when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and the king sits on his thrown in the corner twirling his mustache and he called for his dancers and they come to the room. you are here to be entertained by them. this is called taught. taught is a highly stylized tuning of the mind and body together. you will see very fast turns ending in sharp stances and things with our eyes and eye brows and our neck, our hands. and you will also hear a language, which you might have heard. this is the language of our dance. it tells us what to do with our feet and our bodies and there is a lot of mask going on. you

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north korea is a bad example. it is poor and what about india for 50 years? let's talk about sweden. sweden is the only country people want to talk about and i can understand why. is a tremendously attractive place. they are tall, good-looking, blonde haired blue-eyed people and they live a long time and

government is much more into role to the economy than one normally would associate with north america or europe india india the even changing hands of private bands and you're going to point the nobel prize winners this thing but you're not going to be that out of the bait any more why because we said so that's ok now another point another point that really worries many people and it does worry me to is corruption in russia well here i think we are one of the champions i mean the russian economy is one of the champions and in corruption so so so this doesn't matter does it in terms of the economy in terms of growth in terms of competitive investment after two. well certainly corruption is part of the matrix of problems that is causing the country to. be trapped in this raw material producer. impasse that it's in and not be able to go beyond that after all basically the russian economy has a per capita g.d.p. of about fifteen thousand roughly fifteen thousand dollars per capita and you've had countries in the twentieth century that have come up against that level in a never they bounce up and then the

in the balkans, in india and bangladesh, in the north caucasus in south asia, in north america and europe and in sub-saharan africa these preachers, ngos, and doses of saudi cash have for decades prepare the ground for al qaeda and its allies. to the -- to the sounds realize this? of course they do. we must always keep in mind the only islamist terrorist or insurgent attack they disapprove of are those that occur outside the kingdom. inside the kingdom, rather. a final point to make on this symbiotic saudi arabia al qaeda relationship outside the arabian peninsula is that saudi activities abroad release outside of the need to fund, staff and manage the humanitarian, educational health services wing comes like those that are run by hamas, hezbollah, and the muslim brotherhood. and, therefore, they are allowed to focus on spreading the organization and planning military activities. bin laden, al qaeda and their allies and those that inspired in our the third of the persian gulf threats and they are i think the most dangers to the united states. they are the most dangerous not because they a

region and which is now era buys and muslim populations in indonesia, malaysia, pakistan, india, the balkans, north caucuses and sub-saharan africa. blast your in nigeria where saudi and gulf missionaries have labored and spend large sums of money, and islamist group amended its local agenda to name the united states as its number one target for, quote, america's oppression against muslim nations particularly in iraq and afghanistan and because of its blind support for israel. more immediately dangerous the saudi funded regime changes of a surrogate islamist cleric in the united states especially in the united kingdom. for 30 years the saudis domestic will establishment which controlled education, social policy and missionary work has brought western muslims to the kingdom for theological training in its religious universities. these men returned to the west to preach what can only be described as a martial oriented islamist imperialism, a vision of the world as holy islamic which for the west would mean christian and jewish populations could convert. likes of subordination to is law or face elimin

moscow now our europe will get its first direct russian gas delivery by autumn that india has a completion of the north stream pipeline news it's a let's let's cross over now to our business does not have to me to write about it so dimitri good news i forgot surprise in europe yes it was good news for europe and good news for russia for europe it's very important to ensure supplies given the tense situation in north africa right now for russia this will give direct access to some of its most important clients in europe without having to go through transit countries like ukraine and belarus so it's a win win situation for both partners and yet construction work will be completed on may fifteenth then technical maintenance will begin in the summer and europe will receive its first supplies in we'll have more on that in around ten minutes time in the business world. so you. on now in the battle against terrorism in the north caucasus it's not just russian special forces on the frontline within the muslim community there are an ideological battle is raging between moderates the extremist groups trying to l

so again the echoing each other's concerns about the situation in north africa as well as the middle east india bringing that up now they also especially president that if you did express sympathy for japan this is a concern especially for china russia being close neighbors of japan india and russia did come up with. issues on how they could improve nuclear safety so this also came up also let's not forget that south africa is the new member here so they of course are saying they understand that they are smaller it ought to be smaller economy compared to the original four but they are bringing to the table access to a greater economy the african continent it's a very interesting to see how they will come together but again they do admit that in the beginning the grouping was sort of random ad hoc and now it is becoming really a force to be reckoned with and to be listened to by the rest of the world. all right says thanks very much indeed for bringing us the update from the brics homage to certainly there. diplomats from an international conflict group on libya are calling for current gadhafi t

expected to reject the use of force in the middle east and north africa urging dialogue and non intervention now you may recall that brazil russia india and china abstained from the u.n. security resolution council resolution for a no fly zone in libya but a very different approach from the western developed nations now earlier i spoke to mark weisbrot he's the co-director of the center for economic and policy research and i asked him what impact if any this will have on the military intervention that is going on in libya right now. well i think you has a it has it impaired because it puts pressure on europe in the united states to they don't we're going to rooting for a negotiated solution and they weren't from the beginning and so the more of it you have a big part of the world and you have turkey you're also playing a mediating role this is something that ever had to deal with before. sue i think it will increase the possibility of a negotiated solution which is obviously what it's necessary and what do you think it means going for a longer term because brics obviously have a much different idea of what intervention should be there

north sudan. which will india become on the edge and as soon the south since it. the north will have to decide how it governs itself, and, therefore, is constitutional review process must take place. it cannot exclude darfur. because darfur is very much part of north, and, indeed, a very important part of the north. so, that's why bring it is timing issue. therefore, yes, indeed, we would want to see this outcome on doha which would feed into the popular inclusive political process in darfur. but we need to move this process forward faster. if we don't do that fast enough, we will create another problem. which is stalling, stalling the process of the review in the north which will create other complications. so, therefore, whatever that is discussing in this regard is how to speed up those processes so that indeed we get that kind of sequence. now, obviously if you can't get that sequencing right, bearing in mind there's other pressures i'm talking about, it is still possible to do parallel processes to allow the negotiations in doha to continue. and at the same ti

north america, africa, asia and the season between. the seven years were change the map of the world, chipping national borders, europe and india and elsewhere. he's level thousands of times and villages in europe, still remains more than a million soldiers and civilians and encrypted nations including england and france. now remember it started in britain's north american colonies in the british government and british people naturally got her to subjects and british nor make a pentecostal door with their fellow citizens in britain. in fact, the government had raised property taxes so high in britain that armors rioted and demanded that americans pay their fair share of the war. don't let dean 64, the british government extended to the colonies a stamp tax that everyone in britain has been paying for more than 70 years. it amounted to nothing for the average citizen. a penny or two attached to legal documents, publications and the packages of such nonessential products with plain cause. the harshest effect however were members of powerful special interest groups. they have been back then, too. the merchants, publishers and lawyers. the merch

north korea is a bad example. it is poor and what about india for 50 years? let's talk about sweden. sweden is the only country people want to talk about and i can understand why. is a tremendously attractive place. they are tall, good-looking, blonde haired blue-eyed people and they live a long time and they are healthy and happy and it is really nice country. suite at the next a lot of followers of hayek. the hypothesis is "the road to serfdom", doesn't look like you will it will become an authoritarian hellhole. some people would say -- >> host: friedrich hayek is the economist whose book road to serfdom you just referred to. >> guest: some people would say maybe "the road to serfdom" is longer than we thought it was and it will take sweden a while to get there and it has to go through several more generations of an proffering him proffering its -- impoverishing itself. in sweden, country with the life expectancy, you know, the median income low unemployment, nonetheless you discern as i said science. can you describe this? >> guest: two things about swede

north korea is it that it simple. it's poor, it's not authoritarian. what about india? no, no, no, let's talk about sweden. the only country nobody wants to talk about and understand why it is an attractive place, sort of tall, good looking, blue-eyed blonde haired people, and they live a long time, healthy and happy and it's a really nice country. sweden i think makes a lot of, you know, followers of hayak. the hypophysis the road to serfdom because sweden is an authoritarian hellhole. it doesn't look like it's going to become an authoritarian hellhole. some people would say -- >> host: hayek as the economist who wrote the book the road to serfdom that you referenced and the thesis is socialism always leads to totalitarianism. it's always necessary. and some people say maybe the road to serfdom is longer than we thought it was and it takes awhile to get there. it has to go through several more generations. i have no way of knowing that. i don't have an opinion on that. so in sweden, a country with the life expectancy, you know, good median income, low unemployment, nonetheless you discern as i said signs

virtually all of the truly rich people in north america had either gone back to england or had gone to canada was also absent a major corporate monopoly like the east india tea company which america had rebelled against years earlier in the boston tea party so this was the vision of thomas jefferson and most of the other founders of america a nation of independent and free citizens essentially a nation of farmers an independent family businesses and a gala tarion utopia jefferson felt that the best way to preserve this vision is to enshrine certain protections in the united states constitution there were three things that jefferson feared most at the onset of our nation fear of tyrannical governments like kingdoms fear of organized religion in fact the jefferson bible which is still in print removed all references to miracles in the new testament and portrays jesus as a proponent of natural human rights and peace and finally fear of commercial monopolies are an immensely wealthy ruling elite they could corrupt the fledgling american democracy to defend against these concerns but to ensure that america would be a nation of people practicing self governanc

together to condemn them brazil russia india china and new member south africa known as brics have gone together for largely an economic summit but where the north african political agenda is a big item on the table our chief correspondent test our sylvia is covering the meeting and has the latest. long range of the international financial model existing right now that will benefit the developing countries more people will serve purposes one of them if they would like to see an alternative because the u.s. economy is certainly hurting their economies as well another issue that they are really worried about is the proper way for a commodity prices now this is very important for them because the prices of basic food price of fuel oil are all a stable price and all of those are necessary to make sure that their economies have sustainable growth now they feel that from their point of view they feel that the western economies the weak economies there are the across of all the structure way france and therefore they think they should have a greater say in international financial institutions such as the i.m.f. and the world back now they're coming tog

and some francisco probably one of our former spots right now, officially in the north bay san rosa 39 right now, 48 india, in the south bay 44 for san jose in fremont. cyclical where temperatures are going this afternoon, it is warmer this afternoon in yesterday, 64 petaluma, 61 san rafael, 66 and up up. 61 in san francisco, 63 in san mateo cooler along the coast. in oakland to 64 degrees this afternoon 64 fremont 61 and hayward, and to the san ramon valley 63, 66 in india, 63 livermore valley. san jose 65, everybody around mid-60s and set asid. not much associate with tt once we're done with it is a full weekend, saturday, sunday look beautiful paris next week we look like spring. seven of 6:00 a.m., as the morning george. >> george: after earlier problems in south san francisco is a good morning. no hot spots right now. her bridge check as we picked up our live cameras at the bridge toll plaza here westbound 80 at the bay bridge, only a moderate back up. the backup begins right here at the end of the east parking lot, snow back up on the 880 approach. your ride to the san mateo bridge, problem free. a

condemn them brazil russia india china and you member south africa they're known as brics and they've gotten together for what's largely an economic summit but where the north african political agenda is a big item on the table our correspondent tests are silly as covering the meeting and how the developments on both fronts we want to see things of the national model existing right now that will benefit developing countries more little bits of currency is one of the issues they would like to see alternative because the u.s. economy is really hurting their economies as well another issue that they are really worried about is what's really a modest part of this is they're important for them because the prices of basic food prices wrongnesses will all stable prices and all of those are necessary to make sure that their economies have sustainable growth now they feel about from their point of view they feel that the western economies the weak economies there are the a cause of all the sorts of ways and therefore the. they first have a greater say in international financial institutions such as the i.m.f. and the world back about them coming together with a unif

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north and south. it will be similar to the issue in pakistan and india that has not been resolved and still continues on. i wonder if you could comment on the somalia and un's assistance to the au in peacekeeping. also in ivory coast, i commend un for their resolutions. is there any action that the un will take for gbagbo to step down? in western sahara, morocco continues to illegally occupy western sahara. is the un doing anything to do with that situation? >> thank you. let me begin with southern sudan and the question there. as you know, the u.s. has been very active in trying to not only originally to broker the cpa but make sure of its implementation and trying to resolve all the outstanding post referendum issues. it is -- should have been dealt with in its own referendum. the ambassador who was recently named by president obama as his new special envoy is out in the region as we speak. he is working actively with both parties as well as with the au high-level panel to push for resolution there. we understand its significance as a critical issue that needs to be resolved. as you know, it is one

north africa. oil futures trading higher. but you have to look at increasing worldwide demand for oil, which is the fundamental thing for gasoline, in countries like brazil, china and india, and the u.s. all these things are coming into play. >> the energy department is now saying the average household is going to be paying 8% more on gas prices. food is going up, as well. what does that mean for the bottom line? >> we still aren't seeing the huge wage increases. and we still do have high unemployment. so, there's a limited pot of money in the household. so, it depends. is $4 a gallon the magic pain number for us where we start to decrease our demand for gasoline? will we stop driving on to disneyland? will we not go out to dinner as much? there's only a limited pot. something has to go. there will be a ripple effect for other parts of the economy. >> how big of a summer effect can we expect to see? people going on vacations and road trips. will that change at all? >> this is when people will make up from the cold winter with the rest of the family. it will affect how people travel. but the little decisions we make. will i drive across the river to go to the restaurant?

india below that at 1.3 million. russia at 1.245. north korea at 1.170.those are the top numbers of standing armies and order of magnitude. next is a telephone call from williamsberg, virginia. this is russell, a republican. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> host: yes, sir, your comment, please. >> caller: i spent my time -- i spent my time in the military during the vietnam era. spent time in the army reserves, and i've worked as a subcontractor for the navy for a number of years. my observation is that if the -- if they cut back on the budget, then this applies i say throughout all the government agencies. at the end of the year, burg the course of the -- during the course of the year, we would have, you know, the usual flights. i was a -- helicopter crew chief, mechanic. we would have flights for regular training, but at the end of the year, there would be massive flights because they had to spend the money. while i was working as a subcontractor, same observations throughout the agency. there's requests even for supplies that the reasons could

north. we are not able to bring military equipment through india. that gets to your question about the ana. we have been working with the pakistani military. we have stressed how important it is to maintain the velocity going through the pakistan lock. we can identify if there is any pill for rich or attacks and show them where that is taking place -- pilfering or attacks and show them where that is taking place. we continue to work hard with the task force, which general petraeus put together. the army forces command made sure that the discipline of what goes on on the ground is maintained. from my standpoint, i say that if it is important to you, put that in the air. >> had the pakistan route gotten better or worse? -- has been pakistan route gotten better or worse. ? what is the update on that? >> there are times when it goes a little higher. in december of 2008, we worry that we did not have a northern distribution network at that time. it was a 11% of pilfering an attack rates. now it has come down to 1%. in july of last year when the floods we

just worry about tennessee and west virginia and maryland and north carolina and florida and texas anymore. i'm concerned about china and india and singapore, taiwan and thailand and other countries that have really figured it out, either perfecting some of the things that have been good about western civilization, or flirting with capless and. i'm going to china next week. china, japan and korea and tell them the virginia store and try to get people to come and invest in virginia. .. >> what he was trying to do was really big, you make the case over and over and over again. we've seen chris christie doing that in new jersey. and in this case he made this proposal, and it was kind of abrupt. when you're going to make a big change, you have to prepare the public for this in some way. >> yes. >> how do you do that? >> i think that's a good question. that's what we did as well with cutting the budget six billion in realignments. i talked a lot about that during the campaign, so i don't think anybody was surprised when we came in and killed that tax increase and were able to reduce spending. people were, i guess, ready for us to

just worry about tennessee and west virginia and maryland and north carolina and florida and texas anymore. i'm concerned about china and india and singapore, taiwan and thailand and other countries that have really figured it out, either perfecting some of the lization, or flirting with capless and. i'm na n >> we are telling the virginia story and getting people to invest in virginia. we have to think a lot more as we return and what are the things that we are doing that are not working well. i think at the core that's what scott walker was trying to do to make wisconsin more competitive. there's big billboards in chicago saying 23 you don't like illinois, come to wisconsin. people are coming. look at the taxes, and businesses are very mobile. they can vote if their feet and move. >> what does it say about the style of the governing? one of the criticisms of walker that i heard when you're going to do something really big, and what he's trying to do was really big and you make the case over and over and over again, and chris christopher smithty -- chris christie did that in new jersey and when you make a big change, you hav

india was also ruled by dynasties as in china thinks of being a naval power, the arab islamic world, think of those of stretched from north africa to asia and the expansion of the islamic influence is a parallel from 1,000 years ago and the west was divided and weak and embattled with the division between the holy roman empire, the byzantine empire to characterize western civilization at the time. for the rest of the world they look back and that was the golden age. it is important to remember if you look at the rise today and the growing power of the middle east we realize it is not the first time. the second reason why it is because of the notion of a massive oak the player game because that was a time of history and in europe and at the time this city-state's for the dominant factors merchant families are very important to finance the extension of global trade that connected east and west did religious groups the church, the pope was very important mercenaries and nights roamed around serving whatever keying or prince would pay the right price it should sound familiar because again it is a lot like the world of today.

north and the south in the future. it will be similar to the issue in pakistan and india that will not be resolved and still continues on. i wonder if you could comment on the somalia and the u.n.'s -- with their peace keeping, also where the u.n. and i commend them for their resolutions and is there any more action that the u.n. will take for him to step down in the -- gbagbo to step down this that area. morocco continues to illegally occupy western sahara. is the u.n. doing anything to deal with that situation? >> thank you, mr. payne. let me begin with sudan and the question of i.b.a. as you know, the united states has been very active in trying to, not only originally to broker the c.p.a. but to ensure its full implement akseation but trying resolve all of the outstanding post referendum issues. it should have been, as you know, dealt with in its own referendum simultaneous to the referendum. the ambassador who was recently named by proub as his new special envoy is out in the region as we speak. he is out working actively with both parties as well as with the a.u. high-level panels, former south african president a

north and south. it will be similar to the issue in pakistan and india that has not been resolved and still continues on. i wonder if you cou comment on the somalia and un's assistance to the au in peacekeeping. also in ivory coast, i commend un for their resolutions. is there any action that the un will take for gbagbo to step down? in western sahara, morocco continues to illegally occupy western sahara. is the un doing anything to do with that situation? >> thank you. let me begin with southern sudan and the question there. as you know, the u.s. has been very active in trying to not only originally to broker the cpa but make sure of its implementation and trying to resolve all the outstanding post referendum issues. it is -- should have beedealt with in its own referendum. the ambassador who was recently named by president obama as his new special envoy is out in the region as we speak. he is working actively with both parties as well as with the au high-level panel to push for resolution there. we understand its significance as critical issue that needs to be resolved. as you know, it is one of th

something happens with north korea, you are going to lose access to the memory chips. india -- a number of companies do close to work, u.s. companies do their back office work in india. you lose access to india, you lose back office work, companies like ge, and companies with access to. taiwan and the earthquake, there's been no change in there in the distribution of that capacity that we loss access to in the earthquake. we're talking 80 plus percent of the assembly of the electronics takes place in china. drugs in this -- in this country, 80% of the raw materials come out of china. what we used to preserve our foods in this country, all of the foods and all of the store shelves, acid, vitamin c, it was something that was first synthesized by an american scientist. 100% now comes from japan. you lose access to any reason to a supply of china, you are going to have disruptions within the supply of food. we live in a world, in other words, in which a natural disaster can trigger significant, perhaps catastrophic disruptions within the industrial system. we could see it becaus

north korea you are going to lose access to those memory chips. indiaindia, number of companies do close to -- u.s. companies do their back-office work in south india. you lose access to ndu lose access to their back-office work. those are things like ge, -- taiwan the earthquake there has been no change in the distribution in that capacity that we lost access to in the earthquake. we are talking 80 plus percent of the assembly of electronics takes place in china. drugs in this country, 80 plus percent of the raw materials that go into the drug supply of the united states come out of china. ascorbic acid that we use to preserve our foods in this country, all the foods and all the store shelves, ascorbic acid, vitamin-c. this is something that was synthesized by an american scientist and first mass-produced by an american company. 100% now comes from china. we lose access for any reason to the supply from china you will have disruptions, perhaps severe within the supply of food. so we live in a world in other words in which a natural disaster can trigger significant, perhaps catastrophic disruptions within the industrial system. we can see it becaus

north and south. in terms of cultural orientation, the amount that was mentioned is oriented primarily to the indian ocean trade to indiandonesia, the malaysian archipelago, and it is being part of yemen, unified yemen is in essence artificial. the abolished only up to the revolution of 1967-68. they disappeared. human and physical geography, i mentioned the traditional occupational strata, which basically determines the way you are treated by the society. there is religious aerostar -- aristocracy. they descended from the prophet muhammed who are even genetically different from the local tribes as we found out during our physical anthropology studies. and then there are also the tribes that constitute the military and political crocks of the society. all of the strata including the upper strata are dependent on the good will for their survival. and the tribes at least in the south carry the weapons of the strata. that makes a very important difference. in the north it's slightly different, but i don't have the time to get into that. here you can see, the folk dances from south yemen with uncovered faces, which is unusu

the needs of the port in calcutta, india, he has medicated with monks in monastery, and he will go back and do some of that again, he has been a scholar at the northin rome, exchanging ideas there, and he has ministered to the needs of the people in illinois. we are very very honored. lester, many of us stood up and sang the praises. it seemed so recent. it was a year ago. after that, father was honored in illinois for serving as a priest for 50 years. so as all of that -- [applause] four some of us, it was really a special source of pride. we respect all of our chaplains. a source of personal pride that he was the first roman catholic chaplain in the house of representatives. [applause] and showed that he could minister to the needs of all the members of all faiths here. yes, we are very blessed by his service in the congress. we are going to miss him a great deal. we wish him well as he goes for. the legacy that he lets look -- left us is one that is not only opening prayer each day to inspire us and lift us to a higher place in our deliberations, but that he set an example of stability in the congress, of confidentiality of relationships. he wa

india. he has meditated with monks in the monastery and i think he's going to go back and do some of that again. he has been a scholar at the north american college in rome. exchanging ideas there. and he has ministered to the needs of his parishioners and that probably served him best for ministering to the diverse needs of his flock that he shepherds here. we are very, very honored. last year many of us in a bipartisan way stood up and sang the praise -- it seems so recent, but it was a year ago, and then after that father was honored in illinois for serving as a priest for 50 years, so with all of that -- for some of us it was really a special source of pride although we respect all of our chaplains, but a source of personal pride that he was the firs roman catholic chaplain in the house of representatives and, and showed that he could minister to the needs of all of the members of all faiths here. so, yes, we are very blessed by his service in the congress. are going to miss him a great deal. we wish him well as he goes forth. the legacy that he left us is one that was not only opening prayer each day to inspire us and lift u

india. he has meditated with monks in the monastery and i think he's going to go back and do some of that again. he has been a scholar at the northege in rome. exchanging ideas there. and he has ministered to the needs of his parishioners and that probably served him best for ministering to the diverse needs of his flock that he shepherds here. we are very, very honored. last year many of us in a bipartisan way stood up and sang the praise -- it seems so recent, but it was a year ago, and then after that father was honored in illinois for serving as a priest for 50 years, so with all of that -- for some of us it was really a special source of pride although we respect all of our chaplains, but a source of personal pride that he was the first roman catholic chaplain in the house of representatives and, and showed that he could minister to the needs of all of the members of all faiths here. so, yes, we are very blessed by his service in the congress. we are going to miss him a great deal. we wish him well as he goes forth. the legacy that he left us is one that was not only opening prayer each day to inspire us and lift us to a hig

india as well. gear up islamic world. think of the caliphates their world and baghdad that stretch from north north africa to central asia. the expansion of arab and islamic influence again is paralleled from a thousand years ago. it was the west that was divide, uncertain, feeling threatened. the division between the holy roman empire, characterized western civilization at the time. but for the rest of the world, they look back and that was the golden age. and so it is important to remember when you look at the rise in china and india today and we look at the growing power in the middle east and arab countries we realize that it is not the first time. the second reason why medieval analogy is interesting is because of this notion of a massive multiplayer game. because that was a time in history before the nations states. this is the pre--- world than in europe at the time city states were the dominant actor. merchant families were very important in financing the expansion of local trade and forming the rows that connected eason was. religious groups, and obviously the church and the pope were very important players. merc