an objective manner, in a scholarly manner, not emotionally. here are some reasons. first of all, america today has young men and women of many of them are students and many of them your family members in iraq come in afghanistan, in pakistan, somalia. hundreds of thousands. surely we in america need to understand the religion of the countr

the word of the day today is "the african queen." log on to nbcbayarea.com and enter that name and you'll be registered to win. we want your pictures, too. if you see the white stuff, send them to us. back to you. >>> christina, we'll take it over here. a little bit locallier, we have a lot of water on the roadways. you can use your car, not a boat just yet. spinouts are reported in many spots. we have a new accident reported on northbound 101 at highway 92. so as you approach the san mateo bridge transition, getting over the water is just fine, but getting through the water is an issue. there's another accident there near the interchange. be very careful up telethrough belmont north into the city. looking farther south, we look at the freeways, 280 and 101, no problems as far as the volume or speeds into the south bay. 237, watch for typical patches of flooding coming through milpitas getting closer to 880 and the 237 interchange. you see slowing out of mountain view and sunnyveil. cold and wet, and marla will et let us know if the