roughly the size of maryland, it's considered to be one of the safest nations in europe. but criminals do exist here. and the most hard core can be found 50 miles east of brussels in the town of hasselt. prison hasselt houses 470 men, and in a separate unit, 30 women. >> this is unique. the other prisons in this country, they are old prisons. they are more than 100 years, 150 years old and have a culture. bad or good culture but they always have a culture. we started from zero. >> as the nation's newest high security prison, hasselt employs a wide array of technology to manage inmates. but many of the prison policies are nothing at all like we've ever seen in the u.s. from 9:00 at night until 6:30 in the morning, correctional officers are not allowed to go inside cells without special permission from the prison director. >> at 9:00 they are locked in the cells. they collect the keys and can you not go in the cells. >> why? >> that's the rules here. >> what do you think goes on behind these doors? >> i don't know and i don't want to know. sbu when you go around and make yo

europe and then the us why anxiety is good for you amber. what is editorial decision all about and do you think there's a deliberate effort by the forces that view did not make people fully aware of the process of revolution a lot of people when i tell them about my book people friends of mine overseas they had no idea there were protests happening in the united states because it's been so well censored and that's emblematic of everything that's going on the mainstream media right now with the censorship which is another reason i publish this book and as someone who worked in the inside i mean the censorship is happening as seymour hersh said in a guardian op ed he said that in order to change the media and really have accurate coverage of protests and just humanity in general we need to fire about eighty to ninety percent of staffers at these mainstream outlets and i agree with him one hundred percent you are about as you left c.n.n. you exposed in censorship but funding from the. the government talk about this do you think this kind of qui

and much of europe and after ara are saying hello to 2014. we have move celebrations around the world. but first a look at tonight's top stories. russia beats security following two deadly bombings as president putin vows to annihilate the terrorists responsible. >>> ethnic fighting shows no sign of letting up. >>> and marijuana becomes legal for all tomorrow. >> i'm john terrett in times square new york. join me and a million other people as we all count down to 2014. ♪ >> new year's celebrations in moscow went ahead as planned while those plans in st. petersburg were canceled. the attackserthose responsible o attacks are still at large, and we have more now from volgograd. >> reporter: there was not much left on the trolley car when the am against arrived. survivors were hanging on and volgograd hospital was less than ten minutes away. one of badly injured brought here. >> it felt like a huge electric shock. i didn't see anyone with a bomb. i was looking out the window, and i can't remember anything after that. >> reporter: for the second

and much of europe and after ara are saying hello to 2014. we have move celebrations around the world. but first a look at tonight's top stories. russia beats security following two deadly bombings as president putin vows to annihilate the terrorists responsible. >>> ethnic fighting shows no sign of letting up. >>> and marijuana becomes legal for all tomorrow.

here in europe, the ftse ended with short gains. it was a short session for the london and harris indices. frankfurt's doubled back on that monday, and that is why we are not including that index in this graphic as we usually do. next up, a street fight heating up in france. a company will rebel against a new rule that limits how quickly they can pick up passengers. chauffeurs will have to wait 15 minutes after an online booking before starting the ride. this follows intense lobbying why taxidrivers who say they do of thed an extension same taxi licenses they do. >> it is completely artificial. why should we have this handicap? it is not logical. is why the competition watchdog, which is completely independent, does not favor one opening over another, handed down a clear judgment against this ruling. >> ok, we have one more story to tell you. you see the french government has issued a decree allowing home-improvement stores to stay open on sundays. this after heated debate here in france in recent months on sunday opening hours. ret

this is a little different. [ chanting ] >> it's one of europe's oldest city, with a history scarred by war. it was invaded not once but twice by attila the hun. even today its ministry of defense building stands in ruins from nato bombings in 1999. this is belgrade. capital city of serbia. less than two miles from the city center, serbia's largest and most infamous prison. centrale socmore. known locally as cz. >> my parents are from belgrade so there was a bit more emotion going to a prison in serbia than say other prisons around the world. cz has an ominous reputation for serbs. it's where inmates went in, and then you'd never see them again. >> cz opened its doors in 1950 and has housed countless political prisoners, including opponents of the late serbian president slobodan milosevic. many were still there when milosevic himself was incarcerated here in 2001, while awaiting trial for corruption and war crimes. today it houses some of the nation's most dangerous criminals. including the assassin of a former serbian prime minister. >> translator: they have committed all kinds of c

25 years after the all of the berlin wall, the beginning of the end of the division of germany and europe. >> the chancellor called on everyone in germany to pull together and to get involved. she says politics can achieve little without the involvement of the people. >> you can see angela merkel's address in full in the addition of the "journal" coming out at 1900 hrs utc, but as the new year comes closer, let's take a look back at some of the big moments of 2013. >> there was a devastating typhoon in the philippines. the syria conflicts continued to rage. nelson mandela, founder of the rainbow nation, died, and benedict xvi became the first pope in hundreds of years to resign. our report begins with his successor. >> on the 13th of march, 2013, catholics around the world welcome jorge mario berg olio as their new pope. he chose the name francis in honor of saint francis of a cc -- st. francis of asisi. his devotion has inspired in november, filipinos asked a world for help. one of the largest typhoons on the record struck her country, destroying everything in its path. it was one of the

says they are almost certainly going to take the product to singapore or china or japan or india or europe because the food and drug administration is useless. what we talk about is the pioneers of the future coming and then we talk about prison guards of the past. imagine that was the 1840's and the government in its modern form the stagecoaches would hire lobbyists to pass the law to say that railroads couldn't go faster than a horse. [laughter] because it is an unfair competitive that vantage. you may think that i am exaggerating. in the 1920's the newspapers of congress passed the law that made it illegal to have radio news. down in the 1930's there was a brief period you couldn't have radio news because people protect their own self-interest. very few people go out voluntarily to give up their interest for the greater good. that's why we have a constant tension between the pioneers of the future and the prison guards of the past. now one of the areas that is going to become the most fascinating is online learning. now, this is being stream on youtube, for example tonight. one of my fa

particular winners starting from zero to 100 in the united states anymore but you may find that in europe, what do you think? >> if you have u.s. stocks you already have international exposure. we're big fans of emerging market, not so much directly investing in china and those countries but in the consumer if it is growing and middle class being created. david: be specific, joe. that encompass as lot of countries. are we talking mexico, indonesia, countries like that? >> i think you can go almost anywhere where they are creating goods for us to buy. no question the u.s. economy is growing faster than it has in a long time. producers can be from about bra sir, russia, china, indonesia and korea. but the best way to do it is invest in etfs like econ that invest in the middle class in those countries. countries that supply them they have more disposable money and more successful we are. an area that underperformed this year which is interesting for the future. we think people need to make sure they're not overly invested in u.s. stocks because they so outperformed the rest of the world othe

but now for the first time, a lockup crew travels to eastern europe and goes behind the wall of six maximum security prisons. >> there was a moment there where it

first they wanted to be in europe. then they wanted a revolution. that. ukraine's leaders feared that a free trade zone with the e.u. would cause industry to collapse the crowds never bought that but when the police used force against peaceful bro e.u. protesters. they stopped caring altogether. government building stormed barricades built and top western politicians dropping by the german and dutch foreign ministers and a deputy u.s. secretary of state before u.s. senator john mccain weighed in taking a swipe at russia stalks while stirring up the key of crowds himself premier others with a few. america is with you. but none of them dug ukraine out of its mess mosco later agreed to help with a discount on gas prices and a fifteen billion dollar loan for the now entrenched protesters the lifeline was a sellout. any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed ah. give still has the crowds what's more twenty fifteen will see ukraine choose its next president a leader who needs to make a difference and whether it's embittered sides continue to fi

pole the bottom of lake baikal the deepest lake in the world to the top of the highest mountain in europe bruce it's been into outer space the torch has been in space twice before believe it or not this one but previous lympics but no where the torch has been on a spaceport that's what happened in november i think it was it's back down on earth now it's coming is than it was a question as well when i went on the space walk and just to be clear about it obviously you can't take. the oxygen it wouldn't burn but that very top will be used to light the cauldron the opening ceremony in sochi and that connection there's another there were a few little hitches with the flame going out at one point loads of back up from the original flame others that work well when that original flame is late in the limpia that was used to light several lanterns about half a dozen and then flames from those they used to really like the torch if it goes back even on one occasion and if you remember in the first leg yeah from the kremlin when i was doing. internet extras that i do not have in place but anyway but s

no europe where the banks are imploding on themselves. these issues haven't gotten away, we just don't talk about them because the s&p is up 30%. >> rick, that's why we're keeping you around the whole program. tim, we have to let you go. tim seymour you can be sure to catch coming up on "fast money" at 5:00 p.m. >>> straight ahead, wall street gimp main street and times square revelers a reason to celebrate. the big party begins here in a couple of hours. been kind of a party on wall street this whole year, by the way. stocks locking in their best annual gains since the mid 1990s. much more on how big a year this has been coming up. >>> plus, chalk this up for the little guy, so called big money beating hedge funds. kate kelly going to weigh in on that. we could see some fireworks all on our own on the nyse. you won't want to miss it. >>> welcome back on this new year's eve. wall street making history. the major averages posting their best annual gains since the 1990s. dominic chu with the final tallies. >> put a lid on it, stick a fork i

over the last couple of years, there might be better longer-term valuation opportunity in places like europe and the emerging market. when you're looking at the emerging market you do have to be a little careful because there are some countries which might go from emerging to submerging to specific examples with venezuela and argentina. that is mainly due to political issues, but if you're looking at china, there is some tremendous opportunity and also looking at mexico, we are doing some great things as far as political reforms. cheryl: at market has been on a tear. staying away in 2014, little bit of caution to our viewers. wells fargo chief portfolio strategist. have you looked at your portfolio? you should today. you can celebrate if you open up your statement. this is it, 38 minutes to go for 2013. a lot of you probably benefit from tax breaks including using mass transit. come tomorrow you might have to start paying up again. washington, re-upping some of the practical and sometimes silly breaks. what are the chances they will be reinstated next year? speaking of transit, will he be on

whether it is a downgrade, whether it is weakness in europe. the reasons we had a great year is because of the european union doing a great job in stabilizing some significant risk in greece, italy, portugal, spain. it is coming back to haunt us again. the debt needs to be refinanced and renegotiated. >> one of the themes has been continued multiple expansion. those are companies that set into the rally. going into the year there were some bears like adam parker, for example, although he changed his mind, he said that we would see contraction this year, is that in the cards yet? >> we could see contraction but it will be sector by sector. the theme of 2014 should be a stock picker's market, not about etf's anymore. you need to find the stocks that are going to do well because they fit into a specific area where there is growth and opportunity. these two divergent themes going on. i do see the industrials having a strong year because even though industrials, even though i have some that are fairly valued. a nice place to hide any kind of market

to go before they buckle defeat makes picture indeed peter what about any further evidence of europe's north south divide what are the chances that euro elections will happen that will see any further wedge next year in twenty fourteen. well these elections that are coming up in may the european parliament elections are set to be well the most important elections of their kind ever seen in the history of the european union we've seen a whole host of political parties spring up here in germany we've seen alternative for germany also in austria in the u.k. as well they have these these new parties coming out who are on t. establishment their immigration a lot of them are unto you row their brussels and their austerity and they could be they could cause a huge upset in the parliamentary elections because there's a magic number of thirty percent now if all of those those political parties can get thirty percent of the share in the european parliament then well they can start really causing problems for the the established political elites in europe and they can try and really implement som

., but importantly underperform europe. europe is going to be a big surprise, i think, in 2014. it's going to be a very positive surprise. >> got you. now paul, you -- your company is -- bespoke investment group. you look at all different kinds of stats and custom tailor out all of the interesting market commenta commentary. what's going to be the big theme as we head into 2014. >> i think we're going to continue to see some strength that we've seen so far this year. when we looked at the numbers i gave you, these are numbersle that you could conceivably hit this year based on prior years where we've seen a 25% gain. and i think the biggest shocking number of them all is, in the nasdaq, when you had a 25% plus gain in one year, the next year at some point in the year the index is -- averages a 25% gain. year to date at some point if the year. that would take the nasdaq to a new high and take out the highs from 2000. so i think that would be the biggest shocker of them all. >> that's not wish-washy, that's very bold. we like bold as we said. tell us what -- >> overall we see heal

so what do they see in europe? first of all, with all due respect to the commissioner, we get the commissioner for public health to deal with this issue. well, the president who should have stepped in his helicopter and flown to straussburg to answer 205 million citizens, we have at least the responsible commissioner to respond to terrorism in the house. where is the responsible commissioner? why aren't the prime political leaders of europe here? we also need to look at ourselves, colleagues. look around you. an empty hemicycle. this house just over a decade ago when faced with a similar situation, something called echelon, we decided to set up a heavy parliamentary inquiry. today we get a handful of dedicated m.e.p.'s to address 500 million citizens. we are failing the european citizens at a time where trust in the european union is at an all-time low! we should be ashamed of ourselves. and then to the subject matter itself, first of all, we can't have been very surprised to find that the americans are spying on u

go before they're back on their feet makes picture indeed peter what about any further evidence of europe's north south divide what are the chances that euro elections will happen that will see any further wedge next year and twenty fourteen. well these elections that are coming up in may the european parliament elections are set to be well the most important elections of their kind ever seen in the history of the european union we've seen a whole host of political parties spring up here in germany we've seen alternative for germany also in austria in the u.k. as well they have these these new parties coming out who are on t. establishment their immigration a lot of them are anti euro they're brussels and they're anti austerity and they could be they could cause a huge upset in the parliamentary elections because there's a magic number of thirty percent now if all of those those political parties can get thirty.

the netherlands to israel and the role that was thirty five percent rise in migration from western europe into israel. much of the elliott came from full mostly be its tight stifling some seven thousand five hundred and twenty in twenty thirteen a figure roughly the same as in the previous year with the majority coming from russia to reduce the baltic states and ukraine. in. assailants fired on the home with your easy and faster to athens in the pre dawn attack that saw zero injury speaking to his residence was sprayed with bullets from ak forty seven assault rifles authorities say they recovered more than sixty bullets new group has claimed responsibility. police closed off a large area in forensic specialist police evidence markers in st kilda reportedly thinks the government for the police's quick response the greek government contended the institute's inclusive was intended to damage the country's image and six will take over the presidency of the european union as greece's largest bailout lived in germany is often the subject of harsh criticism within the country races in year six of

europe did a lot better this year and a lot of managers did quite well from sovereign debt. not the most exciting story. it was a lot of continuation of the same policy. it did seem a lot of managers up two longt exposure to reach the s&p and global stocks. >> to kelly's point, that is why it it was in general i tough year for global macro traders. it was an easy year, let's say, for people who have a specialty or a niche. >> that is exactly right. i'm not aware of any section that did as well as the stock market. i would not invest in a hedge certaint was only stock. hedge funds thrive on volatility. they are small and nimble and can get ahead. low volatility is a difficult environment. though we are talking about performance, putting that aside there were big personalities. we had sac capital, allegations of insider trading. there was, in fact a charge. a big activist year. what were your favorite headlines? >> like you said, the continuation of the insider trading probe is something we were following for years and it did come to a head with sac and everyone speculating wh

most of europe basically these large group of protesters. two to include tax. if you use tweezers to return policies in europe the nsa surveillance drones in america and a wide range of concerns like freedom of press and the most of the simplest thing in taking the kids who tend to disagree and i'm desperate to be heard when they go through the usual channels of electoral democracy. they just have a feeling that the governments are representing their interests so they feel they have no alternative but to take to the streets and express themselves in a way that the governments cannot ignore them. kevin has happened to you. the second from the new the rankings seem to care the clean up your feet and wake up and cheer. protests from different continents and in different countries these here clashes between protesters and authorities the greatest fear the government pass is that people will feel protest is fashionable to the people will feel that democracy is fashionable. some decide to use them to protect themselves from these priests to come true. just need to co

in europe it was a good year. the ukay's ftse up 15%, the cac up, the german dax rose to a record up more than 25%. none of those held to the s&p 500. the broad market here, of course, you got a gain of 29% on the stop 500. on the stop 600 in europe you're up 17%. quite an underperformance there. dominic chu, is europe an opportunity or drag next year? >> it could be an opportunity, especially if you look at other places. you're always going to hear about what you said, the uk's footsy, germany's dax. what about the other market indic indic indices? they've had dekreents years. the hardest hit countries during the european debt crisis. italy's mib up in 2013. spain's ibex 35 up around we'll call it 21% in that time. and then greece's athens stock exchange composite index up 28%. one of the stories that hasn't been getting a ton of attention is ireland, the index is up a whopping look at this 34% in 2014. beating the german dax and the s&p 500 in the u.s. some investors who made those bets in those peripheral europ

now, some of that has already been tested in europe. according to the "wall street journal," london's gatwick airport processed 3,000 passengers this year through the boarding gate of british airways using just their irises. that eliminated the need for boarding passes and identification. they already can identify some of those passengers. this is again, being used in limited fashion overseas in europe and in the testing them in other plays. but experts believe this is kind of the wave of the future. then they'll go from eliminating boarding passes and getting you streamlined at the gates to possibly doing that for security screening. but that could be a little bit further down the road. as you mentioned, it does kind of prompt this debate at least in the united states and in europe and elsewhere over what is better at catching potential toifrts. could a machine do it with some kind of faisal recognition or is it better to have a person do that. there's some debate as to whether this might eliminate the job of a tsa screener. some exper

coupon for the territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. again now is twenty thirteen comes to an end we look back at what history will remember from the last twelve months spy scandals breakthroughs in international diplomacy drawing controversies and the bit afraid of the arab spring and he said i would refuse the biggest stories of the outgoing. i would describe this man as an american hero he's a hero but each node is a hero the whistleblower sent a world wide wake up call with the ultimate revelation of twenty thirteen the former n.s.a. analyst told it all america was spying on citizens world leaders friends and foes alike and the man has broken the laws and i damage the country i think is a traitor snowden quickly became the most wanted man of the year with the us ready to stop and search a president's plane just in case. my first thought when i was forced to land was how can your opinion countries obey the will of the us i imagine these nations would defenders of democra

. >>> i'll be back with europe later. now back to doha. >> there's lots more toment come on the al jazeera news hour. we'll tell you why eastern european migrants in britain say they are being typecast. >>> and raphael opened his tennis season. find out how he did later in sport with robin. >>> to syria now, and it has been over three years since the start of the war there. in that time more than 130,000 people have been killed according to the latest tally by the syrian observatory. it says that civilians account for more than 46,000 of the dead. the fighting has of course continued inside the country. activists say at least ten people have been killed in an attack onnen a bus in aleapto. >> reporter: forces have stepped up they efforts in recent weeks. this bus was reported by here to buy government tank shell. activists said that barrels filled with tnt has killed at least 500 since last week. there has been heavy fighting between rebel groups and the military in other areas of syria in recent days. this video appears

stereotype policies in europe the n.s.a. surveillance and drones in america and the wide range of concerns like freedom of the press and the loss of the secular state in turkey. disenchanted disagreeing and desperate to be heard when they go through the usual channels of electoral democracy they just have a feeling that the governments aren't representing their interests so they feel they have no alternative but to take to the streets and express themselves in a way that the government cannot ignore them and the governments haven't ignored them is certainly a problem in many places in some sort of gap between popular feeling and the way government triac many of the protests sparked on different continents and in different countries these here and up with clashes between protesters and authorities the greatest fear the government has is that people will feel protesters fashionable that people will feel that democracy is fashionable some decided to use the law to protect themselves from these risks in chicago and come back and

europe, we're seeing a better economy. actually seeing job creation there. france aside. but that was never what really drove the economy there. so you're getting rid of tapering, gives nobody an excuse to blame the fed for not coming in. you have to be in. and when you take that in conjunction with what i think is a bear market in bonds, equities are the only place to be, and the u.s. is the best place to be. >> talk to me, jim, about the worst dow stock that is now one of your best ideas for 2014? >> well, let's use ibm as a sort of diagnostic for what we think we should do going into 2014, which is rotate out of the winners and into the losers. i pretty much agree with steve that there isn't too much to fear in 2014. but 5%, 7% correction, just to break the trend line, is not inconceivable. and if that happens, we'd rather be in the cheaper names than in the higher-beta expensive names which could get hurt a lot more. ibm is so cheap. steve and i debated it last week. it's so cheap, it's not going anywhere. it's a nice, safe place to be if we do get a little minicorrec

. >> and stopped over in europe because they thought edward snowden might be on board. and angela merkel thought she had been spied upon by the united states. and then in south american , they often complain they don't get enough attention from the united states, but now here they were getting a lot. >> maybe it was a good thing in some ways. the fact that hugo chavez died this year, in a way with his death the disappearance of a leader that would actually be able to bring together different countries in latin america to an united front in regards to the united states also just makes it less important for the united states to pay attention to what's going on south of the border. >> we also had the first hope from the global south and pope francis has been a phenomena , a pope with 90% approval rating? >> i cited syria's top story, the pope is close behind. his appointment, his election has the potential to have long-term consequences and impact. in the u.s. it has brought people back to the catholic church. people who had fallen away because they're unhappy with the ten

as a mining engineer doing the huge projects abroad including injured up and he continued to live in europe with the relief efforts during world war i and in the post war era. if you travel in belgium and other countries, herbert hoover is a hero for a essentially saving people from starvation as well as other countries. one of the things he noticed during his time is that it was giving away the various forms of totalitarianism, socialism, communism, he eventually moxie is -- had nazism he thought that they were turned against hoover in the forms of european totalitarianism in fact if you look at the cartoon icons of the 1930's if he will come herbert hoover liked to talk about the rugged individual come and i'm sorry, franklin roosevelt said know it is about the forgotten man. these are great cartoon icons of the 1930's. hoover argued america is about equality of opportunity and it's about individuals having the freedom to decide how they want to live their lives and how to pursue that. so america is about the equality of opportunity. franklin roosevelt said, and this is shocking to me, sh

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he became one of the most respected ambassadors in europe, diplomats in europe. he was, in fact, eventually shot by a woman, but it didn't have anything -- [laughter] it didn't have anything to do with that. it was a fascist who hated him, and she shot him on one of the bridges in paris, and he lived. he lies today in a cemetery in paris beside his wife and among his lafayette ancestors, many of whom had died within a stone's throw of the guillotine during the french revolution. entertaining here in another massachusetts -- and in other massachusetts avenue houses had public receptions in the private houses. more for lack of space, i think, than anything else. they were crammed and rented houses, just townhouses with a double parlor here in the dining room. and people would come, public receptions, they'd just run 'em through and run 'em out the back because they were so crowded. a public reception was literally that, often advertised by notice in the post or evening star. some hostesses announced weekly, announced themselves weekly during the social season. most

. ♪ >>> some news from europe now. russian president vladimir putin has vowed to annihilate terrorists after two bombs in two days. dozens of people have been arrested. most for failing to produce documents. 34 people were killed in the attacks on a train station and trolly bus. peter sharp reports. >> reporter: there wasn't much left of the trolly car when the ambulances arrived. a ruptured tin can surrounded by bodies, but survivors were hanging on, and the hospital was less than 10 minutes away. this is one of 20 badly injured brought here. >> translator: it felt like a huge electric shock. i didn't see anyone with a bomb. i was looking out the window, and i can't remember anything after that. >> reporter: for the second time in less than 24 hours, the hospital was filled with victims of a bombing. this doctor said his team were carrying out ten operations at the same time. outside they posted casualty lists of those brought in by ambulance, and where they were being treated. the relatives of the injured scarcely ab

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community of free nations for which you wish to contribute to this community we will support a strong europe and a strong for which a change of economic policies required for which to enjoy real benefits from the membership info to the european elections is a vote for that change. during the second day of the meeting participants discussed the prospects of promoting sustainable growth and jobs you. which is tightly linked with the ongoing budget debate. the optional but the best to bpp group vice chairman responsible for budget and structural policies explain the framework of the debate don't send jokes. the main teaching. and unless he has been ditched and european governments. so this is that the girl of the discussions he got the budget the budget of some of that today tokyo but it is the thirty five percent. this might have discussed it won't mean an addiction. with the stupid dumb and so cheap. alicia forty six who was given. for that. for the decreasing the cheese is going to produce gold and jewels. he says what ppp would it would go. support for the student addiction. to have talks a

white ethics traced their ancestry's two central eastern and southern europe. greater middle east is a term by the w bush administration. these are basically muslim countries in north africa and the middle east. the other categories are self explanatory. what is noteworthy is that the only group that can be counted on by republicans by a small rally our mainline voters. voters.asian american all the other groups are trending heavily toward the democratic party, including the new immigrant groups. effect of the different social identities on the presidential vote. what is striking, a sharp increase in the impact of racial identities on the presidential vote. religious identity seems to be waning influence. , this isass identities increasing. maybe because of the coalescence between the ratio of identities and family income. here we take a look at the effect of racial context on voting in presidential elections. we find that respondents who are in racially diverse counties are much more likely to vote republican than whites who live in relatively homogeneous coun

bigveryone says the next moves in telecommunications will be in europe. >> that will be big. >> what about joseph a bank? >> there are a couple of deals in the pipeline. who will be the buyer, who will get the deal premium? it will either be joseph a bank or men's wearhouse. the question is whose management company, team gets to keep their jobs. and then we have time warner cable still out there. ter has been rattling the cages. we know that regulatory pressure has eased quite a bit. and then we have t-mobile hanging out. we should potentially see sprint, which is now backed by softbank, get aggressive about consolidation. >> one question about compensation. all of these big deal sound great, but they actually pay less. too.es were pretty flat, number one onut volume and number of deals -- these are highly manipulated -- but what happens is investment bankers are gaining more power over the traders. historically, the traders at hadman and morgan stanley been -- and they took a large part of the bonus pool. now investment bankers say it is our turn. dodd frank, your trading records ha

the good news for europe is they have held together so far. there hasn't been any big blowup, though i do think because of the gaps and the losses that have been taken and especially the banking sector in spain and portugal that we're going to -- they're going to have to face the music in the upcoming year, and i do think there will be some disruptions forthcoming in 2014. >> well, mark, thanks, as always for your succinct notions on the marketplace. happy new year. and, carl and simon, back to you. >> happy new year to you, rick. >> thanks so much, rick. >>> 2013 was a great year for a lot of companies and you don't have to look farther than netflix to prove that point. this chart will tell you what you need to know. shares up over 250% for the year. best of the s&p. will the surge continue next year? we'll get some answers after a short break. there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new

stereotype policies in europe the n.s.a. surveillance and drones in america and the wide range of concerns like freedom of the press and the loss of the secular state in turkey. disenchanted disagreeing and desperate to be heard when they go through the usual channels of electoral democracy they just have a feeling that the governments aren't representing their interests so they feel they have no alternative but to take to the streets and express themselves in a way that the government cannot ignore them and the governments haven't ignored them is certainly a problem in many of these places in some sort of gap between popular feeling and the way governments react many of the protests sparked on different continents and in different countries these here and up these clashes between protesters and authorities the greatest fear the government has is that people will feel protesters fashionable is that people will feel that democracy is fashionable some decided to use the law to protect themselves from these risks in chicago and

that was sort of foreshadowing for his life in europe at d-day, the oldest man at dd. the only father-son team to be at d-day. he got a bloody nose at our. i do know tha that cabbage withn intuitive experience later in life but there's some benefits to the game of football. the president that i'm more interested in is woodrow wilson, that guy that theodore roosevelt ran against later and lost. and woodrow wilson before he was president a lot of people don't know he was actually a football coach. he helped coach the team at westerly and princeton. and this controversy over football today, the war on football come it didn't start the day before yesterday. in the 19th century woodrow wilson debated the subject to big audiences. should we encourage the game of football? and he took the affirmative position. and his recent was that comment and let me get my trusty notes here cannot misquote president wilson. but he said, he thought football developed more moral qualities in any of the game of athletics. he pointed to decisiveness, and turns, presence of mind. he said a lot

europe,ich have ties to europe is really the story we like in terms of leaving the equity markets next year. we think there is a symbiotic relationship, great relationships on import and export with europe. >> is that also impart with how much support we have seen here, whether the ecb? region's time? >> a huge part of the equation, it has moved down 25 basis points in the second half of the year by the ecb. the much more sympathetic monetary policy europe and japan gets ahead of the u.s. in terms of interest from investors looking for tailwinds in the equity market. >> clearly, you think there are opportunities for investors in the new year. you mentioned volatility. how much pain will the average investor have to put up with? >> volatility is the theme across all the major asset classes. six income and commodities. we are at historic lows across all three. more recently, we are in the lowest 20th percentile of volatility across all of the asset classes. we expect with the movement by the u.s. central bank, the end of paper and things of that nature, that you will see an uptick in vol

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wasn't the first stop in europe. they sent us these photos, touring italy, at the coliseum t fountain and the spanish steps. they also performed in italy. tomorrow they march in front of tens of thousands passing by some of the most famous sights in london. great experience for them. >> how do you get a spot on that band. hundreds of workers are decorating and arranging flowers for tomorrow's tournament of roses parade in pasadena, more than 40 floats. coverage of the 125th annual parade will start tomorrow morning at 8:00 with alroque every and hoda kotb. >> they are spectacular. >> it's going to be fragrant i can imagine. >> it's always great weather in pasadena for that parade. >> this year it's going to be warmer than average. with hd you can really see everything. it's really cool right here on nbc bay area tomorrow. temperatures mostly in the 30s and 40s right now. it's a chilly start to the day. a nice comfortable finish headed our way. there is thick fog out there so travel cautiously. overall visibility map

margaret macmillan recalls the events that led to world war i in europe in "the war that ended peace: the road to 1914." in "lean in: women, work and the will to lead," sheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer at facebook, gives her thoughts on women and leadership. for an extended list and links to various other publications' 2013 notable book selections, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> the world is on fire, and things are moving extremely fast. my education expires after five to ten years in computer science. five to ten years and everything is new. the cloud is new, twitter is new, google is new. new programming languages. his tohistorically, what we've s we've sliced human life into, basically, four slices, five slices. one is a play phase, a learn phase the next 20 year, a work phase and a resting phase afterwards and then eventually dying. what i think we should be doing is have them all at the same time. we should play, we should learn, work and rest at the same time. because the world moves so fast today, we can't really afford having a single cell of education any

with more points to begin in eastern europe a very short time from now. and while president obama, who is on vacation in honolulu with his family, will be one of the last to enter the new year, coverage for those enrolled on the health care exchanges will have begun for most enrollees once the ball drops in the president's home state. earlier today, my colleague nbc's kristen welker spoke with a white house adviser on health care policy. the subject was health care enrollment and whether it matters if the exchanges don't meet that supposedly magical 7 million enrollment number by the end of march. >> that was never our target number. that was a target that was put out by the congressional budget office and has become the accepted number. >> kath even sebelius has said 7 million people, that that's the goal. >> but that was because it came from the congressional budget office, and it had become an accepted number. there's no magic to the 7 million. >> for more let's go straight to nbc's john yang who is following the president in honolulu. welcome, john. a

not their first stop in europe. they sent us these photos of the students touring italy, checking out the coliseum and the spanish steps as well. i wonder if they threw coins in there. they performed at a parade. tomorrow they march in front of tens of thousands passing by some of the most famous sights in london. a great opportunity for them. >> right now hundreds of workers are arranging flowers for tomorrow's tournament of roses parade. excuse me. they are working on 40 floats at warehouses near the route. coverage of the 125th annual new year's day parade will start tomorrow morning at 8:00 with the "today" show's al roker and hoda cotpe. >> a lot of flowers. i wanted to see that in person. i think that will be a sight. >> yeah. fun. >> a friend of mine used to live on the parade route. you could watch it on tv so you see what's coming down after they broadcast it so they were talking about -- >> call that friend. >> she moved to san francisco. looking here toward the north bay, not a lot of activity. look at th

[laughter] >> the the microphones are going off all over europe and i hear they're not coming on again. >> i'm looking forward to reading your book. the country is more and more of polarized and it's happening because of the media but also because of the way the party in power is gerrymandering districts. the more we do that the further apart we get in the more the media reinforces it and i'm not very hopeful and i'm wondering wondering -- >> give us some hope. >> i am actually hopeful. people used ask what's the one thing if he could pass one thing that would make a difference in washington and the house especially and i always said term limits. that changed a couple of years ago. it's now fixing this gerrymandered district problem. [applause] right now we have 435 seats in the house of representatives and 3235 are competitive and maybe 15 lowey lose their seats in the list representative. that's a lot of crazy and both sides and i will tell you what else it does. to make sure we have an even lower turnover than the old soviet pullout euro which is kind of frightening but it is true.

and much of europe basically the large group of protesters that people. tast they're furious with the stereotype allah says in europe the n.s.a. surveillance and drones in america and a wide range of concerns like freedom of the press and the loss of the secular state in turkey. disenchanted disagreeing and desperate to be heard when they go through the usual channels of electoral democracy they just have a feeling that the governments aren't representing their interests so they feel they have no alternative but to take to the streets and express themselves in a way that the governments cannot ignore them and the governments haven't ignored them there is certainly a problem in many of these places to some sort of gap between popular feeling and the way government triac many of the protests sparked on different continents and in different countries these here and up these clashes between protesters and authorities the greatest fear the government has is that people will feel protest is fashionable is that people will feel that democracy is fashionable some

the set will be available in china, the middle east and europe. the price tag, about $150,000. so far, samsung says it's received ten orders from the middle east. >>> anne-marie, here in new york city, a popular tourist attraction appears to be on its last legs. mayor-elect bill de blasio says he plans to outlaw those horse-drawn carriages that take folks on rides through central park. animal activists say new york streets are too dangerous for the horses. carriage drivers say allegations of horse abuse are ridiculous. anne-marie. >> a lot of strong emotions on both sides of that issue. as long as the horses are well taken care of, that's the most important thing. marlie hall of the new york stock exchange, thank you so much, marlie. >>> when we return, on-air scare. a reporter doing a live television interview suddenly faints. but that doesn't stop her from doing her job. get outdoors... eat healthy... and choose colgate total®. it does more than protect, it actually helps improve mouth health. [ male announcer ] it fights germs for 12 hours, in 24 hours starts to fortify ena

and railroads that we have very other countries, china, japan, singapore, you name them, all across europe that much more modern ports and railways and we do. we don't compete. u.s. chamber of commerce says we have lots of trillion dollars of growth because we have not modernized our transportation infrastructure. we do bring more jobs back home from mexico and china. there are a whole lot of things we can do in the economic area. the question is, can you do it with a gridlocked congress? summerville, south carolina, a democratic caller named trudy is waiting to talk to. caller: good morning, happy new year. i am one of those lost children of the american society. my mom and dad, god blessed them, they were from the depression era. my dad was in world war ii. they scrimped and saved and they left me a good sum of money. unfortunately, i can't imagine it would be like to be left in this culture. ever so hard as a graphic designer. we have lost american dream. we went to nafta. we give everything to the poor little chinese people. nothing and for then why we had to get involved in the middle